Ban in Kansas On Sex Books
United Press International
The State of Kansas, where you can't buy beer on Sunday or hard liquor by the drink on any day of the week, has cracked down on "obscene" paperback novels. It is the first test of an antipornography law passed by the Legislature earlier this year.
"Love Addict," "Born for Sin," "Sex Jungle," "Seeds of Sin," "The Wife Swappers" and "No Longer a Virgin" are the titles of some of the books seized in Junction City, Kan., in July, in a raid engineered by the state Attorney General's office.
Robert Thompson, co-owner with his brother, Harold of the P-K News Service, where the books were seized, said: "We contend that these are not obscene books and do not go as far in description of sex acts as do contemporary accepted novels."
DURING THE HEARING, as a witness for the P-K News, Mrs. Lois York, Junction City public librarian, brought 29 volumes from the library shelves into the courtroom.
The books included, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," "Tropic of Cancer," "Ulysses," "From the Terrace," "Lolita" and "From Here to Eternity."
Three witnesses for the bookstore said the books seized are not as "sexy" as the library volumes. They were called into court by
F. M'Clenahan
"This beats Mother Goose."
Thompson. He said "we were interested in the defense of the books and in aiding the court, so we called in people best suited to appraise literary works."
Dr. Richard D. Lichtman, assistant professor of English at Kansas City University, said he read some of the books seized and several brought into court by Mrs. York. He said he found the library books "frankly more descriptive relating to sex and sex activities."
EDWARD A. HOWARD, librarian at Lawrence testified that he read 21 of the library books and eight of the seized books and found numerous instances of "four-letter words" in the library volumes and none in the confiscated copies.
Prof. Joseph Rubinstein, librarian and professor of bibliography at the University of Kansas, testified that the "graphic quality and candor of the books on the best seller list go far beyond the description in the indicted books."
The 3.352 books taken bear 31 different titles on bookcovers depicting women in various states of undress.
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES have been filed in the case. The law says criminal charges may be brought against any persons selling or offering for sale obscene, immoral or lewd literature, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Penalties for the offense are from $5 to $300 fine and confinement to the county jail for not more than 30 days—or both.
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 5
WASHINGTON—(UPI) -Little Rock, Ark., has recorded the nations highest nuclear fallout reading since Russia resumed atomic testing.
BULLETIN
Some other readings recorded yesterday were:
A reading of 709 micromicrocuries was recorded at Little Rock yesterday. Readings of 1,000 or more were recorded in various cities in 1958 before the United States, Russia and Britain halted tests.
Thursday, Sept. 21, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Topeka, Kan., 192; New Orleans, 1:14; Minneapolis, Minn., 123, and Jefferson City, Mo., 250.
General Clay Flies Over Red Germany
Foreign Minister Evariste Kimbe and Finance Minister Jean Baptiste Kibwe flanked Tshombe as he read the agreement to newsmen in the ground floor airport control tower ringed by police where all-day negotiations occurred.
The terms of the cease fire appeared to be a slap in the face of the U.N. forces which started out a week ago to occupy Elisabethville and end Katanga's "secession" and wound up fighting for their lives.
Troops Notified of Congo Cease Fire
U. N. DELEGATES sat in a separate room despite efforts by British officials to persuade them to attend the Tshombe press conference.
NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia—(UPI)—Repeated radio broadcasts beamed to the Congo's "Independent" Katanga Province today advised troops on both sides of the battle there that a cease fire had been arranged.
The senior member of the U.N. delegation said Tunisian U.N. negotiator Mahmoud Kharii was furious with the Rhodesian Government "for treating Tshombe like a head of state."
He said the government even wanted Khiari and Tshombe to lay
It was not immediately certain whether word of the agreement reached by Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. negotiators here was getting through to the troops.
THE BODIES OF U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the other victims of Monday's plane crash were to be flown to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, either today or tomorrow. A ceremonial parade will be held at Salisbury airport before the victims are flown home.
BERLIN — (UPI) — Gen. Lucius Clay flew over Communist East German territory today to the tiny beleaguered American Zone enclave of Steinstuecken in a demonstration of Western Allied rights to go anywhere in Berlin.
The broadcasts were carried in French by Rhodesia's Federal Broadcasting Corporation at the request of both the United Nations and Tshome to make sure that all troops got the news.
Travelers reaching Ndola reported heavy firing in Elisabethville when they left late yesterday afternoon.
West Berlin police said Clay, who arrived Tuesday as President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, made a dramatic one-mile flight to Steinstuecken in a U.S. Army helicopter and spent 50 minutes with the area's 200 residents.
their wreaths on Hammarskjold's coffin together, but Khiari flatly refused.
TSHOMBE PULLED no punches as he blamed the United Nations for the fighting and bloodshed in Katranga.
He said the agreement will end the fighting "unless the United Nations launches new aggression . . . the United Nations must carry the whole responsibility for all the massacres in Katanga."
Asked if he thought the United Nations would relieve the U.N. civilian chief in Katanga, Conor Cruise O'Brien of Ireland, Tschome told newsmen: "O'Brien must bear the major responsibility for what has happened. He is responsible for the fact that so many poor Irish boys have been killed uselessly."
ASKED WHETHER his regime might reach agreement with the Leopoldville government, Tshombe replied: "The main thing is . . . to prevent further useless bloodshed."
"For us the solution to the problem is the complete withdrawal of United Nations from Katanga," he added.
There was no indication as to whether the cease fire agreement was being carried out, nor was there any indication as to whether the cease fire would apply to Congo troops who were reported to have entered North Katanga.
Men in Modern Dance
Tramp, Tramp,the Boys Are Leaping
By Richard Currie
"Step, leap, step, leap," pounded the drum.
Twenty-seven blithe figures galloped down the Robinson Gymnasium floor to drum rhythm by Elizabeth Sherbon, instructor of dance. Five of the leaping figures were men. They constitute the largest turnout of males Tau Sigma, honorary dance fraternity has had in years.
THE MEN followed Miss Sherbon's drum by stepping forward and upward with legs held stiff. Twenty-two girls preceded them down the floor.
"I enjoy it," said Thomas Heitz, Kansas City senior, "and it gives me a chance to try something new, something artistic."
Walter Bgoya, Nkara, Tanganyika freshman, said he dances for the fun of it. Bgoya, at KU on an African-American exchange scholarship, says he is intrigued by the dance in America.
Why men in a modern dance fraternity?
SIMILAR OPINIONS were expressed by the others.
Miss Cowell, president of Tau Sigma, said she was pleased with the turnout and praised the work the men were doing.
"NO TAP dancing, please," she said.
Miss Sherbon agreed whole heartedly:
at home. he said.
On the floor, Mary Jean Cowell.
Clayton. Mo. junior, told the men
to show her some steps.
"I was delighted," she said, "at the boys' good coordination and sense of rhythm. They have a phenomenal pick-up of things and show a great deal of promise," she said.
Dan Fisk, Salina freshman, hopes the work he does in the dance will fit in with his minor in drama. Fisk has danced in several high school musicals.
TWO OF THE students plan to use modern dance to further theatrical careers.
The fraternity's announcement has lured a dance-minded Lawrence junior high school student to its sessions.
Alec Brown, 830 Main, a student at Central Junior High School, has come to the Monday and Tuesday evening work-outs this week.
"I'm interested in everything about dance," he explained.
BROWN SAID he has danced for four years. Last summer he enrolled in a modern dance course.
KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Miss Sherbon said she would have to find out if he could stay. Membership is usually restricted to KU students.
Ron Seney, Kansas City freshman said he likes to interpret his expressions through modern dance.
"Its a satisfying way to do it," Seney explained.
DRESSED IN A light blue chiffon gown with a lavender top. Miss Sherbon led the group in a floor exercise. Music with a strong beat from a drum and wind instrument accompanied the dancers.
"Men are an important part of dance," she said, "because certain numbers call for lifts."
She hopes others will turn out at the sessions to be held Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week.
He made the flight, the police said, in answer to new Communist harassment of ground traffic to the small enclave. Clay was the first American to visit the area in 10 years.
Steinstuecken is a farm enclave deep in the Soviet Zone, but which is a part of Berlin administered from the Zehlendorf District in the American sector.
CLAY'S HELICOPTER set down in a small field to the surprise and alarm of two middle-aged women who were gathering crops.
One of the women recognized him as a hero of the 1948-49 blockade of Berlin, threw her arms around him and said: "Gott Sei Dank (Thank God). It has been so long since we have seen you."
Residents scattered throughout the streets in search of Mayor Friedrich Reichow, 49, who pedaled furiously back to his office on a bicycle to greet Clay.
WEST BERLIN officials said the Communists in recent days have been barring all West Berliners, including relatives, friends, bill collectors, plumbers, electricians and similar people, from Steinstuecken.
However, the Reds have let such persons as midwives, doctors and postmen go back and forth.
DURING HIS VISIT. Clay assured the Steinstuecken mayor and people that the United States is supporting them against any Communist pressure.
The mayor, who is the Steinsteucken area chief of the Zehlendorf Borough of Berlin, told Clay that the Communists thus far have not interfered with gas, light or power supplies. But he said they have been "very unpleasant."
Korean Veterans Receive Benefits
Approximately 200 Korean veterans enrolled at the University of Kansas may be eligible to receive a special insurance dividend of about $90 under a law signed by President Kennedy Sept. 13.
Korean veterans who have converted or exchanged their "RS" insurance policies (five year term insurance issued to Korean veterans discharged between April 25, 1961, and Dec.31,1956) will receive the dividend.
Other veterans who have not yet changed from "RS" to the new "W" insurance may become eligible if they convert or exchange their policies for the "W" insurance within two years from the date the law was signed.
Payment of the dividend is automatic and application for payment is not necessary. Policy holders who have already converted their "W" insurance will receive their dividends early in December. At the same time, Korean veterans who still hold "RS" policies will receive application blanks for conversion to "W" insurance and notice of the amount of their dividend.
Weather
North Central — Considerable cloudiness today and tonight. Shifting winds, occasional rain and turning cooler tonight. Friday partly cloudy and cooler.