Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Allies, Communists Near Agreement
Panmunjom—(U.P).There is a good possibility that agreement can be reached today on a neutral nation to take charge of Communist war prisoners who refuse to go home if the Red negotiators will just quit stalling, informed sources indicated.
Harrison has indicated the UN is willing to go along with some concessions on the length of time reluctant Red prisoners would be held in Korea while Communist salesmen attempt to convince them they should go back to their Red homelands.
The Reds were put on notice at yesterday's session to come back today prepared to buckle down to a stumbling block, to an armistice.
American soldiers and Marines liberated from Communist prison camps scattered to their homes and military hospitals over the country today on the last leg of the first "freedom airlift."
The 35 ex-prisoners, nine of them litter cases, arrived at Travis Air Force base 50 miles northeast of San Francisco shortly before noon yesterday. At media checkups, officers on duty fitted fit to go home on 20-day leave.
Harrison did give the Reds one alternative.
In the United Nations, chief delegate Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison also told the Communists yesterday that the UN is not favorable to naming an Asian nation as the supervising neutral. But it was generally believed India might be accepted if named by the Reds.
He suggested, sarcastically, that the United Nations could handle its North Korean war prisoners in the same manner the Communists handled 50,000 South Koreans they had captured. The Reds, he recalled, "released" the South Koreans and promptly impressed them into the North Korean army.
What Harrison and his team want when they sit down with North Korean Gen. Nam II and other Communist negotiators at 8 p.m. It is likely the specific proposals rather than more lectures from the Red negotiators.
Returning war prisoners back in the U.S. had to go to hospitals for immediate medical treatment. Seven were to go to hospitals near their homes where their families could visit them, but seven were to go to hospitals possibly not near their homes for specialized treatment.
The men requiring hospital treat.
ment were to leave this morning by military air transport planes for various hospitals throughout the country.
Meanwhile, it was announced in Tokyo that two planeloads of American ex-prisoners will leave for home late today and tomorrow. Sixty-three men will be on the flights. The first plane will leave at 4 a.m. (CST) and the second at 10:30 p.m. CST.
Gibson Accepts Ford Fellowship
Dr. Hilden Gibson, chairman of the human relations department, has been granted a sabbatical leave for the year 1953-54, so he may accept a study grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education.
The funds awards faculty fellowships to assist teachers in the kind of studies that will improve the content and the methods of their teaching. The fellowships provide expenses for the study and cover the loss in salary.
Dr. Gibson will move to Hamilton, N.Y., for the year. During the fall he will study the general education program of Colgate university. During the remainder of the year he will survey the teaching and research in human relations at several schools including the University of Michigan, Cornell, Harvard and New York universities.
The human relations programs at these schools will be inventored for comparison with the work here. Dr. Gibson, who is professor of human relations, sociology, and political science, organized the department here.
German Club Schedules Ball
The German club will hold it's annual costume ball at 8 p.m. Friday in Spooner Thayer museum. A short program of entertainment will be presented followed by group singing and dancing.
Kansan photo by Ken Coy
SUNNYSIDE SENTINEL—Noland Lewis, editor and publisher of the Sunnyside Sentinel, explains some of the more technical problems to his little sister, Cindy. Working with conventional type Mr. Noland sets his type by hand and then prints his "newpaper" on a proof press. Mr. Noland has a virtual monopoly on distributing news to Sunnyside residents. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lewis of 30 F Sunnyside.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
50th Year, No.134
Thursday, April 30, 1953
"PETTICOAT FEVER"—Although rain didn't help attendance at the first performance of "Petticoat Fever" in the Union ballroom last night, it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the audience. The first time the theater-in-the-round has appeared at KU it has created quite an interest. Reservations must be made in advance for seats.
—Kansan photo by Ken Coy
Students Appeal In Fund Drive
The 75-members of the student American Pharmaceutical association voted unanimously to contribute $50 to the project, and to conduct a drive to raise money to send the anti-leprosy drug which can cure leprosy if caught in the early stages.
An ice cream social will be held May 14 in Clinton park by the student branch of the American Pharmaceutical association to raise funds for an anti-leprosy drug, promin, to be sent to a leper colony near Pusan, Korea.
The appeal for the drug was made by Gene Stucky, KU alumnus, in letters home to former classmates in the school of pharmacy. Lt. Stucky, now in the medical service corps of the U.S. Army, recently visited a leper colony near Pusan, Korea, where he is stationed.
What he saw there was so indelibly impressed upon his mind that he requested that his friends do something about it. "Without the drug many of those afflicted with leprosy are hopelessly incurable and can look forward to a slow, agonizing death," he said.
Theater-in-the-Round Proves Greeks Right
Bv EILEEN FOLEY
The Greeks had the right idea—theater-in-the-round is great!
Not that KU is behind the lines, but although there has been a long used more than 4,000 years ago, it was revived here just last night when "Petticoat Fever" was presented in the Union ballroom.
Thomas Shay, instructor in speech,
was outstanding in the leading role
The two Eskimo dancers, Little Seal and Snow Bird, played by Dee Ann Price, fine arts sophomore, and Joan Leonhard, education sophomore, proved that it doesn't take an Hawaiian to do the hula, even with heavy furs instead of sarongs.
The audience loved the comedy, as proven by their laughter, applause, and demand for four curtain calls.
Uninhibited Maize Harris, college sophomore, dyed her hair red and gave a vivid portrait of the sexy Clara Wilson, who forsook the comforts of home for the comforts of money and a man in the wilds of Labrador, where nights are six months long.
Marjorie England, college sophomore, appeared in the difficult role of the heroine. She was particularly realistic in the third act when the young English woman was on the verge of hysteria.
of Dascom Dinsmore. The English nobleman, Sir James Fenton, was played by Harry Schanker Jr., education junior, who was convincing with his thick British accent and precise manner.
Another good performance was turned in by Lee Stone, college sophomore, who appeared as the Rev. Arthur Chapman, who liked a nip now and then.
A. D. Partridge, Haskell Institute student who played Kimo, an Eskimo servant, added the right touch of comedy with his scampering step and one-track mind.
Completing the cast was James Wallace, fine arts freshman, in the role of a burly sea captain. At his entrance one could almost feel the sea spray.
Since spectators were seated on all four sides of the "stage," actors entered from the four corners of the acting area.
Bubble Gum Yet -
Young Editor, 8, Scoops Local Papers
Bv. MARY COOPER
Eight-year-old Noland L. Lewis scooped all the Lawrence papers on the big ROTC Review with his news item in the first edition of the Sunnyside Sentinel, a 3 by 6 inch paper which he writes, edits, and prints. And he did it "by just playing the part of an innocent little kid."
Noland, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin G. Lewis, received his information concerning the review about a month ago from Capt. Carl V. Applegate, assistant professor of air science. "He told me that there would be free candy and bubble gum for the kids, but there was only bubble gum."
"It took me about a month to learn how to print it," said the young editor. Cindy, his three-year-old sister, didn't improve the situation for she dumped some type on the floor which represented hours and hours of work. According to Mrs. Lewis, Noland wasn't too happy with his sister for several days.
A rather ancient linetype machine was purchased from the Waverly Gazette for this project. The other equipment was obtained from a KU journalism graduate, Jim Well, who
The Lewis's adapted one of their bedrooms at Sunnyside into a press room for Noland complete with "linotype machine." Ink and paper were scattered everywhere, especially when the Sentinel was being printed.
taught printing at Haskell institute until January.
The Lewis family was not quite certain that Noland would ever get the first issue out. But 100 copies were finally printed and ready for distribution at two cents an issue one day after the Review. Not only did the Sunnyside Sentinel contain news of the Review, but an editorial and a masthead.
He took a copy of this first issue to his teacher at Cordley school, where he is in the third grade. "Gave her one free 'cause she's my teacher," he said, "but she didn't even tell the class about it."
The next issue is now in the process of being printed and will be ready for sale Saturday.