Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 129
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, April 26, 1963
Wayne Thompson
'Cities Require Help of Schools'
By Roy Miller
The resources of a university must be used to help solve the problems of urban areas, the president of the International City Managers Association (ICMA) said here last night.
"We don't have the resources outside those faculty walls," Wayne Thompson, president of the ICMA and city manager at Oakland, Calif., said at a dinner of the 16th annual City Managers Conference being held at the Kansas Union.
"WERE GOING TO have to break down those walls and get university help." Thompson said. "We just can't do, it itsures."
Thompson told the more than 75 persons at the dinner of efforts started at Oakland to encourage help from university officials to solve community problems.
He said a 75-acre estate in Oakland has been put to use as a center for educational and industrial use The area will be called the Peralta Oaks Research Park.
Thompson said Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, and James Webb, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have agreed to help at the center.
THOMPSON SAID CITIES must give a "municipal twist" to spaceage techniques to ease the financial problems cities are facing.
we hope through use of some of these space-age techniques we can perhaps cut the need for personnel and cut down on taxes," Thompson said.
The Oakland city manager spoke of the possibilities of using the waste disposal feature of manned space
Weather
The weather bureau predicted cloudy skies would continue through tonight and well into the weekend, along with the possibility of steady light rains and occasional thunderstorms. Tonight's lows will be in the 50s.
capsules as replacements for sewers in urban areas. He also mentioned the use of a telephone which automatically would dial police if a burglar should enter a house or call the fire department if the house was on fire.
HE SAID TELEVISION monitors might be able to replace police and that robot firemen could take the roles of human firefighters.
"Something is going to have to work, because we're going bankrupt," Thompson said. "Some of these cities are on a bankrupt course right now.
"No matter where you go, you hear about financial problems. The people, they know where they're going, they just say no more taxes."
AFTER HIS TALK, Thompson, along with Stephen K. Bailey, dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse (N.Y.) University, discussed the need for better recruiting techniques of prospective city managers.
"But we, as city managers, can't see the solution financially."
Dean Bailey said students in the public service graduate-training program at Syracuse University often are attracted by the federal government.
He said of 12 or so federal agencies that compete with cities for these students, the Housing and Home Finance Administration (HHFA) attracts the most from Syracuse.
In his speech, Thompson said private enterprise could help relieve communities' financial problems by taking over some of the functions carried out by government.
DEAN BAILEY said the story of 'excitement' and "satisfaction" of serving in urban government must be communicated to undergraduates.
As an example, Thompson told about the Oakland Public Library. He said $2 million worth of commu-
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Sex Bugs Roaches Says Contest Winner
By Terry Ostmeyer
Human beings are threatened with flying saucers and deadly rays, but the menacing little cockroach may at last be headed for destruction by the greatest danger of them all—sex.
Those were the opinions of the three final winners of part two of the Potpourri speech contest last night. The winners and their subjects were:
Robert Koetting, Prairie Village sophomore, "Unidentified Flying Objects, Fiction or Fact?"; David Crandall, Denver, Colo., sophomore, "Laser—Ray of Life or Death," and Connie Fox, Dodge City freshman, "Sex. A New Weapon" (for killing cockroaches).
THOSE WINNERS are included with Wednesday night's victors
Nikita Reports He's a Mortal
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Nikita Khrushchev's reminder to the Russian people that he is not immortal added weight today to speculation he might soon resign one of his top government and Communist party posts.
There was no official indication Khrushchev was under political pressure to make a change, but his public statements on his advancing age focused attention on his possible successors in the Kremlin.
THE SPOTLIGHT fell especially on Frol Kozlov, 54, a secretary of the powerful party Central Committee who is considered Khrushchev's apparent heir as party chief, the actual seat of power in the Soviet Union.
U. S. officials in Washington were reluctant to read too much into Khrushchev's remarks, but they sensed that the Premier might soon decide to give up some of his duties.
The 69-year-old Premier and First Secretary of the ruling party told a group of workers Wednesday he was getting old and "everyone understands that I cannot hold for all time the position I now have in the party and the state."
KHRUSHCHCEV has made similar comments before, but particular importance was attached to this one. It was made public throughout the Soviet Union by the official news agency, Tass, yesterday and the party newspaper, Pravda, and government newspaper, Izvestia, today.
THE REFERENCE gave new impetus to recent reports abroad that Khrushchev is in political hot water at home, or is thinking of giving up some of his duties to concentrate on one job only. The reports apparently stemmed from a dispatch in Lunita, official communist party newspaper in Italy, indicating rumblings in the Kremlin.
Although Khrushchev has mentioned in the past that "we shall all die some time and we must prepare new leaders." Wednesday's speech was the first time he referred to his separate positions as First Secretary of the party and head of the government.
U. S. observers have not detected that Khrushchev is losing his firm control, despite persistent farm deficiencies, over-extension of the country's resources, the dispute with Red China and resistance to party control among Russia's intellectual<sup>1</sup>
Moreover, the Premier apparently is in good health and has maintained it even with his strenuous work schedule.
who were Kirk McConachie, Wichita freshman; Robert West, McPherson freshman, and Cindy Snyder, Bethesda. Md., freshman.
The six final winners were picked out of a field of 16 finalists from more than 1,000 Speech I students at KU.
The other five finalists in last night's Potpourri were Robert Xidis, Wichita freshman, "Leo Tolstoy"; Jeanette Jeffery, Tecumseh freshman, "The Real Khrushchev"; Caroline Richardson, Overland Park freshman, "Cannibalism — Where and Why"; Glenn Laney, Miami, Fla., freshman, "Chemical Warfare," and Barabara Croissant, Leawood freshman, "Esperanto — International Language."
THE JUDGES FOR the Potpourri finals were Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech and drama; Stanley Harms, associate professor of speech and drama, and Peter Folsum of the speech department.
E. C. Buehler, chairman of the Speech I program, presented the engraved gavel awards to the winners.
Koetting in his speech on unidentified flying objects, said there have been many true incidents on reported flying objects across the United States.
HE SAID there have been 3,000 such reports in this country and 25 per cent of them have been termed as authentic, many of which are seldom released to the public.
He said unidentified flying objects have been witnessed by many people, more than a million in New York in 1908, to the three airlines pilots who watched a cigar-shaped object in 1948.
He told the Potpourri audience that flying saucers have been tracked on radar at 25,000 miles an hour and some have even been captured on film.
The Frairie Village sophomore said there are many skeptics who refute these reports, just as there are those who claim their validity and danger. Many photographs and eye-witness reports have been condemned as false, he said.
Western Civ. Registration Soon
Registration for the spring Western Civilization comprehensive examination will begin Monday and close May 4 in 130 Strong Hall.
Students in the College, School of Education, School of Journalism and department of chemical engineering are required to pass this examination to graduate.
The examination will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
Western Civilization Department review sessions will be Wednesday and Thursday, May 15 and 16, from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. in Bailey Auditorium.
Dr. James E. Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program, said about 650 students are expected to take the examination this spring.
Students who complete discussion group participation and take the examination this semester will receive four hours of credit. Students who take the test later will get two hours of credit, as will juniors and seniors.
"There are certain educational advantages in taking the exam at the same time as the discussion phase of the program," said Professor Seaver. "Students tend to do better."
The next exam will be at 0 a.m.
July 27.
"BUT," KOETTING SAID, "what's more important to our national security — maybe they are not."
Speaking on the Laser Ray, Crandall, a halfback on the KU football team, used visual aids during his talk to help explain the construction of the ray.
In referring to the peaceful means by which the ray can be used, he said it's use is unlimited in the field of communications. The Laser Ray can spread more information faster than all the telephone, television, and radio waves together, Crandall said.
CRANDALL SAID the Communists have missiles which travel 50,000 miles an hour, but the Laser Ray could hunt them down as it screams through space at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.
Tomorrow could be the "Laser Age," he said, and this discovery could rank with the atom.
"ONE OF THE MOST powerful weapons is sex," Miss Fox said to the audience which had already been confronted with every imaginable danger throughout the evening.
As dangerous as this weapon is, it is the only conceivable way of destroying that almost indestructable insect — the cockroach, she said.
Miss Fox said the cockroach has existed for 350 million years with its hard shell and ability to squeeze through almost anyplace.
"THE COCKROACH eats everything from orchids to shoes . . . and it even likes beer," she said.
Through this method, sex-starved cockroaches can be lured to their death, she said.
Miss Fox said scientists now seem to have the answer to the spread of cockroaches. She said female cockroaches give off a sexual perfume which renders the males completely helpless, and a way of extracting this perfume has been developed.
THIS ALL HAS its drawbacks, though. Miss Fox said this method would only destroy the males, not the females who, once mated, lay two eggs a day for the rest of her life.
There is always the fact that some males will be attracted to a female naturally, not to the extracted perfume, Miss Fox explained.
Thus, scientists have started work on a method of sterilizing the male cockroach and possibly generations later the cockroach will be gone, she said.
Whatever the method or whatever the weapon, it looks like a dark future for the once-invincible cockroach, she said.
Crowd Rushes To Trash Fire
Fire engines wailed and professors and students hurried to the scene. Harry Buchholz, superintendent of Building and Grounds, was called in.
The reason? A fire broke out around 10 a.m. in a trash barrel behind Bailey Hall and the annex.
Bystanders tried to put out the fire with a lawn hose, but decided it was a job for the local fire department who quickly controlled the blaze.
Smoke blackened a window ledge on the first floor of Bailey. Several railroad ties and chunks of wood used by the art department were lying a few yards away from the large trash barrel.
Buchholz said the cause of the fire has not been determined.