Conservatives Attempt Goldwater Bandwagon
CHICAGO—(UPI)—A determined group of conservative Republicans from all parts of the country—but with a notably strong concentration from the South—gathered at a motel here Sunday to draft plans for "Goldwater for President" drive.
THE STRATEGY session, attended by about 40 persons, was held in secrecy. Word of it leaked out only yesterday.
The general purpose of the meeting was to prepare and organize a strong conservative voice in the party that would speak with power at the 1964 Presidential convention.
Specifically discussed were possible ways of blocking Rockefeller's bid for the nomination and gaining the candidacy for Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.
If Goldwater and the New York governor actively oppose each other for the nomination, it would touch off the most direct clash between liberals and conservatives in the Republican party since the 1962 pre-convention battle between Eisenhower and the late Ohio senator, Robert Taft. The contest cut deep wounds into the party that were slow to heal.
GOLDWATER, reached last night at his home in Phoenix, said he knew nothing of the Chicago meeting.
"I just got back from Grand Canyon," he told newsmen. "I don't know who they are or what it is." He declined further comment.
Republican national committee chairman William E. Miller also refused to comment.
But Charles Barr, a Cook County Ill., Republican leader who attended the closed door session, called it "a meeting where you let your hair down and talked candidly about the candidates and the issues that might be affecting the (1964) race."
He said Rockefeller was given little chance of defeating Kennedy if he received the nomination.
BARR SAID five possible presidential candidates were discussed and that it "was generally concluded the strongest candidate, if he were available, would be Sen. Goldwater."
"As a matter of fact, some people went so far as to say from Kennedy's standpoint Rockefeller would be the best candidate." Barr said.
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"There was considerable discussion about the attitude of the South and the border states about Rockefeller," Barr said, adding that most of those present felt the South would vote Democratic if Rockefeller were the GOP candidate.
There was reason to believe the conservative session was called to prepare a position for the Republican national committee meeting which starts this Friday in Washington.
The three-day meeting will study and comment on last month's election results and lay plans for 1964.
Alan Horton of the American Universities Field Staff, said this yesterday in a diplomatic history class. Since 1947, Horton has lived in the Middle East as student, teacher, relief worker and college administrator.
Arab Neutrals Re-evaluated
Arab neutralism no longer seems bad to the U.S. State Department, for it is now generally conceded that "neutralism" does not mean anti-Americanism.
Horton said that Nasser's "bloodless revolution" in Egypt is considered a good investment for U.S. aid and probably reflects the future organization of the Near East.
"It has been only in recent years," he said, "that the idea of 'nationalism' or the concept of 'nations' has entered the thinking of the Middle East."
He will speak to about 30 classes faculty and student meetings at KU this week and next.
Horton will discuss the "New Egypt" at noon tomorrow at the Faculty Forum.
Led by articulate townsmen, particularly the ultra-rich landed elite, the Near East slowly has recognized the idea of defending a fixed area of land as a nation, he said. Ironically, these very landed elite may lose much of their wealth and power in the semi-Socialist nations now emerging.
It looked bad for American foreign policy when Egypt mortgaged her cotton to buy Czech-made arms, he said. This did not follow Arab loyalty to the West.
"But gradually our State Department has come around to the opinion that Egypt was not necessarily aligned with either the Soviets or the West," said Horton.
Both the U.S. and Russia have aided the Near East countries, he said. It is to the obvious advantage of the Near East countries to take as much as possible from both sides.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Despite all this, there was a feeling here that Stevenson's stature in the United Nations had been somewhat chilled because of the article, written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett. The latter is one of Kennedy's closest journalistic friends.
STEVENSON'S statement came after the White House had said Stevenson had supported President Kennedy's decision to clamp the arms quarantine on Cuba.
STILLWATER, Okla.—(UPI) — Oklahoma State football coach Cliff Speegle was fired today.
Kennedy, however, may shortly make some sort of gesture to publicly re-emphasize that Stevenson has his confidence.
60th Year, No. 53
Speegle Relieved Of Coaching Duties
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy wants Adlai E. Stevenson to remain in his post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, it was authoritatively stated today.
Dr. Oliver S. Willham, president of Oklahoma State, announced this afternoon that he had relieved Speegle of his coaching duties. He said Speegle's contract, which had one year more to run, would be honored.
Stevenson, it also was said, likes his job and wants to keep it despite the controversy now swirling about because of a Saturday Evening Post article on his role in the Cuban crisis.
Adlai Wants Job Despite Rumors
"The facts are that I never proposed to trade our bases abroad to get the Soviets out of their missile bases in Cuba; and that I favored the blockade on the shipment of more Soviet arms to Cuba. I was also emphatically in favor of using the peace-keeping machinery of the Organization of American States and the United Nations."
The ambassador said last night the article was inaccurate in reporting that he had proposed trading U.S. bases abroad for a Soviet missile withdrawal from Cuba. He added:
Watch Continues As Red Planes Go
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—U.S. reconnaissance planes watched today for further evidence that Russia is shipping its IL28 jet bombers out of Cuba in compliance with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's promise to President Kennedy.
The Pentagon said yesterday it had photographic proof that at least three of the bombers had been shipped out of Cuba aboard the Soviet ship Okhotsk.
RECONNAISSANCE planes were watching for other ships carrying the bombers and keeping a close surveillance of dismantling operations at various Cuban airfields.
Weather
Partly cloudy weather, windy and colder, is forecast for this afternoon. The low tonight will be between 15 and 20 degrees. A high of 40 to 45 degrees is forecast for tomorrow.
Governor Wants Full Status for WU
TOPEKA —(UPI)— Gov. John Anderson today recommended that the University of Wichita be brought into the state school system under its current university status.
Anderson, reporting on a conference he held with Wichita representatives, said Wichita should come into the system under the jurisdiction of the state board of regents, leaving determination of status and name and degrees to the legislature and the regents.
Plans to bring the southeast Kansas university, owned and operated by the City of Wichita, into the state system became embroiled in a heated controversy over recommendations of Dr. Alvin C. Eurich and a panel of educational experts.
The so-called Eurich report adopted by the state regents recommended that Witchia enter the state system as a "state universities center"under control of a board composed of officials of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Wichitans have violently opposed any thought of their school losing its university status and becoming a branch of KU or K-State.
Future Lawyers Work With Juveniles
By Linda Machin
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on the KU law students probation officers.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, two boys, one 14 years old and the other 15, walked down a deserted street in the business district of a small town.
The older of the two boys, his hands in the pockets of his blue jeans, said:
"I'll bet we could rob that store over there."
A JERK OF HIS head indicated a small grocery store across the street. "Think we'd get caught?" asked the younger boy.
"Naw," said the other, glancing down the poorly lighted street.
THE BOYS RAN across the street, broke through the door pane and took what was there.
"I guess so," was the answer.
"I dumno," the other boy said impatiently, kicking at a crack in the sidewalk. "Well, are we gonna do it or not?"
"HOW MUCH DO you think we'd get?" asked the younger.
This could have happened on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, or in any city in the United States. But if it happened in Lawrence, the probation officers assigned to the case would be KU law students.
This burglary case is similar to more than 600,000 crimes tried by
juvenile courts in the U.S. each year. In Lawrence, 15 probation officers, all KU law students, are appointed by Charles C. Rankin, Judge of the Juvenile Court.
"The students sign up for the course like any other University course, except that I can limit the number in the class and exclude any student I feel wouldn't make a satisfactory probation officer," Hopson said.
"Then Judge Rankin appoints all the students from my class," he continued. "I usually limit the class to 10 or 11 because a larger number is difficult for the court to work with."
SINCE THE COURSE was begun in 1955, 80 law students have worked on more than 380 juvenile cases Hopson said.
Dan Hopson, associate professor of law and advisor to the officers, explained that the students serve as juvenile court officers as part of a three-hour seminar course in juvenile problems.
Prof. Hopson, who teaches the course, said it extends two semesters so that an officer assigned a probation case in November might continue handling the case until June.
BECAUSE OF THE large number of students wanting to take the course this year, two of the students—Larry L. McGrath, Lawrence second year law student, and Matthew Dowd, Kansas City third year law student—were assigned to juvenile courts in Ottawa and Kansas City.
Throughout the year, the class members meet irregularly, usually once or twice a month, to discuss the juvenile code, and any problems students may be having with the juveniles assigned to them.
Law students in the senior seminar part of the course do intensive reading on juvenile law before being assigned to specific probation cases.
HOPSON SAID THE KU psychological clinic and the Menninger School of Psychiatry assist in class instruction. The psychological clinic works with the juvenile court by examining the backgrounds of the juveniles.
"The law students sit in on evaluation sessions given by the psychology clinics when the evaluation involves their probationer." Hopson said.
THE MAIN PART of the course is the student's experience as a probation officer. The students who are officers in the juvenile court have two main functions:
In addition, the class benefits from information given by speakers from the Menninger foundation, Topeka, and by a trip to the Boys Industrial School at Topeka.
- To make a preliminary investigation of the case before the judge makes a decision.
- To supervise offenders placed on probation.
Prof. Hopson and Judge Rankin described the steps of handling an offender:
AFTER A COMPLAINT has been filed and the offender has been arrested Russell Gangi, Lawrence third year law student and chief probation officer, assigns the offender to one of the 13 law students
Hopson said charges range from breaking and entering, to sexual misbehavior.
Next the probation officer begins an investigation to find out why the offender acted as he did and how the offender could best be readjusted to a normal, conventional life.
Larry McGrath, second year law student, said he talked with parents, school authorities, friends, neighbors and the boys themselves.
"I also try to run down their church association if they have any," he added.
On the other hand, friends of the friend are usually candid in their
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HE SAID ONE of the officers' problems is getting an unbiased report of the offender's behavior. "Sometimes it's hard to tell whether to talk to parents separately or together for the most truthful answers." he said.
The photographs of the Okhotsk released by the Pentagon yesterday clearly showed the fuselages of three planes on the Soviet ship's deck. They also showed that the vessel had extra large hatches, indicating there might be additional planes stored in its hold.
When the presence of the light jet bombers first was announced, the Defense Department said there were more than 20 on the Soviet-dominated island. In its statement yesterday, the Pentagon said there were "more than 30."
THE PENTAGON said the photographs of the Okhotsk were taken Saturday as the Soviet ship was proceeding along the northern coast of Cuba.
In his announcement yesterday, Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said the government has gathered information showing that IL28s are being dismantled at the San Julian Air Field on the western tip of Cuba.
A spokesman said the bombers had appeared and reappeared in different places, although he would not say whether they had been seen in flight over Cuba.
Alabama Denies Negroes Entry
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — (UPI) The University of Alabama yesterday apparently killed the hopes of three Negroes to enter the school this spring by halting the processing of incomplete applications.
The university said registration for the spring semester closed last Friday and incomplete applications, including those of three Negroes, would not be considered for the next term.
The school said University President Frank A. Rose Friday instructed the Admissions Records Office to process no more applications from transfer students unless completed credentials were available that day.
It was the fourth consecutive semester admissions were closed in advance of public notice.
The school also said Rose told the admissions office not to accept any more applications from beginning freshmen for the February term.
Only one Negro has ever attended the university. She was Autherine Lucy, who was expelled after three days of riots in 1956 for allegedly saying school officials favored the violence.
A federal court order, under which she attended the university, was issued as a class action and prohibits the university from barring admissions to any applicant on the ground of race.
The university earlier acknowledged receipt of "preliminary applications" from three Negroes. A university spokesman said none of those applications included all necessary credentials such as transcripts and other data.