ART EXHIBIT—Marilyn Stokstad, professor of art history and acting director of the Museum of Art, displays "The Offering Seller," currently on exhibit now through January at the Art Museum. The painting is the work of Mario Castillo of Honduras.
Art Show Focuses On Central America
Monday, Dec. 3, 1962
By Rose Ellen Osborne
The KU Museum of Art's exhibition of contemporary Central American art opened yesterday with splashes of color and comment.
Approximately 400 persons attended the Pintores Centroamericanos opening Sunday afternoon. The exhibition will be on display through December and January.
A Costa Rican tempera on paper entitled "Reds 23," submitted by Lola Fernandez De Gullemat, the only woman artist represented, contained an unusual shape and fiery red coloring.
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"I go for all those spots and splashes," said one viewer looking at the piece.
"Mysterious Stones," a Honduran work by Arthururo Lopez Focezno, fascinated viewers. The picture featured six plates of baked enamel on copper which resembled green idols on red and black tile.
"Indian with Pineapple," an oil by Alfredo Sinclair of Panama was a work which combined a variety of bright blues, reds and black.
All the works are for sale and a few have already been purchased, Gerald Bernstein, museum curator, said.
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The entire museum basement has been converted into exhibition area for the showing. The museum staff worked day and night for two days matting and framing the paintings and "hanging the show." Bernstein said "hanging" generally takes 10 days, but four crates of the paintings had been stalled in customs and this made the emergency work necessary.
A "VIEW of San Antonio de Oriente" seemed almost out of place amid all the abstract forms. It depicted a Latin American village scene with cobble-stone streets and tiled roofs. The artist was Antonio Velasquez, whom Marilyn Stokstad, museum director and professor of art history, called a "tropical Grandma Moses."
PROF. STOKSTAD said the exhibition is the first display by Central American contemporary artists in the United States. She spent the summer in Central America arranging the show in connection with the University extension program with Costa Rica.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness and mild temperatures are forecast for the remainder of the day and Tuesday. The low tonight will be between 45 and 50 degrees. A high of 60 degrees is forecast for tomorrow.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Western diplomats anticipated today that the return of First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan from Havana and Washington would trigger a top level review of Soviet policy in the cold war.
Under terms of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's recent promise to President Kennedy, all the IL-28 twin-engine bombers — estimated at between 30 and 40 — are to be off the island by Dec. 20.
HE ALSO SAID that analysis of information available to the U.S. government shows that on Nov. 30 the dismantling of IL-28's was underway at San Julian Air Field.
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YD Dispute Undecided; New Election Asked
Mikoyan came back yesterday from talks with Premier Fidel Castro during a 24-day visit to Cuba and discussions with President Kennedy and United Nations Secretary General Thant in the United States.
Both Barry Bennington, Cheney senior, and Pete Aylward, Ellsworth senior, claim election last semester to that office.
Russia Withdraws Bombers from Cuba
Soviet Foreign Policy Faces Major Review
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (UPI) — Russia has started withdrawing its IL-28 jet bombers from Cuba, the Defense Department announced today
Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said photographs taken of a Soviet ship near Cuba on Saturday showed there were fuselages of three of the Red bombers on its deck.
The IL-28 is a subsonic jet bomber with a radius of operation of about 750 miles.
The ship, identified as the Okhotsk, was proceeding off the north coast of Cuba at the time it was photographed, Sylvester said.
A new election may be necessary to solve the dispute over who is president of the KU Young Democrats.
Bennington says he was elected at a meeting March 14. Aylward claims election March 28. Irregularities concerning the distribution of membership cards surround both elections.
"Perhaps anyone with a reasonable facsimile of a membership card or who pays $1 for a membership card at that time should be allowed to vote."
Bennington said there was a possibility that the KU Young Democrat's constitution could be suspended for election purposes because of uncertainties over membership cards.
There are no provisions to determine election disputes in either the constitution of the KU Young Democrats or of the Young Democratic Clubs Association of Kansas.
- An agreement between the Bennington and Aylward factions, with a new election to be held in March.
DAN HOPSON JR., associate professor of law and faculty adviser of the KU Young Democrats, says he recognizes neither candidate.
Concerning the time of the election, he said, "The sooner, the better."
Possible methods of organizing the YD club with recognized officers this year include:
Bennington said, "The state organization has no power to decide who the officers of a local club are, and the powers to decide who the Collegiate Council of Young Democrats are delegated by the state."
- An order by the executive board of the Young Democratic Clubs Association of Kansas.
- An organization of members into a new Young Democrat Club if the state organization would recognize it.
AYLWARD was not available for comment.
PROF. HOPSON still hopes "both groups will get together and have a new election."
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The bombers were detected in Cuba at about the same time that American reconnaissance pilots discovered the buildup of ballistic missile bases on the island in October.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY placed first priority on removal of the missiles but also categorized the bombers as offensive weapons and demanded their removal as well.
The San Julian Air Field where the IL-28's were seen being dismantled is on the western tip of Cuba.
that they had "appeared and re- appeared in different places." He declined to say whether they had been seen flying over the island.
The Defense Department said it was unable immediately to identify any other air fields where IL-28's had been seen. A spokesman said
This resulted in a great lessening of tension in the Cuban crisis.
AFTER A PERIOD of haggling over the status of the bombers between Russian and U.S. crisis negotiators, President Kennedy announced at a news conference Nov. 20 that Khrushchev had agreed to withdraw the bombers as well as the missiles.
The exact number of IL-28's in Cuba has never been stated officially. The government has said there were more than 20. Other reports indicated that there were 30 or more.
ASC Procedures, Attitudes Criticized
By Jackie Stern
Several All Student Council members whose terms expired last week have spoken out against block voting and other ASC procedures. They also advised new Council members to "forget party politics." In a recent interview, David Gough, Chanute senior and elections committee member, said:
"Block voting makes a farce of Council legislation." He referred to the election of ASC officers last fall when the vote was 14-13 in favor of one party.
"I was never told how to vote," said Martha Smith, Stockton senior, "but most members felt they should vote along party lines."
TRUDY MESERVE, Abilene junior and former vice-chairman of the Council, commented:
"Party bickering is to be expected, but it should be subservient when the Council meets," she added.
"I was thrilled to see several people on the fall Council cross party lines and support what they as individuals thought was most beneficial for KU students.
THE SECOND MAJOR SUGGESTION of outgoing members was that ASC committees be reorganized.
Holly Thompson, Ottawa sophomore, suggested a closer relationship between the two political parties to "improve KU rather than to divide the University into factions."
Hollace Cross, Kansas City, Mo., senior, maintained that some committees should perform an executive function rather than a legislative one.
"In this way, committee members would be directly responsible to the Student Body president."
Lee Ayres, Wichita junior, made a plea for more action by committees, especially the elections committee.
"Unless some Council member builds a fire under the ASC, immediate action on the elections bill will not take place until next fall—when it's too late," he said.
Annette Luyben, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, called primary elections a "farc."
Adenauer Asked to Form Coalition With New Part
BONN—(UPI)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) asked him today to take up coalition negotiations with the opposition Socialists. But they urged he also leave the door open to renewal of his political partnership with the smaller Free Democratic Party (FDP).
A CDU communique issued after a parliamentary executive com-
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mitteme meeting said Adenauer was requested to talk with the socialists despite "a row of energetically-represented doubts."
"PARTY PRESIDIUM and party executive are as before ready to study the possibilities of a continuation of the present coalition in talks with the FDP," it said.
The decision was taken on the recommendation of housing minister Paul Luecke who, acting on Adenauer's orders, had two preliminary probing talks with socialist leaders last week, the sources said.
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