Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
58th Year, No. 52
Friday, Dec. 2, 1960
Demos Gain 5-4 Edge On Board of Regents
The recent appointment of Democrat William F. Danenbarger to the Kansas Board of Regents now gives the Democrats a 5-4 edge on the board.
Mr. Dannenbarger, president of Concordia radio station KNCK, will succeed Republican Harry Valentine of Clay Center on Dec 31. His appointment will have to be confirmed by the Republican Senate when it convenes Jan. 10.
SOURCES CLOSE to the University consider Mr. Danenbarger to be a good selection and well-qualified.
He said he has no immediate plans as a member of the board. When asked about the regents recent $18 million crash building program for the five state universities and colleges he said:
"I'm really not qualified to comment on it but I think it is something that is definitely needed."
The new appointee said he did not know if there would be any trouble on the confirmation and that the procedure is usually a matter of formality.
"I HAVE HAD no professional experience in education," he said, "But I am vitally interested in the progress of our educational system."
He said he was a personal friend of the governor and John Montgomery, state Democratic chairman, and thought that it was through them that he received the appointment.
Mr. Danenbarger graduated from KU in 1933 and worked for United Press International for 12 years before becoming associated with the Concordia radio station.
Gov. Docking, who was defeated
for re-election, will appoint another new member of the board to replace Republican Claude C. Bradney of Columbus, whose four-year term also expires on Dec. 31.
Kansas statutes limit the nine-member board to a majority of five from one political party. Mr. Bradney's replacement must therefore be a Republican.
The political structure of the education board has long been debated
RAY EVANS, chairman of the board, said today he thought it "too bad" when state officials push politics into the educational system.
"Of course, appointments are strictly up to the governor," he said, "and I have no comment about any legislative action that may take place in January.
"But I believe the board of regents should remain non-partisan and be kept out of politics."
Harry Valentine, the outgoing member, was contacted and he said he had not expected to be reappointed because of the differences he has had with Gov. Docking.
State educational officials have long considered extending the term of office for board members. Mr. Evans expressed regret at the loss of Mr. Valentine and Mr. Bradney from the board.
"It is hard to lose these men," he said. "It takes about four years just to get your feet wet. The members just get to understand the problems of higher education when their term expires."
Mrs. Danenbarger, the former Mildred Wright of Lawrence, also graduated from KU in 1933. The Danenbargers have two sons: John a freshman at KU and Wright, a senior at Yale University.
Cuba Communistic
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States for the first time today officially labeled Cuban Fidel Castro's government as Communist-controlled.
Guatemalan Says Communism Halted
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The president of Guatemala said today that sending U.S. warships and planes to guard his country against any communist-directed invasion prevented the establishment of a new Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.
Children Enter Schools Unharmed
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI)— Ten white children went unharmed into an integrated school today past angry housewives whose blockade appeared to be crumbling.
The ten children came in three cars to William Frantz Elementary School, and brought attendance at the integrated school to its highest point in more than a week — 11 students, counting Ruby Nell Bridges, the lone Negro girl in the building.
The "cheerleaders," as police call the group of about 40 women leading the fight for a white boycott at the school, had to split into four groups to try to cover all four entrances.
But at McDonogh 19 School, the three Negro girls were still all alone in the building. A white boycott by the 467 students attending McDonogh 19 has been complete for six days.
Their spirit seemed flagging in the face of near-freezing temperatures and tougher police restrictions.
BUT POLICE held them across the street from the school, and made them stay on the corners, at least 50 yards from the gates leading into the school grounds. When the students arrived in cars and got out at the gates, the women were so far away that their insults were inaudible and they had to fall back upon loud, long boos.
Frantz has a normal enrollment of 576.
EARLIER IN the week, when only the daughters of the Rev. Andrew Foreman and Mrs. Daisy Gabrielle were attending Frantz, parents had to walk their children through the angry women, and got cursed, punched and shoved.
But today an organization called "Save Our Schools" (SOS), dedicated to keeping public schools open, started offering its services to drive children to the school.
Mrs. Gabrielle's daughter, Yolan da, 6, came in an SOS car with a police car following them. Yesterday, when an SOS car took Mrs Gabrielle and Yolanda home from school, one of the "cheerleaders" shattered a window of the car with a brick.
Police, directed by superintendent Joseph Giarrusso, enforced the toughest restrictions on hecklers since the first week of integration when violence broke out. There were at least 50 officers around Frantz school today.
A DETACHMENT of "cheerleaders" had gone to the Rev. Foreman's house, a block and a half from Frantz, to head him off when he came out. But Foreman moved temporarily to a friend's home several days ago.
The Rev. Foreman came with his daughter and two unidentified boys, as he did yesterday, in a friend's car.
The "cheerleaders" rouged up bystanders and newsmen yesterday when a Baptist minister took his two children in to join those of the Rev. Foreman and Mrs. Gabrielle. Attendance yesterday in the school was six whites and Ruby Nell.
The official, Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, expressed his deepest thanks to President Eisenhower for sending the Navy units to the Caribbean-at Guatemala's request.
The White House, which made public an exchange of letters between the two presidents said the ships were still in the Caribbean in order to prevent any invasion of Guatemala or neighboring Nicaragua.
In his letter, the Guatemalan president accused Cuban Premier Fidel Castro of supporting the revolt which erupted in Guatemala in mid November. Fuentes said the U.S. patrol "prevented outside forces from giving support to the Communist-inspired revolutionary movement."
"This watch you ordered was decisive in stopping the development of the movement and greater bloodshed in my country and preventing eventual establishment of a new Communist government in the Americas," he wrote Eisenhower.
Eisenhower had ordered the Navy to block any invasion attempt of Guatemala and Nicaragua.
"I am gratified to learn constitutional order is being maintained." Eisenhower said in his letter to Fuentes.
He expressed the gratitude of the Guatemalan people and his government to the United States and "its illustrious president."
Fuentes said the uprising was aimed at toppling "the constitutional and anti-Communist government over which I have the honor to preside."
Weather
Temperatures were 10 to 15 degrees warmer than yesterday across Kansas today and the weather bureau predicted fair skies and moderate temperatures through the weekend.
Highs today were forecast from 50 to 60, followed by overnight lows generally in the 30s.
Strong southerly winds during the night brought the pronounced warmup to Kansas, the weather bureau said. Cold air that followed Monday's storm has moved eastward out of the state.
NSA Representative To Be Here Monday
Harvey Flad, NSA Campus International Administrator, will visit KU Monday to speak to students.
His talk will be given Monday at 4:00 p.m. in the Student Union. He will answer any questions students have on NSA at that time.
He also plans to meet with Ron Dalby, Student Body President, and members of the administration.
David Bell to Budget Post
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President-Elect John F. Kennedy pushed the formation of his administration over a major hurdle today with the selection of David E. Bell, Harvard University professor and former Truman aide, as budget director.
Kennedy planned to fly to Palm Beach, Fla., with his three-year-old daughter, Caroline, in the early afternoon. Another high-level appointment to the new administration will be announced in Florida by noon Saturday.
Selection of Bell for the budget job should break a log-jam of administration planning for 1961. Normally the budget director is appointed quickly after a national election so he can start working with the outgoing regime on budgetary estimates for the following fiscal year.
Bell, an economist and professional expert on federal government, was not available immediately after the election. There remained some possibility that his active participation in the new administration might be delayed. In this case, Kennedy would have to name an interim liaison budget representative to start familiarizing himself with current planning of the bureau which plays a vital part in federal finances.
BEDFORD, Mass. — (UPI) — The Russian zoo satellite disappeared from its normal orbit today and U.S. Air Force space trackers here said radar sightings showed that the space craft was returned to earth, transferred to a new orbit or "burned up in the atmosphere."
Despite a Moscow radio announcement that the zoo spaceship was still "alive" at 7 a.m., the National Space Surveillance Control Center reported that its more than 100 tracking stations could not hear the satellite's radio and could not locate it by radar.
Radar Reports Negative
The sighting at the Atlantic missile range radar was under what a spokesman described as "good conditions."
Space Trackers Say Red Satellite Is Out of Orbit
An Atlantic missile range radar reported to the center that at 9:30 a.m. it tracked the "rocket body" of the spaceship but could find no sign of the spaceship itself in the sky nearby.
Radio Echoes Radar
Earlier, radio listening posts could not locate the satellite. A report from Kokubunji, Japan, reported the last signal at 6:20 a.m.
The Soviet radio's correspondent Gury Galperin, who made the "still alive" broadcast, said data received from the two dogs abroad the Sputnik means "the cosmos is safe, a man can be sent there."
Only a tumbling object was tracked when the radar checked on what should have been the two objects' 21st revolution around the globe.
A spokesman said the two could be differentiated because the rocket body had been tumbling once every two and one half seconds while the satellite itself had been stabilized.
Vox 'Slightly Bruised,' Party President Says
The Vox Populi president last night declared Vox was not seriously damaged in the recent campus election and is looking forward to spring elections to make a comeback.
"The way I look at it, this election was not as successful as times in the past. But we have not been whipped at all, just slightly bruised," Jack Roberts, Kansas City junior and president of Vox said.
ROBERTS TOLD the Vox General Assembly meeting in the Kansas Union, that although their party seated only six ASC representatives to the University Party's 10, Vox still had a majority of ASC representatives seated in the Student Council. Vox holds 16 seats to 10 from the UP, he said.
"In this past election we had 25 more popular votes than they had. It was the distribution that fouled us up." Roberts said.
The party president said he was disappointed in the Vox distribution from sorority, large men's dormitories and small women's dormitories where Vox did not fare well.
He urged party members to work harder in these districts before the spring elections.
"It is surprising, it really is. As disorganized as they (UP) were they did all right for their first time.
"ID LIKE to see VOX here for another 15 years. We should be way up there again next spring, but we've got districts that definitely need work," he said.
The party leader suggested the formation of an evaluation committee to study the election results in detail.
"This evaluation committee is to evaluate the last election to see what we can do in the future. The committee need not be limited to the election but may consider anything that could stand improvement." Roberts said.
Roberts appointed Roger K. Wilson, Wichita sophomore, chairman of the committee and left the appointment of committee members to Wilson.
Lodge May Run For Seat in Senate
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Henry Cabot Lodge indicated today he might run again for the Senate to fill the seat being vacated by President-elect John F. Kennedy.
Lodge, the unsuccessful Republican Vice Presidential candidate, lost his Senate seat to Kennedy in 1952. "I'm not foreseeing anything now," the Massachusetts Republican told reporters following a conference with Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, who headed the GOP ticket.