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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Dec. 1, 1960
58th Year. No. 51
Lost and Found: Santa's Helpers
Santa's helpers—those that handle the tree-trimming chores—apparently are on strike. Anyway, they haven't decorated the tree put up in Strong Hall yesterday.
And no one seems to know just **who** will.
STUDENTS gazed upward yesterday as if impelled to see just how tall the Christmas tree in Strong Hall Rotunda actually was. They examined the tree and watched with interest as the buildings and grounds crewmen put it up and trimmed its top-most branches which brushed the ceiling. But, they didn't see any lights or tinsel. The tree was bare.
Santa's helpers may have gone for a long winter's nap. A check revealed that no one seems to know who will decorate the tree.
"The buildings and grounds crew cut it and put it up," said C. G Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds. "From that point it's in the hands of the design department."
MARJORIE Whitney, professor of design, said that the department had nothing to do with decorating the Christmas tree and hadn't had for some time. The buildings and grounds department had charge of the decorations, she said.
Students are waiting to see what develops. They may have a campus tree trimming party. They could climb ladders, string lights, toss glitter and add tinsel to the 25-foot tree.
Cuba Charges U.S. Attack
HAVANA—(UPI)—Cuba charged today that the United States deliberately exploded a rocket from Cape Canaveral over Cuban territory as a "provocation."
TRIMMERS FOUND—The giant Christmas tree in Strong Hall stood unadorned for a day while confusion reigned as to who would decorate the tree. But late this morning electricians from the buildings and grounds department started trimming the tree with gay tinsel and glass balls. (Photo by Ray Miller)
The Havana government organ Revolution said 40-pound fragments plunged onto eastern Cuba yesterday after a malfunctioning satellite carrier was destroyed in mid-flight. The U.S. defense Department said it could not "exclude the possibility."
Revolucion's bitter attack bore the implied threat that Cuban and Communist propaganda might be unleashed in a campaign to halt or hobble U.S. flights down the Caribbean-Atlantic missile range, the main street of American space research.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon,
tonight and tomorrow. Increasing
southerly winds and warmer.
Low tonight generally in the 20s.
High tomorrow in the 40s.
New Orleans Housewives Fight Reporters, Bystanders
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI) — White "blockade runners" smugged six white children into an integrated school today and made the blockading housewives so mad they turned on bystanders.
A white minister and a meter reader's wife outfoxed "the cheer-leaders," a group of sometimes-violent women trying to prevent white students from attending William Frantz school with a lone Negro girl.
The women are ignoring vester-
day's court ruling affirming integration.
When they learned they had been frustrated, the women became so enraged that they turned their wrath on a white member of a Negro organization, an elderly man and three women representing open school groups, and five reporters.
While they were pursuing the bystanders, two more white children slipped into the school, bringing the total attendance to seven—the highest attendance in the school in the last six days of integration.
Kennedy Names Gov. Williams
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President-elect John F. Kennedy today announced his selection of Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan as Assistant Secretary of State for Africa in the new administration.
This was the first major appointme
Morton Charges Voting Fraud
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Republican National Chairman Thrusston B. Morton said today there was a possibility that exposure of "shocking irregularities and fraud" in the presidential balloting still could put Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the White House. But he admitted there was not "too much chance" that this would happen.
He said he had no doubt what-ever that Nixon carried Illinois with its 27 electoral votes and that "most of the fraud" was in Chicago.
MORTON said a report from Texas gave Nixon a 400,00-lead in precincts with machine voting where ballots could not be spoiled. He said that meant Kennedy won an 85,000-vote majority in paper ballot precincts where allegedly spoiled ballots were not counted.
Morton said he understood that up to 12 per cent—and in one precinct 30 per cent—of the ballots were thrown out because they allegedly were spoiled.
Asked to name other suspicious states, Morton began with Illinois, where the unofficial count showed Kennedy winning by less than 9,000 votes, and where the GOP has a major effort under way to overturn the result.
MORTON also referred to GOP investigations in Missouri, parts of Pennsylvania, Essex County, New Jersey, Clark County, Nevada, and New Mexico.
He also referred to the disappearance of ballots for one Chicago precinct where, he said, there were only 22 eligible voters and 73 votes were counted for Kennedy.
He said there many examples of "Tombstone voting, floaters and irregularities" in Illinois.
Danenbarger Joins Board of Regents
W. F. Danenbarger, Concordia, was appointed to the Kansas Board of Regents yesterday replacing Harry Valentine, Clay Center.
The appointment was made by out-going Governor George Docking. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the State Senate when the Legislature convenes in January.
'Danenbarger, 50, a Democrat, is president-manager of radio station KNCK in Concordia. With Danenbarger's appointment control of the bipartisan board goes 5-4 to the Democrats.
Kennedy made the announcement with Williams at his side, both of the men standing on the chilly, windswept front entrance of the President-elect's home in Georgetown.
KENNEDY called the post for Williams "a position of responsibility second to none in the new administration."
"The fate of Africa which is now the object of a giant Communist offensive will affect vitally the security of every citizen of the United States," Kennedy said.
"As chairman of the subcommittee on Africa of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee I have come to know the importance of this continent in the world today.
"I HAVE ASKED Gov. Williams to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs in the new administration. He brings to that position long experience, energy, compassion, imagination and a devotion to the future of his country. This is the first appointment I have announced and I am proud that Gov. Williams has accepted this responsibility."
Williams, who conferred with Kennedy over breakfast, was the first of four men who have been mentioned for top jobs in the Kennedy administration.
Also on the schedule was Connecticut Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff, who has been mentioned for several cabinet posts; Robert Lovett, former Truman administration defense and state department official; Rep. Stewart Udall, D-Ariz., a possible interior secretary and several Senate and party leaders whose advice would be expected to weigh heavily in top appointments.
IN ADDITION, Kennedy's staff said the choice of a budget director would come today.
After Kennedy's announcement, Williams read a brief statement expressing gratitude to the President-elect "for the confidence he has expressed in me by offering me a post in this important area in which so much can be done for the security of the United States, for the improvement of the welfare and lives of millions of men and women, and for the promotion of freedom and peace."
"I accept this assignment," Williams said, "with a will."
Williams recalled that when he announced his decision not to run for a seventh term as governor of Michigan "I said I wanted to work for peace. The President-elect has offered me a great opportunity to work for that cause."
IN RESPONSE to newsmen's questions Williams said he regarded his new post as a roving assignment.
Conductor 'Talks Shop' at Philharmonic Concert
By Byron Klapper
Hans Schwieger paced back and forth in his dressing room, anxiously awaiting the end of intermission.
He conducted the Kansas City Philharmonic last night in Hoch Auditorium. The maestro invited me into his dressing room for an interview.
"HOW DOES it sound from back there?" he asked. "Is the piano too far off to the side so that it doesn't blend well with the orchestra?"
During intermission, the conductor rearranged two of the orchestra sections.
seating arrangement was different from that of the music hall and it placed the orchestra in an unorthodox position.
"In a new hall there are always problems," he said as he
gestured vigorously with his hands. "As soon as you hear the first downbeat you can recognize the trouble. The circular
But the Show Went on...
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," but not if the breast, ribs and back are sore from accidents.
Two members of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra that played here last night probably would agree with that statement.
Lee Swenson, the harpist, suffered three cracked ribs in an automobile accident in Kansas City recently.
Mr. Swenson said he planned to return to Kansas City to bed, where he has been with the exception of
last night's concert since the accident.
Vera McNeary, a member of the percussion section, was to present a special concerto, but she was injured during a rehearsal Monday night.
An anvil is used to portray a certain color tone, and as she struck it with the hammer, a piece of the anvil broke, injuring her chest.
She was unable to play last night and one of the Connoisseur Concerts presented in Kansas City had to be canceled as she will still be in the hospital.
"THE TRUMPETS were too far forward and the french horns were too far back so that the trumpets were coming through too loudly," he said.
The discussion turned to the present trend in the appreciation of fine music.
"I hope this interest in music will lead to better support for musicians. They are the most underpaid of all professions, even worse than teachers.
"There is definitely a great demand and drive for good music, which, of course, was helped in a large part through excellent recordings," Mr. Schwieger said.
"BUT AMERICANS are so gadget-minded and interested in technical things. They like the sound of the music but know little of the conductors or their interpretations of the great works."
There was a knock on the door and someone outside said, "Five minutes, Mr. Schwieger." "I wonder why those people sit so far forward," the maestro asked. "They certainly can't see very well," he said stretching his neck imitating how the audience on the front row looked as they listened, "and they can't get the best tonal quality from those seats."