Passing on a hill.
Failure to yield the right of way.
Here are three accidents in the making, and in every instance, the blame can be clearly set. The driver who is passing on a hill is suddenly confronted by another oncoming vehicle. The car pulling from the side road in failing to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic is leaving himself open for arrest besides being involved in an accident—and maybe a serious one. The speeder, who although he believes he has full control
Speeding.
of his vehicle, is simply asking for trouble. These pictures show mistakes which lead to more than half of all serious accidents, records of the National Safety council show. Speeding, as the number one cause, accounted for almost one-third of all fatal wrecks. These pictures were faked with the cooperation of the Douglas county sheriff's office. Kansan photos by Rich Clarkson.
Christmas Traffic Toll Looms High
The traffic death toll at Christmas is greater than that of any other holiday period of the year.
Heavy travel, tricky weather, early darkness, and holiday festivity combined to bring death to 351 persons during a four-day Christmas holiday last year, statistics of the National Safety council reveal.
The accident toll for this year's extended four-day holiday period is expected to equal, if not exceed last year's grim picture, council officials have forecast.
"Our records show that the traffic death toll for Christmas eve and Christmas day is about twice the annual daily average," said Ned H. Dearborn, council president.
"Travel is especially heavy over long holidays, which encourage traditional family get-togethers even when the members must drive considerable distance," he added.
The council in its annual Christmas safety campaign made these recommendations to holiday drivers:
1. Driving or walking, put the Christmas spirit of "good will toward men" into practical use by being extra courteous to others.
3. And if you inbibe Christmas spirit in liquid form, stay away from the steering wheel of a car.
2. If streets are icy or slippery, keep your speed down and your caution up.
Return a Student— Not a Statistic
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Dec. 18, 1952
50th Year, No.64
UN Planes Bomb Near Red Capital Ike, 'Old Soldier' Confer About Korean War Policy
Seoul, Korea —(U.P.)— United Nations fighter-bombers smashed a huge Communist troop concentration 20 miles south of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang today.
At least 70 buildings were destroyed and 30 were damaged in the four-wing attack.
"Nothing could be left intact," Col. Walter M. Berg, Staten Island, N.Y., said. "It was a perfect mission."
Returning pilots said secondary explosions rocked the entire area. An ammunition dump blew up into a ball of fire that spread into a flash of flame 500 feet wide, they said.
American Sabrejets shot down one MIG-15 Communist jet and damaged another in the fourth straight air battle along the Manchurian border.
1st. Lt. James F. Low, Sausalito, Calif., shot down his ninth MIG of the Korean war in a battle between 10 Sabres and 22 of the Russian-built planes.
The damaged MIG was claimed by Maj. Richard L. Ayersame, Sacramento, Calif.
Irish Lecturer Tells Relation Of Poetry to Paintings
KANU License Renewed by FCC
KANU, located at 91.5 megacycles on the FM band, has been operating since Sept. 15 on a construction permit issued by the FCC of interim authority to provide program service, Mr. Browne explained.
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday granted a license to KANU, the University FM radio station. R. Edwin Browne, director of University Radio, announced this morning.
The granting of the license is "actually a formality," he said, which must be renewed regularly. In granting and renewing licenses, the FCC must be satisfied that programs broadcast by the station are "in the public interest, convenience, and necessity."
Sorority Scholarship Given to Sophomore
ruins and deserted villages.” Mr. Henn illustrated his lecture with slides of famous paintings.
"We discussed," Gen. Eisenhower said later, "the possibility of peace in Korea with particular reference to the world situation in which, of course, such Korean peace would have to be determined."
Gen. Eisenhower had invited Gen. MacArthur to "informal meetings" to get the full benefit of his "thinking and experience" after Gen. MacArthur said in a speech he was "confident there is a clear and definite solution to the Korean conflict." Both men said after their luncheon conference yesterday they would meet again.
"Studying paintings, architecture, and other forms of art can be of much value to the study of literature," T. R. Henn, Irish scholar, said yesterday before an audience in Fraser theater.
It was a colorful and historic scene played by the President-elect and the man he called "my old and respected commander." It was enacted against a background furnished by President Truman, who has indicated he doubts either of
The Gamma Phi Beta Christmas scholarship has been awarded to Shirley Boatwright, fine arts sophomore.
The scholarship consisting of $100 is awarded annually on the basis of financial need and academic record, Sanice Manuel, Gamma Phi Beta president, said.
"A macabre theme of skeletons and death, for example," he said, "was prevalent in medieval literature as a result of paintings by Holbein, the Dutch artist."
Paintings or pictorial symbols of horses influenced poets throughout the Renaissance, were used by John Donne, the 17th century metaphysical poet, and are still seen somewhat in the poetry of A. E. Housman, the English poet, he said.
With General MacArthur, whom President Truman fired as Korean commander 20 months ago, he went over the problem of Korea as seen in a setting of global unrest.
New York—(U.P.)—President-elect Eisenhower drove ahead today with his deeds-not-words Korean war policy after receiving the counsel of an "old soldier" named Douglas MacArthur.
Mr. Henn, senior lecturer in English at Cambridge university, pointed out three ways in which painting and poetry may be related: A picture can serve as inspiration to the poet; the poet may reinterpret or illustrate a poem, sometimes adding it, or a poem may be conceived at the same time with the painting.
"Melancholy exultation at ruins, later altered to a feeling of sweetness, peace, and light, can be seen in poetry of Shelley and Byron," he said, "probably derived from paintings popular at that time of
Javhawker Pictures Needed
Organizations whose pictures have not appeared in the 1952-53 Jayhawker should contact Jane Alvine, associate editor of the Jayhawker, immediately, Kenneth Dam, editor, said today.
An Open Letter
Chancellor Explains Financial Picture
Next month the Kansas Legislature will consider the appropriations that will operate your university the next two years. The Legislature's actions will largely determine what kind of a university you will have the next two years, and will mold your university for the next decade.
Your university proposes to spend in the next two years only 12.3 percent more than in the two-year period now ending. Considering the growing student body and inflation since 1950, when today's budgets were planned, I feel this is a reasonable request, quite comparable to the experience of the average business enterprise.
To the student body:
During the Christmas recess you will discuss the university with your parents and others. As you do, remember these simple facts.
You probably haven't realized it, but until now KU has received support from the federal government for its day-to-day operations. Under the "GI Bill of Rights" the university received an extra payment above the normal fees for each "GI" student.
These "extra payments"—once received on as many as 5,500 students—reduced the amount needed from the Kansas Legislature to operate the university. But now federal support is received only on 391 students and the reserves from this source are exhausted. By next year this item will be almost zero, as the "Korean GI Bill" has no such provisions.
The transition from federal to full state support creates this problem.
We must ask the Legislature to increase the appropriation by 40 per cent in order to meet the modest, planned increase of 12.3 per cent in operating budget the next two years.
The university is asking that it be able to serve you and the state as well the next two years as now. To increase appreciably the scope of service would require more than a 12.3 per cent increase in budget and 40 per cent larger appropriation.
You are your university's own ambassador. How you use this information will help determine the character of your university and how it prepares for the great student bodies that will follow you in the next decade.
FRANKLIN D. MURPHY Chancellor
them has an answer to the Korean stalemate.
The third man in the scene was John Foster Dulles, who worked closely and admiringly with Gen. MacArthur during the Japanese peace treaty negotiations.
The Eisenhower - MacArthur meeting had been kept in strict secrecy by Eisenhower headquarters. Then, at 12:42 p.m., yesterday, the President-elect and Mr. Dulles suddenly left headquarters. They went up Park avenue to Mr. Dulles' four-story, stone-front house in the fashionable East side 90's.
In past public utterances and in conversation, Gen. MacArthur has indicated he always has believed Soviet Russia would back out of a showdown unless all the chips were on her side of the table.
Surrounded by floor-to-ceiling bookcases and seated in leather-covered easy chairs grouped before the fireplace, the three talked some more. It was 3:19 p.m. when they left through the glass-and iron-grillwork front doors. Gen. Eisenhower, bare-headed and beaming, emerged first and nodded to the cheering crowd of 200 neighbors across the street and to householders grinning from doorways and windows.
Gen. MacArthur, wearing a natty gray hat, followed. Both men had on overcoats and had scarfs wrapped about their necks.
Weather
Kansas braced itself for another
onslaught of winter today as a
SNOW
snow - bearing low pressure center moved eastward from New Mexico and drizzling rain already began falling at Chanute and Emporia Temperatures dropped to below freezing early today, although Chanute had a night time
low of 37 degrees. Much cooler weather was forecast for tonight. Light snow was expected to begin in the west this afternoon, and snow or sleet was predicted for the central section tonight and tomorrow. The front edge of the new cold assault was expected to reach eastern Kansas by Friday afternoon.