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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1. 1956
Alabama Expels
Autherine Lucy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(U.P.)—A member of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees said today Authorine Lucy, first Negro student at the University, has been expelled by the board because of the charges she brought against University officials.
University officials in Tuscaloosa could not be reached for comment. President O. C. Carmichael, Dean of Admissions W. F. Adams, and Dean of Administration J. H. Newman, were all reported "in a meeting."
The Board member, who declined to be identified by name, said the action was taken at a secret meeting in Birmingham Wednesday night, within hours after a federal court ordered the University to re-admit Miss Lucy in the face of open-court warnings that she might be killed by a mob.
Federal Judge Hobart Groms Wednesday ordered Alabama to readmit Miss Lucy by Monday. University officials had excluded her from classes following three days of riots on the campus when she first appeared as a student.
After this exclusion action, Miss Lucy through her attorney brought contempt proceedings against University officials, accusing them of conspiring to keep her out of the all-white school.
Job Practices Called Unfair
Lack of enforcement and power to stamp out employment discrimination are characteristics attributed to the Kansas Fair Employment Practices Law by consensus of the League of Women Voters.
Reasons given at the closing session, led by Mrs. Harold Barrett, assistant on the state committee, were unwritten definition of what discrimination is, or of what unfair practices are, which might restrict efficient enforcement of the law.
Arthur Fletcher, assistant public relations director of the Kansas State Highway Commission, said the original intention of the Legislature was to pass the law in the House and defeat it in the Senate, but no one voted no on the Senate floor.
Malcolm Higgins, executive secretary of the Anti-Discrimination Commission, said the first step toward enforcement would depend on recommendations for modification based on the three-year experience with the law, and that the next step would depend on getting favorable representation in the House of Representatives to introduce a new bill.
Quill Club Contest Deadline Today
Today is the deadline for manuscripts to be submitted to the Quill Club spring semester contest. Manuscripts will be read at the Quill Club meeting at 7:15 p.m today in 311 Fraser.
The Rev. Donald Kuhn, Religious Emphasis Week speaker, will lecture on the creation and publication of religious literature including fiction, poetry, and drama.
The Rev. Mr. Kuhn did his undergraduate work in English and has written several religious dramas.
Traffic Deaths Up From Last Year
TOPEKA (U.P.)—Kansas traffic fatalities today climbed higher than the comparative total a year ago.
The State Accident Records Bureau reported that 39 deaths from February accidents, eight more than in the same month of 1955, brought the unfavorable comparison.
The first two months of 1956 resulted in 84 traffic fatalities in Kansas, two more than a year earlier. However, the toll still was 10 under the 94 on this date in 1954.
IN LAST SEMESTER—Professor F. P. Obrien consults his class roll as Janice Johnson, Hutchinson junior, and Veda Driver, Quenemo junior, look on.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Singing Locusts Greet Prof Upon Arrival At KU
For a man who thought two "enough." Dr. Francis P. Obrien ticular job.
Dr. Obrien, professor of education,
has been on the job at KU for 36
continuous years. He came here in
1920, somewhat dubious about his
first college teaching assignment. "I
was even more discouraged when I
arrived, for when I stepped off the
train I was confronted by a sing-
ing chorus—of locusts!" Dr. Obrien
chuckled.
Dr. Obrien retires in June at the mandatory retirement age of 70. He was born in 1885 at Overton, Penn., where he attended grade school and two years of high school. He then went to Wilkes-Barre, Penn., to finish high school.
Dr. Obrien earned his bachelor's degree at Lafayette College at Easton, Penn., then went to Columbia University for graduate study, where he met Livia E. Ferrin, who was doing graduate work in mathematics. They were married in 1919, one year after Dr. Obrien received his doctor's degree in education.
Dr. Obrien was principal and teacher at South River, N. J., high school from 1908 to 1910. He was superintendent of the same school system from 1910 to 1915.
During World War I, he worked as an adult educator in charge of Americanization courses for aliens working in Connecticut munitions facilities. He conducted evening classes, citizenship courses, and generally prepared people for nationalization. He came to KU following that job.
Dr. and Mrs. Obrien had three children. Their only son, James, was killed during the Aleutian campaign in 1943. An Army Air Force sergeant, James was flying in a bomber that was about to complete a war mission. Japanese-held island a curt anti-aircraft fire smashed into the loaded plane on the plane in the air. It crushed into the Bering Sea, leaving no survivors.
Their two daughters, Gertrude and Ruth, are both married and each has three children. Gertrude is married to a Navy Commander and lives in San Diego, Calif. Ruth, whose husband is an Air Force Captain, lives in Japan near Mishwa Airfield, where he is stationed.
Asked what he plans to do when he retires, Dr. Obrien said, "Oh, we'll probably travel some, and I'll probably do some gardening. I think I must have been one of the original do-it-yourself men. I like to con-
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"I used to canoe quite a bit—that is, before I came to Lawrence. I remember one time a friend of mine and I borrowed a canoe and took a week's cruise up the Lehigh River. The round trip took us almost 100 miles."
Dr. Obrien is author of several education articles. Some of them are High School Failures; The Organization of Rural High Schools; Success of the High School Student in College; Experiment in Supervision of English, and The Junior College as a Community Asset.
After coming to KU, he was editor of the Kansas Studies in Education publication from 1922 to 1938. a member of the national advisory board from 1930 to 1944, member of the National Committee for Coordination of Secondary Education from 1932 to 1946, and now belongs to the National Education Association, Education Research Association, and the Kansas Schoolmasters Club.
Democratic Speaker To Salina SALINA (U.P.)—Kenneth T. Anderson of Emporia, Democratic national committeeman for Kansas, will be the principal speaker at a Saline County Democratic rally here March 22.
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CBS, ABC Turn Democrats Down
NEW YORK—(U.P.)-The Columbia Broadcasting System turned down today a Democratic Party request for equal radio-television time to reply to President Eisenhower's broadcast Wednesday night on his second term decision.
CBS was the first of the nation's four major radio-TV networks to give Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler an answer on his request. Mr. Butler also sought time from the American, Mutual, and National broadcasting networks.
The American Broadcasting Company was next to turn down Mr. Butler's request with a message saying it was "neither legally nor morally obligated to give equal facilities to the Democratic Party." ABC also turned down Sen. Estes Kefauver's request for time to answer the President.
Sig Michelson, CBS vice president of news and public affairs, sent a telegram to Butler saying CBS's established policy was to give equal time facilities "to contending candidates for the nomination of the same party."
"We do not plan time for candidates for nomination of one party to answer candidates for nomination of another party." he said.
(Mr. Michelson was a faculty member in the KU department of journalism in 1940-41.)
Adeney To Speak Tonight
David Adeney, author and youth worker in China and Japan, will speak on "Can Christianity Survive in Communist China!" at 8:30 p.m. today at the Student Union. The meeting is sponsored by the KU Christian Fellowship.
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