Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 47
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 19, 1962
OLDEST TRAINEE—David Shaffer, 41, of New Orleans, La., is the oldest prospective volunteer now enrolled in the KU Peace Corps training program. Shaffer is shown here as a member of a trainee panel that recently explained the organization and purpose of the Peace Corps.
Trainee Discusses His Unusual Past
By Trudy Meserve
Doing uncommon things comes naturally to David Shaffer.
Doing uncommon things comes naturally to David Shafter. "My grandfather," he said, "remarried at 72. The bride was 70 The couple spent their honeymoon in a tent.
"And then there was my grandmother," he continued. "Until her death several weeks ago, she was out about five times a week drinking beer and playing poker."
Shaffer, a dapper man who is going bald, has had an unusual life. Now, at 41, he is trying to get into the Peace Corps. Shaffer is the oldest trainee in the KU group.
He is one of 30 prospective Corps volunteers training at KU for the Costa Rican project.
SHAFFER SAID his father, an estimating engineer, is one of ten world experts on marble. His father and mother are presently remodeling a home themselves.
Shaffer explained he is joining the Corps to experience life in a Central American country, to gain two years experience in teaching and to spend time where Spanish is spoken.
Shaffer, frowning at a lemon slice which floated aimlessly in the bottom of his tea cup, said "I guess
I have always had an interest in people. During college foreign students were frequent guests in my home during vacations.
"LAST YEAR. I started working with 'Project Learn' in New Orleans. Three times a week, I tried to teach 13 illiterate Negro adults how to read and write.
"At the end of the term, 10 of the students attained fourth-grade level," he said
Shaffer explained that 'Project Learn, formed in New Orleans by a group of Jewish women, is an effort to educate some of the 70,000 illiterates in Louisiana.
"TLL NEVER forget our class Christmas party." he said. "I was
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Officials Press Soviet Decision On Cuban Jets
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Negotiations for removal of Soviet IL28 bombers from Cuba remained stalled today. Officials said the United States has made it clear that it wants an answer soon.
Officials shied away from the suggestion that a deadline has been set for a satisfactory answer on the bomber question. But President Kennedy has scheduled a news conference for 5 p.m. CST tomorrow.
The President met with his Cuban crisis advisers today to study a report from John J. McCloy, head of a special negotiating committee. McCloy spent more than five hours yesterday in consultations with Soviet Deputy Premier Vasyli V. Kuznetsov at the Russian Mission on Long Island, N.Y.
KENNEDY CONFERRED with the executive committee of the National Security Council for one hour after returning by helicopter from a weekend with his family at Middleburg, Va.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger declined to comment on McCloy's Report. But other U.S. officials said talks still were stalled on this country's insistence that the Soviet IL28 bombers be removed from Cuba.
U. S. officials would say only that they hoped for a satisfactory response to demands for removal of the IL28's soon—meaning sometime today or tomorrow. It would be helpful, they said, if a response could come before Kennedy's scheduled news conference.
The President's news conference, open to radio and TV and scheduled for a convenient viewing hour in many American homes, would provide a forum for any announcement—such as a tightening of the U.S. quarantine to include fuel oil.
THAT STEP has figured in speculation throughout the controversy over removal of the Soviet warplanes, which Kennedy has included in the "offensive weapons" category.
Today's UDK Is Last Until After Vacation
Today's Kansan will be the last paper until after Thanksgiving vacation. The next Kansan will be published on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Philosopher Claims His Profession Is Failing to Solve Modern Problems
By Tom Winston
The speaker, Errol Harris, professor of philosophy, is a British-educated philosopher who has taught in South Africa. He is spending this year in residence at KU. Prof. Harris left Africa, he explains, because racial discrimination was beginning to manifest itself there, and it was put up with it or get out.
Today's philosophers should help mankind find a moral purpose rather than more efficient ways to destroy himself, a speaker at the Humanities Lecture said last Friday.
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Prof. Harris said today's philosophers are concerned mainly with the analysis of words and ideas and that instead of lending direction to contemporary thought, they have succeeded in driving men to social extremes.
Prof. Harris said that the philosophers of analysis have 'removed
"The real problem today is how to combat a set of political half-truths, dogmatically asserted as a doctrine. Who is better qualified to undertake this than philosophers?" Prof. Harris said. He added that philosophers, with one or two exceptions, have not been doing this.
THE RESULT of this overenthusiasm is "a tendency for persons to turn to such extremes as communism or fascism," he said.
everything" in their eagerness to clear away the rubbish in discussions of political extremes.
Instead of helping to find a path of common sense, "the analytic philosophers have been destructive of metaphysics and morals," Prof. Harris said. "These men are subtle arguers about the nature of words, but for all their cleverness, they are likely to become dupes of their own philosophy.
"UNLESS REASON and sanity can prevail, society's hope for the future is rapidly vanishing," he said.
More than 400 people, including Roy Roberts, editor of the Kansas City Star and founder of the Roy Roberts distinguished professorship Prof. Harris now holds, heard Prof. Harris speak in the University Theatre.
Prof. Harris said the love of wisdom has been the foundation of philosophy since antiquity. He traced its evolution from the Greeks through Descartes and the social contract philosophers to modern day idealists.
PROF. HARRIS WAS head of the department of philosophy at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa before he came to the United States in 1956. In 1857 he gave a series of lectures at Yale (the Terry lectures) concerning the compatibility of science and religion
He served as acting head of the department of logic at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland during a sabbatical leave during 1959-60. He is spending this year as a professor in residence at KU.
Chinese Capture Key Indian Post
NEW DELHI—(UPI)—Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru tonight announced the fall of the key northeast frontier bastion of Bomdila to Chinese Red troops and appealed to the United States and Britain for massive new military aid.
"We have asked for massive military aid from the U.S.A., and the United Kingdom." Nehru said in a surprise broadcast to the nation. He did not go into details of the aid sought.
In the unprecedented emergency broadcast, Nehru pledged gravely that "we will see this through."
"We shall not accept any terms until the invaders are thrown out," he vowed.
THE CAPTURE of Bomdila, a gateway to the rich Assam Plains of Northeast India, was the biggest Chinese Red victory yet in the drive that began from the Northeast frontier Oct. 20.
It came in the wake of a series of Korea-type human wave offensives by Chinese Red troops that overwhelmed key positions on three widespread fronts inside India's Northern border with Red China.
The loss of Bomdila, an administrative center of some 2,000 population, and of the 9,000-foot Bomdila Pass it controls, meant the trapping of thousands of Indian troops further north.
Bomdila was the site of a U.S. bomber base in World War II and its airfield had been used in recent weeks as the terminus of a supply airlift flying in U.S. arms and equipment for Indian forces.
"OUR HEART goes out to the people of Assam," Nehru told the nation in today's surprise broadcast. "This war is not only a menace for Towang, for Walong, for Bomida.
"It is a menace not only for Asia but for the whole world."
Heavy Chinese Red forces seized Bomdila, chief administrative center of the region, after leapfrogging
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The State Department said today the United States was giving "urgent and sympathetic" attention to requests by India for fresh military aid in its border war with Communist China, including transport planes and mountain warfare equipment.
some 35 miles through Indian defenses on the northeast frontier, and cutting a key highway just north of the town.
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A defense ministry spokesman had said earlier that the entire civilian population of Bomdila, estimated at 2,000, had been evacuated in advance of the Red capture. He said an estimated half division of Indian troops retreating from Se La had been cut off by the Red drive, which also isolated an Indian forward divisional
BOMDILA FELL to Red troops who had sliced down from Se La, a strategic mountain pass captured yesterday by the Chinese.
Bonn Collapse May Be Near
BONN — (UPI) — The five Free Democratic Party (FDP) members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's coalition cabinet resigned today, threatening the government with collapse.
The party announced it was quitting Adenauer's government because the chancellor had refused to meet its demands to fire Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss. A short time later the Party announced the resignation of the ministers.
A SPOKESMAN for Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) said the chancellor will meet tomorrow afternoon with Party leaders to discuss the best course for action.
Adenauer is now lacking eight seats for a majority in Parliament. The CDU and FDP together had 309 seats, of which the FDP supplied 67. Without the FDP Adenauer can muster only 242 seats, eight less than the 250 seats he needs for a majority.
LEADING CDU POLITICIANS said Adenauer will probably try to run a minority government and stick to his refusal to fire Strauss. This could not be confirmed immediately.
Nikita Plans Tightened Controls on Production
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev today announced a sweeping reorganization of the Communist's Party's structure to tighten control over industry and agriculture. The move appeared aimed at stepping up production without curtailling Soviet military and space programs.
At the same time, he said the Russian people never had it so good.
In a keynote speech to the Communist Central Committee meeting, Khrushchev said the Soviet Union should follow the example of the capitalist countries by making extensive use of industrial specialization.
"We should remember Lenin's injunction to be able, if necessary, to learn from the capitalists, to imitate the good and the profitable they have," Khrushchev declared.
THE 1963 draft plan calls for an 8 per cent increase in gross national product, he said.
He said it was expedient to set
Khrushchev proposed to abolish small administrative districts in rural areas to help solve the nation's farm problems, replacing the units with 1.500 larger agricultural production directorates.
up a single agency to manage industry in all the republics of Central Asia. The agency would answer directly to the Presidium of the Party Central Committee.
Khrushchev urged more centralization of "designing and scientific research organizations (to) accelerate technical progress.
THE PARTY must not only ensure "more concrete guidance of industry, construction and agriculture" but concern itself equally with "problems of every day life, education and culture," he said.
Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would keep emphasis in the years ahead on development of heavy industry over consumer goods. But "We must take additional measures to ensure that the production of consumer goods proceeds at faster rates."
In four years he said, consumer goods increased 34 per cent compared to a planned 33 per cent.
Weather
The weather will be cloudy with occasional light snow today through Tuesday. The high today and Tuesday will be in the upper 30s, with the low tonight between 30 and 35.