University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Dec. 8—(U.P.) Construction workers of all trades returned to work today, apparently ending a three-day "wildcat" strike which had idled 2,750 men and halted a multi-million-dollar expansion program at this atomic center.
Atomic Strikers Return To Work After Three Days
An official of the Maxon Construction company, which is building two new uranium-235 production plants which had been closed by the strike, said every craft at work before the walkoff was represented today. C. A. Budnik, supervising engineer for Maxon, said a check of gates to the "secret" controlled production area was being made to determine the exact number of returned workers. Some workers, he said, apparently hadn't received word that Union officials had voted a back-to-work movement.
Business agents of the 10 A.F.L. craft unions involved in the walk-out, meeting with Federal Conciliator E. E. Hitchcock, voted last night "to make every effort to persuade" their members to go back to work.
The apparent break in the work stoppage, which crippled all new construction here came a short time after the Atomic Energy Commission's standing labor panel stepped into the dispute. Apparently the panel's offer to confer "in the very near future" with the unions regarding the basic issues of the walkout satisfied the union representatives and brought about a settlement formula.
A spokesman for the panel in New York said last night that it had received assurances from the unions involved that their members would be back at work today.
For a time Wednesday, it was expected that the contractors involved would file charges that the strikers were conducting a secondary boycott, opening the way for possible use of a Taft-taylor law back-to-work injunction.
But representatives of the National Labor Relations Board withrew from the talks late yesterday, indicating that the contractors had decided against filing such charges. It appeared that federal conciliators had urged the contractors to rely on "persuasion" methods to get the strikers back on the job.
ROTC Names Six For Commissions
Six advanced R.O.T.C. students of the University have been named to receive commissions in the regular army, Col. Edward R. Kumpe, professor of military science, said today.
Previously designated as distinguished military students by Chancellor Deane W. Malot, the six students were selected from more than 1,400 distinguished military students from R.O.T.C. units throughout the country.
Notified in an announcement from the department of the army in Washington, D.C., the students will be commissioned as second lieutenants on June 15.1950.
The six R.O.T.C. students to receive the commissions are Robert C Bransfield, engineering senior; George B. Harvey, Jr., business senior; Ralph G. Henley, College and law freshman; Robert E. Kroesch, graduate student; George B. Skinner, engineering senior; and Myron M. Thomason, College senior.
Ticket Deadline Is 5 p.m. Saturday
Students must select their basketball tickets by 5 p.m. Saturday or miss their allotment of home games, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, announced today.
As has been the procedure for several past seasons, students may make a selection of two sets of tickets which will enable them to see half of the eight home games.
No extra charge is made for the tickets.
Mr. Falkenstien said that the student demand for tickets has been light to date and if it is not sufficient to fill Hoch auditorium tickets will be offered to the general public.
Music Clinic Begins Today
Registration began at noon today for students and teachers attending the fifth annual Midwestern Music clinic. Sponsored by the Schools of Fine arts and education, and University Extension, the clinic will be assisted in session until noon Saturday.
Directors of the clinic. E. Thayer Gaston, professor of education, and Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, have arranged a full program for the musicians who are attending the clinic. Hourly sessions have been planned, ranging from exhibitions of the University Symphony orchestra to instruction by members of the University faculty in strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments.
An international dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. today in the Palm room of the Union. Indian dancers from Haskell institute and square dancers from University High school will perform.
At 8:30 p.m. today clinic enrollees may attend the concert by Clifford Curzon, noted English pianist, in Hoch auditorium, by paying only the tax on the complimentary tickets which they have been given.
During the course of the clinic, the new psychology of music laboratory will be open for inspection. An assistant will be on hand to explain the devices which are now being used in this work. Films and audiovisual aids to music instruction will be exhibited in 15 Fraser hall.
The American people may see the time when the rank and file of the people will take the conduct of foreign policy out of the hands of the professional diplomats. said George V. Allen, ambassador to Yugoslavia.
Diplomat Talks To Commission
Mr. Allen spoke at the third annual conference of the Kansas commission for U.N.E.S.C.O. in Wichita Dec. 2. He urged that the individual think of himself as a citizen of an international community.
"This does not make you any less a good American or Kansan," he said. "The Kansas commission has shown how the individual can contribute to world understanding."
The first in a series of parliamentary procedure practice sessions will begin at 7:15 p.m. today in 106 Green hall.
Law Procedure Meeting Tonight
Preparation is the secret to success in winning a law case, Charles S. Rhyne, general counsel of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, told students Wednesday at a School of Law convocation.
Preparation Key To Law Success, Rhyne Says
All University students are eligible to attend the meetings, which are sponsored by the Forensic league and directed by Richard Schleifbusch, assistant professor of speech.
"A lawyer will run into cases that he knows nothing about," Mr. Rhyne said, "but he can win the case on prepartion. I think the secret to success in law, particularly administrative law is to prepare, prepare, and prepare."
Mr. Rhyne, who instructs law courses at George Washington university, outlined briefly three fields of law: aviation, international, and administrative. He pointed out the present opportunities in each field. All are "growing" fields, he said.
Mr. Rhyne's home office is in Washington, D.C. He came to the University from Kansas City, Mo., where he attended the 14th annual conference of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, Monday through Wednesday.
Stanford Teacher At KU Next Week
The National Institute of Municipal Law Officers organization was explained by Mr. Rhyne. "It is an organization made up of 550 cities. The cities participate in the relief purpose is to collect, exchange, and distribute information and ideas on what various cities do in administration."
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, introduced Mr. Rhyne. The convocation was in the library of Green hall.
Appearing in the third of this year's series of Humanities lectures B. Q. Morgan, professor of German at Stanford university, will speak on "Goethe Today and Tomorrow" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in Fraser theater.
Professor Morgan will be on the campus Monday, Dec 12, Tuesday, Dec 13, and Wednesday, Dec 14.
Duties Of Clubs To Be Explained
A meeting of all county newspaper correspondents will be held at 4 p.m. today in 200 Strong hall. Faye Wilkinson, College junior and chairman of correspondents, said that the meeting is to explain the duties of participating students, and to get the program started.
The group will be instructed by Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association; Tom Voe, director of public relations; Emil L Telfel, assistant professor of journalism, and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary.
Simmons Named Rhodes Finalist
Ralph Simmons, College senior, end Norman Collins, Kansas State college student were nominated for Rhodes scholarship district competition to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday.
The Kansas committee nominated the two students from 16 candidates in Kansas educational institutions, Dr. W. E. Sandellus, professor of political science, said Wednesday.
The district competition for Khodes scholarships includes candidates from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.
The Kansas committee for Rhodes scholarships consists of Professor Sandelius, Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college; Emory Lindquist, president of Bethany college; and W.D.P. Carey, Hutchinson attorney.
A Rhodes scholarship consists of three years of graduate work, two of which must be at Oxford university in England, and the third year anywhere outside the U.S. The yearly stipend is 500 pounds $1,400 American at the devalued exchange rate.
WEATHER
Kansas—The forecast for Friday is mostly cloudy with occasional rain and somewhat warmer. Temperatures which were today under the 40-degree mark in most of the state are predicted to range from 29 to 25 degrees tonight.
—Photo by Hank Brown
Lawrence firemen extended their aerial ladder equipment to its full length of 100 feet for the first time Wednesday night in fighting a $3,500 blaze in the tower of Dyche hall. The fire, which damaged specimen boxes and skeletons of small animals stored in the tower, was brought under control quickly by the firemen.
$3,500 Damage Done To Supplies In Dyche Fire
Fire caused an estimated $3,500 damage to museum supplies in the tower room of Dyche hall Wednesday night before firemen could push their way through stacked boxes of bones to extinguish the blaze.
Damage to the building, however, has not been estimated. Paul Ingels, Lawrence fire chief, said the ceiling and walls were damaged in the top tower room.
The loss was mostly in supplies consisting of specimen boxes, E. R. Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, explained.
Two manuscripts for doctor's thesis might have been destroyed if firemen had been unable to quickly get the blaze under control. The thesis manuscripts had been left in a room beneath the scene of the fire by John White and Lendell Cockrum, assistant instructors in zoology. Both manuscripts were found undamaged.
The fire was discovered by John A. White, assistant instructor in zoology, at 9:30 p.m. He was working in his office directly underneath the tower room. Mr. White heard a crackling noise in the tower which he thought was caused by bats. Investigating the noise, he discovered smoke coming from the room and immediately notified the fire department.
In 1932 Dyche hall was declared unsafe by the state fire marshal and was closed for eight years. It was reopened in 1941 after changes were made to meet safety requirements.
All Lawrence fire-fighting units responded to the call except one pump truck held on emergency reserve. The aerial-ladder truck, with its 100-foot ladder extending to the top of the tower, was used in fighting the blaze.
Speculation centered on the temporary flood lights as a possible cause of the fire. The red, blue, and amber lights were installed recently as part of campus Christmas decorations. The fire was put out by fogmist made by water under high pressure. A special nozzle was used
Firemen said that during the fire, members of the museum staff were in the smoke-filled room pleading with them not to throw out valuable skeletons and specimens. Several hundred students gathered in the street to watch the firemen fight the blaze.
Explaining why they delayed breaking the windows, firemen said that a supply of water was not immediately available. If the windows were broken a draft might have fanned the flames and caused greater damage.
Mr. Ingels was grateful for help from bystanders who assisted firemen with the hose in the early part of the fire. "I want to thank all students and museum staff members who helped with the hose equipment," he said.
ASME To Hold Banquet Today
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will present its annual banquet in the Kansas room of the Union at 6:30 p.m. today.
The Kansas State chapter and two chanters from Kansas City, Mo, will be guests of the K.U. organization. Dr. R. C. Moore, director of research of the geology survey, will speak about his recent research at a meeting over months there as an advisor to General Douglas MacArthur.
The Sigma Chi quartet, and John M. Suptic, assistant instructor of mechanical engineering will entertain. Suptic will play the plano.