Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 35
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
U.S. Will Resume Tests if Necessary
By Merriman Smith
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy announced today that the United States will resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere if they are necessary for U.S. security and the protection of the free world.
Preparations are underway now for a resumption of above-ground tests, the President told reporters, if
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI) — Russia joined the United States and Britain today in rejecting demands for renewal of a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.
Russian delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin, in a rocket-rattling speech, told the General Assembly's main political committee that "only the overwhelming might of the Soviet Union can cool the passions of the adventurers" of the West — "those warlike maniacs."
an evaluation of the Soviet Union's big testing series shows they are necessary.
Fallout will be held to an "absolute minimum" if the tests actually get underway, he said.
The United States, Kennedy declared, has no intention of exploding enormous fallout producing weapons like Russia's multi-megaton bombs.
The President did not spell out details. It is known, however, that scientists and military experts want to conduct atmospheric tests to perfect warheads for intercontinental
rockets, anti-missile missiles and tactical nuclear weapons.
Thursday, November 2, 1961
In addition, some Congressmen have urged that atmospheric tests are necessary to develop a neutron bomb—a weapon that can kill troops on a battlefield but leave property and cities intact.
Kennedy accused the Soviet Union of showing "complete disregard for the welfare of mankind" by its current series of atmospheric shots. He also said Russia prepared for them in secret while discussing a test ban with this country.
In emphasizing that U.S. security might necessitate resumption of atmospheric tests, Kennedy said the Soviet series could not be dismissed as mere bluff and bluster. The Russian shots—at least 28 in number so far—probably have proved of some value to Russian scientists and military men, he said.
Speaking with emphasis as U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson watched from a corner of Kennedy's camera-cluttered office, the President said this country also never would undertake an atomic test as part of psychological warfare. He said such tests would be held only when essential to the defense of the nation, the protection of the free world and in the interest of necessary scientific and military development.
The President's statement was made to reporters following a lengthy meeting with members of the National Security Council.
Kennedy also said the United States still was ready to sign a test ban agreement with Russia provided it carries provisions for effective inspection and control.
ASC Gets New Funds
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe might also be used to review approgranted the All Student Council prations that were cut or denied at $1,100 in additional funds yesterday. the Tuesday-meeting.
Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior,
president of the student body, said
the money will probably be used to
raise the Associated Women Student's appropriation to about $2,300,
approximately the amount they received last year.
BECAUSE OF an unbudgeted appropriation of $373 to the combined pep clubs at the ASC appropriation meeting Tuesday night, the ASC started on their way to operating in the red, or cutting the AWS appropriation. The extra $1,100 will correct this. The AWS appropriation was tabled Tuesday until a meeting later this week or early next week.
Eberhart said the added money
HE ADDED that the extra grant by the chancellor will be a "one-shot proposition" because the People-to-People appropriation will be "nearly cut in half" from now on. The $1,905 appropriation to People-to-People was extra large this semester so that the organization could get a firm start.
The ASC budget is tighter than usual this year because the planned appropriations exactly equalled the funds they had, $7.164.78. They withheld $208.45 in a contingency fund to be used if an enrollment drop next semester cuts into their funds. The ASC is given money by the University based on the number of students enrolled.
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Budget Breakdown
The present budget appropriations stand as follows: (The ASC Finance and Auditing committee made the recommendations after reviews of records of organizations requesting money.)
Organization Requested Recommended Approprated
ASC expenses $2395.00 $2395.00 *
Alpha Phi Omega 100.00 47.51 47.51
Associated Women Students 2590.00 1800.00 *
Business School Council 155.00 155.00 155.00
Combined Pep Clubs 823.00 00.00 373.00
Engineering Student Council 150.00 85.00 85.00
Mathematics Club 40.00 40.00 00.00
Mortar Board 130.00 103.82 103.82
Pharmaceutical Association 350.00 165.00 165.00
Student Bar Association 350.00 220.00 220.00
World University Service 40.00 40.00 00.00
People - to - People 1905.00 1905.00 1905.00
$6295.00 $9955.33 $2954.33
Funds left to appropriate before $1100 grant: $4110.45
Funds left to appropriate after $1100 grant: $5210.45
*Appropriations yet to be made:
Associated Women Students $1800.00
ASC expense 2395.00
Total $4195.00
Excess (amount which can be distributed among AWS, ASC expense reserve, or organizations cut at the Wednesday meeting) $1015.45
Events of Note
Pep Rally
There will be a football rally Friday at 11:50 a.m. in front of Strong Hall.
Cheerleaders, pep-clubs, the pep band and the team participants will be there to send the team off to Nebraska.
Following the rally, the Homecoming Queen and her two attendants will be announced.
Sophomores who lived in Corbin Hall last year and earned at least a 2.0 grade average for the Spring, 1961, semester will be honored at the hall's scholarship banquet tonight at 5:30 p.m.
Corbin Scholarship
Approximately 75 are expected to attend the dinner, and the name of the girl with the highest of those grade averages will be inscribed on the scholarship plaque for Corbin Hall's trophy case.
The Ski Club will sponsor films shown by a representative of the Crested Butte ski area at its second meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Ski Club Meeting
International Club
International Club will meet tomorrow night in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union following the University Film Series movie "Room at the Top" which will be at 7:30 in Hoch Auditorium. There will be dancing and refreshments.
Nuclear Colloquium
Poetry Hour
Walter J. Meserve, associate professor of English, will read poetry of Robert Frost at the Poetry Hour today at 4 p.m. in the Music Room of the Kansas Union. Coffee will be served during the program.
Saadia Amiel, head of the nuclear chemistry department of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Rhovoth, Israel, will address a special colloquium at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 233 Malott. His speech will be entitled "Activation Analysis Based on Delayed Neutron Emission."
Dr. Amiel is now on a two-week tour in the United States visiting Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, N.Y., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
At the Forum, to be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music Room of the Kansas Union, William J. York, assistant professor of education, will be a featured speaker.
The topic of this week's Current Events Forum will be "Federal Aid to Education."
Current Events
Prof. York said he will give a 10-minute resume of principal thoughts on the problem, then open the meeting to questions.
Coffee will be served at the Forum, and the public is invited.
Weather
Rain and occasional thunderstorm today. Northwesterly winds and turning much colder this afternoon and evening. Partly cloudy and much colder tonight and Friday. Hard freeze tonight. Highs today 60s. Lows tonight 25 to 30. Highs Friday 40s.
HRC to Conduct Housing Survey
By Richard Currie
A committee to talk to certain Lawrence landlords who rent to KU students was established by the Lawrence Human Relations Commission last night.
The move was designated a beginning in HRC's efforts to ascertain why and how much discrimination exists in Lawrence. KU students were picked because they represent a group who, generally, make good renters.
HOW THE COMMITTEE would establish what landlords to speak to was not specifically determined. The University does not keep a list of discriminatory renters.
It was assumed, however, that the committee would contact real estate agents and the Lawrence League for Political Democracy. The latter has conducted a survey of University housing.
The motion, made by Mrs. Raymond Cerf, wife of a KU professor, creating the committee reads:
"That the chairman appoint a committee to talk to certain landlords who rent to KU students and ascertain their attitudes." Passed by a 5-3 vote, it was amended to read "as many landlords as deemed necessary by the committee."
APPOINTED TO THE committee by William Binns, HRC chairman, are the Rev. Max Thomas, associate professor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, the Rev. Frank Brown, minister of the Ninth Street Baptist Church, and Mrs. Helen Gillis, pediatrician. The committee will attempt to secure Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, as the chairman and Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, wife of Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, as a member.
In establishing the committee, HRC asserted there should be no difference between discrimination at KU and discrimination in Lawrence.
"There should be no division between the hill and the city." James Titus, assistant professor of political science, said. "They are one and part of the same thing."
"WE SHOULD STATE our opinion on the housing situation at the University," Mrs. Cerf said. "Is KU right or wrong in its position?"
Two Commission members attacked KU's housing policy saying it did not further tolerance or fair play in Lawrence.
"It is not amicable relations," Mrs. Cerf said. "KU is not privileged."
"The policy is not furthering tolerance," Mrs. Gillis said
Prof. Titus, however, said that if the chancellor's position is moral suasion the Commission should try to help him in this direction.
MRS. FRANK BURGE, wife of the director of the Kansas Union, questioned the wisdom of dropping discriminatory landlords from the University housing list.
"Would it further amicable relations to drop them?," she asked. "No it would be a punitive action and would not help us at all," she said.
Mr. Binns asserted that the committee and the Commission had to conduct its work in a friendly fashion.
conduct its work in a friendly manner. "It's terribly important that we demonstrate good will," he said. Consequently, the wording of the motion, which originally read
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Nikita K's Sick Joke Hits Closer to Plague
By Dick West United Press International
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - Here of late I seem to be having occasional flashes of extra sensory perception, although it may just be mental indigestion.
At any rate, I keep bumping into coincidences which appear to have been brought about by mental telepathy. There is no way to explain it except to say that it is inexplicable.
One day this week, for example, I was idly leafing through a copy of a British magazine that someone had left in the office. All at once I heard a voice telling me to stop and read a certain article.
THIS, HOWEVER, was not telepathy. The voice belonged to the owner of the magazine, who had been looking over my shoulder.
Heeding his suggestion, I turned my attention to what proved to be a learned analysis of the current crop of American comedians who specialize in "sick" jokes. Only the British could be learned about sick jokes.
jokes.
Satire and other serious humor, the author said, can have the valid object "of burning away the layers of humbug and chicanery with which the verities are enwrapped."
But the sickniks, he wrote, work on the policy "that a rattled and edgy populace can be stamped" into laughing at unfunny subjects.
NOW HERE IS where the "ESP" comes in. At the very moment I was reading this article, give or take a few hours, Soviet Premier Krushchev was uncorking one of the most monumental sick jokes of all times.
I refer, of course, to his jocular report to the Communist Party Congress that Russian scientists in seeking to explode a 50-megaton bomb had accidentally exceeded that level.
Brushing the fallout from his eyebrows, the jolly little dictator laughed off the miscue, explaining to the comrades that where nuclear scientists are concerned, boys will be boys.
THIS NATURALLY gave the comrades a big chuckle, although the gag didn't go over so big in other parts of the world. Possibly it lost something in translation.
Considered in conjunction with the magazine article, Khruschev's sally set me to wondering whether, having already vowed to overtake America in other fields, he is now trying to challenge us in telling sick jokes.