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...Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kans., is a gloomy looking "corrective" institution whose normal student body is composed of girls under 19 convicted of minor crimes. Last January, when Democrat Walter A. Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner was replaced by Democrat Blanche Peterson. Kansas' onetime (1933-35) Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy recently paid a call on Mrs. Peterson. Result of her call was an uproar which last week made Beloit front page news throughout...
...they came to the subject of furniture. Said Mrs. Peterson: "Now I hope we can buy some new rugs for the school, since we won't have to pay so much for sterilizations." Questioned further, she told her visitor that during her predecessor's regime, 62 of Beloit's inmates had been surgically rendered incapable of having children, that 22 more had been scheduled for similar operations when she took office. Having verified from the ledgers of the institution that approximately $4,000 had been paid for sterilizations during two years of Lulu Coyner's regime...
State law specifically lists idiocy and social disease as the only legal causes, requires a 30-day notice of hearings to interested parties. Since Beloit's notably modest entrance requirements are an I. Q. of better than 50 and absence of venereal disease, and since, according to Mrs. McCarthy, inadequate notice was often given, she maintained the sterilizations were doubly illegal...
...McCarthy indicated that sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that parents' pleas seldom influenced Lulu Coyner's and the board's decisions to incapacitate almost one half of her charges for childbirth...
...John R. Stehn, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, instructor in Physics; Phillip Phillips, of Cambridge, assistant in Anthropology; Grosvenor W. Cooper, of of Stanford University, California, assistant in Music; Edward P. Claney, of Beloit, Wisconsin, assistant in Physics; Charles E. Dunlap, of New York City, Lucius Littauer Fellow in Pathology, Huntington Hospital; Carl L. Billman, of Winchester, assistant in History; and Robert L. Wolff, of New York City, assistant in History...