Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 99
Monday. March 9, 1964
ROTC Picks Ball Queen
Linda Machin, Ottawa senior and a member of Pi Beta Phi was crowned queen of the Military Ball Friday night by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
SHE WAS CHOSEN queen from a group of five other girls. There were two candidates for each branch of ROTC. The others were, Cynthia Dickson, Leavenworth freshman; Judy Fraser, Larned senior; Sharon Rogers, Prairie Village sophomore; Karen Schwartz, Pratt junior, and Kathy Bergstrom, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Members of Scabbard and Blade organized the ball that was originally planned for Dec. 6 but was postponed because of the 30-day mourning period for President Kennedy.
The Airmen of Note, the Official Air Force Band were featured.
MILITARY BALL QUEEN—Linda Machin, Ottawa senior, cries with surprise as she learns she has been chosen 1964 Military Ball Queen. Jerry Pullins, Council Grove senior and Miss Machin's escort, looks on. (Photo by Charles Corcoran.)
Economic Development Regarded As Necessary To Foreign Aid
Rational, self-generating economic development is necessary for foreign aid to accomplish what it set out to do, two professors concluded Friday.
"It is not merely a matter of spending U.S. taxpayer's money, but rather how to achieve the different goals of different countries," Frank H. King, associate professor of economics, told the SUA Current Events Forum.
"WHATEVER THE goal of the foreign aid, it must help to develop the country internally. It is no good to send military aid to a country where a higher standard of living is much more vital than a peace-time army."
The other speaker, Norman G. Jacobs, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, agreed with Prof. King that U.S. foreign aid has produced at least a temporary stability.
"But there must be better working human relations to understand why certain countries are
underdeveloped, and how the political order can be committed to economically rational ends," Prof. Jacobs said.
"The country must create an atmosphere of economic development and sustained growth of the gross national product." Prof. King said, "and foreign aid must be relevant and useful to this end."
Thus certain U.S. products, such as wheat, may not be as much benefit to foreign economics as would be the tools and instruction to grow their own wheat.
"TheSE COUNTRIES must be internally committed to development, and foreign aid must be committed to help the people do what is needed in their particular case," Prof. Jacobs said.
The suggestion of an international program for case study of foreign aid and assistance was mentioned by both professors, who have had experience with the international bank for reconstruction and development in the Far Eastern area.
World News Briefs
Plane Skids Safely
BOSTON—(UPI)A big airliner with 14 persons aboard skidded to a safe landing here early today although its nose wheel was locked in a retracted position because of a mechanical failure. No one was injured.
The Trans World Airlines (TWA) four-engine constellation nosed down at 55 miles an hour on a foam-covered runway at Logan International Airport. Capt. Alan W. Hall, the pilot, then slammed on the brakes and the silvery craft slid 800 feet on its nose to a safe stop. There was no fire.
The nine passengers and five crew members moved to a forward crew door and jumped four feet to the runway.
"They weren't even scratched—not even scared," said a doctor who examined them.
The plane was TWA's flight 312 from Dayton, Ohio, to Baltimore. It had been diverted first to New York and then here because of fog and rain.
The tedious nose-wheel-up landing was necessary because of a broken strut—a hydraulic piston which raises and lowers the nose wheel assembly, said Wall, a veteran flyer from Braintree, Mass.
GOP Vote Looms
CONCORD, N.H.—(UPI)—Rival Republican camps scrambled for still uncommitted votes today on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, self-proclaimed underdog, was poised for a last-minute effort to win support before flying back to Albany tonight. Sen. Barry Goldwater was already back in Washington to await the verdict from the first trial run of the 1964 presidential primary season.
The weather bureau predicted clear and mild weather for Tuesday.
What was once a contest between the conservative Goldwater and the liberal Rockefeller has been blurred by campaigns in support of a big field of active and inactive challengers.
Drives to win write-in votes have been conducted on behalf of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Richard Nixon.
Pre-primary assessments give Rockefeller more support than he was conceded when he announced his candidacy for President last fall. At that time, he was written off by most Republicans because of his remarriage to a divorcee mother of four children.
Rights Battle Starts
WASHINGTON—(UPI)A divided Senate prepared to launch its long-awaited civil rights fight today, with a Democratic leader predicting that the House-approved bill would be passed intact.
Senate Democratic whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., floor manager for the bill, said there would be "no wheels and no deals and no compromise" to weaken the measure passed by the House a month ago.
The Senate battle was expected to start at noon (EST) when Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., attempts to call up the legislation to ban racial discrimination in voting, education, employment, unions, public accommodations and use of federal funds.
Southerners planned to lay siege immediately. The Southern forces indicated they might talk for a week or more on the debatable motion of Mansfield to make the bill the pending business.
SPU, Jazz, Fist-Fight Spark Un-Military Ball At Co-op
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The night after scores of blue and olive-clad ROTC men escorted their dates to the annual Military Ball, about sixty couples and several stags attended the Un-Military Ball.
The Military Ball was in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The Un-Military Ball was in the main lounge of the Don Henry Co-op at 1420 Ohio St.
THE FUTURE officers and their dates danced to the music of the "Airmen of Note," a sixteen-piece band. Those at the Un-Military Ball danced to Herb Smith's modern jazz quartet.
In a corner at the Co-op two members of the Student Peace Union were busy selling SPU pins and bumper stickers for 25 cents apiece.
At one point in the evening, several ROTC members, traveling in cognito, dropped in to argue philosophies of war and peace with the button-bumper-sticker concessionaires.
Weather
Warmer temperatures are predicted for tomorrow by the weather bureau. After a low reading tonight of 28, a high tomorrow should be 50. Skies will become clear tonight and will remain clear to partly cloudy tomorrow.
ON THE EAST wall of the lounge were pictures of President Kennedy, former President Eisenhower, and General Omar Bradley.
Under Kennedy's picture were the words, "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
Under Bradley's picture were the words, "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked. We who fail to prevent them, must share in the guilt for the dead."
Under Eisenhower's picture was the quote, "People want peace so much that governments better get out of their way and give it to them."
After each patron of the Un-Military Ball paid his one-dollar admission fee, his hand was stamped in green ink with the inscription, "REPORT ALL OBSCENE MAIL TO YOUR POSTMASTER. He seems to get quite a kick out of it."
BUT ONCE inside, everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves, except for one helmet-clad individual who attempted to splash beer on a photographer in retaliation for an un-solicited photograph of himself. The photographer did a quick side-step and the unhappy thrower missed his mark and the beer ended up on the dress of a nearby young lady.
UN-MILITARY BALL—Several of the 125 celebrants at the Un-Military Ball enjoy their beverage Saturday night. The "ball," occasioned in response to the Military Ball Friday night, was at Don Henry Co-op. The SPU sold buttons and bumper stickers. At one point, a fist-fight erupted between two members of the SPU. A
photographer took a picture of one of the people at the party without requesting permission. The person photographed tossed a glass of beer at the photographer, but the photographer side-stepped and the beer splashed down the front of a woman by-stander. (Photo by Tom Habler.)