Tuesday, July 14, 1959 Summer Session Kansan Paj
Management Institute Convenes, Drawing 110
The 10th anniversary Midwest Management Institute meeting convened Sunday on the campus, drawing 110 credit bureau representatives from 12 states and Canada.
The program will include hourly classroom sessions and seminars. E. A. McFarland, manager of the KU Bureau of Institutes, says a certificate of achievement from the institute represents 100 credit hours. The maximum credits for one summer session is 25.
Credits awarded during the four-year program are standardized and transferable throughout the country. Other schools offering the program are Yale University, University of Illinois, University of Texas, and University of California.
McFarland said the KU program compares in size with the program at North Carolina State University, where the institute was founded 12 years ago.
McFarland said many graduates of the program return to the campus because the topics of the seminar sessions are rotated annually. "We have had a few members of our first graduating class return to the sessions each year since the institute was founded," he said.
Don H. Puffer, president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of America, will speak at the commencement banquet at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Puffer, bureau manager in the Denver area, is a graduate of the KU institute program.
Tour of Soviet By 7 Goes On
MOSCOW—(UPI)-Seven American governors flew from Uzbekistan to Kazakh Republic Monday during their tour of the Soviet Union, Tass reported.
The official Soviet news agency said the seven governors were scheduled to tour Alma-Ata, Kazakh's capital.
They went to the eastern republic from Tashkent in Uzbekistan where they were given a banquet by Mayor Madzhid Yuldashev.
The governors, who last week conferred with Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin, included Le-Roy Collins of Florida, George D. Clyde of Utah, Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, John E. Davis of North Dakota, Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina, Stephen L. R. McNichols of Colorado and Robert E. Smylie of Idaho.
Colonel Becomes General in Army
Col. Clair L. Wood, University of Kansas alumnus, has been promoted to brigadier general.
Gen. Wood is inspector general at headquarters, Air Training Command, United States Air Force, at Randolph Air Force Base, Tex.
A civil engineering student, General Wood was graduated from the University with a bachelor of science in civil engineering degree in 1932. He was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps here and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineer Reserve June 4, 1931.
Gen. Wood became a flying cadet with the Army Air Corps following graduation here. He received his flying training at Randolph and Kelly fields in Texas and was awarded his pilot's wings in 1933. Gen. Wood served in the European Theater of Operation in World War II, flying combat in medium bombers. He is now a command pilot.
Asks Reds to Stop Threats
With the general at Randolph AFB is his wife, the former Miss Marv Bennett of Meade, Kan. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James B Wood of Liberal.
GENEVA — (UPI) — The Western powers called on Russia Monday to scrap its Berlin time-bomb once and for all if it wants a summit meeting.
U. S. Secretary of State Christian A. Hertler told Russia's Andrei Gromykov in unequivocal terms that the West will not negotiate under an ultimatum, duress or the continued threat of a new Berlin crisis.
The success or failure of our efforts in the area of international relations depends largely on the personnel of our foreign service, Rep. Newell A. George (D-Kan) said Monday upon introducing a measure in the House looking toward the establishment of a foreign service school.
George Stresses Foreign Study
The George bill is similar to one introduced in the Senate by Sen. Symington (D-Mo) about which State Department officials recently said: "Such an academy would not be in the best interests of the country or the foreign service at this time."
"In an age in which one mighty blow by an unfriendly power could completely destroy a large city," George said, "our country has a critical need for competently trained foreign service personnel. Most certainly our record abroad clearly demonstrates this need. The State Department should get its head out of the sand.
"Although a number of our universities do have excellent courses in foreign service and languages, either they are not being utilized to the maximum or our State Department is not employing those who have received the proper training."
"Too often, people are sent to represent the United States in foreign countries who can neither speak nor understand the language of the country to which they are sent.
He stressed the fact that emphasis should be placed upon the teaching of foreign languages in this type of school. "Very few of our college graduates have studied foreign languages to any extent and even fewer have majored in any of them," he said.
"Use of the Sunflower facilities will augment the chemical-production facilities at Lawrence and utilize our experienced personnel to increase our services to customers." Mr. Sanner said.
Callery Chemical Co. here is negotiating a lease with the U.S. government for use of part of the facilities of the vast Sunflower Ordnance Works near here for development, testing, and production of new high-energy rocket propellants.
"This combination of facilities and trained personnel should significantly shorten the time required to develop new propulsion concepts. For example, Sunflower would be ideal for advanced development of certain aspects of the new propellant concept now being explored by Callery under a current contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
E. G. Sanner, president of the pioneer high-energy-fuel company, said the proximity of the ordnance works to Callery's Lawrence chemical plant and the excellent facilities available at Sunflower provide an ideal combination for advanced work on monopropellants, bipropellants, and solid propellants.
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