LOOK OUT TOM—The weather is cold, but the sophomore, in line for a good face washing by snow is colder. Tom Eyans, Kansas City, Kan., Carolyn Kreye, Lawrence sophomore.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
56th Year, No. 62
Friday, Dec. 12, 1958
Religion Seen as Foxhole For Personal Protection
A KU professor of religion believes there is an upsurge of religious interest in the country and on the campus due to an attempt to gain security.
Dr. John H. Patton said the populace today seeks security because self-sufficiency and adequacy are not enough. He said security within the social and economic world is lacking, and the individual seeks a personal security within himself.
John H. Patton
He discussed the surge of interest in religion in an interview with The Daily Kansan.
"The individual can find valid or partially valid personal security in religion." Dr. Patton explained. "It is a little foxhole which will protect him."
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"Then his religion will give him the kind of valid security which true religion can give," he concluded.
"After the turn of the century there was an emphasis on the total adequacy and self-sufficiency of man. This stemmed from a growth of the natural sciences and its consequent effects upon human and social science." Dr. Patton said.
Dr. Patton related the recent religious interest to a historical background.
"The student must combine an intellectual knowledge with a deep commitment of the object of his religious faith." Dr. Patton said.
During World War I there was tremendous optimism about a life rooted in self-sufficiency, he said. Science would feed everyone and education would correct bad morals.
ple thought there would never be a depression.
Even after the war, he added, peo-
"We came out of one war with disillusionment, and went into another with a feeling that it was all a big mess," he said.
Dr. Patton said that after the depression and World War II, "sufficiency got kicked in the teeth." Out of it came a cynicism and skepticism of man which affected everyone. When the Korean war quickly followed, it placed serious question marks on total adequacy, he said.
"The tendency at present," he said, "is to live in the fear of all kinds of crises—fear of communism, government juvenile delinquency, military fiasco, and fear of Hell. The individual is tossed into this state of mind because he questions his own adequacy."
Ice Causes 17 Accidents
5-Car Wreck Near Malott; More Snow Forecast Today
The 424-man Joseph R. Pearson dormitory on West Campus Drive will be finished in time for students to occupy the second semester. Ten new Stouffer Place units will also be ready by February.
Light snow and a freezing rain combined last night to turn Lawrence and campus streets into a nightmare of ice.
Other construction on the campus is on schedule, Summerfield Hall, which will house the School of Business, the Business Research Center and the Computation Center, will be completed this summer.
The cafeteria and Hawks Nest will be extended into the new portion and the bowling alleys will be moved into the ground floor. Additional meeting rooms and lounges will occupy the upper floors.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Secretary of State John Foster Dulles met with President Eisenhower before flying to Paris for conferences on the Berlin crisis.
The President and Dulles, at afternoon White House session, put the finishing touches on a U.S. plan of
Lawrence police reported 17 accidents. Campus police reported four accidents, one of which involved five cars.
The secretary then flew to Paris for talks with the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, and West Germany, and the North Atlantic Treaty Powers.
The addition will be north of the Union and have the same exterior construction of red brick, said Frank Burke. Union director.
Union to Open Bids on Addition
Plans for the $1 million addition to the Kansas Union have been sent to contractors and bids will be opened Jan. 13 at Toobeka. Actual construction is expected to begin early next spring with completion set for mid-1960.
Dulles Paris Bound For Berlin Talks
(See Page 2 for German Students' views of the Berlin Crisis.)
allied strategy to keep West Berlin out of Communist hands.
German Missionary Claims He Saw Abominable Snowman
The newspaper, The Regensburger Bistumsblatt, published Father Eichinger's story of his meeting with one of the priests nine years ago on a trip through a desolate mountain range. The heading on the story was "Meeting With the Snowman of the Himalayas."
Father Eichinger described the priest as a primitive human being living in the nude in the sub-zero temperatures and wearing a crude
REGENSBURG, Germany —(UPI)
A German missionary back from 13 years in Tibet reports the "Abominable Snowmen" of the Himalayas are really native priests living nude in the icy wilderness of nearly inaccessible mountain ranges.
The missionary, The Rev. Franz Eichinger, reported he had photographed one of the priests. The picture was published today in the official organ of the Roman Catholic Episcopate of Regensburg, which said it was the first authentic photograph of an "Abominable Snowman."
"In a way which we cannot understand they are immune from the influences of nature and the needs of human life," Father Eichinger said.
The picture published by the paper showed the snowman in a loincloth with wild hair and eyes closed—but no doubt, a human.
breech clout only when he approached travelers.
"On a trip we had been invited by a tribe of Shvrong Nomads to stay in their tents. With winter approaching, they were camping in the Hokka Valley, at the foot of the Sminov Mountain Range in the province of Chinchai.
"We were about 3,000 meters (9,000 feet) above sea level. There, at about 4 p.m. on Nov. 5, 1949, I succeeded in photographing what the natives call a 'Nude Lama.'
"We were living near the tent of the 'Prince of the Thousand' (chief of the tribe.)
"In the light of the rising sun, a human being as never seen before was standing in front of the tent. The temperature had fallen to 22 centigrade below zero.
"A thin, torn rag was hanging from his otherwise bare body, this at a time when the nomads and we were wearing fur coats. I was told he only wears the rag when he approaches people.
"I fetched my camera immediately. But the stranger did not want to be photographed. I asked the always helpful Prince of the Thousand to negotiate permission.
"In exchange for medicine the snowman permitted himself to be photographed. But he covered his eyes because "he made it known that the eyes had only been given to him so he could look at the heavens and respond to the looks of suffering humans," the priest concluded.
The five car accident occurred at 7:10 p.m. at the entry of G parking zone on Malet Drive. All of the cars were coming out of G Zone and were trying to get up Malet Drive, but could not move because of the ice. There was an estimated $240 damage to the five cars.
The KU weather bureau reported 1 inch of snow with .08 of an inch of rain. The temperatures last night fell to 2 degrees above zero and it was only 4 above at 8 a.m.
Forecasters said snow falling today in Western Kansas would spread to eastern areas this afternoon and evening.
A heavy snow warning was issued for Kansas today in the second phase of the storm that has already left snow three to six inches deep in localities spread from the Western wheat belt to the southeast corner of the state.
High temperatures will be in the lower 20s.
They expected four to six inches of snow in Western Kansas today and in the southeast tonight.
Cars spinned and slid on campus hills. Some students took advantage of the snow by coasting down hills on sleds and other means of locomotion.
One coed was admitted to Watkins Hospital at 6 p.m. yesterday after suffering minor injuries in a fall. Hospital officials did not disclose her name.
The cars in the five-car accident were driven by Delwin W. Weightman. Overland Park sophomore, Eugene W. Nelson, Phillipsburg senior, Harold F. Stewart, Lawrence graduate student, George Axelrad, New York, N.Y., graduate student, and William D. Bowen, Coffeyville sophomore.
Another accident on the campus involved cars driven by Peter A. Lons, Stratford, Conn., senior, and Peter Ling, Hong Kong, China, sophomore. Lons was going west on Indiana and Ling was going west on 11th St. The cars slid together. Damage was estimated at $40 to Lons' car and $200 to Lings' car.
Cars driven by Dewayne S. Nymann, Lawrence graduate student, and Andrea A. Mata, 1246 Campus Rd., slid together on the icy streets. Damage was estimated at $150 to the car driven by Nymann and $10 to the Mata car.
A car driven by Gerald M. Simmons, Parsons senior, was damaged when he lost control going east on 14th street and hit an electric light pole at Louisiana street.
Buildings and Grounds workers were up at 6:30 this morning sweeping and sanding the streets.
Highway conditions were spotty, The Turnpike Authority reported the super-road was normal from the South Wichita interchange southward but advised reasonable caution from East Wichita to Lawrence. Conditions were normal from
Conditions were normal from Lawrence to Kansas City.
George Injured In Car Accident
Newell George, congressman-elect from the second Kansas district, was reported in fair condition at Providence Hospital in Kansas City, Ken., this morning after suffering injuries in a car accident, and shortly after being involved in an accident to the ambulance carrying him.
The Democratic congressman suffered severe scalp lacerations and abrasions about the body this morning, the hospital reported. His car skidded off high Highway 40 in Wyandotte County.
The ambulance rushing George to the hospital was involved in a wreck at 18th and Minnesota. George was taken on to the hospital in the emergency vehicle.