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New Union Rental Charges Ranae from $5 to $35
Rental charges for facilities in the Student Union and organizations which may use the facilities have been compiled by the Union Operating board.
Meeting rooms, meal service, and facilities for teas and receptions are available to students, faculty, and staff of the University, alumni, conference-groups, departmental meetings, faculty wives, student wives, staff wives, and University-sponsored organizations.
Other groups wishing to use the Union should make application to
the office of the director, who will in turn seek a ruling from the operating board and the chancellor's office.
Rates for using the various rooms are; ballroom, for dances or ticket selling social functions; $35; Kansas room, $15; Jayhawk room, $10; Pine room, $10, and the English room, $5. These rates are for dances or ticket selling social functions.
Office space rental in the building will range from $4 a month for multiple offices to $15 for each of two large offices. Most student organization offices will be rented for $10 a month.
Conference groups of non-university persons, such as those sponsored by the extension division will be charged 25 cents a day for each person plus meal charges.
The book store will pay a monthly rental of $500.
at $2 apiece. This charge will include all services.
There will be no rental charge if the affair is a dinner dance at which the group concerned buys 100 plates
Reservations for all functions are scheduled in the director's office and must be recorded in order for a commitment to be binding. It is understood that the price paid the Union for the dinner is the price that the guest will pay.
If a higher price is charged, the true price of the dinner must be indicated on the ticket. Under no circumstances will a ticket be printed which includes padding or loading for other overhead charges
without being itemized.
Other policies laid down by the board state that the Union will provide checkrooms for proper safeguarding of personal property; that smoking will be allowed in all rooms where ashtrays are provided, but will not be allowed in the ballroom proper during dances, except at the tables around the edges, and advertising or publicity is not allowed in the Union building.
All posters and bulletin board announcements should be left at the hostess desk in the main lobby.
Daily hansan
50th Year, No.62
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
All 39 Seamen Rescued From Sinking U.S. Ship
Leghorn, Italy—(U.P.)The last of 39 American seamen who had huddled on the broken stern of the U.S. Navy supply ship Gromme Reefer were snatched to safety today.
Six Attend Big 7 Meet
Student organizations, social and athletic events, and public and alumni relations were discussed at the Big Seven student government conference at the University of Missouri Friday and Saturday.
The meeting was attended by two voting delegates and six other delegates from each Big Seven school. Bill Wilson, ASC president, Marilyn Hawkinson, college junior, Joe Woods, pharmacy junior, Dana Anderson, college freshman, Hubert Dye, business junior, and Will Adams, graduate student, represented KU.
Members defeated a resolution on the non-partisan election of class officers and heard Richard Murphy, president of the National Student association, stress the importance of student government organizations.
Wilson and Miss Hawkinson voted to table a resolution that the Big Seven student government conference go on record as favoring academic freedom as defined recently by the American Association of University Professors. The person making the tabling motion pointed out that "we have more important things to consider."
$612.19 Collected As Vespers Gifts
An offering of $612.19 was given by the audiences of the Christmas vespers to be used in the University Scholarship fund for music and art students, it was announced today.
This sum was collected from the audience estimated at between 4,500 and 5,000. The contributions varied from $5 bills to a Missouri mill.
No part of the donation is used for the vesper expenses as they are a budgeted item for the School of Fine Arts.
Weather
All of Kansas basked in sunny mild weather today, with yesterday's brisk, chilly winds forgotten.
Lowest temperature overnight was 20 degrees at Goodland. I t touched a peak of 59 at Dodge City, Garden City and Hill City yesterday. A high pressure area in the western United States was credited with giving n a s s f a i r
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weather, but observers here said the situation would change. The five day forecast calls for colder weather Friday or Saturday, with snow in northern Kansas and rain in the south. Temperatures tomorrow will continue from 45 to 55 degrees.
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1952
- The last man was brought off by one of four U.S. Navy helicopters from the carriers Midway and Leyte. The carriers had raced through the Ligurian sea to this northwest Italian port where the Grommet Reefer, with its cargo of Christmas turkeys for American troops, smashed on the rocks and broke in two yesterday.
"All hands removed. No injuries," came the word from rescue head-quarters which told of the happy, dramatic ending of the two-day rescue operation by breeches buoy, boat and helicopter.
In keeping with the rigid tradition of the sea, the Grommet Reefer's master, Capt. Henry P. Saukant, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was the last man brought to shore.
The Grommet Reefer had started dragging its anchor in a gale in Leghorn harbor and at 3:30 a.m. yesterday (8:30 p.m. Sunday CST) it had been hurled on the rocks of the "Queen of Leghorn" reef, where it broke in two.
In the final moments of the rescue operation Capt. Saukant stood alone on the battered stern of his ship.
A helicopter hovered over him. He hauled down the American flag, which had been snapping from the mainbrace in the wind, grabbed a line dropped by the helicopter, and was raised to the craft. An Italian flag, which had flown from the ship's mast as customary because the ship was in an Italian harbor, was left flying.
The helicopters arrived at a critical moment. The stern, hammered incessantly by wind and water against the jagged rocks, was weakening. It was listing so that the breeches buoy could no longer be used, and every man would have had to jump into the icy sea—as some did—to be picked up by two Italian Navy launches.
Libraries, Union Announce Hours
The Student Union and KU libraries announced their vacation schedules today.
Coffee will be served in the Union cafeteria every day, except Christmas and New Year's day, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Hawk's Nest will be open Friday until 10:30 p.m., and will then close for the complete vacation.
Three meals a day will be served every day during vacation except Christmas and New Year's day when only one meal will be served. That meal will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. During the rest of the vacation, breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.; lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and supper from 5 to 6 p.m.
Watson library will be open regular hours this week but will close at noon on Saturday. Students who now have books should return them on or before Dec. 19. Students needing books after that date and throughout the vacation period may begin borrowing them on Dec. 17.
Watson library hours during the vacation will be, Saturday, Dec. 20,
8 a.m. to noon; Sunday, closed; Monday to Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Thursday, closed; Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon;
Sunday, closed. The last week of
vacation, Dec. 29 to Jan. 4 will follow
the same schedule.
The Law library vacation hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, closed Sunday, Christmas day, New Year's day, but open Sunday, Jan. 4 from 2 to 10 p.m.
Lindley hall library will be open 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, closed Sundays and holidays.
The Engineering library in Marvin hall will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Talk with Regents Slated for Jan.16
The All Student Council housing committee will present its case for better University housing to the board of regents Friday, Jan. 16, committee members reported at a meeting last night.
The purpose of last night's meeting was to discuss points to be presented before the board.
The committee still is gathering material and is not ready to release any statements on policy, the committee chairman said.
Winifred Meyer, college sophomore, is meeting with Carroll D Clark, professor of sociology, Wednesday to get a professional viewpoint on the benefits of group living.
Donald Horttor, college senior, agreed to find out the percentage of persons in organized houses working full-time or part-time and the percentage of persons representing organized houses in campus activities.
Dean Glasco, chairman, and Miss Meyer will write a letter to other Big Seven universities to find out how they have handled housing problems.
Bill Wilson, ASC president, suggested the committee write to the National Student association for information on housing.
Glasco reported he had received a call from Jean Waddell, president
UN Remains Firm In Repatriation Stand
Ike Sees Carlson on Senate Grumbling
United Nations, N. Y. — (U.P.) The United States stood firmly today on its demand for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners as the sole condition for resuming Korean peace talks.
An American statement issued here last night said the United Nations command—in effect the U. S. government—was ready to resume negotiations at Pamunjun whenever the Communists accept the proposals contained in the UN's compromise peace proposal which was rejected by the Peiping government yesterday.
The Pamunjunji talks, the Americans said, could be resumed whenever the Oriental Reds accepted the proposals of the resolution passed by the General Assembly on Dec. 3, or when they advanced "constructive proposals of their own which could lead to an honorable armistice."
Gen. Eisenhower meanwhile took his time about scheduling an appointment with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his former commanding officer, who was said he has a "new, clear and definite solution" to the Korean war stalemate.
New York—(U.P.)—President-elect Eisenhower conferred today with Sen. Frank Carlson who was expected to fill him in on grumbling among Senate Republicans that they had not been consulted about federal appointments.
gen. Eisenhower's press secretary, James C. Hagerty, said he had had no reports of nettled feelings among Senate Republicans because the President-elect had not notified interested senators in some cases before filling administrative posts.
The Kansas Republican, an Eisenhower campaign adviser and one of the president-elect's closest friends in Congress, had a long luncheon session with Gen. Eisenhower in the "42nd Street White House" in the Commodore hotel.
In answer to questions about reports that the two already had met, Mr. Hagerty said shortly after noon that was not true. However, he declined to comment on reports that the Eisenhower and MacArthur offices had been in contact to arrange a meeting.
Asked whether he would announce such a meeting in advance, Mr. Hagerty replied: "I just don't know."
Gen. Eisenhower's message to Gen. MacArthur from the cruiser Helena last week, while returning from his inspection tour of Korea, said he was "looking forward to informal meetings" with Gen. MacArthur to get the benefit of his thinking and experience on the Korean problem.
Gen. MacArthur replied with an affable message. His military office said today, however, that there were two errors of transmission in that message—as released to the press on the Helena—which might lead readers to misconstrue Gen. MacArthur's intent somewhat.
Gen. Eisenhower had been expected to meet with Gen. MacArthur sometime this week, but there were no indications from his headquarters exactly where or when the meeting would take place. Gen. MacArthur lives in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers, only seven blocks from the Eisenhower Commodore hotel headquarters.
One visitor to the Eisenhower headquarters today was Martin P. Durkin, head of the AFL-affiliated Plumbers union, whose appointment as Secretary of Labor was announced three days after Gen. Eisenhower had departed for Korea.
Mr. Durkin, who says he has no idea who recommended him to Gen. Eisenhower, has not seen the President-elect since his appointment was announced. He said he conferred with Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, who will be assistant to the president in the new administration on matters having to do with the Plumbers union.
of Inter-dorm, offering the services of the organization. The group was asked to give its opinions on why group living is advantageous.
Fred Rice, college sophomore, volunteered to gather information from employers that might strengthen the housing committee argument.
Glasco and Hortor will return early from vacation to work on the case to be presented before the board of regents.
ASC to Decide On Class Voting
The second reading and voting on the non-partisan election of class officers' bill will be the major business of the All Student Council meeting at 7:30 today in Green hall.
The bill states that candidates for class office shall file directly with the ASC election committee by submitting a petition signed by 25 members of the class concerned. Candidates' names will be placed on a general election ballot, except in cases where more than three have filed for same office. In such cases candidates shall be voted upon in a non-partisan primary election to be held simultaneously with the party primaries. Names of the top three will be then placed on a general election ballot.
Several appointments will be made tonight by Bill Wilson, ASC president. Wilson will appoint members to the Little Hoover commission to work with Chairman Hubert Dye, business junior, appointed at the last meeting. The appointment must be ratified by the Council.
Committees will be appointed to study the Jayhawker and the possibility of organizing a student planning commission. William Nulton, college senior, will be appointed to a planning committee to coordinate foreign student activities.
A report will be made by Joe Woods, pharmacy junior, on the Big Seven student government conference held at the University of Missouri over the weekend. A report will be given on the instructors and course evaluation poll recently conducted by the temporary scholarship committee, and the auditing committee will report on the new Jayhawk auditing plan.
The finance committee headed by Lyle Anderson, business senior, will recommend that the ASC grant $125 to the Forensic league and $50 to Associated Women Students.
Sour Owl Sales Begin Wednesday
The Sour Owl, campus humor magazine, will go on sale Wednesday, Ron Kull, editor, said today. The 24-page magazine is crammed with jokes, stories, cartoons, and off-beat information. There are several exciting stories in the magazine including an expose' of the night life in Strong hall. Dick Bibler and Paul Coker are back at their cartooning best.
The magazine will sell for 30 cents and will be on sale at the information booth, Union building. Strong rotunda, and Fraser hall.