Friday, Feb. 26, 1954
Balmy Kansas Weather Belies Europe's Winter
Kansans have been enjoying an unusually mild and pleasant winter this season, but Kansas isn't the only place where unusual winter has been experienced.
Early this month reports came in of the most severe cold wave Europe has experienced in years. Five children froze to death in France when the Paris temperature fell to 5 degrees, the coldest temperature recorded there in 75 years. Travel was hampered in nearly half of Great Britain by icy roads and streets. On one day 19 children drowned when the thin ice on which they were playing gave way.
River traffic in Germany was halted as huge stretches of the Rhine river froze solid. In Warsaw water pipes frobe and burst as Polish temperatures dropped to 27 degrees below zero.
Almost 100 Italian villages were isolated by one of the worst blizzards the country has ever seen. In Lisbon, noted for its almost perennial balmy weather, scores of barrels of olive oil froze on the docks.
A week later the cold wave was still in full swing. The cold air sweeping out of Siberia spared no country on the continent. Fiords began freezing over in Norway, and in Spain the Valencia orange crop was almost ruined by the first snowstorms in more than 50 years.
All over Great Britain people struggled with kerosene lamps and stoves, trying to keep their water pipes from freezing. More than 400 German school children were trapped by ice on a North Sea island, and an airlift was necessary to get food and medicine to them.
In Paris a woman with an eviction notice froze to death on the Boulevard Sebastopol. By that time 700 isolated mountain villages in Italy were cut off, as rescue crews fought desperately to reach them.
The cold brought paralysis in the Soviet puppet states. Railroads broke down in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and factories were forced to close for lack of sufficient coal. Budapest was without gas for heat or cooking, and an influenza epidemic swept across Poland.
By the end of the second week the sun reappeared, bringing promise of relief, but many places in the United States were in the midst of their own winter weather problems.
The Midwest was enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures, but the water shortage was becoming constantly more acute. Thirsty communities spread all over mid-America were hauling water from wherever they could get it. Many localities had imposed water restrictions, and many others were considering it. Cloud seeding was tried in Missouri in an attempt to bring rainfall, but without success.
Fall-sown grains, already retarted in many states, were becoming seriously endangered by the continuing lack of moisture. Loose, dry topsoil was being blown away in duststorms in some of the larger plains areas. Snow in the Rocky mountains, chief source of irrigation water, was far below normal. The drouth was getting more severe all the time, with no immediate hope for relief.
Some weather experts say the entire weather pattern of the United States is changing, that winters will become succeedingly milder and summers cooler. Others say it is just a phenomenon that will disappear as quickly as it appeared. At any rate, as we're enjoying the warm, breezy February days and nights, we know that we're not the only ones being subjected to unusual and unseasonable weather this winter.
—Court Ernst
The British Brewing Industry foundation announced that it has succeeded in freezing beer. Rumors in Great Britain have it that the minority party expects to sweep the next election with the slogan of "a chicken in every pot and beer in every freezer."
Perhaps Mr. Stewart and the missed readers of the "Sour Owl" are not so misinformed as one man in his opinion would like us to believe. It is true that "Upstream" and "Trend" both received appropriations on the night of Feb. 9. However, that is not the entire story.
Dear Sir:
Letters
A request for funds was submitted to the chairman of the Appropriations committee in the middle of August, 1953. This request included a detailed and complete statement of previous and proposed expenditures. There was never even an acknowledgment of receipt of the request by the committee chairman until Nov. 18 when the "Upstream" representatives were requested to appear at a meeting.
After waiting 30 minutes they were informed by the hostess at the Union that the meeting had been postponed. Later "Upstream" officials tried futtily to contact the committee chairman for information.
No apology or other arrangements were made by the ASC. The next event was a notice in the "Daily Kansan" that "Upstream" had been refused its appropriation.
To be sure, "Upstream" received $150 Feb. 9, but it might be mentioned that this was only after a "stimulation" of the lethargic Council by the Chancellor.
Moreover, "Upstream" has always appeared in four issues during the school year, and this request for funds stated that the policy would continue. During the first semester of the school term, therefore, "Upstream" was incapable of action except for the publication of one issue at the staff's risk. Contracts had to be broken and materials rejected.
Even now there will be opportunity for only one other issue. February seems a little late for the ASC to conduct the business of the first semester.
Larry Johnston, editor "Ustream."
Easter vacation comes just in time for us to get back for classes the week before Easter. After all, the Kansas Relays is more important than Easter Sunday.
Short Ones
A heavy police guard was prepared for Sen. McCarthy for his visit to Philadelphia. Isn't Philadelphia known as the "city of brotherly love?"
Marilyn Monroe DiMaggio has caught cold during her trip to Korea. There were 60,000 troops that saw her during her visit, and you can bet that Marilyn was about the only person that was cold.
Herbert Hoover assures the nation that we are not headed for an economic slump. That should relieve us of all worries, for Hoover should be due for a correct prediction; the odds are sure with him.
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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 26, 1954 LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"I call it my 'trouble blouse'—I wear it when I need a little extra personal attention from my professor."
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
Friday, February 26, 1954
CAMPUS
Look for trouble in the proposed new party's reconciliation of Greek-independent representation. Trouble seems to be that each wants to give the other more voting power than it would seem be entitled to. The whole plan may bog down—on an altruistic issue . . . It's threatened now that those individuals responsible for the nearly wholesale disgust in Pachacamae may be subject to an expose—in much the same way that some of them slandered Dick Sheldon last spring.
This may be denied, but Alpha Tau Omega fraternity will be in the doghouse for the rest of the year, both with University officials and the Inter-fraternity council. That classified ad placed by the ATO pledges had more repercussions than were expected.
STATE
Dust storms in southwestern Kansas are getting worse. The huge wheat farms bring in the dollars, but precautions should have been taken against wind erosion. Maybe another Dust Bowl? Federal aid to farmers hit by the storms won't be forthcoming—unless the situation gets worse.
Hoped for in education circles is the push for consolidation of state rural grade and high schools. It's felt, reasonably enough, that concentration teaching effort won't raise standards, now called "deplorably low."
NATIONAL
Look for President Eisenhower to forego pushing farm and Hartley legislation until Congress passes other parts of his program —social security, housing, health, and tax revision. House tax writers are expected to approve legislation cutting federal excise taxes by as much as a billion dollars.
The fight over Agriculture Secretary Benson's order to slash the government's butter price guarantees promises to continue. Blocking the election-year move are legislators from the highly interested dairy states.
The next few days will tell the fate of the Bricker amendment. Night sessions may be held if necessary.
INTERNATIONAL
Chinese Communist jet planes are reported as being moved from Korea to China's Indo-Chinese border. Up to now, air support by the Chinese has not been used, but use of jet planes against the French might change the whole picture in southeast Asia.
Don't expect a renewal of the Korean war in the forseeable future, despite Syngman Rhee's threat, "I am not bluffing." He was doing just that.
SPORTS
The St. Louis Cardinals will be a strong pennant contender in the National league, now they've purchased pitcher Vic Raschi from the New York Yankees. Although he's 35, the former Yankee ace should be good for at least two more years.