Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
58th Year, No.104
Thursday, March 16, 1961
NEW OFFICERS—AWS officers elected yesterday are front row, left to right: Marilyn Mueller, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore; Karlene Howell, Kansas City junior; Susan Flood, Hays freshman; Jeanne Maxwell, Mission freshman. Second row, left to right are Sue Hardisty, Salina sophomore; Sondra Hays, Norton freshman, and Marcia Casey, Hutchinson junior.
Howell Elected AWS President
Karlene Howell, Kansas City junior, was elected president and Marilyn Mueller, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore, vice president in Associated Women Students' Senate election yesterday.
Only 899 women students voted in the election.
CRC Decides To Ban Press
By Fred Zimmerman
The Civil Rights Council voted last night to close its meetings to newspapermen. The meetings remain open to all other persons.
The chairman of the CRC, Stephen S. Baratz, Lawrence graduate student, explained the action by saying, "We prefer not to have the coverage we have been having."
THE GROUP decided that Baratz, with the vice chairman and secretary of the council, will act as spokesmen.
The three plan to issue a statement to the press after each meeting.
A reliable source said the meeting last night was devoted to:
- A report by the committee which went to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe concerning housing discrimination.
- Plans to continue an investigation of barber shops which discriminate.
- A lengthy discussion of the Daily Kansan and the type of publicity the CRC wishes to get.
THIS REPORTER went to the meeting last night but was told he could not stay to cover the proceedings.
"You can stay but you can't print anything that happens." Harry G. Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, informed the reporter.
Baratz explained that the council had voted last week to close last night's meeting to the press.
"I'd like to stay as a reporter. Is that all right?"
"No." Baratz replied. The reporter left.
ALAN D. LATTA, Wichita junior,
one of the five students who con-
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THE BALLOTING took place at Strong Hall, the Kansas Union, Fraser Hall and Murphy Hall. Polls were open until 5 p.m.
The new officers are:
President, Karlene Howell, Kansas City junior; vice president, Marilyn Mueller, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore; secretary, Susan Flood, Hays freshman; ASC Greek representative, Marcia Casey, Hutchinson junior; ASC independent representative, Sondra Hays, Norton freshman; and Cwens adviser, Sue Hardisty, Salina sophomore.
Cwens is a new office, formerly called the Jay Sisters. The Cwens adviser will work with the sophomore honor society.
THE RUNNERS-UP in yesterday's election will become members of the AWS Senate to serve as committee chairmen. They are:
Judith Anderson, Garden City
junior; Lois Ann Ragsdale, Kansas
City junior; Carol Ott, Kansas City
junior; Sandra Bornholdt, La Cross freshman; Susan Callender, Lawrence junior; Kay Timberlake, Leavenworth junior; and Janice Agin, Kansas City sophomore.
The AWS Senate will meet this afternoon to discuss plans for attending the national conference of the Inter-Collegiate Association of Women students, which will meet during Spring vacation.
Lawrencians Push HELP-KU Drive
The efforts of Lawrence residents to increase the University's student loan fund through the "Higher Education Loan Program Kansas University" (HELP-KU), is gathering momentum according to the program's officials.
Maurice E. Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund, said today that there is approximately $700,000 in funds (the Endowment Association's funds plus the National Defense Educational Act funds) presently in circulation and that there is a definite need for more immediately.
"We have figured that approximately 25 per cent of the student body is able to continue in school only because of these funds," he said. "A great many more rely on them for partial expenses."
"The drive is going very well. We have had 28 new contributors reported in by the solicitors this morning."
Over 225 community residents attended the program's kickoff banquet Tuesday night in the Kansas Union. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; Maurice Breidenthal, president of the KU Endowment Association, and Paul Parker, chairman of the Greater University Fund, were the featured speakers and all stressed the need for individual contributions by the University.
The program was initiated by area residents in order to provide added resources to the loan fund available to University students.
OLIN PETEFISH, general chairman of the city program, said yesterday that over $4,300 in advance contributions had been received prior to the kickoff banquet Tuesday. The program is operated by a committee of 90 residents of the community who are soliciting funds from all areas — business, professional, campus, county and individuals.
The program was initiated several months ago by Lawrencians as an expression of good will of the community toward the University as well as "a recognition of the importance of the University to this community."
HELP-KU will be administered by the Endowment Association and will be a permanent means through which alumni and friends of the University can aid students.
GOP Balks at Peace Corps
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Republican Congressional leaders took a go-slow approach toward President Kennedy's proposed Peace Corps today, opposing any attempt by the administration to move too far too fast.
Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., and House GOP, chief Charles A. Halleck, Ind, said after the weekly Republican legislative conference that they were not sure
they could fully endorse the project until they saw it unfold.
The GOP leaders are faced with the problem of deciding how far they dare go in criticizing the program without losing some young Republican voters. Dirksen said earlier he realized the tremendous public interest in the plan.
Dirksen refused to go as far as Rep. Farnes Bolton, R-Ohio, who recently called the whole idea "terrifying."
Society Not 'McCarthy-istic'
Letter Writer Supports John Birch
The John Birch society is not a "McCarthy-istic" group and does not purge anyone, a John Birch society member said in a letter to the UDK today.
"The society asks the public to study the people and issues and form their own opinions," Ronald J. Reed, Wichita freshman, said.
The Blue Book (published by the society) does not outline an iron constitution of the society, according to Reed, but it is an outline of the history of our society and an outline of the history of Communism as it has engulfed the world.
Reed says he is the only true John Birch member on the campus.
"I JOINED the society to fight Communism in an organized effective way, and I have not observed any methods which could be classified as 'McCarthy-istic' or rash," he said.
"People are sometimes shocked by the Blue Book because it does go into detail and tell exactly how far the United States and other countries have been taken over by Communism," said Reed.
"THE BOOK is terrifying because Communism itself is terrifying," he said. "The individual does not exist except as an embryo which slaves for the state." This is the reason, Reed explains, why Communism cannot exist in a democracy. Democracy cannot exist under the Communist line because Communism does not recognize the individual.
Time magazine last week accused Robert Welch, society founder, of intimating that former President Dwight Eisenhower had Communist leanings. Reed answered this charge by saying:
"I have never seen or heard anything about it from the society. Some of his decisions concerning foreign aid and the Korean War have been debated by the society, but I've never heard as much as a whisper that Eisenhower was a Communist."
THE SOCIETY'S monthly bulletins suggest public figures and issues
for study. The society also has a suggested book list.
Reed said that one Wichita society member's book collection includes "Masters of Deceit," by J. Edgar Hoover; "The Conscience of a Conservative," by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.; and "Essays on Liberty," by statesmen of the centuries.
"These books are circulated throughout Wichita," he said. "They are read to obtain an intelligent viewpoint."
Reed replied to an editorial in the March 15 UDK that warned the society not to go "McCarthy-istic."
"We were told not to go 'McCarthy-istic,' and yet we were defined as a rightest organization and fuzzy-faced monsters." he said.
"One should ask who was using the 'Multiple truths, smear, coercion economic and political' so ably described in the UDK editorial.
"A rightest organization is merely conservative," Reed said. "Should we not be allowed to follow Sen. Goldwater?"
Judge Permits Andrews Trial
Judge Stanley granted permission for the witnesses to testify today as they may not be available at a later date.
KANSAS CITY — Federal Judge Arthur J. Stanley today agreed to allow four witnesses to testify in behalf of Lowell Lee Andrews, confessed triple slayer. The witnesses were scheduled to testify this afternoon.
THE WITNESSES are: The Rev, V. C. Dameron, Rockford, Ill., former pastor of Andrews; Dr. Joseph Smith, psychiatrist at the Mennin-
Lowell Lee Andrews
ger Clinic, Topeka; Dr. William F. Roth, Jr., Kansas City, Kan., and Dr. Merrill T. Eaton, Omaha.
Judge Stanley said, "Since this is a capital offense I will permit the petitioner, Andrews, to introduce these witnesses. This is not to say that I feel in any way that the petitioner has exhausted all state remedies."
The Judge said it was possible Andrews had been denied due process of law.
In granting the hearing, Judge Stanley said this morning, "I feel that in a matter of this gravity the court should be reluctant to dismiss the case."
J. RICHARD FOTH, assistant attorney general, asked the court to deny hearing on the writ of habeas corpus because all Kansas legal remedies had not been exhausted.
Dr. Satten told a newsman, "Andrews seems as intelligent and bright as the average person. He seems to be the kind to withdraw into the books when faced with problems."
While in prison Andrews has requested books. He prefers to read Ibsen, Shaw, O'Neill, and books on psychology.
DR. SATTEN commented, "When we were examining him he had the right answers to a lot of things."
Andrews arrived at the Kansas City federal building accompanied by two guards in a state car. Tracy Hand, warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, followed in another state car.
Andrews was nicely dressed in brown suit, brown tie, and brown shoes. When he got out of the car his hands were chained in front of him and he had shackles around his ankles. These were taken off before he appeared before the judge.
When he walked into the court room he was smiling. This was one of his few displays of emotion since the Nov. 29, 1958, slaying of his parents and sister.