San Francisco Foghorn

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•ol. 54—No. 12
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Winner of the Pacemaker Award
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Tuesday, Jan. 9. 1962
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KSFX plans halted       YR veep resigns
Radio station
folds; new dorm
floor planned
By GARY ANALLA
FOGHORN City Editor
USF's radio station, KSFX, is
off the air, the administration announced this week, as workmen
began to dismantle the studios
atop Phelan Hall.
"It is in the best interest of the
university that all operations
cease," was the cryptic comment
of the directive which sent the
workmen tearing apart what they
had only constructed this summer. All broadcasting equipment
will be stored for future use.
"Future use" is expected to
mean three years or so, when the
ill-fated radio station will be situated in the new Science Building.
"The radio station at this time
does not fit in with the overall
plans of development which the
university is undertaking in the
coming years," the university
president, Very Reverend John F.
X. Connolly, S.J., said. "It is
with regret that operations be
suspended. Due to the high cost
of electrical equipment and the
complexities of broadcasting, it
is not feasible at this time for the
university to continue in this program."
"Nevertheless, the ground work
has been laid for possible future
operations at a later date," said
Father Connolly," "at a time that
would complement the other development programs of the university."
Father President said that the
administration had hopes of add-
in Driver dispute
By JEFF PAOLETTI
I■•<»<; HOKN  Staff  Writer
Vice Chairman Ted Stahr resigned at the January 4th
Executive Board meeting of the Young Republicans. Mr.
Stahr accused Chairman Walt Driver of "lack of leadership,
maturity, and dignity which I think is necessary on the Executive Board."
KSFX; Due to circumstances beyond our control .
ing another floor to Phelan Hall.
"Having the interest of the students foremost in our minds, the
administration feels that the
needs and wants of the students
should be served first before embarking on a very costly broadcasting program. By the Phelan
Hall addition the university will
be able to provide increased resident facilities for those who are
Jim Kelly leaves Monitor;
refurbishes USF image
The USF office of publicity dusted off its files this week,
oiled up its typewriters, and got underway after a three month
layover.
Ace newsman James W. Kelly, Jr., is the new director of
public  information  and  publica-
desirous of a cosmopolitan, Catholic education."
The Reverend James J. Dempsey, S.J., program advisor of the
radio station, said: "All who
have worked in some capacity on
the development of KSFX have
profited in a deeper understanding of the broadcasting techniques. We have gained much
from our year and a half of radio
experimentation.
"A tape library has been started with the hope of preserving
the cultural and selected entertainment aspects of the activities
of the university, added the
speech instructor. Father Dempsey further commented that the
tape library would leave a rich
legacy for future students of the
university.
The Board meeting adopted
six controversial resolutions for
the agenda of the general YR
meeting on February 20th. Ranging from foreign to state affairs,
the YR's ask for the censure of
Senator Javitts of New York, a
leading Republican liberal, support of Lloyd Wright in his candidacy for Senator against Senator Kuchel, suspension of all U. S.
aid to the U.N. for the purpose
of "Operations in the Republic
of Katanga," cessation of all aid
to pro-communist countries, particularly Yugoslavia and Poland,
immediate withdrawal of all foreign aid to India, and the formulation of U.S. foreign policy in
the interests of our own nation
and the interests of freedom and
liberty.
In reference to the adopted
resolutions, Mr. Driver said, that
"the passing of these resolutions
does not imply that I or other
members agree with them, but
while some accuse us of being
too radical, and others claim we
are not doing enough to keep up
the conservative character of the
GOP, we feel that by sending
these resolutions to the floor for
discussion by the membership
everyone will be satisfied. If
they are passed, then nobody can
say it is the officers who are
too right-wing, and if they are
downed nobody can say that we
are favoring a policy of 'appeasing YR higher echelons' at the
expense of dynamic action—it
was the club's decision to down
them if such be the case."
In his resignation statement,
Mr. Stahr accused Mr. Driver of
submerging the true conservative
in an effort to gain more mem.
bers and to appear less controversial and more agreeable to
the higher echelons of the YR's.
Stahr, a Goldwater conservative,
said "Driver is inclined to go
along with the more-liberal element of tiie county executive."
In his article, Insight, Mr.
Driver puts forth his views as a
Moderate Conservative. After the
release of this throwaway and
the Executive Board Meeting,
Mr.  Stahr  tendered  his  resigna-
TED  STAHR
submerged conservative
tion  and  his accusations  of  Mr.
Driver.
Putting their foot into the door,
the USF Democratic Club challenged the Young Republicans to
an open debate on the liberal-
conservative controversy.
(See story page 4)
tions, taking over from Carl
Nolte, who left to work for the
Examiner.
Kelly comes to the Hilltop
from the paper of the archdiocese of San Francisco, The Monitor, where his series on the
braceros and farm labor strife
won him the McQuade Award
of the Association of Catholic
Newsmen. He returns to USF,
from which he graduated in 1940
(A.B.), after four years as an
army officer, four years as associate editor of the Denver
Register, and (1951-61) a stint
as news editor, reporter, and
feature  writer  for  the  Monitor.
Kelly has won a reputation
for his sparse, masculine style
of news reporting. He brings a
newsman's know-how to the office of public information, as
contrasted to Nolte's sports
oriented approach and Philip
Hughes'   promotional   approach.
Born in Eureka, Calif, in 1920,
Kelly attended Sequoia UHS,
Redwood City, UHS of Santa
Clara, USF, and the Register
College of Journalism, Denver
where he took a Litt. M. in 1951.
During WW II he served as an
artillery   officer   in   the   Aleu
tians, with the military police
in Korea, and now holds a major's commission in the Civil
Affairs Branch of the Army Re-
Inferno
■ *
USF grad forgets theology;
has religious day in court
A University of San Francisco graduate debate* celebrated criminal attorney, Jake Ehrlich, Thursday night on whether the existence of Heaven, Hell or Purgatory can be legally
established. Surprisingly enough, the USF grad took the negative.
Vincent Hallinan, attorney and former presidential candidate on the Independent Progres-
ticket,    refused    to    admit *
JIM  KELLY
starting anew
serve. He is an instructor in
Civil Affairs at the Oakland
USAR School. Married to the
former Mary E. Wells, Kelly
has nine children, ages 14, 13,
11, 9, 8, 6, 4, 2, and 5 months.
sive ticket, refused to
'which schools he attended although he did admit that they
were run by a religious organization. Hallinan, who calls himself
"a roaring athiest," said that he
remained in the faith "until I
reached maturity."
"That last statement," remarked Ehrlich drily, "remains
in question."
The debate was aired on "PM
West" a variety program presided over by columnist, Ter-
rence O'Flaherty. O'Flaherty
took great pains to assure the
TV audience that the views expressed on this program did not
reflect the views of the station
or the sponsor. The latter was
so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the issue involved that
he took only two breaks for commercials in the entire hour long
show.
Hallinan's interest in the question stems from his position as
attorney for the heirs of David
F. Supple. Hallinan charged that
Supple left the greater portion
of his estate to the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco because
he was afraid of eternal damnation in the fires of Hell and desired,  instead, the eternal  bliss
of Heaven. Hallinan plans to
bring scientists, anthropologists
and such to prove that God, the
immortal soul, and the life-after
are mere legends and "childish
dogma sot down by nomadic
sheepherders 4000 years ago."
"Don't be too hard on them,"
observed Ehrlich sagely, "They
are dead now."
"It's too bad the nonsense
didn't die with them," was the
bitter retort.
The only witness that Hallinan
would name is mathematician-
philosopher-banner carrier, Ber.
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