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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 27, 1953
Governor Signs Bill For Probe of Roberts
Topeka—U.P.)A bill authorizing a legislative investigation of Republican National Chairman C. Wesley Roberts was signed yesterday by Gov. Edward F. Arn.
The law gives the investigating committee broad power to subpoena witnesses and records, and to compel testimony. The committee may be named Monday.
The investigation came as a result of the state paying $110,000 for a hospital building on state property at Norton.
Attorney General Harold R. Fatzzer, who has opened his own investigation, said he was trying to determine if the state bought something it already owned.
Mr. Roberts, who represented the organization in the sale, was never registered as a lobbyist in Kansas.
Coast Guard Saves 10 Crash Victims
Washington—(U.P.)—A Naval patrol plane crashed in the mid-Atlantic today and the 10 persons aboard were picked up by the Coast Guard cutter Coos Bay in less than half an hour.
The plane, a P2V Neptune land-based patrol craft, was halfway from Bermuda to the Azores when one of its two engines failed.
The pilot identified only at Lt. Cmdr. Bird, turned back at 9:05 a.m. and broadcast his plan to bring the plane down on the water where six or seven foot waves and high winds were reported.
A PBM patrol plane was dispatched by the Coast Guard to stand guard during the rescue operation.
Alumni Help Design Union
Several University alumni are employed by the Hutchinson firm of A. R. and Robert E. Mann, architects for the Memorial Union addition. They are Les Leeherwood, "44, 45; Linda Schoenberg, Camant, '49, and Robert Mullen, '50. Another Mann employee, Roscoe Shearer, was a freshman in 1905.
Official Outlines 3 Bills on KU
Three bills affecting the University—aside from general appropriations bills not yet introduced—now are before the Legislature, Sen. Paul R. Wunsch, president pro tem of the Kansas Senate, said in an interview last night.
Sen. Wunsch spoke earlier at a meeting of the Lawrence chapter of the American Association of University Women.
Carruth hall will be torn down if the bill of authorization for the Board of regents is passed.
(The bill has passed the House and now is on third reading in the Senate, so there seems indication that it will pass, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said today.)
Another bill would authorize the board of regents to sell parts of the University's farm on which the Lawrence municipal airport is located. Money from the sale could be used for any purpose.
Queried about the bill for providing money for educational TV for both Kansas State college and the University, Sen. Wunsch said, "The whole thing now is up to the Senate ways and means committee."
Vishinsky Won't Talk at UN
United Nations, N.Y. — (U.P) — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky's reluctance to speak stalled the United Nations Korean debate today and resulted in postponement of further meetings until Monday. Mr. Vishinsky did not even show up at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the general assembly's political committee.
YOU BETCHUM, LIL BEAVER-Three members of the Kanza tribe that once populated this area get the once-over from Jane Ellis, college sophomore, and Barbara Shaw, college freshman. The bas-relief images were constructed by Miss Betty Liechty, activities advisor of the Student Union, and are located in the main lounge. From left to right the braves are The Wolf, Little White Bear, and No Fool. Man of Good
Atomic Shell Test Slated for Spring
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Washington — (U.P.) Informed sources said today the world's first atomic artillery shell will be test fired in Nevada this spring from the Army's 85-ton atomic cannon.
About 20,000 troops of all the armed services will conduct atomic maneuvers during the tests. One phase of the troop maneuvers will be in connection with the first firing of an atomic shell.
The Army is believed to have at least 10 mammoth atomic guns.
The Army said its cannon can hurl an 11-inch shell 20 miles with pinpoint accuracy. It was demonstrated publicly Oct. 15, 1952, at the Aberdeen, Md., proving ground but so far has never fired a live atomic shell. Former Army Secretary Frank C. Pace Jr., said then that the gun's atomic capacity had been proved by engineers.
Living Costs Drop But Cigarets Rise
By UNITED PRESS
A pack of cigarets cost at least a penny more today but the government reported that the cost of living fell last month for the second month in a row.
The cigaret price boost followed removal of price ceilings Wednesday on cigarettes and most of the items in the average family's market basket.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its new consumers' price index showed a two-tenths of 1 per cent decline in prices since mid-December and mid-January.
Falling meat prices led the decline. January food prices were the lowest since last March, and clothing prices were the lowest in two years.
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KU Libraries Add 2 Staff Members
Two additions to the University libraries staff were announced today by the chancellor's office.
Charles W. Sargent will become stack supervisor March 1. Mr. Sargent received an M.A. degree in history from Michigan State college, and a library degree from the University of Michigan.
Miss Emma Lue Kopp is the new assistant librarian at the Medical center in Kansas City, Kan. Miss Kopp, a graduate of the University of Illinois Library school, worked in the Purdue university library and the American Medical association library in Chicago. She was librarian of St. John's Hickey Memorial hospital in Anderson, Ind., before coming to KU.
Ben Nevis, Scotland, 4,406 feet, is the tallest mountain in Great Britain.
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