Tuesday, May 12. 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Eight KU Alumni To Receive Award
Eight alumni of KU will receive citations for distinguished service awarded jointly by the university and its Alumni Association, it was announced today by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Eugene W. Morgan of Kansas City, president of the association.
The eight alumni are: Bernard Bloch, New Haven, Conn., professor of linguistics and chairman of the department of India and Far Eastern languages at Yale University; Dr. Cora M. Downs, Lawrence, emerita Summerfield distinguished professor of microbiology; M. Wren Gabel, Rochester, N.Y., executive vice-president of the Eastman Kodak Co.; Frank Jirik, San Jose, Costa Rica, founder and president of the Kativo
Paint and Plastic Co.; Frank L. Snell, Phoenix, Ariz., head of a law firm and civic leader; Charles E. Spahr, Cleveland, O., president of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio); Frank A. Theis, Kansas City, Mo., grain company president and civic leader; and Donald M. Tyler, Bartlesville, Okla., philanthropist and former cement company executive.
All but Bloch will be present to receive their citations during the 92nd annual Commencement exercises in Memorial Stadium June 1.
James A. Bell, chief of the Time Magazine bureau in Bonn, Germany, whose citation was voted in 1963, will be present and receive his citation at the same time.
Gabel, a native of Larned, has been with the Eastman company since earning a chemical engineering degree from KU in 1931. After a few years of experimental work, Gabel undertook managerial assignments, becoming general manager in 1960 and executive vice-president last fall. He also is a member of the board of directors.
Bloch has been director of graduate studies in linguistics at Yale for 12 years. He has been prominent in the Linguistic Society of America and was its president in 1953 and for 25 years he has been editor of "Language," the journal of the society. Among his books are studies of Japanese and the "Outline of Linguistic Analysis." of which he was co-author.
Dr. Downs has been the world's authority on tularemia (rabbit fever), and has done much research in rickettsia-caused diseases such as typhus fever, "Q" fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Her most spectacular contribution to science has been her part with KU associates in perfecting fluorescent antibody techniques as a routine laboratory
Phoenix. He has headed several divisions of the United Fund campaigns and now is president of the Phoenix Fine Arts Association and chairman of the board of the Arizona National Livestock Show.
tool for the rapid identification of certain disease organisms.
Jirik, after brief employment as a chemist with the United Fruit Company, started a small paint factory in Costa Rica. This enterprise has become one of the important industries in the nation. Jirik also holds appointment as professor in the University of Costa Rica and is a member of the Central American Institute for Technological Research and of the Tropical Science Center.
In 1939 Spahr joined Standard Oil (Ohio), becoming vice-president for transportation in 1951, executive vice-president in 1955, and president in 1957. Since 1961 he has been a director of the National Petroleum Council.
Chinese Refugees Enter Russia As Pravda Hurls New Volley
Since 1918 Theis has been with what is now the Simonds-Shields-Theis Grain Co., which has elevator capacity of nearly 10,000,000 bushels. He was president 1935-64 and since January has been chairman of the board. He is also president of the Strattton-Theis Grain Co. in St. Joseph. Mo., with elevator capacity of 3,100,000 bushels. He is known for service on the Kansas City Board of Park Commissioners since 1950 and president of that board since 1954.
MOSCOW—(UPI) — Refugees are crossing into Soviet territory from Communist China at the rate of 1,200 a month to escape Chinese persecution, diplomatic sources said today.
The sources said the refugees are Mongol-Turkic people who are seeking asylum in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, which borders China's Sinkiang province and contains people of the same racial background. The Peking persecution is both racial and economic, the sources said.
THE DISCLOSURE came amid continuing attacks on Communist China's policies in the Soviet press. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, charged today that Peking's "Chinafied Marxism" is a contradictory policy that even includes petit bourgeois ideas.
The views China is trying to get the world's Communist parties to adopt. Pravda said, are "an odd mixture of retrograde dogmatism and obvious revisionism, but the glaring gap is between high-sounding revolutionary phrases and practical deeds of the Chinese leaders."
cues the Soviets of cowardice and selling out to the capitalists because they seek to extend communism through economic competition and other peaceful means.
This is one of the chief points of contention between the two communist powers. China proclaims a militant revolutionary policy and ac-
What Pravda was saying today is that the Chinese, for all their revolutionary slogans, have done little that is revolutionary.
Tyler is chairman of the board of the Union National Bank in Bartlesville, and for many years has been active in philanthropy.
"THE INCESSANT change of positions, the ideological and political vaccinations of the Chinese leaders, clearly reveal the petit bourgeois nature of their views." Pravda said. The newspaper, in the last of
The newspaper, in the last of three extensive attacks on Peking, made these other points:
Snell is now senior member of a law firm with 21 members. He is director of several business firms and is chairman of the executive committee of the Arizona Public Service Company. He is secretary of the Arizona Tax Research Association and of the Good Samaritan Hospital in
- The Chinese leaders want control over the Communist movement, and aim "their ideological spears not against imperialism and colonialism but against the world Communist movement."
- Their domestic policies have been failures, from the "great leap forward" to the commune system.
The reports on the refugee flights reached diplomats here from travelers returning from Soviet Central Asia.
Asia. The diplomatic sources said the refugees cross the border ragged and famished and are resettled in Soviet collective and state farms with their ethnic kinsmen. Chinese
--border guards occasionally try to prevent the flights but the border is too long and sparsely guarded to stop very many.
SOME DIPLOMATS suggested that the Chinese may be deliberately permitting the escapes to rid Sinkiang of its Moslem tribesmen and open the way to more Chinese colonization.
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Sinkiang originally had a population of about 5 million, most of it Uigars, Kazakhs, and Khrighizians. Since the Communist seizure of power, official policy has been to send Chinese to the province, and its Chinese population has expanded from about 300,000 to more than 2 million.
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The P. B. O. A. E. Lectures Present: "Constructive Criticism From Our College Experience"
Panel Discussion By -
Sandra Bornholdt, Joy Bullis, Don Igelsrud, Kenneth Leone, Cordell Meeks, Breon Mitchell, Jay Roberts, Frank Thompson, and Mrs. Susan Whitley Peters.
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