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Rising Texas GOP's May Turn '64 Race
By Patrick Conway
DALLAS (UPI)—Once an unheeded minority, Texas Republicans could be the turning point vote in any 1964 presidential victory by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.
For years Texas conservatives have labeled themselves Democrats and controlled the state party. Democratic liberals have been out of power in Texas since the middle 1930's.
But the mere mention of Goldwater as the GOP presidential nominee in 1964 has sent thousands of conservatives into a booming Republican party in Texas.
The Texas Republican party was just getting started then. Today, under vigorous leadership, it is making big plans for strong campaigns at all levels.
EVEN WITH Lyndon B. Johnson on the Democratic ticket, Richard Nixon missed carrying Texas by a scant 40,000 votes in 1960.
GOV. JOHN CONNALLY. President Kennedy's first secretary of the navy and a close ally of Vice President Johnson, held a big secret political meeting Sunday at the governor's mansion in Austin.
Since 1961, the party has elected Sen. John Tower, Rep. Ed Foreman, and sent nine representatives to the almost traditionally Democratic state legislature.
Republican success has conservative Democrats worried, and Liberal Democrats disturbed.
But there can be little doubt that the way Republicans are sapping conservative strength from the Democratic party was a key topic.
A Connally aide said some 45 supporters attended, but refused to comment on what was discussed.
Goldwater may inadvertently help Texas liberals regain state party control. It all hinges on whether the GOP stages a presidential preference referendum during the party primary next spring.
TEXAS GOP CHAIRMAN Peter O'Donnell of Dallas heads the national "Draft Goldwater" movement, and top Republican sources say he has decreed there will be a referendum.
Thousands of Texas conservatives would flock to the GOP primary to endorse Goldwater. This could lead to a liberal victory in the Democratic primary.
Young Houston Attorney Don Yarborough, who was defeated by Connally in the last Democratic primary by 25,000 votes would stand a strong chance of winning the party's nomination for governor.
The Texas GOP would love this. Republicans believe that with Gold-water on the national ticket they can whip the Democrats almost down the line for state offices in the general election.
THE GOLDWATER BOOM In Texas is almost deafening, but it
Star Photo Editor To Talk Tomorrow
Ayers Blocher Jr., picture editor of the Kansas City Star, is the featured guest instructor of the 45th annual high school journalism conference tomorrow.
University Daily Kansan
Blocher will talk to both the newspaper and yearbook sections of the conference, which will meet in the Kansas Union.
The one-day conference is sponsored by the KU journalism school in co-operation with the Kansas State High School Activities Association.
ABOUT 350 HIGH school students are expected from northeast Kansas, said Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White school of journalism.
Dean Marvin will open the newspaper section of the conference with a discussion of the functions of the high school newspaper.
Pending before a federal court is a GOP suit demanding congressional redistricting. The court may decide to throw all 23 Texas congressional seats to election at large.
isn't the only thing that worries conservative Democrats.
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of the school of education, will begin the yearbook section of the meeting emphasizing the purposes of high school yearbooks.
At worst, the Republicans could lose only two places in an at-large election. Democrats would risk all of the 21 seats they now hold.
The idea of a Republican preferential vote strikes liberal Democrats as a mixed blessing.
But there is also the strong chance that they would lose the general election and the 25 presidential electoral votes Kennedy may vitally need for re-election.
THEY KNOW they have a strong chance of recapturing the state party from the conservative-moderate element long dominated by Johnson.
KU journalism professors and instructors will lead the sessions in their areas of specialization.
A lot depends upon how strong a new Democratic coalition becomes. It is composed of organized labor, independent liberals, loyalist Democrats, Negroes and Latin Americans.
Texas will vote Nov. 9 on whether to abolish the state poll tax of $1.50 as a voting requirement and substitute a 25-cent registration free.
IF THE REFERENDUM carries it could go a long way for a liberal Democratic victory in long-conservative Texas, because thousands of minority voters could afford the 25-cent fee, where in the past they have shied away from the $1.50 poll tax.
Democratic party leaders have endorsed repeal of the poll tax. Republicans were silent on the issue at a recent state committee meeting in Corpus Christi.
tion fee.
Surveys by national magazines show Goldwater the top contender for the presidential nomination.
"If Texas went democratic Kennedy would have 280 electoral votes, 10 more than the 270 needed for a majority." Time magazine said. "If Texas went for Goldwater, Barry would have 266 with an excellent chance for picking up more than the necessary additional four from among the Kennedy-hating unpledged electors of Alabama and Mississippi."
Freshman Organist Brings Own Equipment
Many college men bring equipment to school to further their hobby interests. Be it water skis or baseball and bat, guitar or hi fidelity phonograph, none of it is usually very unusual.
Russell Nesseth, Kansas City Mo., freshman and a pre-engineering student, is an exception to the rule.
The men of Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall were pleasantly surprised recently when they heard the vibrant tones of Nesseth's organ emanating from the building's first floor lounge.
Nesseth, who at 18 years of age has been playing the organ since he was 8, said that "it's just a hobby."
With a $1,700 value, Nesseth's 350 pound organ provides a rather unusual hobby.
Tickets went on sale today for the "Emperor Jones," play of the University Theatre season.
'Emperor Jones' Tickets For Sale
The play, by Eugene O'Neill, stars Clayton Corbin in the title role of Brutus Jones. It will run from Oct. 9-12.
Student I.D. card exchanges and are being handled at the Murphy Hall box office. Tickets may also be purchased at the Kansas Union hostess desk and from the Bell Music Co., 925 Massachusetts. Tickets at the latter locations are for cash sales, not student exchange.
TICKET PRICES remain the same this year, at $2.40, $1.80 and $1.20.
Last year student seating consisted of only the last two rows of the main floor and of the balcony. To sit elsewhere students had to pay the difference between a $1.20 seat the seat they wanted. Now six additional main floor rows and half the mezzanine are available to I.D. card holders.
Student ID, exchange seating has been expanded this year to include more main floor seating, at no additional cost. These seats will be dispensed on a "first-come, first-served basis.
"THE EMPEROR JONES" will be followed on Oct, 17-19 by Steuen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body." The next major production will be Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" on Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9.
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Human Rights Bills Combined
The human rights bill presented to the All Student Council last week was made an amendment to an earlier bill last night by the Committee of Committees and Legislation of the ASC.
Provisions of that former bill remain the same, with several stylistic changes.
Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., senior and committee chairman, said the group voted to combine the proposed bill with the existing legislation because both concern human rights.
"The older bill is a short one,
which says merely that the ASC is opposed to any group which discriminates racially," Turner said. "We felt there was no need to have two bills in force which concern the same issue."
The bill—entitled "Declaration of Human Rights"—was submitted to the ASC by the Human Rights Committee as a statement of policy for KU. The bill was sent back to the Committee of Committees and Legislation for rewording to clarify the fact that most of the declaration is now being observed by the University.
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