SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, July 25, 1958
46th Year, No. 13
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
READY, AIM, FIRE—Allen Rush, a member firing while others wait during the Peace Offi- of the Kansas State Highway Patrol, practices cers Training School. (Photo Bureau photo)
135 Peace Officers Attend Training School
The Kansas Peace Officers Training school which started Monday and will continue through Saturday noon has attracted 135 law enforcement officers from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado.
The school is financed by funds appropriated by the Kansas Legislature, and the Governmental Research Center at the University sets it up in cooperation with the Kansas Peace Officers Assn.
The school was started 12 years ago with the idea that many of the smaller towns in Kansas do not have the funds or the facilities to efficiently train their peace officers. This school was designed to offer subjects during the 44-hour training course to promote more efficiently trained peace officers.
The officers may enroll in one of three courses. The group meets as a whole for instruction during the morning sessions. During the afternoon the group breaks up into the basic course for peace officers,
police science course or the basic course in traffic.
The basic course for peace officers is designed for inexperienced officers who are attending the school for the first time. The police science course is for more experienced officers and those who have had the basic course. The third course offered specializes in traffic problems and is under the direction of Richard Frederick, field representative, Northwestern University Traffic Institute, Evanston, Ill.
The group meets together for a dinner meeting each evening and a special program.
Tuesday evening John Anderson, Kansas Attorney General.
spoke to the group about law enforcement problems. Kenneth Owen of the Topeka police department demonstrated the use of the lie detector at the Wednesday dinner meeting and Thursday James M. Reinhardt, professor of criminology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr., gave the group some interesting side-lights on the recent Starkweather murder case.
The officers not only have a chance to hear authorities in the field of police science during their six days of schooling but they receive firearms instruction on the firing range southwest of Lawrence, practice the techniques of search and seizure and participate in other field classes.
During their stay at the University the men are housed in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. The final session will be the luncheon meeting Saturday at which time the officers will receive certificates marking their completion of one of the courses offered during the school.
Band Campers Prepare To Leave Comment On Summer's Experience
Following the ballet recital Saturday evening and the band, chorus and orchestra concerts Sunday afternoon and evening, the campers will begin preparations for returning home. The dormitories, Carruth-O'Leary for the boys, and North College for the girls, will be cleared of their summer occupants by Monday morning.
The closing of the camp drew a series of nostalgic comments from departing campers.
Carole Bell, Topeka, was "sorry the camp had to come to an end." A second-year camper, Miss Bell praised the guest conductors and private instructors as being the most valuable part of the summer's experience. Miss Bell played in the band and sang in the chorus and the special chorus.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms today with locally heavy rains central and east portions. Cooler south portion today. High today 75 to 85.
Charles Babcock, Butler, Mo,
played clarinet in both the band
and orchestra and sang in the
chorus. "The camp is an opportunity
to concentrate on music
without worrying about other school subjects," he said.
Judy Webber, Seneca, called her experience in the camp "wonderful." This was her second year here. She played in the camp band and sang in the chorus and took private lessons in flute and piano and plans to attend next year's camp if possible.
Anette Luyen, Kansas City, Mo., liked the camp because it "was six weeks of being on my own." Miss Luyen played in the band and sang in the chorus. She was a second-year camper. "I had a wonderful time, and wish that more high school students had the opportunity to attend the camp," she said.
Bryant Hayes, Alexandria, Va..
thought the camp a "tremendous advertisement for KU." He called the music camp "one of the finest in the country." He has attended others of the same type. Hayes played first clarinet in the band and orchestra. It was his second year here.
Hayes is the grandson of Donald M. Swarthout, former dean of the School of Fine Arts and one of the founders of the music camp.
Carla McConnell, Lincoln, Nebr., played in the band and sang in the chorus and special chorus. It was her first year here. "The camp is a good experience for young people to study under highly qualified instructors," Miss McConnell said.
Weather
Ketzel Favors Summit Talks
"We should be willing to attend a summit conference under any circumstances," said Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, in a Summer Kansan interview Tuesday.
British Educators To Visit Here
Nineteen educators from the British Commonwealth will visit the University Sept. 11-13 enroute home from the eighth quinquennial congress of the Assn. of Universities of the British Commonwealth.
The visitors will be vice chancellors who are equivalent to university presidents in this country, deans, registrars and department heads.
The 19 who will come here also will visit the University of Western Ontario in Canada, the State University of Iowa and Washington University at St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the University, said nearly all the visit will be informal, so that each educator may spend as much time as he wishes in the KU area of his interest.
The Congress is the top level meeting in British higher education. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy attended the seventh quinquennial congress as a delegate of the Assn. of American Universities.
To Be Guest Professor
William Cottle, professor of education and assistant director of the Guidance Bureau, is one of eight guest faculty members on the teaching staff at the summer session of St. Lawrence University at Canton, N.Y. The session began July 7 and will run through August 15.
The Russians have proposed the Secretary General of the United Nations, the United States, France, India, England, Arab leaders and the U.S.S.R. hold a summit conference. It appeared Thursday morning that the United States would join in the conference.
Prof. Ketzel said, "It would be nice if the Security Council of the United Nations could settle this thing but the Soviet Union will veto anything unacceptable to them and we will veto anything not acceptable to us so it is rather obvious that very little could be accomplished there."
"We should be willing in so far as our national security is not compromised, to be open minded toward any understanding or cooperation with the Soviet Union in the Middle East."
He felt there would be world-wide repercussions if the United States refused to meet the U.S.S.R. over the diplomatic table.
"Once more we would be accused of dragging our feet and not being willing to sit down and talk things out." Prof. Ketzel said. "If the United States does not attend the summit talks the Soviets may be forced by their allies to go to war although they would not be stupid enough to commit an overt act of aggression in the Middle East."
Even though we are branded aggressors by the Soviet Union, we should still go into the conference. This is the only way to find out if it is possible to settle United States and Soviet differences peaceably." Prof. Ketzel said.
RELAXING—John Harshbarger, North Newton graduate student, who plays the part of Gonzales in "Summer and Smoke" takes time out during dress rehearsal to catch up on his sleep. The play will be given at 7:30 p.m. today in the University Theatre in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. (Summer Kansan photo by Ron Miller)
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