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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, August 2, 1966
European farm accord reached
Bu Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
For three days foreign and agricultural ministers of the six European Common Market nations had haggled over the prices of such items as milk, cauliflower and sugar beets.
But when, at 5 a.m. on the dawn of a new week, they emerged red-eyed and weary, it was to announce agreement on the biggest farm deal in European history.
It was a signal demonstration of the survival powers of the common market, whose official designation as the European Economic Community and which as recently as the first of this year seemed on the road to extinction.
IT MEANT THAT all major obstacles to a common agricultural policy had been removed and that the chances were good that by July 1, 1968, all restrictions would be removed on free movement of farm goods among The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, France and Italy.
Affected were 10 million farmers and 180 million consumers.
For supporters of the common market, it was a victory of enormous consequence.
BUT UNLESS other agreements are reached, for the American farmer, who does $1.1 billion worth of business annually with common market nations, the result would be closer to disaster in the manner of the celebrated frozen chicken case of 1962.
As the common market reduces or eliminates tariffs within its own boundaries, it also builds a protective wall against goods from the outside. In the case of U.S. frozen chickens, sales to Western Europe which in 1962 totaled $50 million fell off drastically after a sharp increase in import duties. U.S. protests were unavailing.
HOPES OF U. S. agriculture rest with the resumption of the so-called Kennedy round of tariff negotiations in Geneva due at the end of this month.
Under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the United States has proposed tariff reductions in
both agriculture and industry ranging up to 100 per cent. And it has served notice it will refuse industrial concessions unless the Europeans also make concessions to U.S. agriculture.
Under the 1959 charter of Rome, the farmers foresaw a Western Europe which would move first to economic unity and then to political unity as well, in effect, a United States of Europe.
UNDER THE impact of French nationalism as exemplified by President Charles de Gaulle, the hopes for any real political unity in the near future virtually have evaporated.
But steps toward economic unity, through which political unity might someday evolve, have been formidable.
Tariffs on manufactured goods moving between the "six" already have been reduced 80 per cent and there is agreement they will disappear by mid-1968.
BY THE SAME date it also has been agreed that farmers from northern Germany to Sicily, 1,500 miles to the south, will be receiving the same prices and subsidies for the same goods.
Geneva is the next step, one that will determine whether the "six" are to be a liberalizing force toward expanding world trade or one content to live off its own fat behind high tariff walls.
Graduate is named at Carnegie Institute
A 1966 graduate of KU has been appointed to the faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology, in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Elizabeth Almquist, Lawrence, will be an instructor in sociology in Margaret Morrison Carnegie College.
Dog gets bravery award
LONDON —(UPI)—The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will present Thane, an 11-month-old black retriever the society's first bravery award ever given a dog for saving another dog from drowning.
Youth dies on LSD jag
BERKELEY, Calif. — (UPI)— A 20-year-old Berkeley youth jumped three stories to his death Sunday while "flying high on LSD," police said.
They said the victim, Vernon P. Cox, took his first and last dose of the controversial dream drug at a "trip party" with three companions.
The witnesses told police Cox was "in touch with reality one minute and the next minute he lost control." They quoted him as saying that "as long as I'm on a trip, I think I'll go to Europe."
His companions said they restrained him from leaving the apartment several times, but finally Cox ran into the bedroom, climbed on a bed and lunged through the closed window to an alleyway three stories below.
"You know how that stuff (LSD) works," a police spokesman said. "He probably thought he was a bird and tried to fly out the window."
2 awards in engineering
Two scholarships in engineering have been announced for KU students for 1966-67. The scholarship of the Topeka Auxiliary of the Kansas Engineering Society has been renewed for James M. Cook, Topeka. The scholarship has been offered annually since 1959 by the Auxiliary.
The Black and Veatch scholarship in engineering has been awarded to J. Rowe McKinley of Lawrence.
The scholarships are awarded annually by Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers of Kansas City, Mo.
Children's Theatre performances and audition dates have been announced by Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre.
The first children's production will be "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Dec. 1, 2, and 3, directed by Jed Davis.
GOOD LUCK ON FINALS Summer Students We'll see you in the fall
Auditions for "Oliver!," "The Rogue's Trial" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Union.
Prof. Goff said a Theatre Rally to introduce theatre faculty members, explain the audition system and answer questions about the theatre, will be held from 7-9 p.m. Sept.18 in the Kansas Room of the Union.
That southwest corner not safe
"Two Pails of Water," the second production, will be staged March 2.3. and 4.
He said auditions are open to all those interested.
Casts for the other shows will be selected later, he said.
TOPEKA—(UPI)—A University of Kansas meteorologist reported yesterday that an investigation revealed the southwest corner of a basement was not the safest place during the June 8 tornado that struck Topeka.
Dr. Joe R. Eagleman said his study produced "convincing evidence" contrary to the long held belief that the southwest corner of the basement is the best safety spot in a twister.
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However, he emphasized his study pertained only to the storm of June 8.
Children's stage productions set
1-act plays presented
Eagleman examined 135 homes in the path of the twister and said that in most cases the north and northeast sections sustained the least damage.
Four one-act plays, directed by graduate students in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of art in speech and drama, are being presented at 8:20 p.m. last night and today, at the University Theatre.
Jean Anouillh's "Meden," under the direction of Don Ellis, Cicero, Ill., was one of two plays presented Monday. Members of the cast were Marion Ellis, Lombard, Ill., graduate student; Douglas Curtis, junior, Dodge City; Jack Garrison, graduate student, Macomb, Ill.; Mary Linda Rapelye, senior, Kansas City, Mo.; Jack Hurley, sophomore, Lawrence, and Bruce Levitt, junior, Kansas City, Mo. Assistant director is Linda Smithmier, junior, Prairie Village.
- We'll be open in August-
JACK BRAUN, ST. CATTERINE, Canada, directed the other play, Chekov's "Marriage Proposal." The cast includes Lyle Holloway, sophomore, Eudora; Dick Jackson, graduate student, Lawrence; and Kay McNeive, graduate student, Topeka.
Tonight, Edward Eddy, Kansas City, Mo., will direct "Fumed Oak" by Noel Coward. His cast includes Richard Jackson, Lawrence graduate student; Kathy Melcher, Newton junior; Cindy Brown, Lawrence senior, and Mary Linda Rapelye, Kansas City, Mo., senior. Assistant director is Betty Kleiwer.
Dorothy Burbach, Dickeyville, Wis., will direct Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Members of the cast are Jack Garrison; Morris Burns, Lawrence graduate student; Bruce Levitt; Dennis Reardon, Lawrence graduate student, and Brian Davis, 14, son of Dr. and Mrs. Jed Davis, Lawrence.
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