llajor Campus, Local Events Of 1955 By LEWIS HAMBURGER The, arrival of the new year is always a nostalgic affair, crowded by overtones of future promise and tales of the past. For this campus town and its University, 1955 was as all others, a year of dreams - some transformed to visible realities, and some never leaving the dewy-eyed state. .. . A Government and a Vaccine On campus the leading stories centered around the dreams of some University students for a new students government, now optimistically eager in its formulative stage; the sudden reality of a universal dream - a polio preventative; the dream of an old school being realized in a new name; the dream of a hockey team which came from behind; the dream, for some, nightmare for others, of enrollment here skyrocketing toward greater opportunity for mass education. . .. No Police Pay, No Bowl For others there were disappointments. A dedicated police force went to great extremes, but never realized the pay increase they' deemed necessary to "make ends meet;" a liquor store burned and six firemen were overcome by smoke in small-scale heroics during large scale damage costs. The unfulfilled dream of most students of a sunny Christmas, with roses and football faded and were stamped out by a traditional rival; it resulted in a melee on the field and a new attempt to keep sportsmanship in sports as Michigan apologized; and Ann Arbor is still feeling the effects of a newspaper strike in Detroit which has kept the papers from stands for two weeks. And of course, there were °the embarrassing repercussions of a panty raid which gained Michigan a nation-wide "reputation." To recap, go back to March 15th and 16th when 6,070 students elected the first representatives of a new student government. Two days later the group met, and a new challenge was on the way to acceptance. This fall the new government began in cautious, open-eyed fash- ion, deliberating at great length such issues as deferred rushing, and now the driving ban. Cautious optimism appears to be the tone as the organization strives to establish itself. April 12 - Salk Success The week following spring vacation last year turned the' normally calm and somewhat aloof town of Ann Arbor into a delirium, as scientists, government officials, and reporters descended on the Michigan campus in chaotic fashion. Another scientific dream had been realized, and despite the so-called "mis-handling" by Wash- ington officials which led to cancellation of vaccinations, progress had been made, and hopes for eliminating polio as a major threat mushroomed across the nation. The serum Salk made was proved a success, as Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. and his statistically adept cohorts discovered. It was successful in 8-9 times in ten, and absolutely safe. But as the polio season approached, distribution was cancelled, and a shadow of doubt thrown across the scene. On May 20 Michigan ceased inoculations. But it was all wasted time, as the process was resumed nationally this fall, and Oveta Culp Xobby had resigned. Earlier, on March 12, a Michigan hockey team which was forced to win its last 10 games to enter the tourney, won the NCAA cham- pionship - coach Vic Heyliger's fifth in the eight years of the NCAA Broadmoof' Hotel tourney's existenee. And this year the entire team is back. As far as dreams go, the astonishing enrollment of 22,000 students at Michigan represents a trend toward a great dream for many. Enthusiasts backing greater enrollment as a step toward better and more mass education speak eloquently of the opportunity it affords See MAJOR, Page 2 -Daily-Chuck Kelsey SALK VACCINE - Key figures in the vaccine story, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., left, and Jonas Salk, confer in Rackham Building. THE DOCTORS AND THE REGENTS See LIPPMAN, Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State :4Ia ity~ VOL. LXVI, No. 66 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 SIX PAGI I Food Preserving Process Found 'U' Scientist Develops New Method For Storage Over Long Periods By LEE MARKS A team of University scientists has proposed a new process for prolonging the keeping time of perishable foods without freezing or canning. The new process combines radiation and refrigeration. It man- ages to kill the most common type of food poisoning organisms with- out complete sterilization which impairs taste. "The refrigerated food, keeps for weeks, possibly months," Dr. Lloyd B. Brownell of the radiation laboratory commented. } . In a report given yesterday to the Nuclear Engineering and Sci- I U.NR Admits 16 New Nations; RussianMove ence Congress in Cleveland, \th'e Eisenhower Takes Rest As, Advised GETTYSBURG, Pa. (A)-Presi- dent Dwight D. Eisenhower started yesterday the slow-down his doc- tors have prescribed, and there wasn't any yes or no as to whether he has called Gov. Averell Harri- man of New York a "SPark Avenue Truman." One official presidential action on a light day was signing state- ments urging' the American people to renew their devotion to "the most precious of liberties" guar- anteed by the Bill of Rights and to "defend them against all forms of attack." ' There was nothing at all on the President's schedule yesterday-- no official callers or any social visitors. In Washington, Republican con- gressional leaders who sat in with President Eisenhower on at legis- lative briefing Monday said there was some discussion of Harriman. Harriman, a probable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, has been praised by former President Harry S. Truman. Some of the GOP leaders in Congress reported that Eisenhower dismissed Harriman's slaps at ad- ministration policy as the pro- duct of a "Park Avenue Truman." "Well, I never repeat or report on meetings like that other than the official statements, I make, so I have no comment." The presidential slowdown was recommended after Eisenhower's roctors examined him Saturday and found him a bit tired by the heaviest week of conferences- on the budget, national defense, and other parts of the legislative program-since his Sept. 24 heart attack. scientists claimed preliminary ex- periments indicate that the tech- nique "might make possible the sale of such items as roast whole chicken, cooked cleaned shrimp, blanched green peas, diced avo- cadoes and other vegetables pack- aged in plastic containers and capable of being stored unfrozen for long periods' at refrigerator temperature." Dr. Brownell told the Daily the "one big thing" holding up com- mercial use of the process is Food and Drug Administration approval. "The Food and Drug Adminis- tration requires certain tests which will take about two years to com- plete," Dr. Brownell noted. Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project No. 41 is conducting the first long term feeding and breed- ing experiments using animals fed with gamma-irradiated foods. The new process was described as a sort of compromise with complete sterilization. "Flavor problems prevent com- plete sterilization. With a less- than-sterilizing dose of radiation we have to use refrigeration," Dr. Brownell said. "If foods could be kept for two or three months or longer by such a process," they told the congress, "the housewife might use an addi- tional refrigerator solely for stor- age. "In this regard, the process would be competing with the use of a deepfreezer, but it would be used for food stored for shorter periods. . "Food can be stored at 40 de- See NEW, Page 2 Adlai Reveals INew Primary Election Plans CHICAGO (R)-Adlai Stevenson announced yesterday that he will enter the Democratic presidential primaries of California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois next year. He previously had decided to enter the Minnesota primary. Introspection Diverts SGC At Meetingi Student Government Council last night erupted into an un- scheduled self-evaluation of itself, with both members and constitu- ents criticizing the Council at various times during the regular meeting in the Union. Termed a "much-needed, one- sided evaluation" by one ex-officio member, the critical comments grew in intensity from the be- ginning of the meeting to the un- usually-long period of member- constituent time at the end, of the meeting. As the first order of business the Council voted to postpone un- til their next meeting action con- cerning student representation on and recommendations to a com- mittee which is expected to be set up to implement administration of the new driving proposals, "ap- proved in principle" at Tuesday's Regents' meeting. It was during this debate that members first began to criticize the body. Saying that if questions of ad- ministration of the new 21-year- old driving regulations were not to be decided directly by SGC, Inter House Council President Tom Bleha, '56, warned, "We are shirk- ing our responsibility. It seems that the idea of a committee is becoming more and more the idea of an escape clause," Bleha com- mented. Reiterating Bleha's comments, League President Hazel Frank, '56, said, "It would not hurt us to sit down, roll up our sleeves and see if we can't do something ourselves for once." Later on in the agenda of the four-and-a-half hour meeting, the Campus Affairs Chairman, Joe Collins, '58, indicated that he had "neither knowledge that a report was being called for or that my committee was even working int this area" after being called upon for a report on individual house activities. His comments touched off a heated discussion as to where re- sponsibility for communications lay and the role of council officers. During the discussion at the close of the meeting, many mem- bers expressed the view that other Labor Gives~ Leadership To Gaiskell' Bevan, Morrison Get Few Votes LONDON (A)-Hugh Gaitskell, ai moderate Socialist with pro-Am-, erican views, last night won the leadership of Britain's Labor party. He thus became chief of opposi- tion to the Eden Conservative. party government and top candi- date for prime minister in any future Labor government. Clear Majority Labor 'members of Parliament, voting on a party successorto ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee, gave the fast-rising 49-year-old Gaitskell a clear majority. He re ceived 157 of 267 ballots cast in a, three-way race. The Laborites rejected Aneurin Bevan, left-wing leader often criti- cal of American foreign policy, and Herbert Morrison, faithfulsparty wheelhorse who had served as Att- lee's deputy for a decade. Bevan received 70 votes and Morrison only 40. Twenty-Year Leader Morrison, at 67, and Bevan at 58, probably are too old now to have much chance to gain their party's top prize. Attlee served as leader for 20, years before he stepped down seven days ago and accepted an earldom. Gaitskell, the party's recognized intellectual and a former chancel- lor of the exchequer, was expected to have a long run in the post. InitiatesAction A'ssembly's Vote Hailed B~y Delegates p Move 6 Hours After Council OE UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. GP)- 4 ;... The United Nations last night ac ;. ; ~ cepted 16 new members at an ex traordinary Assembly session. l An amazing and unexpecte s . Russian reversal of policy cleare the way for the end of a 10-yea stalemate on the membership is x.sue. -Daily-Dick Gaskill Quick Roll Call ft-winger Ed Switzer powers home the Wolverines' first goal of last In a quick succession of roll Number 11 on the left is Michigan's Neil Buchanan. call votes, the Assembly approve 12 non-Communist nations' and Red countries which had cleare IcersT ou nce Denvker the Security Council hurdle onl: six hours earlier. ,r, ~Cheering delegates and the nrev Sex tet, "z P t ts S tars members hailed the final deciso: as historic" and a factor fa peace. By DAVE RORABACHER This raised the total UN mem bership to 76. The new members Roaring to a 6-2 victory over a fighting Denver squad the' Wol- eligible immediately to vote an verine hockey team proved to the local fans last night that it is take part in UN debates, are th definitely back in contention in the WIHL race. first to be included since Indonesi The battling Wolverines displayed a vastly-improved passing was sworn in in 1950. attack and all-around sharper stick-handling last night which con- The delegates voted unanimous trasted sharply to the often shoddy play of Tuesday night's tie. ly for these non-Communist appli The win gave Michigan two points and raised its season's cants: Ireland, .Portugal, Italy total to five points. Austria, Finland, Ceylon, Nepa Defenseman Bob Pitts played the greatest game of his collegiate Cambodia, and Laos, career as he slammed in two scores and continually foiled the Pioneer Spain, which filed an applica offense before a large weekdaytion only this fall after bein offese efor a argewee* .barred for years by an Assembl crowd of 2700 fans at the Coliseum. breutoryeasanptedb; * . resolution, was accepted 55-0; Bel Kilbey Scores D ixon-Y ate's gium and Mexico abstained. Denver's first goal came halfway The Arab states, Libya and Jor through the initial period when Firmn S uesdan were accepted 56-0 with Israe Joe Kilbey flipped a weak roller abstaining.. FIRST OF night's 6-2 MANY - Michigan le conquest of Denver. Union Mulls ,Strike Offer DETROIT P)--Striking stereo-. typers mulled over a wage offer from Detroit newspaper publishers yesterday as the city-wide news- paper strike finished its second week. The AFL-CIO stereotypers un- ion's scale committee called a meeting to consider the offer, made at a mediation session Tues- day night. Mediators said the only remaining issue was wages. Further joint management-un- ion sessions were held up pending union action on the offer. Both sides agreed to meet upon call from the federal and state media- tors. Another meeting is expected today. Details of the wage offer were not made public. i past Wolverine goalie Lorne Howes. From then on it was a Michi- gan runaway. The "Big Blue" tallied three times on scores by Ed Switzer, Pitts, and Tom Ren-, t ' A ?TA C 114A "rY GAIN IMADE : dall before the Pioneers managed to garner another point. And then their goal came by way of a USSR LsReturn Michigan blunder as the Maize and Blue defense accidently flipped T ou r the puck backward into the net From E ast Asian' while trying to clear it from the} Fwgoal area. . , The referees awarded the tally NEW DELHI, India (R)-Russia's roving salesmen went back!They whe warethe l - across the Soviet borders yesterday leaving behind them the question ver man to handle the puck. of just how far they have been able to pull India toward the Com- In the third period the game munist camp. blew wide open. Leading by, a nar- Present plans call for the Russians to return when the weather row 3-2 margin the Wolverines ea n the ciio recntinn in the Af-han nanital ean gn on as Ihnr enwn on Pioneer goalie Dave Five Abstain ~,rove1unu1 en . The first of the 16 to be ad- mitted was communist Albania, WASHINGTON (A")-The gov- 48-3. China, Cuba and Greece ernment was sued Tuesday for voted against Albania. Bulgaria $3,534,778.45 damages for repud- was approved 50-2 and Hungary and Romania were accepted 49-2. ating the controversial Dixon- China and Cuba voted against Yates power contract. them. Greece, the Netherlands. the Mississippi Valley Generating Philippines, United States and the Co. brought the suit in the U.S. ; Dominican Republic abstained on Court of Claims. all of the Communist countries. Russia used a veto to block a This is the firm with which the Western attempt to include Japan, Eisenhower administration, at the in the list. behest of the President, signed a Events had moved swiftly with- contract to supply private power E in the 25 hpurs from the time to the Tennessee Valley Authority Russia and Nationalist China area. The administration defended smashed the 18-package deal with the contract for months. in the i V+ 1PziC -+a tr ite i rnn-