Monday, Feb. 4, 1963
BROTHER AND SISTER—Steve Callahan, Lawrence graduate student, and a professional New York actress, Jacqueline Brookes, will play brother and sister in "The Cherry Orchard." This Anton Chekhov play will open Wednesday in the University Theatre. Miss Brookes has appeared in many Broadway and off-Broadway plays. The University Theatre each year invites a professional stage performer to appear in a play at KU.
Canada's Defense Chief Quits on Nuclear Policy
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OTTAWA—(UPI)—Defense Minister Douglas Harkness resigned today, compounding a political crisis that threatened to cause the fall of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's anti-nuclear Conservative government.
Harkness announced his resignation at a news conference and said he would elaborate on his reasons at an afternoon (2:30 p.m. EST) meeting of the House of Commons.
He said that "during the last two weeks particularly" it had become abundantly clear that Diefenbaker had no intention of agreeing to his repeated demands that Canada equip its armed forces with nuclear weapons.
DIEFENBAKER, CLOSETED in his East block office following a morning cabinet session, emerged briefly, but replied "no comment" when queried on Harkness' resignation.
Opposition leader Lester B. Pearson said Harkness had taken "the only honorable course open to him." The Liberal party chieftain reversed further comment until Commons met.
Harkness made public a letter of resignation which he handed to Diefenbaker yesterday, saying "your views and mine as to the course we should pursue for the acquisition of nuclear weapons for our armed forces are not capable of reconciliation."
Diefenbaker's Defense Minister deserted him at the most critical period of the Conservatives' nearly six-year-old administration. Diefenbaker must decide today whether to call for a general election over the nuclear arms issue, or face a political showdown in Commons.
SHORTLY BEFORE HARKNESS made his not-unexpected announcement, it was announced in Washington that Secretary of State Dean Rusk would appear personally before a Senate subcommittee to determine whether U.S. officials had made an "overt and clumsy" attempt to dictate Canada's nuclear policy.
Harkness, 59, had been a member of the Diefenbaker cabinet since the Conservatives took power in June, 1957. He held the resources and agriculture portfolios prior to his appointment as Defense Minister Oct. 11, 1960.
Harkness told newsmen he will continue as member of Parliament for Calgary North, which he has represented in the Commons since 1945.
The resignation announcement followed a weekend filled with reports of secret meetings among various groups of cabinet ministers over the nuclear controversy, which was lifted to a new pitch last week by a U.S. State Department statement criticizing Canada's position. Harkness was said to lead a pro-nuclear group that included Finance Minister George Nowlan, Minister Without Portfolio M. Wallace McCutcheon, Works Minister E. Davie Fulton, and Transport Minister Leon Balcer.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 75
Fair and unseasonably mild weather is forecast for much of the state today and tomorrow, with abnormally warmer temperatures possible throughout the rest of the week. The low tonight will be in the 30s. The high tomorrow will be in the 60s.
Weather
The KU student body began spring semester classwork today with prospects for a final enrollment of 10,-800, said James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions.
— 9,542 on the Lawrence campus and 925 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City — represent an increase of 776, or eight per cent over the comparable 1962 figure.
Enrollment here is at an all-time second-semester high.
The 10,467 students now enrolled
Enrollment Hits Spring Peak
He said a better prepared freshman class may have produced the improved "persistence rate."
Enrollment figures by schools within the University and by classes are not vet available.
Annual enrollments at KU now are expected to jump from an average of 700 in recent years to more than 1,200 in the next two years.
The projected enrollment figures for the next five years, based on a study of birth rate and school attendance figures. are:
1963-4 12.340
1963-4 ... 12,340
1964-5 ... 13,760
1965-6 ... 15,460
1966-7 ... 16,960
1967-8 ... 17,500
Initially, the physical plant facilities of the University will be enlarged on a major scale.
The enrollment increases have school officials concerned in two principal areas - physical facilities and faculty capacities. Hitt said.
Ten new buildings will provide for increased classrooms and four additions to existing structures along with renovations of two existing structures head the building program list.
Present construction on the new engineering building opposite Murphy Hall, additions to the Natural History Museum, and construction on Watson Library are major parts of this program.
The second problem area for KU administrators concerns the faculty-student ratio.
In past years the ratio has been one instructor for each 15 students. University officials say this ratio should be maintained.
the national faculty-student ratio is one to 12.
Formal invitations to pledge will then be given to about 350 women, and at that time the restrictive rush rules will be lifted.
For the past week, 495 upperclass and freshman women have been attending open house and rush parties at KU's 13 social sororities, and any girl who participates in rush may not have social contacts during rush week.
Rush Ends;
Dating Begins
It's all over tomorrow.
Women that went through rush can have dates after 5 p.m.
About 800 women registered for rush, but grades and voluntary dropouts cut that number to 495. Women must have a 1.0 grade average to participate in rush.
Emily Taylor, dean of women,
said that about $ \frac{2}{3} $ to $ \frac{4}{3} $ of the
women that participate in rush accep-
t invitations.
Rush activities will end with formal pledging and banquets at the sorority houses Wednesday.
Moscow, Bonn Slap De Gaulle
LONDON — (UPI) — French President Charles de Gaulle's maneuvers to organize a French-led European bloc stirred demonstrations in West Germany, brought a protest from Moscow and provoked official huddles throughout Western Europe today.
While European capitals still boiled with reaction, the parliament members of the six-nation Common Market met to debate in Strasbourg, France, following the French veto of Britain's bid to enter the Common Market.
IN MUNICH, hundreds of West German students demonstrated to protest the French action and express their sympathy for Britain. Students in the capital, Bonn, called a similar demonstration outside the French Embassy with police permission.
The Soviet Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, which had previously assailed British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, turned on De Gaulle today because of his increased flirtation with Gen. Francisco Franco's Spain.
Pravda charged that De Gaulle intended to create a Paris-Bonn-Madrid axis that would only heighten international tension.
THE PAPER'S broadside came after Gen. Charles Ailleer, chief of the French defense staff, flew to Madrid for talks with Spanish officials after similar visits by other French emissaries.
Pravda charged that the French officials sought to establish a political, military and economic alliance with France.
The spokesman said the liberals would continue to press for British membership in the Common Market despite the French veto. But he called for the Macmillan government to prepare for new Common Market talks by "getting its own house in order."
IN PARIS, the afternoon newspaper. Paris-Presse, charged the
British were unleashing "psychological warfare" against De Gaulle.
It cited London allegations that De Gaulle might be preparing an alliance with Moscow and sabotaging the Atlantic Alliance.
"As in the great moments of history," the French newspaper said, "England today is raising the banner of resistance. No holds are barred; Gaulle — there is the enemy."
THROUGHOUT Western Europe, diplomats and statesmen began reweaving allied strategy under the pressure of a virtual French rebellion against U.S. leadership.
In Bonn, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in a government policy report, said his government hopes Britain will become a member of the European Common Market. His report apparently was written before the collapse of Britain's negotiations to enter the Common Market.
Adenauer said unity was, and must remain, the highest principle for European institutions.
"THE ENTRY OF England into the Common Market has especial importance," he said.
in London, Prime Minister Macmillan, who last night termed the French blackball of Britain's Common Market entry as "folly as well as ingratitude," briefed his cabinet today on his unity talks with Italy. He then prepared to face another labor censure motion in parliament—on the issue of unemployment.
At the same time Britain's resurgent liberals became the third major British party to line up behind President Kennedy's plan to lower international trade barriers.
A spokesman for the Liberal Party said the British government must back Kennedy's trade liberalization program as a basic policy during the critical period following the collapse of the Brussels Common Market talks.
Striking NY Printers Reiect Raise Offer
NEW YORK — (UPI) — New York newspaper publishers have raised their money offer in the city's 59-day old newspaper blackout but it has still not been accepted by striking printers, informed sources said today.
The sources said the new offer was for an overall package of $11 per man per week over a two year contract, an increase of $1 from the publishers' previous proposal. It was put forward during a lengthy negotiating session at the city hall last Wednesday night and early Thursday under the auspices of Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
Wagner was meeting with negotiators for both sides again this afternoon following a week-end recess in the talks. It was preceded this morning by a meeting of the unity committee representing the striking International Typographical Union (ITU) and nine other unions involved in the shutdown.
The latest offer of the publishers offered an increase of 30 per cent over the settlement won from the New York Daily News late last year by the American Newspaper Guild, one of the unions supporting the printers in the present dispute. The guild agreement called for an increase of $3.50 per man over two years.
An effort to break away from the "pattern" set by the Guild was one of the objectives of Bertram Powers, president of the ITU, in calling the strike last Dec. 8.
Powers' reaction to the latest offer was not known and there was no
indication he was prepared to reply to it at today's meeting.
Neither was there any firm estimate how far apart the two sides were as the newspaper shutdown reached the midway mark of its 9th week.
The printers went into the strike demanding about a $38 a week package and were known to have pared the figure to about $34 as of three weeks ago. It was believed to have dropped since that time but, in the words of one source, Powers' demands "are so fluid that it is impossible to say where he now stands."
School Aid Bill Draws Criticism
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Democrats and Republicans alike fired critical salvoes today at President Kennedy's $5.3 billion school aid program in its first outing before a Congressional committee.
The main criticism was the President's decision to send the entire school aid program to Congress in one bill. Chairman Adam C. Powell, D.N.Y., ranking Republican Rep, Peter Freelingsuys of New Jersey, and others made their opinions clear such a bill could never pass.
Secretary Anthony J. Celebreeze of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department, replied that Congress could handle the program as it pleased, but the White House would prefer a single bill.