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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 26, 1954
THE (NORTH) END—The steel superstructure for the fieldhouse comes to an abrupt end at the northwest corner of the project. It's as long as it's going to be.
Month-Long Bricker Debate Slated for Showdown Today
Washington—(U.P.)-The Senate's weary month-long debate on the Breaker amendment neared an end today with leaders of both partie predicting a final settlement of the issue before nightfall.
Republican Leader William F. Knowland said he is "reasonably sure" the Senate can finish action today on the treaty-control proposals. But he wouldn't predict the final outcome.
A substitute by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga), still pending as the Senate resumed debate, loomed as the only proposal with an outside chance of mustering the two-thirds vote necessary for final approval as a constitutional amendment.
Sen. George said he is "somewhat hopeful" of getting the necessary two-thirds and "I think we will come very close." He said "it depends on how the Republicans" who have supported other proposals vote in the final showdown.
1. Approval of Sen. George's proposal.
After more than four weeks of debate and voting, the wrench slised down to four main remaining possibilities:
2. Approval of a Republican leadership substitute, already tentatively adopted.
3. No action, through failure of
any proposal to get the two-third vote for final approval.
4. Sending the issue back to the Judiciary committee, although no further move along that line now seems in prospect.
Other Congressional happenings
Other Congressional happenings:
Taxes: Democrats said they would push ahead in their drive to boost income exemptions this year despite strong opposition from the administration. Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey said yesterday "blanket" increases in the present $600 exemption would "throw us back into substantial deficit financing."
Republicans: Senate GOP Leader Knowlland faced a tough if not impossible selling job to get fellow Republicans to weaken the Senate's time-honored seniority system of choosing committee chairmen.
Kicked in the Face by a Bootee
OR...Who Ever Called it a "Blessed Event"?
Once there was a Sophomore who had a Sister. He also had a Girl, As Coincidence would have it, both females labored under the Baptismal Handicap of Erminetrude. Small world. The sister (call her Erminetrud I for the record) got married. In due process, she produced an Offspring. So, fraternal-like, Our Boy sat down and wrote her A Letter of Congratulations, starting "I hear you have a Baby . . ." Only trouble was, he forgot to mail it. Went off for the Weekend, leaving it on his desk, where his Roommate spotted it.
The latter, being The Soul of Honor,
didn't read any farther than the lead-
off... which was, logically enough,
"Dear Erminetrude." Jumping at a
Conclusion, he addressed an envelop-
ce to Erminetrude H, slapped on a
Our Sophomore still has a sister named Ermindrude. No Girl. And he still has No Idea why.
stamp and dropped the Missive in the Mails.
Had he but had a Telegrammar, be'd have known Enough to send Sis and Spouse a handsome Congratulations telegram. (Telegrammer an ideal packed, pocket-size telephone graph use. To get one, free, just write to Room 1727, Western Union at 60 Hudson St., New York City.) Telegrams get to the Right Destination . . . carry Good News, Invitations, Bids for Dates (or Cash) more resultfully than any other Form of Communication. When you have a message to send that Means Something, just call Western Union or sprint to your Western Union office.
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Sailors Steal Parts Sell to Chinese Reds
Hong Kong —(U.P)— American sailors have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of diesel engine parts from their warships and sold them to dealers who passed them on to the Chinese Reds it was disclosed today.
Budget Clinic Set for March
Budgeting, assessment problems and purchasing will be the problems considered in the first Conference on Public School Business Management at the University March 11-12.
Speakers will be James Bibb and Mrs. Mildred LeSuer, budget specialists, and Eugene Hiatt, director of purchasing, all of the State Department of Administration, Topeka; Prof Paul Malone, director of the Bureau of Business Research, and Dr. J. W. Twente, professor of education.
Group sessions are planned for school men from first, second, and third class cities each day.
Lewis H. Brotherson, business manager for Kansas City, Kan., public schools, will be chairman for the first class cities group, Carl James, Concordia, school superintendent, will be *chairman for second class cities and Wayne E. Mase, superintendent at St. John, will lead the third class cities group.
All sessions will be in the Student Union.
Former OSS Agent Speaks to GrouP
Arch Coleman, former Office of Strategic Services agent, spoke last night at a meeting of Scabbard and Blade, military society.
Mr. Coleman was one of the first men who made up the OSS before World War II. He investigated the Japanese before the war and served as a secret agent in Mexico.
Coleman told about the way he was trained and investigated before he was admitted to the service.
Four-door sedans, which accounted for 42 per cent of all passenger car sales in 1940, have climbed in popularity to the point where they now account for 54 per cent, replacing the two-door sedan as the most popular body style.
U. S. Navy sources said Communist agents engineered the thefts through merchants boarding American ships in Hong Kong harbor. The merchants bought the parts from sailors for prices far below their actual value. In some cases the sailors were reported to have smuggled parts ashore to pick up pin money for their shore leaves.
The U.S. Navy launched a full scale investigation of the thefts and has banned all persons from boarding warships visiting here. Other strict security measures were planned although one source said it would be extremely difficult to halt the practice completely.
The Navy previously banned merchants from visiting the warships but permitted ships chandlers aboard to do odd jobs. Some captains "misinterpreted" the order and permitted tailors aboard.
Later the Commander of Naval Forces, Philippines, issued a second order banning all merchants after the thefts reached "serious heights." There was one report the U.S.S. Mathews alone lost some $45,000 worth of diesel parts.
"No one has need for diesel part in Hong Kong," an authoritative source said. "The only logical place would be China, and it is easy to snuggle them across the border."
Military sources said the Communists probably need diesel part for landing craft since "they have hundreds of landing craft the United States gave the Nationalists."
Jim Barron to Lead Young Republicans
Jim Barron, college junior, was elected chairman of the Young Republicans club last night in a meeting in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
Other officers are Ted Ice, vice chairman; Virginia Delp, secretary; and Rollin Peschka, treasurer. All are college sophomores. A publicity chairman and program chairman will be appointed later.
In other business,plans for the coming state convention to be held in Hays March 19 to 21 were discussed.
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