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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
56th Year, No. 58
Monday, Dec. 8, 1958
Susan Sandifer Queen of ROTC Ball
About 600 cadets, midshipmen, and their dates watched the three Military Ball Queen finalists, escorted by the student commanding officers of the three ROTC units, pass under the arched sabres of their honor guard and be presented to George B. Smith, dean of the University, and the heads of the three ROTC departments.
After the official presentation, Dean Smith opened the sealed envelope in which the queen's name had been placed Wednesday evening following her selection by the eleven escorts of the eleven semi-finalists.
Assisted by Peggy McCormack, Kansas City, Mo., junior and last year's Military Ball Queen, Dean Smith crowned the new queen, Susan Sandifer, Wichita sophomore and member of Alpha Chi Omega. Sandy Day, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore,
Delta Gamma, and Jean Rogers, Paradise junior Kappa Kappa Gamma, were her attendants.
Miss Sandifer and her partner, Dean Smith, then stepped off in the queen's dance as the honor guard left the ballroom floor. The corps of cadets and midshipmen with their dates joined their new queen on the dance floor. Col. Ralph J. Hanchin, professor of military science and tactics, Capt. J. W. Newsome, professor of naval science, and Lt. Col. Ash, professor of air science, the heads of the three ROTC departments, also claimed their rights to dance with Miss Sandifer.
The Military Ball, which is sponsored by Scabbard and Blade, honorary military society, was under the direction of the Navy ROTC unit this year.
Polio Hasn't Affected Connie Boswell's Spirit
Bv Rael Amos
Connie Boswell, who has been in a wheel chair since she was stricken with polio at the age of three, showed her dynamic personality and wonderful singing talent to a Kansas City supper club audience Saturday night.
She projected such feeling into her musical numbers that the audience found itself joining in on such swinging arrangements as "When the Saints Go Marching In," and "You Were Meant for Me."
"Great show! What a personality! Wonderful voice!" These were a few of the comments describing Miss Eoswell after the performance.
She was brought in a wheel chair to a stage containing only a piano, and immediately set about swaying the audience with arrangements of old songs from her new record album.
Miss Boswell began her career in her home town of New Orleans and received her first paycheck at the age of nine. She introduced such hit songs as "I Cried for You." "Say
It Isn't So," and the original version of "Blueberry Hill."
A freshman reported to campus police his car was damaged by a hit-and-run driver about 5 p.m. Friday near Watson Library.
Originally Miss Boswell was a member of a popular trio with her two sisters.
Although she perhaps favors performing in nightclubs, her motion picture and television careers have been successful.
"I think my success in all media has been because I don't get nervous. Maybe an hour before I'll get a little nervous, but by the time I go on, it is all gone," she said.
At the end of her evening's performance when she announced that "my time is all gone," the audience refused to let her go until she had done another song. She closed with her own version of "I'm Wishing You A White Christmas."
Freshman Says Hit-and-Run
Campus police, who are investigating, have not determined whether the accident was a hit-and-run case.
Following the show, Congressman Albert Raines (D-Ala) congratulated her on the evening's performance and told her, "I have followed your career for years, and have always admired the way you win over an audience."
James Ferrell, Atchison, said he parked his car on a sharp incline at the south side of Watson Library, left the automatic transmission in
"park," and went into the library
"park," and went into the library. When he returned, he found the car smashed against a wall at the bottom of the hill. It was damaged in several places.
The car was towed to a garage where mechanics estimated the damage at $100. Repairman said it looked as if the car had been struck from the rear.
They found a pin had been sheared from the parking gear, indicating a hard jolt had been received.
GM Manager to Speak Tomorrow
James H. Allen, General Motors Assembly plant manager in Kansas City, Kan., will speak at a Mechanical Engineering Seminar at 11 a.m. tomorrow in 110 Marvin.
James H. Allen
Allen's topic is titled, "What Industry Expects of the Graduate Engineer," and will describe the functions of engineering in the automotive industry.
Allen joined General Motors after graduation from New York University in 1933.
A picture of Allen appeared in Friday's Daily Kansas incorrectly titled Mr. Pramoj, under the story, "Thai Newsman to Speak Here."
German Foresees Danger in Berlin
By Larry Miles
Heinz Neunes, Berlin-Lichterfelde graduate student, said, "peace over prestige" must temper Western action in the new Berlin
"Germany is not the Nevada Desert, and the defense of Berlin requires atomic weapons," he added at the weekly Current Events Forum.
"The people who live in Germany and Berlin are frightened," he said.
Helmut Hulsbergen, instructor in German, said a cloud of fog in Berlin covers the intentions of the inscrutable Nikita Khrushchev.
This means Russia will transfer to the East German government the right of control of western traffic to and from Berlin. Until now the Russians and the West have considered Berlin to be under BiFour administration with right o access to and from Berlin providers for in the Potsdam Agreement.
Khrushchev has told the West that Russia would "liquidate the occupational status of Berlin" if a four-power agreement is not reached in six months to a plan for making Berlin a free city.
"We cannot ignore Khrushchev's proposals as it involves the possibility of war," Neumes said.
The West is now faced with the threat of a blockade.
West Faces Blockade
Neumes, a graduate student of entomology, said three alternatives are open to the West in splitting the fog and meeting the new development.
The alternatives are:
1. Get tough.
2. Give diplomatic recognition to the East German government.
1. Verb German government.
2. Discuss Russian plans for a freg city.
An intensely interested crowd stayed longer than the hour-long Forum to hear Neumes and Hulsbergen discuss the three alternatives and to ask questions.
Neues said, "A get tough attitude, the alternative now followed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the rest of the West, is extremely dangerous.
Tough Policy Too Risky
"War at this time would be fought with nuclear weapons. A get tough policy is too risky. The West must seek a postponement.
"The need for the West to use nuclear warfare in Germany might not be necessary to future western defense plans, and a winning of time is vital."
Neunes recommended that the West give diplomatic recognition to the East Berlin government to win time. This recommendation, he said, depends upon the premise that Russia is willing to leave West Berlin unchanged and that all possibilities as to what Russia wants must be explored.
Russia Motivated by Fear
He said that since Berlin is the single hole in the Iron Curtain, Russia's newest move could be motivated by fear of the rearmament of West Germany with nuclear arms.
He pointed out that 80 per cent of the refugees from East Berlin escape through West Berlin. There are few restrictions upon communication and passage from and to East and West Berlin, he said.
Russian charges that West Berlin is being used as a spy base is not without justification, he said. "There are at least 10 spy organizations in West Berlin."
Russia may just be trying to close
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Russians Accept Nuclear Test Ban
GENEVA — (UPI) — Russia today accepted a binding treaty obligation to cooperate with the United States and Britain in a control organization for supervising a nuclear test ban.
Agreement came after a $31_{2}$-hour session of the three-power nuclear conference which approved the key control provision as the second article of a test ban treaty.
Today's accord was reached within 48 hours of the East-West agreement on the first article of the projected treaty pledging the prohibition of nuclear tests.
West Zone Vote Brings Flurry Of New Threats
By United Press International
A decisive vote against Communism yesterday by the people of West Berlin touched off new Communist threats and brought a veiled warning by East German Premier Otto Grotewohl that Western troops face a blockade if they remain in the city.
Barely 12 hours after the Communist's smashing defeat, the East German leader went before his parliament to claim West Berlin as part of East Germany.
He said allied troops are "unjustly and illegally" stationed "on the territory of the German Democratic Republic."
Socialists 849,883 52.1 per cent
Christian
BERLIN — (UPI) — Final official returns from the West Berlin parli-
mentary elections:
Socialists 849,883 52.1 per cent
The new city council (Parliament) will be made up of 78 Socialists, headed by Mayor Willy Brandt, and 55 Christian Democrats.
Democrats 608,927 37.3 per cent
Communists 31,520 1.9 per cent
He ignored the West Berlin voting which previously turned down the Soviet proposal that western allied troops leave Berlin and West Berlin he turned into a demilitarized city.
He said the East Zone government would be in a position to "exercise sovereignty on the land, on the water and in the air" if allied troops remain.
Final official returns in yesterday's parliamentary elections showed the Socialists had received 52.1 per cent of the vote. The Christian Democrats were next with 37.3 per cent. The Communists were near the bottom with 1.9 per cent.
The vote means the new city council (parliament) will be made up of 78 Socialists, headed by Mayor Willy Brandt and 55 Christian Democrats.
Brandt, 44, an anti-Nazi during World War II, has attained the stature of a hero to West Berlinders. Political observers termed yesterday's vote as a direct result of the blunt-talking mayor's influence.
Brandt was also the hero of the 1948-49 Communist blockade. He held firm against the attempt to starve West Berlin into submission,
Quigley Is Improving
E. C. Quigley, a former athletic director at the University, is reported improving today at Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was taken Saturday suffering from an undisclosed illness.
Quigley, for many years supervisor of umpires in the National League, was widely known as a football, basketball and baseball official.
He was director of KU athletics from 1944 until he retired in 1950. Troubled by a chronic illness, he underwent surgery at the KU medical center in Kansas City last September.
Weather
Snow and colder tonight with snow diminishing and ending tomorrow morning. Low tonight 10 to 15. Tomorrow partly cloudy and continued cold.