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Supreme Court Smashes
Segregation Laws in La.
WASHINGTON (?P)—The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously smashed all barriers
erected by Louisiana in its effort to block public school integration.
The court, using firm language, backed up a Nov. 3 ruling by a three-judge federal
court in New Orleans that:
East ist
Immobilized
By Blizzard
By The Associated Press
The worst autumn snow
storm on record, a cruel, gale
driven blizzard, swept up the
Eastern seaboard yesterday.
One, by one the nation's great
coastal cities from Washington
to Boston were shrouded in
freezing drifts, all but im
mobilized in the storm's brutal
Ur to 20 inches of snow hit
some .sectors, and it was piled into
mounting drifts by howling
winds. Temperatures ranged from
the teens in New York to six
above zero in Maine, with no re
lief in sight.
The death toll moved toward
the 70 mark, for the period since
late last week when one facet of
the storm came out of the West to
meet another disturbance moving
up from the South. Fires, auto
accidents, weather-induced heart
attacks, maritime mishaps and
freezing accounted for the fatali
ties.
In New York, the United Na
tions canceled its General As
sembly meeting. Opening of the
New York St'mit Exchange was
delayed an hour.
Business came to a virtual
standstill in many cities.
Many highways were impass
able in the coastal East. An un
estimated number of motorists
were marooned on the Maine
Turnpike. .
Private auto traffic came to a
halt, with even police cars strand
ed by the drifts. Cars were aban
doned to the storm on snow-piled
city streets, white and unbroken
as a country lane.
A baby girl was delivered to
New Jersey mother in the Cap
ital in Trenton. after an ambu
lance bogged down. The build-
Jug was deserted, except for
mother, child. doctor land am
bulance driver.
Airports closed and planes were
kept to the ground. Trains fal
tered far behind schedule. Buses
folieht a losing battle against
drifts, that closed in like quick
sand behind snowplows.
Schools were closed and mil
lions of pupils freed to frolic in
the drifts.
Factories closed because their
manpower was marooned at
home.
In Washington. a man skied to
work along • normally-hustling
Connecticut avenue. with all the
freedom of terrain he might have
had on a remote mountain run.
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"Illicit Interlude"
Knocked out an assortment
of anti-integration laws passed by
the Louisiana Legislature. The
new laws were aimed at heading
off a federal court order for inte
r gration of New Orleans schools,
beginning with the first grade this
year.
• Bluntly rejected Louisiana's
effort to halt school integration
by invoking the doctrine of inter
position—a theory that a state can
interpose its sovereignty between
federal authority and the state's
citizens.
The Supreme Court agreed with
the lower court that interposition
clearly is not a constitutional doc
trine and, "if taken seriously, it
is an illegal defiance of constitu
tional authority."
Louisiana's chief argument in
challenging the lower court's rul
ing was that the state "has inter
posed itself in the field of public
education, over which it has ex
clusive control."
In a brief unsigned opinion, the
Supreme Court said, "This objec
tion is without substance." The
high tribunal cited a 1959 Little
Rock school case tracing the au
thority of the federal judiciary
back to 1803 and said it had dis
posed of the interposition ques
tion at that time.
Other objections of Louisiana
to the lower court's ruling "are
likewise without merit," the
Supreme Court said.
Specifically. what was before
the court was a plea by Louisiana
to defer effectiveness of the lower
court pending a full-scale review
of it.
While Louisiana technically
still May file a formal appeal, the
court, in four paragraphs, seem
ingly decided the outcome.
GOP Denied Recount
Asked for in Texas
HOUSTON, Tex. (? Federal
`Judge Ben C. Connally denied, in
effect. Republican demands for a
recount of Texas' presidential
election ballots.
He said yesterday that federal
'courts do not have jurisdiction. in
vote contests and that the Repub
licans did not. prove that anyone's
rights were violated when thou
sands of ballots were thrown out.
The GOP contended that more
than 100,000 ballots had not been
counted in the Nov. 8 general
election, and that thousands of il
legal ballots were counted.
They asked Connally to order
the Texas canvassing board to
withhold certification of the Dem
ocratic electors and to order a re
count of paper ballots.
Local Ad Staff
MEETING .
This is the last meeting before Christ
mas vacation. Christmas cards will be
sent to accounts, Christmas Promotion
and Liberty Bowl issue will be dis
cussed. EVERYONE MUST ATTEND!
TONIGHT
7:00 p.m.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Moslem Rebels
Riot in Algiers
ALGIERS (W) Moslems de
fiantly waving the flag of nation
alist rebellion rioted again yes
terday in Algiers but finally were
penned up in their teeming quar
ter by French soldiers and riot
police. The death toll from four
days of disorder rose to 90.
The mobs vented their fury on
Jews in the native quarter. sack
ing Jewish stores and looting a
house of worship on the edge of
the quarter. Police dispersed them
with tear gas grenades. An army
'helicopter fired on a rebel flag
hoisted above the building.
Hundreds of Jews fled the na
tive quarter at this abrupt mani
festation of the ancient hostility
between Moslem and Jew.
President Charles de Gaulle
abruptly cut short by a day his
planned six-day visit to Algeria to
sell his plan of home rule for the
rebellious territory. He will head
back to Paris Tuesday.
De Gaulle has remained in the
back country, far from the rioting
in the cities, which started with
his arrival on Friday. He appar
ently decided he can deal more
effectively with the crisis from
the seat of government.
There are 1.000 research proj
ects being carried on annually
at P.S.U.
Soviet Flies Arms
To Quinim in Laos
VIENTIANE. Laos RI The
Soviet Union presbed its arms air
lift to Quinim Pholsena's leftist
regime as the self-proclaimed pre
mier's pro-Western enemies mov
ed yesterday -46 undercut him!
with a direct appeal to King Say-1
ang Vetth aria_
Quinim, a pro-Communist book
store owner who served as infor-.
mation minister in the now de
funct government of Souvanna
Phouma, shrugged off the politi
cal threat and said he now has
enough Soviet weapons to stage a
good fight for Vientiane.
Quinim seized power in this ad
ministrative capital Sunday after
a bewildering series of military.
coups. In his government were',
three other ministers who refused;
to follow Souvanna, the deposed
neutralist premier, into exile nil
Cambodia.
Tinder Souvanna, who had at
tempted in vain to negotiate a
truce and bring all factions in La
os* civil war into the government,
the Soviet airlift had been re
stricted .to petroleum products
and foodstuffs.
The cargo changed to ammuni
tion as soon as Quinim took over.
So far, at least four howitzers and
six mortars have been observed
being unloaded from Russian
planes. More could have slipped
in unnoticed.
Airport. sources said a total of
12 Soviet planes flew in Sunday
with arms and ammunition and
eight more had arrived by noon
yesterday.
Miss Mary Ann Schrott of Pi Beta Phi
It's possible for a party weekend to consume ten years
from a photographer's life expectancy. To offset this, count
less hours of preparation go into organizing the photographic
onslaught of thirty-odd fraternities in one night. Timing must
be perfect. A delay in pne house can cause us to be late for
the next five or six. For example, we could arrive at Beta
Theta Pi on campus, and in the following sequence, line up
the chairs, arrange the groups, shoot, turn down cocktails
(apologetically), make some polite chit chat with some
delightfully whimsical female who misplaced her date, scoot
out in the illegally parked jalopy and be at Chi Phi (a mile
away) all within fifteen minutes of having entered the portals
of B. Theta Pi. Much of this timing precision is due to the co
operation the social chairman gives us, who by now we've
instilled the fear of God in.
A horrible way to earn a living and if it wasn't for the
money, we'd never do it.
Acacia Tau Phi Delta, Theta Chi and Phi Kappa Tau were
shot in color. Pictures of the parties will be in the Western
Union window this weekend.
Too late now to be photographed for pre-Xmas delivery
but re-orders can be delivered in time. Of course, we are
still doing sittings, and proofs will be ready the following
day.
Anyone interested in my one-year-old Bead skis and
safely bindings? Excellent condition. $llO.OO last year. $70.00
and they're yours. Crutch and liniment thrown in.
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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1960
Republicans Postpone,
1961 Leaders Selection
HARRISBURG VI Senate
Republicans last night postponed
until next Monday selecting their
leaders for the 1961 legislative
session.
The action was taken after only
14 of the 25 GOP senators showed
up for an organization session.
Sen. James S. Berger, Potter,
who is expected to be re-elected
floor leader, said many senators
called in and said they were un
able to get to Harrisburg because
of the severe snow storm.
Berger said that although
enough members showed for a
quorum, it was decided to post
rpone the session so that alt mem
hers could participate in the elec
tion. -
PMS Launches Search
Far Pa. Ce6tenarians
HARRISBURG UP) A state
wide search for persons who will
become 100 years old in 1961 was
launched yesterday by the Penn
sylvania Medical Society.
As is the society's practice each
,year, every centenarian found
will be presented with a testi
monial plaque, reading "in recog
nition of one whose life span
exemplifies healthful living."
This year the society located
170 Pennsylvanians who reached
their 100th birthday, bringing to
560 the number honored since the
program started in 1948.
The annual payroll of Penn
State's more than 20,000 staff and
faculty exceeds $30,000,000.
=bill coleman