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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 29, 1953.
Senior Prospects Good For Job Opportunities
Job opportunities for graduating seniors will be excellent this year, according to Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin.
In his annual letter sent to seniors in universities and colleges advising them of the opportunities which await them following graduation, Mr. Durkin points out that the main problem facing this years graduate will be that of getting started in the field of his choice.
Engineering: Opportunities for both graduates and experienced men and women are named as excellent by Sec. Durkin. The number of new engineering graduates has declined since the 1950 peak of 52,000 to an estimated low of 19,000 in 1954, and 30,000 new engineers per year will be needed over the forthcoming period of partial mobilization. Chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineers will tinue to find employment mainly in manufacturing industries, while federal, state, and local governments will employ the largest number of civil engineers.
Natural sciences: Demand for personnel in most of the natural science fields has increased sharply during the past 2 years, especially in activities related to defense production, research, and development. The demand for persons qualified for this type of work is expected to exceed the supply, for several years as the defense program continues.
Chemists: Employment opportunities for chemists are greatest in such manufacturing industries as chemicals, petroleum, rubber, food, and paper. While the need for persons with graduate study is the greatest, those with a bachelor's degree will find numerous openings in consulting laboratories, nonprofit research institutes, hospitals and mining companies.
Physicists: The defense program has greatly increased the need for persons in this field. Opportunities
for persons with bachelor degrees are especially good in nuclear physics, electronics, quantum theory, atomic and molecular physics.
Earth Scientists: Experienced geologists and geophysicists are needed in the petroleum and mining industries, and new graduates with experience in connection with their academic work will be in great demand.
Teaching; The demand for elementary school teachers is greater for 1953-54 than for any other year. Over one million children will be enrolling in elementary schools next fall, and the supply of teachers available is even less than last year. At the high school level the supply of newly trained teachers has dropped since 1950, and is expected to rise slowly over the next several years.
Business and law: Industry is actively recruiting college graduates trained in business administration. Those specialized in management, accounting, advertising copywriting, market research, and personnel management are particularly sought.
Nursing: There is a critical demand for nurses, brought about more by growing civilian needs than by the fighting in Korea. Hospital construction is expected to add 200,000 beds by 1954, calling for 20,000 nursing recruits in institutional nursing alone.
Social work: This is an expanding field which offers good chances for trained personnel to handle case work, group activities, and work connected with community organization for social welfare.
'Sex' Parade Plans Flop at Princeton
Princeton, N.J. —(U.P.)—Nearly 1,000 Princeton university undergraduates called off a riotous "we want sex" parade early today when a university official threatened to expel them.
One student and a policeman were injured in the fracas which began during a mock air raid drill and coursed through the streets of Princeton for three hours. A threatened panty raid on a women's dormitory at nearby Westminster Choir college failed to materialize
The deadline for the Edna Osborne Whitcomb award, given each year for an outstanding piece of writing, has been extended to May 8.
Award Entry Limit Extended to May 8
The contest is open to women English majors in either College or the School of Education who are partially or wholly self-supporting.
--when police headed off the shouting students.
POW's Start KKK in Korea
Prizes will be $75 for first and
$25 for second.
Tokyo —(U.P.)—American soldiers imprisoned in North Korea have formed a "Ku Klux Klan" to "straighten out" their fellow captives who get infected by Communism.
PFC James R. Dunn, of Anderson, N.C., one of 149 Americans freed in the Panmunjom prisoner exchange, said the Klan was organized at prison camp No. 1 near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
"We would write to the 'progressive' boys, signed KKK, telling them to straighten out," PFC Dunn said. "If they didn't, they usually got thrown in the latrine."
PFC Dunn told his story of the "progressives" in the hospital where he is waiting to be flown home in the Army's freedom airlift.
There were seven or eight of them in his camp out of a total of 200 prisoners, he said.
On Dunn's ratio, there might be only about half a dozen infected men among the 149 soldiers freed and about 120 among the total of 3,200 prisoners listed by the Communists, or 3.5 per cent.
But Army doctors believed it will develop that some of them merely pretended to go Communist to get better treatment, including more cigarets.
Dean Francis B. Godolphin of Princeton threw a wet blanket on the frolic when he announced, that everyone not back in his room within two minutes would be liable to expulsion. The riot ended abruptly.
Fatzer Attempts To Stop Questions
The huge plane took off from Hickam field at 4:13 a.m. (CST) after an 11-hour stopover. It was due at Travis air force base, 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, at 1:13 pm. (CST).
Topeka —(U.P.)— Kansas Atty. Gen.
Harold R. Fatzer yesterday filed a motion to prevent his being questioned in connection with a suit by the City of Kansas City, Kan., for recovery of $44,352.75 from asphalt dealer R. K. Frye.
The departure from Hickam was
Freedom Airlift' to Bring 35 Freed PW's Home Today
Honolulu—(U.P.)—A C-97 transport, bearing 35 American soldiers and marines freed from Communist prison camps, headed for California today on the final leg of the Army's first "Freedom Airlift."
The motion will be argued in Kansas City Friday before U.S. District Judge Delmas C. Hill.
Come Early - Open Tonite 6:45 - 'Sneak' 8:33
Mr. Fatzer said the attempt by Mr. Frye's attorneys to question him and other witnesses was "to fish for information" to aid them in defense in a criminal suit against Mr. Frye.
The asphalt dealer was indicted last year by a Wyandotte county grand jury. The indictment was upheld in the State Supreme court, although several others were thrown out.
The city contended Mr. Frye received the money but never delivered the asphalt.
4 Faculty Attend Meeting
Four faculty members attended the recent quarterly meeting of the Kansas City area Philosophy group at the home of Miss Anna McCracken, instructor of correspondence study. They were E. E. Bayles, professor of education; Robert Sternfeld, assistant professor of philosophy; Amiya Chakravarty, visiting professor of humanities, and Alvin Waters, visiting assistant professor of philosophy. A paper by Harold A. Durfee, professor of philosophy at Park college, Parkville, Mo., was discussed.
quiet. There were no hula girls, brass bands, or welcoming speeches as when the 35 men arrived. The men were brought from the army's Tripler hospital, three miles from the airfield, in ambulances. They had spent their stopover at the hospital eating a steak dinner and resting.
To be quick
The 27 who could walk boarded the plane silently, obviously tired by the 3,400-mile flight from Tokyo. Some struggled to control their emotions at the prospect of once more being home.
The other eight men were stretcher ases. They were the last to go aboard. Finally, the door was shut and the plane taxied down the stretcher cases. They were the last hop of the 6,000-mile flight from Japan to the United States.
In a matter of hours, the men would be preparing to go to their homes or to hospitals for further treatment.