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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year. No. 36
Friday, Nov. 2, 1962
QUEEN BARBARA—Over 200 students looked on as Barbara Schmidt, Kansas City senior, was crowned 1962 KU Homecoming queen on the steps of Strong Hall this morning. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Her attendants are Anne Peterson, Clifton senior, representing Hashinger Hall; and Karen Jo Emel, Colby junior, representing Chi Omega.
UP Concentrates Fire OnStatewide Activities
The University Party platform, which attacks the All Student Council committee system — specifically Statewide Activities — has been the target this week for a barrage of political pot shots by Vox leaders.
Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and student body president, and Stephen Stazel, Denver, Colo., senior and chairman of Statewide Activities, both members of Vox, stood behind the present management of the committee.
LAST NIGHT at a University Party Campus Committee meeting with UP candidates for ASC seats, party leaders continued the attack and then hit the Vox platform.
Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior and UP platform cochairman, started the UP rebuttal by defending a statement made previously by him concerning the platform plank which advocates the allocation of ASC funds to each class
The statement which appeared in the Tuesday issue of the Daily Kansan read:
"Dean Woodruff told me that the last sophomore class president who functioned went in the hole and the debts had to be paid off two years later."
Concerning Dean Woodruff's denial, Whitman said last night, "I talked to Dean Woodruff this morning. He said there is the possibility he did say something to this effect a year ago, but he could not remember."
DEAN OF STUDENTS. Laurence C. Woodruff, told the Daily Kansan Tuesday he had never made such a statement.
"The point is." continued Whitman. "the statements I made are true. There definitely was a sophomore class president a few years ago, who did go into debt trying to function."
WHITMAN REFERRED to a statement by Salter, which said that funds should not be allocated until class officers demonstrated a need for
funds by accomplishing something. "It is recognized by the Alumni office that this argument that class officers must first show a need for funds is not valid," Whitman said.
In a telephone conversation last night Richard Winternote, associate secretary of Alumni Association, told the Daily Kansan, "I don't want to get into the middle of a political argument. It is not right for the administration to take sides."
"It would make it much easier for class officers to function if they had funds," continued Mr. Wintermote.
HE EXPLAINED that practically every senior class starts out with a deficit accumulated from its freshman, sophomore and junior years.
After the meeting UP co-chairman, Nancy Lane, Hoisington junior and Robert Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, commented on UP party views on Statewide Activities and the Vox platform.
"The class officers just don't have money to advertise or promote any class activities," he added.
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"The UP platform wants these students who make up the Speakers' Bureau to "actively represent KU throughout the state of Kansas and the nation."
MISS LANE SAID UP disagrees with Stazel that the out-of-state chairmen should be eliminated.
A three-man panel will discuss socialized medicine at 8 tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
In the Thursday issue of the Kansen. Stael said, reorganization
Socialized Medicine To Be Panel Topic
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KU students can look for considerable cloudiness and cool weather today with a partly cloudy sky and cooler temperatures tonight. The temperature is expected to reach around 50 today and to dip into the 30's tonight. Saturday's forecast calls for fair and slightly warmer weather with the highs to be in the 50's.
The discussion will be held at an International Club meeting.
Panelists are L. R, C. Agnew,
professor of medical history; Dr.
Russell Frink, Lawrence physician;
and David Nove, special student from London, England,
After the discussion club members may register for the International Club Mexican tour Dec. 20, according to Fritz Gysin, Swiss graduate student and trip organizer.
Gysin said the group would spend one night in Monterey, Mexico, and then travel to Mexico City.
Pictures Reveal Cuban Missiles Being Removed
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Aerial photographs taken over Cuba confirm that Soviet missile bases are rapidly being dismantled, the Defense Department announced today.
The Defense Department said that "preliminary analysis of the aerial photographs collected in reconnaissance missions over Cuba yesterday provide clear evidence that work is proceeding on the dismantling of the missiles."
A department spokesman said these developments could be seen in the photographs:
- Missile erectors have been removed from the sites.
- Much of the associated launch equipment has been removed.
- Cable conduits between the control points and the launch pads have been broken up.
- Concrete pads at some of the launch erectors appeared to have been broken up by an air hammer.
- Certain areas of the missile sites have been ploughed and bulldozed.
On the question of inspection, the Soviet Union was reported today to be seeking some alternative to United Nations observers — such as the International Red Cross or the diplomatic corps in Havana — to confirm withdrawal of Russian missiles and bases from Cuba.
The department previously said there were 12 Soviet missile bases in Cuba for medium and intermediate range missiles with ranges from 1,200 to 2,200 miles. It said at least 30 of the medium missiles were in place.
Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan planned to take off this afternoon for Havana to placate Premier Fidel Castro for the loss of the missiles and bring him into line on a settlement of the Cuban crisis.
The spokesman refused to say how many of these sites were photographed on the resumption of aerial reconnaissance yesterday, but it appeared the department was satisfied that dismantling was proceeding at all the bases.
He confined himself to the subject of dismantling. He would not say whether any additional ships have been intercepted since the blockade was resumed by the Navy nor whether air reconnaissance was being conducted again today.
CASTRO, SPEAKING on Havana Radio and television last night, appeared to reject all forms of international inspection of his captive island. But some Washington sources said they believed he had left himself a face-saving out by referring to inspection "imposed by force."
Asked whether the blockade is still in effect, the spokesman nodded and said "The ships are on station."
Wiggins Stresses Volunteers In Corps
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Warren W. Wiggins, acting director of the Peace Corps, said today that his organization can only be described in terms of its individual volunteers.
Wiggins spoke to about 1500 students and faculty members at a convocation in Hoch Auditorium this morning.
"The Peace Corps is not the staff in Washington," he said. "It is not the abundant publicity. It is not the Communist reaction, but it is the volunteer."
"THE PEACE CORPS, at its root and fiber, is the individual volunteer and what he as a man or a woman from the United States represents and does."
Wiggins said volunteers share the following characteristics:
- He is an American who works overseas for a foreigner, to be supervised by a foreigner.
- He is an American who is told where and when to work.
- He speaks the language of the host country.
- He works with citizens of the host country, within their system and for them.
- His purpose is, in part, to increase his own understanding of other countries.
- He does not have any PX or commissary privileges.
- He lives under the laws of the host country.
"The volunteer does not convert others to different religious beliefs," Wiggins said. "He is not out to make a profit from business activity. He is not sent out to strengthen a military alliance or to change a political system."
"THE VOLUNTEER," he said, "is rather an American who wants to give two years of his life to living simply, working hard and helping in the ordinary, every-day tasks of people who desire to make their lives—and the lives of their children somewhat better."
Wiggins said he hoped the notion of simple living abroad may be "contagious" for other Americans overseas.
HE COMMENDED THE rapid organization of similar Corps by other countries. Germany, Denmark, Belgium and New Zealand have announced plans to form or develop volunteer groups modeled on the Peace Corps, he said.
An additional four countries are forming programs where volunteers will work within their own homelands.
"Also," he said, "the Peace Corps example has caused discussion of possibilities for a domestic service Corps on a national scale in the United States."
Wiggins said that between 400 and 800 Americans have signed up to serve abroad since February.
"THESE AMERICANS ARE not volunteering because of duty to state or God or with reference to law, either divine or human," he said.
"Rather, they volunteer and perform as they do because of a personal private virtue that lies in their consciences.
"And to defend this, they will give all: their time, their temper, their future and their fortunes, and if need be, their lives. To them, this is sacred."
Vox Continues Attacks On Various UP Planks
The University Party platform lacks originality and seems to reach into the past, Roger Wilson, Vox Populi president and Wichita senior, said last night.
"The UP platform contains five planks on which action has been taken already, one plank which is a reversal of previous UP policy, one plank in which UP contradicts itself, one plank in which Vox excells UP and one plank that won't work," Lauralee Milburg,
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a review of the UP platform by Vox members.
Vox took up each plank separately in its general assembly session.
CONCERNING THE STATEWIDE
Activities plank. Wilson commented:
"The point is action was taken before the UP plank was written. Last year it appeared in the Vox Populi platform."
Wilson termed the UP plank calling for more student loans the best plank in the UP platform.
"However, I am a little dubious how a student committee can influence the Endowment Association," he added.
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A PLANK WHICH supports the College Intermediary Board said nothing, Wilson commented. "I can see no reason for it being in the platform."
Wilson accused UP of reversing its stand of the past two years on a plank limiting the All Student Council to issues which directly effect the KU student.
Arms for India En Route by Air
NEW DELHI, India—(UPI)—The United States flew arms to India today to help the country's embattled troops fight the Communist Chinese invaders in the northern mountain borders.
The first of 10 giant C135 jet transports took off from Frankfurt, Germany this morning en route to India by way of Adana, Turkey.
U. S. AMBASSADOR John Kenneth Galbraith said the first plane load of badly-needed infantry weapons will reach Calcutta tomorrow.
The weapons are the first of an expected long list of military items heading for India, including ar-
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