Rights Council OKs Boycott of Taverns
By Byron Klapper
The Civil Rights Council last night approved a resolution to boycott two Lawrence taverns because of their discriminatory policies toward serving Negroes.
The council asked for an "all-student boycott of the Huddle and the Downbeat until they extend equal services to all people regardless of race, religion or national origin."
The Daily Kansan learned today that the Downbeat is under new management and the tavern is now called the Harbour.
THE BOYCOTT decision was reached as a result of complaints to the CRC that the taverns refused service to Negro students.
"These are the only two taverns in town that are still known to be segregating," a CRC spokesman said at the council meeting in the Kansas Union last night.
THE WHITE students entered the Huddle, sat in a booth, and were served by a friendly gray-haired waitress.
A week before the Christmas vacation, two Negro and two white students volunteered to patronize the taverns to check the accuracy of the complaints.
The Negro students entered shortly afterward and sat in the same booth. When the waitress saw them she politely informed them that she was sorry, but she would not serve them.
When asked why, the waitress answered. "I'm sorry, I only work here. Why don't you speak to the owner tomorrow morning?"
When asked if she were instructed not to serve Negroes, the waitress repeated that she was sorry and that the students should speak to the owner.
THE FOUR students quietly left the tavern and decided to investigate the "Downbeat" in the same manner.
Again the white students were served, but when the Negro students entered the tavern, they were refused service by the owner.
At the CRC meeting last night the group also resolved;
"Unless we are notified about a change in policy of the taverns in regard to serving Negroes, we will proceed to print and distribute handbills soliciting support for the boycott, and individuals will write letters to local newspapers and city officials."
IN A TELEPHONE interview to the Downbeat, it was learned that Jan. 1, the tavern management was changed.
Reds Threaten Laos Capital
SAIGON — (UPI) — The Communist radio reported today that pro-Red forces in Laos are advancing toward the royal capital of Luang Prabang despite "bitter fighting" by defending royal troops.
A broadcast purporting to come from inside Laos said a battalion of pro-Communist guerrillas had arrived to reinforce the leftist troops of Paratroop Capt. Kong Le.
The broadcast also reported that Colonel Boupa, commander of the 3,000-man royal garrison in northern Phong Saly province, had deserted to the Reds.
It reported "bitter fighting" in the Thakhet area of central Laos and around the Army posts defending Luang Prabang.
The Communists said they would seek outside military aid if the United States "continues to intervene" in Laos. Russia has been flying arms to the Communists.
Political Prophecy Set
"Forecasts of the Coming Administration" will be discussed by two members of the political science department at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
When asked about his policy toward serving Negroes, the manager said, "I have never refused, as far as the Harbour is concerned, entrance or service to any customers in this place as long as they acted like ladies and gentlemen.
"I have served Negroes and will continue to do so, but I will not serve any group that comes in here and tells me that I have to."
THE MANAGER, who declined to give his name over the telephone, said that he had nothing against Negroes, and that he had several Negro customers, including members of the KU basketball team.
In reply to whether a student boycott would hurt her business, Mrs. Delores Sink, manager of the Huddle said:
"It could but I'll just take my chances. We don't have to serve them (Negroes) and I don't want to. I have the right to serve anyone I want."
"It's usually the white people who are behind all the trouble," she said.
"ONE TIME during the football season a colored guy came in and I wouldn't serve him. He then motioned to a white guy through the window, I think it was a professor, who came in and told me that if I advertised in the Kansan I should be broad minded enough to serve all students.
"I don't like people coming in here and telling me I had to serve them, she said.
Mrs. Sink implied that she had no intention of serving Negroes in the future.
(Editor's note: This semester Byron Klapper has been covering the civil rights activities on campus and in Lawrence. Beginning Monday, he will begin a series of articles on the segregation situation in this community.)
KU Research To Be Studied
Other members of the committee are: William P. Albrecht, English; Ethan Allen, political science; George L. Anderson, history; Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of education; Thomas R. Buckman, director-designate of the Libraries; Dr. Santiago Grisolia, medicine; William W. Hambleton, geology
A 14-member committee to examine the role of research at the University of Kansas will be headed by William J. Argersinger, associate dean of the Graduate School.
Dan Hopson, Jr., law; Fred Kurata, chemical engineering; Charles D. Michener, entomology; Wiley S. Mitchell, business; Edward E. Smissman, pharmaceutical chemistry; and Milton Steinhardt, music.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1961
58th Year, No. 64
Cuba Braces for Attack; Coastal Guns Emplaced
HAVANA — (UPI) — Cuba started installing coastal defense guns along the famed Malecon Sea Drive today and declared the area a "military zone."
ARMY CREWS immediately started rolling heavy guns into the area and by 11 a.m. they had been emplaced for roughly a mile between Galiano Street and Maceo Park, the start of the Vedado suburb.
The first guns to be rolled into position were howitzers and anti-aircraft "pom pom" cannon. Eye-witnesses to the surprise move said
"quite a lot" were being emplaced. There was no prior announcement of the government decision to fortify what hitherto has been a "lover's promenade." People were permitted to walk through the area but all vehicular traffic was detoured away from the sea wall.
The Malecon overlooks the Gulf of Mexico along its approximately 10-mile expanse.
Cuba earlier blamed the Eisenhower administration for its break in relations with the U.S. and implied that things might improve under President-elect John F. Kennedy.
College Announces Change In Enrollment Procedure
Two changes by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the enrollment procedure were announced today by James K. Hitt, director of admissions and registrar. They will be effective with the spring semester.
The faculty of the College has voted to augment the freshman-sophomore advisers by using a greater number of the College faculty and by using selected faculty members from the professional schools and general University staff members.
FORMERLY only selected members of the College faculty served as advisers. This action decreases the number of students assigned to each adviser.
A second change in the enrollment procedure for the spring semester is the scheduling of pre-enrollment information conferences in pre-professional interest areas for students interested in a pre-professional curriculum. All such students are asked to attend these meetings before going through the enrollment process.
The schedule of pre-enrollment professional information conferences follows:
School Date Place
Education 4 p.m., Jan. 17 303 Bailey
Business 4 p.m., Jan. 18 411 Summerfield
Journalism 4 p.m., Jan. 12 205 Flint
Pharmacy 4 p.m., Jan. 19 327 Malott
Most freshmen and sophomores in the College will see their advisers in their offices rather than on the enrollment floor at the Kansas Union.
THE STUDENTS will stop at their advisers' offices to plan their enrollment after picking up their registration materials in Strong Hall, and before going to the Kansas Union to complete enrollment.
All other students, College juniors and seniors and students from other schools, will enroll in the same way as before. First, materials will be picked up at Strong Hall, filled out, and then the student will check in at the Kansas Union on Thursday or Friday according to schedule, see their advisers and enroll.
THE CABINET issued the statement after an all night session in which it decreed the death penalty for anti-Castro "terrorists" within 72 hours of their conviction.
The cabinet statement was the first formal reaction to the severing of diplomatic relations by Washington Tuesday night.
There was no mention of the big U. S. naval base at Guantanamo and the cabinet, meeting with Castro, apparently decided to abide by past declarations that the regime will seek to reclaim the base by legal means rather than force.
THE CUBAN CABINET statement took the line proclaimed by Moscow — that the main trouble with the United States was the Eisenhower administration.
The communique said it "was only logical that the present U. S. administration" climax its term in office by breaking relations with Cuba and threatening "even worse acts . . . which we are prepared to face."
The communique said that the "Cuban people consider that relations have been broken with the government of the United States but not with the people."
(See related local story on page 8, Break with Cuba . . )
KU Student, Wife Stranded in Cuba
A KU senior, his wife and baby who visited in Cuba during Christmas vacation, have not yet returned to Lawrence.
Jim Morelan, Humboldt senior and his family had expected to fly into the Kansas City airport Tuesday night after two weeks at Mrs. Morelan's parents' home in Varadero, 80 miles east of Havana.
Morelan's mother told officials in the School of Architecture office yesterday the date on her daughter-in-law's passport had expired. The mother said she was not worried about the couple and baby and hoped it would take only a day or two to get the date changed on the passport.
Weather
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Kansas weather through tomorrow should fit into the same mold that produced yesterday's mild conditions, the weather bureau said today. Highs today were forecast from the 40s to the 50s.
KU Student Tells of Strife in Ethiopia
By Murrel Bland
A KU student spent his Christmas vacation in Ethiopia and returned with a few interesting souvenirs — a set of empty rifle shells from the guns of Ethiopian rebels.
Robert Day, Kansas City Kan. sophomore, arrived in the capital city, Addis Ababa, Dec. 22. Day said when he was there that there were still signs of rebel activity.
"THE REBELS stay back in the hills away from the city during the day," Day said. "Then during the night they move in toward the city."
Day was visiting his parents who now live in Addis Ababa. Day's father is an employee of the Ethiopian Airlines Co.
"My parents' home is in a bad place," he said. "The rebel troops are on one side of them and the loyalist troops are on the other side."
DAY EXPLAINED that he and his parents had to sleep on the floor for two reasons.
"First, we didn't want to get hit by any stray shells," he said. "And also our furniture hadn't arrived."
"THE REBELS are made up mostly of members of this body-guard," he said. "These boys
He said the furniture had been delayed because of the heavy shipment of tanks.
Day said there are three branches in the Ethiopian Military, the bodyguard, the air force and the police force.
were in a crack unit during the Korean conflict. The air force has stayed loyal, but there is a split in the police force."
On Christmas day, Day went to the town square in Addis Ababa and saw the gallows the loalists had built.
"I saw a-rebel hanging there," he said. "I don't know who he was. He was probably tried for treason. They have swift justice in Ethiopia."
DAY SAID two days before the revolution, a large irrigation ditch was dug around the airport and the adjoining area. This trench was first used by rebel troops.
"The trench is not there any longer," Day said. "It made a convenient grave for the men who died fighting."