Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
50th Year, No.148
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, May 20, 1953
GOP Majority On House Group To Oppose Ike
Washington—(U.P.)A majority of GOP members of the House Ways and Means committee were reported today to oppose President Eisenhower's request that the excess profits tax be extended six months.
-Kansan photo by Ken Coy
Republicans on the tax-writing committee met in private session and, it was said, reaffirmed their opposition to any extension of the tax
The levy is scheduled to die June 30. But President Eisenhower in his five-point tax program asked its extension, explaining that loss of $1 million would make the budget is out of balance—would hammer efforts to cut taxes later.
president Eisenhower told the American public last night that their hopes for early tax relief have been dashed. "They resist guns" and Democratic "waste."
In a nationwide radio broadcast, he blamed Russia and the Truman administration for forcing him to ask Congress to maintain present tax rates until next year, even though he considers them "too high."
His 30-minute speech was a direct appeal for public support of the five-point tax program which he will submit to congress in a formal message soon, perhaps today.
The program calls for a 6-months extension of the excess profits tax now due to expire June 30, indefinite postponement of excise and corporation income tax rates cuts which are due next April 1, allowing personal income taxes to drop 10 per cent Jan. 1 as scheduled, and pegging social security payroll taxes at the present $ \frac{1}{4} $ per cent instead of letting them go up to two per cent next year.
Mr. Eisenhower said his Republican administration is cutting federal spending as fast as it safely can, but is still far from erasing the "red ink" on the budget inherited from the Truman administration.
KU Officials Mum On 'Mercury' Tab
The University is unable to make a definite policy statement at this time concerning the accusation in American Mercury magazine that Dean J. Allen Reese of the School of Pharmacy is a sponsor of a Communist front organization, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said today.
"Of course, all we have to go on is the accusation in the magazine and Dean Rees's statement," Mr. Nichols said, "and I don't think that is enough for a definite statement at this time."
Mr. Nichols said that Dean Reese's record as a KU staff member since 1940, as dean of the School of Pharmacy, and as president of the 1952 National Association of Schools of Pharmacy shows the high-caliber type of man he is.
"We all have high confidence in him as a teacher and administrator." Mr. Nichols said, "and I think he has been made a victim of something or other."
Dispute Shuts Down Sunflower Project
Kansas City, Mo. —(U.P.) A labor-management wage dispute grew today and a $23 million project at the Sunflower Ordnance works was shut down by order of the U.S. Corps of engineers.
All 1,600 persons employed on the Sunflower job were out of work, following a decision of Col. L. J. Lincoln, district engineer, to suspend construction work rather than continue on a piecemeal basis.
STRINGY BUSINESS—The marionettes represent 12 weeks' work by students in a class preparing for art education on the junior high school level. They will perform at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Strong auditorium.
Education Class to Present Marionette Show Saturday
An original 45-minute marionette show, written by LaVette Orme, education junior, and Nancy Hampton, fine arts junior, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Strong auditorium by the Methods in Art Education for junior high schools II class.
The presentation will culmina a semester of work by the 11 girls in the class, and the entire group entitles weeks making their own marionettes and writing the play.
The play, "The Doll Shop," concerns a doll shop owned by Mr. Sneezer. An eccentric French doll collector, Mr. Moneybags, orders a dress from the boutique. Mr. Sneezer, but complications arise when Jenny, a little neighbor girl, expresses a strong desire for the beautiful doll.
All the other dolls in the shop come to life one night and try to cheer up the doll who in the meantime has decided she wants to belong to Jenny rather than the Frenchman. Mr. Moo bags his pants and overhears their conversation and decides to buy all but the one he had ordered.
Miss Maude Ellsworth, associate professor of education, directs the show. Participants are Marguerite Unrein and Dolores Hawkins, fine arts seniors; Mary Harder, Twyla Cox, Joyce Cox, and DeNean Ankerholz, fine arts juniors; Rosalie Thorne and Georgeann Aknom, education seniors; Patricia Clem, education junior, and the authors.
He provides a stipulation to give Jenny the doll she wants and the play ends as she gets the doll.
Weather
sas clouded again today and t h e weather bureau said fair weather had come to an end for awhile. Showers fell this morning in northern and eastern Kansas. Hill City Russell and Dodge City had l i g h t precipitation yesterday. The forecast called f o r
SCATTERED SHOWERS
more general showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon, continuing tonight over the state and in eastern Kansas tomorrow morning. Temperatures were mild last night, the lows ranging from 51 degrees at Goodland to the lower 60's in eastern and central Kansas.
House to Receive Yearbook Trophy
A 21-inch traveling trophy, the Floyd Quentin Brown Memorial trophy, will be awarded to the organized house with the highest percentage of Jayhawker sales.
All houses are asked to turn in their percentages before Tuesday at the Jayhawker office. Sales are being made at the Daily Kansan and Jayhawker business offices.
Floyd Quentin Brown, '35, was the first editor of the four-issue Jayhawker. Prominent in state politics after graduation, he served with the State Highway commission and the State Corporation commission before acting as campaign manager for Frank Carlson in the 1946 gubernatorial race.
The trophy was presented by the Jayhawker's printing and engraving firms in Kansas City in honor of Mr. Brown, who died in 1946.
ASC Group Backs DefamationVerdict
The All Student Council disciplinary committee has unanimously upheld the decision of the Student Court in the ASC vs. FACTS party defamation suit which has been appealed to the committee by FACTS party leaders
Kansan Names Staff for Fall
Clarke Keys, Mary Betz, and Gordon Ross, journalism juniors, have been named to the principal positions on the Daily Kansas's staff for the first eight weeks of the fall semester.
The selections were made yesterday by the Kansan board, the newspaper's student governing group. Keys is to be executive editor, Miss Betz will be editorial editor, and Ross will be business manager.
The position of editorial editor formerly was known as editor-in-chief. The change to a more descriptive title was made because the editorial page editor's responsibility extends no further than the editorial page.
Since the executive editor is to have over-all supervision of the news staff, it was decided that the former title, managing editor, should be discarded because of its vagueness.
Rozanne Atkins, Shirley Piatt, Chuck Morelock, and Ken Cey, journalism juniors, were named assisting managing editors. Each day one will be responsible for the editing of the Kansan's news pages.
Keys selected Don Tice, junior,
as sports editor; Velma Gaston,
junior, as society editor, and Eileen
Foley, senior, as news editor. Editorial assistants named by Miss Betz
were Jerry Knudson and Tom
Stewart, juniors. They will aid in
writing and editing the editorial page.
Replacements also were selected for 17 of the Kansan board's 19 members who will not return in the fall. Only Miss Piatt and Ross, now board members, will be back next September.
New board members are to be Miss Betz, Miss Atkins, Keys, Knudson, Morelock, Tice, Miss Foley, Coy, Stewart; David Riley, Stan Hamilton, and Letty Lemon, college sophomores, and Ann Ainsworth, Phillip Dangerfield, Janet Dearduff, Megaaffin, and Wendell Sullivan, journalism juniors.
The other executives on the business side will be named later this week.
Pach Charges FACTS With Breaking Political Bargain
Pachacamac's Vernon Lemon, senator from the Graduate school today said that FACTS is using its majority in the committee or committees to enforce and make legal its breaking of a "gentleman' agreement" between the parties. $ \cdot $
Lemon is one of two Pach members on the committee. Yesterday the committee, with a 3 to 2 vote, approved the plan for dividing positions on ASC committees between the two parties.
"We are in complete agreement on all committees except the charter committee," Lemon explained. "However we believe FACTS has failed to keep the gentlemen's agreement between the members of the committee."
Lemon said he felt it had been agreed earlier by both parties that the committee, led by a FACTS chairman, was to have two Pach Senators, one Pach member from
the House of Representatives, one FACTS Senator, and two FACTS members from the House.
Instead, he said, the plan voted on yesterday gave FACTS two senators and one member from the House, and Pach one senator and two members from the House.
Lemon said, "We feel that if FACTS is sincere in its pledge of non-partisan government this was an excellent opportunity to prove it. Perhaps the voting along party lines by FACTS members of the FACTS-dominated committee on committees could serve as an example of FACTS' so-called 'non-partisan' government."
The suit was filed with the court after publication before the fall election of a cartoon and statement in the official FACTS newspaper, allegedly defaming Pachacamac party.
"We do not feel that evidence presented in the case substantiated claims of either party—FACTS was called on to prove corruption in the Pachacamac party, the All Student Council to prove that the FACTS cartoon and statement were willful defamation," a committee spokesman said.
"However, we agree with the Court's decision, as based on the ASC Constitution, that in itself the statement was willful defamation," he said. "Since the rule is in the ASC Constitution, we think it reflects the opinion of the students."
The decision of the committee and the court were based on Chapter 3, Section 6 of the Constitution which reads: "Willful defamation or calumny directed at any political party by the publications, advertisements, posters, or other literature of any other political party, or by the officers thereof when acting in an official capacity is hereby declared to be unlawful. . ."
Speech Honors To 2 Seniors
Orval Swander and Bill Nulton, business seniors, have been chosen Forensic honor men for 1953.
The University forensic staff annually chooses a man for the honor on a basis of work done in debate, oratory, and intramural contests. "Several times the honor has been divided between two individuals," Kim Giffin, assistant professor of speech and member of the committee making the selection, said.
Both men are members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate and forensic fraternity. Nulton is president of the organization. Both have completed their seventh year of debate. Nulton debated for Pittsburgh High school and Swander debated for Topeka High school before signing up for the University debate program as freshmen.
In 1950, Swander was rated best debater at the Purdue Invitational tournament. He was a member of a two-man team that represented the Middle West at the West Point National tournament this year. He has attended many tournaments as a representative of the University, and won the St. Thomas Invitational tournament in January.
Nulton was the winner of the Kansas Day Oratorical contest last year, and won the Arkansas University Invitational tournament as a junior, in addition to other_fornsic honors and activities.
House Votes Slash Of Farm Subsidies
Washington —(U.R.) The House voted tentatively today to slash the 1954 farm conservation subsidy program by an additional $55,000,000 to the level recommended by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The action, by a 139 to 137 teller vote, was subject to a later roll-call vote. It was a surprise victory for the economy bloc over the powerful farm bloc.