FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21,-1955 THIS MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE" !~RIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ....... MICHIGAN JOURNALIST: Zeisler Writes History for Hobby By CATHARINE RAMBEAU I .,rs:.r::.....:,:...: :......:.....::::: :: Almost any afternoon Prof. Karl Zeisler can be found typing in his Mason Hall office. The journalism professor is prob- ably working on his hobby-com- piling a history of Monroe County. Prof. Zeisler is a Michigan grad- uate, transferring here in his so- phomore year from Michigan State Normal College in Ppsilanti. Ma- joring in English with a history minor, he spent his free time working for a campus magazine, "Chimes." "Chimes was being published at about the time the New Yorker and Time became popular," he said. "We tried to imitate them both. The Board in Control of Student Publications decided to abolish it, but they relented." The magazine subsequently de- veloped into a tabloid-fold Sunday supplement, somewhat like the same section in The Daily now. 'Discontinued' During his three years 'at Michi- gan, Prof. Zeisler was a free-lance correspondent for- outside papers and in his senior year was campus correspondent for The Detroit Sat- urday Night, a weekly which "dis- continued publication" a year lat- er. After graduation jobs were hard to find-but he wasn't interested in one at the moment. He and two of his companions from the Chimes staff had wanted to go to the West Coast and get jobs on newspapers there. They started out in an old car, but went broke in South Dakota. Qetting jobs in a logging camp there, they earned enough money to get them to Denver. There, the three split up, Prof. Zeisler taking a job with Hearst's International News Service. His first beat covered the state capi- tol, police department, city hall and the courthouse. Young Editor Eventually all three Chimesmen got to California, Prof. Zeisler working for a paper in San Jose. But West Coast salaries were low, and he drifted back to Michigan in 1927, to work as editorial writ- er for the Pontiac Daily Press. He was the youngest person in the state holding that job at the time. Three years later he moved on to become managing editor of the Monroe Evening News, remaining there until 1946, when he started free-lancing non-fiction magazine articles. "I had no idea of teaching until 1947, when the G.I. bulge hit the University," Prof. Zeisler said. At that time the department was bad- ly understaffed, and several news- High Schools Hold Debate Clinic Here1 More than 450 debaters from 44 high schools in Michigan will attend a debate clinic at the Uni- versity tomorrow.' Sponsored by the speech depart- ment, the all-day program inl Rackham Lecture Hall will feature, a debate in the morning.1 The debate topic will be "Re- solved: That the federal govern- ment should guarantee higher ed- ucation to qualified high school students by means of annual grants to colleges and universi- ties. " The afternoon will be devoted to debating techniques which will be evaluated after a demonstra-; tion debate by University varsity; debaters. PROF. KARL ZEISLER papermen were offered teaching positions here. Prof. Zeisler taught editorial writing alternate semes- ters. In the summer of 1952, follow- ing the death of Prof. Donal Haines, Prof. Zeisler was asked to become a regular member of the staff, teaching editorial and feat- ure writing, and a course on the community newspaper. Background for Novel Aside from his work on Monroe County's history, he is furnishing factual background for a historical novel which will be released some time next year. Prof. Zeisler has toured this country and Canada extensively, and has visited"many of the Carib- bean islands. He did free-lance work in Mexico while vacationing there with his family. -Daily-Dick Gaskill ... journalist-historian The professor was "pleasantly surprised" when his daughter Ka- therine decided to major in jour- nalism. After serving as Daily Women's Editor and receiving her degree here, she worked as society editor of the Wyandotte News- Herald. His son Jim, an Antioch graduate now stationed at a Colo- rado Army base, "is more inter- ested in architectural design than in journalism." Of the University School of Journalism, Prof. Zeisler-says: "Al- though the department here is the only one with which I have had extensive contact, it has a high reputation for turning out stu- dents with a broad background in the field. The emphasis is on jour- nalism as part of the liberal arts program, rather than as a craft." Heaven For his singing of "A Little Bit of Heaven," a University alumnus won first place on the Arthur Godfrey television show last Monday. Frank Porretta, '52, lives in Detroit. He was a pupil of Prof. Harold Haugh of the music school. 'Young Lists Civil Service Exam Date The first Federal-Service En- trance Examination for college seniors and graduates who want a career in the federal govern- ment is open now, Philip Young, chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission has an- nounced. Applicants have until Nov. 18 to file for the first written test to be given Dec. 10 on campus, he said. The new program will be per- manent with examinations plan- ned .periodically as Federal per- sonnel needs require it. Job offers can be made by Federal Agencies to persons passing the examination once their names become available on the lists of eligibles early next year. Application forms and announ- cements are available at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- ministration Building. Positions for management in- ternships or career training for selected people are also available. Prospective applicants should take this first examination since these names will be the first on the list for job priority. Accounting Initiates Dine In League Beta Alpha Psi, National Ac- countinig Honorary Fraternity, in- itiated new members at a dinner meeting last night in the League. Harry Prevo, a member of a Detroit accounting firm, was the principal speaker. Initiates include: Lorne Norton, Stuart Scheifele, '56 BAd; How- ard Siegel, '56; Arden Field, '56 BAd; Frederick Keywell, '56; John L. Nequist, '56 BAd; Frederick W. Bernthal; Ralph Goodwin; Hadly Schaefer, '55 BAd; Edmond Cohn, '56 BAd; Terance Adderley, '55 BAd; Gerald Roes, '56 BAd. Officers for the year are: presi- dent-Lee Abrams, '57L; vice- president-Tom Turner, '55 BAd; secretary-treasurer-James Bull- ock ,'55 BAd. Faculty advisor is Prof. Samuel Hepworth, school of business ad- ministration. IFC Tryout Meeting Today According to Bob Winebaum, '56, IFC Pres., there will be an In- ter-Fraternity Council tryout meet- ing at 4:00 p.m. today in Rm. 3K in the Union. CAIRO W)-When Joseph was in Egypt in biblical times, this country enjoyed seven fat years followed by seven years of famine. Egyptians today still live in dread of such a feast-or-famine cycle. Some years the Nile is too' low for sufficient irrigation. Other years the river is too high, and floods wreck the countryside. Joseph stored up ample stocks of grain in the good years. Modern Egyptians intend to settle the problem of fickle waters by build- ing a 300-million-dollar dam 600 feet high and 4,000 feet long tour miles south of the present Asswan Dam in upper Egypt. The military regime of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser expects it.to provide an economic revolution greater than the political revolu- tion brought about by the over- throw of King Farouk. The dam will add two million acres of cultivable land, almost a one-four increase in the total cul- IBlossey Giveni Big Ten Post Bob Blossey, '56 BAd, was elect- ed chairman of the executive committee of the Big Ten Unions. The annual conference of the Unions was held October 14-16 in Madison, Wisconsin. Blossey is ex- ecutive secretary of the Michigan Union. Also attending the conference were Union representatives Harlan Givelber, '57, and Russ McKennan, '57E. Ricky Erskine, '57, Mary Slawson, '57, and Ursula Gebhardt, '157, represented the League at the conference. Cousins Will Lecture in Rackham Hall Norman Cousins, editor of "The Saturday Review" will speak at 10 a.m. today in the Rackham lecture hall. Addressing the Michigan Asso- ciation of Junior Colleges, Cousins will talk on "The Information Crisis in America." Recently he returned from his fourth world-survey tour visiting Asia's principal theaters of news: Saigon, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Singa- pore, Hong Kong and Bandung, where he attended the Asian-Afri- can conference. Chairman of the Connecticut Fact-Finding Commission on Edu- cation from January, 1949 to Jan- uary, 1951, Cousins received the annual Tuition Plan award of the educational writers of America for the 'ear's Outstanding Service to American Education. I tivated area of Egypt. Increased land area is desperately needed in this country whose population has grown from three million in 1830 to 22 million today. The dam also will provide elec- tric power for developing industry. Until now, the country has been almost totally dependent on agri- culture. The dam also is linked to the problem of Arab refugees uprooted from their homes in the Palestine war. Sen. George Asks Pledge From China WASHINGTON )--Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said Wednes- day that before the United States agrees to a high-level conference with Communist China, the Reds should "make a public pledge to give up the use of force in any settlement of the Formosa issue., Sen. George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee, laid down two other condi- tions: "The Chinese Communists first should release the American pris- oners they have promised to free and they should give some ac- counting of the more than 400 sol- diers who remain unaccounted for after the Korean War." Last July 24, when Sen. George suggested a meeting to be held be- tween Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Chinese Pre- mier Chou En-lai, he did not propose any specific conditions. Plan Huge Dam to Control Nile If completion of the dam assures Egypt's own people an adequate supply of water, it will be possible to channel water from the Nile to the barren Sinai Peninsula, where the United Nations is will- ing to finance settlement of some 50,000 refugees. Financing remains a major problem standing in the way of building the dam, and here Soviet- American rivalry in the Middle East has shown up again. When the plan first was drawn up, it was assumed Nasser would look to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- ment for financing. Recently the Soviet ambassador in Cairo, Daniel Solod, has hinted to Egyptian authorities that Rus- sia was interested in lending help on the project. Obviously, which- ever foreign power finances a pro- ject so vital to Egypt's economy will have a decisive economic foot- hold here. There is one hitch before any action on conserstruction can be taken. The Sudan controls Upper Nile waters. 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Detectives Roy Hauser and Rob- ert Ladko said the jeans could have fit any of the young victims. They were wearing jeans Sunday, but their bodies were naked when they were found Tuesday in the Robinson woods area, four miles west of Milwaukee Avenue in Chi- cago's Northwest Side. Police planned to show the jeans to the parents of the boys to see if they could identify thm. Dr. Jerry Kearns, coroner's pathologist who studied the bodies said he figures the boys were kid- naped by two or more sadists- persons who take an abnormal de- light in cruelty-and the young prisoners had put up a terrific battle. "It could not have been done by boys their own age," Dr. Kearns said. "I believe two or more men might have done it."' He reported he had found 10 cuts which rached to the skull, and other more shallow wounds on young Peterson's head. 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