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Survey Reveals Record Vote Cast in Off-Year Election
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Washington — (U,P)— The nationwide vote in last Tuesday's general election apparently topped the 43 million mark to set a new record for an off-year election, a United Press survey showed today.
A compilation of unofficial returns, shows that 43,377,343 voters cast their ballots. This fell short of election-eve predictions of a 45 million vote. But it was well above the mid-term record of 42,462,083 votes which was set in 1950.
The biggest turnout in history was
Sheppard Guest Testifies Today
Cleveland —(U,R)— The woman who came to dinner—and stayed until a few hours before Marilyn Sheppard was murdered—testifies today in the murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard.
The folks who came to dinner on the eve of tragedy at the $31,500 Sheppard home on Lake Erie in suburban Bay Village are Mr. and Mrs. Don Ahern. They were neighbors of the Sheppards and good friends.
She was expected to add to the picture of an affectionate home and of a friendly atmosphere between "Dr. Sam" and his wife in the hours just before the slaying, that was drawn by her husband yesterday.
Mr. Aherm, a tall, slim businessman, testified yesterday that he had gone swimming, water skiing, and played basketball with Dr. Shepard, a 30-year-old, athletic osteopath surgeon, for a year. During that time, he testified, he never had seen Sam lose his temper.
The testimony went straight to the heart of the defense contention that Dr. Sheppard is "possessed of a genie nature," a saver of lives who could not have taken one—particularly that of his pretty wife.
Curiously enough, the Alherns are witnesses for the state, which is attempting to send the young brain surgeon to the electric chair. It charges that sometime between the time the Alherns left the Sheppard home at 12:30 a.m. last July 4, and 5:50 a.m., the brawny doctor took a heavy instrument and killed his wife with 15 massive blows about the eyes and ears. She had 35 wounds in all, but the 15 cracked her skull.
The state says the doctor struck after quarreling with his wife about his affairs with other women.
The state has one big bit of testimony in the Aherns. While they were in the Sheppard living room the night of July 3—watching a television show titled with almost occult irony "Strange Holiday"—Dr. Sheppard laid down on the couch and went to sleep.
They know—Mr. Ahern so testified yesterday—that on the couch the doctor was wearing a white T-shirt, slacks, and a tan corduroy jacket.
The state contends Dr. Sheppard beat his wife while wearing the T-shirt and that it was so soaked with blood that he got rid of it. He was bare above the waist the next morning, and the T-shirt never has been found. Neither has the murder weapon.
Injured Freshman To Return to MU
Jerome B. Willingham of Kansas City, Mo., a Missouri quarterback who was injured in yesterday's Kansas-Missouri freshman game, was in Watkins hospital today.
Willingham suffered fracture and dislocation of his left ankle. He will be returned to the hospital at the University of Missouri by ambulance today.
Playing a 10-game schedule in 1902 the Nebraska Cornhuskers held their opponents scoreless in all 10 games.
in 1952 when 61,251,244 Americans expressed their opinion in the race between President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
The turnout was heaviest last week in states where there were the hottest campaigns.
In the Kentucky Senate race between former Vice President Alben Barkley and Republican Sen. John Sherman Cooper, the total vote was
Author Visits; Books Shown
Miss Doris Gates, a California story writer and recipient of the William Allen White 1954 award for the best children's book, will visit Watson library tomorrow afternoon in connection with National Book week, November 15-21.
Miss Gates' book, "Little Vic," voted by Kansas elementary school children to be the most popular book of the year, will be on display in the library tomorrow.
Other children's books now on display are examples from 1937 to 1953, loaned to the University of Kansas library by the Smithsonian institution as a traveling exhibit.
The Smithsonian collection also includes children's books having won the Caldecott medal for the best illustrations. Some of the original copies of the Caldecott books are exhibited also, showing the illustrated style of the 19th century.
A part of the University of Kansas special collections is a display of early American story books. These are mostly not illustrated and show the contrast between early publications and those of modern times.
AEC Aide Faces Senate Fight
Washington — (U,P) — Atomic Energy Commissioner Joseph Campbell today faced a possible Senate fight for confirmation as comptroller general because of his support of the Dixon-Yates contract.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), an outspoken foe of the controversial power contract, said Mr. Campbell's support of it as a member of the AEC was a "substantial mark of qualification" for the office of controller general. The senator called for an investigation of Mr. Campbell's record.
The White House announced yesterday that President Eisenhower would nominate Mr. Campbell for the GOP post today. The appointment must be confirmed by the Senate where many Democratic tempers have been roused by the proposed Dixon-Yates power deal. Although his appointment may go to the Senate today, action will not be forthcoming for some time.
As comptroller general, Mr. Campbell, a Republican, would head the general accounting office—investigating arm of congress. He would serve a 15-year term with a salary of $17,500 annually.
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The House-Senate Atomic Energy committee, meanwhile, called Alex Radin, director of the American Public Power association, to testify in its hearings of the Dixon-Yates contract. Several senators, mayors of Memphis and Knoxville, Tenn., and Tennessee Gov. Frank Clement also were scheduled to testify.
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estimated at 796,500, a record for an election where neither the presidency nor the state's governorship was at stake.
In New Jersey, where 1,297,969 votes were cast in a 1952 Senate race, the vote this year totaled 1,719,522 in the race between former Rep. Clifford P. Case, a Republican, and his Democrat opponent, Rep. Charles R. Howell.
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Record off-year votes also were cast in Michigan and Washington. The total in Michigan reached 2,170,000 as the result of a hot race between Republican Sen. Homer Ferguson, who was defeated, and Democrat Patrick McNamara. The vote in Washington was an estimated 820,000, or about 62.3 per cent of those registered.
The vote in New York, where there was a heated contest for the governorship between Democrat Averell Harriman, the victor, and Republican Sen. Irving M. Ives, totaled 5,101.087. This compares with 1,964,115 cast in New York's 1950 gubernatorial election.
Chair Expert States Talk
George Scherer, chief engineer for Cramer Posture Chair company, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., will address a meeting of the KU chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 300 Fowler.
Mr. Scherer will discuss "The Development of the Aluminum Permanent Casting Process." He will also present a demonstration of permanent mold casting on a permanent mold machine donated to the engineering shop practice department by Mr. Scherer and the Cramer Posture Chair company.
Educated in Germany, Mr. Scherer came to the United States in 1923, continuing his work in the field of design and production engineering of casting processes. A registered industrial engineer, he has served as National Director of the Society of Industrial Packaging and Material Handling Engineers, and as chairman of the Committee for Education and Trianing of Tool Engineers of the ASTE Chapter 27 in Kansas City.
Members of the Kansas City ASTE chapter have been invited to attend the meeting.
The committee is weighing an administration request that it waive a legal requirement that such contracts be subjected to committee review for 30-days while Congress is in session.
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26 Will Attend Politics Workshop
Professor Ethan P. Allen and 25 American Politics students will attend the Regional Workshop on Kansas Politics Thursday at Washburn university in Topeka. The main topic of discussion is the recent election.
The workshop is the first of a series organized and sponsored by the Kansas Citizenship Clearing House, whose program is designed to develop an interest in politics on the part of students and make it possible for them to continue this interest after graduation.
The value of student participation in state politics, Kansas, 1954; A newspaper man's view: how education can improve Kansas politics; and the evaluation of the recent party campaigns; the evolution of Kansas state politics.
There will be three discussions:
Students from colleges and junior colleges in North East Kansas will be attending the workshop, Other members of the University faculty and Governmental Research Center attending are Rhoten A. Smith, instructor of political science; Francis Heller, associate professor of political science.
HOME. SWEET HOMECOMING
A great number of people have been asking me lately, "What is Homecoming?" Yesterday, for example, as I walked from my house to the establishment of Mr. Sigafos, the local lepidopterist where I had left a half dozen luna moths to be mounted - a distance of no more than three blocks - I'll wager that well over a thousand people stopped me and said, "What is Homecoming?"
Well, what with company coming for dinner and the cook down with a recurrence of breakbone fever, I could not tarry to answer their questions. "Read my column next week," I cried to them. "I'll tell all about Homecoming." With that I brushed past and raced home to baste the mallard and apply poultices to the cook, who, despite my unending ministrations, expired quietly during the night, a woman in her prime, scarcely 108 years old. Though her passing grieved me, it was some satisfaction to be able to grant her last wish — to be buried at sea — which is no small task when you live in Pierre, South Dakota.
With the dinner guests fed and the cook laid to her watery rest, I put out the cat and turned to the problem of Homecoming.
First of all, let us define Homecoming. Homecoming is a weekend when old graduates return to their alma maters to see a football game, ingest great quantities of food and drink, and inspect each other's bald spots.
This occasion is marked by the singing of old songs, the slapping of old backs, and the frequent utterance of such outlines as "Harry, you old polecat!" or "Harry, you old rooster!" or "Harry, you old wombat!" or "Harry, you old mandrill!" All old grads are named Harry.
During Homecoming the members of the faculty behave with unaccustomed animation. They laugh and smile and pound backs and keep shouting, "Harry, you old retriever!" These unscholarly actions are performed in the hope that the old grads, in a transport of bonhomie, will endow a new geology building.
The old grads, however, are seldom seduced. By game time on Saturday, their backs are so sore, their eyes so bleary, and their livers so sluggish that it is impossible to get a kind word out of them, much less a new geology building. "Hmphhh!" they snort as the home team completes a 101 yard march to a touchdown. "Call that football? Why, back in my day they'd have been over on the first down. By George, football was football back in those days — not this namby pamby girls game that passes for football today. Why, look at that bench. Fifty substitutes sitting there! Why, in my day, there were eleven men on a team and that was it. When you broke a leg, you got taped up and went right back in. Why, I remember the big game against State. Harry Wallaby, our star quarterback, was killed in the third quarter. I mean he was pronounced dead. But did that stop old Harry? Not on your intype! Back in he went and kicked the winning drop-kick in the last four seconds of play, dead as he was. Back in my day, they played football, by George!"
Everything, say the old grads, was better back in their day everything except one. Even the most unreconstructed of the old grads has to admit that back in his day they never had a smoke like today's vintage Philip Morris - never anything so mild and pleasing, day in day out, at study or at play, in sunshine or in shower, on grassy bank or musty taproom, afoot or ahorse, at home or abroad, any time, any weather, anywhere.
I take up next another important aspect of Homecoming — the decorations in front of the fraternity house. Well do I remember one Homecoming of my undergraduate days. The game was against Princeton. The Homecoming slogan was "Hold That Tiger!" Each fraternity house built a decoration to reflect that slogan, and on the morning of the game a group of dignitaries toured Fraternity Row to inspect the decorations and award a prize for the best.
The decoration chairman at our house was an enterprising young man named Rex Sigafos, nephew of the famous lapidopterist. Rex surveyed Fraternity Row, came back to our house and said, "All the other houses are building cardboard cages with cardboard tigers inside of them. We need to do something different – and I've got it. We're going to have a real cage with a real tiger inside of it – a snarling, clawing, slashing, real live tiger!"
"Crikey!" we breathed. "But where will you get him?"
"I'll borrow him from the zoo," said Rex, and sure enough, he did.
A narrow ham from the zoo, said Rex, and sure enough, he did. Well sir, you can imagine what a sensation it was on Homecoming morning. The judges drove along nodding politely at cardboard tigers in cardboard cages and suddenly they came to our house. No sham beast in a sham cage here! No sir! A real tiger in a real cage—a great striped jungle killer who slashed and roared and snarled and dashed himself against the bars of his cage with maniacal fury.
There can be no doubt that we would have easily taken first prize had not the tiger knocked out the bars of the cage and leaped into the official car and devoured Mr. August Schlemmer, the governor of the state, Mr. Wilson Ardlesy Devereaux, president of the university, Dr. O. P. Gransmire, author of A Treasury of the World's Great Southpaws: An Anthology of Left Hand Literature, Mr. Harrison J. Teed, commissioner of weights and measures, Mrs. Amy Dorr Nesbitt, inventor of the clarinet, Mr. Jarrett Thrum, world's 135 pound lacrosse champion, Mr. Peter Bennett Hough, editor of the literary quarterly Spasm, and Mrs. Ora Wells Anthony, first woman to tunnel under the North Platte River. © Max Shulman, 1954
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