Lindrud Opens Relays With Kansas Victory
A TIRED WINNER—KU junior Bob Lindrud leans on teammate Gordon Davis after winning the opening race of the Kansas Relays yesterday afternoon.
JFK Says Money Can't Beat Reds
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Kennedy said today that no amount of money could enable the United States to beat Russia to the moon with the Saturn rocket. He said the only chance of pulling ahead in the space race was the development of a new nuclear or chemical rocket.
The chief executive told a news conference that it would be folly to spend possibly as much as $20 to $40 billion over the next decade on rocket boosters which would still have this country second to the Soviet Union.
On the subject of Laos, Kennedy said he was still hopeful that the British and the Russians would come to some agreement soon that would lead to a call for a cease fire.
Other news conference highlights.
He said he did not think the judgment of the John Birch Society was based on accurate information in judging the threat and tactics of world communism.
—He was openly discouraged by the Soviet insistence on veto power in a nuclear test ban agreement. He said this position could seriously harm disarmament efforts. He said, however, that the United States had no choice but to continue seeking an agreement on banning tests since the absence of an agreement would lead to the resumption of testing by other nations.
-Kennedy said the first project of the Peace Corps would be the dispatch of 20 surveyors, four geologists, and four civil engineers to the newly independent African country of Tanganyika. The Peace Corps contingent is going to Tanganyika at the request of that country to help plan the development of roads.
In a question and answer session about the space program, the President said that while extra money had been added to the budget for Saturn, there still had to be a basic determination "whether there is any effort we could make in time or money which could put us first in any new area."
Weather
Showers soaked the campus this morning, but the weatherman predicts clearing later with a dip in the thermometer accompanying clearer skies. Cool, fair weather is predicted for this area tomorrow.
Engineers' Exposition Opening Today
Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe cut the ribbon at Marvin Hall this morning to officially open the forty-first annual Engineering Exposition.
The exposition, the theme of which is "prospects for the future," will feature 19 exhibits from the various engineering departments.
Three awards will be given for the best exhibits at the annual engineering banquet at 6:30 tomorrow in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. The awards are for the outstanding exhibition, the best academic display and the most original display.
The Exposition will be open until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. tomorrow.
The exhibits will be shown at Lindley Hall, Marvin Hall, the engineering laboratories and at the Nuclear Reactor Building.
World News
By United Press International MOSCOW — British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts said today after a 65-minute Kremlin conference he expected a cease fire agreement in Laos to be signed "soon" but not today. Other high diplomatic sources said "within 48 hours."
By United Press International
PARIS — Maj. Yuri Gagarin was not the first man to go into space but the second, a correspondent for the French National Radio and Television Network claimed today
Diplomats said the agreements would be signed despite sharp Soviet reaction to alleged American intervention in Cuba and a stepped up military aid program to Laos. The British and Russians were said to have prepared three documents awaiting only simultaneous signature.
Bulletin
Edouard Bobrovski said that the son of Soviet aviation pioneer Sergei Illyushin had made a trip into space before Gagarin's epoch-making flight was announced April 12, but completely lost his sense of balance and is now unconscious in a Moscow hospital.
Ralph Boston, world record holder in the broad jump, will not compete as scheduled in the Relays. Neither will members of his Tennessee A&I team, it was reported this morning.
JERUSALEM — Adolf Eichmann told the world today he would admit his guilt as a war criminal if the victors of World War II admitted their guilt also and agreed to stand trial for war crimes
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By Bill Sheldon
A hot sun, seven runners and a handful of interested spectators officially opened the 36th Annual Kansas Relays yesterday in Memorial Stadium with the first running of the grueling 10,000 meter race.
Jayhawkwer Bob Lindrud, churned steadily around the red cindered oval for almost 35 minutes, running six and one-quarter miles, to become the initial winner of the Centennial Relays.
Eager high schoolers and durable decathlon competitors took the track this morning to continue the action in the Stadium. This afternoon the entrants will continue their efforts in more preliminaries and several final events.
Sun glasses will be traded for
full skirts and blue jeans and cheers for do-se-dos tonight in Zone X as students continue the celebration of the Kansas Centennial with a square dance
The products of many nights of building, painting, stuffing and touching up will by students and townsfolk will be on display in
Relays Edition Has Special Sections
Today's Relays edition marks a Kansan first. Section B of this 40 page paper is entirely devoted to literature: poetry, criticisms, reviews and prize-winning English proficiency examinations.
Section A contains local, national and international news and editorials. Page 8 of this section includes a detailed schedule of Relays events from this afternoon to the end of the contests tomorrow.
Section C is devoted to the sports world, including a history of the Kansas Relays.
downtown Lawrence tomorrow morning in the Relays Parade.
Immediately after the parade a western band, a barbershop quartet and a demonstration square dance group will re-open the pageant on campus by providing entertainment at a barbecue on the hill near the Campanile, or, if it rains, in Allen Field House.
Relays Queen Sherry Zillner, Mission freshman, will reign over at least 16,000 fans tomorrow afternoon in the Stadium as Olympic, AAU and Big Eight stars vie on the track and in the field for the coveted watches which first place winners will receive
The feature race of the afternoon will be the Glen Cunningham Mile. Two Olympic performers, Ernie Cunliffe and Jim Grelle, will battle in this one, with the possibility of a four-minute mile or better as the result.
The finale of the extravaganza will come in the Kansas Union ballroom as Jimmy Tucker's dance band plays for weary float-builders, athletes and fans at the Relays Dance tomorrow night.
Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 125
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 21, 1961
Castro Hurls Insults at US; JFK Stands on Statement
Bv United Press International
Fidel Castro's radio boasted of Soviet rocket support today and warned the United States it would risk World War III if it tried to stop the march of communism in Cuba.
Cuban broadcasters hurled unparalleled invective at the United States as Castro's troops turned from the shattered Bay of Pigs invasion to guerrillas operating in Cuba's mountains.
EARLY TODAY the Castro regime charged that two U.S. destroyers covered invasion forces and that a B29 Superfortress and an F86 Sabrejet were included in the planes shot down in the rebel air force.
Meanwhile in Washington, President Kennedy today promised that the extent of the U.S. role in the recent Cuban situation will be made clear in due time.
"I do not think that any useful national purpose would be served by my going further into the Cuban question this morning," Kennedy told his news conference.
HE SAID he would stand on his tough statement of yesterday in which he warned that U.S. patience was "not inexhaustible" and said this country would act alone if necessary to block further Red penetration of the western hemisphere.
At the same time the President was addressing his news conference,
A TOOTHSOME THREESOME—Sherry Zillner, Mission freshman and Queen of the Kansas Relays (lower left) will be attended by June Owens, Altamont sophomore (right) and Mary Ann Howard, St. Joseph, Mo., junior (center).
Havana Radio was delivering a long tirade against Kennedy's tough statement:
"The day that Kennedy passes to the direct aggression of his threat, then he will see to his regret and to the regret of many millions of human beings in the world who would be victims of the world war, that the Soviet sermon is not a sermon but a serious warning, backed by socialism, backed by the power of the Soviet Union, backed by the intercontinental rockets of the Soviet Union, backed by the many modern weapons that the imperialists do not have but which the Soviet Union possesses," the radio declared.
THE BROADCAST implied that the dawn of communism was not far away in the United States.
Havana broadcasters also replaced the word "Yankee" with the insulting term of "gringo" in referring to the U.S. Government and people.
Back in Washington, the president was questioned specifically concerning published reports that he took the decision to continue training Cuban refugees with U.S.-provided arms and for releasing ships and fuel for launching the current operations in Cuba.
He replied:
"I think that the facts of the matter involving Cuba will come out in due time. I am sure that an effort will be made to determine the facts accurately. As for me, I am confining myself to my statement for good reason."
In the United Nations Parliamentary wrangling blocked a vote on the Cuban situation early today. The action threatened plans to adjourn the General Assembly's session tonight.
THE 99-NATION political committee had appeared today to vote on the Cuban question about midnight after U.S. Ambassador Adalai Stevenson made a speech paying tribute to the Cuban freedom fighters killed in an attempt to invade their homeland this week.
Stevenson repeated the denial that the United States was engaged in aggression against Fidel Castro's government and asked the committee how long the island stronghold could have withstood U.S. military power if Washington actually had intervened.