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Topeka, Ks.
48th Year No.141 Monday, May 7, 1951 Lawrence, Kansas
KU To Defend Its Application For TV Channel, Malott Says
The University will defend with all means at its disposal its application to the Federal Communication commission for the use of television channel 11, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said last week.
That channel was recently reserved for non-commercial use in Lawrence by the F.C.C.
Radio Stations KCMO, WHB, and KMBC of Kansas City, Mo., are seeking to have channel 11 transferred to commercial use by Kansas City. The city council of Kansas City also has petitioned the F.C.C. in favor of the proposal.
"We are shocked that the Kansas City stations should have taken this action without consulting with us on the University's plans for use of this channel. They are making arbitrary assumptions in alleging that the channel cannot be used here," Chancellor Malott said.
"The Federal Communications commission recognized that education TV stations can render a distinctive service and wisely reserved specific channels for institutions of higher learning and public school systems.
"Acting on that principle, the commission allocated channel 11 for non-commercial use in Lawrence. On April 15 the University filed an official declaration of intention to apply for that channel. The joint committee on educational TV, which represents the various educational associations, is presenting that to the F.C.C."
The declaration of intention is a preliminary statement stating that the University is interested in the channel and willing to make the necessary engineering surveys for formal application for use of the channel.
The Kansas Board of Regents at its April meeting authorized K.U. to file the formal application with the F.C.C. The survey is nearing completion, and the final application is on the way to the F.C.C.
One argument for conversion of the channel is that K.U. is unable to make use of it and it might better be used commercially. To this Chancellor Malot replied
"The 1951 legislature did not appropriate specific funds for an education TV station, but the University has other sources of funds, such as gifts and endowments, which last year were more than a million dollars."
The Federal Communications commission recognizes that educational institutions might not be able to take immediate advantage of the reserved channels. Accordingly, it has placed no deadline on final applications from the schools.
However, the chancellor said that time sharing arrangements are rarely satisfactory for either the commercial station or the school.
Chancellor Malott expressed appreciation that the Kansas City stations offered to make free time available for K.U. educational programs
"The economics of commercial operation naturally pre-empt the most desirable listening hours for sponsored programs. No one can be blamed for this, but those same periods are also the most effective for educational programs."
Engineering studies indicate a KU, television station could provide efficient reception for the greater Kansas City area. It also could extend satisfactory coverage of the rapidly growing Topeka area and many other parts of eastern Kansas that cannot be reached by TV originating in Kansas City.
Beneke Dance Is Tuesday Night
There are a limited number of tickets left for the Tex Beneke dance to be held from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight Tuesday in Hoch auditorium. Tickets in organized houses will be picked up tonight. Campus sales will continue through Tuesday in the alumni office, Union lounge, and in front of Watson library. Tickets are $1.50 a person, tax included, and $1 a person for spectator seats, tax included.
Brahms' Best Critic Says
Bv STANFORD F. LFHMBERG
Brahms' "Nanie" was the standout in Sunday afternoon's concert by the University chorus and Symphony orchestra, first in the campus music week programs.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts directed the chorus and orchestra in a moving performance of the funeral ode, a beautiful work woven of rich harmonies.
Departing from the precedent of presenting one large choral work, the chorus and orchestra this year gave three shorter compositions. Flanking the Brahms elegy were Bach's "Cantata 140" and Howard Hanson's "Lament for Beowulf."
The Bach cantata, "Sleepers Awake," is based on the Biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
Devona Doxie (Mrs. Raymond Eastwood), soprano; Reinhole Schmidt, bass; and Joseph Wilkins, tenor, were soloists and did full justice to the glories of the music. The chorus lacked conviction in the opening choral fantasia but sang the concluding choreal with force and dynamic variety.
Instrumental obbligatos were played by Fred Palmer, violinist, and Edith Nichols, oboist.
WEATHER
"Lament for Beowulf" by Howard Hanson, contemporary American composer, is a wild work which paints bleak scenes of savagery and mourning. It suffers from having too many climaxes and a weak ending. The text is inherently unmusical. Dean Gorton's musicians brought out the moments of genius in the composition.
The honor is awarded each semester by the faculty of the geology department to a senior or graduate student in the department, on the basis of the student's compatibility, effort, interest in geology, grades, research work, and co-operation with and leadership among other students. Davis will receive a certificate, and his name will be inscribed in silver on the Erasmus Haworth plaque in the main hall of Lindley.
Stanley Davis, graduate student,
has won the Erasmus Haworth
award for outstanding work in the
geology department this semester.
Kansas–Fair tonight and Tuesday,
Warmer west tonight and over state
Tuesday. Low tonight 40-45 degrees;
high Tuesday 75-85 degrees.
Haworth Award Given To Graduate Student
Noted Violinist To Give Recital In Strong At 8
Miss Frances Magnes, violinist will present a recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Strong auditorium. Free tickets must be obtained in the School of Fine Arts office before the concert.
The program follows: "Sonatine"
in D Major, Opus 137, No. 1 (Schu-
man), Minor, Opus 108
(Brabms) "Sonatina" (Copland),
"Zygane" (Ravel).
David Garvey will be the accompanist for the program, which is another event in Music week being given by the School of Fine Arts.
Miss Magnes' first major public appearance was with the Cleveland orchestra when she was 14 years old. While studying in France she also gave concerts. She later toured two seasons as soloist with the Adolf Busch symphony.
Since making her New York debut in Carnegie hall Miss Magnes has played throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.
Tuesday night's concert will be given by the Little Symphony orchestra, directed by Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts. Tickets are free, but must be obtained in advance at the Fine Arts office. The concert will be at 8 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
The program Wednesday night will be presented by the faculty chamber music group, featuring the University string quartet and the University trio. The program will be held in Strong auditorium and is free.
Miss Rise Stevens, Metropolitan opera star, will sing at 8:20 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium. Students will be admitted by their I.D. cards as this is an event of the University concert course.
During this week various programs will be presented for Lawrence clubs. In addition a series of broadcasts over KFKU have been arranged.
The Lawrence Public schools will present the last concert of Music week at 8 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium.
Twenty of the 22 graduating pharmacy seniors will take the state board examinations in June.
This is the first year that pharmacy seniors will be allowed to take the theory section of the examination without first taking the practical section. The practical test cannot be taken until the candidate has had a year of experience.
20 To Take June State Pharmacy Exam
Graduation Fees Are Due May 14
This is the second largest group from the University to take the state board examinations.
Persons to be graduated in June must pay the commencement fee by Monday, May 14. The fee is $12 for any student receiving his first degree from K.U. The fee for any subsequent degree is $10. Payment should be made to the business office, 121 Strong hall.
Marshall Says Mac Risks World War III
Washington (U.P.)—Defense Secretary George C. Marshall said today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's proposed policies would risk "an all-out war with the Soviet Union" and a smash-up of the coalition of free nations against Communism.
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the 70-year-old soldier stated told senators investigating MacArthur's dismissal as Far Eastern commander that he found his role before them "very distressing." But distressed or not, Marshall then proceeded:
"General MacArthur," he said, "would have us, on our own initiative, carry the conflict beyond Korea against the mainland of Communist China, both from the sea and from the air.
"He would have us accept the risk of involvement not only in an extension of the war with Red China, but in all-out war with the Soviet Union.
"He would have us do this even at the expense of losing our allies and wrecking the coalition of free peoples throughout the world.
There is nothing new about a theater commander, as MarArthur was, holding divergent views from his superiors responsible for "global" strategy, Marshall said.
"He would have us do this even though the effect of such action might expose Western Europe to attack by millions of Soviet Troops poised in Middle and Eastern Europe."
"What is new, and what has brought about the necessity for General MacArthur's removal," he said, "is the wholly unprecedented situation of a local theater commander publicly expressing his displeasure at and his disagreement with the foreign and military policy of the United States.
"It became apparent that General MacArthur had grown so far out of sympathy with the established policies of the United States that there was grave doubt as to whether he could any longer be permitted to exercise the authority in making decisions that normal command functions would assign to a theater commander. In this situation, there was no other recourse but to relieve him."
Marshall in effect charged that MacArthur in his three days of testimony last week did not tell the whole truth when he charged that the joint chiefs of staff—and MacArthur—were twice overruled on high policy matters.
MacArthur testified that somebody—he assumed it was Marshall or President Truman—vetoed a joint chiefs' proposal of Jan. 12 for more aggressive war against Communist China. This plan called for use of Chinese Nationalist troops, a thorough blockade of the China mainland and air and sea reconnaissance of Manchuria and the Chinese coast. To that program, MacArthur added bombing of bases in China.
He also accused Marshall of over-ruling a joint chiefs' recommendation that the fate of Formosa and the issue of a United Nations seat for Communist China be barred from any discussion of a Korean armistice.
As for the Jan. 12 proposals, Marshall said they constituted a merely "tentative" course of action to be followed if the "very real possibility" of having to evacuate Korea "came closer to reality."
Five days after they were drafted, however, the military situation changed for the better and "it became unnecessary" to put them into effect.
"Action with respect to most of them was considered inadvisable in view of the radical change in the situation which originally had given rise to them."
"None of these proposed courses of action were vetoed or disapproved by me or by any higher authority." Marshall said.
As for MacArthur's charge that he overruled the joint chiefs on the Formosa-U.N. issues, Marshall asserted that it is the established policy of the United States "to deny
Ewert Fund Gets Big Boost At Basketball Game
Contributions to the Ronnie Ewert Scholarship fund stands at $266 after three days of collection. Fans at the varsity-alumni basketball game May 4 contributed $221.
The $3,000 fund is being collected by a special committee of the All Student council to assist in the educational expenses of Ronnie. He is the lone survivor of an auto accident in which his father, mother, and sister were killed.
Drives for money were begun over the weekend in Great Bend and other Kansas cities by Loy Kirkpatrick, College sophomore. In Great Bend, the alumni contributed $40.
Two booths will be located in the Union lobby and basement today and Tuesday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Members of the Jay Janes will take the contributions.
An appeal for donations was broadcast over radio station KLWN at 8 a.m. today by Roy Zimmerman, College sophomore.
Letters have been mailed to members of the faculty and employees of the University. Wide publicity is being given to the drive in Kansas newspapers and over the Associated Press wire services.
The scholarship fund is not related to the Ewert hospital fund drive, which is currently being held in Lawrence. The two are separate drives.
Edward Chapin, committee chairman, said: "Our greatest difficulty will be in reaching every independent student. In many instances we must ask the independent student to go to one of the collection booths to make their contributions."
Members of the special committee have been assigned to make collections at organized houses and University organizations. They are John Corporon, William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information; Mary Lou Fischer, Lawrence ministers and the Chamber of Commerce; Edward Boswell, Negro fraternities and sororities; Richard Bradley, McCook and Oread halls and the co-ops; Beverly Jennings, Associated Women students; Loy Kirkpatrick, scholarship halls; Neil McNeill, Inter-fraternity council; Roz Zimmerman and John Barber, special events
Students in unorganized houses can contribute by mail to the Ronnie Ewert Scholarship fund, journalism building.
Contributions of five dollars or more will be acknowledged in the Kansan. Those contributing include Grover C. Cobb, $10; Dr. R. C. Polson, $10; John T. Snyder, $5; John S. Morrison, $5 and Dr. David T. Loy, $10; all of Great Bend; and T. C. Ryther, superintendent of University press, $5.
Formosa to Communist China and to oppose the seating of the Communist Chinese in the United Nations."
"I am confident that the United States will continue to adhere to its present position, namely, that it will oppose any settlement of the Korean conflict which would reward the aggressor in any manner whatever, and it will oppose the attempt of any nation or regime to shoot its way into the United Nations," he said.
Let's All Give To Little Ronnie's Scholarship Fund