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Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1957 University Daily Kansan
Around The World
Weather Delays Satellite Send-Off
Compiled from United Press
Bad weather today at Cape Canaveral, Fla., threatened to delay efforts to launch this nation's first satellite until at least tonight. The American moon launchers insisted there had been no mechanical failures in their efforts so far and that the weather was the only thing holding them up.
He said he felt administration proposals do face up to the military challenge posed by Russia's space satellites, but he apparently feels they do not adequately emphasize the need for meeting Soviet economic threats and for better Western political coordination.
In Washington, Adlai E. Stevenson jolted administration bipartisan planning for the Dec. 16 NATO meeting Tuesday night when he said he would not attend unless "compelling developments" arise to change his mind.
A gusty storm front moved into the Cape Canavaler area this morning and since the Vanguard missile, a slender 72-foot long three-stage rocket that will transport the $3\frac{1}{4}$ pound American moon, cannot be safely launched in winds over 20 to 25 miles an hour, the launching hour was delayed.
Mr. Stevenson said he does not fully support administration plans for the meeting and since he would not have authority to help make decisions at Paris he was declining the invitation to attend.
Teamster Ouster
Adlai Won't Go
In New Jersey, The AFL-CIO Executive Council was ready today to recommend expulsion of the 1,500,000 member Teamsters Union from the federation. They were expected to follow president George Meany's advice to prepare for the ouster of the giant truck union at the AFL-CIO convention opening tomorrow.
Sense Of Crisis
In Washington, Democratic Congressional leaders complained today that the Eisenhower administration still has not shown the sense of crisis needed to answer the Soviet challenge to leadership in the space age.
Beginning in January KU will have a department of mortuary science.
KU Will Train Morticians
The appointment of Paul R. Keenan, former dean of the Canadian School of Embalming, to direct the program was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
KU will be the fourth university in the United States to offer a mortuary science department. The other three are Minnesota University, Wayne University in Detroit and Temple University in Philadelphia.
PAUL R. KEENAN
The pre-mortuary science requirements are equivalent to three years of full-time college study.
In addition the student must have
The latest illness of President Eisenhower's has again called attention to a major loophole in the Constitution of the United States. It is the recurring problem of who has a right to judge the President incapable of his duties. Now only the President can judge himself incapable.
Asked about this problem by The Daily Kansan, three members of the political science department agreed that some action should be taken immediately.
What If President Can't Carry On?
They agreed that a committee of some sort could be set up to help judge the competency of the President in case of illness. They agreed that the committee should be made up of competent medical men to give a medical report and elected representatives to make the final decision.
"In the light of Congress' inactivity in President Eisenhower's past illnesses, I don't expect them to act this time unless the President's health would take a turn for the worse," said Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science.
"I would suggest that the speaker of the House, leaders of the Senate and chief justice of the United States, and key members of the cabinet might sit in on a committee hearing on findings of competent medical authorities," Prof. Laird said. "They would be empowered by law to rule that the President is incapable of continuing his duties."
John G. Grumm, assistant professor, said, "Unless this plan was carried out with careful attention to medical facts, the stakes are so great that considerations other than strictly medical disability might enter in," he said. "There's a strong danger of politics. This is not to attribute dishonesty to them, but just that people's judgment is sometimes warped by the politics you have. It would be extremely im-
the approval of the state board of embalmers in the state in which he desires to be licensed.
The department will open Jan.
6 if enough students have applied
by Dec. 15. If not the program will
begin in October, Mr. Keenan said.
Fees for the nine months will be
$450 or $580 for nonresidents.
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important that the findings be scientific."
Points Un Problems
Rhoten A. Smith, assistant professor, pointed up the seriousness of the problem by citing a case where a chief executive would be suddenly stricken unconscious by some illness. There would be no way of anyone taking over as President unless he resigned, which he couldn't do if he were unconscious.
Smith said that President Eisenhower submitted a plan to Congress whereby the cabinet could decide if he became incompetent. Congress has failed to act on this and Prof. Smith attributes the inaction to the feeling of not wanting to give too much power to a small group of men.
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