Tuesday, October 23, 1951 University Daily Kansan
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SWEDISH POLICE ARE LEAVING the Polish freighter Velur with a sailor after they boarded the Red vessel at Stockholm to rescue a cook who preferred freedom. The man had jumped the ship to seek sanctuary, but had returned for his baggage and was detained. He was seized, beaten and locked up.
Harry Bond, civil engineering junior, has been chosen the new president of the Mid-Continent conference of student chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
He was elected at the seventh annual meeting of the organization Oct. 18-20 at Norman, Okla., and is the FU student to receive the honor
KU Man Named ASCE President
Representing KU at the conference were students Norman Brasel, Ralph Scott, Lee Bullock, Harold J. Keeling, Ross Keeling, Ralph Miller, Paul Bird, Younis Dabbagh, George Weiser, Delbert Schick, Howard Jones and Charles Carpenter.
Bond was elected by delegates from the universities of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Washington, St. Louis, Kansas State college and Oklahoma A&M.
Delegates discussed practices of professional engineering during the three day meet and heard papers read by W. R. Holway, E. O. Pearson, Guy James, and W. L. Benham, representatives of Oklahoma construction companies.
Orchard Park, N.Y.-(U.P.)-T h e merits of locating a water well with a forked tree branch remain debatable in this village after an experience in "water witching."
Water Main Broken In Hunt
The "switch" located water all right but instead of providing an additional supply it caused some local residents to be without water for some six hours.
The drilling apparatus struck the town's principal water main.
Set Special Price For Concert Tickets
Tickets for the Kansas City Philharmonic Series are available to students at a special price of $8.66, according to Elin K. Jorgensen, associate professor of music education.
The tickets, for balcony seats, can be obtained at the Bell Music company, 925 Massachusetts.
Regular prices for such tickets run upward from $13.50," Professor Jorgensen said. The series starts Tuesday and Wednesday in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
The state of Washington has 88 general hospitals.
Washington, D.C.—(U.P.)—Panmunjom, probable new site of the Korean truce talks, is a tiny village on the main road from Seoul to Kaesong.
It is scarcely more than a huddle of thatched houses on the bank of a muddy stream.
The road jumps the stream at Panmunjom. Hills rise bleakly on either side of the battered, burned-out town. Once, before there was a military pontoon bridge blocking the way, log rafts floated by on their journey from the mountains to the wide meeting point of the Han and Imjin rivers farther south.
Panmunjom Has A Colorful History
Even the town's name is obscure, being translated variously as "the gateway of the rafts," or "the inn with the wooden door." Were it not for the Korean war, Panmunjom might be any one of the thousands of valley villages in the "Land of the Morning Calm."
Yet now the eyes of the world are turned upon this country hamlet where truce talks between United Nations and Communist leaders may be renewed.
S six miles due west is Kaesong, where on Aug. 23 the talks broke down. Seoul is about 40 road miles southeast. Between the two lie some of the richest richelands of western Korea, where men and oxen work in mud-soup fields below a skyline of jagged hills.
Just to the west of Pammunjom is the edge of the summer neutral zone extending five miles around Kaesong. Three miles to the north is the fateful 38th parallel.
In the countryside around Panmunjom, dotting the general Kaesong region, are the remains of many monasteries and temples dating from medieval times.
Kaesong was Korea's capital, the center of its power and culture under the Koryo, or Wang, dynasty, from the early 900's A.D. until the
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late 1300's. Then the city was called Songdo.
The Koryo state, which gave Korea its modern name, was dedicated to peaceful Buddhism and Chinese precepts of scholarship. Soldiers dropped to a social position one step above beggars.
To protect themselves against the savage Kitan people across the Yalu River to the Koryo kings built a great wall 25 feet high across the entire peninsula, from the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan.
The wall was inadequate. In 1231, the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan swarmed across the Yalu. His Mongols swept south to Songdo, and the Korean king fled to an island bastion at the mouth of the Han River.
Invasion has followed invasion throughout Korean history. Seven centuries after the Mongols, Japanese overlords came to the same rocky hills overlooking Kaesong. They renamed the city Kaijo, meaning "the opening of the castle or fortress."
On the road to the west was Pamunjom, "gateway of the rafts," the small village destined to hold the world's hope for Korean peace.
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