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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 15, 1963
50-MILE HIKERS—Standing by the Chi Omega fountain are from bottom to top, Wayne Wolfe, Shawnee Mission freshman; Mike Hites, Prairie Village junior; Pete Miner, Kirkwood, Mo., freshman; and Jim Murray, Leawood freshman and organizer of the group. The four will attempt a 50-mile, 18-hour hike from the Nelson Art Gallery to the Chi Omega fountain tomorrow.
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Students to Answer JFK's Hiking Call
Barring intense cold or heavy rain, four KU students will attempt a 50-mile endurance hike Saturday as a challenge to President Kennedy's claims that Americans are physically unfit.
Michael M. Hites, Prairie Village junior; James M. Murray, Leawood freshman; Wayne E. Wolfe, Shawnee Mission freshman, and Peter M. Miner, Kirkwood, Mo., freshman, will leave Kansas City, Mo.. Saturday at 2 a.m. and walk to Lawrence.
THE STUDENTS, all members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, will leave the Nelson Art Gallery building and arrive at the Chi Omega fountain on the KU campus.
Murray, spokesman for the group, said the trip is not a "publicity stunt or a gag." Rather, he says, the men want to demonstrate they are in good physical condition.
Murray said he feels the group is "in good shape" since "we walk about two miles a day on the campus."
HE SAID PERSONS in other parts of the country have made the trip but pointed out that no one in the Midwest has attempted it.
"The Midwest should be represented by Kansans," he continued "Especially students" since they are often criticized as being flabby.
Murray pointed out that the 50-mile hike has standard requirements. He said the President has designated that the walk shall take no longer than 20 hours, that the last half-mile shall be done in double-time, and that the last 20 yards shall be sprinted.
The group will take one hour out for lunch, which is not to be considered walking time.
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Michael Roberson, Abilene graduate, will follow the men in a car in case any "unforeseen emergency should arise."
MARINES, politicians, and other persons have set records on the hike, he added, but they usually walk around city blocks or around Marine camps.
Murray feels their route will be somewhat more tedious.
The men will follow Highway K-10 to U.S. Highway 59. They will then continue to the Templin-Lewis-Hashinger housing complex and end at the Chi Omega fountain.
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Actual measurements for the trip were made by Jerry Whalen, Prairie Village graduate, who plotted 45 miles from the art gallery to the Lawrence boundary. To make up the extra five miles, Murray said the group will "skiirt a section."
MURRAY NOTED that Highway 10 is a rough road, making the trip "more of a challenge."
Murray estimates the trip will take about 18 hours. This is not a record, he said, a marine holds the record of 13 hours. Murray pointed out the Marine was in excellent condition.
"As recently as last week Attorney General Robert Kennedy did it in 18 hours. Half the FBI and secret-service men with him dropped out," Murray said.
Removal of cigarette machines from freshman women's halls was discussed at a meeting Wednesday, headed by Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe and school officials.
Cigarette Vendors Still Working
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, said he has decided nothing definite yet, but that the matter "is being given very careful consideration."
Last week a ban went into effect at Kansas colleges and universities, putting a step to free distribution of cigarettes by cigarette companies.
The ban was the result of a letter written to Atty, Gen. William Ferguson by Mrs. David Kester, wife of the county attorney of Eureka, Kan.
Mrs. Kester pointed out the Kansas statute which states that it is unlawful to "sell or give away to any minor under 21 years of age any cigarettes."
She said she felt the practice o. giving away sample cigarettes to college students should be stopped, especially in view of the controversy over the effects of cigarettes on health.
Mrs. Kester's letter brought swift action from Ferguson and the Board of Regents, and the ban went into immediate effect.
Burge said that regulations have been in effect for some time on this campus forbidding the selling of cigarettes to minors. He said that by law signs to this effect must be attached to all cigarette vending machines.
Burge said that in many cases cashiers have declined to sell cigarettes to students who were obviously minors.
Burge said his final decision concerning the removal of cigarette machines from freshman women's halls possibly will be made early next week.
Red China Vows To 'Defeat' Russia
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist China vowed today to win its ideological dispute with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
The Peking People's Daily, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, attacked Communists who compromise the Marxist-Leninist doctrine. It indicated Peking has no intention of accepting the Kremlin's recent offer to talk over differences.
"It is necessary to unmask and defeat the modern revisionists, wherever and in whatever form they appear," the paper said.
"Modern revisionist" is a term the Chinese apply to Khrushchev and other Communists who advocate peaceful coexistence with the West. The Chinese insist on a "hard" line, including possible nuclear war to promote Communism.
International Festival Scheduled for April
The exhibits and evening entertainment program of various countries will be the main features of the International Festival on Saturday, April 20, in Hoch Auditorium.
Elected Festival Committee members are Vinodchandra A. Patel, special student from Baroda, India; Kang Seng, sophomore, P Penh, Cambodia; Gregs G. Thomopulos, sophomore, Benin City, Nigeria; Miss Rosa M. Macedo Costa, graduate, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Miss Susanne Bolstad, graduate, Oslo, Norway; Luis G. Umerez, senior, Caracas, Venezuela; Dr. Sami Alffy, president of the International Club, and Dr. Clark Coan, Foreign Students Adviser.
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BREMERHAVEN, Germany — (UPI)—The luxury liner Maasdam on its maiden voyage to Bremerhaven struck wreckage near here today, and its 450 passengers were forced to abandon ship in lifeboats.
All passengers and most of the crew left the 15,024-ton Holland-American liner when it slashed its hull on two sunken wrecks and began to list. Officials blamed dense fog for the crash.
A SKELETON CREW STAYED aboard the ship and brought it into Bremerhaven to a waiting crew of repairmen--instead of the official reception committee that was heading toward the dock when the accident happened.
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The crash occurred in the Weser River estuary leading to Bremerhaven.
THE TWO SHIPS WHICH THE Maasdam struck have lain beneath the waterline in the estuary for 11 years, one on top of the other.
The German government has often sought to remove the wreckage-which is a constant hazard to shipping--but the Soviet government has refused permission to move its freighter.
No one was hurt.
The wrecks lie outside the three-mile zone, but are marked by wreckage buous, easily missed in dense fog.
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Dawn was just breaking when the liner, plowing through thick fog, rammed into the wrecks of the Soviet freighter, Kholmogory, and the British freighter, Harbrough, which collided and sank in the estuary in 1954.
The hundreds of passengers--many of them unshaven and hurriedly dressed -- clambered to the decks and were lowered in lifeboats into the freezing north sea waters.
A FEW MINUTES LATER A nearby pilot ship picked the passengers from the water and brought them into Bremerhaven.
The Maasdam was en route here on the first leg of the Holland-American line's new route from Amsterdam to New York via Bremerhaven It was to have gone on to New York next week.
Among the passengers who abandoned the ship were U.S. Consul in Rotterdam, R. A. Bishont and a special Dutch marine band which was to have played while he ship docked.
The collision occurred at 1:05 a.m. when most of the passengers were in their beds.
THE IMPACT SENT AN earthquake-like tremor through he vessel, according to first passenger reports.
The captain ordered all engines stopped immediately, and sounded the fog horns to alert everybody on board and nearby vessels.
There was a rush to the lifeboats which were lowered into the water while the ship began to list and a snow storm blanked the scene.
Dense fog had reduced vision at the site to about 200 yards, when all passengers were ordered to enter lifeboats.
THE TUGBOAT THAT HAD brought the river pilot aboard shortly before the accident came to the rescue.
Protected by reddish life jackets, women and children were first packed into the life boats and promptly picked up by the tugboat. Stewards and other crew members rushed through all decks of the ship to make sure nobody missed the alarm.
There were no ice floes in the water that could have damaged the wooden life boats.
THE TUGBOAT, GOTTHILF Hagen, was able to pick up all but one life boat load of survivors.
All passengers and crew members were accounted for when they reached Bremerhaven. Besides the 150 guests of honor, there were other regular passengers of American, German and Dutch nationality, who were taken to Bremen by bus.
A fishing trawler, Karl Kaempf, picked up the last boat-load.
In the Hague, Holland-American officials said there was "no question," that the line would abandon the Maasdam. Earlier reports had said he ship might be scrapped.
Twins Still 'Inseparable'
"My daughters were identical twins and were inseparable when young," commented the proud grandmother.
LYTHAM, England — (UPI) — Mrs. Pamelo Elleston gave birth to a boy yesterday at the same moment her twin sister, Mrs. Ann Cramer, gave birth to a boy in a hospital 130 miles away.
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