Students to seek views on fair housing in K.C.
By Swaebou Conateh
Four groups of students will leave the Canterbury Center on Louisiana St. (the Firey Furnace) Saturday and Sunday for door-to-door sampling of the "public mind of Kansas City concerning fair housing." Roger J. Smith, West Plains, Mo.. senior said.
The group includes about 26 students who attended two orientation meetings in the Kansas Union They will also work in Kansas City March 19-20.
IN KANSAS CITY, the group will first assemble at St. Patrick Church, 94th and Kansas 40 where they will receive final instructions from the Greater Kansas City Council on Religion and Race, whose project this is.
Tom Moore, KU-Y advisor, said "The students will ring door bells and present the occupants with pledge cards to sign."
"We have told the students they are not out to sell something." Smith said. "If someone doesn't want to sign, we'll leave him and go somewhere else."
MOORE SAID a brief socio-drama was held
at the two orientation meetings to "show the students how they should behave under three different circumstances."
One home-owner was curious and asked questions, the other one signed the pledge card without hesitation, but a third one was hostile.
"The student in the drama did not stay to argue in the last instance," Moore said. "We are not trying to argue anybody down."
THE AIM OF the fair housing campaign is to obtain support for freedom of opportunity in housing. Student recruiting for the campaign is aided by the KU Religious Advisors, in cooperation with the All Student Council Human Relations Committee, the Civil Rights Council and the Students for a Democratic Society.
"Those who approve the idea will be asked to sign their names on a pledge card and pay nominal fees for the possible publication of their names in the newspapers.
"The names are not meant for anyone's mailing list. We need to publish the names because support for the idea won't be just a private matter. All will see it in the newspapers." Moore said.
Lunar car aids U.S. study
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. —(UPI)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — (UPT)
— The U.S. race to the moon moved a step ahead yesterday after two bearded scientists emerged from a tiny "moonbuggy" in man's first simulated 18-day visit to the moon.
However, Dr. Wernher von Braun, who was there to greet the men, said the United States is in danger of losing the race to the moon with the Soviet Union.
VON BRAUN, 54. German-born director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Spaceflight Center at Huntsville, Ala., said, "unless
we keep running like hell there is a good chance of getting licked. They have a very good program."
The scientists, Michael J. Vaccaro, 38, and Haydon Y. Grubbs Jr., 35, said they could have spent another week in the cramped "moon vehicle" without difficulty.
Grubbs said one of the main things they proved was that men could live and work in a lunar vehicle 10 feet long by three feet wide by five feet high for a considerable period of time.
VON BRAUN SAID THE purpose of a trip to the moon won't be just to put a spaceship on the
moon and bring it home but to collect scientific data.
It was assumed the two scientists had reached the moon when their test began Feb. 20. The 18 days they spent in the so-called "Lunex II" was to simulate a tour of the moon, examining the rocks and minerals and surface of the moon.
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Daily Kansan Friday, March 11, 1966
The KU Pershing Rifles is participating in a national drill meet at Champaign, Ill., today and Saturday.
Pershing Rifles to drill
Drill teams from universities across the country are competing in the national annual event. Among the 30 schools attending are the University of Nebraska, the University of Michigan and Notre Dame.
KU's Pershing Rifle drill team, which has marched in the American Royal Parade and in the Miss America Homecoming Parade, was invited by drill meet officials.
The participants are divided between those who have won before and new contestants who are hoping to win in this competition. The first five place winners will receive trophies.
Pershing Rifles is an honorary tri-service Reserve Officer Training Corps (R.O.T.C.) organization of cadets from the three branches of the armed forces. It was first started by General John J. Pershing when he was a R.O.T.C. instructor at the University of Nebraska.
Three found guilty
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Three young Negroes were found guilty of first degree murder early today for the assassination of Malcolm X, onetime Black Muslim leader who claimed his defection from the white-hating sect marked him for murder.
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