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ASC Changes Referendum
Offers Alternate Council Setup Plan
The All Student Council last night voted to rescind plans for a March 11 four-choice referendum election on political reorganization in favor of a different reorganization plan which it approved and will submit to student vote March 23.
A bi-cameral ASC will replace the present single house setup if the students approve the measure.
The vote to rescind the original referendum plans came as a result of recommendations and a motion by Robert Worcester, elections committee chairman. The March 11 vote was to be a preferential ballot listing two reorganization plans, leaving the ASC as is, and abolishing the ASC and transferring its powers to Chancellor Franklin, D. Murphy.
The ballot for March 23 will carry two questions. One will ask if the voter approves converting to the new two-house legislature, and the other will be the "vote of confidence," asking the students to endorse the ASC or transfer its powers to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The proposed system would consist of a Senate and House of Representatives, with delegates elected according to school and residence
Waring Group Here Saturday
Fred Waring will present a concert featuring his Pennsylvanians at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
a pioneer in the musical world, Mr. Waring was the first to make a popular music record using a vocal chorus,first to record a rhumba tune,first to produce an all-musical motion picture, and the first musical organization to be featured on a regular full-hour television series
FRED WARING
He pioneered in the development of diction techniques, the "Waring Tone-Syllable Technique", and was the first professional performer to combine the educational and professional fields by establishing the Fred Waring Choral workshop and publishing the Music Journal Magazine
The 1953 concert tour began Jan. 26 when the company of 60 left New York to cover 17,000 miles, including 58 cities in 24 states.
Weather
A new cold front raced into Kane's today, driving out the short-
out the short-lived spring, like weather. T he weather bureau forecasts s n o w flurries, light tonight, but heavier falls tomorrow. Tempera tures will tumble to 10 to 15 degrees in the north tonight, the bureau predicted. Highs to tomorrow will be in
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group, respectively. The number of persons in each group would not be fixed, but would be greater or smaller in proportion to the number of valid votes cast.
the 30's, compared with yesterday's peak of 66 at Garden City and other highs mostly in the 50's.
No organizational representatives would have seats in either house. Considerable debate centered on the problem of foreign students who, the ASC felt, should take a part in campus politics. It was decided that they would be asked to send one nonvoting member to each house.
Another point which backers of the bill stressed was the new plan would do away with the practice of having two or three smaller schools lumped together to form a large enough body to merit representation. Each school, regardless of size, would have at least one member in the Senate.
ASC members and other interested in the reorganization will speak in as many organized houses as possible before the election to interpret the changes embodied in the plan.
The Council appointed Al Hardy, college junior, as a temporary replacement for Lyle Anderson, ASC treasurer, who resigned at the last meeting.
The resignation of Kay Conrad college senior, also was accepted.
Musical Vespers To Be Sunday
The vespers program will be presented by the five major University musical organizations—the A Capella choir, the University band, the University Symphony orchestra, and the Men's and Women's Glee clubs. No admission will be charged.
Friday, March 6, 1953
The 114th musical vespers, which will be at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium, will be one of the biggest musical programs of the year, according to D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano and director of the University A Cappella choir.
No admission were made.
The tradition of the Sunday Vespers was originated by Prof. Swarthout many years ago, and has become an integral part of the University.
The A Cappella choir was also inaugurated by Prof. Swarthout in 1923, when he first came to KU as dean of the School of Fine Arts, and has been his favorite study all through the years.
"Christmas Shopping," an experimental one-act play will be presented again at 5 p.m. today in the Little Theater of Green hall. Admission is free.
Daily hansan
'Christmas Shopping' at 5 p.m.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No. 100
Russians Mourn Death of Stalin; Molotov Becomes Acting Premier
Moscow—(U.P.)—Moscow's millions swarmed to the Trade Union building in the center of the city today to view the body of Josef Stalin as it lay in state awaiting the greatest funeral in Russian history.
Presumably Vyacheslav M. Molovov, senior vice premier, was acting as head of the government. At the head of the Communist party, which Stalin had so long ruled, was Georgi M. Malenkov.
M. Makinenov
The streets were filled with sorrowful people, weeping and murmuring prayers. They stretched in lines 2 miles long, 50 abreast, awaiting their chance to honor the man who died at 9:50 p.m. yesterday after leading them for 29 years.
Stalin's body was taken from the grim walled Kremlin, where he died in his four-room apartment with members of his family and the government around his bed, to the Great Hall of Columns of the Trade Union building five minutes' walk away.
away.
The body lay in an open bier on top of a black-framed catafalque. It was clad in Stalin's marshal's uniform, with only one of his innumerable decorations on the breast. It was the decoration of the "hero" of socialist labor.
At 4 p.m. (2 a.m. CST) the doors of the building were thrown open. Men, women, children, who had waited for hours in the biting subzero cold began shuffling in and past the bier.
JOSEF STALIN
Around the catafalque stood guard members of all the branches of the armed services in full dress uniforms. Military orchestraes played softly funeral dirges and other compositions especially by Stalin's favorite composers, Glinka and Tschalikovsky
It was in the same hall that the body of Lenin, Stalin's predecessor and the father of Communism, had lain in 1924.
A seven-man committee has been named to handle the funeral arrangements. The group includes prominent leaders of the War Ministry, the Communist party, and the Supreme Soviet council.
Black-bordered flags fly from private and public buildings. At foreign embassies, including the American, the national colors are at half-staff. The Moscow radio, which several hours ago sent out the news of Stalin's death, is broadcasting heroic Russian folk songs and symphonic music on tragic themes.
museum
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky made a last minute ap-
pearance at the United Nations yester-
day and delivered a eulogy of
Premier Stalin before leaving to
attend Stalin's funeral.
He said he planned to return here before the current assembly session ends—about April 1—but added that the length of his stay in Moscow depended "mostly upon my consultations with my government."
Foreign diplomats, including U.S. Charge d'Affaires Jacob Beam started visiting the foreign office to offer their condolences in behalf of their governments as the people of Moscow converged on the Trade Union building.
Thousands of messages from heads of state, Communist party branches and individuals began flooding the Moscow communications centers
Moscow Communist from notables Among first ones from notables were those of Mao Tse-Tung, the Chinese Communist leader, President Boleslaw Bieurat of Poland, President Klement Gottwald of Czechoslovakia, and French Communist leader Maurice Thorez.
Boot-heels Drag at 8
Pach May Include Non-Greek Dorms
meetings.
In other action Loftus said, "Both plant management in agreement on the new ASC reorganization plan." Hubert Dye, business junior, said the plan deserved discussion and explanation at the delegates' houses.
Pachacamac party last night took official action to bring into their preponderantly Greek party any organized independent houses which indicate their wish to join the party
It was reported that the party has been petitioned for membership by Pearson hall, a scholarship residence hall. President Larry Loftus, college sophomore, appointed a committee to encourage and investigate independent houses wishing to be represented at Pach Inner Circle meetings.
"Take It Away" Leon McAuliffe and his swing band will play for the free informal all-school Boot-heel drag from 8 p.m. to midnight today in the Union ballroom.
Mr. McAuliffe and his 12-man band will play amid a background of wagon wheels, saddles, and other western equipment.
Originating in Tula, Okla., the band has risen to its present-popularity by playing danceable music.
The dance will climax a series of unusual publicity stunts staged by its sponsors, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The stunts ranged from hanging a dummy in Fowler grove to a kangaroo court trial and attempted "lynching" of Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, after he told fraternity members he did not plan to attend the dance.
LEON McAULIFFE
Dean Woodruff was rescued from the gallows by a party of he urged everyone to attend
Government Launches Psychological Warfare
Washington—(U.P.)The Eisenhower administration launched a top secret psychological warfare offensive against communism today in an effort to capitalize on Premier Stalin's death.
FACTS Slates Campus Election
FACTS party will hold a campus election March $8 to replace FACTS representatives who have resigned from the All Student Council.
Al Hardy, college junior, and Winkie Stewart, college sophomore, have been appointed temporarily to fill vacancies, Dennis Henderson, FACTS president, said today.
Loy Bilderback, college junior, will be FACTS campaign manager for the spring election, Henderson said.
Appointed to the issues committee to draw up the party platform for the spring election were Marc Hurt, college sophomore, chairman; Margot Baker, college freshman; Marriott England, college sophomore.
Wilbur Gants, college freshman; Willie Harriford, college freshman; Ralph Jones, engineering freshman; Robert Morrison, college freshman; Joan Sargeant, college freshman; and Shirley Thomson, education senior.
Henderson named Bill Arnold and Charles Sparks, college sophomores, as co-chairmen in charge of membership. Donna Summers, college sophomore, is to be records chairman.
A leadership workshop committee to acquaint FACTS primary candidates with student government before the primary election is to be headed by Jim Rose, engineering freshman. Henderson said.
High-ranking administration sources revealed the plan was whipped into shape immediately after Moscow announced that the premier was gravely ill.
These sources guarded details of the project. But they revealed it is designed to "exploit" the confusion and chaos sure to grip the Reds as a result of the passing of "Mr. Communism."
President Eisenhower and his cabinet planned an urgent review of key U.S. domestic and foreign policy programs to prepare the nation for "any eventuality" that might come from Premier Stalin's death.
It was clear the historic shift in Russian power would have major repercussions on the nation's policies, foreign and domestic. Among other things, it was expected to:
1. Diminish the chances for any early cut in defense spending, budget balancing or tax reduction. The administration will be required to adopt a "go slow" policy until it detects—along with U.S. allies—the future course of Soviet policies.
2. Require a continued defense buildup and foreign aid. A high-ranking military officer voiced the fear that the successor, unlike Mr. Stalin, might underestimate America's productive genius and atomic power and touch off World War III
3. Assure early and overwhelming Senate approval of Soviet expert Charles E. Bohlen to be American Ambassador to Moscow during the current critical period.
4. Bring a moratorium on any drastic military or diplomatic moves that might drive warring Soviet leaders together and unite the Russian people behind them.