University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Dec. 12, 1962
Group Cause Unhurt By HUAC, Says Leader
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The founder of a women's peace group today scoffed at the idea that a House inquiry into possible Communist infiltration might hurt her organization.
Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, a Washington, D.C., housewife and originator of "Women Strike For Peace," said she was not surprised by any disclosures of the House committee on un-American activities.
The House group questioned three leaders of the women's organization yesterday. Two invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to say whether they had ever been Communists. The third said she had not been a party member during the past five years.
THE HEARINGS were disrupted yesterday when a former FBI agent, Jack Levine, jumped up and shouted that the inquiry was "a disgrace."
Levine, hustled from the hearing room by three policemen, told newsmen that the House committee was trying to "smear" the peace movement.
Mrs. Wilson said her organization was started as a result of the Soviet Union's violation of the moratorium on nuclear arms tests. She said pickets opposing nuclear tests have walked in front of the Russian Embassy as well as the White House.
No one in her group ever suggested that they confine their protest to American tests and not the Russians, she told United Press International in an interview.
groups.
The aim of these Communia agents, he said, "is not peace, but the undermining and sabotage of the United States."
However, Doyle said this does not mean that "everyone who agitates for peace is a Communist or fellow traveler."
The witness at the hearing was Miss Rose Clinton, a public stenographer identified as secretary and membership chairman of the West Side Peace Committee in New York City.
Miss Clinton invoked the Fifth Amendment against possible incrimination 25 times.
Last night a national officer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) rapped the House committee on un-American activities for "thought investigation" and "harassment of persons just because their ideas are nonconformist."
John J. De Pemberton Jr., ACLU national executive director, assailie the committee for its past conduct and its current investigation of the women strike for peace and other peace organizations.
"Congress has no power to investigate in the abstract, nor does the constitution contemplate exposure for exposure's sake," Pemberton said.
He said it was "particularly shocking" that organizations such as women strike for peace should be investigated "for just exploring new proposals for bettering our conduct of international affairs."
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.—Stendhal
Traffic Fatalities in Dim Past As Campus Police Expand
By Phil Magers
(Editor's Note: This is the second and in a three-part series on campus police.)
No traffic fatalities have occurred on the KU campus since the birth of the campus police in 1946.
Traffic has been one of the major duties of the campus police since it began operating as a one-man force.
Records of the police dating back to 1951 show no fatalities and Joseph Skillman, chief of the campus police, says to his knowledge there never was one between 1946 and 1951.
The office of the police was then in Fowler Shops, now Flint Hall. Law-enforcement at KU began to take shape.
THIS LONE man, E. Foster, patrolled the whole campus and later became "foreman" of the first department of any size.
In 1948 Robert Corbin became chief and Skillman joined the force as a patrolman.
The same year the department was moved to the present Fowler Shops
Student Teachers Conference Friday
The mid-term conference for student teachers from the University of Kansas will be held by the School of Education Friday.
The conference is designed to draw together students to discuss their progress, problems, and areas for improvements after some experience in the field.
The conference opens with a general session Friday morning in the Kansas Union. Group discussion meetings between the students will follow.
Fifty-one students are teaching in 16 different school systems in the area around Lawrence.
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In 1951 Skillman became head of the Traffic and Parking Department. In 1960 the name of the department was changed to Traffic and Security.
THIS YEAR, in an effort to give the campus back to the students, "where it belongs," in the words of Skillman, traffic control booths became a part of the department.
Cases have ranged from the theft of $24 and a box of Kleenex to a $6.845 burglary in 1960.
University security is another important job of the police. And it is one that has brought them a variety of cases in the past few years.
"Bomb scares" also plagued the campus that year. Two sororities and Joseph R. Pearson Hall were evacuated on warnings that bombs had been planted in the buildings. No bombs were ever found.
Great-Men-of-The-20th-Century Study group. Under KU-Y; Milton Steinbrenner Discusses Schweitzer as a Musician. 8:00 p.m., Room 205, Student Union.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Channel.
Official Bulletin
Radio Production Center, 7:30 p.m.
Boom.220 Flint.
TODAY
German Christmas Program, 8:00 p.m.
Fraser Theater, German Nativity and German Christmas Choir, Everybody invited
Shows At 7 and 9
AIP Chemistry Colloquium. Ivory Nelson, "The Stability of Copper (I) Ion in Some Non-Complexing, Non-Aqueous Solvents" 122 Malhotra. 3:30 p.m.
El Atenco se reumira jueves a las 7 en Fraser Theater. Un grupo de estudiantes de español va a presentar un drama, "Navidad." Todos son invitados.
TOMORROW
Math Staff Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 119 Strong, Prof. Chas. Himmelmil, "Absolute Retracts and the Extension Problem."
Organic Chemistry Colloquium: 4:00
Organic Chemistry Coulomb Saheb, "New
Forming Agents."
Catholic Masses, 7:00 a.m., 11:40 a.m.
Saint Lawrence Catholic Chapel, 1019 Strat-
ford Road.
FRIDAY
Interviews for teaching positions in Elementary School District No. 49, Overland Park, Kan., for Sept. 1963. The interviewer is Mr. Creason. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Teacher Appointment Bureau, 117 Bailey.
Poetry Hour to Feature Works of D. H. Lawrence
Arvid Shulenberger, associate professor of English, will read from the works of D. H. Lawrence at the Poetry Hour, at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.—Oscar Wilde
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