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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 14, 1951
Flute Major To Give Recital 8 p.m. Tuesday
Joan Templar, flutist, will play her senior recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Strong auditorium. She is the first student to graduate from the University with a major in flute.
The program will consist of Sonata No. 2 in E flat major (Bach)
JOAN TEMPLAR
Three Pictures (Goossens); Syrinx (Debussy); Cantabile et Presto (Enesco), and Serenade in D Major, onus 25 (Beethoven).
Miss Templar was graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor of arts degree in 1949. She was a member of the University concert band and several small ensemble groups. She was affiliated with Phi Lambda Theta, national education sorority; Alpha Phi, social sorority; Kappa Phi, Methodist sorority; and Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music sorority.
She spent four years at the National Music camp at Camp Interlochen, Mich., three years in the high school division and one year as a scholarship student in the college division.
Miss Templar entered KU. last fall to work for a bachelor of music degree with a major in flute under Marcus Hahn, instructor in music education. She has been accepted by the Eastman School of Music for graduate work beginning next fall.
She will be assisted in the final number of her program by Karel Blaas, violist, and Fred Palmer, violinist. Delores Wunsch, fine arts junior, will be her accompanist.
Maragon Soon To Be Jailed
Washington—(U.P.) The supreme court refused today to review the perjury conviction of John Maragon, former White house hanger-on, for lying to senate "five percent" investigators in 1949.
This means that Maragon soon must start serving his sentence—as soon as word of the high court's action is relayed to federal district court here. He was sentenced to eight to 24 months, but has been free on $5,000 bond for more than a year while his case was being appealed.
The senators were investigating Washington agents who charge fees, usually five per cent, for their services in getting government contracts for manufacturers.
Maragon, one-time Kansas City shoeshine boy who became a manabout-Washington, was said to have used his connection with Maj. Gen Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, to advance his own five percenter activities.
Vaughn had testified at the senate inquiry that Maragon would have to be "deloused" before he would be welcomed around the White house again.
Noted Architect To Talk At 3 p.m.
Henry S, Churchill, architect and city planner, will lecture at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium on "Some Implications of Redevelopment and Dispersion."
During the day, Mr. Churchill has been working with students in architecture on problems involved in their work.
Kansas Farmers To Sign For Rain
Guymon, Okla. (U.P.)—A contract aimed at providing artificial rain for 12 million great plains acres in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas was in the making today.
Farmers of those states expected to sign contracts tomorrow with rainmaker Irving Krick, Denver meteorologist who hopes to pelt the one-time dust bowl area with a minimum of 30 inches of rainfall this year. Normal precipitation averages 18 inches.
Plans called for contracts to cover nine counties in Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle and a large area of western Kansas. Costs to farmers will average three cents an acre. Krick agreed to set his rain machines to work when half of an estimated $360,000 contract price has been raised.
"We don't propose to make it rain on more days than it normally would." Krick said, "but we propose to make it rain more on those lays."
Tuesday's Research Talk Is Presented Today
Illness in the family of Dr. E. A. Sharp caused a last-minute change in the time of his lecture entitled, "Patterns for Research." Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the talk was given at 11 a.m. today.
An effort was made to notify interested persons of the change in time.
New Members Of Disciplinary Group Named
Five students have been appointed to serve for one year on the University disciplinary committee. They are Beverly Jennings and Warren Andreas, College juniors; Helen Maduros, education junior; Damon Simpson, engineering junior; and Jack Jevons, College sophomore.
Alternates are Emalene Gooch, College junior, and Robert Kipp, engineering junior.
Members are appointed under All Student Council rules by three A.S.C. members, a representative from Sachem and from Mortar Board, and two faculty advisors to the A.S.C.
The disciplinary committee has jurisdiction over all the violations of A.S.C. or other University rules which do not come under Student court jurisdiction. It also handles appeals from the Student court.
Kansas Doctors To Topeka Meet
Topeka —(U.P.)— A thousand Kansas doctors came to Topeka today for their 92nd annual convention, but pars rather than pills were the prime subject of the moment.
The "play day" that opened the convention found heaviest attention on the Kansas medical golf association annual tournament at White Lakes with Dr. H. Lee Barry of Wichita the defending champion.
Also competing was the man who has won the championship most often, Dr. John L. Lattimore of Topeka who emerged the winner six times.
Snake Steak And Turtle Soup Eaters Run Afoul State Law
Defending titlist in the skeet shoot is Dr. George Morrison of Wichita, and at trap Dr. J. L. Jensen of Colbv.
By RICHARD TATUM
If you like turtle soup, be sure to eat it in private. Because of turtle soup are breaking the law in Kansas.
And persons who insist on eating rattlesnake steaks, a repast enjoyed by some brave souls in the western part of the state, are also breaking the law.
But both the turtle soup lovers and rattlesnake steak eaters have a legal loophole through which they may pursue their reptilian cuisine. They may eat all of what ever they want of turtles and snakes if they do so privately.
"It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit in a public way, within the state of Kansas, of any sort of exhibition that consists of eating or pretending to eat snakes, lizards,
Why is eating turtle soup against the law? It's only a legal technicality but Kansas Statute 21-2426 says:
Ignoring the word about snakes, and excluding lizards, scorpions, centipedes, and tarantulas, and even goldfish which are said to be gulped in sorority initiation), Kansas, turtle soup sippers still have to contend with the "other reptiles" phrase.
Another statute says that persons violating this act shall be fined and confined in the county jail.
Stephens Will Head Newly Formed Honorary Electrical Engineering Group
scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas, and other reptiles."
According to several well worm Webster's dictionaries and a freshman general biology text, turtles are of the species reptiliaa. Therefore, those eating turtle soup in public are violating a Kansas statute.
Charles Stephens, engineering junior, was chosen president of the society. Other officers are Duane Dunwoodie, vice-president; J. Robert Ashley, secretary; Myron Click, treasurer; and Dale Luthye, corresponding secretary. William Smith, associate professor of electrical engineering, was chosen advisor.
An honorary electrical engineering society was organized Wednesday night with the adoption of a constitution by 22 charter members.
The new society, Eta Eta Kappa, will seek affiliation with Eta Kappa Nu, national honorary electrical engineering fraternity.
Qualifications for admittance to Eta Eta Kappa are that members be
in the upper fourth of the junior class or the upper third of the senior class.
Other charter members are Eugene Anderson, Stacy Balafas, James Carothers, Rex Conrad, Erwin David, William H. Himes, William L. Himes, Jack Long, Luiz Machado, David Schrader, Eugene Searl, Robert T. Smith, Edwin Stimpson, William Switzer, Ed Ward, Robert Watson, and Earl Windisch.
World Wide News
UN Asks Arms Embargo On Communist China
United Nations, N.Y. (U.P.)—The United Nations special committee on Korean sanctions today recommended a tight strategic embargo on arm shipments to Communist China.
Price Ceilings On Beef Today
On the average the prices ought to be about what the housewife has been paying since January, the Office of Price Stabilization said. But by Oct. 1, it said, meat controls are expected to roll back beef cut prices by about 10 cents a pound.
Washington (U.P.)—All beef sold in all retail stores across the nation under fixed dollars-and-cents price ceilings today.
The special group, known as the additional measures committee voted 10 to 10 with Egypt abstaining to recommend the embargo
Starting today beef must be displayed in different trays according to quality—choice, good, commercial and utility. The ceiling prices go into effect immediately but retailers have until June 4 to post them where all customers can see.
This is the first time dollars-and-cents ceilings have been placed on any major consumer item since World War II controls ended. The ceilings vary according to:
1. Quantity and size of store.
2. Size of store. There are three classes, depending on volume of business.
3. The area of the country the store is located in. Some areas produce more meat than others.
All small independent grocers in the same part of the country, for instance, must observe the same ceiling price for the same cut of beef of the same quality. This also goes for medium-sized stores, chain stores, supermarkets and the like.
Smoking Costs May Increase
Washington (U.P.)—The men who draft the tax laws eyed the cigarette smoker today as a good bet for a soft touch.
Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder has asked members of the House ways and means committee to boost the tax on cigarets from the present 7 to 10 cents a pack. He said this increase, coupled with increases in taxes on cigars, would yield the government $525,000,000 more revenue a year.
Committee members apparently were not prepared to go as far as Snyder recommended. But it appeared possible they would vote an increase of 9 cents a pack, provided they could settle the dispute over whether the increase should apply to "economy" brands of cigarettes.
Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La.), contended that cigarettes which retail for less than 15 cents a pack should not be covered in the proposed increase. He said it should apply only to the more popular brands which sell for more than 15 cents.
Committee Chairman Robert L. Doughton, from the tobacco-pro-
producing state of North Carolina,
didn't agree. He argued that the taxes should be increased on none or all.
It also has tentatively okayed a $250,000,000 a year increase in the excise tax on liquor and beer. The tax on liquor would be increased from $9 to $10.50 per 100 proof gallon, and the tax on beer from $8 to $9 a barrel. This would amount to an increase of 30 cents a fifth on 100 proof whisky, and possibly a one-cent increase per bottle on beer.
The committee already has tentatively approved proposals to increase personal income taxes by $2,900,000,000 a year, and corporation income taxes by $2,080,000,000 a year.
The measure will be sent to the general assembly, probably later this week, and it was expected to pass the World Parliament by an overwhelming majority. However, sharp debate was expected.
Vahmoud Fawzi Bey of Egypt, whose vote prevented a unanimous decision by the 12-nation committee, told reporters later that he had abstained because "I don't see how this action will help prevent World War II."
The measure recommends that all countries "apply an embargo on the shipment to areas under the control of the central peoples' government of the Peoples' Republic of China and of the North Korean authorities of arms, ammunition and implements of war, atomic energy materials, petroleum, and items useful in the production of arms, ammunition and implements of war."
But Ambassador Ernest A. Gross, speaking for the United States, told the committee that he believed a worldwide strategic embargo against the Communist forces in the Far East would strengthen the hand of the U.N.
More Reds In Far East
Washington (U.P.)—Defense Secretary George C. Marshall testified today that Russia has made a "sizeable increase" in her Far Eastern garrisons since last December.
Quiet Returns To Panama
Testifying for the seventh day before Senate Armed Services Foreign Relations committee in investigating the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Marshall made the statement to explain again why he fears the possibility of Soviet intervention in an expanded Far Eastern war.
Panama City, Panama (U.P.)—Quiet returned to Panama today under a new seven-party coalition government headed by Pres. Alcibiades Arosemena.
The government set up headquarters at the foreign ministry building because the presidential palace was so badly shot up in last week's battles that it required extensive repairs. Fifteen persons were killed and 184 wounded in the fighting.
Tanker, Seaplane Crash
Norfolk, Va. (U.P.) — A tanker and a navy seaplae tender slammed together and erupted in flames a few miles off Cape Henry in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay today.
Dispatches from rescue ships at the scene said "all survivors are clear of the water." The tanker was identified in a dispatch from the Navy destroyer Thuben as the "Thomas Nancy" and the seaplane tender as the "Vacour."
Iranian Leader Guards Life
Tehran, Iran (U.P.)—Premier Mohammed Mossadegh barricaded himself behind the thick walls of the Majlis (parliament) building today in fear of assassination. The frightened, 69-year-old leader, subject to frequent fainting spells, said he would remain in the heavily guarded building until the nation's oil industry has been taken over from the British-controlled Anglo-Iraniz company.
Tax Increase Voted
Washington (U.P.)—The House Ways and Means committee voted tentatively today to increase the excise taxes on cigarettes, automobiles and gasoline by more than $500 million a year.