CVT
Daily hansan
Topeka, Ks.
50th Year. No.151
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Mondav. May 25,1953
Name Alabama Official As Dean of Extension
Thomas Howard Walker will become director of University Extension effective September 1, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced today
Mr. Walker, a 39-year-old Indianan, is now director of the Mobile center of the University of Alabama. Before organizing the Mobile center three years ago, he was director of the Richmond center of Indiana university for three years.
Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension since 1947, will become director of special projects in the division of University Extension, Dr. Murphy said. Dean Stockton has served one year beyond the customary retirement age for administrators pending the selection of a successor.
Mr. Walker will receive the doctorate degree this fall from Indiana university, where he earned an M.S. degree in 1947. He received the A.B. degree in 1938 from Earlham college, Richmond, Ind., having majored in English and physical education.
At Indiana he was supervisor of the testing bureau and later assistant to the director of veterans' affairs while taking graduate work. For two years he was president of the university's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, honorary education fraternity.
Dean Stockton is currently the veteran of KU deans. He came here in 1924 to organize and become first dean of the School of Business. He had previously been dean for seven years of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of South Dakota.
9 Students Named To ASC Groups
Appointments to three committees in the department of student activities of the All Student Council have been announced by Norm Capps, college sophomore, chairman.
Jack Byrd, business junior, chairman of the traditions committee, Nathan Harris, college sophomore, and William Means, business junior complete the group.
Chairman of the social committee is Jack McCall, college sophomore. He will be assisted by Mary Ellen Stewart, college sophomore, and Henrietta Montgomery, fine arts freshman.
Two vacancies exist on the publications committee headed by Robert Worcester, engineering sophomore. These will be filled in the fall. Interested persons may apply by letter to Capps. Others on the committee are Wayne Knowles, college junior, and Philip Hahn, college junior.
THOMAS HOWARD WALKER
Senior Fete On June 8
the traditional senior breakfast, complete with peace pipes, will be held at 8:30 a.m. June 8 in the Union hallroom.
Most traditional part of the event is the smoking of peace pipes. Each person is presented with tobacco and a corncob pipe tied with red and blue ribbons with the class year painted on it. All smoke together to signify the passing of campus factions and the new spirit of unity at KU alumni.
These breakfasts, the last time the class is together except for the march down the Hill, have been held more than 30 years.
The class prophecy and will have been written by Keith McVlor, engineering, and Martha Shaw Cook, education, and their committees. Betty Berry, education, is committee chairman in charge of class history.
Class president, Charles Hoag, business, will present the class gift to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at the informal program. The gift is furniture for the terrace outside the Kansas room.
Grace Endacott, fine arts, is chairman of the breakfast committee, which includes Marese Ball, education, Jane Heywood, Robert Knightly, and Richard McCall, business and Leah Ross, Mary Middlekauff, and David Hills, college.
Regents Refuse to Name Fieldhouse After 'Phog' Allen
By STAN HAMILTON
The board of regents Friday threw cold water on the proposal that the University's fieldhouse now under construction be named in honor of basketball coach Forrest C. Allen.
The decision, in direct contrast to the numerous endorsements of the proposal by such Kansas political leaders as Gov. Edward Arn and Senators Andrew Schoepel and Frank Carlson, and many others, came as a surprise because of those in favor.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said last night that he thought the
The board decided not to change the old policy of not naming buildings after living persons, board chairman Walter Fees said in a telephone interview last night.
Mr. Fee reported that the proposal was brought up and that the board did not desire to change its policy and that the building would not be named after Dr. Allen this year. He said the idea was dropped, not tabled.
"Nobody spoke to me of the matter," he continued, "so therefore I did not recommend that it be named. No one asked my advice on the subject."
entire idea, originally proposed by former Gov. Harry Woodring and taken up by the Kansan in a series of articles and editorials, was premature.
"I am not going to concern myself with naming the building," he said, "until it is built."
First Atom Shell Shot Off Today
Athletic director A. C. Lonborg, one of those in favor of the proposal, took a more philosophical attitude. "Of course," he said, "it's up to the regents, but I still feel it should be named for Dr. Allen. I think it probably will be in time."
Las Vegas, —(U,P)— The world's first atomic artillery shell was fired successfully today from a monster canon which burst with historic violence over the Nevada proving grounds to usher in a new era of ground warfare.
A brilliant double fireball, the first ever seen by observers of atomic tests in the United States, shot up from the explosion, indicating the military may have something newer even than the shell itself among its store of nuclear weapons.
The explosion at 9:31 a.m. (CST) wrote another chapter in atomic history by opening the doorway to use of the atomic weapon in close artillery support of infantry. The shell traveled only between six and seven miles from the muzzle of the big 84-foot, 280 millimeter cannon before it went off with a thunder clap 500 feet above an elaborate array of military targets.
Three minutes and 45 seconds before the firing of the cannon, the Atomic Energy Commission narrator said on the announcing system to the witnesses:
"The arming of the shell is complete."
The first flight of a cannon shell with an atomic warhead took 19 seconds. Unofficial observers on Mt. Charleston, 35 airline miles from the test site, saw a moderately brilliant flash followed by the fireball that lasted only nine seconds.
There were two fireballs this time, something no unofficial observer had ever seen before.
Baseball Question Reaches Top Court
Washington—The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether organized baseball is a sport or a business subject to the anti-trust laws. This means it will examine the legality of the controversial "reserve clause."
The high court accepted three cases dealing with the issue. It will hear arguments next fall and hand down a written opinion later.
The "reserve clause" binds a player to play with the club which signed him until he is sold, traded or released. When another club obtains a player by trade or sale, it gets his contract.
Circuit courts have held that organized baseball is a sport—not a business—and that the anti-trust laws do not apply.
Faculty Members Get 41 Promotions
Promotions in academic rank for 41 faculty members were announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Twenty-three promotions are for the Lawrence campus and 18 for the School of Medicine in Kansas City.
Eight teachers on the Lawrence campus become full professors. They are: J. Shieldon Carey, design; W. H. Horr, botany; Kunichion Johnstone, law; A.W. Kuchler, geography; John Newfield, drama; Albert Palmerle, engineering drawing; Henry P. Smith, education, and William P. Smith, electrical engineering.
Seven were promoted to associate professor. They are: Kim Giffin, speech; Robert Green, drawing and painting; Charles Oldfather, law; Charles Reynolds, chemistry; Richard Schiefelbusch, speech; Alvin Schild, education, and L. Worth Seagondollar, physics.
To assistant professor: Berdena Rosenow, nutrition; Mary Boone, nutrition; Dolores Flackmiller, nutrition; Patricia Ernest, nutrition; Franklin Behle, pediatrics; Sigmund Gundle, psychiatry; Frederick Kittle, surgery, and Charles E. Brackett, surgery.
Those promoted to assistant professor are:Dwight Burnham, drawing and painting;Frank Cross, zoology;Marian Jersild, piano;Sidney Johnson,German;L.Martin Jones, accounting;Walter Meserve, English;John Pozdro,music theory, and Charles Warriner, sociology.
The promotion list for the School of Medicine:
To professor: E. Grey Dimond, medicine. To associate professor: Jesse D. Rising, medicine; Esther Ratley, nutrition; Leland D. Stoddard, pathology; H. I. Firminger, pathology; William Williamson, surgery, and James O. Boley, pathology.
To associate: Frederick Speer, pediatrics; J. E. McConchie, radiology, and Doris Kubin, radiology.
Weather
HOT
d in the clutches of a heat wave today, although the first break occurred in the extreme northwest, where a weak cold front tricked d o w n from t he n eorth. The year's highest t em p er a r t i o n at Garden City and 10 at Hill City—w e r e recorded
yesterday. Forecasters said eastern Kansas would not be relieved of the heat until tomorrow. Skies were expected to remain clear.
Newspaper Cleared by Court
Washington —(U.P.) The Supreme Court today threw out the government's charges that the New Orleans Times-Picayune has been violating the anti-trust laws in its advertising practices.
Regents Approve KU Budget Hike
The board of regents has approved a budget of $6,728,816 for the University for the coming year, part of a total operating budget of $2,231,500 for the nine state schools under its jurisdiction.
The University budget for the present year is $6,098,688.
The overall figure compares with $20,082,956 for the current year. The board anticipates an increase in total enrollment in the schools from 15,742 to 16,152.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and President James McCain of Kansas State college were given salary raises of $1,000 a year effective July 1. Their pay will be $16,000 annually.
Salaries of the presidents of Fort Hays and Pittsburg State college also were raised.
Included in overall total is $666-
570 in salary increases, $878,540 for
new positions, and $181,302 for main-
tenance and repair.
Budgets approved for other schools are: KU Medical center, $5,219,537; Kansas State college, $5,130,820; Emporia State college, $1,483,210; Pittsburgh State college, $1,693,078; Fort Hays State college, $1,026,374; School for the Deaf, $36,400; School for the Blind, $234,508, and Kansas Technical institute, $263,217.
Court Refuses Rosenbergs' Plea
Washington—U.P.R.)The Supreme court today rejected a third appeal by atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They are awaiting death in the Sing Sing electric chair.
The court also vacated the stay of execution that had been granted the doomed couple by the second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pending Supreme court action on their appeal.
Today's brief orders again leave the federal government legally free to carry out the execution—as soon as the trial court in New York is officially informed of the court's action.
Technically, Defense Attorney Emanuel H. Bloch could ask reconsideration of today's action. In that case, he would apply to a single supreme court justice for an extension of the stay of execution.
suit of the President Eisenhower in February rejected the Rosenberg's appeal for executive clemency. Mr. Bloch has said he will go to the White House again with another appeal.
Grad Refuses to Testify in Hearing
By MARY BETZ
A University graduate, Doxey A. Wilkerson, '26, last week refused to testify before the internal security subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on his alleged subversive influence in education.
Mr. Wilkerson, of New York City, completed a master's degree in education in 1927 and was a member of the faculty of Virginia State college until 1935, when he became a teacher at Howard university, Washington, D.C.
Questioned at the committee hearing, he refused to answer inquiries pertaining to alleged communist activities while he was an education specialist with the Office of Price Administration. He based his right to refuse on the first amendment and said he did not have to be a witness against himself.
He also refused to answer accusations of Red activities while a member of the research staff of the Carnegie Study of the Negro in America and the President's advisory committee on education.
DOXEY A. WILKERSON
A check by the Daily Kansan with the files in the Alumni office revealed a reprint of an article from
In the article, Mr. Wilkerson told of "leaving a challenging professional career to become a full-time party functionary because of a powerful urge to render maximum service to the winning of the war."
New Masses magazine, published under Mr. Wilkerson's name, entitled "Why I Became a Communist," and a reprint of an article by him from the Daily Worker. The article explained that the communist party dissolved in May 1944 and its members had reorganized into a nonparty Communist Political association.
"No civilian organization in our nation has more completely subordinated its own special interests to all-out and effective promotion of the nation's victory program than the communist party," the article continued.
At KU, he said, he was the victim of Jim Crow-ism and exploitation, but he learned an important lesson: not all white people hate Negroes. As a joint editor of the Dove, "liberal journal of campus opinion" and a member of the YMCA he worked to combat prejudices.
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