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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 19, 1960
One-Ballot Convention Seen 100 Years From Lincoln's Bid
CHICAGO—(UPI)—One hundred years ago, the infant Republican Party held its second national convention in this city, and after three acrimonious ballots, nominated a lanky lawyer named Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
Next Monday, the Republicans will return to Chicago for their 27th convention. This time there will be harmony all over the place, and it will take just one ballot for them to nominate Richard M. Nixon to oppose Sen. John F. Kennedy in November.
But there will be some discordant sounds from Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York when the Republicans offer their curtain-raiser in the form of Platform Committee hearings this week.
Nixon has no major challenger for the nomination, although Rockefeller stands ready to challenge the Republican record as written by President Eisenhower's administration.
Rockefeller is scheduled to appear before the Platform Committee today to fire another volley. He began firing six weeks ago when he published a manifesto, calling on Nixon to speak out on national issues and laying out an indictment of the Eisenhower administration.
He followed up at the National Governors' Conference last month with an attack on the administration's defense program and its plan for medical care for the aged. He said $3.5 billion more a year should be spent on defense and that medical care for the aged should be financed by Social Security payroll taxes instead of federal-state subsidies proposed by the administration.
Rockefeller, who retired as a candidate for the presidential nomination last December before he ever announced for it, also unloaded a 6,000-word memorandum last weekend detailing his ideas for the platform.
Any platform fireworks ignited by Rockefeller would contrast with the peace and quiet with which the GOP has been writing its campaign documents at recent conventions. The Democrats could not believe they were holding a convention if they escaped a row over the platform.
17 Planes Lost In Red Attacks
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Communists have forced down 17 American planes with a loss of at least 91 lives in the past 10 years. The Defense Department has released this list of the Cold War incidents:
April 8, 1950- Navy Privateer shot down in Baltic Sea. Ten crewmen missing.
Nov. 6, 1931—Navy P2V downed by Soviet fighters off Vladivostok.
Ten crewmen missing.
Nov. 19, 1951-Air Force C-47 forced by Soviet fighters to land at Papa, Hungary. Crew members subsequently released.
Oct. 7, 1952—Air Force RB-28 shot down by Soviet fighters off northern Japan near Nemuro. Eight crew members missing.
March 10, 1953—Air Force F-84 shot down by communist MIG-15 near Sasselburg, Germany. Pilot returned uninjured.
Jan. 18, 1953 - Navy P2V damaged by Red Chinese shore batteries off Swatow and crashed in the ocean. Six crew members missing, seven rescued.
July 29, 1953-Air Force RB-50 downed by Soviet fighters over Sea of Japan. Sixteen crewmen missing, one crew member survived.
Sept. 4, 1954—Navy P2V shot down by two MIG type planes with Soviet markings over open waters off Siberian coast. Nine crewmen missing, one rescued.
Nov. 7, 1954—Air Force RB-29 flying routine mission near Hokkaido, Japan, shot down by two MIGs. One crew member killed, 10 injured.
June 22, 1955—Navy P2V damaged by Soviet jet fighters and forced to crash land on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Aug. 19, 1955—Air Force unarmed T-6 training plane shot down by ground fire over demilitarized zone in Korea. One crewman killed, one injured and returned.
March 6, 1958 - Air Force F-86 shot down by North Korean anti-aircraft fire over demilitarized zone. Pilot injured but returned.
June 27, 1958 - Air Force C-118 that strayed across Soviet border of Armenia in bad weather forced by Soviet MIG fighters to crash land. Nine crew members, including one injured, returned.
Aug. 22, 1956 - Navy PHM shot down by Red Chinese aircraft over open waters 32 miles east of Wencho. All 16 crew members missing
Sept. 2, 1958-Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet fighters near Turkish border. Bodies of six crew members returned, 11 others still missing.
May 1, 1960-U-2 Reconnaissance plane shot down by reconnaissance far inside Russia. Pilot Francis Powers held by Russia for trial as svv.
July 1, 1960—Air Force RB-47 reconnaissance bomber shot down by Soviet fighters over Barents Sea, north of Russia. Two crew members seized, four dead or missing.
Campers to Present 3 Plays This Week
Three plays will be presented Thursday and Friday in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall by high school students attending the theatre section of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The plays will be "The Bold Soprano." Thursday afternoon; "Medea," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and "The Glass Menagerie" 7:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is free. Seating in the Experimental Theatre is limited to 80 persons.
Personality Can Show Aptitude
CHICAGO—(UPI)—The president of a large employment service says executive proficiency (E.P.) ratings as obtained from some personality tests show the traits necessary for filling a top administrative position.
Lon D. Barton, president of Cadillac Associates, Inc., said that while he is opposed to formalized testing as practiced by most corporations, he approves of the "E.P rating."
"Do you as a graduating senior have E.P.?" Barton asks of the college student. To find out, he said, answer the six questions he has devised to reveal E.P. traits;
—Would subordinates be a source of danger to you in your job?
-If you lost your job, would you be concerned about having 'to take one with less prestige and money?' -Is the geographie location of a new position a major consideration in your career thinkings?
—If you were fired tomorrow, do you think you could locate a comparable job in less than 90 days?
—Have you arrived at a theoretical goal in earnings and job responsibility?
—Have you arrived, in your own mind, at the position you can best fill?
"The elite corps of the nation's top executives would answer no to all six questions," Barton said.
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Macbeth to Ge African Setting
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SALISBURY, Southern Rhodesia — (UPI) — Shakespeare has been played in many ways, but plans now being worked out for a performance of "Macbeth" at the African township of Harare, outside Salisbury, are unique.
The plan is to play "Macbeth" against a purely African background, substituting Zulu tribal chiefs for the Scottish kings and leaders of the original.
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"The incredible similarity between the blood-and-thunder of the Scotish chieftains and African warriors such as Shaka Zulu and Lobengula is something that I can't get out of my mind," the director said.
"The clan wars and the intertribal wars are almost exactly parallel." he said. "What I am proposing to do is to use Africans for the cast, dress them in animal skins like Shaka's warriors—after all Scots wore skins at the time of Macbeth—and use a colorful decor.
GREAT BEND - The rate of student demands on loan funds has increased more than 20 times as rapidly in the past decade as the increase in enrollment, about 75 persons attending a regional conference on alumni support of the University of Kansas have learned.
Drivers under the age of 25 make up less than 14 per cent of the driving population, but were involved in nearly 29 per cent of fatal accidents in the nation during 1959, according to the National Automobile Club.
Loan Demands Show Increase
Maurice E. Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund, told the KU alumni that "the patterns of family and college finances have changed so that the only limit to the need for student loans is the availability of funds.
"If $100,000 were unexpectedly to be made available today for loans to KU students, it would be committed before October 1. It must be remembered that this hypothetical $100,000 would enable many satisfactory students to attend KU who otherwise will not make it, and many of them will be unable to attend any other college either."
Barker said the same problems of student finance exist at nearly every college.
Dean C. Arden Miller of the School of Medicine told the KU alumni workers of the significance private support plays in upgrading public institutions.
In the discussions attended by KU alumni from 12 counties, it was noted that last year 3,600 loans totaling $700,000 were made to KU students, with all funds coming to the University through alumni gifts. In a different but important area, 90 percent of the land of the Mount Oread campus was made available to the state through private support rather than tax money purchase.
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Law Change Is Reviewed
(Continued from page 1) warranted, so long as the injured person lives—In 1858, and a wrongful death statute in 1868.
Then in 1877 the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that injured persons or their survivors could file only one cause of action, either survival or wrongful death.
By ruling that the two statutes were mutually exclusive, the Kansas Supreme Court set a precedent which meant that survivors could not seek unlimited damages if the injured family breadwinner died. They were limited to the $25,000 maximum damages allowed by the Kansas wrongful death statute.
The 1877 ruling was challenged many times before the reversal in 1959.
Attornies for Mrs. Prowant challenged the ruling again by filing suit for $50,000 damages after her husband's death in addition to the $25,- 000 permitted for wrongful death.
The Kansas Supreme Court finally decided in 1959 that Mrs. Prowant should recover the total of $75,000, and in so doing changed a Kansas law that had existed for 82 years.
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