Daily hansan
61st Year, No. 105
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 17, 1964
"Domestic Peace Corps" Urged in Poverty War
WASHINGTON—(UPI)--Congress got a chance today to sink its teeth into President Johnson's long-awaited anti-poverty program. Republicans said the dish was made up of leftovers.
Less than 24 hours after the President sent the wide-ranging $692.5 million proposal to Congress, a House Education and Labor Subcommittee called for testimony from Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Johnson's choice to head the "war on poverty."
Chairman Walter Heller of the President's council of economic advisers also was scheduled to testify at the hearing (10:30 a.m. EST).
THE JOHNSON PROGRAM would
Dean of Engineering Steps Down to Teach
offer new skills and environments to underprivileged youths, finance locally planned anti-poverty projects, recruit a "domestic peace corps," and provide loans and grants to small farmers and businessmen in poverty areas.
In a speech last night in St. Paul, Minn., Shriver denied that the anti-poverty program was "an election-year gimmick . . . government patternism or handouts . . . (or) a hopeless exercise."
He asserted it would "give people the chance to develop their own capacities, not make them more dependent on the capacities or generosity of others." The investment now will lead to a much greater saving in tax-financed welfare programs, he said.
Dean John S. McNown has asked to be relieved as dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture at the end of the 1964-65 academic year to return to full-time teaching and research.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told the Kansas Board of Regents at a meeting in Manhattan yesterday that the University will honor Dean McNown's request.
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CHANCELOR WESCOE said the University knew of McNown's intention to return to teaching and research when he accepted the administrative position in 1957.
In a telephone interview last night, Dean McNown said that his intention is to remain at the University for his teaching and research.
Dean McNown said the selection of his successor would be up to the
Chancellor and the Board of Regents.
He is especially interested in pursuing studies of hydraulics, learning processes for engineers and the role of engineering in the development of emerging countries.
DEAN McNOWN received his B.S. degree in engineering from KU in 1936, his M.S. from the State University of Iowa in 1937, his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1942, and a D.Sc. from the University of Grenoble, France, in 1951.
Prior to returning to KU, Dean McNown was professor of mechanics and hydraulics at Iowa, and professor of engineering mechanics at Michigan.
His father, Prof. Emeritus W. C. McNown taught civil engineering at KU from 1907 until his retirement in 1950.
THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS inspired a round of ringing praise from Democrats, but Republicans found little to cheer about.
"About 70 per cent of this is reheated legislative leftovers," said Rep. Charles E. Goodell, R.N.Y., a member of the special education and labor subcommittee.
"He has given us Kennedy programs with new names," Rep. Albert H. Quie, R-Minn., another member said.
The Republicans, who hastened to say they were just as interested in eliminating poverty as the man in the White House, showed no sign of embracing the proposals for a youth "job corps," the domestic peace corps, local work-training and college work-study plans.
Their general views was that similar programs had been offered to congress by the late President John F. Kennedy and found wanting. Resubmission as part of a Johnson program did not make them more popular with the GOP members.
THE COOL REPUBLICAN reaction obviously did not surprise the Democrats. Selection of Rep, Phil Landrum, D-Ga., to be chief house sponsor of the poverty program was seen as a clear sign that the administration was out for southern Democratic, rather than Republican, votes for the proposal. Although regarded as a moderate among southerners, Landrum is more conservative than most education and labor committee Democrats and some of its Republicans.
Weather
Administration strategists obviously were banking on the acceptability of Johnson and Landrum to southern members to make up any election-year deficit of Republican support.
Temperatures will be fair and mild Wednesday ranging in the lower 60's. Light southwesterly winds are expected. The low tonight will be in the middle 30's.
Engineers' St. Patrick's Day Queen candidates are: (left to right) Jackie Caeser, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore; Camille Storey, Overland Park sophomore; Jareth Donnan, Webster Groves, Mo., freshman; Kay Mourning, Clearwater junior; Louise Elaine Proctor, Augusta junior.
A candidate not shown is Marilyn J. Veatch, Wichita freshman.
The queen will be selected by a panel of engineers, and will be announced at the Engineers' St. Patrick's Day Dance on Friday night. The dance is at 8:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn.
All KU students are invited to attend the dance.
A KU Engineers' St. Patrick will also be chosen, but not all the candidates have been nominated yet.
The elected St. Patrick will be announced on Thursday. On Friday he will make the annual St. Patrick trip across the campus in a wheelbarrow.
The queen selected will also reign over the 44th Annual KU Engineering Exposition on April 17-18.
The School of Engineering is also having an open house in the new Engineering building starting today at 3:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. and from 3:30 until 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. (Photo by Tim Richardson)
NEVER AGAIN-By April 15 this cigarette vending machine will be removed as will all others on campus. Sales of cigarettes in the Kansas Union will also be prohibited by the Board of Regents ban on sales of cigarettes on state college and university campuses. (Photo by Charles Corcoran)
Cigarette Sales Banned At KU
By Bobby Bartelt
The Board of Regents decision yesterday to ban the sale of cigarettes on all state supported campuses was probably the first such action taken in the United States.
The order came after a report by Dr. C. Frederick Kittle, associate professor of surgery at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
"I COULD certainly urge that cigarette sales be banned on the state university campuses," Kittle told the Board.
The order, which passed the Board of Regents unanimously, will become effective April 15.
"I probably need not remind you that no other non-medical university or college of which I am aware has banned cigarette sales and certainly no other state has taken such action," Kittle said.
THE EFFECT OF the order on KU was explained by Raymond Nichols, vice-chancellor of finance.
Specific plans for following the Board of Regents decision have not yet been made. Nichols said.
"There will be no cigarettes sold on the University campus or property," Nichols said. This includes vending machines and across-the-counter sales in the Kansas Union, he said.
"Sale of cigarettes will be banned from cigarette machines located in university buildings and residence halls, and in the union." L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said. "We have no immediate jurisdiction over the fraternity and sorority houses."
NEITHER FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas Union, nor Kevin Remick, concessions manager, had any comment concerning yesterday's Board action.
Most KU students were unaware of the Board's action last night. When the action was explained, most reactions were similar:
"The rule won't effect those who don't smoke, and will annoy those who do, but won't stop them," said one Hashinger Hall resident.
"Students will only go off campus and buy cigarettes by the carton," said one resident of JRP. "It won't result in cutting down on the number of students smoking."
"The ACTION IS probably the result of national pressures to get young people to stop smoking." Patricia Behen, Kansas City senior, and president of Lewis Hall said. "The overall effect of the action will undoubtedly be negative among those who smoke."
Roy Miller, Topeka junior, and representative to the All Student Council from the School of Journalism, plans to introduce a resolution to ban cigarette smoking in the classrooms at the ASC meeting tonight. Included in this resolution will be a clause to commend the State Board of Regents for their decision.
FOLLOWING THE removal of cigarette machines from the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe appointed a committee to look into the smoking problem on the KU campus.
The names of members of the committee have been withheld, and the findings of the committee have not been released.
"The object of the committee was not to ban smoking, but to question whether the University should facilitate smoking by providing cigarette machines on the campus," James R. Surface, vice-chancellor of the university, said at the time the committee was appointed.
Dean Woodruff said he felt that the findings of the committee may have influenced the Board of Regents decision.