UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1948
Palm Room Approved As KU Night Spot
The Palm room of the Union will become a weekend entertainment center beginning Saturday, March 5. The special committee set up by the Union operating committee to study the proposal passed it at a meeting Thursday night.
The fountain will be open also and cold drinks will be served. A small cover charge will be necessary, a larger cover charge or a telephone, a larger cover charge will be made.
Plans are to have the first dance March 5 and to hire an orchestra for the occasion. After that time the room will be open each Friday and Saturday night from 9 p.m. to midnight unless there is some other all-University dance scheduled.
The student committee which approved the proposal had authority to decide, and there will be no necessity in referring that group's findings to the operating board.
Liquor Bill Hits Snag
Topcka, Feb. 25—U(P). Hope that liquor will be legalized in Kansas this week faded today as the liquor control bill apparently hit a snag in a joint senate-house conference committee.
The proposal, passed in different guise by both chambers of the state legislature, would permit immediate use and possession of liquor in Kansas for the first time in more than 68 years, and would eventually legalize in-state package sales.
The bill appeared headed for early approval last week, after it had passed the house with only minor financial amendments. But the senate refused to accept house changes, and the bill went to committee Monday.
There was little hope today that the joint group would reach any compromise before the legislature's week end adjournment today.
Bridge Celebrates 100th Birthday
Wheeling, West Va.—(U.P.)—T h e oldest suspension bridge in the United States observes its 100th anniversary this year. Opened to traffic in Wheeling in 1849, the Ohio river's 1,010-foot suspension bridge was once the longest suspension span in the world.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"Economics is the—economies is a full house—economies is the study of Bumble Boogie'—economies is—economies is aces high—eco—"
US Army Cloak And Dagger Corps Returns To 'Good Old Days' In Germany
Frankfurt, Germany—(UP)“The “good old days” are returning for the U.S. Army’s counter-intelligence corps in Germany.
The C.I.C. is out of Gen. Lucius D. Clay's doghouse. Once again, its members are swanking it in civilian clothes and living in private quarters.
Their return to Olay gave space that American-Russian relations have worsened. For the C.L.C. is charged with smashing espionage and subversion within the Army and the area under its control.
During the war and immediately afterward, C.I.C. agents lived high, wide and handsome while going about the business of sticking, thousands of wanted Nazis into jail. They hid their rank beneath civilian clothes.
When Clay took over command in Germany in 1947, he became convinced after a series of inspection trips that the C.I.C. boys were living too well. Corporals and privates in mufti had buffaled both Germans and Army officers and set themselves up in comfortable villas.
In several cases, Clay's surprise visits turned up fraukeins living comfortably with agents. A war department investigator from Washington reported similar laxity. When Maj. Gen. Robert L. Walsh took over Clay's intelligence department, he and his chief agreed on a clamp-down.
They ordered the C.I.C. into uniform, including rank insignia, and moved agents out of their mansions and into Army barracks. But even Clark admitted at the time he had no fault to find with the C.I.C.'s work.
He conceded that the corps had smashed every undercover threat to American security in Germany "and a few more that never came true besides."
But with the start of the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the gradual worsening of American-Soviet relations in Germany, there began a slow easing of the restrictions.
Graduate, Now In Berlin Receives Remarkable Gifts
BY CARLA EDDY
Special to the University Daily Kansan
Berlin—This is Berlin—where one receives remarkable presents from sympathetic Americans at home.
The mother of a friend in California learned how to make brilliant lapel pin birds out of a plastic material that looks like colored mirror, but is thin and pliable as paper. She sent me two dozen of her brightest creations, and wrote Sometimes I think the frivolous, unnecessary things do people's spirits as much good as the basic necessities; try these on your German acquaintances." She was right. The effect was always brightening.
Suppose I am munching a lollypop between paragraphs? The guy who sent them for a joke wouldn't know they are the first I've seen since I left home. Besides, the package says they were made in a completely modern
sunlight factory on nightly mechanized equipment, and were in person at the factory. That is refreshing news in a country where the people carry their bread home naked under their arm—the bread, not the people.
One day the mail clerk dragged in a mutilated carton a yard long with black dust spilling out the
I thought the 25 pounds of coal I received wouldn't be a drop in the bucket in the German economy either, but found it enormous in the eyes of my German secretary. "That's just what we received for the winter ration before Christmas," she mused. "I never knew coal to be sold in quantities less than a hundred pounds, but this winter it actually sells by the pound."
READER'S NOTE
Miss Eddy was graduated from the School of Law in 1947, and is now serving in Berlin in the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.). Each week she plans to send the Daily Kansan stories concerning life in the German capital as she sees it. We of the staff feel that you may be interested in life in Germany as one of us would see it. We would be interested in any comments you may have.
corners. "I think it's coal," he grinned. It was. The sender has yet to explain. Of course we complained about wearing blankets in the office before heating was permitted last fall, but since then, it been comfortable in American offices.
I felt my Americanism a little insecure when a resume of 1948 said no song had even approached "Nature Boy" in popularity, and I didn't even heard it. So it was reassuring to receive the music of "Buttons and Bows" from Western Kansas.
I had a picnic distributing boxes of old clothes and shoes among Germans in need that category includes just anyone you meet. They
Summer Session Schedule Ready
Summer session schedules are now available at the offices of the registrar or the School of Education, Dr. G. B. Smith, director of the summer session, said today. Registration and enrollment will begin June 10 with classes starting June 13. E. Smith said.
An extensive program of institutes and conferences under the sponsorship of University Extension is being planned for this summer, Dr. Smith said. Students interested in obtaining college level work to qualify for the Kansas State Provisional certificates for teaching in the elementary schools should contact Dean Smith for additional information.
AWS To Revise 'KU Cues' Handbook
The "K.U. Cues." University women's handbook sponsored by the Associated Women's Students, will be revised next fall, Marilyn Sweet, editor-in-chief, announced Wednesday. This is its first revision since its publication two years ago.
always marvel at the shoes---Why they haven't even been half-soled? They associate bright colors with Americans, and enjoy wearing color when they have a chance.
The only gift which has been sent in spite of my being in Berlin, rather than because of it, was a package with four small Japanese dolls. They had quite a trip, by land, sea, and air, before reaching Berlin. The glassed, wooden boxes that provide an individual showcase for each one were rather in pieces, and their repair provided employment for a German craftsman.
Usually we jump on the string and wrapping paper as eagerly as we do on the contents of a package from home. With a small hoard accumulated, one can manage to wrap a birthday present decently now. But the packages I sent home at Christmas were wrapped in German newspaper, painted with bright watercolor designs.
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