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SUI, City Rights Groups Tell of Progress, Problems
   Richard Lloyd-Jones, associate professor of English, has been named chairman of the Committee on Human Rights at SUI, succeeding William Boyd, professor of law, who headed the committee during the first year of its existence.
   Professor Lloyd-Jones has accepted a three-year appointment to the Committee on Human Rights, said President Virgil M. Hancher. Other faculty members continuing on the committee are Philip Hubbard, professor of mechanics and hydraulics, and Donald B. Johnson, professor of political science. Alumni members of the unit are Sam Saltzman and William Nusser, both of Iowa City. James Bennett, L1, Newton and Sara Brogan, A4, Thornton, are student members.
   Professor Boyd has submitted the first annual report of the committee, and in it the activities of the group in 1963 are described as follows:

     Off-campus housing -- A fair housing policy has been established for both approved and unapproved off-campus housing and procedures adopted to process complaints of persons who seek to rent rooms.

   Student organizations -- The committee has worked closely with the Committee on Student Life to assure to all student organizations free choice in the selection of members.
   The Committee on Human Rights also is seeking to stimulate students to develop a sense of involvement with what is the nation’s primary domestic problem.
   
   Inter-institutional cooperation -- The committee has recommended creation of a separate committee to explore the establishment of a cooperative program with a southern Negro college or university. President Hancher has appointed this committee under the chairmanship of Dean Ray Heffner, vice president for instruction.

  Community cooperation -- The committee is working with interested groups in the city and state, and has cooperated with the Iowa City Ministerial Association in the creation of the municipal human relations commission.

   Education -- The committee has attempted to utilize education as a vigorous force in the elimination of bigotry. 

  Research -- a member of the law faculty is engaged in a study of Iowa statutes and ordinances relating to civil rights. 

  Employment -- The committee is greatly interested in the placement of students upon graduation.

   The committee has found no instant solutions for the complex and subtle problems of discrimination in the north. Most of the steps which must be taken to eliminate discrimination are tedious and of little news value, yet this does not make them any less essential. While human rights committees and commissions are useful, they do not relieve the individual of his personal responsibility to refrain from using race, color, creed and national origin as bases for discrimination.  

   Community education programs for relieving substantial discrimination appear to be next on the 

Will Not Use SARE Books States Mayor
   The books the SUI Student Association for Racial Equality (SARE) delivered to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee headquarters in Greenwood, Miss., will not be used by the city, according to Mayor Charles E. Sampson.
   Conferring with SUI student Ken Keat, A1, Manilla, Sampson said flatly, “We will not accept help from Robert Moses (former head of SNVCC) or from the Committee.”
   SNVCC has repeatedly called the library facilities in Greenwood “inadequate.”
   The city has just finished construction of a new Negro branch library within three blocks of the SNVCC headquarters. It is the eleventh library or branch for Negroes in Laflore county, and the fourth in Greenwood. SNCVV spokesman, James Jones, said he knew of no such library.
   Miss Jody Wilson, a Negro librarian in Greenwood, said that a Laflore county Negro can obtain any book in the county library system merely by asking for the title at one of the branch buildings.
   The books collected in Iowa City last fall by SARE are currently in the attic of SNVCC headquarters. The organization says they will be catalogued and distributed to a site for a Negro library somewhere in each of Mississippi’s five congressional districts.


agenda for Iowa City’s Human Relations Commission. 
   A need for a change in attitudes was indicated in the Commission’s official report to the city. “This education must be directed, not only to the landlord but, unfortunately, to the tenant as well -- which in effect means everyone.” Commission member Simeon Strauss explained.
   Established by a city ordinance in September, 1963, the Commission’s first project was a housing survey to compile a list of Iowa City landlords who would rent without discrimination based on race, color, creed or nationality.
   A questionnaire used asked for two “yes” or “no” answers. First, “I agree to have my rentals counted with others who will rent without regard to race, creed or national origin. This does not preclude refusal to rent for legitimate reasons.”
   Secondly, “I agree to have my rentals listed with others who will rent without regard to race, creed or national origin.”   

   Interviewers noted comments of landlords during questioning, and each member of the commission evaluated both the statistics of the questionnaire and these comments in their individual summaries of the report. 
   Worry of losing tenants appeared to be one of the most influential reasons for discrimination.
   Non-discrimination in approved University housing was questioned in a summary by Commission member Mrs. Anthony Constantino.  
   In the “no-no” answers to the two preceding questions, of the signed an unassigned group of 105 landlords, 28 or 17per cent rent to University students, according to Mrs. Constantino. 

   One answer was reported as, “I will sign but I do not have to rent rooms and I will rent to anyone I choose. If I could get a Negro like Mr. -- I’d rent to him or if Mr -- would recommend someone but I refuse to put up with any problems that may result from renting to a foreigner or Negro.
   “I am renting rooms as a favor to Dean Huit. I don’t have to rent rooms. I won’t rent to foreigners. They don’t know our ways. They should live elsewhere, in University housing, so they can be taught the American way,” Mrs. Constantino related.
   She noted that this was the only remark that was contradictory.
   Other comments she found common to those landlords not wanting to rent to minority groups included: “It is my personal affair,” “I have the right to sift my tenants,” and “Other tenants must be taken into consideration.”

Preparations Started To Cut Payroll Tax
House Agrees To Go Along With Reduction
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury got a congressional go-ahead Monday to arrange for fatter pay envelopes by cutting the tax withholding rate.
   The change, geared to the tax reduction bill on which Congress is expected to finish action this month, is the equivalent of a small pay raise, probably early in March, for wage-earning and salaried Americans.
   The Senate and House have passed the tax cut bill in different forms, and conferees from both bodies went to work Monday to reconcile the differences.
   WITHOUT much argument, the House spokesmen agreed to go along with the Senate on reducing the tax withholding from the present 18per cent to 14per cent in one step, promptly after action is completed on the bill.
   The house had voted a two-stage reduction in the withholding rate, to 15per cent this year and 14per cent next. This reflected the two-stage cut in tax rates, and was based on the assumption the bill would be in effect by Jan. 1, 1964, or soon thereafter.
   BUT BY THE time the Senate acted, the 18per cent withholding had piled up collections and, at President Johnson’s urging, the Senate voted to make the cuts all at once.
   The Treasury said that a part-year collection at 18per cent and part at 14 would be roughly equivalent to a full year at 15.
   Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, who sat in with the conferees, urge them to announce prompt agreement on the noncontroversial withholding issue. He said his department then would begin immediately mailing to employers withholding tables at the new rate, so they would lose no time revising their payment procedures.
   THE conferees also discussed, without decision, the question of which state taxes will continue to be deductible under the new bill.
   The House version would end deductions for state and local gasoline taxes, auto tags and drivers licenses. The Senate language would continue to permit these deductions. This is the major single item in the approximately $600-million annual revenue difference between the two bills.
   INDICATIONS were[?] there might be a compromise, perhaps limiting reductions to gasoline taxes.

Construction on Launching Facilities, Halted by Strike
   CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) -- Construction on the $213 million rocket launching facilities halted here Monday when striking Florida East Coast Roadway employes picketed Cape Kennedy and the adjacent Merritt Island moonport.
   Placard-carrying pickets protested authorization granted the railroad Monday to operate freight trains on government-owned track on Merritt Island, where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is building facilities for launching astronauts to the moon. 
   Government contractors reportedly planned to seek an injunction through the National Labor Relations Board, charging the pickets with secondary boycott. 
   The Army Corps of Engineers, which supervises construction work both on the Cape and Merritt Island, said that apparently all 4,540 construction workers honored the picket lines. 
   Union sources reported 40per cent of 7,000 industrial union men stayed off the job on Cape Kennedy proper. The Air Force, however, said the number actually was less than 10per cent.
   More than 30 construction projects were affected. The largest are the $100-million vertical assembly building where Saturn 5 rockets will be assembled; the $34-million Titan 3 space rocket complex; a $19-million Saturn 5 launching pad and several administration and support buildings.
   The dispute was triggered Saturday when the space agency gave the railroad permission to transport freight over 4.5 miles of government-owned track on Merrick Island.
   The action culminated an agreement made more than a year ago under which the railroad was to extend its tracks from the city of Titusville on the Florida mainland to join the new NASA spur on the island. NASA said railroad transportation is needed to haul heavy construction materials to its facilities.
   The agreement became effective at 6 a.m. Monday. That’s when the pickets appeared. The first train moved onto the NASA spur three hours later with eight cars loaded with gravel for use as roadbed to extend the track.
   Eleven nonoperating unions have been striking the railroad for 13 months in a contract dispute. There has been no passenger service since then, but supervisory and nonunion personnel have been operating freight runs on the line, which extends from Jacksonville to Florida City, south of Miami, a distance of about 400 miles.
   The Air Force, which runs Cape Kennedy, issued a statement calling the picketing at the Cape unjustified.
   In Miami, city, county and federal agents continued their intensive investigation into twin dynamite blasts which early Sunday disrupted the railroad’s service into the Miami area.
   The first blast derailed a 91-car freight train, sending most of the 33 cars into a tidal stream bed. The second blast crippled a derrick car being sent to help at the scene of the derailment.
   Lt. L.J. Van Buskirk of the Dade County sheriff’s office intelligence unit said all of the freight cars would have to be pulled from the river before his men could complete their investigation.


Scranton, G. Romney Still Holdouts
Each Says Goldwater's Drive 'Diminishing' In His State
   DETROIT, Mich. (AP) -- Govs. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania and George W. Romney of Michigan each tried to push each other into an avowed campaign for the Republican nomination for president Monday. But at the end both still were holdouts.
   Both have said they would accept a GOP draft but wouldn't see the nomination.
   Scranton went so far as to say "I'm not running for nor do I want to be president or vice president of the United States." Romney said he expects to stick to his noncandidate status but couldn't be drawn out on whether he'd like to be president.
   ROMNEY SAID Scranton would make "a wonderful candidate," and Scranton reciprocated. The Pennsylvanian said he had started at a private breakfast with Romney "trying to persuade George to run for president." Each urged the other to announce in joint appearances in public and at news conferences.
   Neither, however, would be pinned down on whether he favors the other over two announced candidates Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York or Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.). In answer to one news conference question, Scranton said Romney was "not more acceptable to me than any other candidate."
   AND BOTH agreed at the end of Scranton's one-day visit that what the Pennsylvania executive once referred to as "kind of a Gaston-Alfonse thing" hadn't swayed either of them to become "an open and avowed candidate."
   THEY ALSO AGREED on another thing: that the momentum of Sen. Goldwater's drive for the nomination had "diminished" in their respective states in recent weeks.
   Both said, however, they consider Goldwater still a strong candidate, and Scranton told newsmen that if the GOP convention were tomorrow, the Arizonan would come into it "with the most delegates."
   SCRANTON CAME here to address the Economic Club of Detroit. He was asked in a question-and-answer period his reaction to a woman's seeking the Republican nomination for president.
   "My opinion of women is that I love 'em'," Scranton quipped, and then went on to describe Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine), as "a very able woman." She is running along with Rockefeller and Goldwater.
   Asked in an appearance before a group of college students who in the GOP has "the best qualifications," Scranton replied: "Based on experience, Dick (Richard M.) Nixon. Does that mean he'd be the best candidate? Not necessarily. Who's the best candidate is not always the best qualified."

Senate Tags Funds For Investigations
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted $4,586,000 Monday to finance a wide variety of investigations by 34 committees and subcommittees in the year ahead.
   Included was $75,000 additional finance through April 30 the Senate Rules Committee's investigation of the outside business dealings of Robert G. Baker, former secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority.
   This brings to $125,000 the total voted thus far for the Baker inquiry. Chairman B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) said the Rules Committee would ask for more time and money if necessary.
   The money resolutions zipped through the Senate by voice votes, despite protests by Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.).

[photo]
March for Merger
Approximately 30 junior and senior high school students demonstrated during a meeting of pro and con forces on the Coralville High School question Sunday in the Coralville School gym. The pro-merger students were met with jeers during their march from opponents of the merger.
Photo by Bob Nandell

'Don't Try High School Now' Expert Tells Coralville Board
   Coralville should not attempt to operate a high school at this time. This was the summary of a report to the Coralville Board of Education at its Monday night meeting. The report was presented by Robert Johnson, an education expert from the State College of Iowa, at the request of the Board.
   Johnson outlined five alternate plans for a high school establishment which he considered to be feasible. All of the plans presented provided for only minimum high school requirements and would [?]a lowering of present junior high school students, according to Johnson.
   The Board accepted Johnson's report and heard another report on a means of building a high school building.
   John VanVelzer, president of Trans Mississippi Structures Inc., Milan, Ill., displayed slides of a new Coralville High School building to the Board and about 200 spectators. VanVelzer reported that the Trans-American Leasing Corporation, Los Angeles, will finance the construction of the building, which would be finished by next Sept. 8.
   He said the leasing corporation would then rent the structure to the Coralville School Board for the next 20 years at a rate of $3247 a month for the first 15 years and $1624 a month for the last 5 years. This figure would not include maintenance, utilities or taxes on the building.
   A meeting held by rival factions in the merger issue Sunday afternoon was disrupted by about 30 junior high and high school pupils from Coralville who paraded around the meeting room at the Coralville school. The students carried signs bearing slogans favorable to a merger with the Iowa City School District.
   After the demonstration broke up, plans to have a leasing firm build the high school structure and rent it to the Coralville School District were first announced.
   After VanVelzer's Tuesday night report legal questions of the plan were raised.
   Dr. Michael Bonfiglio, board member, read a court ruling which stated that it is illegal for a school board to commit itself to a debt which is greater than the bonding capacity of the school district. He said he felt the proposed leasing plan would be considered illegal under this ruling.
   VanVelzer told the Board that three separate lawyers have expressed opinions to the leasing company that the action would be legal. He told reporters after the meeting that two of the lawyers were for Kansas City and one was from Salt Lake City.
   Arthur Cutler, board president, said he did not think the company would take a gamble on building the school house to rent if it is illegal.
   He said they wanted to build the structure because they see a possibility of building similar buildings and renting them all over the country.
   If the long-term commitment of the Board to rent the building is deamed illegal, Cutler expressed belief that the Board could legally rent the building on an emergency year-to-year basis.
   "The trick of this thing is to get the investor to put up the money and take the risk," he told the spectators. "We can do this for a cost less than going into Iowa City would bring."

Today's News Briefly
   CEASE FIRE -- Indonesia and Malaysia have pledged a continued cease-fire along the Borneo border, but Indonesia refused to pull its guerrillas out of Malaysian territory.
   Thus six days of bargaining on the Malaysia crisis brought only a promise Monday to try to preserve the truce arranged by U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy last month and a plan to meet again later to discuss the real issues.

   MAY HAVE FUN -- Children who get lost at the World's Fair this year ought to have a lot of fun out of it.
   They'll get to appear on television -- and in color, no less.
   It should even be a thrill for mom and pop, too, seeing their errant offspring on the screen while thousands of other persons also are looking on.

   JURY SELECTED -- Nine men and three women were quickly selected Monday to try the accused kidnapers of Frank Sinatra Jr. over defense objections to a jurist's speed-up plan of jury selection.
   U.S. Judge William G. East used the so-called Arizona plan by which a panel of 37 prospective jurors was questioned individually by the judge -- not by lawyers -- as to their background and impartiality.


Civil Rights Bill Passes House by Wide Margin
Iowa Reps. Gross, Jensen Ballot Against Legislation
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Monday night passed a civil rights bill that would grant the Federal Government unprecedented new powers to combat racial discrimination.
The roll call vote was 290 to 130.
Voting for the bill were 152 Democrats and 138 Republicans.
Against it were 96 Democrats and 34 Republicans.
Five of Iowa's seven-man delegation voted for the bill.
Voting against the bill were Reps. H. R. Gross and Ben Jensen, both Republicans.
Voting for the bill were Democrat Neal Smith and Republicans James Bromwell, Charles Hoeven, John Kyl and Fred Schwengel.
A long, stormy trip through the Senate must still be completed, however, before the bill can become law.
A coalition put together by the House Democratic and Republican leaders drove the bill past unyielding but outmanned southerners, chopping off debate to speed the final vote.
PASSAGE CAME on the ninth day of debate and voting on amendments, with the civil forces turning back more than 100 attempts to weaken the sweeping, 10-part measure.
Although the final roll call came just before 8 p.m. (EST), the battle to get a strong bill through the House was won in the early afternoon when the House completed action on the section aimed at ending job discrimination against Negroes.
Just before the final vote the bill's supporters accepted an amendment by Rep. Robert T. Ashmore (D-S.C.), that would create a community to seek voluntary compliance in racial dispute. It was originally included in the administration proposals, but was deleted in the House Judiciary Committee.
IN ADDITION to making it unlawful for employers or labor unions to discriminate against Negroes, the bill would protect Negro voting rights, compel integration of public schools, parks and playgrounds, outlaw discrimination in hotels, restaurants, movies and other places serving the public, and permit the withholding of federal funds from programs in which there is discrimination.
The bill is far stronger than the one originally requested by the late President John F. Kennedy. It was put together by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, working closely with the administration.
Reps. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and William M. McCulloch (R-Ohio) were leaders of the successful floor fight.
With the GOP leader, Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, standing firmly behind the bill, Republican and Northern Democrats formed a coalition that overpowered the Southern opposition. 
More than 100 amendments were offered during the nine days the House considered the bill and about three dozen were adopted, nearly all minor in nature.
TWO OF the more substantial ones were added to the job equality section. One would extend protection against job discrimination to women, and the other would add an extra year before the full coverage of the law would be reached.
As it came to the floor, the bill provided that one year after enactment, businesses and labor unions with 100 or more employees or members would be covered, 50 the next year, leveling off at 25 after the third year. On an amendment by Rep. Edwin E. Wilis (D-La.), another annual step was added bringing it down at the rate of 100, 75, 50 and 25.
The job section, the one banning discrimination in public accommodations and the one authorizing a cut-off of funds, is regarded as the most potent weapon the bill would place in the government's hands.
SENATE Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told newsmen he will seek to have the bill placed directly on the Senate calendar when it reaches there, but he said he hopes to complete action on the tax cut bill before taking up civil rights.
Mansfield's action, if successful, would bypass the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been a bottleneck for past civil rights bills.

Ruby Can Get Fair Trial Say Witnesses
   DALLAS, Tex. (AP) -- The opening defense witnesses indicated Monday they think Jack Ruby could get a fair trial in Dallas on the charge that he murdered President John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin.
   The responses came in cross-examination in a hearing on a defense motion to shift the trial to another city. The trial is scheduled Feb. 17.
   CHIEF defense counsel Melvin Belli began calling witnesses from a list of 176 he had subpoenaed after Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown ruled against him on three points:
   *A defense motion that would have required the state to turn over to the defense all its evidence against Ruby.
   *An attempt to read into the record many newspaper stories about the case.
   *A motion to move the Ruby trial without going into any kind of evidence.
   RUBY, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of Kennedy, in the basement of Dallas City Hall as he was being transferred from city jail to county jail. This was on Nov. 24, two days after Oswald, 24, was charged with murder in the assassination of Kennedy and the killing shortly afterward of Dallas patrolman J.D. Tippit.
   A television audience saw Ruby step out of a crowd of newsmen and shoot Oswald. The state contends this was murder with malice -- a crime punishable by death. The defense has contended Ruby was innocent because he was temporarily insane.
   THE REV. Frederick Carney, first defense witness, testified about a paper he wrote, “a Crisis of Conscience in Dallas,” in which he described Dallas as a tortured city with agonizing feelings of guilt because of the assassination of Kennedy and the killing of Oswald.
   In cross-examination, the Rev. Mr. Carney said he knew of no reason why Ruby could not receive a fair trial here. However, he questioned whether he was qualified to testify on that point.
   A.C. GREENE, editor of the Dallas Times Herald editorial page, testified letters to the editor indicated that Dallas and Texas lie “under the personal indictment of many people.”
   Cross-examined by Dist. Atty. Henry Wade, Greene said he thought it possible for Ruby to get a fair trial here.

Nationalist China Breaks French Tie; Rescues DeGaulle?
   TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) -- Nationalist China severed diplomatic relations with France Tuesday because of President Charles de Gaulle’s recognition of Red China.
  Rather than hurting France, the Nationalist move had the effect of reccuing[?] De Gaulle from a ticklish spot because Red China had demanded a break with Taipei.
   The Nationalist Foreign Ministry said that French recognition of the Peking government “has damaged beyond repair the existing relations between the Republic of China and France.” 
   The Foreign Ministry said “the government of the Republic of China finds such action no longer tolerable.”

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Latest Sports See Page Four The Daily Iowan Serving the State University of Iowa and the People of Iowa City Fair Mostly fair today and southeast tonight. Partly cloudy west and north tonight with snow likely northwest this morning. Warmer west today and over state tonight. High today 30s southwest to 20s northeast. Wednesday's outlook: Variable cloudiness, occasional light rain or snow. Established in 1868 10 Cents Per Copy Associated Press Leased Wire and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa -- Tuesday, February 11, 1964 SUI, City Rights Groups Tell of Progress, Problems Richard Lloyd-Jones, associate professor of English, has been named chairman of the Committee on Human Rights at SUI, succeeding William Boyd, professor of law, who headed the committee during the first year of its existence. Professor Lloyd-Jones has accepted a three-year appointment to the Committee on Human Rights, said President Virgil M. Hancher. Other faculty members continuing on the committee are Philip Hubbard, professor of mechanics and hydraulics, and Donald B. Johnson, professor of political science. Alumni members of the unit are Sam Saltzman and William Nusser, both of Iowa City. James Bennett, L1, Newton and Sara Brogan, A4, Thornton, are student members. Professor Boyd has submitted the first annual report of the committee, and in it the activities of the group in 1963 are described as follows: Off-campus housing -- A fair housing policy has been established for both approved and unapproved off-campus housing and procedures adopted to process complaints of persons who seek to rent rooms. Student organizations -- The committee has worked closely with the Committee on Student Life to assure to all student organizations free choice in the selection of members. The Committee on Human Rights also is seeking to stimulate students to develop a sense of involvement with what is the nation’s primary domestic problem. Inter-institutional cooperation -- The committee has recommended creation of a separate committee to explore the establishment of a cooperative program with a southern Negro college or university. President Hancher has appointed this committee under the chairmanship of Dean Ray Heffner, vice president for instruction. Community cooperation -- The committee is working with interested groups in the city and state, and has cooperated with the Iowa City Ministerial Association in the creation of the municipal human relations commission. Education -- The committee has attempted to utilize education as a vigorous force in the elimination of bigotry. Research -- a member of the law faculty is engaged in a study of Iowa statutes and ordinances relating to civil rights. Employment -- The committee is greatly interested in the placement of students upon graduation. The committee has found no instant solutions for the complex and subtle problems of discrimination in the north. Most of the steps which must be taken to eliminate discrimination are tedious and of little news value, yet this does not make them any less essential. While human rights committees and commissions are useful, they do not relieve the individual of his personal responsibility to refrain from using race, color, creed and national origin as bases for discrimination. Community education programs for relieving substantial discrimination appear to be next on the Will Not Use SARE Books States Mayor The books the SUI Student Association for Racial Equality (SARE) delivered to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee headquarters in Greenwood, Miss., will not be used by the city, according to Mayor Charles E. Sampson. Conferring with SUI student Ken Keat, A1, Manilla, Sampson said flatly, “We will not accept help from Robert Moses (former head of SNVCC) or from the Committee.” SNVCC has repeatedly called the library facilities in Greenwood “inadequate.” The city has just finished construction of a new Negro branch library within three blocks of the SNVCC headquarters. It is the eleventh library or branch for Negroes in Laflore county, and the fourth in Greenwood. SNCVV spokesman, James Jones, said he knew of no such library. Miss Jody Wilson, a Negro librarian in Greenwood, said that a Laflore county Negro can obtain any book in the county library system merely by asking for the title at one of the branch buildings. The books collected in Iowa City last fall by SARE are currently in the attic of SNVCC headquarters. The organization says they will be catalogued and distributed to a site for a Negro library somewhere in each of Mississippi’s five congressional districts. agenda for Iowa City’s Human Relations Commission. A need for a change in attitudes was indicated in the Commission’s official report to the city. “This education must be directed, not only to the landlord but, unfortunately, to the tenant as well -- which in effect means everyone.” Commission member Simeon Strauss explained. Established by a city ordinance in September, 1963, the Commission’s first project was a housing survey to compile a list of Iowa City landlords who would rent without discrimination based on race, color, creed or nationality. A questionnaire used asked for two “yes” or “no” answers. First, “I agree to have my rentals counted with others who will rent without regard to race, creed or national origin. This does not preclude refusal to rent for legitimate reasons.” Secondly, “I agree to have my rentals listed with others who will rent without regard to race, creed or national origin.” Interviewers noted comments of landlords during questioning, and each member of the commission evaluated both the statistics of the questionnaire and these comments in their individual summaries of the report. Worry of losing tenants appeared to be one of the most influential reasons for discrimination. Non-discrimination in approved University housing was questioned in a summary by Commission member Mrs. Anthony Constantino. In the “no-no” answers to the two preceding questions, of the signed an unassigned group of 105 landlords, 28 or 17per cent rent to University students, according to Mrs. Constantino. One answer was reported as, “I will sign but I do not have to rent rooms and I will rent to anyone I choose. If I could get a Negro like Mr. -- I’d rent to him or if Mr -- would recommend someone but I refuse to put up with any problems that may result from renting to a foreigner or Negro. “I am renting rooms as a favor to Dean Huit. I don’t have to rent rooms. I won’t rent to foreigners. They don’t know our ways. They should live elsewhere, in University housing, so they can be taught the American way,” Mrs. Constantino related. She noted that this was the only remark that was contradictory. Other comments she found common to those landlords not wanting to rent to minority groups included: “It is my personal affair,” “I have the right to sift my tenants,” and “Other tenants must be taken into consideration.” Preparations Started To Cut Payroll Tax House Agrees To Go Along With Reduction WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury got a congressional go-ahead Monday to arrange for fatter pay envelopes by cutting the tax withholding rate. The change, geared to the tax reduction bill on which Congress is expected to finish action this month, is the equivalent of a small pay raise, probably early in March, for wage-earning and salaried Americans. The Senate and House have passed the tax cut bill in different forms, and conferees from both bodies went to work Monday to reconcile the differences. WITHOUT much argument, the House spokesmen agreed to go along with the Senate on reducing the tax withholding from the present 18per cent to 14per cent in one step, promptly after action is completed on the bill. The house had voted a two-stage reduction in the withholding rate, to 15per cent this year and 14per cent next. This reflected the two-stage cut in tax rates, and was based on the assumption the bill would be in effect by Jan. 1, 1964, or soon thereafter. BUT BY THE time the Senate acted, the 18per cent withholding had piled up collections and, at President Johnson’s urging, the Senate voted to make the cuts all at once. The Treasury said that a part-year collection at 18per cent and part at 14 would be roughly equivalent to a full year at 15. Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, who sat in with the conferees, urge them to announce prompt agreement on the noncontroversial withholding issue. He said his department then would begin immediately mailing to employers withholding tables at the new rate, so they would lose no time revising their payment procedures. THE conferees also discussed, without decision, the question of which state taxes will continue to be deductible under the new bill. The House version would end deductions for state and local gasoline taxes, auto tags and drivers licenses. The Senate language would continue to permit these deductions. This is the major single item in the approximately $600-million annual revenue difference between the two bills. INDICATIONS were[?] there might be a compromise, perhaps limiting reductions to gasoline taxes. Construction on Launching Facilities, Halted by Strike CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) -- Construction on the $213 million rocket launching facilities halted here Monday when striking Florida East Coast Roadway employes picketed Cape Kennedy and the adjacent Merritt Island moonport. Placard-carrying pickets protested authorization granted the railroad Monday to operate freight trains on government-owned track on Merritt Island, where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is building facilities for launching astronauts to the moon. Government contractors reportedly planned to seek an injunction through the National Labor Relations Board, charging the pickets with secondary boycott. The Army Corps of Engineers, which supervises construction work both on the Cape and Merritt Island, said that apparently all 4,540 construction workers honored the picket lines. Union sources reported 40per cent of 7,000 industrial union men stayed off the job on Cape Kennedy proper. The Air Force, however, said the number actually was less than 10per cent. More than 30 construction projects were affected. The largest are the $100-million vertical assembly building where Saturn 5 rockets will be assembled; the $34-million Titan 3 space rocket complex; a $19-million Saturn 5 launching pad and several administration and support buildings. The dispute was triggered Saturday when the space agency gave the railroad permission to transport freight over 4.5 miles of government-owned track on Merrick Island. The action culminated an agreement made more than a year ago under which the railroad was to extend its tracks from the city of Titusville on the Florida mainland to join the new NASA spur on the island. NASA said railroad transportation is needed to haul heavy construction materials to its facilities. The agreement became effective at 6 a.m. Monday. That’s when the pickets appeared. The first train moved onto the NASA spur three hours later with eight cars loaded with gravel for use as roadbed to extend the track. Eleven nonoperating unions have been striking the railroad for 13 months in a contract dispute. There has been no passenger service since then, but supervisory and nonunion personnel have been operating freight runs on the line, which extends from Jacksonville to Florida City, south of Miami, a distance of about 400 miles. The Air Force, which runs Cape Kennedy, issued a statement calling the picketing at the Cape unjustified. In Miami, city, county and federal agents continued their intensive investigation into twin dynamite blasts which early Sunday disrupted the railroad’s service into the Miami area. The first blast derailed a 91-car freight train, sending most of the 33 cars into a tidal stream bed. The second blast crippled a derrick car being sent to help at the scene of the derailment. Lt. L.J. Van Buskirk of the Dade County sheriff’s office intelligence unit said all of the freight cars would have to be pulled from the river before his men could complete their investigation. Scranton, G. Romney Still Holdouts Each Says Goldwater's Drive 'Diminishing' In His State DETROIT, Mich. (AP) -- Govs. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania and George W. Romney of Michigan each tried to push each other into an avowed campaign for the Republican nomination for president Monday. But at the end both still were holdouts. Both have said they would accept a GOP draft but wouldn't see the nomination. Scranton went so far as to say "I'm not running for nor do I want to be president or vice president of the United States." Romney said he expects to stick to his noncandidate status but couldn't be drawn out on whether he'd like to be president. ROMNEY SAID Scranton would make "a wonderful candidate," and Scranton reciprocated. The Pennsylvanian said he had started at a private breakfast with Romney "trying to persuade George to run for president." Each urged the other to announce in joint appearances in public and at news conferences. Neither, however, would be pinned down on whether he favors the other over two announced candidates Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York or Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.). In answer to one news conference question, Scranton said Romney was "not more acceptable to me than any other candidate." AND BOTH agreed at the end of Scranton's one-day visit that what the Pennsylvania executive once referred to as "kind of a Gaston-Alfonse thing" hadn't swayed either of them to become "an open and avowed candidate." THEY ALSO AGREED on another thing: that the momentum of Sen. Goldwater's drive for the nomination had "diminished" in their respective states in recent weeks. Both said, however, they consider Goldwater still a strong candidate, and Scranton told newsmen that if the GOP convention were tomorrow, the Arizonan would come into it "with the most delegates." SCRANTON CAME here to address the Economic Club of Detroit. He was asked in a question-and-answer period his reaction to a woman's seeking the Republican nomination for president. "My opinion of women is that I love 'em'," Scranton quipped, and then went on to describe Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine), as "a very able woman." She is running along with Rockefeller and Goldwater. Asked in an appearance before a group of college students who in the GOP has "the best qualifications," Scranton replied: "Based on experience, Dick (Richard M.) Nixon. Does that mean he'd be the best candidate? Not necessarily. Who's the best candidate is not always the best qualified." Senate Tags Funds For Investigations WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted $4,586,000 Monday to finance a wide variety of investigations by 34 committees and subcommittees in the year ahead. Included was $75,000 additional finance through April 30 the Senate Rules Committee's investigation of the outside business dealings of Robert G. Baker, former secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority. This brings to $125,000 the total voted thus far for the Baker inquiry. Chairman B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) said the Rules Committee would ask for more time and money if necessary. The money resolutions zipped through the Senate by voice votes, despite protests by Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.). [photo] March for Merger Approximately 30 junior and senior high school students demonstrated during a meeting of pro and con forces on the Coralville High School question Sunday in the Coralville School gym. The pro-merger students were met with jeers during their march from opponents of the merger. Photo by Bob Nandell 'Don't Try High School Now' Expert Tells Coralville Board Coralville should not attempt to operate a high school at this time. This was the summary of a report to the Coralville Board of Education at its Monday night meeting. The report was presented by Robert Johnson, an education expert from the State College of Iowa, at the request of the Board. Johnson outlined five alternate plans for a high school establishment which he considered to be feasible. All of the plans presented provided for only minimum high school requirements and would [?]a lowering of present junior high school students, according to Johnson. The Board accepted Johnson's report and heard another report on a means of building a high school building. John VanVelzer, president of Trans Mississippi Structures Inc., Milan, Ill., displayed slides of a new Coralville High School building to the Board and about 200 spectators. VanVelzer reported that the Trans-American Leasing Corporation, Los Angeles, will finance the construction of the building, which would be finished by next Sept. 8. He said the leasing corporation would then rent the structure to the Coralville School Board for the next 20 years at a rate of $3247 a month for the first 15 years and $1624 a month for the last 5 years. This figure would not include maintenance, utilities or taxes on the building. A meeting held by rival factions in the merger issue Sunday afternoon was disrupted by about 30 junior high and high school pupils from Coralville who paraded around the meeting room at the Coralville school. The students carried signs bearing slogans favorable to a merger with the Iowa City School District. After the demonstration broke up, plans to have a leasing firm build the high school structure and rent it to the Coralville School District were first announced. After VanVelzer's Tuesday night report legal questions of the plan were raised. Dr. Michael Bonfiglio, board member, read a court ruling which stated that it is illegal for a school board to commit itself to a debt which is greater than the bonding capacity of the school district. He said he felt the proposed leasing plan would be considered illegal under this ruling. VanVelzer told the Board that three separate lawyers have expressed opinions to the leasing company that the action would be legal. He told reporters after the meeting that two of the lawyers were for Kansas City and one was from Salt Lake City. Arthur Cutler, board president, said he did not think the company would take a gamble on building the school house to rent if it is illegal. He said they wanted to build the structure because they see a possibility of building similar buildings and renting them all over the country. If the long-term commitment of the Board to rent the building is deamed illegal, Cutler expressed belief that the Board could legally rent the building on an emergency year-to-year basis. "The trick of this thing is to get the investor to put up the money and take the risk," he told the spectators. "We can do this for a cost less than going into Iowa City would bring." Today's News Briefly CEASE FIRE -- Indonesia and Malaysia have pledged a continued cease-fire along the Borneo border, but Indonesia refused to pull its guerrillas out of Malaysian territory. Thus six days of bargaining on the Malaysia crisis brought only a promise Monday to try to preserve the truce arranged by U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy last month and a plan to meet again later to discuss the real issues. MAY HAVE FUN -- Children who get lost at the World's Fair this year ought to have a lot of fun out of it. They'll get to appear on television -- and in color, no less. It should even be a thrill for mom and pop, too, seeing their errant offspring on the screen while thousands of other persons also are looking on. JURY SELECTED -- Nine men and three women were quickly selected Monday to try the accused kidnapers of Frank Sinatra Jr. over defense objections to a jurist's speed-up plan of jury selection. U.S. Judge William G. East used the so-called Arizona plan by which a panel of 37 prospective jurors was questioned individually by the judge -- not by lawyers -- as to their background and impartiality. Civil Rights Bill Passes House by Wide Margin Iowa Reps. Gross, Jensen Ballot Against Legislation WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Monday night passed a civil rights bill that would grant the Federal Government unprecedented new powers to combat racial discrimination. The roll call vote was 290 to 130. Voting for the bill were 152 Democrats and 138 Republicans. Against it were 96 Democrats and 34 Republicans. Five of Iowa's seven-man delegation voted for the bill. Voting against the bill were Reps. H. R. Gross and Ben Jensen, both Republicans. Voting for the bill were Democrat Neal Smith and Republicans James Bromwell, Charles Hoeven, John Kyl and Fred Schwengel. A long, stormy trip through the Senate must still be completed, however, before the bill can become law. A coalition put together by the House Democratic and Republican leaders drove the bill past unyielding but outmanned southerners, chopping off debate to speed the final vote. PASSAGE CAME on the ninth day of debate and voting on amendments, with the civil forces turning back more than 100 attempts to weaken the sweeping, 10-part measure. Although the final roll call came just before 8 p.m. (EST), the battle to get a strong bill through the House was won in the early afternoon when the House completed action on the section aimed at ending job discrimination against Negroes. Just before the final vote the bill's supporters accepted an amendment by Rep. Robert T. Ashmore (D-S.C.), that would create a community to seek voluntary compliance in racial dispute. It was originally included in the administration proposals, but was deleted in the House Judiciary Committee. IN ADDITION to making it unlawful for employers or labor unions to discriminate against Negroes, the bill would protect Negro voting rights, compel integration of public schools, parks and playgrounds, outlaw discrimination in hotels, restaurants, movies and other places serving the public, and permit the withholding of federal funds from programs in which there is discrimination. The bill is far stronger than the one originally requested by the late President John F. Kennedy. It was put together by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, working closely with the administration. Reps. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and William M. McCulloch (R-Ohio) were leaders of the successful floor fight. With the GOP leader, Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, standing firmly behind the bill, Republican and Northern Democrats formed a coalition that overpowered the Southern opposition. More than 100 amendments were offered during the nine days the House considered the bill and about three dozen were adopted, nearly all minor in nature. TWO OF the more substantial ones were added to the job equality section. One would extend protection against job discrimination to women, and the other would add an extra year before the full coverage of the law would be reached. As it came to the floor, the bill provided that one year after enactment, businesses and labor unions with 100 or more employees or members would be covered, 50 the next year, leveling off at 25 after the third year. On an amendment by Rep. Edwin E. Wilis (D-La.), another annual step was added bringing it down at the rate of 100, 75, 50 and 25. The job section, the one banning discrimination in public accommodations and the one authorizing a cut-off of funds, is regarded as the most potent weapon the bill would place in the government's hands. SENATE Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told newsmen he will seek to have the bill placed directly on the Senate calendar when it reaches there, but he said he hopes to complete action on the tax cut bill before taking up civil rights. Mansfield's action, if successful, would bypass the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been a bottleneck for past civil rights bills. Ruby Can Get Fair Trial Say Witnesses DALLAS, Tex. (AP) -- The opening defense witnesses indicated Monday they think Jack Ruby could get a fair trial in Dallas on the charge that he murdered President John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin. The responses came in cross-examination in a hearing on a defense motion to shift the trial to another city. The trial is scheduled Feb. 17. CHIEF defense counsel Melvin Belli began calling witnesses from a list of 176 he had subpoenaed after Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown ruled against him on three points: *A defense motion that would have required the state to turn over to the defense all its evidence against Ruby. *An attempt to read into the record many newspaper stories about the case. *A motion to move the Ruby trial without going into any kind of evidence. RUBY, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of Kennedy, in the basement of Dallas City Hall as he was being transferred from city jail to county jail. This was on Nov. 24, two days after Oswald, 24, was charged with murder in the assassination of Kennedy and the killing shortly afterward of Dallas patrolman J.D. Tippit. A television audience saw Ruby step out of a crowd of newsmen and shoot Oswald. The state contends this was murder with malice -- a crime punishable by death. The defense has contended Ruby was innocent because he was temporarily insane. THE REV. Frederick Carney, first defense witness, testified about a paper he wrote, “a Crisis of Conscience in Dallas,” in which he described Dallas as a tortured city with agonizing feelings of guilt because of the assassination of Kennedy and the killing of Oswald. In cross-examination, the Rev. Mr. Carney said he knew of no reason why Ruby could not receive a fair trial here. However, he questioned whether he was qualified to testify on that point. A.C. GREENE, editor of the Dallas Times Herald editorial page, testified letters to the editor indicated that Dallas and Texas lie “under the personal indictment of many people.” Cross-examined by Dist. Atty. Henry Wade, Greene said he thought it possible for Ruby to get a fair trial here. Nationalist China Breaks French Tie; Rescues DeGaulle? TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) -- Nationalist China severed diplomatic relations with France Tuesday because of President Charles de Gaulle’s recognition of Red China. Rather than hurting France, the Nationalist move had the effect of reccuing[?] De Gaulle from a ticklish spot because Red China had demanded a break with Taipei. The Nationalist Foreign Ministry said that French recognition of the Peking government “has damaged beyond repair the existing relations between the Republic of China and France.” The Foreign Ministry said “the government of the Republic of China finds such action no longer tolerable.”