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Summer Session Kansan
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Law Student Gains Honor
This is the first time the Phi Delta Phi graduate of the year award has gone to a student from the central Midwest. Johntz will receive a $250 cash award, the fraternity's diamond pin, a certificate of recognition, the legal directory of Phi Delta Phi, and an expense paid trip to Quebec, Canada, for the national convention late this summer which he will address.
In addition Johntz will be featured on the cover and lead story of the fall issue of the legal fraternity magazine, and the School of Law will receive a $200 award to be used for the school in some way the local Phil Delta chapter suggests.
John H Johntz, June graduate of the KU School of Law, has been named the graduate of the year by Phi Delta Phi, largest international professional law fraternity.
Johntz, formerly of Wichita and a new member of Payne, Jones, Anderson, Martin and Payne law firm of Olathe, recently made news when he became the first student in the history of the KU Law School to graduate with straight "A" grades. He recently was named to the board of editors of the journal of the Kansas Bar Association.
Police Role in Youth. Human Relations Told
Police have an important leadership role to play in human relations when they find the public at its worst in racially charged situations.
And youth problems are the chief concerns of peace officers today.
These were views expressed last week at the 19th annual Peace Officers Training School at KU.
"In all the Kansas hearings before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, there have been no complaints about prejudice or mistreatment by Kansas law enforcement officers, Carl Glatt, executive director of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, said.
"THE DAY OF THE BIG, tough 'cop' is gone, for the police must be professionals in their handling of tense situations," Glatt said. "What the police do on the scene is contagious to the spectators."
Glatt traced civil rights legislation on a national scale, citing the 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case as the "Pandora's box which let loose the headlines of today" and dispelled the "separate but equal" doctrine.
IN KANSAS, when Negro high school graduates are turned down for jobs for which they are qualified, and a Negro nurse is refused service in a western Kansas restaurant, our commission takes these complaints and enforces the law without anyone going to jail or causing trouble." Glatt said.
"But the police and public must also understand how this mistreatment and denial of constitutional rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness can make the negro antisocial. He then may strike back at the society which treats him this way for no reason but his skin color." Glatt concluded.
Interviewed on the subject of youth problems were: Jack Campbell, Scott City, sheriff of Scott County; Capt. David M. Gellatt, assistant chief of police, Olathe; Ted Lindsheild, chief of police, Lindsborg, and Richard Tucker, Lyons, undersherif of Rice County.
Today Kansas is one of 25 states with a fair employment law and one of 30 with expanded public accommodations statutes.
IN ADDITION to stressing their department's alertness to the youth area, the four were high in their praise of the program, instructors and organizations of the KU training school. Their only suggestion was that it be held at least twice a year.
if possible, so that smaller departments would be better able to release officers to attend.
Sheriff Campbell, who is as far as he knows the first Scott County officer to attend the school, said the crime and enforcement situation in his western Kansas area is happily quiet.
"I have noticed in the past year or so that our young people have been drinking more beer," he said, "but it has not led so far to any serious damage."
Olathe, undergoing a rapid growth and now only nine miles from metropolitan Kansas City, had a major problem of organized beer parties among young people about two years ago.
"WE MET THE PROBLEM headon," Captain Gellaty explained, "by designating an officer to spend about 50 per cent of his time in the juvenile field. The problem disappeared almost at once."
The only major difficulty at Lindsborg comes in the fall when Bethany College opens its doors to about 600 students. Chief Lindschild said.
"At that time we can expect a few students whose driving habits do not fit in with our rather slow and easy
way of doing things," he said. "A period of readjustment is necessary. Any other problems we have are routine and minor, and I hope to learn enough here to be better able to handle them. I attended the training school in about 1958, and I think it is even more practical and beneficial now than it was then."
Undersheriff Tucker said things in Rice County are ordinarily on an even keel. But here again the youth and beer combination presents an occasional crisis.
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