Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.22
Monday, Oct. 13, 1958
Moon Shot Dives to Pacific; KU Profs View Future Uses
The Air Force announced early today that its Pioneer moon rocket had plunged into the atmosphere and burned at 10 p.m. yesterday. The rocket returned at its peak speed of 25,000 miles an hour and burned over the South Pacific.
At KU, Ammon Andes, professor of aeronautical engineering, said of the moon shot, "We now have possession of the means for the eventual use of scanning other countries. This has long been in use in comic books, but has now taken on significance in terms of keeping the peace.
"The 4-stage rocket is gratifying. It has done what it was supposed to do, and at least we have beaten the Russians." Prof. Andes said.
Arnold A. Strassenburg, assistant professor of physics, remarked on the political implications of the rocket. "When the first Russian satellite was sent up, it became obvious that it had great political impact; this surprised me. I submit that our 4-stage rocket will probably be the same situation reversed." Prof. Strassenburg said.
Both professors felt the rocket would be of great importance to science because it relayed information never obtained before.
Col. McHenry Hamilton, professor of Air Science, said the moon rocket "shows that the Air Force is first insofar as space travel is concerned, and should be the agency that is saddled with its responsibility."
While soaring majestically and reporting what scientists described as invaluable information on radiation, electric currents and temperatures in space, the Pioneer failed by 150,000 miles to reach the moon. Scientists said the rocket was only a few hundred miles an hour short of the speed needed to escape the earth's gravity and reach the moon.
1,587 Traffic Tickets Help Pay for New Parking Lot
Campus traffic and parking violators are paying for a new surfaced drive into the X Zone parking area. The new 410-car lot southeast of Memorial Stadium was financed in part by fines paid by traffic offenders last semester.
A total of 1,587 traffic tickets have been given this semester.
Plans call for a new service drive into X zone to be built off Baumgartner Drive. The temporary drive leads from the lot to Mississippi Street.
When the new drive is completed the toll gates will be moved east to the edge of Mississippi.
This change will be more convenient for people using the Kansas Union, Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, said.
Lawton said X zone will be developed into the same class lot as N zone located north of Allen Field House. This means, he said, the lot will be regraded, resurfaced and curbed. Permanent railings will be installed.
Parking space for the continuing increase in University auto registrations is the biggest problem facing the parking and traffic committee. Until new lots are established, the improvement of existing lots must wait, Lawton said.
Sunnyside Families See Financial Difficulties
Several Sunnyside residents interviewed by The Daily Kansan yesterday said they may have to leave school when their apartment buildings are vacated June 30,1959.
James J. Mangan, Lawrence sophomore, said that the availability of low-cost housing for his family was a factor in his decision to go to college.
"I don't know what we'll do if we can't get into the nine remaining buildings of Sunnyside," Mangan said. "Stouffer Place apartments cost too much for somebody with three kids, and besides that I have my own furniture. If I have to pay more rent, I'll be forced to quit school." StouFFER Place rents are $60 or $70 a month for one- or two-bedroom apartments, plus utilities. Sunnyside rent is $55 a month, plus $1 for each major appliance.
The 16 residents questioned yesterday said they doubted if there would be enough vacancies in the 54 remaining apartments to accommodate those who will be dispossessed and still need low cost housing.
Stuart L. Bunday, Lawrence graduate student, said he hoped to get one of the remaining Sunnyside apartments. He said that if he could not, he would have to find other housing as inexpensive as Sunnyside or leave school.
"I don't think any self-supporting student with a family can afford to live in Stouffer Place, with the utility charges and having to pay to do your washing," Bunday said. "Maybe it's just for those with rich fathers. Why don't they build something similar to Stouffer Place only unfurnished?"
Candidates for secretary-treasurer of the Engineering Student Council must have their petitions in the office of the dean of the School of Engineering by Monday.
Petitions should have the signatures of at least 50 engineering students. A statement of the candidate's qualification should accompany the petition.
Engineering Council Office Petitions Due
The most frequent complaints heard about Stouffer Place from the Sunnyside people were the amount of rent charged, the fact that all of the apartments are furnished, and that no resident is allowed to keep his own washing machine.
Weather
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said Friday that there is no way the University can replace the Sunnyside buildings with other $55-a-month housing.
University officials have surveyed the Sunnyside buildings, he said, and found that the 14 in the west section can no longer be properly maintained. Eight Sunnyside units were razed in 1957 to make room for Summerfield Hall, the new School of Business building now under construction.
Mostly fair and mild this afternoon through Tuesday. Warmer east portion of southern Kansas this afternoon. Low tonight 50s. High Tuesday 78 to 85.
Supreme Court Rebuffs Faubus
ASC Delays Racial Study
By United Press International
The U. S. Supreme Court rebuffed Gov. Orval Pawus of Arkansas again today, declining to review federal court actions forbidding him to use troops to keep Negroes out of Little Rock's Central High School.
The ASC's Committee on Committees yesterday postponed the appointment of a committee to investigate racial discrimination.
The high court's action left Faubus bound by an April ruling of the Eighth U.S. District Court of Appeals in St. Louis not to use National Guard troops again to interfere with integration.
In another case, the Court agreed to examine the validity of Virginia's 1956 laws directed against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
It sent back to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, however another lawsuit dealing with the NAACP's response to subpoenas obtained by a state committee investigating racial matters. The committee is now defunct.
The Supreme Court also let stand a lower court decision invalidating two Louisiana laws dealing with admission of Negroes to state-supported colleges.
John Husar, Chicago senior an chairman of the committee, said his group will make a thorough study of possible appointee qualifications before the committee is set up. Husar said members must have a mature understanding of the situation and a desire to serve on the committee.
An appropriation has been received for architectural planning of the first building there, and the University will ask the Legislature for money to build.
Rezoning of two tracts of land on West 15th St. voted in Tuesday by the City Commission will not affect plans for University property just east of the rezoned areas, Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said yesterday.
Rezoning Will Not Affect KU Land
The University, which owns approximately five acres in the area plans to build three engineering buildings on the site.
The University also owns a half section of land along Iowa Street adjacent to the two men's dormitories being constructed, which is available for housing or academic research buildings whenever the need arises.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)— The Oklahoma-Kansas football game at Lawrence Saturday will be telecast over a 19-station network in five states, the Big Eight Conference announced today.
A resolution to establish the special committee was introduced at the last ASC meeting by Jan Cameron, Topea junior. Many ASC members argued that such a committee would make racial discrimination a political tool. The resolution passed on a 10 to 9 vote.
The regional TV game of the week will be shown in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Big Eight games not involving Colorado teams cannot be telecast into Colorado.
Saturday's Game Will Be Televised
The resolution states that the committee would investigate racial
discrimination in the KU area and promote the work of any organization, such as the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations, which is concerned with racial discrimination.
Linda Bodle, Plattsburg, Mo. senior and co-chairman of the GIHR, said following the adoption of the resolution that the committee would be "more of a help than a hindrance" to her group's efforts. She said the committee would work if the right people are appointed and if they keep the committee out of politics.
Miss Cameron said yesterday that the duties of the committee were left unspecified in the resolution so that the Committee on Committees could study the possibilities.
Semantics Termed Tool of Language
A language expert told a group of English teachers here that semantics is a tool with which to understand and improve the English language.
Hugh Walpole, educator, author and semanticist, spoke Friday night at the sixth annual Conference on Composition and Literature. He is professor of English at Wichita University.
Mr. Walpole defined semantics as the science of the meaning of meanings. He said it became popular in the 1930's and meant at first a branch of philology.
Mr. Walpole urged teachers to foster in their students a quick interest and deep respect for the English language.
He said language is a social organism in which all persons are active members.
"By improving its condition, we improve our fate," he said.
"Ours is the language of most universal appeal that ever existed. Its champions and heroes are the great writers," he said. "It is not a technical tool or a map. It is an activity, like breathing."
Mr. Walpole said he was more interested in understanding his own language than in learning others.
He said the English language community is composed of from 200 to 600 million members.
Auto Group Plans Meet
The Jayhawker Sports Car Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in 102 Strong Hall. The meeting is open to all persons interested in sports and foreign autos.
The club had 85 members last year and has a goal of 100 this year. The club holds monthly rallies at which trophies are awarded for outstanding driver and auto performances. The next rally will be held Oct. 31.
Wilson to Discuss Housing Rates
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, will attend a meeting of Big Eight housing directors Oct. 20 at Kansas State College.
Wilson said today that Sunnyside rent will not come in for special discussion by the directors.
HE CAUGHT IT—Iowa State's Don Webb takes a pass from Dwight Nichols to give Iowa her first down but lost the ball to KU on a fumble on the next play. Moving in for the Jayhawkers, at right, is Bob Marshall.