50th Year Anniversary Edition UNIVERSITY Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 71
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
U.S. Army Tanks Withdraw From Berlin Border
BERLIN — (UFI) — The United States Army announced today it is pulling its tanks and armored cars from the area around the key Friedrichstrasse crossing point on the divided East-West Berlin border.
The Army said it was withdrawing its armor to Tempelholf Air Base "to improve the dispositions of the U.S. forces in the American sector."
Observers felt the move indicated a lessening of tension along the border, where at one time American and Soviet tanks faced each other only a few hundred feet apart when the crisis was at its height.
AT FRIEDRICHSTRASSE, THE armored force was about a half-mile from the border crossing point. At Tempelhof, it will be about a mile and a half from the crossing point. The Army said the move began yesterday.
Soviet armor was pulled back from the crossing point some time ago, but last was reported hidden in a field in East Berlin still within striking distance of the Friedrich-strasse hole in the Communist-built wall that divides the city.
The force was sent to the border when Communist police began to interfere with official American traffic through the crossing point.
AMERICAN AND Russian tanks faced each other virtually gun barrel-to-gun barrel on Oct. 27 and 28.
The armored force of about 10 tanks and five armored personnel carriers has been near "Checkpoint Charlie" on Friedrichstrasse since the last week in October.
The Russian tanks were moved into East Berlin after the American tanks moved up to the border. The Russian armor still is about 1,200 yards from the crossing point.
Earlier in the day, West Berlin police reported increased Russian patrols on the border.
The Army said "the task force will be stationed at Tempelhof Air Base. The purpose of this change is to improve the disposition of the U.S. forces in the American sector."
Slick Streets Cause Accidents
Slippery streets and highways in the Lawrence area have caused a number of bashed fenders and tempers, and have caused minor injuries to one KU student.
Virginia E. Vaughn, Cincinnati junior, was struck by a car driven by William H. Stepp, East St. Louis freshman, near Strong Ave. and Crescent Rd. Friday evening. She was treated for minor injuries at Watson Memorial Hospital and released.
Damage was estimated at about $100 to a car driven by John Arrington Head, Neodesha junior, involved in a collision Sunday on K-10 highway near DeSoto in Johnson County. He struck a parked highway department sand truck.
The traffic and security office also reported that Stepp was involved in a two-car collision at 11th and Louisiana Sts. Sunday morning with a car driven by Dennis Shay, 215 Foster Drive. Total damage to both cars was about $250.
Lester A. Jennings, Basehor sophomore, was the driver of a car that skidded into a parked car owned by Richard Ramsey Burnham, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, near 11th and Indiana Sts. Sunday. Damage was estimated at $25 to each car.
The Daily Kansan staff at deadline
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Happy Birthday
To have functioned for fifty years as a daily newspaper is an achievement in itself for any newspaper, much less a student publication. On this anniversary I extend my congratulations and my hope that the University Daily Kansan will continue its efforts to fulfill its important functions not only as a laboratory for students in journalism but as a major campus source of information and as a focus for student opinion.
W. Clarke Wescoe Chancellor
Political Parties Give Color To KU for 52 Years
(Editor's Note: This is the second article in a four part series examining campus politics at KU. This article discusses the histories of the various parties.)
By Jerry Musil
The Greeks and Independents have been on opposite sides for most of the 52 years of politics at KU.
And with the coming of student government, politics and its offspring, rival political parties, arose. The first election in 1909 was a fight between fraternity and non-fraternity men.
Political parties gained impetus from the 1912 presidential election when a pro-Wilson club was organized. Pro-Taft and pro-Roosevelt clubs quickly followed.
THE ORIGINAL difference in interests between fraternity and non-fraternity men was the cause for the failures. The two factions would combine to win, but after the victory, each faction tried to impose its own interests over those of the other and the split was only a matter of time.
There have been coalitions of rebellious and dissatisfied Greeks with Independents in an effort to gain control, but each has dissolved after a few years.
THE PRO-TAFT group formed the Society of Pachacamac and adopted the rising sun as its emblem. It was to remain the dominant political party for 43 years until 1954 at which time it dissolved into two parties, the Allied Greek-Independent (AGI) and the Party of Greek Organizations (POGO). The leadership or "Inner Circle" of Pach went underground and is now a secret organization of considerable influence in Greek fraternities.
The first election in 1909 was not a battle between parties but between factions. This situation remained for three years.
In 1912, Pach members decided they needed a clubhouse. They bought an old Civil War livery stable in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity's backyard (now the Don Henry Coop), redecorated the interior, boarded the windows and padlocked the doors.
Beta Theta Pi was the only fraternity not represented in the almost exclusive Greek organization. And it has been in most of the anti-Pach parties formed since then.
PACH WAS never known to observe clean politics in its years of existence. In a 1935 campus debate, they were compared to the Tammany Tiger of New York fame.
The Kansan on Jan. 15, 1919, carried the headline "Arrangements Complete for Anti-Graft Voting at Elections Tomorrow." Council members were stationed at the polls "to prevent crooked electioneering and voting." One of the poll guards was a Fachacamac named Arthur Lonborg.
For the next 31 years, the Pach "Inner Circle" was made up of both independents and Greeks, but it was always dominated by the fraternities.
Other parties accused the Pach machine of poll blocking, double and triple voting, ballot stuffing and even
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Weather
Generally fair and continued cold this afternoon and tonight. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow with occasional snow northwest portion. Low tonight zero to 5 above north to 10 extreme south. High tomorrow 15 to 25.
Half-Century Old, But Still Sassy
By The Daily Kansan As Told to Tom Turner
I'm fifty years old today—me—the Daily Kansan.
Fifty years of excitement and tears, wars and crises. Many, many people have worked on my pages since I first appeared as a daily Jan. 16, 1912, but I have a confession to make. A lady is not supposed to reveal her age, but I'm actually older than fifty. For nine years prior to 1912 I ran at intervals as a weekly and semi-weekly.
MY BIG, bustling offices were in the basement of Fraser Hall in 1912. The next year I moved to expanded facilities in the "Shack"—next to Watson Library. Then, in 1952, they moved me into Flint Hall where I am now.
Today I have all my own facilities. I am set in type and printed by the University Press, also located in Flint. Two UPI teletype machines keep my office humming and a huge Fairchild Scan-a-Graver allows me much flexibility in handling pictures.
Those first offices were pretty cramped. We had a darkroom smaller than the average broom closet, no engraving equipment and no presses to really call our own. It was two years before I was able to carry the United Press News Service on my pages.
MY FIRST edition as a daily appeared on four pages—much bigger than these. There were no photographs—not for awhile anyway. Rather, I carried a cartoon on my front page every day.
The campus issues between 1912 and now aren't really so different. They were pretty excited about the first unit of the medical center in Kansas City (Rosedale, then) which opened in October of 1911. They were considering all sorts of new courses in order to meet the every demand of the whopping 2,000 student enrollment. The seniors were petitioning to eliminate final examinations for that Spring semester and I boasted that I would carry a special column dealing with the news of Kansas high schools—to keep the folks in touch with the home grounds.
ON MY second day of daily publication, my editorial page carried an optimistic editorial that claimed national greatness for the Kansan someday. I guess those youngsters were right. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation awards of last year stand as realities of their foresight.
I'M ENTIRELY student operated, you know. Students work (day and night) in my newsroom and business office for one hour of credit. It gets a little burdensome at times, and they get yelled at a lot—but what better training could a journalism major have? The Kansan affords a student the opportunity to bear the responsibility of putting out a daily paper. If the students don't do their job, the paper doesn't appear and money is lost.
Of course, no one ever dreamed that the University would ever get as big as it is today—in fact I don't think many people really wanted it to. Efforts were made through the years to keep KU small and conservative. In 1914 the administration ruled out any kind of activity on Sunday which somehow cramped the style of the Oread Golf Club. That same year, Chancellor Frank Strong seriously considered banning all smoking on the campus. It never went through, however.
I'm stricly departmentalized now. I have separate staffs to handle my news columns, my sports page, my society page and my editorial page. I have a city editor to make sure that all campus events are reported, and I have a staff of nearly 21 reporters to pound the beats.
I have a man in charge of every phase of my advertising services, general business manager and 11 busy ad salesmen.
A business committee handles my budget problems, an editorial (Continued on page 13)
Indonesia 'Attempted' New Guinea Invasion
THE HAGUE, Holland—(UPI)—The Defense Ministry said today Indonesia attempted to invade Dutch New Guinea yesterday.
An official communique said the number of captured Indonesians aboard a motor torpedo boat that was sunk by Dutch naval units off the Island's south coast was many more than would have been aboard the vessel under normal conditions.
"IT IS COMPLETELY clear from this fact and the equipment which was impounded that an invasion attempt has been made," the communique said.
(In Jakarta, Maj. Gen. Achmad Jani, chief of the special operational command for the "Liberation of West Irian," scoffed at Dutch charges that Indonesia had tried to invade West New Guinea.
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THE DEFENSE MINISTRY said the number of Indonesians captured still is not definitely known. A government information office spokesman in Hollandia said 59 Indonesians were pulled out of the water after their motor torpedo boat was sunk. He said they will be regarded as prisoners of war.
"There is at present no evidence that further aggressive actions will be undertaken by Indonesia," the Defense Ministry communicated said.
The communique said two other Indonesian vessels escaped pursuing Dutch warships.
The incident was the first armed action in the dispute over Dutch New Guinea (West Irian) since Indonesian President Sukarno announced earlier this month that the area would be taken by force unless Holland agreed to turn it over to his country.
The Dutch have offered to negotiate the future of West Irian, but Sukarno has demanded that its incorporation in Indonesia be a precondition for any talks.