University Party Presents Platform
The University Party adopted an eight point platform last night that includes consideration of a "stop week" and working to see that the traffic control plan will meet students' needs.
James Anderson, Lawrence senior, and co-chairman of the University Party, told the members at a meeting last night in the Kansas Union at which the party platform was finalized.
Jim Anderson
"There is still a lot of student apathy on this campus. Get out and convince students that this campus, and UP in particular, are doing something."
ANDERSON SAID THE party had interviewed the UP candidates. "I think we have good candidates. We want to continue to run a clean and decent election. I think this will help us to draw votes," he said.
THE FOLLOWING is a summary of the platform. The UP pledges to;
- Support possibility of a "peace pact" with Missouri, such as the one we now have with Kansas State providing for suspension in cases of student violence.
- Reaffirm need for a stop day between the last day of classes and first day of finals, and investigate possibility of a "stop week," during which no term papers or tests would be due or given.
- Investigate methods of improving systems of enrollment, registration, fee payments, etc.
- Encourage People-to-People, and affirm need for increased ASC support of this organization, and support creation of a current events committee.
- ENDEAVOR TO SEE THAT the Chancellor's program for traffic control next fall will best meet the needs of the student.
- Support Associated Women Students receiving more money from the University for functions in the area of public relations or education.
- Propose elections under a direct primary system so any student who desires may run, and to attempt to get more time between the primary and general election so candidates may orient themselves to campaigning outside their own party.
- CAMPAIGN FOR DISTRIBUTION of current copies of the ASC constitution to all ASC members, to all political parties, and to all interested students in order to eliminate confusion over recent bills and amendments. Also, to propose that the student body vice president be responsible for personal notification of ASC committee members within a week of their appointment in order to facilitate committee work.
Platform Promises Made by Vox Party
Vox Populi's General Assembly last night unanimously ratified all but one plank of the Vox campaign platform for the coming All Student Council elections.
"The plank, broadly stated, is that Vox will continue supporting last year's three unfulfilled campaign promises," said James McDaniel. Little Rock, Ark., senior and chairman of the platform committee.
HE APOLOGIZED FOR not reading the plank to the Assembly because, "it's still in rough draft form and somebody forgot to bring the draft here tonight."
Among the planks adopted was one proposing either the elimination or reduction of residence hall parking area fees for residents of the halls in question.
Many members of the Assembly contended the unfairness of this because (1) students owning such permits cannot buy zone permits elsewhere on the campus and (2) such students must pay extra to leave their cars in certain residence hall zones during football games.
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ANOTHER PLANK CONCERNED extension of bus service (Continued on page 4)
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 31
Friday, October 27, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Berlin Tension Brings Tanks to Border Area
BERLIN — (UPI) — American and Soviet tanks rolled up to opposite sides of the Berlin border today, and the U.S. garrison was put on alert.
Early last night, three Soviet T-54 tanks were poised on the East side of the border, facing four American M-58 Patton tanks 500 yards away on the other side.
THE ARMOR CONFRONTATION came after U.S. Army troops escorted an American-licensed car on a three-minute trip into East Berlin for the third straight day.
The American Berlin garrison was alerted earlier, and a West Berlin
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BERLIN — (UPI) — A U.S.
Army spokesman announced tonight that the alert of the U.S. garrison in Berlin ended at 7:45 p.m. (12:45 p.m. CST). The alert was ordered at 5:10 p.m. (10:10 a.m. CST). It lasted two hours and 35 minutes.
police source said the Communist police announced the lone crossing point between the East and West portions of the city was closed "until this thing is cleared up."
But soon afterwards an American Military Police car drove through the Communist checkpoint at the Friedrichstrasse crossing. It went into East Berlin and came out again without difficulty, eyewitnesses said.
WITNESSES SAID THE Communists then barred other Western vehicles, West Berlin police sources reported the Reds suggested that pedestrians use the underground railway system to cross.
Three jeeps with four armed soldiers in each vehicle escorted the Military Police car one block deep into East Berlin without trouble.
Four soldiers got out of the jeeps and with two on each side, walked the car back through the Communist checkpoint.
SHORTLY AFTER the alert order was issued, American tanks rumbled up to the Western side of the Fried-
richstrasse crossing point for the second time today. A U.S. Army spokesman who disclosed the alert said it was ordered because of the seriousness of the situation.
The first time they came up was when three rolled to the border boundary and two stayed in reserve a block away to lend support for the initial three-minute trip into East Berlin by an American-licensed Volkswagen. Five other American tanks and five armored personnel carriers were reported in the area.
A FEW MINUTES after the Volkswagon, its civilian passengers and its three-jeep escort returned to the West the U.S. tanks withdrew.
Shortly afterwards, six Soviet tanks rolled up on the Eastern side of the crossing point. But before the American tanks returned to the border for the second time, the Soviet tanks withdrew about three city blocks from the border and out of sight. Later three Soviet tanks rolled to within 100 yards of the border again.
U.S. Launches Big Booster; Perhaps Largest in World
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) America launched a 16-story "sky-scraper" moon rocket today on an eight-minute maiden test flight that proved successful beyond all expectations.
The rocket, a 460-ton space age collossus named Saturn, lifted from the sands of this missile test center with a thunderous roar at 11:06 a.m. EDT and lumbered into the skies spewing a blinding burst of smoke and flame from its 1.3 million-pound-thrust engines.
U. S. DEFENSE Department experts said it was possibly twice as powerful as any rocket the Russians are now flying.
President Kennedy watched the
Fallout Reading Remains the Same
Radioactive fallout here has continued at the level it has maintained the last few weeks, Edward Shaw, associate professor of radiation biophysics, said yesterday.
Fallout for Wednesday, the latest reading, measured 4.85 micro-micro-curies per cubic foot of air in the morning. In the afternoon, fallout rose to a 3:34 reading.
Weather conditions, especially morning dew, generally increase the amount of fallout entering the atmosphere. To balance the measurement a second reading is taken in the afternoon. For example, fallout for Monday morning measured 12.81 micro-microcuries per cubic foot of air, while the afternoon reading was 4.12.
Two readings per day were instituted by the department of radiation biophysics to ascertain a more complete picture of fallout in Lawrence about a week ago.
Weather
Cloudy and mild this afternoon with southerly winds 20 to 35 miles per hour in East and South portions. Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Scattered showers or thunderstorms Southwest late tonight and over state Saturday. Warmer extreme East tonight turning cooler Northwest Saturday. Low tonight 45 Northwest to 55 Southeast. High Saturday generally in 60s.
firing of the big rocket on a television set at the White House. It is ticketed to carry teams of astronauts on round trips to the moon by the end of the decade.
Scientists said in advance of today's launching that they would be satisfied with a one-minute flight on this first shot.
They speculated that they had only about a 30 per cent chance of getting a full, eight-minute flight, and about a 75-80 per cent chance of achieving what they regarded as the main objectives of today's test—getting the rocket off the ground and keeping it in flight one minute.
When the big rocket continued to climb beyond that point, "All hell broke loose in the blockhouse," Bart Slattery of the Federal Space Agency Information Office said.
A FLIGHT OF at least one minute was important, because at that point the Saturn successfully passed the point where acrodynamic stresses and the chances of failure are the greatest.
The joy wasn't limited to this spit of sand. In Washington, one space official jubilantly announced:
"We're on our way to the moon."
The successful firing of the powerful Saturn rocket came at a time when East-West relations are strained to the near-breaking point over the Berlin issue.
COINCIDENTLY, the shot also came while the Communist Party Congress was meeting in Moscow. The Soviets usually time their major space feats to coincide with important political conclaves.
The eight engines that powered today's Saturn generate 165,000 pounds of thrust each. Four burned
K Says Albania Seeks Aid of West
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Albania split with the rest of the Communist camp because it hopes for aid from the West.
"Obviously, they expect in this manner to clear the ground for winning the right to receive handouts from the imperialists," he told the 22nd Communist Party Congress.
for 109 seconds and the other four
for 115 seconds.
Dr. Robert Seamons, assistant administrator of the Federal Space Agency, called the shot "a very significant step forward for manned space exploration."
Famed German - born scientist Wernher von Braun described as "having lived with the project since it was a gleam in someone's eyes." said he was pleased.
Von Braun said today's shot showed "we are right on schedule."
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Former Soviet President Kliment Voroshlilov publicly apologized for his "errors" today and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told him he was partly forgiven.
Former Russian Chief Apologizes
Khrushchev also warned Communist leaders at the 22nd Soviet Party Congress not to build up new Stalin-like "cult of the personality" around himself. He said all Soviet decisions are collective ones.
VOROSHILOV and other members of the Stalinist anti-party group that tried to oust Khrushchev in 1957 have been condemned by speaker after speaker at the Congress.
The 80-year-old former president, a party member for 58 years sat on the Congress rostrum a few feet from Khrushchev. He asked the chairman to read his statement of repentance "for reasons of health."
Voroshilov asked the Congress to accept his apologies for "the mistakes in the early stages of the struggle against the party." He said he had not joined the anti-party group until June, 1957, and never before had taken part in factional fights.
HE AGREED with all the statements of condemnation in Khrushchev's first two speeches to the Congress.
Khrushchev told Vorosilov he had made "grave mistakes."
"But I consider that the approach to him must be different than to the other active participants of the anti-party group," he added, listing former Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, and former presidium member Lazar Gaganovich.