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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 3-21-1961 The B-G News March 21, 1961 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The B-G News March 21, 1961" (1961). BG News (Student Newspaper). 1589. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/1589 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. AWS Nominee Qualifications "•/boat's Coining I ( SM Pag* 6 ) ( SM Pag* S ) VoL 45 Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green. Ohio. Tuesday. March 21. 1961 No. 43 J Congo Situation Tense; 1 1 English Major Wins UN Asked To Help Woodrow Wilson Aid UPI—The United States has called on the United Nations ate' Henry J. Peppers, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts, and local authorities to take "immediate steps" to protect ^ 7A was announced last week as the University's third recipient of Americans in the Congo, and the Soviet Union has demanded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, and two women stu- that the U.N. debate the Congo situation again. Meanwhile it dents won honorable mention for the fellowships. is reported that the violence in the Congo is spreading into Peppers was one of 1,3311 students from 381 colleges and neighboring Angola. V universities throughout the United States and Canada to The State Department has receive the awards, which to- instructed U.S. delegates to tal approximately $3 million. the U.N. to request .hat "no effort Early Deadline Set An English major, Peppers has be spared" to assist missionaries '. wy chosen to attend the University of As Plans Progress who have been prevented from Colorado, where he will continue his English studies on his fellow- leaving the eastern Congo and who For'Peace Corps' ship, valued at $2,400. His prc.-cnt in some cases have been mistreat- By Ann Scuerry *>* campus activities include member- ed. The department also warned Much has been written on the ship in Phi Alpha Thcta, national American missionaries again to get Peace Corps, President John Ken- honor society in history, and Sig- out of the Congo. redy's imaginative newest pro- ma Tau Delta, national profession- ject, aimed largely at college stu- al society in English. The department demanded that dents. Congolese troops who have mis- Grants Encourage Teachers R. .Sargent Shriver, former pres- treated missionaries be brought to 9 The fellowships cover the first ident of the Chicago Board of Ed- justice. year of graduate study and arc iK'ation, has been working on a meant to encourage the newly- Meanwhile in Angola the news task force to prepare the program, elected Fellows to consider col- Pepper. agency Lusitania said that armed work out its fallacies, and arrive EASTER SEALS—Members of all university fraternities helped the Easter Seals campaign Saturday by collecting donations In downtown Bowling Green. lege teaching as a possible career. bands of Congolese are terroriz- at a workable plan for its use. Nominations for these highly com- On the basis of past experience, ing white and black settlers in the Pictured above are Tom Short. ATO campaign chairman: Nick Pecora. a generoueI Mr. Shriver has recommended BG donor, and Dick Bauer. petitive awards are made by the the Foundation anticipates that Portuguese territory. its immediate establishment. students' professors. Screening of most of those winning honorable The agency said most cf the Volunteers — specially selected candidates also is done by 16 re- mention awards will receive al- attacks have been carried out a- and trained — are needed in many gional committees drawn from the ternate awards either directly gainst isolated plantations or small fields. The rate of compensation 'Dynamic, Colorful'Artist Van Gogh academic profession. from universities or from other communities. It said an undeter- will be low, but it is hoped the re- Winners were chosen from organizations. mined number of persons have wards will be many. 10,463 nominees, representing been killed and a number of. hous- With plans being formulated Portrayed 'Vividly' By Actor Price 21 per cent increase over last year es burned. rapidly, Mr. Shriver has stated By Pat Detwller revealing letters to his brother and a five-fold increase since th It added that troops and police that the work can begin in one of Theodore. program was expanded in 195S 5. Africa Quits reinforcements have the "situa- two ways. The Peace Corps can The dynamic passions and color- by a $24,500,000 grant from the tion well in hand." begin in very low gear, whenever ful personality of Vincent Van Mr. Price read and interpreted Ford Foundation. Congress gets around to appropri- Gogh were brought vividly to life the "Dear Theo" letters in rich, Commonwealth The Portuguese government re- clear tones and with appropriate 2 Get Mention fused to comment. ating the necessary funds, or it by actor Vincent Price March 1C, Karen Troutner, an English ma- London (UPI)—South Africa, can be formed now with executive gestures. in the ballroom. jor in the College of Liberal Arts, under fire for its policy of white action making sufficient funds Most of lh« Utltr. w»r« written and Martha McNutt, a Spanish supremacy, announced last week available from existing Mutual A tall, gracious-looking man, In In* 1810V In .ham. Van Gogh major in the College of Education, it is quitting the British Common- Security appropriations. Mr. Price presented dramatic in- told of Mi d»lr« and nead for love, were among 1,014 to receive hon- wealth. Much work could be dons In col terpretations of Van Gogh's self- hla •nthuilasm for Ufa, and his Peace Corps orable mention. South African Prime Minister lags and university program!, with excitement for color and painting. A list of their names, fields of emphasis on language, and (•ach- Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd announced With his expressive voice, Mr. .study, and their undergraduate that he had withdrawn hii ing. Nscenary briefing would in OK, GOPSays Price projected to the audience the colleges hase been sent to the country's application for continued Washington (UPI)—GOP Con- elude the history and culture of U.S. Still Hopeful rapidly changing moods of the deans of all graduate schools in the the countries Into which ths Peace membership in the Commonwealth gressional leaders said last week painter. With much rcnlism, he U.S. and Canada and to the Wood- after it becomes a republic on May they'd like to see President Ken- Corps would be tent, and a good Laos Will Create made Van Gogh seem loud, boist- row Wilson Foundation's facully 81. nedy's Peace Corps project suc- background In American history, representatives on 1,126 campuses. erous, humorous, and exciting or He told the other 11 Prime Min- SMd. But they warned against it to provide lbs beit-lnfonnsd "am Neutral Command solemn, somber, and depressed. isters attending the Common- going too far too fast. bae.adors" to these countries. Emphasis now is on work in Mr. Price read six of Van Gogh's wealth Conference that South Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Washington <UPI)—The Unit- Latin America, Asia, and Africa. letters. They dealt mostly with his Africa was quitting because of Dirksen told a news conference he ed States said it still hopes to Kennedy Opposes Research also is being done on the feeling* toward his paintings. In other governments' criticism of conferred with Peace Corps Di- create a three-nation neutrul com- accep'ability of Peace Corps vol- the letters. Van Gogh tended to his country's policy of apartheid— rector R. Sargent Shriver, the mission to try to end the civil Short Work Week unteers in the areas to which they speak of almost everything in or strict racial segregation. President's brother-in-law, and war in Law and establish a basis terms of color, light, und paint. would be sent. Washington (UPI) — President Verwoerd's decision was an- concluded: for a government that would pro- Kennedy last week opposed short- People involved in the project vide more political stability. Ha profauad axcltamanl for Ufa nounced in a communique issued "You can run into difficulties if and a n«ed to axpraas this excite ening the "traditional" 40-hour after an all-day session of the will live in the communities in 1 you move too fast too far at one which they will be working, on the At the same time, StaU De- mant In hla painting. Ha said In five-day work week as some labor Commonwealth Prime Ministers. unions are demanding. time." same economic level as the citizens partment spokesman Lincoln White ont latlor wrttlen In 1688 that paint The announcement indicated Dirksen, whose feelings were of that area. Normal service length indicated the U.S. has stepped up lng gave him an extraordinary ax He told his news conference that Verwoerd balked at joining the the present work week was neces- shared by House GOP Leader will be two years, three in some its arms aid to Laos and sent more altaHon. other Prime Ministers in signing a Charles A. Hallcck, added that Re- cases. military advisers to help the Royal Putting the finishing touches sary to provide for America's eco- statement pledging a Common- nomic growth and meet U.S. com- publicans were unsure they could As it is now viewed, the Peace government forces.