U. S. Skating Team Dies In Belgian Plane Crash
IT'S A NATURAL—The Interfraternity Pledge Council's project to raise money for the Campus Chest is a natural for men who like to beat on things. Richard Whitaker, Kansas City freshman is shown getting his 50 cents worth. (See related story on p. 8.)
BRUSSELS, Belgium — (UPI) All 18 members of the United States figure skating team flying to Prague for an international meet were killed today when a Belgian jet airliner crashed out of a bright blue sky near Brussels airport. The crash killed 73 persons, including 52 Americans.
Among the dead was America's "Queen of the Ice," Laurence Owen, 16, who won the North American figure skating championship only four days age.
Grads to Train For Legislature
A $114,000 grant will be used by KU, in cooperation with Kansas State University and Wichita University, to develop a legislative internship program.
The grant was announced by the Ford Foundation today.
The interns will be mainly young lawyers, journalists and political science graduates who will be assigned to work in various legislative offices in the state government.
THE PROGRAM will last for six years with five different graduate students entering the program each year, according to Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science and director of governmental research.
The five interns will be assigned to legislative committees or officials to do whatever task or research the legislators wish them to do. They will also be enrolled in five hours of graduate courses.
"The graduate students applying must either have a Masters degree in political science or a degree in law or journalism, with additional experience in their fields," Prof Allen said.
The weather bureau today predicted a marked change in weather for the weekend.
PROF. ALLEN said the applicants will be screened by a committee from the three schools. A committee of the legislative council will make the final acceptance.
Weather
A cold front, accompanied by rain or snow, is expected to lower temperatures in the Kansas area.
Today's high is forecast in the 60s in the south and in the 50s in the north.
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RELATIVES and friends of the victims watched in horror from the Zaventem Airport Terminal as the Boeing 707 faltered and fell into a field nearby. It exploded and burst into flames so intense there was no hope of rescue.
This was the first major air disaster of 1961, the first crash of a Boeing 707 jet in commercial service, and a great tragedy to American athletics. A number of American families perished with the skaters.
THE CAUSE of the accident only a mile from the end of an airport runway after a non-stop flight from New York was a mystery.
The sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly when the Sabena plane dived to the ground while circling for a landing. Airport officials said they lost radio contact with the pilot as the plane approached the field.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The House Space Committee was told today it will be another four or five years before the United States can match the satellite booster power demonstrated by the Russians in their Venus shot.
Sabena Airlines officials said there were "no survivors" among the 61 passengers and 11 crewmen. One man working in the field was killed and another was seriously injured.
The victims included 52 Americans among the flight from New York to Brussels.
THE DISASTER wiped out U.S. hopes for skating victories in the 1964 Olympics. U.S. senior men's champion Gregory Kelley of Colorado Springs, Colo., also was killed.
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, deputy administrator for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, said that little can be done by this country except "sweat out" the effort to overtake the Russians.
U. S. Can't Match Russia's Satellite
He testified that the strongest U. S. rocket has a thrust of 360,000 pounds while the latest Soviet shot shows "what a country can do with rockets which develop 800,000 pounds of thrust."
It won't be until 1966 or 1967. Dryden said, that an advanced version of the 1.5 million pound thrust Saturn rocket is ready for use.
"In this sort of situation," he told the House group, "you can't buy time with money."
Wednesday, Feb. 15. 1961
58th Year, No. 83
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Makeup Placement Exams Tomorrow
The makeup placement examinations will be given at 2 p.m. tomorrow and Friday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
All new undergraduate students are required to take the examinations. Those who have not completed them by Monday will be withdrawn from classes.
Both sessions are required.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was included on a committee named today by Lawrence Mayor John T. Weatherwax, to study the civil rights situation in Lawrence and to determine if a human relations commission is needed.
"As I understand what happened, that sit-in was poorly conceived, and a pretty illegal action. According to Kansas statutes, that group coming into the bar was in violation of the law.
Mayor Names Rights Group
The mayor said, "The sit-in in January had no effect on my thinking about the human relations commission. I can't speak for the other city commission members.
Also named to the committee are; J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories; Corlett J. Cotton, Lawrence insurance man; Harold Keltz, Lawrence merchant; Geneva Simmons, realtor; E. Gordon Ericksen, professor of sociology; E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology and anthropology; the Rev. Frank J. Brown, pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church; Dr. Paul Getto, dentist; Dr. Phil Godwin, physician, and James Brooks, local beer distributor.
"MY SYMPATHIES are with the lady in the tavern. "Court Anderson (then Attorney
ov. Anderson (then Attorney)
THIS FALL the city commission received requests from churches, women's groups, and the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy that a human relations commission be established.
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — (UPI) — The United States said today that Russia's demand for the removal of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and an end to the U. N. operation in the Congo is "virtually a declaration of war on the United Nations."
Calls Red Demand Declaration of War
PROF. STIRTON presented slide of the area that the group explored He told of the natives and wild life in the Great Artesian Basin o Australia.
U. S. AMBASSADOR Adlai E. Stevenson told the Security Council the Soviet Union appeared to have declared war on the principle of international action in behalf of peace.
"What we decide here in the next few days may, we believe, determine whether or not the United Nations will be able in the future to carry on its essential tasks of preserving peace and protecting small nations," he said.
"THIS IS A TIME for urgent,
“Once I was taking pictures of a camel,” he said. “After I took a couple of shots of him I turned and walked away. I heard the brush
IN A MESSAGE to the North Atlantic Council, the President urged that "clearly understood" principles be established so that the United States and the European allies can share the burden of military defense and economic aid to less developed areas.
"There has been a tremendous evolution in Australia over a long period of time," he said. "There has evolved, down there, one of the most spectacular floras in the world."
Prof. Stirton's group went into the area to search for fossil remains dating back to the Tertiary period of geologic history. The oldest previous discoveries in Australia have been dated in the recent Pleistocene period.
He pledged that the United States and "my own unremitting efforts" would be devoted to principles which guide the efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In urging unified efforts, President Kennedy said:
"If we falter, then freedom itself will be in mortal danger."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy told the European allies today that the perils which face the free world everywhere can be met "if we mobilize the unified strength and will of the nations of the Atlantic community."
"WE FOUND the remains of the oldest known animals in Australia," he said. "This year we hope to find even older material," he said speaking of his next trip there.
Paleontologist Tells of Trip To Australia for Fossils
Mr. Kennedy stressed that "we
Prof. Stirton was speaking of important fossil discoveries made by his expeditions into central Australia in 1953, '54, '57 and '58.
"We feel that we have opened a new chapter in paleontology," R. A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley said last night at the University Lecture.
Liberia asked that anti-Portugese riots in the African territory of Angola be added to the agenda but Council President Sir Patrick Dean of Britain ruled the move out of order at this time.
Kennedy Tells Allies United Strength a Must
THE COUNCIL'S crucial debate on the Congo crisis arising from Patrice Lumumba's killing and Russia's consequent demand for Hammarskjojd's removal threatened to develop into an argument on all Africa.
constructive action. The Security Council must be calm. In the midst of efforts to destroy the U. N. in the Congo, we must persevere, not only in the interests of the Congo but in the interests of all of us. "Either we will follow a path toward a constructive, workable solution, or of negative recrimination and self-interest."
rustling behind me. When I turned around I saw the camel charging directly at me. I didn't know what else to do so I shouted and jumped at him. He wheeled around and began running in the opposite direction."
Prof. Stirton is a 1925 graduate of KU. He is now head of the department of paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley.
"But I have also been increasingly convinced that we can face down those perils, if we mobilize the unified strength and will of the nations of the Atlantic community," he said.
IN DISCUSSING the need for more help to the poorer nations, the President said, "The United States, because of its larger resources, is prepared to bear a heavy share of this burden."
Mr. Kennedy said that since he became President, he had "been increasingly impressed by the magnitude of the perils which confront the United States and free nations everywhere."
of the Atlantic community are the single most effective obstacle between tyranny and its desire to dominate the world."
"But I am confident," he added "that the nations of western Europe will wish to commit an equitable proportion of their own growing resources to the common effort of economic development, as well as to the tasks of the common defense."
The President expressed his views in a message to the North Atlantic Council made public after it was delivered at the council's headquarters this morning.
Students Attack US Embassy
HE SAID that if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations act together it is within their grasp to achieve the goal of creating a world "where free men can live at peace and in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, poverty and ignorance."
CAIRO — (UPI) — Student demonstrators protesting the death of former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba today attacked the U. S. library inside the American Embassy compound in Cairo and set the Belgian embassy afire.
Meanwhile in Acra, Ghana, hundreds of demonstrators ripped the United States seal from the American Embassy and three rifle shots shattered an embassy lamp — as demonstrations to protest Lumumba's killing.
The students smashed windows on the library's terrace by hurling stones from the street.
THE ATTACK on the American library was made by Egyptian and African Negro students. They also overturned three embassy cars.
Black uniformed police carrying bamboo sticks had been stationed in front of the embassy, and broke
up the riot three minutes after it started. There were no casualties. The Belgian embassy was hit by 10,000 demonstrators who set the building afire after forcing Belgian officials to haul down the Belgian flag.
EARLIER, a silent Lumumba "funeral procession" was staged by demonstrators who marched past the United States, British and Belgian embassies. The march followed a halt of traffic throughout Cairo for 10 minutes in mourning for Lumumba.
The subsequent attack on the Belgian embassy came in two waves. The first group stoned embassy windows, ripped away shutters and tore down the Belgian coat of arms over the embassy gate. They placed a picture of Lumumba in its place.
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