State, National, International News
6th Fleet Ordered To Near East Base
By UNITED PRESS
The powerful U.S. 6th Fleet moved into the war-threatened Eastern Mediterranean today on urgent pre-dawn orders from Washington.
Washington souroes described the move as "precautionary" but they left no doubt of the gravity with which officials regarded the power struggle raging inside Jordan and the possibility it could engulf the whole Middle East in war.
Premier Hussein Khalidi, a moderate, bowed to leftist threats and violence and resigned.
King Hussein called on former Premier Ibrahim Hashem, a firm friend of the West, to form a new government.
The King ordered his army to take over Jordan's towns and cities, declared martial law, and appealed to his people for peace and order. He also was reported to have ordered Syrian troops, out of the country immediately or be forced out by his Iraqi Allies.
As young-King Hussein struggled to preserve his government against a leftist-led revolt, here were the day's major developments:
Troops from Saudi Arabia and Iraq were reported to have taken up positions shielding the Jordanian capital of Amman from the pro-Communist Palestine section of the country on the west and from pro-Communist Syria in the north.
The White House in Washington issued a statement Wednesday night that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "regard the independence and integrity of Jordan as vital."
The British Foreign Office announced in London it considers Jordan's stability "essential" to Middle Eastern peace and that it is consulting "other nations" on the new crisis.
Syrian President Shukri El Kuwali, his army chief of staff, foreign minister, and other officials conferred in Cairo with Egyptian.President Gamal Abdel Nasser on the crisis in Jordan.
7 Get Navy Scholarships
Seven students enrolled in the NROTC training program as contract students have been awarded full Navy scholarships.
The scholarships will include tuition, books, fees, uniforms, and an allowance of $50 a month during the school year.
Students who have received the scholarships are William T. Stutzer, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Stewart L. Engel, Edina, Minn. junior; Kenneth M. Kreutziger, Wichita, George W. Hunt, Merriam, Fred B. Benson, Independence, Robert Kerlinger, Emporia, and William H. Reams, Scranton, freshmen.
The reactivation of the KU chapter of Kappa Epsilon, professional fraternity for women in pharmacy, will highlight the annual Kappa Epsilon Founder's Day Banquet Tuesday.
Pharmacy Unit Revived
Twenty-two students, faculty, and alumnae are expected to attend the banquet according to Mrs. Alberta Nite. Montezuma junior, chairman. Mrs. Raymond Hopponen, whose husband is an associate professor of pharmacy, will be taken into the chapter as an associate member.
Although the sorority has not been active for three years, the women in pharmacy elected officers for this school year. The officers are Mrs. Nite, president; Janice Rufenacht, Ness City junior, vice president; Opal Wessling, Pherr, Tex. junior, treasurer; Mrs. Naida Jimenez, Waverly sophomore, secretary; and Judith Copp, Kinsley sophomore, historian.
Miss Copp has been chosen delegate to the Kappa Epsilon national convention to be held May 18-19 in Madison, Wis.
You Can Get Polio Shots Again
If you want polio shots you can get them because Watkins Memorial Hospital has received another shipment of the vaccine, Dr. Bentrice Lins reported Wednesday.
The shots are given during the regular clinic hours: 8 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays.
Kansas—Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Thundershowers beginning west portion this afternoon and spreading over east portion tonight. Turning cooler northwest this afternoon. Cooler west tonight and over most of state Friday. Low tonight 35-40 northwest to 60 extreme east portion. High Friday 50s northwest to 70 southeast.
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Daily hansan
54th Year, No. 129
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, April 25, 1957
Billings Wins AGI Nomination 626-515
—(Dally Kansan photo)
CONGRATULATIONS—Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo. junior, clasps the hand of primary winner Bob Billings, Russell sophomore.
Seniors: Here's Your Chance To Skip Classes — Legally
The Class of 1957 will come into its own Tuesday when all seniors will be excused from 10 a.m. classes to decide on the senior gift to the University.
The meeting, to be held in the Student Union Ballroom, will also be used to set class dues and discuss activities for Senior Day, Thursday.
Highlighting the Thursday events will be softball games produced in an unusual manner at the intramural fields starting at 1 p. m., followed by a picnic at 4 at Holcomb's Grove. Food and soft drinks will be served at the picnic.
Entertainment will consist of a male beauty contest. The winning senior man will be awarded a valuable prize on the basis of talent, originality of costume, looks, and audience reception.
also be sold at the meeting Tuesday.
Tickets for Senior Day cost 50 cents and may be purchased from organized house representatives, at the alumni office, 226 Strong, and at the information booth. Tickets will
Tentative plans call for a softball game between the senior all-stars and a faculty team, to be followed by a version of softball between the senior men and women.
The men will be required to use kitchen pans instead of gloves, but opposite the normal side, and run the bases backwards. Women will follow normal procedure.
Student Fined $100 On Traffic Charge
Lawrence T. Loftus, Olate third-year law student, was fined $100 and costs Monday in county court on a charge of driving on a suspended driver's license.
Loftus pleaded innocent to a charge of failure to reduce the speed of his car, and posted a $50 bond for appearance at a June 4 preliminary hearing.
The heaviest primary vote in either of the present campus political party's history turned out Wednesday and separated the "men from the boys" for next Wednesday's general election.
In the race of most interest, Bob Billings, Russell junior, defeated Ralph Varnum. Kansas City, Mo., junior, for the Allied Greek-Independent student body president nomination. Billings had 626 votes to Varnum's 515.
POGO's primary was only a formality as all of its candidates will appear in Wednesday's general election as they appeared in Tuesday's Daily Kansan.
"Both parties turned out an amazing increase over last year's total," said Tom Griffith, Pratt senior, and election committee chairman. "We ran out of ballots for AGL at 3:30 p. m. and had to mimeograph enough to last until the polls closed."
A total of 1493 votes were cast in the election, 1173 in the AGI primary.
Following are the winners of the AGI primary. These names will appear on the general election ballot:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences— men-Dale Vermillion; Goodland junior; women - Susie Stout. Wichita sophomore.
School of Engineering and Architecture—John A. Davis, Ottawa junior.
School of Medicine and Graduate School— Dick Peterson., Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
School of Fine Arts—Zoe Ann Kelley, Pratt sophomore.
School of Education Shirley Stout, Lombard. Ill. junior.
School of Business - Sharon Dye,
Wichita sophomore.
School of Law - Ray Pierson Burlington second-year law.
School of Journalism - Dona Seacat, Emporia junior.
School of Pharmacy—Dan Schreepel, Pratt junior.
Social fraternities—Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Dick Peterson, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Roderick Dolsky, Burlington junior; Ray Nichols, Lawrence freshman, and Hugh Grant, Hutchinson junior.
Social sororities—Jere Gloven Salina junior; Polly Peppercorn Lawrence junior, and Carolyn Bailey, Scranton junior.
Men's dorms — Wayne Woodruff/
Cedar Vale sophomore; Wendell
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$75,000 Television Transmitter Presented To University
A 5,000 watt transmitter was presented to the University by the Meredith Publishing Company, operator of television stations in Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., Phoenix, Ariz., and Syracuse, N. Y. The presentation was made at the third annual radio-television banquet held Wednesday night in the Student Union Pine Room.
E. K. Hartenbower, general manager of KCMO-TV announced the gift, which was accepted for the University by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary. Dr. Bruce Linton, associate professor of speech and journalism and coordinator for radio and television, estimated the value of the transmitter at $75,000. The transmitter is now in use at the Meredith Station at Syracuse, but will be shipped here soon.
Batton Receives Award
—(Daily Kansan photo)
V. S. Batton, recently retired manager of WDAF radio station
Raymond Nichols, right, executive secretary of the University, accepts the transmitter gift from E. K. Hartenbower of KCMO-TV, Kansas City.
in Kansas City received the first annual broadcasting award. Jud Woods, who now holds Mr. Batten's position, accepted the award for Mr. Batton who was unable to attend. Dr. Linton presented the award.
At present the University has no funds budgeted for telecasting and any move to acquire any would have to be approved by the Board of Regents, the governor and the state Legislature.
In this case funds could not possibly be available for use before July 1, 1958. At the present time the University television program has studios in Hoch Auditorium which are used on an experimental basis.
Pending now before the Federal Communications Commission is an application for Channel 11, which would be used for educational purposes. Dr. Linton said that once in operation the KU television channel would probably reach a little west of Topeka and would be able to be picked up by
most sets in the greater Kansas City area.
Regarding the gift Dr. Linton said, "Fortunately we now have a well equipped TV laboratory. We have an opportunity for a period of experimentation to assess the future possibilities of what can be done with this transmitter." "There are numerous ways," Dr. Linton continued, in which the effectiveness of our television training program can be extended and the gift of this transmitter makes more practical several of the alternatives."
Don Davis, president of KMBC-TV, Kansas City, who attended the dinner, praised the Meredith organization for its support of the KU program and said it should serve as an inspiratin to other television stations. He cited the fact that most American educational institutions do not have the funds with which to purchase expensive television transmitters and other equipment. This lack has delayed construction of educational channels, he said.