Soviets Launch Space Ship
Reds Launch 30th Flight of Year
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Today's space launch was Russia's 30th this year, but the first manned one.
It was preceded by 23 earth satellites in the Cosmos Series, four scientific space stations in the Electron Series, a maneuverable, unmanned space ship called Polyot 2 and a Venus Probe called Zond 1.
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Russia today launched the first passenger-carrying space ship.
A pilot and two passengers—a scientist and a doctor—were aboard the craft launched at 2:30 a.m. Lawrence time. Moscow television said the space ship "Voskhod" (Sunrise) had gone into orbit and was operating smoothly.
The Russian space feat came on the 472nd anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World.
THE LAUNCHING OF THE first craft to carry more than one person came $3\frac{1}{2}$ years after the Russians sent up Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space. The American two-man "Gemini" space shot
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.17
Monday, Oct. 12, 1964
Interracial Marriages Voted Aid to Democracy
After some shuffling from one side to the other 138 students attending the English Style Debates Friday night, voted for the affirmative on the question, Resolved: "More interracial marriage would make our American Society more democratic."
The vote for the negative was 82.
Eldon Fields, professor of political science, was the first speaker for the affirmative and said he thought race was irrelevant as a basis for participation in American society.
Prof. Fields said, "Race is increas-
KU Activity Discussed
The structure of extracurricular activities at KU was the main topic of discussion Friday at the Kansas Union during a meeting of Mr. Satja Raj, chief of the university programs for the United States Information Service, and KU student government representatives.
is not expected until February at the earliest. The first three-man U.S. spacexpsi probably will not be launched for at least two years.
Raj, whose office is at Madras, India, said there were no extracurricular activities at Indian universities. He was interested in reading the All Student Council constitution, particularly the parts explaining the student court and the student-faculty student disciplinary committee.
Raj said the influence of Ghandi in India had caused many students to follow a trend of passive resistance. When students are unhappy with their school, they strike. This might not happen if they had a voice in student government, he said.
The American students' commercial outlook on education was cited by Raj as a reason why they don't strike as Indian students do. "Americans feel that their time is money," Rai said.
Raj said the Information Service has 200 offices in 106 countries and 10 offices in India alone, producing in newspapers and other publications the "government line" to promote the U.S.
He thought it was strange that the U.S. Congress did not appropriate funds for the U.S. Information Service to give American students news and information.
"Even a three-year-old in India can tell you all about President Kennedy," Raj said. "I doubt if an American three-year-old could even tell you what India is."
By the end of every day in India, Raj said, the wire reports and classified news have been translated into every native dialect and distributed across the country to all villages.
Raj said the people of India were interested in the coming presidential elections, which is the reason for his visit. The people are following the campaigns closely and there will be special broadcasts of election results.
ingly irrelevant to any aspect of life involving equal opportunity and respect of man. White supremacy is becoming untenable. The question should be focused on some other aspect of interest than the racial problem such as the increase on job opportunities."
Prof. Van Hoey said, "The mixture of the two races makes it relevant to democracy. The success of interracial marriage is not due to any established social structure. Any recognized feature of Negro ancestry marks a person as a Negro. Interracial marriage produces more Negroes. This swells the pool of frustration and increases the defense mechanisms in our society. When the pool swells, there is a growing threat of violence."
Prof. Fields was answered by Leo Van Hoey, professor of sociology and formerly with the African Research Program, who said Prof. Fields was dodging the issue.
Soon after the start of Voskhod's flight, which was expected to last at least 24 hours, the Soviets hinted at an even more spectacular space feat. The official Soviet news agency Tass quoted a visiting French space scientist as saying that one or two of the three Russians now in orbit may venture outside the space craft during the flight.
Prof. Otterbein said, "I can make these implications from my experience in Green Turtle Key. You can have democracy without interracial marriage or in a given situation where prejudice exists, an increase in interracial marriage would lead to an increase in racial tensions. Integration must come first and interracial marriage will come second. If the number of interracial marriages increases it will disturb the prejudiced."
Melvin Smith, instructor of English and a native of South Africa, speaking for the affirmative, said he has only been in the United States for three weeks and it presents a very coherent picture. He said no other country talks so much about democracy.
Prof. Fields said it is not democracy when an individual accepts someone of the opposite race because it is the vogue or to prove that one is not prejudiced. He said if there is more acceptance of the other races the question of interracial marriage becomes more irrelevant.
KEITH OTTERBEIN, professor of anthropology, speaking for the negative, cited a community of Negroes and whites in Green Turtle Key in the Bahama Islands which he said was democratic but prejudice still existed. The Negro and white man worked and prayed together but intermarriage was not accepted.
Smith said, "The world has fallen apart into great power groups. Some day the world will be too small to contain them all and when there is an opportunity to drop racial barriers it should be done. In South Africa the opportunity for peaceful integration has passed. There is still an opportunity in America to integrate. America won't be democratic until the black and white marriages are accepted. America must enhance the image working for peace and understanding in the world."
Prof. Van Hoey said an equal opportunity creed is necessary to democracy. He further stated that too
many times interracial marriage is done to absorb a minority group into a majority group and it is a fallacy to say that more interracial marriage would bring about a golden age of democracy.
IN THE affirmative summary, Smith said, "The Green Island case is not relevant, it is one test tube case. Triston would be a better example, there is complete mixture of races and no danger involved."
Prof. Van Hoey, in the negative summary said, "No matter how we look at it we have to start from an actual situation, where a community lists the Negro ancestry. His status is defined, no matter how many drops of Negro blood flow in his veins. The problem here is racial consciousness, it must be ended before interracial marriage can begin. The democratic spirit can end racial strife more than a cocktail of genes can."
William D. Paden, professor of English and moderator of the debate, called several time-outs during the debate for students to switch sides. Few students switched sides during the course of the debate. After the summaries were given, many students from the affirmative side moved to the negative side before the count was taken.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The St. Louis Cardinals won the fifth game of the World Series on Tim McCarver's three run homer in the tenth inning.
Tass said it had interviewed Jean Coulombe, chairman of France's National Center for Space Research, in Leningrad and quoted him as saying: "The fact that there are three spacemen in one ship will enable one or two of them to venture outside the ship."
Bulletin
Scientists have said it is theoretically possible for spacemen to leave their craft while in orbit, drift through space beside it, and then return to the craft.
Voskhod was orbiting the earth every 90.1 minutes on a path taking it as far as 255.6 miles from the earth and as near as 112.5 miles.
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev talked to the space ship by radio and promised the men an overwhelming welcome when they return to earth. This afternoon the Soviet television carried the first transmission from aboard Voskhod.
THE FLIGHT WAS MAN'S 13th journey into space. Previously Russia had sent up five men and a woman. The United States has put six men into space but two of the flights were sub-orbital.
The Russians did not give shape, the weight or dimensions of the new spaceship.
Red Square filled up with Russians screaming, shouting and tossing objects into the air.
Placards were quickly produced reading, "Glory to the Soviet astronauts."
THE SOVIET UNION now leads the United States by three cosmonauts, one scientist, one doctor and anywhere from 2 to 6 years in the manned conquest of space.
And from the American point of view, it could—and probably will—get worse before it gets better.
For all its billions of dollars, the U.S. space program can count precious few victories where manned flight is concerned. It started three years ago, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin beat astronaut Alan Shepard into space by 23 days.
It continued today when the Russian multi-manned space ship was launched four months before the U.S. plans to do the same thing.
THE NEXT U.S. representatives in space will be astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John Young, who will pilot a two-seater Gemini capsule three times around the earth after a blastoff from Cape Kennedy.
Grissom and Young however, are grounded at least until next February. Their space transportation, originally scheduled for completion a year go, is still in the assembly stage.
A closer look at the latest Soviet accomplishment indicated a "gap" of considerably more than four months between the two programs for manned mastery of the cosmos.
The Russian ship. a new model "Vostok," carries three men.
AMERICA'S FIRST three-man spaceship, an earth-orbiting model of the Apollo moon capsule, is at least two years away from the launching pad. The Saturn-1B rocket that will boost it has yet to fly.
The day when passengers will ride in U.S. space capsules is even further away.
The best that the scientific community has wrangled from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a promise to study the matter of carrying along full-fledged scientists.
This is not expected to occur until after America's manned landing on the moon—sometime around 1970, according to the optimist.
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KU Junior Queen
Mimi Frink Reigns at Royal
Mimi Frink, Lawrence junior,
was crowned queen of the 1964
American Royal, Saturday night in
Kansas City.
Miss Frink will reign over the 19 performances of the American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show Oct. 16 to 24.
She was presented to an audience of 8,459 persons at a Coronation Ball Saturday night at the Municipal Auditorium.
MISS FRINK, WEARING a white satin gown trimmed in rhinestones and pearl beads, entered the arena in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by a six-pony hitch.
She was crowned by E. K. Hartenbower, president of the American Royal, and led the traditional "Belle of the American Royal Waltz" with him.
The 5-feet, $5^{1 / 2}$ inch, 115-pound queen was selected on the basis of personal beauty, poise, personality, grooming, talent, and educational and social background.
MISS FRINK'S selection as queen was announced at a coffee Friday morning for the 16 contestants representing land-grant and Big-8 colleges in the eight-state area.
"I was completely surprised," she said. "I'm thrilled to death and terribly honored to do anything to bring credit to KU."
Miss Frink will spend this week in Kansas City, appearing on local television and radio shows, opening shopping centers, and attending a convention of the Future Farmers of America.
Weather
The weather bureau predicts fair weather both tonight and tomorrow with gradually rising temperatures and northerly winds of 5-15 mph.
THE AMERICAN ROYAL officially opens Friday night and she will attend its performances next weekend. On Oct. 24, the closing day of the Royal, Miss Frink will ride a float in a parade through downtown Kansas City.
Miss Frink, a double-major in theatre and psychology, is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Angel Flight and a new honorary theatre group.
Miss Frink was a runner-up to the SUA Carnival queen in 1963. In 1962 she was Miss Lawrence and fourth runner-up to Miss Kansas in the Miss Universe contest.
This past summer Miss Frink was a member of the KU theatre demonstration team which toured Europe presenting scenes from American drama. In 1963 she toured the Orient as a member of a USO troupe presenting "The Boy Friend."