U.S. Recognizes Syrian Regime
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The United States today officially recognized the new rebel government of Syria.
It acted three days after the Soviet Union extended recognition to the Syrian regime, which two weeks ago broke away from the United Arab Republic.
The State Department said Syria was notified today that the U.S. Consulate-General in Damascus was being designated an embassy and that Consul-General Ridgway B. Knight, now in charge there, will act as Charge D'Affaires.
An ambassador will be appointed later.
An ambassador will be appointed State Department press officer Joseph Reap said the U.S. action took note of Syrian Premier Mamoun Al-Kuzbari's promise that his government would adhere to all international obligations.
About a dozen other countries have already recognized the new regime. They include Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Nationalist China, Guatemala, Russia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Iraq.
The United Arab Republic, which was split by the Syrian revolt, has been notified of the U.S. decision.
U. A.R. President Gamel Abdel Nasser acknowledged the break-up of the union between Egypt and Syria last week. His statement ended the threat of diplomatic reprisals by Cairo against countries which recognized the break-away Syrian regime.
After Nasser's statement cleared the way, Russia and Bulgaria recognized the Damascus rebellion last week.
Syria yesterday asked the United Nations to reestablish its membership, surrendered when it merged with Egypt in 1958. U.S. officials said the United States would support action in the U.N. General Assembly to cut through the legal complications and seat the already-appointed Syrian delegation.
'Right' Law Stands
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A Kansas ruling that the state's right-to-work provision outlawns agency shop contracts was allowed to stand yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to accept a Teamsters Union appeal.
The Court did not issue an opinion on the merits of the case, but the action in effect ended an action brought by employees of Cardinal Manufacturing Co., Kansas City, Kan., which no longer exists, against the teamsters.
The Kansas Supreme Court had held that the state's right-to-work amendment to its constitution barred the agency shop, under which employees who are not union members must pay amounts equal to union dues in order to hold their jobs. Wyandotte County district court
Weather
Harvest operations were halted across Kansas today after heavy rains swept a broad belt of the central plains.
High temperatures today were forecast from 55 to 60 in the northwest and around 75 in the east. Overnight lows were expected to range from 40 in the west to 60 in the east.
held the agency shop contract valid.
held the agency shop contract valid.
The executive director of Kansans for the Right-to-Work, Rex Harlow of Wichita, greeted the Supreme Court action as a "victory" for his organization. He said right-to-work forces would "oppose in every way" any further attempts of labor to reverse the Kansas Supreme Court ruling.
Further steps, however, already were being studied.
Attorney Jack Manning of Kansas City, Mo., a union counsel in the Cardinal case, said the Federal Tribunals action "is certainly not the end of this." He said he would confer with officials of Local 498 of the General Drivers Allied Automotive Union and "very likely we'll be going back to the Supreme Court."
But Manning and James Barnes of Kansas City, Kan., another union lawyer, said the Supreme Court's refusal apparently "spelled the end of the Cardinal case." They said, however, the issue could be taken to the high court through their cases.
The executive-secretary of the Kansas Federation of Labor, AFLCIO, Floyd E. Black of Topeka, said the issue likely would be explored at the state federation's convention in Topeka Oct. 25.
59th Year, No.18
Daily hansan
Tuesday, October 10, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Housing Discussed-
Wescoe Reiterates Policy-'Moral Suasion,' Not Edict
The statement said, in part:
"In non-University housing . . the University will not condone discriminatory practices, but it will not interfere in the rights of the private citizen to choose the person to whom he wishes to rent his property."
By Fred Zimmerman
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has turned down — for the time being, at least — a request of seven KU students that he instruct the housing office to stop listing Lawrence renters who discriminate.
"I am going to stand with that statement for now," Dr. Wescoe said. "And I emphasize the word, 'now.'
CURTIS D. KELLER, Chase senior and a member of the Westminster Center, acted as the group's spokesman. He began the discussion by saying:
The students made the request yesterday in an hour and one-half meeting with the Chancellor and four members of the administration. The students represented the Civil Rights Council, People-to-People, the International Club, the KU-Y, the Wesley Foundation and the Westminster Center.
"BUT WE ARE NOT committed to it unalterably. This is a matter where the University must make a continuing effort, primarily using moral suasion. We will continue to counsel with these townspeople."
"Chancellor Wescoe, we feel the time has come for a specific change of policy. It is our request that the housing office stop listing persons who discriminate."
In reply, Dr. Wesco reaffirmed a statement he made last year to a group of Civil Rights Council members who had gone to him seeking the same action.
Richard Smith, Great Bend sophomore and a member of the Wesley Foundation, said the students wanted Chancellor Wescoe to realize there was a widespread campus concern over housing discrimination.
"We are not a bunch of radicals,"
he told Chancellor Wescoe. "We represent several student groups. We have come to ask for a positive action, and we are suggesting that action."
"ARE YOU IMPLYING," Dr. Wescoe asked, "that the University hasn't taken any positive action?"
Smith answered slowly. "There may have been some things done by the University that I don't know about. But we want something more specific. We want you to do something that will let us know where you stand, what your philosophy is."
The other students at the meeting were David R. Barrier, Wichita sophomore, People-to-People; Denis Kennedy, Lawrence graduate student, International Club;
Chancellor Wescoe
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, and George Buford, Kansas City, senior, Civil Rights Council; Jane Dunlap, Lawrence senior, KU-Y.
BESIDES CHANCELLOR WEScoe, University officials present were James Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor for University relations; Donald K. Alderson, dean of men; Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, and J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
Dr. Wescoe made the following assertions:
- "One gains more from moral suasion than from edict."
- There has been a great improvement in the racial situation in Lawrence in the last year.
- The Chancellor alone is responsible for the "long-range view of what is best for the University." The students countered with these statements:
- "We are not here because we are concerned with the progress you say has been made. We are requesting a specific action." (Smith and Keller.)
- There has been no noticeable improvement in the racial situation here in the last year. (Buford.)
- "MORAL SUASION" works too slowly, considering that students are experiencing discrimination in housing. (Kennedy.)
The idea of going to the Chancellor about the housing situation originated in a CRC meeting nearly two weeks ago, after members became concerned over the case of an Egyptian student who recently said that his landlady had told him she did not want his Sudanese friend to visit him. At that meeting it was decided to seek the cooperation of several campus groups.
The students who planned to go to the Chancellor had a meeting last week in the Union. For an hour they discussed the request they intended to make, who should serve as spokesman, and what the Chancellor's reaction would probably be.
WHEN THEY WALKED into the Chancellor's office yesterday a secretary directed them to a conference room across the hall and asked them to wait a few minutes for the Chancellor, who had a long distance telephone call.
In the conference room, the students said little as they waited
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Car-Crazed Campus Crowd Clutters Curbs
By Richard Bonett
This probably comes as no big surprise to most students, but there are a lot of wheels on the KU campus.
Just how many and how much weight they carry is almost impossible to determine.
But two things are certain. The number has increased drastically during the past decade, and they out number feet by a considerable margin.
Most of them are partially hidden under massive chassis. These are characterized as American-type wheels, as opposed to foreign wheels, whose chassis are not so massive.
YOU WANT PROOF? OK. Stand at any busy campus intersection at noon and count them, four at a time—the wheels, that is.
Stand at the intersection of Jaya-
hawk Bwd. and Sunflower Ave. like
one student did recently. In less
time than it takes to organize a
beer party, he counted 160 wheels
under 40 chassis.
The experience was illuminating. Only four sets of wheels were under alien chassis, usually identifiable by a petite figure. Also, they have distinct foreign accent which
take the form of a whine or low pitched grumble.
All ranged in age from 13 years to brand spankin' new. Some mathematical gyrations produced an average age of 5.091 years.
ANOTHER THREE sets of wheels were of the abbreviated American kind. The rest carried big, fearsome, and lumbering bodies.
The species known as Ford, Chevrolet and Buick seemed to predominate. Two of the aliens were from Germany by Volkswagen. About
six of the American jobs had received extensive face liftings.
Only one Cadillac and one Lincoln muscled through the crowd, both of 1960 vintage. Their drivers didn't look like they were associated with a college.
OUR OBSERVER got curious. After all, he reasoned, the officially estimated campus enrollment nestles somewhere around 9.700. Add another 1,500 or so staff members and you have a lot of feet.
If you figure two feet, two arms
If you figure two feet per (average) student and staff member, it comes to about 22.400 feet, in fact.
At the campus security and traffic office, records show 6.818 various and sundry sets of wheels have been registered since last July, the date from which the year's registration began.
Not counting spares and steering wheels, the registration figure translates into 27,272 wheels. And before the school year is out, another estimated 3,000 chassis will
"Heh, heh, heh. Wheels are power, POWER."
be added, mostly from spring enrollment.
JOE G. SKILLMAN, chief of the traffic and security department, explains however, that there is about a 10 per cent duplication in registration from resale of wheels among students and students who bring more than one set of wheels on the campus from home. Then too, some registered during the summer have departed.
So what's the trend? Until this year it has been up. The total registration for all of last year was 10,580, the year before that 9,748, and the preceding year 9,462. Ten years ago the figure was about 5,000.
CHIEF SKILLMAN isn't ready to concede victory to the wheels solely on numerical strength.
"KU will always be a pedestrian campus," he says. "Our main job is how to best keep it that way with the maximum of safety."
The University administration is also taking a hand in support of the forces of feet. They entered the undeclared war recently with a request to the state for permission and funds to install five traffic control stations at principle entrances, a tactical
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