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Monday, Jan. 18, 1954
By STAN HAMILTON
Mather Uses Gadget to Rate Men
Television sets on the bench and IBM machines to calculate players' performances—items a bit rare in Big Seven circles but integral parts of Charles V. "Chuck" Mather's football coaching system.
The new Jayhawk grid coach, hired Friday after a meeting here of the Board of Regents (which, with Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, approved of the recommendation of A. C. Dutch'Lomborg, athletic director) has a TV set behind him during games so he could better judge the progress of the games at Massillon, Ohio, High school, where he has been coach and athletic director.
He studied every game for hours on slow motion film and then with his coaching staff "graded" each player and every move they made in the previous contest. When the showing of the film ended he took the IBM cards he and his staff used for grading and processed them through machines to record each player's proficiency.
Unless a player "passed." Coach Mather generally would let him gain his future experience on the bench. It is said he does not tolerate repeated mistakes.
He spurs the platoon system.
and last year at Massillon changed only three men when the ball changed hands. He also encourages his players to participate in other sports.
Coach Mather, who coaches a style of football closely resembling that of Paul Brown's Cleveland Brown, replaces J. V. Sikes, who resigned the Kansas post Nov. 21 after six seasons. The Cleveland mentor formerly coached at the Massillon high school also.
The new coach, married and father of a 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter, never witnessed a football game until he was a senior at Hopewood, Ohio. High school, and played only briefly in three games as a senior at Ohio Northern college, Ada, Ohio. He was a tackle. He also was on the baseball and wrestling teams. In his first year as a coach, in 1937-38 at Brilliant, Ohio, he lost seven of seven grid games and won but one of 20 basketball starts.
nere as to how he will react to the "playing down" of football at KU as compared to the comparative boosting of that sport at the Ohio high school.
At Massillon's Washington High, where he won 57 of 60 games in six seasons, he had a staff of 11 coaches, one for each position. There was a town booster club, an 86-piece band, free footballs for all male babies born, and a new motor car every two years for himself as coach.
Some speculation has been raised
Crowds ran between 18,000 and 20,000 at the school which had an enrollment of about 1,400. The stadium was built at a cost of $500,-000, and last season the grid team brought in more than $100,000.
His over-all football won-lost
record is 111-18-5.
While Coach Mather's salary will climb into a higher bracket with the KU job (from $6,900 to $9,500), he is slated to have only a 5-man staff here, four varsity and one frosh assistant. He will sign a 3-year pact here. His Massillon contract ran out this season.
KU officials said he would be in Lawrence Saturday for interviews and talks.
McCarthy Blasts Voice' Projects
Washington — (U.P.)— Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy's permanent investigating subcommittee charged today that it found "poor planning, reckless disregard for taxpayers' money, incompetence, stupidity or worse" in Voice of America transmitter projects.
It said in a formal report that two big radio transmitters were started on the east and west coasts where static would make them "useless to the extent that one very competent radio engineer referred to the mislocations as sabotage."
The subcommittee investigated the Voice of America last year when it operated under the State department. The Voice is now part of the semi-independent U.S. Information Service.
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) said he would take another look at the Voice's engineering program in a few weeks to see if there has been improvement.
The subcommittee report was immediately challenged by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) for concluding that subsequent cancellation of the two transmitter projects "was in the national interest."
Sen. Jackson, one of three Democrats who quit the subcommittee, said in a statement that tests by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "raise a serious question" as to whether the transmitter locations were mislocated.
The report recalled that Engineer Lewis J. McKesson testified that the sites of the stations would add $18,000,000 to their cost. The subcommittee said it saved the government this amount of money because the State department caned the contracts after the hearings.
Mr. McKesson predicted that transmitters at the locations selected—near Seattle, Wash., and Wilmington, N.C.—would use 10 times the power they would need farther north because of magnetic storms.
But Mr. Jackson said the MIT electronics laboratory reported that
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And he said that Dr. H. H. Beverage, director of the radio research laboratory of the Radio Corporation of America, wrote to the State department that the Seattle radio station had stopped because it was 800 miles closer to central China where broadcasts were to be beamed.
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Wichita Falls, Tex. —(U.P.)—John Price Hunter, who lived in his house with the decomposing body of his slain wife for five days, today faced murder with malice charges. The 60-year-old house painter walked into a church here yesterday and sought out an acquaintance, W. W. Givens, the county courthouse custodian, to confess killing his 38-year-old wife, Elva May.
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Anderson Ha New Proposa
Washington — (U.P.)— A proposal that farmers be paid perhaps $10 an acre to take surplus land out of production was advanced today by chairman H. Carl Andersen of the House Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee.
Mr. Anderson (R-Minn.) said he believes Congress will continue present rigid high support prices for basic crops because farmers favor it. He said if Congress put the administration's plan into force, President Eisenhower wouldn't be able to carry Minnesota in the 1956 presidential elections, even though he carried it by 155,000 votes in 1952
However, Mr. Andersen said, no farm price support program will work unless some plan is devised to take surplus land out of production and keep it out.
He said the government must provide a "sufficient incentive" to farmers so that they will not divert to other crops land which government production controls are withdrawn. He also directed surplus crops. There will be more than 20,000,000 acres this year. he said.
"Perhaps," he said, "the government should pay farmers an average rent of $10 an acre for the diverted land—depending on quality—which is kept out of production of soil-depleting crops and put into clover and alfalfa and soil-building crops." he said.
That would cost less, he said, than if the farmer were to divert the land into some other price-supported crops—and produce surpluses of them which the government would have to buy up. The latter cost perhaps $35 an acre, Mr. Andersen said.
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PWs to Be Returned To Captors Tomorrow
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Any forecast about Korea is dangerous business.
But as of now, at 8 p.m. tomorrow (9 a.m. Wednesday, Korean time), 22,000 anti-Communist war prisoners taken by the United Nations will enter the last mile on the way to freedom.
On that date, the Indian custodians have said they will turn all prisoners back to their original captors.
Three days later the UN command will begin releasing them as civilians.
Even should the Korean political conference be held, and the prisoner issue be debated another 30 days as provided in the original truce agreement, the result could only point up still more the fact that thousands of their soldiers do not want to go back to the Reds.
It will be accompanied by a great din from the Communists who will charge that the prisoners are being "kidnapped" and probably also from India which will charge that the action is one-sided and illegal and that they should be held for the Korean political conference.
However, it odes not seem likely that the Reds will use the issue as an excuse to resume the war.
While India also will compain, it is doubtful that her feelings of outrage will be as great as her relief at escaping an impossible situation which made her subject to angry charges from both the United Nations and the Communists.
Meanwhile, a new element was made clear by both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles.
The prisoner release is an undoubted propaganda blow to the Reds, and a victory for the United Nations said during the truce negotiations that no prisoner should be repatriated against his will.
It is that in case of any future aggression, the United States will feel free to retaliate at the source and at a time and place of its own choosing. Thus, the Yala river boundary of Manchuria no longer will provide a "sanctuary" for the Reds if they should strike again in Korea.
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Satan's Kingdom, Conn. — (U.P.)— It was 18 below zero in Satan's Kingdom today.
US To Avoid Red China Talk
Washington — (U.P.) Officials said today that United States delegates to the Big Four foreign ministers conference in Berlin will reject Russia's plan for a world peace parley with Red China.
Authorities said the United States will even oppose long-winded discussions of the proposal in an effort to keep the focus of the Berlin meeting on the problems of Germany and Austria.
The Berlin conference begins Jan. 25 and it's considered a sure bet that Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov will renew Moscow's demand that Communist China be invited to five-power talks on world tensions. He might even suggest that it be called in during the final stages of the Berlin conversations.
"We have said any participating government at Berlin can state its views on the prospect of the five-power conference," one U.S. official said. "That shouldn't take too long."
This meeting in Berlin has been called primarily to settle the German and Austrian problems. There is no place for a Far Eastern power in such a meeting—even if we had recognized Red China."
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his top aides will leave for Berlin Thursday. They will hold preliminary strategy talks with the British and French before going to the conference table with the Russians.
Before leaving, Mr. Dulles plans to confer with Soviet ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin on a time, place and agenda for a full-dress international conference on the President's Atoms-for peace plan.
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