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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 12. 1961
Byrd Blames NAACP For Negro Illiteracy
BUCKINGHAM, Va.—(UPI)—Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., charged today that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "alone is responsible" for the fact that 1,700 Negro children are without schools in Prince Edward County, Va.
Byrd, in a speech entitled "A Defense of Prince Edward County," said the NAACP is "more interested in the integration of public school children than it is in the education of colored children."
Byrd prepared the remarks for the celebration of Buckingham County's 200th anniversary. Buckingham is a neighbor of Prince Edward County, where schools have been closed since 1959 to avoid complying with a federal court desegregation order.
Byrd said action by the NAACP led to withdrawal of support of public schools in the county and under the influence of the Negro civil rights group "colored leaders in the county will neither provide for the education of their children nor accept assistance from the white people of the county."
Virginia's senior senator and architect of the state's old "massive resistance" to school desegregation, said white residents in Prince Edward "deplore" the fact that Negro children are not in school.
Women Wear Bed Clothes To Early Morning Classes
By Fred Zimmerman
Girls are strange creatures—this we all know.
But how strange? Now there is a question worth pondering.
A young man doing research on the subject says he can now report on unimpeachable authority that the young ladies around here are wearing all sorts of bed clothing to early-morning classes.
OF COURSE it is done under-cover—specifically, under cover of a trench coat.
That sleepv-eyed coed in a buttoned-up trench coat who wanders in late to an eight o'clock class probably is wearing pajamas, or a nightgown, or a swim suit, or who knows what else, underneath.
The girls have managed to keep it to themselves until now, but two lovely young things who prefer anonymity admitted last night that "it's done all the time."
THEY CONTEND it makes very good sense.
"You just get out of bed and throw on a coat. It sure saves time." In a weird way, it all sounds rather logical.
"I would wear pajamas more often to my eight o'clock if it weren't for the hills around here," one young lady explained.
Nevertheless, some young ladies still succumb to that terrific temptation to just stumble out of bed and throw on the old trench coat.
It makes one wonder what this younger generation is coming to.
Ivan L. Haugh, Topeka senior, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the American Institute of Architects. Haugh is one of 20 undergraduate architectural students at 14 schools who have been selected by the institute to receive awards for 1961.
Topeka Senior Awarded $500
French Suspend Soviet Invitation
PARIS—(UPI) —France today suspended an invitation to Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarin after it had been reported that he would arrive the same day as President Kennedy.
Officials of the Union Syndicate Des Industries Aeronautiques, which will stage the 24th Paris air show beginning May 26, announced the suspension of its invitation to Gagarin to attend the show.
The union declined to comment on the reason.
Informed sources said, however, the French had informed the Soviets that available forces might not be sufficient to guarantee the security of the American President and the world's first spaceman at the same time.
Several hours before announcing the suspension, the union had confirmed that its invitation to Gagarin remained open and sources close to the union said the Russians had intimated Gagarin would appear at the show at Le Bourget airfield near Paris June 1.
Other sources said the Russians intended to bring Gagarin into Paris the previous day. May 31, the day President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive.
The invitation to Gagarin was extended shortly after his space flight. A similar invitation was extended later to American spaceman Alan Shepard, but it was not known whether Shepard would come.
Ticket Sales Slow For 4 Freshmen
Ticket sales to the SUA Spring Concert featuring the Four Freshmen at 8:00 tonight in Hoch Auditorium have been slow.
Bill Schaefer, Prairie Village sophomore and chairman of the Concert, said:
"Only about 1,100 out of the approximately 2,500 tickets have been sold and to break even 200 more tickets need to be sold."
THE FOUR FRESHIM cost $1,500 a performance and to break even the SUA needs to sell $1,800 worth of tickets.
Tickets are $1.50 and all seats are reserved. They will be on sale until 5:30 tonight at the information booth and at 8:00 tonight at the door of Hoch.
The Four Freshmen will arrive around 6:00 tonight from their last performance at Rolla, Mo. They are currently on a tour consisting of one night stands at college campuses all over the United States and their performances are directed only towards college students.
THE CONCERT will last approximately two hours and will include songs they have made famous and those songs from their albums such as "My Heart Stood Still" and "Poinciana."
For years The Four Freshmen have been ranked at the top of surveys conducted by Metronome, Down Beat, Billboard and Playboy magazines. They have appeared at many night clubs and almost every major college in the United States.
37 Win Architecture Awards
Awards in recognition of scholarship and excellence were given to 37 students in the department of architecture at the department's annual awards dinner in the Kansas Union recently.
Robert Seacat, Emporia senior, received the American Institute of Architect's medal and book for highest scholastic standing in the graduating class. Robert Leanna, of Lawrence, who graduated in February, 1961, received second place.
The Charles L. Marshall Book Award for highest scholastic standing in the department went to David DeLong, Emporia senior who has a 2.8 grade average. Suzy Howell, Clinton, Mo. junior, with a 2.64 and Gary Ultican, Blue Springs, Mo.
junior, and Stuart Barger, Harrisonville, Mo. junior, both with 2.56 averages, were runners-up in scholastic standing.
Other awards and their recipients are:
awards and their recipients are:
Roger Stover, Independence. Mo., senior-
ior—first place; Douglas Johnson,
Wichita, senior—first place; design;
north Ernst, Auburn, Neb., fifth-year student—second place; design; Roger Stover,
Independence. Mo., senior—first place;
presentation; Theodore Hall, Garden City,
senior—second place; presentation; Stuart Burge,
Jarisonville, Mo., junior—Best
direction; Doug Kane, Missouri—first place; sculpture; James Oliver,
Leavenworth, senior—second place sculpture.
At the age of a year infants have only about 10 per cent of normal adult vision.