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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 8, 1962
Defense Department Reveals Troop Indoctrination Program
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Defense Department told Congress today it is about to launch an unprecedented program designed to educate servicemen "in the area of democracy versus communism."
Carlisle P. Runge, assistant secretary for manpower, outlined the program for the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee studying alleged "muzzling" of military officers. He said the effort will launch a new long-range troop information program. It will start next month.
RUNGE TESTIFIED after chairman John C. Stennis opened the new phase of the subcommittee's study with a statement stressing that troop indoctrination should stress the advantages of a democratic way of life.
Stennis said he was convinced that "we must give our military people something to fight for and not merely something to fight against."
Runge said the history of communism will get major emphasis in the new program. He said a 50-minute film "The Road to the Wall" is being produced to highlight "the diabolical rise of communist totalitarianism from Marx to the wall that encircles communism wherever it mav exist."
Runge said the 205 radio stations and 34 television stations of the Armed Services Network will carry programs hitting the same theme. Troop newspapers will get a clipsheet on the subject and commanders will be given material on it in a regular newsletter.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Edward L Katzenbach stressed that the Defense Department's Directorate for Armed Forces Information and Education had been given responsibility for certain phases of troop indoctrination. In the past it functioned merely as a service agency for the services.
IN ADDITION, he said, the separate services will coordinate their efforts with the Defense Department drive.
outspoken advocate of extensive troop education, that the eight-hour period will not constitute the entire education program, however.
Katzenbach said the new indo-
diction program means that at least two hours each quarter—eight hours a year—will be devoted solely to the struggle of democracy against communism. He told Stennis, an
Katzenbach said there was a major need to study the effectiveness of troop education and information materials. No extensive work has been done recently to determine what materials and techniques are really effective in the field, he said.
QUESTIONED BY Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., Runge declined to say what he would recommend be done about continued circulation of the "Overseas Weekly," a newspaper in Germany whose attacks on retired Gen. Edwin C. Walker led to the General's removal from his European troop command and the current inquiry.
He said an Army report on the paper would go to Gen. Lauris Norstad, European commander, and then to Washington. Saltonstall told Runge he couldn't understand why so much time should be taken to decide whether a publication in controversy should be sold through Army-controlled post offices.
Tickets will be available Monday for the Limelighters Concert, to be sponsored by Student Union Activities, March 17 at Hoch Auditorium. Prices are $1 and $1.50.
TICKETS WILL be sold according to living groups. Each sorority, fraternity and scholarship hall will have a representative to sell tickets, and the house selling the largest percentage of tickets will receive the best seats. Blocks of reserved seats also will be sold in the dormitories.
Some general admission and reserved seat tickets will go on sale Tuesday at the Information Booth and in the Kansas Union.
Happy Hour Set For Tomorrow
The Limelighters trio has been together for two years and has appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and the Dinah Shore show. The trio has given concerts with Chris Conner, George Shearing, Eartha Kitt and Johnny Mathis.
Lovell (Tu) Jarvis, Winfield junior, who assumed chairmanship of the KU P-T-P during the mid-semester break, said the Happy Hour will be designed especially to promote the Brother-Sister aspect of the program.
The second Happy Hour of the spring semester, sponsored by People-to-People at KU, will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Gamma Phi Beta house.
This semester, he added, P-T-P is concentrating its efforts toward the improvement of local activities.
A NATIONAL headquarters for P-T-P has been established at Kansas City, headed by Rafer Johnson, Olympic decathlon champion.
Concert Tickets On Sale Monday
During Greek Week, March 19 to 23, P-T-P, working with the Interfraternity Pledge Council (IFPC), will begin a lending library program for foreign students.
According to Jarvis, the KU chapter of P-T-P will center its efforts on local problems which had to be neglected before because the KU chapter was acting as a national clearing house for the P-T-P program.
The IFPC will furnish the manpower to collect the books, then P-T-P will take over and catalog the books and place them in a library for foreign students.
The library will lend books to foreign students who are on a limited budget, thus relieving them of the financial burden of buying books at the beginning of each semester.
Since September, the Alumni Association has mailed 29,023 letters to prospective new members. The following shows a breakdown of the results of the letters in gaining members:
KU Alumni Association membership is expected to pass the 16,000 mark by June 1, Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Association said recently.
Alum Membership Expected to Rise
On June 1, 1961, there were 14. 718 members, but 1.867 of these dropped out during the year making the total 12.851. A recent count showed a gain of 1,322 new members making 14,173 current members.
Letters and sample alumni magazines to faculty: 270 letters, gain: eight new members.
Non-active alumni outside the state: 20,000 letters, gain: 397 new members
Class of 1927 special campaign:
487 letters, gain: 69 new members.
Letters to parents: 6,119 letters,
gain: 121 new members.
THE GROUP also has toured with Mort Sahl and has performed in night clubs across the country.
Heart of America Debate Competition Today at Union
The group is well known for its modern folk songs. Some of the more recent numbers include "Charlie the Midnight Marauder," "Acres of Clams," and "Have Some Madeira, M'Deaar."
The Heart of America Debate Conference started at 9 a.m. today with registration in the Kansas Union for 32 teams from all over the country.
At 9:30, in the Forum Room, there was a general assembly of all coaches and contestants. Actual debating began at 10.
Tonight at 6:30 all participants and coaches will attend a banquet in the Kansas Room. Speakers will be John Ise, professor emeritus of
economics, and Lenard Woodcock vice president of the United Auto Workers of America.
Four more rounds of debating will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Announcement of results of preliminary rounds and drawing for opponents in the octofinals will be held in the Forum Room at 7 p.m.
Octofinals will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. Finals, followed by presentation of awards, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room.
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