SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No. 1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 12, 1962
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH—One of the most unpopular stops during the long walk during enrollment is that to pick up grade reports. Those who walk away from the table are either happy, sad or shell-shocked.
- The Long Walk -
Enrollment is a long process dreaded by KU students, but a necessary one.
The Long Walk starts at Strong Hall (at table one) and if the student is lucky he ends on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
This year 2,742 persons enrolled on the Lawrence campus,a gain of 205 over 1961 and 438 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas,same as a year ago,for a total of 3.180.
These figures included only persons enrolled for academic credit and exclude late enrollees, those attending eight-week institutes in mathematics, radiation biology, chemistry research, physics and elementary school Spanish, approximately 1,000 who will attend the Midwestern Music and Art camp and the approximately 5,000 persons who will be on the campus for shorter periods in non credit programs of adult education.
YES, I NEED ADVICE-There are many advisers provided during enrollment to help students work out their class schedule problems. Here a faculty member gives some friendly advice.
Kennedy Meets With Cabinet; Talks Economics
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President Kennedy met with members of his cabinet yesterday and arranged a later session with U. S. Steel president Roger Blough and other members of a special task force on gold outflow and the balance of payments situation.
The President rushed into the conferences after his return from New Haven, Conn., where he urged, in a Yale University commencement address, that peace prevail between his administration and American business.
WHITE HOUSE officials said the President considered the meeting with Blough and the task force significant in promoting the type of government-business cooperation he called for in the Yale speech.
Blough is chairman of the special business advisory committee task force. He took over that job shortly after his steel-price disagreement with the President, when he called on Kennedy and asked what business could do in the interest of economic stability.
Kennedy suggested that Blowough and some of his top-level business colleagues might take a close look at the imbalance between U.S. payments abroad and this country's income from the world market.
BLOUGH THEN formed the task force. Other members to see Kennedy were Henry Alexander, New York banker; Crawford Greenwalt, president of the I. E. Du Pont Nemours Co.; banker Allan Sproul, and Thomas Watson, president of International Business Machines. The five men met with treasury secretary Douglas Dillon in advance of the conference with the President.
In his New Haven speech, Kennedy said the false issue had been raised that the recent drop in stock market prices was caused by a lack of business confidence in the administration.
He said business had full confidence in the Hoover and Eisenhower administration, "but this was not enough to prevent recessions when business lacked full confidence in the economy."
"Corporate plans are not based on a political confidence in party leaders," he said, "but on an economic confidence in the nation's ability to invest and produce and consume."
BONN — (UPI) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said today that West Germany must strengthen its friendship with France to build European unity and to ensure that "France never again would sign a treaty with the Soviet Union against us."
Adenauer Wants French Alliance
He said a firm Franco-German alliance also would prevent Germany's economy from falling under Russian influence.
Adenauer's conviction that his close links with French President Charles de Gaulle benefit his allies in Europe and the United States is expected to be a main theme of his talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk next week.
Weather
Lawrence and area will see temperatures that will average about five degrees above normal for a five-day period that started last night and will run through Saturday. Normal highs range from 82-86. There will be a slow rising trend in the first of the period with little change after tomorrow. Precipitation is expected to amount to 50 to one-inch.
About 400 Here For Girls' State
The 20th Sunflower Girls' State, involving approximately 400 high school girls, got into full swing Sunday.
The weeklong conference, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and supervised and instructed by 39 counselors and staff members, will concentrate on training in government.
THE PROGRAM will include discussions of city, county and state government, local judicial and state administrative organization, civil defense, the roles of political parties legislative procedures, pressure
The citizens of Girls' State will be divided into twelve "cities" within "six counties" and will belong to either the Federalist or Nationalist political party. They will stage political rallies and carry on campaigns prior to the election of city, county and state officials.
Primary elections for government and bar examinations for "lawyers" will be held today and the general election will be held tomorrow. Governor John Anderson Jr. will speak at the inaugural ceremony Thursday evening.
THE 1961 GOVERNOR, Miss Carolyn Eymann of 1101 Kansas Ave. Atchison, will be head of the Girls' State citizens until the new governor is elected, according to tradition.
The girls will have rigid schedules of party meetings, discussions, lectures and films, but they will also have an occasional coke party and a talent night on Wednesday.
Main speakers through the week will be; Mayor Ted Kennedy of Lawrence; Senator Charles F. Forsyth, Erie; Charles D. Stough, city attorney, Lawrence, and former speaker of the House of Representatives; Mrs. James S. Pritchard, vice chairman of the Republican second Congressional District committee and Shawnee County commissioner of elections; Wesley Norwood, Douglas County attorney; Ernest Russell, Kansas Commission on Civil Rights. Topeka; W. G. Paramore, assistant director of Kansas Civil Defense, Topeka; Miss Mary Turkington, assistant managing director of the Kansas Motor Carriers Assn.; and members of the KU faculty.
Mrs. Marie H. Kyle, Erie, is director of Girls' State this year. She will be assisted by Mrs. Alice Telford. 1517 Andrews, Winfield. Official hostess for the program will be Mrs. Marjorie Dunham, Erie, Auxiliary Department president.
Filipinos Hold Celebration
MANILA — (UPI) The Philippines will celebrate its new Independence Day today in sharp contrast with last year when Gen. Douglas MacArthur packed one million Filipinos into Luneta Park.
The 1961 celebration was held on the Fourth of July to commemorate that date in 1946 when the United States granted the Philippines its independence.
President Diosdado Macapagal last month proclaimed June 12 as the new Philippine Independence Day after the U.S. Congress defeated a $73 million Philippine War Claims Bill.
A crowd of at least 250,000 is expected to converge at sprawling Luneta Park located next to Manila Bav.
The central figure of the celebration will be Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, 93, who on June 12, 1898, declared the Philippines independent of Spain.
Aguinaldo, now an invalid, is to re-enact his declaration of 64 years ago from a specially constructed balcony across from the Luneta Park reviewing stand.
U.S. Expected To Resume Aid
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The United States is expected to resume financial aid to Laos once a Coalition government is firmly established, informed sources said today.
The United States cut off $3 million a month cash aid to Laos last February in an effort to persuade Royalist government officials to go forward with coalition negotiations.
OFFICIALS HERE said no firm decision on resuming this aid will be made until a coalition is definite.
State Department Press Officer Lincoln White officially welcomed today's announcement from Laos that a coalition has been agreed to as "an encouraging development" and a "step toward achievement of an independent and neutral Laos."
White said the State Department so far has only a "preliminary" report on the agreement and that officials wanted more information before commenting in detail. Other officials said they were pleased at the news of the agreement and hoped it would stick.
IN ANOTHER development, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield's call for a review of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia drew praise in the Senate from both Democrats and Republicans.
Mansfield replied by making it clear that he fully supports President Kennedy's actions in Southeast Asia and said he was sure the chief executive "welcomes constructive discussion."
The Montana Democrat told the graduating class at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., yesterday that in Southeast Asia "the present course is, as it has been for a long time, at best a mark-time course of years and decades of immense cost to the people of the United States and, at worst, it is a collision course."
HE CALLED for a hard look to see if a better course can be found "if it is at all possible and to do so with honor and decency."
Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirkens, ll., congratulated Mansfield and endorsed the Democratic leader's stand in a floor speech.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also praised the Mansfield speech as an example of "great statesmanship." He said he also supported the Montana Senator's proposal.
DIRKSEN SAID the Republicans are willing to cooperate but "support of the President does not preclude public discussion of the Southeast Asia problem."
Morse said he was confident that full discussion of Southeast Asia policy would "bring a demand from the people" that there be some changes in policy.
He also said he agreed with Mansfield that the time has come for U.S. Allies to share a greater part of the financial burden for maintaining peace in Southeast Asia.
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