UP Edges Vox In ASC Contest
Vox Populi came out of the general elections last night holding control of the All Student Council.
Although it lost one seat to the University Party, Vox still maintains a 16 to 11 edge over UP.
UP won nine of the living district representative seats last night. Vox won eight. One representative from the men's large dormitories district will not be decided upon until after Thanksgiving because of the close vote.
VOX HOLDS EIGHT SEATS from last spring's election of school representatives, and UP holds two.
The vote total of 3.710 is 886 greater than last fall's 2.824 total.
Vote tabulation last night turned into a $ 5 \frac{1}{2} $ hour task for members of the election committee.
The tense atmosphere and varying degrees of confusion caused tempers to grow shorter as the hours grew longer and the votes grew closer.
An irregularity in tabulating the votes was discovered about $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours after the committee began work. The committee found it it had been figurating vote quotas (a figure used in calculating votes
See Election Results, p. 2
for candidates other than first-place winners) on total number of votes, both valid and invalid. The ASC elections bill states only valid votes will be used in the figuring.
SIX DISTRICTS HAD ALREADY been decided at the time, Richard Harper, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the election committee, ordered a recount of the men's large dormitories district.
A recount was not taken of fraternities, sororities, women's large dormitories, men's small dormitories, and women's small dormitories.
"Men's large dormitories is the only vote where the slight change of quota could have involved a change in results." Harper said.
Despite the slow work in the counting room, students waited patiently outside the guarded door for results to be posted. The results were handed out for each district as they were totaled.
THE TWO PEOPLE who waited most anxiously were the chairmen of the political parties. Both were in the counting room and had the right to contest any vote calculation. Only men's large dormitories' votes were contested.
Ted Childers, Wamego senior and Vox chairman, said he was pleased with the results in some districts and disappointed in others.
"The closeness of the votes in the districts was amazing," he said.
"We have a lot of work to do between now and next spring."
Tom Hardy. Hoisington junior and UP co-chairman, said:
"We're happy for the people who won and we're confidently looking forward to the spring elections."
(Two UP candidates lost out in the general elections. Six Vox candidates were unsuccessful.)
Stewart Wins in Record Frosh Vote
Four freshmen started their KU political careers last night by coming out ahead in the election of class officers.
Robert Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., was elected president. Others elected were Sal Allessandro, Valley Stream, N.Y., vice president; Marilyn Huff, Wichita, secretary; and Jon Alexiou, Mission treasurer.
"I INTENT TO TRY my best to carry out all the promises that I have made throughout the campaign." Stewart said.
"It was a close race and I was worried up until the last minute," he said. "This was the toughest election I've ever won in my life."
WHO'S WINNING—Students gather outside the accounting room in Bailey to read election results. Students on the other side of the glass worked until 1 a.m. for final results. From left
to right the curious readers are Jerry Freund, Dodge City junior; Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore; and Rod Kuehn, Wakarusa freshman. Victory parties followed the announcements.
Daily hansan
59th Year No. 45
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Nov. 24-25 Parties To Be Registered
Thursday, Nov. 16, 1961
Organized houses planning parties on Nov. 24 or 25 must register them at the Dean of Women's Office, Gary Dilley, Emporia senior and chairman of the ASC Social Committee, said today.
The parties will be under the ASC Social Committee rules even though these days are over a holiday period. Dilley said the parties must be registered by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Weather
Grandma may have the snow she needs to break out the sleigh for Thanksgiving.
Strong northerly winds 25 to 40 miles per hour with snow flurries were predicted this morning. Partly cloudy and colder this afternoon with diminishing winds, Generally fair tonight and Friday. Colder tonight. Highs today and Friday 35 to 40. Lows tonight 15 to 20.
A Kansan Series-Part I:
Watkins Hospital Lacks Space
(Editor's Note—This is the first in a three-part series on Watkins Memorial Hospital.)
By Richard Bonnett
Watkins Memorial Hospital, the KU student health facility, is in a pinch.
A resolution passed recently by the All Student Council called for an investigation of hospital facilities as a possible step toward "better service to the student."
THE ASC resolution was adopted following the death at the hospital of an 18-year-old Oklahoma City, Okla., freshman from correlations arising from an appendicitis attack.
But the roots of student discontent apparently go deeper than this incident and reflect a bad "image" the hospital has with a segment of the student body.
Michael Thomas, Kansas City, Mo., senior, the ASC member who introduced the resolution for an investigation said in a telephone interview recently;
"OVFP THE PAST few years I've heard students comment occasionally on it (the health
"AS FAR AS I can determine," he said, "students seem to be in doubt about what services are offered and what to do when they need medical care."
service) and the comments have never been favorable."
Thomas said from what he has heard, complaints seem to be along two basic lines:
Hospital staff members seem to show no personal interest in the students, and the students have difficulty in obtaining medical aid after regular hospital office hours and on weekends.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, hospital administrator, has answered the criticism directed at the hospital by stating:
"The only thing that can be criticized about Watkins is the lack of space."
He adds that the hospital is one of only 10 student health hospitals in the U.S. that is fully accredited by the Joint Committee on Accreditation, a group composed of the major medical and hospital associations in the country.
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'Mr. Sam' Is Dead; Burial in Bonham
BONHAM, Tex.—(UPI)—Mr. Sam died today. He had cancer. House Speaker Sam Rayburn was 79. He had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives 48 years, longer than any other man. He had been speaker 16 years, more than twice as long as any other man.
"Mr. Sam" was second only to the President of the United States in the power he wielded. He was an adviser of Presidents, the human symbol of his party. He was "Mr. Democrat." the Rayburn ranch; Dr. Risser; three Rayburn administrative assistants, and three nurses.
HIS IMPRINT on the lawbooks of the land stretched from the age of the horse and buggy to the age of the atomic bomb and the missile.
"Mr. Sam" died at 6:20 a.m., CST. He died in a ground floor room of Risser Hospital in Bonham, near the sandy northeast Texas fields and pastures he loved. He came home Oct. 31 to die among his friends and neighbors, as he had wished.
Dr. Joe Risser, his physician and personal friend, gave this description of his death.
"At 6:20 a.m. Mr. Sam passed away. He died quietly. His respiration stopped. His heart continued to beat for four minutes. There was no evidence of pain lines in his face.
"HE SEEMED as one in sleep. The cause of death was a paralysis of the breathing muscles in the central respiratory system. The respiratory center of the brain ceased to function."
It was. Dr. Risser said, "a very easy death."
Funeral arrangements were not immediately arranged. President Kennedy, who was told of Rayburn's death before it was announced publicly, probably will attend the funeral. Rayburn was to be buried in the family plot in Willow Wild Cemetery, at Bonham.
In the House of Representatives, he probably will be succeeded as speaker by Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts. McCormack has been his understudy 10 years.
With Rayburn when he died were his sisters, Mrs. S. E. Bartley of Bonham and Mrs. W. A. Thomas of Dallas; two nieces, the foreman at
RISSEER SAID the Speaker had asked to be buried by his sister Lucinda (Miss Lu), who died in 1956. She was the closest of 11 brothers and sisters to him. She also died of cancer.
"Mr. Sam" knew he had cancer even before diagnostic tests and a biopsy in Dallas Oct. 5 confirmed it. He was told Sept. 27.
Dr. Janet Travell, the President's physician, examined Rayburn, and after conferring with Dr. Risser, who had Rayburn's complete medical file, prescribed drugs to eliminate amoebic lesions of the kidneys.
He was aware in early summer, Dr. Risser disclosed, that he was seriously ill. But he refused to let himself be examined in a hospital and treated because he was determined to get as much of the Kennedy program as possible through Congress.
His cancer was confirmed at Baylor. It probably was centered in his pancreas. Cancer cells had broken loose and passed through his blood stream, so that the malignancy was spread throughout his body.
THIS DID NOT stop Rayburn's steady decline in weight. He came home to Bonham two weeks before Congress adjourned. Dr. Drisser sent him to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas Oct. 2.
He fought an amazing battle to live. He sank time and again to the point of death, only to rally. But each rally was weaker. There was never any hope.
LAST SATURDAY. Risser said "Mr. Sam" had from hours to days to live.
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