RAISIN IN THE SUN-Cast members prepare for the opening of the play on Feb.13 in the Experimental Theatre. Left to right: Theresa Lockhart, Leavenworth sophomore; Cordell Meeks, Kansas City senior; Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior; JoAnne Holbert, Kansas City senior.
Raisin In the Sun Appeal is Universal
Written by a Negro, "A Raisin in the Sun" is about Negro life in Southside Chicago and is performed by Negroes.
But, primarily, its appeal is universal.
Mama receives $10,000 in insurance money. The conflict then arises When the old and the new as Mama wants to buy a house and move out of a shabby apartment, and her children want to use the money for higher education and business ventures.
"It typifies the hardships a Negro family has to go through, simply because they're in a low income family," Cordell Meeks, Jr., Kansas City senior and member of the cast, said. It, also, gives the audience an opportunity to view living conditions under such circumstances, Meeks said.
Being a poor, hard working family the $10,000 insurance check is a major event in the life of the family. They become "torn between collective and individual aspirations for something better than they have had," Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika
junior and member of the cast, said.
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"A Raisin in the Sun" is one of the great Negro dramas, William Kuhlke, instructor of speech and drama and director of the play, said.
Kuhle said the play concerned an "American family who are trapped in circumstances that thwart the realization of their dreams."
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1964
Winner of the New York Critic Circle's Award for the Best Play in 1959, "A Raisin in the Sun" will be presented at 8:15 February 13 through 15 and 18 through 22 at Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are now on sale at the box office in Murphy Hall.
Members of the cast include: Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior; Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior; Marjorie French, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore; Theresa Lockhart, Leavenworth sophomore; Harold King, Kansas City junior; Cordell Meeks, Jr., Kansas City senior; George Bradley, Lawrence graduate student; Jo Anne Holbert, Kansas City senior; Paul Broderick, Jr., Overland Park sophomore; Gerald Denning, Hill City junior; and Wes Summers and Mike Hamm, children from Lawrence.
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in passing the Democrats voted 152 in favor, 96 against. Republicans voted 138 in favor, 34 against.
A House coalition of Democrats and Republicans cut off anticipated debate by Southerners to speed the final vote. The bill was passed after nine days of debate.
The civil rights legislation makes employer and labor union racial discrimination unlawful, protects Negro voting rights, and compels desegregation of public schools, parks and playgrounds.
parks and playgrounds In addition, the bill outlaws discrimination in hotels, restaurants, movies and other places serving the public—the much-debated public accommodations plank of the bill.
Referring to the pending fight in the Senate, Johnson said, "I hope the same spirit of nonpartisanship will prevail there to assure passage of this bill guarantying the fundamental rights of all Americans."
The President praised the work "by men of good will in both parties" in passing the bill.
Civil Rights Bill Obtains Approval of the House
The House action is "testimony to how Congress can act effectively to meet the issues facing our country," the President commented.
The legislation also permits the withholding of federal funds from
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Overwhelming House approval of a sweeping civil rights bill gave its backers new confidence today that they could get the measure safely past a certain Senate filibuster.
After nine days of debate and action on 138 amendments, the House passed the bill last night by a vote of 200 to 130. It is designed to wipe out discrimination in voting, public accommodations, employment, education and use of federal funds.
tion and use of the
the bill now goes to the Senate
where it faces a determined Southern
effort to talk to it to death. No attempt to start debate is expected until late this month, however.
President Lyndon B. Johnson said the bill "marks a historic step forward for the cause of human dignity in America."
Partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures are expected tonight and Wednesday. The low tonight will be in the upper 20's, high tomorrow in the upper 40' s.
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programs where discrimination is evident.
The bill is stronger legislation than originally proposed by President John F. Kennedy.
Three dozen minor amendments were adopted during the nine days of debate. More than 100 were proposed.
The five Kansas Congressmen, all Republicans, voted in favor of the civil rights bill.
They are William H. Avery, Wakefield; Robert Ellsworth, Lawrence; Joe Skubitz, Pittsburgh; Garner E. Shriver, Wichita; and Bob Dole, Russell.
Australian Hope Gone For Crew of Voyager
SYDNEY — (UPI)— Australia today virtually gave up hope for the 85 crewmen of the destroyer Voyager missing since the aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the smaller vessel in two in a collision last night.
Navy Minister Alexander J. Forbes said there now is "only slight hope" of finding any of the officers and crewmen alive. Most were believed to have gone down with the forward section of the destroyer.
Both ships were reported moving at 30 knots—about 34 m.p.h.
NO DEATH TOLL was given because sea and air searches were still in progress, but one rescued crewman said he feared all the men in the sliced-off forward section of the destroyer were dead.
There were no casualties on the Melbourne, which is more than six times larger than the destroyer, and the carrier, although damaged, took part in the rescue and search work. The Melbourne, flagship of the Australian navy, had about 1,000 men aboard.
Up to 100 of the Voyager's 324-man crew had been in that section, which turned over and sank 15 minutes after the Melbourne's prow battered it free of the rest of the ship. The other section stayed afloat three hours.
FORBES, REPORTING on Australia's worst peacetime naval disaster, said the 19.000-ton Melbourne struck the 3,500-ton Voyager during maneuvers off Jervis Bay, a Pacific Ocean inlet 125 miles south of Sydney.
He said the destroyer was trailing the carrier, acting as an escort ship
Reporter Doubts Republican Strength
If everything comes out about the Bobby Baker case that should come out, it could make a difference in the next national election, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington correspondent said last night at the William Allen White Day dinner.
Clark R. Mollenhoff, correspondent in the Washington bureau of Cowles Publications, is a critic of "lazy" reporters and corruption in government. He is a foe of government secrecy.
"If it is handled right," Mollenhoff said, the Baker intrigue could provide the Republican Party with a real issue in the coming national elections.
"The Republican Party is in bad trouble." Mollenhoff said, because Republican leaders are not only uninformed on such issues, but are often inarticulate in explaining the implications of them.
He said Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, GOP presidential hopefuls, utter vague pronouncements about "stereo-morality" but say nothing substantial about the Baker manipulations.
"They should lay out their objections, one, two, three," Mollenhoff said.
Mollenhoff told the audience he did not want to give the impression he
was "partisan" in his outlook. But he said he did not believe the democratic process could function when the minority party, "the watchdog party," did not adequately carry out its role in regulation government.
Many members of the audience participated in a discussion with Mollenhoff on the ethical problems confronting the reporter. "Some of the worst reporters are Washington correspondents," he said. Mollenhoff said people have the impression that to be a Washington reporter, is to excel as a newsman. Actually, he said, Washington reporters are often lulled into reporting "handouts" of administration press officers without criticizing them.
Nearly 150 journalism students, faculty members, and others heard Mollenhoff talk at the memorial dinner.
criticizing them. Mollenhoff also talked about his experiences while covering the Hoffa jury-fixing trial in Chattanooga, Tenn., and his probings into the TFX aircraft contract conflict.
He expressed disappointment that some newsmen tend to discount the testimony of Ewing King, a Hoffa jury-fixing witness, solely on the grounds that King is an ex-convict of twenty years ago. King's testimony, Mollenhoff said, had been "corroborated" by the FBI.
CONDEMNING "LAZY" NEWSMEN — Clark W. Mollenhoff author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Washington Cover-up," speaking at the William Allen White memorial dinner, exhorts the press to "dig for the facts."
to rescue any pilots who missed landings on the Melbourne.
The Melbourne swung around in a U turn and the Voyager began changing course to stay behind it.
change it. "It appears that in carrying this out, the Voyager cut across the bow of the Melbourne and was cut in half," Forbes said. "The forward half appears to have sunk almost immediately. The aft part remained afloat for about three hours.
Officials said the toll might have been far worse except for this combination of circumstances:
- The collision took place only 20 miles from shore and from the Jervis Bay Naval College. Search helicopters and rescue boats were on their way from Jervis Bay two minutes after receiving distress signals.
- Although the area is often shark-infested, there were no reports of sharks around the life rafts and swimmers. The fuel oil pouring from the Voyager's tanks was believed to have kept them away.
- The after section of the de-strover staved afloat three hours.
- The Melbourne, equipped with doctors, a hospital, and rescue gear, was able to help. Eleven other ships rushed to the area.
Nevertheless, survivors said the disaster scene looked like the aftermath of a World War II sea battle. The floating section of the destroyer was a tangled mass of twisted steel. Searchlights probed the waters for rafts and lifeboats. There were reports that shells exploded.
Oil-begripped men, many of them bleeding, were pulled out of the water by helicopters and surface craft.
craft.
It was feared that Duncan Stevens, the Voyager's captain, was killed by the impact. The 43-year-old World War II veteran was on the bridge which was hit directly by the Melbourne's prow.
Makarios Leans To UN for Help
NICOSIA, Cyprus —(UPI) —Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios today was reported hardening in his attitude toward the proposed NATO peace force and leaning toward direct United Nations intervention in his country's crisis.
The countryside was reported tense but quiet after the latest fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots yesterday.
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DIPLOMATIC hopes were fading that a peace force plan could be approved by all parties involved and implemented before the smouldering hate erupts into full-scale civil war.
Western sources said Makarios was becoming impatient with the failure so far of the United States, Britain, Greece and Turkey to come up with a peace plan acceptable to his government. It was felt that Makarios considered the London peace conference to have ended in deadlock, leaving an appeal to the UN Security Council as the best reourse for a solution to the crisis.