ASC Votes Down Racial Committee
The All Student Council voted to kill the racial investigation committee last night, but it took a vote by the ASC chairman to get the necessary two-thirds majority.
Patric Little, Wichita senior and Council chairman, cast his vote in favor of the resolution eliminating the committee. It took 13 votes to the committee. The vote was 13 to 9.
Little read a letter from Linda Bodle, Lawrence senior, and Lauriian Seeber, Irvington-on-Hudson. N. Y., senior, co-chairmen of theGIHR, to the council before opening the discussion. In the letter they asked that the committee for the study of racial discrimination in the KU area not be abolished.
Several spectators, including members of the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations, tensely waited while the ASC disposed of other business before opening discussion on the racial committee resolution.
Davis Introduced Bill
Terry Davis, Frontenac senior, who introduced the resolution asking for the elimination of the committee at the Nov. 11 ASC meeting, began the discussion. He said:
"There are few race problems on the campus, and off-campus problems can be more effectively handled by a group not associated with the ASC, such as the GIHR."
Davis also said he feared the committee would become a political football, no matter what the intention of the committee's members.
Miss Bodle attended the meeting and was called upon by council members to elaborate on her reasons for opposing the committee's abolishment.
"One of the things an ASC committee could do is inform the students of the discrimination problem in Kansas." Miss Bodle said. She continued:
"Many of them do not seem aware that we have one. Also, an ASC committee could see to it that the amendment in the ASC constitution is enforced which states that the ASC will not support groups which practice racial discrimination."
Kenton W. Keith, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore and a member of GIHR, also addressed council members.
"We feel that an ASC committee on racial discrimination would be effective because its members would be chosen by elected representatives of the student body," he said.
Davis said he felt that the prestige of an ASC committee would be outweighed by the chance of its being political and therefore harmful to progress on the discrimination problem.
Franz Ettlin, Kerns, Switzerland, graduate student, said the fact that a discrimination problem exists in Lawrence should call for the attention of the ASC.
"It would be a minimum effort by the ASC to appoint a committee such as this. It has been proven at other universities that the students can have an influence on public opinion. We should not close our eyes to this problem." he said.
Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student. said:
"Can the committee work quietly? Certainly it can, because the committee would not have to release anything to the papers if it didn't want to."
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Contest Opens Today For Mr. Campus Chest
The names of winners of the Mr. Campus Chest contest, which opened today, will be announced Sunday night at the Kingston Trio concert. The contest ends at 4 p.m. Friday
Pictures of the candidates are on display in the rotunda of Strong Hall. Winners will be determined by the amount of money in the containers for donations next to the pictures.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets,
costing $1.50 and $2, may be
obtained at the information booth
or at the concessions counter in the
Kansas Union.
Solicitations from organized houses have reached a total of $309 so far Last year, the total amount collected was $4.552.
Mr. Campus Chest candidates are
Seniors: Kenneth Yeo, Kansas City, Mo., Alpha Delta Pi; John Girotto, Pittsburg, Alpha Omicron Pi; David (Bucky) Bukaty, Ft. Scott, Chi Omega; Bill Swartz, Kansas City, Mo., Delta Delta Delta.
Kelly Deeter, Topeka, Delta Gamma; Mickey Brown, Elwood, Frank Terrell, Kansas City, Mo., Kappa Alpha Theta; Ben Blackshire, Leawood, Pi Beta, Phi; Peter Lons, Stratford, Conn, GSP; Earnest Couroutseas, Pasadena, Calif. Watkins.
Juniors are: Robert Davis, Leavenworth, Alpha Chi Omega; Kent Overbey, Kirkwood, Alpha Phi; Paul DeBauge, Emporia, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Frank Villarreal, Pratt. Douthart.
Sophomores are: Leroy Sanders, Winchester, Miller; Gerry Work, Dearborn, Mich., Sigma Kappa.
Daily hansan
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1958
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.49
Campus policeman Earl Powers was asked by the defense attorney to identify Johnson. Powers pointed out a person in the back row of the courtroom as Johnson. It was not Johnson, but Gerald Cooley, third-year law student.
The charges against Johnson were dismissed because the city did not establish the identity of the defendant, Judge Paddock ruled.
Charges Dismissed on 1 Alleged TNE Painter
Charges against Milford Johnson, Iola junior, for painting TNE signs in the Lawrence area, were dismissed in Police Court today. Judge James Paddock sustained a plea for dismissal by the defense counsel.
The trial of Johnson started at 8:30 this morning and the judge gave his decision at 11:45. Madden and Elliott were to be tried this afternoon. The three are to be tried individually.
Johnson, along with John Madden, first-year law student, and Robert Elliott, second-year law student, both from Wichita, were charged on six counts with painting and staining property and with loitering on Homecoming weekend.
positively identify Johnson as one of the men who was in the car.
The two campus policemen who stopped the three men could not
Campus Policeman Powers testified that he and campus policeman Fred Mussleman stopped a car in front of the Rock Chalk Cafe at 12th and Oread.
Powers testified he asked the three men what they were doing and the men replied they were returning from a party. Powers said he shined his flashlight in the car and found a TNE stencil, black and red paint, TNE stickers and some pieces of sheets.
Powers said he asked the three for student ID cards. At first they all refused, he claimed, then two of them presented their cards.
He said he asked the students to drive to the Lawrence police station and the officers would follow. The student car was out of their sight at 12th and Louisiana for a short time.
Powers testified when the men and police reached the Lawrence police station there was no stencil, paint, stickers or cloth in the car, Powers said. Later police went back to 12th and Louisiana and found the articles in the street, he said.
In cross examination defense attorney Milton Allen asked Powers. "Do you know who the boy was in the back seat with the red and black paint on his hands?"
"I think it was Elliott," Powers said.
"Where was Milford Johnson?" asked the defense counsel.
"Next to the driver," said Powers.
to me.
In the complaint Powers signed, he charged the three students with painting five TNE signs, none of which were on the campus.
Powers testified he never saw any one of the three at the location of the five signs painted.
"You don't know whether they did it or 500 other students did it, do you?" asked defense counsel.
"No" answered Powers.
Allen in making his closing statement said:
"I know it has no bearing on this trial but the court is probably aware of the great amount of publicity given this case. These three have been punished without any trial or hearing by the University.
"Circumstantial evidence must be conclusive," said Allen, "and I don't believe this flimsy circumstantial evidence presented here by the city is sufficient to convict these students of painting the TNE signs."
City Attorney Ralph King's rebuttal argument stated the stencil found in the car perfectly matched TNE signs painted in Lawrence. This is more than flimsy evidence, he said.
The defendant did not take the stand during the lengthy court session.
Seniors Just Want To Keep Tradition
Rivalry between the junior and senior classes was sparked today when Larry C. Schooley, Kiowa junior and junior class president, was allegedly threatened by two seniors.
Object of the threat Schooloy claimed was to try to get him to help "throw" the upcoming junior-senior football game.
“These people evidently think they can scare me into throwing that game if I can.” Schooley said. “I do not see how I possibly could, but I would not even if I could.”
The game will be tomorrow afternoon at the intramural field. Tickets are $1.0. The money will go to the Campus Chest.
Nuclear Ban Proposal Refused by Russia
GENEVA — (UPI) — Russia slammed the door today on a Western compromise plan to get the deadlocked atom conference down to negotiating a controlled nuclear test ban.
But Russia's chief delegate, Semyon Tsarapkin, stood firm by the Soviet demand the agreement in principle on test suspension "forever" must come first.
The United States and Britain formally proposed that the conference begin concurrent negotiations on a test suspension accord and a system of built-in controls to police it.
Negotiations on the West-demanded effective International Control System would be relegated to
second place under the Soviet plan. Twenty days after the nuclear talks opened here the conference remained totally deadlocked, with no immediate indication of any acceptable solution.
Weather
Fair tonight and Thursday. Not so cold central and east tonight, Warmer cast Thursday. Low tonight 20s west to 30s east. High Thursday 55 to 65.
The Marais des Cygne River, fed by Monday's rains, will crest from two to three feet below flood stage at Osawatomic tonight.
CONVENIENT INVENTION—Kent Granger, Ottawa senior, sits in his specially-adapted car.
Afflicted Student Has Own Driving Invention
The desire of a polio-handicapped student to drive his own car will probably be the primary factor in allowing other similarly handicapped polio victims to drive again.
When car manufacturers told Kent Granger, Ottawa senior, he would not be able to drive an automobile again because he had no use of one arm and only partial use of the other, he began looking for ideas in his home town.
With the help of two hydraulic engineers from Ottawa and his father a hydraulic operated apparatus was invented enabling Kent to drive a car by foot control.
Directions for driving the Granger 1955 Ford Thunderbird consist of placing your left knee in a U-shape yoke raised about 12 inches from the floor. By turning the yoke from right to left the auto is steered. The other leg operates the gas and brake, as in a normal automobile.
The apparatus is hydraulic operated and utilizes the normal power steering of the automobile.
Invention of the steering equipment could develop into a profitable enterprise. Kent has sold an article on the apparatus to "Ford Times" magazine for $75 which will appear in one of the next two issues. He published an article in "Polio Living," a magazine distributed to the polio-handicapped, last summer. He is now in the process of acquiring a patent for the equipment.
Although there are hundreds of articles on the market for polio patients with paralyzed legs, there has never been any controls on the market for steering the car with the feet.
"I have only heard of one other type of foot control ever invented, and it was developed after ours," he said. This control was a disc built into the floorboard. The driver steers by moving one foot in a circular motion.