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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 17, 1964
Visit U.S.A.' Program Lures Foreign Visitors
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (UPI) The international travel boom will reach new heights in 1964 with more Americans going abroad and more foreign visitors coming to the United States than ever before.
That is the consensus of authoritative tourist industry circles here and abroad .
BUT THE BIG story in international travel is the steady growth of the United States as a major attraction for foreign tourists, thanks in no small measure to the worldwide promotion program of the Department of Commerce's United States Travel Service (USTS)).
S spurred by the tax cut, lower air fares and an easing of world tensions, about 2,750,000 Americans are expected to head overseas this year, according to the American Express Co. This would represent an increase of 10 per cent over 1963.
The USTS expects about 880,000 foreign visitors to respond to its "Travel a New World . . . See the U.S.A." and come here in 1964. It would be a boost of about 20 per cent over last year and the third successive year in which gains have been chalked up.
There were doubters when Congress created the USTS in June of 1961. Some skeptics felt that the United States didn't have the tourist facilities or the attractions to lure foreign travelers. Others just couldn't see Europeans, for instance,
Latin Teachers Meeting at KU
The first of two four-week sessions of the Latin Teachers Workshop, underway since June 29, ends July 24. The second will convene July 27 and last until Aug. 21.
The workshop is held in conjunction with the classics department and is a credit course worth four hours' graduate work. The 50 teachers enrolled in the workshop may choose two classes in which to participate, but they may not exceed a total of four hours for the classes.
The group is under the instruction of Robert Palmer, chairman of the department of classics at Scripps College; Malcolm Agnew, chairman of the department of classics at Boston University; Dr. Joan Madsen of Oak Park-River Forest High School, Oak Park, Ill., and Austin Lashbrook, associate professor of classics at KU. The other session will have a different set of instructors.
The workshop is sponsored by the American Classical League, and the University of Kansas classics department. Arrangements for the group were made by University Extension.
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Auschwitz Inmate Defends Assailant
FRANKFURT, Germany — (UPI)
— A former inmate-trusty in the Auschwitz extermination camp yesterday described defendant Stefan Baretziki as "a Samaritan" who saved his life but smashed his jaw.
"He once smashed my jaw when I forgot an errand," said Budan, without looking at the man accused of killing prisoners with a single blow on their necks with the back of his hand.
Peter Budan, 67, withdrew pretrial testimony against Baretzki, a Romanian spittoon cleaner. He told the court trying 21 men who helped run the world's biggest death camp that the 45-year-old Bartezki was "a wood man, a samaritan."
"But he also saved my life," he added.
"That was toward the end of the war when the Russians in my barracks mutinied, surrounded me and threatened to knock me dead."
"Baretzki descended on the Russians and got me out of their midst—otherwise I would, not sit here today."
He said Russian prisoners were "a crude bunch who had to be dealt with harshly."
coming here with such world-famed playground areas as the Alps and Mediterranean on their own door-steps.
"HOW WRONG THEY were," said Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges recently after reviewing the latest reports on incoming travel. The 'Visit USA' program is turning out to be one of our government's wisest investments. It is not only adding dollars to our economy but it is winning friends for America."
The reports showed an increase of more than 22 per cent during the first four months of 1964 compared to the same period in 1963.
HODGES IS A firm believer in travel as a means of promoting international understanding. He feels Americans return home from abroad with a better understanding of the peoples and the countries they have visited.
"By the same token," Hodges said, "we know from experience that an overseas visitor leaves this country with a much better understanding and truer picture of the American people and the American way of life than he had when he entered the country."
Hodges noted that various surveys disclosed that the American people themselves are a major popular attraction for foreign visitors.
"OVERSEAS VISITORS are practically unanimous in their praise for the hospitality and kindness of the American people with whom they come in contact," he said.
Requests to meet more Americans and see how they lived prompted the USTS, with the cooperation of about 30 communities throughout the United States, to set up an informal "meet-the-people" program. The program gives the foreign traveler an opportunity to meet an American family, usually over a cup of coffee and perhaps a snack, in an American home.
HODGES INDICATED he is particularly pleased with the cross-section of foreign tourists coming to the United States these days. He noted they included not only business executives but "postal clerks, secretaries, union members—just average income people who are dispelling the theory that the United States is an expensive place to visit."
While Hodges would not predict that the number of incoming visitors will balance the number of Americans going overseas, he does think the United States eventually will get a more equal share of the international travel market.
Two films will be shown at 8 p.m. today on the lawn east of Robinson Gymnasium. They are "Out of the North" and "Sunshine Islands." Admission is free, and seats will be available.
Two Films Tonight
Graduate and upperclass enrollment gains provide most of the 9 per cent jump to record high summer session on the Lawrence KU campus.
Enrollment Hits Record
Paid registrations at Lawrence were 3,839 as of June 25. The approximately 650 students at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City and other credit enrollments during the summer will push the final figure near 5,000, according to James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions.
The Graduate School is the largest gainer, up 189 to 1,793, while the School of Law increased 36 to 84 for a 75 per cent gain. The 1,877 postgraduate students nearly equal the 1,962 undergraduates.
At the undergraduate level the School of Business gained 60 percent to 144 and the School of Education, also junior-senior level, rose 55 to 423.
The 1,188 juniors and seniors outnumbered freshmen and sophomores more than 2 to 1.
The man-woman ratio is 1.6 to 1, significantly less than in the regular school year.
The new student total of 761 was a gain of 22.
Teachers Elect KU Musician
The Music Teachers National Association and the Kansas Music Teachers Association have jointly commissioned John Pozdro, chairman of the University of Kansas department of music theory, to compose a work for high school string orchestra.
The commissioned work is to be given its premiere in February 1955 at the state meeting.
Podrod now is copying his Third Sonata for Piano, which was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sosland of Prairie Village.
Pozdro's Second Sonata for piano will receive its 12th performance since its January premiere when Roy HAMLin Johnson of the KU faculty will play a recital Aug. 9 as part of the annual Matthay Festival at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. The sonata also will be played by Dr. Johnson in a fall recital at the Washington, D.C., Cathedral of the Episcopal Church.
Professor Is On His Way To Solo Fly
By Jolan Csukas
Many people enter contests, but only a few ever walk away with the prize. Karl Edwards, professor of education, is one of the lucky ones.
Last May, KLWN, the Lawrence radio station, and the Lawrence airport sponsored a contest and announced that the prize would be a course in flying. Many residents of Lawrence and surrounding areas wrote in 50 words or less why they wanted to learn to fly, but Dr. Edwards' essay stole the show.
Dr. Edwards takes flying lessons every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday at the Lawrence airport, and he has almost 10 hours' flying time. After the course is over, he will be able to solo, but will need from 35 to 40 extra hours before he can receive a pilot's license.
Relating some of his flying experiences, Dr. Edwards said he was never affected by the height the first time up. He also reported that the very first time in the plane he was allowed to take over the controls. Before he went up, no ground instructions had been given.
He feels that the taking-off and landing exercises are the hardest part of learning to fly.
Since Dr. Edwards is almost ready to solo, he has considered taking more lessons and obtaining his pilot's license. He has developed a greater interest in flying and says he is really excited about it.
StudentstoGive Play Excerpts
Excerpts from 10 plays will be presented at 9 a.m. today in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall by students in the drama division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
After these performances, four of these plays will be selected to be presented at 7 p.m. today, also in the Experimental Theatre.
Admission is free.
Excerpts from the following plays will be presented:
"The World of Carl Sandburg," "A Thurber Carnival." "House of Bernaard Alba," "The King and I," "Time Remembered," "Reynard the Fox," "The Rainmaker," "The Skin of Our Teeth," "Peanuts" and "The Sandbox."
The excerpts also were presented Thursday morning.
--starring Robert Mitchum and George Peppard
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Birth Pills Approved
TOKYO — (UPI)— The Japanese government is expected to allow contraceptive pills to go on prescription sale this autumn. Tokyo newspaper say.
Contraceptive methods are almost unknown in Japan although abortion is legal and widely practiced. The pills, because of their relatively high cost, are not expected to change this situation.
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