Theft Suspect Furnishes Clue
A suspect may furnish the first big lead in the $3,845 Allen Field House burglary.
FBI in Case
Joseph Skillman, chief of campus police, confirmed this morning reports that police have a suspect but refused to elaborate.
Chief Skillman clarified reports that the FBI had entered the case because it had been determined that over $5,000 had been stolen.
"The FBI is looking into the case to see if there is any violation of the interstate commerce laws," he said.
In a statement from the office of Mark Felt, regional director of the Bureau and agent in charge, it was disclosed that the FBI can only enter a case of this nature if the theft involved over $5,000 and was transported across state boundaries.
Money May Not Be Insured
Police said that the athletic office safe burglary may not be insured because there were no signs of forcible entry either to the safe or the vault in which the safe was locked.
A final decision on whether or not the company will cover the loss has not been determined.
The burglary took place over the weekend following the KU-Boston football game A large portion of the money stolen was the game's receipts.
Middle East Sees Communist Threat
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Free World's Middle Last alliance ended a three-day session here today with a warning that danger of Communist subversion "remains particularly acute."
the alliance, known formally as the Central Treaty Organization
Deadline Named for Senior Queen Entries
Entries for senior queen candidates should be turned in by noon Monday to the Alumni Office, 127 Strong.
Theft Leads To Jail Term
Theft of gasoline from Allen Field House led to a 30-day jail sentence for a Lawrence man.
Alex A. Hardisty, who gave his address as 442 Illinois Ave., pled guilty yesterday to a charge of petty larceny when he was arraigned in probate court.
(CENTO) Council, consists of Turkev, Iran, Pakistan and Britain.
Joseph Skillman, chief of campus police, said Hardisty admitted taking gas from a pickup truck at the field house, following questioning by campus and city police.
The member nations issued a concluding statement calling for "constant vigilance" against Red moves in the strategic Middle East.
The four nations, all members of the original Baghdad pact Alliance, noted stepped-up Communist propaganda activities against Iran and said that despite the Eisenhower-Khrushchev conferences "there remained deep-seated causes of anxiety."
"The danger of subversion abetted by foreign propaganda, for instance, remains particularly acute," the declaration said.
The United States—act a formal member of the alliance—has moved to allay Middle East apprehensions by taking over top military posts in the organization.
The attempted assassination of Iraq Premier Abdel Kassem underscored the fact that the Middle East still is a cold war battleground.
Weather
For the period Saturday through Wednesday temperatures will average 3 to 6 degrees below normal. Normal highs range from 70 to 75. Normal lows from 39 in the northwest to 50 in the southeast. Cooler Saturday. Warmer Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation will average light to moderate occurring as scattered showers.
Daily hansan
LOOK MOM, NO BURN—Demonstrating a new metal spray gun given to KU, John Hadel, Kansas City, Mo., senior, shows the spray won't burn his hand if he keeps it far enough from the gun's nozzle. The Metalizing Engineering Co. of New York recently gave KU two spray guns, a gift valued at $2,000, said Paul G. Hausman, associate professor of engineering manufacturing processes.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
$4,300,000 to University
Friday, Oct. 9, 1959
5/th Year, No.16
Regents Approve Big KU Building Program
By Ray Miller and Jane Boyd
The State Board of Regents voted eight to one today for a report which provides $4,300,000 for building purposes at the University of Kansas.
The report, which also allocated funds for other schools in the state, set the fall of 1964 as the completion date for the program.
The buildings at KU included in this report were: $600,000 power plant to be completed Sept. 1, 1961; $1,900,000 engineering building, to be completed March 1, 1963, and $1,800,000 addition to Watson Library to be completed Jan. 1, 1964.
The estimated cost of the entire building program is $11,236,000.
Clement H. Hall, Coffeyville, chairman of the board, said that the report adopted this morning did not take position on how the total building program would be financed.
"I do understand there is some 15 million dollars coming in over the period '60-'64," he said.
funds the state budget division says are already available.
The report asked the Legislature to approve in January the following funds for KU building projects:
The report established only the cost of the building program, the completion date and the resources available, such as the Educational Building Fund.
$600,000 for the power plant addition, and $450,000 for the new engineering building.
The United Press International said the Board recommended that the 1961 budget session of the Legislature appropriate $2,671,000 for part of the program, using
State schools get their building money from the Education Building Fund. The EBF is financed by a $4 mill state property tax.
Chairman Hall said, "This conciliatory report is based on the board trying to get together on what needs to be built and how to pay for it."
The board had deadlocked in September over methods of financing the building projects.
Houses to Make Bids For 1960 Rock Chalk
Organizations interested in entering the 1960 Rock Chalk Revue should pick up preferential,bidding cards at the KU-YMCA office.
The card must be returned by 5 p.m. Tuesday to the Y-office in the Kansas Union, with pairing preferences listed.
KU,KS to Sign Big Peace Pact
The University of Kansas-Kansas State University peace pact will be signed Saturday.
The Associated Student Council of KU will go to Manhattan to sign a pact with the Student Governing Assn. of Kansas State "condemning all manner of undesirable and unfriendly activities between the two schools," as the pact states.
The agreement also states that a trophy "commemorating the pact will be presented to the winner of the annual KU-K-State football game at the half-time of the winning team's home KU-K-State basketball game."
The pact includes an agreement for the two groups to meet next year to reconsider the pact.
Members of the ASC who will attend the luncheon and meeting are: Jim Austin, Topeka senior; Rudy Vondracek, Timkin senior; Mariorie Williamson, Hutchinson senior; Walter Brauer, Bonner Springs junior.
Mary Sue Childers. Mission junior: Martha Crosier, Lawrence seni- nior: Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo., senior: Robert Iott, Livingston, Mont., senior, and Ann Shaffer, Russell seni- or.
State Department Reassures China
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The State Department has reassured Nationalist China that American policy toward Chiang Kae-Shek's government is unchanged even though the United States does not regard Formosa as a "country."
The department said the reassurance was given Chinese Minister HC. Hsu when he asked about a federal court ruling that the United States could not deport Chinese aliens to Formosa against their will because the American government did not consider Formosa a part of China.
Daily Kansan Wins All American Spot
The University Daily Kansan has been named one of the top five college newspapers in the nation for the spring semester.
Associated Collegiate Press rated the Kansan an All American paper for the second straight semester. This is the highest rating given and only five papers received it.
The judge praised The Kansan for excellent news coverage, attractive page makeup, definite and specific headlines, and superior features, interviews and speech stories.
In rating news coverage excellent, the judge said: "Your Docking running story was well done . . . also the housing bias yarn."
The Docking stories resulted from an interview by Daily Kansan staff members with Gov. George Docking Feb. 19. The governor said that "KU is a trouble scot in the state of Kansas and needs cleaning up."
The story was carried in most Kansas papers and in many out-of-state papers, including the Denver Post and the Christian Science Monitor.
The housing bias story broke Feb. 13, when the Kansan revealed that the housing office was giving different housing lists to Negro and white students. The practice was later stopped.
Library Receives Strange Queries
One often has to be a walking "Information Please" to answer some of the questions that are asked at the reference desk in Watson Library.
For instance, would you know what Salmundi is, or what the "Sittin', Starin', and Rockin' Club" is?
These were two of the 9,372 troublesome questions that were asked last year at the desk in the reference room, Joyce McLead, head reference librarian, said.
Students often ask difficult questions. Last year one student asked for identification of the poetic stanza:
"In tragic Life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot;
We are betrayed by what is false within"
Some of the easier questions asked by students were;
1. What are the birth and death rates by states?
2. Where is there some good material on pollution control?
The reference department keeps a special file of the questions asked. This record helps the librarians to know the books needed to answer certain troublesome questions that have already been asked by students.
There is a general pattern for questions that are usually asked. These include requests for biographies, book reviews, scripts of
plays, encyclopedias and microfilm information.
"The questions are of a different nature in a university library which serves mainly students as compared with a public library which must answer the questions of housewives, businessmen, retired professors and children." Miss McLeod said.
The reference department also handles interlibrary loans.
"Last year we had requests from other libraries for 2,302 items, including books, magazines and thesis. We had requests to borrow 1,803 publications." Miss McLeod said.
Oh, yes, would you like to know the answers to the earlier troublesome questions? Here they are.
1. Salamagundi is a mixture of minced veal, chicken, or turkey, anchovies or pickled herrings, and onions, all chopped together and served with lemon juice and oil.
2. The Sittin', Starin', n' Rockin'
Club is for relaxation. It has no
committees, no dues and no meetings.
Membership cards, rocking
chair operator's licenses and a six-
month calendar reminding members
to rock more on holidays are issued.
3. The poetry is from George
3. The poetry is from George Meredith's "Modern Love."
Because the last two questions are easier, we'll let you look them up. The answer to number one may be found in "Statistical Abstracts". The reference pamphlet file under air pollution will be helpful for question number two.