Daily Hansan
56th Year, No. 102
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, March 6, 1959
BRITISH VISITOR—Earl Clement Attlee and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, pose for pictures before this morning's convocation. Lord Attlee left the campus at 4 p.m. today for the return trip to Kansas City.
Faculty Retirement Bill Due for OK
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Sen. James Porter (R-Topeka) said today he expected his Federal and State Affairs Committee to make a "final decision" late today on a multi-million dollar public employees retirement program.
The bill was expected to include professors at state colleges, even though school presidents testified they wanted a separate program.
Gov. Docking favors a single program for all workers. Senators said it was feared he would veto a separate program for professors, even if it was enacted by the Legislature.
The committee has been meeting throughout the week to thresh out problems on a bill that would set up a retirement program for employees of the state and local government units.
The bill, as originally introduced, would cost the state an estimated $4.8 million a year. However, Sen. Porter said several changes were made in committee.
Gov. Docking recommended that any retirement plan provide 75 per cent credit for prior service. The committee bill is expected to provide full credit for all but the first two years of experience.
Picture Section In Today's Kansan
Today's Daily Kansan contains a picture supplement taken by students in the advanced news photography class of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Ideas, Not Guns, Will Win War. Attlee Says
Earl Clement Attlee said today that a Third World War would not be won with weapons on the battlefields, but with ideas in the minds of men.
Lord Attlee, former prime minister of Great Britain, spoke today to 4,000 students and guests at an All Student Convocation in Hoch Auditorium. Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, termed it the largest crowd he had ever seen at a school convocation.
"It is up to Great Britain and the United States to uphold the European ideal of democracy and to fight Communist ideology to prevent another world war." Lord Attlee said.
"The position in Europe is very critical today. It is up to us to hold the fort for the European way of life if we are to keep peace. We have to realize that Europe is the danger point."
Lord Attlee said there is a great task ahead for America and Europe in raising the
LONDON — (UPI) — Russia announced today it is dispatching Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's top Communist party aide to Britain this month in a quick and unexpected follow-up of the Macmillan-Khrushchev negotiations.
Top Russian Aide Sent to Britain
Suslov apparently will be on the spot here when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan returns from Paris, Bonn and Washington with the allies' reaction to his own Moscow mission.
The visitor is party secretary Mikhail. Suslov.
standard of life in less advanced countries.
"Communism doesn't succeed in countries with a high standard of life," he said.
"Our freedom, our individualism, our whole way of life is better than that of the Communists. Together we can win if we can persuade our citizens that each one of them is responsible for the democratic way of life."
We must have a going together of all free countries in the world with each making its own contributions, he said.
There must be criticism plus respect of others' opinions, Lord Attlee said.
Major State Roads Are Ice-Free
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Highway Patrol route reported all roads in the state open, except for four minor routes in the Northeast.
The roads still closed, as of this morning, were K-16 west of Cummings, K-74 east of Potter, K-192 west of Winchester and K-92 west of Leavenworth.
Stalled vehicles caused one-way traffic on some other roads, but they were expected to be moved this morning. One-way routes included K-9 east of Effingham, K-5 south of Leavenworth, K-192 near Easton, K-4 east and north of Meriden, and U. S. 59 north of Oskaloosa.
Snow and ice were reported on various other highways in the Central and Eastern parts of the state.
Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and to-
tomorrow. Warmer tomorrow. Low
tonight near 20. High tomorrow
near 45.
"The big danger for democracy and democratic ideals is an increase in ways to prevent people's thinking.
"There is so much to keep people from doing things for themselves in the modern world today," he said.
Attlee declared that the west "must refuse to be bluffed" in the Berlin crisis.
However, he refused to express an opinion on what diplomatic steps should be taken, asserting. "I am an old man and I don't think it is right for me to be a backseat driver and suggest the road to be taken."
He said, in discussing need for some form of European union, that "one thing we must do is never to confuse unity with uniformity.
"We can become unified but that does not mean that we must act or dress alike," he said.
Chancellor Speaks For Med School
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Chancellor Franklin Murphy told the House appropriation - writing committee that the University of Kansas Medical School is the only one in the nation with a divided campus.
Murphy, in budget testimony before the Ways and Means Committee, said first year medical school is carried out on the Lawrence campus, the last three years on the School of Medicine campus in Kansas City.
Murphy and Dean W. Clarke Wescoe, of the medical school, made a plea for $1,000,000 in state funds to build an addition to Wahl Hall on the Kansas City campus.
'Carmen' Opera Uses Many Props
Castanets, wine bottles, and beer steins are all props which have to be placed and ready to go when the curtain goes up on the opera starting this weekend.
The stage crew is responsible for these props and Sunday night, when Bizet's "Carmen" opens, they will all be in place. Jill Jordan, Topeka sophomore, is a member of the stage crew. Here she is shown going through her duties as she will Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Director Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and drama, is a slight man with a tremendous ability to create an authentic Spanish atmosphere.
The Carmen rehearsal last night opened on a skeleton backdrop silhouetted against brilliant blue lighting. The cast moved into action to the accompaniment of a single piano and when the cigarette girls appeared they were requested to "flirt a little bit" by Prof. Brooking.
In the costume room the crew labored to the sugary strains of "Stranger in Paradise." Yards of cloth and piles of costumes, in various stages of completion, were scattered over the room.
Though an air of anxiety and frustration hangs over the proceedings, there is organization to what appears to be complete anarchy. It is evident that when the curtain opens Sunday night, the University Theatre will have produced another magnificent production.
PUBLIC DISPLAY—The cast of "Carmen" goes through a street-clothes rehearsal in
preparation for the opening of the opera Sunday night at the University Theatre.