Daily Hansan
Friday, Nov. 15, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
61st Year, No. 46
Record-Setting Vote Brings Vox Victory
By Fred Frailey
Vox Populi gained an additional seven-seat margin on the All Student Council last night in a record turnout of voters for an ASC living group election.
The 4,865 voters elected 17 Vox, 10 University Party and two unaffiliated candidates.
"The total count far exceeded any vote in an election on this campus," Bob Tieszen, Newton senior and ASC elections committee chairman, said.
ONLY EIGHT votes in the large men's residence hall district kept the council from expanding from 34 to 40 instead of 39 seats.
A vote of 1.251 would have raised representation in the district from five to six. But after 40 ballots had been declared invalid because of irregularities, only 1.243 remained.
Even so, membership on the ASC jumped by five due to the heavy vote. No district lost representation from last year while the unmarried-unorganized district gained two seats and the large men's, freshman women's and large women's residence hall districts added one apiece.
THE EIGHT-HOUR job of counting ballots was ended at 3 a.m. by the withdrawal of Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior, from the unmarried-unorganized district race. Marvin's withdrawal came shortly after Gene Gaines, Joplin, Mo., senior and one of two write-in candidates, told the elections committee he was no longer a contender for one of the district's four seats.
Marvin is independent co-chairman of UP.
INCLUDING HOLDOVER ASC members from last spring's school election, Vox now has 24 members on the council to UP's 13. Two members, both of them elected last night, are unaffiliated.
Vox candidates won additional seats from last fall in the large and small men's and small and freshman women's residence hall districts and the unmarried-unorganized district. UP gained its only new seat from the large women's residence hall district.
The large Vox majority surprised the party's president, Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior.
"I made a number of estimates beforehand, but none like this," he said. "There were about six pivotal seats, and we won them all."
ALTHOUGH THE fraternity district's 87 per cent turnout was highest among the living groups, the spectacular showing came from the large men's residence halls. This district's 1,243 votes represented 83 per cent of the eligible students and was almost double last year's 694 count.
The sorority district voted 80 per cent complete, the third highest per capita.
The two unaffiliated candidates elected were Peggy Conner, Sacramento, Calif., senior, and Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior. Miss Conner, a large women's residence hall representative, was also elected last fall as an unaffiliated candidate.
Bgoya won in the unmarried-unorganized district as a write-in.
Vote totals by district:
Large men's residence halls, 1,243; fraternities, 1,065; large women's residence halls, 704; sororities, 578; freshman women's residence halls, 449; unmarried-unorganized, 386; small men's residence halls, 223; small women's residence halls, 91; married, 68, and professional fraternities and co-ops, 58.
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'63 ASC Election Results
Below are results of the All Student Council living group and freshman class officer elections.
All figures given are first preference votes. In several instances, candidates lost who received more first preference votes than those who were elected. This occurred because redistribution of votes added to the totals of winning candidates.
Candidates listed in bold face are winners.
Large Men's Residence Halls
Bill Brier (Vox) ... 272
Cordell Meeks (UP) ... 220
Greg Swartz (UP) ... 209
Jim Cline (Vox) ... 166
Craig Twyman (UP) ... 142
Fred Hoffman (UP) ... 123
John Simmons (UP) ... 54
John Traylor (Vox) ... 50
Large Women's Residence Halls
Kay Whitaker (UP) ...185
Sharon Anderson (UP) ...115
Sandra Garvey (Vox) ...109
Peggy Conner (Unaffi'ted) 90
Linda Bolan (Vox) ...92
Nancy Barta (Vox) ...67
Nancy Lane (UP) ...46
Fraternities
Bob Stewart (UP) 241
Jerry Bell (Vox) 202
Ray Edwards (Vox) 191
Dick King (Vox) 175
Tom Shumaker (Vox) 161
Bob Ritter (UP) 94
Sororities
Sororites
Jackie Caras (Vox) ... 197
Jane Lefebure (UP) ... 180
Sara Crites (Vox) ... 87
Susan Hartley (Vox) ... 104
Small Men's Residence Halls
David Doane (Vox) ... 91
Leo Schrey (Vox) ... 67
Ray Germonprez (UP) ... 60
Carl Bangs (write-in) ... 4
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New Section Open For Faculty Seats
The Athletic Department announced today that faculty and staff basketball season ticket purchasers can indicate on their season ticket orders a preference for new seat locations which are now being made available.
The new locations are the top seven rows in Sections 5 and 7 on the east side of the fieldhouse. Seats in Sections 5 and 7 lie between the basketball goals.
If no preference is indicated on the season ticket order, the Athletic Department will assume that the purchaser prefers assignment to the regular faculty and staff seating area in the balcony off the northeast corner of the basketball court.
Faculty and staff who have already ordered basketball season tickets and who would prefer to be assigned to the newly available seats in Sections 5 and 7 should contact the athletic ticket office.
Baath Group Seizes Iraq In New Coup
BEIRUT, Lebanon — (UPI) — The international leadership of the Baath Socialist party ousted the Iraqi government early today and announced it has assumed control of the oil-rich country.
A statement by the party's supreme council, composed chiefly of party leaders from Syria and Iraq, was the latest development in the split within the Baath's Iraqi leadership, which erupted in an abortive revolt in Baghdad Wednesday.
Baath's "international command council" headed by Syrian Secretary General Michel Afakf, declared over Baghdad radio it was "undertaking the responsibilities of the regional command (government) in Iraq" until new elections could be held, within four months.
The "International Baath leadership dissolved the party's Iraq council, which has run the country since September, and declared the new council elected Nov. 11." "illegal"
The International Baath command metaliated by ousting the organizers of the election. Foreign Minister Taleb Hussein Shabib and Interior Minister Hazem Jawad, who were exiled to Beirut yesterday with some of their followers.
It was the Nov. 11 election which usted strongman Deputy Premier Saleh El Saadi and touched off Wednesday's short-lived revolt by his supporters. Saadi flew to Madrid on Tuesday.
Saadi, in a news conference in Madrid last night, backed up reports by travelers from Baghdad who said he expected to return to the Iraqi capital with the approval of the Baath international command.
Reports circulating in Beirut said Iraqi President Abdul Salam Arefi a non-Baathist figurehead once considered a strong supporter of U.A.R. President Camal Abdel Nasser, may be ousted and exiled shortly.
Saadi, the reputed strongman in the group that overthrew Premier Abdel Karim Gassem last Feb. 8, told newsmen he would return home via Damascus some time today.
Additional supporters of Shabib and Jawad arrived in Beirut last night, strengthening speculation that Saadi's "hard-line" faction has gained the upper hand in the Baathists' Iraqi dispute.
A second plane-load of passengers arrived in Beirut from Baghdad today included jazz band leader Duke Ellington, currently on a middle east tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Soviet Spy Charges Halt Exchange Talks
MOSCOW—(UPI)—The U.S. embassy today informed surprised Soviet officials that the United States would not take part in scheduled cultural exchange talks as long as Yale Prof. Frederick C. Barghoorn is held on espionage charges.
American sources said Soviet cultural officials acted surprised and protested that the exchange agreement has no connection with the arrest of the 52-year-old New Yorkborn professor, a Soviet affairs expert and a leader in the cultural exchange program.
But the embassy relaved the State Department's decision to suspend the negotiations pending Barghoorn's release. Officials noted that part of the cultural exchange program to be discussed had been worked out by Barghoorn himself—a student exchange between Yale and Kiev universities.
The Soviet press today carried a urprisingly full report on President Kennedy's denial yesterday hat Barghoorn was a spy.
"KENNEDY DENIED that Bargahorn went to the Soviet Union with any espionage assignment whatsoever," a front-page account in the newspaper Soviet Russia said today. "The President stated that, in his opinion, this arrest may have a negative effect on the possibilities of expanding the cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union."
Novelist John Steinbeck, ending a one-month tour of the Soviet Union under the previous cultural exchange agreement, flew to Warsaw today and said "I am leaving with feelings of protest against the arrest of Prof. Barghoorn. I feel very strongly about it."
Barghoorn has been held incommunicado since Oct. 31. Since his arrest was disclosed by Soviet authorities, the U.S. embassy has made six demands for his release.
President Kennedy's statement that Berghoorn was "innocent of any intelligence mission" and his strong demand that he be freed gave rise to some cautious hope here.
THE CONCURRENT cancellation of new cultural exchange talks—which the President said would be "hopeless" under the circumstances—also was believed a factor.
But diplomats urged caution. They said that although the official Soviet news agency Tass carried a report of Kennedy's charge that Barghoorn's arrest was "unwarranted and unjust," it also attacked the State Department for putting an 'iron curtain' around a Soviet cultural delegation now visiting Washington.
Steinbeck took pains to thank his Soviet hosts for his visit and said "I have profound feeling of respect for the Russian people."
At a new conference yesterday, Steinbeck called the Soviet action "irresponsible" and said "such irresponsibility is too damned dangerous." He was joined in the criticism by another cultural exchanger, playwright Edward Albee.
U. S. embassy counsellor Walter Stoessel went to the Soviet Foreign Ministry yesterday to deliver the sixth protest against Barghoorn's arrest and demand anew a chance to talk to him.
Weather
Students donned overcoats, gloves, and scarves during the week as temperatures dipped below the freezing point.
But winter is not here yet. Weather experts predict a warm spell for the five day period from today to Wednesday. Temperatures will range from the low 60's to the high 20's during this period.
U. S. OFFICIALS said "no concrete results" were obtained.
But they said Soviet Foreign Ministry officials appeared "embarrassed and downcast" by the incident.
The diplomats themselves did not speculate on the possible reasons for the Soviet attitude, which would have indicated that the Russians might have miscalculated the impact of their action.
U. S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler flew to Copenhagen today for a "brief administrative visit." He has personally delivered strong protests to the Soviets about the Barghoorn case.
The Tass report of Kennedy's reaction to the case was the first word the Soviet people have learned of Barghoorn's arrest.
When Barghoorn was arrested, it was thought that the Soviets might have had in mind a trade for Soviet spies now held in the United States.
DIPLOMATS SAID the fact that the case was being referred to in public might be a possible hint that some form of accommodation may be forthcoming from the Soviets.
But the President indicated yesterday that if the purpose of Bargboon's arrest was to arrange such a trade, "it will not be successful."
UN Group, North Korea Plan Talks
THE MEETING is scheduled tomorrow morning at the Panmunjom truce headquarters. The wounded American was unofficially identified, but official identification was being withheld. He was reported hit in the thigh by a bullet, but not seriously wounded. He was being treated at the American hospital in Seoul.
SEOUL, KOREA—(UPI) —Communist North Korea officials have agreed to meet with United Nations Command (UNC) officials tomorrow to discuss an attack on U.N. soldiers in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
North Korean troops killed a South Korean army captain and wounded an American soldier when they fired on an unarmed UNC observer team in the demilitarized zone Wednesday, the UNC reported.
Lt. Col. Alphus R. Clark, of Leavenworth, Kans., leader of the eight-man observer team and its only other American, was also in the hospital recovering from the effects of standing in cold water for five hours with the rest of the team to avoid Communist fire.
SOUTH KOREAN troops assigned to the area were reported to have received permission from the Communists to enter the demilitarized zone to recover the body of the slain South Korean officer, Capt. Houg Joo Uj.
Capt. Hong's body was reported visible on the north shore of the North Han River, where it was abandoned by the other members of the UNC inspection team when they fled south by boat after being pinned down by more than 1,000 rounds of Communist machine gun rifle fire.
The team was inspecting demarcation markers on the shore of the river, which forms the demarcation line, when about eight Communist troops opened fire.
The men were forced to take cover in the water behind the river bank, finally escaping when darkness came.