Daily Hansan
61st Year. No. 88
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Feb. 21, 1964
Finley Saga Continuing At Boston
BOSTON — (UPI) — Charles O. Finley, embattled owner of the Kansas City Athletics, repeated today his insistence that his franchise was not for sale "at any price" as the latest special meeting of the American League club owners got underway.
Finley, flanked by attorneyvs and aides, was one of the last of the owners to enter the hearing room before the league officials closed the doors and special guards took up their positions.
Still missing when the session began on what was believed to be an informal basis were the representatives of the Baltimore Orioles who were delayed in arriving here by a late train.
FINLEY'S CHIEF counsel in his running battle with both Kansas City and league officials, Louis Nizer of New York, headed the insurance man's group of advisers.
That threat carried more than usual weight since major league baseball has long feared any major court test of its unique position outside the anti-trust and monopoly laws because it is a "sport" rather than a "business."
There appeared to be little support for any of Finley's plans among the other owners. This was well demonstrated last month in New York when Finley's bid to move his franchise to Louisville, Ky. was turned down by a 9-1 vote. Finley was the lone proponent of the plan and did not appear to have acquired any additional franchise moving support in the interim.
CRONIN ALSO DENIED a Finley plea that the league consider a franchise move to Oakland, Calif.
The length of the Kansas City stadium lease was the focal point of dispute. Finley repeated as late as yesterday his willingness to accept a two-year lease, and Kansas City Mayor Illus W. Davis repeated at that time the city council's stand for a four-year minimum lease. Davis and City Counselor Herbert Hoffman were scheduled to present their side of the dispute.
This disagreement has already carried through two league-established deadlines. The owners first ordered Finley and Kansas City officials to settle their differences by Jan. 31, but later extended the deadline to Feb. 15. That deadline also passed without agreement and no mention of a new deadline has been made.
Whatever the American League decides to do today about the homeless Kansas City Athletics, the players themselves can take comfort in the knowledge that they still have a home in Florida.
Photo by Paul Kivett
Special Session May End Today
TOPEKA —(UPI) House members today began final debate on the bills that would reaportion both the House and the Senate.
Both measures were given emergency status and advanced on the calendar to third reading, debate, and final vote.
Before debate on reapportionmen. began. House members voted overhwellingly to relax the limitation on the special session.
Rural elements suffered yesterday what appeared to be a lasting defeat of their plan to chop House membership back to 105. The action appeared to have removed legislative roadblocks to a quick adjournment.
The bill redistricting the Senate and a House bill reapportioning the extra 20 seats on the basis of population cleared the House Reapportionment Committee.
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL
An "emotions engineer" . . .
LBJ Lists Hot Spots During UCLA Talk
LOS ANGELES, (UPI)—President Johnson called today for an end to bloodshed on Cyprus, an "absolutely fair" settlement of differences with Panama and a realization by the Communists that they were playing "a deeply dangerous game" in Viet Nam.
The Chief Executive, flanked by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico, provided a kalideoscopic view of international hot spots in a speech prepared for a special honorary degree ceremony at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
"THE WORLD HAS become small and turbulent," Johnson said. "New challenges knock daily at the White House, America's front door."
With this introduction, the President then explored a series of crisis areas in which the United States has a major stake. Despite what he called "the dangers of today," the President said the United States would not be pushed from the path to peace by disruptive efforts of communism.
He said the United States never would be "intimidated by any state anywhere in the world that chooses to make itself our adversary."
- Viet Nam—The contest there between southern forces backed by this government and the Vietong to the north must be won by the government and the people of Viet Nam for themselves.
"THEER IS no panic on our agenda," he said. "We are interested in the deeds of peace and our own response will be swift."
Area by area, this is the way the president saw some of the more serious foreign problems today:
The President promised that the United States, while not a party in the issue, would do all it could to
- Cyprus—He appealed for an end to bloodshed between Turkish and Greek factions on this s rife-torn island before it is too late.*
Weather
The Weather Bureau predicts temperatures through Wednesday will be from three to five degrees below normal. There will be light to moderate precipitation Monday and Tuesday, occurring as either rain or snow. For tomorrow, the high is expected to be in the middle 30s with the low tonight reaching 15 degrees.
find a solution. Meantime, he said, it was a task of statesmanship to prevent the danger in Cyprus from exploding into disaster."
- Panama—Assuring the people and the government of Panama of this country's determination to be "absolutely fair" in discussion of problems involving the Canal Zone, Johnson called for "a covenant of cooperation."
2,500 Jam Union To Hear Nazi
George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled leader of the American Nazi Party, told more than 2,500 persons yesterday that only "us guys down in the gutters" can combat the spread of communism.
Rockwell spoke before an overflow crowd of more than 1,500 in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. In addition, an estimated 1,000 people filled the main lobby of the Kansas Union to hear Rockwell through loudspeakers.
"Our side, the American right, needs not only the conservatives and the nice people," Rockwell said, "but it also needs us people down in the gutters.
"ATTITUDES CHANGE people," Rockwell said. "And you don't move people with lectures. You change them with emotional engineering.
In explaining the tactics of the American Nazi Party Rockwell said he made lectures at colleges across the country to stimulate thought.
"When I step forth in the streets with my uniform, I want people to hate me . . . because when I start talking to them, I can change them to whatever state I want."
Success Rewarding
While Rockwell spoke in the Kansas Union, picketers marched outside in protest of his ideas and actions. Many signs sanctioned his right to speak, but deplored the American Nazi Party and its leader Rockwell.
THE PICKETS were sponsored by the KU Liberal Action Committee (KULAC), an organization which just received University recognition yesterday.
The pickets said they would not try to carry their signs into the ballroom, but many said they would attend the speech. Others were not quite as excited about hearing Rockwell.
Because of the overflow of students in the ballroom, the Union had speakers outside the doors to enable those who could not get in to hear the talk.
FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas Union, emphasized that there were no speakers on any of the other floors so that people who did not want to listen would have some place to go.
The ballroom, where Rockwell spoke, was packed to capacity and hundreds of students stood along the walls, sat at tables, and crowded the railing along the balcony.
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Founder Recalls Building of P-t-P
By Bobbie Bartelt
Association with Robert Kennedy and seeing the realization of a "new" idea were the greatest rewards for the founder of the People-to-People collegiate program.
William (Bill) Dawson, Lawrence senior, reflected yesterday over the founding of collegiate People-to-People. KU's pilot group was the model for a national People-to-People program and the beginning of his idea.
Dawson met Kennedy through the P-t-P program.
Relaxing in a swivel chair in front of a neat, book-lined desk, Dawson discussed the problems facing foreign students and his part in helping them.
"1 first became aware of problems facing foreigners when I lived in San Francisco. I found foreign students faced with adjustment problems when I came to KU." Dawson said.
THE ATTITUDE of the American student toward the foreign student seemed like the area to work with, he said.
"American students don't realize that for every foreign student on an American campus, there are about 3,000 who didn't make it." The foreign students who come to the U.S. are the select ones, he said.
"Also, young people must realize that because of the developments in transportation and communications there exists a need to know about foreign cultures. Young people of today will grow up to be citizens of the world," Dawson said.
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Photo by Charles Corcoran
BILL DAWSON
He founded collegiate P-t-P...