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University Daily Kansan Thursday. May 18, 1961
Drouth Causes Economic Troubles
Chinese Need Russian Aid
WASHINGTON — (UPI) -- Red China is in serious economic trouble, according to information received in Washington.
American officials said today that the Peiping regime was being forced by successive crop failures into greater dependence on Russia
There are some indications that Moscow is making sure that its Far East partner acknowledges this dependence and all that it means to Sino-Soviet relations.
Red Chinese leader Mao Tzetung's "great leap forward" industrialization drives, already slowed by earlier difficulties, will stall unless Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev comes to the rescue, officials here believe.
NEGOTIATIONS ON this year's Soviet aid agreement were recessed in Peiping in March, resumed in Moscow in April and still have not been concluded.
Possibly because of this delay, the annual spring announcement of Communist China's production achievements for the previous year and goals for the new year still have not been made.
Red China's bare foreign exchange treasury and prospects of mounting trade deficits leave it no alternative but to seek more help from Moscow, U. S. officials said.
EMERGENCY FOOD imports were believed to have nearly wiped out Communist China's foreign exchange reserves. Worsening food shortages have forced Peiping to arrange for importation of six million tons of wheat and barley from Canada and 762,000 tons of wheat from Australia over the next two years at an estimated cost of about $450 million. Canada and Australia granted short-term credits for part of these purchases.
In 1958 China had a 1.2 billion table surplus in its trade accounts with Russia, much of the surplus going to pay for Soviet aid. In 1959 the Chinese surplus dropped to 538 million rubles. In 1960 the surplus had changed into deficit of undisclosed size.
IN A TRADE pact negotiated separate from the aid talks. Moscow agreed to let Red China pay off the trade deficit over a five-year period and also loaned the Chinese 500,000 tons of sugar. The five-year repayment schedule suggested to officials here that the deficit must have been substantial.
American officials do not interpret these troubles for the Communist regime as indication that its days are numbered. They are inclined to dismiss as wishful thinking the notion that hard times in China will touch off popular revolt.
Alum Returns for 75th Anniversary
One of KU's eldest alumni and one who is also the youngest ever to receive a degree from the University will return June 3 and 4 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of his graduation.
Harry T. Ballinger, a 92-year-old practicing Seattle lawyer, was 17-years-old when he received a law degree from the 20-year-old University of Kansas in 1886.
Ellsworth to Visit KU This Weekend
Rep. Robert F, Ellsworth, R-Kan. will visit KU and the Lawrence area Saturday through Monday.
The Johnson County Republicans will give a reception for Rep. Ellsworth Sunday afternoon and he will attend a reception at the Trouveur Club in Kansas City that evening.
The second district congressman will attend the KU Varsity-Alumni football game Saturday afternoon. That evening he will be the main speaker at the Second District American Legion Convention banquet in Overland Park.
Official Bulletin
Monday morning he will attend a breakfast with members of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce committee on taxation and legislation. He will spend the rest of the morning visiting with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and James Logan, dean of the School of Law. He will speak at the Lawrence Rotary Club luncheon at noon.
All campus organizations should at once file with the Office of the Dean of Students, 228 Strong, lists of officers for the 1961-62 school year. This information is needed for inclusion in the Student Directory, K-Book, etc.
TODAY
Mathematics Colloquium: 3:50 p.m.
Coffee, 113 Strong, 4:15 p.m., 103 Strong.
Dr. Henry Thacher, Argonne National
Laboratory, "Osculating Interpolation."
Epispcial Evening Prayer: 5 p.m.
Canterbury House.
Der Deutsche Verein: Ficknick des
Deutschen Vereins — Donnerstag, den 18.
Mai. Wir treffen uns um 5 hr vor Fra-
d undfahren dann gleich nach "Lone
Star."
Civil Rights Council Film Showings
7:30 p.m. Fraser Theater, "NBC White
Papers No. 2" on the Nashville sit-ins.
FRIDAY
Catholic Daily Mass; 6:30 a.m., St.
John's Church.
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy
Communion: 6:45 a.m., Canterbury
Bury
Baptist Student Union: 7:30 p.m. 1221
Oread. Installation of summer officers.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship:
3:00 p.m. Sunflower Room, Kansas Uni-
Last meeting of the year. Members
will tell of experiences during the school
year.
International Club Meeting: 7:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Union. General meeting and Election.
Films on Architecture Tonight
Two films, "Architecture U.S.A." and "Architecture West," will be shown today at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in the Museum of Art lecture Hall.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him—Voltaire
BALLINGER HAS led a colorful life. He was born at Auburn, Ill., in 1869 and was brought by his parents to Reno county, the population of which Ballinger recalls was made up chiefly of buffaloes, antelope, wolves, rattle snakes and jackrabbits.
The barrister's keen memory recalls that after struggling with these inhabitants, and with the grasshoppers which came later, the Ballingers moved to Hutchinson in the fall of 1879. At the age of 14 Ballinger was graduated from high school] at Hutchinson and immediately began work in a law office there. He showed remarkable aptitude for the law and after two years' study with the legal firm passed the Kansas Bar examination at the age of just 16 years.
Ballinger recalls with pleasure his acquaintance with Dean James Green of the KU School of Law. (Green hall bears his name and the statue in front of it is of "Uncle Jimmy Green.")
"Uncle Jimmy had just taken over the law department when I was a senior. Classes were taught in Fraser Hall at that time."
AFTER HIS graduation Ballinger practiced law at Hutchinson until April, 1889, when he decided to move to Puget Sound. He practiced in Oregon for a couple of years.
"When I got to Oregon I began to realize how young people thought I
was, so I decided to raise a crop of whiskers and thus acquire an appearance of maturity. It worked and not too long afterward I became deputy district attorney in Oregon."
EVER SINCE 1907, 74 years ago, Ballinger 'has practiced law and watched Seattle's exciting growth. For a quarter of a century he was active in trying jury cases and twice was recommended for judicial appointment, but felt his responsibilities would not permit him to serve on the bench. He is Seattle's oldest practicing lawyer.
Ballinger also is "elder statesman of KU. alumni activities in the Seattle area and each year is responsible for a KU alumni meeting on Kansas Day.
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S. Korea Diplomats Resign
WASHINGTON — (UPI) - South Korea's ambassador and minister in Washington resigned today in opposition to the military coup in their country.
Chang and Koh said today they have not changed their opinion. "I stick to my views in their entirety." Koh said.