Atomic Reactor Home Is Under Construction
With the receipt of a construction permit from the Atomic Energy Commission this month, the University began the construction of its first nuclear reactor building.
The building is expected to be completed by April, 1961, at which time the AEC will issue a license to the University to operate a nuclear reactor.
The $150,000 nuclear reactor which was manufactured by the Research Laboratories Division of Bendix Aviation Corp. will be used by the departments of radiation biophysics, environmental engineering and nuclear engineering.
Russell B. Mesler, associate professor of chemical engineering said that the reactor will be "used primarily for graduate student research and laboratory instruction."
Students will be given the opportunity to make use of the reactor and to determine its applications. Prof. Mesler said.
The reactor will provide a source of neutrons as well as a source of half-life isotopes that cannot be obtained from other sources due to their decay during transit.
Eventually plans will be made to use the reactor for undergraduate instruction in courses such as physical chemistry, atomic physics and elementary physics.
Prof. Mesler said;
"We realize that most undergraduate students are not up to the level where they can benefit from the reactor, but those who are will have the opportunity to use it."
The nuclear reactor building, which will occupy 17,000 square feet, will be located 700 feet west of Naismith Road on the north side of 15th Street.
The cost of the building, not including the nuclear reactor will be $438,000. It will contain one combined lecture and demonstration room and 14 research laboratories.
Capital Punishment Forum 4 p.m. Today
Capital punishment will be discussed by a sociology professor and a law professor at today's Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
Friday, April 22, 1960
Ray P. Cuzzort, assistant professor of sociology, and William A. Kelly, associate professor of law, will be the speakers.
'Pach' Comes To KU Again
For the first time in three years, Pachacamac, banished exclusively-Greek political party, is pictured in the Javhawker.
Daily Hansan
"Pach," founded in 1912 was the predominant campus political party for 43 years winning 22 out of 28 elections. In 1954, the party split, and the Pachacamac executive council went "underground."
THE PARTY IDEALS as stated in the newly-released Spring edition of the campus yearbook read:
"... To aid the University and the student body in fulfilling their purpose—helping the individual realize his greatest potentialities. It feels that the Greek system is the most efficient way to accomplish this goal, and strives to promote, develop and maintain high standards of Greek leadership and prestige at the University of Kansas.
"Pach" purchased a full page in the Jayhawker at a cost of $60. The members are pictured wearing black hoods with their arms folded in sentry-manner in front of them.
Membership in Pachacamac is kept entirely secret with hidden rendezvous and communications.
RON DALBY, JOPLIN, MO., junior and business manager of the Javhawker, said he received a letter early in the semester asking him to leave a page contract outside the door of his fraternity house. Dalby complied with the wishes of the letter, and the contract form was picked up during the night.
"Several weeks later I got another letter including the $60, the picture and the copy (story) to accompany it." Dalby said.
Fifteen members are pictured. "Pach" last appeared in the Jayhawker in 1957 in the "party pictures" section of the book.
SECTION A
57th Year, No.127
Korean Order Sought by Rhee
"I was shocked and couldn't help crying for the first time over the vicious and outrageous events of April 19, in which Koreans killed Koreans and attempted to ruin their country," Rhee said.
SEOUL—(UPI) –President. Syngman Rhee said today he "couldn't help crying" over the "vicious and outrageous" anti-government riots Tuesday in which 124 persons were killed, mostly by troops or police.
"But I will speak of this at a later date, since the dead have not all been buried. I now wish only to console my people. . . .
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
In nearby Inchon, a student-led crowd of about 25.000 marched through the city, shouting for new presidential elections and an end to "police oppression."
"The most urgent thing we must consider is to lift martial law as soon as possible, so the people can enjoy freedom and security."
In a statement distributed by the government press office, the 85-year-old president appealed to the Korean people for orderly behavior that would make it possible to end martial law in South Korea.
Students Riot
Police made some half-hearted efforts to disperse the demonstrators but there was no repetition of Tuesday's violence.
At the same time, it was announced that Seoul police chief Yoo Choong Yul had joined the parade of officials who have resigned as a result of the riots. Yoo said he assumed "full moral responsibility" for the outbreak.
Rhee made no mention of possible cabinet changes or other concessions to opposition demands for reform.
No Mention of Concessions
The city's mayor, Rhee's cabinet and other officials had resigned previously on similar grounds.
Mrs. Murphy Opens Exposition
Rear Adm. Eugene J. Peltier will climax expositions with a
KU's 40th annual Engineering Exposition opened this morning as Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, wife of the chancellor, cut the ribbon. More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the two-day exposition.
LATEST IN LATTICE—David Zimmerman, Hays senior, was one of the engineering majors who worked through the night on the finishing
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy declared the exposition open at the brief ceremonies.
touches for the engineering exposition. Zimmerman was working on a lattice roof for a structure between Marvin and Lindley Halls.
Eighteen departments and organizations connected with the School of Engineering and Architecture have displays. Awards to the top three will be presented at the awards banquet tomorrow.
bers of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, will answer visitors' questions.
The Exposition stresses "Engineering in Modern Living" with the path leading to the exhibits trailing through four buildings. An information booth staffed by mem-
The exposition is open free to the public until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow.
talk at the awards banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
The 18 exhibits will be judged for three trophies. Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, awards a trophy for the best overall exhibit and the engineering council awards trophies for the most original and educational exhibits.
Germans Flee Soviets
E. Berlin Refugees Tracked by Reds
BERLIN—(UPI)—Communist East German police entered West Berlin for the second consecutive day today in an effort to halt a mass exodus of refugees from the Soviet zone. West Berlin police overpowered and arrested them.
An armed three-man communist patrol boldly crossed the border, ignored a demand by a lone West Berlin policeman to return, and began searching for refugees who are fleeing to the West in great numbers to escape new communist repression measures.
Police Eye Busiest Weekend of Year
- Relays weekend: fun for all—but the campus police.
The crowd of 20,000 or more expected for the two-day KU Relays and Engineering Exposition will converge on Oread to give the police department their busiest weekend of the year.
An auxiliary staff of 15 patrolmen will be added to the regular force to direct traffic and give information to campus visitors.
Joseph Skillman, chief of campus police, said the patrolmen will be placed in every parking lot and at most intersections.
Because of the great influx of visitors and state high schoolers, Chief Skillman suggested that students and faculty leave their cars at home today and tomorrow in order to ease the inevitable congestion. There will be virtually no parking on campus streets anytime during the two days.
He further suggested that it would be better for drivers to park in the bigger lots rather than on the hill.
Zone X will be open at the regular fee of 10c per car both days.
Zones M, N, O and C will be for Exposition visitors while zone A will be for Relays parking on Saturday.
Chief Skillman said that thoughtful, careful driving will be the greatest aid to the police department during their busiest period.
Jimmy Green Dons New Yellow Coat
Jimmy Green wore a new coat this morning, to be exact three coats—of paint.
Vandals last night splattered the statue and steps in front of Green Hall with paint, leaving the statue with a yellow-orange hue this morning.
Charles Eberwein, night watchman, reported the "painting" to campus police early this morning. The vandals were not seen.
This wasn't the only paint job last night. The Campus Police jeep received its share too. No persons were seen doing either of the pain jobs.
The jeep was painted as officers left the jeep to put up a barricade on zone D. When they returned the left rear of the jeep had been painted yellow.
Jimmy Green was painted green last year on St. Friatrick's Day. In the past he has worn red paint on May Day and has been "dressed up" on numerous occasions by students.
The police have no suspects on the painting incidents.
Weather
Fair, warm, windy and humid today. Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday with thunderstorms in area tonight, continuing off and on through Saturday. Highs this afternoon mid-80s. Lows tonight around 60.
They were moving toward the American sector's Wannsee station on the communist-run elevated railway when 10 West Berlin police arrived and overpowered them. This time the communist police were walking along ground level tracks.
Passengers Questioned
Yesterday East Berlin policemen code into West Berlin on the elevated trains and questioned passengers and searched their baggage before West zone police rushed to the scene and chased them back into the Russian sector. Two were arrested.
More than 6,000 refugees have fled into West Germany in the past week in a flight from harsh communist measures which include seizure of all privately owned farms and a threat to seize all privately owned business.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met today in Bonn with his cabinet and issued an appeal to West Germans to open their arms to the new influx of refugees — the greatest since the anti-communist uprising of June, 1953.
Airlines Aid Flight
Already commercial airlines were putting on extra planes to handle the flight to freedom and safety.
Yesterday and today the communist East Berlin police entered West Berlin to try to track down some of the refugees before they could fly across the communist zone to West Berlin. Train passengers saw them today and called police.
The Communists, under a wartime four-power agreement, run the Berlin elevated railway which serves both East and West Berlin and is the most frequently used escape route of the refugees. The Communists contend the railway is part of the Soviet zone system.
The Communists also were reported stepping up border controls in the eastern sector of the city, but several hundred refugees managed to get through to West Berlin.
U.S. Says Secrecy Bars Disarmament
GENEVA—(UPI)—The United States said today there was little chance of disarmament so long as the Soviet bloc seeks "to preserve the advantage of being able to strike secretly."
Chief U. S. disarmament delegate Fredrick M. Eaton said the Soviet Union is so obsessed with secrecy that "even the telephone books have been jealously guarded..."
"So long as obsessive secrecy is coupled with stubborn resistance to effective control of disarmament on the part of the Soviet Union, there appears to be slight prospect of fulfilling the world's hopes for a speedy start on the solution of the great problem of disarmament," Eaton said.
Eaton spoke at the 27th session of the 10-nation disarmament conference.
He said the Soviets had paid "hip service" to the principle of strict international controls but have been silent on details.
"Unfortunately, this only strengthens the suspicion that the USSR is sticking fast to its old concepts of maximum secrecy and no effective control," he said.