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60th Year, No. 125
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Space Official Sees 1970 Moon Flight
Monday, April 22, 1963
America probably will have a man on the moon by 1970, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) official said here Saturday.
Joseph Shea, deputy director for systems of NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight, discussed Project Apollo at the Engineering Exposition dinner in the Kansas Union.
Shea said the space craft will be launched from a "vertical assembly building." He said the building will have 350 million cubic feet under its roof and will be the largest building in the world.
HE SAID THREE men will ride to the moon to study its geological structure. After landing, they will be able to spend about six or eight hours a day outside the craft.
During lunar exploration, the men can venture about one mile from the point of touchdown. They will prepare maps and return to Earth, Shea explained.
HE SAID THE trip to the moon will take about three days, but the return trip will take only two and one-half days. The craft probably will land on a continental land mass, rather than in the ocean.
"We have talked about the biggest and the best since the Soviets shocked us in 1957 by launching a satellite."
Shea said we have taken up the challenge, but he was disturbed to note that enrollment in engineering courses has steadily declined in recent years.
"WE MUST convince our young people that engineering is important," he said.
Shea's speech was a part of the 43rd annual Engineering Exposition. The two-day affair, held at Allen Field House, featured displays by the departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture. This year's theme was "Project Apollo."
The departments competed for three trophies, and the department of electrical engineering emerged with two of the awards. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe made the presentations.
THE ACADEMIC display plaque went to the metallurgy and materials department. That display showed the history of metals and materials technology leading up to the Apollo project.
The electrical engineers demonstrated some of the problems involved in control of the spacecraft's motion.
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, sponsored the trophy for best overall display. The other two trophies were awarded by the engineering council.
Pearson Takes Over in Canada
OTTAWA — (UPI) — Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson today became Canada's 14th Prime Minister promising he would acquire nuclear warheads for the nation's armed forces.
He pledged the "friendliest possible" relations with the United States.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning diplomat, who will be 66 tomorrow, took the oath of office at the bedside of Governor-General George Vanier who is recovering from a minor heart attack.
WITH PEARSON were the members of the new Liberal cabinet which will manage the country's affairs in the days ahead. They too were sworn in by Vanier.
About 20 ministers were appointed during the mid-day ceremony. The key portfolios — foreign affairs, de-
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Some cloudiness and considerably cooler temperatures are expected today and tonight, but little or no rain is predicted.
Weather
High temperatures were expected by noon today, the highs ranging from 75 to 80. The low tonight will be in the 40's.
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Go to 44 In Senior Class
Forty-four KU seniors have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society in the liberal arts and sciences.
The 44, along with seven juniors announced last week, will be initiated before the annual banquet May 7.
THE PHI BETA KAPPA honors are held by only eight per cent of the senior class in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The seniors honored by the KU Phi Beta Kappa chapter this spring are:
Thomas D. Beisecker, Topeka;
Carol Jean Betlock, Leoti; Larry L.
Blackman, Leavenworth; William
Breckenridge, Louisburg; Barbara
J. Brooks, Hays; Pamela F. Brown,
Suffern, N.Y.; Thelma Kruse Carney,
Carbondale; Harrie R. Clyde, Kansas City; James L. Devall, Overland Park; Roger B. Doudna, Baldwin.
MARSHA L. DUTTON, Colby;
Sondra Sue Ewald, Kansas City,
Mo.; Ronald D. Glotta, Liberal; Fred
K. Green, Prairie Village; Vern B.
Grimsley, Garden City; Marjorie
Ann Hoy, Kansas City; Carolyn
Ruth Hunnicott, Sabetha; Dixie L.
Laufman, McPherson; Warren D.
Keller, Winfield; Larry L. Laudan,
Shawnee Mission; John K. Letton,
Pittsburg; John R. Light, Lawrence;
John H. Magill, Shawnee Mission;
Susan F. McCalla, Lawrence; David
H. Michener, Lawrence; Sharon L.
Moore, Leavenworth; Dianne E.
Mullane, Oklahoma City; Jon David
Muller, Salina; John E. Neal,
Hutchinson; Linda Nelson, Kansas
City, Mo.
CHARLES E. PATTERSON, Rockford, Ill.; Charles S. Patterson, Shawnee Mission; Laird G. Patterson, Larned; Kenny Peterson, Topeka; Sara Pfeiffer, Parsons; Linda S. Power, Shawnee Mission; Christina Robinson, St. Mary's; Paul C. Schaich, Topeka; Martha E. Schwartz, Manhattan; Susan Shotliff, Kansas City, Mo. Joanne Kay Stover, Colby; Allan W. Wicker, Independence; (Marilyn) Sue Hardisty Worley, Salina; Catherine L. Zelif, Baldwin.
MISS LAWRENCE - Joannie Burger, Prairie Village sophomore, has been awarded the title of Miss Lawrence of 1963. She took this honor in the local pageant Friday night and will now go on to compete in the Miss Kansas contest which could eventually lead to the Miss America title.
Miss Lawrence Title To Sophomore Beauty
Miss Lawrence of 1963 was crowned Friday night by the outgoing Miss Lawrence, her sorority pledge daughter.
Joannie Burger, Prairie Village sophomore, won the title in the local pageant succeeding her pledge daughter, Mimi Frink, Lawrence freshman and Miss Lawrence of 1962.
MISS BURGER'S OFFICIAL duty as Miss Lawrence was to take part in the Kansas Relays parade Saturday morning.
Her most important role will come as the representative of Lawrence in the Miss Kansas contest June 6-7 in Pratt which could lead to the Miss America Pageant.
Miss Burger is an auburn-haired, blue-eyed art major who displayed and discussed five of her original paintings as her talent presentation.
MARY TODD, ARKANSAS CITY junior, and Peggy Dewey, Bethel sophomore, were first and second runners-up respectively. *Mias Lawrence received a $100 scholarship and the two runners-
up were given $30 scholarships by the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. Other finalists were Sherry Wickliff, Mission senior, and Elaine Milett, Lawrence High School senior.
THIS IS THE EIGHTH year for the Miss Lawrence contest, which is sponsored by the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce. Two Miss Lawrence winners have gone on to win the Miss Kansas title.
Contest chairman Tom Kumpf said he is extremely optimistic about Miss Burger's chances in the Miss Kansas contest.
"We really think we have a Miss Kansas winner," he said.
Civil Rights Groups Promote Equality
(This is the first in a four-part series on local and campus civil rights groups.)
By Jackie Helstrom
"I, as a white man, owe it to the Negro to help him in his fight for equality, because it is my race that is discriminating."
They want to help improve the situation of the Negro, and through their efforts steps have been taken toward this goal in Lawrence during the last thirty years.
This is the justification many civil rights workers give for their interest in the area.
In the 1930's Negro students going to the University of Kansas had almost everything but the classrooms closed to them. They were allowed to sit in only one booth in the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union, and they were denied access to the gymnasium.
BY 1850, THE University was completely integrated, but Negro
students were still discriminated against in Lawrence restaurants, theaters, barbershops, rooming houses and taverns.
it was to open these areas that the activities of a series of campus and Lawrence civil rights groups, founded in the '50's and '60's, have been directed.
The Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy was the earliest of these groups. It was founded in 1945 and is in operation today with a large membership of Lawrence citizens.
Its purpose is "to foster and encourage by whatever means possible, the actual practice of the declared American principles of democracy, justice, and complete equality of opportunity, with particular emphasis upon better interracial understanding, cooperation, and good will, since it is in this field that those principles are at present most frequently violated."
ONE OF THE BIGGEST steps the
group took was to establish and maintain an integrated nursery school for Lawrence children.
League members have also tried to promote better housing and recreational facilities for Negroes, especially a desegregated, public Lawrence swimming pool. They have worked for civil rights legislation and for the integration of Lawrence business places.
According to the LLPD, there are at least two approaches which a civil rights group is able to take in attempting to eliminate discrimination. First, it can sponsor public education through meetings and clinics. The group tries to inform people with the facts of successful non-discrimination. Second, it tries to take direct action in discrimination cases to bring about a change in policy and practice.
During the '50's three campus civil rights groups were organized which disappeared quickly.
IN 1950 SOME students tried to
organize a Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee consisting of representatives from all campus organizations. The committee was to act as an educational and investigating committee to study racial discrimination on campus.
The group never got off its feet. The organization movement began in March 1950, but the group was not on campus the following fall semester.
Two other groups which came in 1953 and 1957 were founded primarily to fight discrimination in local restaurants and movie theaters.
The Jayhawk Brotherhood was founded in 1953 "to fight discrimination as it relates to students, and to promote better University spirit by eliminating color barriers, especially the segregation problem in downtown restaurants and theaters."
IT CONDUCTED a survey of student attitudes on discrimination and found that three out of four University students favored serving and
seating Negros in restaurants and theaters.
When it found that only five of the 38 Lawrence restaurants would serve Negroes it tried to eliminate this discrimination. The organization sponsored "Operation Appreciation," a project to sell mealtickets to a restaurant which began serving Negros during their campaign, and the proposal that the University sponsor a non-discriminatory restaurant.
During the operation of Jayhawk Brotherhood, downtown theaters eliminated the practice of segregated seating.
In 1957, the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations tried to persuade Lawrence restaurant owners to desegregate.
They sent groups of Negro and white students into downtown and campus restaurants.
Before this group disappeared,
most of the problems with segregated
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