Campaign Rises in Kansas
Editor's Note—This is the third in a series of articles on Key Senate races by members of the editorial class).
According to the books, Kansas will have 1.259,000 civilians of voting age as of the Nov. 2 election. These are the persons to whom Fred Hall and George Docking are addressing their words and extending their hands.
Of course there won't be a 100 per cent turnout come Nov. 2. As a matter of fact, voting this fall is expected to follow the pattern of 1950—the last off-year election—except in districts where tight races are predicted. In 1950 only 48.9 per cent of the eligible voters made the trip to the polls. If that percentage were to hold true this year, only 615,651 voters would cast ballots.
But regardless of how many votes are cast, it will still be the one who "gets there fustest with the mostest" who'll wind up in the governor's chair. So with that in mind, Brothers Hall and Docking started beating the bushes and pressing the palms for and of potential votes.
For Democratic Mr. Docking it's an entirely different story. The Lawrence banker opened his campaign Sept. 27 when he told the people of the state via radio, "The free ship Kansas will sail only as long as there's a free sea . . . and today the good ship Kansas is threatened with disaster. It needs a new captain and some new crewmen."
For the Republicans' Mr. Hall, "the record" is good enough. The lieutenant governor—in one of his earlier speeches of the campaign—said, "My position on all of the major problems facing our state is just the same as it was during the primary campaign a few weeks ago."
In their campaigns it's been a case of mostly this:
And so it began; a campaign that as far as the gubernatorial hopefuls are concerned has been relatively clean. The mud being thrown in the race for the attorney general's post hasn't—as yet anyway—ditted any suits in the race for the governorship. There's been a little confusion, and—on one point at least—a concurrence of opinion on some issues.
When Mr. Docking opened his campaign back in the last week of September, he emphasized that he was particularly in favor of state aid to high schools. Mr. Hall, claiming he supported that plan back in 1950, put the aid plank into his platform—apparently in spot No. 2 behind his 18-year-old vote plank.
Other than that it's been pretty much of a "look at the record" stand on the part of Mr. Hall and a "I have and I don't like it" attitude on the part of Mr. Docking.
Promising "progress, progress, progress." Mr. Docking says that besides the state aid for high schools, Kansas needs:
1. Equal pay for men and women teachers doing equal jobs.
2. Lower-priced school textbooks.
3. More highway improvement.
4. New industries.
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5. Perfected election laws where minor infractions won't cancel a ballot.
6. Tourist trade attractions.
According to Mr. Docking Kansas does not need the "right to work" bill or tax on off-highway gasoline.
The Democratic standard-bearer has been intent on getting one point across: "The good ship Kansas" needs a new hand at the wheel. He says he is a staunch advocate of the merit system and that it is time to get rid of "some of the crew" who were either too old or too tired—"doing nothing."
Meanwhile, Mr. Hall put together his own bandwagon and started playing GOP "look at the record" songs in several counties. Boosted by a caravan full of Republican "names," Mr. Hall is "shaking hands and talking with the folks" in several Kansas counties. Sen. Andrew F. Schoepeel and Second District Congressman Errett P. Scrivner added their voices to the caravan's lineup of speakers.
Mr. Hall—much like Mr. Docking—said he would place public trust in public office and would not be a follower of those with personal ambitions and private interests. Mr. Docking had said in his opening speech of the campaign that he had promised jobs to no one and that "honest workers have nothing to fear from George Docking."
Mr. Hall used his time in Lawrence—Mr. Docking's hometown—to good advantage. For one of the first times in the caravan's tour, he put some meat on what so far had looked like a pretty lean platform. In Lawrence, he said he would work to extend the vote to 18-year-olds. He also spoke out for state aid to high schools.
It was in Marysville earlier in the campaign that Mr. Hall had given his "look to the record" address. The lieutenant governor said he was "no Johnny-come-lately who has just now discovered the problems facing our schools."
The closest thing in the campaign to mud-slinging came in Mr. Hall's Marysville speech. And even then the dirt—and it couldn't be called mud—wasn't aimed at Mr. Docking in particular, but at Democrats in general.
He said that "as long ago as 1950 . . . I publicly urged a program of state aid for high schools."
Mr. Hall, during the time of the campaign, took issue with only one proposal—and that had nothing to do with the campaign, but rather was centered in his own house. He said he was "not convinced" that an increase of one-third in Kansas gas rates was justified.
"I am confident," Mr. Hall said, "that here in our President's native state we do not intend to place in position of trust those very same people—the idle dreamers and wasteful spenders—whom we kicked out of office in Washington."
This drew some muffted counterfire from Gov. Edward F. Arn—but nothing loud enough to be really heard.
And so Kansas' 1,259,000 civilian voters are hearing the cases.
Mickey Spillane said it pretty well: "I am the judge and I am the jury."
And my vote's my verdict—and possibly my sentence.
—John Herrington
The largest crowd ever to watch a football game at Owens field, Norman. Okla., was 60,145 in 1949 as the Sooners defeated Santa Clara 28-21.
Better Seating Needed
Saturday the same problem will face the students which has confronted them since the enrollment has shot up—the problem of a seat at the football games.
seat at the football games. Complaints by students and faculty members are common. The usual one is that it is unfair for whole sections to be saved for organizations by their members. A group of seats is also saved each week for "friends of the University," whoever they may be.
Missouri university has a system which has worked well. It could be tried here. For the first two games at MU, it is up to each individual to find his own seat. At the third game, organized houses or groups of students who have gotten together draw for a section from an area designated by the All Student Council.
Thus it is not necessary to go to the stadium by noon, and seats are not saved by a fellow student. If a group draws a section on the 10-yard line, it knows it will have another chance for better seating next year.
The ASC could take charge of football seating at KU, dividing the stadium into various sections, and handling the number of seats which each house needs.
The games are played by KU students and have the greatest interest for KU students. It is only right that students have priority on seats. —Nancy Neville
Sandefjord, Norway, is the world's chief whaling port. Whaleoil plants rim its harbor. Sandefjord skippers cruise for months in Antarctic waters to catch the world's largest mammal. Some round trips cover 25,000 miles. A native of the city designed the first floating whale factory.
More than 40,000 persons throughout the world die each year from snake bites, according to the World Health Organization.
On Feb. 18, 1898, the U.S. Army established a safety zone in Alaska to protect life and property during the Gold Rush.
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