—Photo by Dwight Egbert
HOSTILE MACHINE—This warlike German import apparently has a mind of its own. It hopped the curb of the parking lot in back of Flint Hall, charged down the hill and attacked the KU greenhouse. The battle was a draw. Ronald Edwards, N. Kansas City, Mo., sophomore and the car's owner, said he didn't know what prompted the vehicle's action. It was unoccupied at the time.
Blood, SLC Items to be On Council Agenda
Blood will flow freely prior to tonight's meeting of the All Student Council, but it will be for the interest of charity, not because of political convictions.
national convict Nineteen ASC members were to donate a pint of blood this afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital to begin a blood donation drive by the Council's Health Committee.
LANCE Hearn Don Nelson, Clay Center junior and chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the drive, said last night he is "happy to see ASC members taking the lead."
"WE THINK students will respond better if they see that the ASC is backing the project," said Nelson.
Nelson said the Health Committee will schedule donations every two weeks until January. Theta Chi fraternity will donate blood Nov. 5 and either Joseph R. Pearson or Templin Hall Nov. 19.
Memorial scholarship funds to honor four men who died Saturday in a plane crash at Norman, Okla. are being started by their survivors to aid KU students.
Funds Honor Colby Dead
Two of the victims, John W. Wolfe Jr., 30, and J. O. (Joe) Gunnels, 77, were KU graduates. The other two were Jefferson D. Young, 40, and his son, Keane Young, 15.
All were from Colby and were on their way to the KU-Oklahoma football game.
A memorial for Wolfe, who was an assistant KU basketball coach before becoming Colby High School basketball coach in 1959, will be used to help KU students on the Lawrence campus.
A memorial will be organized in Gunnels' name for medical research at the KU Medical Center. Gunnels was a former state senator.
A "combined memorial for educational purposes" will be formed in the names of Young, an area distributor for Phillips Petroleum Co. and his son.
Contributions may be sent to the two banks at Colby or to radio station KXXX, Colby.
Beginning early next year, the Douglas County Blood Center will send a mobile unit on campus to accept donations, Nelson said.
The chief topic of discussion at the ASC meeting proper promises to be over the Student Liaison Committee.
Reuben McCormack, Abilene senior and student body president, and Jim Thompson, Hugoton senior and liaison committee chairman, met last night to prepare amendments to the bill which created the committee. McCormack said the amendments will probably be ready for presentation to the ASC tonight.
McCORNACK AND Thompson had earlier disagreed over the scope of the new committee, with McCornack saying the group over-stepped its bounds in announcing an investigation of the student health service and traffic control policy.
"I want to voice opinions on what we as a committee wanted to do or neglected to do, why the problem over the committee arose and if these problems are not manifested in the council as a whole." Miss Conner said.
A member of the liaison committee. Peggy Conner, Wichita senior, said last night she would like to hear a discussion by council members on the group.
In another ASC development, John Stuckey, Pittsburgh senior and ASC chairman, said the council has asked the University for an additional appropriation.
"MORE ORGANIZATIONS applied than expected and they asked for more money than expected," Stuckey said.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, who must approve any addition to the council's operating funds, will not return to Lawrence from a New York meeting until early next week. Stuckey said.
The ASC has been allotted $7,150 by the University from student activity fees.
The ASC will consider its budget at a special meeting next Tuesday. Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission senior and ASC treasurer, said he hopes the Budget Committee's recommendations can be given to council members prior to the meeting.
Daily hansan
61st Year, No.28
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Vietnamese Special Troops To Be Cut From U.S. Aid
But When the Buddhist opposition to the Ngo family reached crisis proportions last summer, the special forces troops were used on Nuh's orders to raid the Buddhist pagodas and arrest religious leaders.
The senior class will launch preparation for Senior Day with a coffee at 9:30-11:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The Senior Queen will be elected at the coffee. Seniors are urged to wear their sweatshirts.
SINCE THEN, Nhu has kept almost all the special forces troops in and around Saigon, presumably to prevent demonstrations or any attempted coup.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, —UP] The United States has informed President Ngo Dinh Diem's government that the 2,000 Vietnamese special forces troops, used in the crackdown on the Buddhists, will be cut off from their $3 million annual U.S. allowance until they return to combat.
Reliable sources said U. S. officials told special forces commander Col. Le Quang Tung that his units, originally trained to fight the Communists, will receive no pay or supplies from the United States as long as they remain around Saigon as security troops for the regime.
THE ACTION was expected to anger Diem and his brother and political adviser, Ngo Dinh Nuu, who is believed to run the special forces through Tung.
Tung's six battalions of troops were formed about two years ago with the help of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, the sources said. Their purpose was to infiltrate Communist North Viet Nam and neutral Laos, where Viet Cong guerrillas were entering South Viet Nam, and to work with mountain tribesmen in the guerrilla-infested central highlands.
Senior Coffee
The sources said the CIA made "under the table" payments of $250,000 a month to Tung for upkeep of the forces, which also received U. S. communications, transportation, and supply support.
Seniors will be excused from classes to attend the coffee.
The sources said some CIA and other U. S. agency officials opposed giving Tung the September payment a few days after the raids on the pagodas. They felt continued payments would link the United States to measures against the Buddhists. The October payment was delayed.
The sources said the decision to cut off payments was made in Washington.
The cutoff was not expected to get the troops back into the war against the guerrillas immediately. Such a sudden move would weaken Diem's security setup at a time of great unrest.
BUT IT DID make it clear that the United States considers the enemy here the Communist guerrillas, not the Vietnamese Buddhists.
The sources said Tung was told both funds and support would be restored when the special forces are
returned to combat duty or American-approved combat training.
They said he was warned that even after his troops return to the guerrilla war, he will have to inform his American counterparts in advance of where and why any units are being shifted.
Funds will be determined by what proportion of his troops are in combat or combat training, the sources said.
THE SOURCES said Nhu probably will find other means of paying Tung's troops, but they believe the political and psychological effect will be important in any case.
The Ngo family is expected to interpret the cutoff as a personal affront, they said, and may become angry enough to take retaliation steps. They did not elaborate on what form such retaliation might take.
Hurricane Ginny Still Battering East Coast
CAPE HATTERAS. N. C. — (UPI) — Hurricane Ginny drifted sluggishly off the North Carolina coast today battering a disabled Navy ship with its 80-mile-per-hour winds and causing beach erosion as far north as New Jersey.
"Ginny appears to be drifting slowly towards the south or southwest," the Washington weather bureau said in an 8 a.m. EST advisory which placed the storm about 165 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras.
This was roughly the same position the hurricane, seventh of the season, had held since Sunday night when it sprang up as a menace to the Eastern coast of the United States.
A TURN to the north was indicated for tonight, the weather bureau said.
"Rough seas and heavy pounding surf will cause erosion to continue along the outer beaches of North Carolina to New Jersey," the weather bureau said.
Two rescue vessels reached the
decommissioned Navy destroyer escort Fogg, heaving on 40-foot swells, at about 9 o'clock last night to end a two-day air-sea search for the drifting vessel and its 10-man caretaker crew.
THE FOGG was enroute to a mothball fleet in Texas when its tow line snapped and it drifted near the center of the hurricane. It was located off Point Lookout, N.C., to the south of the turbulent center of the storm which sent gale winds 450 miles to the north and 170 miles in other directions.
The Fogg's crew blinked out a signal saying "everything's okay" and "watertight integrity is good." Assisting ships stood by to try to take her in tow when the heavy seas subsided.
WEATHER
Tomorrow's high is expected to reach 85 after a low tonight of about 60. No rain is forecast for Wednesday. Fair weather is to continue this afternoon.
WHICH ONE??—The senior class will select one of these coeds Wednesday as their Senior Queen and she will be crowned during half-time at the Oklahoma State-KU football game. The Queen will reign as official hostess for the class for the remainder of the year. Candidates are: front row, left to right, Barbara Higginbottom, Sharon
Nusser, Susan Schraeder, Sandra McHardy and Judith Waterman. Second row, Judy Strafer, Loretta Marcoux, Kay Cash and Scottie Ragsdale. Third row, Carol Tholstrup, Lesley Hagood, Rosalina Young and Linda Malson. Fourth row, Ruth Bramble, Charlene Kay Arnold, Carolyn Hines, Suzanne Fisher and Mary Lynn Cooper.