Kansas State Historical Society Topeka. Ka.
Monday, Feb. 15, 1954
-Kansan photo by Gene Bratton
BY LEAPS AND BOUNDSS The growth of KU's new fieldhouse has been phenomenal during the past several weeks. The warm weather has kept workers going at a rapid clip—and has kept them well supplied with interested kibitzers.
The Kansas Athletic Federation of College Women, comprised of nine schools, met here last Friday and Saturday to discuss mutual problems facing members of the Women's Athletic association.
Nine Kansas Schools DiscussWAAProblems
The Kansas schools represented at the convention were Baker university, Washburn university, Kansas State, Emporia State college, Pittsburg State college, Fort Hays State college, Wichita university, College of Emporia, and the University.
Pasadena, Calif—(U.P.)-Mrs. James Roosevelt resumes her efforts in Superior court today to obtain $3,500 temporary monthly support from her husband, whom she has charged with wholesale adultery.
Six general topics were given to various schools for discussion. The six were: "Programs and Special Events of WAA," "Point Systems and Awards," "Sportsdays and Playdays, Instead of Intramural Competitions," "How Do Clubs Carry Out Intramural Programs," "Financing and Publicity of WAA," and "Place of WAA as a Campus Organization."
The main purposes of playdays and sport days, instead of intramural competition, is to promote better school relations, good social relations, to provide educationally sound play, to increase the number participating in the various sports, and to stimulate the idea of playing for the fun of the game. Physical strain and publicity are the prime objections of men playing against women in intramural games.
Attorneys for the eldest son of the late President Josephosevelt were expected to attack his wife's contention that he is worth $2 million. Actually, they said, he is $78,000 in debt.
Daily hansan
The weekend activities began Friday, with the registration of the members of WAA in the Pine room of the Union. Business meeting were held that evening, ending with a dinner and talk by Coach Phog Allen. Mr. Allen gave an account of the 1952 basketball team's trip to Helsinki, Finland.
Mr. Benson said that when he kept the support level at 90 per cent of parity last year, the department's stockpile of butter, cheese, and dried milk was equivalent to about 1,440,000,000 pounds of whole milk, or about 1.2 per cent of milk production during the 1952-53 marketing year.
Problems of WAA were discussed on Saturday and a summary of the results was given. The convention ended with a luncheon Saturday noon.
Roosevelt Assets To Be Questioned
Washington —(U,P.)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today announced a cut in dairy price supports, effective April 1, which he estimated will mean about an eight-cent-a-pound reduction in retail butter prices.
Dairy Price Support Cut
Mr. Benson told a news conference that government price supports on butter, cheese, and dried milk will drop from 90 to 70 per cent of parity, the lowest level permitted in farm law.
He said dollars-and-cents support levels for the three dairy products will be announced later. But he said he thinks "housewives can count on about an eight-cent a pound drop in butter."
ing year. He said stocks now on hand represent the equivalent of more than eight billion pounds of whole milk, or more than six per cent of production this year.
Mr. Benson said he did not discuss the dairy program "in detail" with President Eisenhower. But he said he discussed it "in a general way two or three times at the White House.
Mr. Benson announced the new dairy price supports for the year starting April 1, as more than $350 million worth of dairy products piled up in government warehouses. He noted that the Agricultural Act of 1949 requires the secretary to set dairy supports between 75 and 90 per cent of parity, at a level which he determines is "necessary in order to assure an adequate supply."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 87
Boyd R. Compton, American Universities Field Staff speaker on Indonesia, opens a 10-day series of campus lectures today.
Compton Opens 10-Day Lecture Series Today
A student of Asian history and affairs, Mr. Compton is especially interested in current history of the Far East. He studied at the University of Indonesia for seven months and also lived in Sumatra and Java. Mr. Compton's schedule for this week is:
Tuesday, 8 a.m.: Elements of Sociology class; luncheon with sociology faculty; 3 p.m. Social Science Survey class.
Today; Luncheon with the Planning committee on Mr. Compton's schedule; 2 p.m. Elements of Sociology class.
Wednesday, 8 a.m.: World Geography class; 10 a.m.: Geography of the Far East class; luncheon with geography faculty; 3-5 p.m.: graduate seminar on Problems of World Order.
Sunday, 5 p.m.: Faculty club, informal talk on Indonesia.
Friday, 10 a.m.; Recent World Trends class; luncheon with history faculty; 2 p.m.; American Diplomatic History class.
Thursday, 9 a.m.; The Editorial class; luncheon with' the journalism faculty; 3 p.m.; Reporting II and Editing classes.
Anyone interested in arranging appointments with Mr. Compton may get in touch with him directly or through Ambrose Saricks, assistant professor of history.
Where's Pogo?
University workmen evicted a raccoon, weighing about 25 pounds, when his home—a cottonwood tree—was cleared last week to make way for the new fieldhouse parking area. The animal took refuge in a ground hole but the persistent workmen dug him out twice. Workmen said he appeared well adjusted to University life.
Co-On Council Elects Hanni
Phil Hanni, college junior, was recently elected coordinator of the Inter Co-op council. The function of the council is to serve as an executive board for co-ops, with one representative from each organization.
Dinner Planned To Honor Mather
A student-faculty banquet will welcome Charles "Chuck" Mather, new football coach, to the University Feb. 25.
BOYD R. COMPTON
The west has proposed a Korean peace conference at Geneva April 15 to replace the stillborn Pamunjom peace parley. Mr. Molotov has agreed only to the site and date. He refused to honor the Allied proposal that the conference agenda be limited strictly to Korean affairs.
In three previous sessions with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and French Foreign
State Plans Lake For Manhattan Area
The idea for the banquet developed from a plan to ask Mr. Mather to speak to the University Veterans organization. Bill Cook, business junior and promotion chairman for the club, wanted a way to get everyone into the plan, so he pushed the idea of a welcoming banquet to which everyone could come.
Pratt—(U.P.)-Plans for a new 75- acre state lake in Pottawatomie county, four miles northeast of Manhattan, were outlined today by the Forestry, Fish and Game commission.
Director Dave Leahy said the lake will be constructed on land donated by Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Fredrich, Manhattan. It will provide a scenic park and lake area with high bluffs and some timber, covering nearly 217 acres.
West, Soviets Try Secretly For Far East Peace Talks
The lake, eighth in the commission's current lake-building program, will be built in a deep valley of a tributary of the Blue river. Plans call for a dam 1,500 feet long and 47 feet high to impound a lake with a maximum depth of 40 feet.
Berlin—(U.P.)-The West met secretly with the Soviets today in an apparent final attempt to set up a Far Eastern Peace conference
There was no hope for settlement, though, as the three Western ministers held their closed conference at 11 a.m. (4 a.m. CST) with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov;
Before going to the Soviet Embassy in the East zone of Berlin for the fourth secret session of the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference, the Western delegates met privately last night to plot their strategy.
Minister Georges Bidault, Mr. Molotov, refused to compromise.
The tough-dealing Russian Diplomat clung to his claims that there can be no real relaxation of tension in the Far East until Red China is invited to a conference on global affairs.
Westerners said Mr. Molotov was only bluffing because Moscow at this time might find Red China's dictator, Mao - Tse - Tung, difficult to handle if a five-power conference were to be held.
Here, too, the West expected to make no progress since Mr. Molotov, from the beginning of the conference Jan. 25, has refused to make any concessions on proposals to reunite Germany and sign an Austrian Peace treaty, demanding agreement on his terms.
Following the secret session, the ministers scheduled their regular plenary session at 3 p.m. (8 a.m. CST) to finish their futile debate on European security.
Cook got the approval of University administrators. With his approval, A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, athletic director, gave the support of the athletic department to the plan.
Letters have been sent to the organized houses announcing the banquet and its purpose, which, according to Cook is "to get the student body and the faculty as a group to welcome the new football coach to the University.
This will be the first welcoming party of its kind in the history of Kansas athletics. In 1948, J. V. Sikes, who took the head football coaching job on the resignation of George Sauer, was introduced at the half-time of the KU-Kansas State basketball game. A newspaper clipping says he received a five-minute ovation from the fans.
In 1945 Mr. Sauer and his staff of assistants were given a "rousing welcome by 20 sport fans at a get-acquainted dinner by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce." Similar welcomes have been given past coaches, but never has such a banquet been instigated by the students.
The banquet will be held at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Student Union ballroom. Tickets are $1.50 per plate. They will be handled by the athletic office. Reservations may be made beginning today in the athletic office, organized houses, and in the information booth.
Former Instructor Now Has Cancer
Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts announced today that letters and cards to John Parks, instructor in the department of design from 1950 to 1953, would be appreciated. Mr. Parks is in St. Mary's hospital in Kansas City, Mo., with cancer.
--normal levels after record highs were set Sunday. As the front penetrated Kansas, Goodland reported a trace of rain. And there may be an out-
French Divers Set Record
Dakar, French West Africa — (U.P.)—Two French naval officers today set a new deep sea diving record when they plunged 4,050 meters (nearly two and one-half miles) beneath the sea in a fish-shaped bathyscape.
Clark, Burgess Get Positions
Jerry Clark, engineering senior, has been elected first sergeant to succeed Chapin Clark, second year law student, and James Burgess, business senior, has been chosen rush chairman of the Scabbard and Blade military society.
Weather
Cool air from the Rocky mountains olled southeastward across Kansas oday to drop temperatures close to
break of scattered light thundershowers in the southeast and extreme east tonight, said state weatherman Tom Arnold. But Mr, Arnold saw little chance of any real drought-breaking rainfall. Temperatures were 30 degrees higher than normal Sunday afternoon with records toppling at several points in the state. The peak was 85 degrees at Dodge City, which never before had recorded so high a February reading.