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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Feb. 8. 1960
Negro College Students Strike Against Lunch Counters
GREENSBORO, N.C. — (UPI) — A protest by Negro college students against lunch counter discrimination spread to another city today.
Lunch counters at two downtown dime stores, F. W. Woolworth and S. H. Kress & Co., in Greensboro were closed today following a weeklong "sit-down" demonstration. But Negro students took up the protest "sitdown" at the lunch counter of an F. W. Woolworth store at Durham, N. C., 60 miles from Greensboro.
The students who took seats at the Durham store's lunch counter were from North Carolina College in Durham, a state school for Negroes. They were refused food service and sat quietly at the counter,
Andrews Granted Execution Stay
A former KU student, Lowell Lee Andrews, was recently granted an indefinite stay of execution by the State Supreme Court pending an appeal. He was to be banged April 18.
Andrews was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of murdering his parents and sister over a year ago.
A motion for a new trial had been overruled by Judge Harry J. Miller Jr. of the Wyandotte County District Court. Andrews is being held in the state penitentiary at Lansing.
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reading newspapers and magazines. Store officials closed the lunch counters in Greensboro after incidents of jeering, pushing, shoving and bomb threats last week. The stores follow "local custom" policy of refusing service to Negro shoppers at their lunch counters although Negroes may make purchases anywhere else in the stores.
Plainclothes officers were on hand when the Greensboro Woolworth store opened today.
Wilson Employe Shot at Home
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - (UPI)- Edward Williams, a 47-year-old butcher, was shot early today as he prepared to leave for work at the strikebound Wilson & Co. packing plant here.
Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America have been on strike at the plant since late October.
Williams, a former union member who had been on strike but later went back to work, suffered shotgun wounds in the left forearm, left groin and upper left leg.
He told police he was going to work about 5:20 A.M. and that when he reached the garage at his home and turned on the light, shotgun blasts suddenly cut loose from behind the alley.
He was reported in good condition at St. Margaret's Hospital. The shooting was another in a long series of incidents since the strike began.
No suspects were found by officers.
No suspects were found by officers. Williams has been employed at the Wilson plant for 19 years.
Airport Installs Control System
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-A new air traffic control system—the first of its kind in the nation—has been installed at San Francisco International Airport.
The system was designed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. to cope with the problems of increased air traffic.
Chief Controller E. P. Sullivan explained that until recently radar and visual traffic observers were housed in the same room, making communication between them easy.
But then, the controller points were spread out and a new radar room was installed on another floor of the tower.
The telephone company system, which required the installation of 36,000 wire connections, is a combination of the company's latest developments with features adapted from the communications systems of the Federal Aviation Agency, the Air Force and the Navy.
It provides instant communication between controllers in the tower cab and the radar room; instant contact facilities in the Bay Area; a method of breaking into a busy line with an important message; and a key unit system which can be serviced and maintained without interrupting service.
A new radar room, designed by FAA engineers, was built by the City of San Francisco atop the present terminal building. Lighting and room coloring ease working conditions. Technical innovations conserve space and increase maintenance ease.
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Albrecht Denies 60 Per Cent English Examination Failure
W. P. Albrecht, chairman of the English department, yesterday denied a rumor that 60 per cent of the freshman class failed the uniform English I final examination.
"I don't have the exact figures, but the percentage is much lower than that. We won't have the exact percentage for some time," Prof. Albrecht said.
The uniform test was given to English I students for the first time last semester.
"We decided to give the examination to improve instruction and to make standards more uniform," Prof. Albrecht explained.
He emphasized that the students who failed the test did not necessarily fail the course.
"The examination was a good
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"It succeeded in making the standards of grading more uniform and in more closely uniting the teachers of the 58 English I classes."
Kenneth Rothwell, assistant professor in English, said the test was a success mainly because it was a step in the direction of the uniformity for which the department is striving.
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