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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.146
Wednesday, May 13, 1959
ASCOK's $932 Spending
Free Final Week Parking Fades
The All Student Council last night appropriated $582.50 and authorized the spending of $350 more by the Finance and Auditing committee.
A motion was also introduced that would amend the ASC publications bill and designate a Sigma Delta Chi, professional fraternity for men in journalism, magazine as an official University literary-ideas magazine.
Parking Problem Probed
James Henderson, Wichita junior who had spoken to Keith Lawton, director of the physical plant, and Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, about altering parking restrictions during final week said.
"Lawton and Nichols both went to great trouble to throw cold water on the proposal."
Henderson said both men told him the zones around Strong could not be opened as they are predominantly for faculty and administrative officials.
Money for Conferences
The Council appropriated $32.50 to send the ASC chairman, KU National Student Assn. coordinator, and the president or vice president of the student body to National Student Assn. conferences this summer.
The Council authorized the spending of a maximum of $350 by the Finance and Auditing committee to purchase a duplicating machine and a typewriter for the ASC.
The Council also appropriated $250 for the Graduate School to help provide travel grants for students with foreign study scholarships.
Chairman Appoints Committees
Rudy Vondracek, Timkin junior and chairman of the ASC, appointed members of three standing ASC committees.
The appointments are:
Committee on committees—Theodore
Dole Hall, Garden City junior, chair-
Jayhawker Adds Contract Plan
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The Jayhawker Board has begun a contract plan to be signed by the Jayhawker and all organizations for advertising in order to eliminate confusion over Jayhawker advertising billings.
Complaints about a sliding scale of prices for space, depending on the organization's ability to pay, in part triggered the move. Some groups also said they were billed for more space than they were given in the annual.
Tom Yoe, director of public relations and adviser to the Jayhawker, was instructed at the last Jayhawker Board meeting to see that the contracts would be signed between the Jayhawker and organizations.
The proposed plan will state the price of advertising agreed upon. Billing would have to follow the price stated. The business manager and an officer of the organization would be required to sign it.
The plan is to use a standard contract form, which will be worked out with advice of someone in the law school.
Wilt Signs for Year With NBA Warriors
PHILADELPHI亚 — (UPI)— Towering Wilt Chamberlain signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors professional basketball team today.
The salary was believed to be more than $30,000, highest ever paid to an NBA player. The previous high was $27,000 to Bob Cousy, star guard for the Boston Celtics.
SDX Magazine Awaits Approval
The amendment to the All Student Council publications bill designating a Sigma Delta Chi magazine as an official literary-ideas magazine will be voted on tomorrow.
The amendment will be discussed by the committee on committees at a meeting tonight. The committee will then make a recommendation on the amendment to the Council at a special meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
The magazine is actually a merger of two proposed magazines. One of the magazines originated in Sigma Delta Chi and the other in the men's dormitories. Both groups went to L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, who urged a merger of the two proposed magazines.
Raymond (Doug) Yocom, Lawrence junior, will serve as editor of the magazine.
Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, and L.R.C Agnew, associate professor of history of medicine, will serve as faculty advisers for the magazine.
The staff of the magazine will not be restricted to members of the journalism fraternity.
The magazine, as yet unnamed, will be a literary-ideas magazine rather than a humor magazine.
It is expected to be similar to "upstream," an ideas magazine published at the University in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The magazine was published for seven years and contained articles by faculty members, students, and national figures.
Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow. Cooler over east and south tonight and east portion tomorrow. Low tonight 40 northwest to around 50 southeast.
Weather
Herter Says Get 'Deadly Earnest'
GENEVA—(UPI)—Secretary of State Christian Herter broke Russia's filibuster today, bringing the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference to grips with its main problems.
By the time that the third session of the conference was over, Herter, who was chairman, had hurled a challenge at Russia to join in "deadly earnest" talks.
deadly earnest tasks. The demand from Sec. Herter to get down to "brass tacks" broke a two-day filibuster by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who was trying to win admission to the talks for Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland as "full and equal" partners.
"I should say the United States is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." Sec. Herter said.
He pledged American willingness for a summit meeting and proposed these targets for getting there:
Reach agreements right now "over as wide a field as possible."
"Narrow the differences."
"Prepare constructive proposals" for President Eisenhower and the other summit leaders to consider.
In Washington, Eisenhower told his news conference today that he hoped the Russians would stop using the Geneva talks for a propaganda platform so the meetings could start producing fruitful results.
Sec. Herter pledged that there will be no backtracking on Western determination to guarantee the freedom of West Berlin and West Germany—and its aim to restore freedom in the east zone.
"The German people are being prevented from establishing a government of their own choice for all of Germany," he said.
"The root of the problem remains the same" as it was when Eisenhower came to the summit in this same city in 1955, he said.
"The problem will remain until the entire German people can express their will freely."
Most of the hopes of the last summit meeting, Sec. Herter said, "have been dashed."
"Germany remains split," he said, "its division a grave injustice bearing the seeds of future trouble."
when Gromyko sought the floor to condemn the West's refusal to admit Poland and Czechoslovakia. See Herter as chairman reiterated Western determination to keep the talks in the four-power mold for the present.
He permitted Gromyko to air his views again and let the other Western representatives once more reject the Soviet proposal.
Then he declared the subject of further membership closed.
East and West Germany have been permitted to send "advisers" into the conference room. All other nations have been barred for the time being.
Speech Arts Awards to 24
Twenty-four KU students and instructors were honored last night at the annual Speech Arts banquet for outstanding work in the theater, speech, speech correction, and radio and television.
Marvin Carlson, Wichita graduate student, was awarded the Crutch of Falstaff, a polished wooden cane with an engraved plaque for the greatest contribution to total progress during the last four years as director, actor, and leader of students. Carlson is president of the National Collegiate Players.
Joyce C. Elliott, Independence, Mo., senior, and Joyce Malicky, Baldwin sophomore, were named best actresses of the year. Miss Elliott performed in "Summer and Smoke." "Winter's Tale," and "Ten Nights in a Barroom" this year. Miss Malicky performed in "The King and I" and "Carmen."
Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N.Y. graduate student, and Louis Lyda, Lawrence graduate student, won the award for best actors of the year. Berger appeared in "The King and I." "Great God Brown," and "Winter's Tale." Lyda was in "Summer
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Reporter Gets Trembling Legs From Glider Ride
Rv Raymond H. Miller
Since tipe began, man has longed to soar like a bird. Yesterday this reporter came as close to flying like a bird as man can come.
I found myself sitting a few inches off the ground in the nose of a graceful bird-like aircraft. The pilot, unknown to me until a few moments before, adjusted my shoulder straps and seat belt. He had a devil-may-care grin on his lips. Stories about "hot-shot" pilots began flitting through my mind—I started to have misgivings.
The pilot climbed into the rear cockpit. The plastic canopy was slammed shut. The time for regrets was over.
gross was
A man lifted the right wing tip,
leveling the plane. He gave a signal and the yellow Fairechild PT23 tow plane, piloted by TWA pilot Bob Brower, blasted ahead with a roar. The line snapped taut and we found ourselves hurting down the runway. I was about to experience my first glider flight.
To follow me were over a dozen KU aeronautical engineering students. Before the day was over, they would each have a ride in the glider and know the unearthly sensation of soaring.
At about 50 mph we were airborne, while our tow plane remained on the runway. We continued to gain speed. The end of the runway came hurtling at us. When it seemed we must be traveling over 100 mph, the yellow tow plane slowly lifted off the ground. Our air speed indicator registered 60 mph.
While we cruised along, and after I caught my breath, I turned to the pilot in back of me.
My first questions were delicate
probes about his flying experience.
His answer put me at ease.
Costas "Gus" Choliasmenos, Mission junior, turned out to be a pilot with years of experience. He said that he once was a Greek Air Force fighter pilot, and has logged over 2,000 hours in "Spitfire" fighters.
He took his first solo flight in
a guts when he was thirteen years old. To date he has logged more than 200 hours in gliders.
Gus is the president of the Mid-Western Soaring Assn., located at Olathe Municipal Airport. Gus' club has thirty-three members and he is working hard to spread the "word" about soaring to other persons. This was his main reason
for bringing his club's Schwitzig glider to the Lawrence Airport.
"See those clouds?" Gus asked.
"Those are cumulus clouds. Underneath each one is a thermal (a rising mass of warm air). At 2,000 feet we'll cut loose from the tow
Now that we were up, I began worrying about how we would stay there.
CAPTIVE GLIDER—A glider, piloted by a KU junior, is shown seconds before it was released
from the tow plane. The glider floated at 2,000 feet at 40 mph.
A few seconds later Gus cut loose. He pulled a red knob and with a "bang," the tow line dropped away. We were on our own. Our air speed dropped to 40 mph. With no engine the only sound was the gentle hissing of the wind.
plane and ride the thermals."
We seemed to hang motionless in the air, much as a hawk does. I experienced a feeling of exhilaration as we soared on the wings of the wind.
Gus said we could stay up for as long as four or five hours with the conditions as they were. Unfortunately, our flight was to last only a few minutes.
Soon we lost altitude and came close to the field, which we had been circling. As we made our final approach, Gus pushed a rod forward and the glider increased speed. The glider hurtled toward the end of the runway. The air speed indicator shot up to 60 mph.
As the ground grew near, I again felt regret. Suddenly the glider leveled out. We touched the earth and the single wheel in the belly of the plane rumbled over the ground.
As we came to a stop, the right wing slowly fell over onto a skid bolted on the end. The flight was over. A car came out to tow the plane back for the next flight.
I climbed out of the cockpit on trembling legs and surveyed the glider. The fuselage was thirty feet long, with a wing spread of 50 feet. For its size, it was very light, weighing only 600 pounds. Gus told me it cost $3,000.
No engine, no noise. Only the whispering of the wind. If Gus is looking for converts to soaring, he can chalk up one reporter.