Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 36
Friday, November 3, 1961
UN Security Council Gives U Thant Recommendation
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. — (UPI)
—The Security Council today unanimously recommended U Thant of Burma for election as acting Secretary General of the United Nations.
In a meeting this morning, the 11nation council recommended Thant's election by the General Assembly this afternoon to serve out the term of the late Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, which expires April 10, 1963.
HAMMARSKJOLD. A Swede, was killed in a plane crash in Rhodesia
in September after having been secretary general since 1953, when he succeeded Trygve Lie of Norway.
Thant arrived a few minutes before the council went into its closed session. He waited in a small office down the corridor while the council met.
After the council meeting, he emerged from the office and posed briefly for news photographers.
In answer to congratulations from newsmen and cameramen, he said simply: "Thank you."
Vox Discusses Vote Getting
Vox Populi devoted a 15 minute, sparsely attended meeting last night to committee reports and plans for "getting out the vote."
"Be certain to emphasize to your people that the primary elections are important," Theodore L. Childers, Wamego senior and Vox president, said.
"THEY'LL TELL YOU that primary elections don't mean anything—they don't as far as the general election results are concerned," he said. "They do mean something as indicators of student feeling and are very important to us for our campaign.
"If you representatives feel that our candidates should come back to your houses to speak because they haven't made a good impression in their initial speeches, then get them to return."
"I WANT TO MAKE a special plea to you," said Roger Wilson, Wichita junior. "The crucial hours of the general elections days—the 14th and 15th—are from 3 to 5 p.m. It is at this time of day we must get the vote out." he added.
"I would like for a Vox member of each house to drive other house members up to the Hill to vote," he said. "I am thinking in particular
of fraternities. It's very crucial that we do this," he added.
TURNING TO ANOTHER matter, James Martin, Arkansas City sophomore, said, "We have purchased about 150 feet of pulp paper for posters for the motorcade we're planning. This is enough for 100 posters—two for each car."
"We also have posters for the 1,200 inches of poster space in Strong Hall. This will be taken up by two 20 by 30 inch posters," he added, requesting that drivers for the motorcade provide him with their names for distribution of poster materials.
THANT'S nomination was agreed upon after six weeks, bickering between Russia and the United States, speaking for the Western powers. Agreement was reached when U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and British Minister of State Joseph B. Godber recommended last Wednesday that Thant be elected to the interim post with full freedom to choose his own deputies, within limitations of the U.N. charter.
Childers returned to the subject of campaigning.
"ON NOV. 9 WE'RE HAVING a house presidents' meeting. I want each of you representatives to bring your presidents to this meeting." he added, "It's extremely important.
Changing the subject, John Stuckey, Pittsburgh sophomore, former Vox executive council member said he hoped the General Assembly would fill the two vacancies in the Executive Council.
CHILDERS ASKED FOR nominations to be opened but Martin said that without a quorum the Assembly could not vote on this.
Childlers agreed and said the elections would have to be postponed.
University Theatre Will Present 'Auntie Mame'
"Auntie Mame," adapted for the stage by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from Patrick Dennis' book, will be presented as University Theatre's second major production of the season Monday through Saturday.
Swirling set shifts, frenzied costume changes and a rambunctious social light will sweep into University Theatre next week.
Mame whirls him through a school based upon Bertrand Russell's theory of progressive education, finally marrying him off to an East side youngster.
Lavishly designed, "Auntie Mame" utilizes every staging technique at University Theatre's command. The turntable, a device which swings around carrying two different sets, will be full with Mame's Beekman Place apartment on one side and Jackson Beauregard's country estate on the other.
SLATS ATTACHED TO OUTLINE BOARDS will enable the stage crew to make quick scene changes by unhooking the slats' hinges. Scenes will be flown in from the ceiling via cables controlled by a panel backstage. Props with wheels will be used extensively as the stage crew must make 23 scene changes, 16 major set switches and a host of costume changes.
THE PLAY REVOLVES AROUND MAME DENNIS and her nephew. Patrick, whom she rears after his father's death.
In addition to the set changes, two nylon-thin curtains will create two scenes at the lip of the stage. All the stage space is being used.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin, in the face of the Anglo-American position, dropped his demand that the number of Thant'aides and the political groupings they should represent be fixed before the election.
Thant gained the post on a "no strings attached" basis, Western sources said, and planned to make no statement until after his election by the assembly, which was summoned to meet for that purpose at 2 p.m. CST.
UP Defends Platform Planks
The University Party defended itself last night against accusations that its platform planks ducked the civil rights issue and the NSA controversy.
A Daily Kansan editorial Wednesday had accused both campus political parties (UP and Vox Populi) of having weak platforms. At the UP meeting in the Kansas Union last night, the criticisms of the UP were answered.
Why no plank on the civil rights issues on campus?
Gene Gaines, Joopin, Mo., junior, a member of the UP platform committee answered:
"VIEWS ON civil rights should be more or less an individual opinion. Our candidates should make the decision, not the party itself."
He added that the party felt planks in the platform should be agreed upon by the entire assembly.
He also said the civil rights issue may be "possibly out of proportion."
The editorial also criticized the party for no plank on the NSA controversy.
ROBERT CATHEY. Shawnee Mission sophomore, said the NSA was not put into the platform because UP was split on the issue.
He said the ASC vote to disaffiliate from the NSA backed un this point. The UP vote in the ASC was six for disaffiliation, six against, and one abstention.
"Obviously, how could we put a plank in our platform about the NSA when the party is split like this," he said.
"A LOT OF PEOPLE don't understand what a platform means. The party has to be strongly behind each plank."
He added that the UP did support a current events committee of the ASC to replace the NSA. A proposal to set up this committee has already been before the ASC. It was a part of the resolution to disaffiliate from the NSA, but was deleted from the bill. A resolution to set up the current events committee will probably come up soon before the ASC.
A PARTY MEMBER came up with another question about the UP platform. He asked Cathey what the party was going to do about the new "off shoot of the NSA?" (He was probably referring to the newly created Committee for Effective Student Government. Eight members of this committee are former members of the NSA.)
Cathey, a member of the NSA last year, replied:
"These people need to be together. They probably deserve each other."
He added, laughing, that this was not a part of the UP platform.
Gen.Walker Resigns Due to Censorship
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Army was ready today to accept the resignation of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who is ending a 30-year service career in protest against military "censorship."
Gen. Walker said that as a civilian he would be able to continue his anti-communist fight which he had "found it no longer possible to do in uniform."
"I must be free from the power of little men who, in the name of my country, punish loyal service to it," he said.
The veteran officer, removed from command of the 24th Division in Germany over alleged political activities, which critics said were based on principles of the right wing John Birch society, said he would refuse the $1,012.50 a month retirement pay he is due.
Gen. Walker, who is staying in
San Antonio, said he had no further comment on his resignation because his statement to the sub committee speaks for itself. But he added that he agreed with Gen. Douglas MacArthur that executive power has become so strong that military men are being treated ruthlessly for speaking their minds.
"It will be my purpose now, as a civilian, to attempt to do what I have found it no longer possible to do in uniform."
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara later testified that Walker had attempted to influence the votes of his troops in the 1960 election. He said the General made "inflammatory and derogatory statements" against former President Truman, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Nuclear Testing Could Begin in Three Months
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Atomic experts said today the United States could resume above-ground nuclear tests in two or three months if President Kennedy finds them necessary.
The President said yesterday such tests would be ordered if a current study of Soviet testing showed more experiments were required to maintain a U.S. nuclear lead over Russia.
SHORTLY AFTER his statement, Russia exploded two more nuclear devices, raising speculation that Soviet scientists might have stumbled on some new development and were proof-testing it.
The blasts, 29th and 30th announced tests in the current series, were set off in the Arctic. The Atomic Energy Commission said they both were in the low-to-intermediate range, or less than a megaton.
Authoritative sources have estimated it would cost more than $100 million to begin a new test program
The continuation of the Soviet testing, expected to end with last Monday's 50-megaton-plus explosion, led experts here to speculate the Russians might have come across some new lead in their experiments and wanted to follow it up.
Weather
IF KENNEDY ORDERS a resumption of U.S. tests in the air, they presumably would be held at the Eniwetok-Bikini proving ground in the Pacific, which was used for the last series in 1958.
Cold today and tonight with the highs in the upper 30s and lows tonight in the 20s. Generally fair through Saturday with the highs 45 to 50.
there because of the necessity to replace and repair facilities.
In the past it has taken about six months to prepare the proving ground and organize a task force to carry out an ambitious test program. But sources said it now could be done in two or three months if necessary.
WEAPONS EXPERTS predicted that, if Kennedy gives the go-ahead, a test would be conducted next year of a Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile with powerful nuclear warhead.
Other tests, they said, might include experiments to increase the power of the Polaris, Minuteman and other missile warheads without increasing their bulk and weight.
These experts said this country also might proof-test battlefield weapons such as the Davy Crockett Atomic Bazooka, and conduct scientific tests aimed ultimately at producing the Neutron bomb.
KENNEDY SAID in his statement that if tests are resumed, the United States would hold fallout to an "absolute minimum." He said this country had no intention of exploding anything like a 50-megaton bomb.
The Chief Executive denounced Russia's "campaign of fear" but offered another to sign a nuclear test ban treaty so long as it provides for adequate inspection and control.
"In the meantime, as a matter of prudence, we shall make necessary preparations for such tests so as to be ready in case it becomes necessary to conduct them," he said.
A SPOKESMAN for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) said: "We will proceed to get ready as fast as possible. If a decision is made to resume atmospheric testing, it should not take long to begin."
HOMECOMING QUEEN ANNOUNCED—This morning at a pep rally in front of Strong Hall the 1961 Homecoming queen and her attendants were announced. They are, from left to right, Leslie Gail Coover, Junction City senior, attendant; Mary Nan Scamman, Tarkio, Mo., junior, queen; and Lawalta Dean Heyde, Shawnee Mission junior, attendant.