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STUDENT NEWSPAPER
City Managers Open Annual School Today
Four days of discussion of current economics, political and social problems began today with the start of the fourth annual city managers' school.
Twelve educators and administrators from Kansas and other states will lead a series of discussion groups. Clarence Ridley, executive director of the International City Managers association, Chicago, will hold the famous "Ridley clinic" for city managers from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday.
At 1 p.m. this afternoon, Dean T. DeWitt Carr, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, was to welcome members of the school. City manager interns will be interviewed and open house will be held at the bureau of government research in Strong annex Thursday afternoon.
A banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday. At 8 p.m. Thursday the Kansas chapter of the American Society for Public Administration will hold its first meeting since its recent organization.
The school is being sponsored by the bureau of government research and University Extension. Some of the topics of discussion will be civilian defense, the economic outlook for 1951, labor and city government, public speaking, city politics, and community planning.
Discussion leaders are Ethan P. Pullen, director of the bureau of government research; Allen Crafton, professor of speech; Hilden Gibson, professor of political science; James Leary, C.I.O. regional director, Kansas City, Mo.; Roscoe Martin, chairman of the political science department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse university.
Edwin Stene, professor of political science; Brig. Gen. C. O. Thrasher, director of civilian defense, Kansas City, Mo.; Clarence W. Tow, research director, federal reserve bank of Kansas City, Mo.; Hugo Wall, chairman of department of political science, University of Wichita; and William Wolfe, superintendent of schools, Lawrence.
Pratt Orchestra To Present Program
The Pratt High School Symphony orchestra will be the guest of the School of Fine Arts when they present a program at 3 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium.
Washington (U.P.)—Senate crime investigators, with their inquiry extended until Saturday, Sept. 1, set their sights today on illicit narcotics and organized prostitution as priority targets.
The public is invited to hear this 51-piece orchestra, directed by Loren B. Crawford.
Included in the program will be "Minuet" from Symphony No. 11, (Haydn); "Rosamunde Overture" (Schubert); "Concerto in C Minor" (Mozart); Finale from "Serenade for Strings" (Tschalkowsky); "Symphonic Excercits," (Tschalkowsky), and "Jazz Pizzicato." (Anderson), by the string section.
Beverly Scott, pianist, will be soloist with the orchestra.
But the new inquiry was not expected to provide the headlines and television thrills produced during the 11-month inquiry to date.
Crime Committee To Work To Sept.1
Class Schedule For Convo Set
Schedule for morning classes for the Honors convocation Thursday is as follows:
Eight o'clock classes will meet from 8 to 8:30 a.m.
Nine o'clock classes will meet from 8:40 to 9:10 a.m.
Convocation will be from 9:20 to 10:30 a.m.
Ten o'clock classes will meet from 10:40 to 11:10 a.m.
Eleven o'clock class will meet from 11:20 to 11:50 a.m.
Afternoon classes will meet at the usual times.
British General To Speak Today
British General Sir William Morgan will speak on "Britain's Defense Policy" at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
General Morgan was the allied commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean during the latter part of World War II. He accepted the German surrender in Italy.
After his speech he will act as honorary reviewer officer for a dress parade of the University Army, Navy, and Air Force R.O.T.C. units at 4 p.m. About 900 men will take part in the parade on the east intramural grounds. The K.U. band and the Air Force R.O.T.C. drum and bugle corps will take part in the parade, which is open to the public.
General Morgan, former chairman of the British staff mission in Washington, will be accompanied to Lawrence by Capt. H. Cotton Minchin, British consul in Kansas City, Mo.
An inspection team from the 10th air force headquarters will also review the cadets and midshipmen. The team arrived in Lawrence Tuesday to make their annual inspection of the Air Force unit. The inspection today and Thursday will cover all phases of the Air Force training program.
TV Will Ruin Us, Prof. Says
Cambridge, Mass (U.P.)-Harrvard anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton predicted today that television will "reduce mankind to complete illiteracy plus ruin our eyes and nervous systems."
The world-famed scientist said in an interview that radio and the movies already have delivered a severe blow to human literacy and that television will provide the final stroke.
"People can't read now," the scientist complained. "Our ability to read has deteriorated just as our legs have shrunk from using mechanical transport.
A Rhodes scholar in 1910-13 and a Harvard professor since 1930, Professor Hooton is the author of several books on the study of man, including "Apes, Men and Morons" "The American Criminal" and "Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa."
Professor Hooton said he had no quarrel with television itself, as a "mechanical gadget," but with many of the programs and harmful material which stultifies its audiences.
"Already, institutions of higher education have to give special courses in order to teach their students how to read."
TV crime shows, he said, present "a correspondence course in crime—a sort of visual education in criminal procedure." He claimed that such shows "only inspire more people to do the same sort of thing."
K-State Head Will Speak For Honors Convo
Dr. James A. McCain, president of Kansas State college, will be the speaker at the 38th annual Honors convocation of the University of Kansas at 9:20 a.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium. His topic is "The Universities and Moral Responsibility." The program is open to the public.
The 42-year-old educator was born in the South and studied at Wofford college and Duke university. He earned his doctorate at Stanford university. For 12 years prior to World War II he was at Colorado A. and M. college, rising from assistant professor of English and journalism to dean. As a naval officer during the war he received a distinguished service citation for work in the Navy's personnel system.
In 1945 he was elected president of Montana State university. Besides directing an expansion to accommodate the swollen post-war student body, he gained national recognition for his pioneering in taking the university off the campus to all Montanans.
Honor guests at the convocation will be the students in the upper 10 per cent of the senior class in each of the university's schools. Their names, and those of the top student or students in the junior, sophomore, and freshman classes of the schools, will be printed in the convocation program.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will announce elections to membership in the various K.U. honor societies and several honor awards. There will be no Honor Man or Woman chosen for the year.
WAAReports Election Slate
New officers for the Women's Athletic association will be elected at its meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Robinson gymnasium.
The election slate was announced today by Nancee Bell Thompson, president. Joyce Herschell, education junior, and Darlene Schindler, education sophomore, are candidates for president. The defeated candidate will become the vice-president.
Running for business manager are Ernestine Dehlinger and Patsy Ann Landis, education junior; for point system manager, Myrna Davidson, education junior, and Mary Ann Mahoney, education freshman. Candidates for hockey manager are Chloe Warner, education junior, and Virginia Brooks, education freshman.
Candidates for secretary are Sydney Marie Ashton, education junior, and Betty Clinger, education sophomore; for treasurer, Vinita Bradshaw and Jean Micheals, education sophomores.
Candidates for basketball manager are Jane Cunningham, education sophomore, and Grace Endacott, fine arts sophomore.
On the slide for softball manager are Catherine Holloway, and Joyce Jones, education freshmen; for minor sports manager, Carolyn Crosier, College junior, and Patricia Martin, education freshman.
Running for swimming manager are Diane Walker, College sophomore, and Jerre Mueller, education sophomore; for publicity, Shirley Mickelson, College junior, and Barbara Nesch, education junior.
JAMES A. McCAIN
Speech Contest Finalists Chosen
Twelve finalists for the after-dinner speaking event of the intramural speech contest were chosen Tuesday night, out of 29 students who entered the troutys.
The final speeches will be given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Green hall. Women will speak in room 104, men in room 103.
The finalists in the men's division are Frederick Birner, College senior; Richard Reid, education junior; Charles Shrewsbury and Louis Helmreich, College sophomores; Gary Lehman and William Torres, College freshmen; Faul Coker, fine arts senior.
Women finalists are Mary Lynn Updengraft, College freshman; Patricia Salyer, education junior; Helene Austin and Barbara Sutorius, fine arts freshmen, and Marilyn Miller, College freshman.
The judges in their men's division were Richard Schiefelbusch, assistant professor of speech; Diana Sherwood, education senior; Marguerite Terry, and Kay Roberts, College freshmen.
In the women's division they were E. C. Buehler, professor of speech; David Davidson, graduate, and Cliff Ratner, College junior.
"Any of the judges will be glad to offer comments, criticisms, and suggestions to any of the contestants in preparation for the finals Thursday night," William Conboy, instructor in speech, said today.
Honors Awarded In Latin, Greek
Two awards, one newly established, have been given by the department of Latin and Greek this spring.
The winners, announced by R. L. Lind, chairman of the department, were William Myers Carr, College freshman, and Lois Beth, College senior.
Carr won the Sterling-Walker Greek prize for proficiency in Greek for two semesters. This award was established in the memory of Miles Sterling and A. T. Walker, former professors of Greek at the University, and will be given every year.
Miss Beth won the Hannah Oliver Latin prize, which is awarded annually to the student who does the best work for at least two semesters in Latin courses.
WEATHER
KANSAS: Clearing this afternoon, fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight. Low middle 30's West and North Central, 38-42 degrees elsewhere; warmer Thursday afternoon. High 70-72 degrees.
UN Forces Stop Reds And Begin Counter Attack
Tokyo (U.P.)-Lt. Gen. James A.
Van Fleet hurled his United Nations army into a counter-attack against the Chinese Communist breakthrough in central Korea Wednesday. He issued an order of the day predicting victory.
United Nations troops sealed off the breakthrough while armored reinforcements began hacking at its flanks in a pinch-off operation reminiscent of the battle of the bulge in World War II.
But the Reds extended their three-day-old counter-offensive with a new two-pronged drive on the western front north of Seoul.
One thin line of U.N. infantry holding a fir-clad ridge near Chun-chon stopped the Red advance 11 to 12 miles south of the 38th parallel.
United Nations troops there broke off contact and fell back to new defensive positions, linking up in a straight line with hard-fighting doughboys on the central front.
The U.S. army-operated Chosun hotel in Seoul closed only seven days after its reopening and an officer hinted the South Korean capital might again be abandoned to the Reds.
"We are prepared to give up a lot more ground if we have to" the officer said.
Van Fleet assured his troops, in the first order of the day ever issued by a United Nations commander in Korea, that they were superior to the enemy in everything except numbers.
But on the western front, the Reds still were pouring over the ridges and roads toward Uijongbu, only 11 miles north of Seoul.
The withdrawal left a vacuum between the lines above Seoul through which the Chinese Communist masses must pass to reach the new allied line.
...Officers said this vacuum would be a killing ground for U.N. planes and artillery. Big guns all across the flaming front were roaring around the clock pumping 2,000 shells an hour into the Reds on the western front alone.
The Reds were hiding from allied planes by day and resuming their fanatical attacks after darkness. Their casualties soared toward 25,000 for the first three days.
"General Ridgway and I have complete confidence in your ultimate vite
He also reminded them of the virtue of their cause—"This renewed battle is for the preservation of life, liberty and the right of pursue happiness of all free men."
The U.N. forces broke contact with the enemy and withdrew in orderly fashion under cover of darkness, front dispatches said. The move straightened the allied line and gave U.N. guns and planes a chance to catch the advancing enemy in the pocket between.
Fleagle Starts Reform School Term
David K. Fleagle, 18-year-old former College freshman, was taken to the state reformatory at Hutchinson Tuesday.
Fleagle recently pleaded guilty to charges of robbing University fraternity and sorority houses. He was sentenced by Judge Hugh Means of the district court to five to 10 years on a second degree burglary charge plus one to five years for grand larceny.
An application for parole was denied by Judge Means.