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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 9, 1962
Rights Bill May Alter Vote Laws
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President Kennedy's civil rights proposal to Congress, designed to break down further the barriers against Negro voting in the South, would alter laws in 22 states.
The President asked Congress to pass a bill which would automatically exempt any voter from a literacy test if he has completed six grades of formal education.
Twenty-two of the 50 states have some form of literacy test as a prerequisite to voting.
HOWEVER, IN MANY OF these states, notably those outside the South, the change in the statutes will be a technicality. These states, according to the Civil Rights Commission, have shown no signs of trying to bar any minority group through use of the tests.
Included in this group are several southern states — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi — where commission investigations and court cases have indicated that literacy tests are used to keep Negroes from voting.
Of the 22 states,11 require the applicant to read and write the constitution in English.
The bill, if passed by Congress, will drastically change the New York voting provisions. The bill, as now drafted, does not mention how an applicant must prove his education.
THIS GROUP ALSO includes New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Oregon.
It would have no effect on three southern states, Texas, Arkansas and Florida.
Music Frat to Hold Smoker
The Civil Rights Commission said the bill also would knock out practices used in several states to hinder Negroes.
All university men interested in pledging Phi Mu Alpha Sinifonia, the professional music fraternity, who have at least a one point grade average and one semester residence at KU are invited to attend a smoker at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the lounge, fourth floor Murphy Hall.
Sinfonians from other chapters who wish to affiliate with Xi Chapter at KU are also invited.
Grad to Appear on TV
A 1955 KU graduate will appear on a nationally televised program today. Phil Hahn, a cartoonist who contributes to magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Playboy, will appear on "Play Your Hunch."
Laird to Discuss Goa
Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, will speak at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. today in the Music Room of the Kansas Union. He will discuss the "Indian Seizure of Goa."
Chile Refutes Cuban Charge
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,—(UPI)-Chile today denounced Cuba's "agression" charges against the United States and supported action against Fidel Castro's government voted by the Organization of American States.
Chile was one of the "soft six" which abstained in the vote at Punta Del Este on the U.S. demand to expel Castro's regime from the hemispheric organization.
Chilean ambassador Daniel Schweitzer told the General Assembly's main political committee Castro's charge that the United States is planning and carrying out aggression against Cuba was without evidence to support it.
Schweitzer added that Chile "has not lost hope that Cuba will come back into the inter-American system with full enjoyment of all its rights and observance of all its obligations."
"We must avoid the risk of sliding into the easy path of propaganda and the risks of the cold war which upset every tranquilizing effort in the Caribbean," he said.
Chile was the second Punta Del Este abstainer to speak on the U.S.-Cuban quarrel here. Its position paralleled that of Brazil, which yesterday declared Cuba had excluded itself from the OAS by declaring the communist character of its government.
Chile and Brazil—like Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico—objected that the OAS foreign ministers had not complied with provisions for "due process of law" before taking action against Cuba.
Woodruff to Europe For Methods Study
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students and professor of entomology and biology, will leave March 1 to study European methods of teaching biological sciences.
He said he will visit Sorbornne University in Paris, Universitat Berne in Berne, Switzerland, Universitat Muenchen in Munich, Germany, and Cambridge University in Cambridge, England.
Dean Woodruff said he will collect information to aid in the teaching of KU's elementary biology classes. He will return Sept. 1.
He will return Sept. 1.
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Geologist Travel
Three KU professors are among 30 geologists visiting colleges and universities to consult and lecture on their research areas.
P-T-P Happy Hour
Those selected are Raymond Moore, professor of geology; Frank Foley, professor of geology and William Hambleton, associate professor of geology.
Pi Beta Phi social sorority will host the first of a series of International Happy Hours at 3:00 p.m. Feb. 16, as part of the KU People-to-People Program.
The program is sponsored by the American Geological Institute.
Les Naismith and his Latin American Band will provide dance music. Other sororites will host similar parties during the semester.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Weather Bureau said today that "striking pictures" by TIROS IV suggest that satellites can aid shipping by spying out the movement and breakup of ice fields in the northern sea lanes.
Satellites Can Aid Shipping
VanderWerf to Speak Tonight
Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry and head of the department, will speak on "Science and Religion" at 7 tonight at the Baptist Student Union, 1221 Oread. The public is invited.
America's latest space "weather eye" was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., yesterday into an orbit 450 to 525 miles above the earth.
A newspaper which does not crusade is not a newspaper in the tradition of the American Press.—Ford Matton
On its second orbit, the Weather Bureau said, the satellite took "striking pictures of clouds, snow, and ice distribution" in the Great
Lakes and Gulf of St. Lawrence areas.
In anticipation of this, 13 U.S. and Canadian airplanes took off after TIROS was launched to take pictures of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The spokesman explained that TIROS in one sweep can cover a vastly greater region than a fleet of airplanes could. He said satellites appear to be the best means of getting "the big picture" of ice conditions.
Self-examination, if it is thorough enough, is nearly always the first step toward change.—Thomas Mann
DON'T GO TO EUROPE!
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Write: U.S. National Student Association, Dept F, 2161 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 4, California.
*The U.S. National Student Association is a nonprofit service organization.
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