Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Thursday, May 18, 1961
58th Year, No.144
8th St. Tavern Refuses to Serve Four CRC Men
By Fred Zimmerman
Four members of the Civil Rights Council were refused service last night at the Eighth Street Tavern. 117 E. Eighth.
One of the four, Calvin L. Wong,
New York City graduate student
says he may file charges.
Also in the group were Tom Kurtl Pratt medical student and member of the All Student Council; George Buford, and Elmer Jackson, both Kansas City juniors.
WHEN THE CRC meeting adjourned last night, the four members left to "test" the policy of the Tee Pee. RFD 4. It was closed, so they decided to go to the Eighth Street Tavern.
In an interview afterwards, a member of the group said this is what happened:
As soon as the four walked into the tavern the woman in charge went to the kitchen and turned off the lights. She returned and sat at a booth with some other customers
After a few minutes, Tom Kurt the only white person in the group went to the woman and said:
"We would like three cups of coffee, a Budweiser, and a package of potato chips."
"The kitchen's closed," the woman answered.
IS THERE ANY cooking involved in preparing some potato chips? They are right there on the wall.' He handed her a dollar.
She refused it.
"Can't you take a hint?" she said
"Can't you take a hint?" she said. The group left. Outside, they decided that one of the Negroes should have requested service, in case they should want to press charges. Bufford started back in, but the woman had locked the door.
THIS REPORTER went to see the woman about 11 p.m. yesterday. She was inside the tavern, but the door was locked and most of the lights were out. A man finally told the re-
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KU Opposes Cuban View
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today he and the University "disclaim the viewpoint" of a Castro supporter who speaks here at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
The speaker is Edward Shaw, midwest representative of the Fair Play For Cuba committee. He will speak at the Minority Forum.
The chancellor's prepared statement said:
"Freedom of inquiry is basic to a university and is part of the educational process.
"A group of students have invited Mr. Edward Shaw, Mid-West representative of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee, to this campus to express his viewpoint to any student or faculty member who wishes to hear him.
"He does not appear on this campus in any official capacity, and he is not an official guest of the University of Kansas.
"The University officially, and I personally, disclaim his viewpoint on the Cuban situation."
The Fair Play for Cuba Committee has been outspoken in its support of Castro's regime. It has sternly denounced the official U. S. position in the recent Cuban invasion.
Group Opposes Seating Plan
I WONDER-Bill Monty, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore, ponderes over the advantages and disadvantages of the reserved seating plan for next year.
State Loses Money On Inactive Funds
New Jersey may invest inactive state money in bonds of any company incorporated and transacting business in the United States and also in Canadian government securities. Wisconsin, which, like New Jersey, has one of the more comprehensive state investment laws, may invest generally in loans to state building corporations.
MAINE IS AUTHORIZED to invest in "government securities." The state of Washington is authorized to invest in general obligation securities.
(Editor's Note: This is the last in a series on the Kansas state inactive funds.)
Fifteen states may invest in their own indebtedness issues. Nine may also invest inactive state balances in security issues of political subdivisions within the state.
By Carrie Merrymield
(Copyright 1961 University Daily
The types of investment permitted in the 36 states differ slightly from state to state, but the most common investment is federal securities. Thirty states specify this investment, the other six may invest in federal securities. A few states restrict the authorization to short-term bonds.
Kansas is one of only 12 states receiving almost nothing from its inactive funds.
Thirty-six other states allow a reasonable interest rate on the inactive funds, the money not needed in the day-to-day governmental operations. These 36 states either draw interest or allow the funds to be invested in bonds.
KANSAS NOW DRAWS $522,000 annually on the $74 million in its inactive accounts. This comes from an interest rate of 8 of 1 per cent.
IF KANSAS could obtain an increased interest rate or the right to invest inactive funds, such as 36 other states, what would it mean to Kansas?
According to a report entitled "Interest on Inactive State Deposits" published by the research department of the Kansas Legislative Council, the state is definitely in need of more revenue and the collection of interest on its inactive ac-
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700 Students Sign Petitions To Call Seating Referendum
The All Student Council does not represent the views of the student body on the football reserved seating bill, say three KU students circulating a petition for a referendum on the issue today.
The men started circulating the petitions late last night and by 11 a.m. today, had more than 700 signatures. The signatures were on notebook paper, typing paper and sheets from yellow tablets. There was little or no explanation at the top of each sheet. None of the petitions had an explanation of the seating bill and two of them contained only the signature of students.
Graham Moore, Houston, Tex., junior, Jim Martin, Arkansas City sophomore, and Bob Allen, Webster Groves, Mo., junior, who started the petitions, said they do not believe the majority of the KU students supported the athletic seating bill recently approved by the ASC.
THE BILL APPROVED by the Council provided for reserved seats to be sold for $1.50 for the football season. The tickets would be sold on a seniority basis. Seniors, graduate, law and medical students would have the first opportunity to purchase the tickets, with junior and underclassmen receiving later choice.
"I'm against the bill first of all on the principle," Moore said. "It isn't representative of student thought and it is unfair. It also does not alleviate the congestion problem."
Moore said he felt confident that an adequate number of signatures would be obtained for the petition as required by the ASC Constitution for a referendum petition to be presented to the ASC.
The constitution requires 20 percent of the signatures of the student body on a petition. The required number this year is 2,000.
He said that he had talked with representatives from fraternities, sororites and men's and women's dormitories and the feeling there was against the reserved seating plan.
"IN ONE living group where the plan was fully explained to all members and a vote was taken
fifty-four men were against it and only five voted for it. Everyone had formed their opinions and stood by them," he said.
Martin said he did not think the congestion at the gates would be lessened with reserved seats.
"Everyone will wait until 15 minutes before game-time, then crowd around the gates," he said. "What difference would a reserved seat make."
Moore echoed his statement and expressed his solution to the congestion problem by saving:
"Open a few more doors, Mr. Falkenstien!" E. L. Falkenstien is the business manager for the athletics on campus.
Moore said there were five doors opened on the student side, but that only two of them were for students.
"THE OTHER GATES are used by the players, coaches and for the paid tickets beside the student section," he said.
Martin, Moore and Allen said they felt the plan limited the choice of people to sit with.
"A senior dating a freshman is going to have a hard time getting her a ticket in the senior section," Martin said.
THE THREE MEN said they also saw no reason for underclassmen to have last choice, receiving the poorest seats in the student section.
"I'm a junior, so next year I'll have a good seat," Moore said, "but I can see no reason for freshmen sitting in the end-zone. It's the enthusiasm that counts."
Moore said the petitions would continue to circulate today in buildings on the campus, dormitories and organized houses. The men also plan to post the petitions on the Information Booth in front of Flint Hall.
Weather
Temperatures today are headed toward the 70s, the weather bureau said, and lows tonight are expected generally in the 50s. Little temperature change is expected tomorrow.
Clean Up College Sports
Phog Blasts NCAA for Laxity
By Karl Koch
Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen blasted the NCAA for its laxness in cleaning up college sports and proposed a czar to govern inter-collegiate athletics last night in a speech at Emporia.
Allen, who has clashed with the NCAA many times before, said he has written to Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., of the Senate Crime Commission asking his assistance in cleaning up college sports. He has not yet heard from the Senator.
ALLEN AND SEN. KEFAUVER have been good friends since Allen aided Kefaufer in uncovering the basketball fix of 1949.
"Sen. Kefauver," Allen said, "stands out pre-eminently as a strong man at a critical period in the pseudo-amateur status of intercollegiate athletics.
an athlete, is the type of man we need to clean up this mess.
"People have lost confidence in the integrity of athletics," he said. "A man like Sen. Kefauver, who is highly respected and has been
"BUT COLLEGE presidents
Forrest C. (Phog) Allen
will have to act," he added, "They are responsible for what is happening, even though they didn't legislate the present rules."
Allen's solution: "If the college presidents would give him (Sen. Kefauver) unlimited power of enforcement such as the baseball owners gave Judge Kenesaw Mountain after the Black Sox scandal, their troubles would soon end.
"Instead of asking the law for protection against fixers," Allen said "the NCAA should spend their own money and put a man in charge of intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA could pay a man such as Kefauver $100,000 a year."
In an interview this morning at his downtown Lawrence office, Allen enlarged upon his statement about the NCAA's ability to pay.
"THE NCAA CLEARED $176,000 from basketball alone last year," he said, "plus they get 50 per cent of the net on bowl games."
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