THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, _ _ ! I i Face Lifting Planned for White House Razing Rejected As Tradition Wins WASHINGTON-(P-A special commission decided definitely yes- terday against tearing down the White House. Instead, the executive mansion will get a $5,400,000 face lifting. A GROUP OF six men -ettled the controversy between advocates of renovation and those who want- ed to raze the present building and put up a new one. Chairman McKellar (D- Tenn.) of the Senate Appropria- tions Committee and head of the commission, announced the decision after a long conference at the White house. Sagging under the burden of a century and a half, the mansion became so unsafe that President Truman asked Congress for mon- ey with which to do something about it. HE CONCEDED at the time that it might be cheaper to build a new building than to fix up the old one. But, he argued, there is too much tradition and sentiment attached to it to tear it down. Chairman Cannon (D-Mo.) of he House Appropriations Com- inittee was one of those who thought there should be a newv building. The controversy final- ly got so warm that Congress ultimately authorized funds, but left to the commission the de- cision whether to raze or reno- vate. Serving with McKellar are Sen- ator Martin (R-Pa.), Reps. Ra- baut (D-Mich.) and Keefe (R- Wis.) Richard E. Daugherty, Vice President of the New York Central RaProad, and Douglas William Orr, Connecticut architect. Maj. Gen. Glen Edgerton is executive director of the commission. ESTIMATES as to the time the work will require run as high as two years. Meantime, President Truman will continue to live at the Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue, just across from the old StatehDe- partment building, the neighbor building to the White House. The Mansion will be retained in gt present form and the present walls wiill be kept. Armed Forces Head Given New Powers WASHINGTON-(IP)-House ap- proval, by 356 to 7, yesterday com- pleted Congressional action on a bill giving Secretary of Defense Johnson new powers as boss of the armed forces. The measure went to President Truman for his signature. * * THE BILL WOULD: 1. Tighten Johnson's authority over policies and operationsuof the services by making it direct au- thority. The 1947 unification law gives him only "general" author- ity. 2. Set up a civilian business manager over the services' money matters. The new comptroller will be an Assistant Secretary of De- fense, and will be in charge of establishing uniform budget and accounting practices throughout the military departments. 3. Give the joint chiefs of staff a permanent chairman. They op- erate now without a chairman, ex- cept when one is asked to act tem- porarily-as General Dwight D. Eisenhower was recently. The secretary would have broad powers under the bill, but would not be able to transfer combat functions on the services or assign officers and men in such a way as to alter their present combat func- tions. ' e Official Michigan Rings 0 Michigan mugs and souvenirsc 0 Medals, Cups and Trophies i Fraternity Jewelry 0 Watch Repair Service O Hours 12:30 to 5:30, Mon.-Fri. wa L. G. Balfour Co.; 1319 S. University Ph. 9533 ->rm' w w <-> 1f<->7<->m I Help! IT ISN'T THE HEAT-IT'S THE NUDITY. Donald Morris, 17, a Rural Electrification Administration linesman, uneasily mops his brow upon being surprised by an audience of early arrivals for the national nudist convention held in the mountains near Denver, Colo. The foreman of the linemen says that his men are having trouble keeping their minds on their work. W UOM To Broadcast Concert COLLEGE ROUND-UP: Colorado Audience Gets Its Money's Worth By DON SIGMAN UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO music lovers really got hit over the head recently. Thor Johnson, Michigan alumnus and director of the Cincinnati Symphony, led the University summer symphony orchestra in a pro- gram that not only opened with the "Lyric Overture" by Cecil Effinger of the Colorado faculty, but closed with it as well. Johnson wanted to be sure the audience remembered the piece which had its World Premier performance. MEANWHILE, ACTORS, would-be actors and hams are having their day at college campuses throughout the country. After hot weather cancelled matinee performances, INDIANA UNIVERSITY playgoers saw Don Marquis' "The Old Soak" in the "rustic setting" of the Brown County Playhouse. They liked the plot which concerns an amiable drunk whose only ambition in life was to drink, philosophize and thwart prohibitioners. Not to be outdone by their Michigan brethren who flocked to see "The Wizard of Oz." University of Texas escapists are forgetting their books and running to the movies to see "Bambi" and "Fantasia." * * * * THE MEN of a fraternity at INDIANA UNIVERSITY will find a parking meter in front of their house when they return this fall. Now they'll have to feed a "nickel-nurser" to park a car in front of their own house. It's enough to make you sell your car for scrap, they said. The Summer Texan at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS reported with pride that the UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY admitted 29 Negro students who were "absorbed" very well with little or no opposition from white students. Five days later they reported two crosses were burned on the Kentucky campus. Lexington, Ky., police shrugged off the incident as a "college prank." The Texas paper, agreeing with the Louisville Courier-Journal pointed out the curious timing of the admission of the students and pointed out the curious timing of the admission of the students and the "prank." If it was a prank, they said, college campus humor has reached a low point. The Summer Texan also reported that the owner of a local dough- nut shop is looking for the joker who ordered "enough doughnuts for 800 people" over the telephone and then didn't pick them up. The eatery made up an extra 80 dozen which they eventually had to give away. (Not enough coffee around to dunk them in.) LITHOGHAPHING QUICK SERVICE ECONOMICAL COLORS and DESIGN MIMEOGRAPHING You type stencils or we will. EDWARDS LETTER SHOP I V G OASLL t1V TS --A Bavarian prepares to fire his pistol to expel ghosts on Corpus Christi at Obersalzburg. R E D, O F F E R I N C - Igor Neudachin, of Moscow, holds strawberries for Sofi Norrgren, of Stockholm, as. with students from all of Europe, they work in jam factory at Wisbech, England. '4 i PICITURE NEWS WUOM 91.7 will feature another recorded concert from Interlochen at 8 p.m. today. PROGRAM SCHEDULE P.M. 2:30-Tell Me Professor 2:45-School of Music 2:55-Daily Bulletin 3:00-Campus Varieties 3:30-University Symphony 4:00-Campus News 4:15-The Beaver's Tale 4:30-Requestfully Yours 5:00-Books by Radio 5:15-Adventures in Research 5:30-Children's Story 5:45-Guest Star 6:00-Dinner Music 7:00-Classical Concert S:00--Interlochen Conceit COURSES IN The Early-way method can solve your writing problems. Service Dept. for All Kinds of Writing - Greeting Cards, Name Cards, Bookplates PLUM ES-Charles Von Wrangel, Princeton 150-pound crew coach, frayed his hat against the sun at Henley, England. I L I G H T S T U D Y - Sunlight slants between the 50-foot white marble columns at the monument of Victor Emmanuel IL, in Venezia Square, Rome, burial place of Italy's Unknown Soldier. CLASSES 8 A.M. - 8 P.M. (Monday thru Friday) 8 A.M. - 12 Noon (Saturday) P~enmanhhl rz tu~ik 711 North University Phone 2-2846 4021/2 Observatory Phone 2-8606 I University of Michigan Oratorical Association 1949 1950 LECTURE COURSE Hill Auditorium presents a program of IIGISE DCELEBRITIES MARY GARDE a.N. .. . a.......O.October 5 Until her retirement in 1934, she was one of the most famous and colorful stars of the operatic world. In 1907 she made her New York debut in Thais, and from 1910 to 1931 she appeared as prima donna with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. Subject: MY MEMORIES OF THE OPERA PONCE PRODUCTS -Miseli Roman takes her choice of shoes, all made in the first shoe factory in her own town of Ponce, Puerto Rico,swhich pro-) duces 1,000 pairs PUPIL TELLS TEACHER--Frank Capra,"Jmovie director, tells his former school teacher, Miss Jean McDaniel, 87, about screen plays during her visit to his Hollywood studio. LELANDSTOWE. . . . .. . . . . . . October 26 A dynamic and analytical speaker, he has long been a favorite with Ann Arbor audiences. A Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism, and the foreign editor for The Reporter, he is now in Europe making an intensive study of world conditions. Subject: WE STILL HAVE TIME TO WIN PEACE. t a ADOLPHMENJOU . November 7 During his thirty years in-Hollywood, he has been one of filmdom's leading stars and one of its most delightful personalities. He is also one of its best expositors, for he has an intimate knowledge of the motion picture industry. Subject: STAIRWAY TO STARDOM. DR.RALPH J. BUNCHE . . . . . . November 28 No American of our day has had a more important and history-making responsibility. As Chief of the Trusteeship Division of the United Nations, he brought peace to Palestine. He is a recognized authority on non-self-governing territories. Subject: UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION IN PALESTINE. kA MO -mA LuNAgE ILI 1 f 0 "INl I - I lMK5. FI A1 L I I . KV.KY V L I (DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED) Ann Arbor will aain welcome this great American. Often called "the first lady of the world," she has performed notable service as U. S. delegate to the United Nations and as Chairman of the Committee on 1Human Rights for UNESCO. Subject: THE CITIZENS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE UNITED NATIONS. L I G H T E D , VENTILATED N U R S E R Y- A mamma hummingbird finds light, ven- tilation and warmth for her nest on the tube of a neon sign outside a Bishop, Calif., cocktail bar. JOHN MASON BROWN . . . . . . . . January 19 Associate Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, he is returning by popular request for the fourth successive season to present his kaleidoscopic, stimulating, and witty commentary on current literature and the Broadway theatre. Subject: BROADWAY IN REVIEW. 4 KING PETER IIOF YUGOSLAVIA . . . February 15 Following the assassination of his father, King Alexander, he ruled Yugoslavia as a 'teen age sovereign until Hitler and later the Communists brought chaos to his country. He tells an u nccisored story with si moathetic understanding. Subject: THE STORY OF MY COUNTRY. ra rr .