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Binns Sees Need For Information On Human Rights
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission is designed to investigate local discrimination against minority groups, make Lawrence citizens aware of the important aspects of the situation and bring about voluntary relaxation of discriminatory practices wherever possible.
Binns spoke of the "tremendous need to inform people of the situation," saying that "in many communities there are many people who are unaware of many facets of the problem of discrimination." A long-range solution can come only from an informed public, Binns said.
He also described two survey areas still in the planning stage. He said his commission wants to survey discrimination in local recreational activities and to find the relationship, if any, between dropping out of school and racial group membership.
BINNS DESCRIBED SOME OF the activities of his three-month-old commission. He said that a list of 150 Lawrence companies, each employing eight or more persons, has been compiled to form a working base for the elimination of discriminatory employment practices. He said that questionnaires have been distributed to reveal the extent of discrimination in local motels.
This is how William Binns, chairman of the LHRC, described his commission at a meeting of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, last night in Lawrence.
Binns expressed his opinions of Kansas anti-discrimination laws. He said the law against discrimination in employment is very sound, but the public accommodations law . . . is not as good because it puts the entire burden on the aggrieved person. He called this law a "rewrite of a reconstruction-day law."
During the question-and-answer period following Binn's speech, Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics and acting president of the LLPD, introduced a Negro KU student who had tried recently to buy a cup of coffee in a local tavern. The student said that he was told at first that he could buy the coffee but could not sit down while he drank it. When he told the waiter that he intended to sit down, he said the waiter would not serve him.
"I FINALLY TOLD HIM THAT there was a state law requiring him to serve me," said the Negro student. He said that after asking to talk to the manager and call the city attorney, he was served, but "He (waiter) was quite abusive after that."
Binns said that when it is informed of such an incident by the offended person, his commission talks with the businessman involved. "Our hope is always to get an agreement in writing" committing the businessman not to discriminate. Legal action, said Binns is used only as a last resort.
Asked if other such cases had been brought before his commission, Binns said no.
Binns said in his speech that his commission had no budget. Asked how his commission functioned without funds as a fact-finding and information-disseminating group, Binns said that the city provided secretarial and mailing services. He was also asked if another organization could publish and distribute the findings of his commission. He said that he intercepted the city ordinance governing the activities of his commission to permit such groups to publish his findings.
Binns described discriminatory practices as economically unsound because they limited the market. He said, "I think our community is losing valuable human resources."
Scholarships Announced
Ralph Bauman, Attica, received $125 from The Gold Medal Pharmacy Alumni.
Spring semester scholarships totaing $525 have been awarded to four seniors in the school of pharmacy.
Kent Atkins, Fort Scott, received $150 from the Val Adams Scholarship Fund.
Ezequiel Munoz, Topeka, and Jerry Lovern, Wichita, each received $125 from the Fox-Villet Drug Company.
Official Bulletin
Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 & 8 a.m. St John's Church, 12th & Kentucky.
Feb 7—Robert C. Morton, Asst. Supt.
(Elem & Sec. Torture, Germia,
Germany).
Unified School District, Long Beach, Calif.
T & R, W & George, Dean, Calif.
Feb. 4—M; Joseph Nisbit, Asst. Supt,
Cons. Sch. Dist. I, Hickman Mills, Mo.
Feb. 8—E. Cave Barrow, Parsons Nurl (
Elem. & Sec.) University City, Mo.
Medical Technology Applications: Students who intend to enter the Medical Technology Program at the Medical Center will obtain and complete application forms before February 20, 1962. The forms are available in the College Office, the Department of Bacteriology Office and from the University of Kansas. The documentation form and transcript of credits should be sent to Director of Clinical Laboratories, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 3, Kansas. The resume should include Fall Semester-1961 erudite.
The Ham Club Meeting previously held on behalf of the heic Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., at 201 EE Lab.
TODAY
Westminster Center Worship Committee: 7:30 p.m., 1204 Oread.
TOMORROW
Analytical-Inorganic-Physical
Chemistry.
Colloquium: 4 p.m., 122 Malott-
tol.
Episcopal Holy Communion: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chabel.
THURSDAY
Tuesday. Feb. 6, 196
Westminster Center Choir: 5:45 p.m.
1204. Oread.
Young Americans for Freedom, 7:30
Cottonwood Room. Kansas Union.
IFC Talks of New Rush
The possibility of formulating a second semester rush week for fraternities was discussed as a general motion last night at the first meeting of the Interfraternity Council this semester.
The motion was tabled for two weeks so that the various representatives could take the suggestion back to their respective houses to discover their reaction to it.
Paul Ingemanson, IFC president, said the proposed rush week would probably fall in the last part of April or the first part of May. The rushees, Ingemanson said, would go through the houses on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and pledging would occur on Saturday.
In other action, it was moved that the meeting night for the IFC be changed from Monday to Thursday. Also, it was moved to make it mandatory to have the president of each house as an IFC representative.
Both motions, constitutional amendments, were automatically tabled.
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica — (UPI)
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
Orlich, ex-President Jose Fingueres' candidate, was assured today of victory in Sunday's presidential election and of a comfortable majority in the New Congress.
With only about 4,500 votes remaining to be counted, the 54-year-old Orllich had 177,681 votes to 122-534 for ex-President Rafael A. Calderon Guardia and 46,909 for ex-President Otilio Ulate. The Castroite "Democratic Action" Party polled a bare 2,977 votes. Mounting returns from the congressional election indicated that Orlich can count on at least 29 of the 57 seats. Eight Ulate supporters elected to the New Legislature also were expected to vote with the majority on most issues against the 19 Calderon congressmen in the New House.
Orlich New Costa Rican President
Science Grants to Three Professors
Kansas University has received two grants totaling $41,718 enabling three professors to continue their work.
An NSF grant of $31,000 will partially finance a three-year project by J. Eugene Fox, assistant professor of botany, entitled "Chemistry and Biology of a Plant Growth Regulator."
The other grant, $10,718 from the U.S. Public Health Service, will aid Robert W. Lichtwardt, associate professor of botany, and Charles D. Mithener, professor of entomology, to continue a four-year study of "Fungi and Insects in Plant Gall Formation."
KU also will receive $30,740 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research participation institutes this summer for high school and college science teachers.
KU will receive a $50,000 grant,
part of a five-year, $8 million Ford
Foundation program, aimed at easing
a shortage of engineering teachers.
The program to aid KU students committed to engineering teaching careers, will provide loans up to $10,000 for each student over a three-year period. Selection for loans is at the discretion of the KU engineering faculty.
BOSTON — (UPI)—Richard Cardinal Cushing is aiding in establishment in Boston of a community of nuns dedicated to helping Jews and promoting good will toward them.
Nuns Aid Jews
The sisters of the Congregation of our Lady of Sion, founded 118 years ago in Paris, will come here within a year. The order was introduced in the United States in 1892 and now serves Kansas City and Detroit. It accepts children of every race and creed in its schools.
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ORLICH, A FORMER army lieutenant colonel, was public works minister in both of Figuercs' cabinets. He ran for president in 1958, but was defeated by Mario Echandi, an Ulate man.
He entered political life in his native Alajuela province, known as the "Cradle of Presidents" because not only Orlich and Figueres but the late ex-President Julio Acosta Garcia were born there.
original coffee plantations to include sugar and rice plantations and beef and dairy herds.
He also owns and operates gold-mining properties, shoe factories and a grocery chain.
He was born March 10, 1907, in the provincial town of San Ramon. His parents were both natives of the Adriatic island of Querso, now Yurgoslav territory.
The Costa Rican branch of the Orlitch family, established in the mid-19th Century, is one of the country's leading farm and business dynasties.
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT has extended family holdings from the
ORLICH WAS a classmate of Figueres in grammar and high school in San Ramon. The friendship they formed as boys has continued into later life.
The new President speaks four languages — Spanish, Italian, English and Serbo-Croatian (Yugoslav) — and Catalan, a Spanish provincial tongue which he learned from Figueres' father.
He studied economics and business administration in New York, but had to return to Costa Rica before completing his education.
Orlich and his Costa Rican wife, Marita, have a 4-year-old son, Francisco, Jr.
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