Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1962
Long lines of long-faced students crowded the corridor outside the business office in Strong Hall this morning, as the four-day tuition and fee-payment period began.
The students grumbled as they waited in the slow-moving queue until their turn finally came. Then they slowly wrote out their checks and slid them dejectedly across the counter as if they were parting with life-long friends.
SAD PARTING—Charles Twiss, Kansas City, Mo., junior, follows the long line of KU students who sadly wrote out their fee payment checks this morning. Fee payments will continue through Saturday. Two-dollar-a-day fines will be added for late fees with Thursday, Oct. 4, as the last possible time to pay fees.
Student Budgets Dented As Fees Coffer Bulges
This sacrificial look was not without just cause. Out-of-state undergraduate students are forking over $259 checks for tuition and campus privilege fees while the students from in-state are parting with $104. Out-of-state graduates' fees came to $154.
The money drain does not stop with tuition payment. Students also have a chance to buy subscriptions for the 1962-1963 Jayhawker for an additional $6, pay $10 in optional senior class dues, and purchase Blue Cross-Blue Shield hospitalization insurance. The rates for the insurance are $22.20 for single students, and $66.45 for married students.
There will be a $2 penalty each day for late payments, beginning Monday, Oct. 1. The final date for paying fees will be Oct. 4.
Students who names being with the letter A-H are to pay their fees today; I-N tomorrow; O-S Thursday, and T-Z Friday.
Before paying fees, students must pick up their orange fee cards in the basement of Strong Hall. There also are optional fee cards for the Jayhawker, senior class dues, and Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance.
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Upper classmen will notice that the old jailbird type identification cards have been replaced by new plastic ID's which carry the student's name, numbers and signatures, but no pictures.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THE COURT issued a blanket, temporary restraining order against Barnett, who refused to register Meredith last week and who yesterday ordered the arrest of any federal official attempting to help Meredith register.
The order was in direct defiance of a sweeping federal order.
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The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Gov. Ross Barnett and other Mississippi officials to refrain from interfering in any way with the registration of Meredith.
SHORTLY BEFORE the governor turned up at the state college board office he issued a last-minute order tightening his police power over the state.
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Barnett, sworn to go to jail or close the school rather than see it integrated, issued an executive order that federal officials be arrested by state police if they try to carry out the court edict.
Barnett's order apparently gave state police authority to arrest Meredith in the interest of preserving the peace, regardless of whether Meredith violates any laws.
Partly cloudy this afternoon, becoming mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers extreme north-central this afternoon west and north tonight and southeast tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Low tonight in the 50s. High tomorrow in the 70s.
The appeals court order specifically barred Barnett and other Mississippi officers from arresting or prosecuting Meredith on any charge in connection with his attempt to enter the all-white school.
State vs. U.S. Showdown Near Over Meredith
THE ORDER PROHIBITED any interference or obstruction "by force, threat, arrest or otherwise," with federal officers enforcing court rulings that Meredith should be allowed to enroll at the Oxford, Miss. school.
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) — Gov Ross Barnett went to the state college board office late today and apparently was planning to personally block James Meredith, a Negro, from entering the University of Mississippi.
A state representative, Buddy Newman, said Barnett was prepared to stop Meredith at the door of the board room where he was scheduled to report this afternoon to enroll.
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New Congo Crisis May Erupt Soon
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (UPI) New trouble in two areas of the Congo has forced the United Nations to remove 12 Americans from the interior of Kasai province, it was learned today.
Two U.N. Ghurka soldiers were killed in another incident in Katanga.
The Americans, whose names have not been released, have been flown unharmed from the diamond mining town of Tshikapa to the former Kasai provincial capital, Luluabourg.
The Americans were missionaries, doctors and their families and two nurses staffing the Tshikapa hospital, which has been abandoned.
U. N. NIGERIAN troops were moved into the Tshikapa area late last week when local Congolese gendarmerie refused to take action to halt the fighting there "because this is a tribal affair."
Kasai has been the scene of recent tribal clashes following the division of the province into five new units. The majority group in each unit is trying to force out minorities by all means, even using poisoned arrows.
The Americans were taken out after Tshokwe tribesmen attacked their hospital, killing at least six Lulua patients.
LULUA TRIBESMEN from northern Kasai have been fleeing to their
Blood Spilled In Reaction
ST. LOUIS, Mo—(UPI) A shotgun blast today wounded three policemen and a bystander during a tumultuous demonstration by hundreds of Negroes protesting the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old youth by an aged policeman in suburban Kinloch.
A rash of fires hit the 98 per cent Negro community, razing an elementary school and damaging the police chief's home, and a telephoned bomb threat drove 320 students from Kinloch High School.
A force of nearly 100 county and suburban police dispersed the shouting, shoving crowd and stood by today to enforce a 9 p.m. (Lawrence time) curfew declared by Mayor Clarence Lee.
Gov. John Dalton alerted the Missouri Highway Patrol and asked aides to check whether the situation "warranted action by the National Guard."
"We will do whatever is necessary to preserve the peace," Dalton said in Kansas City.
tribal area around Luluabourg, in the south, by the hundreds since the new clashes began.
The town is crammed with refugees. U.N. officials fear disease outbreaks. Food shortages are reported.
In the Katanga capital, Elisabethville, a U.N. spokesman today reported the death of two Ghurka soldiers and the wounding of four others following the explosion of a mine allegedly planted by the Katangese.
The incident took place yesterday during a Ghurka patrol close to Katangese gendarmerie positions near the Elisabethville airport. The area was the scene of an incident earlier this month in which Katanga claims two of its gendarmerie were killed by U.N. troops.
THE U.N. spokesman announced today that a strong protest has been sent to the Katanga authorities against "the indiscriminate employment of mines and booby traps in an area normally patrolled by U.N. troops."
Replying, the Katanga government denied responsibility for the mines, suggesting that this was "another trap organized by the United Nations to break Katangese efforts in negotiations with their Congolese brothers."
Student Art Exhibited at Murphy Hall
Work from 1961-62 sculpture and painting classes is now on display at Murphy Hall Exhibition Gallery.
The exhibition, which will be on display through October, is sponsored by the architecture department and coincides with the beginning of its 50th anniversary year celebration.
The display includes portraits of human and animal figures, studies in natural wood, welded and carved metals, granite and marble carving, ceramic, concrete, stained glass and mosaic panel. The paintings represent two-dimensional experiments in perception and color, and analysis of nature.
The courses are planned to acquaint future architects with esthetic and physical problems of architectural art. The courses are taught by Bernard "Poco" Frazier, associate professor of architecture and sculpture in residence, and James A. Sterritt, assistant professor of architecture.
Unexplained Goof Disclosed in Atomic Accident
Editor's Note—No one will ever know exactly what happened when an atomic reactor exploded in Idaho last year. But the best official speculation on the cause and what the Atomic Energy Commission learned from the accident.
By Joseph L. Myler
WASHINGTON — (UPI) At about 9 o'clock on the night of Jan. 3, 1961, in an ugly structure rising grotesquely from the lava desert 40 miles from Idaho Falls somebody goofed for reasons that can never be known.
This is the gist of a "final report" issued yesterday by the Atomic Energy Commission on what is officially known as the "SL-1 Reactor Accident."
Four seconds later two men were dead, smashed by atomic violence. A third died two hours later of a head injury.
IT IS THE ONLY fatal accidem in the 20-year-old history of U.S. atomic reactors. There have been a
lot of interim reports on the SL-1 incident as an official board of investigation doggedly examined the radioactive debris in the hope of finding out what happened and why.
The "L" in SL-1 stands for low power. This particular reactor at the national testing grounds in Idaho was the stationary prototype of a portable power plant for remote army bases. It was designed to produce only about 200 kilowatts of power. It had been shut down for about 10 days, and three enlisted men were reassembling its control system.
Atomic reactors are controlled by rods stuck into their deep insides. Pull a control rod out a bit and you step up the pace at which atoms split and release energy. Pull it out some more, and the pace increases.
In charge was Richard C. Legg, 26, of the Navy. With him was John A. Byrnes, 22, of the Army, a certified reactor operator. The third
man, also Army, was Richard L. McKinley, 27, a trainee.
ONE OF THEM, nobody knows which, pulled out the central control rod too far. The result was a "nuclear excursion" which in a split second generated enough heat to produce a violent explosion.
Legg and Byrnes apparently were on top of the reactor vessel containing the atomic fuel core. McKinley appears to have been partly on or close to the top of the reactor.
Why did one of them pull the control rod out too far? The AEC investigators, headed by Curtis A. Nelson, director of the Commission's division of inspection, could only suggest "possible alternatives".
- FAULTY TRAINING. In any case, the proper procedures apparently were not followed.
- "Human error." The investigators translated this as "incorrect manipulation" of the control rod "owing to preoccupation of the
manipulator with extraneous matters.7 It was near 9 o'clock — was someone musing upon a date missed, a dinner delayed?
- "Involuntary" action "as a result of unusual or unexpected stimulus." Such as an electrical shock, perhaps, or the slip of a foot?
- Deliberate malperformance motivated by emotional stress or instability." An action performed in anger or in a moment of suicidal depression?
The result was a "water hammer." The hammer hurled the 13-ton reactor pressure vessel nine feet into the air. It hit the roof of the reactor building and settled back into place in a matter of four seconds,
THE REACTOR contained a volume of coolant water, about seven feet deep and five feet across, known as a "slug." The runaway nuclear reaction generated a peak pressure of about 10,000 pounds per square inch under the slug.
leaving two men smashed and a third dying.
Radiation near the reactor just after the accident built up to 1,000 roentgens an hour. Six hundred units are more than enough to kill. Legg, Byrnes, and McKinley would have been killed by radiation if they hadn't been killed by violence.
Somebody goofed and three men died — but not in vain. The AEC has drastically tightened reactor procedures as a result of what happened to SL-1. It assigned "immediate responsibility" for the accident to Combustion Engineering, Inc., the operating contractor. But it said in the final report that its own Idaho operations office and its own headquarters division of reactor development "shared in the responsibility" for safe operation of SL-1.
Said an AEC spokesman. "We learned something from this. We think all reactors henceforth will be safer because of what happened to these three young men."