Liberia Requests Truce in Congo
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-(UPI)-Liberia today proposed a 60-day general truce in the Congo while leaders of all the country's political factions come to the United Nations headquarters for peace talks with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the Security Council.
Liberian Ambassador George A. Padmore put before the Security Council the suggestion first made by President William Tubman of Liberia.
IT INCLUDED a proposal that the Security Council schedule a session in the Congo or in a nearby territory for a first-hand look at the situation.
Padmore did not make the suggestion as a formal resolution.
Russia was understood to oppose the planned Afro-Asian resolution because it contained no demand for Hammarskjold's removal.
AMBASSADOR OMAR Loutfi of the United Arab Republic outlined to the Council five points of the resolution he said would be submitted "in due course." They were:
- UN steps to prevent attacks by Moise Tshombe's Katanga forces using foreign contingents.
Removal of foreign military and paramilitary forces from the Congo and the application of sanctions if a UN order to this effect is not complied with.
An immediate investigation to identify the "murderers" of Lumumba and punish them.
-A return to the country's legal institutions, including the reconvening of parliament under UN protection.
- Reorganization of the Congo's armed forces and their isolation from the country's politics.
The recommendation of the conciliation commission, comprising 11 African and Asian countries, was not published officially. Several members of Hammarskjold's Congo advisory committee, including India, Ghana and Morocco, objected yesterday to sending it immediately to the Security Council for a basis of action.
THE UN CONGO Conciliation Commission's recommendations for firmer action by the world organization won Western support and caused embarrassment to the Soviet Union and some of its African friends.
But the eight-point plan was carefully "leaked" here and in Leopoldville and speculation arose in Canada that Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker might have jeopardized a Congo settlement by making its provisions public. That view was not shared here, even by rabid African supporters of the slain Lumumba.
Lawing Loses Veep Bid In KU Demo Election
Jim Lawing failed by a thin margin in his bid for the first vice presidency of the Young Democrats during a debate-filled meeting last night.
The two candidates, Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla., graduate student, and Verne Gauby, Grand Island, Neb., law student, were balloted on secretly first.
THE FIRST COUNT of votes showed a tie.
A second count made Lawing the winner by one vote.
Due to the closeness of the vote a third count was held-with a supporter of each candidate watching. It showed a tie.
A lengthy debate then began on how the tie was to be settled.
The new president, George Bennett, Lawrence senior, was not sure how to settle the tie. He did not want to break the tie with his vote, so he suggested drawing lots.
At this point several members said Bennett ought to vote and break the tie.
Friday, Feb. 17, 1961
BUT LAWING insisted that "if I am defeated I want it to be by the members" and called for a revote.
The revote was held and Lawing was defeated. He was then nominated for secretary of the organization and defeated on the first vote.
Lawing was one of the 12 delegates chosen to represent the KU Young Democrats at the Young Democratic State Convention on Feb. 25 and 26 in Hutchinson.
Lawing said previously at a special meeting of the KU Young Democrats on Feb. 9 that it is important for a large number to attend because of a plan by a group within the county clubs to cut the
voting power of the campus clubs from three to one vote each.
JACK SULLIVAN, president of the Douglas County Young Democrats, said yesterday such an attempt had been made at the state convention in Topeka last year, but that he knew of no similar action planned for this year.
The remaining officers elected were John Brown, Lawrence senior, second vice president; Karen Stewart, Hutchinson junior, secretary; Barry Benington, Cheney sophomore, treasurer; Pete Aylward, Ellsworth sophomore, and Dorothy Hartbauer, Overland, Mo., junior, collegiate council representatives.
A cold front moved slowly across northern Kansas today, setting off showers, thunderstorms and some freezing drizzle.
Weather
The weather bureau said temperatures would stay fairly high in eastern Kansas today and tonight, but that it would be colder in the west. A combination of sleet, rain and snow was expected through tonight in the west, while heavy rains were forecast for more eastern sections.
High temperatures today were forecast from the 30s in the northwest to the 60s in the southeast, to be followed by lows of from the 20s in the northwest to the 50s in the extreme southeast.
Weathermen said conditions should clear up across the state tomorrow, but added that another front was expected to move in shortly after the current one moves out of the state.
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58th Year, No. 85
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAKING HIS POINT-Jay Deane, Kansas City sophomore, discusses plans for the Vox Populi platform at the meeting last night.
Vox Prepares Party Platform
Jerry Roberts, Kansas City junior, and president of Vox Populi, told members of the Vox general assembly last night that the platform committee has met and is at work drafting a platform.
"I EXPECT the platform will be coming out a little later than planned," he said. "We want to give our candidates a chance to have a hand in the drafting of it."
"I really don't know when we'll announce our candidates. They will have to be announced by March 11." he added. March 11 is the deadline for filing as a candidate for a student body office.
Roberts said that the qualifications of persons seeking Vox nominations will be thoroughly examined. "Awareness is an essential qualification candidates will have to have this Spring," he said. "Each prospective candidate will be questioned extensively on campus issues."
Students who have petitioned for Vox nomination will be interviewed
by the executive council within the next two weeks, Roberts said. The executive council is composed of five Greek and five independent members of the general assembly.
Roberts told the group that all representatives to the general assembly will have to work hard to get out the vote this Spring.
"As I understand it there is a voting potential of 70-80 girls in each Vox sorority," he said. "This is about one-third more than last Fall.
BRIAN GRACE. Lawrence freshman, presented a petition for a voting membership in the general assembly. According to the Vox constitution such a membership will be presented to any person representing a group of, 50 or more students. Grace's petition bore 56 names.
Grace described the group he will be representing as, "unmarried and unaffiliated." His membership becomes official upon confirmation of the executive council.
Civil Rights Law Excludes Bars Norwood Says
Douglas County Attorney Wesley M. Norwood said today he has decided that taverns do not come under the Kansas public accommodations law.
He said he will state this in an opinion he is writing about a local tavern's refusal of service to a Negro student last week.
Mr. Norwood received a verbal complaint from Marion S. Barry, Memphis, Tenn., graduate student, that the Harbor Tavern refused to serve him.
"I HAVENT said I wouldn't take a complaint, but Barry knows how I feel about the situation," Mr. Norwood said. "Barry knows he can file through another lawyer."
Mr. Norwood said he thought the Kansas legislature should be the one to take any further action about the accommodations law.
Barry, who conferred with Mr. Norwood last night, could not be reached for comment.
IN AN INTERVIEW after the meeting of the Civil Rights Council Wednesday, Barry said:
"If Mr. Norwood decides not to take the complaint, I will sign a formal complaint. I am waiting for Mr. Norwood's decision. I put a lot of faith in him. He is very cordial to me. But I want to take this case as far as it will go in the courts."
UNITED PRESS International reported today that hearings will be held the last part of February on a strongly-worded anti-discrimination bill now before the House Committee on State Affairs.
The bill calls for creation of a new State Civil Rights Commission with broad powers. Under terms of the bill, witnesses before the proposed commission could not claim immunity under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a secretary would be paid $7,800 to $9,500 a year to conduct investigations, hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, and take other actions the commission should consider necessary.
Cigarettes Plentiful, Packs Scarce
Once seen in abundance lying about the campus, the extinction of genus Lorillard species Kent, Newport, Old Gold and Spring is at hand.
Contest Spurs Frenzied Search
The dwindling existence of discarded cigarette packages is a result of a contest sponsored by the company that makes the above mentioned cigarettes. Prizes of color TV sets, to be awarded to the fraternity and sorority that collects the most packages, has initiated a hunt that would be a credit to the FBI.
ALMOST EVERYONE is familiar with the contest which began last week so by now the sight of dates or friends bumping heads over a grounded package is commonplace.
The house that saves the most packages by March 24 will receive the set on display at the Jayhawk Cafe. Student body and faculty members also may enter the sweepstakes by depositing an entry blank with their name and address and an empty pack of one of the Lorillard products in the campus entry box.
To save the precious packs, students are smoking more than they did before the contests. It is a "help-the-house win" spirit, said one coed as she lit a cigarette from a half-smoked one.
"I'll sure be glad when these contests are over and I can go back to my own brand," she said. "I opened a 'forbidden brand' yesterday and I was almost de-pledged."
Another woman, who obviously had not heard of the contest, walked into the Hawk's 'Nest, opened a pack of Newports, and was almost trampled in the rush by six fraternity men pleading for the empty pack.
"I thought they were going to ask for dates but all they could think about was my pack," she moaned.
A check with one sorority house entered in a similar contest since November, showed that over 10,000 empty packs had been collected.
"WERE NOT too far from the goal for this contest," the house president said. "We need about 5,000 more, but where we will put them, I don't know. We started out by keeping them in a large box, but we had to put them in a trunk, then a closet, and finally we took them to the basement where they are piled in about 10 suitcases, 6 boxes and a trunk."
Lewis Hall plans to count their packages next week. The girls there also are finding storage space a problem. Ten large boxes provided an answer.