Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1963-11-22

              ieiiiii Gige Ik NOV 2 3 Jb63 HO Z572 riDWriT TUT i College To Establish Local Summer Drama GS Opens Season By DALE COPPS A longawaited summer theater student executive board The program at the College has passed group would then move on to through all channels and will Cape Cod for its sevenweek commence next July with a pro auction by the Gilbert Sulivan duction by the Flayers The venture having been ap wnvnd recently by the College n Board of Trustees will also in irio four legitimate theater rro ductions and two Childrens the ater productions by a core of faculty members from the Speech REVIEW VACATION Next Tuesdays issue of the Review will be the last oneuntil after Thanksgiving The Review will resume publication Friday Dec 6 Department and about 21graduate and undergraduate students according to Paul Boasechairman of the Speech Department W Hayden Boyers professor of French Faculty Producer for the College GS companyemphasized that the Players willintroduce the summer program here in Oberlin by presenting the first weeks performance July 14subject to the approval of the GS Proceeds To Decrease In MC Year Mike Dabney ConsolidatedRelief Fund cochairman predicted recently that other financial drains on the campus such as MockConvention will probably decrease the total intake of CRF this year We feel that last yearscampaign was exceptionallysuccessful and while this year willprobably mean a smaller financialintake we hope to do a much fuller job of educating the campus to the opportunities and responsibilities giving to charity he stated in an interview Wednesday He noted that fund raising this ear will still follow thetradifonal threefold pattern The bike Jtion usually held in the fall as postponed by the PoliceDepartment objections but will be J in the spring according to ney Coming up very soon is Professor raffle he said the J weds of which will go this jar to the National Scholarship 2sce and Fund for Negro Stu bMding up the campaign will ear rtodoor dorm canvass will i 1 the Sccond semester It 22 n u 0 wceks frm Feb 10 uabney noted A minor source ditii Services which istrad0nated t0 e CRF l 1 fund he ded dredAfSing which of the hun of possible beneficiaries will ve a share of the CRF sesse thn Wrnmift iau ottering the or evaluates the scope of 12man Steering ri duons work its om L selfhelpits efTiciency cial onnThead andPeT n with the College naroewp0Hmittee has aIready Sroun n u consideration to 50 fcw 1 Uabney exnlainoH fhot in the I arsa Poll was taken of ctll j vu was laKen or he rvT body but last year theomuiee decided to choose uauiee decided to rhonso zaiions by careful study See CRF p 8 stand he added The other fo four nlavs will hp selected by the members of the Speech Department aider hv suit Kostions from faculty members Tim Vi 4U 1 it me uiuitu ui nit uiavs win ren ter around a concern for American Plays of the twenties 1890 melo ciramas and the plays of Thornton vvuaer Jerome B Landfield assistant professor of speech will serve as director Donald Finn theatre technician of Hall Auditorium will be setdesigner RonaldWilliams lecturer in speech will work with publicity andProfessor Boase will be the business manager Other positions will be filled by students Preference will be shown for College students and those graduate students who have worked in the theaterStudents will be concerned with all phases of production and will be responsible for directingdesigning and all other aspects oftheater for the Childrensproductions reported Mr Boase The College has a stronginterest in the success of the program said Mr Boase The Trustees vot ed the new venture a subsidy of 7500 for the primary expenses The entire cost of the summer is estimated to be 28000 and all productions will have to have at least an 82 percent of capacity attendance for the theater to break even financially Mr Boase declared The audience will be made up most of Oberlin residents and surrounding communities he not ed He expressed an optimistic view concerning the seasons financial success and stated We hope to find a distinctive focus for the summer theater one that will entail a wide audience anDeal However it may take two or three years to attain this focus and to attract a sufficient audience A major aim of the theater Mr Boase stressed will be to help See DRAMA p 4 College Rights Group Finds Job Openings As a result of the NAACP job survey five job openings have been found in the local area which the town and College NAACP will attempt to fill with qualified Negro applicants Bob Adlington Action Committee Cochairman announced at the College NAACP meetingTuesday night At the present time members of the College NAACP aretalking to the employers todetermine the qualificationsnecessary for application wages of xeieu anu amuum job training proposed by the fered and amount or onme emDlovers Through the townorganization and local ministers the NAACP will try to findqualified Negroes who are presently unemployed and urge them to apply for these positions According to Adlington the iNAAur acuuu Luimmn in the coming wceks also De investigating the possibility oi establishing a Negroemployment service in Oberlin President Kennedy was shot to death by an assassins bullet this afternoon during aparade in Dallas Tex Gov John Connally of Texasaccompanying the President in the car is reported in serious condition at Parkland Hospital in Dallas Time of death was set at 200 EST by hospital officials Lyndon B Johnson also in the parade became the 36th president of the United States He was expected to take the oath of office this afternoon The President his limp body in the arms of his wife was rushed to Parkland Hospital in Dallas along with Governor Connally A secret service man was also killed during the melee According to radio reports three shots were heard then the Presidents car turned and sped towards the hospital Thebubble of the Presidents touring car was down at the time of the shooting Wounds in the governors chest were clearly visible The wounds indicated that an automatic weapon was used 250000 Dallas citizens had lined the streets for the parade Both Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Connally were in the car at the time of the shooting but neither was hurt Dallas police and secretservicemen scoured the city after the shooting and arrested one 25 year old suspect less than an hour after the assassination Four empty rifle cartridges were found in a downtownoffie building near the scene of the shooting The last president of the United States to be assassinated was William McKinley shot to death in 1901 Wilkins Cautions Against Death of Civil Rights Bill A wave of Negro anger frus tration a cynical attitude towards the usual channels of grievance and a greater faith in directaction methods will accompany a Adlington reported that the Joint Committee is stillmaintaining pressure on theNorthern Ohio Telephone Company by conducting a letter writing campaign to State officials who might be able to influenceColonel Henry and convince him to meet with representatives of the Joint Committee When asked if the recentdecision by the City Council to attempt to meet with Col Henry would effect the JointCommittees attempts Adlingtonasserted that the Joint Committee was still interested in talking with Col Henry He added however that The Joint Committee would now have to time itsactions in accordance with the Councils The Action Committee is also considering taking a survey Adlington stated among the Negro population of Oberlin to determine what personal action they would participate in against the Phone Company to bring about negotiations on the hiring of Negroes NAACP Head Urges Continuation of Action In Phone Co Dispute By JOE LEIVE Encouraging the Oberlin community in its fight against local discrimination Roy Wilkins National ExecutiveSecretary of the NAACP shed some light on the smolderingcontroversy with the Northern Ohio Telephone Company at a special press conference yesterday afternoon Speaking before a group of eight newsmen for 40 minutes on national and local problems Wilkins asserted that it was often easiest to pressure large nationalcorporations to end discriminatory hiring practices Noting that he had just met with a group of executives of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co Wilkins observed that the company and many of its affiliates were changing theiremployment policies Large corporations are affected bynational pressures he said but a relatively small unaffiliated utility like the NOTC doesnt feel any pressure to keep up with anyone Mr Wilkins suggested that if the NOTC werepresented with a record of what other large telephoneexchanges have done to erase discrimination in employment it might see that the company was out of step Mr Wilkins also encouraged the continued application of pressure through letter writing by telephone subscribers andespecially those who owned local businesses Characterizing the role of students working for civil rights as electrifying Mr Wilkins emphasized that the rights issue had challenged American students to awake from their lethargy and apathy Those working in the South he said have brought with them both an emotional intensity and a willingness to look facts in the face These students Mr Wilkins con defeat of the civil rights bill Roy Wilkins Executive Secretary of the NAACP postulated in a forum yesterday As long as a useful bill is passed we will have something to depend on Mr Wilkinsmaintained Though admitting that onecannot legislate feelings he confirmed the efficacy of a civil rights bill in granting the Negro equality at least before the law Explaining the NAACPs continuing fight to strengthen the present version of the proposed civil rights bill Mr Wilkins berated theAdministration for withdrawing an earlier stronger version before it had a chance to be tested on the floor There are serious defects in the bills sections on the establishment of a Federal EmploymentPractices Commission and in thelimited authority given to the Justice Department in upholding the rights of demonstrators at the lo cal level Mr Wilkms continued He predicted action in the House before Christmas but was pessimistic about appeasing South ern Senators The more the bill is watered down the more thev seem to turn against us Suggesting that the traditional controversy of states rights versus Federal control holds the key to understanding the civil rights auestion in general Mr Wilkins maintained that it is only in the fields of race relations thatSouthern states resort to thisunconstitutional standby We never find Mississippi ob jecting to federal roads or school See KUx VVILKJLNS p 4 NUMBER 20 tinued are replacing with factual information the myths and rumors which have characterized the rights issue in the South Mr Wilkins asserted moreover that the racial problems in Ohio were the same ones which plagued all of the Northern states and along with de facto schoolsegregation he cited housing and job discrimination as the most blatant These problems he said are present to varying degrees in all Northern communities and have become an ingrained part of life there Questioning the level of de facto segregated schools Mr Wilkins suggested that the question was part of a larger pattern which was not wholly racial I suspect he said that the problem ofsecuring equality in education for elements of the lower economic classes black and white is the real question The racequestion only complicates theeducation problem he noted and the Negro child gets the dirty end of the stick because hes black as well as poor Scores Rights Bill Replying to a question ofnational politics Mr Wilkinsasserted that the present civil rights bill before Congress was simply not adequate for the needs of 19fir Moreover he noted that the new weaKenea civil rights package watered down to facilitate was moving extremely slowly in congress if the rights bill which is finally passed is ineffective he declared it might affect the out come of the nevt Proci dentin election Asserting that Neeroes todav were stirred as never before wiiKins noted that the Neero community was now receptive to ideas which five years aeo it wnnrt have considered impossible They are no longer afraid heconcluded Oil