Army Considers Longer Period For Training
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Army said today that it may increase the length of its six-month training program to enable recruits to develop additional military skills.
It made the statement when asked about published reports that the six-month training period might be shortened to four months or to 19 weeks.
The Army said neither it nor the defense department was currently considering such a plan.
Defense officials also said the Pentagon will oppose suggested legislation to prevent the call-up of reserves who have had two or three years of military service.
THE PENTAGON VIEW was that their abilities may be needed in a partial mobilization. Officials said the six-month training period is not designed to fill a need for skills of a highly technical nature.
An official said the six-months program has admirably served its purpose of providing men for drillpaid army and marine reserve units, for which they sign up when they enter the training.
Approximately 46 per cent of the 700,000 drill-paid Army reserves and National Guardsmen, and more than 50 per cent of the paid civilian marine reserves, are products of the six-months program.
THE ARMY'S STATEMENT said: "There is no plan currently under consideration in either the Army or the office of the Secretary of Defense to reduce the six-months training period for personnel entering the Army under the Reserve Forces Act.
"On the contrary, the advisability of increasing this training, in order to develop selected military skills among these personnel is being studied by the department of the Army."
At one time last year, the Air Force had a plan for a three-to-four month training program, but it was not approved by the defense department.
Under the terms of the Reserve Forces Act, the training can be anywhere from three to six months. Additional legislation would be needed to extend the training beyond the six-months period.
Gallery Shows KU Art Work
The work of four KU faculty members and four KU students is now on display in the William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City.
The art pieces are part of the Twelfth Annual Mid-America Exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture which opened May 4.
Paintings in the exhibition represent Robert Green, associate professor of drawing and painting, and Richard Schira, instructor of drawing and painting. A print by Thomas Coleman, instructor of drawing and painting, and a sculpture by James Sterritt, assistant professor of architecture, are also included in the exhibition.
STUDENTS WHO HAD paintings accepted are Terry Gierlich, Lawrence senior; Phil Jaillite, Roslyn, N.Y., freshman, and Gregg Blasdel, Belle Plaie junior. Jailite and Blasdel are each represented by two paintings and Jailite was awarded an honorable mention for one of his entries. JoAnn Bernofsky, Lawrence special student is represented by a print.
The Mid-America is made up of work by artists and sculptors of the eight-state Midwest region. The entries were judged by Cosmo Campoli, a Chicago sculptor, Norman Geske, director of the University of Nebraska Art Galleries, and Joseph W. McCulough, director of the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Over 900 entries were submitted. 92 of which were selected for exhibition.
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 134
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, May 8, 1962
KU Police Begin Car Check
Drivers of defective cars, Beware! If your car has a deficiency in the brakes, headlights or other mechanical means you better get it fixed before you drive along Jayhawk Blvd.
Campus Police began a traffic check in front of Snow Hall at 10 am. today. The police are checking each vehicle for defective headlights, tail lights, turn signals, windshields, horn, tires, muffler, brakes.
steering and windshield wipers
Driver's licenses are also checked.
THE CHECK, which is ordered several times a year by Police Chief Skillman, is strictly voluntary. A driver does not have to have his car checked, but as one patrolman pointed out, it is for the driver's own benefit.
However, these tickets will be void if the offender takes his driver's license to police court.
Tickets will be issued only to the drivers without driver's licenses.
Police reported that most drivers were willing to go through the check. If a car is found "OK" the driver receives a sticker from the police to paste on his windshield indicating the car is in proper driving condition.
About 52 cars were checked by 11:30 a.m.
In the summer his scouting changes from football to Yellowstone National Park where he is in charge of some eight million acres as a member of the United States Ranger Service.
LET'S SEE YOUR LICENSE- Two KU policemen stop a student in the voluntary traffic safety
"AS A HIGH SCHOOL KID, KU was the epitome of perfection and I always wanted to devote my life to it. I have never regretted coming here. Every year I learn more."
The rugged-looking, though soft-spoken Replogle, said that he first
- check that started at 10 a.m. today. The check will continue through tomorrow.
Replogle is field representative for the football team in Kansas. During the football season, he has seven television programs and speaks at eight to 13 Quarterback Club meetings a week. He says that he can keep nearly all of the people in Kansas informed on the status of the football team through these programs and meetings.
Replogle's Interests Vary From Forests to Gridiron
By Mike Miller
Football coach, forest ranger,
author, oil painter ... these describe
Wayne Replogle, assistant football
coach and for many years head of
the Kansas University scouting staff.
He added, "Rep is our number one contact with the people across the state of Kansas through his talks and showing of game films."
MONTE JOHNSON, KU sports public relations director for whom Replogle now works as an assistant, said. "As a member of our staff, you couldn't find a more cooperative, conscientious or dedicated worker for the University of Kansas.
"Rep," as he is known by his many friends both in and out of football, first came to KU 22 years ago in 1940. He was coach of KU's freshman team for many years and has recently been in charge of filming all KU athletic events.
became interested in forest rangers when he lived in the San Luis Valley of Colorado as a boy in 1910 and 1911.
He received his first assignment as a forest ranger more than 32 years ago in 1830 and has returned every summer since then except for the three years that he spent in the Navy during World War II. He is now the acting Chief Naturalist of the district which is the highest appointment that a ranger can receive without serving the full 12 months.
"ONE DAY WHEN I was going up in the hills to get wood, I met a forest ranger. He impressed me so much that right then I decided that I would like to be a forest ranger someday."
"PAINTING IS the best substitute duty in the world," he said. "it is really trying to create a picture and it tests my ingenuity, but it draws on another type of energy than I am accustomed to and really relaxes me."
The same ham-hock of a hand that has wielded an axe in the wilds of Yellowstone Park, also painted the picture of the two buffaloes which hangs outside the endowment office in Strong Hall.
He admitted that he does not like to sell his paintings, but he has broken down and sold some of them for as much as $200 apiece. He sets a quota of about four pictures a year.
Repogle has also written a book, "Bannock Indian Trails," which was published in 1556. It was written in conjunction with the 80th anniversary of the battle of the Little Big Horn.
THE HUSKY SIX-FOOTER, who still looks in shape to play collegiate football, was a member of the
All-Kansas football teams of 1924 and 1925 while attending the College of Emporia.
After graduation from Emporia in the spring of 1926 with a degree in history and government, Replogle had intended to go into state department work, but went to Wyoming and coached high school football instead.
The depression came and he was forced to continue coaching instead of going to the state department. He went to Pikeville, Ky., for the 1929-30 seasons before going to Elgin Academy in Illinois as athletic director and coach of all sports for the next nine years. He came to KU in 1940 where he has served under six coaches and is the oldest assistant football coach in years of service.
WHEN ASKED his feelings toward Replique, Don Pierce, KU sports publicity director with whom Replique has worked for the past 17 years, said, "I'm prejudiced on the matter because he and I are longtime buddies. I named my oldest boy after him. We have worked together in one capacity or another since I came here and have frequently shared the same office as we do now.
Replogle and his wife Marian celebrated their silver wedding anniversary last February. His wife takes care of their private cabin in Yellowstone Park while he is on ranger duty.
Replogie explained that his duties included the setting up of all the Yellowstone programs which affect the public. He plans all the hikes and the programs in the museums and displays of the park.
When asked the one person whom he most enjoyed guiding through the
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JFK Tells UAW He Will Not Fix Wages, Prices
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — (UPI)— President Kennedy told the United Auto Workers convention today his administration will not fix prices or wages but wants organized labor and management to show "responsible" restraint.
Kennedy declared that unions must consider the public interest in shaping wage demands to avoid inflationary settlements.
The Chief Executive was cheered by an estimated 10,000 delegates and guests when he entered the huge convention hall, which was decorated with a banner saying: "UAW—all the way with JFK."
The President hailed the UAW for what he termed its historic policy of seeking pay boosts out of increased output,per man-hour.
"WHAT GOOD IS IT to get an increase in wages if it is taken away by an increase in prices?" he asked in a renewed plea for limiting wage-price advances to increases in productivity.
Walter P. Reuther, UAW president who has called for wage gains greater than productivity increases for the short-range future, told the convention that the union would back Kennedy's efforts to keep prices stable.
THE UAW DELEGATES were silent when the President told them to negotiate a "non-inflationary and peaceful settlement" in this year's bargaining with aircraft and missile firms. The UAW has called for "catch-up" pay raises in this industry.
"After speaking to the Chamber of Commerce and the leaders of the American Medical Association last week, I wondered how I got elected. Now I remember."
Kennedy responded to a two minute ovation with this comment:
The Chief Executive said the nation was going through a critical period in its history that demanded recognition of the public interest by both industrialists and union chiefs.
ON HIS MAIN THEME of the need to avoid inflation, the President rejected criticism expressed by business leaders of his intervention policy in wage-price matters.
Any inflationary trend, he said, would make it harder to compete with Western European countries and weaken the U.S. financial position in the world.
'62 Class Gives Lighted Mural
The Class of '62 chose an electrically lighted wall mural of the campus as their Senior Gift yesterday at the Senior Coffee.
The mural will be mounted on a wall in the lobby of the Kansas Union. It will be multicolored and show topographic features of the campus. Funds will be provided by the Union to make changes in the map as the campus changes.
The gift choices that were defeated included:
1. A donation for the fountain-court development between the art and drama wings of Murphy Hall.
2. The furnishing of an exhibition room in the new Watson Library addition.
A statue of Albert Einstein for the front of the new engineering building was the most popular write-in suggestion.
Members of the Senior Gift Committee are: Stuart Barger, Harrison-ville, Mo.; Judith Findley, Osawatomie; Tonya Kurt, Pratt; Merrill Tarr, Paola; Elinor Varah, Liberal, and Larry Wilson, Augusta.
Weather
Severe thunderstorm forecast for this afternoon and evening. Partly cloudy, warm and humid this afternoon and evening with scattered showers and a few severe thunderstorms. Partly cloudy and a little cooler late tonight and tomorrow. High this afternoon around 90. Low tonight 55 to 60. High tomorrow in the 80s.