Meredith, Warner Chat at Ole Miss
By Bernard Henrie and Arthur C. Miller
James Meredith sat on the edge of his bed recently and talked to a KU student about civil rights.
Don Warner, Topeka senior and chairman of the Civil Rights Council, spent part of the evening in Meredith's modern brick dormitory in Oxford, Miss.
Meredith's admission to the previously all-white university prompted riots and brought federal marshals to quell the disturbance—and to forcibly integrate Ole Miss.
Meredith told Warner he is weary of Northerners who feel sorry for Southerners.
"There is still so much to do in the North," Meredith said.
"IF THE NORTHERNER helps the condition of the Negro in the North—he will make it easier to improve conditions of Negroes in
Don Warner
"I asked him, how many students at Mississippi are eager to visit his room," Warner said. "Meredith laughed, tapped me lightly on the chest with his fist, and said, 'you know, Don, I have more friends than I know what to do with. The only trouble is they don't want to say hi when they see me.'"
"He's just a fighter from the word go. He's not lonely. He's not frightened," Warner said of Meredith.
WARNER SAID Meredith's
"More integration in the North makes segregation in the South seem even more unreasonable," Meredith added.
MEREDITH's Meredith's statement was not entirely sarre Miss who would speak to Merre
castic, for there are students at Ole Miss who would speak to Meredith if they were not afraid of what might happen to their class.
"The students who have talked to Meredith are numbered," Warner explained. "There is only a small number of them and they are as well known as the players on the football team."
"In Oxford there is a (white) citizens council with a student branch on the campus. When anyone is seen talking to or eating with Meredith, his name is taken down and pressure is put on the student's family.
"There was one student who ate with Meredith and the same night his family needed a police guard outside their home. He quit school the following day. News of this type travels feet." W
Warner visited Meredith's room with two Ole Miss students
"He said the important thing about those Mississippi students
declined to name them for fear of repercussions at the student's homes.
"MEREDITH WAS happy to have us stop in to chat with him," Warner said, "but he showed no signs of being lonely or looking for people to talk to.
Meredith's Trial Set
KOSCIUSKO, Miss.— (UPI)
Mayor Emmitt Crittnicky yesterday promised that Negro James Meredith will receive a "fair and impartial" hearing when he goes on trial for a traffic violation.
Carr said he would hear the case Wednesday at 5 p.m., as Meredith requested. He said, "This case will be treated as any other traffic violation charge."
"We went to his room by way of some stairs. There were two guards outside the building and another one outside his room. We then had to enter Meredith's room by way of the room occupied by three marshals. When we finally got in, one of the marshals stayed with us."
Warner also said U.S. marshals still keep a close guard around Meredith.
who dare to visit him is not that they are coming to comfort or give him sympathy, but that they are not allowing others to give them orders on what they can and can't do."
THE TWO MISSISSIPPI students told Warner that Meredith would like to have the guards
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James Meredith
With this issue, the Daily Kansan completes another year of publication; this marks the final issue for 1962.
Kansan Ends Year
The Kansas will resume publication on January 4. Meanwhile, it wishes to take this opportunity to extend warm holiday greetings to the entire University community, adding also wishes for a successful and prosperous New Year.
—The Editors
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The Chief Executive was scheduled to take off (at 7:45 a.m. CST) for Nassau, where for two days he and Macmillan will tackle a broad range of mutual problems ranging from the Skybolt missile to the Sinoidian conflict.
60th Year, No. 63
"WE DONT think that we are going to get $2.5 billion worth of national security (out of Skybolt)," he said. "I know there are others who disagree, but that is our feeling."
Kennedy rejected the idea of investing billions in Skybolt when this country now has a nuclear potential capable of annihilation. He specifically mentioned Minuteman and Polaris missiles which are now operational, plus development of Titan III.
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy, in a friendly but firm mood about U.S. nuclear weapons policy, prepared to meet British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the Bahamas today for what could be the most delicate in their series of six conferences.
Their first business session is scheduled for tomorrow morning. The talks are expected to wind up late Thursday afternoon.
"There is just a limit to how much we need, as well as how much we can afford to have a successful deterrent." he added.
BOTH KENNEDY and Macmillan were accompanied by their defense secretaries—Robert S. McNamara of the United States and Peter Thorneycroft of Britain. The presence of the defense chiefs symbolized the importance of Skybolt, the ballistic nuclear warhead missile designed to be launched from a jet bomber in flight. The British had envisioned Skybolt as the backbone of their nuclear striking force.
Thornecroft and McNamara went over the Skybilt situation at length in London a few days ago. When Macmillan left Britain for Nassau, he said, "I have no doubt we shall find a way through our difficulties."
Kennedy in a television interview last night, however, made it clear that this country had decided to pull out of the Skybolt development program which has been conducted for more than a year by U.S. and British personnel at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The United States has put up all of the development money, $350 million, so far.
Kennedy Calls Red China Main Threat to Peace
Although cancellation of the Skybolt program has not been formally announced, Kennedy spoke of it last night in the past tense, saying at one point, "It would have cost us $2.5 billion."
Weather
Kansas temperatures headed for the 60's again today with Christmas shoppers enjoying Eastertime weather.
Forecasters expected some cloudiness to develop tonight and tomorrow and predicted somewhat cooler temperatures for Southwestern Kansas Wednesday. But they indicated there still was no sign of a marked change.
Maximum temperatures Monday ranged in the 60's at all reporting stations. Russell was coolest with a top of 61 and Manhattan warmest with 69. Lows early today were spread from 26 at Russell to 44 at Chanute.
JFK, Macmillan Meet to Discuss Mutual Problems
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy said last night that Red China, not Russia, is this decade's greatest threat to world peace.
The President said "we would be far worse off — the world would be if the Chinese dominated the Communist movement."
Kennedy made the statement in an unusual radio and television interview covering his first two years as president, which he said had given him "great satisfaction."
The interview ranged over a wide number of subjects, both domestic and international, but Kennedy's emphasis showed his concern with world affairs.
Kennedy said "I don't think there is a need" for a meeting between him and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev now, and "I think he probably feels the same way." Because of Cuba, "it is going to be some time before it is possible for us to come to any real understandings with Mr. Khrushchev."
Without minimizing the danger of Russia's goal of world Communism, Kennedy said "we are better off with the Khrushchev view than we are with the Chinese Communist view, quite obviously.
"But Mr. Khrushechev does not wish us well, unfortunately," he added.
Rather than trying to widen the rift between Moscow and Peking, the President said, attention should be given to bolstering the cause of freedom by helping suffering areas of the world.
"I think that anybody who looks at the fatality lists on atomic weapons and realizes that the Communists have a completely twisted view of the United States, and that we don't comprehend them, that is what makes life in the sixties hazardous," he said.
If it were not for Communist expansion policies, there could be a
"long period of peace," Kennedy said.
But as long as Russia and China threaten the world, he declared, the United States and its allies must bear the responsibility of opposing them. He continued, "we can't lay it down and I don't see how we're going to lay it down in this century.
"There is no real reason why the United States and the Soviet Union, separated by so many thousands of miles of land and water, both rich countries, both with very energetic people, should not be able to live in peace," Kennedy said.
"But it is . . . constant determination which the Chinese show in the most militant form, and which the Soviets have also shown, that they will not settle for that kind of a peaceful world, but must settle for a Communist world — that is what makes the real danger; the combination of these two systems in conflict around the world in a nuclear age is what makes the sixties so dangerous."
Kennedy said that while the showdown over Cuba taught the communists something of U.S. determination, great dangers still exist.
"One mistake can make this whole thing blow up," he said.
THE PRESIDENT discounted any real chance in the foreseeable future for an international inspection system to enforce a nuclear test ban or general disarmament. For the time being, he said, the aerial camera "is actually going to be our best inspector."
The missile defenses of both the United States and Russia have reached the point of being able to hit "a bullet with a bullet," he said, but this does not make an effective anti-missile system because no system has been developed to separate genuine missiles from decoys.
Peace Corps Trainees End Eight-Week Study
By Trudy Meserve
As far as 5 prospective Peace Corps volunteers are concerned, the Costa Rican training program at KU is a success.
Twenty-nine trainees, now completing the final four days of the eight-week training at KU, will meet again in New York City Jan. 2 after a brief home leave.
AFTER FURTHER TRAINING sessions in Puerto Rico and the University of Costa Rica, the group is scheduled to begin its assignment in Costa Rican secondary schools and colleges Feb. 18.
"I have never learned so much in such a short time," said Victor J. Corbin of Baltimore. Md.
Petra Moore of Lawrence and a 1962 KU graduate, said "It's been an intensive program. The only suggestion I have is that the directors put more emphasis on sleep."
"THE DAY JUST ISN'T long enough," she said. "There is not too much expected of us, but even to get that work done is difficult."
Jack Rosenblum of Shaker Heights, Ohio, said, "The program has been beautifully administered. We've all learned a lot. Now we're ready to move on to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica."
The volunteers attend classes 10 hours a day, six days a week. About 70 KU faculty members conduct classes in technical subjects, world affairs and communism, Latin American area and American studies and health, medical and physical training.
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Yule Trees Cause Stink
SHARON, Mass.—(UPI)— Angry parents said today if their children cannot have Christmas trees in school, they also should not have turkeys for Thanksgiving, rabbits for Easter and hearts for St. Valentine's day.
Frank Condon, a spokesman for the citizens' group, said "We don't feel the Christmas tree is a religious symbol.
"If it is decided at the public hearing that it is, then something should be done about the heart and the rabbit and the turkey and something should be done about St. Valentine Day programs, as well as Easter and Thanksgiving."
THE CONTROVERSY was triggered last week when principals at three schools—Sharon High, East Elementary and Heights Elementary—ordered teachers not to permit Christmas trees in classrooms this year.
The principals said they were fearful that the trees violated laws governing separation of church and state.
Angered by the ruling, 24 mothers obtained about 1,000 signatures on petitions calling for a special school committee meeting to consider rescinding the anti-tree ban.
Richard Hosmer, chairman of the school committee, called a special public hearing for tomorrow night to discuss the controversy.