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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 56
Thursday, Dec. 8, 1960
KU Loses Big Eight Crown
Hecklers Quiet In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—(UPI)—White hecklers, their blockades crushed by police, abandoned attempts to keep white children out of an integrated school today but attendance skidded to 15 children.
For the first time since integration began on Nov. 14, not one jeer went up when children entered William Frantz Elementary School, because there were no crowds to jeer.
THE ONLY onlookers were a dozen women and one man sitting on a front porch across the street from the school. Police have warned persons inside their barricades that they
President-elect John F. Kennedy will "use all the prestige of his office" to see that Negro rights are protected in all parts of the United States, his younger brother said today.
will be thrown out if they start yelling.
Scores of policemen continued to man barriers set up a block away from the school in all directions, but for the first time no irate women stood by the barriers to insult parents as they took their children through.
THERE WAS no immediate explanation for the second straight drop in white attendance, after a steady climb took attendance at Frantz from two to 23. Newsmen counted only 14 white students today, plus Ruby Nell Bridges, the lone Negro girl in the school.
A white boycott was still totally effective at McDonogh 19 school, where three Negro girls are in the first grade.
THE REV. ANDREW FOREMAN, who complained to the FBI yesterday when a man allegedly threatened "to get" him, brought his daughter to school in a private car but left in a police car.
The home of Marion L. McKinley, a Baptist seminary student sending his children to Frantz, was stoned last night. Rocks were thrown through a window and police said one juvenile was arrested. It was the third home of a white "blockade-runner" to be stoned or damaged.
But McKinley's children came back to school today.
WONDER WHO? One of these three women will be crowned queen of the Military Ball at the dance tomorrow night. From left to right they are Pat Batt, Algonquin, Ill., sophomore representing Delta Gamma; Joan Munson, Arkansas City senior, Alpha Delta Pi and Lynn Alver, Oak Park, Ill., junior, Chi Omega. Escorts for the royalty will be the ROTC cadet and midshipman commanders.
Big Eight Rules Coan Ineligible in Two Games
KU lost its only undisputed football title in 30 years today when Bert Coan was declared ineligible for two games in which he participated.
The Big Eight Athletic Committee meeting in Kansas City ruled Coan ineligible for the Missouri and Colorado games.
This dropped KU to third place in the league standings, giving the team an overall 5-4-1 season record.
Bulletin
Donna Barton, Prairie Village sophomore, was rushed to Watkins Hospital by ambulance shortly after 1 p.m. when she collapsed in Spanish class in 107 Strong Hall.
The girl complained of loss of feeling in her legs and was reported breathing heavily before her collapse. No information could be obtained from Watkins Memorial Hospital other than that they had received an emergency call.
Coan was declared ineligible until Oct. 25,1961.
City Taverns and Renters Bar Negro Students, Says CRC
The Civil Rights Council heard committee reports last night which indicated that Lawrence taverns and University-approved rooming houses are discriminating against Negro students.
Committees of investigation were formed at a previous meeting and given the task of investigating taverns, eating places, and the University's approved list of rooming houses. Their reports were read last night.
THE COMMITTEES all reported cases of discrimination. These were ascertained when Negro students phoned for rooms or tried to patronize certain establishments in town.
The council also approved consideration of staging sit-ins and picketing these establishments, and touched on alleged discrimination in Greek houses on campus.
The places involved will be identified when the
The question of discrimination in downtown taverns was first discussed.
investigations are complete and the final reports are submitted, a CRC spokesman said.
"When we get this type of definite, factual information we will be in a position to make a case."
MARVIN McKNIGHT, Lawrence senior and chairman of the Civil Rights Council said:
One member of the group questioned whether Kansas has a law against allowing eating places to refuse to serve individuals because of race.
"We have a public accommodations law but that does not apply to taverns because they do not serve prepared food. We have no legal resource and any actions we take will have to be 'extra legal.'" McKnight said.
THOMAS L. KURT, Pratt first-year medical student, submitted a motion that the group consider the possibility of sit-ins and picketing of restaurants and taverns which practice discrimination.
Opposed the motion on grounds
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Malaya, Singapore Progress Described
By Frank Morgan
A man who has to speak six languages and travel nine months of the year through the harsh tropics of Southeast Asia in the course of his job, yesterday described the remarkable progress of the newly independent countries of Malava and Singapore.
Willard A. Hanna, American Universities Field Staff expert on the Southeast Asian area, said that despite the multiplicity of languages, customs, and races that mark the general area, the two nations are prospering at a pace that outstrips their sister nations.
"MALAYA'S GREAT economic progress that has been made since World War II is based on rubber," he said.
"It is their single crop and is subject to the fluctuations of the world market prices. The economy
"Singapore's economy is directly linked to Malaya and rubber," he continued. "The semi-autonomous city-state processes, handles and ships the rubber and is dependent upon the trade between Malaya and the world."
He said Malaya's prosperity is in part due to the realistic attitude of its people, their transition to autonomy and stable rubber prices.
HE SA1D SINGAPORE is as modern a city as anything found in Florida or California and could be called the "department store" of Southeast Asia.
is never secure, therefore, but prices have been high and the country is tremendously solvent."
"Race is the major problem between the two," he said. "Singapore is 75 per cent Chinese and Malaya is 50 per cent native."
"Singapore wants to join the
"IN ADDITION to this difficulty, there is a strong right-wing government in Malaya and a left-wing government in Singapore. There would be a conflict between these conservative and liberal elements."
Malayan federation (composed of nine states), but this would give the Chinese a majority.
Mr. Hanna was asked about Russian and U.S. aid to these and other Asian countries.
"There is very clear competition," he answered. "Both the big powers are pouring money and technical aid into the countries. The U.S. matches Russia offer for offer.
"IN FACT, the biggest problem in Laos today is caused by an excess of American funds. The U.S. Congress went overboard to save Laos from collapsing and sent $300
million to them. This amount couldn't be spent in 20 years."
In reply to a question about the wave of neutralism and its effect on the struggle in the UN between East and West, Mr. Hanna said the Afro-Asian neutrals won't always vote as a bloc.
As examples he cited the racial and ideological differences and said the leaders of two of the biggest nations, Prime Minister Nehru of India and President Sukarno of Indonesia can't stand each other.
"They will vote together against anything that smacks of colonialism or endangers their nationalism," he said. "But they will split to vote on disarmament and those things that don't directly involve them.
"THEY COULD swing anything in the UN if they voted as a bloc but they have two many differences between them."
Word came at 5:08 p.m. today. The Missouri Tigers, who lost to KU 23-7, is the new league champion with the Colorado Buffaloes moved to second
Coan, a transfer from TCU was declared ineligible because of a violation of the Big 8 Regulation regarding entertainment of prospective athletes which states:
"There shall be no excessive entertainment of a prospective athlete by a recognized representative of the University's athletic interest."
The Coan case was one of several incidents that led the NCAA to place KU on probation in October. Also included in consideration by the NCAA was the transfer of two other athletes from Texas A&M.
Bud Adams, Houston, Tex., oilman and former student at KU., allegedly paid for Coan's trip to the College All-Star football game in August, 1958. Both Coan and Adams have emphatically denied that Adams had paid any part of the football player's expenses.
The KU University Senate, composed of faculty members reviewed the Coan case shortly after the NCAA decision and found that he was eligible to play in the remaining games and that no violation had been committed.
Laurence C. Woodruff, KU faculty representative to the Big Eight conference, was reached shortly after the announcement but said he was unable to make any comment.
This decision was endorsed and approved by the KU Athletic Board and Coan therefore played on the remaining Colorado and Missouri games.
Reaves Peters, Executive Secretary of the Big Eight, released the decision at a press conference this afternoon.
Dean Woodruff had anticipated a difficult time in Kansas City because of the publicity that had attended the NCAA probation.
"My main concern is for the boy (Coan)," he said early this week.
"If he is declared ineligible he may decide to leave school which could affect him for the rest of his life."
Kennedy Offers Adlai UN Post
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President-elect John F. Kennedy today asked Adlai E. Stevenson to serve in his administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
The long-awaited announcement by Kennedy was made by the president-elect on the front steps of his Georgetown home with the 1952-58 Democratic standard bearer standing by his side.
The two men conferred for an hour and five minutes before emerging to talk to reporters.