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Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1954
51st Year, No. 72
Flight Course Offered For University Credit
A student may now take flight training and receive credit for it following an announcement yesterday that the department of aeronautical engineering will offer the course for the spring semester.
A. S. Andes, chairman of the department, and Delbert F. Erhart, manager of the Erhart Flying service, signed the agreement recently.
The training will earn the student one hour of University credit, but they will get two additional hours in an accompanying primary ground school course on the campus. This course must be taken either before or concurrently with the flight training, which may be spread over two semesters.
The instruction given the students will consist of a total minimum of 40 hours flight time with a minimum of 15 minutes ground instruction for each hour of flight. The students will take at least 15 hours of flight with an instructor and must have 20 hours of solo flight time to complete the course.
Completion of the course will give the student a private pilot's license from the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
"The low cost of the training should be attractive to students because it is less than in previous years and for other localities." Prof. Andes entire course of 40 flight hours will said in announcing the course. "The cost from $260 to $300."
Prof. Andes said the courses will be open to any student. However, students must obtain written permission from their parents before enrolling in the course. A minimum of 15 students will be required before the course can be offered.
The Erhart Flying service will furnish the planes, equipment, and instructors. The flying service will also furnish transportation to and from the airport, which is located about a mile northeast of Lawrence.
Two years ago, a similar course was offered for one semester but Prof. Andes said present arrangements provide better facilities and lower costs.
Fire Damages Chuck Wagon
The Chuck Wagon restaurant, about one mile south of the city limits on U.S. highway 59, was damaged extensively early this morning by a fire believed to have started when an electric motor on the butane furnace failed.
Damage by smoke, heat, and water was limited mainly to the kitchen and its contents, and a small section of the roof above the kitchen caved in. The fire started about 2:45 a.m. Lawrence Fire Chief John Miller made no estimate of damage.
George Stauffer of Route No. 6 owns the building and operators of the eating establishment are John Dobbins of 1206 W. 23st st., and John Wolfe of 1336 Massachusetts st. Mr. Wolfe is the father of Jack Wolfe, KU varsity basketball player.
Weather
The overall weather trend will be the direction of rather cold soils.
tions today and tomorrow with a slow rise in temperatures tomorrow. Considerable cloudiness will hold through tomorrow over most of Kansas. Tonight's lights probably will be around 10-15 degrees in northeastern Kansas and into the lower 20s in the southwest.
FREEZING
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Plan to Free POW's Rejected
Korea—(U.P.) The Neutral Nations Repatriation commission rejected today a Swedish proposal to free 22,100 unrepatriated war prisoners as civilians on Jan. 23.
India, whose premier Jawaharlal Nehru favors holding the captives beyond the deadline set by the armistice, sided with the Czechs and Poles to defeat the proposal, which won Switzerland's support.
The Indian delegation headed by Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya introduced a new prisoner proposal, presumably drawn up in New Delhi, and the commission said it would be discussed Thursday.
Commission spokesmen declined to discuss the new plan but an Indian source confided last Saturday that the commission group would study a proposal to send 14,000 anti-Commist Chinese and 8,000 anti-Red North Koreans back to the Allies and return 350 soldiers, including 21 Americans, to the Communists.
The United States agreed today to meet with the Communists in Panjunjom on Friday with the hope that perilary talks on the Korean peace conference can be resumed.
U. S. State department Far East expert Kenneth Young sent a note to the Reds proposing a meeting of liaison secretaries a few minutes after he received authorization from Washington.
The note was dispatched to North Korean negotiator Ki Sok Bok and Red Chinese delegate Huang Hua, whose insulting remarks about the United States had caused preliminary talks to be broken off Dec. 12.
Republicans Say Strike Votes Not Anti-Labor
Mr. Young, who was left in Korea by U.S. negotiator Arthur H. Dean to deal with the Reds if they apologized, said he did not know whether the charge of American treachery had been withdrawn.
Mr. Young said he did not know whether the insult would be discussed at the meeting Friday. He indicated the U.N. command might continue to insist on an apology.
Washington — (U.P.) — Republican supporters of the Taft-Hartley Law disagreed today with opponents' charges that President Eisenhower's proposal that the government start conducting strike votes was anti-labor.
Democratic critics of Taft-Hartley retorted, however, that the proposal would create a new obstacle to good faith bargaining during walkouts. And CIO President Walter P. Reuther branded it "anti-labor."
They said the plan is anything but anti-labor because it actually gives rank-and-file union members a greater voice in critical decisions affecting their paychecks.
Republican congressmen generally applauded the program while northern Democrats were critical. Mr. Reuther and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers roundly condemned it for failing to remove the "anti-labor" character of the Taft-Hartley law.
Although the AFL withheld immediate comment, the head of its building and construction trades department said the recommendations dealing with the construction industry were "well-intentioned" but meaningless.
The controversy came in the wake of Mr. Eisenhower's message to Congress on the administration's recommendations for amending the Taft-Hartley act. He sent the 14-point program to the capitol yesterday and Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R.-NJ) immediately introduced a bill to carry it out.
Mr. Smith's bill provided for a vote, under National Labor Relations board supervision, "after" the strike was under way.
But of all the points in the President's program, it was the surprise plan for government - sponsored strike votes that drew the most attention.
Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.), a labor committee member, said it is obvious now that individual employees have "little to say in the calling of strikes." But Sen. James E. Murray (D-Mont.), senior Democrat on the committee, said the election would interfere with collective bargaining during a strike. And Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.), another committee member, said "it looks anti-union."
K.C. Orchestra Plays For Listless Audience
By COURT ERNST
Under the direction of its regular conductor, Hans Schwiiger, now in his sixth season at Kansas City, the orchestra opened the program with the overture to "The School for Scandal" by the American composer, Samuel Barber. The work is intended to capture the hilarious comedy in Sheridan's farcical satire, but the orchestra seemed a little unsure of itself.
One of the larger but more apathetic crowds heard the third attraction on this year's Concert Course series in Hoch auditorium last night, a performance by the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra.
Strakinsky's "Fire Bird Suite" was the big crowd-pleaser of the evening, and the orchestra did a creditable job, considering that this was not a large enough orchestra to really give the suite all the fire and spirit which it demands.
Melodrama Cast May Go On Road
A German composition, "The Sleigh Ride," complete with sleigh bells, was played as an encore selection.
The orchestra reached its peak in the mkior work of the program, the Symphony No. 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms. The interpretation of the pianissimo sections was especially effective and masterful. Again it was a case of the group lacking the necessary instrumentation to give this great work the spirit it calls for, particularly in the first movement, but the last three movements were given a brilliant reading under Mr. Schwieger's ever-sure direction.
The performance was marred somewhat by a mediocre brass section.
Three selections from "The Damnation of Faust" by Hector Berlioz concluded the first part of the program. They were Dance of the Will-o-the-Wisps, Dance of the Sylphs, and Hungarian March.
A dress rehearsal held last night before drama faculty members and extension division officials, reportedly will determine whether or not the University Player's melodrama, "My Partner," will be the University's spring road show.
Finnish Lecturer Here Next Term
An expert in finance and international trade, Prof. Suviranta is one of four Fulbright lecturers to be appointed a John Hay Whitney lecturer. He has been teaching at the University of Mississippi this fall.
Professor Suvivanta, who is 60 years old, has taught at the University of Helsinki since 1931 and has been a dean since 1950. Throughout his teaching career he has undertaken government economic assignments and still is economic adviser to the largest commercial bank in Finland. Before entering the teaching profession he was head of the department of tariffs and controls for the Finnish state railways, head of business cycle research for the Bank of Finland, and secretary of the State Economic council.
Dr. Bruno Kaarle Suviranta, dean of the faculty of political sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will be a John Hay Whitney foundation lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Helsinki semester. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced today.
Professor Suviranta will teach a graduate seminar in money and banking and a 3-hour credit course in international trade for graduate and undergraduate students. He will also be available for lectures at neighboring colleges and for community groups.
Farmers Like Blast Program
Des Moines, Iowa (U.P.)—Corn belt opinion blew both hot and cold today on President Eisenhower's new farm program.
Some farmers praised the President for urging flexible, lower farm price supports because they will help trim the big surplus of farm products and high supports "can't go on forever."
Others sharply charged the plan to drop firm, high props might bring another depression. Still others admitted they "just don't know" what should be done.
Farmers generally seemed to favor Mr. Eisenhower's plan to freeze the surplus and use it in the school lunch program, for foreign aid, and in emergencies.
Parking Permits Available Monday
New parking applications for the spring semester will be accepted at the traffic office starting Monday, Joseph G. Skillman, chief of the campus police, said today.
Howard Hill, Minburn, Iowa, farmer and head of the Iowa Farm bureau, said he thinks farmers "will be pleased at the tone of the President's farm message."
Students who wish to renew their present permits may come to the traffic office and sign on the second line of their present applications.
Mr. Skillman said that everyone must report their new 1954 license number to the office as soon as possible. Enforcement on new spring permits will start Feb. 4.
The play will be presented here at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in Green hall theater.
Guy Keeler, director of the lecture course bureau, was a member of last night's audience. "Tm leaving the final decision to Mr. Newfield and Mr. Crafton," Mr. Keeler said this morning in a phone interview.
"There has been no decision as yet--it's too early. The show opens this week, and then a decision will be made." Dr. John Newfield, director of the University Theatre, said this morning.
Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and drama, could not be reached for comment.
Ordinarily a University Theatre production, the road show is routed throughout Kansas playing a two-week stint of one night stands.
The plot centers around the splitting of a ten-year partnership as two miners, Robert Wilson, engineering junior, and William Means, college senior, quarrel over their love for the heroine, played by Janet Gabrielson, college junior. Wilson is killed, and Means is accused of murdering him. All seems lost until Major Britt, played by William West, college senior, apprehends the true sulphit.
Following the four-act play there will be vaudeville acts or "Oleas." "The Face on the Barroom Floor" will be recited by Ernest Dade, fine arts junior; a soft shoe dance will be performed by Ruth Taggart and Jan Miller, college freshmen; "The Oceanna Roll" will be sung by Marjorie Smith, college senior, and two songs, "Mention My Name in Sheboygan" and "Bill" will be sung by Dee Ann Price, fine arts junior, and Jerry Scott, college junior.
Anonymous Donor Gives Scholarship
An anonymous donor has given the Kansas University Endowment association $400 to establish a scholarship for men living in greater Kansas City and graduating from Sumner, Lincoln, and R. T. Coles high schools.
Scott will play "Wing Lee," Chinese servant in the melodrama. Another name not previously included in the cast listing is that of John Barber, college senior, who will play Sam Bowler.
Background music will be furnished by Sherm Timmons, education sophomore, on the piano.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy in making the announcement, said the donor will make an annual contribution so the entire $400 can be used. The award will be $200 a semester, effective for the 1954-55 year.
University Theatre To Start Tryouts
Dr. John Newfield, director of the University Theatre, announced today that reading tryouts for roles in "Antigone" and "As You Like It," the two final productions of the University Theatre season, will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday in 202 Fraser.
Anyone interested is urged to be present at these times. Those who have not filled out audition forms for the University Theatre should do so in 202 Fraser before the days of the readings.