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University Daily Kansa
Friday, May 8.1953
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
CAMPUS
Friday, May 8
The University wired wireless station has been passed on and definitely will be in operation when school opens next fall. Lynn Osborn, graduate who announced over the University AM station, KFKU, last year, will be station manager.
A partisan split developed over the first item of business to come before the new All Student Council. Pach leaders, aware that seating Geoffrey Weston in the Senate as foreign students' representative would give FACTS more voting strength, started a move to block his being sworn in. The move, failed, however.
When Lawrence cops really want to collect fines from KU students for traffic violations, they'll see to it that one ticket doesn't serve for a whole semester—for an enterprising student who continually puts an old ticket on his windshield every time he wants to park on campus.
NATION
One of the biggest Congressional fights of the year will probably be waged over the Tuttle Creek dam issue. Tuttle Creek is now the only partially constructed dam in the Missouri basin flood control program which has not been allocated funds by the present administration. Supporters of the dam are set to push the bill to its fullest extent.
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Ike may not know it now, but he is making private enterprise responsible for continued prosperity by giving private businesses plenty of work to do. All former government projects are being turned over to private enterprise, and dam projects are being discontinued.
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According to the New Republic, the Luce magazines speak for General Motors, duPont, the Rockefellers, and during the last election—President Eisenhower. They forecast an ambassador post for Mrs. Luce, "quite possibly Italy," long before her appointment, and pointed out the Luce influence in Ike's speech-making, especially foreign affairs.
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Sen. McCarthy for president in '54? Probably not. Sen. McCarthy himself said in a recent interview he does not intend to run because of the "brutally certain conviction that no Catholic would be elected president." One writer suggests that the Catholic church would repudiate Sen. McCarthy's candidacy "not because he is a Catholic, but because he is the kind of man he is."
Watch for all American press associations to get kicked out of Argentina in the very near future. As leading members of a "foreign press that is picturing internal strife where there is none," according to Dictator Peron, they can't last much longer.
Marshal Tito's "socialized competition" scheme of communism in Yugoslavia seems to be gaining headway, enough so that a leading magazine has predicted that Tito may succeed Stalin and Malenkov as head of the Communist party in months to come.
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Adlai Stevenson's reports on China reveal striking resemblance to those of A. Doak Barnett, American Universities Field Staff speaker on the campus from April 28 to May 6. Both men believe the Nationalists don't have as strong a hold on China as we would like to believe—with all due apologies to Chiang Kai-shek.
POGO
City's Okay to Tuttle Creek Should Help Big Dam Cause
The Lawrence city commission took a strong—if hesitant—step in the right direction yesterday when it went on record as supporting the continuation of work on the Tuttle Creek dam project.
It certainly wasn't an easy step to take. Opinion is flowing freely and furiously about the controversy. Pressure has been hitting the commissioners from all sides.
"But I believe that they are a necessary part of a flood control plan, along with soil conservation measures, reforestation, and a system of dikes and flowways."
That the commission wasn't wholehearted in its approval can be seen by the close margin of passage—3 to 2. One vote change would have put the city on record the other way.
"But, it could be helpful in protecting against small floods and in minimizing the magnitude of large floods.
We can't help but concure with the sentiments of Commissioner John T. Weatherwax, an assistant instructor of business at the University, who proposed the motion that was adopted.
"Construction of the Tuttle Creek dam," Mr. Weatherwax said last night, "is by no means the complete solution to the Kaw Valley flood problem. We can't expect miracles from the dam."
Mr. Weatherwax emphasized that he didn't believe that Tuttle Creek and other large federal reservoirs were the complete answer.
we stand open to another flood like that tremendous one in 1951."
What the backers of other plans don't take into account, Prof. Weatherwax said, is the Kaw Valley farmer. Plans such as that suggested by the committee of engineers hired by the state to investigate Kaw Valley flood conditions protect those living in the cities, but not on farms, he added.
"There has been too much dilly-dallying on this question. Unless action is taken sooner or later,
What effect-if any—the commission approval will have on the House appropriations committee in the hearings Tuesday in Washington, D.C., is only speculation.
Potent or not, the approval will mean a lot to the oft-flooded Kaw valley resident, who, at present, can only watch his spring crops and hope he will be able to harvest them.
Bob Stewart
Readers Suggest Other Flood Ideas
Senior Cites Group Opposing 'Slushpits'
Editor, Daly Kansan:
Perhaps Bob Stewart's "Whys and Wherefores of Tuttle Creek" aren't worth comment but since they aren't complete one can't be certain. He may yet come through with a worthy thought.
However, don't be surprised if you aren't flooded with criticism from qualified individuals. Most of the persons who have no private axe to grind, with some basis upon which to draw conclusions, will pass by feeling that you can't teach logic in three paragraphs.
Stewart neglected to mention the third faction, in the big dam battle, who are violently opposed to Tuttle Creek and all slush pits like it, with other than selfish reason.
Unfortunately, this faction is hard to hear in the uproar. These are people who through years of study and experience know the ways of water and dam idiosyncrasies. I'm not one of these but their principles are relatively simple:
1. To control floods, a dam must be empty.
2. To irigate, it must be full.
3. To produce power, it must be full.
4. Water drops silt when the velocity is lowered
Thus, to control floods, a dam should be used only to control floods. A dam is not a general purpose article, and should not be counted on for power or recreational purposes. The water must be slowed to
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prevent the flood; thus, it drops the silt and fills the dam.
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If some of the big dam advocates look off the coast of the Kaw, they might conclude that it won't take forever to fill a dam.
Result: A wider, even more flat area and even broader and better floods.
Solution: Build ever bigger and finer dams.
The circle is complete.
But a word of warning. Don't consult an army engineer. In some circles they are considered more expert politicians than technicians.
Don R. Vesner
mechanical engineering senior
Junior Rips 'Folly' Of Big Dam Work
Editor. Daily Kansan;
The building of the earthen filled Tuttle Creek Dam on the Kaw river seems to be a question of evils—whether to build the dam and flood out the farmers with the accumulated back waters, or scrap the project and allow the river to inundate the urban areas of Topeka, Lawrence and other cities during flood stage.
The flood in 1951 was one of the worst in the history of this country
and a definite course of action should be taken to avoid a possible repetition of this catastrophy.
However, let us look at two of Kansas' prize "white elephants", the Kanapolis and Cedar Bluff dams. They are earthen filled dams that in fifty years will be full of alluvial sediment.
This could be accomplished by building hundreds or even thousands of small dams on the farms to keep the soil where it belongs.
The amount of material a stream can carry depends mostly on its velocity, and as soon as the soil laden waters enter the relatively quiet back waters of the dam they drop their load.
The building of small dams coupled with terraced and contoured farming would help stop costly floods and at the same time prevent excess erosion.
In a few years the dams are worthless. Congress can then appropriate more money to build bigger dams to catch more sediment and everyone is happy!
The solution to this problem is one that cannot be realized in a short period of time, but it seems that the logical thing to do is to stop the tremendous amount of runoff in the western part of the state.
Don Chipman college junior
Short Ones
The past week of off-and-on rain should halt even the old-timers from commenting: "I know it's messy, but think of the wheat crop."
Let's hope the fast-stepping Harry doesn't get picked up during KayCee's traffic safety campaign.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's slogan for this year is reminiscent of the senior's views on the draft: "It's Going to Take Every One of Us."
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