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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 26, 1959
Scientists Say America Unpreparedfor H-Bomb
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Scientists said today that an H-bomb attack would catch America's 177 million men, women, and children totally unprepared and unprotected.
Asia Institute Held at KU
For the fourth year, a special Summer Institute on Asia is being held at KU. Dr. George Beckmann, associate professor of history is the program's director.
The institute, which is intended to enable high school and college teachers to better incorporate Asia into world history courses, runs concurrent with the regular KU summer session, from June 8 to Aug. 1.
Funds for six scholarships to the institute have been provided by the Endowment Assn., the Japan Society the Asian Foundation and the Asia Society. The latter three agencies are non-profit organizations interested in improving knowledge and understanding of Asian history, culture and values. All are sponsored by business interests having dealing with the Far East.
Dr. Beckmann is teaching two courses directly connected with the institute, "The Modernization of China and Japan," and "Readings in History for Teachers." Two other courses dealing with Asian history are being offered by the KU History Department this summer: "Southeast Asia in Modern Times," by Dr. Beckmann, and "The British Empire," by Dr. Charles B. Realey, professor of history at the University. Enrollment in them is optional for institute members.
The holders of scholarships to the institute are:
Esther Anderson, Kansas City, Kan. Junior High Schools; George Bunch, Kansas City, Mo., Junior College; Paul R. Heitzman, Topeka High School; Sister Mary Carol Schroeder, Marian College, Indianapolis, Ind.; William Sheldon, Mt Barbara, Salina; Sister Maurine Sulivan, Donnellly College, Kansas City, Kan.
Center Issues Election Report
The story of voting in Kansas gubernatorial elections from 1859, when 13,249 voters in 30 counties cast ballots through 1956 when 864,-935 votes were tallied is told in a study released by the KU Governmental Research Center.
Clarence J. Hein and Charles A. Sullivant are authors of "Kansas Votes, Gubernatorial Elections, 1859-1956." Copies may be obtained without charge upon request to the Governmental Research Center here.
The study reports for each election, the total votes cast by counties, the total and percentage for each major party, the total and percentage for other parties, the percentage of the two-party vote by Democratic and Republican candidates, and the plurality of the winner; and since 1920, an estimate of the eligible vote in each county and the percentage of eligible voters using the privilege.
They said much could be done to shelter the population against many of the death-dealing hazards of nuclear war. They said it is not being done. If such a war comes, they said, millions may die who might have been saved.
This appraisal of the nation's civil readiness for the H-bomb was presented to a congressional atomic energy subcommittee which has been taking expert testimony this week on the effects of an exchange of nuclear blows by Russia and the United States.
Dr. Clayton S. White of the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research at Albuquerque N.M., put it this way:
The U.S. population "is practically naked and completely unprepared and unprotected for a full-scale nuclear attack." He said he was alarmed by "social inertia in this field."
Dr. Victor P. Bond of the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven National Laboratory said:
"The vast majority of Americans are neither prepared nor educated to the danger of fallout . . ."
All witnesses before the subcommittee agreed that the big killers in an H-bomb war would be blast, heat and fire, instantaneous nuclear radiation, and gamma radiation from fallout coming down in the first hours or days after an attack.
Maybe you can't build shelters good enough to protect against a surface explosion of a 10-megaton H-bomb that would destroy everything in a 14-mile circle and perhaps trigger all-consuming fire storms in a 50-mile circle.
But the experts insist shelter is feasible against the more distant effects of blast, heat, and fallout radiation. Charles K. Shafer of the Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization (OCDM) said eight-inch-thick concrete shelters in basement corners might save 96 million lives in a nuclear holocaust.
Dr. Gordon M. Dunning of the AEC said the testimony on early radiation doses "points clearly to the benefits of home shelters adequately stocked with food and water supplies to last several weeks or more."
KU Graduate Named Foundation Fellow
Dr. Charles D. Christian, an alumnus of the University of Kansas, has been named a fellow of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York. Dr. Christian, the son of O. L. Christian of Mission, will use the fellowship for a clinical and research residency in the obstetrics-gynecology department of the Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.
The former Kansan received the A.B. degree from KU in 1952 and earned Ph.D. and M.D. degrees from Duke University in 1956 and 1958 respectively. He is a member of the Duke anatomy faculty.
Andrew D. White, the first president of Cornell University, was a native of Homer, N. Y., near Syracuse.
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Alaska Forests Swept by Blaze
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — (UPI) — Forest fires touched off by lightning had advanced over more than 30,000 acres Thursday in scattered areas of Alaska.
ST. LOUIS — (UPI)— St. Louis newspapers were publishing again Thursday.
St. Louis Walkout On 2 Papers Ends
Fred Varney, chief fire control officer of the Bureau of Land Management, recruited natives from villages throughout the state and turned to Oregon. California and Montana for help in building an army to stem the destruction.
Three fires accounted for two-thirds of the burned and burning acreage.
The 15-day strike of stereotopers ended Wednesday night. Strikers accepted a settlement proposal at a special membership meeting.
Both the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat had been made idle by the walkout. The strike was against the Post-Dispatch, but the Globe-Democrat is printed by the P-D under contract.
Childrens' Library Has University Stops
The Library Bookmobile for preschool and elementary school children is making regular calls to the Sunnyside and Stouffer Place housing areas, Ed Howard, director of the Lawrence Public Library has reported.
The portable library will call au Stouffer Place on Friday at 10 a.m. and at Sunnyside at 11 a.m.
QUANTICO, Va.—(UPI)The annual defense secretary's conference opened at this Marine Corps base last night with secrecy wraps tighter than ever around the deliberations of top-level Pentagon and military field commanders.
Defense Secretary's Parley Opens, Marked by Secrecy
Except for a news conference to be held by Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy as the conference draws toward a close Saturday afternoon, no arrangements have been made to provide information on the discussions involving explosive inter-service disputes.
The 160 officials and military leaders were arriving for a dinner at which McElroy was expected to speak extemporaneously, with newsmen excluded. No texts or abstracts of any of the talks during the conference will be released.
The secrecy was attributed to a desire for "free discussion" rather than to military security. The main issues are internal matters within the U.S. military establishment. They include these;
—Whether the Air Force as well as the Army should be permitted
Whether the Navy's "Polaris" missile submarines should be put under a joint command with the Air Force's nuclear bombers. The Navy is bitterly opposed.
Architecture Award Goes to K.C. Youth
Jerry Wayne Carroll of Kansas City, Mo., has been awarded the Joseph M. Kellogg scholarship in architecture for 1959-60 at the University of Kansas.
Whether the secretaries of the Navy, Army and Air Force should be put back in the "chain of command." Under a reorganization effected early this year, field commanders report directly to McElroy.
to build anti-missile missiles. The Army now has this mission exclusively.
Carroll, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Carroll, was graduated from Central High School earlier this month.
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