Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Thursday, March 11, 1954
51st Year, No. 105
Senate Expects to Pass Excise Tax Reduction
Washington—(U.P.)-The Senate gathered its forces today in support of the House-approved billion-dollar excise tax reduction bill and the measure was expected to pass with little, if any, change.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
CCUN to Model UN Session
Forty-five colleges in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska have been invited to send delegates to a model session of the United Nations, Saturday, March 27 in Fraser theater.
The session is sponsored by the Collegiate Council for United Nations works. The school delegates will represent the various member nations of the UN and for one day will discuss the major issues facing the UN.
State director for the CCUN is Herb Horowitz, college junior. "The best way to learn about the UN is to participate," Horowitz said. "Since we cannot function as UN delegates, the next best method is to assume the role in a model setting."
"We feel that this will be a valuable educational experience and an easy way for high school students to learn about the United Nations," Horowitz said.
Kansas high school students have been invited to attend the session as spectators.
At a banquet concluding the UN session, a "Miss UN" will be presented. She will be chosen by University faculty members from candidates nominated by organized houses and student organizations.
Guest Conductors Named for Camp
Guest conductors have been announced for the 17th season of the Midwestern Music Camp on the campus to be held June 21-Aug. 1.
Eight guest conductors and a teaching staff of 20 KU faculty members will conduct the schools. The conductors are Guy Fraser Harrison, Oklahoma City symphony; Daniel Martino, director, or bands, Indiana university; Colored Church university; Morris Poaster, Phillips university, Enid, Okla.; Lloyd Pfautsch, Illinois Wesleyan, and Paul Christiansen, Concordia college, Minnesota. The last three named are choral conductors.
Tryouts to Be Held For Studio Theatre
Prof. Russell L. Wiley again will lead the concert band; Prof. Gerald M. Carney, the symphony orchestra, and Clayton M. Krehbiel, the chorus. Mr. Harrison also will conduct the opera workshop performance.
Studio Theatre tryouts for experimental productions of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama "No Exit" and Thornton Wilder's "The Happy Journey" will be held today from 2 to 5 p.m. in Green theater.
All students interested in participating in the productions are urged to contact Bonnie Royer, graduate student in drama, who will direct the productions.
ASTE to See Slides on Oil
The KU student chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers will meet in Fowler shops at 7:30 p.m. today. The speaker will be C.F. Weinaug, professor of petroleum engineering. Dr. Weinaug will show slides of oil field operations in Venezuela, where he was employed as a consultant, and discuss the pros and cons of foreign employment for American engineers.
Senators were braced for a last-ditch administration fight to block or modify the cuts to soften the blow on the Treasury.
President Eisenhower will make a nationwide radio and television speech next week to explain the administration's stand to the people. The hope is to develop enough public support to counter the tax-cutting drive in Congress.
The measure would put a 10 per cent ceiling on excise or federal sales taxes on jewelry, furs, cosmetics, entertainment tickets, telephone bills and travel tickets. These now stand at 15 and 25 per cent.
The cuts, effective Saturday, April 1, would cost the Treasury almost $1 billion a year. However, this loss would be offset since the bill also cancels about $1 billion in other excise tax cuts that presently are scheduled to go into effect Saturday, April 1.
The cancellation would keep excise taxes at present levels on liquor, beer, wines, tobacco, gasoline, automobiles, trucks and other items.
Anxious about loss of revenue, the administration urged cancellation of these scheduled cuts and vigorously opposed any new ones. By combining the cancellation with the new reductions, however, the house guarded its bill against a presidential veto.
The House voted 411 to 3 for passage of the bill. The only dissenting votes were cast by Reps. John E. Lyle Jr., (D.-Tex.); Paul C. Jones, (D.-Mo.), and Fred Marshall (D.-Min.).
In the Senate, Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga), senior Democrat on the finance committee, told reporters he expects the bill to go through the Senate with few changes
It is known Republican leaders share his view, although Finance Committee Chairman Eugene D. Milliken (R.-Colo.) declined to comment on the outlook. Sen. Milliken scheduled a committee session tomorrow to discuss procedure.
Sen. George also is sponsoring a bill to increase personal income tax exemptions from $600 to $800 this year and $1,000 in 1955.
He said today it would be unwise to try to attach this proposal to the excise reduction bill because it would invite a veto.
"We can build a 'Maginot Line' air defense system which would cost an estimated 130 billion dollars; or we can build a powerful offensive air arm which would be capable of immediate retaliation in case of an attack," said Lt. Col. Wendell J. Kelley at a meeting of the Arnold Air Society last night.
U.S. Air Defense Subject of Speech
These are the two possible courses that the United States has to follow in its air defense program, said Lt. Col. Kelley, an instructor from the Command and, General Staff school at Fort Leavenworth. This is also the slogan of the Air Defense Command.
The United States is the only obstacle in Russia's road to world domination, and both countries have the capabilities for launching an atomic bomb attack, he said.
"Anonymous," a program prepared by prisoners of the Illinois State Penitentiary system for the American Broadcasting company, will be featured on the Sociology on the Air program at 3 p.m. Sunday over KLWN.
Prison Program to Be Given
Republicans Aim to Smooth Difficulties with McCarthy
Republic Difficultie Betty Lu Gard To Head AWS
Betty Lu Gard, education junior, was elected president of the Associated Women Students in an election yesterday.
Miss Gard will direct the AWS House and Senate, correlating their activities in the interests of all women on the campus.
Other officers elected are Patricia Pierson, college sophomore, vice president; Joan Rosenwald, college freshman, secretary, and Jan Gradinger, college sophomore, treasurer.
Runners-up for each position are automatically members of the Senate. They are Winifred Meyers, college junior; Martha Nienstad, business junior; Barbara Anderson, college freshman; Barbara Anderson, academician; Patty Hayle Sheets, college sophomore, and Annette Luthy, fine arts sophomore.
Two student council representatives elected were Shirley Price, college sophomore, Greek, and Barbaria education junior, independent.
Two freshmen will be elected to the Senate next fall and one member will be elected from the AWS House of Representatives, to give a total of 15 members.
ISA Election ToBe Monday
Donald L. Widdows, college freshman, and O. J. Buchanek, college junior, have been nominated for president of the Independent Student association. Elections will be held Monday.
The presidency of the organization is the only office which is being contested in the election. Candidates for other offices are Margaret Jean Smith, college sophomore, vice president; Sharon McClure, fine arts freshman, secretary; Sheila Haller, college sophomore, social chairman, and Thelma Jean Diehl, college freshman, activities chairman.
The ISA does not elect a treasurer, but appoints a business manager instead.
Booths for the voting will be located in Marvin, Strong, and Fraser industries, adjacent to the boothing are expected to be announced at the ISA meeting Monday night.
A low pressure center is scheduled to be in the Oklahoma-Texas Panhandle area tomorrow morning and
Weather
GOPs to Choose Delegates
Delegates to the Young Republicans convention will be chosen at a meeting of the group at 7:30 p.m. today in 106 Green hall.
s h o u l d move across the south of Kansas during the day. It likely will produce scattered showers and t h u n d erstorms in eastern Kansas in the next 24 to 36 hours.
while light showers possibly changing to light snow are due in the west. Temperatures in western Kansas are expected to be considerably lower tomorrow, with maximum readings not much above freezing. In the past 24 hours Kansas was quite warm with temperatures climbing to 76 degrees at Dodge City in the Southwest and Chanute in the Southeast. Lows early today were all above freezing, ranging from 34 in Topeka and Olathe to 48 degrees at Dodge City.
Washington—(U.P.)—Republican leaders sought today to kill off the McCarthy controversy before it damages the administration's program in Congress and the party's chances in the November election.
Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland said President Eisenhower knows he has no power to "purge" a senator since "in past administration that was tried without notable success."
Ike Nominates Navy Secretary
Mr. Thomas, of Los Angeles and one-time head of a west coast chain of clothing stores, served as undersecretary of the navy for the first five months of the Eisenhower administration this past year. He then was made assistant defense secretary for supply and logistics.
Mr. Thomas, 56, has served in naval aviation in World War I and was a special assistant first to the assistant Navy secretary for air and later to the late Navy Secretary James Forrestal in World War II.
Washington—(U.P.) President Eisenhower today nominated Assistant Defense Secretary Charles S. Thomas to be Secretary of the Navy.
Mr. Thomas, at one time, was Los Angeles airport commissioner, a director of Lockheed Aircraft corporation, and president of the Navy league's west coast branch.
Mr. Thomas will succeed Robert B. Andreson, Mr. Anderson has been named to succeed Roger M. Kyes as deputy defense secretary, Mr. Kyes has resigned effective Saturday, May 1.
The switches, if confirmed by the Senate, will be May 1.
Prizes Given In Chemistry
The award of a teaching fellowship and several prizes to graduate and undergraduate students in chemistry, was announced today by Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, chairman of the chemistry department.
Miss Cathryn Gudmundsen, graduate student, will hold the E. I duPont de Nemours teaching fellowship in the 1954-55 year. She will receive $2,400 plus payment of fees and will be able to continue in a teaching capacity her final year while working for the Ph.D. degree
David A. Mathewes, graduate student, will receive a $50 prize for being the best assistant instructor. Second prizes of $40 apiece were awarded to Roscoe Lancaster and James E. Coleman, both graduate students.
The award to the outstanding senior of a trip to the spring meeting also was divided into five $40 prizes.
The five receiving the award are Ronald J. Clark, Benjamin D. Hall, Donald R. Montgomery, Frank A. Newby, and James A. Ross, all college seniors.
'Antigone' Tickets On Sale in Green
Tickets*for the University Theatre production of "Antigone" now can be obtained at the box office in the basement of Green hall.
Single tickets are $1.25, and students may present ID cards for free tickets. The box office will be open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m., and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Performances will be given at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater March 17 through 20.
He said a congressman also is free to say what he pleases. But he warned that it is essential to the party to end the McCarthy storm as soon as possible.
"I think it would be dangerous to our legislative program," he said last night, "if these controversies continued and the party was involved in splits of the kind that we couldn't get a program through."
Two other prominent Republicans—Sen. Irving M. Ives (N.Y.) and George D. Aiken (Vt.)—took about a week to release views today. Both applauded Mr. Eisenhower's appeal yesterday for an end to the party strife.
"We are supposed to be a team and not a bunch of grandstand players," said Sen. Ives.
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, center of the furore, agreed at a news conference late yesterday that the GOP is suffering "a great deal of damage"—but from his critics, not from him.
Really at fault, he said, are "those few Republicans who are damning from hell to breakfast those of us who are doing this very unpleasant task of digging out Communists."
Sen. McCarthy aimed the statement mainly at Sen. Ralph A. Flanders (R-Vt.) "one of the finest old gentlemen I know." Sen. Flanders had accused the Wisconsin Red-hunter of doing his best to shatter" the Republican party.
Sen. Knowland, speaking in a radio interview (NBC "Report from the White House"), he hopes there will be no more floor speeches like Sen. Flanders' that will distract the Senate from its legislative work. Sen. Ives said, however, that the speech was "all right."
At his news conference yesterday, Mr. Ennowerh issued Sen. Flanders performed "a service" with his speech. He also declared CBS and NBC did the fair thing in giving the GOP National committee free time to reply to Adlai E. Stevenson's attack on McCarthyism Saturday and refusing time to Sen. McCarthy. It was the senator's demand for time that touched off the current storm.
Sen. McCarthy said he might issue a statement today on the President's remarks. He and Mr. Eisenhower shook hands at a GOP dinner last night and Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH.) described the meeting as "very friendly." Sen. McCarthy said only that the President is a "nice guy."
Sen. Flanders was "pleased" with the President's endorsement but republicans generally withheld comment. Democrats saw no reason to jump into what they consider a GOP family affair.
In his talk with reporters, McCarthy said:
1. He still intends to get a lawyer to force CBS and NBC to give him a half hour of free radio and TV time to answer Mr. Stevenson but that meanwhile he will appear tonight on the 15-minute radio show of commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. to discuss the Stevenson and Flanders speeches.
2. He might accept Edward R. Murrow's offer of time to reply to Murrow's CBS television show Monday night. The CBS executive and commentator said, among other things, that Sen. McCarthy had crossed the line between investigation and persecution in his search for Communists. Rep Melvin Price (D-III) called the program an outstanding example of honest, courageous reporting.
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