Daily Hansan
Thursday, April 18, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EXPOSITION QUEEN—Sharrie Farrar, Kansas City, Mo., senior, will reign over the Engineering Exposition in Allen Field House tomorrow and Saturday. Miss Farrar was also chosen the St. Patrick's Day queen by the School of Engineering and Architecture in March.
ALL DEPARTMENTS of the School of Engineering and Architecture will concentrate on exhibits showing how their branches of engineering contribute to space exploration.
Engineers' Exhibit On Space Program
"Project Apollo" will be portrayed in the 43rd annual Engineering Exposition in Allen Field House all day Friday and Saturday morning.
A 2,000-lb., 23' 6" full scale mockup of the Mercury spacecraft will be on display. Through a glass window, visitors will see the dummy astronaut and instruments. The Mercury builder, McDonnell Aircraft of St. Louis, is supplying the mockup.
Bell Telephone Laboratory is providing a mockup of the Telestar Satellite, complete with automatic sound recordings explaining its use.
THE EXPOSITION AWARDS banquet Saturday evening in the Kansas Union is a new feature this year. Principal speaker will be Dr. Joseph F. Shea, deputy director for systems, manned space flight, in the National Aeronautics Administration.
Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., will be a guest at the banquet. Rep. William Avery, R-Kan., said he will attend a portion of the Exposition.
Another speaker will be Capt. Joseph Engle, 1956 aeronautical engineering graduate of KU, who will soon complete the Aerospace Research Pilot course at Edwards A.F.B., Calif.
Student co-chairman of the Exposition are Bruce Null, Grand Island, Neb., junior, and Ron Keith, Beaumont, Tex., senior. Kirk Bond, Soldier senior, is publicity chairman.
THE ENTRANCE to the Exposition will be marked by a 30-ft. "discontinuous compression structure."
Weather
Partly cloudy west, mostly cloudy east this afternoon and tonight with occasional showers and thunderstorms East and extreme North portions. Locally heavy rain likely extreme Northeast this afternoon and evening. Cooler Northeast this afternoon and over state tonight. Friday partly cloudy and cooler South portion. Lows tonight in the 30s West to the 50s East. Highs Friday in the 60s North to the 70s South.
A display of planet surface transportation by "moon buggy"; the evolution of a manned Venus expedition, including the working model of the Rogallo wing, which will be used for landing on Venus; a controlled atmosphere dome, launch pad, and sun distillation unit.
erected by architecture students. Inside the fieldhouse, exhibits will include:
A display of the problems involved in control of the spacecraft's motion; displays of radiation problems of Project Apollo—where radiation is met in space and how it affects man; instrumentation of space capsules and the positioning for accessibility to the astronaut.
The latter will be in what appears to be a floating room.
The Centrex system—centralized telephone exchange—should provide adequate service for the University's predicted growth through the 1970s and beyond, according to Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of the University.
Departments, offices, faculty and staff members will have telephone numbers that can be dialed directly without going through the university operator.
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If the caller does not know the number, he will dial UN 4-2700 and ask the KU operator for the number. He must then hang up and dial the number.
OUTGOING CALLS WILL BE MADE as now, by first dialing "9" and then the complete number. Outgoing long distance calls will continue to be placed through an operator.
Senate Committee Discloses Campaign Gifts of Lobbyist
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee disclosed today that a highly-paid lobbyist for Philippine interests made 1960 campaign contributions to more than 20 members of Congress or their associates.
KU Plans Special Telephone System
The list included some of the biggest names in the House and Senate. The lobbyist was John P. O'Donnell of Washington who was working for payment of Philippine war damage claims and also represented Philippine sugar interests.
The biggest check—for $2,000—was drawn to Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, (D-Wis.) chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Far East and co-author of the Philippines claim bill. The other co-sponsor, Rep. George P. Miller, (D-Calif.) received $500.
Chairman J. William Fulbright,
(D-Ark.) and committee staff members estimated that O'Donnell received about $150,000 for his activities on behalf of the $73 million Philippine damage claim bill passed by Congress last year and from $250,000 to $300,000 for representing various Philippine religious orders who received compensation under a 1956 claims bill.
A GENERAL Accounting Office report made public by te committee showed that O'Donnell drew cashier's checks on Oct. 12, 1960, to more that a dozen Congressional candidates. These included Senate Democratic whip Hubert Humphrey, Minn., and Rep. William E. Miller, (R-N.Y.) now chairman of the GOP national committee.
FULBRIGHT said the disclosures were so serious the committee will meet next week to consider amending the Philippine War Damage Act to bar "those who interfere in our governmental processes for private gain from receiving benefits" from the bill.
ANOTHER $1,000 was drawn to
The disclosures came as the committee resumed open hearings in an investigation of private lobbying for foreign interests. O'Donnell, who was excused from testifying in person because of health, was questioned at length March 1 in a closed hearing. His testimony was made public today.
ALL CAMPUS THREE-DIGIT extension numbers will be discontinued and given a UNIVERSITY 4 prefix and a four-digit number.
A new telephone system, a miniature of Lawrence's Vlking exchange, will be installed at KU in August.
The VIking 3-2700 will become UNiversity 4-2700. KU will have the only UNiversity 4 prefix in the nation, and long distance callers will be able to dial any KU number by using the Lawrence area code, 913.
Intra-campus calls will be made as now, except that the four-digit number instead of the current three-digits will be used.
The new switchboard and control center is being installed in Fred Ellsworth Hall, the new men's residence hall which will open in September.
Edward McCormack, who in 1960 was a candidate for Attorney General of Massachusetts and a nephew of House speaker John W. McCormack.
O'Donnell listed the payments in his March 1 testimony but his testimony did not jibe exactly with the GAO list. O'Donnell listed payments totaling $5,500. The GAO audit contained some items he did not list. The total on the GAO list showed $8,600 in cashier's checks drawn on Oct. 12, 1960.
Manned Orbit Attempt Threatened With Delay
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — Problems in a booster rocket today threatened to delay U.S. plans for launching Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. on a 22-orbit journey around earth May 7.
Informed sources said a postpone-ment of Cooper's flight aboard a bell-shaped capsule he tentatively named "Faith-t" looks "very likely."
NO NEW FIRING date was mentioned, but the delay could range anywhere from a few days to a week or longer.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) declined comment on the report.
The troubles were pinned to an inverter and gyroscope inside the silvery Atlas booster rocket, no. 130-D, that was tabbed for the job of hurling the 36-year-old Air Force major into orbit at a speed of up to 17,500 miles per hour.
The Atlas also ran into problems with its tankage earlier. But one spokesman said these difficulties were "minor" and that they were "all but cleared up."
COOPER'S FLIGHT, which would be by far the longest space voyage ever attempted by an American Astronaut, already is far behind schedule. The shot was originally
set for late last year, but slipped to February, then to April and finally to May 7.
MERCURY PROGRAM technicians had planned to mate the one and one-half ton capsule to the top of the rocket Saturday. But yesterday, after the first indications of the booster troubles, the critical move was postponed until Saturday.
The Atlast rocket arrived at Cape Canaveral and was installed on its firing pad last month.
Today, informed sources said, the mating was moved back one more day, to next Monday.
Previously, plans for the launching had run a gamut of hurdles ranging from a lack of money to a last-minute decision to rewire a critical flight control unit in the booster.
Even the naming of the capsule by Cooper was reported to be causing problems. Cooper selected the name "Faith-7," but some officials inside NASA object to the name on the grounds that it could pose a "tricky public relations problem."
"Suppose that, for some reason, we lost the capsule at sea," said one source. "Then it could come out reading something like: The United States today lost Faith."
Liberals Move to Discontinue Aid to Discriminating States
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., said today he is preparing a bill to bar federal aid programs for any state where discrimination exists.
At the same time, Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., urged President Kennedy to issue an executive order insisting on non-discrimination under all government grant-in-aid programs.
The actions by the Liberal Senators came on the heels of a report by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission asking Kennedy to cut off federal funds to Mississippi.
THE MISSISSIPPI recommendation brought the four-year policy of uneasy co-existence between Southern Senators and the Civil Rights Commission to an imminent showdown.
The Michigan Senator said some aid programs clearly carry such authority while others, such as funds provided for hospital construction may not.
HART TOLD A NEWS conference he has written the heads of all government departments and agencies asking whether they have authority to ban federal funds if the money will be used to support discrimination in any manner.
There are strong indications that the southerners will put up more than token resistance when the Senate must decide whether to extend the Commission's life.
In 1861 when the Administration requested a two-year renewal for the Commission the southerners contented themselves with a few speeches.
BUT TODAY SEN. JAMES O.
Eastland, D-Miss., said the report "is
There was no real floor fight and there was no hint of a filibuster.
the best possible argument that it (the Commission) should be abolished.
"The charge that Mississippi is guilty of subversion of the Constitution," he said, "is the rankest falsehood."
Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., said the "presumptious and utterly ridiculous" statement was "proof positive that the Commission should be permitted to die its long awaited natural death later this year."
The report "is but the latest example of the repeated meddling of busybodies acting beyond their assigned mission and purpose," Stennis said.
Eastland, Stennis, and Sens. John J. Sparkman, D-Ala., and A. Willis Robertson, D-Va., agreed that the Commission stepped beyond its jurisdiction in its report.
Reactor Building Has Small Fire
An electrical fire in the nuclear reactor building about 11:30 a.m. today caused concern but little apparent damage.
The fire was confined to the power center of the building, and most of the damage was to burned insulation.
There was no connection between the fire and the nuclear reactor.
The fire apparently started from the temporary drop cable leading into the building from the Kansas Power and Light wires, according to Keith Lawton, vice chancellor in charge of the physical plant.
He said K P and L would have to make a complete check before they could determine the cause.
Electrical power will probably be restored this afternoon, Lawton said.