Zip - Slide - Crash Go Autos
Icy streets were responsible for 37 auto accidents involving KU students over the weekend, Lawrence and KU police reported.
And the weather bureau reports no possible break in sub-freezing weather which caused the ice-glazed streets. Snow flurries will end this afternoon with a low of 0 to 5 below tonight. It will be slightly warmer with increasing cloudiness Tuesday.
Theodore L. Childers, Wamego senior, was treated for abrasions at Lawrence Memorial Hospital following an accident at 6th and Arkansas Streets early Sunday morning. Lawrence Police reported damage to Childers car was $675.
A car driven by Philip Anderson, Lawrence sophomore, received $250 damage in a 2-car accident at 17th and Vermont Streets Sunday afternoon.
A car driven by Robert Winter, Lawrence freshman, received $315 damage in a 2-car accident Saturday afternoon at 8th and Louisiana Streets.
Cars driven by Karl Stockhammer, research assistant for the department of ontology and Robert Berger, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, collided on Memorial Drive early this morning. Damage to the Stockhammer car was estimated at $200. Berger's car was undamaged.
An accident involving cars driven
Pringsheim Says Ike Ruined Summit
Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science, blamed ex-President Eisenhower and his administration for wrecking the proposed 1960 summit conference at the Current Events Forum, Friday.
Mr. Pringsheim listed three blunders by the Eisenhower administration as factors making the Soviet and U.S. conference table meet impossible.
THE THREE blunders were:
- President Eisenhower's statement that the U-2 flight was justified because of the need for information about armaments behind the Iron Curtain.
- Secretary of State Christian Herter's announcement that the U-2
Castro Back In Circulation
HAVANA — (UPI) — Premier Fidel Castro made his first public appearance in 13 days here last night and introduced the "fourth strike" to Cuban Baseball.
The long absence of the bearded revolutionary leader from the public eye had given rise to rumors that he had taken asylum, had gone to Moscow, was being held captive and the like.
But yesterday the Cuban government sent a communique to the Soviet Union over Castro's signature thanking Moscow for its promise of support against "Yankee aggression" and last night the Premier showed up at Havana's Latin American Stadium for a ball game.
It was a double-header between two amateur teams, the Occidentals and the Orientales.
After the first game Castro went down on the field himself and batted against the two pitchers scheduled to oppose each other in the second game.
With an umpire calling the pitches, Pitcher Modesto Verdura whipped a called third strike past the Premier. Castro promptly proclaimed he could not be called out without swinging. Verdura tossed another and Castro hit a grounder to right field.
Against the other pitcher, Manuel Hernandez, Castro blooped a Texas Leaguer into right field.
flights had been completed successfully for four years before Powers was downed.
- President Eisenhower's acceptance of full personal responsibility for the flights and implication that they would continue.
KHRUSHCHEV gave President Eisenhower every opportunity to make the traditional denials, said Mr. Pringsheim, but the President's open admission forced Khrushchev to kill the proposed summit conference.
Mr. Pringsheim said, "If he (Eisenhower) had only kept his mouth shut and played another round of golf, I think the whole thing would have come out much nicer."
Asked if President Eisenhower may have had election-year political reasons for his actions, Mr. Pringsheim replied, "I said he (Eisenhower) was stupid and perhaps his reasons were stupid. I said he was a nice stupid old guy."
Mr. Pringsheim said, "Spies are never acknowledged." He contended that President Eisenhower's whole approach to the U-2 incident was wrong. He said the President's admission that Powers was a spy was unprecedented.
HE SAID the Soviets used the correct traditional approach with their spy Rodolf Abel, who has just been traded for Powers. They maintained that Abel was an East German and their "only interest in him was as a citizen of a friendly country."
Mr. Pringsheim commented that this stand may seem ridiculous but it is the "only sane stand that any government can take. Espionage is an international fact of life."
Mr. Pringsheim said U-2 pilot Powers was a "mercenary" and as such should not have been expected to kill himself. He was paid $2,500 a month as a civilian employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
"The least one could expect of him (Powers) was that he shut up," said Mr. Pringsheim, but President Eisenhower publicly admitted that Powers was on an espionage mission. "Why should he (Powers) continue to hold out. If Eisenhower was blabbering, why shouldn't he blabber too."
He said Abel is more valuable to the Russians than Powers is to the United States. "I don't think we have gained very much (from the spy exchange) except to exercise our national pastime, sentimentality."
Cars driven by Jack D. Worley, Wichita junior, and Henry H. Asher, Lawrence sophomore, were involved in an accident yesterday morning at 17th and Tennessee Streets. Damage to the Asher car was established at $75. Damage to the Worley car was estimated at $50.
Accidents not mentioned involved cars which received less than $125 damage.
David MacKenzie, Prairie Village sophomore, was treated for minor injuries at Watkins Hospital Sunday following a 2-car accident at 19th and Kentucky Streets.
by Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, and John Underwood, Parsons sophomore, occurred Sunday afternoon at Engel and Westwood Roads. Damage to the Eastwood car was estimated at $75. Damage to the Underwood was $175.
ROAD TO KNOWLEDGE PROVES SLIPPERY
—Terry Murphy, Lawrence sophomore, is prone
Daily hansan
59th Year. No. 90
Macmillan drafted his reply personally during the weekend after close consultations with Kennedy,
to agree that books of learning often get out of hand as he takes a skid on the ice sidewalks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Macmillan Says Britain Prepared for Summit
THE BRITISH LETTER was in reply to Khrushchev's message of Feb. 22, in which the Soviet leader insisted that the Geneva conference be opened by the heads of governments of the 18 nations involved.
Monday, Feb. 26, 1962
LONDON — (UPI) — Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a personal letter today that he was ready to meet him at the summit "fairly soon" after the start of the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva on March 14.
Macmillan told Khrushchev that a summit conference "might be fruitful" if the Geneva conference were making satisfactory progress or, alternatively, if it were threatened with deadlock.
The British leader also supported the Anglo-American proposal that the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia meet a few days before the Geneva conference begins to review "the whole nuclear problem."
BRITISH AMBASSADOR to Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts, delivered Macmillan's letter to the Kremlin this morning, the foreign office announced.
Macmillan upheld the Western position, backed by President Kennedy, that the Geneva conference should start at the foreign ministers level.
KU to Hold College Bowl Contest
Questions will be formulated by
The Bowl will be organized similarly to the National Bowl, in which a KU team participated in 1959. The questions will be selected by faculty members who will also serve as judges.
Any undergraduate student is eligible for Bowl competition. Individuals will compete in teams of four, with a limit of 32 teams in the contest. Trophies will be awarded to team and individual winners.
The College Intermediary Board has limited each living group to one team which shall consist of four stated contestants and two stated alternates. Applications are due March 6.
Competition will swing from an athlete to an academic circuit at KU when the College Intermediary Board sponsors a College Bowl March 18.
A match will last 30 minutes and will consist of a series of toss-up questions. A team will signify it wants to answer a question by pressing a buzzer. If the team answers the question correctly it scores 10 points and gets a chance to answer a bonus question for a specified number of points.
If a team answers the question incorrectly the opposing team will have an opportunity to answer.
Moderators for the Bowl will be Emily Taylor, dean of women; William Forth, associate director of Watson Library, and Seaver.
Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry; Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art; and James Seaver, professor of history.
No team conferences will be allowed on toss-up questions, but conferences will be allowed on bonus questions. In case of ties on toss-up questions the winner will be decided on the basis of a second question that will be asked.
The time limit for answering questions will be 10 seconds. If a question is not answered in that time, another question will be asked.
"Two situations might arise in which this method might be fruitful. The first is if the conference is making satisfactory and definite progress . . . the second situation is one in which certain major and clear points of disagreement have emerged which threaten to hold up further progress. In that case, the heads of government should perhaps meet in order to try to break the deadlock." Macmillan said.
who made a similar reply yesterday. Foreign office spokesman John Russell, releasing the letter, said it was "virtually identical in substance" to Kennedy's reply.
Kennedy's letter, by contrast, said that a summit should be reserved "until a later stage in the negotiations when certain preliminary work has been accomplished."
But the two letters showed certain differences in phrasing. Macmillan's reply specifically stated that the summit might be "fruitful" if the Geneva conference is threatened with deadlock.
The Prime Minister said: "It seems to me that either of these situations may arise fairly soon after the work of the committee (the Geneva conference) begins but not before the positions of all the participating governments have been clearly set out."
"I still feel that the plan which President Kennedy and I put forward is the best method for reaching what we all want," Macmillan's letter said.
"I am very ready to take part personally in these negotiations (on disarmament) when it seems that the presence of heads of government can be of positive value," he added.
The message mentioned no specific deadline for a summit.
Kennedy in his letter said "I hope developments in the conference and internationally would make it use-
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Frosh Frolic Flops Flat As Apathy Attacks
The freshman class party held Friday afternoon at the Dine-a-mite was labeled a "miserable flop" by class president Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla.
The top turnout at the party was about 50 people between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. "They seemed to come in shifts." Stewart said.
The no-response to the class of 65's first gathering dampened chances for a bigger freshman party, Stewart said. "We (the freshman officers) are willing to go ahead with plans for a bigger party, but only if the class is interested.
Lynn Bloemendahl, Goodland,
"WE WOULD like to hear from freshmen if they are interested in a party," Stewart said.
Sal Allessandro, Valley Stream, N. Y., called his class "apathetic." "We've had nothing but apathy," he said. "It was that way during the elections. We would like to have a larger party, but we won't go ahead with plans until we know whether the freshman class wants it or not."
said, "The girls thought there would be mostly dates," she said. "They read in the Kansan that it was to be a stag affair, but still were hesitant to come without dates. Most of the girls at Corbin, however, were enthusiastic about the party."
MICHELE SUE Sears and Essiefrances Meader, both from Kansas City, and Sandy Hayes of Lawrence, had explanations for the lack of female participants. They said that many of the girls thought the posters advertising the party were Froshawk posters and didn't bother to read them.
The three said publicity and transportation were the two main faults of the party. They said that the posters were not big enough and did not attract enough attention.
Stewart said that if the class seemed enthusiastic toward a bigger party with the band and free beverages, he and try to sell tickets, to raise money.
He said that the class is not allotted money and is six dollars in debt.