Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 27, 1963
61st Year, No. 11
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Ev Carol Knupp
Seniors Must Wait For Official Badge
REALLY UP IN THE AIR about her senior sweatshirt is Merry Moore, Raytown, Mo., senior and class secretary. Jeral Pullins, Council Groves senior and class president, tries to bring her down.
There's at least one noticeable difference between the state's penal institution and its educational institution. Inmates of the first receive their uniforms the first day they arrive; but inmates in the institutions of higher learning must wait four years to receive theirs.
For the seniors of '64 who have paid their class fees the long wait is over. Their uniforms have arrived, and will continue to come until all have been outfitted.
MANN SENIORS are already sporting their new uniforms . . . black sweatshirts and three and a half inch white buttons with the identification mark of the '64 senior stenciled on the front.
That '64 senior, designed by John Wyant, St. Joseph, Mo. graduate student, is a chubby little fellow who has grown fat from the over-indulgence in education. A beaming smile spreads across his face with the knowledge of "I'm educated and it only took four years," which happens to be the class slogan.
The uniform material is nothing but the best testifies the uniform designer Jerald Pullins, Council Grove senior. Local stores who submitted bids for the contract also submitted samples of the material to be used.
"THE HOME Economics Department and I spent one entire day doing a fabric analysis of each sample," said Fullins. "We finally ended with a high quality fabric and a special rubberized design, which is hard to deface."
So, seniors, the uniform line forms at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd. And with all that guaranteed wearability you can be the only inmates who can use their uniforms after they get out.
Senators Told of Sordid Underworld by Turncoat
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Joseph Valachi, underworld turncoat and self-described dead duck, told all to senate investigators today including how underworld boss Vito Genovese gave him the kiss of death in an Atlanta federal prison cell.
Chain-smoking, his testimony colored with gangland phrases, the stocky, red-haired ex-mobster sang for more than two hours before live television in the senate caucus room.
Valachi, who said he entered crime when he was 16—I was educated in Sing Sing,—sprinkled his testimony before the senate investigations subcommittee with vivid details of his 30 years in the Cosa Nostra, or mafia.
HE SAID the secret crime organization is now operated by a commission. But he described Genovese as the under the table super-boss. Sipping repeatedly from a glass of ice-water, Valachi also testified that Genovese ordered the murder of sub-boss Anthony (Tony Bender) Strollo from his Atlanta prison cell.
Speaking calmly, almost dispassionately, Valachi said he beat a fellow prisoner to death with a piece of iron pipe when he feared that the man was trying to carry out the kiss of death from Genovese. The victim turned out to be the wrong man.
Valachi, who is reported to have a $100,000 price tag on his head, said Genovese kissed him on the hand while in prison and this meant only one thing, the kiss of death.
ASKED IF he feared for his life,
Valachi replied: At this moment I feel fine. If I went back to prison,
I'd have to protect myself. I'd kill or be killed . . . if they got at me I wouldn't be in there five minutes.
Asked if he had any hope of killing all three men he suspected had been assigned to assassinate him, Valachi replied he didn't know but I got some satisfaction. Senator.
SEN. DANIEL Brewster, D-Md., asked if it were usually possible for a Cosa Nostra leader to order a killing behind prison walls.
It was in this context that he described himself as a dead duck.
I think Vito Genovese went too far in this case, Valachi said in referring to his own fears. He was power-crazy, power went to his head.
Erewster asked if others were killed in jail.
Weather
Rock Chalk Staff to Begin Plans
Fair and mild today, tonight and Saturday. High this afternoon in lower 80's. Low tonight in middle 50's. High Saturday 80 to 85.
Plans for the 1964 Rock Chalk Revue will be discussed at the first general meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Cottonwood room of the Kansas Union.
*Mary Anne Lierman, Wichita sophomore, in-between-acts chairman; Jim Stephenson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, assistant in-between-acts chairman; Kay Finley, Kansas City, Mo., junior, staff; Paula Breukner, Emporia sophomore, staff.
DAVID WHITE, Kansas City, Mo,
senior, producer; Susan Flood, Hays
senior, assistant producer; Mike
Melroy, Lawrence senior, house
manager; John Oakson, Leawood
senior, stage manager; Steve Buchner,
Prairie Village sophomore,
assistant stage manager.
The kick-off banquet for Rock Chalk staff will be at 5:45 Sunday in the English room of the Kansas Union. Members of the staff are:
The meeting is open to anyone interested in policy, procedure or possible themes for the revue.
Dick Wright, Lawrence graduate student, music director; Linda Borden. Salina senior, technical director.
Glenn Bickel, university personnel, lighting director; Prent Roth, Salina senior, assistant.
KEN GORMAN, Leawood sophomore, house advisor; Rudy Reissig, Great Bend freshman, house advisor; Mary Dietz, Russell junior, secretary.
Gigi Gibson, Independence junior,
program copy editor; Connie Clendenin,
Mission senior, program lavout and art editor; Chris English, St.
Louis, Mo., sophomore, art assistant;
Susan Ebel, Topeka junior, art assistant.
Members of the business staff are:
Tom Woods, Arkansas City junior,
business manager; Tom Ritchie,
Wichita junior, controller; Bill
Henry, Kansas City, Mo., junior,
assistant business manager.
Dennis Del Sarto, Cicero. III., junior,
program committee; Ron Pullins,
GARY GRADINGER, Prairie Village junior, sales manager; John Pound, Fredonia junior, assistant sales manager; Tom McBride, Topeka freshman, sales committee; Martha Stout, La Grange, Ill., sophomore, sales committee; Mike Vineyard, Wymore, Nebr., sophomore, sales committee; Dan Wannamaker, Salina junior, sales committee.
Council Grove freshman, program committee; Jim Porter, Kansas City, Kan., senior, program committee.
Rich Burke, Dodge City junior,
publicity and public relations; Ed
Evers, St. Louis, Mo., junior,
committee; Pat Culea, La Grange, Ill.
sophomore, committee; Fred Slicker,
Tulsa, Okla., junior, committee; Janelle Hesse, Pender, Neb., sophomore, committee; Susan Cain, Newton
senior, committee.
Helen Nott, Evanston, Ill., junior secretary; Jean Agan, Lawrence senior, secretary.
Russ L Vigne, Lawrence freshman, photographer.
Valachi said two witnesses being held in custody in New York to testify against Genovese and the late Albert Anastasia died violent deaths more than 10 years ago. One was poisoned and another was thrown out of a jail window, he said.
Testifying publicly for the first time, Valachi told the televised hearing that Genovese described news reports of Bender's disappearance as the best thing that should happen—he wouldn't be able to take it like you and I.
ASKED TO estimate how much Genovese makes as boss of Cosa Nostra, Valachi said it would break the adding machine.
The former narcotics peddler said he couldn't estimate his own profits from crime. Sometimes he had a good year, sometimes a bad one.
He figured, however, that he had made about $150,000 merely trading in ration stamps in one year during World War II.
Going into details about the death of Bender, Valachi told the hearing that Genovese described news reports of Bender's disappearance as
KU-Y Slates Debate On Sexual Morality
Sexual morality will be discussed at the KU-Y English style debate at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
The tonic will be: "Resolved that the Christian ethic should be adjusted to fit the current American transition in sexual morality."
Taking the negative side will be Emily Taylor, dean of women, and the Rev. Paul Davis of the Plymouth Congregational Church and professor of religion.
Taking the affirmative will be Dr. Charles Warner, chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology.
the best thing that should happen— he wouldn't be able to take it like you and I.
Valighi recounted the episode after testifying that he joined the disciplined Cosa Nostra Crime Cartel
—Our Thing, Our Family in English—in 1930. Born in New York to Italian immigrant parents, he said he took to crime after dropping out of school at age 15 and working for about a year on a sand scow.
Speaking calmly-almost impassively—and chain smoking, Valachi gave the Senate Investigations Subcommittee a rambling account of intrigue behind the prison walls at Atlanta. He said he felt that Genovese marked him for murder after he sought an appointment with Genovese for a member of the Buffalo-Toronto Family of the Cosa Nostra Empire.
AFTER THE incident, Valach said, the attitude of Genovese—who had invited Valach to share his cell—was beginning to change.
Finally, he said, there came an evening when Genovese asked Valalchi and cellmate Ralph Wagner—Cosa Nostra outsider—to gather around his prison bunk in the seven-man prison cell.
Valachi said Geneovese, describing himself as a good judge of character, began by saying, sometimes you buy a barrel of apples and one of the apples is touched . . . that one has to be removed or it'll touch the rest of the apples.
WHEN McCLELLAN asked if Valachi found significance in the remark, the hoodlum replied: "I was just shaking my head and listening to him."
"He (Genovese) grabbed my hand and gave it a kiss," Valachi continued.
"I turned around and gave him a kiss on the other side," Valachi said.
He explained that his own kiss was a sign of waning respect for Genovese, who long had commanded his loyal allegiance.
Campus and Lawrence police were called about 11:30 p.m. last night to quell a near riot between members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Rochdale Co-op on 15th and Tennessee.
It was a time of letting off steam—but it got out of hand.
Onions, Rocks, Potatoes Used in Campus Feud
By Byron Klapper
Order was restored within minutes after police arrived at the scene where potatoes, onions, rocks and fireworks were being hurled. There were no arrests.
Damage at Rochdale was estimated by members at about $100. Police found windows broken and vegetables scattered across the front porch and lawn.
The ATO's said today they sustained no damage. Fraternity officials said during a "truce talk" after order was restored that they would reimburse the co-op for property damage incurred during the incident.
The feud allegedly began with the tossing of fireworks, by unidentified persons, toward the co-op where members were singing loudly in one of the rooms. The singers then carried their jamboree to their front porch.
Fraternity members also began a round of group singing, an eye witness said. The singing stopped as the fraternity men rushed out of the house. Rochdale was under fire.
Vegetables and stones were hurled for about 10 minutes before police were called.
Lawrence police warned members of both houses that future disturbances would result in confiscation of student I.D. cards. Those involved would have to retrieve their I.D.'s at the police station, the officer said.
Lawrence police advised the groups to work out their own problems without incident.