Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
58th Year, No.68
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1961
TOPEKA — (UPI)— The Kansas House of Representatives today unanimously passed a bill which would raise the pay of legislative officers, clerks and employees as the 1961 session of the legislature moved into its second day.
No Incidents As Negroes Enter University of Georgia Classes
ATHENS, Ga. — (UPI)— Two Negro students reported without incident today for their first classes at the University of Georgia.
Only the silent stares of fellow students greeted the arrival of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, both of Atlanta, when they showed up for classes at 9 a.m. They were ordered admitted to the University by federal courts.
A GROUP OF girls in Miss Hunter's dormitory, outside which a boisterous student demonstration
In Atlanta, State Treasurer George B. Hamilton said he is with-holding funds totaling $2,152,901 from the school until a 1956 law severing state funds from an integrated school is clarified. Hamilton said he was not named in a federal injunction prohibiting the governor and the state auditor from cutting off the funds. Auditor B. E. Thrasher said the school could run for a month without the funds.
Rep. Edward Beaman, R.-Hoyt,
who introduced the bill, said it
would be the first raise granted in
"12 to 15 years."
House Passes Bill to Raise Pay
Salaries for the officers and employees were raised an average of $1 to $3 a day. The secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house would get $1,800 for a general session and $624 for a budget session under the bill. There would be an additional $12 a day for preparing the index to the Legislative Journal.
The House also approved a routine resolution setting up procedures and fees for obtaining legislative documents before adjourning until tomorrow.
took place last night, accompanied her to her first class in psychology on the main campus.
Holmes was picked up in a residential section shortly before 9 a.m. by Dean of Men William Tate who then took him on a leisurely ride around the campus before they went in through a back door of the biology building for classes.
Tate himself had difficulty finding Holmes' classroom and they wandered through a number of corridors before finding the proper room, a large empty theater-type laboratory.
Dr. R. B. McGee of Bristol, Tenn., head of the zoology department shook hands with Holmes at the entrance of the lab and the Negro went to a seat on the front row.
ABOUT 15 STUDENTS were in the lab lecture room at the time. No one sat next to Holmes but students were in the row right behind him.
Most students have accepted the arrival of the two Negroes with considerable calm.
One girl in Miss Hunter's dormitory said her father had telephoned he was coming for her but she told
him in tears that she liked the University and had no intention of going home because of the Negro girl's appearance.
Miss Hunter stayed in her dormitory room last night and heard the echoes of the demonstrations outside. She was welcomed to the dormitory yesterday by a delegation of approximately 15 girls who said they would "make her welcome."
Holmes said he spent last night in Atlanta where he had gone to "pick up some clothes."
TATE ADVISED Holmes about conducting himself should there be any demonstrations or harsh words from students.
Tate told Holmes the University was fortunate to have him and Miss Hunter as the first representatives of their race on the campus inasmuch as "you both seem to be serious students."
Holmes said he had gotten along 'much better than I expected" in its registration attempts here.
Holmes will live off campus but under university regulations. Miss Hunter is required to live in a dormitory or a sorority house.
Post-Korean Veterans May Get GI Bill Aid
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough, D-Tex., and 30 other senators sponsored legislation today which would make 4.5 million post-Korean war veterans eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights.
An identical bill passed the Senate last year, 57-31 but died in the House veterans committee.
YARBOROUGH said the bill was patterned after the World War II and Korean War acts but that the benefits were scaled down.
Medical Aid Urged for Aged
It would provide educational benefits for those who served between Jan. 31, 1955 and July 1, 1963.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—A special task force today urged President-Elect John F. Kennedy to push for a broad plan of medical aid to the aged under social security. The proposal would cover 14.5 million persons at an annual cost of about $1 billion.
Guest Speaker Set For Philosophy Club
William Earle, professor of philosophy from Northwestern University, will speak to the Philosophy Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. His topic will be "The Immorality of Morality."
The report was given to Kennedy before he completed a busy day of activities in New York and flew to Washington for an afternoon of conferences on space and the gold problem.
The medical aid task force was headed by Dr. Wilber J. Cohen, professor of public welfare administration at the University of Michigan. It recommended legislation which would go considerably beyond the Kennedy-Anderson Bill which failed to pass Congress last year.
Kennedy, who is returning tonight to his pre-inaugural retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., arrived here at 2:17 p.m. (EST).
The billion-dollar program would be financed by increasing social security withholding taxes by one half of one per cent. Of this amount, one fourth would be paid by the employer and one-fourth by the employee.
Reds May Launch Space Spectacular
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — Russia has deployed three missile tracking ships in the Pacific in a move that may indicate some new space spectacular is in the works, the Navy reported today.
The ships appeared to be bearing down on an area in the Pacific, 1,050 miles southeast of Oahu, Hawaii, where previous Russian missiles have been fired.
The Navy said that late yesterday the three ships were in a large triangular ocean area centered 1,200 miles west of Oahu. The nearest ship was 400 miles west of Midway Island.
On their present course and at the 10-knot speed they are making, the Navy said the ships should reach the previous impact area by Saturday.
The area consists of 44,800 square miles.
The veterans would receive one and one-half days schooling for each day of service, not to exceed 36 months. Payments would be $110 monthly for single veterans and up to $165 a month for a married veteran with two children.
Yarborough said 46 percent of draft-age men are inducted and that the other 54 per cent have "a head start in the economic struggle unless these veterans are furnished some educational training."
IT ALSO would provide for guaranteed home and farm loans and for vocational rehabilitation for disabled veterans and for on-the-job training programs.
He said professional and technical training for the 4,500,000 veterans will aid the national economy "and greatly improve the attitude and moral of men called to service."
Hemingway Ill at Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. — (UPI) — The Mayo Clinic announced today that novelist Ernest Hemingway, who entered the famed diagnostic institution Nov. 30 under an assumed name, is being treated for hypertension.
A brief clinic announcement said Hemingway's condition "is regarded as satisfactory."
"HE HAS RECEIVED no surgical treatment and none is contemplated," the Clinic said. "It is necessary, however, that his right to privacy be respected and that he have the benefits of rest and quiet."
Hypertension is an abnormally high arterial blood pressure. It is at times accompanied by organic changes such as in nephritis and diabetes, and by nervousness, headaches and dizziness. But the announcement did not elaborate beyond naming the ailment.
Weather
KANSAS--Generally fair with little change in temperature this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 20 to 24. High Thursday 45 to 50.
Civil Rights Bill Tabled by ASC
Tom Kurt blasted the All Student Council for "cowardice and the inability to meet its responsibilities" last night after the Council tabled the resolution on racial justice.
The Council voted 9-7 to table the National Student Association committee's resolution before any discussion was brought up.
THE RESOLUTION ENCOURAGES SELECTIVE BUYING and student boycotts against merchants who discriminate, to further the interest of equality of all races and creeds. It says in part that "we commit ourselves, as students, to attack discrimination and to work toward establishing social justice."
After the resolution was tabled, Kurt, graduate representative, said:
"I am disappointed in the Council's action. I think it showed cowardice and inability to meet our responsibilities if we don't bring this out into the open.
"AS A COUNCIL WE MUST ALWAYS EXERCISE LEADERSHIP and action on all issues concerning student rights and we are failing the students here."
Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior representing the fraternity district, asked that the Council make a more thorough study of the resolution before adopting it.
"The NSA committee concerns only a few people but the ASC represents the entire student body," Eberhart said. "The passage of
THOMAS L. KURT
"The tabling shows a lack of courage . . ."
this resolution will be of importance to the students, the city of Lawrence and the state legislature."
Integration and racial justice have been issues on campus since last spring when nearly 100 Negro students marched in protest of student body president Ron Dalby's endorsement of the All Big Eight President's resolution which condemned sit-ins.
THIS YEAR RACIAL JUSTICE HAS BECOME A TOPIC OF controversy on campus since the Civil Rights Council announced two weeks ago a boycott of two local taverns that discriminated against serving Negroes.
The ASC's discrimination resolution has been tabled since late October in various committees.
Two other resolutions were referred to special committees for further consideration.
The tutor-pupil matching service resolution again came before the Council after three months in the ASC Labor committee. The resolution was first brought before the council on Nov. 29, 1960.
THE LABOR COMMITTEE REPORTED THAT UNIVERSITY department heads interviewed felt that the service would be feasible but were not sure the ASC could successfully conduct such a service.
Kurt recommended that the Council put the service on a trial basis for one semester. He also suggested that a KU-Y adviser supervise the service with the consent of the KU-Y cabinet. The resolution was sent to the committee on committees until the KU-Y cabinet makes a decision.
Another resolution, also introduced by Kurt, was sent to the labor committee. It calls for an investigation of student wages and hiring standards. Kurt said that he felt students were working at much too low a salary level.
Kirk Cottingham, Newton senior and chairman of elections, announced that spring ASC elections would be March 21-22 for the primaries with the general elections March 28-29.
PAUL CACIOPPO, OVERLAND PARK SENIOR, AND RUEben McCornack, Abilene freshman, are the only two University Party or independent candidates for student body president remaining.
The other candidates were disqualified last night for missing the meeting.