Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 118
Wednesday, April 12, 1961
Russia Puts Man in Space
DEAD—Sarge, the Sigma Nu mascot for 14 years died today.
KU Loses a Pal; Sarge Dead at 14
Sarge is dead.
The Sigma Nu mascot and Strong Hall habitue died at 2 p.m. yesterday in a local veterinarian's office. Sarge was 14.
SARGE JOINED Sigma Nu as a puppy in 1948 and quickly became a campus figure.
"He went to school every morning at eight o'clock," said Mrs. J. E. Stephens, Sigma Nu's housemother. "The interesting thing was that Sarge knew when it was Saturday and Sunday. He never went to the campus on those days."
Sarge spent most of his day in the basement of Strong Hall, receiving doughnuts, sandwiches and other tidbits from students. After 4 p.m. he could usually be found at the Sigma Nu house.
MRS. STEPHENS said Sarge had
MRS. STEPHENS said Sarge had been sick for the last two months. "He was at the veterinarian's last month. He had a brain tumor the doctor had to drain."
Sarge had been at a Lawrence animal hospital for several days before he died. Mrs. Stephens said the veterinarian told her Sarge had been vomiting in that period and that this was a symptom of heart disease. The veterinarian said old age was the main factor in Sarge's death.
DICK PUIG, Laredo, Tex., junior and a member of Sigma Nu, said Sarge liked to attend football games
"In the last two years he only missed two games, the Syracuse and Missouri games," said Puig.
"Sarge also liked to swim. Whenever fellows at the house threw the pledge trainer, or someone who had just been pinned, in the lake across from our house. Sarge would jump in and swim out to him."
Puig said Sarge was taken to the Harrison Johnson ranch in Independence, Kan., for the summer vacations. Johnson is a Sigma Nu alum.
"HE ENJOYED sleeping the last two years," Puig said. "Sleeping and going to the campus were his two main activities."
Sarge had been on a protein free diet the last two years, because of failing health.
Mrs. Stephens said a small plaque would be placed on a picture of Sarge hanging in Sigma Nu's front hall.
Stolen Clothes Found Burned
Sarge will be buried north of the Sigma Nu house. Puig said fraternity members have not yet decided on a marker for his grave.
India Opposes U.S. UN Plan
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI) India proposed today that the General Assembly cancel its Korean Debate rather than accept a U.S. plan to invite North Korea to participate in it on condition that it acknowledge U.N. authority.
Part of the clothing involved in a $800 campus robbery was found burned west of the city limits yesterday.
Indian ambassador C. S. Jha told the Assembly's main political committee that U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson's carefully conditioned proposal to invite Communist North Korea into the debate would "revive the ghost of the cold war and throw the assembly into bickering bitterness."
Stevenson opposed Jha's postponement move. He urged the committee "to proceed to vote on this preliminary matter and get on with the substance" of the Korean debate.
"We are sincerely convinced that nothing will be gained by pursuing this question." Jha said.
The clothing belonged to Anne Larigan, Prairie Village freshman, and David D. Larson, Salina sophomore.
Miss Larigan identified the clothing which was stolen from a car in
the sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity parking lot last weekend. She said that she recognized hangers that were found on the scene.
The clothes were taken from a car belonging to Larson. He said that the theft was not noticed until 10:30 a.m. Monday when they started to unpack the car.
Poet to Read Work At Poetry Hour
The clothing was not insured.
H. M. Hershberger, teaching assistant in English, will read some of his own poetry at the Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
MOSCOW—(UPI)—A Soviet air force major rode a space ship around the earth and returned safely today.
ASC Installs Officers, RevisesPublicationsBill
The feat signalled man's first conquest of space, and a noted British scientist at once called it the "greatest scientific achievement in the history of man." Eventually it may open the planets to exploration by men from earth.
An official announcement by the Tass News agency said Maj.
The All Student Council took the following actions last night at its regular meeting in the Kansas Union.
- Passed a revision of the ASC Publications Bill which now provides for a fund to cover losses incurred by any campus publication
- Received a bill formally establishing a "People-to-People" council that will attempt to better integrate foreign students into University affairs.
- Passed a resolution establishing a Peace Corps coordinating committee.
- Heard the death knell of "Spectrum," the defunct campus literary magazine.
- Seated the ten newly elected members.
- Swore in the new student body president and vice president.
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS BILL permanently abolishes "Spectrum," which had a deficit of $1500 in two printings. The bill prevents another magazine like Spectrum from going into debt by having a general publication fund formed by excess profits from other publications.
Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior and new student body president, who was sworn in later in the meeting, introduced a bill to establish a "People-to-People" council to coordinate the work of the People-to-People program at the University. The bill makes provisions for employment, consultation, and social activities for foreign students. It was
automatically referred to the Committee on Committees and Legislation.
Frank Morgan, Webster Groves, Mo., senior and outgoing representative from the School of Journalism, introduced a resolution that establishes a committee to coordinate activities of the Peace Corps at KU. The committee will disseminate information to and offer a channel of application for University students interested in the national Peace Corps program.
A COMMITTEE REPORT on the disposition of "Spectrum" magazine was given in which sales progress was reported to be nonexistent. The additional sales started this semester brought only $101 and further attempts have been stopped. Recommendations for future literary magazines were included in the report.
The ten new ASC members from the University's schools replaced the old members after Ron Dalby, outgoing student body president, swore in Max Eberhart, who in turn swore in the new vice president, Larry Moore, Topeka junior.
Class Times Altered
Friday classes will meet as follows:
8:00 a.m. classes 8:00-8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. classes 8:40-9:10 a.m.
Convocation 9:20-10:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m. classes 10:40-11:10 a.m.
11:00 a.m. classes 11:20-11:50 a.m.
Russian Father of 2 Is First Spaceman
By United Press International
His name is Yuri Alexeyevitch Gagarin. He is 27 years old, the father of two small daughters, and was born on a collective farm near Smolensk.
He is a major in the Soviet air force and a dedicated member of the Communist party.
He is the first man since the dawn of time to have travelled in space.
What sort of man is Yuri Gagarin, and what led him to his niche in the history of mankind?
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE GOT their first look at Gagarin today on television. It was just a still photograph. It showed a man with a strong but ordinary face, looking his age but not older, with eyes well set apart, bushy eyebrows and a high intelligent forehead. "A kind, Russian face," Moscow radio called it.
Gagarin, who became a member of Komsomol (Young Communists League) in 1949, joined the Communist party as a full-fledged member just last June.
His father is a 59-year-old carpenter-joiner. His mother, Anna Gagarina, 58, is "a simple housewife" according to an official family record released in Moscow today. Both the spaceman's parents are living in Smolensk.
Details of the training given the spaceman were scanty. It was officially stated that the instruction and tests he had undergone were similar to those given in the American astronaut training program.
"A man," said Moscow radio jubilantly, "of great character!"
Yuri Gagarin, a 27-year-old father of two children, made the flight that gave the Soviets victory over the United States in the race to put a man into space.
On alighting from the ship at an undisclosed Soviet Base, Tass said, the first "cosmonaut" whose last name means "wild duck" said he felt fine.
The United States, which hopes to send its first man on a trial space flight late this month or early next, apparently still is months away from its first space ship flight around the earth. The plan is to have the first astronaut make a trip 115 miles up and 290 miles over the Atlantic Ocean before attempting an orbit of the globe.
THE SOVIETS ALSO opened the space age on Oct. 4, 1957 with the launching of Sputnik I, but since then the United States has hurled 40 satellites into orbit to 16 for Russia.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev hailed the handsome Gagarin's "valiant feat" as "an example of courage, gallantry, and heroism," and Muscovites exploded with joy when the news was broadcast.
"The entire world admires your deed, which will be remembered down the centuries . . ." said Khrushchev.
THE EXACT TIME of Gagarin's historic voyage above the earth was not announced at once. Official sources said his trip took an hour and 48 minutes.
The announcement by Tass, which is the official Soviet news agency, said it took him 89.1 minutes to zoom around the earth at heights ranging from 109 to 187 miles and that his course took him over South Africa and South America in a five-ton space ship named Vostok (East) that was controlled from the ground.
Soviet scientists explained that the speed of the ship was too great for it to be controlled by mechanical devices and that actually Gagarin, whose last name means "wild duck," just went along for the ride.
BUT, THE SCIENTISTS pointed out, in eventual interplanetary flight, man will have to take a hand in controlling the space ship and that spaceman Gagarin played a vital role in today's voyage because only a man could draw conclusions from the many indications given by the space ship's instruments. From his report space experts will be able to make any corrective adjustments in what has been mainly theory. Scientists kept in touch with him in flight through radio and television.
Soon after he stepped from the ship Gagarin said:
"I feel well. I have no injuries or bruises."
There was no indication that he suffered from the radiation that scientists have feared might prove a barrier to exploration of space.
(For related stories see p. 3)