School integration questioned
US Senate affirms enforcement
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate tentatively voted Tuesday night to enforce laws against school segregation whether it results from conscious design or accidental housing patterns.
But Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., said the 63 of 24 vote was likely to be washed out today when the Senate votes on a liberal amendment. It would kill the proposal to which the wordage
approved Tuesday night was attached.
The vote climaxed a bitter, eight-hour civil rights debate in which both North and South claimed support from the Nixon Administration and accused each other of trying to hoax the public with "tricky" legislation aimed really at maintaining segregation in their respective regions.
Sen. Abram Ribicoff, D-Conn.,
Contest Sunday
Three top photographers have accepted the responsibility of judging the fourth annual KU photography contest sponsored Student Union Activities and Kappa Alpha Mu, honorary photojournalism fraternity.
The photographers selected are Lloyd Schnell, director of photography at the Kansas City Art Institute; Ken Seals, photographer from the Lawrence Journal
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World; and Harper Lyon, portrait and commercial photographer from Topeka.
The judging will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The judging is open to any interested student or photographer.
More than 500 prints are expected to be entered in the contest.
Entrants are working for a top prize of a $400 Pentax Spotmatic Camera, plus cash. Last year's contest attracted 496 prints and was the largest in the contest's history.
accusing his northern colleagues of a "sham," sponsored the amendment which passed. It inserted the phrase, "whether de jure or de facto" into a Southern proposal which itself faced more debate Wednesday.
The Dixie proposal, sponsored by Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., would order equal enforcement of desegregation laws North and South. It already contained words intended to eliminate any distinction between segregation by law or custom and that evolving from housing patterns. But Ribicoff offered his "perfecting amendment" to make sure no one misunderstood.
Stennis and his co-sponsors said they were only trying to desegregate schools in Northern cities as well as those in the South. But Mondale said it was "a hoax" aimed at slowing desegregation in Dixie.
Mondale joined Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott in a substitute proposal, scheduled for a vote today. It would order equal civil rights enforcement nationwide, but only against "unconstitutional" segregation.
Unlike Stennis', the Mondale-Scott proposal would not equate the South's old de jure system of
segregation by law or custom with the North's de facto segregation resulting from separate white and Negro neighborhoods.
The Mondale-Scott proposal also would prohibit federally imposed "busing" to achieve racial balance in schools—a provision already part of federal law. Despite the provision, recent Supreme Court decrees ordering immediate integration in some Southern districts have required busing on grounds there was no other minute discriminatory segregation.
"They haul them in, kicking and screaming!" Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga., said of children
in his state. Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, one of several Southern governors who came here Tuesday to plead for relief from busing orders listened from the Senate gallery.
Southerners complained that Scott and Mondale were trying to preserve the status quo. "The purpose of this amendment is to preserve segregation in the North!" exclaimed Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La.
"This was written by an insurance lawyer," said Sue Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C. "A Philadelphia lawyer!" retorted Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C. nodding at Scott, a Pennsylvanian.
Bank workmen killed
Two workmen were killed Tuesday morning after falling six stories to the ground from the top of the First National Bank building under construction at Ninth and Massachusetts.
Clarence Earl Rogers, 52, 1321 Pennsylvania, and William Hedrick, in his 20's, Spring Hill, fell when one end of the scaffold they
were working on slipped. They were employed by W. B. Royse Masonry Co., Leawood.
The scaffolding fell when 300 pounds of sand bags slipped from the I-beams holding up the scaffold, Royse said. He said sand bags are the usual method of anchoring scaffolds.