Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1954
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.77
Ike Health Plan Starts Brisk House Discussion
Washington — (U.P.) President Eisenhower's health proposals touched off brisk discussion in Congress today over how far the government should go to help Americans get and pay for better medical care.
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y.) said the President's plan for under-writing private health insurance programs is "wholly inadequate" because it helps only when illness has struck a crushing blow.
"For many families," he said, "the need is not so much for protection against the cost of catastrophic illness as for ordinary and routine medical care at a cost which they reasonably can afford."
But Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) disagreed.
"The biggest need for government assistance is for the extraordinary expenses," he said. "When the government finances ordinary costs and care it gets into deep water on costs and socialism."
In submitting his health program to Congress yesterday, Mr. Eisenhower proposed a $25 million government reinsurance service to promote more and better health protection for Americans by guaranteeing benefits under private medical insurance plans.
The administration is putting the finishing touches on a bill spelling out details of the proposal. Several House Republicans said, however, that they would tie it out with "catastrophic" rather than routine medical expenses.
The powerful American Medical association still has not decided the official position it will take on the proposal. But Dr. Edward J. McCormick, AMA president, was critical last night.
He said in Los Angeles that private companies can handle the problem "if they are let alone," that there is no need for government action, and that the $25 million fund proposed by the President might grow to billions and run private insurance firms out of business.
Gen. Dean to Talk In Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.)— Maj Gen. William F. Dean, famed Korean war hero, will visit here this coming week-end.
The general, former commander of the 24th infantry division in Korea, was a prisoner of the Reds for three years. He will speak to the Command and General Staff school at nearby Ft. Leavenworth, Friday and then motor to Kansas City to address a Saturday meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars.
General Dean is now deputy commander of the Sixth Army, San Francisco.
Weather
Sharply colder weather will move into Kansas tonight. Occasional freezing drizzle or snow should develop tonight and continue Wednesday in the northeast quarter of Kansas. Eastern Kansas this morning had considerable fog and drizzle. It was dry in the west. The temperature sank to a sub-freezing
15 early today at Hill City in the northwest. Tonight, however, all of Kansas should have cold weather in common. The latest forecast is for low readings of 10-15 degrees in the extreme northeast to about 20 in the extreme southwest. There will be very little rise tomorrow.
GERMAN VICE CONSUL VISITS KU—Dr. H. Thonnes, German vice-consul at Kansas City, left, and Otto Suhling, graduate student, talk over the modern German bookbinding exhibit at Watson library.
Hand-Bound Volumes Displayed at Library
Dr. H. Thonnes, recently appointed German vice-consul in Kansas City, opened an exhibition of German hand-bookbindings Monday noon at Watson library.
Two MPs Face Murder Charge
At a news conference last night, Gen. Keyser maintained that he personally considered the shooting "a regrettable incident" and said the two MF's will be court martialed on murder charges.
He said that when the Camp Carson Provost Marsh informed him one of the guards was badly shaken by the incident, he had the following message relayed to them:
Colorado Springs, Colo. — (U.P.)— Brig. Gen. George V. Keyser, who had praised two military policemen for killing an escaping stockade prisoner, said last night that the guards will be court martialed on murder charges.
(It is standard Army procedure to legally absolve guards of guilt if they kill in the line of duty, or to punish them if, in violation of orders, they shoot to kill instead of to disable.)
The Rocky Mountain News, Denver Scripps-Howard daily, charged editorially over the weekend that Gen. Keyser, Camp Carson commander, had praised the guards for killing Pfc. Gillins, and that he was not "equipped" for leadership in the "modern American citizens army."
Pfc. Richard W. Gilins, 23-year-old Korean veteran with three battle stars, was felled by shotgun blasts at Camp Carson, Colo., after he had climbed one fence and was running toward another. He died before he could be given medical attention, because a shotgun pellet had ruptured his spleen.
"Guarding prisoners is a serious business and we are not playing at soldiering when guarding prisoners. The general compliments you both for attempting to do your duty."
"The exhibition is a display of the finest examples of contemporary works by members of the German union of master hand-bookbinders," Dr. Thonnes said. "The purpose of the exhibit is to demonstrate the genuine values and beauties of handwork in bookbinding, supporting the traditional western book-culture of modern times."
Classics of Shakespeare, Goethe, Homer, Emerson, and de Maupassant, are presented in the exhibit, each book designed in the best bookbinding Germany has to offer. An edition of the Bible, translated into German by Martin Luther, is bound in dark-natural pigskin, inlaid with leather, and tooled by hand with brown burned edges.
The German books are to travel to more than 20 universities in the United States. They were first displayed at Kentucky university last April and will finish their tour in 1955.
Reds Balk at Final Release of POWs
Panmunjom, Korea — (U.P.) Indian troops planned to return more than 22,000 anti-Communist Korean war prisoners to the Allied command today despite an 11th hour Red warning that the transfer would be a "violation of the armistice agreement."
Washington —(U.P.)— The Senate Interior committee gave qualified approval today to a bill to grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska.
Senate Group Includes Alaska In Hawaiian Bill
The Alaska section of the bill requires "perfecting," committee chairman Hugh Butler (R-Neb.) told reporters. He said the measure will not be reported to the Senate until a subcommittee works on it.
But Sen. Butler said the measure would be ready by the time the Senate completes action on the St. Lawrence seaway and the Bricker amendment.
In a surprise, Democrat-sponsored move, the committee added Alaska and Hawaii to the statehood measure.
He said the vote on adding Alaska was "as close as it could be" but that the vote to report the dual bill was unanimous.
Sen. Butter said the proposal to add Alaska to the bill was sponsored by Sen. Clinton Anderson (D-N.M). He predicted that the Senate would separate the two bills.
Sen. Butler, reversing his previous position, said he favored reporting the amended bill to the Senate. But he said his action does "not necessarily commit myself as to how I shall vote on the Senate floor."
Previously Sen. Butler, with most other republicans on the committee, opposed Alaska statehood while favoring statehood for Hawaii.
The House last year passed a Hawaii statehood bill. An Alaska bill is before its Rules committee.
The party line division is based largely on the fact that Hawaii historically has voted Republican while Alaska has been pro-Democratic in territorial voting.
St. Lawrence Debate To Be Put to Vote Soon
Washington—(U.P.)-Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland today prepared a move that could end the first lengthy debate of the new session and force an early vote on the St. Lawrence seaway bill.
Knowland said he would ask the Senate to agree to a motion limiting debate on the long-pending measure and bring it to a vote late tomorrow or Thursday.
Bricker amendment—Sen. John W. Bricker (R.O.) rejected as "entirely unacceptable" the latest proposal for breaking the deadlock with
Other Congressional developments: Farm—Arnell. Allen J. Ellender (D-La). discounted a fear voiced by secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson before the Senate Agriculture committee that consumers might rebel at Federal aid to agriculture if present high level price supports are continued. Sen. Ellender said the Administration's proposed "flexible" supports would drive consumer food prices higher.
the Administration over his proposal to limit presidential treaty-making powers.
Citizenship—Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), ranking House judiciary committee member, predicted easy House passage of President Eisenhower's proposal to strip Communists conspirators of their U.S. citizenship.
Post Office—Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-S.C.) predicted the Senate post office committee would take no action on a controversial plan to overhaul the post office department. The plan was drafted by the committee's advisory council and was sharply attacked by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield.
$\textcircled{1}$ A spokesman for the Indian custodial force said 14,300 Chinese and 7,700 North Korean Pows would be turned over to the United Nations beginning at 9 a.m. (6 p.m. CST Tuesday).
"There is no change in our plans," the spokesman said. "The turnover of the prisoners will take place as scheduled."
North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung and Chinese Gen. Pen Teh-Huai said the announced UN plan to relocate the POWs in Formosa and South Korea constituted an "armed abduction."
The top Red leaders simultaneously informed Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation commission, that the Communists were unqualifiedly opposed to the release and indicated they would not accept delivery of the 347 pro-Red prisoners they captured.
"We consider your proposal as in violation of the armistice agreement," the Red commanders said. "This decision is not only in violation of the terms of reference and humanitarian principles of the Geneva convention but also incompatible with the just stand which should be taken by the neutral nations."
An Indian spokesman said Gen. Thimayya still had not decided what to do with the pro-Communist prisoners, including 21 Americans, if the Red continued to refuse delivery of them.
The board of regents has accepted a gift of land, now appraised at $46,000, to the University from the Endowment association.
The Communist note to Gen. Thimayya was a long - winded tirade against the UN command and specifically charged "United States authorities" with planning to hand the anti-Red POWs "over to the Syngman Rhee clique and the Chiang Kai-Shek gang."
Premier Kim and Gen, Peng also charged that "concentration camps" had been established in South Korea and Formosa for "subjecting" the prisoners to "forcible training."
"It can be asserted that if these prisoners are restored to the U. S.-Rhee-Chiang side many of them will be subjected to long maltreatment and will not have the opportunity to return home to lead a peaceful life" the Reds said.
$46,000 Land Given to KU
The property lies on the east and west sides of Michigan street, one of the main north-south streets to the new fieldhouse site. The transfer included the equivalent of 42 50-foot lots on the west side of Michigan between 17th and 19th streets, and 16 lots on the east side between 16th and 18th.
The lots will be used for development of parking and other facilities for the fieldhouse.
The Endowment association acquired the properties over a period of several years. The acquisition cost was $24,716.04, but the spread of homebuilding in the area recently resulted in a local realtor's appraisal of $46,000 for housing purposes. Several small houses on the property have been razed or moved.
Dead Man Pays No Taxes
Cambrai, France — (U.P.) The finance ministry finally has given up trying to get $8.50 in back taxes from Michel Courtin, since they learned yesterday he was executed for murder two years ago.