Surface Named Vice Chancellor
James R. Surface, Dean of the School of Business since 1957, today was named vice chancellor of the University and dean of the faculties by the Kansas Board of Regents. The position becomes effective July 1.
The Regents, meeting in their annual budget session in Topeka, also changed the title of three members of the administrative staff, with some realignment of duties in the interest of clarification of responsibilities.
George B. Smith, currently Dean of the University, will become vice chancellor for institutional planning, with responsibility for
vice chair for national summer session, institutional research, planning council, extension and military affairs.
Keith Lawton, now administrative assistant to the chancellor for plant operations, will become vice chancellor for operations, with responsibility for physical plant operation, traffic and safety, and plans for procedures for new construction.
Raymond Nichols, now executive secretary of the University, will become vice chancellor for finance, with responsibility for budget, the controller's office and personnel.
Wiley S. Mitchell, now associate dean of the School of Business, will become acting dean of that school.
THE CREATION of the position of vice chancellor and dean of the faculties is the first addition to the University's central administration since 1946.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, explaining the move, pointed out that the enrollment of the University has increased from 6,000 to 1951 to more than 10,000 in 1961 and is expected to double in the next 10 to 15 years.
"The University, with its quadrupled graduate enrollment, its multiplying research programs and its spreading auxiliary enterprises. has become a vastly more complex institution," the Chancellor said. "We are fortunate to have on this campus at this time a man with the capabilities of Dean Surface to fill this important position. His appointment has the unanimous and enthusiastic approval of the deans of the University."
DEAN SURFACE will have direct responsibility for academic affairs in his new position. One of his major functions will be to provide prompt and adequate communication between members of the faculty and the office of the chancellor.
Dean Surface is a 1942 graduate of KU in arts and sciences. He also holds the M.A. degree from KU in political science and the M.B.A. and D.C.S. degrees from Harvard. He served on the staff of the Harvard graduate school of business administration from 1953 to 1957. Currently he is a member of the board of trustees of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System and of the Governor's economic development committee.
The KU buildings and grounds department is conducting a campuswide irrigation campaign that has many students as mad as wet hens.
Campus Irrigated For Lack of Rain
Workmen have laid sprinkler systems in various places on the campus and students, going to and from classes, have been thoroughly soaked.
"For the first time in the eight years I have been with the department we have had to begin watering the grass before August." Leo E. Ousdahl, assistant superintendent of the KU physical plant, said.
"We want the campus to look nice for commencement. The prospect of rains is poor so we had to begin watering about 12 weeks early," he said.
The buildings and grounds department has a special water rate with the Lawrence Water Department. Mr.Ousdahl said, all campus lawns would be irrigated until rainfall supplied a sufficient amount of moisture.
James R. Surface
Weather
Thursday, May 17, 1962
Kansas — Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Strong daytime winds. Widely scattered thundershowers extreme west this afternoon and tonight and in extreme southwest tomorrow. A little warmer west tonight. Lows tonight 55 to 60 west to near 70 east. Highs tomorrow middle 70s west to middle 80s east.
Desegregation Slow, Painful In U.S. Schools
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Two government officials said today the Supreme Court's historic desegregation ruling eight years ago has led to significant but painfully slow progress toward abolition of racial barriers in the nation's public schools.
THIS WAS THE APRAISEL given by Assistant Atty. Gen. Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights division, and Berl Bernhard, staff director of the Federal Civil Rights Commission, in interviews with United Press International.
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Marshall told UPI today that the government was considering new steps to get faster compliance with the hih court's decision.
More than 1,900 school districts in 17 southern or border states still segregate Negro and white children. Three states — Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina — have not integrated a single classroom.
THE 1954 DECISION also has focused new attention on Northern cities that frequently have all-Negro and all-white schools because their neighborhoods are segregated. This has led to demands for positive action to achieve integration.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled eight years ago that "separate but equal" schools were inherently unequal in violation of constitutional guarantees. It ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed."
For one thing, he said, the Justice
It is estimated that less than 250,000 Negro youngsters - or 7.6 per cent of Negro enrollment - are in racially mixed schools in these states.
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59th Year, No.141
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thai Tension Increases As U.S.Military Arrives No U.S. Plans Allies Back Marines Land For Intervention U.S. Position
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—(UPI)—General Paul D. Harkins, newly-appointed commander of United States forces in both Thailand and South Viet Nam, said today there are no present plans for direct U.S. intervention in Laos.
He told a news conference that movement of some 4,000 U.S. combat personnel into Thailand was "not for offensive action."
Harkins said the U.S. Army battle group, the Marine Corps landing team and tactical air units in Thailand will play a purely "defensive role."
HE SAID "THEY (THE TROOPS)
will back up the Thais."
Asked if he had orders to keep American troops out of Laos, Harkins said: "That is correct."
Harkins said he is to leave tomorrow for Bangkok to visit Thai and United States military units and to set up a headquarters there.
The Laotian embassy here also issued Harkins a visa today, but a U.S. military spokesman said he did not know if the general would fly to Laos.
HARKINS SAID THAT IF PRO-Communist Pathet Lao rebels actually take up positions along the Mekong river along the northeast Thai border it will be "a tremendous threat to Thailand."
At the news conference, Harkins introduced Lt. Gen. James I. Richardson, of Nebraska City, Neb., who will assume direct command of United States combat forces in Thailand under Harkins.
Richardson, formerly deputy commander of the United States Army, Pacific, flew to Saigon from Hawaii earlier in the day for consultations with Harkins. He later flew on to Bangkok.
Harkins said his own new title of Commander, United States military assistance command, Thailand (COMUSTHAI) would not affect the organization of American efforts here to aid South Viet Nam in its guerrilla war against the Communists.
HE SAID THAT HE WOULD, in effect, wear two hats, and that a separate headquarters would be set up for him in Thailand.
Harkins conceded that if southern Laos falls to the Communists it will open up the 170-mile frontier with South Viet Nam to much heavier infiltration, and worsen the non-Communist position in the guerrilla war here.
Plans for the Student Union Activities carnival are now underway. Thirty honor societies and 65 other organizations will be receiving letters and are urged to reply promptly so that final plans for the carnival may be completed. The chairman is Dennis Nelson. Topeka freshman.
Asked if the Royal Laotian Army had any chance of stopping the Pathet Lao advance in Laos, Harkins said, "I certainly hope so."
SUA Carnival Plans Are Being Readied
Harkins said his new Thailand command has "no relation" with the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
The carnival is to acquaint incoming freshmen with membership of the organizations at KU. Last year 48 organizations entertained 3000 students.
But he said the United States still aims at re-establishing the Laotian cease-fire, and setting up a coalition neutralist government there.
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London
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today Britain is prepared to back United States moves in Thailand and send troops there if requested.
He told the House of Commons that the governments of Australia and New Zealand also were ready to contribute to the defense of the area.
Answering a question from opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell, Macmillan said that no request from Thailand had yet been received.
Macmillan's announcement was greeted with cries of "shame" from the opposition Labor Party benches.
He said that if such a request is received in the next few days the government had decided it would be prepared to send a contingent. He said the force would probably take the form of Royal Air Force units.
He made it clear, however, Britain was going to back the United States in its moves to counter the crisis threatening southeast Asia because of the breach of the cease-fire in Laos.
Vientiane. Laos
American jet fighters and fighter bombers apparently have begun patrolling the Thai-Laotian border to guard against a pro-Communist invasion of Thailand from this divided kingdom.
Two planes which military observers here said appeared to be U.S. Navy or Marine Corps jet fighters flew over Vientiane this morning and then headed north along the Thai border.
Another plane which flew over the city Wednesday was identified by military observers as a carrierborne American fighter bomber.
At least two squadrons of jet fighters, F100 Super Sabres, were to be stationed in Thailand. Some of these planes already have arrived there and U.S. officials said the aircraft would keep the entire river front along the Laotian border under constant surveillance.
Tokyo
U. S. Air Force officials here today said an undisclosed number of Air Force tankers and transport planes had been moved from Japan to Thailand.
The opposition Japan Socialist Party promptly demanded that the Japanese government protest the move.
In a note to Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, the Socialists demanded that the government bar
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Russia to Resume Nuclear Testing
TOLBUCHIN (Dobrudscha), Bulgaria — (UPI)—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said today the Soviet Union "will resume nuclear tests."
Gromyko made his statement to United Press International shortly after he arrived here accompanying Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for a half hour visit to this small community.
Gromyko did not elaborate on the date of the projected resumption of nuclear tests. He did not go beyond his statement:
"Yes, we will resume nuclear tests."
BANGKOK, Thailand — (UPI) — Eighteen hundred U.S. Marines in full battle dress landed in Thailand with artillery and tanks today and were deployed swiftly to bases facing the Communist threatened border with Laos.
U. S. Air Force C130 transports began airlifting the troops to the interior shortly before noon in the most dramatic move against Communist aggression in the Far East since the Korean War.
Light Jeeps and "mechanized mules." tractor-type vehicles for hauling equipment and supplies over rough terrain, went in.
THE MARINES STARTED ARRIVING in the capital by air and sea shortly after dawn.
With a minimum of delay they began moving out by air and motor convoys for eventual deployment near the northeastern border to deter pro-Communist rebels from driving across the Mekong river from Laos.
Helicopters from the U.S. 7th Fleet's amphibious assault ship Valley Forge carried the first contingent of the 3rd battalion, 9th regiment, 3rd Marine division, into Don Maung airport on the outskirts of the city shortly before 6 a.m. (5 p.m. CST Wednesday).
About an hour and a half later the transport Navarro docked at the main Bangkok pier of Klong Toey. Capt. Norris H. Ivins, Chambersberg, Pa., commander of the detachment aboard the ship, stepped ashore and smartly saluted U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Young and other American and Thai officials.
THE MARINES STRODE ashore in camouflage helmets, rifles slung over their shoulders. They carried their seabags. A bugler sounded the call to colors, flags were raised and the Marines and their welcoming party saluted.
The 9th regiment is described as a "reinforced" battle unit. This, according to Marine sources, means it has heavy eight-inch howitzers and Honest John rockets capable of delivering atomic warheads.
The battalion is commanded by Lt. Col. H. H. Adams. With him was his executive officer, Maj. W. R. Affleck. Asked how long the Marines would stay, Affleck replied, "as long as anyone wants us."
While the Marines climbed into shiny, new American-made Thai Army trucks, the transport Defiance pulled alongside the dock and began disgorging heavy artillery, amphibious vehicles and tanks.
THE WEATHER was hot. The sun shone brightly in a clear skyl.
A few youths paddled small boats nearby and watched the unloading silently.
There was little excitement as the Marines rode through the outskirts of the city. The reaction generally appeared to be that of relief and reassurance.
The Marines joined a 1,000-man U.S. Army battle group from the 27th infantry which has been in Thailand since early May when it took part in exercises of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
A U.S. EMBASSY spokesman said late today the Marines would be based in an area near Udon, about 400 miles from Bangkok, and the Army battle group 80 miles west of Korat. Korat is about 130 miles northeast of Bangkok.
Other American ground forces
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