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Monday, Feb. 11, 1963
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
The New York and Cleveland newspaper strikes have shown the world the essential role of newspapers in a community, the president of the Associated Press said here today.
PAUL MILLER, president of the Associated Press (right), discusses William Allen White Dav activities with Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism this morning, following the annual White Foundation meeting this morning. In the background is a portrait of White, the famed editor of the Emporia Gazette.
AP Head Says Strike Shows Need for Papers
Paul Miller, president of the Gannett newspaper group and newly elected AP president, delivered the 14th annual William Allen White Foundation lecture. He received the foundation's National Award for Journalistic Merit shortly before he spoke
"If anything good is coming out of the tragic strikes in New York and Cleveland," Miller said in a speech prepared for delivery, "it is the public realization of how closely related those newspapers are to the needs of their communities.
"THE WORLD NOW SEES that nothing—not even good out-of-town newspapers, and certainly not newcasts however comprehensive—can take their place."
Miller, who is editor and publisher of the Rochester Times-Union and publisher of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, is president of a chain of 17 newspapers, three radio stations and two television stations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois.
"Our aim traditionally has been to keep them, in the dated but still meaningful words of a founder, 'as local as the town pump,'" Miller said of the Gannett newspapers in his prepared talk on "Inside a Newspaper Group."
"A newspaper should stand for everything that is best for its community and vigorously oppose the bad, as the local management sees it. It should not duck local or other issues." Miller said
"Indeed, I see the great majority of American newspapers tending toward still greater service and value, in all respects, whether locally owned or otherwise," Miller said. "Poor, unenlightened management can ruin any newspaper. And diligent, high principled management can, given a sound market, produce a worthy newspaper."
The AP president said Gannett Co. newspapers and broadcast stations were both editorially independent of the chain's Rochester headquarters and are independent financially except for one-third of their purchase price.
TWO MEMBERS of the newspaper group, the Utica Observer-Dispatch and the Utica Daily Press, received a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1959 for cleaning up that city's government.
Editorial decisions are left to the discretion of each of the group's newspapers. Except for providing one-third of the media's purchase price, member newspapers and broadcasting stations are also financially independent of the group's headquarters in Rochester.
"THE GANNETT COMPANY encourages local autonomy and it exercises a relatively loose general control over its member newspapers and broadcasting stations. We believe that local autonomy is good journalism and good business, too. A competent local management is more likely to operate successfully under minimum of outside control or interference."
"Now and then we hear voices raised against joint ownership of newspapers and broadcasting stations. These are the same voices that call for even better handling of news and comment on radio and television," Miller said.
60th Year, No.80
BULLETIN
Rep. Ralph Skoog, R-Topeka, indicated last week he would amend the Wichita U. bill to allow Topeka voters an opportunity to vote on whether or not they want Washburn University to come into the system.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The United States today formally recognized the new government of Iraq, three days after it overthrew President Abdel Karim Kussem.
Students whose fees are to be paid by others than themselves must pick up their own fee cards and take them to the business office, to facilitate proper billing.
US Accepts Iraq Regime
Other opponents indicated they would try to amend the bill by placing an oil-gas severance tax as a "rider" to the bill.
The State Department, in announcing the swift U.S. move, also extended to the new regime "best wishes for success and prosperity" and expressed hope that "traditional ties of friendship" between the American and Iraqi people would be "expanded and strengthened."
Opponents of Wichita coming into the system were expected to attempt to amend the two bills to make them objectionable to house members.
The bills, approved by the Senate with a one-vote margin, were expected to find the going rougher in the House.
The State Department said the action was taken after the new government, headed by Colonel Abdel Salam Aref, pledged that it would honor "international obligations" of the previous government.
Separate referral means that the two bills must have approval of both the committees before they can reach the house for final discussion and a vote.
WU Bills Need Dual Approval
Students may pay all fees at the Business Office, 121 Strong, in order to complete registration.
TOPEKA — (UPI) House Speaker Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan, today referred the Wichita University bills to two separate committees for approval after they were given a second reading in the house.
Students should bring their KUID cards with them in order to validate the Spring semester fee receipt.
Fee payment begins tomorrow and will continue throughout the week
Fee Payments Begin Tomorrow
As predicted, Arthur referred the two bills to bring Wichita U. into the state system to the State Affairs and Ways and Means Committees separately.
Students whose last names begin I-N pay fees Tuesday; O-S Wednesday; T-Z Thursday, and A-H Friday.
THOSE PERSONS unable to appear on these dates may pay Saturday, Feb. 16.
A penalty of $2 per day for late payment of fees goes into effect Monday, Feb. 18. Additional fees are charged if a student enrolled on or later than Monday, Feb. 4.
Students who will not be on the campus during the days set aside for fee payment may arrange to have information regarding their fees mailed to them. Written request for this privilege must have been made at the time of enrollment.
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RebelsQuellOpposition; Baghdad Streets Quiet
BEIRUT, Lebanon. — (UPI) — Iraq's new rebel regime executed two generals and two other officers today but travelers arriving here from Baghdad reported "dead quiet" in the capital for the first time since fighting erupted Friday.
West German member of parliament Rudolph Werner said streets were empty and only a few shops were open. Tanks and armored cars moved through the streets continuously.
"Yesterday, there was firing all over the city as troops smoked out Communists, but today I did not hear any shooting," he said. "Everything was dead quiet today, almost frighteningly so."
(Unconfirmed reports reaching Cairo, however, said fighting still was going on between Communists and Nationalists in Iraq's Persian Gulf oil port of Basra. Reliable sources said 15 persons were killed there Saturday in a Communist demonstration against the new regime. The area is generally Nationalist but Communist influence among the Basra Port workers is strong.)
WERNER SAID that the people of Baghdad appear to show no signs of joy over the end of Kassem's four and one-half-years of rule and his replacement by pro-Nasser military leaders.
They're indifferent and though there was no shooting today, the whole place does not smell good," he said.
Other travelers reported pictures of the new leaders are now being distributed but few Iraqis are putting them up.
In other developments, shipping resumed on the Shatt-El-Arab River for the first time since the revolt.
and tankers and barges jammed in its channels began moving out.
The Military Governor General of Baghdad was reported to have relaxed the curfew hours. They are now in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Baghdad radio said the four "criminal traitors" were shot and killed because they "violated the people's rights and lived in corruption."
ONE EYEWITNESS estimated about 1,500 persons were killed in the initial day of the revolt. No official figures were available.
The officers were identified as Brig. Gen. Abd Al Majid Jalil, Brig. Gen. Dawud Al Janabi, Col. Husayn Khidr Al Duri and Lt. Col. Ibrahim Kazim Al Musawi, all retired.
Military units and armed student bands were reported hunting down and wiping out pockets of resistance in Baghdad to the new rebel regime.
REPORTS REACHING Tehran last night said fighting also had erupted in the big port city of Basra in southeastern Iraq, which is considered a Communist stronghold. The reports, which could not be confirmed, spoke of heavy casualties.
Most of the steadily-dwindling resistance in Baghdad also was said to be coming from Communist opponents of the pro-Nasser Iraqi forces who launched the bloody revolt Friday.
Travelers reaching Beirut and other mid-eastern capitals from Baghdad said intermittent fighting still was going on in several sections of the Iraqi capital late Sunday.
All agreed that the forces loyal to the new Iraqi rebel regime appeared in complete control in Baghdad. They said a dusk to dawn cur-
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Senator Proposes New Cuba Action
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., proposed today that the United States set up a new blockade against Cuba unless Russian troops are withdrawn from the island.
Cooper made the proposal in a Senate speech after Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., said that senators who had any information on a Soviet arms build-up in Cuba should offer it first to the administration.
Cooper, a former ambassador to India, replied that Cuba is a matter of "continuing concern" to the American people.
"The Monroe Doctrine has already been compromised," he said. "The United States should adopt as a firm policy that it will not accept or tolerate a Russian base in Cuba or in this hemisphere."
"THE PRESIDENT and his administration have valid grounds to insist upon the withdrawal of Russian troops from Cuba, on the basis of Russian promises ma e at the time of the crisis last year."
Cooper said he was confident the president would "pursue this policy by every diplomatic means."
But in the event "diplomatic measures" are not successful, he added, "I believe that the President, supported by Congress, should take the same firm measures that he took last fall—that is the imposition of a blockade."
Rep. E. Ross Adair of Indiana, a top Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said previously that there still was uncertainty whether the administration had given the U.S. public the full story on Cuba.
Put that parka back on. Cold weather is here again.
North winds of 12 to 15 miles per hour today continued to feed cold air into Kansas and little moderation in the cold wave is expected before tomorrow.
False Alarm! It's Cold Again
The cold air brought light snow to most of Kansas late yesterday and last night, however, only a trace of precipitation was reported throughout the state.
Partly cloudy skies and cold temperatures are forecast for today, with highs ranging in the teens.
Clearing is expected tonight with much colder temperatures of 0 to 5 above.
The outlook for tomorrow is partly cloudy skies with gradual clearing and warmer temperatures. Highs tomorrow generally will be in the 20s with a possible jump to 30.
Warner temperatures are expected to continue throughout tomorrow and Wednesday.