Daily Hansan
60th Year, No. 6
Vox Populi Adds Alpha Phi Alpha
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Vox Populi added its 17th fraternity last night when Alpha Phi Alpha was unanimously voted into the party.
The action came during the party's first general assembly meeting.
ON THE ISSUE dealing with decentralization of the polls, which has also been presented by the opposition University Party, Wilson said. "Vox goes along 100 per cent with the proposal made by UP."
TWO OTHER MAJOR issues, the representation of independent living groups and the decentralization of voting polls were discussed at the first general assembly meeting.
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and Vox president, said the votes added by the fraternity's membership would be an advantage both to Vox Populi and Alpha Phi Alpha. The new member may aid Vox in obtaining another fraternity seat in the All Student Council elections this fall.
"This move would give more recognition to independent students,' he said.
James Cline, Rockford, Ill., sophomore and independent vice president of Vox, suggested the number of independent representatives in Vox's general assembly be increased. The proposal passed allowing Lewis, Hashinger, Joseph R. Pearson and Templin Halls and the unmarried, unorganized housing districts two representatives each instead of one.
Wilson said that the support received from independent housing districts was weak last year.
Vox approached Chuck Anderson, Osage City senior and UP president, this week with the idea of presenting a joint bill at the ASC general session next Tuesday.
Friday, Sept. 21, 1962
WILSON SAID VOX began work on the project last spring. John Stucky, Foster Hall representative, said he had recently talked with Chancellor Wescoe on the proposed bill. The Chancellor suggested that three polls be located at Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and the Allen Field House. Students could vote at any one of three stations.
The group tabled a motion to raise the party's dues paid by Greek houses from $18 to 20. John Pepper, treasurer, said the increase was due to the publication of an educational newsletter. He said the money would not be used for expenditures in the ASC elections campaign.
Wilson announced that applica-
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Drunks, Misfits Hamper Soviets In Agriculture
"THE RESULT has been that the key staff members live in town and fail to visit their farms weeks on end. Arrogance toward workers is common. The farm directors do not share the risks of the rank-and-file, but urge the assurance of their wages, paid vacations, and labor union membership for themselves."
A Soviet welfare expert said yesterday that drunks and other misfits have been appointed as directors of Soviet farms or chairmen of collective farms.
Demitri B. Shimkin, professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Illinois in Urbana, was speaking here as part of a three-day conference on Soviet agriculture and peasant affairs.
"Often these members of the rura elite are unsuited to these tasks. Young agronomists and engineers who cannot use machinery and are afraid of physical work, are assigned to important agricultural positions.
He said poor education and language blocks are major barriers to progress in Soviet villages.
"Two-thirds of the rural persons over 15 may be considered functionally illiterate."
Shimkin estimated that rural incomes in Russia were probably only 40 per cent as great as urban ones in 1959.
"DEFENDENCE upon city-bred agricultural management magnifies the tensions generated by State demands upon the hard-pressed Soviet peasantry."
Monty Johnson, director of public relations for the University of Kansas athletic department, said all but about 200 of the students who applied for reserve seats last year had picked up their tickets.
Student tickets for the Texas Christian University football game will be available until 4 this afternoon at Allen Field House.
Today Is Last Chance To Get TCU Tickets
AFTER FEE PAYMENTS Sept. 25 until Oct. 5, students can present their receipts for fee payments at the field house for a book containing the remainder of the season's tickets.
Students who applied for reserve seats last year but failed to pick up their TCU tickets may get their season ticket after fee payment.
"SPECIAL CASES WILL have to go through the athletic seating committee of the All Student Council," Johnson said.
Parents' Day tickets in the end zone will be available for the special price of $2.50 Saturday at the Kansas Union, the campus information booth and in the lobbies of all men and women's dormitories.
Meredith Case Goes To Federal Court
MERIDIAN, Miss.—(UPI)Three University of Mississippi officials were ordered to appear in Federal Court today to face possible contempt citations for refusing to admit a Negro to the white-only institution.
No more tickets will be sold to new students or students who failed to apply for reserve seats last year.
After 11 a.m. tickets may be purchased in a booth at the northeast end of Memorial Stadium until all parents are accommodated
U. S. District Judge Sidney Mize issued the order last night at the request of the Justice Department when James H. Meredith was turned away from the University legal effect. We are
THE ORDER directed Chancellor John Davis Williams, Dean Arthur B. Lewis and Registrar Robert Byron Ellis to present themselves at a "show cause" hearing before Mize this afternoon. Oxford is about 150 miles northwest of Meridian.
SCANT PROTECTION—A damaged umbrella provides a KU woman poor protection against the season's first cold rain. Other students kept dry, but were hard-put to keep warm.
Gov. Ross Barnett was not included in the order although he flew to Oxford from Jackson yesterday to personally deny Meredith, 29-year-old Negro Air Force veteran, admission to the university despite a federal court order.
The state college board, which has the final say in university admissions, earlier had given Barnett authority to represent the group in the Meredith case.
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT said, however, that "in our view, Governor Barnett's actions have no
Meredith Incident Called 'Setback'
NEW YORK — (UPI) — The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said today Negro James H. Meredith "must" be admitted to the University of Mississippi or the cause of Southern integrationists "will be set back many years."
"Gov. Ross Barnett's move to block and even defy the Supreme Court decision can only lead to chaos if it is not checked immediately by the federal government." King told about 600 persons attending a rally at the Calvary Baptist church in South Jamaica, Queens.
King made the statement in comment on the action of Mississippi officials in refusing to register the 29-year-old Negro at "Ole Miss" yesterday.
legal effect. We are proceeding against those named in the court's order whose responsibility in our opinion remains unaffected by the governor's action."
The state, at the urging of Barnett
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P-T-P Goals Are Outlined
Fifty per cent of the international students who attend American colleges and universities return to their homes "bitter" and "disillusioned."
That's what William Schaefer, Shawnee Mission senior and chairman of the University of Kansas People-to-People program told prospective P-t-P members Thursday evening at an orientation meeting.
International students, he said find the atmosphere here not only indifferent," but often "hostile."
"Americans cannot afford to remain isolated from the world," Schaefer said. "The U.S. government is taking strides to overcome this problem, but there is still an area — individual contact — where we are standing still."
Schaefer told the group that P-t-P works with and for international students so they may become better acquainted with American life. He said the organization strives to make friendships with international students and be "internationally aware."
"The University of Kansas is in the limelight," he said. "The world is looking at our brother-sister, job placement and forum committees. It is a challenge for us to more fully develop these programs."
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and international P-t-P program coordinator, also spoke.
Argentine Truce Fails; Civil War May Be Near
BUENOS AIRES. — (UPI) — A shaky cease-fire between Argentina's rival army factions collapsed today, and the nation faced civil war. The government emptied some downtown office buildings in fear of imminent attack.
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Opposing generals defied President Jose M. Guido's orders to lay down their arms. Tanks and troops from both sides faced each other only six blocks apart in the industrial city of Avellaneda, across the Riachuelo River from Buenos Aires.
ALL COMMERCIAL air traffic was suspended at mid-day, indicating that belligerent air activity was to be expected.
Rebel Gen. Juan C. Onania, whose revolt movement appeared earlier today to have triumphed, accused the army high command which he is seeking to depose of violating the truce.
Ongania in a rebel communique said the three top government generals who had agreed to step down to solve the crisis reneged on their promise. They were army commander-in-chief Gen. Juan C. Lorio; his chief of staff, Gen Bernardino Labayru, and war secretary Gen Jorge O. Cornejo Saravia.
Ongania sent a column of 60 or 70 tanks — he has some 300 available to him at the big Campo De Mayo encampment he seized earlier in the week — into Buenos Aires' western suburb of Lores. Then they wheeled south across the river into Avallaneda and their crews dug in along the city's main street.
OPPOSING INFANTRYMEN manned a roadblock less than 2,000 feet away.
The generals opposing Ongania deployed their forces along the 30-mile stretch of highway between Buenos Aires and La Plata, to the south. They blew up bridges in and around Berazategui, a point midway between the two cities.
Ongania charged Lorio was seeking to organize a military dictatorship. He said Lorio had called on interior garrisons for support.
ONGANIA SAID THE government general's violation of the truce negotiated by Guido had freed him of the commitments made to the President. He said his troops will continue the fight until the army clique allegedly seeking to implant dictatorship is defeated.
The air force and navy, hitherto neutral in the army conflict, appeared to be preparing to intercede bo bring about peace.
Ten jet planes from the air force base at Moron zoomed over the rebel's Campo De Mayo headquarters shortly before noon. Reports from naval bases throughout the country indicated a flurry of activity.
Warships ranging from frigates to destroyers were refueling, summoning crews from shore liberty and leaving port for undisclosed destinations.
EARLIER, ONGANIA seemed to have won a complete victory in his announced determination to end the present military control over the government. Guido had announced at dawn that the crisis had been settled by the resignation or retirement of the three top-ranking generals defied by the rebels.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon, tonight and Saturday with occasional showers and thunderstorms. Warmer in the west this afternoon and over extreme east tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in the 50s. High tomorrow 65 to 70.