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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1961
58th Year, No. 77
Coach Jack Mitchell
Mitchell May Get Life-Time Pact
The University of Kansas reportedly is about ready to offer football coach Jack Mitchell a long-term contract, possibly for life, according to United Press International.
"I've heard some talk about a new contract," Mitchell admitted, "but there's been nothing definite said to me yet. I'm just as anxious as anyone to know what it's all about."
MITCHELL. FORMER All America quarterback at the University of Oklahoma, has compiled a 16-12-2 record in three seasons at Kansas and guided the Jayhawks to the Big Eight Conference championship last year, only to have the crown lifted when halfback Bert Coan was declared ineligible for the last three conference games.
Coach Mitchell's present five year contract expires in two more years, in December 1962. His present salary is $17,600.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "I understand the athletic board is working on a new contract. The board will have to discuss the contract with the coach, then it will be submitted to the Board of Regents for approval or disapproval. I do not know any terms of the contract."
A. C. $ _{c} $ (DUTCH) LONBORG, KU athletic director, said the possibility of a new contract was merely under discussion. He said he presumed the subject was first mentioned at the board's December meeting.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the athletic board said the matter may be brought up at the board's next meeting later this month.
"I have heard some discussion of a long-term contract for Mitchell, but there is nothing definite yet," he said.
The new pact has been rumored to be anywhere from ten years to lifetime. The lifetime contract would be for 29 years, as Mitchell will be eligible for retirement after 29 years.
ASC to Consider Tonight
Spectrum Is $1,350 in Hole
Spectrum Magazine has a $1,350 deficit after its first two issues, according to Ronald K. Dalby, Joplin, Mo., senior and president of the All-Student Council.
"It looks like the ASC has no alternative but to pay the debt in the light of the facts we have so far." Dalby said last night.
THE DEBT WILL be discussed at tonight's meeting of the All-Student Council, which has final responsibility for all campus publications.
'Dalby said the magazine's first issue in March, 1960, incurred a $375 loss; and the September, 1960, issue incurred a $975 loss.
ASKED WHERE he thought responsibility for the debt could be placed, Dalby replied, "It appears that some decisions of the Spectrum's business manager and editorial board were in error." He specifically mentioned the decision to print 2,500 copies of the last editing. About 300 were sold.
Editors Stay Silent OnSpectrumDeficit
By Fred Zimmerman
What went wrong with the Spectrum to put it $1,350 in the hole after only two issues?
The persons who should know aren't coming up with any answers. All everyone is sure of is that 2,200 unsold copies of the second issue are collecting dust in the office of the All-Student Council.
Members of the magazine's 6-man editorial board have so far expressed a clear desire to decline responsibility for the fiasco.
BILL BLUNDELL, Lawrence graduate student, who is a member of the editorial board said, "I never went to a meeting, never knew when there was one, and I had nothing to do with putting out that magazine."
Who is going to shell out the $1,350? Every student who pays an activity fee, if the ASC gets saddled with the debt, as is likely.
THE COUNCIL is ultimately responsible for every council publication, and its treasury is made up of 40 cents per semester from the activity fee of each student.
Faulty organization seems evident in nearly all of the Spectrum's operation. A good example is the relationship Blundell had with the magazine.
"The only time my pencil touched a piece of paper for the Spectrum was when I wrote a letter of application to the editorial board," he says.
"THEY PUT that second issue together during the summer. I didn't even know about it."
Blundell said he applied for a position after he saw the first issue, which he called "largely unintelligible."
"I was unsatisfied with the format, and in my application I made several suggestions. The first issue was a noble effort, but it showed a lack of editing and cohesion. Everything was thrown in," Blundell said.
Blundell believes that if Spectrum continues it must be subsidized. He added the magazine could come close to paying for itself with proper financial management.
Blundell said, "What it was trying to do is right but there must be a better selection of articles, and these should be edited to avoid obscurity and excessive length."
DOES A MAGAZINE such as Spectrum belong at KU?
"You have to take for granted that a literary magazine can't have as large an audience as some other types of publications, but an audience of 300 people is simply ridiculous," he said.
Dalby said he has requested the business manager and members of the editorial board to come to tonight's ASC meeting so they may answer questions concerning the Spectrum's situation.
The business manager is Gerald Andre, Honolulu, Hawaii, junior. The editorial board consists of Craig Nelson, Mankato senior; Richard Garnett, Prairie Village senior; Bill Blundell, Lawrence graduate; Brett Schroeder, Kansas City sophomore, and John Peterson, Topeka senior. Ray Miller, a former member of the board, graduated last semester.
Integration On Agenda
DALBY SAID THE ASC treasury now contains between $1,100 and
A new resolution concerning the ASC's position on discrimination will be introduced at tonight's meeting by Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior and representative from the Large Men's Dormitories. The council will also consider the financial condition of "Spectrum", the campus literary magazine, which incurred a debt of approximately $1,300.
ASC MEMBERS who have been working on the resolution for several weeks expect it to pass after the present resolution, tabled between semesters, has been defeated. Reed's resolution differs in that it upholds the recent actions taken by students, but it even more strongly encourages the use of other legal methods. It commits students to attack discrimination and work toward establishing social justice.
The new resolution further states that state and national leaders will be urged to enact measures and to urge business leaders to cooperate with leaders of minority groups.
THE TABLED RESOLUTION, originally submitted by Thomas Kurt, Pratt medical student, but changed in NSA committee meetings encouraged the use of selective buying and student boycotting of places practicing discrimination.
The motion also staked that students backing the resolution believed that merchants open to the public could be justifiably enforced to obey the public laws and ethics.
Kurt's resolution also supported state and national measures to encourage peaceful integration.
British Disclose NATO Espionage
LONDON — (UPI) — Britain charged at the start of its most sensational espionage trial in a decade today that a five-member spy ring stole key Allied naval secrets and sent them to Moscow by short wave radio.
The disclosure stirred fears that Russia now knows full details of how the United States and NATO plan to defend themselves against the Soviet Union's fleet of 500 submarines.
ATTORNEY GENERAL Sir Reginald Manningham - Buller never mentioned Russia specifically during his two-hour opening statement in Bow Street Criminal Court. But he said a 55-year-old British member of the spy ring was recruited for espionage work by a Russian posing as a U.S. Naval officer, and he left no doubt that the "foreign power" involved the Soviet Union.
Manningham-Buller said that Henry Houghton, 55, a Briton who had served 20 years in the Royal
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Navy, told police he got into the espionage business through a ruse.
The attorney general said Houghton, a civilian clerk at the Naval Research station at Portland Navy Yard, first agreed to pass on top secret information at the request of someone who identified himself as "Commander Alexander Johnson, U.S. Navy."
The attorney general said an extremely powerful radio set was found in the house of two of the defendants, Peter and Helen Kroger, who pretended to be booksellers. He said they sent their information to Moscow by radio and micro-dot code hidden in the pages of books.
$1,200. Second semester appropriations of about $3,500, derived from forty cents of each student's activity fee each semester, are not accessible until March.
Dalby met last night with several officials of Spectrum in an effort to determine how the debt evolved.
"THIS LARGE a debt from a magazine of this size is a considerable sum, and we wanted to find out how it happened," said Dalby. The important outstanding debts are for printing of the magazine and its covers. Most of the printing was done by the World Printing Co. of Lawrence.
The Spectrum was born at an ASC meeting in the fall of 1959 as a compromise between two groups who wanted to replace the Fowl, a defunct humor magazine.
One group was comprised of various interested students, and the other consisted of members of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, who became technical advisers of the magazine.
DALBY SAID he thinks a magazine such as the Spectrum belongs at the University, but that it must have proper financial management. He added that in his opinion the magazine should be subsidized outside the ASC if it is to continue. He suggested that the subsidy might come from an organization such as the Alumni Association, the Chancellor's Fund or the Endowment Association.
"Spectrum is a high-quality magazine, and there have been comments that it is 'above' the level of the student body. I don't agree with that. It is interesting and well-written," said Dalby, "and an improvement over certain humor magazines we've had in the past."
OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) — Eight highway patrol plainclothes officers waited inside the administration building at the University of Mississippi campus today for a Negro who was expected to try to register for classes.
Negro to Enter Mississippi U
The officers began their vigil yesterday but when registration ended at 5 p.m. there had been no incidences during the day.
Registration for the second semester classes ends at 5 p.m. today.
Applications from five Negroes were received a few days ago and grounds for denial were discovered in three of them, an informed source said yesterday. It was reported that the other two were in order, however.
Each was reported to include recommendations from three university alumni. A requirement for such recommendations was added several years ago as a segregation safeguard.
University authorities and state leaders have refused to comment. Gov. Ross Barnett told United Press International, "it is for the best interests for Mississippi for me not to make a statement about it." Hugh Clegg, assistant to the university chancellor and a former assistant director of the FBI, said "we have agreed not to comment at this time."
Aaron Henry of Clarksdale, state president of the NAACP, said he knew that some Negroes planned such an attempt, but declined other comment.