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Monday, Jan. 11, 1954
51st Year, No. 71
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ON STAGE—Eighty professional musicians will be presented on the stage of Hoch auditorium tonight when Hans Schwieger conducts the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra in a concert. This program will be the third attraction in the concert course. The orchestra has made many trips to the campus before.
Kansas City Philharmonic To Appear in Hoch Tonight
The Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra under its regular conductor, Hans Schwieger, will appear in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 tonight as the third attraction of the University Concert course.
The program.
Boris's overture to "The Schoo or Scandal." Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite;" three pieces from "The Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz, and Brahms' Symphony in C Minor.
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The Kansas City Philharmonic, ranked among the top 25 orchestras in the country, now is in its twenty-first season. Established in 1933, it has grown steadily in community and national values. Eighty musicians comprise the orchestra.
Mr. Schwieger is in his sixth year as director.
The teaching fellowship will enable an outstanding Ph.D. degree candidate with experience as a teaching assistant to continue in that work rather than shifting exclusively to research. The fellow will teach on a half-time basis. DuPont began this program in the current year with KU as one of 13 schools receiving such awards.
Mr. Schwieger's guest appearance with the New York Philharmonic the NBC Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, National Symphony of Washington, the Houston Symphony, and other orchestras have brought him to the attention of the musical world. He made a series of guest appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra two years ago.
Last spring Mr. Schwieger spent two weeks on the campus as guest conductor of two contemporary operas "The Well" by Mennini and "The Prima Donna" by Arthur Ben-
damin, during the School of Fine Arts' music festival.
DuPont Gives Two Grants
The acceptance of two fellowships in chemistry offered by the DuPont company of Wilmington, Del., was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The DuPont postgraduate teaching fellowship will again be offered in the 1954-55 school year and a DuPont summer research grant will be given for the first time.
The postgraduate teaching fellowship will have a stipend of $2,400 for a single fellow or $3,000 for a married fellow. A grant of $500 to the University will accompany the fellowship and DuPont also will pay the fellow's fees.
Escapee Talks About China
"Communist China as I Knew It" will be the topic of a speech by Dr. T. Chalmers Vinson, resident at Wadsworth Veterans' hospital Administration center, at 7 p.m. tomorrow before the Presbyterian Men's club at Westminster house, 1221 Oread St.
Western Civ Series To End Tomorrow
Born in Haichow in north central China, Dr. Vinson is the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He attended high school in this country and received his degree in medicine from the University of Texas.
Dr. Vinson and his wife were medical missionaries in China in 1940, where the doctor took a year's internship at a mission hospital in Japanese - held territory. In 1941 they were evacuated to Manila and lived for three years in various interment camps. With one other doctor, Dr. Vinson provided medical care for 1,000 civilian prisoners.
Liberated in 1945 by American troops, the Vinsons returned to the U. S., where the doctor was appointed by the Presbyterian mission board as superintendent of a 200-bed hospital in Nationalist - held Tinkingpu.
The last in a series of four Western Civilization discussion periods this semester will be conducted by J. Eldon Fields, associate professor of political science, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 9, Strong hall.
The discussion will cover unit 5 and is titled, "Adam Smith and Karl Marx's Competing Utopias," said Harrison E. Madden, Western Civilization proctor.
There will be only one session instead of two as formerly. No registration is necessary.
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Watchman's Home Destroyed by Fire
The home of a KU watchman was demolished by fire early this morning after a 16-inch gas main exploded in the front yard, setting the house afire.
Seth Welsh, who lives between Pleasant Grove and Baldwin Junction on U. S. highway 50 S., was at work at the University early this morning when the main exploded about 6 o'clock. His wife and two children awoke and saved most of the companies in town, but not totally burned before the Lawrence fire department arrived. The fire department had no es-
The fire department had no estimate of damage.
Farm Price Policy Discussed by Ike
French Kill 1,000 Reds in 4 Days
Hanoi, Indo-China - (U.P.)- French forces battled against seven Communist Viet Minh battalions today in a showdown struggle for central Indo-China.
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower asked Congress today to approve flexible and generally lower price supports for wheat, corn, cotton and peanuts, starting with 1955 crops.
A French spokesman said Loyalist pilots had killed at least 1,000 Reds during the past four days with direct hits with flaming napalm.
The French-held Seno airfield, near Savannakhet, became the main scene in the struggle in central Indo-China. A battle for the base neared its climax as the defenders lobbed artillery shells on disorganized Red units, and followed through with napalm attacks.
The spokesman said that even though French Union forces had suffered "serious casualties," the napalm attacks had given Loyalist troops numerical superiority over the Red invaders.
Gen. Henri Navarre's French high command said the rebel bid for vital Seno airfield, which lies between Savannakhet and Thakhek, the Laos-Thailand border town captured in a Christmas drive by rebel Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap's forces, has been halted.
But fighting still raged in the Seno area as Loyalist forces sought to cripple rebel units.
Brig. Gen. Andre Franchi, French Union command in central Laos, said new fighting may develop following reports that Gen. Giap has called in reinforcements from Annam in eastern Indo-China.
Gen. Giap's forces were believed to have walked into a trap set by Gen. Navarre who, having decided to defend Seno, sent out probing units instead of concentrating on a withdrawn defense.
Faris to Lecture On Israel Problem
The positions of the Western world and Russia in regard to the present-day conflict between the Arab world and the Republic of Israel will be the subjects of the last two lectures given by Dr. Nabih Faris in his Arab world lecture series.
Tomorrow night he will discuss the problem between the Arab world and Israel and Jan 19 he will talk on what the U. S. and the Western world should do about the situation Both talks, set for Strong auditorium, will begin at 7 p.m.
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Fantastic' Art Featured at Museum
"Fantastic objects," the marquee reads at the front of the Museum of Art.
The words apply to an exhibition of objects of art which were selected for their unusual characteristics, and the display is located in a downstairs gallery of the museum.
A multiple bottle stands in one of the display cases. It's actually three bottles, with the two smaller bottles serving as a cap for the larger bottle.
Odd-shaped bottles, a Chinese crown, a wreath made from human hair, and other objects of unusual art make up the exhibition. Edward Maser, curator of the museum, said the "fantastic objects" were located when he was sorting the art work owned by the museum.
A wreath of human hair is part of the exhibition. Also there are corsages woven from human hair, a fad which Mr. Maser said was common in the 19th century.
"This is the stuff from which surrealism was made." Mr. Maser said. Once these were "prosacic articles of daily use. Today, lifted from the context of time and place, they have bizarre beauty and are always fascinating." he said.
Mr. Maser said the collection, shown to display its unusual qualities, represents tourist whims and collectors' obsessions.
A porcelain object is pretty, but extraordinary. A clock, built into what looks like a house, sits over a fireplace. To make it more complicated, a pot hangs in the fireplace.
In the exhibition is a sad figure of a man who apparently was a victim of a Spanish Inquisition. His owls drew deep cuts from a severe lashing.
In another display case are a small teapot, an elaborate Japanese wood carving, and a fan. There are other objects, including a pretzel-shaped water bottle, a small skull, and a pitcher of coffee. But Mr. Mauser himself was not sure of the identity of a few of the "obijets d'art."
case, and there's also a miniature guitar.
There's a plate of china that is designed, amazingly enough, with life-sized fish which are also made from china. A crystal ball sits in one
The proposal was made in a special message to Congress spelling out the Eisenhower farm policy for the first time since he took office a year ago.
In addition to the flexible scale of supports Mr. Eisenhower recommended that Congress allow a new modernized formula for corn-based feed, which was organized as scheduled, on Jan 1, 1956, on wheat, corn, cotton, and peanuts.
He said the program is adjusted to existing conditions in the nation's agriculture and designed to achieve "stability and growth" in farm income.
He said his recommendations grew out of "the most thorough and comprehensive study ever made of the farm problem and of governmental farm programs."
Another surge of cold artic air penetrated Kansas today, promising to drive temperatures down to near
The President made detailed recommendations for virtually every crop for which the government has a price support program.
Six basic crops—wheat, corn, cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and rice—now are supported by law at 90 per cent of parity. That law expires at the end of the present crop year.
This would reduce the support prices for the four crops, since parity computed under the new formula would be lower. Mr. Eisenhower said, however, that the formula should be put into force gradually. The maximum dollar-and-cents effect on any crop should be limited to five per cent in any one year.
Unless Congress enacts new legislation, a permanent farm law written in 1948 and modified in 1949, would go into force. It provides a flexible price support scale ranging from 75 to 90 per cent of parity.
Mr. Eisenhower, with some modifications, recommended this existing permanent law to go into force with the next year's crops
There would be no change, however, in the tobacco program which, in effect, guarantee growers 90 per cent of parity as long as they remain under rigid production controls.
For rice, the President recommended that the present mandatory high price guarantee of 90 per cent be allowed to expire after the 1954 crop. Market prices recently have exceeded the support level.
He did not say whether he wanted resin included in the 75-90 range in the film.
If the new formula were put into force immediately it would mean a drop in parity prices of about 20 per cent for peanuts, 15 per cent for wheat, 10 per cent for corn, and 5 per cent for cotton, agriculture officials said.
Weather
zero in the northeast tonight. Th e cold front slanted northwest w a r d, which may permit this afternoon in the southwest corner of Kansas to
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rise to near 40 degrees before it hits that section. Low readings there tonight probably will be around 15. The cold air may be more frigid than that which sent temperatures early Sunday in Kansas to a range of from 6 degrees at Concordia, Topeka, and Emporia to 14 at Garden City.