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GENEVA—The United States told the 17-nation disarmament conference today that failure to build adequate peace-keeping machinery into a disarmament agreement "would create a vacuum in which the seeds of war and rearmament might be sown."
U. S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean said that whatever form of disarmament treaty is agreed on, it "should not ignore the lessons of the past." Disarmament, he said, should be linked "with other measures which nations must take to make disarmament possible."
"We do not believe that disarmament in and of itself will usher in Utopia," he said. "We believe we must be realistic in our vision of the world disarmed. We do not see it as an Utopian world without disagreement and discord. Our vision is of a world without war, but if this vision is to be realized we must have an alternative system for coping with differences and disputes as will inevitably arise."
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KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.—Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., said today that President Kennedy can get a medical care bill through Congress this year with Republican help if he is willing to compromise by improving the administration-sponsored health care plan.
Sen. Javits extolled the virtues of his own health care plan for the aged, saying its coverage was broader, its benefits more flexible, and its provisions for freedom of choice more compatible with the American competitive system.
"The administration plan offers no choice of a doctor or surgeon who is going to treat you. It's a take-it-or-leave-it compulsory health program," he said.
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today reversed the contempt convictions of six individuals who refused to answer questions during Congressional investigations of Communism.
The court held the indictments of the six were faulty.
Justice Potter Stewart, who spoke for the majority, said "In each case the indictment returned by the grand jury failed to identify the subject under Congressional subcommittee inquiry at the time the witness was interrogated."
Stewart pointed out that the Court has never before decided whether an indictment must specify the subject under inquiry at the time a witness balks at answering questions.
The vote on all of the cases but one was 5 to 2 with Justices Tom C. Clark and John M. Harlan dissenting. Justices Felix Frankfurter, Byron R. White did not participate.
The vote on the sixth case was 4-2 with Justice William Brennan joining Frankfurter and White as a non-participant.
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TOKYO—Communist China has lodged a "serious protest" with the Indian government over a "grave violation" of Chinese territory by Indian troops, the official Communist New China News Agency reported today.
Monday, May 21, 1962
According to the agency report, "10 fully armed Indian military personnel intruded into Chinese territory on the eastern sector of the Sino-Indian boundary" last April 28 and "left only after having carried out military reconnaissance."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Interior Secretary Stewart Udall yesterday listed the American Medical Association as among "selfish interest groups . . . waging bitter propaganda warfare to confuse" the issue of medical care for the aged.
Udall, speaking at a Kansas City rally held in connection with a series throughout the nation, said the administration's King-Anderson bill is "an investment in self-respect."
The Interior Secretary said "It removes the nagging fear of thousands that one day they will be charity cases when illness strikes in their advancing years."
Udall was the principal speaker at the rally here, held simultaneously with others in the nation to get support for medical care for the aged through social security.
This issue of the University Daily Kansan has as a supplement the annual University of Kansas Honors list, by which KU recognizes its outstanding scholars. In the supplement are the honor rolls for the Fall semester, the elections to the honorary societies, and a listing of the holders of scholarships and fellowships.
Honors Section Part Of Today's Kansan
However, Bowl officials said the following questions and several others had been used previously in the Stephenson-Beta Theta Pi and the Stephenson-Joseph R. Pearson Hall matches;
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Stephenson Hall, representing Kansas, won the match, 315-145, over Missouri's representative, Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
Freshman Studies Goldwater, Becomes a Staunch Follower
- "What are the school colors of Harvard, Yale, Kansas State, Duke and Tulane?"
- Charles Anderson, Osage City senior and president of the College Intermediary Board which sponsored the contest on the KU campus, said that nobody has any idea how this situation came about.
- "Rommel was known as the 'Desert Fox'; who was known as the Swamp Fox?"
Faulty Questions Void KU Victory In College Bowl
He explained that the questions submitted by KU were drawn up by faculty members and qualified students, and others were taken from questions that had been made up for previous matches here but never used.
Results of the KU-MU College Bowl match were voided yesterday because some of the questions submitted by KU had been used previously in the semi-final and final rounds of competition here.
One of Sen. Barry Goldwaters' most faithful followers is a 5-foot, 1-inch tall freshman from Dodge City named Leanna Koehn. Miss Koehn, secretary of the KU Young Americans for Freedom and a political science major, hopes to run for public office as soon as possible after she is 21.
Following the match, Martin Frost, a member of the Missouri team said, "It was unfortunate, but it was just a matter of circumstance. It wasn't planned this way, and there are definitely no hard feelings on the part of either of the teams."
Anderson explained that a mistake might have been made in re-copying questions of this last group on note cards for the KU-MU match.
Several months after the election was over, she read Sen. Goldwater's book, "Conscience of a Conservative," and immediately became one of his followers.
Anderson said that the match would possibly be re-played at Missouri next fall, but that no definite plans have been made.
"I have been raised to believe in
LEANNA SAYS the 1960 presidential campaign first stirred her interest in politics and caused her to start reading.
Stepping into her room, one sees a bulletin board prominently displaying the "Conservative Credo," a picture of Sen. Goldwater, a box from Goldwater's Department store in Phoenix, Ariz., and the American flag.
As she talks about her conservative beliefs and her own role in the conservative movement, Leanna's whole face becomes intent, her gaze steady and direct and her hands move freely in emphatic gestering.
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"I'm going to run for an office," she says. "Most people won't to that sort of thing. They either don't have the gall or they are unwilling to build up enough power within
being self-sufficient," she says. "I believe that everyone should have the right to become what he wants to become as long as he does no infringe on anyone else's rights. think the government has no right to control the freedoms of the individual.
"BUT I DIDN'T know these ideas were the same as Sen. Goldwater; until I read his book. As a matter of fact, from what I had read o him, I thought he was kind of a crunk."
HOWEVER, SHE adds that she also loves the excitement of the campaign and the idea of the prestige that accompanies a public office. One of her fondest dreams is to be in the middle of a ticker tape parade held in her honor in New York City.
Serving as a public official is important to Leanna, she says, because she feels that she owes herself and her service to her country.
Leanna says she would like to run for the presidency to get in on all the excitement of the convention and the rallies and the parades, but adds that she "wouldn't want to serve in that office."
the party and the state by doing the party work."
"I would prefer the position of majority leader in the United States Senate," she states. "I believe in aiming for the top and that is the highest office I can hold below the presidency."
Regents Accept Reed's Report
The Kansas Board of Regents Friday endorsed the report of its chairman giving a general stamp of approval to journalism instruction at KU and Kansas State University.
The regents also voted pay increases of $2,000 a year for KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and KSU President James McCain. The heads of the two state universities will receive $26,000 annually plus expenses, a residence and the use of a car.
THE REGENTS ENDORSED a report by Clyde M. Reed, chairman of the board and Parsons newspaper publisher, which concluded that journalism instruction at KU and KSU is satisfactory.
Reed's report grew out of a resolution placed before the Board of Regents at their March 16 meeting by former board chairman Whitley Austin, Salina publisher.
The resolution, tabled at that meeting, proposed that the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information be returned to a department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and that the K-State journalism department be made a part of K-State's English department.
AUSTIN CONTENDED that journalism graduates were not trained sufficiently in certain fields and needed more general education in the liberal arts with less specialized training in journalism.
Austin is presently in Europe. With Austin absent, the Regents voted unanimous endorsement of Reed's report and adopted it as the policy of the board.
Downs Given Summerfield
Cora M. Downs, professor of bacteriology, has been named Summerfield Distinguished Professor of Bacteriology effective July 1.
Miss Downs will assume the position when Raymond C. Moore, Summerfield professor of geology, retires.
The honorary position carries an additional stipend of approximately $4,000 a year.
Miss Downs is a member of the KU research team that developed a special fluorescent stain technique for the rapid diagnosis of disease-producing organisms. She also had done research on typhus, infectious mononucleosis and rickettsiae (which cause typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rickettsial pox and Q fever).
Her rickettsial research, which was performed in collaboration with David Paretsky, professor of bacteriology and chairman of the department, was described in the "significant science progress" section of the 1958 Encyclopaedia Britannica yearbook.
Miss Downs is a graduate of KU where she received her A.B. in 1915, her A.M. in 1920 and her Ph.D. in 1924. She joined the KU faculty as an assistant instructor in 1917 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1921. She became an associate professor in 1925 and was named a professor in 1935.
She attended Medical School classes for two years, the second at Chicago University and received a minor in pathology.
She was elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, one of the oldest scientific societies in the United States. in 1953.
Miss Downs has also worked a year at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and done research on germ warfare in the armed forces during World War II.
The heads of both universities defended journalism instruction in their respective institutions before a meeting of the Board of Regents.
REED SAID in his report that he saw no justification for altering the journalism instruction at either KU or KSU.
Noting that journalism enrollment was on the increase at both schools after recent declines, Reed quoted several employers of KU journalism graduates to the effect that they were satisfied with their work.
In delivering his report to the board Thursday, the Parsons' publisher said he did not even attempt to decide the ageless question of whether journalism students should take only liberal arts courses, leaving out classroom study of a more technical nature.
Ironically, Reed noted, the biggest weakness of the KU school uncovered was a "lack of communication with its constituency in the state of Kansas."
Formosa Opens Refugee Door
Authorities in the British Crown Colony have cracked down recently on the flow of illegal refugees from Red China and have shipped thousands back.
TAPEI, Formosa — (UPI) — The Nationalist Chinese government today announced it will accept all Chinese Communist refugees who want to come to Formosa from Hong Kong.
In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said Communist China had promised to look into the question of the flood of refugees pouring across the border into the British Crown Colony.
THE FORMAL announcement issued by Vice President Chen Cheng, who is also premier, set no limit on the number of refugees Formosa will accept.
In the past three weeks, about 40,000 refugees were reported to have tried to slip into Hong Kong, which already has a serious population problem.
The announcement added that the Nationalist Chinese government is "more than willing to cooperate with the governments of other countries, with international relief organizations, and with the Hong Kong authorities in the work of providing relief for these refugees."
FORMOSA'S CABINET ordered creation of a committee headed by Chan to direct resettlement of the refugees from communism.
Earlier, the secretary general of the Free China Relief Association said that the Brazilian government already had expressed willingness to accept Chinese farmers as immigrants.
The Nationalist Chinese government has accepted between 10,000 and 30,000 refugees from Hong Kong and Portuguese Macao annually for several years.
BUT FORMOSA, itself, has a serious population problem.
British helicopters today were helping ground security forces in tracking down illegal Chinese refugees hiding in the hills around Hong Kong to avoid being shipped back to their Communist-dominated homeland.
Weather
Scattered thunderstorms tonight,
Otherwise clear to partly cloudy today through Tuesday.
Continued warm. Highs today and Tuesday upper 80s. Lows tonight 60s.