Weekend Cyclist Peddles To His Leavenworth Home
By Lee Stone
Like to bicycle 30 miles to Leavenworth? One KU student does every weekend.
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He is Richard A. Luehring, Leavenworth freshman. If there is not a strong headwind it takes him about four hours. "The first time I made the trip. I got awfully sore," Luehring said, "but I'm used to it now."
The trip does not leave him worn out, just tired, he savs.
"The greatest pleasure in making a long bicycle trip is to set a goal and then reach that goal. Aside from that, cycling lets me get close to nature and enjoy physical exercise."
The 6'2" 150-lb. Luehring says.
"I STOP once in a while at service stations and bus stops. People ask lots of questions. They don't seem to understand why I do it."
Luehring plans to make his next trip on a new derailer bicycle that has a French gearing mechanism which allows the cyclist to use ten forward speeds. The drive chain in this mechanism slips from one set of gears to another at the riders command.
Heavy traffic presents the greatest hazard to open country cycling, Luehring said. He sometimes takes the less traveled routes. "It takes longer that way, but it's safer."
THE LONGEST bicycle trip Luehring has taken was along the tow path of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1960. He and a friend cycled from Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to Seneca, Maryland. They weren't in a hurry, so they only traveled about twenty miles a day. The trip took three days.
WEEKEND COMMUTER—This commuter does it by bicycle. Richard Luehring, Leavenworth freshman, cycles to Leavenworth and back each weekend on his English bicycle.
Friday, Nov. 8, 1963
The following members of the KU faculty will defend the positions of the four powers involved regarding the treaty:
THE FRENCH sent a convoy of 50 soldiers in 10 vehicles through East Germany and the British followed with a convoy of 43 soldiers in eight vehicles.
A panel discussion on the U.S.-Soviet test ban treaty will be presented at this week's International Club meeting.
The meeting will be at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. It will feature a panel discussion entitled "Test Ban Treaty and After — Four Views."
George W. Brown, assistant professor of political science and resident associate at the Government Research Center, the United States; J. Piekalkiewicz, visiting assistant professor of political science, the U.S.S.R.; Aldon Bell, assistant professor of history, Europe, and Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science and a member of the KU East Asia Area Studies Committee, China.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, will moderate the discussion.
61st Year, No. 41
Vox Populi President Charges UP Needs Action in Civil Rights
The two convoyes were sent to test Russian intentions in the wake of
Western Convoys Roll to Berlin As Allies Test Russian Tactics
Daily Hansan
In none of the cases today did any of the men in the Allied convoy lismount to be counted, as the Russians have demanded in the past.
Bornholdt also criticized the UP
Tom Bornholdt, president of Vox Populi, said last night that University Party should put its concern over civil rights into action "and not just give lip service."
He added that the two civil rights resolutions passed by the ASC were not supported by a majority of Vox council members because more than half of the votes in favor were cast by UP members.
"VOX DID NOT put civil rights into its platform because it has not committed itself in the field of civil rights." Marvin said.
U.S.-Soviet Treaty Discussion Topic
Bornholdt told the Vox general assembly that UP platform planks advocating Greek-independent cooperation and elimination of racial prejudice are unnecessary.
A small American convoy also was cleared without trouble along the 110-mile superhighway that runs between West Germany and Berlin.
BERLIN—(UPI) —The Russians changed their tactics today and cleared large Berlin-bound French and British convoys through highway checkpoints without harassment. The action was considered a Russian backdown in the fact of Western Allied firmness.
"I DON'T THINK it's necessary for Vox Populi to restate its beliefs on these issues every semester," he said. "We've said the same thing in previous platforms and our actions pretty much agree with what they've said. The difference is that Vox is taking action and they are just giving lip service."
Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior and University Party co-chairman, replied afterward that UP included the two planks to clarify the party's position on the matters.
The Topeka senior referred to two civil rights resolutions passed by the All Student Council Tuesday which were introduced by a Vox member.
"We want a cabinet to coordinate the work of all of the committees," Marvin said. "We feel the cabinet would not add an additional level of persons to the ASC administration but would aid in the carrying out of governmental responsibilities."
Bornholldt said a UP plank proposing selection of committee members on the basis of "scholarship and demonstrated organizational ability"
platform "for merely endorsing the Little Hoover Commission while we take action." The commission was established by Reuben McCornack, Abilene senior and student body president, to investigate the work and necessity of ASC committees.
MARVIN SAID UP endorsed the Little Hoover Commission to indicate its belief in "the bankruptcy of the present organizational structure of the ASC."
"Actually, the student body president already has a cabinet, consisting of himself, the vice-president and the committee heads," Bornholdt said. "All UP wants to do is to put the committee chairmen one step further from the student body president and vice-president."
In connection with this, Bornholtold said UP should wait until the Hoover group reports on its investigation before advocating a cabinet system to aid the student body president.
"WE HAVE BETTER things to say in our platforms than mere endorsements," said the Vox president.
is needless, because it has already been begun.
"THE STUDENT BODY president has a four-member board, with two members from each party, to interview candidates and submit their judgments on comment sheets," he said. "This plank is part of UP's campaign against what it regards as the spoils system of government. Yet the truth is that last year a great percentage of UP members who applied for ASC committees were appointed as Vox applicants. It's not our fault that only a third as many UP members applied as Vox."
"The student Athletic Seating Board, along with the University administration, are to put our plan into effect," replied Marvin. "UP has proposed a framework, which can be carried out by the University, with the aid of the seating board and other authorities."
THE VOX PRESIDENT said the UP proposal for moving student seats in Memorial Stadium further south is impractical because the party is committing itself to one plan and does not say how the plan shall be put into effect.
"These figures do nothing but point out that the vast majority of the appointees are Vox members instead of UP," he said.
Marvin said Bornholdt's statistics on appointments have nothing to do with how qualified the appointees were.
a Western Allied protest against the 11-hour detention of a U.S. Army convoy earlier this week.
The Russians blocked the Berlin-bound convoy from 9 a.m. Monday to 2 a.m. Wednesday, because the Americans refused to dismount to be counted at the Soviet's Marienborn checkpoint on the East-West German border.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said Wednesday either the convoys would submit to Russian controls or be refused clearance.
BUT THE Russians today passed French and British convoyes without raising the dismount question.
They were the first convoy's sent out since the Americans, British and French in identical notes delivered Wednesday demanded that Russia "one and for all end" harassment of convoy.
The Russians did not make the French dismount at either the Marienborn checkpoint or at the Babelsberg checkpoint, on the Berlin end of the 110-mile highway.
The British convoy passed Marienborn without incident in 20 minutes
THE U.S. ARMY'S convoy to Berlin from West Germany today was too small to be a test.
It had only eight soldiers in six vehicles and the Russians passed it through their checkpoints.
The dismounting issue does not arise with small supply convoys in which most of the soldiers are drivers, or in very large troop- carrying convoys.
The Western-Russian dispute has arisen with medium-size troop convoys like today's in which there are less than 31 passengers.
THE FRENCH convoy today was a perfect test. It had 50 soldiers in 10 vehicles. Subtracting 20 drivers and co-drivers this gave a total of 30 passengers, just one less than the 31 necessary for dismounting according to the Western Allied convoy procedures.
The British convoy today had 43 soldiers in eight vehicles. This included 16 drivers and co-drivers and 27 passengers.
The French said their men and machines cleared checkpoints today without dismounting for any head counts.
The Americans, British and French had jointly protested the Soviet action last Monday and sent through further test convoys today to reassert the Western Allies right to free access to Berlin.
Weather
The weatherman predicts mostly cloudy weather with occasional rains tonight through Saturday. High Saturday will be in the 50s. Outlook for the next few days is variable cloudiness with the chance of some rains.
EARLIER TODAY a U.S. convoy of eight soldiers in six vehicles passed onto the Berlin highway without incident. But it was considered too small for a true test of Soviet intentions.
The American convoy passed the Babelsberg checkpoint at the West Berlin end of the Autobahn in 10 minutes. But the French convoy was reported delayed on the highway by an accident. Truck drivers arriving in West Berlin said a car drove into the rear of one of the French trucks and the whole convoy halted.
A Western spokesman said a British convoy would be sent later in the day.
The West contends the Russians have no right to impose new rules for travel across the Berlin Autobahn. The Russians have said that troops in Allied convoys must dismount to be counted whenever the Communists say.
Junta Active In Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—(UPI) —American military authorities said today the United States "expects there will be a more vigorous prosecution of the war effort" against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas under the South Viet Nam's new military leaders than under the deposed Diem regime.
A high-ranking U.S. Army general told a news conference at the headquarters of the military assistance command that all the announcements and decrees of the new military government "promised" a more vigorous campaign against the Communists.
"We are taking those statements at face value," he said.
THE OFFICER, who was acting as spokesman for the American military command, further said that American plans to withdraw 1,000 military advisors from Viet Nam by the end of the year had not been affected by the change of government.
The United States had announced weeks before the coup d'etat that 1,000 advisors would be withdrawn by the end of this year and that the advisory mission's task would be completed by 1965.
Reports reaching the headquarters of the Military Assistance Command Viet Nam (MACV) in the last few days have already indicated "officer morale has improved."
"AMERICAN military authorities are hopeful that Viet Nam's new leaders "will be more effective in that broad and amorphous field we call civic action."
KU-Bound Chuong Urges U.S. Aid in Arizona Talk
Tran Van Chuong, former South Vietnamese ambassador to the United States, will visit the University of Kansas Monday on his current speaking tour.
Chuong, father of South Vic Nam's deposed first lady, Mme. Nhu will speak at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall. He will be sponsored by the Current Event Committee of the All Student Council. John Underwood, Parsons and chairman of the committee, has cleared the visit with Chuong agents in Kansas City and New York.
Addressing the Scottsdale dinner club at Phoenix, Ariz., last night, Chuong said that his country cannot defeat the communists without aid from the United States.
He said there was no alternative for U.S. aid in fighting the communists in South Viet Nam unless the U.S. wants to wage war directly against the Viet Cong Communist Guerillas there.
"I know you have strong reasons to be wary of giving aid to foreign nations because of some of the failures that have occurred in spite of your help." Chuong said. "But foreign aid is like any tool. It may be disappointing in some instances, but shouldn't be discarded because of the shortcomings."
The former diplomat said the stakes in Viet Nam are high, and that "victory over the communists is vital to American prestige and the future of the other Southeast Asian nations who look to the United States for leadership."