Benson Refuses to Quit Despite GOP Criticism
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Washington—(U.P.) “I didn’t want this job, but I’m not going to quit so long as the President wants me here,” Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson told the United Press in an exclusive interview shortly before Mr. Eisenhower gave him a 100 per cent endorsement.
The President blessed Secretary Benson yesterday in his news conference. A great many farmers do not feel that way about the secretary. He is in real political trouble.
"I certainly am not going to resign," he told this reporter. Mr. Benson said he would stay on the job even if Congress refuses to accept the farm program which he now is attempting to devise. He acknowledged Congress' right to accept or reject his recommendations "because Congress writes the laws."
"If Congress decides our recommendations are not politically expedient and changes them," Mr. Hansen said, "I'm not going off in a corner and sulk. I administer the program Congress enacts to the best of my ability, so long as the President wants me to do that."
If Mr. Benson's recommendations would much change or in any way diminish present farm subsidies, Congress is very likely to reject them. The House Agriculture committee has just completed a series of hearings in various parts of the country.
The word from the grass roots was: Fire Benson and don't do much tinkering with the farm program, unless it be to extend and improve it. Not everyone wanted to fire Mr. Benson. But many did, including Republicans.
The secretary said he had hoped to do the farm job without getting involved in politics, but agreed that would be next to impossible "in the coming year."
The administration should make some progress this week toward a farm program. The National Agricultural Advisory commission was set up to fulfil campaign promises that farmers would have a real part in policy decisions. It is meeting here today and tomorrow with Mr. Benson. The committee will see the President Saturday.
Mr. Benson is a Utah Republican. He has been on the cabinet hot seat for months. Drought, over-production and sagging prices plague the farmers. Their woes were translated into anti-administration votes in Wisconsin's recent special Congressional election, in which a Democrat won a House seat long claimed by the GOP.
Health Officer Appointed to Study Group
Russell L. Culp, chief of the water supply section of the State Board of Health, has been appointed an engineer member of a national group to study effects of synthetic detergents on water supplies.
This national task group of six members have been formed by the Water purification division of the American Water Works association.
The increased use of synthetic detergents is introducing new problems in the operation of water systems. The problems may be either chemical and mechanical as they effect the treatment of the water, or physiological as they may effect the health of individuals.
The problem is more critical in England than in the United States, and the government there has established a Synthetic Detergents Committee of Investigation. The function of the committee is to "examine and report on the effects of the increasing use of synthetic detergents and to make any recommendations that seem desirable with particular reference to the functioning of the public health services."
Union Pictures Are Shown
Pictures of various college student unions are on display in the north corridor of the Student Union building next to the information booth. The photographs were supplied by the ational Association of College Unions. They will remain on display until Oct. 24.
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Watson Library Displays Photos
Early life in Kansas is depicted in 300 photographs now on display in the Kansas room of Watson library. The photographs are a part of the J. J. Pennell collection.
The Pennell collection consists of 30,000 negative and 4,200 prints. Each of the negatives has been individually examined, and the most representative ones have been printed and the prints mounted, catalogued and indexed.
The negatives and prints represent practically the life-time work of Joseph J. Pennell who, from 1888 until his death in 1922, was a professional photographer at Junction City.
Among the prints selected for the exhibit is a photograph of the first locally owned automobile in Junction City that appeared on the streets in 1905.
Army life at Fort Riley in the early 1900's is expressed by another group of prints, and the social life of Junction City from the years 1895-1909 is extensively pictured in the exhibit.
The collection was given to the University by the photographer's son, Joseph Stanley Pennell, novelist and a graduate of the University.
Tokyo—(U.P.)-Eddie Lopat's Major League All Stars landed today and Tokyo went "Beisu-Baru" crazy.
All Stars Land Tokyo Cheers
The New York Yankee lefthander's collection of baseball talent arrived at Haneda International airport during the afternoon and found more than 1,000 cheering fans awaiting them.
Three hours after the landing, the motorcade of ball players had inched their way through surging street throngs to downtown Tokyo where horse-mounted police and patrolmen battled to hold back the crowds.
Lopat said the players were happy to compete in Japan at the invitation of the Mainichi newspapers and held contribute to goodwill between the United States and Japan through baseball.
Steady Eddie and Billy Martin, Yankee second baseman and hero of the 1953 World Series, were making their second trip to Japan. They played two years ago with an all-star team headed by Lefty O'Doul of San Francisco.
A capacity crowd of 40,000 was expected to see the All Stars play the Mainichi Orions Friday. American Ambassador John M. Allison was scheduled to throw the first ball in opening ceremonies.
Some members of the team appeared on a television program and the whole unit participated in a 40-minute rally at the Nichigeki Theater
The State Geological survey and the department of geology will be hosts Saturday to the annual Lawmaking of the Kansas Geological society.
Lopat, finding himself cast as a good will "ambassador" as well as manager, spoke in behalf of the visiting ball players.
Geologists to Attend Meeting in Lawrence
About 150 professional geologists are expected to attend the meeting which will include a morning technical session in Lindley hall for the geologists, a morning session in Southport for the geologists' wives, and a luncheon at the Union. The group will attend the KU-SMU football game in the afternoon.
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Kingsport, Tenn. —(UIP)— The girl back home denied today that she had written a "Dear John" to Pfc. Edward S. Dickenson, the first of 24 American prisoners of war to denounce their original intentions of refusing to accept repatriation.
Girl Denies 'Dear John'
Miss Kate Laney, 20, said she received tender love letters from Pfc. Dickenson while he was in Korea.
Miss Laney said she replied it would be best for them to wait until he returned home so they could talk over the marriage proposal.
The homesick 23-year-old mountain boy from Crackers Neck, Va, spilled out his affection for Miss O'Neill, a girl he knew but had never dated.
"Kate, I would like very much to have you for my wife," he wrote in one letter.
She did not write him a "Dear John," flatly turning down the proposal after hearing he had refused to return home, she said.
In a series of letters written by Pfc. Dickenson between Dec. 15, 1952, and last May 3 to his mother, Mrs. Bessie Dickinson, and to Miss Laney, the Virginia mountaineer, the art teacher who reaped repatriation at first. The letters were published today by the Kingsport, Tenn. News:
Pfc. Dickenson wrote only of his longing to return home to his family and his desire to marry Miss Laney.
KU Students Urged To Greet Mustangs
The Southern Methodist university train, carrying the team, band, and 150 SMU students, will arrive at the Santa Fe station at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, A.C. Lonborg, athletic director, announced today.
KuKus, Jay Janes, Red Peppers, KClub members will meet the train.
"We would like to have as many students there as possible, especially ones with cars to give those arriving rides to the hill," Mon. Lonborg said.
E. R. Hall, chairman of the department of zoology, will speak and show movies at a meeting of Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, next Tuesday. Dr. Hall will talk on Zoological Expeditions from the AMA. There will be the meeting which will be held at 12 noon in room 417, Snow hall.
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UN to Protest Decision To Return China POW
Panmunjom—(U.P.)—The United Nations announced today it will protest a decision of the Neutral Nations Repatriation commission to send a chair-swinging Chinese war prisoner back to communism.
The prisoner will be one of three Chinese and North Korean war prisoners to be handed over to the Communists here.
Tomorrow's repatriation will bring to 158 the number of Chinese and North Koreans who have decided to return to Communism of the 22,500 anti-Communist prisoners held by the Allies.
Nineteen of the turncoats changed their minds after "explanation" interviews, but the others made their decision without seeing Communist political officers.
The Chinese who changed his mind today did so after an intensive 45-minute grilling by Polish and Czech members of the commission, who ended a three-day boycott of the commission's activities.
The commission, then announced that the Chinese, who tried to hit a Communist propagandist with a chair last Saturday during a "come home to Communism" interview, now wanted to go home.
A United Nations command spokesman said the Allies objected to the repatriation of the Chinese because the five-nation neutral commission had failed to inform the UN the man would be heard.
In the near-riot last Saturday, in which all but nine of 440 Chinese noisily refused to return to Communism, the chair-swinging prisoner was questioned by Red persuaders for three hours.
At that time Brig. Gen. A. L. Hamblen, chief of the UN Repatriation group, protested the treatment of the Chinese as "cruel and inhuman."
The new UN protest was being considered on the ground that no Allied interpreter was present at the session to verify the prisoner's statement that he wanted to go back to Red China.
Farouk's Fortune Up for Auction
London — (UIP)— Former King Farouk's treasures, worth $8,400,000 will go on the auction block at Cairo next Feb. 12 in the sale of the century, Egypt's advisers announced today.
The auction sale will last into March, with special security precautions taken, Sotheby and company said.
The company said almost all of the more fabulous Farouk items are small enough to be carried in a coat pocket.
Sotheby said the auction compares with the sale of contents of the Versaille palace in 1793.
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