Nevada Wants Back 40,000 California Acres
CARSON CITY, Nev. — (UPI) The battle lines of a new war between states were drawn yesterday when the Nevada State Assembly passed a bill which would annex a 40,000 square mile chunk of California.
The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Don Crawford, was passed as an emergency measure in the Assembly and sent to the Senate for approval.
It directs the attorney general to take legal action seeking the return to Nevada of all the land east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada "wrongfully" held by the big coast state.
This huge strip includes Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
In Sacramento, California legislators met the proposed action with a volley of oratory, promising to defend the territory by the sword if necessary.
Assemblyman George Crawford suggested possible aggressive action.
"I'm willing to accept volunteers for an expeditionary force to the state line. So far we have 100 soldiers and the necessary camp followers to make this expedition a success," he declared.
The controversy stems back to 1861 when Congress turned over the disputed tract to Nevada, putting a proviso at the end of the act saying it was assumed the California Legislature would approve the annexation.
In the past 97 years, the Californians have not yet gotten around to voting their approval.
Smith Election Argued
HAYS — (UPI) — Democrats began taking depositions today in an attempt to prove charges that election irregularities were responsible for Republican Wint Smith's victory in the November Sixth Congressional District election.
Rep. Smith won another term in the U. S. House by a 233-vote margin over Democratic candidate Elmo Mahoney.
Cyprus Republic Founded Today
LONDON — (UPI) — Britain, Greece. Turkey and a representative of Cyprus today signed an agreement to establish an independent Republic of Cyprus.
Turkish Foreign Minister Fatim Zorlu disclosed the agreement when he left a prime ministers' conference where the final compromise was worked out.
Mr. Zorlu signed the pact in place of his ailing prime minister, Adnan Menderes, who was recuperating from injuries received in an airplane crash Tuesday.
The other signers were Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain, Greek Premier Constantine Karamaniis, Greek-Cypriot Archbishop Makarios and Turkish-Cypriot leader Fazil Kutchuk.
Mahoney filed a notice to contest the election with the special House subcommittee on elections last December. A month later Smith filed an answer denying the charges.
Sixth District Democratic Chairman Norbert Drieling said today that Russell attorneys Cliff Holland Jr. and George Holland will take depositions in Ellsworth today, where Democrats claim one precinct reported one more vote than registered.
Drieling said other depositions will be taken in Hays tomorrow concerning a Democratic allegation that an election judge in Osborne was seen marking ballots during the counting.
The Democrats also have alleged irregularities at Hoxie.
Ike Greets Acapulco
ACAPULCO, Mexico — (UFI) — President Eisenhower arrived here today for a visit with President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico.
The President flew here for a conference in this glittering Pacific resort. Snow flurries swirled around the President's plane shortly before Mr. Eisenhower took off from Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin, Tex., this morning.
Pres. Eisenhower was warmly dressed in an overcoat, scarf, hat and gloves as he boarded the plane.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 91
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Feb. 19, 1959
The essays were chosen to represent varying degrees and kinds of incompetence. They will be used by the Writing Clinic and for inspection by new assistant instructors in the English department.
Grammar, Content Mistakes Cause Proficiency Failures
Comments on each paper are designed to explain why that paper failed and to demonstrate considerations involved in deciding whether
The 182 students who made game, but futile, efforts to pass the English Proficiency Examination this year, failed because of errors in grammar and content.
An examination report prepared by the English department shows that undeveloped continuity of ideas, idiomatic expressions, misleading phrases and clauses, abstraction, spelling, subject-verb agreement, and incorrect sentence structure were the most frequent mistakes found in the examination papers.
The report included reproductions of essays which failed in the examination and detailed criticisms explaining reasons for failure.
an examination paper is satisfactory
an 'examination paper' is satisfactory.
An example of an essay is one entitled
'Should China Should Not Be Allowed to Have Cars on Campus'.
This is the essay:
"KU Students have too little time and money to run a car. Students with cars are expected to drive other class-mates to class and pick them up after class. It not only cost a student money but time to do this."
"To point out a normal student's day with a car let us take Jim. He doesn't have to go to class until 9:00 AM. Bob comes into his room and says, 'Jim would you please drive me up to school because I turned my ankle over last night playing football?' Of course he drives Bob to school. No sooner does Jim get back and settled down to sturding then it is time to go to class. Mary meets Jim in the hall after class and ask him to drive her down town before his next class. Jim has a date with Mary Saturday night so he has to drive her down town. Just as class is getting out it begins to snow.
'Best-Dressed Coed' To Be Named Tonight
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas House of Representatives approved by voice vote today a $114,000 appropriation bill to finance operations of a number of state agencies, including the Board of Review.
The "Best-Dressed KU Coed" will be named tonight by four faculty members and the student body president. Contestants will be judged at an informal coffee at 8 p.m. in the English Room of the Kansas Union. For contest details and candidates' names see Page 10.
House OKs Censor Fund
A bill introduced in the Senate last week to abolish the board, the state's movie censoring agency, is waiting for action.
"Rep. Rebert Anderson (R-Ot-tawa) said today, 'We could. I guess, cut out the appropriation for the board, but if you want to abolish it, I prefer the more direct approach."
Docking to Name Yearbook Queen
Gov. George Docking will select the 1959 Jayhawker Queen and her six attendants.
William Harper, Topeka junior and editor of the yearbook, said the deadline for submitting queen candidates and their pictures is March 6.
All applicants must have been enrolled in the University last semester and must have maintained 60 per cent C grades or better.
All applications of students not in an organized house must be accompanied by a petition bearing 25 names of students.
Weather
Snow or freezing drizzle west portion, mostly cloudy, scattered light snow east portion tonight and tomorrow. Continued rather cold. Low tonight 10 to 15 east to 20 west. High tomorrow 25 to 30.
A gradual warming trend will bring slightly warmer readings Saturday. Lows last night from 8 above at Lovewell Dam to 20 at Pittsburg.
That Robin Doesn't Mean Spring—He Never Left
Ev LeRoy Lord
All of the fellows want a ride back to the house. After lunch Jim drives the fellows back to school. He says to one of them he has to buy Mary a present for Christmas, and he ask if anyone would like to go to Kansas City after class. When Jim gets to the car after class five fellows are waiting on him.
Rain, snow, ice, and just plain cold weather have mingled to make the last few months miserable, fit for neither robin nor KU student
But the future weather picture is brighter. The present 30-day forecast shows that not only the temperature, but also the amount of precipitation will return to normal after the cold, snowy conditions of past months.
"What do the other students think about paying part of the cost of a car? The opinion is that if another student can own a car he has money for gas, too. The students without cars do not think about the insurance, car license, general up keep and over all cost. They just think about going some place for fun."
Taking this favorable forecast to
Sound: Giggles from onlookers, comments as, "Oh, will you look at that."
Sleeper's Schedule Depends on Help
Scene: Girl asleep on a couch in the ladies' rest room of Watson Library.
Circumstance: A note pinned to the girl's coat: "If I'm not awake at ten till two, would someone please awaken me? Thank you."
Result: It is reported that a conscientious passer-by complied with the sleeper's wishes and no two o'clock class was cut.
"K.U. Students can not afford to have a car because it takes up to much time and money. For the students own good K.U. should not allow student cars on campus."
The situation was becoming critical, pressure was building up, the demand for the picture was increasing. Finally the photographer called the Museum of Natural History which contains the department of ornithology—for the layman, the study of birds.
The specialist reported that robins didn't even leave Kansas for the winter. They hang around in flocks of 20-30 robins, each mob near an ample supply of food for the winter months.
heart, The Kansan sent a photographer out for a picture of the first robin. All yesterday afternoon the photographer walked from one end of the campus to the other and then back, and then back again.
With news like this ringing in his ears the photographer took heart and again went out looking for a robin flock. This time, however, his feet took him directly to the top floor of the Museum of Natural History, and into the laboratory of the ornithology department. With a little help he had a robin all ready to watch the birdie.
Then looking the stuffed robin in the eye, he told it to smile, snapped the shutter, and returned to the office with his contribution to that spring feeling.
The criticism of the essay states that in the first paragraph, the writer states his topic and purpose clearly, but bluntly, and without finesse. He demonstrates no ability to arouse and direct the reader's interest, no sense of the fitness of relating his topic to something or somebody, no awareness of the reservations and qualifications that usually need to be attached to such a dogmatic pronouncement as the first sentence.
Other points in the criticism:
Paragraph two of the essay refers to a "typical" student. The situation seems contrived instead of typical. Since "Jim" shows no qualms about spending his day this way, the example fails to provide any convincing support for the proposition being argued.
Paragraph three consists of a series of generalizations intended to establish the truth of the second half of the proposition—the expense of owning a car.
The paragraph is grossly under-developed, lacks a suitable transition, restates the proposition as bluntly as before, and concludes with a statement of policy based on the proposition of fact in the first sentence of paragraph one, which the writer now assumes to be proved.
In sentence one of paragraph one, "students" should not be capitalized and "a car" should be plural to agree with "students." In sentence two, "classmates" should not have a hyphen and the "to class... after class" is mildly repetitious. Sentence three is not emphatic enough for the last sentence in the introduction and "cest" should be plural.
The word "normal" in sentence
TOPEKA —(UPI)— The State Board of Regents today laid before the Legislature the first detailed compromise proposal for a "crash" building program.
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Regents Ask $17 Million
In testimony before the Senate Ways and Means committee, the regents asked for $17 million over a four-year period to finance the construction of new classrooms and campus buildings.
This would require a $5 million appropriation from the state. The remaining $12 million would come from the 3/4 mill educational building fund levy, now earmarked for schools.
The proposal represented a trim from original thinking of the board, which had suggested, although it never spelled out, a $17 million plan for three years. This would have required $8 million in state funds.
Regent member Claude Bradney, Columbus, contended the state treasury would have adequate funds in light of the fact the Republican majority appeared to have no intention of repealing the $1/2 per cent sales tax increase, which produces $13 million a year revenues.