LBJ Promises Economy in Aid
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson asked Congress today for a "no waste, no retreat" foreign aid program of $3.4 billion and promised to cut bureaucracy and speed up efforts to put recipient nations on a self-supporting basis.
It was the smallest foreign aid request since the program began in 1948. Johnson, aware of the growing tendency in Congress to slash foreign aid funds, warned against cutting his request.
"We will be laying up a harvest of woe for us and our children if we shrink from the task of grappling in the world community with poverty and ignorance," he said.
BUT INITIAL REACTION in Congress was that the program would be cut anyway. Rep. Otto E. Passman, D-La., chief house critic of foreign aid, said he was sure there was "plenty of fat in it" and senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., predicted it would be cut.
The President requested new legislation to permit the foreign aid agency—known as the Agency for International Development (AID) —to cut deadwood from its staff.
He also announced plans to appoint a new committee of "distinguished private citizens" to keep a continuing eye on AID programs and advise him on policy.
Johnson said "waste or inefficiency or extravagance" in the AID program could not be tolerated, but it was "equally repugnant to our national interest to retreat from our obligations and commitments while freedom remains under siege."
THE PRESIDENT SET the foreign aid request for the fiscal year beginning next July 1 at $3.4 billion, made up of $1 billion military assistance and $2.4 billion economic aid.
He emphasized that this was more than $1 billion less than the late President Kennedy requested and only slightly more than the $3 billion Congress actually voted.
Justifying his request, Johnson said: "We wish to build a world in which the weak can walk without fear and in which even the smallest nation can work out its own destiny without the danger of violence and aggression."
He said Communists "flourish wherever we falter."
Johnson placed heavy stress on increasing efficiency. He said the AID agency had been ordered to reduce its personnel by 1,200 by July 1,1965.The agency now employs 7,000 Americans and 9,000 foreign nationals.
He said further consolidation of overseas AID missions with U.S. embassies had been ordered, and that the pentagon had been instructed to reduce the staffs of overseas military AID missions.
HE ASKED CONGRESS for authority to fire "a limited number" of supervisory and policy-making officials of AID who could not otherwise be dismissed because of job protection. He also requested legislation to apply foreign service firing procedures to civil service employees of AID who now may be fired only for gross failings.
employees of M.D whose Another major theme of the message was getting more countries to the point where they no longer need U.S. aid except for loans on hard business terms.
hard business terms. "Wherever possible," Johnson said, "we will speed up the transition from reliance on aid to self-support."
Johnson strongly urged Congress to restore funds cut by the House from the U.S. contribution to the International Development Association, which would be more than matched by funds from other industrial nations unless the U.S. backs out. He said this country should encourage other advanced nations to bear their share of the foreign aid burden.
Daily hansan
Thursday, March 19, 1964
61st Year, No. 107
Lawrence. Kansas
ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION protesting the discriminatory clause of Sigma Nu fraternity is planned for Saturday.
Plans for the picketing of Sigma Nu fraternity during the Interfraternity Council rush weekend were discussed last night. The demonstrators, in dress clothes, plan to march down Jayhawk Blvd. from the Kansas Union and then to the Sigma Nu house on Emery Road. They will picket from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in front of the fraternity house.
George Ragadale, Lawrence senior and president of the Civil Rights Council, said the demonstrations are "definitely not a protest against the Greek system."
CRCC to March at Lighting Of Greek Week Relay Torch
The CRCC is also planning to demonstrate during the Greek Week chariot races.
"Many of us represent fraternities and sororites," he said. "We hope by exhibiting our sincere concern we will arouse the student body, the administration, state officials and the public to the extent that someone will take positive action to give fraternities and sororites the freedom
By Gary Noland
Rinkel said a letter would be sent to the attorney general, explaining the purpose of the demonstration. The CRCC supports the Greek system, but it wishes to register its "concern about the existing de facto segregation," he said.
When Atty, Gen. William Ferguson next Saturday lights the torch for the Greek Week relay from the Capitol in Topeka to the Campanile, he will be confronted with civil rights demonstrators from KU.
The Civil Rights Coordinating Committee announced last night it will carry its protests against alleged Greek discrimination to the Capitol. This part of Greek Week festivities is scheduled to be televised.
THE EVENT WHICH will be picketed is a planned ceremony on the steps of the Capitol. The attorney general will light a torch which will be relayed by Greek runners from Topeka to the Campanile, where the traditional chariot races will begin.
"We see this as a means of telling the people of our state that there are KU students concerned about human dignity." Elbert J. Rinkel, Scott City junior and a member of CRCC, said.
to recognize the equality of minority groups."
RAGSDALE SAID the Sigma Nu's have changed their position concerning the demonstration. He said that during a discussion with members of the fraternity, he received the impression that the Sigma Nu's felt the pressure of the pickets would help them get the discriminatory clause
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe today issued a statement giving the University's position on the subject of discriminatory clauses in the constitutions of Greek living organizations.
"I have been visited by several thoughtful members of the University student body who have asked that the University's policy statement on discriminatory clauses in fraternity and sorority constitutions, issued in 1962, be reissued. I am pleased to reissue the statement and to note the evidences of progress," Wescoe said.
The text of the statement is as follows:
As a general principle, the University upholds the basic human right of individuals or groups to
The University of Kansas supports all organized groups on its campus in their efforts to make this a better place in which to live and study. It has supported fraternities and sororites in the past, and will do so in the future, for their positive contributions to the areas of student housing and social adjustment.
removed from their national constitution. Ragsdale said he was told later by the president of Sigma Nu that this was not the case.
John Elwell, president of Sigma Nu fraternity, said last night that Ragsdale had misinterpreted what was said during the discussion.
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select those with whom they wish to be closely associated. The University believes, however, that discriminatory clauses which remove from consideration for membership persons solely on the basis of their race are not consistent with the principles of our nation, and it is the hope and expectation of the University that these clauses will be removed where they still exist.
Such action will be of value only as it comes freely and voluntarily, because the members of these organizations have come to recognize for themselves how prejudice hurts not only those it is practiced against but those who practice it. For this reason the University of Kansas plans to issue no decrees and to set no deadlines. The progress in this matter shown by fraternities and sororites in the past gives the University confidence that they can work out for themselves solutions which will satisfy not only themselves but the society in which they live.
W. Clarke Wescoe Chancellor
U.S. Satellite Fails In Orbiting Attempt
CAPE KENNEDY — (UPI) The United States today apparently failed in an attempt to orbit a satellite designed to examine the ionosphere and test a new space tracking system using intense rays of light called Lasers.
The double duty satellite was hurled aloft by a three-stage delta rocket at 5:14 a.m. but disappeared about 20 minutes later.
Official Hits AMA 'Deal'
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Rep. Frank Thompson Jr., (D-N.J.), accused the American Medical Association today of siding with the tobacco industry against federal efforts to label cigarettes a health hazard in return for support in its fight against Medicare.
Thompson said the AMA opposed the regulation, proposed by the Federal Trade Commission, as part of a deal to get tobacco state congressem to vote against the administration's proposal for a health insurance plan for the aged under social security.
The accusation was vigorously denied by the AMA.
THE AMA'S opposition was one of the surprise developments of the Federal Trade Commission's hearings this week on the proposed cigarette advertising and labeling regulations.
Dr. F. J. L. Blasingame, AMA executive Vice President, in a letter to the commission, said that the health hazards of "excessive smoking have been well-publicized for more than 10 years and are common knowledge." He said the answer to removing the hazards from cigarette smoking lay in more research, not in any labeling rules.
Two unidentified Pearson Hall men gang up on a wet and unidentified Battenfeld Hall man during one battle scene last night, probably during their study break.
The battle consisted of about a hundred scholarship hall men, all in the interest of continuing the Battenfeld-Pearson feud. These two halls have been feuding for some time now, and
the semi-warm night was too much of a temptation.
The battle appeared to consist of the Battenfeld men running across the street to douse the Pearson men, retreating, and then being attacked by the wet Pearson men.
The water follies were watched by about 25 cautious, but dry, spectators; all of whom seemed quite water-shy.
THE SPACE AGENCY said radio data indicated that the third stage, the rocket that gives its payload the final push into orbit, worked for about half of its normal burning time.
"This subnormal performance would prohibit attainment of orbit," a space agency spokesman said. If the satellite was not traveling fast enough, it would fall back to earth to a fiery death.
The Douglas Delta rocket has scored in unprecedented string of 22 straight success. Its last failure came on the first delta shot in May, 1960, with an Echo balloon satellite.
ALTHOUGH THE SATELLITE'S primary job was to explore the ionosphere on a global basis for the first time, it was the unrelated laser experiment that gave the 120-pound propeller-shaped moonlet special significance.
The satellite's loss ruined planned attempts tonight to test the first practical space application of lasers. A pencil thin beam of red ruby light from an energy gun mounted on a telescope at Wallops Island, Va., was to have been fired at the satellite.
Scientists hoped that the ray, many times brighter than sunlight, would be reflected by 360 tiny mirrors mounted on the satellite and bounce back to the Wallops station. By measuring the time the beam took to return to earth, it was hoped a fix would be obtained on the satellite's position far more accurate than radar or radio tracking.
Weather
The rain which started this morning will continue tonight with a chance for a thunderstorm, according to the Weather Bureau. Clouds will be decreasing later tonight and skies will be fair Friday. Tonight's low will be around 30 and temperatures will be colder tomorrow.