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Summer Session Kansas
Tuesday. July 26. 1960
High Tribunal To Try Powers
BY PHIL NEWSOM
On Aug. 17, Francis G. Powers achieves the dubious distinction of becoming the first American to be tried in open Soviet court on spy charges.
UPI Foreign Editor
Thus, on' is birthday, the 31-year-old pilot whose U-2 high-alitude reconnaissance plane was shot down over Sverdlovsk last May 1, becomes an individual pawn in a show trial whose primary objective will be to further the Soviet campaign labelling the United States an aggressor nation.
The official Soviet news agency Tass announced the trial date and said the case has been "accepted" by the "Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R."-a court usually reserved for high ranking officers only.
Conviction could result in a prison sentence of from seven to 15 years or death before a firing squad.
There was no indication of the defense which Powers will be permitted after 108 days in the hands of Soviet interrogators.
A grim story lies behind the three-judge Collegium which is Soviet Russia's highest military court.
The late dictator Josef Stalin used it as his favorite instrument to eliminate possible rivals.
His favorite prosecutor was the late Andre Vshinsi who afterward became Stalin's chief cold war spokesman before the United Nations and in world councils.
In three spectacular trials in 1936, 1937 and 1938 Stalin purged the Communist party of most of the leading "old Bolsheviks." They were the giants of early communism, but one and all, they "confessed" to the crimes of treason and sabotage as charged by Stalin.
They included former Premier A. I. Rykov, and two former presidents of the Communist International, Gregory Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin.
Diplomats, cabinet ministers, economic experts and honored soldiers disappeared one after the other, victims of Stalin's terror apparatus. Comparatively few of them met their fate in public.
In 1837, Stalin had Marshal M. N. Tukhachevsky, vice commissar of war and civil war veteran, and seven other generals tried and executed in secret. Later, some of the judges also were liquidated.
So sweeping were the purges that years later Nikita Khrushchev revealed they left the Soviet Union's defense completely unprepared for the German onslaught.
Beyond the date and the court that will try him, little else of the Powers case is known. U. S. officials have not been permitted to see him since his capture on May 1.
Third Pharmacy Award Received
The third George Guy Hall Scholarship in pharmacy for the 1960-61 academic year at the University has been awarded to Bonnie J. Eaton, Wichita junior.
The $208 scholarship covers tuition for two semesters. Miss Eaton will enter the Pharmacy School this fall after two years in pre-pharmacy at KU.
Earlier this spring Hall scholarships were awarded to Donald C. Dyer, Hutchinson, and Larry Stark, both pharmacy juniors.
The scholarships memorialize the late George Guy Hall, longtime pharmacist and civic leader in Oakley. They are made possible by a gift from his widow, Mrs. Edith Hall, who now lives in Salina.
It's Hard on the Hand
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — (UPI) — County officials have agreed to buy a "cheap, used" siren for Sheriff Lamar Murphy's car after the officer complained he had to "bang on the sides of the cars" to attract the attention of traffic violators.
HUTCHINSON—(UPI)—Back to the salt mines means more to Kansans than thoughts of Siberia or returning to the job after the coffee break.
State Salt Mines Meet Many Needs
For catacombed through the central and southwest parts of the state are beds of salt from 650 to 1,000 feet below the surface. And carved out hollows offer space for storage of various materials from liquid radioactive wastes to valuable art works.
There is a total of at least 1680 acres available or twice as much space as occupied by Central Park in New York City.
Carey Salt Co. of Hutchinson has leased 128 acres to Underground Vaults and Storage Co., Inc., for storage of records, microfilm and magnetic tapes.
The underground storage facilities will be ready for use in January.
but already customers from six states,including banks,insurance companies and other business firms have made arrangements for their use.
The Atomic Energy Commission, in another part of the same group mines, is making tests to see if radioactive wastes can be stored in the salt beds.
Some authorities feel that the tests already have shown the salt beds to be the safest place to put the atomic wastes. Success of the tests could mean that Kansas would become a major reactor fuel center in the future.
It is felt that the mines are both near the center of the U.S. mainland and are far from high priority targets and out of the fallout pattern of other targets.
There also has been mention of the salt mines as an underground
Pentagon. Several valuable paintings from Wichita are being stored in the mines this summer because it was feared the high humidity above ground would damage the canvases.
The paintings are from a gallery where there is no air conditioning at present.
U.N. Forces Move Toward Showdown
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (UPI)—United Nations troops moved relentlessly into the interior of the Congo yesterday, taking over from Belgian and Congolese forces and heading for a showdown in "seceded" Katanga province.
U. N. officials were trying to work out some way to avoid taking the province by force.
Gaston to Deliver Six Music Lectures
E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the music education department at the University, will deliver a series of six lectures on music therapy August 8-10 at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.
Prof. Gaston was one of the pioneers in the new science of music therapy. He has earned many honors, which can be summed up in the presentation to him of the first honorary life membership by the National Association for Music Therapy.
Lecture subjects include "The Necessity of Music," "Music in Our Age," "The Influence of Music on Behavior" and "Music in Therapy."
Real estate holdings by United States insurance companies as of March 31 were $3,712,000,000, up $262 million from the previous year.
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