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Volume 45 Carbondale, III. Sunday, H...... mber 24, 1963 Humber 46 All Classes Suspended On Monday; Special Memorial Services Planned • • All Activities SIU Students, Faculty To Join Are Suspended Nation In Day Of Mourning Southern lllinois University Students and faculty mem ·On Monday joins the natinn and the world bers on tbe Carbondale and All normal Btlldent activi in a day of mourning Monday Edwardsville campuses all ties will be suspended along for tbe late John F. Kennedy, .... ill join In tbe tribute to the witb classes during the day slain Friday in Dallas, Texas. dead President. and evening Monday,. accord The decision to suspend ac President Morris s a I d ing to John E. Grinnell,. vice tivities throughout the Uni classes, day and night, will president for operations. Car versity came Saturday from not meet at all Monday bondale campus. tbe office of the PreSident, throughout the university. Es Dr. GrlMell said all students Delyte W. Morris. sential housekeeping functions will be expected to observe President Morris announced will be performed, however. the national day of mourning that the memorial observance Normal university activities in cOMection with tbe death Is In keeping with proclama will be resumed at 8 a,m. of President KeMedy. tions by Lyndon B. Johnson Tuesday. President Johnsonofficially and lllinois Gov. Otto Kerner. T .... o periods of music medi declared Monday a day of tation have been scheduled national mourning.. A story Closed Circuit TV Monday and studentR, staff dealing with bis proclamation and the general public are appears on Page 4 of this To Let Students See invited to visit Shryock Audi Issue of the Daily Egyptian. torium on the Carbondale President's Funeral ~ampu8 and the main audi torium, at the Alton and East ROTC Plans A closed-circuit television St. Louis Centers. Appropri arrangement has been de ate music will be featured Memorial Rites signed to permit all SIU stu from 9 to 10 a.m. and from dents to watch President 2 to 3 p.rn. At Stadium Kennedy's funeral Monday. TeleviSion receivers will A military memorial serv WSIU-TV has arranged to be installed in the University Ice for tbe late President carry the CBS coverage of Center and in certain class John F. Kennedy Will be con Monday morning's events in rooms at the Carbondale Cam ducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday the nation's capital. In addi pus for the convenience of in McAndre.... Stadium, It .... as tion to telecasting on Channel students. aMounced by Col. George H. 8, closed-circuit TV will be A special military service Blase, commander of the offered in three SIU buildings will be hold at 10: IS a.m. Southern minois University to permit all students to watch. Tuesday In McAndrew Stadium .by the Air Force ROTC cadets. Air Force ROTC unit. Coverage will be started at Col. Blase said some 2,700 8:30 a.m. and will continue Similar observances are cadets, Including the ROTC Editorial: until tbe conclusion of the planned for the Alton and East St. LouiS Centers. In the event band, honor guard and firing President's funeral. squad, will participate In the of rain at Carbondale. the ceremony. Assassination Rlustrates In the University Center, service will be held in Shryock The entire student body Is the closed-Circuit TV will he Auditorium. Students. staff invited to attend the service. Necessity Of Compromise available in the Roman Room, and the public are invited to he added, pointing out that Olympic Room, 'Jallery attend. It will be held during the An orderly succession [0 In the one instance of real Lounge and Ballroom. WSlU (FM) and WSlU-TV scheduled leadership lab power is one of the glories breakdown in ability to reach Sets will be available in will continue to carry national oratory for ROTC cadets and of American representative consensus, Americans fought Home Economics Lounge and and local programming on the during the activities period government. Americans elect a bloody civil war. We still Rooms \02, 104, 106, 118, death of the President. WSlU for other SlU students. their President every four face problem s that are con 120 and 122. (FM) is planning a rebroad years, following Constitu sequences of that ware- cast of portions of the con Religious Groups tionally defined practice. When Americans no longer In Old Main, closed-circuit tinuing reports on the activ Assassinations and coup close ranks once a decision TV sets will he available in ities on Monday from the ABC Plan Services d'etats that mar many other has been made, representa Rooms 102 A, 104, lOS, 106, radio network while WSIU-TV 107, 108, 301, 302, 303, 305, Religious centers serving attempts at democratic gov tive government in the United will offer Similar coverage ernment are rare in the United States no longer will be safe. 305 A, 306, 306 A, 307, 308 from CBS. SIU completed plans Saturday and 313. for special services in mem States. Should a sizable element of ory of PreSident John F. The assassination of Pres this nation come to accept WSIU-TV does not telecast Football Season Kennedy. Ident John F. Kennedy on Fri assassination and co u p on Saturday and Sunday but it d'etat--rather than the bal The Newman Center plans day Is a breakdown in that will return to the alr on Mon for SIU Ends lot--as legitimate means of High Masses for the reJllse orderly succession EO pres day wltb tbe special coverage SIU's final football game of idental power. We deplore it. changing a government they of tbe PreSident's funeral. the season with North Texas of the soul of the late Pres dislike, democracy will be The University's radio sta State Saturday was cancelled ident, to he held at 10 and A mer i can s traditionally doomed. 11 a.m. Sunday. Anotber Hig" make their decisions at the tion, WSIU-FM, picked up the because of the death Friday Mass will he held at 10 a.m. The assassination of Pres ABC broadcasts shortly after of President Kennedy.. ballot hox and through their Ident Kennedy on Friday is Monday. congressional representa the President's death and will Head Coach Carmen Piccone an instance where at least continue its up-to-the minute said the game will not be The Student Christian Foun tives. After other profound one individual felt orderly dation and the Wesley Foun splits of opinion they have repons throughout the ....eek rescheduled. thus SlU's foot processes of change were end. ball season has ended. dation will adapt their Thanks ralIied around the prevailing inadequate. giving services to memorial Side. The assassination must services for the President .. Rather than provoke Civil serve as a reminder that dis St. Andrew's Cburch plans war, Samuel J. Tilden ac CUSSion, give - and - take' and President Morris Pays a requiem celebration of the quiesced to a decision which compromise are necessary in Holy Communion at 12 noon made his opponent, Ruther American political life. The Tribute To Kennedy Monday In metllOry of the ford B. Hayes, PreSident in ways of extremism are nO( During this period of mourning for President KeMedy President. The Rev.. W;. John the disputed 1876 election. for U8, no matter what the I trust we can profit from contemplation of a good and Harris will be the celebrant. After vigorous debates on the issue, national or interna courageous life. reflectin& his concern for his fellow men. question of entering World tional .. Whether the .... ay was easy or bard he lived by his Library Open Wars I and n, Americans If President Kennedy's ·prlnciples. rallied to the deciSion to fight. death serves to remind Amer It was heartening to have him on our campus to share Morris Library will be open Social changes of vast signifi ica of this--that the way of the .... armth of his empathy with the morally based • regular hours today and cance, such as federal income moderation and compromise intellectual life for which we strive. Monday. tax and social security, were is the way we must choose- He will live on wilh us if we but open our hearts [0 There is a possibility. how accepted only after long de his death wlll not have been embrace the significance of the profile of courage he ever. that it will serve only bate--but they were accepted in vain. leaves with us. as a study ha1l 4 peacefully. Nick Pasqual Delyte W. Morris Page 2 Noyemb.r 24. 1963 _ House Speaker John McCormack Kennedy's Career Is Next In Line Marked By 'Firsts' The youngest man ever to be elected PreSident, A veteran Massachusetts the first to face the immInent possibility of nuclear legislator is now first in line war, the first Catholic chosen for the highest office for the presidency of the of the U.S.-- this Wl!S President John F. Kennedy. United States. Inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1961 at tbe age of 43. He is Rep. John W. McCor Kennedy was thrown into the confusion of international mack, who will be 72 years affairs immediately after his election With the fiasco of age in December. With Cuban invasion and didn't leave it until his death, the assassination death of the latest crisis being the overthrow of the Viet Nam President Kennedy Friday, regime. Vice President Lyndon John The crises be faced at home and abroad ranged son succeeds to the nation's from the threat of nuclear war. over Russian missle highest officea hases In Cuba to a stand-off with steel manufacturers over price increases and the most vigorous campaign Under the law of succession,. for Negro rights since Lincoln. McCormack, as the saying Kennedy began his political career a< 29 when he goes. is now but a heart-beat entered Congress In 1946. After winning reelection away from the presidency. twice, he ran for the Senate In 1952 and defeated The law provides that the Senator Lndge. speaker of the House of Rep resentatives shall act as Though still a freshman, politically, be was a strong contender for the Democratic nomination for President in the event there JFK'S LAST APPEARANCE - President President In 1956, giVIng the experienced Senator is neither a President nor speaking in Fort Worth, Texas, a shart while befo~ he flew to Elites Kefauver of Tennessee a run for his money. vice president. The duties of DaUas where he was killed Friday. In the real' IS GoY. T a the office fall upon the speaker DurIng tlIe next four years. be prepared for the Connally of Texas (left) and Vice President Lynd. Johnson next election by conducting a whirlwind campaign, after he resigns his office. (right). (AP Wirephoto) travelling all over tbe country, making speeches, If the speaker should not speaking With local politicians and making friends. qualify himseH to serve, the His Own 'Profile In Courage' Despite the fact that a Catholic had never been office then goes [0 the pres elected II) this office, Kennedy felt this would be no idem pro tempore of the handicap. When this proved to be true, Kennedy.thantlng Senate. If he does not, the Now Belongs To The Ages the voters said. ". bad 110 doubt that you would cast succession is secretary of By John Matheson Idle rich. But his decision was your 'lUte on the baSis of the Issues and not on any state, secretary of the treas Tbe United States of Amer toward public service, In tbe rellKious prejudice." ury, and so forth through the ica toot on a funeral atmos House of Representatives. tbe cabinet offices. phere Friday after the death United States Senate, and 'Bay Of Pigs' Invasion Throws McCormack, like [he late by assassination of the na finally. In tbe presidency. Presid~n[~ is a Boston Irish tion's President. He and Mrs. Kennedy were President Into International Crises man. He was first elected [0 Here at SIU ~ the entire cam no strangers to personal Shonly after his Inauguration, Cuban refugees began Congress in 1928 and in 1940, pus was plunged into a mood tragedy. A hrother lost his filtering back Into Cuba, determined to wrest the was elected majority leader. of deep personal loss. A yollng life in the war, a sister was Island from the control of the Communist and Castro. He held that post under the man who had served his nation mentally retarded, .he Pres The activity came to a head in May when the Bay of long speakership of Sam Ray for much of his life and who Ident and his wife lost chlldren Pigs invasion ended in tragedy. Despite the blame of their own. Wealth and posi burn of Texas. and was elected reached its political pinnacle attributed '0 Kennedy for the failure, he repeated his to the speakership after Ray had been murdered. tion did not insure personal intensions of protecting the country when he said, burn~s death late in 1961. In retrospect~ the general happiness to John Fitzgerald '-rn the event of any military intenention by outside He was the first Roman reaction was that of being Kennedy. • force, we will immediately honor our obligations Catholic speaker of the house. stunned~ utterly and complete But he had a lot of people under the inter-American system to protect this ly. In the morning we had the on his side when he was living; hemisphere against external aggression." picture of that charming young this was true not only in his To prove his point, Kennedy pushed through the man from Massachusetts, on own nation~ but throughout the adoption of a $600 million aid program for Latin the campaign - type trail in world. And even some of his America and the creation of the Alliance for Progress. Texas. Before the noon hour enemies said one could not A strong believer in internationalism and American~s was out, he had been fatally detract from his charm~ obligations to under developed countries in danger of shot. Soon afterward" the na So this was the setting when Communism, Kennedy's administration also passed the tion had a new President. the President rode through Trade Expansion Act which gave the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Dallas with his wife at his unprecedented power in tariff-cutting to bargain for was an outstanding American side. It was in these ciTt:.!Hn mutual tariff concessions by the European Common by many standards. Even as stances, as Sir Wmston Market and other non-Communist countries. a young man, be was an author Churchill said, that this In domestic policies, Kennedy strove for economic of note and be later won a monstrous act was committed. growth without inDation which brought the steel Pulitzer Prize for a boot In death. the PreSident has Crisis. Led by United States Steel~ steel manufacturers whose title now seems par become a member of bouse announced a $6 a ton price increase after signing ticularl y apropros: uProfiles holds throughout the world; a wage agreement With the United Steelworkers Union. in Courage. U the sense of loss Is deep and Kennedy himself met with U.s. Steel president Roger He risked his life for his It Is personal. Perhaps this M. Blough to discourage the action, and the President crewmen when PT 109 was explains why the entire nation won, adding that ""dus administration harbors no rammed and sunk during today seems like one gigantic ill will against any indjvidual~ anyindustry,corporation World War II. This illustrates funeral home. or segment of the American economy." a fine old Navyquality,loyalty The deep sympathies of all up~ and loyalty down. As a students and faculty at South Racial Strife Leads To Martial HELD PRESIDENT - Mrs. Jac· result~ the President carried ern minois University go out queline Kennedy held the head to his premature grave a to the President's wife, his Law In Birmingham, Alabama of her wounded and dying hus severe back injury resulting children, and all .be other band os his limousine sped th from wartime service to his members of his family. Perhaps the greatest internal crisis of all, however, rough downtown Dallas to the nation~ As was said of Abraham began in Birmingham, Ala., when Negro and white nearest hospital. He died in the After the war~ he could have Lincoln" .John Fitzgerald Freedom Riders. in the spring of 1961, sought to break hospital about thirty minutes chosen the line of least re Kennedy now belongs to the down bus station racial barriers. The movement grew later. sistance and been one of the ages. and violence broke out until the President"s brother~ Attorney General Roben Kennedy, ordered U.S. marshals to Montgomery, Ala. and manial rule was Kennedy Receives Homage Of World Figures, declared. StUl worse rioting broke out in September~ 1962, Johnson Confers With Rusk And Eisenhower when Negro J ames Meredith attempted to enroll at (Continued from page 4) Authorities said the trail which Kennedy was rushed~ "'Ole~ Miss'" in Oxford, Miss. Again~ despite the Jed clearly to this man with Mrs. Kennedy had pressed a attempts of Governor Ross Barnett" Kennedy won, J don't know what this is all dark hair. piercing black eyes final kiss on his lips, slipped and Meredith was admitted. about." and sharp fearures. Deputy her ring onto his finger and The moS[ tense crisis of all came just about a year Dist. Arty. Henry Wade. who Police Chief M. W. Stevenson asked a priest to '·pray for ago, When, convinced of Soviet nuclear build-up on filed the assassLlation - said Oswald was arraigned him." CUba, the President appeared on television to announce murder charges against late Friday night on a charge She still wore the pink sUit that a quarantine would be put in effect around the Oswald. 24, told reporters: of murdering Kennedy. sbe had on In Dallas, stained island to prevent funher delivery of weapons. He then uThe re is no one else but With the life-blood of her dying called for the removal of existing weapons from the him.u Kennedy's body was taken to husband. island. Tense days followed until Khrushchev backed Oswald worked In the school the naval hospital in Bethesda~ DAlLY E(;YPTlA.V down. textbook warehouse from Md., for preparations for lying Pubhsbt:1fln Ihr IA-panmem of Journall' Vice President Lyndon Johnson Takes Office As 36th President In United States Hiswry LATE PRESIDENT AND MRS. KEI-'NEDY LEAD MARCH TO THE WHITE HOUSE DINING ROOM AT NEW FIRST LADY. 'LADY BIRD' JOHNSON ANNUAL DINNER FOR THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HELD EARLIER THIS WEEK po.... DAILY EGypnAM Kennedy, Lying In State, Receives Homage Of Figures Around World . . - 2nd Johnson Johnson Takes Over Duties, Holds Highest Talks With Rusk, Eisenhower WASIDNGTON Christian Church-Disciples of U.S. Office Christ. The United States of Amer John F. lCennedy came back Johnson proclaimed Mon ica now bas its second Pres in death Saturday" to the White day, the day of Kennedy's ident with the name of House and the homage of the funeral, a national day of -Johnson. mighty. on a duH, gray. drip mourning and ordered all fed ping day. Both have succeeded to. of eral offices in and out of -- fice following assassination And a new president. Lyndon Washington closed fortheday. of their predecessors. Fri B. Johnson, sw..ng gravely "I invite the people of the and swiftly into the task of ~ day. Lyndon Baines Johnson world who share our grief:' of Texas succeeded John rallying a national government: the President-s proclamation _ Fitzgerald Kennedy. dazed by the slaying of its said, "to join us in this day chief. Nearly 100 years ago~ of mourning and rededication •., Andrew Johnson of Tennes The towering Texan con Struck down Friday by an see succeeded Abraham Lin ferred with Secretary of State assassin's rifle fire in Dallas, coln after John Wilkes Booth's Dean Rusk, Secretary of De Tell... Kennedy lay in a closed, buller felled the PTcsl'ient in fense Roben S. McNamara bronze casket in the famed Ford's Theater in Washing and former President Dwight East Room ofthe White House. ton. Andrew Johnson served D. Eisenhower.. perhaps an In happier moments. this from April 15. lSb5, until indication of questions of vast beautiful room is the statecraft, defense and na March 3, I ~,,9. scene of concens. dances and The nelion's new Presi tional unity uppermost on his gay festivities. dem was sworn in abour 2:30 mind. On Saturday, candle light p.m. CST Friday at the Dal In the midst of newly ac flickered on a casket. Priests las airport; a federal judge quired duties. the man woo prayed. An honor guard stood administered the oath of of took the helm of government at anention. Relatives, friends with a plea for God's help fice [0 Johnson in his home and associates of the dead state. slipped awsy to St. John's PreSident, government of President Johnson was born Episcopal church.. just across fiCialdom. diplomats, a former near Stonewail, Texas, on Aug.. from the White House. John president. filed by in mourn son is a member of the 27 ~ I qu8. and is a graduate ful tribute. of Southwest State Teachers A hundred yards away, in College in San Marcos.. He Editorial Tributes the west wing of the executive anended GeorgelOwn Law Of Press Carry mansion.. Jobnson came to School, and was a teacher work, to consult and be con in the HouslOn public schools Black Borders sulted on the massive prob from 193010 1932, lems that pressed down upon The black - hordered edi He was secretary to Rep. Period OJ Mourning him from the instant Kennedy Richard M. Kleberg of Texas torial was widely used in Mid died, western newspapers Saturday. from 1932-1935, and state di~ Proclaimed By Kerner From the breadtb of a still rector of the National Youth Thus was expressed the stunned world, messages of Administration in Texas from FolloWIng is the text of the proclamation Issued tribute of the press to the condolence streamed to the 193510 1937. Saturday by Gov. Otto Kerner: nation's slain President. White House. Men and women ·~e gave his life in its He was elected to Congress "Whereas the American people and the people here and around the globe of the free ""rid haYe heen depriYed of their lea