Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Tuesday, April 10, 1956.
53rd Year, No. 121
Primaries Open Wednesday
7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m
Polls for the All Student Council and class officer primary elections will open at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and remain open until 6 p.m.
The polls will be in Strong restunda, the Student Union lobby, the first floor of Marvin and Fraser halls, and on the third floor of Lindley Hall.
To be eligible to vote for party candidates, students must present signed party membership cards of either the Allied Greek-Independent or Party of Greek Organizations, and student ID cards. No party cards will be issued at the polls. Only ID cards are necessary to vote for class officers.
Where To Put Election Posters
Election placards are to be placed on bulletin boards only, Donald Alderson, dean of men, reminded students today. All posters not in authorized places must be removed.
Several campaigners were required to remove their posters Monday from walls, steps, and other unauthorized places.
Student Directory To Be Used The voter's classification will be determined by the student directory, said Jim Miller, ASC elections committee chairman. If a student's classification is incorrect listed in the direct correction must be obtained from the registrar and presented at the polls.
Two separate ballots will be used in the elections—one for ASC offices and the other for class offices. Students who mark a ballot incorrectly are asked to return it to the poll workers and obtain another. Do not destroy the erroneous ballot.
A meeting of all poll workers will be held at 9 tonight in the Student Union Ballroom. Attendance is required.
Voting will be by numbers. A "1" will be placed by the name of the first choice candidate, a "2" by the name of the second choice candidate, and a "3" by the name of the third choice candidate.
No Limit On Candidates
Students may vote for as many candidates as they wish.
In Wednesday's primary, students may vote for candidates in all ASC Senate and House of Representatives districts. However, only candidates from the voter's district may be voted on at the general election to be held Wednesday. April 18.
Ballots will be counted starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The results will be published in Thursday's issue of The Daily Kansan.
2 Injured Reported OK
Two students injured in a car accident Sunday while returning to the campus from a spring vacation were reported in good condition today.
James D. Swartzel and his wife, Geneva, Lawrence sophomores, were injured when a blowout forced their car out of control and into an embankment near Valley Falls.
They were brought to Lawrence by ambulance and treated at Watkins Hospital. Mrs. Swartzel has two fractured vertebrae and will remain in the hospital. Swartzel was treated Sunday and released.
Hey Gals-Apply For Relays Queen
Five p.m. today is the deadline for entries in the Kansas Relays Queen contest. Pictures of entrants should be submitted to Bryce Cooke, Mission junior, in the Student Union, or to Miss Carr, activities adviser at the Union.
Each candidate will be interviewed Thursday evening in 305, Student Union.
Retiring Faculty To Be Honored
The second annual dinner and program honoring the faculty members retiring from the staff will be held at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 2 in the Student Union.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"I hope that as many of our University family as possible will be able to join in paying tribute to these dedicated and loyal people," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said.
Those who will be honored are Forrest C. Allen, professor of physical education and basketball coach; Nellie Barnes, assistant professor of English; H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology; Joseph M. Kellogg, professor of architecture; F. P. OBrien, professor of education; J. M. Osma, professor of Romance Languages; Guy W. Smith, professor of mathematics, and Harry Wahl, professor of pathology and bacteriology.
Lawyers Ask For Rematch
Friday the thirteenth superstitions apparently do not worry law students. The chairman of the lawyer's tug o' war committee (name withheld by request) phoned the Daily Kansan Monday night and made the following statement:
"To whom it may concern;
With the approach of Law Day, we of the Law School wish to challenge the "men" of the plumbing school (commonly known as engineers) to a tug o' war rematch. The engineers' claim to "victory" in the fascio of several weeks ago constitutes their first "victory" since the tug o' war became traditionally associated with Law Day. Since this fluke did not actually occur on Law Day we contend that they must accept this challenge in order to have any legal claim to fame for 1956. Be at Potter's Lake at high noon on Friday the thirteenth.
Weather
Clearing extreme east, fair elsewhere this afternoon, and warmer. Generally fair tonight. Cooler extreme northeast and warmer west. Partly cloudy west, generally fair east Wednesday. Warmer east and south portions.
The Law School Tug O' War
Committee
P.S.: Robertson on cable.
Recruit Defends Sergeant Who Led Death March
—(Daily Kansan photo)
THE WELL HAS GONE DRY—Workmen ripping up the basement floors of Fraser Hall found part of the University's first source of drinking water. Plaster chipped from the walls is being used to fill the interior.
the cisterns.
5 Cisterns Limited Early Day KU Drinking Water
Be happy you attend the University now instead of the year 1875 when your drinking water could well have been contaminated with snakes or water bugs.
Workmen have uncovered two cisterns in the basement of Fraser in the current redecoration program of that building. They have been filled with plaster and rock.
The cisterns measure about five feet in diameter and about nine feet deep. Persons attending the University when Fraser was the only building on campus depended on the limited amount of water pouring into them and into three other cisterns outside the building.
Two cisterns 25 feet west of Fraser were known as the north and the south cistern. Each morning janitors lifted iron lids and hoisted water in buckets attached to the water was transferred by the blower to tanks in Fraser where students drank from cups.
The third cistern was located east of Fraser under the raised sidewalk. Water from all the cisterns was used not only for drinking, but for fire protection and to soak dry bones for the Dvche Museum.
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (UP)—A军 recruit who survived the death march into a Parris Island swamp Sunday night said today he would tell investigating committees that the sergeant who led the maneuver was blameless.
In the spring of 1931, a rainstorm caused a cave-in of the north cistern. Workmen filled the 20-foot cavetrunk and opened new shrubbery over the spotted.
Which is better? Leafy eisern
water or chloride contamination?
Recruit Daniel, 20, is the son of Sinclair Daniel, president of Whitworth College at Brookhaven, Miss He defended the leadership of S-Sgt Matthew C. McKeon at the same time preparations were being made for two separate investigations into the night march in which five men died and one is missing and presumed dead.
out . . . I heard him ask several times if everbody was all right."
"The sergeant was right there with us," recruit Soren T. Daniel said. "He was the first one in the water and the next to the last one
Middle East Flares Up Again
JERUSALEM (Israeli Sector) (UP)—U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammskärold arrived today in Israel to try to prevent war in the Middle East. But a new series of clashes between Egypt and Israel imperiled his urgent mission.
An Israeli army spokesman announced that one Arab commander was killed and another wounded and that Egyptian commandos dynamited the waterworks in five Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.
The attacks by the Arab Fedayen, or suicide squads, have inflamed Israel even more than recent border fighting, and Israel labeled them premeditated aggression. Cairo radio said the raids were in retaliation for Israeli shelling of Arab refugee settlements.
Others Read Kansan,Too
It seems that nearly everyone wants to read the University Daily Kansan! The other day a boy who carries papers for the Lawrence Journal-World was seen taking a stack of thirty or forty Kansans from one of the honor boxes on the campus.
"Where're you going with those?" someone asked the boy.
"Oh, my route people ask me to bring them a Kansan when I deliver my other papers," he said and stuffed them into his paper carrier; "Lots of the kids who carry the Journal-World get 'em for the people on their routes, too," he said and went on his wav.
Wonder who the kids think pays for them?
Suit Filed Against POGO In Student Court
A suit has been filed with the Student Court by Grant Napier, Wichita first-year law student, and Joel Sterrett. Topeka sophomore, charging that the Party of Greek Organizations (POGO), campus political party, has supported and endorsed class officer candidates in violation of All Student Council bill No. 2, Chapter 6, section 3. Napier and Sterrett are president and secretary, respectively, of the Allied Greek-Independent party.
It is their belief that only one candidate for each class officer has been purposefully chosen from POGO houses and backed by the party, and that this is in violation of the ASC constitution, which states, in regard to class officer candidates:
"Under no circumstances shall party affiliation be designated, nor shall the name of any party appear on any ballot of class officers, nor shall any political party endorse any candidate for class office."
Parties charged with violating the bill shall be tried by the Student Court, and, if found guilty, will be fined $50 to $100.
Crandall Melia, Bucklin senior and head of POGO, refuted the charges. He said. "The charges are entirely without truth. It is not the policy of POGO party to support class officer candidates. It is my belief that this is a publicity-seeking stunt on the part of the AGI." The Student Court will meet sometime next week to decide the suit.
British Stand Behind Ike
LONDON (UP)—Britain today officially "warmly welcomed" President Eisenhower's statement that the United States would oppose any Middle East aggression "within constitutional means."
A foreign office spokesman made the announcement at a midday news conference. He noted that President Eisenhower's statement had set out United States policy on the Middle East "more clearly than before."
But he declined to state whether the President's stand fully meets Britain's earlier appeal to the United States for a firm alignment of Anglo-American mideastern policy. He also declined to reply to questions on whether Britain now considers Washington and London in complete accord on the Middle East.
The official British reaction aroused speculation here that the President might be preparing to ask Congress for stand-by authority for possible military intervention in any Arab-Israeli war.
KU Coed's Picture In April Mademoiselle
A picture of Marjorie Heard, Russell senior, the first woman in the United States to be elected to Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternity, is included in a "College Close-ups" article written for the April issue of Mademoiselle magazine.
The magazine's campus reporter, Pat Moores, visited KU and 35 other universities and colleges last fall. She talked with students and faculty members to get an impression of current college life.