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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1958
Navy Men Get 'Salty' Education
It will be "anchors aweigh" for 38 KU men next June when they enter the Navy, after receiving a college education with a dash of salt!
Graduates commissioned as regular officers from KU take their places in the fleet or the Marine Corps with graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy.
The Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps was established in 1926 in 6 universities. After World War
Tryouts Set For Contest
Tryouts for KU representatives to the state and interstate intercollegiate oratory and extemporaneous speaking contests will be held at 7:15 p.m. Thursday in Koom 134 Strong Hall.
First prize in the oratory contest is a $50 U.S. savings bond.
Students competing in the oratory contest must be native Kansans. Their speaking topic is "Kansas: Symbol of American Progress." Speeches should be eight minutes long and must be original.
The oratorical contest winner will be sent the annual oratory contest sponsored by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.
Students not interested in the Native Kansans' contest may speak in the tryouts on a subject of their own choosing.
Extemporaneous speaking contestants will be given a choice of three current events topics. Contestants should gather material from the New York Times News in Review, eight editions prior to the speaking date.
Extemporaneous speeches will be five minutes long. Contestants will have thirty minutes to prepare their topic.
Hope Gone for Missing Miners
SPRINGHILL, N. S. —(UPI) Hope was all but gone today for the miners still missing in the rubble of a cave-in here and the death toll appeared certain to reach 93.
By early morning a total of 21 bodies had been recovered from the No. 2 shaft of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, which was hit by an earthquake-like jolt or "bump" Thursday night. Of the 174 men in the mine only 81 made it to safety.
Miners and specially trained mine rescue workers (Draegemann) have been bringing out bodies one or two at a time. The rescue worker said it appeared as though most of the victims had been killed outright immediately after the bump. Some were crushed by falling rock and debris, while others were poisoned by the lethal gas.
They said the bodies were badly decomposed because of the humid conditions of the mine, and they feared many would never be identified.
Red Shelling Called Barbaric
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the Chinese Red's on-again-off-again shelling of Quemoy and Matsu was outlandish and uncivilized. He declared it was designed for promiscuous killing of civilians rather than any military objective.
Dulles told a news conference that the Communist tactics were unprecedented in history and apparently were designed to save face after the intensive Red bombardment of the offshore islands failed to blockade them.
The secretary would not predict whether the shelling would increase or decrease. But he said he did not think it was likely that the Reds would raise their military efforts to the point likely to provoke general war.
The services of the Business Placement Bureau are open to any student who wishes to use them.
II other universities were selected to offer NROTC. The NROTC unit was established here in 1946. The manpower force of the national NROTC program totals well over 3,500,000.
NROTc not only trains young men for reserve commissions in the Navy and Marine Corps, but it also trains them for regular commissions.
The two programs are known as the Regular and Contract programs. The regulars are selected through nationwide competitive examinations. The contract students apply to and are selected by each school's professor of Naval Science.
The contract students receive $27 a month during their junior and senior years, and spend two years in active duty after graduation. Uniforms are provided for students in both programs. Men in either program have automatic draft deferments.
The Navy pays for regulars' tuition and books plus $50 a month retainer pay for a maximum of 4 years. Upon graduation and commissioning, the men join the Navy as career officers.
Regular students must make 3 summer cruises of approximately 6 weeks each, one shore cruise and two on shipboard, prior to graduation. Last summer KU Navy midshipmen visited Japan, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal.
Contract students are required to make one shipboard cruise in the summer between their junior and senior years and may take part in an optional 5-day tour to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla.
Library Directors Receive Research Project Renewal
At present there are 212 men in the NROTC program at KU.
Robert Vosper and Robert Talmadge, director and associate director of libraries, respectively, have received a six month renewal on a research project sponsored by the Assn. of Research Libraries. The renewal extends their study and reevaluation of the Farmington Plan until March 31.
The Farmington Plan is a program instituted in 1947 for the cooperative acquisition of research books from foreign countries for the use of
American scholars. Mr. Vosper and Mr. Talmadge were designated the principal investigators at the beginning of the project.
The funds for renewal will be drawn from the initial appropriation of $21,000, which was a grant from the Ford Foundations Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Mr. Talmadge has published an interim report on the plan entitled "College and Research Libraries."
12 Attend Systematics Meeting
A group of 12 research assistants and associates from KU science departments attended the fifth annual Symposium on Systematics, held Thursday and Friday at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.
The research assistants who attended are Saul I. Frommer, David Beneway, Harold Murray, James Rohlf, John Kliewer, Carl Rettenmeyer, Donald Woodard, and Richard Fredrickson, all of Lawrence.
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