Page 4
University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 10, 1957
State, National, International News
Pinilla Government Falls In Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia — (UP) The government of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla fell to a military junta (council) today.
A broadcast over the official radio at 7 a.m. said the junta is composed of Maj. Gen. Afredo Duarte Blum, commander of the army, Brig. Gen. Deogracias Fonseca, director of the national police, and Mai. Gen. Gabriel Paris, minister of war.
The whereabouts of Rojas Pinilla was not known. It was reported that he may have gone to Venezuela.
Rojas Pinilla was elected in 1954 to a term scheduled to end Aug. 7, 1958. But Wednesday night his hand-picked puppet assembly elected him to a second term which would have ended in 1962.
Thursday high prelates of the Roman Catholic Church condemned the government of Mr. Rojas Pinilla for murder in putting down the opposition. The government had blamed the violence on Communists.
The immediate future of the country was not clear, but a joint civilian military government was considered a possibility.
Reds Shell Islands
TAIPEI, Formosa — (UP) — Communist Chinese artillery units today launched one of their heaviest recent attacks on three Nationalist Chinese-held islands in the Formosa Strait. The official news agency reported that Nationalist garrisons on the islands Little Quemoy, Tatang and Ertang were immediately alerted for a possible invasion following the two-hour shelling.
U.S. May Accept Open Skies Plan
WASHINGTON — (UP) — The United States is hinting it will accept a partial open skies aerial inspection plan limited to Europe Alaska and the eastern reaches of Siberia.
A voice of America broadcast said such a plan would be an effective first step in preventing surprise knockout attacks in the nuclear age. It said this kind of test area could be expanded to more important areas later.
The Europe-Alaska-Siberia compromise could be the American answer to a recent Soviet proposal for getting President Eisenhower's open skies inspection plan into operation.
The President proposed at the 1955 Big Four Summit meeting at Geneva that Russia and the United States agree to let each other make photo reconnaissance flights over each other's territory.
Campus Briefs
Ridgway To Attend New York Meeting
Robert W. Ridgway, assistant professor of education, will attend the meeting of the International Reading Assn. in New York City today and Saturday.
As the Kansas representative on the national organization, committee of the association, he will make a report on special studies and readings in Kansas.
Dr. Moore To Speak At Workshop Today
Dr. Alfred H. Moore, assistant professor of education and coordinator of special education, will give two talks at the Administrators' and Teachers' Workshop in Mental Retardation today and Saturday at Winfield. "A Total Community Program for the Retarded Child" is the theme of the workshop.
Dr. Moore will speak on orientation to mental retardation and public provisions for the mentally retarded, and will address teachers attending a workshop for the trainale retarded.
Edward L. Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, and L. Don Scheid, instructor of band and orchestra, will be soloists in the band concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
2 Soloists Featured In Concert Sundav
Mr. Masters, who was a cornet soloist in the United States Marine Band for 20 years, will play "A Trumpeter's Lullaby" by Anderson. Mr. Scheid will play "Flight of the Bumble Bee," a clarinet solo by Rimski-Korsakov.
Director of the band is Russell Wiley, professor of band and orchestra.
Students To Study College Requisites
A student committee of academic requirements has been formed by a group of speech students to study and make recommendations concerning College requirements for various schools.
These recommendations will be submitted to the College for consideration. Lee Baird, Newton junior, is chairman of the group.
Aging Conference Starts May 27
The seventh annual conference on aging will be held at KU May 27-28. The conference theme will be "Meaningful Maturity."
Speakers at the 2-day conference will include Miss Esther Twente, professor of social work, and W. D. Wolfe, superintendent of Lawrence schools.
The conference is sponsored by Kansas State College, the state department of social welfare, the Kansas State Board of Health, the KU department of sociology and anthropology, department of social work, department of physical education, and the University Extension.
3 Attending Parley On Higher Education
Three University administrators are among the Kansas delegates attending Midwest Conference of the President's Committee on Education Beyond. the High School in St. Louis today. The conference began Thursday.
George B. Smith, dean of the University, is chairman of the Kansas delegation. Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education and Dean Leonard H. Axe of the School of Business are two of three representatives appointed by Gov. George Docking. The other representative is John E. King, president of Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia.
Election of officers and a picnic Thursday were the last German Club activities for the semester. About 50 members attended the picnic held at the farm of Sam F. Anderson, instructor of German and faculty adviser to the club.
German Club Holds Picnic And Election
New officers are: Burley Channer, Hutchinson junior, president; Laurin Wilheim, Great Bend sophomore, vice president; Bob Warnoek, Hutchinson junior, secretary-treasurer; Pat Duncan, Iola junior, and Evelyn Walters, Lawrence sophomore, food chairman.
Try Kansan Want Ads. Get Results
Crack! Loaded Rifle Goes Off In Mail
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UP) — A one-time postal employee who mailed a rifle to a brother in Idaho said he didn't know the weapon was loaded.
The 30-30 carbine discharged accidently Thursday and wounded a postal employee at Twin Falls, Idaho, when it fell from a truck to a dock.
Kansas Sells Half Billion In Minerals In 1956
The package containing the rifle was mailed by C. A. Robinson, who retired Jan. 31 after 31 years service as a postal worker. He said he did not examine the gun before wrapping the package.
The bullet wounded a postal employee, Bert Q. Bolinger, 39, in the arm and chest.
Kansas, one of the top 10 mineral producing states for a quarter of a century, reaped more than a half billion dollars worth of minerals during 1956, officials estimated today.
The state geological service said in a new report on 1955 that the total that year was near the 1956 level. The report said total value of minerals produced in Kansas in 1955 was $487,896,694, a gain of 5.2 per cent over that for 1954.
Leading minerals produced, in order of dollar value, were crude oil, natural gas, cement, stone, natural gas liquids, clay and clay products, salt, sand and gravel, zinc,
carbon black, coal, lead, helium and volcanic ash.
Production was reported in all but five of the 105 counties, and 53 of the counties claimed a mineral production of more than $1,000,000 (M).
Prince Charles Has First Operation
LONDON — (UP) — Prince Charles underwent his first surgery—for removal of his tonsils and adenoids—ip a specially built operating room at Buckingham Palace Thursday.
A medical bulletin afterward said Charles condition was satisfactory.
DINE OUT TONIGHT
You'll enjoy a snack or dinner with any of these Fine Restaurants!
"Moore" Burger Drive-In
We invite you to join us for:
"Moore" Burgers, Malts & Shakes
"Less" Burgers, Soft Drinks
Open 11 to 11 Everyday
1511 W. 6th
Shrimp-Chops-Broiled Steaks
Ten - Forty Cafe
Open Weekdays 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Closed Sundays
1310 W. 6th
1310 W. 6th
Olympic House of Kansas
Lawrence's Turnpike Restaurant
5 Miles East on Pike
(15c Round Trip)`
Private Dining Room for Students
Dinner Parties & Get Togethers
V1 3-9277
Old Mission Inn
"The best hamburgers in town!"
1904 Mass. VI 3-9737
Kentuckian
1802 Massachusetts 19th St. Shopping Area
Chicken Dinners are Our Speciality