Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.17
Monday, Oct. 6, 1959
Pope Better After Stroke
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy—(UPI)—A medical bulletin at 11:30 a.m., EST, said that the condition of Pope Pius XII had "sensibly improved" after "urgent treatment."
An earlier medical bulletin, signed by three attending physicians, said the 82-year-old spiritual leader of the world's 450 million Roman Catholics suffered a "cerebral circulatory disturbance" at 8:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. CST).
The Pope had suffered a paralyzing stroke today and there were grave fears for his life. He was given the last rites of the Church.
This meant there had been damage to the blood circulation system of the brain—or, in layman's language, a "stroke." The Pope was unconscious for a time and two reports said that as of noon he had not yet recovered his powers of speech.
The Sacrament of Extreme Unction, given to those who are dying or in danger of death, was administered
to the Pope after the stroke. Later he received Holy Communion.
Eugene Cardinal Tissertant, Dear of the Sacred College of Cardinals was summoned back from a vacation in France and all other Cardinals throughout the world were notified of the Pope's condition.
A convocation of the College of Cardinals would be held shortly after the death of the present Pope to choose a successor.
Vatican sources said the administering of last rites was "a precaution" and that the Pope was rallying But there was no minimizing the gravity of the Pope's condition.
Full Schedule Mapped For Poet's Stop Here
Author Langston Hughes will have a busy schedule during his brief stay in Lawrence.
He will arrive late tonight and rehearse with the Don Conard jazz quartet which will accompany him in his poetry-and-jazz program tomorrow at 4 p.m., in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m. he will meet with a class in "Introduction to the Novel."
After an official luncheon at which he will meet boyhood friends from Kansas City and Lawrence, Hughes will join a University Theatre group at 2 p.m. in the Music and Dramatic Arts building lounge.
fessor Clayton Krehbiel's A Cappella choir and will hear the choir sing some of his poems.
At 3 p.m. he will meet with Pro-
On Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., a reception and autographing session is scheduled in the Union Book Store.
Hughes' visit is sponsored by SUA, Watson Library, and the English Department.
WISHFUL THINKING—Young KU supporters climb the goal posts in a bit of whimsical post-game "celebration" of KU's 31-0 defeat by the University of Colorado. The children have not yet been able to celebrate even a KU point in the three football games played so far this semester.
THE NEW LOOK—Here is the KU marching band as it appeared during half time at the CU-KU game. In the first show of the year the Jay-
hawkers gave a performance for KU parents in their new uniforms and with a new step, slower than the exhausting pace of previous years.
KU Men Hurt In Car Crash
Two Mission freshmen received minor injuries and three other men escaped injury last night when their car hit a parked truck in the 2200 block on Louisiana St.
Bulletin
The driver, Howard Parker, was at Watkins Memorial Hospital today, where he was reported to have "just a bruise." A passenger, Larry McAllister, was treated for cuts and released last night.
The uninjured passengers were Larry Howard, Overland Park freshman; Paul Rearick, Boise, Idaho, freshman, and David Pierce. It was not determined whether Pierce is a KU student.
The New York Yankees broke loose with six runs in the sixth inning to defeat the Milwaukee Braves 7-0 before 65.27 fifth-game spectators in New York.
Bob Turley held the Braves to only five hits to take the victory.
Lew Burdette, who beat the Yankees three times last year and once this year, was the loser.
The United States indicated today it will suspend conveying supplies to the Chinese Nationalist off-shore islands if Red China stops bombarding the outposts.
Ready to Stop Quemoy Convoys
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"If there is no further bombardment, there would seem to be no further need for convoying." a state department spokesman said.
The White House was studying and analyzing the Red Chinese condition for continuing a one-week cease-fire in Formosa.
In their proposal, the Communists said they would not interfere with the Nationalist supply shipments to Quemoy — provided the United States would not escort the ships.
The White House declined comment on the proposal and said any statement would have to come from the State or Defense Departments. Officials in both departments were cautious in assessing the Red move.
A State Department spokesman said any halt in the shooting was welcomed. He would comment no further.
rither.
A spokesman for Chiang Kai-
Shek's government said the move was "Communist propaganda" and said it was designed to split Nationalist China and the United States.
The United States had been pressuring the Reds in the Warsaw talks to agree to a cease-fire. Dulles had indicated this country would urge Chiang to cut down on his military manpower on Quemoy and Matsu if a cease-fire came about.
Dulles had made no statement on the proposal this morning.
While the United States pondered the Red Chinese move, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced yesterday the Soviet Union would help Communist China only if the United States attacked the mainland.
He denied that the USSR would take part in any "civil war" between the Reds and Nationalists alone.
"If the United States should step over the brink, the USSR will not stand aside. But we have not interfered in and do not intend to interfere in a civil war which the Chinese people are waging against the Chiang Kai-Shek clique."
Pakistan Woman Evaluates U.S. Juvenile Delinquency
The first woman elected to the senate of Karachi University in Pakistan is more concerned with juvenile delinquency in America than she is with United States foreign policy.
Mrs. Begum Bilguis Durrani a girls' school principal in Karachi, said: "I think your problem stems from a separation of church and state. Since you do not teach religion in the schools, children grow up without proper moral values. This leads to delinquency."
Mrs. Durrani, who holds several educational positions in Pakistan, is honorary magistrate of the juvenile court in Karachi. She is one of 24 foreign educators studying at KU
for three months, under the guidance of the U. S. Office of Education.
Mrs. Durrani said she thinks juvenile delinquency is perhaps the chief problem facing Americans today. She said delinquency is much worse in America than in her country.
Mrs. Durrani said most delinquents in Pakistan are products of displacement following the country's separation from India. Problem children from stable homes are rare, she said.
American schools are vastly superior to Pakastini schools because of the flexibility in curriculums, she said.
"Our schools are restricted by fixed curriculums and limited by assigned textbooks," she said. "The crux of your success is the freedom of your teachers to teach as they see fit. We hope to achieve this flexibility in our schools."
Weather
Considerable cloudiness and mild this afternoon through Tuesday. Widely scattered showers and thunder storms mostly west and central portions tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in the 50s, High Tuesday 75 to 85.