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University Dauy Kansan Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Ruby Remains Mentally Upset In Solitary Cell
DALLAS —(UPI)— Jack Ruby, convicted killer of President Kennedy's assassin, is being treated with medicine in his solitary jail cell but the only improvement seems to be an increased appetite, his brother said yesterday.
The brother, Sam Ruby, said that Dr. William Beavers, a psychiatrist hired by the Ruby family to treat the killer of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, has been seeing Ruby in his cell for about two weeks.
Sam Ruby said Beavers cannot do the job he would like to do treating Jack Ruby in his maximum security jail cell. "He needs to be in some hospital where psychiatrists or attendants can give him medicine."
The disclosure came after reports leaked out that court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Robert Stubblefield told Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown Ruby has a mental illness that could be treated.
BROWN, WHO presided at Ruby's trial and must rule on a request for a sanity hearing for the once-pudgy former night club operator, said yesterday it was his understanding Ruby was being treated with "happy pills or something."
"Things so far seem to indicate a sanity hearing," Brown said.
Sam said he visited Jack Sunday and saw no improvement in his mental condition. He said Ruby was still having delusions that Jews were being killed because of him, some of them right there in jail.
Ruby still bears scars on his bald head from an apparent suicide attempt several weeks ago in his cell. Jailers said he apparently rammed his head into the cell wall.
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade, who prosecuted Ruby, said "It's my understanding that Ruby needs some kind of treatment. He's been under a strain, sitting up there knowing he has been sentenced to the electric chair."
KU Works To Be Shown In Kansas City Art Show
Twelve artists connected with the KU drawing and painting department had 14 pieces admitted to the 14th Mid-America Annual Show sponsored by the Nelson Gallery of Art-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo.
This is $17\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of the 80 pieces chosen from more than a thousand entries from the 8-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico.
The jury for the show, which runs through June 7, was Seymour Lipton, sculptor, New York; Gordon Smith, director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Jane Wade, Marlborough-Gerson
Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Thomas P. Coleman, KU alumnus and former instructor, won a prize for his etching, "Cropduster." Clark Rickert, also an alumnus, earned a prize for an oil painting, "Totem."
Twelve other works were accepted from these KU artists; Prof. Nick D. Vaccaro, chairman of the department; Randall F. Sadler, instructor; John Brewer and Curtis Rhodes, assistant instructors; and these students: Mrs. JoAnn Bernofsky, Lawrence senior; Gregg N. Blasdel, Lawrence senior; Thomas J. Brand, Lawrence sophomore; Terry J. Gierlach, Lawrence graduate student; Conley, Wichita junior; and John Moore, a former student.
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Clarence Cooper
Ronnie Gilbert
Alan Lomax
Jean Ritchie
Mike Seeger
Peter Yarrow
George Wein
Chairman
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