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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 24, 1953
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
Friday, April 24
CAMPUS
Look for the School of Journalism to announce plans soon for a complete schedule of radio courses and the establishment of a campus "wired wireless" station. B.S. degrees will be awarded graduates in the radio sequence.
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It looks as if the Lawrence airport situation might develop into a white elephant for the conflicting sides, KU and Lawrence. The University wants to sell the land to Lawrence, but the city isn't sure it wants to have an airport.
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Don't be surprised if the date of the annual Kansas Relays is moved into late April or early May. Saturday's crowd of 9,000 suffered through football-like temperatures. Miserable weather has been the rule, not the exception, the past few years.
STATE
Observers are watching Albert M. Cole, former Kansas representative, with interest since he has been appointed administrator of the government Housing and Home Finance agency. The appointment was somewhat of a surprise, since Cole, during his membership in the House, had come out against subsidies for low-rental living quarters.
NATION
Watch for reorganization of the department of agriculture to become even a bigger problem for Ike's administration than it is now. The President may be losing the support of Senate Democrats on the issue.
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After the charges made by POWs, it is almost certain that President Eisenhower's policy of willingness to consider Chinese Communist peace proposals will change. The public will be howling for blood because of the grim tales of prisoner mistreatment at the hands of the Reds.
Look for dissension in Congress over granting aid to Great Britain. That nation has decided to trim taxes despite its budget deficit. Congressmen, fighting for the tax cut which the administration insists it cannot make until the budget is balanced, aren't apt to be charitable in granting aid to a debt-ridden nation. That might mean cutting taxes at our expense.
Farmers in the upper-Midwest may decide whether or not Congress stays Republican in 1954. The GOP has a rosy future if Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson is right when he says that farmers are opposed to government aid and price protection laws. If he isn't, the Republicans are in for trouble.
WORLD
Look for arguments from all sides concerning the UN's arrangements for trading prisoners. Complaints are flowing in about the lack of UN men being returned, the fact that ammunition trucks were brought to the front lines with POWs, and the reports that the more seriously sick and wounded were not even considered in the truce agreements.
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Marshal Tito's recent successful visit to London may have embarrassing effects in the United States. The anti-Kremlink Yugoslav chief is in line for a visit to this country. But what would Congressional Red hunters say if they saw an out-and-out Communist in the White House?
Watch for baseball coach Hub Ulreich to field a fighting, hustling team for the rest of the season. Frequent charges were made that the infield "leaked like a sieve" in the Nebraska series. Pressure from the fans should eliminate this lack of "the old college try."
SPORTS
Short Ones
University scientists have received a grant for atomic research. This may be the final blast to Bailey.
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An instructor believes President Eisenhower should be protected from future cases of food poisoning by making vice President Nixon—as he hasn't too much to do—his official taster.
Big Dams Still Up in Air
Little Man on Campus
"Just forget about tenure for awhile—it comes as a result o being a good teacher."
by Dick Bibler
Hurled Bomb Signifies Unrest Growing Under Juan Peron
The bomb hurled recently at President Juan Peron of Argentina while he was speaking to a mass meeting in Buenos Aires was the cumulative outburst of months of growing unrest.
Defensively, Peron then gave an emotional speech on the radio declaiming the Argentines for permitting themselves to be robbed by black marketeers, and condemning the proofless accusations brought against his political associates.
Peron, who lately has vied nervously against his Socialist army and labor movement, seems to have nothing less at stake than his political survival—but no one to blame but himself.
While waging a strong campaign to halt sky-rocketing prices and end the meat shortage, he has lost prestige with former supporters.
Some sensational circumstantial evidence of corruption was revealed
The bombing, most recent of several such incidents, is important in determining Peron's political position.
With a mismanaged scheme of industrializing the country at expense of grain farms and cattle farms, Peron has brought economic ills along with black markets, inflation, unemployment, and meatless days.
Finding labor, defense, and the army joining hands within his cabinet, Peron let Juan Duarte, brother of the late Eva Peron, “resign” as his private secretary without even a thank you note for “services rendered.” This followed charges by Eduardo Vulletich, boss of Argentine labor, that Duarte was a “corrupt public official.”
the day after Peron's speech, which he concluded by assuring punishment to all persons guilty of corruption; Juan Duarte killed himself.
The next afternoon the cabinet held an emergency session. After an hour of bitter debating it was joined by the Supreme Court justices. Rumors suggested they were discussing legal processes in case the president resigned.
Everyone knew the workers were thinking that if Peron were to remain in power, his oldtime magic of the capital crowds must be renewed.
The cabinet decided to postpone action until Peron could appeal once again to the people. His chance was at the mass meeting, which followed a four-hour token general strike set up by Vuletich.
The crowd's reaction came in the throwing of the bomb which killed five and seriously injured seven others. The disapproval was obvious, and the results of the next few months may prove to be of international importance.
Gladys Henry
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Condemnation proceedings and preliminary construction work has already cost a big chunk of the taxpayer's money. It will cost more money to put roads and bridges in usable condition, make termination payments to the contractors and pay them to get their machinery off the site.
Nobody was surprised, either, at the howl of delight from opponents of the Tuttle Creek project, or at the scream of anguish from the people, including the contractors, who have a lot of interest and money tied up in the Tuttle Creek dam site on the Blue river.
This much is certain: Congress is in a tough spot over this "Big Dam Foolishness," as the Blue Valley residents are wont to call it.
Col. Lincoln of the Corps of Army Engineers points out that the national government would have spent money on which it could get no return if Tuttle Creek were discontinued.
Nobody was surprised when an economy - minded Eisenhower administration chopped money for four big federal dam projects—including each one in Kansas and Missouri—out of the budget recommendations which went to Congress.
Editor's Note: The following student editorial represents one view—and not necessarily the one of Congress' recent cutting of funds for construction of big dams.
It is difficult to see how the money could be recovered even if the dam were built, but anyway that's what the Colonel says.
Rep. Howard Miller (D-Kan), whom the Blue Valley people elected on a platform of opposition to Tuttle Creek, pointed out that fertile river bottom land, always a source of tax revenue for both the state and national governments, would be inundated by the dam.
He thinks it's a bad deal both ways, but obviously holds the position that it will be a worse deal for the country—and the Blue Valley residents—if the dam is constructed.
—Jim Baird
There is one other factor against opponents of big dams. Kansas City is scared stiff about another flood of the size and proportions of the 1951 disaster. Influential people in Kansas City will be hard to convince that the best way to stop a flood is not necessarily to build a big reservoir.
Letters
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Students Defend Poll Watchers
This is in reference to Bob Worcester's statement in Wednesday's Daily Kansan that "it seems to me that these persons (special investigators of the Student Court Prosecutor's office) are overstepping their supposed authority."
At face value, to the statement he made that he and Nancy Canary read the ASC constitution in its entirety and failed to find any written authorization for this action, we say, "So What!" or in legal terms, we demur.
Surely Worcester has encountered an implied power in his study constitutions. Nationally it has been the explanation for the growth of our national and state constitutions to meet the requirements of government not specifically anticipated by the framers of the constitution.
The essence of the Prosecutor's office is to gather evidence for filing of criminal charges against persons violating a law or to gather evidence with a view to determining if any law was violated.
Such was the anticipated and actual function of the office in creating special investigators. If he does not have this authority, he does not have the authority to present any charge in any court
The perfect example of Prosecutor B. V. Borst's implied power, which was not contested, was his appointment of James Gurley, Gene Balloun, and Bob Walker as special prosecutors of the Student Court in the FACTS libel case.
Wayne L. Ziegler
Loy W. Kirkpatrici
first year law