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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 16, 1964
Southern Negroes to Campaign
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By United Press International Negro leaders announced last night they will put up two congressional candidates in Mississippi this year and bring in 1,000 northern college students to work in a "peace corps" for voter registration this summer.
summer. The announcement was made at Jackson by the "Council of Federated Organizations" (COFO) a group of various major civil rights organizations.
COFO said Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville plans to run for Congress in the Second District and Rev. John Cameron of Hattiesburg in the Fifth District. Spokesmen said the two would seek to get their names on the June Democratic Primary ballot.
AARON HENRY, Mississippi president of the NAACP, said if Mrs. Hamer and Cameron lost, they would go to Washington anyway and try to unseat the winning white candidates.
"We intend to challenge these congressmen for their seats on the floor of Congress because they cannot be legally ejected where so many Negroes are deprived of voting." Henry said.
Henry said the 1,000 northern college students would come to Mississippi at their own expense to work for voter registration and to staff "freedom schools and freedom centers" throughout the state.
AMONG THOSE. were Greenwood and Jackson, scene of violent demonstrations last year and at Hattiesburg and Canton, sites of more recent "Freedom Day" demonstrations.
He said the drive "will move into every county in the state" but he picked out 25 cities that he said would be centers of activity.
He said the students would come primarily from Harvard, Yale, the University of Oregon, Oberlin College, Stanford University, the University of Illinois and the University of North Carolina.
The elm trees shading Jayhawk Boulevard look "like a gal's head with her hair up in curlers" commented Professor Robert E. Beer, chairman of the entomology department.
"Bidrin is injected by drilling holes around a tree trunk," Prof. Beer continued, "and inserting a needle connected to vial containing the serum. The serum seeps into the tree's vascular system in about half an hour. To be effective, inoculation is done when the elm buds open."
"Cost of inoculation is figured at approximately $2.40 per tree," Beer said.
In a new attempt to control the spread of Dutch elm disease on campus, Prof. Beer said, some elm trees were inoculated with bidrin today. Bidrin is an organic phosphate insecticide that his been used experimentally in Wisconsin to control the disease. Inoculation of the campus trees was also done experimentally, he said.
Elm Inoculation Starts
Dutch elm disease in the Lawrence area has been a problem for several years, Beer explained. There is no cure for it, although
Robert Moses of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee said the "freedom schools" would be set up with the cooperation of the National Council of Churches.
"Tree removal is expensive, costing approximately $75 per tree," Beer said. "Spraying raises objections because it may kill small mammals and birds.
Prof. Beer said the bark beetle first infested trees in the eastern part of the U.S. about 1930, and has spread as far west as Butler County in Kansas. On its way west, the beetle invaded Urbana, Ill., and Columbus, Ohio, wiping out all the elms in both cities, he said.
the disease can be controlled by removing infected trees or by spraying to kill the European bark beetle, which carries the disease-causing fungus, he said.
HENRY SAID COFO hopes to see 28,000 more Negroes registered to vote in Mississippi by the end of the summer.
Henry said the students would "be something like a Peace Corps to Mississippi" and that they would live with local Negro families.
In another political-civil rights development in the south, six Negroes have announced in Tuskegee, Ala., they will run as independent candidates for city and county offices this fall against white opponents.
Five other Negroes had announced plans earlier to face white candidates for local office in the May 5 Democratic primary in Tuskegee where whites are out-numbered five to one.
"Unless the beetle is eliminated here, Lawrence and KU may look forward to the same fate," Beer said.
Elsewhere:
- Xenia, Ohio—in the estimated 500 persons milled in the street in front of the Greene County jail for an hour yesterday in sympathy for 109 Negroes and whites arrested during a demonstration at nearby Yellow Springs against a barber who refuses to cut the hair of Negroes. There were no disturbances, authorities said.
- ANNAPOLIS, MD.-Civil rights leaders are enthusiastic over Maryland's new public accommodations law passed in the last day of a special session Saturday by the state General Assembly. But the head of an all-white businessmen's group said the law "will be like the 18th amendment—it will be on the books but never be able to be controlled."
- New York—The second boycott of city public schools is scheduled today but without the backing of major civil rights organizations that supported a walkout on Feb. 3 that saw 464,000 students miss classes.
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JFK Committee to Report On Memorial Proposals
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund committee will report to the All Student Council, Tuesday, on the proposals the committee has been considering for a memorial to the late President.
Jon J. Alexiou, Mission junior and chairman of the JFK committee, said that one of the committee's recommendations is that one of the new rooms in Watson Library be dedicated in memory of Kennedy. Alexiou said he has been conferring with Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries, about this proposal.
Buckman said the possibility of such a memorial has been discussed, but nothing definite has been decided. Buckman said he thought it would be appropriate to dedicate a room in memory of Kennedy because the late President was a very serious student and the author of several books.
The ASC unanimously approved the establishment of the JFK committee on Dec. 3. The motion was introduced by Ali Hassan, India sophomore and International Club representative who said: "The late President emphasized education and started the Peace Corps, both of which gave new openings for young people. It is fitting that students of the University preserve something as a token of appreciation to this man."
A resolution at the last meeting of the ASC to abolish the JFK committee was tabled. The resolution, submitted by Roy Miller, Topeka junior, proposed that the committee be dissolved because it had not yet planned the erection of a memorial.
Other suggestions that the committee has been considering, Alexiou said, are a memorial room in the Kansas Union or a monument to be constructed on campus.
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