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City Transit Strike Snarls N.Y. Traffic
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Transit union chief Michael J. Quill, under threat of going to jail before noon, declined today to call off the unprecedented subway-bus strike which was costing untold millions in lost work, unsold goods and unpaid wages.
Tens of thousands of workers, who Monday heeded pleas to stay home, converged on the city in droves today, causing massive traffic tie-ups and again raising the possibility of stern restrictions on the movement of private vehicles into Manhattan
However, at 8 a.m. CST Traffic Commissioner Henry Barnes announced that the worst of the traffic jam was over. He said there had been 5 per cent more cars than Monday but people started for work an hour earlier.
Quill, the acid-tongued Irishman who led 36 transit men on the four-day strike in defiance of a court order, was sure to appeal his contempt citation and it was virtually certain that he would not end the strike to avoid jail.
Viet Nam War Disturbs Pope
VATICAN CITY—(UPI)Pope Paul VI is worried by the lack of response to his messages urging world powers to negotiate a peace in Viet Nam, Vatican sources said today.
So far there has been an almost total silence—at least publicly—to the pontiff's new year's messages to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, Chinese Communist party leader Mao Tse-tung and the North and South Vietnamese presidents. In the diplomatic messages, Pope Paul urged the Soviets and Chinese to "intervene" in the cause of peace and urged the Vietnamese not to take any actions that would escalate the war or force new bombings.
College Faculty on Strike
NEW YORK—(UPI)一A teachers union went on strike today at St. John's University, one of the largest Roman Catholic schools in the world. It was the first strike in American history by members of a college faculty.
Pickets were thrown up outside all gates of the Queens and Brooklyn campuses of the university at 6:30 a.m. EST, as the school reopened after the Christmas holiday and a one-day postponement caused by the city-wide subway and bus strike.
Kansas Senate Opens Next Week
TOPEKA—(UPI) Legislative developments moved rapidly today, one week before the gavel sounds on the 1966 budget session and not all to the liking of Gov. William H. Avery.
This session, it seems certain the governor won't get all he will ask for in his budget message to the Legislature Jan. 12. Legislative leaders today closed the door of the special session to all but reapportionment of the House and Senate and certain "emergency" matters.
Kashmir Peace Meet Opens
TASHKENT, U.S.S.R.—(UPI)India opened its summit conference with Pakistan in this colorful Soviet Asian city today by demanding that Pakistani troops respect its "territorial integrity and sovereignty."
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, in his opening speech at the conference, did not mention Kashmir by name. But he has already said that Indian sovereignty over the disputed province is not negotiable.
Fuel Tanks Explode in France
LYON, France—(UPI)—Exploding fuel tanks turned an oil-refinery fire near this southeastern French city into a holocaust today.
Officials estimated 12 persons were killed in the fire and explosion. Another 97 were hospitalized in Lyon with burns, 2 of them in critical condition. "Many others" were reported in casualty wards in nearby towns.
Students failing to obtain their $4 season basketball ticket refund before the Christmas holidays will have another chance to do so Thursday.
Money Back Basketball Refund Resumes Thursday
Athletic Director Wade Stinson said the ticket windows in Allen Field House will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to administer the student refund.
THE ATHLETIC Board decided to refund the charge Dec. 6, after the Student Athletic Seating Board revoked its recommendation of April 13, 1985, that a charge be placed on student admission to KU's intercollegiate basketball games. The SASB notified both the Athletic Board and the Athletic Department of its revocation of the charge in compliance with a Student Court order Dec. 4.
Refunds were made the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before Christmas break began but Stinson said the windows would be opened again since there is still money which has not been refunded.
Neurologist to Discuss Mechanism of Brain
"This Is Why We Are Human" will be discussed from a scientific and humanistic approach by Paul G. Roofe, KU professor of neurology, at the Thursday meeting of the Humanities Lecture Series.
He received his Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of Chicago. While there he studied under the renowned neuroanatomist, Dr. C. Judson Herrick.
Roofe will speak at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. A reception will be held afterward in the Faculty Club.
IN 1945 he came to KU as chairman of the department of anatomy. When the medical
Before coming to KU, Roofe taught at the University of Louisville.
"MY INTEREST in the nervous system has been one primarily of how it operates to produce the behavior of its possessor, especially man. We are just now beginning to get basic facts concerning this most intriguing mechanism in the universe, the human brain," Rooef said.
Roofe was named the first William Wilder Fellow in Neurology at the University of Chicago in 1932.
school was moved to Kansas City, he became a member of the zoology department.
Each year the Humanities Lecture Series sponsors six distinguished American and foreign scholars on the campus. In addition, it also invites one KU faculty member to address the lecture group.
During the past 10 years KU faculty members who have taken part are: J. Neale Carman, French; L. R. Lind, Latin and Greek; M. Carl Slough, Law; William D. Paden, English; Jan Chiapusso, Music; Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; Mary Grant, Latin and Greek; Errol Harris, philosophy; Elmer F. Beth, Journalism; Richard DeGeorge, Philosophy; and James Seaver, History.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, January 4, 1966