Wednesday, Sept. 23. 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Prof. Price on Leave To Teach at Cal. Tech.
G. Baley Price, professor and chairman of the mathematics department, will be a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. He has been granted a leave of absence without pay for the 1959-60 academic year.
William R. Scott, professor of mathematics, will be acting chairman of the department while Russell N. Bradt, associate professor; is taking Prof. Price's place as director of the National Science Foundation academic year institute for high school teachers of mathematics
Puerto Ricans Defend Youths
NEW YORK—(UPI)A group of Puerto Rican organizations ran fullpage newspaper advertisements today to tell fellow New Yorkers that Puerto Rican youths are responsible for only a small percentage of the city's juvenile crime.
"We too fight delinquency," the ad said.
The advertisement appeared over the signature of the Puerto Rican Community Self-Help Program and listed 162 organizations it said represented "virtually all of the Puerto Ricans in the city." They included churches of all faiths, labor union locals, Spanish language newspapers and radio stations and a number of fraternal and social groups.
The advertisement said "Puerto Ricans are involved in only some 8 per cent of the city's crime, which is roughly equivalent to our proportion in the population," despite the fact that most of them are low-paid workers forced to live in the traditionally crime-breeding slums.
It cited a recent board of education study which showed that Puerto Ricans in New York have a lower rate of delinquency than others in the same neighborhoods.
"It would help us if more New Yorkers understood that their fellow citizens from Puerto Rico are not a dangerous and criminal element because of the actions of a few youths," the ad said.
"We are doing and will do all we can..."
International News Digest Premier Sees No 12-Foot Corn
COON RAPIDS, Iowa —(UPI)—Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev did not seen any corn "as high as an elephant's eye" at the Roswell Garst farm today.
Agricultural experts reported that the average corn crop used to be about 12 feet tall but is now down to 10 feet.
Teacher 'Gives Up'
Before the widespread use of hybrid corn, it was believed that the taller the stalk the greater the yield, the experts said, but this theory has been discredited.
CANTERBURY, England —(UPI)
—After 50 hours of trying to teach Peter O'Rourke, 24, to drive a car his instructor has given up.
"It's no good, he's instructionproof." he said.
But Peter said, "It's not true that I cannot be taught. It took me two years to learn how to ride a bicycle. It's just that I am a slow learner."
Crepe-soles Sneaky
PORTSMOUTH, England —(UPI)
—Douglas Fall, jailed four months for stealing from a church offering box, told the judge there ought to be a law against church vergers wearing crepe-soled shoes.
Prof. Bradt will continue as acting director of the all-University computation center which has been installed in its permanent quarters in Summerfield Hall.
"I couldn't hear him creeping up on me," Fall complained.
CU Stops Hazing
BOULDER, Colo. — (UPI) — Fraternity men at the University of Colorado resolved yesterday to cease their traditional hazing of pledges.
The Inter-Fraternity Council adopted by unanimous vote an amendment to its constitution. It eliminates the traditional "Hell Week" hazing.
The academic year institute is directed toward the professional development of 50 high school mathematics teachers who are candidates for the master of arts degree.
THURMONT, Md. — (UPI)—The leafy, mountain calm of Camp David was punctured today by the bustling work of preparing for President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev who bring their cold war differences to this mountain area on Friday.
Camp David Makes Ready
The tightest security in the history of the White House resort was in effect. For days, tourists who stopped their cars anywhere near the entrance have been questioned politely by federal agents. Marine sharpshooters and highly trained war dogs patrol constantly along the high, electrically charged fence surrounding the 134-acre establishment.
Russian security agents have been examining the camp for days, but they have not been given access to some of the government's secret equipment installed at the camp (a Navy installation) for the protection and use of the President when he's not entertaining such high-ranking visitors.
Camp David, named after the President's grandson, was established in the Catoctin Mountains six miles west of Thurmont during World War II by President Roosevelt. Known then as Shangri-La, it gave him a secluded, restful retreat from the summer heat and humidity of Washington.
When Eisenhower and his soviet guest arrive tomorrow, they will settle down in the President's cottage, known as Aspen. It is perched on a hill overlooking a peaceful valley where unseasonably cool weather has begun to tip the trees with red and gold.
Also resident in the cottage with the two principals will be Secretary of State Christian A Herter and soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Aspen Cottage bears little resemblance to a country palace or the Premier's sumptuous dacha outside Moscow.
The cottage was constructed originally from three tourist cabins that used to rent for $1.25 a night.
Paul Shanahan, Secretary of State, said he learned that the Oregon legislature appropriated $2,-600,000 for their centennial this year. The 1959 Kansas legislature appropriated $25,000.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Centennial Commission voted today to investigate the possibility of having an international trade fair in Kansas during the statehood centennial in 1961.
Centennial Group Seeks Trade Fair
Mrs. Frank Haucke of Council Grove reported that the first sales of a Kansas centennial stamp will be made at the historic post office oak at Council Grove on May 10, 1961.
About a third of the commission membership met here. All 200 members had been invited.
The post office will send 40 employees to handle the sales, she said.
She added that a "Santa Fe Tran Caravan," starting at Independence, Mo., and going to Santa Fe, N.M. will stop in Council Grove the day the stamp goes on sale. The caravan will be made up of Kansans.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.—Jean Baptiste Moliere
Khrushchev Greets Iowa Farmer With Embrace
A happy grin and a fond embrace. This was the reunion today of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Roswell Garst, the prosperous, plain-spoken hybrid seed corn grower who will try to show the Russian boss how to produce more food for his many millions of subjects.
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A happy grin and a fond embrace.
Garst, 61, often appears gruff and brusk to persons who have just met him.
It is a strange friendship since Khrushchev's firm communist beliefs come no way near the capitalistic ideas of the well-to-do Iowa farmer.
The two are old friends since they dined together last March at the Kremlin. Garst and his wife, Elizabeth, broke short a trip to the Mediterranean in order to travel to Moscow and meet Khrushchev, who had invited them through Russian delegations visiting this country.
Actually, he is a hard-headed businessman with a basic belief in providing more food for more of the world's peoples.
Garst Appears Gruff
Garst enjoys his controversia past, differences which have at times made him an outcast in the AMA of the farm world, the American Agronomists Assn.
He emphasizes his differences, for example in the field of crop rotation, with highly illustrative examples. Garst believes that any person who fails to plant a cash crop on a field
Cost of Living Drops in August
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The cost of living dropped in August for the first time in six months, the government reported today. Lower food prices more than offset increased costs of such items as clothing and transportation.
The Labor Department's index of consumer prices fell one-tenth of one per cent below July levels to 124.8 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. Despite the drop, the August showing was the highest ever recorded for the month. In August, 1958, the index stood at 123.7.
The department also reported that the idleness of striking steel workers plus lay-offs in the auto industry due to model changeovers, caused a drop in the average earnings and buying power of factory workers.
year after year, instead of rotating them, is throwing money away.
The take home pay of the average factory worker with three dependents declined by 90 cents to $79.75 a week. Theoretically, this meant a 1 per cent reduction in his buying power despite the lower consumer prices. Actually, workers still on the job had more purchasing power.
He points out that two inventions, the internal combustion engine and the refining of oil, ended 5.000 years of breeding horses for horsepower. In much the same way, he reasons, the invention of modern fertilizers has outmoded crop rotation.
Despite the drop in the index, some 125,000 aircraft workers will receive pay increases of one to two cents an hour because of past rises in the price yardstick. They include employees of North American Aviation, Hughes Aircraft, the Martin Co. and Temco.
He Presented Theory
He likes to tell the story of when he presented this theory before the agronomists group in 1951
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"Never have I heard such silence," he recalls.
His wife, who was in the audience, jokingly adds, "For a minute I feared for my life when I began to feel the menacing glances, but they shortly softened to pity."
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As a bride, she said, "We came to this run-down family farm" near Coon Rapids. But a year or so later they moved to Des Mines, where they operated a real estate business.
Mrs. Garst is easy-going, relaxed with a bright sense of humor and a good business head. She has raised two sons and three daughters while still being a good companion for her volatile, erratic husband
Boom Faded
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Near the close of the 20's, she said, the real estate boom began to fade. Se they moved back to the farm.
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"We decided we'd rather be peasants than paupers," she said.
Today that uncertainty of economics is not present. They are able to spend the winters in the Mediterranean area and take side trips to the Soviet Union when invited.
Sources at the SEATO military conference here said Thailand and the Philippines favored immediate aid to Laos, while Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand were reluctant to intervene.
BANGKOK, Thailand — (UPI) Military leaders of the Southeast Asia pact split today on what action the alliance should take if communist-attacked Laos asks for aid.
Everyone Invited
The U.S. attitude on the question was not reported. America's representative was believed to be trying to hammer out some kind of compromise.
Garst was in Russia last march at the invitation of Khrushchev. The
Garsts and Khrushheb dined at the Kremlin and it was there they cemented the bond that brought the premier to Coon Rapids.
Secretary General Pote Sarasin, who left today to attend a special SEATO council session in Washington, warned the generals that Asia's attitude toward the pact probably will be shaped by its approach to the Laos problem.
Pakistan took what amounted to a seat on the sidelines, indicating that concern over Red China's raids on the Indian border was occupying its leaders to the exclusion of any problems abroad.
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Laos Action Splits SEATO Leaders
The only action reported in Laos itself was the defeat at Sop Nao of a communist band by loyal troops who captured six rifles.
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