Week's U.S. death toll highest for year in Viet
SAICON —(UPI)— American B52 bombers today made two strikes against Communist positions near Saligon, one so close to the capital that windows rattled, buildings shook and pictures fell from walls.
It was disclosed meanwhile that 109 Americans were killed in action in the week ending Feb. 26, highest toll of the year and the heaviest U.S. loss since the bloody Ia Drang Valley campaign last November.
THE COMUNIST death toll last week was 1,122, a U.S. military spokesman said today. The South Vietnamese forces lost 379 killed and other allies 18.
Waves of the eight-jet Strategic Air Command SAC B52s pounded a Viet Cong storage area and troop concentration 25 miles north-northeast of Saigon. Each of the Guam-based jets carried 51 bombs weighing from 250 to 500 pounds.
The glass in a picture on the wall of the UPI building in downtown Saigon cracked as the bombs exploded. A few seconds later a picture dropped from the wall as
another "stick" of high explosives fell in the jungle countryside, creating a quake-like rumble.
OTHER B52s hit a suspected Communist troop concentration in Phuoc Tuy Province, 55 miles east-southeast of Saigon.
Only light sporadic contact was reported throughout the country in ground action involving U.S. and Vietnamese troops.
American forces pressed the Viet Cong on three fronts but the Communists were reluctant to fight.
Council Okays —
Continued from page 1 introduced by Zuhair Duhaiby, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sophomore. (UP-unmarried unorganized). Briefly, they concerned:
- A recommendation that zones "O" and "N" be opened for student parking without charge during evening University events. Tabled.
- That the University Daily Kansan Board be informed by the Student Publications Board of the desire for greater circulation of the UDK, especially to the large dormitories. Passed
- That the Traffic and Security office be requested to place a policeman at the intersection of West Campus Board and Memorial Drive between classes to direct traffic. Passed.
- That a report be given the ASC concerning the possibility of steel gates at the entrance of zone "X" to prevent overcrowding through broken wooden gates. Passed.
- That the Lawrence City Commission be contacted concerning any action it has or has not taken on the 1964 ASC request that it look into the dangerous intersection at 11th and Louisiana streets. Passed.
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Seeks new department
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Johnson asked Congress today to establish a new department of transportation in the cabinet which would consolidate a number of federal agencies responsible for transit and safety.
In a message to the House and Senate, Johnson said: "The American transportation system is not good enough. We must coordinate the executive functions of our transportation agencies
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"Although he has a television," she continued, "roaches infest the area and he is only allowed out of his cell one night a week to go to the library. His letters are also censored and visitors are limited to five minutes."
Howe, who was ordered to go to Viet Nam shortly before the demonstration, would have been restrained in the U.S. because of a broken arm he suffered in a car accident before the demonstration, Mr. Howe said.
into a single coherent instrument of government."
THE PRESIDENT ALSO included urgent proposals on insuring the "safety of citizens as they travel on our land, in our skies, and over our waters." He recommended creation of an independent national safety transportation board.
He also urged Congress to approve a $700 million, six-year program to spur highway safety programs.
"The people of America deserve an aggressive highway safety program," Johnson commented.
IN ADDITION, Johnson again advocated construction and testing of a new 2,000 mile-per-hour supersonic aircraft. He asked $200 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1 to initiate the prototype phase of the plane. He hoped that the first flight tests could occur in 1970 with the plane introduced into commercial service by 1974.
Johnson recommended that the new transportation department pull together agencies which now contain about 100,000 employees
and spend about $6 billion a year.
He said that the following agencies and functions be merged in the new cabinet-level department.
$\bullet$ THE OFFICE OF UNDER-secretary of Commerce for transportation and its policy, program, emergency transportation and research staffs.
The Bureau of Public Roads and the federal aid highway program it administers.
- The Federal Aviation Agency.
- The Coast Guard.
- The Maritime Administration
- The safety functions of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
- The safety functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
- The Great Lakes Pilotage Administration, the St. Lawrence Seaway development program, the Alaska Railroad, and certain minor transportation-related activities of other agencies.
He said the Corps of Engineers will be untouched but the transportation secretary should be involved in planning water transportation projects with them.
Hill offers new fellowship
The University of Kansas is one of four schools in the nation and the only one west of the Mississippi-selected to offer a new fellowship program for history teaching starting next fall.
The U.S. Office of Education picked Carnegie Institute of Technology, Illinois State University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Kansas to participate in the program, financed by the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Similar programs in other subject fields also are provided under the Act. However, KU is the only Kansas school authorized to offer the fellowships.
FIHTEEN EXPERIENCED junior and senior high school teachers will be awarded fellowships at KU to study for the M.A. degree in history during 1966-67. Each participant will receive a $4,800 stipend, $600 for each dependent up to four, and tuition and fees for the fall, spring, and summer sessions.
Only experienced teachers will be eligible. Applicants, to be selected from across the nation, will be nominated by their local school boards.
DIRECTING AND ASSISTING with special seminars will be George L. Anderson, Donald R.
Ambrose Saricks, professor of history, will direct the program at KU, and W. Stitt Robinson, also a professor, will be associate director.
Participants will take 27 semester hours in history and six hours in the School of Education. Part of the work will be new courses designed to meet special needs of the high school teacher of American or World History, but participants also will have a chance to pursue special interest areas.
Lawrence woman is top citizen
Applications must be postmarked by April 5. Application blanks are available from Ambrose Saricks, History Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
A long-time resident of the Lawrence area, Mrs. Ralph L. Colman, was named "distinguished older citizen of Kansas" Monday evening at the banquet meeting of the Kansas State Conference on Aging.
McCoy, Charles S. Fidman, Alvin H. Schild, Oswald P. Backus, and George' M. Beckmann, all members of the University's history faculty.
Mrs. Colman and her husband will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on May 3. During that time, they have lived continuously on a farm six miles west of Lawrence which was Mr. Colman's boyhood home.
service programs. Two years ago she received the senior citizen award given by the Lawrence Kiwanis Club.
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Mrs. Colman has been active in 4-H activities, the Kansas and Douglas County farm bureaus, and in numerous community
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