Calendar Says October, Weather Resembles June
MARY KOGER, Lakewood, Colo., sophomore, carries her coat around hoping to hasten the late fall weather that should have arrived by now.
The state has already broken several high temperature records with 90 degree temperatures. Other records have been tied.
It was the warmest October ever recorded.
That's what weathermen will be saying if October's last week doesn't get cooler. And the forecast predicts that it won't.
October's normal high is usually 66 degrees, and the low temperature around 45 degrees. However, October 1963 has been some 40 degrees above normal with the low temperatures being what the normal high is for this time of year.
Predictions are for the highs to be in the upper 80's for the last remaining days of this unusual month which has affected many people in as many different ways.
KU students have mixed emotions about the situation. Girls are complaining about the warm temperature, because their wool skirts and sweaters are in their closets gathering moths and wishful looks. Men are indifferent—toward books and assignments as they sit beneath the green leaves of the many trees.
Lawrence merchants report few sales on such items as wool dresses, fur-lined coats, and cans of soup.
—Photo by Don Black
JIM MOORE, Wichita senior, like most students lately, seems to prefer relaxing to studying because of the summer weather.
Dailu hansan
61st Year. No.30
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1963
JFK Asks Support Of Civil Rights Bill
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—President Kennedy today threw the full weight of his personal prestige into the battle to save his civil rights bill.
It was necessary to assure at least 17 northern votes against the strong bill to make sure the Southern bloc could not swing the issue with its eight votes. Liberal Democrats and some Republicans might be persuaded to change their minds, but if there was a danger the strong bill would be approved—despite their defections—members of this group would be hard to line up against it.
ADMINISTRATION forces pulled out all the stops in their efforts to stop the strong bill, which they be-
Administration forces faced a formidable task in their battle to block House Judiciary Committee approval of a civil rights bill they believe far too strong to get through Congress.
In order to reverse what appeared to be a lost cause yesterday the administration needed to switch about a dozen votes of the 34 members voting on the Judiciary Committee.
The committee was scheduled to meet again today (10:30 a.m. EDT) on the strong measure drafted by a subcommittee, but there was considerable doubt whether a vote would be taken. There were reports the vote might be postponed until Tuesday.
THE REPUBLICAN leaders indicated they would explain the President's position to GOP members, but they made no promises.
Present at the White House session besides Celler were House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck, Ind.; GOP Whip Leslie Arends, Ill.; Rep. William M. McCulloch, Ohio, ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee; House Speaker John W. M.Cormack and House Majority Leader Carl Albert, D-Okla.
TWICE BEFORE — the last time yesterday — committee chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., has postponed showdowns on the measure in a desperate effort to change some votes.
The President met for an hour with House leaders of both parties last night. He sought to convince them of the necessity of approving a bill which he felt would have a chance for House passage.
lived would be cut to shreds on the House floor.
The administration was reported calling in for payment all of its debtors on the Committee. One source said heavier pressure was being applied than at any previous time since Kennedy took office. He said there were some votes that could be counted on "although it is unpleasant to get them that way. We may have to get more unpleasant with some others before this is through."
Even then, sources said, no one knew if there would be enough votes.
The President's backers secured a postponement of the showdown yesterday to try to convince a bipartisan group of civil rights militants that the strong bill they were supporting would fall of its own weight.
KU Students Petition For Return of Bell
If many KU students have their way, the Tau Kappa Epsilon bell will be returned to the football field at Memorial Stadium in time for Homecoming.
Last night, TKE had collected 1,500 signatures on petitions asking the university administration to allow the bell to be replaced on the field, Rod Lennard, Ottawa senior and TKE president said. Members of the fraternity began circulating petitions Tuesday in all organized living groups.
The bell has not been placed on the field this year because the University administration thinks it may cause trouble. It was the cause of a near riot at the stadium at the last KU-Nebraska game.
Lennard said the TKEs have representatives circulating petitions within most of the living groups.
DR. BRUCE TALBOTT, the inspector, checked the hospital procedures, staff qualifications, staff operation, records, state reports, fire drill procedures, and civil defense organization. He spent the entire day talking with staff members and gathering information.
Dr. Talbott said the result of the inspection would probably be known in a month or more.
Lennard said there was little reason for the university decision. The University could use the dogs which protect the goal posts to guard the bell, he said.
The petitions will probably be collected today. Lennard said.
Watkins Hospital Checked By Accreditation Group
The inspection is made every three years at the request of the hospital. Watkins has been an accredited hospital for the past 25 years.
An inspector from the national Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals made a tour of the Watkins Memorial Hospital Tuesday.
The inspection was to gather information about the hospital and its taff to submit to the commission for its approval of accreditation. The commission is made up of various medical organizations, including the American Medical Association.
"To find good medical care in safe surroundings are two of the primary
functions of the inspection," said Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of Watkins.
DR. CAUTESON said Talbott was surprised to find that Watkins has individual records on all students before they come to school. The inspector complimented the hospital on the program and said few schools had such a program.
Dr. Canuteon said 51 Kansas hospitals are accredited by the commission. The inspector also visited the Lawrence Memorial hospital this week.
In past reports from the commission, Dr. Cauteson said, one item always mentioned is the need for a hospital library. He said this was well known but the hospital could not find room.
"Watkins hospital is crowded for space. This is our primary difficulty." Dr. Canuteson said. The hospital was built for a capacity of 4,500 students and it now is responsible for about 10,000.
County Attorney Says 'Chain Letter' Illegal
By Tom Coffman
Invest $15.
Get back $19,200.
Bank sales of U. S. Series E saving bonds have increased during the past week, according to Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students. He has warned students against participation in a chain letter scheme, which involves exchanging the bonds.
This plan is a lottery, according to Ralph King, Douglas County attorney, and James K. Logan, dean of the Law School. Conviction on a lottery charge, which is a felony in Kansas, is punishable by one to three years in prison.
The chain letters labelled "U.S. Savings Bond Club," are being passed from hand to hand. A $25 bond original investment of $18.75—and a list of ten names sells for $37.50. The bond purchased by the new letter holder is made out to the man whose name is at the top of the list.
The buyer mails the bond to the number one man and buys two more bonds at a bank and has them made out to the number two man on the list. He then seratches the number one man from the list and adds his name to the bottom. These two sets of a list and a bond are then sold for $37.50 each and the process is repeated in an endless chain, according to the theory. When the buyer reaches the top of the list he will receive all the bonds from the mushrooming number of listed participants, theoretically.
FRANKLY, I WOULD guess that anyone whose name is number 10 on a list today isn't going to get a damn thing back," commented Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students.
Dean Woodruff is concerned about sales of the chain letters on the KU campus.
"I want to protect a lot of our naive, stupid students from getting hurt on this," Dean Woodruff said. The chain letters originally came to Dean Woodruff's attention when a former KU student's girl friend had been pulled into the chain letter game.
Many of the bonds purchased recently at Lawrence banks are made payable to Manhattan residents,
Dean Woodruff said, "Indicating the chain letters came from K-State." He has recently been in contact with Lawrence bankers about the matter.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY attorney said an investigation will be conducted by his office. "Someone is going to be in a lot of trouble if it is true," King said. "It is a felony and a serious offense."
Dean Logan said the chain letter-saving bond scheme fits the definition of lottery as described by Kansas statute, which reads: "The term lottery...includes schemes for distribution of money or property among persons who have given or agreed to give a valuable consideration for the chance, whether called a lottery, or gift enterprise, or by some other name."
Several student chain letter holders said the chain letter originally came to the campus from Kansas State University. The editor of the Kansas State Collegian (the official K-State newspaper), Jerry Kohler, said by telephone that several K-State students came to KU last week to start the chain here. "Apparently some guys got stuck with them and down to KU to unload them," Kohler said.
Kansas lottery laws are stringent, Dean Logan said. Trading stamps and bank nights at the movies have been ruled lotteries in the courts.
A Manhattan radio station-KMAN staged an editorial campaign warning students against buying the letters because they might not get their money back. Kohler said. After that, the letters and bonds were almost impossible to sell on the K-State campus, he explained.
Manhattan bank supplies of bonds were virtually depleted, he said, and students were going to out-of-town banks to buy bonds.
Riley County attorney, Donn Everett does not believe the scheme to be illegal, Kohler said.
The chain letters have been circulated at the Kansas State football games with Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma universities among the visiting fans, Kohler believes. It has been rumored that this particular chain originated on the West Coast, Kohler said.
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