Dorm Fire Blamed on Match
A freshman accidently set fire to her bed yesterday and caused the evacuation of about 400 girls from Corbin Hall. The damage is estimated at $250.
There were no injuries.
Paulette Lee, Garden City freshman, was sitting on the bed smoking with her roommate, Kendall Herrick, Shawnee Mission freshman, Ernest Pulliam, housing manager, said. One of the girls apparently threw a match toward
an ashtray but missed and hit the bedspread instead.
When the mattress went up in smoke, the girls tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher but failed. The fire department was called at 7:20 p.m. and firemen from two trucks put out the fire.
Corbin residents were evacuated for about 25 minutes, some wearing only nightgowns and bathrobes. The two girls live in 512 North Corbin.
Pulliam estimated the damage
at $250 and said three mattresses, the bedding, and a head board were damaged. The floor and walls were also damaged slightly.
"If this had to happen, it was best it happened when it did," J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said, "because the girls were all awake and could get out quickly."
Just over a month ago, residents of Lewis Hall were evacuated for a short time when a fire in the north wing trash chute sent smoke swirling through the top floors.
Daily hansan
Thursday, Jan. 21, 1965
62nd Year, No.73
Johnson Starts Full Term Amid Praise of Address
WASHINGTON —(UPI) —Lyndon B. Johnson set out today on his first full term as President of the United States, guided by a solemn inaugural pledge to work toward a world without hate and full of promise for all.
With the hullabaloo of inauguration day behind him, the chief executive turned his attention to the knotty problems of world trade, nuclear weapons and the fate of his wide-ranging "Great Society" legislative programs on Capitol Hill.
Johnson scheduled appointments
with former Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, his special representative for trade negotiations, the Committee on Nuclear Proliferation and House committee chairmen.
THE 1.250-WORD inaugural address, which took the President 23 minutes to deliver, was almost evangelical in tone. It contained no specifics, but in it he sought to define—for the nation and for the world—what he believes is the "American covenant."
Johnson's call for national unity found an echo—at least temporarily—among both Democrats and Republicans. The inaugural speech was greeted with near-unanimous praise.
Sigma Nus Awaiting Exemption on Clause
Mike Stevens, Hutchinson senior, said an executive of the high council is expected to visit the KU chapter early in February.
The past president of Sigma Nu said today the fraternity is awaiting a visit from an executive of its national high council to discuss a possible waiver of a discriminatory clause in the national constitution.
NO ACTION CAN be taken on the waiver until after the visit is made, Stevens said. The fraternity's executive council will meet soon after the visit to consider the requested waiver.
A bill recently passed by the All Student Council could effect the local Sigma Nu chapter if the waiver is not granted.
The bill states that the council may take one of several courses of action toward any KU organization which has been unable to obtain removal of discriminatory restrictions by the end of the 1964-65 academic year.
These actions are disenfranchisement, or restriction of social activities, or denial of participation in student government and organizations financially supported by student governments, or all of these.
Art Worth $500 Taken in Union
The painting was named "Rocks, Rills, and Trees." It was 24 by 36 inches in dimension and was mounted in a half-inch gold frame. It was loaned the Union by the Spooner Museum of Art.
A painting valued at $500 was taken from the south' lounge of the Kansas Union on Tuesday night.
Kansas Union employees reported the painting was in place at 3 p.m. Tuesday and was missing at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
KU police questioned Union employees who had recently changed the display in the south lounge to see if perhaps the painting had been misplaced. This search was unsuccessful. No Kansas union employee had touched the painting.
The council can also substitute any other actions it feels appropriate.
This bill was passed by the council last Dec. 15, and signed by Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, on Jan. 8.
STEWART HAS said he approves the bill because it leaves the initiative for eliminating discriminatory practices up to any organization so involved.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today he had not considered the bill but expected to do so before the end of the semester.
The chapter learned early this fall that other schools in the U.S. had obtained a waiver of the clause, and requested it be waived for KU's chapter.
Chancellor Wescoe and James A. McCain, president of Kansas State University, sent a letter to the national chapter early in November requesting the discriminatory clauses in Kansas Sigma Nu chapters be waived. Chancellor Wescoe has since received word that the letter is being considered.
THE LOCAL chapter twice sought and failed to obtain removal of the discriminatory clause in the fraternity's national convention.
The bill was presented to him last Thursday. He has two weeks from that time to approve or veto the bill.
Churchill's Vitality Ebbing By Hour
LONDON —(UPI)— Sir Winston Churchill clung desperately to life today, but his vitality was ebbing by the hour.
The mid-day medical bulletin from his physician, Lord Moran, read: "There is no change in Sir Winston's condition. There will be a further bulletin this evening."
House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford, Mich., said the address stressed "high and broad principles . . . It blueprints for use as Americans — not partisans — the goals to seek."
In this case "no change" was bad news. For last night Moran said the 90-year-old hero of Britain, who suffered a massive stroke last week, had touched the lowest ebb in his gallant fight for survival. Obviously there had been no improvement through the night and morning.
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller said Johnson had "touched upon the fundamental values upon the basis of which this country was founded and achieved greatness."
Michigan Gov. George W. Romney and Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, both of whom already figure in speculation about the Republican presidential candidate for 1968, praised the speech. Romney thought "It was directed at all the people." Scranton said "He emphasized the future instead of the past, as it should be."
For the President, the day which began with prayers at the National City Christian Church and ended with a gay round of inaugural balls. But the duties and trials of his job seemed never to be far from his mind.
Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.)—"A magnificent speech. We are all united on the achievement of the objectives. There might be some disagreement among some of us about how the objective should be reached. But that's the way it should be."
AT ONE POINT, just before he left the District of Columbia Armory for yet another ball across the city, he told the throng of dancers: "There is a long road ahead of us and I hope you'll join the program I am going to present to Congress and stay with it until it is passed."
Mrs. Johnson seemed to share his preoccupation. She told the crowd at the Statler-Hilton, "We hope these three days of inauguration are a happy beginning for years of work which lie ahead."
Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.)—"It was a fine speech emphasizing faith in ourselves . . . faith in the nation."
Other reactions to the inaugural address:
Oregon Gov. Mark O. Hatfield—"Johnson's aims would require the cooperation of all Americans, Republicans as well as Democrats. He can't achieve them all by himself. But when we can't agree, we should offer alternatives."
Weather
Partly cloudy skies and warmer weather is the weather bureau forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures tonight will be in the 30 to 35 degree range as southerly winds bring warmer weather for tomorrow's last day of fall semester classes at KU.
Red Assails Smut Sellers
By John Sharp
A member of the Russian Communist Party and KU students and professors debated vigorously last night with the Russian criticizing "pornography" in American bookstores, and the professors defending the American free press.
Vladimir Morozov, chief interpreter for the Russian Cultural Exchange Medical Exhibit, presently in Kansas City, Mo., spoke to members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and several KU political science professors.
The debate was lively on several points, but the atmosphere was always friendly.
HIS ENGLISH WAS GOOD, although he would occasionally construct his sentences differently than most Americans would.
Prof. Pringsheim gave the reasons U.S. citizens prefer a free press to a controlled press.
Assistant Professors of Political Science, Klaus Pringsheim and J. Piekalkiewicz, debated several issues with the Russian during the question and answer period.
"The price of a free press is that sometimes mistakes are made. In your country the government can suppress facts they don't want the people to know." Pringsheim said.
"You put it so well I don't have much to add, except we have criticism of our press also," Morozov replied calmly, much like a professor lecturing in his classroom.
MOROZOV SAID PORNOGRAPHY was one result of a free press.
"When I go into bookstores and see books with the ladies in them, I'm glad my son isn't here," Morozov said.
Morozov said the first Russian revolution was bloodless.
Prof. Piekalkiewicz said, "I want to set the record straight. There were many lives lost in the revolution that overthrew the Czar, and also in the later Communist revolution."
IN HIS SPEECH, Morozov said, "The line which has been adopted of close cooperation and friendship between our two great peoples is the only correct line.
"If we concentrate on finding things we have in common and cooperate with each other, we may find we've done the greatest thing mankind wants us to do. That is to stop the nuclear threat," he said.
THE RUSSIAN MEDICAL EXHIBITION at the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium has been picketed. Morozov criticized this.
"When I read 'This is a shelter for fallout' in Russia, and read the same thing in the U.S., I don't like it in either place." Morozov said.
He said, "We aren't used to this. Nothing appeared like this to your cultural missions in Moscow."
"People here think our students are sort of lambs and only say 'baa.' I wish you could see my students," he said.
Morozov is an English professor and official of the Institute of International Relations in Moscow. He was educated in England.
Morozov said cooperation between the USSR and the U.S. is reserved now because people are used to the cold war, and can't change overnight.
China Wants Ouster Of Russian Leaders
By United Press International
Communist China, speaking through its Albanian mouthpiece, today called the new leadership of the Soviet Union an "ulcer that must be removed and removed with a courageous operation by revolutionary Communists."
It was the first time since former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev fell from power last October that Red China has backed a call for the removal of his successors.
The tacit endorsement came when Peking's New China News Agency broadcast a 3,500 word editorial from Zerii Popullit, the official newspaper of the Albanian Communist party. Albania is Red China's only European ally in the Sino-Soviet feud. The New China broadcast was monitored in Tokyo.
Red China's ideological dispute with the Kremlin developed while Khrushchev was still in power in Russia. Later he was replaced as premier by Alexei Kosygin and as boss of the Soviet Communist party by First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
FOR A TIME after that the leaders of the two giants of the Communist world tried to reconcile their differences, which stemmed from Khrushchev's avowed policy of "peaceful coexistence" with the West. The Chinese Communists advocate a much "harder" line.
But the peace overtures appeared to have failed when Kosygin and Brezhnev promised to continue Khrushchev's policies.
The Sino-Soviet split has placed Kremlin leaders in a quandary over President Lydon B. Johnson's open hint that they visit the United States, qualified East European diplomats said in London.
THE KREMLIN LEADERS, these sources said, want to meet Johnson because they feel the need to pave the way for a "Russo-American understanding," as the key to Soviet Policy of peaceful coexistence.
But they are deeply worried over the effect of such a meeting on frayed Sino-Soviet relations. More specifically, they fear that Peking might exploit it for a new attack on Moscow's alleged ganging up with the imperialists," a phrase the Chinese have used in the past.