1951
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANGAN
Lindley Defends Korean Invasion
If the United Nations had not checked the invasion in Korea, there would have been a "cave-in" in the free world at several points. Ernest K. Lindley, chief of Newsweek's Washington news bureau, told an all-student convocation today.
The convocation was the second annual William Allen White lecture sponsored by the William Allen White Foundation. The Foundation is meeting on the campus today.
Mr. Lindley said he had known William Allen White, and had gotten a recommendation from him to get into metropolitan journalism.
He said Mr. White described him as a man who "has long legs and is willing to use them" in a letter of recommendation to the New York World.
These mistakes, he said, have been costly to the United States. However, "despite complacency and lethargy, we have not been inactive or ineffective in these postwar years."
Saturday, Feb. 10. is the anniversary of Mr. White's birth.
Mr. Lindley pointed out the many errors that were made in trusting the Kremlin with contracts concerning Poland and China.
postwar years.
Mr. Linder mentioned the dislaboration of the Russians from Iran, where they were trying to inch their way towards the immense oil reserves of the Middle East. The U.S. has helped stop the Communist thrust to the doorway to Africa through Greece and Turkey, he said.
Further steps taken by the U.S. in counter-acting Communism mentioned by Mr. Lindley include the aid given in saving Western Europe from Communist infiltration and the improvising of the airlift in Berlin when the Kremlin tried to push the West out.
Mr. Lindley stated that, along with employing our economic strength to good advantage, we have scrupulously maintained our moral position. By turning our cheeks we have shown the rest of
the free world that the aims of the Kremlin are as evil as we know them to be.
Speaking of the possibilities of another war in the future, Mr. Lindley said, "It is hard to believe that the Politburo will deliberately choose a great war, unless its defenses against atom bomb carriers are better than we think."
Mr. Lindley said that he could not see how the Kremlin could win another world war until it is able to knock out the United States. He said he believes that Russia certainly does not have enough bombs at present to do that. He believes that Russia has about 25 atom bombs.
On the possibility of all-out aggression in 1951, Mr. Lindley pointed out that Stalin has worked for years in building a great empire and he probably wouldn't want to risk it all on one throw of the dice.
However, the columnist pointed out, "The Kremlin may decide that 1951 affords them their last chance for a long time to come.
The iron curtain poses many problems, he pointed out. We cannot be aware of the weaknesses that exist in the satellite countries. Many of the people are unwilling prisoners.
prisoners.
While it is questionable if these people would protect their prison it is also questionable if they could be trusted outside the wall, Mr. Lindley said.
Lishey.
The world war come, the United States will be better prepared for it because of the Korean war, he maintained. "It may well be that the Korean aggression and our reaction to it have saved our necks."
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Chicago (U.P.)—Chicago's "deep freeze" woman made a remarkable fight for survival and appeared to be gaining strength today, 24 hours after she was found with her body temperature down to at least 64 degrees.
'Deep Freeze' Woman Shows Improvement
Surprised doctors watched the case closely as Mrs. Dorothy Mae Stevens 23, responded to administration of plasma and cortisone. She was brought into Michael Reese hospital yesterday after she had been found in an alley virtually frozen stiff. Policemen who found her described her as "stiff like rigor mortis."
After doctors had thawed her out at room temperature, her body temperature rose steadily last night to the normal 98.6 degrees and climbed today to 101. A search of medical records showed no case in which a human being survived after body temperature dropped below 68 degrees, doctors said. It is rare for anyone to survive with the temperature below 80 or 85 degrees.
below 80 or above.
Mrs. Stevans, a negro, had a pulse of 12 per minute when she entered the hospital at 8:15 a.m. yesterday. It was 100 today. Her blood pressure virtually at zero yesterday, was near normal today. She recovered consciousness last night and gasped to
Even if their patient survived, they feared they would be forced to amputate some or all of her limbs, which turned a deep black from exposure to 11-degree -below -zero temperatures. They said it would take "three or four days" to determine whether amputations would be necessary.
Mrs. Stevens apparently had lain in an alley all Wednesday night in temperatures that reached 11 degrees below zero. Police said she apparently had fallen in a drunken stupor.
Schools Short Of Needs
a nurse: "My hands and feet are cold."
More than 9,000 children in Kansas are known to be "exceptional" children whose needs are over and beyond what they can get in an average schoolroom, Dr. L. B. Sipple, director of Special Education in Kansas, told the Speech Therapy seminar Thursday afternoon at the Pine room of the Union.
She was fed warm liquids occasionally. Doctors said they could not say whether she would survive.
The effect of cortisone, a new drug, remained to be determined. Cortisone has proved effective in overcoming shock in severe burn cases, doctors said, and they hoped it would as successfully "fortify the adrenal functions" in severe frost-bite.
a meeting in the Pine room of the "exceptional"
The number of "exceptional" children reported to the division of Special Education includes gifted as well as retarded or physically handicapped children. According to Dr. Sipple, those reported are only the obvious cases. Based on national percentages, Kansas has an estimated 55,208 exceptional children.
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Dr. Sipple said the demand is developing for speech correctionists in schools.
"There is hardly a town in Kansas that wouldn't find enough children to justify having a speech correctionist," he said.
Dr. Siphe is the former dean of the School of Education at Wichita university.
The Speech Therapy seminar is made up of students and faculty members interested in speech correction.
Topeka-(U,P)-In their biggest, busiest session of the 1951 state legislature, Kansas legislators yesterday launched the second largest education building program in history, approved the $5,000,000 a year fifth-cent gasoline tax and slapped down an attempt to revamp the state's primary election system.
The senate ways and means committee introduced a $5,006,646 building bill for state institutions of higher learning. This measure would provide $2,875,346 during the next two fiscal years for supplemental allocations for buildings already planned and $2,131,300 more for new construction.
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Lawrence, Kansas
Bill Champion, business senior is the producer of the Rock Chalk Revue and may be contacted by phone at 552.
Talent Needed For Rock Chalk Revue
Talent is needed for between skit entertainment at the Rock Chalk Revue, March 9 and 10. Any type of entertainment lasting three to five minutes is desired.
School Program Is Launched
If passed, the measure would permit an immediate start on the University of Kansas' $2,508,167 field house to seat 16,000 persons at indoor athletic events.
Sen. George K. Melvin's controversial bill to combine the old convention system with the present-day party primaries was beaten on final rollcall, 23-13.
Tryouts for two one-act plays,
"The Monkey's Paw," and "Welsh Honeymoon," will be concluded in the basement of Green hall from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today. Tryouts are open to anyone interested Mr. Tom Shay, instructor in speech, is director.
The house passed the fifth cent gasoline tax revenue bill unanimously, 114 to 0. Gov. Edward F. Arn strongly supported the measure as a vital money-raising part of the long-range state highway improvement program. Senate approval next week appeared a certainty.
A bill was introduced into the senate to revise the state income tax law to produce more revenue from the upper brackets. Sen. George Templar, R., Arkansas City, the author, said the measure would place in state coffers 'at least' $1,500, 000 more revenue annually.
A short postgraduate course of Natural Gas Engineering lectures will be presented March 26-27 at the University. It will be sponsored by the department of petroleum engineering, Dr. C. F. Weinaugh, department chairman, said today.
Last Day For Play Tryouts
Engineering Talks To Start March 26
The lectures will be directed toward petroleum engineers who are engaged in the production and transportation of natural gas in the Mid-Continent area. Rapidly increasing quantities of natural gas are being exported to the industrial north and east, which makes the handling of natural gas a foundation stone in the nation's economy, Dr. Weinaug said.
Dr. Donald L. Katz, a teacher at the University of Michigan and one of the nation's authorities on natural gas engineering, will deliver the lectures.
Cooperating agencies for the lectures are the State Board of Health, the State Geological Survey, the Kansas section of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and K.U. Extension.
US Troops Close Pincers On Reds
Tokyo (U.P.)—Tank-led American troops smashed to the Han river southeast of Seoul today and began closing a pincers around 20,000 Communists caught in a 30-square-mile pocket below the river.
The right arm of the pincers hit the Han river three and a half miles southeast of Seoul. Ten miles west, another tank task force swept within one mile of Seoul's big industrial suburb of Yongdungpo.
Marvin Tells New Journalism Building Plans
Plans for the new journalism building at the University were discussed by Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, at a meeting of the William Allen White foundation this morning. Dean Marvin is director of the foundation.
Ernest K. Lindley, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine and one of the foundation trustees, attended the meeting. Alvin McCoy, Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City Star and vice-president of the foundation, presided. John P. Harris, editor and publisher of the Hutchinson News-Herald, who is the foundation president is in Europe.
This was one of the two annual meetings held by the foundation. The other meeting, a breakfast in Washington, D.C., late in April, will coincide with the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Other trustees that attended this morning's meeting were Karl Koerer, vice president and general manager of station KMBC; Clyde Reed, Jr., publisher of the Parsons Sun; W. T. Beck, state senator and for many years editor and publisher of the Holton Recorder.
Dwight Payton, editor and publisher of the Overbrook Citizen; Eugene Lowther, business manager of the Emporia Gazette; Daniel R. Anthony III, editor and publisher of the Leavenworth Times; John Redmond, editor and publisher of the Burlington Republican; and Karl Klooz, secretary of the foundation
Other trustees who arrived later are Chancellor Deane W. Malott; Martin Frushman, Dallas, Texas; businessman; F. W. Brinkerhoff, editor and manager of the Pittsburg Headlight and Sun; and W. A. Bailey, general manager of the Kansas City Kansan.
Jay Janes Elect;
Plan A Rush Tea
Chloe Warner, education junior,
was elected treasurer of Jay Janes
Wednesday, to replace Virginia
Copedge, 51.
Caroline Crosier, College junior,
and Myrna Lynch, fine arts senior,
were elected notifications chairmen.
They replace Peggy Circle,
and Georgia Ginther, education seniors.
The Jay Janes rush tea will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the Kansas room of the Union. Houses with vacancies in Jay Janes include: Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Gamma, ChI Omega, and Alpha Phi sororities; and Templin, Carruth, and Kanza halls.
To qualify students must have a one-point grade average and be sophomores.
Independent women not living in organized houses are invited to the tea.
Other powerful Allied forces in the mountains six miles south of the Han began plunging downhill toward the river, rolling up the Reds in a climatic phase of the five-day-old Allied "meat-grinder" offensive.
The pincers assault tightened the jaws of an 8th Army death trap around some 20,000 battered Chinese and Korean Reds on the south bank of the Han—all that's left of a 100,000-man Communist army which tried to stem the Allied advance. The Communists fled along a broad front south and southwest of Seoul. Whole carlofs of abandoned enemy equipment fell into American hands.
The U.S. 3rd Division's Task Force Myers radioed at 5:15 p.m. (3:15 a.m. E.S.T.) that it had reached the south bank of the Han at Sokchon, an escape ferry point four and one-half miles southeast of Seoul, without a fight.
The two top teams in the recent intramural bridge tournament will represent the University of Kansas at the Big Seven bridge tournament here on April 5 and 6.
"We are getting ready to wash our feet in the Han," Capt. Arthur W. Myers of Lander, Wyo., the task force commander, jubilantly reported from his lead tank. His tanks, anti-aircraft trucks and armored troops carriers had advanced more than four miles in one hour.
At the same time, U.S. 25th Division tank and infantry forces pulled out of the mountain country southwest of Seoul and lunged northward against only sporadic enemy resistance. The infantry quickly outran the tanks, which slithered about on the icy roads. The doughfethell took ridges overlooking Seoul's industrial suburb of Yongdungpo across the Han from the former capital itself.
They moved so fast that they captured a Communist supply train and two ammunition dumps. One officer said they were so close to Seoul that they could hit the city with mortars if they wished. United Nations artillery and tanks already have begun shelling the city.
KU Bridge Teams To Big 7 Tourney
Two teams from the University will compete also in the National Intercollegiate Bridge tournament in Chicago on April 20. The Bridge club is cooperating with the Table Tennis club on plans to hold a Big Seven table tennis tournament jointly with the bridge meet.
Geologist To Speak In Lindley Tuesday
Dr. W. W. Rubey, geologist, will speak on "The Development of the Ocean and the Atmosphere" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in 426 Lindlev.
Dr. Rubey is with the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C. He was formerly president of the Geological Society of America. His lecture is open to students and the public.
Rugged Individualism
Milwaukee (U.P.) — A Milwaukee parking lot owner refuses to give any help to his competition, the parking meters. He posted this blunt sign in the window of the lot-office: "No Nickels."