xt75dv1cnb1t https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt75dv1cnb1t/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19610428  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, April 28, 1961 text The Kentucky Kernel, April 28, 1961 1961 2015 true xt75dv1cnb1t section xt75dv1cnb1t Kernel Named South's Best College Daily

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TIk Kernel has been named the best college
daily newspaper in the South by the Southern
district Council of the American Newspaper Guild.

Frank T. Adams, Norfolk. Va.. chairman of the fourth
Annual 8DC Journalism Award Contest, notified the
n.
Kernel of the award yesterday In a congratulatory
Last year the Kernei was among the tap 10 In the
content which was wo by the Miami Harricana of. the
I'aiversity of Miami, 11a. The Hurricane was first la.
this year'a weekly newspaper division.
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Judging, on the basis of editorial writing, makeup,
Leadlines, news writing, and overall significance of con- -

by Adams; Winfred Winstead, telegraph
and John I. Brooks,
editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilo- t;
editor of the Virginian-Pilo- t.
Sunday
This is the first year there have been separate divisions for weeklies and
In previous contests all entries were Judged together
Past winners of the contest were the Miami Hurricane, 1958 and 19ti. and the Daily Teian, University of
Texas, 1959.
Fred Holley. Norfolk, president of the Southern District Council, said yesterday that he did not know what
other newspapers were named in this year's contest.
He said there were more than 30 papers competing
for the awards which are given to encourage higher
standards of college journalism.

tent, was done

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Papers named with the Kernel in last year'a compe
tition were the Old Black and Gold. Wake Forest: the
Daily Texan; the Johns Hopkins News Letter, Johns
Hopkins University; the Florida Alligator, University (
Florida.
of Maryland; the Tu
The Dlamondback,-Universitlane Hullabaloo. Tulane University; the Gamecock. Unl
of South Carolina; and the College Star, South
verslty
west Texas State College.
The Kernel will receive two engraved plaques In .
formal presentation at a later date. One plaque is- - a,.,
large rotating award that each year goes to the win
nini school. The other plaque Is smaller and la to btf
kept by its recipient.
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No date has yet been set for the presentation.

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Eight Pages

Tricycle Race Opens
LKD Events Tonight
By MARILYN MORRIS

Kernel Staff Writer
The Little Kentucky
Derby
weekend gets underway at 7:30
o'clock tonight with the Debutante
Stakes in Memorial Coliseum.
Ilighlifchting the program will be
the crowning of the fifth Little
Kentucky Derby queen by June
Moore, last year's queen. The
queen will be UK's entry in the
Miss Kentucky contest.
Dick Ixwe. LKD chairman, will
open the festivities and introduce

Jim Host, muster of ceremonies
for the evening.
The night's rvents will be, In
with a costume contest with
from all men's and women's
housing units.
A' style show featuring clothes
from stores which are awarding
gift certificates to riders on the
winning men s and women's derby
teams will follow the costume con- tesl-

Three preliminary heats of the
w iuii junv
lAUU'""": dune
before the presentation of all the
derby queen candidates.

Concert Fcalures Shearing
the
events
Spotlighting this weekend of

will 1h
gala
George
tomorrow in Memorial Coliseum.
Tedd Browne, widely known folk singer, will be featured nith the

Shearing concert at

S p.m.

Shearing quintet. Browne has appeared In Lexington nightclubs.
Selections from Shearing albums will comprise most of the two- -,
hour concert. One of the better known numbers composed by Shearing
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is "Lullaby of BIrdland."
Dick Lowe Little Kentucky Derby rhairman. said Shearing agreed
(o extend the program as long as audience response merits it.
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Shearing, an English-bor- n
pianist who has been blind since birth,
will be accompanied by a quintet composed of a vibraphonist, drummer,
a bass player.
guitarist, and
dance will be held at 10:30 p.m. in the SUB ballroom and cafeteria following the concert. Jim Dandy and band will provide the
music in the ballroom and the Pacesetters will play in the cafeteria.

Newsman To Give
Baccalaureate Talk

Departing from tradition for the first time in many years,
a layman has been invited to deliver the baccalaureate address
on June 4.
Hugh Morris, veteran newspaperman and political writer,
will speak to graduating students at the event in Memorial Hall.
University

after

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Frank

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he and a faculty advisory

committee decided to establish the
policy of having a layman speak
every five or six years. He said
this was the first time this has
been done as far as he knew.
Morris, who has been with, the
fur 24
Louisville Courier-Journyears, has been chief of the State
Capital Bureau in Frankfort for
the pat 15 years.
In 1950, Morris was one of 12
In the United
newspapermen
States to be awarded a Lucius W.
Nieman Fellowship in journalism
af Harvard University. There he
sh:U a year studying American
history,; government, nd econom-

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Winner?

hopeful entry in tomorrow's Turtle Derby suns himself (or
herself who knows?) In the palm of Brenda Betklns, this week's
Kernel Sweetheart, while keeping an eye on the trophy to be
given to the derby winner. Brenda Is a freshman commerce major
from Lexington. The turtle refused to give us any information
about itself.
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Plans Set To Repay
ROTC Debt To SC

Tentative plans have been made to help pay the debt
mved Student Congress bv ROTC units for the 1939 Military
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,U" s lmancial lailure.
"These plans were underway at
Col. Roland Boughton, head of the date of ' publication of the
Sci- - Kernel
the Department of Aerospace
article which said the
ence, said yesterday that a plan- - ROTC had no set plans to- repay
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nln committee will meet today to
set P mo,e deflnite Plans- The committee will appoint a
Judo Tournament planning com- mittee which will organize future
judo events.
The new committee will work
with the Judo Club who has con
sented that all future Judo Tournament profits will first go for
paying off the debt.
The remainder of the profits
will go for scholarships to UK
students. Scholarship
recipients
will be specified by the Kentucky
Research Foundation.
"The Military Ball debt will be
paid, but it won't be paid this
year," Col. Boughton said.
The judo planning committee
will consist of ROTC juniors and
possibly a liason member from
Student Congress.

the loan from SC," he said.
Col.. Boughton was quoted as
saying he would like to pay part
0f tne debt before this semester
is over, but that he did not know
definitely that it could be done.
He also said receipts from the
Military Ball plus profits from any
ROTC sponsored event would be
used to pay off the loan.
The Judo Tournament, which is
hoped to finish off any residue on
the SC loan, will become a bi
annual event. The next one will
De neia some weenenu urxi iau,
he said.
Profits from the judo tourna
ment held Saturday were to be
used to pay part of the $2,200 debt.
Gate receipts, however, were
$132.50 and tournament expense
were estimated at $350.

SEC Cagers Named In Scandal
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April 27 (At')
Jerry
Craves, senior center and captain of the
Mississippi State basketball team, and two
University of Tennessee players were amoug
10 cagers accused of allegedly accepting or
agreeing to. accept bribes for shaving poiuts.
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He was educated in public
schools at Louisville and Fiiza- bethtown, at Louisville Male High
School, and at Purdue University,
where he studied electrical engineering.
Attracted to Journalism by experience on the college daily newspaper, on which he served as mun

. After the final three preliminary
heats 10 queen finalists will be
presented.
A short intermission will precede the presentation of the five
queen finalists and the final heat
of the stakes. The six teams with
the best times will compete for the
championship,
Climaxing the program will be
the awarding of prizes, to winners
of each event and the crowning of
the 1961 derby queen.
Tronhifs will h presented to
the winners of the best costume
contest, and the Debutante Stakes
winners will each receive $100 in
clothing.
At 10 p.m. a street dance will be
held in front of the Coliseum on
Euclid Avenue with the Red Coat
playing
In case of rain a sock hop will
be held in the Coliseum.
The second Dart of the weekend
will feature a turtle race at 10
a m. tomorrow in front of the SUB.
Sponsored by the Student Union
Special Events Committee, the 34
entries will arrive at the track at
9:30 a.m. accompanied by their
managers.
At 3 o'clock the Little Kentucky
Derby bicycle race will get under
way at the Sports Center track.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity will
hold the first post position In the
first heat of the race. Positions
were decided according to qualifi- cation times.
The winners of the rare will be
presented with a trophy and $100
worth of clothes.
The derby, which is sponsored to
raise funds for scholarships, hopes
to provide $5,000 in scholarships
if tne w"eke"d is a success,
Most of the money for the $200
scholarships comes from the concert which will be Saturday night
in Memorial Coliseum.
Wes
Morris. LKD publicity
chairman, said the derby would
have to gross $12,000 or over to
provide the scholarship goal.

HI GH MORRIS

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aging editor, Morris left Purdue
( become managing editor of the
AUka Iud
A few months later he joined
Courier-Journthe staff of the
as a police reporter and has work- Continued ou Page 11

The 10 players were mentioned In an indictment against gambler Aaron Wagwun of Now
York. District Attorney Frank S. Hogan announced today.
The two University of Tennessee players la- .Jovedare Richard , Fisher. scaUtr center from
Memphis, and Edward Test, sonier guard from
Chattanooga.
Other players Identified as accepting bribes
were from St. Joseph's College of Philadelphia,

University of Connecticut. Lasalle College, and
North Carolina,
Previously two players from Seton Hall University were named by Hogan as accepting bribes
to shave points.
Hogan said the suras pai( for the point shaving ranged from $15 to $1.M.
All of the players mentioned iu the Ladiet- ment. today, except Lou Brown, a sub player at
the University of North Carolina from Jersey
City, N. J., were granted immunity from pro.socu-tio- n
for their testimony before the grand jury,
Hogan said.
He said Brown allegedly contacted players at
ether universities foe Wagtuan.
Wagman pleaded Innocent to the Indictment
when arraigned before General Sessions Judge
Mitchell D. Schweitzer who ordered him held iu
lieu Of $50,000 bail.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday. April

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34 Entries To Compete In Turtle Race

By WARREN WHEAT
Tursday News Editor

Now that the spring meet is
over at Kcntcland. racing fans
Will need an outlet for their
competitive anxieties. And they
can find it here Saturday morning.
The Special Events Committee
of the Student Union Board Is
,'onsorlng a turtle race at 10 a.m.
as a feature of the annual Little
Kentucky Derby weekend.
Thirty-fou- r
organizations and
administrative offices have entered turtles in the rare.
But there is no handicapper, not
even Joble Arnold, who can predict the outcome of this race.
Some of the organizations haven't
seen their turtles out of their
;.hells long enough to tell if they
t an even irun or not.
And there are others who have
run against stammering obstacles
in training their tortjses, turtles,
or terrapins.
Lena Cowherd, Boyd Hall turtle race coach, said they lost their
turtle, The Creep, the other day.
"We lost her in our room, so I

stopped everybody from coming
into my room berause I was afraid
they would step on her. She was
under some furniture and an hour
later we found her."
Joe Strong, Sigma Alpha Epsi-lo- n
turtle trainer, said;
"We haven't even gotten our
turtle yet. We will tomorrow. We'll
put him in a ring, then put a tub
over him. When we remove the
tub we'll scare him with a stick.
Then Saturday when we pick up
the tub the turtle will be afraid
of the stick and run."
The Zrta Tau Alphas have discovered their entry runs faster on
Ire. So Saturday they're going to
keep him on Ice until the rare begins. Then when his feet touch
the ground he will run faster.
Holmes Hall's turtle, Jubilation
T. Cornpone, is supposed to arrive
by bus today. The girls are going
to condition it with a light bulb
and raw meat. They plan to get
it used to people by keeping it
around a crowd until Saturday.
Charlie Stone, Kappa Sigma,
said he has two turtles, but one of
them never comes out of its shell.
The other is "right energetic."
Patterson Hall had seven turtles

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competing to represent the freshman dormitory in the race. Two
of the turtles were Imported from
Wisconsin and were regular racing
variety. But they last.
The Kappa Alpha Thetas had
their turtle, Minerva, out Wi-nesda- y
racing another, Magoo.
They are feeding it dead flies.
They prefer a dry track for the
race.
d
Robert Cranarher, said the
House's turtle, 2, 4, 6
Is "stubborn."
They are relying on Pavlov's
conditioned response to win the
race. They are putting their turtle on an electric grid and shocking him while blowing a whistle.
This, they hope, will make the
turtle race when he hears the
whistle.
The race begins Saturday In
front of the Student Union Building. There will be five heats with
the Winners of each competing in
the feature race for the champ- -

ionship of the first UK turtle
derby.
In the first heat are Dean of
n,
Women's Office, Sigma Alpha
Pre-Me- d
House, Delta Delta
Delta, and Triangle, Holmes Hall,
and Phi Alpha Delta.
Alpha XI Delta, Boyd Hak. SU-KDillard House, Alumni Association, Phi Kappa Tau, and Testing Service will be in the second
heat.
The third race will feature Alpha
Gamma Rho,' Phi Gamma Delta,
Delta Tau Delta, Keenelund Hal,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega,
and Delta Zeta.
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The Christian Student Fellowship will compete with Alpha Gumma Delta, Patterson Hall, Phi Delta Theta. Alpha Delta PI. Kappa
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In the last heat will be Phi Delta Plil, Kappa Alpha, Zeta Tau
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The race will be run In a circle
of 20 feet. The winner. of the derby
will be sent to the National Derby
In Detroit Immediately following
the race.
Steve Clark, SUB Special Events
Chairman, said "We don't know
what will happen to the rest of th
turtles after the race."
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P.E. Honorary

To

Be Formed

Alpha Omega chapter of Delta
Psi Kappa, woman's physical education honorary, will have chapter Installation and a tea for deans
and members of the physical education faculty at 3 p.m. Sunday
in Room 205 In the SUB.
New officers will also be Installed. The officers are Jo Tread-wapresident; Martha Ammer-ina- n,
vice president; Ann Corman,
secretary; Lois Langan. treasurer;
Gail Glashagel, chaplin.
Diane Vittitow, corresponding
secretary; Sandy Beach, parliamentarian; Phyllis Lutes, reporter; Betty Green, seargent at
lunis; and Lou Rav King, historian.

Elections
SIGMA ( III
Bill Uzzle, Junior accounting major from Groham, was elected pres-

Tricycles, Bicycles, Turtles
Gain Prominence In LKD

Engagements
DECKER

WILES

By TONNI I.ENNOS

Mr. and Mrs. John Decker,
Owensboro, announce the engagement of their daughter Lessley
Kay. to William Wharton Wiles,
son of Mrs. Sally W. Wiles and the
late James Wiles.
Miss Decker Is a graduate student In political science and a
member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Mr. Wiles, a graduate of Murray
State College and UK, Is an Instructor in the College of Commerce.
The wedding will be August 20.
DICKEY SEIKE
Patsy Dickey, Junior education
major from Lexington and a member of Delta Zeta, to Marvin Selke.
a graduate of Iowa State College,
and an advisor to Farmhouse.

It's tricycle and bicycle and turtle weekend.
Everybody still seems to be In
the racing spirit, even though
Keeneland closed yesterday. Tonight the Debutante Stakes will
find the females making their bid
for cyclist of the year.
At 10 a.m. tomorrow in front of
the SUB. the Turtle Derby will be
held. ' Turtles sponsored by University residence units will be
raced. And here we have a flash
bulletin; the turtles have gotten

Meetings

RADIO BANQl'ET
The Department of Radio.TeJe-visioand films will have its
eighth annual Radio Banquet at
6:30 p.m. Monday at the Holiday
Inn. Awards will be presented to
members of the
outstanding
WBKY staff.

together and are planning to re-- !
fuse to run, calling It an infringement of their right to remain In
their shells.
Later tomorrow afternoon the;
the Little Kentucky Derby with'
Us male bicyclists will be run at
the Sports Center. That evening
will be the Shearing Concert and
dance at the SUB with late per- -,
mission for the coeds.
The Delts will end the weekend
with a water skiing party Sunday
afternoon at the lake. Everybody
else will be suffering from a rare
disease of the limbs stiffness. Be '

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Barbara Blackburn, senior education major from Dry Ridsje,
and a member of Kappa Delta sorority, to Cadet Richard Stevenson,
Class of 1962, West Point Military Academy, New York.

ident of Sigma Chi fraternity.
Others elected .were Jim Todd,
vice president; Jim Edelen, secrePin-Mattary; Warren Scovllle. treasurer;
Tommy Shaver, tribune: Charles
Jean Richard, sophomore jourJackson, historian; Bill Wells, as- nalism
major from Arabi, La., and
sociate eduor; and Ed Kurz, pledge a
member of Delta Zeta, to James
t: ainer.
Ragland, a senior animal husbandry major, and a member of
Alpha Gamma Rho.

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Cycling To College
If we arc to believe all the posters we have seen. Americvt's most
spectacular college weekend begins
ilt we are inclined to
tonight.
discount the "most spectacular" tag.
we nonetheless feel that the Little
Kentucky Derby is several cuts above
the" average college weekend.
Wit li a conceit,
two dances,
tricycle races, bicycle races, and.
new this year, a turtle derby, the
LKD is a social event worthy of note.
It is equally worthwhile academically
with the weekend's profits earmarked
for scholarships.
It is in the field of scholarships
that the derby is hoping to gain its
greatest success. The derby steering
committee hopes to be able to give
$5,000 in grants this year. This is
n singularly ambitious goal when one
considers that the verv successful

195S event netted only $2.KK
and
last year's derby raised $1,000.
Tims, the steering committee has
its work cut out for it. The commit.
tee has so far handled its
Chairman Pick Lowe has done one
of the best "jobs we have seen in
setting up the xveekend's activities
and directing the committee's woik.
Those, working under Lowe have
carried out their jobs far more
smoothly than in past vcars.
Wit the stage now set. it is up
to students and Lcxingtonians to do
their parts. It will cost a couple just
a lew dollars to take in all ol the
event and the entertainment
is definitely worth the price.
And for those who aren't particularly socially oriented, it tan be
pointed out that they are helping
to bring deserving students to college bv bievde.
tasks-well-

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Paying The Piper
Military training supposedly develops certain character traits; among
those quoted from recruitment posters are leadership, responsibility, and
Responsibility, among other things,
includes the payment of debts.
Since the spring semester of 1959,
IIOTC student groups have owed Student Congress several hundred dollars for one of their greatest fiascos,
the Military Hall.
Profits from the judo contest held
liere last Saturday were to be applied
to the debt. The profits turned out

to be a loss of approximately $217.50.
The head of the Aerospace Science Department has expressed the
opinion that, although he doesn't
know where the funds will come
from, he hope's to see the debt paid
before this semester is oxer.
We feel sure his opinion is shared
w holeheartedly
by his long term
creditors.

Kernels
It

is rumored

that many fraternities and sororities will have turtle
soup for dinner tomorrow.

Income 'Faxes And Their Bile
Light down into this century the
federal government subsisted mainly
on customs receipts. As the ides ol
April now remind, that day is gone
forever. Customs are now a 1.3 percent drop in the bucket. Income taxes
are SO percent.
The income tax is the price' of
war. Its first use was to help pay for
fighting the Confederacy. By 1S72
it w as no longer needed, and the idea
later turned out to have been unconstitutional anyway, in the eyes of the
1S91 Supreme Court (but ifo refunds).
The Kith amendment made the tax
respectable in 1913. The beginning
lev)' was only a small supplement
to other revenues. It was World War
I that ballooned it into a
major reliance. Even at sharply boosted rates,
however, most people still didn't have
to pay any.
World W ar II finally established
the income tax as a mass levy. And
more wars the Korean one and the
e
cold
continued to sustain
its essential role.
Inflation and the vastly higher
Standard ol living have helped to
'"democratize" the income tax. At first
only the lew rich people had to pay
any at all. but every year more people
earn higher incomes, rise above the
exemption level, and join the ranks.
one-hav-

It will have to remain a mass tar,
too. because private fortunes now
comprise so small a segment of national income. And so little is left after
taxes on big incomes that even their
confiscation would yield only pin
money for the treasury.
Lxtreinists of the right keep claiming that the income tax is the root
of all evil, the foe of freedom, and
that salvation can lie only in repeal
of the 15th amendment. Amlxidy can
talk bis way if he chooses to ignore
arithmetic.
Supxse we locked up the Pentagon tomorrow, alolished the whole
defense establishment and ended foreign aid. That's 51 billion dollars
worth. We would still need 15 billion dollars of present income tax
revenue for domestic uses. To eliminate that need, too, we could abolish
the department of agriculture and
all federal grants in aid to state and
local governments. Only then would
we have it made if we still had a
going gov ei'TTment.
Hard reality is that any fiiet for
big income tax relief must first lw the
iiest to abolish war and the thinner
of war. Since that will take' a little
while, we must try to make our tax
returns with some- grace.
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Ntll.W.UkH:

Joiunai.

More Hubbies Than Wives
Some w riter once philosophized in
support of marriage that mankind
was meant to go through life two
by two. This mathematical formula
seems reasonable, but its author
would have gotten eniite a jolt out of
the U.S. Census Bureau's rejx)rt that
more Alaskan men are married than
women 52.95S men, 5.S21 women.
Such statistics lend themselves to
all sorts ol object lessons. The one
that seems the most appropriate is
the reminder that figures may not lie,
but they can lead to all sorts of surprising conclusions.
For example, there is the classic
example quoted years ago by the late,
famed Kansas editor William Allen
White.

Hearing of a study which showed
that Harvard graduates had only 2.3
children
graduate while Yassar
graduates averaged 3.4. White commented thoughtfully that this proved
Yassar women" had more babies than
Harvard men.
o
Among its reasons for the
discrepancy in Alaska, the
Census Bureau lists what it calls "errors of response." Apparently, Alaska
is one of the last remaining places
where husbands still talk up more
than their wives.
Denvkr Tost
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Kernels
The world, dear Agnes, is a
strange affair. Jean Baptist e Molirre.

2 Congo Leaders Present Great Contrast
Iy The

Assex iateil

Press

Joseph Kasavubu and Moise
Tshombe, two rivals for leadership
in the Congo, are a contrast in temperament and background.
Tshombe, mercurial and dynamic,
is president of Katanga Province
which he has proclaimed an independent republic. He runs a
show, on the surface at least, and
Strikes out quickly at any opposition,
lie likes to strut around his capital
nt Elisabethville guarded by natives
unidressed in gaudy second-hanforms purchased from the French
Republican Cuard.
Kasavubu, president of the Congo
Hud supposedly Tshomlxs political
Superior, is a chubby, cheerful-lookinman. He says so little and acts
so slowly that his enemies call him
a fool. His friends say he is just an
enigma.
Such swift moves as the arrest
'of Tshombe in Coquilhatv ille are not
in character for the stolid Kasavubu.
Patience seems to be a virtue of
this former teacher, bookkeeper, and
Student for the Roman Catholic
priesthood. Now' in his 40's not even
s
Jie is sure of his birth date
stature lias grown steadily
one-ma- n

d

g

Kasa-vubu'-

snice independence from Belgium
came last June 30.
Kasavubu has worked steadily
within the tenuous framework of Congolese law; Tshombe has regularly
flouted it.
When' Kasavubu was Installed as
president, Congolese and foreigners
alike regarded him as only a figurehead. All though the
terror by mutinous Congolese soldiers
last summer, Kasavubu remained in
his presidential villa overlooking the
Congo rapids near Leopoldville.
Patrice Lumumba, the fiery and
erratic premier, was the image of the
Congo to the outside world.
Kasavubu waited until Septemljer
until he deposed Lumumba and until December until he had him arrested. His lone international inove was
a trip to U. X. headquarters, where
he got himself recognized by the
United Xations as the Congo's legal
representative.
Meanwhile Tshombe was moving
businessdynamically. A
man in copper-ricKatanga Province,
he had risen through political craft
and Belgian f support. During the
"events" of last summer as the Congolese eupremistically refer to the
n

violence Tshombe quickly declared
Katanga's independence and thus
shut off more than half of the Congo's
revenues.
Kasavubu bided his time. Lumumba, not Tshombe, was the present danger. Early this year the president had the former premier shipped
off to Katanga "for safekeeping."
Thus it was in Tshombe's domain
rather than Kasavubu's that Lumumba was done- away with. "Massacred by natives while trying to escape," was the official Katanga explanation for Lumumba's murder. By
this stroke, Tshomlx cut himself off
from most Western support.
With Lumumba out of the way,
Tshomlx signed a military alliance
with Kasavubu against the slain premier's political heirs who ran the
leftist icIh'1 regime inStanIeyville.
Kasavubu agreed reluctantly to
attend a conference of Congolese
leaders on Madagascar earlier this
ear to set up a confederation of
states. Kasavubu
gave it legality as the Congo's president.
With the apparent success of the
Madagascar conference under his
belt, Tshombe tried to extend his in

fluence through later conferences
aimed at working out details of the
confederation. The Katanga president
defied the United Xations
it
blocked his ambitions through policies tending toward
unified
Congo.
But Kasavubu signed an agreement to cooperate with the world organization, including a clause calling
for the elimination of foreign advisers "not under the control of the
president." That would leave Kasavubu's Belgian advisers in place and
get rid of the military and political
men behind Tshombe.
The clash of these two men can
le forseen from their backgrounds.
While Tshombe moved in what
determinseemed like
ation to the top of the political and
social ladder unfler the Belgians,
Kasavubu drifted from job to job,
building up a native political machine.
TshomlK' counted on the Belgians to help him; Kasavubu on his
political party, the Abako. Bakongo
trilx'smeu around Leopoldville call
Kasavubu "the king of the Congo."
He may be on the way toward mak.
ing that title stand for the real thin;'.
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tilda