SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Tuesday, July 12, 1960
48th Year, No. 8
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SNEAK PREVIEW—These recent high school graduates are typical of the hundreds of students attending the six "KU Previews" this
summer for students expecting to enter the University this fall. The second Preview ends today and the third begins Thursday.
Wescoe Seeks News of Matzke
A diplomatic check on the well-being of a University of Kansas professor and his family in the violence-torn Congo was requested yesterday from the State Department by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Dean Arden Miller of the KU School of Medicine.
Dr. Howard Matzke, professor of anatomy, left with his family June 8 to conduct research at the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa at Lwiro, a town in the mountainous area of the Congo.
Irwin L. Baird, acting chairman of the KU anatomy department said he last received a letter from Dr Matzke postmarked June 25, five days before the former Belgian colony received its independence which touched off a wave of rioting
With Dr. Matzke are his wife and their two children, Judith, 15, and Charles, 11.
Dr. Matzke is conducting research on the central nervous system of mammals in the Congo this summer. He received grants for this purpose from the KU Endowment Association, the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Federation of Neurology and the Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
Cuba Seeks Council Action in Conflict
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-(UPI) Cuba asked the United Nations Security Council yesterday to meet and consider the "repeated threats, harassment, maneuvers, reprisals and aggressions" against it by the United States.
Weather
Temperatures today through Saturday will average four to six degrees above normal west to near normal east. Turning cooler about mid-week and warming at end of week. Normal minimum in 60s, normal maximum 90 to 95. Rainfall will average .30 to .60 inch, occurring as occasional showers or thunderstorms mostly the latter part of the week.
Art Campers Star In 3rd Summer Show
High school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will be featured in the cast of the third University Theatre summer production Thursday and Friday nights in Murphy Hall.
The students will appear in three short plays in "The World of Shalom Aleichem." The productions are designed to cover the fields of farce, fantasy and realism. Curtain time each night will be at 7:30.
Book Relates State's Story
As a preliminary to observance of the Kansas Centennial, the University of Kansas Press this week published "The Heritage of Kansas: Selected Commentaries on Past Times."
A group of selections representing the Old West contains a discussion of the Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman and of the Pony Express by Mark Twain. The stories of John Brown and of a narrow escape during Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, as well as the Rev. Richard Cordley's "Lizzie and the Underground Railway," are among the selections illustrating "the years of violence."
The editor of the 359-page book is Everett Rich, native Kansan and veteran English teacher at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia
Ordeals of pioneer life are shown in dramatic episodes like the story of a struggle with prairie fire, with grasshoppers or with a tornado. There is everyday life as seen through the eyes of a country doctor like A. E. Hertzler or a country editor like Ed W. Howe.
The book provides a panoramic view of Kansas life in older times as seen by more than 40 observers. Beginning with Donald Culross Peattie's article on Coronado, it ends with Carl Becker's famous analysis of the Kansas spirit.
Prof. Rich is the author of a successful biography of William Allen White and has been a frequent contributor to the Kansas City Star and other publications.
Grant Renewed For Fly Study
Robert R. Sokal, associate professor of entomology, will continue his research on the genetics of house-flies with renewal of a $14,500 Army Medical Research contract.
It will be the fifth year for the contract renewal for study of Genetics of Houseflies in Relation to Insecticide Resistance.
Robert L. Sullivan, research associate at KU is assisting Dr. Sokal with the study.
They will continue research to determine how resistance to insecticides is built up and inherited. By building up strains of flies visibly different they are able to distinguish the insecticide-resistant strains from those that are non-resistant.
Dr. Sokal, on leave to conduct research in biometry and biological mathematics at the University of London, will return to KU this fall.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Russia announced yesterday it shot down a U.S. Air Force plane that on July 1 violated Soviet air space over the Bering Sea carrying special electronic spying equipment.
Reds Report On Shooting
A Soviet protest note handed to the United States, Norway and Great Britain, said this latest "provocation" followed the U-2 spy plane incident by two months.
The announcement said two of the six-man crew survived and would be prosecuted "with full severity of the Soviet law."
The U.S. Air Force at Wiesbaden disclosed on July 2 that an RB-47 which left its British base on July 1 for an electro-magnetic mapping flight off northern Norway was missing, and presumed down.
A spokesman acknowledged the possibility it had wandered over Soviet territory.
Kennedy Train Rolls Toward Win
LOS ANGELES—(UPI)—Sen. John F. Kennedy yesterday rolled to within a whisker of the magic 761 votes needed to capture the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot.
The Massachusetts senator got a big boost when Gov. Herschel C. Loveless, leader of the 26-vote Iowa delegation, announced he would cast his "first free ballot" for Kennedy. Technically, the delegation must vote for favorite son Loveless on the first ballot
So certain did Kenneoy's umph appear to be that the scramble was on among the kingmakers at the Democratic National Convention to pick a vice presidential running mate.
Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri, whose presidential campaign never picked up speed, was mentioned prominently. Others included Loveless, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey and Gov. Orville Freeman of Minnesota; Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Gov. George Docking of Kansas.
A United Press International tabulation made just before the opening convention session showed Kennedy had nailed down $714_{1/2}$ first-ballot votes. This left him only a meager $46_{1/2}$ votes short.
The honor of supplying some of them could fall to Pennsylvania's 81-vote delegation, where Kennedy's strength has been mounting steadily.
The UPI tabulation included 40 known Kennedy votes within the Pennsylvania delegation. But a key member said Gov. David L. Lawrence might deliver as many as 50 to 65 when the showdown poll was completed.
David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, said the 37 steelworkers delegates within the group would cast their $18^{-1 / 2}$ votes (or Kennedy.
The atmosphere was grim at the convention headquarters of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy's chief rival, although the Texan's Camp insisted he still was in the fight.
But in an appearance before the Pennsylvania delegation, Johnson did not talk much like a man who felt he had a real chance.
He praised all of his opponents and told the delegates he had enthusiastically supported Adlaii E. Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 election campaigns "and stands ready and eager to do so again."
Kennedy received a standing ovation from the big delegation. He emphasized that he had run in every possible primary. He asked the delegation to support him in what he termed the most important campaign in many years.
Symington predicted the convention's choice would go on to win the November election over Vice President Richard M. Nixon and have "the greatest administration in history." For the most part, he limited his talk to criticism of the Eisenhower administration.
With the presidential issue all but settled, a platform writing subcommittee completed its work and turned its draft of party policy over to the full platform committee for ratification. It will go before the convention today.
The platform carried a civil rights plank which Northern Democrats called the most far-reaching in history and which brought screams of anguish from Southerners.
"Oh, my God. Oh, nav God." was the reaction of Judge T. C. Almon, chairman of the Alabama delegation when told that the plank expressed sympathy for Negro sit-in demonstrations. But he said there would be no bolt by Alabama delegates.
The plank also carried a pledge of further election reforms to prevent voting discrimination against Negroes.
Barnum Echoes In Conventions
By Lyle C. Wilson
SPORTS ARENA. LOS ANGELES—(UPI) — If Phinease T. Barnum had anything to do with this Democratic National Convention, or any other, he would price the tickets by heavy-weight fight standards and take down another $1 million.
The Greatest Show on Earth! This is a national political convention. Some are showier than others, however. My favorite among those I have covered still is the 1924 Democratic brawl in the old Madison Square Garden, New York City.
The old Garden was used to violence and vulgarity. Stanford White was architect of the old pile. He built into it a tower penthouse. The didoes White cut there with this and that lovely from the Broadway stage led, finally, to his death by gunshot at the hands of Harry K. Thaw. White had cut a didoe with Evelyn Nesbitt, a stage dancer and, also, the wife of Thaw.
The big circus also used to play the old Garden. But no circus could match what the Democrats accomplished in 1924 from June 24 to July 9, inclusive, an almost scandalous fortnight. The drys, the Ku Kluxers, Southerners and others were for the nomination of William G McAdoo, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson.
The wets, the big cities of the East and others were for Alfred Enmanuel Smith, governor of the state of New York. Smith was a Roman Catholic and religion was a hot and angry issue. The embattled Democrats ballotted 103 times before they named their man, John W. Davis of West Virginia, who had 3L votes on the first ballot and who hung around 60 votes for days before going over the top on the 102nd.
New York City firemen planted spare sirens all over the Garden before Smith was put in nomination. When the great moment came, the firemen pulled the switches, Brawny New York cops stood guard to assure that no McAdoo-minded delegate turned off the racket. The Smith demonstration continued for more than 90 minutes.
William Jennings Bryan attempted to address the convention before nominations were in order, and the delegates exploded in fist fight disputes for possession of the various states standards. At issue was whether this or that standard should be in the parade to salute Bryan. The Colorado delegation, down front by the press box, was in chaos. A man seeking to carry Colorado's standard into the Bryan parade lost it to a muscular woman who instantly took her antagonist out of the contest by knocking him down and out.
The firemen's sirens, the fighting on the convention floor, the whoopit-up rowdyism of the galleries as they cheered for repeal of prohibition, all combined to frighten political parties away from New York City. There has not been a convention there since 1924, although it would be an ideal city by reason of
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