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UNIVERSITY DAILY 48th Year No.64 Monday, Dec.18, 1950 Hansan
$1,100,000 More Needed To Build New Fieldhouse
The Kansas board of regents will ask the new legislature to appropriate an additional $1,100,000 for construction of the University fieldhouse-armory. This appropriation would be added to the $750,000 appropriated by the 1949 legislature.
It is estimated that the total of $1,850,000 will cover the cost of construction and the equipment necessary for seating 16,000 persons in the new fieldhouse. The building will also house physical education class-
day. The board will give the requests to the 1951 state legislature when it convenes in January. The chancellor listed a fine arts and music building, men's and women's dormitories, and an addition to Snow hall. He said the medical school will need living facilities for students and increased heating plant facilities.
rooms and an armory. The state expects to let the contract in January. Chancellor Deane W. Malott also presented a request for five other projects to the board of regents Fri-
KU Air Cadets Form A New Basic Society
A hundred and fourteen cadets of the air force R.O.T.C. recently formed an organization for cadets in the basic period of air science, Lt. Col. James J. Hausman, associate professor of air science, announced today.
The society is similar to the Arnold Air Society except that it is for cadets in basic air force R.O.-T.C." Lt. Colonel Hua man said. The Arnold Air society is a national organization for advanced air force R.O.T.C. cadets and has no provisions for a basic society.
The purpose of the new society is to introduce the basic cadets to program of the Arnold Air society and prepare them for entrance into the society when they reach advanced training. The name for the basic unit has not yet been determined.
The organization was formed at a meeting of the Arnold Air society Dec. 14, at which time temporary officers were elected. The society is a University organization and not affiliated with the national organization.
Temporary officers elected are:
Jerry Clark, engineering freshman,
commanding officer; George Wolf,
engineering freshman, executive officer;
Walter Ash, College sophomore,
operations officer; Clarence Woodside, engineering sophomore,
finance officer; Marvin Rausch, College junior, public information; Fred Van Bebber, College freshman, adjutant and recorder.
Amateur Geologists Visit University
After the tour, the group saw a kodachrome film entitled, "Jayhawkers In Colorado," showing geology department summer field camps in Colorado.
The amateur geology clubs of Topeka and Emporia and several persons from Ottawa were guests of the State Geological Survey and the department of geology at the University recently.
The group of about 60 persons toured Dyche museum under the guidance of Robert Wilson, professor of zoology, and then were conducted through Lindley hall by Dr. John C. Frye and Dr. J. M. Jewett, both of the Geological Survey staff, and Dr. R. M. Dreyer, chairman of the department of geology.
Contract Awarded For New J-School
The contract for the remodeling of Fowler shops into the new Journalism school has been signed, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the University, said this morning.
Construction by the Constant Construction company of Lawrence will begin about February 1.
Lee Will Give Crisis Lecture
Dr. Orient Lee, visiting professor of history, will give the 13th "World in Crisis" lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater. His topic will be "East Asia in Turmoil."
Dr. Lee is now teaching courses in Chinese art, history of Chinese civilization, and southeast Asia.
He came to the United States in 1946 to teach at the University of Vermont and Brooklyn college. He also lectured at schools in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. After two years in this country, Dr. Lee returned to China to become professor and head of the history department at the University of Kweichow in Kweiyang. He came to the University this year.
Born in Honan, China, in 1906, Dr. Lee is in this country as a nonquote immigrant with right of permanent residence.
Dr. Lee has written 12 books in Chinese, two in French, and one in English. They include "Chinese History: an Interpretation" (1947) and "A New Biography of Confucious" (1943).
Honor System May Be Used For Price Lids
Washington—(U.P.)-The government may as for voluntary controls on all prices and wages some time this week, usually reliable sources said today.
It was disclosed that price ceilings on meats already are under consideration. The government also was ready to clamp compulsory wage controls on one million auto workers.
It was reported that the honor system will be used on most controls until the fledgling Economic Stabilization agency can build up a "police force" to enforce them—probably in late March or early April.
When ESA has the manpower to enforce its orders, it was said, unjustified wage or price increases will be rolled back, probably to their December 1 levels.
The auto manufacturers and the CIO United Auto Workers were united in their opposition to the government's compulsory ceilings already imposed on automobile prices. UAW President Walter P. Reuther charged the government "discriminated" against the auto makers by singling them out for the first compulsory controls.
The Wage Stabilization board pleaded with American Labor leaders for a "partial sacrifice now" rather than "total sacrifice later."
The inflationary spiral must be halted at any cost, the WSB said. Unless it is, "our production strength will be sapped, our defense preparations will be dangerously delayed, and should total war be forced upon us, our freedom could be lost."
Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 19—(U.P.)United Nations rear guards protecting the vital escape docks of Hungnam harbor pulled back again Monday under a protective cover of blasting American planes and the guns of the mighty battleship Missouri. The entire beachhead could be seen from a ridge only 15 minutes' walk from the sea.
Prepare New Defense Line; Sabre Jets Used In Combat
Bauldozers ripped at the frozen earth to carve out a new and tighter defense line in arc around the harbor while navy planes rained a fiery shower of death on Communist forces besieging the last Allied foothold in northeast Korea.
Big guns within the beachhead and on navy ships offshore roared continuously while United Nations forces pulled back.
Patrick Poole, fine arts freshman,
will attend the National Canterbury
Club conference at Bloomfield Hills,
Mich., Dec. 27 to Jan. 1.
The Red Lights Are Not Decorations
In western Korea the U.N. command threw a powerful new supersonic American fighter plane, the F-86 Sabre jet, against the Chinese air force flying Russian-made jets from within the sanctuary of Manchurian bases.
Student To Conference
Military security prevented detailed reporting of the situation within the beachhead but there were indications that the defense now rested almost entirely on the U.S. 3rd division.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Neil, a co-director of the World Council of Churches and assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Rt. Rev. Norman Nash, bishop of Massachusetts and chairman of the college work commission of the Protestant Episcopal church, will be speakers at the convention.
Poole was elected to be Kansas delegate at the State Canterbury convention in Emporia, Dec. 2.
At the same time the U.S. 8th army announced that the North Koreans had released nine prisoners of war, including three Americans, three Britons and three South Koreans. The liberated Americans were members of the U.S. 3rd division.
The 670-mile-an-hour Sabres shot down one Russian-made jet in flames Sunday just south of the border over Sinuiju. The F-86 is the world's fastest fighter plane.
Navy fighters roared out to blast the Reds despite ice-covered flight decks on their carriers and gusts of wind as high as 65 knots. One pilot said he was forced to make an emergency landing on a small airstrip near Hungnam while United Nations and Communist troops battled for its possession. He took off again while the fight raged at the edge of the strip.
BULLETIN
Brussels, Belgium—(U.P).The Defense ministers of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations today approved formation of a 55 or 60 division Western European army, including Germans. At the same time, the U. S. charged her allies were not doing enough to prepare for a possible Communist assault.
Communist attacks against the beachhead eased off Monday. Air reports said the Reds were concentrating north of Hungnam in a line of hills that run down into the defense perimeter.
Plumes of smoke from burning equipment and shell bursts ringed the beachhead. All troops, even command post and staff personnel, were warned to sleep with their weapons and shoes handy in case of a new night attack aimed at driving the U.N. forces into the sea.
By Rudi Hofmann
Wait until dark, go to the Military Science building, and look westward. You'll see little red lights gleaming in the sky above the hill, and you'll wonder what kind of Christmas decoration this is.
In a field next to the Pioneer cemetery, about a mile west of the campus, the red lights are on the University's new radio tower, now under construction. They are not Uyletide decorations but a warning to all pilots of airplanes flying across the University area.
Since construction started the past week, 180 feet of the final 514 have been completed," the weather is all right," the workmen said, "we'll have it finished by the middle of January."
They don't admit that their work—climbing up and down on a tall steel structure without a safety-belt—is dangerous. This tower is only routine for them. "We were some 200 feet higher," one said, "when we worked on the construction of the 720-foot television tower in Kansas City two years ago."
They get about $2.25 an hour, but not all their work is on the tower itself. The different parts of the tower had to be painted white and red before they were mounted. Huge concrete blocks had to be built several hundred feet away to give a firm basis for the steel cables which hold the whole structure. There is a truck with a heavy winch to hoist the parts to the top of the structure. There is telephone communication between the men at the winch and the men working nearly 200 feet above.
Students will have to wait until next fall to hear the new FM station. The tower is only part of the station equipment given to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information by John P. Harris, Hutchison newspaper publisher, and his brother, S. F. Harris of Ottawa. A house for the transmitter is to be built, studios installed and numerous electrical connections to be made.
The radio station, which was given as a memorial to the late Fred M. Harris of Ottawa, K.U. alumnus and longtime member of the Kansas board of regents, will have the call letters "KANU."
Group Urges Evaluation
Student evaluation of teachers and courses is valuable to individual instructors, but involves a great deal of work and expense, members of the Campus Affairs Committee decided recently.
The committee, which is a new form of student-faculty conference, will continue the discussion of the feasibility of such a program at the University at their next meeting Wednesday. Jan. 3.
Opinions ranged from the use of an all-student poll to a survey of only graduating seniors in the upper 50 per cent of the class. Some committee members said students in major departments should be the ones to evaluate their teachers and courses.
Some members said only teachers who requested that their students be polled should be evaluated, but others said all teachers should be included.
Method of presentation of course material was said by some members to be a sufficient basis for a poll, but others said that the course, method of presentation, and general attitude of the teacher should be included.
It was decided that any student who wanted to express his views on this subject should go to the dean of men or contact one of the committee members.
Journalism Party Is Tuesday
The 21 typewriters in the newsroom of the Journalism building will be silent from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday when the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information holds its Christmas party in the Kansas room in the Union. Students and faculty are invited.
BULLETIN
Brussels, Belgium—(U.P).The 12 Atlantic treaty nations today formally approved a plan to organize a Western European army of 55 to 60 divisions under the command of an American—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.