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Topeka, Ks.
-Kansan photo by Lonnie Barlow
Daily hansan
Tuesday, April 14, 1953
FIRST PICTURE—Victor J. Danilov, Daily Kansan news adviser, and Harris Smith, photography instructor, make the first plastic plates of pictures for today's Daily Kansan on the Fairchild Scan-a-graver, newly installed by the William Allen White School of Journalism.
A new electronically operated machine installed this week will made it possible for the Daily Kansan to reproduce better pictures in a shorter period of time than formerly required.
Machine to Improve Daily Kansan Photos
Previously the zinc half-tone engravings used by the Daily Kansan were made by a downtown engraving firm, and pictures for the day's paper had to be in by 9:30 a.m. With the Scan-o-graver, engravings can be made as late as 1:30 p.m. The Daily Kansan goes to press at 2 p.m.
Same-size photographs are reproduced on plastic plates, which are then mounted on wood or metal bases for printing. A one-column cut can be made in only 6 minutes.
The table-top machine, called the Scan-o-graver Cadet, is leased by the Daily Kansam from the Fair-port Camera and its poration firmnam. N.Y. The machine also will be used by the University Press.
Operation of the machine will be part of the advanced news photography course taught by Harris Smith, assistant instructor of journalism. The "photographer of the day" will have charge of making the cuts as well as taking the pictures for the Daily Kansan.
$10 Billion Military Cut Seen by Taft
Schenectady, N.Y., —(U.P.)— Sen Robert A. Taft said last night he and President Dwight D. Eisenhower believe a complete revamping of the nation's military program could lead to a $10 billion reduction in defense spending by next year with a subsequent tax cut.
He called for a "complete impartial investigation" of military spending aimed at reducing the defense bill from the present proposed $47 billion to "something like $37 billion."
Seattle (U.P).A west-bound military chartered twin-engined DC-3 Miami Airlines plane with 25 passengers aboard, is missing and presumed down today in the rugged Cascade mountains southeast of here, the Civil Aeronautic administration said.
The plane, en route to Seattle from Spokane, carried 22 military passengers and three crewmen. The military passengers were picked up in Washington and Scranton, Pa. Their destination was Seattle.
The CAA said the craft last reported over Hobart, Wash., about 25 miles southeast of here.
The pilot, Capt. A. J. Lerette Jr., Miami, told the Seattle control tower "one engine is gone, we're losing altitude."
Coast Guard, Air Force, Navy, and civilian planes are in the air searching for the craft.
Plane Down In Cascades
A helicopter was dispatched to the vicinity of Tiger mountain, about 30 miles east of here, after Ed Littlefield, a retired miner, reported he heard an explosion about 3 a.m.
The main search area was in the vicinity of Stampede Pass, 50 miles east of here. Roughly, it was in an area from Cedar Lake to Mud Lake to Cle Elum. Wash.
"I thought it was an earthquake," Mr. Littlefield told United Press. "The windows rattled and woke me up. The house shuddered."
50th Year, No. 122
Prisoners Start Jolting Trip Down Freedom Road
Panmunjom, Korea—(U,P)—S i c k and disabled Allied prisoners rolled down a bumpy road toward freedom today under heavy clouds which hid them from friendly warplanes scouting the area.
United Nations officers worried about the health of the returning prisoners as rain fell along the 200-mile "Freedom Road" from Chomna on the Yalu river to Panmujom and temperatures were low.
Community authorities here did not have to worry about the comfort of allied-held prisoners who will be turned over to the Reds in next Monday's exchange. They will ride in heated, clean hospital trains.
Three additional trucks were scheduled to join the first envoy tonight in the battered road junction of Yongsong, 50 miles north of the Red Korean capital of Pyongyang.
Helicopters and ambulances were waiting to take the released prisoners to the field hospital at Munsan and from there to the big medical trials in Japan. From Japan they will be flown to the United States.
Forty-five more vehicles will start southward tomorrow from Communist prison camps at Manjojin and Pyokytong near the Yalu.
The first convoy of 20 Communals trucks and ambulances was assumed to have left Chomma on schedule with ailing allied captives from 11 nations at 3 p.m. Monday.
The two-day trip to freedom was expected to be a jolting ordeal because allied bombers had pocked a highway during the past 33 months.
But the UN base camp at Munsan and medical teams here were prepared to receive the prisoners and provide them immediate care when they are exchanged next Monday.
Practice Test Set For Western Civ
Preliminary Western Civilization examinations will be given at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.
Two exams will be given both nights. The first will cover units one through five, and will be given in 205 Journalism. The other, covering units six through 10, will be given in 103 Strong.
Anyone may take these non-credit examinations without registering. Those enrolled in the course will receive the results from their proctors.
33 Entries in Relay March
Thirty-three floats and eight bands will highlight the Kansas Relays parade to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday from 6th to 11th on Massachusetts street. !
After a year's layoff, the parade once again will be a part of the RELAYS, Robert Ball, college junior and parade chairman believes this year's march will be the biggest and best held so far, if the weatherman helps.
M. E. "Bill" Easton, Relays director and KU track coach, said "The parade has become one of the most popular aspects of the Relays. Each year we try to make it a little better, and Ball and his group certainly have succeeded in doing that time."
Bands marching are the KU band, the AFROTC band, and six high schools, two from Lawrence, and one each from Wamego, Haskell, Yates Center, and Council Grove. Thirty-two floats from campus organizations, and one from a Lawrence group will be in the parade.
Trophies will be awarded for the three best floats in the men's and women's division. Two faculty members and a Lawrence businessman will be judges.
Ball said "Tm sure this is one of
Alvin McCoy to Speak To Kansan Board Fete
Alvin S. McCoy, Kansas correspondent for the Kansas City Star, will be the principal speaker at the annual Kansan Board dinner May 16.
'Grapes of Wrath' Slated for Tomorrow
The dinner will climax a daylong program, devoted to the community responsibility of the newspaper, sponsored by the School of Journalism and the William Allen White foundation.
Newspaper's Watchdog Role in Government." He is an alumnus of the University and has been with the Star many years. He figured prominently in the recent Wes Roberts investigation by a Kansas legislative committee.
Platform of Pledges Approved by FACTS
This is the first of a series of outstanding movies planned for an American Civilization Film series to be shown this spring.
Editors throughout the region and journalism students are being invited to participate in the editorial conference. Invitations to the Kansas Board dinner will go to these editors as well as to students and alumni of the Journalism school and to University and state officiali-
Principal speakers on the editorial conference program will be A. T. Bureh, associate editor and editorial page editor of the Chicago Daily News, and Robert M. White II, co-editor of the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger. Mr. White was the winner of an award from Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, for excellence in editorial writing in 1951.
"The Grapes of Wrath," film version of John Steinbeck's novel, will be shown at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater and at 7:30 p.m. in Lindley auditorium.
Awards will be made following the dinner, to students for the best editorial, news, feature, pictorial, and advertising work on the Kansas and for outstanding scholastic achievement by journalism students.
Mr. McCoy will speak on "The
The foundation will sponsor the first annual William Allen White Editorial conference beginning at 10 a.m.
the largest. I can't recall that there ever have been 33 floats entered in the parade."
"FACTS proposes ... that the All Student Council stand ready to join with the administration and the other schools of the Big Seven in defense of the principles of academic freedom."
In a session which was sharply divided over two proposed planks in its platform, FACTS party last night approved a platform of pledges in the five general areas of student welfare, academic affairs, publications, extracurricular activities, and student government.
An academic freedom question was defeated by a comfortable margin after Loy Bilderback, college junior, and FACTS campaign manager, reported the results of talks with Chancellor Franklin Murphy.
Will Adams, graduate student, offered a watered-down proposal which passed by a small margin. It reads:
In addition to the floats and bands, KU ROTC units will enter marching groups, and the Air Force ROTC drill team will perform. Kansas Relays queen Margaret Allen and attendants Charleen Dunn and Vivian Graber will ride in the parade.
An anti-discrimination plank was voted in by a small margin. It reads, "FACTS proposes... active participation by the campus community in the Brotherhood Week activities of the city of Lawrence."
Other planks adopted last night were: (a) to maintain an up-to-date report on student housing, (b) responsible effort through the new student labor committee bill to
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Kansan photo by Lonnie Barlow
STE-RIKE!—Wayne Tiemeier, Kansas pitcher, misses a fast ball in the baseball game with Wichita here yesterday. KU won, 13-0. Tiemeier pitched five scoreless innings before being relieved by John Brose in the sixth. Brose held the Shockers runless for two more frames, then John Wynkoop come on in the ninth to complete the whitewash
promote higher student wages, and (c) active participation by the campus community in the Brotherhood Week activities of Lawrence.
FACTS solidly approved proposals (a) that the Daily Kansan be guaranteed freedom from interference by student government in its editorial policies, and (b) that a complete review of the organization and contents of the Jayhawker be undertaken.
The party okayed extracurricular activities planks with proposals (a) that every campus organization and activity keep adequate records of each member's activities, (b) that the athletic department provide more active support to minor sports, and (c) election of class officers by a class convocation as a step toward more class activities.
Government to Hike Rates on Home Loans
A highly-placed official said the move is in the works, but refused to give details. VA loans now carry a 4 per cent interest rate, FHA loans a $4\frac{1}{4}$ per cent rate.
Washington — (U.P.) The government is expected to act soon, possibly this week, to raise interest rates on home loans guaranteed by the Veterans Administration or the Federal Housing Administration.
Weather
Winter lingered at Goodland last night, but the 30 decree temperature
SPRING SHOWERS
there was the only sub- freezing reading i n Kansas. F a i r weather w a s forecast for western Kansas Wednesday and skies in the east should clear during the day. The weather bureau said temperatures would remain nearly the
same. The bureau predicted showers over central and eastern Kansas today and thunderstorms tonight in the east and south central sections.