Daily Hansan
57th Year, No.147
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, May 20, 1960
ASC to Hear Plan
Mom, Pop May Sit In Student Section
A plan enabling students and their parents to sit together in the student section at all home football games next fall will be presented to the
The proposed "Parent Day" for every football weekend is being sponsored by the University Athletic Board. If ASC approval is given to the plan Tuesday, it will go into effect for next season.
The seating situation would work this way. The student's parents will buy season tickets for $18.50. The regular price is $20. A special section will be reserved for the students
Students Favor Special Parent Stadium Section
Should 800 seats between the goal line and the 10 yard line of the student section at the football stadium be reserved next year for parents purchasing special season tickets?
Eight KU students said they were in favor of reserving the seats, two said they were not in favor of reserving the seats and two said they were indifferent to the proposal in a Daily Kansan interview.
The question will be brought up for consideration before the ASC Tuesday night.
SUE NAYLOR, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, "Yes, I would be in favor of the plan mainly because parents do come up to see their children and they want to sit with them. I think it would give parents more interest in the games."
DONALD E. GERGICK, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore. "As I recall the games last year, if you didn't get there an hour ahead of time you had to stand in the back. I think it is a fine idea but we don't have room for it."
MARY ANN MEIGS, freshman,
"Yes, I would be in favor of the plan because I believe that the parents have come to see their sons and daughters and that they should be able to sit with them. I think they would enjoy the game more."
MYRA ANDERSON, Kansas City,
Kans., sophomore, "I would be in
favor of the plan because it would
encourage more parents to attend
the game and it would eliminate the
problem of trying to sit with your
parents during the game."
PHYLLIIS MACE. Leavenworth sophomore, "I think I would be in favor of the plan. I think my parents would come to more games then."
ROD RODGERS. Toronto freshman. "I am in favor of the plan because it would encourage the parents to come to the games more often."
PRISCILLA SHIDELER. Hutchinson sophomore, "I feel that it would be good because when parents come they do want to sit with their kids. But do enough parents come to games to warrant the reserve?"
CLARK CHAMPE. Kansas City, Kan., senior. "I think it would be a good plan because if the parents come to a football game their main object is to see their kids, so they should be able to sit with them."
FRANK MORGAN. Cimmaron junior, "Yes, I would favor the plan. I am especially in favor of giving opportunity for students to sit with their parents. The way it is now, the only way a student can sit with his parents is to buy a ticket, which seems unnecessary."
and their parents in the student seating section between the goal line and the 10-yard line.
James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, said that 500 is the number of parents the athletic board is aiming at to make the plan a success. There would be about 800 persons in this section including about 300 students who would sit in it regardless.
THE 800 seats would come from the student section of 8,420, he said. Mr. Gunn said:
"The proposed plan is entirely up to the students. It is part of a larger plan designed to further relations between the University and students' parents. If a substantial group of students decide that they are in opposition to the plan, then it will be dropped."
Mr. Gunn said that the only disadvantage to the program that he could see was that it would require the vast majority of the students to make a small sacrifice for those whose parents would be buying the season tickets.
"Most students will have to take it for granted that allowing students and their parents to sit together is meeting a basic need of some of the students.
"A direct mailing list to the parents of all students within about a 150 mile radius is planned if the ASC adopts the program," Mr. Gunn said.
Ron Dalby, student body president and student representative on the athletic board said that the University is planning a number of big events for every football weekend next fall to try to get more people on campus.
"THE FIRST home football game will coincide with the opening of the new addition to the Union, a barbecue is planned for another week-end—the University wants to give people as many excuses as possible to come up to the school. This applies particularly to students' parents."
"Along with the special seating arrangement, it is hoped that the parents will make special arrangements during Saturday mornings to speak to their son's and daughter's instructors and maybe to attend a class or two." Dalby said.
Those doors to the storm cellars can be closed for at least the next five days, according to the latest government weather bureau forecasts.
Weather
A nive day forecast calls for temperatures to average six degrees below normal in the Mount Oread vicinity.
Dr. C. A. Miller
Miller to Head Medical School
Dr. C. Arden Miller, assistant dean of the KU Medical Center, today was named dean of the Medical School by the Board of Regents. He replaces chancellor-elect Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe.
Dr. Miller was appointed on the recommendations of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Dr. Wescoe. In a statement to the Regents, Dr. Wescoe said:
"The University is fortunate to have Dr. Miller available. His nine years of service in the School of Medicine, his experience as Director of the Children's Rehabilitation Center, and particularly his three years of service as assistant dean qualify him uniquely for the position."
"Under his leadership I am confident that the Medical Center will continue to move forward with vigor."
Dr. Miller is a native of Shelby, Ohio. He attended public schools in Mansfield, Ohio, and Medford, Oregon., and graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1944.
He received his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine and graduated with cum laude honors.
Dr. Miller became an instructor in pediatrics at the Center in 1951 after serving his internship in the pediatrics service at Grace New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
(For details of the Regents' Meeting see page 12.)
Dr. Miller was born Sept. 19, 1924. in Shelby, Ohio. The Millers have three children.
Nikita Postpones W. Berlin Action
BERLIN - (UPI) - Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today he would take no action against West Berlin for at least six to eight months—when he hopes another Summit Conference can be called with the next U.S. President.
He made it clear he would never again meet with President Eisenhower.
Khrushchev spoke before a roaring crowd at a "hate Eisenhower" rally in an East Berlin Hall. Above him was a banner proclaiming "an end to the provocations of Eisenhower and Adenauer"—which officially made Eisenhower one of the three men most condemned by the East German Reds. The other is Adolf Hitler.
KHRUSHCHEV TOLD the crowd he thought there could be a summit meeting in six or eight months from now but he said Eisenhower had fallen under the influence of the Pentagon's "old war circles" and would not be there.
"We will wait for negotiations," Khrushchev said. "If the next President will not negotiate, then we will wait for the next one after that."
"But for a solution of the problem of the remnants of World War II, a German peace treaty and the resolution of the Berlin problem, we will not wait very long."
Khrushchev said if the western powers are not soon ready to solve these problems the Soviets and East Germany will have to meet with their friends to decide how they should be resolved.
"THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, we are sure, want peace just like all other people." Khrushchev said. "Their Presidents, too, have in many cases been men of peace—I mention only Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt.
"The question of who is the next president of the United States is a question only for the American people. We will not interfere in the election of an American President. We would not even if we could."
"But the policy of the mighty U.S. is a very important thing for peace. When it is a question of what policy the U.S. follows as a leader of the capitalist world, then that is a question for us all."
"Yesterday." Khrushchev continued, "we discussed Berlin and a German peace treaty with East German leaders.
"There is no other solution but a peace treaty with the two German states to end the war. On this basis also, the end of the occupation of Berlin will be made and solved on a basis of a free city (of West Berlin).
"This will end the completely abnormal situation that troops of an enemy bloc are in the center of the (East) German Democratic Republic and carry on diversionary work."
This was the same demand Khruschev made 18 months ago when he first set a six-month deadline for Western acceptance of the "Free City of West Berlin" scheme. He later let this deadline pass unnoticed when a big four foreign ministers conference was arranged.
ROTC Students Honored Today
The annual Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC awards ceremony and review will be conducted at 4 p.m. today in Memorial Stadium.
It marks the culmination of the year's military ceremonies and is unique in that this is the only ceremony in which all of the cadets and midshipmen are assembled together at one time.
ROTC students are honored at this ceremony for outstanding academic and military achievement. The awards will be presented by distinguished persons from KU, Lawrence and neighboring communities.
Murphy to Be Present
Among the guests for the ceremony are Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy; George B. Smith, dean of the University; James R. Surface, dean of the School of Business; John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering; Rear Admiral William R. Terrell (USN retired); and Judge Hugh Means, member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S.
Other special guests will be:
Ambrose W. Deatrick, Topeka, former Vice President General of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; John T. Weatherwax, mayor of Lawrence and Vice President of the Henry Leavenworth Chapter of the Assn. of the U.S. Army.
T. R. Hazlett, donor of an Air Force ROTC award in memory of his son, Richard Hazlett; Col. William H. Bray, member of the local chapter of the Reserve Officers' Assn., and professors of military, naval and air science.
(Continued on page 4.)
Tornado Tragic to Oskaloosa, Meriden
Bv Rael F. Amos
Last night we saw the grim face of disaster — a tornado had struck. Meriden, a small Kansas farming community of 400, had suffered the full effects of the storm, and Oskaloosa, the county seat of Jefferson County, had felt the lash of its tail.
Four Lawrence Civil Defense units, National Guardsmen and sheriff's officers today are aiding to dig out Oskalboosa.
The American Red Cross sent a disaster unit to Rossville and Silver Lake, near Topeka, after one of the tornadoes hit the farm area. Nine homes were destroyed and several persons injured there.
The storm hit about 8 o'clock. Within three hours, most of the northeast Kansas highway patrol and several companies of National Guard were helping to clear the wreckage.
Roads in the area were a quagmire and creeks were flooding. K-92
between Meriden and Oskaloosa was closed by the highwater from Slough Creek.
In Oskaloosa, two families who were away from their home in Meriden when the tornado hit, were frantically trying to get to Meriden. Others who had friends or relatives in the area were trying to decide whether to ford the flooded creek or go the extra miles by Valley Falls.
As we drove into Oskaloosa about 11 p.m., the town seemed deserted. No one was stirring; the streets were littered by broken trees. Going on to the court house square, the only thing in sight at first was a lone truck parked with its lights on. Traveling around the square we came upon a group of people.
"There's an unidentified body in Meriden and the sheriff can't get through," one voice said out of the darkness.
"The sheriff was hurt by some
flying debris," another answered him.
The Jefferson County sheriff, John Pence, was injured, reportedly when trying to rescue some Oskaloosa residents from the storm.
The east side of the square in Oskaloosa showed no apparent signs of the storm, with the exception of one gasoline station sign which was leaning. The west side was littered by broken tree limbs and parts of roofs. In the darkness, the damaged court house was not apparent. Walking toward the building, you soon learned the whole second story had been neatly removed by the storm. Some in the mingling crowd were concerned with the safety of the county records in the building.
Soon confusion turned to semiorder, and thoughts turned to Meriden. Reports filtering in from the stricken community indicated the town was in worse shape than Oska-
loosa. So, the city sent its truck to help in the clearing process.
After an unsuccessful attempt to get through on K-92, the "convoy of interested bystanders" started the trek via Valley Falls.
In Meriden the destruction and chaos was a setback to even those who expected the worst. Houses had been leveled, cars thrown into yards, and trees completely uprooted. The downtown district was a shambles of twisted metal, shattered glass and broken brick. The front of one building had been separated from the rest of the building. A metal girder had been bent like a straw. The tavern where Mildred Hundley was killed was just a shell of a building.
The operator of the McHenry General Store was doing a thriving cigarette business despite heavy destruction. His price was only 25 cents a package, but you could tell by the
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