University Daily Kansan
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Friday, Nov. 21, 1952
Ike Begins to Form
Charles E. Wilson . . .
Detroit — (U.P.)—C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp., who was named secretary of defense in Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet, said today he accepted the appointment "with every determination to assist our new President in his efforts toward peace."
The 62-year-old industrialist who became president of the giant auto firm in 1941, said his selection came as a "great surprise."
A General Motors spokesman said a successor to Mr. Wilson will not be named immediately.
He was graduated in 1909 from Carnegie Institute of Technology and 32 years later was named successor to William S. Knudsen as General Motors president.
Ohio-born, Mr. Wilson started his career as a Westinghouse Electric engineer, a job he held until 1910. That year he took the position of chief engineer and factory manager for Delco-Remy and 10 years later was appointed president of the corporation.
The same year he became a GM vice president. Another decade later he became executive vice president of General Motors.
Two years later, in 1941, Mr. Wilson took over the GM top spot.
Confusion has reigned for years because another of America's foremost industrialists is named Charles E. Wilson.
One, dubbed "Electric Charlie" by his friends, was long-time President of General Electric company, and served as defense mobilizer until he quit in a row with President Truman earlier this year.
"Engine Charlie" is the President of General Motors Corp., who has been named Secretary of Defense in the Eisenhower cabinet.
Wildlife Class To Take Trip
At least 10 students in the Wildlife Conservation and Game Management class will leave today for Plum Thicket farm, to observe methods by which game populations are built up and maintained.
Plum Thicket farm is a 640-acre game paradise southwest of Wichita, in Barber county, which has been built up by Floyd T. Amsden, '35, prominent Wichita businessman and former mayor.
Work of Thane Robinson, graduate student doing field work with the state geological survey, will also be observed.
The students will spend two days there studying methods of wildlife conservation with special emphasis on quail conservation, Dr. Rollin H. Baker, course instructor, said.
Accompanying the group will be Dr. Frank Cross, instructor in zoology, who will explain some of the conservation methods in operation with fish and ducks which inhabit the farm's ponds.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Hillel service: 7 p.m.. Danforth channel.
Film series: "Bicycle Thief," 7:30 p.m. Hoch.
Canterbury club communion and breakfast, 9 a.m., Trinity church.
Gamma Delta: no meeting Sunday evening.
Canterbury club hayride: 7 p.m. departure Trinity church. 75 cents person, refreshments.
MONDAY
Math colloquium: 5 p.m., 211 Strong, Kuo-CHi Hsu: "Similarities and dissimilarities between Fourier series and Haar functions"
FUTURE
Juniors and seniors in College, Education, Fine Arts, Journalism, department of nursing in School of Medicine: the English Proficiency examination will be given Dec. 6. Copies of the examination bulletin are now available in English office. 203 Fraser.
Vacation library hours: Tuesday, Nov. 25, to 6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 9-5; Saturday 9-12; closed all day Thursday and Sunday.
John Foster Dulles . . .
Washington — (U,P) — John Foster Dulles, as the next secretary of state, will assure the smoothest possible transition from the old administration to the new in foreign policy, diplomatic observers said.
Mr. Dulles, grandson of a secretary of state, is completely familiar with the operations of the State department, its working personnel, and the problems facing the United States around the globe.
He was an adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson and fashioned the peace-with-honor Japanese peace treaty and security pacts with Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines.
Mr. Dulles, in fact, only left the State department on March 25 to join the political campaign as the chief Republican foreign policy adviser. He had entered the State department in April 1950.
He is one of the few men in American public life who might be considered as having been in lifelong training for the No.1 cabinet post.
State department officials generally were pleased at Mr. Dulles' selection because of his long record in foreign affairs and recent successes on Far Eastern problems.
Washington — (U.P.) — Informed Republican sources reported today that Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon was a "compromise choice" for secretary of interior in the Eisenhower cabinet.
President-elect Eisenhower had been widely expected to name his close friend, Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado, to the cabinet post which is of primary interest to westerners because of its vital role in reclamation and natural resource development.
Informants said Gov. Thornton was passed over on "seniority" grounds—he is a relative newcomer to the ranks of western Republican statesmen.
They said "several" Western senators were considered for the interior post, but Gen. Eisenhower and his advisers finally concluded they would be more valuable to the party in the Senate, where the Republicans hold control by a slim margin.
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington also was in the running for the job these sources said, but was blocked by the fact that another Republican from the same state, Walter Williams of Seattle, is a prospective cabinet appointee.
Cabinet
Floorboard Drivers On Highway to Hospital
If you want to involve yourself in a serious car accident, if you want to kill or injure others, if you're yearning for a little time in a hospital bed, just push the accelerator to the floorboard. For a speeding car is the surest instrument to accomplish these dubious feats.
Douglas McKay . . .
In fact, statistics prove you're safer washing windows on the side of a skyscraper, or working in a coal mine, or flying in a super-sonic jet plane than cruising down the highway in your car.
Even a safety-designed automobile on a safety-engineered road is, in the hands of a floorboard driver, one of the most potent instruments of destruction in the world today. Traffic accidents alone claimed more lives during the years of World War II than all American battle casualties of that period.
And all the advancements of science as incorporated in your car or in better roads only serve to worsen the problem and increase traffic accidents.
Amazing as it may seem, the majority of all fatal accidents occur on a dry road in the daylight hours in perfect driving weather. Over 97 per cent of all vehicles involved in serious accidents are in apparently good condition, and the majority of such accidents occur on open stretches of highway.
One out of every three fatal accidents is caused by the speeder, according to the records of the National Safety council. Aside from him, most of the other accidents are the result of human error.
Only one factor can't be expertly engineered—the human machine.
Eighteen per cent of all fatal accidents were caused by drivers being on the wrong side of the road. Other principal causes in their order are: driver did not have the right-of-way; reckless driving; drove off road; passing on
wrong side, and failure to signal.
wrong side, and lapture to signal.
Mechanical failures caused only 2.2 percent of incidents and bad weather can claim less than 25 per cent. Probably all of those wrecks were not due to the weather alone.
These conditions quickly become apparent with the opening of each new stretch of improved roadway.
A three-mile section of curveless paving was opened early in September near Williamstown junction about eight miles northwest of Lawrence on U. S. Highway 24-40-59. Since the opening, Jefferson county sheriff George Killinger has been called to that stretch of road more times for serious accidents than during a year the old winding road was in use. Within six weeks after its opening, the first fatality for that flawless highway had been chalked up.
New cars are capable of going faster and faster with effortless ease. And a survey made last summer by the Oklahoma highway patrol showed that drivers are racing along at a much faster clip than a year ago.
Speed limits are easily ignored and are hard to enforce by understaffed police departments who find themselves busy most of the time just picking up the pieces from Detroit's assembly lines.
The only practical solution yet offered to the increasingly serious problem is built-in governors on all vehicles, set to provide absolute speed-control. It may come to that.
Saturday...
To follow the Big Red Team to Missouri.
But the "Mite" will be open again at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
We'll Be Closed All Day
See You Then
Dine-A-Mite Inn
KU-Emporia To Debate
23rd and La.
Fourteen members of the debate squad will leave at 6:45 a.m. Saturday for an all-day meet at Kansas State college at Emporia.
Teams will debate four rounds, two on each side of the national collegiate debate topic for this year: "Resolved, that the Congress of the United States enact a compulsory fair employment practices law."
Teams going are William Crews, business junior, and Richard Sheldon, college junior; Ann Ivester, college senior, and Donald Hopkins, first year law student; Lee Baird, college sophomore, and William Nulton, college senior; William
Men's Inter-dorm Council Elects Bunch, Anderson
The council also has endorsed efforts to secure better dormitory and has agreed to stand ready to cooperate with the All Student Council.
Fred Bunch, business junior, and Neal Anderson, business senior, have been elected president and vice president respectively of Men's Inter-dorm council.
Arnold and Hubert Bell, college sophomores.
Last year, 1,962,000 Americans were injured in traffic accidents.
Robert Kennedy, engineering sophomore, and Richard Smith, college sophomore; Margaret Smith and Edith Sorter, college freshmen, and Edward Cresswell, engineering sophomore, and Paul Cecil, engineering freshman.
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CLEMENTINE HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
HIXON STUDIO 721 MASS.
Directed by Mrs. Herk Harvey FRIDAY, NOV. 21 and SATURDAY, NOV. 22
8:00 p.m. Liberty Memorial High School Auditorium
9 a.m. Holy Communion for Collegians Breakfast and Canterbury meeting immediately following in Rectory. Father Bob Mize of Salina will lead discussion on the life of St. Francis.
11 a.m. Harvest home festival to benefit St. Francis Boy's homes in Salina, Father Mize will preach.
Plymouth Congregational Church
SUNDAY SERVICES
DALE E. TURNER, Minister
925 Vermont St.
9 - 11 a.m. Sermon "Forward March."
5:30 p.m.. College Age Youth Meeting
8 p.m.: Bible Class
Church Of Christ
1501 N.H.
W. TAYLOR CARTER, Evangelist
KEITH BARNHART, Music Director
10:00 - Bible Study 11:55 - Communion
11:00 - Sermon 6:45 - University Class
7:45 - Evening Service