Daily Hansan
56th Year, No.138
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, May 1, 1959
Seniors Cast 2-1 Vote For HOPE as Class Gift
The senior class voted yesterday to leave a cash gift to the University with the provision that the interest be awarded each year to an outstanding faculty member.
The Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators fund will contain approximately $2,500. It will be turned over to the Endowment Association to invest. The interest will be approximately $100 annually.
There were a total of 419 votes cast in the election with 216 voting in favor of HOPE. Other projects on the ballot were: trophy cases for Allen Field House, 100 votes; furnishings for the new Kansas Union addition, 47 votes; and a diorama for Dyche Museum, 21 votes. There were 39 write-in votes.
HOPE was added to the ballot Wednesday night after the suggestion for the gift was made in the editorial column of Wednesdays' Kansan.
Ronald Claiborne, Amarillo, Tex. senior, said at the coffee that the outstanding professor would probably be chosen each year by a Chancellor's committee composed of faculty members and students.
"The money will probably be handled in one of two ways. Either all of the interest will be used for
Owls Hoot In Tall Tree
While crowds of onlookers gathered below, 19 new member of Owl Society, junior men's honorary organization, climbed and hooted in a tall tree outside Flint Hall this morning.
The members were selected on the basis of outstanding scholarship, leadership, service and student activities.
As a final entrance requirement, each newly-elected member of the group roosted in the tree between morning classes.
Seasonal Sight
Weatherman Sees Sunny Weekend
Sunbathing will probably be the rule this weekend as summer temperatures are expected to continue.
The expected high tomorrow will be in the 90s until late afternoon. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected late tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Sunday temperatures will drop to the 70s, giving students an excuse to stay inside and study.
Claiborne also suggested that the Alumni Assn. and Endowment Asm. publicize the award and winning professor each year.
Robert Billings, Russell senior and chairman of the senior gift committee, said last night that he thought the class had made a good choice.
"This is an excellent gift and one the class can always be proud of," he said.
A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, KU athletic director, said today athletic trophies will remain scattered until funds are secured for trophy cases for Allen Field House.
"Of course we were disappointed when the senior class voted it down, but we're planning to go ahead with the construction as soon as we can get the funds," Mr. Lonborg said.
The money for the trophy cases will come from the athletic fund.
"Our gate receipts were down this year. We're going to hold off on the cases until they are back up," Mr. Lonborg explained.
"I think a trophy case would have been a good gift. It would have been here from now on, a lot of people would see it, and the plaque would always have given the credit to the senior class," he said.
Seniors Hatch 24 Bronze Eggs
Some seniors laid eggs, two dozen, to be exact—in 24 write-in votes for the class gift yesterday.
Other write-in votes, while not getting as much backing as the oval resting place for the bird were just as interesting.
They asked for a four-foot bronze egg to complement the bronze Jayhawk statue-a gift of the class of 1956.
Two ballots—similar in composition—asked for the "destruction of the gift of the class of 1957. It looks like hell." That gift is the canopy in front of the Kansas Union.
Another asked that a green Buddha be installed on the chancellor's lawn.
One ballot suggested "a crown of thorns" for a KU dean.
An additional facility for the campus was desired by one senior—a lavatory for the aeronautical engineering quonset hut.
The final printable write-in vote among 11 other off-beat ballots was a brief request for "lights in the stadium."
The gift selection had one exception from nearly all elections conducted on the campus. Not one vote was cast to leave Sarge as a gift to the University.
CROONER—William Witt, Garden City, president of the senior class, gestures to his senior classmates at their spring coffee yesterday morning. The seniors conducted a business meeting to hear reports on financial status, and to vote on the senior gift, HOPE.
Kansan Wins Top Award
The fall semester Daily Kansan received the All American rating today from the Associated Collegiate Press, making the paper one of seven university dailies in the country to win the top award.
The ACP, which cites outstanding papers each semester, said the All American rating indicates "distinctly superior achievement."
Last spring semester the Kansan earned a first class rating, which is one step lower than All American. The All American award also was won by the Kansan in the fall semester of 1957.
Around the World
Luce Quits Foreign Post
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce "regretfully" resigned today as ambassador to Brazil, saying she could not undertake the mission because of the "extraordinarily ugly" charges made against her in the Senate fight over her nomination.
Mrs. Luce turned down a personal plea by President Eisenhower that she reconsider. Eisenhower accepted her decision with regret after an hour-long session at the White House.
The lady-diplomat said in a barbed letter of resignation that the charges hurled by her chief attacker, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) made it "no longer possible for me to accomplish the mission which you have entrusted to me."
The news was received with mixed reaction in the Senate which had voted 79 to 11 in her favor only last Tuesday, after Sen. Morse had questioned her competency for the job.
The State Department expressed its regret at Mrs. Luce's decision. Then, in apparent rebuttal to Sen. Morse, it said that during her "outstanding service" as ambassador to Italy, "she demonstrated a professional competence that would have served us well in our constant objective of promoting ever closer relations with our good friends in the
"In spite of the best efforts of 79 senators the climate of good will was poisoned by thousands of words of extraordinarily ugly charges against my person and of distrust of the mission I had to undertake. These charges were inescapably printed around the world."
great American republic of Brazil." Mrs. Luce wrote in her resignation:
Montgomery Is Sorry
LONDON—Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery returned from talks with Nikita S. Khrushchev today and apologized for cracks he had made about the United States before going to Moscow.
Montgomery refused to give details of his meetings with the Soviet Prime Minister and he did not indicate that his Russian trip had caused a change in his attitude toward the United States.
But he insisted that he had just been "joking" in a television interview earlier this week when he said American leadership was "rather suspect" and that American blood should be shed on the first day of any new war.
"If anything I did say in the television interview has upset them (Americans) I am deeply sorry and apologize unreservedly and will take it back," Montgomery said.
Panama War Ceases
PANAMA CITY — (UPI) — The Organization of American States said today the foreign invaders of Panama have agreed to surrender unconditionally.
The news the rebels had agreed to surrender was telephoned to Uruguayan Ambassador Julio A. Lacarte, acting council chairman of the OAS, who is in Washington, by ambassador Fernando Lobo of Brazil, head of an OAS commission flown here to investigate the situation.
The five-nation investigation commission in Panama will supervise the surrender of the rebel-held village of Nombre de Dios. Under the terms of the surrender, the rebels were to turn over their weapons to military observers with the OAS group.
It was reported Cubans among the invading force would be returned to their homeland and tried there for endangering Cuba's neutrality.
TOPEKA Unemployment dropped in Kansas last week for the fifth straight time.
Unemployment Down
The Kansas Department of Labor reported that 2.4 per cent of workers carrying unemployment insurance applied for benefits.
A possible Communist was apprehended last night in the act of celebrating May Day.
Red Scare Hits Campus Today
At midnight campus police found the water in the Chi Omega fountain had a red tinge to it. Investigation disclosed two Kleenex containers filled with red dye in the fountain.
Hot on the trail of the "Commies," the police next found a Russian flag (home made) flying from the flag pole in front of Strong Hall.
The suspect was finally caught "red handed," standing on a pedestal in front of Green Hall, one arm around a corrupted, boot-shod youth, the other brandishing a Russian flag that had earlier been liberated from the foyer in Strong Hall.
Unofficial sources said that his name is Jimmy Green. He is suspected of being the front man for an organization called "The First University Congress of the Young Bolsheviks," which distributed hand bills on the campus last night.
Campus police have confiscated most of the subversive materials but issued a statement this morning saying they didn't know how widespread the anti-capitalism sheets were.
A spokesman for the police said that Jimmy Green's flag could have been taken at any time last night.
Lawyers Hear KU Alumnus
A member of the Kansas Legislature and editor of the Kiowa County Signal spoke in a special Law Day program today.
John Conard, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, spoke in District Court in the first national observance of Law Day.
President Eisenhower issued a special proclamation making May 1 a day of recognition to lawyers.
Mr. Conard was a 1943 KU journalism graduate and was the last student publisher of The Daily Kansas.
He was elected to the Legislature in 1958.