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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
57th Year, No.87
Monday, Feb. 22, 1960
Mock UN Meeting Planned
Issues which perplex United Nations members will be studied and "acted upon" by KU students in Model UN meetings April 1-2.
Participants in the mock General Assembly will consider the problems of the Algerian independence movement, proposed Communist Chinese membership in the UN and nuclear weapons testing.
Letters explaining the Model UN were sent Friday, to organized houses. The deadline for registration of delegations is March 1.
The Friday session will be in Hoch Auditorium, with Saturday's meeting in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Any interested persons are welcome to watch the proceedings, Nebrig said.
The Model UN is sponsored by a steering committee, in cooperation with the KU-Y and the political science department. Robert Nebrig, Leavenworth senior and chairman of the steering committee, said the idea originated in the KU-Y, but many other campus organizations have supported the project.
Friday morning, April 1, an allstudent convocation will open the 2-day Model UN. A nationally prominent political authority will address the convocation. The convocations committee has not yet announced whom the speaker will be.
Each delegation will consist of four persons plus a small staff of advisers. Any group of four students,
whether independents or from an organized house, may register as a delegation, and pay the $5 fee, at the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union.
The choice of nations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. An organized house may sponsor more than one delegation.
About a week before the Model UN is to meet, the delegations will meet in regional and interest groups, such as Communist bloc nations and Arab states. Political science faculty members will advise the delegates at these meetings.
At the first session of the Model UN the national delegations will vote as their counterparts in the United Nations would vote.
Issue meetings will be held before the second session, at which each student delegate will vote on the questions according to his own opinions. At the issue meetings KU political scientists will explain the issues.
"By having the students vote their own way, after the study of the issues, we will get a measure of student opinion on the three questions," Nebrig said.
The steering committee has been working on the Model UN since September. Advisers to the 8-member student group are Clifford Ketzel and Roy Laird, assistant professors of political science, and Charles Johnson, executive secretary of the KU-Y.
Misery to Pile Up As More Snow Is Forecast Locally
TOPEKA —(UPI)— A new winter storm, following close behind one that left 2 to 7 inches of ice and snow over the state Saturday, blustered into Kansas from the south-west today.
Most southern sections were expected to get snow and rain or freezing rain.
The U.S. Weather Bureau said snow had already started in the west by mid-morning and was expected to spread to all parts of the state today and tonight.
"Precipitation in any significant amounts in any parts of the state will make conditions very bad," weathermen said.
Weather in Kansas turned sharply colder after Saturday's storm. The sun that shone over the state most of Sunday provided no significant warming.
"Since starting the ball rolling for the Model UN, we have found much enthusiasm for the project among student groups," he said.
"We felt that the University students, as a campus, were doing nothing in the area of international relations." Nebrig said.
Extreme temperatures yesterday were 44 at Garden City and 18 at Hill City. Extremes last night were 4 below zero at Manhattan and 16 at Wichita and Dodge City.
The forecast calls for snow in the west portion spreading over most of the state by evening and continuing tonight with heavy snow four inches or more southwest portion and 2 inches or more elsewhere by Tuesday morning. Tuesday diminishing snow. Much colder southwest and extreme west this afternoon. Low tonight 5 to 10 north to 20 southeast. High Tuesday 15 to 20.
Members of Prof. Ketzel's International Relations class will write pro and con summaries of the three issues. Students from Prof. Laird's International Organizations class will be advisers to the delegates.
Foreign students will advise the delegations representing their home countries.
Members of the steering committee are Nebrig, Harold Archer, Olathe, and Janet Garrison, LaGrange, Ill. seniors; John Hodge, Kansas City, Kan, Robert Hartley, Baxter Springs, Nancy Haskin, Olathe, and Mike Wamsley, Hutchinson, juniors. Ken Megilg, Vassar junior, recently joined the group. Carolyn Caskey, Independence, Mo., junior, was on the committee until she went to Costa Rica on the exchange program this semester.
Ike Cheered In Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—(UPI)—Rival factions shouting "We Like Ike" and others demanding Puerto Rican independence greeted President Eisenhower on the safe completion of the first leg of his 15,000-mile Latin American tour.
Eisenhower spent 49 minutes at International Airport and then took off at 10:42 (Lawrence time) for Ramey Air Force Base on the other side of the island to spend the night.
The President arrived in perfect weather and he was refreshed by a nap of an hour and a half enroute.
In his remarks here, the President cited Puerto Rico as an outstanding example of the benefits to be gained in cooperation with the United States. He praised the island commonwealth in the Caribbean as having blended the best of two economic and cultural systems which makes it a symbol for other peoples seeking to raise their status.
A strong police guard separated the rival demonstrators and kept them four to five hundred feet distant from the landing strip at San Juan's ultra-modern airport where the Presidential 707 jet put down at 9:53 a.m. (Lawrence time).
In reply, Gov. Luis Munozmarin
Small Plane Drops Bombs by Castro's Beach Villa, Escapes
The petty officer said he was one of several military men who opened fire on the mystery plane.
"I used a submachine gun," he said. "When the plane flew off its engine seemed to be sputtering. It may have been hit but I'm not sure."
swampy area about 250 yards from the Castro residence.
HAVANA—(UPI)—An unidentified small plane dropped four bombs near Premier Fidel Castro's beach villa at Cojimar yesterday and escaped. Castro apparently was not in his beach house at the time.
Observers said the Premier's visits to the Coimarilla village were never announced in advance and that if the attack were staged with the idea of killing him it would be a matter of pure guesswork to find him there.
Guards at the Castro villa—one of several houses he uses—also opened fire on the plane, which quickly flew out of the immediate area to drop the bombs. One of the bombs was believed to have exploded in a
At least three of the bombs were believed to have fallen in the sea. Four loud explosions were heard and a petty officer at the Navy radio station in Cojimar Castle said it was believed the "bombs" were mortar shells of the type that explode on contact.
Watkins Scholarships Given to 6 Professors
Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor,
has announced that six assistant
professors will receive a total of
$5,400 in Elizabeth M. Watkins
Faculty Summer Scholarships in
1960.
Receiving scholarships are Georgi Ivask, Slavic language and literature; Roy D. Laird, political science; Eugene L. Norwood, German; Russell E. Peterson, mechanical engineering; Edward L. Ruhe, English; and Miss Marilyn Stokstad, history of art. The scholarships will permit them to advance their research during the summer.
told the President that while Puerto Rico has the right to change its commonwealth relationship with the United States, the great majority of its people do not want to change the present status.
The President's plane landed at San Juan's International Airport on the first leg of his 15,500-mile journey of personal diplomacy that will take him to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the next 10 days.
Seven Children Die in Ohio Fire
OBERLIN, Ohio—(UPI)— Seven children suffocated and burned to death last night in a fire which flashed through a wooden house in 15 minutes.
One of them, an 8-year-old girl died trying to rescue six of the youngsters after saving her brother and cousin.
A defective oil burner exploded, sealing the children behind a wall of flame in a rear room. Their mothers were watching television in the front room and escaped.
Shelia Isom, 8, apparently pushed open the door of the room in which nine children were sleeping. She helped Anthony Isom, 6, and James Malone, 4, to safety.
Then she apparently burned to death before she could awaken the other youngsters. Firemen found her charred body leaning against a door.
Rites Pending For KU Grad
Funeral services are pending for Kenneth A. Spencer, a KU graduate and one of the University's most active and generous alumni who died Friday in Miami, Fla. He was 58.
Services will be in Kansas City Kan.
Mr. Spencer and his wife established a professorship for the Engineering Research Sciences Center now under construction here. He also gave the University the former Spencer residence in Kansas City, now used by the KU Medical School.
Mr. Spencer received his bachelor's degree here in 1926. In 1943 he was awarded the Alumni Assoc. citation for distinguished service. He was a member of the Endowment Association's executive committee.
Starkie Says Spain Needs a King
Spain has improved since the war, but further recovery might take place faster with a constitutional monarchy, Walter F. Starkie, visiting professor of Romance languages, said Friday at the Current Events Forum.
"A monarch in Spain could have the power to bind most of the political factions together in many respects, and that is what is best for Spain," he said.
Prof. Starkie made it clear that Spain's present government is a dictatorship governed by Francisco Franco. But his affection for the country and its people is obvious.
Irish-born Starkie was sent to Spain in 1940 by the British government. His objective was to establish a British-Spanish cultural link. At this time Spain was still reeling from the after-effects of a destructive civil war in which over a million died.
"I was sent to Spain by Churchill (Winston, former Prime Minister of Great Britain) to establish a cultural tie-up. We feared the Nazi's influence. The morning I opened up the institution, I saw children across the street dead from starvation.
This war has been called the proving ground for the weapons of World War II because the conservative revolutionists led by Franco used arms provided by Nazi Germany.
one starves anymore.
"I remember friends on both sides who were murdered in the Spanish Civil War. During the three years of the war, one million Spaniards were killed."
"Today Spain is still poor, but no
"Alphonso XIII was governing Spain in 1921. I saw the breaking of the constitution of Spain in 1923. I saw the republic come in, in 1931. I saw the reaction to the right wing in 1932. I saw the civil war come in 1936.
"In Spain, time moves very slowly. When I first went to the country in 1921, Spain was in the middle of the Victorian era.
Franco Holds Government Together "Franco holds the government together by playing one group against another. For example, he plays labor against management and the church against the state," Prof. Starkie explained.
He said six political parties opposed Franco's government, Franco Holds Government Trust.
Although he said he believes that most of the older people of Spain would welcome a constitutional monarch, his ascendency might be questioned by some of the young.
In recent years there have been some indications that Franco might be grooming Prince Juan Carlos to take the reins of government should Franco resign or die. A law of succession was approved by referendum in 1947 and states that the Spanish
Cortes must approve the king by a two-thirds majority.
A statement from a minister of Franco's in 1957 reads that in case of Franco's death, Spain would be ruled by "a traditional representative monarch, serving loyally the principles of the regime."
This also could be interpreted to mean the policy of the Falange Party which is headed by Franco.
"Spain is vitally necessary to Europe. I was delighted when America gave help to Spain, which is the West's link with Africa and South America.
Speaking of Spain's strategic importance to the Western Powers, Prof. Starkie said:
"The Spanish people are not unhappy people. Spaniards can enjoy themselves with very little. It is this spirit that makes them valuable to the West."
Besides his work for the British government in Spain from 1940 to 1954, Prof. Starkie also spent many summers there touring the countryside. He praised the work the Spanish are doing in reforestation and irrigation.
It's a source of wonder that they've been able to do so much after the terrible civil war — very fine people, those," he said.
"It's important for the West to keep up ties with Spain," he said.
PROF. WALTER F. STARKIE "A constitutional monarchy is best for Spain."