Yvonne Jackson Crowned at Ball
Queen Yvonne Jackson, Kansas City junior, was presented a bouquet of red roses and a tiara of rhinestones after a white carpet had been rolled out before her.
The Queen of the Military Ball received plush treatment Friday night.
QUEEN OF THE BALL—Yvonne Jackson, Kansas City junior, was crowned queen of the 1962 Military Ball Friday. Navy band members (background) took a break for the ceremonies.
THE QUEEN WAS escorted down an aisle, a corridor spanned by sabers of members of Scabbard and Blade, honorary tri-service organization.
Miss Jackson's sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, will display the Military Ball queen trophy engraved with the names of the queen and her attendants until next year.
The attendants were Ann Leavitt, LaGrange, Ill., junior, and Diane Turner, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
MISS JACKSON was crowned by Vice Chancellor George B. Smith. Craig McComb, Prairie Village sophomore, and Jay Strayer, Shawnee Mission junior, were masters of ceremony.
One of the lighter moments of the ball came when the carpet was rolled out and a sword clattered to the floor and shot down the aisle.
Monday, Dec. 10, 1962
The trophy which Alpha Kappa Alpha will display also caused some disturbance. It was located only a few days before the ceremony. It was apparently misplaced in Lewis Hall since last year's dance.
Dancers clad in everything from floor-length formals and formal military dress uniform to short cocktail dresses or sailor's middies danced to the music of the Ninth District Great Lakes Naval Band.
Law Students Ponder Delinquency Problems
By Linda Machin
(This is the last in a series of three
law students with juvenile offenders.)
Two 14-year-old boys burglarize a grocery story in Lawrence. A complaint is signed and the boys are brought before the juvenile court. A KU law student, the probation officer, makes an investigative report.
A hearing is held and Judge Charles C. Rankin places the boys on probation under one of the 13 student probation officers.
How the system of juvenile probation works in Lawrence and how KU student probation officers handle delinquent boys and girls is easy to understand. But it is more difficult to see the effects or results of such a probation.
SOME IMPORTANT questions arise. What values or influences does the probation period and student probation officer have on the future career of the student lawyer and the future behavior of the delinquent himself? How is the Douglas County Juvenile Court benefited?
Even more basic: Exactly who is the delinquent? Kansas law says juvenile delinquents are offenders if boys, 18, if girls, 16, who commit crimes, that under adult law, would
Other juvenile offenders, though not technically delinquents, are handled by the juvenile courts are miscreants, truants, traffic offenders and wavwards.
"ALL OF US probation officers have done some of the same things when we were young that these delinquents have done. We stole pocket knives out of dime stores. We started bonfires, also. Were we delinquents? Who is to say if these boys are delinquents? They might grow up to be normal citizens. Many of them do."
be subject to fine or imprisonment as a felon.
But this still doesn't answer: Who is the delinquent? A law student said.
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The student probation officers seemed to agree that the effectiveness of probation on the delinquent himself can only be measured after several years. Juvenile probation is a rehabilitation period when the offender is given a chance to readjust to normal, conventional life.
It is not expected that all offenders placed on probation will make good social adjustments.
DAN HOFSON, associate professor of law and instructor of the juvenile problems seminar, said. "There is always the problem of
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60th Year, No. 57
India Rejects Red Terms; Nehru Predicts Long War
NEW DELHI — (UFI) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru today rejected Red China's withdrawal terms and warned parliament the border war could last five years or more.
Nehru said India would be willing to submit the dispute to an international court, such as the World Court at the Hague, but that Red China first must get out of 15,000 square miles of territory claimed by India.
Nehru's tough tone apparently was prompted by a 5,000 word statement broadcast by Peking radio yesterday which an Indian foreign ministry spokesman termed an "unveiled threat."
LAST WEEK, in talking to parliament, Nehru was vague about terms on which India would negotiate with Red China and drew angryries from opposition members of parliament. Today he was cheered.
The 73-year-old prime minister said he believed the border war would be a long one — "it may even last five years of more."
"I feel confident we will win this struggle." Nehru declared.
Referring to three specific problems. Nehru made these points:
- India is observing the ceasefire despite the fact it was established by Red China and despite the fact the Chinese have fired on Indian soldiers since they began it.
- India firmly rejects Peking's withdrawal offer, based on Red China's version of the positions held by each side Nov. 7, 1959. The government favors disengagement but only if the Chinese get out of 2,500 square miles of Indian territory occupied since last Sept. 8.
- There will be no meetings between the two sides in any demilitarized zones until Red China complies with India's withdrawal demands.
"I REGRET TO SAY that the word of the Chinese government cannot be relied upon." Nehru said bluntly.
He said India could not submit to the Chinese challenge.
"We must face it with all the consequences it might bring . . . what China has done is an insult to the conscience of the world," Nehru said.
A foreign ministry spokesman said last night that Peking's long statement yesterday "appears to be a sort of ultimatum to the participants in the conference at Colombo."
Six non-aligned nations opened a high-level conference at the Ceylonese capital this morning aimed at seeking some way to find a peaceful solution to the border dispute.
THE FOREIGN ministry spokesman said the Peking statement made it clear that the Chinese have no intention of backing down from their withdrawal talks.
"Instead of arguments or clarification, an unveiled threat is delivered to the effect that peaceful negotiations can only be opened on the basis of term dictated by China," the spokesman said.
There had been no indication up to last night that the Chinese Communist troops had carried out their withdrawal from Bomdila and other points yesterday. Feking radio said they would do this Saturday night.
PEKING'S STATEMENT yesterday was harshly worded and possibly fore-shadowed a renewal of the hot war.
More British Troops Rushed To Brunei
SINGAPORE—(UPI)Britain rushed troop reinforcements by plane and ship to Brunei on the island of Borneo today to try to put down the rebellion by Nationalist forces seeking to end British control over the protectorate and the crown colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo.
The three British-controlled territories lie on the northern tip of Borneo, about 800 miles across the South China Sea from Singapore.
HUNDREDS OF INSURGENTS of the so-called north Borneo National Army (TNKU) captured the town of Seria and the surrounding area on Saturday. Reports yesterday said newly-arrived Gurkha troops had recaptured the town but reports today indicated the rebels were still in control.
Recurrent reports reached Singapore today that several European hostages had been killed by the rebels but a spokesman for the British command said "we have not had it confirmed."
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KU Methodist Students May Join Peace March
Little change in the chilly weather pattern is expected today through tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said. Partly cloudy skies are expected tonight with the mercury dropping to near 20. A high today near 40 should edge down to the upper 30s tomorrow.
Between 50 and 100 students are expected to participate in the demonstration. Participants in the peace march have been in a six-week study of disarmament, based on the book "None Shall Make Them Afraid" by Rodney Shaw, director of disarmament education for the Division of Peace and World Order
KU Methodist students will meet at 4:30 p.m. today to decide if they will join students from at least eight other Kansas colleges Saturday in a "Witness for Peace" march to be held in Topeka.
Bishop Eugene Slater of the Kansas Area of the Methodist Church, will address the group on the Statehouse steps.
The demonstration, sponsored by the Kansas Methodist Student Movement, will include a march across that area of Topeka which would be destroyed if a one-megaton bomb were dropped on the Statehouse.
THE MARCH will basically support the efforts of the United States to reduce East-West tensions and to work out a total peace agreement under the supervision of the United Nations.
of the Methodist Church. Shaw met with student planners of the peace witness at Emporia on Dec. 1.
THE DEMONSTRATION is backing the statement of the 1960 General Conference of the Methodist Church, which called upon the United States and all other governments to "declare complete, universal and enforceable disarmament to be their goal and to move in this direction."
OFFICIALS IN SINGAPORE said there were conflicting reports from Serbia. One report said the town was still in rebel hands but another said government troops had recaptured it, killed a number of rebels and taken 500 prisoners.
A British military spokesman in Singapore said one government soldier was killed and 12 wounded in fighting in Brunei yesterday, but he did not pinpoint the location.
In Manila, rebel leader A. Mohar Azahapt, chairman of the Brunei people's party, vowed that "the fight will go on and we shall not lay down our arms until the last British colonizer is driven out and the free and independent state of North Borneo is firmly established."
Reports in Singapore indicated that Brunei Town was under full government control today but was suffering from damaged utilities.
Soviet Union Offers to Permit Check of Nuclear Test Boxes
GENEVA—(UPI)The Soviet Union offered today to let international inspectors enter its territory to service "up to three" black boxes controlling a nuclear test ban.
Soviet delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin made the offer before today's session of the 17-nation disarmament conference.
TSARAPKIN PROPOSED that Russia and the other nuclear powers allow the establishment of "two or three" unmanned seismic stations on their territory to police a test ban.
Asked later whether this meant the Russians were now prepared to let international inspectors onto their territory, Soviet spokesman Alexei Roschin said simply: "Yes."
Rosechin quoted Tsarapkin as saying the international inspection could be taken to the sites of the "black boxes" in Soviet planes and accompanied by Soviet personnel.
U. S. ambassador Charles C. Stelle said he "welcomed" the Soviet proposal and hoped it would lead to Russian acceptance of the principle of on-site inspection of suspected underground nuclear blasts by the Russians.