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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 17, 1956
Gov. Hall Returns To Find Union Legal Difficulties
TOPEKA,—(UP)—Gov. Fred Hall said today the "legal aspects aren't clear yet" to questions about the bargaining rights of unionized state workers in negotiations across the table with agents of the state.
Mr. Hall said he had scheduled a meeting with the attorney general and other state officials to look into union recruiter's drives here to sign up the state's 20,532 government force.
An estimated 600 state workers in the highway department have joined the union in recent weeks, but state officials were unsure whether state employees could bargain for state money.
Adrian L. Mitten, regional director for the AFL-CIO State, County and Municipal Employees Union, said some 600 workers in all six divisions of the state highway department out of a force of about 1,100 have been signed up in the no-strike union so far.
The goal of the union drive is the estimated 75,000 employees in state, county and municipal jobs in Kansas.
Mr. Hall said he was not sure what laws governed a union of state workers—whether "the Taft-Hartley Law applies where we use federal funds or whether it is a no-noman's land. The legal aspects are not clear."
Cool Period Slated For State
TOPEKA—(UP). — Kansas will have a moderate cool spell during the next two days, but little if any rain is in sight for parched portions of the west.
The weather bureau, in a five-day forecast extending through Saturday, said temperatures will remain about normal for this time of year in Kansas.
The weatherman predicted a cool period at the "beginning of the week warmer at mid-week and cooler again Friday or Saturday."
Normal highs for this period are in the lower 80's. Light rain in the east to little, if any, rain in the west was in the five day weather picture.
Highs Sunday ranged from 101 at Pittsburg, 100 at Garden City and Wamego to 91 at Goodland. Lows dipped to 47 at Goodland Sunday night and varied to a top of 67 at Chanute.
A storm area moved through Kansas and into Oklahoma over the weekend, bringing cooler weather which will hold in Kansas for the next few days.
ROTC Units' Enrollment Is Up
A total of 950 men have enrolled in the Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs this fall. This is about a 10 per cent increase over last year's totals.
The Army ROTC has the largest freshmen enrollment with 113 men, and also the largest program with 365 students. The size of the program is about the same size as last year's number.
The Navy ROTC shows the largest rise in freshmen with 93, a 20 per cent increase. The total enrollment in the program is 244 men, which includes 63 seniors, 45 juniors, and 43 sophomores.
The Air Force ROTC took a total of 111 freshmen, an increase of 15 per cent over last year. The program contains' a total of 268 men, with 62 sophomores, 48 juniors, and 47 seniors.
OT Club To Meet Tuesday Night
New officers of the Occupational Theory Club will take over at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 332 Strong.
The new officers are Marcia Goodwin, Columbus junior, president; Saundra Kellogg, Paola junior, vice president; Nancy Olson, Delafield, Wis. senior, secretary-treasurer, and Barbara Chadborn, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, publications chairman.
Steel Strikes Not Necessary?
LOS ANGELES, Calif., — (UP) Officials of the United Steel workers of America today predicted that nationwide steel strikes may no longer be necessary.
In a report prepared for today's opening session of the USW National Convention, the union president, David J. McDonald, said last July's five-week walkout may prove to be final major labor disturbance in the basic steel industry.
The prediction, the report said, was based "on our conviction that the future of union management relations lies along the path of widening areas of understanding and a growing sense of the common interests and mutual responsibilities of both labor and management for the welfare of the nation as a whole.
Democratic Group To Probe Kickbacks
TOPEKA —(UP)— Democratic state chairman Frank Theis announced today a committee of well-known Kansas democratic attorneys had been named to "make an inquiry" into the legal aspects of the alleged one-eant a gallon gasoline kickbacks made to GOP nominee for governor Warren Shaw in state purchases of fuel.
Theis said he appointed the committee of attorneys to "make such legal opinions available to the attorney general of Kansas."
Theis said members of the committee are already at work.
The Democratic state chairman said he expected some report from the committee this week.
Red China Demands Membership in UN
LONDON—(UP)一A three-man delegation from Communist China arrived here yesterday and immediately demanded that Red China be admitted to the United Nations.
The delegation came here from Geneva as guest of the British United Nations association.
Suez 'Test Trip Asked By U.S.
LONDON—(UP) Britain and the United States will ask the second 18-nation Suez conference to approve an immediate "test trip" into the Suez Canal in a challenge to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's claim to sole control of the waterway, informed sources said today.
Mr. Nasser served notice in advance he would not permit the western-sponsored "users association" to operate in the canal.
U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced in Washington that the United States is prepared to finance oil exports from this country to western Europe in case that transit through the canal becomes "impractical."
He added, however, that "our hope remains that satisfactory operating arrangements can be worked out with Egypt."
The informed sources in London said Britain wants the canal test case to be a full convoy piloted by westerners. The United States is said to believe a single ship will be sufficient.
Soviet Pilots Train For Suez Pass
PORT SAID, Egypt—(UP)—Soviet pilots newly arrived from Russia sailed down the Suez Canal today as trainees under Egyptian and Greek instructors.
Four of the 15 Soviet master mariners left Port Said aboard a special four-ship convoy bound down the 101-mile waterway to Suez in the first training run since they arrived 48 hours ago.
The four ships in this morning's convoy were the British tanker British Chivalry, the Italian freighter Giulius Venezia and one French and one West German ship.
Two Egyptian and two Greek pilots acted as instructors and actually took the ships through the canal.
Wrong Side of the Tracks
Wrong Side of the Tracks
OGDEN, Utah—(UP) — Farmer Thomas Russell lives on the wrong side of the tracks. His barn caught fire and he summed the fire department but wagons were halted when a train blocked their path Trainmen hurried to clear the intersection, but by the time they did Russell's barn had burned to the ground.
IT'S FOR REAL!
by Chester Field
"To catch a man," said Violette
"The wisest gals play hard to get!"
To seem remote and quite aloof
She sat six years upon the roof.
"It doesn't seem to work," she said
And so she clobbered them instead.
She shrugged, "I do the best I can
Unconscious or not, a man is a man!"
MORAL: Faint pleasure ain't pleasure!
In smoking too, take your pleasure BIG.
Smoke for real . . . smoke Chesterfield.
Packed more smoothly by Accu-Ray
it's the smoothest tasting smoke today.
DENVER- (UP) -The name of the latest teenage rage popped up in a Denver police pickup order for an incorrigible juvenile runaway yesterday.
The radio dispatcher told all patrol cars to be on the lookout for a runaway who was sporting, among other things, "an Elvis Presley haircut."
Today and Tuesday open tryouts for anyone interested in acting will be held in Green Hall auditorium. Singers and dancers will be auditioned Wednesday in Fraser auditorium. Anyone interested in stage work may sign up on these three days at the place set for the auditions.
Drama Tryouts Begin Today
This Fugitive Has An Elvis Haircut
Tryouts will be held this week for three University theatre productions. They will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. each day.
Thursday and Friday students will be called back to read for parts in the shows. Dr. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama will notify those who are to return.
The first three productions are "The Rainmaker," "Under the Milkwood," and the final acts of "Darkness at Noon," and "The Inspector General."
Brink Bandit Testifies
BOSTON—(UP)—Joseph (Specs)
O'Keele testified today that accused Brinks leader Joseph McGinnis sent a man to the government patent office in Washington to unearth alarm plans of Brink's money vaults which were looted of $1,218,211 six years ago.
Levant Suffers Heart Attack HOLLYWOOD — (UP) Oscar Levant, 49-year-old pianist, composer, wit, was in "satisfactory" condition today after suffering a heart attack. He was stricken over the weekend and taken to Mount Sinai hospital yesterday.
Ford Foundation Aids Med Schools
NEW YORK—(UP)—The Ford Foundation has announced grants totaling $21,750,000 to 44 privately-supported medical schools in the United States.
The foundation announced yesterday the total includes $500,000 for each of 43 four-year schools and $250,000 to the two-year medical school at Dartmouth University, Hanover, N.H.
The grants are part of a 90-million-dollar sum appropriated last December to aid instructional programs at private medical schools. They are to be held by the schools as invested endowment for at least 10 years, during which time the income may be expended for instructional purposes. After 10 years, the schools may use the principal as well as endowment income.
The attic, now unfinished and being used for storage, will be made into a small demonstration-lecture room and several small laboratory cubicles. The rooms will be used by the department of radiophysics under the direction of Frank E. Hoecker professor of physics.
Institutions receiving the $500,000 grants include: Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.; Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.; Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif.
Bids will be opened Tuesday for the remodeling of the attic of the radioisotope laboratory at the University according to R. Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations.
Growth of the department's teaching program at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels has made more space necessary. Because of radiological safety controls, the additional facilities must be in the same building.
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