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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 27, 1955
$100,000 Offered For Russian MIG
Tokyo—(U.P.)—The United States last night offered $100,000 and refuge to the first Communist pilot to deliver a MIG-15 jet fighter into American hands.
The dramatic, unorthodox bid for one of the Russian-built jets was made in both leaflets dropped in Northwest Korea and by radio broadcasts beamed to Communist China and Korea.
It was made in the name of Gen Mark W. Clark, UN Supreme Commander and Commander of U.S. Far East Forces.
Gen. Clark offered Communis airmen $50,000 for each MIG delivered intact to non-Communist territory and a bonus of $50,000 to the first Red pilot to accept the offer.
The leaflets gave directions on how the plane could be brought safely through the UN fighter screen and anti-aircraft defenses to Allied bases in South Korea.
The first broadcasts were made over Korean radio stations late Monday. American planes dropped the leaflets tonight over MIG alley in extreme Northwest Korea.
The offer apparently would hold also for Soviet pilots at MIG bases in the Sakshalin or Kurile islands north of Japan, or for Chinese pilots on the Red mainland only a few minutes flying time from Formosa or Okinawa.
A spokesman for Gen. Clark's headquarters said the leaflet planes did not fly across the Yalu river over Manchuria. The main MIG base is located at Antung, Manchuria. Leaflets dropped on the south side of the river presumably could drift to Antung.
The scheme was planned by the psychological warfare section of the U.S. Far East command.
The only MIG known to have come intact into Allied hands recently was delivered by a. Polish pilot to Denmark in February. It was not believed the same model used in Korea.
The swept-wing MIG used in Korea has characteristics of high interest to Air Force technical intelligence officers.
Stripped to bare essentials, it can out-climb and out-run the American F-8 Sabrejet, according to pilots' reports. However the heavily armed MiG-25 Sabre has shot down some 11 MIGs for every Sabre lost in combat.
The MIG is armed with cannons and the Sabre used six .50 caliber machine guns.
One early model MIG was fished out of the Yellow sea by the U.S. Naval Offshore Vessel that was reported sent to Wright-Patterson Force base, Davton, Ohio, for study
Tonight's offer indicated that later
models were wanted *for detailed examination*.
An American officer said, "$50,000 is a cheap price for taking one MIG out of action."
Winfield Group To Give Concert
The Winfield High school or-
chestra has been selected to play the "Kansas High School Orchestra of the Year" concert here May 14. Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts said today.
The Winfield orchestra has earned top rating in state music festivals for 20 consecutive years. Earlier this spring it was invited to play for the southwest divisional meeting of the Music Educators National conference at Springfield, Mo.
Howard Halgedahl is conductor of the 68-piece symphony.
To encourage good music in Kansas high schools, the School of Fine Arts invites an outstanding school orchestra to play a concert in Hoch auditorium each spring, Dean Gorton explained. Pratt and Wyandotte High schools of Kansas City have previously been honored.
The Winfield orchestra prepares two full length, symphonic caliber concerts each year. It now is in its 47th season.
Campus Repairs Near Completion
Buildings and grounds will soon be through putting the finishing touches on the campus.
The parking lot in back of the Journalism building will be doubled in size after a contracting firm finishes repairing a steam tunnel there, according to C. G. Bayles, superintendent of building and grounds.
When the building and grounds crews finish laying the 50,550 square yards of sod they have acquired this spring, improvements will have been made on the Union building terrace, Alumni place, library lawn, the area west of Dyce museum, the new parking at across from the Union, the terraced sidewalks inside of two new asphalt sidewalks leading to Campanile to the stadium, and on various lawn patching jobs around the campus.
More than 19,000 yards of sod were
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zuegner
CADET COLONEL CANDIDATES — Finists for honorary cadet colonel of the Air Force ROTC ball May 15 are Carolyn Nardyz, college junior; Betty Rieger, education junior, and Peggy Hughes, college sophomore. Chosen from a field of 24 candidates, they were voted on by 1,100 cadets
Queen Finalists Named For AF 'Sabre Dance'
Two juniors and a sophomore were chosen as finalists in the contest for honorary cadet colonel of the Air Force ROTC "Sabre dance" to be held May 15 in conjunction with Armed Forces week.
Carolyn Nardyz, college junior,
Delta Gamma; Peggy Hughes, college
sophomore, Pi Beta Phi, and
Betty Rieger, education junior;
Gamma Phi Beta, were chosen from a field of 24 candidates by vote of the 1,100 Air Force cadets. The winner of the contest will be picked by a nationally-known figure to be announced later.
The theme for the decorations of the dance, to be held in the Student Union ballroom, will be centered around the F-86 Sabrejet which has become famous because of its success in the air war in Korea.
The decorations will include squadron insignias from the units
laid last spring around the Campanile when the project first started. Before the building and grounds department is finished, 71,000 square yards of sod will have been laid, costing a total of $14,200. The sod was cut from a source in Olathe.
"In recent years this is the biggest sodding project I know of." Mr. Bayles said. More than $3,500 in shrubbery has been purchased this spring for campus improvements, he said.
Shirts Delivered Fresh in Cellophane from Lawrence Laundry
Sport shirts and white shirts will stay show-window fresh wrapped in our special cellophane bags. This is an added service, at no extra cost, provided only by Lawrence Laundry and Dry Cleaners.
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Never a wrinkle or a crease.
All sport-shirts hand-finished.
using the Sabrejet. Music for the dance will be furnished by Dee Peterson's orchestra.
The dress for the dance will be formal, with the cadets wearing uniforms with white shirts and black bow ties.
Research Grant Goes to Dr. Mix
Dr. A. J. Mix, chairman of the botany department, has received a $2,000 grant to assist him on a research project that will take him around the world while on sabbatical leave in 1953-54.
The American Philosophic society of Philadelphia, the nation's oldest scientific society, is the grantor. Dr. Mix will continue his study of genus Tophrina, a parasitic fungus that attaches itself to both cultivated and wild plants.
Dr. Mix will obtain cultures of the fungi in this country, England, France, Norway, Italy, India, Japan, and the Philippine Islands.
Dr. and Mrs. Mix will leave Lawrence in June and return for the start of school in September, 1954.
Dr. Mix joined the faculty in 1916. He came from Cornell university, where he received a Ph.D. degree and was assistant botanist of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. He succeeded Prof. W. C. Sievers as chairman here in 1931.
Psychiatry Pioneer To Lecture Friday
Dr. Max Gruenthal of New York city, one of the fathers of psychiatry in America, will be a guest lecturer tomorrow through Friday in the department of psychology.
In addition to conducting the graduate seminar in psycho-therapy, Dr. Gruenthal will meet a departmental staff seminar on personality problems and visit the KU Medical Center and also the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
University Club to Hear Expert
Red China's relations with the United States and other countries will be explained to members of the University club and their guests at 8 p.m. Wednesday by A. Doak Barnett, visiting Far East authority with the American University Field staff.