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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year No. 138
Monday, May 14, 1962
U.S. Asks to Keep Space Free of Nuclear Weapons
GENEVIA — (UPI) The United States called on the 17-nation Disarmament Conference today to keep outer space free of nuclear weapons.
U. S. delegate Charles C. Stelle outlined a three-point American plan for ensuring that space satellites and other vehicles fired into the atmosphere do not contain nuclear weapons. He spoke to the conference's 36th plenary session.
"We must have agreement to ensure that outer space becomes an impetus to man's peaceful progress and not a battleground of the future," Stelle said.
HE SAID future space launchings should be controlled by a network of ground based, or possibly spaceborne instruments to check against unreported launchings.
Pre-launch inspections by some international body should be used to check against the arming of spaceships with nuclear weapons, he added, and advance notification of launchings should be given to permit such inspection.
STELLE SAID the four basic principles of the American plan were:
The U.S. proposals were contained in the draft outline of a disarmament treaty presented to the conference on April 18. Today was the first time they had been spelled out in detail.
- Prohibition of the orbiting of weapons of mass destruction.
- Peaceful cooperation in space.
- **careful** cooperation in *in* space.
• **Nabification** and pre-launch inspection.
- Control of the production of boosters for space vehicles.
Musicians Plan Softball Game
Even sports-minded KU students can enjoy the Philadelphia Orchestra on its first visit to KU today.
The musicians, in addition to presenting two concerts, will take off their tuxedos and don sweatshirts and tennis shoes for the third event on their schedule: a softball contest.
In response to a challenge, the members of the chemistry department's undefeated softball team will turn off their bunsen burners to engage the members of the orchestra in a game at 3:30 p.m. on the intramural field, south of Summerfield Hall.
More in line with their talents members of the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet will play a concert in the University Theater at 3 p.m.
The full orchestra, under the direction of Engene Ormandy, will play at 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets for tonight's concert have been sold out, but large sections have been reserved for students who present their ID cards at the door. The other two events have free admission.
The musicians softball team was organized last year by Ansel Brusilow, first violinist, who wanted something besides music and travel during the spring tour. A quick man with a glove, as well as a violin bow, he became the team's shortstop and captain.
Other team members are trombonist Keith Brown, pitcher; Theodore Hauptle, stage personnel, catcher; Edward Aarian, bass section, first base; Joseph H. Santarlasci, assistant orchestra manager; second base; James Sweeney, stage personnel, third base; Herbert Light, Joseph Lanza and Owen Lusak, all from the violin section, outfielders.
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"We now have the opportunity to extend the peaceful development principles of the Antarctic Treaty to the more important region of outer space," Stelle said. The major powers agreed two years ago that the whole Antarctic continent should be a nuclear-free zone.
Stelle said the proposed network of ground and space based instruments for controlling rocket launchings could perhaps be linked with whatever network the conference finally decides for controlling nuclear explosions on earth.
Rusk Says Foreign Policy Seeks Peace
Pre-launch inspection, he said, would be carried out by an international body after the country about to launch a space ship had given as much notice as possible.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today that President Kennedy's foreign policy is aimed at winning a decision by Russia to live at peace with the world — "the most revolutionary force waiting for man at this time."
Rusk, in a welcoming speech opening an interparliamentary meeting of U.S. and Mexican lawmakers, laid the responsibility for peace squarely on the Kremlin's doorstep.
He also said the Soviets were responsible for the U.S. decision to resume nuclear testing, which he called necessary to the defense of the free world.
Rusk added, however, that some way must be found to halt the arms race, "beginning with nuclear tests and moving onto general disarmament."
THE SECRETARY'S remarks came as Arthur H. Dean, chief U.S. disarmament negotiator, said the current Geneva disarmment talks were "going exceptionally well."
Dean, who talked with reporters after a meeting with President Kennedy, attributed the favorable atmosphere to Russia's attitude. He said the Soviets "want to go on with the disarmament talks."
In his speech, Rusk praised the Mexican delegation to the Geneva talks for its efforts to keep the discussions going. He said there would continue to be "a determined effort on the part of the United States" to find a solution to the disarmament problem.
GUARDED OPTIMISM on this score was expressed by Ambassador Dean after his White House talks with Kennedy and William C. Foster, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Dean told reporters he believed "we will be in much better situation to sit down and work out an effective disarmament treaty" after the United States ends its current nuclear tests and Russia — if it resumes — finishes a new series.
RUSK TOLD the parliamentarians that it was no accident that this country has had to increase its defense budget and keep a million men at sea or abroad. He invited the Mexicans to find out the reason by looking at the Soviet record since 1945.
If this happens, he said, the two powers could apply themselves to the "scientific aspects" of a treaty and "neither side will feel cheated."
Dean said he felt that if both the United States and Russia completed a new round of testing, neither would feel at a disadvantage to work out a test ban agreement.
Weather
Partly cloudy and continued warm and windy this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with widely scattered thunderstorms west and north central to night. Low tonight near 50 northwest to near 70 southeast. High Tuesday in the 80s.
Rusk declared that "the one great preoccupation of the United States and President Kennedy is the peace of the world. We are trying to bring about the most revolutionary force waiting for man at this time."
"That revolutionary force is a decision which we think can be made in Moscow to live at peace with the world," he said.
RUSK SAID "no one regretted more" than Kennedy the necessity for resuming nuclear tests, but "no one assumes the responsibility more gladly for assuring the defense of the free world."
Rusk told the Mexican visitors during a tour of the capitol that this country would like to end testing permanently, but this cannot be done without reasonable assurance Russia will not resume testing because "the life and death of nations" are at stake.
B. J. Hember On CBS-TV
A pert, five-foot, four-inch strawberry blonde will leave KU tonight "to tell the truth" in a nation-wide lying contest.
She will be gone until Thursday night. "I have to go early because they have to give the other girls who will be trying to tell my life story a chance to learn it," she explained.
Betty Jo (B.J.) Member, Shawnee Mission freshman, who won the National Women's Bowling Championship, April 29, will leave early this evening for New York City where she will participate on the CBS television program "To Tell The Truth."
The show will be reproduced on Channels 5 and 13 next Monday night at 6:30. Betty Jo said that the show is paying her $25 a day expenses, transportation, and "the money I win on the show which will be $50 minimum."
E. J. leaned back from a typewriter on which she was trying to grind out a paper before she left. She calmly told about winning $500 for "picking up a 4-10 split" April 21 on the "Bowlin" with Molen" television show.
She said, "I guess my average has fallen off to about 173 now; it used to be 181."
Bassom Fearing, manager of the bowling team, grinned at his star woman player. "BJ. took first in all the events out there (in Phoenix where the April competition was held). To qualify to go she had to win in the competition that the Association of College Unions conducted all over the country. She had to win in the regional competition first. We're in region eight, which includes Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa."
Betty Jo rolled a score of 1090 in her six game playoff series in Phoenix.
Gains Are Seen In Peace Corps
By Bob Hoyt
The Peace Corps has caught fire in the United States and is spreading a flicker of international understanding to 13 countries from Ghana to Chile to Thailand.
The Peace Corps now has 23,000 applications on file in Washington. All countries to which volunteers have been sent are asking for more—Brazil alone wants 200 added to its number.
Twenty-five countries who do not have volunteers are asking for them, and Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver says the Corps has had to turn down "ten or a dozen" countries because the Corps does not presently have people trained to meet the specific problems of these countries.
Peace Corps interest has grown at KU until a special examination will be held Saturday in Room 3 of Green Hall to take care of those who were unable to take the last test because of a test shortage, and to accommodate those who have expressed interest in the Corps since the examination last month.
FIFTY EXAMINATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE Saturday. Blair Butterworth, assistant chief of the college and university division of the public affairs office of the Peace Corps, said at a meeting last Friday that more will be made available if there is a demand. Reservations to take the test may be made in Strong Hall, in the office of Clark Coan, assistant dean of men. Peace Corps application blanks are also available there.
About 40 students attended a Peace Corps meeting in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union last Friday. A film was shown in which Director Shriver talked to newsmen about the Corps, and Butterworth answered questions about the Corps in an informal meeting after the film.
Butterworth's enthusiasm for the Corps and his belief in its principles were obvious during the discussion.
"THERE IS A LOT OF DRAMA AND ADVENTURE IN THE Peace Corps," he said. "And we don't want to overplay that, and we don't want to give the impression that we are something akin to the French Foreign Legion."
Butterworth himself is scheduled for a project in Ghana in the near future, and he has visited some of the countries to which the volunteers are assigned. He spoke of an experience of his own as an example of the drama in the Corps.
"I saw a pregnant woman walking down the street carrying a bundle on her head. She stopped right there on the street and had her baby, and in five minutes she was walking down the street again, carrying the parcel and the baby."
He told of a young Peace Corps member serving in Chile, Frank O'Hearn, who by persistence and enterprise has introduced something of a free enterprise system to back-country farmers in Chile.
"THE FARMERS THERE HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF FARMing for a profit," he said. "Frank O'Hearn and his group helped them find a market for their lettuce. (O'Hearn was formerly a student at Southeastern Missouri State College at Cape Giradeau, Mo.)
"The farmers in O'Hearn's section had always taken only what lettuce they needed to town to barter for things they couldn't raise themselves. They had always plowed back into the ground what they didn't barter, never selling any of the excess. Somehow or other, O'Hearn and his team managed to find a truck. When the lettuce crop was ready, they loaded the truck and took the farmers and their lettuce to the open market in the nearest city.
"It didn't go too well. They had very little luck selling the lettuce. The local Communists came around and pointed out their mistakes and the weaknesses of the free enterprise system.
"INSTEAD OF ENGAGING IN POLITICAL DEBATES, the volunteers waited it out and came to town early the next week. They did some door to door promotion at hotels and restaurants. When they brought the next load of lettuce to town they sold the whole truckload, and the farmers returned with cash in their pockets for the first time in their lives."
Butterworth said that Peace Corps volunteers do not engage in political debates and discussions despite Communist efforts to lead them into such activities.
"One Communist youth leader came to a Peace Corps project to heckle the volunteers," Butterworth said. "He expected to have the group leader give him a big capitalist argument. As it happened, they were digging an irrigation ditch, and after listening for a while, a volunteer picked up a shovel and handed it to the Communist. 'Would you mind starting at the other end of the ditch,' he said. 'I came here to work, not to talk — if you want to talk, let's work while we do it.' To save face, the Communist found himself digging ditches with Peace Corps volunteers."
IN THE FILM SHOWN at the Friday meeting, Shriver was asked about morale in the Peace Corps. He said that morale is "excellent" and that out of the 750 sent overseas, only 6 have come back, either at their own request or because they were unsuited for Peace Corps duty.
Shriver said that an indication of the morale of the volunteers can be seen in the letters which they and their parents write to hometown papers.
Two of these letters appeared in a recent issue of the "Kansas Farmer."
Merle G. Mundhenke, of Lewis, writes of his son, Boyd:
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