Thursday; April 1, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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Tabled Housing Bill Spurs CRC Dissent
The Civil Rights Council (CRC) will participate in demonstrations Friday and Saturday at Governor William Avery's office in the Capitol Building at Topeka. The protests are planned because of recent action by the state Senate on a proposed fair housing bill.
Wednesday another committee which was set up by Governor Avery drew up a new bill.
The fair housing bill was defeated Tuesday by a 6-5 vote in the Federal and State Affairs Committee. The committee voted to table the bill but it was considered dead.
IN LIGHT OF this new action the Kansas Collegiate Civil Rights Council (KCCRC) still plans to conduct demonstrations as planned but they will be "less militant," according to Bert Rinkel, Lawrence resident and CRC member.
"The demonstrations will have a dual purpose," Jim Masters, Lawrence graduate student and CRC member said. "First, to encourage the governor to use all possible influence to get the bill amended until it is a good, strong bill again. And secondly, to use his influence to get it out of committee and passed."
The 110 demonstrators who were arrested as a result of the March 8
and 9 sit-ins in the corridor outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office are slated to appear before Judge Charles Rankin Friday morning at 10:30 a.m.
ACCORDING TO Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif, senior and co-chairman of CRC, the group "will meet at the Community Building and proceed to the court house together. We will enter a plea of not guilty and request a trial by jury and ask that the trials be consolidated."
Masters and Rinkel stated the demonstrators will stay at the Capitol Building all afternoon Friday. Arrangements have been made for overnight lodging.
The group will leave for Topeka right after the hearing. A bus for some of the people will be leaving from the court house. This same bus will be at the Kansas Union at 11 o'clock to pick up other demonstrators. Masters said.
In Topeka the group is scheduled to join with students from other campuses across the state at noon at the St. John's AME Church, 7th and Topeka.
The bus will be returning Friday night after the governor's office closes.
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