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—Kansan photo by Jerry Knudson
POSIES TO MURPH—A twinkle lit up those Irish eyes of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy when he was presented a pot of shamrocks for St. Patrick's day. The smiling colleen is Deborah Young, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. William C. Young.
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By JANE CAREY
Wee Irish Bairn Wishes Murphy Top o' the Mornin'
Shure and it was a colleen bairn with the wind in her daffodil-colored hair and impas twinkling in her eyes who carried a pot of shamrocks up the stairway that leads past the flags of the United Nations, went into the chancellor's office, and wished The Murphy the luck o' the Irish for this 17th of March.
Himself, the one for whom the KU band joyfully breaks into the tune of "They Kept the Pig in the Parlor" when he steps into the arena to greet students, faculty, parents and visitors on football days, called out, "Come in, Debbie honey," and announced that the good luck and the good news is that this summer he's going to be visiting the Emerald Isle in company with Mrs. Murphy.
"I'll be in Europe on business, and on the way home we'll stop off in County Cork and the town of Cork where my people came from," he said.
Deborah Young, daughter of William C. Young, professor of anatomy, and artist-homemaker, Ruth Young, and descendant of a long line of good Irish folkks called Coombs, Caldwell and McCoom, listened to the story of how Dr. Murphy's great-grandmother, Martha, and great-grandfather, Patrick, came to America from the old country.
It was only five years ago that, on reading an article about Dr. Murphy in Time magazine, a hitherto unknown kinswoman discovered the family connection and sent him keepsakes that once belonged to his great-grandparents. It was then, too, that Chancellor Murphy learned that his little daughter, Martha, had, all unknowingly, been given the same name as her ancestress.
With a parting good wish for young Debbie, who had her anticipations set on a Junior High Funfest, and an "Erin Go Bragh" from Kansan callers, Dr. Murphy's hearty "The same, the same, the same" was heard as the friendly one who has been known to name himself "a garrulous Irishman" turned quietly back to his desk and his duties.
Group Wants ASC 'Taken by Franklin'
"Take it away, Franklin" has been explained as a movement to transfer powers of the All Student Council to Chancellor Murphy, by Jerry Brownlee, college senior.
Brownlee is one of a group who have paid for stickers reading, "Take it away. Franklin!"
The statement means that if students vote to abolish the ASC in Wednesday's special referendum election, the powers of that group will be transferred to Chancellor Murphy.
"We're just a quiet little movement because we feel the students don't need too much persuasion, Brownlee explained. "It's not that we oppose the reorganization plan that will be on the ballot as it is that we feel you have to scrap the ASC and start over."
The reorganization may "smooth things over." Brownlee said.
Prisoner Exchange Vetoed
London —(U,P)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused today to exchange Lee Meng, a Chinese girl Communist jailed in Malaya, for Edgar Sanders, British businessman imprisoned in Hungary.
Kansas fans in Kansas City tonight for the NCAA clash between the Jayhawkers and Washington Huskies will rally at 7:15 p.m. in the lobby of the Hotel Muehlebach.
The University's 50-piece pep band will be at the rally and at the game in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
KU Students to Rally In Muehlebach Hotel
A listening party will be held as usual in the Union building tonight.
--cloud of dust billowed out like a giant smoke ring, enveloping the buildings and other test obstacles placed near the explosion.
Student Describes TV Nuclear Blast
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The television screen in the fraternity house was completely black as the monotone voice of the announcer on "News Nob" slowly counted away the seconds. "25 seconds . . . 20 seconds . . .." We could feel the tension mounting as explosion time ticked closer.
"10 seconds . . five . . four. . . three. . two. . one. ZERO."
A big groan went up from the dozen or so persons around the set as the screen became a mass of zigzag lines. A voice from the set said "Keep down, there are more shock waves coming!"
Major television networks reportedly brought TV viewers in some sections of the country a
"much clearer and better" picture story of the Navada atomic explosion today than they were able to in their first attempt to screen a nuclear blast last year. The improvement, however, was not noticeable here in Lawrence.
In a matter of seconds—as suddenly as it had started—the screen ceased its crazy gyrations, and we could see the giant atomic "mushroom" forming over the barren desert in Yucca Flats.
And it looked just like that, a big mushroom, billowing up and out at what, from our television vantage point on the rocky butte, seven miles from "ground zero", seemed to be a slow, lazy speed.
At the base of the mushroom a big
The camera switched briefly to a close-up of the area directly under the blast where a number of small fires could be seen.
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The column of smoke and dust continued to climb to an estimated 40,000 feet, and then began to drift slowly across the screen towards the southeast.
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As the television camera switched back to the network announcer in New York, we all heaved a big sigh of relief that we were here instead of there, and filed into the dining room for our breakfast.
The governor, who is civil defense administrator for the nation, was in a forward foxhole. He was the first man to be brought back by helt-training service to the scores of correspondents waiting on News Nob.
"The most pronounced sensation was the terrific tremors of the earth," former Gov. Val Petersen of Nebraska said.
Mr. Petersen said "it was colder than the devil out there. My two principal sensations were of the great burst of light and of the tremendous tremors of the earth."
U.S. Explodes 22nd Atom Bomb On Yucca Flats
Within an hour they were out of their trenches and moving forward to assigned objectives.
Las Vegas, Nev. — (U.P.) The sky northwest of Las Vegas lighted up brilliantly at 7:20 a.m. EST today as an atomic device exploded on Yuca Flat, 65 miles away.
There were 1,600 troops and military observers, 20 newsmen and a few civil defense officials in fixed positions two miles from where a slender steel tower vaporized with a blinding flash. Only humans that knew the Japanese before were the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The pre-dawn blast was heard in Pasadena, Calif., 300 miles to the west. It was felt as far away as Cedar City, Utah, 175 miles to the northeast.
The detonation deliberately was timed for just before dawn over the barren Nevada desert to aid scientists, working with photo electric cells and intricate optical gear, in analyzing performance of their latest nuclear device—the 2nd exploded in the continental United States and the 22nd by the United States.
Low clouds on the horizon northwest of Las Vegas obscured formation of the typical atomic mushroom but the peach-tinted nuclear cloud was faintly visible. The brilliant flash died away quickly as Las Vegas exclaimed over the latest in the Nevada test series.
The troops in the trenches came through the experience without injury.
Tuesday, March 17, 1953
By MARY BETZ
UN Peace Aims CitedbyBunche
Negro GI Cited for Korean Heroism
Hoag to Crown Queen of Dance
With the U.S. 2nd Division, Korea —(U.P.)— An American Negro soldier stood over his severely-wounded battalion commander and saved the colonel's life by killing Chinese "right and left" in the bitter fighting for Little Baltaralt hill today.
Dr. Bunche, UN director of trusteeships and former mediator in Palestine, spoke before an all-student convocation crowd of 2,500 students and faculty in Hoch auditorium.
The queen is to be chosen by persons at the dance using their ticket stubs as ballots, according to Max Whitson, chairman of the senior dance committee.
Students and faculty may meet Dr. Burche at an informal coffee at
Citing the purpose of the United Nations as "to create international solidarity and collective security," Dr. Ralph Bunche today described "racial and religious bigotry which affect the strength of leadership and national prestige of our own nation, leader in"
A "Senior Ring" queen will be crowned by Charles Hoag, class of '53 president, during the intermission of the informal all-school dance sponsored by the seniors Friday in the Student Union ballroom.
Each organized women's house is to name a senior girl for queen candidate, and names and pictures of candidates are to be turned in at the Kansas news room to Marilyn Dubach, journalism senior, by 6 p.m. today, Whitson said.
Tickets are being sold in all organized houses and will go on sale tomorrow in the information booth where pictures of the queen candidates will be on display.
The dance, from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
will feature the music of Matt Bet-
tenheimer, the group,
from Manhattan, is known for its
appeal to college dancers.
Tickets are 75 cents. Proceeds will, be added to a fund for the class gift.
Remaining Controls Ended
Second division officers said the battalion commander personally led a reinforcing unit into the fight and was wounded four times. He finally slumped to the ground in the midst of the savage hand-to-hand battle.
Washington —(U.P.) The government today ended all remaining price controls. In its final deconformation, the government ceilings off steel and a batch of other industrial items important to the defense production program.
The unidentified soldier jumped to the colonel's aid.
"He stood over the battalion commander and killed Chinese right and left," front line officers reported.
The colonel's name must be withheld until his next of kin are notified. His division commander, Maj. Gen. James Fry, immediately went to the hospital where the colonel was taken to award the heroic officer a Silver Star.
Other officers still were attempting to identify the Negro GI.
Division officers thought the Chinese were trying to establish a permanent tochoel on Little Gibraltar and then move to Big Gibraltar, which would give them control of the valley.
The valley referred to is called the "Bowling Alley." It points northward like a dagger into Chinese lines and runs south to Seoul.
4 p.m. today in the Music and Browsing room in the Union.
"Making democracy work in every community of our nation is a vital part of the effort to make national and international democracy." Dr. Bunche said.
"Americans are inevitably living in a goldfish bowl today, as the world watches their every action. Consequently, any violation of our democratic principles serves as grief for the Communist propaganda mill," he said.
Americans have been disappointed with the United Nations, he said, because they have expected too much from it. The UN has lost ground with Americans because of the Koehler scandal and the "cold war" and the "blind and dangerous" neo-isolationism of some of its delegates, Dr. Bunche said.
The Korean war has taught the world a lesson, however, he commented.
"Asia and the Middle East must be won to the democratic cause. Military strength is not enough; we must win them by our sincerity of purpose and by the nature of our actions. The West's racialism and imperialism have somewhat embittered India and Pakistan, for example, who are developing democratic systems of government." he said.
"Differences between East and West have been greatly exaggerated. The East has the same hopes and aspirations, the same desire for progress and improvement, that the West has. Our universal hopes should form a common bond between the two hemispheres and make for a united world," Dr. Bunche said.
He said that despite the weaknesses of the UN, its mediatory system is our only hope for winning peace. "Discussion of issues is the mark of democracy, because it makes well-informed citizens," he said.
Weather
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ted for western Kansas late today a n d tonight, spreading through the central part of the state to the eastern portion by Wednesday mornin pureau said there will be a 10 degree drop in temperatures following the showers. Mercury readiness
in the high 60s were reported from over the state yesterday, with a high of 71 at Wichita, Hutchinson, and Garden City.