University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 15, 1949
Lawrence, Kansa*
O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Britain's A-bomb To Be Exploded Says Newspaper
London, Dec. 15—U.P.)The London Daily Mirror said, in an indirect manner, that Great Britain has developed an atomic bomb that soon may be tested on the secret Australian rocket range.
The Mirror, an independent but anti-Conservative newspaper, hinted, but did not say directly that Great Britain has had the bomb for two years.
By agreement with the United States and Canada, the Mirror said, Great Britain will not test its bomb at the forthcoming Eniwetok tests to be conducted by the United States.
for two years. A spokesman for the ministry of supply in charge of atomic establishments admitted that Great Britain is "developing" atomic weapons as part of her arms program but refused to say whether scientists here actually had completed one
Asked about the Mirror's claim, the spokesman said "we cannot comment. We are not going to answer questions." He added significantly however that the Mirror had "just made some deductions from facts well known."
for said:
The Mirror gave no source for its statement that Great Britain has the bomb but did quote a number of recent government announcements supporting the supposition that atomic development was well advanced in British laboratories.
"Apart from the American proving ground for atomic weapons, the only other likely place where it could be tried out is the secret Australian rocket range," the Mirror said.
"Great Britain's atomic weapon, that our scientists have been developing more than two years, will not be tried out at the forthcoming test of American super-atom bombs," the Mirror dispatch said.
"This decision was taken at the three-power talks on atomic energy between Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. The talks have just ended in Washington.
"The principal result of these discussions will be an increased interchange of information about atomic research and development. As far back as May 12, 1948, A. V. Alexander, said all types of modern weapons, 'including atomic weapons', were being developed in Great Britain.
All K.U. students interested in learning to fly under an approved flight training program may attend the meeting of the Jayhawk Flying club at 7:30 p.m. today in room 4. Aeronautical Engineering building.
KU Flying Club To Meet Today
ing. The date of the meeting was omitted from an advertisement which appeared Dec. 13 and 14 in the University Daily Kansan.
versity Daily Raises Members of the club will be able to earn a private pilot's license by the end of next smester. College credit is given to students taking the course.
Dr. William Simpson, chairman of the aeronautical engineering department, said that the course probably would be offered only during the spring semester each year.
Student Union Activities will hold no regular all-membership meetings during January because of approaching final examinations. The organization will start its spring semester activities with a party Feb. 8.
Student Union Will Have No Meetings In January
K. U. Post Office Open Saturday
The University postoffice in the basement of Strong hall will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to accommodate students and others who wish to mail Christmas packages, R.C. Abraham, superintendent of the station, said today.
DuPont Gives KU Fellowship
The University of Kansas has been selected by the Fellowship committee of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and company of Wilmington, Del., to receive a fellowship for 1950-51.
The fellowship provides a stipend of $1,200 for a single man, $1,800 for a married man, and $1,000 to the University for supplies and use of laboratories and equipment. The student must be a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree.
"The department of chemistry is highly pleased to have been placed on the list of institutions at which the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and company maintains research fellowships," Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the chemistry department, said today.
The fellowship, Dr. Brewster said, is an ornight gift of the du Pont company. There are no restrictions placed on problems to be studied and no financial return is to be made to the company.
Appointment of the graduate student to this fellowship will be made during the spring semester and work will begin in September 1850.
The chemistry department has three former du Pon allows on the staff. They are Paul W. Gilles, who studied at the University of California, William E. McEwen, Columbia university, and Charles Reynolds, Stanford university. All are assistant professors of chemis-
Carmon Joins ResearchStaff
An assistant administrative consultant, Raymond R. Carmon, has been added to the staff of the bureau of government research at the University, Dr. Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science, said today.
A 28-year-old veteran of three year's army service, Mr. Carmon will assist John Holmgren, instructor of political science, in the operation of the bureau's administrative consultation service for local government units in Kansas.
amized city plan.
Mr. Wilson graduated in 1948 from Wayne university, Detroit, Michigan, with and A.B. degree. He then received a graduate scholarship in public administration from the Volker foundation at Wayne university. During the fellowship year ending the past June, he did welfare and finance studies for the Detroit Citizens' league and served with the Wayne county civil service department.
Mr. Carmon's first assignment has been a personnel survey at the Mount Carmel hospital near Pittsburg, Kan., in Crawford county. At the same time Mr. Holmgren made a survey for the city of Pittsburg.
The University administrative consultation service will next make an administrative and personnel study of the Sedgwick county hospital and an initiation and preparation of a "city plan" for Dodge City. The latter project will be conducted in collaboration with various citizens' groups to produce a "personalized city plan."
16 Die, 150 Hurt In Sioux City Plant Explosion
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 15—(U.R.) Rescue workers burrowed tunnels through twisted debris today, searching for more victims of the Swift and company packing-house explosion that killed 16 persons and injured more than 150 others.
A former University student was injured in the Sioux City explosion. He was Andrew A. Hughes, business student in 1927 and 1928. Hughes was in the main office building of the plant at the time of the blast.
Two men were feared missing but officials said they might be among the hundreds of persons engaged in rescue operations around the big meat plant that was shattered by the blast Wednesday.
Hughes has been employed for a number of years as a sales manager for the firm. He is a cousin of Will Johns, Jr., Douglas county sheriff. Johns called Sioux City and was told his cousin had suffered a broken arm. Mrs. Hughes, the former Margaret Varner attended the University in 1931.
About 100 Iowa National guardsmen stood as sentries around the shattered building, acted as stretcher bearers, drove heavy vehicles and furnished gas masks and blankets.
Sixoux City Fire Chief Charles B Kuhl estimated property damage at "about $1 million". He said it had been determined officially that the blast was caused by an accumulation of escaping natural gas but he said no one knew where the leak occurred.
The guardsmen were ordered to prevent looters from stealing tons of hams, poultry, canned meat, cheese, and oleomargarine which lay among the wreckage—most of it contaminated by ammonia gas released from broken refrigerating units. Almost 30 truckloads of the contaminated foodstuffs were hauled to the city dump where bulldozers buried it under a deep layer of earth.
Meanwhile, authorities were piecing together the stories of survivors in an attempt to determine the exact causes of Sioux City's worst disaster since an explosion in 1918 wrecked the downtown Rust building and killed 39 persons.
Art Steil, a meat trimmer, said he had just left the building for lunch. He was convinced that the explosion took place under the street rather than in the building itself. "The sidewalk blew up first," he said. "The explosion was in the street. The whole building shook and looked as if it were going to cave in.
Statewide Groups To Hold Reception
A Statewide Activities reception will be held in the Palm room of the Union at 8 p.m. today.
Students in Statewide Activities, county club chairmen, presidents of all organizations, members of Mortar Board, Sachem, the advisory board of the commission, and other faculty members are invited to attend the reception, said Otis Hill, chairman of S.A.C.
The movie, "Your University," will be shown during the reception.
NSA To Offer Trips Abroad
If a student with limited funds would like to go abroad this summer, the United States National Student association may have a solution for him.
The association has plans for nine travel programs, six work camps, and two foreign study programs prices ranging from $340 to $625. More than 800 students are expected to participate in this program.
Erskine Childers, N.S.A. vice president for international affairs, explains that "all facts and figures are not final" but will be available by January 1950.
Plans now offered include:
Plans now offered include:
Tri-Nation Tours of England,
France, and Holland, for 180 students at $500.
dents at $50.
Festival Tours to Europe's summer music and drama festivals in Salzburg, Oberammergau for the Passion Play, Lucerne, and Edinburgh for 70 students at $550.
Middle Eastern tour from England, through Turkey, Israel for study tours and work-camps, and possibly Egypt, for 25 students at $580.
$1,500. Northern tours through England,
Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
for 100 students, at $590.
Students may work in workcamps where they stay for a while in one camp and then travel on study-tour to another camp in another country, or in a camp where they will remain the full time and have free time following their work.
Travel on the tours will be by sea and air. Further details may be obtained by writing to Childers at 18 Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass.
THE WEATHER
Kansas—Fair and warmer was the Kansas weather forecast today.
For the first time this week temperatures will steer clear of the near zero area. Lows are predicted to range from 20 to 25 degrees with highs Friday zooming to the 50 to 55 degree range except in the northwest, where the maximum will be around 40 degrees.
there is a threat of a new cold wave this weekend.
Carlson, Regents To Attend Corbin Hall Christmas Revels
The 15th annual Christmas revels will be presented at 8 p.m. today at Corbin hall, honoring Gov. Frank Carlson, the board of regents, and administration and faculty members.
The medieavale theme will be carried out this year, as in the past, and will include such customs as wassail toasts and fanfares for the guests.
Simple decorations in the lounge at Corbin hall will accentuate the atmosphere of an ancient English hall. Only a few sprigs of holly and fir will be strewn about the bare, bench-lined rooft to signify the yule season.
and 100 more will act as hostesses for the guests.
Mrs. Treva Brown, director of Corbin, said that the pageant has changed little since its beginning. The only thing added since she became director are the waits, or street singers.
More than 100 girls living at Corbin will take part in the pageant.
To climax the program flaming wassail will be carried in and toasts given, first by a Corbin woman, then by a guest, Kenneth Anderson, assistant professor of education.
Parking Rule Clarified By Student Court
After parking half an hour in a 30-minute zone, such as Jayhawk drive, a driver must move his car out of the parking stall, not merely move it within the space.
This was the decision of the student court this week in the case of the University versus Walter F. Stueckemann, third year law student. Shortly after he saw a policeman mark the tire of his car while it was parked on Jayhawk drive on Nov. 14. Stueckemann moved the car slightly so that the mark was under the car and not visible. The policeman making a second round gave him a ticket, nevertheless. The court held that moving his car in this way was insufficient and refused his appeal.
Carl Sundborg, third-year law student, appealed two tickets received the same day. His car was marked twice with only seven minutes between markings. On the second marking he was given a ticket, which blew away. He appealed this fine and the court ruled that he did not have to pay it.
He received another ticket 30 minutes after the first. He said the second one was invalid because only one ticket can be issued for the same offense in any 24 hours. The court held that he must pay the second fine because he was parked over half an hour, even though the first ticket was invalid.
A ticket received by Erich Ryll, graduate student, for over-parking on Jayhawk drive Nov. 25, a day of vacation, was reversed. A second ticket, given him in September when he parked in zone A and the zone emblem was removed from his car, was also reversed.
Keith E. Moore, College sophmore, received a ticket when he parked in a west campus construction area Nov. 23. Although the area was not being worked and there were no "No Parking" or zone signs, the court held that Moore would have to pay the fine because he should have known the parking regulations. If he had parked in this area during a vacation period he would not have had to pay the fine.
J. Bryan Sperry, education senior, appealed a ticket received when he parked for five minutes in front of Miller hall to pick up a girl's luggage. The court held that he was justified in parking there under the circumstance and that he did not have to pay the fine.
Three appeals of traffic tickets were made by Robert B. Brown, engineering junior, who received all three tickets while waiting for a disability permit. His appeal from the first ticket was refused by the court. His appeal from the other two were granted.
The court held that James Barney, graduate student, did not have to pay a fine for a ticket which he received for parking in zone I while in process of getting his parking permit changed from zone A to zone I.
Gordon Cummings, College freshman, was held not liable for a ticket received when he couldn't find space in zone G. for which he had a permit, and parked by the zone sign partly in a restricted area.
Semantics Director To Talk
Dr. Robert L. Reed will discuss general semantics and their application at 7:45 p.m. today in 111 Strong hall. Dr. Reed is a director of the International Society of General Semantics and assistant to the president of Kansas City university. The speech is open to the public.