Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 76
Monday, Feb. 6, 1961
Snow Storm Almost Gone, Leaves 5 Inches
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Kansas was blanketed with snow today. 5 inches or more in depth across the southern portion, but the weatherman said the storm was about spent.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
LIGHT SNOW was expected to cease during the day over the eastern half of the state and general clearing, with moderating temperatures, was forecast for tomorrow.
The Weather Bureau said snow was generally 5 inches or more deep from Manhattan and Salina southward, with the heaviest accumulations west of Wichita. Additional snow fell yesterday and today at Pratt, which had received 8 inches earlier, and at Trusedale, which had 6 inches on the ground yesterday morning.
Elsewhere in the state, snow depths were generally from 2 to 4 inches. Wichita reported 3 inches today.
The Weather Bureau said there was little drifting because of light winds.
TEMPERATURES, which had been below freezing for the past four days, were not expected to rise much today. Afternoon highs were forecast around 30 with overnight lows ranging from 10 to 15 in the west and into the lower 20s in the east.
Lows early today ranged from 9 at Goodland to 28 at Pittsburg, following afternoon highs yesterday of from 23 at Dodge City to 32 at Goodland.
IFC to Sponsor Rush Smoker
The KU Inter-Fraternity Council is sponsoring an informal rush smoker at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
All those men interested in attending the smoker to learn more of the KU Greek system should register in the Dean of Men's office by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Anderson Aids KU Student
Berry Lee McCord, Harrisonville, Mo., junior, who suffered a broken shoulder and lacerations in a traffic accident at Sunflower, Kan., Saturday, was aided by Gov. John Anderson, who was the first to reach the accident scene.
Gov. Anderson wrapped his overcoat around the student and stayed with him until an ambulance arrived.
Police said McCord's car overturned after attempting to avoid a collision with another vehicle pulling onto the road on K-10 highway at Sunflower.
McCord was taken to the Olathe Community Hospital. He was released yesterday afternoon for recuperation at home.
Gov. Anderson was en route to Olathe Saturday to visit his parents when he saw the accident.
Kennedy Seeks Action On Two Financial Fronts
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy prodded Congress today on two fronts.
In his special message dealing with the drain on U. S. gold reserves, Kennedy asked Congress to cut from $500 to $100 the amount of duty-free goods American tourists could bring home from other countries every six months.
He asked for a bold drive to lure foreign funds here and for stern action to slash American spending abroad in order to halt the drain on U. S. gold reserves.
He also asked Congress to prevent American companies from using "tax havens" abroad as a means
THE PRESIDENT also submitted to Congress detailed proposals to extend unemployment compensation benefits and provide more federal aid for needy children of out-of-work parents.
Language Tests Passed by Eleven
The College announced today that the following students have passed the language proficiency examination taken in January.
German: Bruce R. Barrett, Kansas City senior; Neal R. Wagner, Topeka junior, and Yul Yost, Celje, Yugoslavia, freshman.
French: Judy R. Ricketts, Ness City sophomore, and Homer R. Williams. Blackwell. Okla., freshman.
Spanish: John I. Blair, Wichita sophomore; William A. Calderwood, Topea sophomore; Robert I. Guenthner, Abadan, Iran, freshman; Lois I. Jones, Eden, Idaho, sophomore; Judith H. Kunkler, Kansas City freshman, and Dana O. Mills, Coldwater senior.
of escaping U. S. levies. At the same time he said he had ordered a check on whether U. S. tax laws might be driving "undue amounts" of American capital out of this country.
HE PREVIOUSLY announced his intention to seek the extended unemployment compensation benefits as part of a broad-scale federal effort to relieve the impact of the current recession.
In the first of his three messages, the State of the Union address last week, Kennedy called the gold losses cause for concern but not for despair. Last Wednesday he presented a sweeping anti-recession program calling for higher old-age pensions and emergency extension of unemployment benefits.
Kennedy's message on gold reserves was his third to Congress in the last seven days.
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., of the House Ways and Means Committee, was scheduled to present a bill today which would take care of the latter request.
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The Kansas is the student newspaper of the whole University. Anyone may work on the paper regardless of his major field.
Photographers are paid 75 cents an hour. Feature writers, society reporters and general staff personnel are especially needed.
Those interested in a staff position should call or see John Peterson at the Kansas newsroom, 112 Flint, phone KU 711.
Preston Off Rebel Ship
Floyd W. Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering, and his family are among forty-two Americans preparing today to return home from Recife, Brazil, after 12 days as hostages of Portuguese rebels aboard the Santa Maria.
The Americans are expected to arrive in Miami Tuesday morning. The Colonial Navigation Co., which owns the ship, has promised to pay transportation costs for the 607 passengers.
C. F. Weinaug, professor of petroleum engineering, said today he had received no word from Prof. Preston, and did not know when to expect him back.
"I'm especially interested in finding out, since I will have to teach his courses until he returns." Prof. Weinaug said. The two courses are Secondary Recovery and Production Methods.
"Tell everybody we're fine." Prof. Preston said in a radio-telephone interview from Recife. "We were treated quite well."
Prof. Preston said that during their captive ride they had all the comforts of the ship and that the meals were plentiful.
FLOYD W. PRESTON
"Everything was normal except
that we didn't know where we were going." he added.
Prof. Preston said everyone was constantly aware of the rebels because they remained armed throughout the voyage. The Preston children are Bruce, 10, Harold, 9, Donald, 5, and Steven, 2.
A spokesman for the company said losses incurred by the abortive revolt aboard the Santa Maria would amount to $180,000. He said the ship will sail home empty to Lisbon, via Portugal's Cape Verde Islands.
The Netherlands' government returned its subjects by air. The Santa Maria's sister ship, the Vera Cruz, picked up the Portuguese, Spanish and other European passengers for the return trip home yesterday.
As one of the last acts in the bizarre voyage, a requiem mass was held aboard the Santa Maria yesterday afternoon for the ship's officer who was killed when the rebels, led by Portuguese exile Henrique Galvao, seized the ship Jan. 22.
The solemn ceremony was attended by members of the crew, Portu-guese officials and others.
Galvao and his followers, who were seeking to overthrow the government of Portuguese Premier Antonio De Oliveira Salazar, were granted asylum by the Brazilian government after they surrendered the ship last Friday.
The Portuguese government said it would not seek to prosecute Galvao and members of his rebel band.
Rusk Calls for Congo Peace
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Secretary of State Dean Rusk called today for a new United Nations plan to "bring peace" to the Congo, and give the people there a chance to work out their own form of government.
He said the United States was consulting with other interested governments to see whether the UN mandate can be "clarified or strengthened" to give it the authority to carry out such a plan.
RUSK TOLD HIS first news conference that the plan must "preserve the integrity" of the Congo.
He said the United States hoped that new approaches to the problem being discussed would "uncover elements of consensus out of which more satisfactory answers can be found."
In both the Congo and strife-torn Laos, Rusk said, the difficulty was to find a solution which would end the outside pressures on those countries which threaten to drag them into the East-West war as potential battlegrounds.
On Laos, Rusk said the Soviet Union has not yet replied to a British suggestion to revive the old three-nation International Control Commission—consisting of representatives of India, Canada and Poland—to try to end the war and bring political order. He indicated that the
United States was not in favor of a many-nation conference on Laos even if the Russians refused to reconvene the ICC.
IN HIS GENERAL endorsement of new UN efforts to solve the Congo crisis, Rusk said "the primary responsibility rests, of course, with President Kasavubu and other Congolese leaders; the United Nations is there to help. The object is an independent and united Congo, an object which cannot be achieved if disorder continues or if the Congo is drawn into rivalries which originate elsewhere."
Rusk declined to say whether the United States would agree, as part of the new UN approach to the Congo, to release imprisoned former Premier Patrice Lumumba, who has many supporters and is the favorite of the Soviet Union.
Rusk said he would make absolutely no comment on the difficult problem concerning the release of political prisoners.
HE GAVE AN IMPLIED endorsement to a "federalized" system of government in the Congo by saying the United States naturally believed this was a good system of resolving differences in a country extending over a widespread area.
Dave Brubeck Tickets Go on Sale Wednesday
Tickets for the Dave Brubeck quartet's performance Feb. 19, sponsored by the Campus Chest drive, will go on sale in blocks Wednesday night and individually Thursday.
All seats for the concert will cost $1.50 It climaxes the Campus Chest's week-long Feb. 13-18 drive for charitable organizations
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado junior and Chest special events chairman, said that all blocks must consist of 20 seats or more. A drawing will be held at 9 p.m. Wednesday for block locations, all of which will be on the main floor.
Campus Chest is an annual drive for charitable organizations including such as CARE, World University Service, Damon Run-
von Cancer Society and Infantile Paralysis Society. There are no other University-sponsored drives for donations to charities.
The Chest campaign starts Saturday morning with a breakfast in the Kansas Union where Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will address the more than 200 workers of the Chest staff.
Individual tickets will be sold at the Information Booth starting Thursday and continuing until the Feb. 19 concert.
Douglas Mayor, Kansas City junior and Chest chairman, and Glenda Price, Topeka senior and Chest secretary, have centered the theme of the drive this year around the comic character, Mr. Magoo. The slogan is "Don't Be Short-Sighted — Give!"
Topeka Boys Countdown
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Four high school students hope to get government permission to launch a homemade missile and a mouse passenger next Sunday or Feb. 19th.
Snow and freezing rain yesterday kept the missile and its passenger—named "Tjarh" from getting off the launching pad. Terry Babb, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Babb of Topeka, said visibility was too low to send the project skyward.
He said he and his three companions from Seaman High School here planned to send the mouse a thousand feet into the air in the missile, then return the animal to earth in a parachute.
Where did young Babb and his
pals learn such things
In our high school chemistry class, " Babb said.