Daily hansan
69th Year. No.38
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1962
NO WORK—These poll workers seem bored during the ASC primary elections this morning. The bored trio are Tom Bornholdt, Topeka junior; Carolyn Hines, Kirkwood, Mo., junior, and Gary Button, Wichita freshman.
Record Turnouts In State Races
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Record turnouts for a Mid-Term Election were reported in hot political battleground areas today as Americans cast ballots which will determine the political hue of Congress and perhaps give a clue to the GOP presidential candidate in 1964.
On the election's outcome also will rest the fate of President Kennedy's legislative program for the next two years. The voters were picking 35 governors, 39 senators and 435 house members.
It was to the gubernatorial results in several key states that political experts look for advance tips on the man the Republicans will pit against Kennedy in 1964.
IN SOME of those states voting records for a non-presidential election appeared to be building up. A record was forecast for California where Richard M. Nixon staked his political life on an attempt to unseat Democratic Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown.
A mid-term voting record also appeared to be in the making in Michigan where auto-maker George Romney was making an all-out assault on Democratic Gov. John B. Swainson.
The first precinct reporting in Michigan gave Romney 12 votes. Swainson 2.
THE SENATORIAL race between Edward M. Kennedy, the President's younger brother, and George Cabot Lodge brought Massachusetts' voters out in numbers expected to break past off-year records.
Texas, too, appeared headed for a record turnout—unless rains in southern parts of the state acted as a deterrent. The big event in the Lone Star state was the gubernatorial battle between Republican Jack Cox and President Kennedy's former Navy secretary, John B. Connally.
HEAVY TURNOUTS were reported in many other places, including Minnesota, South Carolina, New Mexico—where a record was predicted-Virginia, Alabama, and Maine.
Voting was light in Mississippi and Louisiana, as expected, and New Jersey. In Georgia the voting was "steady" but "moderate."
In New York City the voting started out light but became heavy in most districts as the day wore on.
GOP GOV. Nelson A. Rockefeller appeared to be a certain winner by a large margin over Democratic challenger Robert M. Morgenthau
Among the early voters was President Kennedy who flew to Boston to vote for his brother.
"Extremely heavy" voting was reported in Philadelphia and heavy balloting in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. The Pennsylvania governorship race matched former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dillworth against Rep. William W. Scranton, a possible GOP presidential prospect.
Generally friendly weather and hot local issues and races appeared to be swelling the vote beyond expectations.
Partly cloudy skies this afternoon will clear tonight after a few brief showers over the eastern sections of the state. It will be warmer in the eastern southern sections this afternoon. Wednesday will be generally fair and a little cooler. The low tonight will be near 30 with the high Wednesday between 50 and 55.
Weather
U Thant to Meet With Red Cross
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI)—Acting Secretary General Thant scheduled a late afternoon appointment today with top International Red Cross officials to work out details of checking against hidden offensive arms in Soviet cargoes bound for Cuba.
Paul Rueger, former president of the all-Swiss organization who is acting as its special representative on the inspection assignment, and Melchior Borsinger, secretary of the international committee's executive board, were expected to arrive by air at 1 p.m., CST to confer with Thant at 5 p.m.
A special election issue of the University Daily Kansan will be available at 6 a.m. tomorrow — giving UDK readers earliest election returns.
Special Election Issue
For this special issue only newspapers will be delivered to all organized living units and campus distribution boxes as well.
This is the first time such an early issue has been available and there will be no regular Wednesday afternoon paper.
For the first time since the Cuban crisis developed on Oct. 22, Thant had no appointments with principals involved in the situation. His only ambassadorial appointment was with Liu Chieh of China, the last of the permanent Security Council members to be called in.
At 2 p.m., CST, Than called together his 20-nation Congo advisory committee to talk things over with Congolese Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko, here on a quick visit to the General Assembly session.
Polls Open Late; Vox Blames UP
The elections committee chairman threatened to close polls in the All Student Council primaries early today because of what he called "the failure of University Party members to report for election duty."
John Stuckey, Pittsburgh junior and elections chairman, said that only one UP election poll worker reported to Strong Hall and only two showed up at the Kansas Union at noon.
The polls, scheduled to open at 8 a.m., were not manned until 10:30 a.m. because of the lack of workers
Stuckey said the first use of polls in Murphy Hall and the Kansas Union indicated that the plan of poll decentralization has worked out favorably.
Nancy Lane, Hoisington senior and UP co-chairman, said, "Since the polls opened so late today, perhaps some of the workers got tired of waiting and left." She said the University Party will definitely have enough poll workers for the general elections November 13 and 14.
At noon 272 students had voted
including 123 freshman who were not necessarily Vox or UP party members.
One student in Murphy Hall said she felt the placement of the poll should have been located on fourth floor instead of in the main lobby because a greater number of music and drama students were in that vicinity during the day.
Holly Thompson, member of the elections committee and Ottawa sophomore, reported six students from the large residence halls had voted at Murphy Hall by noon and none had voted from Stauffer place. Julia Jarvis, Winfield junior, who was stationed in the Kansas Union, said a number of freshman women had used the poll there.
Students May Vote By Absentee Ballot
The Lawrence city clerk reports that any Kansas resident who has registered to vote in his home county may vote in any other county in the state.
The clerk, Harold Fisher, said the voter will receive an instate absentee ballot at the polls. The marked ballot will be delivered to the Lawrence city clerk. He will then mail it to the voter's home county.
For poll information, local residents may call the city clerk at VI 3-4600. Polls will close at 7 p.m.
Turkey Missile Power Blocks Red Expansion
UPI Foreign News Analyst
By Phil Newsom
In Inzmir, some 300 miles down the Turkish coast from Istanbul, it still is summertime, the grapes are ripe and palm trees rustle in the offshore breeze from the Aegean Sea.
Across the Aegean, some 200 miles away, lies Athens.
In the triangle formed by Istanbul, Izmir and Athens are the Turkish Straits and the gateway to the Eastern Mediterranean traditionally sought by Russia.
To the East, Turkey's mountainous border blocks Soviet expansionist aims toward the Middle Eastern oil fields.
NERVE CENTER of this defense complex is Izmir, where U.S. Lt. Gen. Frederic J. Brown commands Allied Forces Southeast Europe and where the Sixth Allied Tactical Air Force also has it headquarters.
Izmir and Incirlik, in the south, are the two most important NATO bases in Turkey, whose defense is based at least in part on the instant retaliatory abilities of allied missiles equipped with U.S. nuclear warheads.
These are the bases which Nikita Khrushchev had in mind when he offered to trade removal of his rockets from Cuba in exchange for similar U.S. action in Turkey.
President Kennedy's prompt reply that the Turkish bases were not negotiable squelched any hope the Soviet leader might have had on that score and heartened the Turkish people who have been among the United States' staunchest allies.
GONE IS THE one-time rag-tag Turkish army of ill-trained men and antiquated weapons. Its new U.S.-equipped Army of approximately half a million men is among the largest and best trained and equipped in Europe.
Its Air Force flies modern U.S. planes and has been promised others even more modern.
Together with a Greek army of around 200,000 men, these are the forces upon which the United States and its NATO allies depend to maintain communications lines to the Middle East and North Africa.
NATO military planners see six main avenues of possible Communist attack on Greece and Turkey.
For more years than men can remember the Turks have fought the Russians.
Man Questioned On UDK Inserts
A middle-aged man was questioned by KU police last night after a student saw him taking a stack of Daily Kansans from the distribution box near Green Hall.
The student, Rick Kastner, Salina senior, told the Daily Kansan that the man admitted inserting religious literature in the paper.
KU Police questioned the man, then left the office with him, declining a Kansan reporter's request to talk to the man, and promising that information would be given.
JOE SKILLMAN, KU police chief, told the Daily Kansas today that the man has been released from custody. However, he declined to give further information, saying the situation is "too involved."
Lawrence police told the Kansan this morning that the man was not brought to them last night.
Kastner told the Kansan last night that he saw the man taking the stack of papers about 7 p.m., and asked him what he was doing. According to Kastner, the man said he could "use them."
"THEN I ASKED him if he was the one who had been stuffing the papers, and he said that he 'migit be', Kastner said.
However, Kastner said the man later admitted to him that he had stuffed the religious material. The man said he didn't see anything wrong with stuffing the papers, Kastner told the Daily Kansan.
According to Kastner, the man accompanied him to the Kansas Union to telephone the KU police. Police picked the man up and took him to the office in Hoch Auditorium for questioning.
COPIES OF THE Daily Kansan have been stuffed with anti-Catholic and "Minutemen" material several times during the past several weeks.
The Kansas City Star last week reported that Robert DePugh, national president of the "Minutemen"—a militant anti-communist organization—said he believed that several members of the organization at KU might have been stuffing the "Minutemen" material.