Daily hansan
62nd Year, No.135
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, May 13, 1965
Wintermote Lauds Citees For Outstanding Service
Richard Wintermote, executive secretary of the KU Alumni Association, today praised four alumni slated to receive awards for distinguished service June 7, at commencement exercises.
"These four men have made great contributions throughout their lifetimes," Wintermote said. "They are very outstanding alumni."
- Henry A. Bubb, Topeka,
chairman and president of Capitol
Federal Savings and Loan Association
and member of the Kansas
Board of Regents.
The four who have made their contributions to society since leaving the campus are:
$\bullet$ Dr. Mahlon H. Delp, Merriam, Peter T. Bohan professor and chairman of the department of medicine. KU School of Medicine.
Warren P. Mason, West Orange, N.J., head of the mechanics research department of the Bell Telenphone Laboratories.
THE FOUR ARE expected to be present to receive their citations during the 93rd annual commencement exercises in Memorial Stadium June 7.
Ralph L. Smith, Palm Springs, Calif., former lumber company executive and philanthropist.
Bubb, member of the KU class of 1928, grew up in Topeka. He first worked for the institution he now heads in 1925 and rose through several positions to the presidency
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in 1941. Bubb's name has been synonymous with civic activity in Topeka for many years and often in the state and nation. He has been president of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the state Chamber, national chairman of the Young Republican Federation and adviser to several federal agencies. Bubb has served KU as a member of the athletic board, president of the Alumni Association and is a trustee of the KU Endowment Association.
Delp grew up in Norton County. At KU he found varsity athletics, self-support in a variety of jobs and a depression too much and began working for an oil company. But the lure of medicine, savings and a working wife enabled him to return to KU and earn the B.S. and M.D. degrees in 1934. His service on the medical school faculty has been continuous since 1938 except for World War II service as a colonel. In 1960 he was appointed chairman of the department of medicine and named to the Peter T. Bohan professorship.
Bill Porter, Topека sophomore, was re-elected as chairman of the Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR) last night. He defeated John Sharp. Macon, Ga., junior.
Porter Chosen CYR Chairman
MASON IS THE most prolific inventor in the history of the Bell Laboratories, and has been granted 189 patents. He earned the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas in 1921 and joined Bell that year. He is author of more than 125 technical articles and three books and is editor of a seven-volume work on physical acoustics. He is an adjunct professor of engineering mechanics at
Columbia University where he earned the Ph.D. degree in 1928.
Smith has provided financial assistance to many African students on the Lawrence campus. He previously endowed the Ralph L. Smith professorship in child development in the School of Medicine with $100,000. He also has made several major gifts for plant and operating expenses of the Piney Woods school near Jackson, Miss.
FOUR YEARS AGO Smith retired, sold his firm and has devoted nearly fulltime to many charities. Most of his gifts have gone for the education of Negroes, with a guideline of helping those persons and institutions needing help most and who seem least likely to get it from other sources. Recently he made a major gift to help finance doubling the size of the Children's Rehabilitation Unit at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Smith grew up in Council Grove where his father had a lumber yard. When 16, the 1903 flood wrecked the business and the family moved to Kansas City, Mo. He attended KU with the class of 1909, and Harvard but entered the lumber business before graduation. In 1924 he organized the Smith Wood Products Co. with a plant in Oregon and through diversification and product development the firm thrived when many larger lumber firms were rocked by the depression.
Approximately 200 of the 660 members attended the meeting. Porter was elected by a stand-up ballot. The remainder of the ticket was voted on secretly by the members using a single ballot.
The Action Slate, which was led by Sharp was also defeated in all of the other offices.
THE NEW first vice chairman will be Gordon (Gipp) DuPree, Oklahoma City freshman, who defeated Lester Kahler, Holyrood junior.
Steven Friesen, Russell sophomore, defeated John McGee. Independence sophomore, for second vice chairman, Brian Biles, Hutchinson junior, was victorious over
David Grim, Belton, Mo., senior,
for third vice chairman.
The secretary will be Elizabeth Schmidt, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore, who defeated Marian Bills, Clifton junior. Robert Sears, Kansas City sophomore, downed Jerry Bean, Abilene freshman, for treasurer.
PORTER commented on his plans for the club next year. "The KU club is on top in the state and we want to retain it on top. To do this we must increase our membership. Next year we are shooting for a membership total of 1,000.
"The second thing we are going to do is to stress more meetings with top-notch speakers," Porter continued. "We will not only present straight line Republicans, we will present other views that are controversial."
is to adapt a similar method to that used by the Grinnell, Iowa, Club," Porter said. "A telephone service is used. This involves speakers in Washington, D.C., giving direct speeches from there to KU.
"One of the ways we can do this
"BY THIS we can get top-notch speakers we could not otherwise bring to Kansas, let alone the KU Republican club," Porter explained.
"We have also begun working to get the state CYR convention to Lawrence," Porter said. The meet has not been at KU for five years.
"Also we still continue the revision of the constitution," Porter continued. "And we will continue to work closely with the Douglas County Republicans, the Teenage Republican Clubs and the state CYR organizations."
LBJ Vows to Block Red Power in Asia
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson said today the Viet Nam conflict was part of a Chinese Communist drive to take over all of Asia and he pledged: "They shall never succeed."
Johnson discussed the role of Chinese Reds in a White House talk to an audience of editorial cartoonists. His remarks were televised and broadcast to the nation.
"THEIR TARGET IS not merely South Viet Nam—it is Asia," he said of the Chinese Communists. "Their objective is not the fulfillment of Vietnamese nationalism. It is to erode and discredit America's ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia. In this they shall never succeed."
Johnson in his speech renewed his call for unconditional peace talks and emphasized his proposal of a massive Southeast Asian aid program in which he invited Russia to join.
He blamed the Chinese Reds for blocking peace negotiations.
PART OF THE plan is an Asian development bank which the United States has been studying as a possibility. Johnson said this country was prepared to participate in and support the Asian bank to help finance economic progress.
Johnson said. We are ready for unconditional discussions. And it would clearly be in the interest of North Viet Nam to come to the
"I call on every industrialized country, including the Soviet Union, to create a better life for the people of Southeast Asia," he said. "Surely the works of peace can bring men together in a common effort to abandon forever the ways of war."
He reported that his personal representative, Eugene Black, was making "rapid progress" on this proposed program and had found increasing enthusiasm at the United Nations for carrying forward the development plan.
it would clearly be in the interest conference table. For them, continuation of war without talks means only damage without conquest.
Since 1954 when Viet Nam became independent, he noted, the United States has spent more than $2 billion in economic help for the 16 million people of South Viet Nam.
Johnson reiterated his readiness to talk peace, then devoted most of his 20-minute speech to the U.S. proposal for "a massive, cooperative development effort for Southeast Asia" which he first unveiled in a speech last month at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The President said there was greater need than ever for peace talks and the setting up of the aid program because no purely military solution was in sight for either side.
"COMMUNIST CHNA apparently desires the war to continue whatever the cost to their allies."
DESPITE "circumstances of staggering adversity," Johnson said, economic and human progress had continued and would go on.
"We intend to continue and increase our material help to Viet Nam," he said.
Weather
The weather bureau predicts mostly cloudy skies with thunderstorms over 40 per cent of the area tonight and temperatures dipping to the low 60's. Tomorrow's high is expected to be in the mid 80's.
Union Band Agreement Voided Here
An agreement made earlier this semester by living groups to hire only union bands was declared void today by Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students.
In order to clarify a misunderstanding about the hiring of dance bands by KU student groups, Dean Woodruff informed representatives of social organizations that the 1958 "right to work amendment to the Kansas Constitution prohibits agreements 'which exclude any person from employment because of membership or non-membership in a union.'"
Dean Woodruff told the student representatives he had been informed by legal counsel that such an agreement, or any written agreement, is on no legal standing.
REPRESENTATIVES of Panhellenic, the Interfraternity Council, and the Associated University Residence Halls (AURH) were earlier quoted as saying that those groups would hire only union bands.
On Feb. 5 a letter was sent to all living group social chairmen by Newton E. Jerome, secretary of Local 512 of the American Federation of Musicians, requesting that these groups hire only union bands.
The Kansas Right to Work organization is supporting the nonunion band members.
REX M. Harlow, executive vice president of the organization, said that Karl Zetmeir, Emmett junior and agent for dance bands, has been told by the state attorney general that "there is no state statute which is enforced by this office which would appear to be violated. . . the remedies available to you would appear to be civil remedies which may desire to invoke through a private attorney."
UP Selects Officers
Tom Shumaker, Russell senior, was elected chairman of University Party for next year at the party's General Assembly meeting last night.
Other officers are vice-chairman, Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village freshman; treasurer, Pete Smith, Shawnee Mission sophomore; recording secretary, Joyce Snapp, Wichita freshman; and communicating secretary, Jean Rogers, Hays freshman.
IN ADDITION TO the General Assembly, UP will have a 12 member executive committee with a representative from each living group or district.
The other new bodies which have been created in the party are: an advisory staff of people who have had several semesters of political experience, an information committee which plans to poll students next year for their opinion on issues, and a freshman committee to work with the incoming freshmen.
There will be campaign managers for each group of candidates and a social chairman.
WHEN SHUMAKER WAS asked why the party has two secretaries next year, he explained that the recording secretary will keep the minutes of the general assembly and the communicating secretary will coordinate the UP committees and establish communications between the parties at other colleges.
Economic Warfare Proposed As Answer to Berlin Question
One possible solution that West Germany might consider for the 20-year old Berlin question would be investigating the possibilities of staging economic warfare with East Germany.
Hans Christoph Baron von Stauffenberg of Munich, Bavaria, and headmaster of a school, made this suggestion yesterday during a lecture on "One or Two Germanies?"
Von Stauffenberg said that it is necessary for the West to recognize that East Germany exists. He commended the efforts of the United States in their attempts to preserve the freedom of the people of West Germany.
However, he said the West should take somewhat the same attitude as that of the Russians by letting the Germans decide their problems themselves.
"By not recognizing that East Germany exists, the West has gotten into a fix," he said. "We apparently haven't used our imagination.
"Once the standard of living is raised, a growing discontent would start among the people which would then pose a serious threat to the Communist regime."
"WE ALL KNOW that East Germany suffers from serious economic difficulties. It might be a good idea if West Germany would start dumping their surplus consumer goods into East Germany and help raise the standard of living there," he suggested.
By using effective propaganda and suddenly stopping economic aid at a time when the discontentment is at its peak, the desired result could be achieved, he said.
"The possibility of German unification could also be considered without legally recognizing East Germany." he continued, "West and East Germany and West and East Berlin could send one delegate each to a conference where they could agree upon a unification plan to be tried for just one year."
IN ANOTHER SPEECH yesterday afternoon, von Stauffenberg said German resistance to Adolf Hitler in World War II did exist,
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