GETTING PREPARED!'-The New ASC sponsored Blue Cross-Blue Shield student health plan picked up customers today in Strong Hall as students arrived to pay fees. William Friedman,
Lawrence first-year medical student, consults Mary Link and another insurance representative, both from Topeka. The plan is new this semester.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 86
Thursday, Feb. 12, 1959
Sandburg Pays Tribute to Lincoln
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Poet Carl Sandburg today told a joint session of Congress the "most enduring memorial to Lincoln is in the hearts of lovers of liberty."
The Congress met in pomp and humility to honor the memory of the Civil War President on the 150th anniversary of his birth in a Kentucky log cabin 20 years after the founding of the Union that he later preserved.
Southerner and northerner—Democrat and Republican—sat side by side as Mr. Sandburg praised Abraham Lincoln as the type of man who appears "here and there across the centuries." Earlier, the Army band crashed out "Dixie" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Mr. Sandburg, Lincoln's most famed biographer, described the first Republican President as a man of "steel and velvet... hard as rock and soft as
drifting fog." He said Lincoln stood for "dececy honest dealing, plain talk and funny stories."
Mr. Sandburg said all of this—this "incomparable Abraham Lincoln"—is kept and will be kept for "a long time yet to come in the hearts...of men and women who understand that wherever there is freedom there have been those who fought and sacrificed."
The white-haired poet said millions of people throughout the world now claim Lincoln as their own.
"He had something they would like to see spread everywhere over the world," he said. "Democracy: we can't say exactly what it is, but he had it."
"Government where the people have the say-so, one way or another telling their elected rulers what they want? He had the idea. It's there in the lights and shadows of his personality."
Ice Gorge Endangers Flooded Indiana Area
PERU, Ind.—(UFU)—A huge ice gorge 10 to 12 miles long piled up in the flooded Wabash River today and civil defense workers said its breakup could endanger all bridges from Lafayette to Delphi.
The ice gorge was piled as high as 35 feet above the surface of the rushing water. Flood waters were reported going around as well as under the gorge.
Lafayette is about 15 airline miles southwest of Delphi. The river course is winding and longer.
Army engineers sent experts in a helicopter over the gorge to take a first hand look and decide whether to dynamite.
Meanwhile, damage from the ice- feed rushing waters of the Wabash had mounted into the millions of dollars. In some areas, the flooding was the worst in northern Indiana in 46 years.
At Peru, where 1.200 families were routed from their homes. Army engineers said they doubted the river would rise any more even though rain was forecast for tomorrow.
Ollie Miller, 54, a long-time resident of Peru, predicted people would go right back to their homes as they always have done, and begin the mammoth task of mopping up. Some people, he said, stubbornly resisted leaving their homes
and some "just moved upstairs."
"This is the sixth time weve had to run for it," Mrs. Juanita Watts, 32, said.
She and her three daughters, Helen Ann, 10; Marion, 6, and Brenda Lee, 1, were rescued from the second story of their home.
"Some of the men from the air base came after us," she told the UPI at the Red Cross Center set up in an old school gymnasium.
Mrs. Faye Klipsch, 23, said she saw water gushing into the back yard of her home just before Air Force personnel rescued her and her two daughters, Rosemarie, 2, and Karen Sue, 8 months.
Gov. Harold Handley declared a state of emergency in 13 counties and telgraphed President Eisenhower asking him to designate them as disaster areas.
The heavy flooding hit the southwest section of the city when the swollen river, backed up by an ice gorge, tore through a sandbagged levee.
"I just handed the children to the rescuers and they carried them and me out," she said.
As the river receded at Peru, a city of 12,000, the crest moved downstream past Logansport and headed for Delphi, Lafayette and Terre Haute.
Dean John S. McNown of the School of Engineering said 300 of last semester's 2,000 engineering students did not enroll in the school this semester.
"We have been attempting to be a little more careful in advising the students. If they don't have the possibilities of graduating, we let them know this as soon as possible," Dean McNown said.
He explained that the school is determined to "make it harder for the hopeless student to stay around." He emphasized that the school's requirements are not being changed
A program of trying to eliminate students with little or no chance of earning an engineering degree is responsible for the unusually heavy amount of drop-outs in the School of Engineering this semester.
Dean Explains Student Drop
"Students come into engineering the same way they do in most departments. Some are not prepared to go to college, and we just expect a lot of them to fail.
He continued:
"A lot of students enter engineering without firm knowledge of what it takes to get a degree. They are just not suited to be engineers and we want these students to know it before they have stayed around school for two or three years more."
Insured May Change Policy
New Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance coverage is available at reduced rates to students already covered by the company's other plans.
Students can enroll for this coverage while paying their fees
Students covered by family memberships can transfer to the student program at this time. A refund of prepaid dues will be made.
Senior Day Set For Feb.27
A second "Senior Day" will be held the day of the KU-K-State basketball game here on Feb. 27, senior class president Bill Witt, Garden City, said.
The festivities will begin with a senior party held at 4:15 p.m. at a spot to be designated.
At 5:30 p.m. there will be an intramural all-star, championship basketball game. The senior stars will play the winner of the sophomore-iunior game.
Members of the teams will be chosen from outstanding intramural players. The outstanding senior player named by a panel of sportswriters will receive a trophy. Members of the two teams will receive all-star certificates.
Senior cheerleaders will lead yells for the senior team. All seniors are asked to wear their senior badges and to bring their pennants, Witt said.
There will be a special senior section for the KU-K-State game. Admission will be by presentation of a senior ID card.
3 Students Head Show
"Big Eight Stars for "59" headlined three performances by KU students last night among its eleven variety acts.
KU balladeer James McMullan, Long Beach, N. Y., senior, sang several ballads, accompanying himself on the guitar.
Also representing KU were two freshmen, Joan Watkins, Kansas City, Mo., and her accompanist, Alice Brown, Paola, who presented a selection of Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites, and Delano Lewis, Kansas City, Kan. junior, who presented a tap dance act. He was accompanied by Reginal Buckner, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
Kansas State College was also well represented by Carol Stewart, who presented several piano selections. The Co-eds, a vocal quartet, Armita Otte and Ken Pierce presented a variety of songs.
A student who marries between enrollment periods may change to family membership by payment of additional dues.
For instance, if a student's application for a change of status is received by Feb. 15, the family coverage will begin on March 1. The student will have to pay for seven months' coverage at the new rate. The amount due would be $46.50 if the wife was not a member before the marriage and $62.00 if the wife was a member.
Family coverage begins on the first of the month following receipt of the application for change of status, provided the application was received before the 15th of the month.
A student with a family membership can change to a single membership on the first of the month following the date of divorce, death of the wife or dependent. Unused dues will be refunded.
A representative of the company is now handing out cards to students picking up their fee cards. If the student wishes to enroll in the plan the cost is payable when fees are paid.
A student leaving school before his coverage expires may either keep his coverage until it expires or change to another Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan.
Two plans are being offered by Blue Cross-Blue Shield. A single student plan costs $11.70 and for students with dependents, $64.75. However, married students are not required to join the family group.
Coverage under the present plan is for eight months from Feb. 1 to Oct. 1. Next fall the coverage will be extended to 12 months. The 12-month coverage will cost $17.50 for a single student and $66.25 for a student with dependents.
The Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan covers the student whether he is on or off the campus. He can receive treatment at any registered hospital.
The plan is a supplement to the present student health program covered in the student's regular fees. It offers greater coverage in case of illness and covers X-rays, surgical, maternity, and other expenses not covered by the present program.
Under the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plan dependents receive the same coverage as do the students.
Weather
Partly cloudy this afternoon with occasional rain or drizzle. Scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight, turning colder tomorrow. Low tonight 15 to 20 west to 40 east. High tomorrow 30 to 40.
Waggoner Says Poetry Must Communicate
Poetry was defined as communication at a Faculty Forum yesterday.
Dean George R. Waggoner, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, speaking on "What Poetry Is." stated that a great poem does not have to contain beautiful words or flowery phrases as long as it can communicate an idea from the poet to the reader.
Before getting into his talk to the assembled faculty members, Dean Waggoner referred to the recent visit of Karl Shapiro.
Mr. Shapiro, Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary poet, delivered a University Lecture here last Monday. Dean Wagonger said that "Mr. Shapiro was very witty and highly entertaining. He also renounced vigorously some of the things I'm going to say today."
Mr. Shapiro defined poetry as the written words of an artist that have meaning only to himself.
Dean Waggoner disagreed with this by saying that all poetry depended upon successful communication.
"Poetry is a kind of communication, different from other kinds, that intends to communicate an experience or an organized state of mind or attitudes to the person who reads it.
He continued:
"P poems that have been written by a poet only for his own enjoyment and not to communicate an idea or message have never been published."
Candy Reported Stolen
An estimated $18 in candy and coins was reported missing last night from a vending machine in the military science building, Kevin Remick, operator of the concession, reported that the theft occurred Feb. 1. Police said the machine had been forced open.