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12 Pages Today Price 5 CentsFirst Successful Space Flight Heartens Americans

CAPE CANAVERAL". Fla. AP) A Heartened America cheered apace pioneer Alan B. Shepard Jr today, and stood by to give Mm a heros welcomewhile the Soviets pooh-poohed his grueling trip 115 miles into space.

But Shepard, whose code name 1*! Freedom 7, is far away from ah this.

He faces two days of seclusion cn Grand Bahama Island and a scientific grilling to wring from him the most minute details of Ms 15-minute adventure.

The White House and President Kennedy will wait until Monday ~ as will the nationto give Shepard his welcome.

New York City and Los Angeles | offered ticker tape parades whenever Shepaid was reaay.

There was little doubt that Shepards featand the perfect

shot of his Redstone rocket made no mention of his attempt-

were a major step for the U. S. man in space progralti, aimed at putting a man in orbit before the year is out.*

But the official Soviet news agency Tass said the Project Mercury shot could not be com

ing to control his spaceship Vos-tok.

If the Soviet Union was reluctant to credit the feat, Shepards hometown of Derry, N, H., was not.

The whole town exploded into

a full-scale holiday .when hews

Shepard will have to wait until his trip to Washington to be '^reunited with his parents and his wife.

around the world by Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin.

The difference is clearly the huge Soviet rockets and their ability to carry more weight at greater speeds into space.

But at least on existing evidence, Shepards attempts to control his space capsuleeven though it was backed up by automatic systems that insured

arrived that Shepard and his space capsule had splashed down safe and well into the Atlantic some 302 miles off the Florida coast. ^

Residents hailed Shepards parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alan B, Shepard Sr., and their daughter, Pauline.

The governor was thinking of

. , proclaiming a state-wide celebra-

a gainst^ errorseemed somewhat jtTon tn thr space pilots honor

some Derry residents seemed

more, than Gagarins.

The Soviets have told little of what Gagarin did, but they have

ready to change the name of the town to Spacetown, U. S. A,

While the parents were tensely watching their sons exploit on television at Derry, Shepards wife, Louise, and their two children watched on TV, too, at their Virginia Beach. Va-, home.

. This is Just a baby step, I guess, to what we will see. Mrs. Shepard said. To the question of whether she would like to see her husband orbited around the world in a rocket, she hesitated, then said: Well, it is a hard question, but, yes. since he wants it so very badly.

Mrs. Shepard, 34. seems to know the same side of her rocksteady husband as do the psychologists who helped pick him for the job.

They explain that Shepard, a former Navy test pilot, looks at his rocket flight with the same eyes in which he sees test of high performance aircraft.

Perhaps that explains Shepards calm voice back from space saying:

What a beautiful sight.

This is Freedom 7. The fuel is going.

All clear, this is Freedom 7. And when he landed and told a marine: Boy, what a ride! Members of Congress have suggested that Shepard be given the Congressional Medal of Honor.

President Kennedy told a news conference he would ask Congress for more money to promote space efforts. Earlier he had said All America rejoices in Shepards feat.

We have a long way to go tn the field of space, said Kennedy We are behind, but we are working hard and we are going to increase our efforts.

Salutes to Shepards feat echoed through the capitals of Britain, West Germany, France. Canada, Spain, South Africa, Nationalist China and all through Latin America-

No doubt the world was watching as U.S. space experts cautiously bided their time, postponing the shot Tuesday because of bad weather.

At 9:34 Friday morningafter another bout with clouds- and a temporary equipment problem the Redstone rocket with Shepard in its space capsule roared skyward.

Helicopters grabbed it from the Atlantic and hoisted Shepard

miles to the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain. Less than 3^/z hours after the launching, Shepard was at Grand Bahama Island, flown there by Navy planes.

After his visit to the White House, he is expected back at this Florida base.- for extended tours in the astronauts flight trainer a last attempt to relive the strange ordeal in space.

Scientists need to know everything they can of the brutal pressures of speeding up and slowing down in rocket travel And about the unearthly experience of weightlessness.

- Shepard experienced some five minutes o continuous weightlessness and performed all of his assigned tasks canahlv during time, taking some of the mystery out of the space flight phenomena

The major physical stress of

was appyreuUy during

the encountering of the forces that crushed Shepard back into his seat during reentryforces 11 times as powerful as gravity.

During this period of stress, Shepards pulse rate rose to 120 oer minute. Then it returned to 105 as the G-force lessened.

Space pilots who have faced G-forces in the centrifuge have learned reflex mechanics of coj^ ing with them. They deliberately tense upand in this way help keep their blood flow normai

Shepard, cheered by the sailors who lined the deck of the carrier that ^picked him up, was also toasted with champagne when he arrived by plane at Grand Bahama Island. But he didnt get himselL.

He had to be satisfied with a big shrimp cocktail, a roast beef sandwich and iced tea.

Congress Appears Willing

To Increase Space Outlays

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gleeful over the first U. S. manned space flight. Congress seemed willing and eager today to provide extra money for the substantially larger effort^ President Kennedy promises for space exploration.

Minutes after he learned of Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr.s successful flight Friday, Kennedy i.s-ued a statement saluting the feat

chairman of the Senate GOP

Policy Committee, said he believed Congress would provide additional funds within reason to speed the day W'hen the U. S. sends a man into orbit.

Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an influential member of both the space group and appropriations corn

field.

but calling for redoubled endeav-l^^'^e, said Congress stood ready

or for a truce conquest of space.

Later, at a news conference, the President pledged a substantially larger effort and said he would ask Congress for additional funds to carry out the space program.

With success still sweet, many congressmenon both sides of the aisleseemed in a mood to go along with him.

With the Soviet man-in-orbit still fresh, many felt like Rep. Richard L. Roudebush, R-Ind., who called the U. S. rocket success a tonic for the whole . na,^ tionit certainly boosts my morale.

Sen. Styles Bridges, R-N. H.,

to support fully a program that would give the U. S. predominance.

A fedling of relief and a collective well-done arose from the hearts and minds of 180 million Americans with the news of Cmdr. Shepards return from a successful visit to outer space, Russell said. However, we cannot spare time for celebration or self-congratulation,

We must press forward from here until we have achieved predominance in space operations. The Congress stands ready to fully support such a program,

The next step, said Sen. John Siennis, D-Miss., is to complete the orbit with followup efforts to

Rep, Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Massachusetts, former GOP

House leader, said the flight

will win the applause of all

Americans and is an emphatic

demonstration of the great progress of American space efforts. Amid the rejoicing, however, there ran a current of realization that Fridays lob through space still didnt bring the United States abreast of the Soviets.

Sen.-J. W. Fubright. D-Ark., was one who cautionedas did

Health Is Good, High Spirits

By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE

Rusk To Tell Allies More

Unity, Strength Required

WASHINGTON (AP) Secre

tary of State Dean Rusk flies to Europe today to tell Allied for-

Associated Press Science Writer eign ministers that the strongly GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND (AP) aggressive operations of the -spaceman Alan Shepard is in Communist in such places

fxceUent health and very high C* Cuba make greater spirits today, said officials at his umty and mihtary strength im

hospital home here. ^

He breakfasted before 8'"a.m. on scrambled eggs, orange juice, toast and jelly and faced a busy day of more medical checkouts and interviews with engineers.

KAnnasHv thof ^ psvchologlsts and psycMatrists.

hsf Ino p hnh fe f The Other four astronauts were

be done even though this is a

big forward step.

Even before Shepards forward step and Kennedys, plea for a redoubled effort, the- House Space cfommittee had authorized $126.6 million more than Kenne-

due in today to take part in learning Shepards experiences as a pilot and what they might expect if they go aloft on future flights. Two others flew here Friday. Engineers of Project Mercury 10CO bringing over tapes of data fLfLi. recorded from his flight so they

can talk more Intelligently from

ranking Republican on the Sen- reach other planets. We must con-te Armed Services, Space andltinue our efforts to the utmost. Appropriations committees, and ^ We cannot be second best in this

space exploration program.

The idea is to show a sense of urgency. said Chairman Overton Brooks, D-La. The committee feels there is a sense of urgency and that this shows it,

Many of the committee members after approving the extra cash, flew down to Cape Canaveral. Fla., and watched the astronaut rocketed into space.

Nikita Says U.S. And Cuba Should Talk Differences

MOSCOW (AP)-Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said today the United States should open negotiations with Cuba to settle its differences on a basis of live and let live.

His speech, reported by Moscow Radio, was delivered in Erevan at ft meeting of the Armenian -Parliament held to celebrate the 40th ftnniversary of the establishment of Soviet rule in the republic.

Khrushchev said the international situation had been aggravated recently.

The peoples of the whole world lire greatly alarmed by the intrigues of the imperialist aggressors against the freedom-loving people of Cuba,

He drew stormy applause as lie condemned what he described fti intervention in Cuba which had not threatened anyone.

He noted that the attack had been repulsed and commented U. S. statesmen should draw the proper conclusions.

Khrushchev said that Cuba had proposed to normalize Its relations with the United States by negotiating on a basis of live fti.d let live He added if America would follow this principle it would be to the mutual advantage of everyone and without harm to the prestige of anyone.

Turning to the situation in Laos, he said measures were now being taken to put out the fire there which he insisted were started by American efforts to divert the Boutheast Asia country from a

Eosition of neutrality which had een e.stablished by 1954 Geneva agreement,

Laos. Khrushchev said. wanLs to use its energies for

powers should abstain from using Laos as an area for military intrigues.

Turning to the Soviet proposal lor abolishing U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjolds job Khrushchev said The United

Nations organization suffers from ailments which need treatment.

He said that a reorganization of the United Nations would enable that body to answer its purpose and to examine and

solve whatever problems may arise without bias and w'ith due regard for the interests of all nations. to make it an effective instrument of safeguarding the peace of the world instead of being one to do the bidding of one group of states at the expense of the others.

In his lengthy speech Khru

shchev asked for early and successful negotiations on disarmament, saying the international situation had grown more tense

about disarmament.

He repeated his formula that if the United States w-ill accept complete and total disannament, the Soviet Union would accept whatever controls the United States wishes.

The United States has repeatedly replied that its proposals for controls must accompany progressive disarmament.

No Runoff For Farmville Race Is Contemplated

FARMVILLEFrank K. Allen, one of three candidates for mayor in last Tuesdays municipal election, announced today he will not ask for a runoff,

Allens decision left former mayor O. G. Spells Tuesday total of

He said that the Soviet vrnment was preparing seriously Charles S. Ed-

for talks with the United States!u j-

Allen, by town ordinance, was

Dowdy Fashions Under Criticism

allowed five days after the election to decide w'hether to call for a runoff. He received 404 votes and the third candidate. Will E. Joyner, collected 311.

In his statement today Allen MOSCOW (AP)-Dowdy dress-l^aid; es came under criticism from thei After careful and deliberate

Soviet press today,

Spring is here, said the government newspaper Izvestia. But in the shops there are no newly-styled cotton dresses and suits Izvestia complained that the stores are crammed with readymade dresses tha:t-cost much to

produce, but that no one wants peaceful purposes. The Western to buy because they lack style.

consideration, I have decided not to ask for a runoff. . .for mayor I am deeply grateful to all of the fine people who^ ga^ve me their support in the rec'eqt election.

In succeeding Edwards, Spell follows the man who unseated him six years ago. Edwaciis_J.his year declined to seek re-elec

tion to a fourth term as mayor.

an engineering viewpoint about what happened.

Dr. George Ruff, psychiatrist at the Univecsity of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Rol^rt Voas, psychologist and training officer of Project Mercury, will lee Shepard today. His reflexes are being checked by Dr. Charles Jackson and Dr. Phillip Cox expects to examine the astronaut again also,

Shepard got another chest X ray. Blood samples were found to be normal, said Mercury information officer John Powers.

When Shepard appeared at a party given at the base Friday night, he said the Grand Bahama Island support of the program has always been good and in this flight it was out of this world. Astronaut Virgil I, Grissom slept in the hospital building with Shepard Friday night because it was felt he should not be alone, e\en though he was believed to be in superb physical condition.

Grissom and astronaut Donald Slayton arrived here Friday, Coming today are the other members of the team, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Leroy Cooper and John Glenn.

Medical men reported first physical and psychiatric checkups showed Shepard in fine fettle.

Hes just like he was before the flight, only hes happier, of course, said Dr. William K. Douglas, the astronauts personal physician.

Douglas said the tape records of Shepard's flight "showed he performed remarkably well the complex tasks required of him. Five minutes of weightlessness apparently posed no problem, nor dd the increased gravity pull of re-entry.

This all indicates, as did the recent flight of Russian Yuri Gagarin, that man can pilot space vehicles, perhaps on quite long trips.

But the Soviets have given few helpful details. Some of the psychological questioning concerns designing of equipment and procedures best suited for man to perform safely and efficiently in a new arena, space.

perative.

Rusk heads for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers Council in Oslo, Norway, starting Monday. He is due in Oslo tonight.

President Kennedy told a news conference Friday that he hopes NATO will be strengthened by the meeting in Oslo and that we will make a more determined effort.

'I believe that as other situations become more difficult there is a common recognition of the need for closer collaboration. Kennedy said. That is true of NATO.

Rusk is expected to tell the Allies that as pressures from the Communist bloc increase in crit

ical areas of cold war conflict

Nuisance Action

LEOPOLDVILLE, the Cong (AP)The Congo Republic has closed its important Brazzaville Airport to Edited Nations planes, the U. N. command reported today.

the United States may face the need for drastic measures to meet the Red threat and that it wants the support and understanding of its friends for such actions.

Within NATO itself, U. S. officials said, Rusk will urge an increase in the conventional military forces which could be used to meet the initial thrust of an attack in a NATO axea and perhaps delay thereby the hour for defensive use of nuclear weapons.

Specifically, Rusk is expected to argue that the European allies must rely less, in the first instance, on U. S. and British nuclear retaliatory power and more on conventional arms.

At his news conierence, Kennedy said the administration is considering the possibility of using American forces against the Communist guerrilla forces in South Viet Nam, a country bordering Laos, if that should become L^iessary. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will discuss the matter when he meets next week with Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem,

Rusk 15 slated to report on the Cuban and Southeast Asian situ-

A . N. spokesman said President Abbe Fulbert You-lon of the neighboring Congo Republic charged U. N. planes have been buzzing his capital, Brazzaville. The spokesman denied the charge and termed the airport closure a nuisance action. A number of U. N. planes are stationed in Brazzaville and use the airport for supply missions to the Congo.

ations as well as to review the worsening state of U.S.-Soviet relations. In that context, he will also talk about disarmament and the negotiations at Geneva among the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union on a nuclear w*eap-cns test ban.

Kennedy announced Friday he was sending Ambassador Arthur H, Dean back to Geneva with instructions to strive for a reliable and workable agreementproviding for an international inspection system to prevent sneak tests. But he added that he has asked Dean to report within a reasonable time what prospects there are for getting an agreement with the Soviets.

While the Presidents public attitude was officially hopeful. Rusk was expected to make clear to the ANTO allies that the negoti-ation.s may fail and that the United States may have to decide sometime soon whether it will resume nuclear weapons testing, suspended when the Geneva talks started years ago.

Officials said that U.S. aims In the Oslo conference do not contemplate any agreement there on military problems. What Rusk

'Home Rule Bill Is Introduced

ers in Europe that a much greater effort is needed to provide for Western security in a world that may become increasingly dangerous as the year progresses.

Rusk and his advisers consider it highly probable, for example, -that later this year Soviet Premier Khrushchev may set off a new Berlin crisis by insisting upon changing the status of Al-lied-protected West Berlin and by making a separate peal5e treaty with East Germany. Khrushchev has said in the past that he wants a German settlement and a Berlin agreement in 1961.

NATO forces in the center jf Europe have a present strength of about 21 divisions, including U.S. divisions stationed in Germany, This is about nine divisions short of what they should have by decisions made several years ago.

In addition, Uie United States feels, officials said, that the European allies need to make a great effort to modernize the arms available to these forces and io Imtid up -supportint air andmaval units as well as to step up training prbgrams.

One source of weakness, officials here say, is the drain on

hopes to accomplish is an accept- French military strength of the 8 nee on the part of Allied lead- crisis in Algeria,

Tension has been building up for several days between the Brazzaville regime and the central government of The Congo headed by President Joseph Kasavubu.

Kasavubus officials halted Congo River ferry traffic between Leopoldville and Brazzaville Friday after Youlou charged the central governments arrest of Katanga President Moise Tshombe was banditry that shattered hopes of peace in the Congo.

PLAYS. DIES V, DERBY. England (AP)Herbert P. Kennedy. 23. a steelworker. was found dead Friday with a plastic bag over his head. A neighbor told police: Herbert

had read about the American astronaut and was playing at a spaceman.

Ten-Second Tornado Left 15 Dead In Oklaboma

POTEAU, Okla. (AP)A tornado that didnt last 10 seconds killed 15 persons and injured 57 late Friday as it tore through two tiny towns in eastern Oklahoma.

A family reunion turned into' a tangle of horror when 13 died or were hurt as the twister smashed

of Howe, a community of 500.

Eleven died in Hot^e. four ftt Reichert.

It may have ripped a wing off ft light plane. A young boy said he saw this happen and said he aw smoke rising from the forests on Winding* Stair Mountain after Hl crashed.

The death toll may go higher 8o could the number of Injured. Both ILsts fluctuated Friday night, with victims taken to a half-dozen nearby cities. ...

It didnt iBftt 10 ftecood. aald

Charles Lewallen.

But in those 10 seconds the big;, happy reunion turned into a nightmare. Pour members of the family were killed, nine injured, including two children.

The storm was the worst of many that blanketed most of Oklahoma _foT the second straight lay. 1 came - on TRe^Tirst anlil-versary of a tornado tht killed 13 and injured more than 100 at WUburton, just 40 miles to the west. ^

Twisters struck in neighboring Arkansas, a few miles away. One person was killed near Dover and eight Injured near Lake Hamilton.

There was little warning as the twister smashed out of torrential rain.

Lewallen said his brother-in-law, Wally Lloyd, raced, up to tbft home 1a a pickup trjidk. Be

and his father-in-law. Jack Brown ran out to,the fence and there it was about 50 yards in front of us. We jumped into a ditch Just as We laid down, I looked up and saw the house go. I jumped up and started hunting my children.

The men found their family jistrewnthe yai^, covered

in debris.

I Killed here were Jack Browns father, Charles; Mrs. Wiley Lloyd, daughter of Charles: Pres-'ton Lloyd. Mrs. Lloyd's Infant son j ana Alvin Brown7 Jack Browns ' baby son. - '

I heard my daughter, Connie, screaming for me. I uncovered 'her and carried her to the hlgh-iway where sortie man loaded her in a truck, Lewallen said. I lound my sister-in-law underneath another pile of logs.

Then he found baby Preston Lloyds body.

He looked around and heard crying . . . from his father-in-law. and his own two boys. He found his baby daughter. Stephanie, wrapped in a mattress, her arm broken, and All this time, it was raining something awful.

At-Hower-ft'hout the only buUd. I Ing not wrecked was the office ^iPavi of Dr. 8. C. Dean.

Walter Lewis, who came into town soon after the tornado hit. said the dead and injiu-ed were taken there. And Doc Dean, who Is about 90, is still working now.

This was after midnight-The Rev. S, J. Peters, pastor 01 the Assembly pf God Church at Howe, said: It was pouring town rain. Ail at once it looked like ft blue smoke moving in. And then tt lhit.

Wrangling Over Laos Parleys

HIN HEUP, Laos (AP) Preliminary talks aimed at working out a ceasp-fire for Laos bogged down today as repre.sentatives of the kingdoms warring factions wrangled over where negotiations should be held.r-^^^

Military negotMofSNp teams of six army ofifcers eachWnt by the pro-Communist Pathet' Lao and the royal Laotian government deadlocked shortly after the ing meeting Friday in an doned house on the north -bkn the Nim Lik - River.

Royal officers insisted nent negotiators should hold the

Pitt Reps. Frank M. Wooten and Clifton W. Everett Friday introduced in the House a home rule bill requested Monday by the Pitt County Commissioners.

The measure would add Pitt to a list of counties in the state who have withdrawn from a state-wide policy of having salaries of elected county officials set in Raleigh.

The bill also provides for a $25-a-month pay raise for the county commissioners. It allows the commissioners to fix the number and compensation of salau*ied county employes.

It also gives the commissioners authority to raise the travel allowance of jurors to seven cents a mile for one round trip for each calendar week in which jury duty is required.

New salaries for the commissioners under the bill will be $1.50 monthly for the chairman. $125 monthly for the vice chairman and $100 monthly each for the remaining three commi.ssioners.

The bill is scheduled to go into effect July 1.

Wooten introduoed another measure yesterday that would expand the powers and duties of the Tar River Port Commission.

Provisions within the proposed enactment expand the meaning of the term Tar River Basin Or Tar River Port to include all area within four miles on cither side of the Tar River in Bitt Ccunty.

Other provisions would give the Commission authority t-o finance projects for deepening or widening the rivers channel and acquire and dispose of property.

W. Europe Hails Moral Victory

LONDON (AP)-Alan B. Shepards ride into space gave a lift today to lagging U. S. prestige in the world and the wide open display of the adventure brought cheers.

Western Europe praised both Shepards courage and the courage of the United States in not wrapping its first manned space shot in secrecy. Even the Communist world admired the astronauts fearlessness.

British newspapers reflected the Wests relief that the United States had achieved success after a long and anxious wait. A London Daily Sketch * editorial voiced a feeling widespread in Britain:

Technically, they were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Every setback, every postponement 'was mercilessly exposed.

This is the kind- of achieve-

across Italy, on her way to Venice after a Vatican audience with Pope John XXIII, when she heard the news. I am very glad. an official quoted the British monarch. The spokesman said the queen intended to send Shepard a message.

The reaction in Communist capitals was admiration for Shepard, mild praise for the feat itself and reminders that the U. S. astronauts flight could not compare historically or technically witb Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's global space orbit of last month.

Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev indicated his awareness of Shepards flight without mentioning it specifically. He praised Gagarin in a speech at Erevan, Soviet Armenia, and said the Russian major flew around the globe precisely not just up and down.

Soviet citizens got the news in cut-and-dried fashion, the first

ment we understand in our part; broadcast disclosing it 90 minutes of the world. Thats the way we after Shepard landed in the At-would like to have done it. ilantic. Radio Free Europe Shepards already famous quote beamed bulletins and eyewitness during his 16-minute journey atiaccount.s behind the Iron Curtain. 5,100 miles an hourWhat a! The Red radio in Czechoslovak-ride!formed the same huge ia described the rocket flight as

headline in the Mail, the Express and the Mirror.

primitive and outmoded. But both Czech and Hungarian broad-

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of j casts praised Shepard himself as West Germany, Prime Minister a hero.

Harold MacMillan of Britain and The Red Chinese press In Hong Premier Amintore Fanfani of It- Kong was disparaging The Coni-

aly cabled their congratulations to President Kennedy.

Queen Elizabeth II was flying

munist Commercial Daily said the U. S. space shot was a propaganda stunt.

next session here in Hin Heup. The rebels argued that it should be Ban Namone five miles northward and nearer rebel territory, but that they would have to await

word from higher authority, probably Sunday.

Representatives of Britain and the Soviet Union went to the Indian foreign ministry in New Delhi early today with instructions for the International Supervisory Commission to proceed to Laos to certify that a cease-fire has taken place The group is expect-

When the cease-fire is found to be effective, Britain and the United States will agree to attend the 14-nation Geneva conference on the future of Laos.

TRACKED DOWN

MEMPHIS (AP)-That mysterious and damaging water leak at the Public Works Department has been traced. It was under the floor of the plumbing inspectors office.

ttofney General Says Civil

Rights Laws Will Be Enforced

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Speaking at a campus once struck by integration rioting, U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert P. Kennedy told a Deep South audience today he will enforce civil rights laws vigorously.

Making his first major address as attorney general, the Frt*esi-dents brother flung out an appeal as well as a warning..

In a speech at the University of Sclii, Kennedy

said: You may ask, ^1 we enforce the civil rights statutes.

The answer is: Yes, we W'ill.,. We will not threaten, we will try to help. We will not persecute, we Will prosecute. he said. , We wUl not make or Interpret the laws. We shall enforce them vigorously, without regional bias or political slant.

All this we intend to do. But all the high rhetoric on Law Day about the noble mansions of

the law: all the high-sounding

speeches about liberty" and jusr tice, are meaningless unless peopleyou and Ibreathe meaning and force into it.

Kennedy .said the South, perhaps more than any other section ol the country, has been given the opportunity, challenge and responsibility of demonstrating America at its greatestat Its ll .PQteaUa] Qf_liberty under

law.

He spoke on a campus where rioting occuiTed last January when Georgia University started token racial integration with the admission of two Negro students.

The distuibances were quelled by state authorities and ..the -two students have since attended classes * without Incident.

Kennedy said the problem between the white and colored people is a problem for all sections of the United States. And as 1 have

said I believe, there has been a great deal of hypocrisy in dealing with it. . ,

"Financial leaders from the East who deplore discrimination iu the South belong tp institutions where no Negroes or Jews are allowed and their children attend private schools where no Negro students are enrolled. Kennedy said.

Union officials cxitlciM South-rn readers iiRl yfi prictle# 111*=^ crimination within their unions. Government .officials belong to

private clubs in Washington where Negroes including ambaMftdort are not welcome even at mealtime

My firm belief ia that If wa are to make progresa in this arefi if we are to be trply freat a.<! k nation. th|n we mttit make sure that nobody is denied an opportunity because of raee. treed or color.