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Petitions protesting the action of segregationists in Alabama last weekend are being distributed today in the information booth on Jayhawk Blvd. by the National Student Association committee.
THE PETITION calls for Robert Kennedy, attorney general of the United States, to investigate the incidents of May 14, 1961 in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala., and to prosecute those who attacked the Committee on Racial Equality (CORE) and burned a Greyhound bus.
The incident in Anniston, Ala. occurred when a bi-racial CORE group was riding a bus through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to test the South's segregation laws concerning interstate transportation facilities. The crowd in Anniston smashed windows in the bus with lead pipes, beat up the "freedom
riders," and burned a Greyhound bus.
THE NSA COMMITTEE is also
THE NSA COMMITTEE is also commemorating the seventh anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation. The decision says that state laws which require Negroes to attend separate public schools were declared to be violations of the 14th amendment. Chief Justice Earl Warren stated in 1954 that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Outstanding petitions may be turned in to Carol McMillen, Coldwater junior and NSA co-ordinator, at 1246 Oread.
Gifted Children Meet Is Set
A conference on special learning processes for gifted children will be held Thursday and Friday at the Children's Rehabilitation Unit of KU's Medical Center in Kansas City.
All campus organizations should at once file with the Office of the Dean of Students, 228 Strong, lists of officers for the 1961-62 school year. This information is needed for inclusion in the Student Directory, K-Book, etc.
Official Bulletin
Mathematics Colloquium: 3:00 p.m.
Coffee: 1:15 p.m. 504 Summerfield Mr.
Dickson at Wise, or Mike at Wise,
on "Numerical Integration Formulas in
More Than One Dimension."
TODAY
Jay James: 5 p.m. 306 Kansas Union.
Friday Drill: 5 p.m. Military
College Division
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 5 p.m.
Cantonbury House
Episcopal Holy Communion; 3:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
THURSDAY
Catholic Daily Mass; 6:30 a.m., St.
John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
Mathematics Colloquium: 3:50 p.m.
Coffee, 113 Strong. 4:15 p.m., 103 Strong.
Dry Navy Thacher, Argonne National Laboratory,
or "Obsculating Interpolations."
Der Deutsche Verein: Picknick des Deutschen Vereins - Donnerstag, den 18. Mai. Wir treffen uns um 5 uhr vor Fra-
mann und fahren gleich nach "Lone Star".
Wednesday, May 17, 1961 University Daily Kansan
Civil Rights Council Film Showing:
*Papers No. 2" on the Nasaville sit-ins.*
Aid-to-Education Bid
WASHINGTON — (UPI) Administration leaders, in a bid for Southern support, were reported today to have accepted an Aid-to-Education amendment which in effect would prevent the government from withholding funds from segregated schools.
The amendment is drafted in general terms. It would bar the withholding of school aid funds to exert any kind of federal control.
Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga,
originally wrote the amendment to
the $2.5 billion Kennedy Administration
School Aid Bill. But under the strategy approved by Democratic leaders, it probably will be offered instead by Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Mont.
The version put forth by Talmadge is not as strong as another by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., which would specifically forbid the
government to withhold funds from states or communities which operate segregated schools. This amendment, due for a vote today, appeared headed for defeat.
The strategy reported to have been agreed upon by Democratic leaders in the administration and at the Capitol would give Southerners assurances that school aid would not be used as a lever to force integration.
Democrats expected to win Southern votes with the generally-phrased restriction on the withholding of funds. Talmadge, who first proposed the amendment, said he would vote for the school aid bill if it was included. Otherwise he would oppose the measure.
Informed sources said Talmadge conferred last night with Sen. Lister Hill, D-Ala., and Abraham Ribicoff, secretary of health, education and welfare.
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