Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No. 68
Thursday, Jan. 14, 1965
School Panel Says
State Race Pains Latent
Kansans must become more aware of public school integration problems, despite a lack of conflict in their own state, a four-member panel told the KU Student National Education Association last night.
"My whole experience with the matter of integration has been as a Kansan," said Ernest E. Bayles, professor of education and chairman of the discussion. "I was quite surprised when I first discovered there was any problem. We never thought of anything but integration in the state."
BERT RINKEL, Scott City senior, said civil rights should be viewed as a national problem, "even though Kansas is isolated.
"We can't ignore that Negroes are feeling the first tremors of what could shake our nation, nor can we ignore the fact that our society is a racist society." Rinkel said.
Rinkel said statistics show that the Negro, regardless of the amount of his education, probably earns 51 per cent of what a white man with an equal amount of education earns.
"I hear my classmates say they know Negroes in the classrooms that don't seem as anxious to learn, as ambitious," Rinkel said. "This is probably because they are aware that no matter how much education they earn, they don't stand half the chance they deserve."
MRS. EVELYN LaBode, assistant instructor of French, said her practice teaching made her aware that establishing a good student-teacher relationship in an integrated situation is difficult.
Any teacher who can't stand it psychologically ought to get out of the school." Mrs. LaBode said. "The Negro teacher has to walk a tight, diplomatic line, overcoming feelings of inferiority with the faculty and trying not to discriminate with students.
"Especially in big city schools which are about 95 per cent Negro, the Negro teacher must be an inspiration and a symbol of what can be accomplished," Mrs. LaBode said.
LACY BANKS, Kansas City, Kans., senior, said, "The Negro student who lives in a small apartment with uneducated parents, in a wild neighborhood void of inspiration, will doubtless get an entirely different conception of a novel his class is studying than another classmate.
"This is why I believe that a man is a result of his environment and upbringing, and not, as some philosophies suggest, responsible for all his actions.
"Integration is not a minute event, not a ratio and not a law." Banks said. "It is bringing together the values of all men."
Elementary school children have tremendous adjustments to make in their early years, resulting from what they have learned at home and outside the school, Judy Waterman, Merriam senior, said.
"CHILDREN CAN develop defense mechanisms." Miss Waterman said, "like bursting in tears
and pretending they have been called names. But these problems can be worked out, with enough patience and understanding. Kansas schools are doing a good job."
Rinkel said that although he believes men have a right to live the way they want, all men are involved in the integration problem and should realize they are.
"We tend to think," Rinkel said, "that educating a man will immediately assure him employment and also lead us to a more enlightened democracy. But too often bad teaching methods and facilities are all that are offered the Negroes."
Rinkel believed the inferior school situation in large cities is caused by the move to suburbs by white families.
"The urban centers are becoming predominantly Negro." Rinkel said, "and are producing inferior schools. I think one of the first steps we could take towards solving the race problem would be direct financial relief to inferior schools."
Johnson Asks Congress For $3.4 Billion in Aid
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Johnson submitted to Congress today an economy-size foreign aid program of slightly less than $3.4 billion, the lowest amount requested since overseas assistance began 18 years ago.
At the same time, he asked for special standby power to increase help to South Viet Nam in its fight against Communist attack. If approved, this would give Johnson almost unlimited authority in aid for the embattled Southeast Asian country.
sistent with the national interest."
FOR THE TIME being, he proposed $500 million for all of Southeast Asia, mainly Viet Nam and Laos.
In a message to Congress, Johnson termed his program for the next fiscal year the "lowest aid budget con-
Summing up his aid request Johnson said, "We have pledged our strength — economic and military — in defense of those who would be free and in support of those who would join in working toward a stable, prosperous government.
"We will persist in our efforts to put more aid on a multilateral basis, to improve the coordination of bilateral aid, and to increase the share of the burden borne by other free world nations."
JOHNSON REQUESTED $1.17 billion for military aid — slightly more than last year's appropriation — and $2.2 billion for economic aid, almost the same as last year.
He said-that if "situations should arise" requiring additional amounts, he would not hesitate to ask for more funds.
Yank Bombers Hit Laos Targets
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in South Viet Nam have been attacking Communist targets and supply routes in Laos for the past seven months, it was learned here today.
The disclosure by well-qualified sources followed an announcement by the Defense Department in Washington that the United States has begun bombing raids against Communist supply lines leading to guerrilla forces in South Viet Nam.
The Defense Department announcement of the incident, which gives no suggestion of the plane's mission, was the first official disclosure that the 1,500-mile per hour Thunderchief was operating in Southeast Asia.
CAPT. CHARLES L. Ferguson of Clovis, N.M., was shot down in an F100 Supersabre and was rescued many hours later. His companion, Capt. Albert C. Vollmer of Denton, Kan., was shot down in an F105 Thunderchief and was rescued quickly.
The F105 "Thunderchief"—a bullet-net jet that is one of the most deadly weapons in the U.S. arsenal of air power—is designed to carry 12,000 pounds of bombs and rockets at high speeds and long ranges.
The F100 Super Sabre is the first operational supersonic fighter-bomber to be produced by the Air Force. It can carry more than three tons of bombs or napalm jellied gasoline.
BOTH PLANES ARE designed to carry nuclear weapons.
Informants here said the American jets have been carrying out "suppressive" strikes against Communist ground positions. Red supply routes and anti-aircraft batteries believed to be manned by regular troops of the North Vietnamese Army.
Six U.S. planes now have beer shot down since reconnaissance missions started over Laos last May. "Lead Alley" is a term used by Navy Lt. Charles F. Klusmann to describe ground fire in a portion of the Plain of Jars where he had to fly.
Klusmann was the first American shot down. He later escaped from his captors.
In the period since last May, U.S. air operations over Laos have been expanded from unarmed reconnaissance flights over the plain to outright attacks on Communist forces farther south.
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Student Cars To Be Taxed In Lawrence
A personal property tax on automobiles will be assessed KU students who have a car in Lawrence a majority of the school year, Darwin Rogers, Douglas County assessor, said yesterday.
Although some out-of-state students will find they are paying a double tax, Rogers explained this was not unconstitutional double taxation because the property is being taxed by two different sources. He suggested these students talk to the county assessor in their home state and persuade the assessor that double taxation is not necessary.
A KANSAS RESIDENT, whose car is registered in his home county, will be subject to tax by Douglas County. He will not be taxed by his home county.
Alvin E. Jones of Topcka, director of the State Property Valuation Department, said the question resulted since the adoption of the constitutional amendment on personal property. He said the amendment does not change existing law, but that some areas in the state did not previously enforce the tax law.
"Personal property is taxed where it is located." Jones said.
Jones explained the "majority of the time" referred to the nine-month school year. He said if the student has a car on campus only occasionally he will not be taxed.
ROGERS SAID THE cars will be taxed where they are located most of the time on Jan. 1. The payment of the tax will be due Nov. 1 but the student will have until Dec. 20 to make the payment. Letters of tax notification will be sent out by the county treasurer's office.
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Photo by Black
DANCE WITH A NEW "TWIST"—Patricia Shore (right). Pittsburgh, Pa., junior, Sharon Herowitz (center), Overland Park freshman, and Mary Messenheimer (left), Minneapolis, Minn., graduate student, twist out of an elastic cocoon in the dance "Linear Sculpture."
Dancers Will Debut in Cocoon
By Karen Lambert
Elastic is generally regarded as a purely functional material designed to make waste bands fit, suspenders hold up, or tourniquets stay tight. Sunday afternoon, elastic will debut in the dance world in the annual Tau Sigma concert.
Under the direction of Elizabeth Sherbon, instructor in physical education, members of Tau Sigma, dance fraternity, will perform in Hoch Auditorium at 3:30 p.m.
All the dances were choreographed especially for the production, Miss Sherbon said. Five were composed by the students and Miss Sherbon composed the sixth.
"One of the aims of the fraternity is to work creatively in dance," Miss Sherbon said. "We try to stress student compositions."
THE DANCE FORMS used for the concert are ballet, jazz and contemporary. she said.
Elastic will be used in the dance "Linear Sculpture," described as "an experiment with designs in space." Patricia Shore, Pittsburgh, Pa., junior; Mary Messenheimer, Minneapolis, Minn., graduate student; and Sharon Herowitz, Overland Park freshman, improvised the dance. The trio is wrapped, cocoon fashion, in the elastic as the dance begins. As they twist out of the cocoon and move through the dance, the elastic, held in their hands, forms fluid lines in space.
"La Cirque," the ballet, is a drama of unrequited love, Miss
Sherbon said. Composed by Alex Brown, Lawrence high school student, the dance tells the story of a troubador in love with a circus ballerina. Spurned by her, the troubador falls into a trance and dreams that his love appears. He pursues her, but she always evades him.
DANCE HAS BEEN called "poetry in motion." In that case, poetry in motion will be accompanied by literal poetry in "The Hollow Men." The dancers will perform as T. S. Eliot's poem is read. Miss Messenheimer composed the dance.
"The students will not literally interpret each sentence," Miss Sherbon said. "The dance is an abstract expression of the mood of the poem."
Weather
"Blues Sophistication" is "straight modern jazz dancing to subtle, sophisticated blues," Miss Sherbon said, Kathleen Dole, Wichita junior, and Mary Jones, Rapid City, S.D., sophomore, are the choreographers.
MAN MEETING THE DEVIL provided the inspiration for "Nemesis," composed by Robert L. Kaz-
The weather forecast for tonight is cloudy to partly cloudy through Friday. The U.S. Weather Bureau says the low tonight will be in the upper 20's. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 miles per hour tonight.
meyer, Rochester, N.Y., graduate student. The dance depicts the moment when Satan comes to claim three maidens, Miss Sherbon said.
Miss Sherbon's composition, "Kinetic Modes," is the final part of the program.
"The dance is an annotation of some of the forces that affect, alter, or direct our lives," Miss Sherbon said. The dance is performed in eight movements: "Heartbeat," "Fear," "Counterpoise," "Mirth," "Conformity." "Serenity," "To Youth" and "Finale."
Kazmeyer composed original music for the final dance. He also designed the sets and lights and will dance in the number he composed.
"ALL OF THE DANCES have a philosophical tone." Miss Sherbon said. "I don't feel that a dancer can really be creative if he does not have some background in philosophy, so that he can interpret men's actions in dance."
The dancers will perform on the floor of the auditorium, rather than on the stage, Miss Sherbon said.
"Because of the larger area, we can convey more feeling of space in the dance movements," Miss Sherbon said. "Dance has been affected by the space age. Movement has become more spacious and sweeping," she continued.