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Less Duplication Seen In Communist Hunts
Washington—(U.P.)-Informed sources said today to look for less duplication this year among Congressional committees hunting communists.
Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.) revealed that the Senate rules committee is going to serve as a "clearing house and traffic director."
The idea is to keep Senators Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) and William E. Jenner (R.-Ind.) from trampling on each other's toes in investigations.
Mundt, a member of McCarthy's group, said this was the real reason behind McCarthy's surprise appointment this week to the rules committee, which Jemer heads.
Meanwhile, another source said the House un-American Activities committee—which refused to go along with a proposal for a joint House-Senate steering committee—will cooperate more closely with the two Senate groups.
Mundt said the plan to put McCarthy on the rules committee was worked out at a meeting with the Republican Senate leadership.
It presumably was devised to forestall tentative Democratic plans to introduce legislation setting up machinery to avoid overlapping investigations.
Meanwhile, McCarthy told reporters he plans to talk to Senate majority leader William F. Knowland (R.-Cal.) about adding more Republicans to his investigating subcommittee, which Democrats are boycoting, to ease the work-load.
McCarthy said the additional GOF members would serve until or unless the Democrats returned.
However, two of them. Senators John L. McClellan (Ark.) and Henry M. Jackson (Wash.) said they know of no plans to end the boycott, that began when McCarthy won a battle over his subcommittee hiring power.
Ike Wants Raise In Social Security
Washington — (U.P.) President Eisenhower asked Congress today to increase the benefits and expand the coverage of the Social Security program.
In a special message to the House and Senate, Mr. Eisenhower recommended that coverage under the old age and survivors insurance program be extended to an additional 10 million persons, particularly self-employed farmers and professional people such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. The million persons cover nearly 7 million persons and their families
Mr. Eisenhower also proposed that the social security tax base be increased from annual earnings of $3,600 to $4,200 to finance increased benefits.
At present the employee and employer each pay a two per cent social security tax on the first $3,600 of earnings—or a maximum of $72 a year. Under Mr. Elsen- would be $44 a year. The maximum old age benefit to an individual is now $55 a month.
The President said this is "too low" to combat destitution. He recommended that benefits now being paid to retired workers be increased on the basis of a new formula to be submitted to Congress by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
There are about 500 U.S. companies each producing more than 100,000 tons of bituminous coal yearly, with thousands of companies producing less.
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Dr. H. A. Dr. Iain: Illustrated lecture on the geology of Wyoming entitled "Ramin for the spring semester" and election elections for the spring semester; 7:30.
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Newcomers at University Women's
Academy of Science Bridge,
amnesia, sweeping and conversation
Mountaineering Club, 7:30 p.m., 308 Memorial, Union, Stu. movie
Music Educators club. 6:45 p.m.
37 bus. Gustav "Inspiration of Music in Behavior."
Christian Science organization, 7 p.m.
Danforth chapel.
Memorial Union. SKI movie. 20 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Strong. Speaker. Mr. James Dawber from the Intercollegiate Press in Kansas City. Everyone welcome.
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Sociology coffee, 4 p.m. room 17.
Strong Annex E. E. Discussion: "Some As-
sleader, Rudy Cleghorn, college senior,
Kappa Phi, 7 p.m. Danforth chapel.
SATURDAY
India Republic Day reception. 7:30 p.m.
pavajhawk room, Memorial Union.
KU Westminster Fellowship supper.
5.30 p.m., Westminster house, Dr. Patton-
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SUNDAY
Gamma Delta, 5:30 p.m. New Student Lounge, 17th and Vermont. Cost supper and meeting Guest speaker, Mr Dean booking: Journey. Real-life experience in church work in Japan and working with refugees in Germany.
Mathematical Colloquium, 4 p.m., room 203 Strong. Prof. G. Bailey Price: "Report from the committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics."
MONDAY
Air-Conditioning Ready at Watkins
The new air-conditioning system has been installed and redecorating work has been completed at Watkins Memorial hospital. Installation of air conditioning was started last April 1 and was completed during the Christmas holidays.
The hallways of all four floors have been repainted a light bluish-green, replacing the light cream and dark molding previously in the corridors. The ceilings have been lowered to cover the air-conditioning units. The ceilings are of a cream acoustical tile which has cut down on the amount of noise in the halls.
A special air-conditioning unit has been installed in the operating room. The unit constantly brings fresh air into the room.
Four of the most prominent men in the development of the railroads over the Sierra Nevada which completed the nation's transcontinental system were neither financiers nor trainmen, but merchants—Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington, all of Sacramento.
The system used throughout the rest of the building uses cooled water and fans.
Democrat Asks Explanation of Defense Formula
Washington — (U.P.)—A Democratic Congressman today called on the administration to explain its "mysterious formula" for gearing the nation's defenses to a possible Red attack while cutting ground and sea strength.
Teague, a Purple Heart combat infantry officer in World War II, compared the administration's defense plans to former defense secretary Louis John's military cutbacks before the start of the Korean war. He wanted to know if the administration has information it hasn't passed along to Congress about a lessening of the Communist threat.
Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.) expressed "deep concern" about the administration's "new look" military planning as the Navy announced it will put 50 ships in mothballs as a result of defense spending cuts in the fiscal year beginning July 1.
"In substance the administration is asking (us) to believe that through some mysterious formula recently devised, our nation, depending primarily on air power and atomic and nuclear weapons, can deal successfully with an enemy which also possesses atomic and nuclear weapons, a numerically superior air force, tremendous numbers of well-trained, well-equipped ground troops, and their supporting units," Teague said in a speech prepared for the House record.
Teague questioned the cut in Naval strength and said the United States has been "repeatedly warned" that it is growing Russian submarine fleet.
"In the face of a drastically reduced Naval arm, what solution is being advanced in the new look to deal with this growing threat to our Naval superiority?" he asked.
Navy Secretary Robert B. Anderson warned last night in a speech at Wichita Falls, Tex., that American combat ship construction is lagging while the development of a "modern, ocean-going, high seas fleet" by Russia will make that nation a "first class" naval power.
Buffalo, N.Y. —(U.R.)— Mrs. Roland L. Dold, owner of a delicatessen, was filling a bag of potatoes when one of them fell on the marble counter—and clunked. It was a potato all right, but was petrified and weighed a pound and a half.
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Women who have been appointed to top diplomatic jobs for the United States: Ruth Bryan Owen Rodhe, minister to Denmark; Daisy Harriman, minister to Norway; Eugenie Anderson, ambassador to Denmark; Perle Mesta, minister to Luxembourg; Clare Boothe Luce, ambassador to Italy, and Frances Willis, ambassador to Switzerland.
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Michigan Coed Says 'Fix! After College Queen Contest
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Miami, Fla.—(U.P.)—Promoters of a national college queen beauty contest defended the affair today against charges by a pretty University of Michigan coed that it was "a fix."
GI Bill Called GreatExperiment
Prof. E. R. Elbel last night told University veterans that "the GI Bill is one of the greatest educational experiments the world has ever known."
He spoke at a meeting of the University Veterans organization. Prof. Elbel is director of the University veterans bureau and a professor of physical education.
"The GI Bill is an educational experience unheard of," he said, adding that it has no precedent. Some people thought the legislation was passed purely to help the veterans, he said, but it also helped schools and industry. He said that the legislation helped industry absorb the shock of 13 million veterans returning from the war and helped "universities and colleges which were in a bad way financially."
"The government has invested in you fellows from a standpoint of good risks," he said. "The GI Bill is the only subsidization we have in turning out scientists."
In a business meeting the UVO unanimously adopted its constitution. President Fred Krey, first year law, announced that Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff would be the guest speaker at the next meeting Wednesday, Feb. 3.
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Rosaline Sappington, 19, of West Branch, Mich., a law student at Michigan who was a contestant for the college queen crown, said the contest, held last week-end, was rigged in favor of a University of Miami coed.
Max Rosey, who directed the show in which 18 campus beauties from all over the nation took part, denied the charges.
Toby Gerard, 21, of the University of Miami, won first place. Frances Benedum, 19, another Miami student who was entered from Texas, came in second, and Barbara Spiro, 19, of New York, was third.
Miss Sappington made her "fix" charges in a letter to the Detroit Free-Press.
She claimed that the night before the judging she overheard a group of officials talking in the contest director's room across the hall from her room.
"They said the winner was to be the girl from Texas who goes to the University of Miami, the reason being that she has a lot of contacts between New York and Miami and would be able to entertain the rich people from New York," Miss Sap印塘 wrote. "They also wanted some one who would be around Miami after the contest."
Mr. Rosey said he could not recall such a meeting. He said such reactions were common among losing beauty candidates. "Such letters get written no matter how a contest is handled," he said.
One of the judges also denied Miss Sappington's charges. She said the Michigan coed "never had a chance to win" and "didn't have enough merit to be chosen among the first three."
Need Lots of Green Hay
Syracuse, N.Y. — (U,P)— Lester A. Pratt, a Washington accountant, said yesterday most bank embezzlements are caused by "slow horses and fast women." Pratt spoke at a conference of bank comptrollers and auditors.
While Dwight D. Eisenhower is the 34th president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon is the 36th vice president.
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