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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 28, 1967
Gov. Barnett Fights To Keep Promise
By United Press International
Ross Robert Barnett stumped the length and breadth of Mississippi during the hot summer of 1959 and, with clinched fist, vowed schools in the Magnolia State would not be integrated if he was elected governor.
Today, three years later, the 64 year-old farm boy from the tiny community of Standing Pine in central Mississippi is trying desperately to carry out his campaign promise.
WITH THE ALMOST solid backing of Mississippi folk, the colorful Barnett ("come see me, ole' boy," he often says to reporters) has replaced Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas as a symbol of Southern resistance to racial integration.
Unbending in his stand, Barnett has found himself in much the same position as his Confederate soldier-father was a century ago — battling the federal government. Twice he has personally rejected Negro James H. Meredith from the classrooms of the all-white University of Mississippi, despite federal orders to the contrary.
What kind of man is this Barnett, whose name is on the lips of persons throughout the world?
"He's sincere," friends say. "He is the highest example of an American Christian Patriot," a leader of the Daughters of the American Revolution once remarked.
TO NEWSMEN WHO cover his press conferences, he is congenial, folksy and quick with a smile and a "no comment" when irritated at a pointed question.
A former Baptist Sunday school teacher, Barnett is a church-going man who often quotes the Bible to back up his executive action.
During his campaign for office he often shouted to cheering crowds on a courthouse lawn that "God was the original segregationist. He made the white man white and the black man black and He did not intend for them to mix."
LAST YEAR THE Mississippi Legislature approved a series of bills which would allow restaurants to serve dinner wines in prohibitionist Mississippi. Barnett, "after
prayerful consideration," vetoed the measures with a stroke of his pen and a public statement quoting several Biblical passages pertaining to strong drink.
That Barnett wields strong power in the state legislature has been shown by the number of administration-backed bills that have been overwhelmingly adopted.
One example of his popularity was demonstrated earlier this year when the lawmakers chose "Go Mississippi" as the state's official song. The bouncy ditty was written by a Barnett campaign worker and is sung to the tune of "Roll with Ross," the governor's popular campaign song.
Simons Named Fund Executive
Dolph C. Simons, Jr., associate publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal World, and Mrs. David T. Loy, instructor in the department of sociology and anthropology, have been named to the 1962-63 Executive Committee of the Advisory Board for the Greater University Fund of the University of Kansas. Simons has also been appointed regional vice-chairman for University Fund activities in northeast Kansas.
Simons, who was appointed to the Board in 1954, was chairman of the 1962 Lawrence HELP-KP campaign that brought KU an additional $18,000 in loan funds from 1,250 contributors, and led to total contributions from more than 1,600 persons.
Mrs. Loy, a member of the Board since 1957, moved to Lawrence recently from Great Bend where she served as co-chairman of the Barton County Fund campaign last year. This campaign secured 57 per cent KU alumni participation.
KU alumni para-
The Greater University Fund is
sponsored jointly by the KU Alumni
and Endowment Associations. The Fund was created in 1953 to serve as a channel for gifts to benefit KU and to encourage alumni participation.
The B'nai B'rith Hillel Counselorship Sponsors Holy Day Services
Friday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
(Erev Rosh Hashonah)
Saturday, Sept. 29, 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. (First Day)
Sunday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m.
(Second Day)
Sunday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m.
(Kol Nidrei)
Monday, Oct. 8, 9 a.m.
(Yom Kippur)
All at the
The new scholars were selected solely on merit, with the amount of the awards based on need and ranging from no monetary award to 100 per cent support. The scholarships are renewable.
The Watkins scholarships are supported by an annual grant of $12,500 from the fund created by the will of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins. Summerfield scholarships are supported by an annual grant of $25,000 from funds provided by the will of Solon E. Summerfield.
Selections were made on the basis of superior scholastic achievements at KU.
21 KU Students Receive Awards
The new Watkins scholars are:
Jewish Community Center
The names of 11 Summerfield and 10 Watkins scholars chosen from the University of Kansas student body have been announced by Robert Billings, director of aids and awards.
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Karen Kay Anderson, Bird City junior; Carole F. Bishop, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Judith A. DeSpain, Wichita sophomore; Evelyn Twila Fearing, Lawrence freshman; Audrey Joan Felt, Prairie Village sophomore; Margaret A. Jeter, Hays sophomore; Sharon Kay Menasco, Wichita sophomore; Linda Ruth Musser, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Sharon Esther Nelson, Larned sophomore, and Phyllis Kay Rueb, St. Francis junior.
The new Summerfield scholars are:
Dudley Dean Allen, Lawrence sophomore; David Louis Brack, Salina sophomore; William Joseph Cibes Jr., Altamont sophomore; Delbert Dale Franz, Walton junior; Bruce Douglas Hall, Coffeyville junior; Arthur B. Leonard II, Lawrence sophomore; Terry Alan Miller, Baxter Springs sophomore; Robert Melvin Shurtz, Beloit junior; Philip Howard Smith, Onaga sophomore; Donald Otis Swenson, Clay Center senior, and Allan W. Wicker, Independence senior.
KU-Y Gains 61 New Members
The KU-Y gained 61 members last night.
The new members joined at a meeting to acquaint new students with the 18 programs and projects sponsored by the KU-Y. About 240 persons attended.
Programs discussed were the "Y" freshman program, English Style Debate, ski trip, adolescent guidance, handicapped children, Model United Nations, higher education, folk singing, race relations, African studies, Asian Book drive, faculty fireside, current events, Rock Chalk great men of the 20th century and political emphasis week.
Tentative programs are a trip to Washington, D.C., a student exchange with the Soviet Union and a concert by the Yale Russian Chorus.
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