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In announcing the move, Warner said racial discrimination in several local taverns will receive immediate consideration.
Don Warner, Civil Rights Council Chairman
CRC, City Group To Act Together
Thursday, Nov. 1, 1962
The KU Civil Rights Council will work with the Lawrence Human Rights Commission to solve racial discrimination problems, Don Warner, Toneka senior and CRC chairman, said yesterday.
WARNER, speaking at the regular CRC meeting last night in the Kansas Union, said that a decision has been made by his group to discuss the tavern issue in executive session.
"This is an extremely sensitive area," Warner said, "and we want to be careful not to injure the business of anyone through an accidental remark which might be made in a preliminary discussion."
Warner said that the CRC is concerned with protecting the privacy and rights of all citizens regardless of their civil rights views.
The CRC members at the meeting were to have heard the report of a committee which has been investigating discriminating taverns. Members will hear the report in closed session.
THE POINT was repeated by William A. Binns, clinical psychologist at Watkins Hospital and member of the Lawrence commission. "We are obligated by law to protect the complainant and the individual complained about." Binns said.
The LHRC is one year old and its nine members are appointed to staggered three-year terms. An arm of the Lawrence city government, the LHRC was established by city ordinance.
Biins, who will meet with Warner next Monday, said that in the future a broad range of human relations problems will be discussed and worked at in cooperation with the CRC.
WARNER SAID he thinks the Monday meeting will be the start of an effective working arrangement between the two groups.
"We are very concerned that the problem of discrimination be resolved," Warner said, adding that by working with the LHRC this goal might more quickly be reached.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 35
U.S. Sends Aid to India
WASHINGTON — (UFT) — The United States will begin flying rifles, mortars, radios and trucks to India this week to help that country fight "premeditated Chinese aggression."
State Department press officer Lincoln White, said. "We expect the first priority items to be airlifted to India this week."
U. S. officials said that for the present, at least, the aid is not expected to require training and instruction.
The aid is being sent at the request of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. White refused to discuss financing of the arms, and said he did not know whether Nehru
Communist China's possession of Tibet is the key to possible aggression on the plains of India, Albert Ravenholt, American University field representative and journalist, said yesterday.
Ravenholt said the Himalayas ano Tibet through history have shielded India from attack. With the Red Chinese move into Tibet that line was breached, he said.
"Nehru made a fundamental miscalculation about the importance of the Red Chinese take-over in Tibet. Ravenholt said. "He did not recognize the historical role Tibet played in shielding India."
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also had requested planes. He also declined to discuss coordination of aid efforts by the United States, Britain and Canada.
In other comment, he said that Red Chinese leaders have largely abandoned their great leap forward effort as they have abandoned the commune program.
NEHRU ALSO asked Britain and Canada for arms aid, and diplomatic officials said these two countries were coordinating efforts with the United States in providing the weapons.
Asian Expert Says Tibet Is Key Area
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CORE Leader Says Policy Is Changed
A civil rights leader said here yesterday that his organization had changed to the socio-economic approach to racial equality.
This approach, he said, educates the public about discriminatory practices and then asks them to apply pressure to the offending party.
The speaker was Eugene Tourner, regional director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the Midwest. He spoke at the year's first Minority Opinions Forum.
Tourner said CORE operated by grass-roots movement.
He said CORE approached discriminatory problems in their entire social complexity, including employment, decent housing and self respect.
"Until any action can be achieved." Tourner said, "we need public support, the real solution. We attempt to assault the conscience of the American community."
"If you deal with many levels of problems," the civil rights leader said, "the solution is self-evident."
Core has 80 chapters in the nation. It operates through various nonviolent actions for all minority groups. Tourner has worked mainly in the North and Midwest.
"Sit-ins are the popularized image of CORE," Tourner said. "But what it is accomplishing today is in the more fundamental areas of Negro employment and housing."
He described an employment boycott of a grocery store in the Midwest as an example of how CORE operates. He said that this store had jobs open to Negroes only in the menial service categories despite the fact that 20 per cent of the store's income came from Negro customers.
"Our typical way to handle this," Tourner said, "is to send in a Negro applicant with over-qualifications for a job. If he doesn't get it, we send in a white applicant with under-qualifications.
"If the White applicant is given the job, we negotiate with the offending party. When negotiation fails, we try to get community support, organize sympathizers to bring pressure on those refusing to cooperate."
In the area of housing in the North, Tourner said that Negroes might find homes but no attempt is made for sanitation there.
Another problem CORE fights, Tourner said is the "whisper campaign." provoked by realtors to prey on the Negro.
In this whisper campaign, he said, the realtor moves a Negro family into a white district, then begins the rumor that other families are moving out because of this. Finally the whole white community leaves and the realtor can sell the homes to Negroes for four times the amount of their value.
"The best way to handle this case," Tourner said, "is to go to the white families, explain what is taking place, and ask for their help in fighting it."
Wiggins Will Address Convocation Tomorrow
Warren W. Wiggins, acting director of the Peace Corps, will speak at an all-university convocation tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
All 10:30 a.m. classes are cancelled.
WIGGINS SPEECH. "The Peace Corps — Past and Future," will climax the KU Peace Corps Week activities.
Robert Swan, Topeka junior and chairman of the KU Peace Corps committee said he will meet Wiggins, who is flying from Washington D.C., to Kansas City, Mo., tonight and accompany him to KU.
African Tribe Exhibition Opens This Sunday
Bakongo Artifact
By Joanne Prim
It takes only seconds to go back in time 100 years. It takes but steps to journey 5,000 miles.
The Ibo tribe is as close as the KU Museum of Art.
The Nigerian tribe will be featured in a special exhibition titled "Africa: Faces and Figures" which opens this weekend.
During a funeral service a member of the tribe wears the mask, actually impersonating the dead companion.
Another mask comes from the Dan tribe on the Ivory Coast. It is a mask of the ancestor cult based on the concept that the mask becomes the abode of the deceased ancestor, who may have been the ancestor of a tribesman or a parent of one of its members.
ONE OF THE ARTICLES on display will be a mask used in the Ibo burial ceremony.
The public is invited to a 3 to 5 p.m. reception Sunday at the museum.
OFFERINGS and sacrifices are made to the spirit of the dead so that his wrath will be diverted and his goodwill or benediction gained for any action which might be undertaken. Often sickness is attributed to the malevolence of the ancestor's spirit.
Most of the masks are made of wood, the native artists' favorite material.
Visitors to the art museum will also see African headrest pillows used by women to protect elaborate hairdos. Similar headrests were also known in China and Egypt.
Little is known about several chairs from the Bajokwe tribe except that they were given to the University 60 years ago.
Cultural representations of 15 tribes will be on display. Articles exhibited will include weapons, implements, musical instruments, and furniture.
THE BAKUBA TRIBE in the Congo is famous for its ceremonial cups. The "head cup," used at ceremonial libations, represents a human head. This is probably the survival of an old custom when the severed skull of a slain enemy was used as a ceremonial cup for the purpose of acquiring the spiritual power of the enemy.
THE CHAIRS are of two types. The stool-like structures are primitive examples. Later chairs, showing European influence, were designed with a back, seat, and four legs.
Although each tribe develops its own stylistic approach, the human figure is almost universally used as subject matter. Animals are probably the second most common representation.
The Corps committee invited Wiggins to KU after they learned Sargent Shriver, Corps director, was unable to come.
WIGGINS, CORPS DIRECTOR for program development and operations, is acting director of the Corps, while Shriver is in Africa.
Another feature of the exhibit will be a collection of 20 photographs, "Faces of the Congo," from the department of anthropology at the University of California.
BLACK AND WHITE enlargements show "Mulenda . . . a true alcoholic . . . kind and gentle when sober . . . an industrious farmer . . loved by children and respected in the village . . . a political dignitary
The department of anthropology is joining the Museum of Art in presenting the show.
Underneath is a picture of "Ngovi wife of Mukume .midwife and authority on women's ills."
In recommending Wiggins for a government award which he won, Shriver said Wiggins' ideas were "responsible for the miracle of planning and organization that has brought the Peace Corps into being."
Articles have been loaned to the exhibition by the KU Museum of Natural History, private collectors, and a traveling collection.
GERALD BERNSTEIN, curator of the art museum, said the African show had been in planning since February, 1961.
Wiggins said later he wrote "The Towering Task," credited as the basis for the Corps, strictly on his own initiative and "out of a quickly aroused enthusiasm" for the proposed agency.
WIGGINS ENTERED government service in 1949 to become one of the 15-man missions which administered the Marshall Plan in Norway. Three years later, he began work for Averell Harriman, in the office of the President, where he helped coordinate U.S. economic programs in Western European nations.
The 1962 KU Homecoming queen will be announced immediately after the Peace Corps Convocation (approximately 11:20) in front of Strong Hall.
Wiggins was sent to the Philippine Islands in 1954 as senior U.S. economic advisor to the island government. He was transferred to Bolivia as acting director of the U.S. aid program there.
Four years ago, he returned to Washington and the Agency for International Development (AID) where he was named deputy director of Far East operations.
Weather
Partly cloudy weather is forecast for this afternoon and tonight, with possible light showers. The weather will be colder tonight and generally fair and colder Friday. Friday's high will be near 50.