The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 18, 1963, Image 1
UNIVERSITY OF NEBR. LIBRARY MAR 18 m (mum Smf ft On Segregafon- 0 ft TMF Qk y uy y J u .IjilflISi ., ...,iimi mi. ,. . ,;i ; MRS. SMITH Will Prout Reschedule NU Visit? RAM Asks For Alternate Time Due to the "accusations of Time and Newsweek maga zines" G. Clifford Prout, president of the Society for Indecency to Animals (SINA), is being hounded by report ers and has to cancel 20 to 30 appearances on campuses across the country, accord ing to SINA vice-president Bruce Spencer. Spencer made the state ment in a telephone conver sation with Bill Dunklau, rep resenting the Residence As sociation for Men (RAM), Friday morning in the cli max of Dunklau s search tor Prout. RAM has decided to spon sor Prout In an all Univer sity convocation if and when it can get SINA to confirm a date. According to Spencer pho tographers have been sta tioned outside Prout's New York residence. "This is real ly a headache," he said. "I don't know why they're pay ing so much attention. It's as if we were marching on Washington or blockading Cu ba." Among the college appear ances cancelled were those at Dartmouth, Wellesley. Cam bridge and Harvard. Because of all the recent publicity it will be impossible for Prout to make any appearances for at least 10 days, Spencer said. Last week Time and News week carried stories saying that G. Clifford Prout was actually Henry Zuckerman of New York who was a one time stand up comedian and who is now gag-writer for Garry Moore under the name of Buck Henry. Sunday afternoon Spencer told Dunklau that Prout was scheduled to be in New York Sundav evening and that they would together resched ule, the cancelled appear ance at the University. He said he would send RAM a night letter tonight concern ing the NU appearance. Dunklau sent SINA the fol lowing letter Sunday: Attention: Mr. G. Clifford Prout and Mr. Bruce Spenc er. Gentlemen: As Mr. Spencer requested in our Sunday afternoon tele nhnnp conversation. I am sending you the five Daily Nebraskan articles and the one -' short editorial about SINA, Mr. Prout's scheduled appearance and its cancella tion. These clippings should in dicate to you the extent of your publicity on the Univer sity of Nebraska campus not only of your program in general, but of specific news releases you have sent the Nebraskan, of our efforts to bring you here, and of their apparent failure. However, we hope the failure-was only apparent taht only the date has 'changed. In hope of this I suggest a 4 p,m. Monday, March 25, appearance of Mr. Prout on this campus. I will expect a telegram by j Tuesday noon I hope in' confirmation of this date. I "There is a violence of spirit, mind and heart, and from this kind, recovery is rare," said Mrs. Hazel Bran non Smith, crusading editor and publisher of four Missis sippi newspapers. Speaking at the annual Theta Sigma ' Phi Matrix banquet, Mrs. Smith, in her slow southern drawl, told journalists of her 25 years as a dynamic promoter of human rights. She explained that the White Citizens Council, or ganized in 1954, avows non-violence, but she said that the mental violence it wields creates wounds that never heal. The Citizens Council was organized as the white man's answer to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that a child could not be denied admission to a school on the basis of his color, she said. Although the ruling didn't say the schools had to in tegrate, all the southern people could see was that their white children would be forced to go to school with Negroes, she continued. They thought that if the schools had held up this long, they would never be faced with the inte gration problem. The Citizens Council thought that with economic pressure, it could force the schools to remain segregated. This is still their objective, Mrs. Smith said. . The pressure was directed against the Negro sup porters of integration because the Citizens Council never Vol. 76, No. 83 Cancer Specialist Will Address NU Jerry Lilly Jr., M.D., specialist in cancer surgery and cancer diagnosis, will speak on the University campus April 4, according to Tom Schwenke, Union Talks and Topics chairman. Lilly will speak on the control of cancer through regular physical examinations. He has recently addressed many lay and professional groups on this topic. "Lilly wishes to have questions of University students sent to him in advance," said Schwenke, "so questions should be left in the Union program Office as soon as pos sible." In 1954, Lilly addressed the 6th International Cancer Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was the American dele gate to the 8th International Cancer Congress in Moscow in 1962, along with three University professors. Dr. Donald Waggener, Dr. Donald Pace and Dr. Norman Cromwell, Cancer Death Rates Higher For Smokers Annual lung cancer death rates were ten times as high among regular smokers as among non-smokers, accord ing to a recent study conduct ed by the American Cancer Society. The Society conducted a massive four-year study of men between 50-70 years. Men who stopped smoking had a lower death rate than those who continued. Those who smoked a pack or more Morgan Schedules Tryouts For Shakespearean Comedy Seventeen major roles are available in this year's last Shakespearean production, "Much Ado About Nothing," according to Dr. William Mor gan of University Theater. There are eleven major male ro'es to be cast and six female roles, he said. Many more minor support ing roles for the play will be cast this .week. It will go into rehearsal March 25th and the production will be given May 15 through May 18. 0UF WIND DAMAGE Saturday on campus. The TV antenna house. i a day but who had given up smoking for at least one year had a death rate less than half of those who continued smoking. The lung cancer death rate of pipe and cigar smokers was much lower, according to the study. Most scientists believe the decrease of the intake of tar reduces the risk of lung can cer, said the report. Readings for parts in the comedy of manners will be held this week as follows: Today, 7 to 10 p.m., 201 Temple Building. Tomorrow 7 to 10 p.m., 201 Temple Building. Wednesday 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m., 201 Temple Building. Thursday, 7 to 10 p.m., 201 Temple Building. Friday 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m., 201 Temple Building. defy Night night winds played havoc with houses and other structures and several window panes were damaged at the Theta XI dreamed some white Mississippians wouldn't go along with its ideas. Their plan was to instill a fear in the Negros' hearts in order to keep them in their places, she said. A representative of the Citizens Council in Holmes Coun ty, where two of her newspapers are located, visited Mrs. Smith to explain the Council's plan. Mrs. Smith said that it wouldn't work, it wasn't right, and it would create an at mosphere of fear. "This fear is not good for anybody and I refused to go along with it," she continued. In two years the movement had spread to Louisiana and Alabama. "My husband was fired from his job as adminis trator of the hospital despite complete backing of the medical staff. He is now working with me in the news paper office," Mrs. Smith said. "The Citizens Council then tried to get businessmen to stop advertising, but since I was the only advertising outlet, this worked only moderately well," she explained. The next step was an attempt to bring in a radio station to provide advertising means for the businessmen and then they started a paper to rival the 125-year-old institution, she edits. "I have been tpld by friends that if I had children they would have used them to silence me," said the editor. A cross was also burned on her lawn by high school boys. The Daily Morrison Must OK Liquor Bill Legislative Bill 109 passed Friday. The bill which in creases the fines levied on those connected with liquor violations, will go into effect on July 1, if it is signed by the governor. The fines which will then go into effect are: Any minor caught in possession ol alco holic beverages will be fined a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $250 ' , Any minor attempting to purchase liquor by using a falsified ID card will accrue both the fine and a mandatory jail sentence of from three to five days. Adults who purchase liquor for minors will be fined $500 and will be jailed for 15 days. AF Dance Is Slated For Friday The Annual Air Force Ball will be held Friday from 6 12 p.m., at the Lincoln Air Force Officers Club, accord ing to Terry Miller, Com mander. Tickets are now on sale for $7 per couple, which includes dinner and dancing. The Bobby Layne Orchestra will provide music for the dance. At the program be tween the the dinner and dance the Little Colonel and Air Force Queen will be pre sented. Graduation sets will be pre sented to senior ex-officers of Arnold Air Society at this time, as will Air Officer Guides to senior cadets with outstanding attendence at Ar nold Air Society meetings. Tickets are available from any Arnold Air Society mem ber or they may be purchased in the Drill Hall of Military and Naval Science building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Wmdls Nebraskan natots To Decide Possibility n Stat ewide Basis EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series on Educational Television In Nebraska. A permanent statewide ETV network for the state is now In the balance because of a history-making- decision by the Federal Communi cations Commission last November. This article and the following were prepared for the Nebraska State Com mittee on Educational Television and released with the cooperation of tbe Nebraska state Press Association. The baby was only one year old when the Univer sity's KUON-TV adopted it. And back in 1954, it already had a name: Educational Television (ETV). The infant was born in 1953, when the nation's first ETV station began operations at the University of Houston. Since then, it has acquired quite a few foster parents. To be exact, 75 non-commercial stations across the coun try now have ETV. Despite Nebraska's pioneer ing efforts in ETV, it re mains unknown to many residents of the state. The reason is a lack of completed statewide coverage until re cently. Today, Nebraska stands at the entrance to a new plat eau in Educational Televi sion: a permanent statewide ETV network. It all came about last November when the Federal Communications Commission confirmed Ne braska education's request for five exclusive ETV chan nels. Included in the station package are four very-high- frequency (VHF) education channels and a single chan nel of ultra-high-frequency (UHF). This allotment makes up the largest single reserva tion for VHF channels in the entire history of the FCC. The importance of VHF channels is not to be taken lightly. As Jack McBride, director of KUON-TV says, "The reservation of these 1 W StfiltQ fV' 4w'"-4. - ' . I ' " CAVE IN Strong winds attacked the center section of the Twin Towers dormitory and ripped and caved in sides which had been enclosed by plastic sheets. "There is a cold, stark fear that comes without knowing what is coming," said the . promoter of human rights. It is surprising that groups such as this can operate in the United States, said Mrs. Smith. "However, The Citizens Council is not the only extreme right wing group, it is not the only group which puts labels on people, and it is not the only group which fays you have to do it my way or else," she said. "The heritage in this country is freedom and what makes us free is the fact we don't have a controlled press; theoretically we have a free press," said the edi tor. "When we fail to let people know what is happening, on the editorial page, we don't give them leadership," stated Mrs. Smith. "These events and groups can hap pen in other states and we must guard the freedom we have in this country." She challenged the journalists by saying "the right to dissent is being lost because papers are not dissent ing enough. The papers are conforming too much, pos sibly because of pressure groups." Taking two court decisions against her to the Mis sissippi Supreme Court, Mrs. Snith won both of them, guaranteeing her freedom of the press. "My job is knowing when something is wrong and doing something about it. It is to try to preserve law and order in the community with an atmosphere of self respect and preservation," she said. j "ALLIANCE chofn.17 pS1 tnannsi u XrVZTH' N0RTH PIATTE- -'-"4 channel 9"-1 LEXINGTON . " - V-W-,- channel 3 .. ETV The above map shows Nebraska's proposed six-station ETV network. Shaded areas indicate supplemental translators service to provide total statewide ETV coverage. VHF allocations in Nebraska is looked upon with great envy by other states pointing toward statewide Educational Television Network systems." McBride, who doubles as co-chairman of the Nebraska State committee on Educa tional Television, adds that "In most cases, the highly desirable VHF channels have long since been placed in use. Educational interests can turn only to UHF stations." The approved VHF chan nels include Channel 3 in Lexington, Channel 7 in Bas sett, Channel .9 in North Platte and Channel 13 in Al liance. The UHF facility is Channel 25 in Albion. When added to the expand ed coverage of Channel 12's KUON-TV in Lincoln, these five new stations would ex tend ETV into a network of service reading more than 90 per cent of Nebraska's popu lation. The remaining 10 per cent would be served by small, short-range transmit ters. The FCC has now opened the door. Whether or not Ne braska will gain entry is in 1! ... ' ' : ,r ' !:. Monday, March 18, 1963 ALBION hii-CXr channel 250- C : LINCOLN iU channel Wj the hands of the state legis lature, to be decided in the coming weeks. Just how worthwhile is Ed cational Television? What will it do for you? It is de signed to include everyone, school children, teachers, par ents, college students and adults. In this series of stor ies, the facts will be outlined in detail. Right now, schools In six states are being served with ETV by a transmitter flying over Indiana. New York alone has 31 stations planned. Alabama is enjoying a four station interconnected net work fed by three studios. In additic- many foreign coun tries have adopted or are planning the system. In a quiet sort of way, ETV in Nebraska has also been growing. The Nebraska Council for Educational Tele vision is an example. Found ed in 1960, the Council began with six member schools. The current total is 34 school systems. The breakthrough for a statewide network, a picture tube on the plains with a new dimension, is now at hand. 4i 1 tli ' . 1 4 d- in ir i.Ttr- iriiiir1iifii-iriitMiiiMiWimwi-ii wiiiiWi'itri-r-'---nY7V;