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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 17, 1962
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Department would file a test suit "pretty soon" to try and force integration of a Southern school now receiving U.S. funds to alleviate the impact on the community of federal military or civilian employees in the area.
THE AIM WOULD BE to establish the federal government's right to sue for desegregation, if necessary, of 3,600 such "impacted" school districts which receive U.S. aid. They represent one-tenth of the nation's 35,000 school districts.
"The United States has a particular responsibility to the children of the members of its armed forces." Marshall said. "So far, it has done nothing to meet that responsibility in the school field."
Marshall saw signs of progress, however, in the start of school desegregation in Memphis, Dallas, Atlanta and New Orleans during the current school term. In some cases, only a single grade or a few grades were integrated and the number of Negroes admitted was not a very high percentage.
"THESE ARE CITIES of great symbolic importance," Marshall said. "Their decisions affected the thinking of thousands of Southerners who now realize change is inevitable and not too far away."
He said officials in other cities have a duty to make desegregation plans and start carrying them out without waiting for a federal court order in each case.
Bernhard, in a separate interview. said over-all progress was "very slow" on removing racial restrictions in schools since the landmark decision.
"BUT THERE IS A growing acceptance of the law's requirements and a growing desire to prevent any type of ugly racial incidents," he said.
"Many business leaders now seem willing to get together with city officials and Negro leaders to work out their differences."
The interval since the ruling also has spotlighted a "great gap" between academic achievements of Negro and white students, he added. Bernhard said this shows the need for Negro pupils to receive additional "catch-up" schooling.
The Civil Rights commission's staff director also said it has led to recognition that segregation in schools is a national problem and not confined to the Southern states.
A KEY CASE affecting Northern cities was the suit against the New Rochelle, N.Y., school board.
The board was ordered to desegregate the city's schools after a federal judge found that its districts were, in effect, gerrymandered to preserve racial separation.
Similar complaints about segregation by geography have arisen in New Jersey, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Public school systems in Southern states have developed a variety of techniques to mitigate the impact of the 1954 ruling.
SOME — SUCH AS PUFIL assignment, transfer rights and grade-a-year integration — have received federal court sanction in some states.
The Supreme Court ruling has been under fierce attack in the South by critics who contend the judges were taking over the role of lawmakers from Congress instead of staying in their own field.
Prince Edward County, Va., is the only area in the nation, however, where public schools remain shut in defiance of a desegregation order from a federal court.
ABOUT 1,700 Negro children in the county are not attending any formal school. Most white children are enrolled in a private institution. They pay their tuition with the aid of state grants that provide virtually all of the cost.
Atty. Gen, Robert F. Kennedy, who traveled to Roanoke, Va., recently, called the Prince Edward situation a "blight on Virginia and the nation." The case is still before a federal court where Negroes are seeking relief from the present situation.
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will follow until the total strength is up to 5.000.
At least two squadrons of F100 supersabre jet fighters also are being brought to Thailand along with CI30 Hercules transports, tankers and RF101 reconnaissance planes.
The first of these aircraft arrived yesterday.
It is possible that troops from some of the other SEATO nations also would be deployed here to underscore the determination of the United States and its allies to halt Communist aggression in troubled Southeast Asia.
The members of SEATO are the United States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Pakistan and the Philippines.
To Oil Parking Lot
The Zone O parking lot east of Allen Field House was blocked off this morning and no parking will be allowed there for about two weeks.
A dust-preventive coating of heavy oil is being laid there.
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Allies Back -
the movement of U.S. military forces in Japan to Laos.
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It also demanded that the United States enter into formal consultations with the Japanese government before any further redeployment of U.S. military aircraft from Japan to southeast Asia.
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Vientiane, Laos
Prince Boun Oum, premier of the Royal Leontian government, was due back from Nationalist China today to prepare for another attempt at reconciliation with his rival neutralist and pro-Communist princes.
Reported agreement of the three factions to re-open negotiations on a coalition government stirred some hope that the civil strife would be eased. But the optimism was tempered by a rebel refusal to give up the city of Nam Tha, captured from government forces last week.
Boun Oum and his strongman deputy, Defense Minister Gen. Phoum Nosavan, wound up a three-day visit to Taipei where they received Nationalist Chinese promises of aid for their struggle against the Communists.
Official Bulletin
Catholic Daily Mass: 7 a.m. & 12:05 p.m., St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford
Confession: Weekdays, 7 a.m. (during Mass) & 11:45-12 noon; Saturdays, 4-5 and 7-8 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road
Organic Chemistry Colloquium: 4 p.m.
Sarah Jalott, Norman Dahme, The Total
Seasonality of Oxygen
Baptist Student Union Devotional: 5 p.m., 1231 Orad.
p.m. 1221 Oread.
Radio Production Center: 7:30 p.m..
Radio Production Center: 7:30 p.m.
Radio Production Center: 7:20
Christian Science Organization: 7:20
Christian Science Organization: 7:30
dpm. Danforth Chapel.
World Crisis Discussion Group: 8 p.m.
305, Kansas Union. Dr. Oswald P. Backus,
Kansas History and Chairman of
Slave and Soviet Art Society.
"Class Structure of the Soviet Union."
Epicopalco Holy Communion & Breakfast; 7 a.m., Caterpillar House.
TOMORROW
KUOK: 3-News & Weather; 3:05-Top Forty Tunes; 4-Hilltopping; 5-Hilltopping; 6-News & Weather; 6:15-Sports; 6:20-Society News; 6:25-S spotlight on the City; 6:30-Public Service Program; 7-Countdown; 8-Night Flight, Stage II. 10-News, Night Flight, Stage II. 12-Portals of Prayer.
Shaw and Chorus Will Perform
Robert Shaw will conduct the University Chorus, Concert Choir and Symphony Orchestra in a presentation of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium.
New York concert artists Florence Kopleff and Sara Endich will sing feature solos and will be joined by Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, and Edward Sooter. Wichita graduate student, in the performance which is open to the public.
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