SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, July 7, 1961
49th Year, No.7
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
KU PREVIEWS—Pat Gish, Lawrence, helps future freshman Don Kahl, Tulsa, register for
the first of a series of six freshman previews to be held at KU this month.
U.S. to Block Red Admission
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The State Department said the United States is considering a variety of measures to block admission of Red China to the United Nations when the issue is raised this fall.
Press Officer Lincoln White rejected as untrue reports that the United States would propose having "two Chinas" in the United Nations as a solution for Peking's bid for admission to the world organization.
White acknowledged there had been discussion of the "two Chinas" formula, under which both would be seated in the assembly, but he said it concerned how to deal with the idea if it was advanced by some other country.
He said the United States continued to support the right of Nationalist China to its Security Council and General Assembly seats and was opposed to seating the Peking government.
He also said the United States doubts it can prevent the United Nations from considering the question. Therefore, he said, it is necessary to consider various devices to deal with the problem when it comes up on the assembly floor.
White declined to comment on the rising tension between the United States and Nationalist China. Taipeh believes the American government is moving toward U.N. membership for Red China, as well as the admission of Soviet-backed Outer Mongolia.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported earlier that the United States had abandoned plans to propose seating two Chinas in the United Nations. The newspaper said the action was reported to have been taken on President Kennedy's orders.
300 Young Musicians To Open Camp Sunday
All three groups will be preparing for formal concerts to be given at the end of the second week, and will be working under specially trained junior high conductors, guest conductors and the regular directors of the camp band, orchestra and chorus.
Three hundred young musicians will arrive in Lawrence Sunday to participate in the first Midwestern Junior High Music Camp. This program offered to seventh and eighth grade students promises to be one of the camp's most exciting programs.
The Junior High Chorus will have from 100 to 175 singers and will also work under a strenuous rehearsal schedule.
The junior high camp will run for a period of two weeks and will feature the concert band, the symphony orchestra and the chorus.
The Junior High Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra will have from 100 to 125 members each. They will both rehearse from three to four hours daily plus sectionals. Class instruction and other phases of specialized training necessary to the student of this age will be provided.
Although they will be housed in Lewis and Templin with the senior high students, the junior high students will not associate with the older campers except at meals and on special occasions.
The junior high musicians will check in at 1 p.m. at Lewis and Templin halls. The remainder of the day will be for orientation to camp life.
These will include William Beck, Colby (band), Merle Watters, Salina (orchestra), and James Hardy.
Special Instructors will be Dick Brumett, brass instructor and director of junior high music, Winfield, brasses, and Don Linde, director of music, Central High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma, wood-winds.
wichita (chorus) as guest conductors.
21.058 Government Workers
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - The federal government had 21,058 civilians on its payroll in Kansas on Dec. 31, 1960, a congressional committee reported today.
The figures were contained in a report by the joint committee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures. The total number of civilian federal workers throughout the world stood at 2,372,580.
The Post Office was the largest employer, using 7,318 of the total.
New Students Here For KU Previews
One-hundred eighty-four future KU freshmen will leave the campus this afternoon after participating in the first two-day KU Preview to be held this summer.
Five more freshman previews will be held this month. A preview for students transferring to KU with advance standing will be held July 27-28.
Last year 1,216 prospective freshmen and 127 advanced standing
enrolless attended the previews
Most of the preview activities are duplicated during Orientation Week. However those attending previews have opportunity to have questions answered on such things as financial assistance, fraternities, sororites, ROTC, or anything else they might want to know before school starts.
Attendance at the previews is not compulsory. Carl G. Fahrbach Jr., assistant director of admissions and head of the preview program, said the previews permit the new student to obtain his orientation in greater depth than is possible during the new student program in September.
The previews give the new student an opportunity to take placement examinations, confer with faculty advisers, arrange for housing, and become acquainted with the campus.
Those attending previews are housed in University dormitories. Meals are served in the Kansas Union.
The prospective students attending the first session arrived Wednesday afternoon. A new group will arrive Sunday afternoon.
The schedule includes a dinner which all attend on the first day of previews.
The remainder of the preview schedule: No. 2, July 10-11; No. 3 July 13-14; No. 4, July 17-18; No. 5, July 20-21; No. 6, July 24-25.
Caroline Rescued In Mishap at Pool
Bids to Raze Nine Buildings At Sunnyside to Be Opened
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Three-year-old Caroline Kennedy slipped from a raft into four feet of water at a swimming pool last week and was rescued by the pregnant daughter-in-law of a Senator, it was disclosed yesterday.
The President's daughter, her mouth full of water, was pulled from the pool by Mrs. William Saltonstall, who jumped fully clothed into the pool. Caroline was a little upset but immediately asked to go back into the water.
Mrs. Saltonstall, who has two children and is expecting another in the autumn, is the wife of the son of Republican Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts.
The incident occurred at the suburban Washington home of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy's step-sister. Mrs. Newton Steers, during a picnic for her son Ivan, 3, and his friends.
Bids for razing nine of the remaining Sunnyside barracks buildings will open July 19.
KU officials hope the site can be cleared by the time school opens in September. The nine buildings are the last of 31 "temporary" structures which were brought to the campus in 1946 to accommodate swollen enrollments caused by thousands of returning GIs.
The barracks, often referred to as "slums," have been eyesores for years as well as potential fire hazards. The first eight buildings were
torn down in the summer of 1957 to make way for the construction of Summerfield Hall, and thirteen more were razed in the summer of 1959.
The Sunnyside site will probably be used for future classroom construction. One building will remain for another year to serve as a temporary shop for housing crews.
The university notified all residents last November that they must move out by Aug. 15. KU officials hope the razing can get underway immediately after that date.
Most of Budget O.k.d by Regents
The State Board of Regents last week cut KU's 1963 fiscal year operating budget slightly, but approved the bulk of a $15 million plus package.
The Regents OKed a sum of $15,
276,561 to cover total net operational
expenditures for the next fiscal year
but chopped off $138,977. What effect
the trimming will have on specific projects and services won't be known for about a month, according
to KU officials.
They said the budget will have to be re-analyzed and some plans readjusted.
The KU figure is part of a $53.-
228,864 budget proposed for all state
colleges and universities. This represents a 9.4 per cent hike over the
$48,631,640 budget earmarked for the 1962 fiscal year which began Sunday.
The proposed budget, which goes to the legislature for approval in January, includes an increase of 5 per cent in salary funds. Included in the total request is $34,740,357 from the state's general fund, plus $5,641,762 from fees, $3,916,556 from interest royalties, $5,665,602 from restricted fees, $3,158,787 in federal funds, $105,800 from other restricted use funds and $382,100 for capital improvements.
Heavy Rains Batter Area
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — The heaviest rains since those that produced the billion dollar flood disaster of 1951 battered northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri yesterday with amounts ranging to more than five inches.
Wind and hail accompanied the onslaught, which disrupted power service, closed industrial plants and threatened flash flooding.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported, however, that no major floods were expected. The rain fell on relatively dry ground, lessening runoff. And streams were generally low prior to the sudden deluge.
In the eastern part of Kansas City the Blue River surged out of banks to a crest approximately five feet above flood stage, but the Jackson County sheriff's office anticipated no major damage. The river was expected to reach U.S. 50 by mid-afternoon.
Here and elsewhere in the storm area buildings were damaged, trees were strewn across streets and highways and water clogged sewers and filled basements.
Meanwhile, the rains in sections of Missouri were expected to produce sharp rises in tributary streams.
The Blackwater at Blue Lick, Mo., was expected to crest at technical flood stage last night. The Lamine at Clifton City will crest below flood stage today.
The Wakenda at Carrollton will crest 5 or 6 feet above flood stage.
The Grand at Chillicothe will crest below flood stage today and at flood stage at Summer tonight.