KSU Thwarts KU In Big-8 Elections
Nine KU student leaders returned angry and smarting Saturday from a defeat by Kansas State University in the Big Eight student government conference last weekend at Columbia, Mo.
The KU delegation said it was angry because it was slapped down after proposing the only four programs suggested at the conference.
JERRY DICKSON, Newton senior and student body president, added, "it's disgusting that KU—the only school that offered proposals at the conference—will not be permitted to head its own programs."
The conference unanimously accepted without amendment the four KU proposals, which provide for:
Coed Relates CORE Sit-in
If the caste of your skin is dark, von can go hungry in Columbia. Mo.
you can go hungry in Columbia, Mo. A hungry KU freshman went without her dinner recently because she was in the company of two Negroes.
Sharon Fincomb, Olathe freshman, was the Civil Rights Council's observer at a Congress On Racial Equality (CORE) regional conference Saturday, Dec. 8, at Columbia, Mo. One of the workshop projects was a planned sit-in at a Columbia restaurant which CORE believed discriminated on racial grounds.
Monday, Dec. 17, 1962
HER GROUP also included a Negro couple — both students at the University of Missouri — and two male CORE representatives.
"We had been told that the restaurant had discriminated in the past, but we did not know if the practice had continued. As I walked toward the restaurant I remember that I was hungry," she said.
"I DIDN'T really expect to be served, but until the owner came over and said that we could not be served. I rather expected to eat." Miss Pincomb reported.
Miss Pincomb said she was most impressed by the organization of the sit-in. She said that from the single file march up the sidewalk leading to the restaurant — to the decision to leave after police were summoned, the keyword was organization.
"I put some change on the counter and when the owner saw it he turned to me and said, 'you might just as well put that away,' then it hit me. I wasn't going to get anything to eat and no matter what I did as an individual, I could not eat at that
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- Big Eight school cooperation in the People-to-People program.
- Initiation of Peace Corps training programs at schools besides KU
- Big Eight cooperation on concert tours.
- Development of the Big Eight college bowl program begun last semester by KU and the University of Missouri.
This means KU will not be able to administer its own proposals for inter-state action, since the conference presidency is not held here.
THEN, IN THE FIRST ballot of the Big Eight student government presidential election, a Nebraska-Kansas State coalition defeated KU's candidate, Greg Turner, Seattle junior and All Student Council vice-chairman.
The Kansas State group took the action in the election because of the KU delegation's "snob complex"—or so three K-State delegates said.
They said they gained this impression early in the conference when Turner told a civil rights panel of the workings of KU's Civil Rights Council and the ASC Human Rights Committee.
"TURNER GAVE the impression he had done it all himself," a Kansas State delegate said.
KU students said, however, that in his remarks to the panel, Turner said the two student rights groups had been working on discrimination at KU for "the past two or three years."
While the Kansas State delegation blocked Turner's election, its own candidate, John Mick, lost to Bruce Irwin of Oklahoma State University.
Kansas State, however, upheld its coalition bargain in the vice presidential elections by helping to elect Christy of Nebraska.
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He said that if the Skybolt was discarded he could not see "a future for the Air Force." He noted that the Russians have developed anti-aircraft missiles that are able to shoot down bombers before they reach their targets.
JFK Faces Reprisals If Skybolt Scrapped
Symington obviously did not think the Administration could justify killing Skybolt.
Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo. said yesterday that unless arguments for cancelling the Skybolt program were truly convincing "this would affect many other programs that the Administration might like to see go through Congress."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The administration was threatened today with the possibility of congressional retaliation if it scraps the Skybolt missile.
A Faculty Escapade
THE SKYBOLT is an air-to-ground missile. It is fired from a plane, as far as 1,000 miles from target.
GIFT WRAPPED—Kay Bethea, instructor of piano, untwines 200 feet of aluminum foil from her car. Ronald Barnes, instructor of history of music and University carillonneur, "gift wrapped" her car Friday. Barnes said this was a counter move. Earlier, Miss Bethea left a Christmas tree that was made of twigs and covered with dyed noodles and gumdrops in Barnes' office.
The warning by Symington, one of Congress's most influential military specialists, added a second front to the Skvbolt controversy.
British officials have reacted sharply to reports that the United States will abandon the missile which is being developed jointly by both countries. Britain has counted on the missile to be the backbone of its nuclear strike force.
Yuletide Spirit Shown in Jokes
The issue is expected to be among the chief topics discussed by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold MacMillan when they meet in Nassau Wednesday and Thursday.
KENNEDY MET yesterday with defense secretary Robert S. McNamara who had just returned from
U.S. Says Polish Plan Will Favor Soviet Union
GENEVA — (UPI) Communist Poland called on East and West today to withdraw their nuclear-equipped forces from divided Germany in line with the "Rapacki Plan" to create a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe.
But the United States said creation of such a de-nuclearized zone in Central Europe alone would "create a dangerous military imbalance favoring the Soviet Union."
"THE DANGER to peace resulting from such imbalances has been clearly and repeatedly demonstrated by events within the memory of all." U.S. Deputy Disarmament Negotiator Charles C. Stelle said, quoting from a state department statement rejecting the Rapacki Plan this spring.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Christmas for faculty members.
By Blaine King
The escapade began about two weeks ago, when Miss Kay Bethea, instructor of piano; Richard Angeletti, instructor of piano, and Stanley Shumway, instructor of organ, made a Christmas tree for Ronald Barnes, KU's carillonneur.
And last Friday, there were three gift-wrapped cars in Zone N to prove it.
Carefully constructed from elm twigs Miss Bethea found in her back yard, the tree was placed, with the help of a custodian and his pass key, on Barnes' desk about one o'clock one morning.
THE THREE and a half foot tree mushroomed out of an empty Moselle wine bottle. The branches, held in place with band aids and scotch tape, were festooned with dyed noodles, tinsel, cigarette butts, gumdrops, popcorn, black string, and red, pink, blue, green and orange pipe cleaners — altogether a novel gift.
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BARNES WAS so touched by the thought behind the gift, however, that he began thinking of ways to return the favor. And so it was
"It was either that or the nearest garbage can," Miss Bethea said.
But Barnes failed to appreciate the tree — for all its intrinsic value, Miss Bethea said. Although he admitted the Christmas spirit was admirable, he couldn't stand the tree, and Miss Bethea had to take it back to her office.
The plan was first proposed by Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki in the fall of 1957. It calls for creation of a denuclearized zone in Central Europe, including both Germanies, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Polish negotiator Manfred Lachs told the 17-nation disarmament conference "the time is ripe" for discussion of de-nuclearized zones — particularly in Europe.
BUT THE IMMEDIATE negative reaction of Western spokesmen at today's 93rd plenary session appeared to rule out further discussion of the plan at least until the new year. The conference recesses Thursday for a three-week Christmas break.
Lachs withdrawn by the Soviet Union and the NATO powers of their forces from both Communist East Germany and the Federal Republic would "not further delay" the reunification of Germany.
Lachs said Poland does not claim any special or privileged position but feels entitled — as a nation which lost one-fifth of its population during World War II — "to suggest that our experience be taken into account" at the disarmament conference.
Stelle, in reply, said the United States recognizes Poland's initiative in presenting the Rapacki Plan. But he said the United States feels it "would not resolve present difficulties."
talks in London and Paris. While in Britain, McNamara conferred with defense minister Peter Thorneycroft on the Skybolt.
Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden was the latest to object to the possible junking of the missile. He said in New York yesterday the United States should give development of Skybolt priority over landing a man on the moon.
THE OFFICIAL U.S. position on Skybolt is that no decision has yet been reached on its future. U.S. military experts contend the program has been costly and has not yet produced worthwhile results.
Kennedy said at his news conference last Wednesday that the Skybolt missile was "the most sophisticated weapon imaginable" and involved "the kind of engineering that's beyond us." But he acknowledged that the British had a right to take part in any decision that is made about the missile's future.
JFK And Macmillan To Discuss Skybolt
"I have no doubt we shall find a way through our difficulties in a spirit of agreement we shall always have with the American people and administration," he said in an airport statement.
LONDON — (UPI) — Prime Minister Harold MacMillan flew off today to meet President Kennedy in the Bahamas, expressing confidence that the Skybolt missile issue — which has created the worst Anglo-American rift since the Suez crisis — could be settled.
As Macmillan flew to the Bahamas, the House of Commons erupted into angry debate over the future of the U.S. Skybolt missile on which Britain had counted to deliver its nuclear weapon.
Symington, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, discussed Skybolt during a television interview (Issues and Answers ABC). Sens. A. Willis Robertson, D-Va., and A.S. Mike Monroney, D-Mont., both members of the powerful Appropriations Committee, also have expressed strong reservations about scrapping Skybolt.
Weather
Variable high cloudiness is expected today in Northeast Kansas. Otherwise, fair and mild weather will continue through Tuesday. Today's high is in the 60's. The low tonight will be in the 30's.
Senegalese Gendarmerie Seizes Parliament Building
DAKAR. Senegal—(UPI)—Troops of the Senegalese National Gendarmerie took over the parliament building today and forcibly ejected all legislators from the building.
The troops surrounded the building and burst into the conference room as debate was about to start on a censure motion against the government of Premier Mahmadou Dia. Their move prevented action on the censure motion.
Except for one opposition member, all the parliamentary deputies at the meeting were members of the ruling Senegalese Progressive Union Party.
When ordered to leave the building, they refused and were ejected by the troops.
(In Paris, French telephone officials said all telephone communications with Senegal had been cut).
The Senegalese progressive union, the governing party to which 79 of the 89 National Assembly deputies belong, prepared a motion last Friday protesting against provisions of a state of emergency and demanding resignation of Premier Mahmadou Dia.
The motion was signed by 40 deputies. In accordance with constitutional rules, National Assembly President Lamine Gueye had suspended the session until today.