Daily Hansan
57th Year, No. 12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Oct. 5, 1959
Over $4,000 Stolen at Field House
THEY BROKE IN HERE—Burglarls took over $4,000 from this safe in Allen Field House over the weekend. Denzell Gibbens, left, assistant
business manager of the athletic department, and Earl Falkenstein, business manager, inspect a metal box which had held some of the money.
KU Student on Russian Tour Received 'Canned' Answers
By Thomas Hough
A KU student who spent a month and a half in the Soviet Union this summer said he found students there characterized by a political naivete,
Robert A. Nebrig, Leavenworth senior, was one of 24 American students who participated in a cultural exchange program to the Soviet Union. His visit was sponsored by the YWCA-YMCA.
"When you tried to discuss politics with the Soviet students, they gave only the 'pat' answers." Nebrig said.
Students Trust Their Leaders
"For instance, a fellow in Leningrad couldn't believe the soviet Union would have spies. He said the Soviet Union would never have spies because everyone knew the Soviet Union was for peace.
"Another student told me the reason Khrushchev never makes a mistake in any foreign policy is because as a young man, Khrushchev associated with the common people
"Those are examples of the feeling in the area of politics. The people really support their country, and they love their motherland and its government." he explained.
"Because of this relationship, Khrushchev still retains some of the magic the common people have for knowing the right thing to do politically," he added.
Education Differs
The Soviet education system is complicated, Nebrig added.
"A student's major is chosen by his choice and his score on the college entrance examination. Once a student declares a major, he must finish it. There are no transfers," he said.
The Soviet government controls fields of study students pursue. If they need more chemists, for example, the examinations are easy.
If only a few chemists are needed, the examinations are hard.
"The students are dedicated. They thirst for knowledge. Being a student in the Soviet Union is a privilege, and they treat it as such.
"There is no such thing as tuition. Most of the students are on scholarship for the necessities of life (food, clothing, etc.)," he said.
dividual because the amount of his scholarship is determined by his grades.
"The students read in every spare moment—during rest periods, traveling, or just standing around," Nebrig added.
Robert Nebrig
"Grades are important to the in-
Making good grades is also one of the ideals of the communist youth
By Ray Miller
league (Comosol) which exerts a social pressure. This organization is the one, all-encompassing, important activity in the students' lives.
"A month and a half is just enough to confuse you. Ten days gives a person enough information to generalize—proving everything he made up his mind about before he went." Nebrig said.
Nebrig said the main thing his visit did was to make him realize his inadequacy as an interpreter of Soviet life and government.
He said he did not experience any great difficulty because of not being able to speak the Russian language. A lot of Soviet students know English, and many of the students in his group spoke Russian fluently.
"I know only enough Russian to be polite (pardon me, please, thank you), but I seemed to get along by being friendly, smiling, and using a dictionary," he said.
No Language Difficulty
PITTSBURGH — (UPI) — The United Steelworkers today turned down a peace proposal for ending the costly steel strike. The industry immediately accused Union President David J. McDonald of prolonging the 83-day walkout.
Steel Strike Is Still in Stalemate
The athletic business office in Allen Field House was robbed of $4,000 to $6,000 this weekend.
Both sides, however, agreed to resume negotiations at 2:30 p.m. E.D.T.
The USW's powerful 171-member wage policy committee branded the offer as "completely unacceptable."
Police Search For Fingerprints
Campus, city and county law officers went quietly about their business of solving the Allen Field House break-in this morning.
About an hour later, industry negotiators accused McDonald of "responsibility for the continuing deadlock."
A safe was found emptied of cash at 8 o'clock this morning when Denzell Gibbens, assistant business manager, opened the safe.
Richard Stanwix, city detective, carefully dusted the money boxes for fingerprints. He knelt on the floor of the vault, lightly brushing the black dust over the boxes.
"Looks like we might have one here," he said to E. W. Fenstemaker, campus policeman, Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, supervised the investigation.
Richard F. Harp, basketball coach,
and Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, direcror of athletics, stood in the hall talking about the robbery.
"Don't Leave Prints
"Don't leave any fingerprints, Harp called to a reporter entering Lonborg's office.
Mrs. Lorena Mast, Mr. Lonborg's secretary, was being questioned by officers and reporters.
"Would this be your footprint here, Mrs. Mast?" an officer asked her.
"No, I was wearing high heels last night," she said.
She had discovered the office unlocked when she went to the field house last night to get a coat.
Figures Loss
Denzell Gibbens, assistant athletic business manager, tapped out long columns of numbers on an adding machine to determine how much was gone.
At the ticket windows near the front of the business office, students bought tickets to the KU-K-State game, unaware of the robbery
The safe, which contained the money, is located inside a large walk-in vault which was also secured by a combination lock.
Police Chief Joseph Skillman said the safes were probably opened by someone who knew the combination. He said:
"I wouldn't say it was a professional job. It looks like it was done by somebody who knew the combinations to the safes because none of the doors to the office were tampered with and neither were the doors to the safes."
Mr. Gibbens said the following items had been taken;
One cash box containing a small amount of cash used to make change with during ticket sales. One money sack containing a large amount of cash.
Overlook $120
The following items had been riffed:
One money sack which was not taken, but had been emptied and a money box had been rifled of $772.45. Mr. Gibbens said the burglars left $120 in the box.
"They evidently missed the money because it had been mixed in with some checks," he said.
The thief, or thieves, apparently were silent and meticulous in their work:
Police were unable to fix the exact time of the theft. They estimated it occurred between 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 this morning.
Mrs. Lorena Mast, secretary to A.C. (Dutch) Lonborg found the door to the office open at 8 p.m. last night.
"I came back for a jacket and found the door open. I looked around and nothing seemed to be out of order. We didn't know there had been a robbery until we went
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Rain, Rain Go Away — Come Again Next Year
If rainy weather continues, it is possible that collegiate Noahs will band together and build an ark that will make the original one look like a matchbox.
An "encouraging" note in the U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: "The rains that have caused scattered light flooding in Kansas will retreat from the state today. They will move northeast. Any rainfall in Kansas today is expected to be comparatively light."
Watkins Hospital reported the usual increase in colds, but Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of health services, said that the colds are not caused by the rainy weather.
"Controlled scientific experiments show changing weather has no effect on colds. We do have an increase in colds, but this is simply in keeping with a regular schedule.
"We used to keep a chart of respiratory diseases for each day of the year. This time of year happens to be a busy time for respiratory diseases. The weather is merely coincidental," he said.
Probably the most prevalent disease, in number affected, is called depression. It is almost impossible to walk across the campus and see a smiling face.
The men on campus have been deprived of their favorite fall sport, "chick checking." The lawn at Strong Hall has been far too wet to sit on. This could be the reason for the down-cast faces among the male population. The rain could also be the basis for the female solemnity because there is no one sitting on Strong lawn staring at them.
One group has tried a different approach to drive away the rain. Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is offering a $100 reward to anyone capturing the sun and restoring it to its place above the KU campus
Eventually the monsoons will leave and the usual Indian summer will come—that is if the rain doesn't stay until it turns to snow.