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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1951
House Group Okays KU Fieldhouse Bill
Topeka—(U.P)—The bill in the Kansas legislature which contains the $1,863,000 allotment for the University field house was approved late Monday by the house ways and means committee.
Stamped with the committee's oak, it will reach the house today, be debated Wednesday and probably be voted on Thursday in time for the state to accept pending fieldhouse bids by contractors who delayed their deadline for state action.
Funds for the fieldhouse are included in an administration-supported bill calling for $5,000,646 for construction at state educational institutions.
With the house of representatives approval on the bill, construction on the fieldhouse could be started immediately. Under emergency rules the bill was hurried through the senate last week in only one day. The house tabled the bill before seriously considering it.
The fifth cent gasoline tax bill
which will cost Kansas drivers $5.-
000,000 a year today was near its
first hurdle before be-
coming a law.
After an hour of debate in the senate yesterday, the measure finally was approved and was scheduled for a routine roll call vote today. The house approved the bill two weeks ago without a dissenting vote.
The measure, extolled as "must" by the governor in his message to the legislature, still faces some legal-ative wrangling before it reaches the desk of Gov. Edward F. Arm.
After final senate passage today, the bill will go back to the house for approval of senate amendments offered yesterday.
Regardless of house action the bill extending the fifth cent of the gasoline tax will retain all of the major provisions included in its original form.
These include:
1. A guarantee of $3,500,000 yearly to counties for use with federal matching funds.
2. An allotment of about $1,500,000
a year to cities and towns.
3. An authorization to counties to stockpile allocations for use with federal funds at a later date.
4. A permit to counties to use surpluses for secondary roads after matching funds have been exhausted.
Summer Jobs For Men Students
Summer employment for men students as engineering aides and traffic recorders is available through the Kansas department of civil service, T. De Witt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, announced Monday.
Applications must be sent in by Thursday. Many of the jobs do not require technical training, Dean Carr said. Minimum qualification is high school graduation. Salaries range from about $200 to $295 a month, and $7 daily travel expense is also provided.
Application blanks and information are available in 111 Marvin hall
Phi Sigma To Hear Lecture On Yeast
Members of Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, will hear Dr. M 12. Michelson of the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo. at 8 p.m. today in 417 Snow hall.
Dr. Michelson's lecture will be on the sugar sources of Ashbya gossypii, a yeast which infects cotton.
Intramural Bridge Finals
Will Be Decided Tonight
An elimination match of the top ten finalists in the intramural bridge tournament will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in the Union ballroom.
Undergo Appendectomies
The students underwent emergency appendectomies Monday night Watkins hospital. They were anley E. Pillman, business jun- and Robert E. DeVinney, edu- tion junior.
Power Failure Puts Campus In Blackout
Candles were more than ornaments Monday night during a power failure on the campus.
Electricity was off from 6:22 p.m.
to 6:39 p.m., after a jammed switch
gear shut off or a turbine-operated
machine supplying power to the
campus.
In the dark were Watkins hospital, the dressing rooms of Robinson gymnasium, Hoch auditorium where fans waited for the K.U.-Oklahoma game, the Union building were students and 40 Kansas legislators were dining, and the University operated residence halls.
Two emergency operations were performed in Watkins hospital during the power failure, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteles, director of the health service, said today. Emergency apperences were performed on Stanley B' Hallmann, business junior, and Robert E. DeVinney, education junior.
The gear could not be repaired immediately, so workmen at the University power plant switched on another generator, usually used only at peak-load periods.
APO To Sell Lost Articles
Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, will sell unclaimed articles turned in at their lost and found office during the past year at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Union lobby
The articles will include men's jackets, gloves, scarves, pencils, pens and hats. Proceeds of the sale will go to pay expenses of the organization. Annual sales are its single source of income.
"Our policy is to keep articles one year after they are turned in before selling them," John Gerdel, manager of the service, said.
Unclaimed books, he said, are sold at the end of each semester to the Student bookstore because texts become obsolete.
If a book owner claims a book that has been sold. Alpha Phil Omega remits the sale price.
House Group Starts Problem Of UMT Action
Washington (U.P.)—The House Armed Services committee, reported informally agreed on a draft of men at 18$, today tackled the problem of a Universal Military Training (U.M.T.) program after the emergency.
There was considerable sentiment among committee members for separating draft and U.M.T. into distinct bills so each could be considered alone. But one member thought it might be a good idea to forget U.M.T. now because nothing could be done about it until the Korean war is ended.
The committee also was expected to take up the related question of reserve duty for men after they complete their term of service. The defense department wants to keep men in a reserve unit for six years.
The Defense department has asked for authority to draft men for 27 months of military service at age 18, and in later years to induct 18-year-olds into a peacetime program of training only.
Members said they agreed informally at a closed-door session yesterday to set the bottom draft age at 18! and require at least six months of training before men are sent into combat. This would keep men of under 19 out of the fighting.
In a speech last night in Atlantic City, Defense Secretary George C. Marshall renewed his plea for the one-package bill.
Honors To 20 In Pharmacy
Twenty students of the School of Pharmacy are listed on the honor roll for the fall semester, Dean J. Allen Reese announced today.
Two juniors, Robert Donley of Petrolia and Harry Shultz of Wichita, made a straight A average
Seniors making the honor roll are Eugene Brockmeyer, Buckner; Mo; Jerry Rubottom, Teekaw, Kan.; Milton Rubbottom, Teekaw, and Homer Scarborough, Wichita.
Juniors listed are Lowell Macy, Vermillion, S.D.; Douglas Margreiter, Glen Elder; and Winfred McElheny, Louisburg.
Sophomores include Ray Chiles, Lawrence; Joan Headley, Salina; William Koch, Coffeyville; Joseph Meek, Hiawatha; Robert Megredy, Elk City; Robert Nicholson, Clifton; Albert Park, Jr., Kansas City, Kan; and Willis Snyder, Ottawa.
Freshmen on the honor roll are Norman Hogue, Denver; Wayne Wagers, Osawatomie; and Joseph Woods, Onaga.
UN Reports War As Inflation Cause
Lake Success, N.Y.—(U.P.)The Korean war hit the world in the midst of an economic boom and began an immediate trend toward rearmament, inflation, and declining living standards, according to the annual United Nations Economic report.
Alumni Board Holds Dinner To Plan Awards
The board of directors of the University Alumni association met Monday to discuss plans for the annual citation awards presented to outstanding alumni.
Members of the board and their wives attended the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game after a dinner at the Hawk's Nest.
They also considered membership plans for the Alumni association, operation of the alumni magazine and the method of selecting alumni officers.
The directors are Dolph Simons, '25, Lawrence; Thomas Vancleave, Jr.,'36, Kansas City, Kan.; Claude Chalfant,'27, Hutchinson; Carl Winsor,'22, Wichita; Lloyd H. Ruppenthal,'23, McPherson; and J. Wayne Mccoy.'24, Topeka.
Ray Evans, '47, Kansas City; Kan.
George Nettels, '21, Pittsburgh; Mrs.
Virginia Hutson Getto, '28, Lawrence;
Henry Bubb, '28, Topeka;
Mrs. Margaret Heizer O'Neil, '17,
Topeka; Charles Shofstall, '22, Kansas City, Mo.; Fred Ellsworth, '22, Lawrence.
YWCA Groups Are Changed
The freshmen commissions of the Young Women's Christian association have been reorganized, and are meeting each Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 4:00 p.m., and on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.
Those freshmen who missed the fireside party where reassignments were made should attend the meeting which is most convenient for them.
The commissions have been discussing "What God requires of us in higher education." This week they will talk about "What God requires of us in the church."
The commissions are under the direction of the Y.W.C.A. junior cabinet, led by Kathryn Conrad, College sophomore.
Czech Uses 'Commie Line' To Flee
By JOHN CORPORON
To leave Czechoslovakia without Communist interference, Stanislav Rejsek, soon to enroll in the Graduate school, posed as a Dutch Communist journalist in 1948 and fled to Holland.
A forged passport plus a good line about how he intended to write of beautiful Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime was sufficient to fool the border guards.
At K.U. Rejsek wants to continue his studies toward a doctor of philosophy degree. He has done three years' work at Charles University in Prague and one year in an Athens university.
Through the student provisions of the displaced persons law, Reijek has been brought to the United States by the Lawrence Plymouth Congregational church. He arrived is staying Sunday and temporarily is staying at Clayton Crosier, assistant professors of civil engineering, at 508 Judiana
Rejsek came directly to the United States from Athens, Greece, where he had been living a year. Since leaving Czechoslovakia he has visited friends—and when possible universities—in Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Entering the United States as a displaced person and not as a student, Rejsek may become a citizen in five years. After six months his residence will be established in Kansas.
Rejsek says he will sign under the Selective Service act after becoming an official resident of Kansas. He is 25 years old.
"I would not object at all to serving in the American army," he said, because Czechoslovakia was occupied all of World War II, Rejsek did him to fight. Before he left his country the government had granted him permanent leave from the army until he could finish his studies.
Men in his country are taken at 19 or 20 and usually serve two years. Draftees often work in factories when labor shortages exist, he said.
While the Czech army is well trained under the Communist government, Rejsek pointed out that the government police force amounts to another army in terms of size and close affiliation with the government.
The Czech government is in the hands of natives, Rejsek said, but they aren't much more than stooges for Moscow. The Russians left his country in 1945.
"The Russians are very clever," he said. "You cannot see direct pressure from the Russians anywhere. We didn't see Russian newspapers or hear their radio programs. Russian control has been more subtle than German control.
"Our rulers are uneducated. How could they hope to understand Marx if they can't read his works. The Russians must be giving the orders."
Reijek sees an end to the Iron Curtain only when democracy becomes more militant and can decide upon a course which would help free the Communist dominated countries.
The 392 - page document—which will be taken up at the 12th Economic and Social Council session opening today in Santiago, Chile—said: "The economic development of the underdeveloped countries remains the most important single long-run economic problem confronting the world."
The report noted that the economic effect of the Korean war was "most immediate and marked" in the United States, where "serious inflationary pressures" were generated and the possibility of curtailed civilian consumption 'oomed.
In a 10-page section on Communist China—one of the first comprehensive reports on that country's economy. U.N. economists listed significant economic improvement last year. Among them were: less inflationary pressure, increased consumer goods, larger food crops, and vast railway construction.
The report traced methods the regime uses to counter the hyper-inflation that gripped China when the Communists came to power in March, 1949. It also stressed that Peiping's announced objective is a mixed economy—part government ownership, particularly in major industrial and commercial fields, and part private enterprise.
The world in general—private enterprise and socialist countries both—enjoyed an industrial boom in the 18 months before the Korean war clouded the economic picture, the report noted. Figures on industrial output were well above those in previous years, though the world's under-developed areas failed to keep pace and, in some cases, showed production declines.
In the six months before the Korean war, the dollar deficit problem that had been a festering in the world's economy showed tremendous improvement. In the first half of 1950, the average deficit was less than two-fifths what it had been in 1949.
Unity in playing marked the performance of the Pasquier Trio from Paris Monday night. The three brothers have played together since childhood.
Pasquier Trio Has Unity In Playing
The trio, composed of a violin, viola and cello, played three numbers. Following "Dohanyani's Serenade, opus 10," the composer, Ernst von Dohanyi, was recognized
By HELEN LOU FRV
The performance was the fourth presented by the University Chamber Music series.
Chancellor Honors Four ROTC Men
Four students in army R.O.T.C. have been designated as distinguished military students by Chancellor Malott.
Col. E. F. Kumpe, professor of military science, announced their names: Jack W. Long, engineering junior; K. E. Miller, business senior; W. D. Gugler, business senior; and Bobby D. Reusser, business senior.
Chemists Interviewed Today By Mining Representative
Charles H. Lutz of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company is at the University today interviewing chemists. Those with michaelor of science, master of science and doctor of philosophy degree may see Mr. Lutz from 9 a.m. to p.m. in 214 Hall st.
Moreau Lectures in KC
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, is speaking today at the University of Kansas City School of Law. As visiting lecturer, Dean Moreau will lecture on "Law and Literature."