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Thurmond Insists Witnesses Appear
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — Sen.
Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) said today he was confident senators investigating military censorship would insist that Pentagon witnesses answer questions or face contempt of Congress citations.
The Senate subcommittee was scheduled to meet at 10:00 a.m. Lawrence time, to decide how to deal with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's refusal to identify Pentagon censors who made specific deletions in military speeches.
McNamara, who ordered his subordinates to withhold the names, told a news conference yesterday that if any contempt action was taken, it "should be directed to me."
HE SAID HE DID not want to use executive privilege to withhold the names, but he said he had been advised by the Justice Department he would be fully warranted in invoking this precedent under which the executive branch has withheld information from Congress.
Subcommittee Chairman John Stennis (D-Miss.) said he felt that individual witnesses should be called and "should testify without restriction" unless they claimed executive privilege.
Thurmond, whose charges of censorship touched off the inquiry, told a reporter this also was his feeling and that he was "quite sure that's the view of the full subcommittee."
He said any censor claiming executive privilege as a basis for refusing to answer must do it "with the authority of the President."
THERE WERE REPORTS that an alternative approach might be adopted to take such testimony in closed session. But this was certain to be resisted by Thurmond and perhaps some other members.
Thurmond argued that to let McNamara take full responsibility for actions of subordinates would be to foreclose Congress from exercising its investigative power. He said that "any government official could refuse to testify if his superior said he doesn't have to answer."
Thurmond said the censors had nothing to fear, but it was absolutely essential that they testify so the subcommittee could assign responsibility where it belongs.
McNAMARA'S refusal to identify the speech reviewers has led to an impasse between him and the subcommittee. But, he said yesterday, "I propose to hold to this position."
The Defense Secretary refused to say whether he had discussed any aspects of the censorship case with President Kennedy, saying this would be inappropriate.
McNamara emphasized military officers had testified to the effect that "strong anti-communist themes remained" in their speeches after the deletions were made. And he said review officers "are not to be charged with specific errors if any have been made."
Critics Approve KU Prof's Music
The National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., played "Third Symphony" by Dr. John Pozdro at three concerts last week. Dr. Pozdro is chairman of the department of music theory at the University of Kansas and his "Third Symphony" had been commissioned by the American Music Center.
Music critics of the Washington newspapers were favorable in their reviews of the new music.
Paul Hume of the Washington Post reported: "There are a number of unusual factors about Podzro's symphony. It is brief and relatively quiet. It stands completely within the idiom of the tonal symphony of Sibelius or Prokofieff, both of whom could be heard in the distance during its course. It is a work of classical design, consistently touched with novel ideas and beautifully allocated throughout the orchestra. The solo writing, from the opening bassoon onward, is lyrical and appealing."
In the Evening Star Lowens wrote: "Dr. Pozdro, who is now on the music faculty of the University of Kansas, composes music that is easy on the ear, unpretentious, and directly communicative."
Former Chancellor at Cornell
Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and former chancellor of KU, is a 1921 KU graduate.
Secret Army Group Orders News Extra
ALGIERS — (UPI) — Thirty members of the outlawed secret Army Organization (OAS), ignoring threats by President Charles de Gaulle, invaded a newspaper plant in Oran and today forced its printers to roll out 20,000 copies of an OAS extra at gunpoint.
The raid was timed like a newspaper deadline. The right-wing extremists brought their own plate and forced the cowed workers to substitute it for page eight.
After the presses rolled, two trucks carted away the "Special OAS Edition."
In it readers would find one whole page carrying a three-column picture of OAS leader Raoul Salan and the balance filled with the text of a speech by former Gen. Edmond Jouhaud, one of the leaders of the 1961 revolt in Algiers.
IT WAS JOUHAUD'S speech another OAS band substituted for De Gaulle's address to France and Algeria last night over Radio Oran.
Extremists determined to keep Algeria French kidnapped five technicians employed by the state-run radio and television station and forced and eight-minute pirate broadcast.
De Gaulle's plea for an end to violence and bloodshed was heard without interference elsewhere throughout Algeria but in Oran it was delayed. When the station's personnel finally put it on it was badly garbled, presumably by French army technicians who were jamming the pirate OAS broadcast.
OAS sympathizers here tried some jamming of their own. Europeans took pots and pans out on their balconies in the city and met the beginning of De Gaulle's broadcast by banging out a steady five-cadence beat that symbolizes their slogan, "Algerie Francaise."
KU Bridge Club Meetings
The KU Bridge Club is open without charge to all KU students and professors. For all others the charge is 50 cents. Meetings are at 2 p.m. every second Sunday in the Union. Fractional master point sessions are every fourth Sunday in the Union.
Wood Shelters
NEW YORK — (UPI) The timber industry has entered the fallout shelter business. Douglas Fir Plywood Association has developed a line of underground fallout shelters made of basic fir plywood selling for from $250 to $900.
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Prizes Offered for Calendar Photographs
Shutterbugs have a chance to have their photos published in the 1963 Kansas Pictorial Calendar — and a chance at one of five $25 prizes as well.
On the Campus
Gilliland's, the publisher of the calendar, is conducting a contest for photographs which show Kansas and its people at their best.
for the picture chosen as best in each of five divisions: color, natural beauty, the four seasons, sports and action and miscellaneous. In addition, the publisher will pay $5 for each photo chosen for publication.
A cash prize of $25 will be awarded
Information and entry blanks may be obtained from Gilliland's. Box 776 Arkansas City. Deadline for entries is April 1.
On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of "Rally Round The Flag, Boys", "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL TALE OF HAPPY JACK SIGAFOOS
Here Happy Jack quickly became a typical freshman—tweedy, seedy, and needy. He learned the joys of rounding out his personality, and he learned the cost. His allowance vanished like dew before the morning sun. There were times, it grieves me to report, when he didn't even have enough money for a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes—and you know how miserable that can be! To be deprived of Marlboro's matchless flavor, its easy-drawing filter, its subtly blended tastiness, its refreshing mildness, its ineffable excellence, its soft pack or flip-top box—why, it is a prospect to break the heart in twain!
Certainly there was no sign of it in his boyhood. His home life was tranquil and uplifting. His mother was a nice fat lady who hummed a lot and gave baskets to the poor. His father was a respected citizen who could imitate more than 400 bird calls and once saved an elderly widow from drowning in his good suit. (That is, Mr. Sigafoos was in his good suit; the elderly widow was in swimming trunks.) Happy Jack's life was nothing short of idyllic—till he went off to college.
Marlboro-less and miserable, Happy Jack tried to get more money from home. He wrote long, impassioned letters, pointing out that the modern, large-capacity girl simply could not be courted on his meager allowance. But all Jack got back from
Who would have thought that Happy Jack Sigafos, the boy the sky never rained on, would teeter on the edge of a life of crime?
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She simply could not be counted on his meager allowance.
home were tiresome homilies about thrift and prudence.
For a moment poor Jack was tempted; surely his father could not but support all these laudable causes. Then Jack's good upbringing came to the fore. He turned to the sinister sophomore and said, "No, thank you. I could not deceive my aged parent so. And as for you, sir, I can only say—fie!"
Upon hearing this the sinister sophomore broke into a huge grin. He whipped off his black hat and pasty face—and who do you think it was? None other than Mr. Sigafoos, Happy Jack's father, that's who!
"Good lad!" cried Mr. Sigafoos. "You have passed your test brilliantly." With that he gave Happy Jack a half million dollars in small bills and a red convertible containing power steering and four nobile maidens.
Then one day dark a sinister sophomore came up to Jack and said, "For one dollar I will sell you a list of fiendishly clever lies to tell your father when you need some extra rooney."
He gave Jack the list of flendishly clever lies. Jack read : 1. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a new house for the Dean of Men.
2. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a headstone for Rover, our late beloved dormitory watchdog.
Crime does not pay!
3. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to endow a chair of Etruscan Art.
4. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to build our own particle accelerator.
$ \textcircled{C} $ 1962 Max Shulman
Money and girls haven't changed Happy Jack. Except for the minor bulge in his cashmere jacket caused by (1) a pack of Marlboros and (2) a box of Marlboros, he's the same old Sigafoos.