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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 30,1968
Black students return; promised black union
By Mike Shearer Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence High School was almost back to normal today as the 50 black students who walked out last week returned to classes.
About 30 of those returned Friday for conferences, but few attended classes. The others had returned earlier with their parents.
The decision to return to classes came Friday in a meeting between Principal Bill Medley, Carl Knox, superintendent of schools, and the students and their parents.
Many black students who had returned to school individually or who had not walked out joined those who remained out in the assembly. They were excused from classes to attend the confrontation.
He also agreed to meet with parents and students to discuss the quality and quantity of black history and culture books in the school library.
Medley assured students they could form a black "student union," an organization to press for black students' demands, by establishing themselves as a school club with a constitution.
The students agreed to draw up plans for a new system of selecting school royalty and submit to the Student Council those plans and the plans they have already formulated for selecting cheerleaders.
Medley said demands for inclusion of black history into the curriculum would be met.
Medley explained to the students that he had made exhaustive efforts to hire more black teachers. He said representatives of the school had traveled to other states and made numerous long distance telephone calls in an attempt to find black teachers.
Beverly Southard, one of the black students' leaders, read a letter from the school's only black teacher Leonard Clark, in which Clark said:
"I cannot and will not speak of progress when there has been none."
Breakthrough anticipated in Vietnam negotiations
Clark said administrators had failed to listen to the black students' demands before students took the dramatic action of walking out of school last Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—George W. Ball, who resigned last week as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday the United States was close to a breakthrough in the Paris negotiations on Vietnam.
Ball, who quit his diplomatic post to become foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Hubert H. Humphrey, also predicted that Richard M. Nixon would escalate the war if he is elected in November.
"Here's a man," he said of Nixon at another point, "who thinks that military might is the answer to everything."
"He has always been a hardliner," Ball said of the GOP candidate. "My own feeling is that he would escalate."
In a broadcast interview on Face the Nation—CBS, Ball said he had been a pessimist on Vietnam for seven years but in recent weeks "I've begun to feel that we're on a verge of a breakthrough" in the talks at Paris. He did not elaborate.
Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford, in another interview, was more cautious in his assessment of the Paris talks. But he said the "bits and straws" of progress he had previously reported were still evident.
"I believe the fact that the talks are going on indicates that the parties intend to stay with it," he said on Meet the Press—NBC. He added he believed North Vietnam "hopes to find a basis for ending the conflict."
Ball refused to disclose what Humphrey will have to say about Vietnam in his major foreign policy address on nationwide television Monday night, and repeatedly sidestepped questions on whether Humphrey might pledge to end the bombing if he is elected.
His letter repeated what several of the students had vowed: "Our grievences will not be forgotten."
Homer Floyd, director of the Kansas Civil Rights Commission, will meet with parents and students tonight at St. Luke's United Methodist Church.
Soldiers ready to leave Mexico U.
MEXICO CITY (UPI)—A small force of soldiers conducted cleanup operations and maintained roadblocks Sunday, preparing to leave on short notice from the campus of the autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
They awaited only the word from their commander, Gen. Jose Hernandez Toledo, that the staff of the university had things well in hand and the army could leave.
That word could be given at any time, ending the army occupation of the campus that began Sept. 18. The army took over to force student activists out of the campus and try to control disturbances that had been going on since July in the Mexican capital.
Lady mayors middle-aged,
Never mind reaching for the panic button. They're women.
NEW YORK (UPI)—In 19 cities of over 10,000 population within these United States, "Hizzeron" wears skirts.
The number of female mayors is bound to grow. Women are drawn to kitchens, aren't they? City government is considered "the kitchen of democracy."
Now what kind of woman serves as the mayor in an American city? What rewards and frustrations does she experience? Has her sex created any special problems?
His profile of women mayors goes like this:
William S. Foster knows the answers. He is editor of "American City." management guide to 34,000 city officials nationwide. He's been with the publication 25 years, the last 11 as editor.
Knows the Answers
- Education. All except one
graduated from high school. About half went to college and most of the rest have had special training.
- Martial status. All had taken nuptial vows. Most had spouses living at the time they assumed duties; three were widowed; one was a divorcee.
- Foster reports women entered mayoral races for the following reasons: encouragement or insistence by civic groups; a desire to improve existing conditions in the city; to provide honesty in government and eliminate improper expenditures of tax money, to counter negative attitudes of city councils toward citizens at large.
- Age. All were over 40 and under 65.
- Salary. One reported earning an annual salary in excess of $3,000; three had salaries of less than $50 a year.
Only one of the female mayors admitted without reservation that her sex created special problems on the job. Problems, according to Foster's study, stemmed from male council members who resented having a female mayor.
Two of the nose-powdering mayors serve in cities with more than 100,000 population; six in cities of more than 50,000, and the rest in cities with no more than 25,000.
However, another said her sex had created no problems aside from "the general feeling of jealousy that men have when a woman has superior experience."
Male mayors in California probably have more to worry about than mayors elsewhere. That state has seven of the female mayors in the 10,000 population and over cities.
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Luci Nugent will attend funeral
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Luci Johnson Nugent will attend a funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery Monday for a Navy officer who was her close friend and an usher at her wedding two years ago.
moore Naval Air Station, Calif.
He was to be transferred to Vietnam in February. Mrs. Bates is expecting a baby.
Navy Lt. lg Leroy Bates, 22,
of Houston, Tex., was killed last
week in a plane crash at Le-
Luci and her year-old son Lynn returned to the White House Saturday for the funeral of the man she says had been "everything you say youth was not."
Former Wichita cop faces assault charge
The Sedgwick County sheriff's office said the victim, Douglas H. Selby, 17, of Derby was one
WICHITA, Kan. (UPI)—A former Wichita police rookie faced a felonious assault charge today after a shooting in which a teenage youth was wounded.
of a group of youths driving noisily around a mobile home park early Friday.
They said Miguel C. Cohran, the former officer, had asked them to quiet down. When the noise continued, two shots were fired from a 30-30 rifle.
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