Daily Hansan
56th Year, No.145
Tuesday, May 12, 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
QUALIFIED? — From left, William L. Reed, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Lance F. Johnson, Wymore, Neb., junior, and Dorothy Wohlgemuth,
Cummings senior, members of the ASC Selections Committee, interview an applicant for a committee position next year.
Students Stymied Over City Search
By Rael Amos
Two KU students cut classes yesterday to go on a treasure hunt, but spent the day in vain.
The two males had been following a Kansas City radio station's "Hidden Hideaway" contest.
The object of the contest was to find an address the station had chosen somewhere in Kansas City. Each day, the station would broadcast clues describing its location.
The two students listened to the clues for three days, obtained a Kansas City map and left to collect the $425 prize money offered by the radio station.
After six hours of competing with Kansas City traffic, the students wound up with five or six addresses of locations they thought might be the Hidden Hideaway.
The next step was to send each a post card with the slogan, "I always listen to KCMO, 810, radio," with their name and address included.
Returning to Lawrence, the two adventurers sent the postcards. Two went to apartment houses, a third to the AFL-CIO headquarters and a fourth to a place called "Girls' Hotel."
The bitter conclusion to the treasure hunt tale came this morning. The radio station announced a winner of the contest but it was not either of the two hopefuls.
Riot, Quinine Deaths Labor Top Roundup
By United Press International
By United Press International
FORT PILLOW, Tenn.—A 14-hour prison riot ended without bloodshed shortly after 10 a.m.
(Lawrence time) today. Two hostage guards were not harmed.
The convicts staged a noisy, window-smashing demonstration to back up their demands for "justice." They charged that white prisoners were discriminated against and that the food at the prison was no good.
State Corrections Commissioner Keith Hampton said he would not press charges against the rioters but would transfer the ringleaders to a maximum security prison in Nashville.
TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Spain — Photographer Juan Antonio Diaz, 49. got a prescription from his doctor for quinine tablets, took one of the tablets and died.
Pharmacist Jose Mendoza, 34, who made up the prescription, swore to investigate police his pills could
NEW YORK — Steel wage negotiations met again today to hear further union arguments for a spread-the-work program in the industry.
David J. McDonald, President and chief negotiator of the United Steel Workers, indicated a sharp decline in unemployment announced yesterday by the federal government would have no effect on the union's plans for increasing the number of jobs in the mills.
not have killed Diaz. To prove it he took one himself. He died.
"All I know." McDonald said before entering the meeting, "is that there are a number of steel workers out of work."
Weather
Evening showers and thunderstorms west and north mostly over north-central and northeast portions.
West Derails New Russian Geneva Bloc
GENEVA — (UPI)— Russia attempted to railroad two Communist satellites, Czechoslovakia and Poland, into the Geneva Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference as equals today. But the West swiftly rejected the move.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko demanded seating of the satellites as the conference met for what was to have been its first working session on the Berlin crisis and German unity.
The session opened at Geneva's Palais Des Nations shortly after 3:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. Lawrence time). It ended an hour and a half later.
The Soviet spokesman announced that Gromyko was demanding admission of Czechoslovakia and Poland as "full and equal members" of the conference.
But Gromyko did not wait until the formal get-together to plunge the conference into another day of chaos and wrangling.
Instead, spurring normal diplomatic niceties, he had his press spokesman announce it at a specially-summoned news conference four hours before the Big Four meeting began.
The Western foreign ministers, meeting shortly afterwards in a pre-conference strategy session, agreed at once to turn down the bid for the Soviet satellites to be seated as their equals at the parley table.
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, who lunched with Gromyko at the Soviet delegation villa, took the opportunity to tell him that the West would not buy this latest Soviet maneuver.
It came only 24 hours after a Soviet attempt to get the East German Communists admitted to the conference, also as equals. The West rebuilt this move and Gromyko settled for admission of both East and West German delegates as "advisers" seated at separate tables.
Flag Is Lowered
The American flag will fly at half mast until May 15 as a tribute to Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles who died last Friday. The flags were lowered to half mast yesterday.
HOPE Award Given June 1
The recipient of this year's HOPE award, gift of the Class of 1959, soon will be selected by a committee of seniors representing all the schools of the University. Announcement will be made at the Senior Breakfast June 1.
The committee was chosen by class president, William Witt. Garden City, in consultation with other members of the senior class executive committee.
Nominations, which are to include the instructor's name, faculty position, qualifications, and the nominator's name for reference, are to be turned into the Alumni Office. Strong Hall by 5 p.m. Thursday. Any senior may submit a nomination.
HOPE—Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators—is the gift selected by this year's senior class. A $100 award will be given annually to a University faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to insuring the welfare of his students and increasing the prestige of the University in the arts or sciences during the year.
The $100 is the annual interest from the $2,500 given by the senior class as a percentage of its class dues. However, this year's award will be taken from the principal.
The criteria for judging the faculty member are:
1. Willingness to help students.
2. Success in stimulating students or challenging the students toward thinking.
3. Devotion to profession.
4. Contribution to general cultural life of the University.
5. Publications, creative work, etc., will be considered, but not to the extent as will be the instructor's contribution to students.
The nominees must be full-time members of the faculty.
Hospital Offers Shots As Polio Total Rises
The current widespread national polio epidemic has influenced Watkins Hospital officials to urge that students take advantage of the polio vaccination program here.
The National Polio Foundation has reported that there is an 83 per cent national increase this year over
Theater Loses Equipment
A buildings and grounds night watchman reported to campus police last night that two spotlights and two floodlights were stolen from the stage in Fraser Theater Sunday.
The floodlights and one of the spotlights were KU property. The other spotlight was on loan from Topeka. No estimate of their value could be given.
A Kansas Union official reported a possible theft that occurred on or about April 30.
A hand woven, black Mexican serape was taken from a display in the South lounge of the Kansas Union. It was valued at $10.
Murder Filed On CU Man
BOULDER, Colo—(UPI) —Thomas D. Wright, 19, a sophomore at Colorado University, was charged with murder Monday in the fatal shooting early last Friday of Richard C. Evans, 18, a Wichita, Kan., freshman at the university.
Evans was shot in the heart in the apartment of William Paddock, Boulder County Attorney. Paddock said he thought the shooting was accidental.
Wright, who has been held by police since the shooting, refuses to discuss the incident. Evans was Wright's roommate and friend.
last year in the number of paralytic cases.
"We are sure there are hundreds of students on the campus who have not had even one polio shot. The students are taking a tremendous hazard because a greater number of adults get paralytic polio than do children," said Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health center.
The hospital gives four shots which students have paid for through their health service fees.
"If students would act quickly they would be able to receive the two doses of vaccine before the year is out. The second does can be given three weeks after the first dose," Dr. Caputeson said.
He said the fourth dose of vaccine is a booster shot. This is given about a year after the third dose and is an added precautionary measure.
Pop Concert Here Sunday
The first "Pops" Concert by the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The special program of light music will be presented in an informal atmosphere where listeners may relax, smoke and partake of light refreshments. There will be a 50-cent admission price.
Conductors Robert Baustian of the symphony and Clayton Krehbiel of the choir will lead the groups both separately and in arrangements for chorus and orchestra in "Halleluiah." "All the Things You Are." "Wunderbar," "September Song." "Dancing in the Dark," and others.
A "Carnival of Animals" will feature Ogden Nash's verses.
Tickets are on sale at the Fine Arts School office, Union ticket office, or from any concert participant.