KU Students Alone In Protest Activity
KU students apparently are alone in protesting the Big Eight Conference Presidents' stand on the sit-down strikes in the South.
Reports from other Big Eight schools reveal no demonstrations, petitions or letters of protest.
The stand, taken by six student body presidents of Big Eight schools, stated approval of integration but disapproval of the "methods" employed. The "methods" refer to the sit-down or sit-in strikes exercised in Negro demonstrations in southern cities.
THE PRESIDENTS' STAND was reportedly forced in part by pressure from the National Student Association to actively participate in sympathy sit-in- strikes.
According to the "Columbia Missourian" daily newspaper, there has been no protest activity on the Missouri University campus.
A spokesman from the Kansas State University "Collegian," student newspaper said this morning;
"THERE HAVE BEEN no reports of demonstrations, plans for demonstrations, petitions or letters of protest on our campus. We expect something will happen though; we're just waiting."
In Columbia, Mo., Chamber of Commerce officials will meet with local businessmen today behind closed doors to decide on integration in that city's restaurants.
A Lawrence city ordinance, banning segregation in restaurants, was passed last year.
Margaret Weds in Solemn Pageantry
LONDON — (UPI) — Princess Margaret Rose linked hands with Antony Armstrong-Jones before the candle-lit Great Altar of Westminster Abbey today and in a solemn exchange of wedding vows promised to "love, cherish and to obey" the commoner-photographer she chose over princes and kings.
Ceremony Spurned
With the ceremony, she became "Princess Margaret, Mrs. Antony Armstrong-Jones."
The little people of Britain loved it and the tidal wave of their enthusiasm swept away the snobbery and the innuendos which had saddened the Princess during the six weeks engagement.
The heat and the excitement took a toll of hundreds of spectators watching the royal wedding today. Ambulance workers reported they had treated 557 persons who fainted or collapsed before the wedding ceremony was halfway through. At least six were hospitalized, they said.
In the Abbey were most of Margaret's own royal family, led by Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Elizabeth. Queen Ingrid of Denmark was there but other foreign sovereigns and members of ruling families were notably absent, most of them on pleas of prior engagements.
Townsend Missing
Presumably missing because they did not receive invitations were Group Capt. Peter Townsend, whose love Margaret dramatically renounced in 1956, and her one-time favorite uncle, The Duke of Windsor.
The princess was given away by
her brother-in-law, The Duke of Edinburgh.
The 29-year-old sister of Queen Elizabeth, insisted that the word "obey" be included in the ceremony. She chose the service of the old 1662 prayer book so she could twice make this pledge to dramatize to the world that she was marrying for love alone.
The event was unique in British history. Never before had a Princess of the blood royal married a commoner there.
The embarrassing quarrel in Parliament over her wedding expenses, the reports she is being eased out of the royal family as the penalty for marrying a commoner, all these faded for the moment in shimmering pageantry as the Princess gave up the title she held so long - most eligible girl in the world.
J. Roberts Elected Vox President
Jack Roberts, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, has been elected president of Vox Populi, succeeding George Schluter, Prairie Village senior.
Roberts appointed Jack Dunbar,
Agency, Mo., junior, as vice president;
Marilyn White, Prairie Village
sophomore, secretary and Max
Eberhart, Great Bend sophomore,
treasurer.
Vox Populi elects its president at the end of the spring semester and the other officers at the beginning of the fall semester.
Dailu hansan
57th Year, No.137
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, May 6, 1960
Weather Plane Incident Puts Big 'If'in Ike's Russian Plans
By United Press International
"That reminds me. I am taking to Khrushchev — if I go — a new boat that has no propeller — a jet operation that just pushes water and air through the boat."
The United States has asked the Soviet Foreign Office for "full facts" about the U.S. plane which Soviet
President Eisenhower today raisees possible doubt about whether he will go through with his planned trip to Russia next month.
This development came in the wake of the fast-snowballing series of incidents of this week centering on Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's assertion that an American plane had been shot down over Russian territory.
Applies An 'If' Label
The President applied an "if" label to his Russian trip while touring an exhibit of union-made products sponsored by the AFL-CIO.
The President was strolling through the exhibit at the District of Columbia armory with George Meany, AFL-CIO president.
When they walked by the hull of of a pleasure boat, Eisenhower remarked to Meany:
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered shot down over Southern Russia Sunday, the State Department announced today.
No Explanation Yet
Officials said the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, Llewelyn E. Thompson, has reported only that the note was sent to the foreign office. He has not received any explanation, verbal or otherwise, from the Russians yet on the incident.
The note asked particularly what happened to the pilot of the aircraft. The State Department assumes it was a civilian-piloted weather observation aircraft which is missing from its base in Adana, Turkey. The department said it was "entirely possible" that the pilot was unconscious due to failure of his oxygen system at 50,000 feet, which was reported in his last message to his home base.
The pilot is believed to be Francis G. Powers of Norton, Va.
Cheers in Russia
First Deputy Minister of Defense Marshall Andrei A. Grechko said: "The United States aircraft was destroyed by a rocket with the first shot."
Girl Scouts Want No Part of Seniors' Picnic
The Girl Scouts of America don't want their good name blackened by association with the KU senior "beer-bust."
A troubled representative of the Girl Scouts phoned the Kansan after reading in the paper that the
cials did not appreciate having the name of their organization linked with a "beer-bust."
Class of 1960 was planning to have the Senior Picnic tomorrow at the Scouts hall at Lone Star Lake.
Relax, it's only a Girl Scout meeting.
It seems that the Scout building is never used by any other organization, and certainly not by a wild, beer-guzzling outfit such as the KU Class of 1960.
It was just a simple mistake in buildings, the picnic chairman, Robert Luce. Ottawa senior, told a Kansas reporter.
The woman said Girl Scout offi
Another building at the lake was rented for the picnic. Someone thought it was the Girl Scout building and announced it at the Senior Coffee last week.
The infamous picnic will be held tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Luce said an auto caravan will drive around the campus at about 10:30 tomorrow morning, "alerting" the seniors. He said posters will mark the route to the picnic site, the mess hall at the lake.
Big Bob Dougherty and his band will play for the picnic. Fried chicken and 34 kegs of beverages will be available. Tickets may be purchased from house representatives or at the Alumni Office in Strong Hall, for 75 cents.
The 1,300 deputies in the Supreme Soviet cheered loudly.
Grechko said rocket units had become the main components of the Soviet armed forces.
Tornadoes Kill 29, Injure 250
By United Press International
A series of ugly tornadoes danced across Oklahoma and Arkansas during the night leaving hundreds of dead and injured, many more homeless, and Wilburton, Okla., a shamble of wrecked houses and business buildings.
The death toll reached 29 this morning as the body of a Sapulpa, Okla, housewife was found in the wreckage of her home. More than 250 persons were injured, many of them seriously, and some critically.
The twisters started skipping across Oklahoma about dusk last night, and continued hammering a dozen small towns for the next four hours. They struck Arkansas early today.
Reports from Wilburton, Okla., said 13 persons were killed and up to 125 persons injured. State police and a ham operator, who rushed a mobile rig into the area, were the only communications out of Wilburton.
The twister churned through about 30 square blocks of this southeastern Oklahoma town. leveling about 12 square blocks and causing 60 per cent damage to the rest.
Damages Bad
Rescue crews said the damage at Wilburton was much worse than they first believed.
All water in the town was contaminated by the storm.
The twister destroyed the Calvary Baptist Church just before 50 persons were to begin a supper. Rev, R. L. Phillips said there was no chance to escape, so they just knelt and prayed.
"We were bounced around as if in a cage." Phillins said.
Weather
For the period Saturday through Wednesday temperatures will average 3 to 6 degrees below normal. Normal highs 70 northwest to 75 southeast. Warmer first of period cooler last of period. Precipitation will average moderate to heavy occurring as showers and thunderstorms last of period. Amounts one-half inch west to one to two inches east.
Was Homer First TV Serial Script Writer?
"I suppose that in a sense the Iliad and the Odyssey could be considered to be the fore-runners of the television serial."
"The general theme, "Will Odysseus make it back?" has a certain similarity to the themes used by serial programs today." Dean Heller said. He read and discussed selections from the Odyssey as they appear in several translations.
This observation was made by Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the Poetry Hour yesterday.
FOR MANY YEARS classical scholars have been interested in the "Homeric Problem," he said. That is, did Homer actually write all the works attributed to him?
"Homer was a figure about whom we know next to nothing," Dean Heller said. "But we do know that Homer was a singer," he added.
Dean Heller said the Odyssey is not written in the classic Attic Greek, but in the language and phraseology of the ordinary manon-the-street at that time, just as the television serials of today are not written in the best English style, but rather in the English which the ordinary person speaks. Because Homer used the vocabulary and phraseology in vogue at his time, the original has a flavor which is almost impossible to get in a translation, he added.
The Homeric epics were recited at banquets and other festive occasions. Dean Heller said.
THE REVIVAL OF HOMER'S works dates to the 15th century scholars, particularly Petrarch, he said. The earliest English translation was done by a scholar named Chapman in 1611.
Dean Heller read Chapman's translation of the opening passage of the Odyssey in which the
author appeals to the muse for inspiration.
Dean Heller contrasted that translation by reading the same passage as it was translated by Pope.
"Of all the translations, I think Pope captured the Odyssey's spirit best of any verse translation," Dean Heller said.
ONE OF POPE'S PROBLEMS
ONE OF POPE'S PROBLEMS was that the epic poem observes no rhyme. Unlike Chapman, Pope did not try to retain the original meter, but instead tried to duplicate the original phraseology, Dean Heller said.
"Homer employed descriptive adjectives repeatedly, and another of Pope's problems was that translations of these adjectives result in a rather stilted English," he said. "Still another problem was that this repeated use of descriptive adjectives made his translation rather difficult to understand."
Many translators have come to the conclusion that Homer's epic verse cannot be rendered into poetry, and the best that can be done is to translate it into prose, Dean Heller said.
"THIS TRANSLATION has always amazed me by its similarity in style to the King James edition of the Bible, especially considering that these men were writing in the 19th century." he said.
He read a passage from a prose translation done by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang in the latter 19th century.
Dean Heller read an excerpt in another prose translation by T. E. Shaw, sometimes called Lawrence of Arabia.
Dean Heller concluded by reading a passage translated not from the Odyssey, but from a modern sequel to the Odyssey written in 1935 by Nikos Kazantzakis and translated by Kimon Friar.
Francis Heller
“. . . Homer was a singer . . . ”