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Problem Areas for JFK
Laos—
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — Communist - supported rebels attacked pro-Western forces at the strategic road junction of Sala Phou Khoun Monday, it was reported today.
Pro - Western and Communist sources differed as to the outcome of the battle.
Sala Phou Khoun commands the roads linking Vientiane and the 'royal capital' of Luang Prabang with the Communist-held plain of Jars. Its possession is vital to the government campaign to regain control of the plain and its important airfields.
Information minister Bouavani Norasing told reporters that Red-backed troops launched an attack on the government garrison at Sala Fhou Khoun Monday.
Government reinforcements arrived the next day, he said.
A Communist broadcast purporting to come from Laos claimed today, however, that the road junction had fallen Tuesday after a few hours of what it called "fierce fighting."
It said defeated government troops were "now fleeing in the direction of Luang Prabang."
Congo—
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (UPI) — The United Nations has sent a strong note to pro-Lumumba authorities in Stanleyville warming them not to mistreat 12 Belgians arrested there in retaliation for the transfer of ousted Premier Patrice Lumumba to a prison in Katanga Province.
Austin Selected Regents Chairman
Whitley Austin, publisher of the Salina Journal, today was elected chairman of the Kansas Board of Keegans.
Austin, a Republican appointed to the Board by former Democratic Gov. George Docking, succeeds another Republican as chairman. Re-election of the previous chairman, Ray Evans, had been expected prior to today's meeting.
Austin, although an appointee of the former governor, has been a frequent critic of Docking. His term on the board expires next Dec. 31.
A UN spokesman said the note was issued by UN chief representative Bajeshwar Dayal of India. He said the prisoners included three women.
He said that when UN officials tried to intervene in the arrests, they were "told not to interfere."
Europeans in the pro-Lumumba stronghold of Kivu Province today sought United Nations protection against reported terrorism against them by Congolese.
Russia-
MOSCOW — (UPI)— The Soviet Union welcomed the end of the Eisenhower administration today and looked to President John F. Kennedy for improvement of Soviet-American relations.
Since the American U2 reconnaissance plane was downed over Russia last May 1, the Kremlin has insistently blamed the "imperialist" Eisenhower government for the world's tensions and any deterioration in U.S.-Soviet relations.
"A new page in United States history begins," Trud said. "People expect a new fresh wind, bringing improved relations between the great powers, the United States and the U.S.S.R., leading to mutual understanding and cooperation."
Commenting on the inauguration, the trade union newspaper Trud said "the peoples of the entire world look forward hopefully."
Observers said Soviet policy now would be characterized by watchful waiting until Kennedy has indicated his official reaction to recent Soviet overtures for improved relations.
HAVANA — (UPI) — Premier Fidel Castro today suspended indefinitely all pending military trials of "anti-revolutionaries," including six imprisoned Americans, in an apparent peace bid to President Kennedy, reliable sources said.
Cuba-
But the move came too late to save two Cuban "terrorists" from a firing squad. They were shot at dawn in grim La Cabana Prison, raising to ten the total number of executions since Sunday.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year. No. 75
Friday, Jan. 20, 1961
Kennedy 35th President
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his presidency in a time of awesome troubles today by summoning the world's peoples, communist and non-communist, to "a grand and global alliance" against "tyranny, poverty, disease, and war."
At 12:51 p.m., EST, 11:51 Lawrence time, Kennedy, at 43 the youngest man ever elected president and the first Catholic, solemnly took the oath of office as the nation's 35th chief executive. To the 172-year-old oath he added, as George Washington had done, the words "so help me God."
Then head bared to a freezing wind in a city glittering under a seven-inch blanket of snow, he addressed himself not only to his countrymen but to "my fellow citizens of the world."
The new president had begun the most solemn day of his life by attending a special mass "in honor of the Holy Spirit" at 9 a.m. Then he had ridden to the Capitol from the White House with
his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower who, at 70, is the oldest man ever to serve in the White House.
The ceremony was slow in getting started, and he took the historic oath 40 minutes later than the scheduled time. Before and after the invocation. Kennedy made the sign of the cross.
The ceremony, solemnized by four moving prayers and a moving poem read by 86-year-old Robert Frost, had its awkward moments.
As the proceedings began, blue smoke suddenly gushed from the lectern.
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Some observers thought they saw fire at the bottom of the lectern. A technician and a fireman crawled over the red carpet at the new president's fee, spotted the trouble, and took care of it.
Frost went to the lectern with a sheaf of papers, but the strong and freezing wind blew them into disarray. He finally gave up trying to rearrange them and read his poem off from memory.
'Let the Word Go Forth—'
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Selected passages from President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address:
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a cold and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today...
"To...the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far
"Let every nation know, whether it wish us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of liberty...
"To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists are doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right...
outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support—to prevent its becoming merely a forum for invective—to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak—and to enlarge the area to which its writ may run. . .
"Let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate...
Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms—and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. . .
"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our needs, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. ..."
"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country will do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man...
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City Moves to Desegregation
By Byron Klapper
(Editor's Note: This is the last in the series of articles defining the problems of discrimination and segregation in Lawrence.)
The recent sit-in demonstration and the actions of the Civil Rights Council this semester have been attempts to cope with a discrimination problem that has existed in Lawrence for many years.
IN SPITE OF the problem that exists today, Lawrence has made great strides toward desegregation in the last decade. Most Lawrence citizens can remember the day when there was not a restaurant in the city that would serve Negroes and there was a special section reserved for them in the movie theaters.
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, related the dominant role that former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy played in eliminating much of the discrimination in the city.
"Dr. Murphy came out with sledge-hammer blows against segregation.
"He spent many hours talking with theater and restaurant owners and advocating desegregation at the Chamber of Commerce. The results of his work against segregation in downtown Lawrence are plain today," Prof. Ise said.
PROF. ISE said that we cannot
pretend to be leaders in a democratic world unless we treat Negroes fairly.
"A Negro ought to feel he is as good as anybody because he is
John Ise
JUSTIN W. HILL, president of the Lawrence Paper Co. said in an interview that he did not foresee an immediate change in the attitude of individuals who now refuse to serve Negroes.
Many Lawrence residents and
as good as anybody. No white man knows what it means to be a Negro who never knows whether he will be insulted when he goes somewhere." he said.
businessmen view the problem differently than Prof. Ise.
"I don't think that passing laws will improve the feelings of people toward Negroes. Neither will the sit-ins of student groups get to the depth of the problem. You don't make friends by forcing things on people. In fact it will cause just the opposite reaction," Mr. Hill said.
Mr. Hill, who employs both Negroes and whites in his firm, said that before Negroes will be accepted by whites as equals, they will have to raise their standards of living to the accepted level of the community. It is up to the Negro
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Weather
The weather bureau says it will be mostly fair today becoming partly cloudy by evening and locally cloudy and colder tonight. It will be partly cloudy and continued rather cold Saturday. Highs today are forecast for the middle 30s, lows tonight in the middle teens.