1,105 Ballots Cast By Noon
The Daily Kansan presidential preferential election reached the half-way mark at noon today with 1,105 ballots cast. Students and faculty still have until 4 p.m. to vote for their favorite candidate.
If the trend continues in the last four hours the election may set a new high in election year campus votes. More than 1,500 votes were cast in 1944.
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The polling booth in the basement of the Union proved the most popular in the first four hours with 350 votes having been cast. The booth in Strong hall rotunda was next with 258. The main lobby of Fraser hall was the other booth having more than 200 votes with 205.
The information booth started slowly in the cool morning air, but as the sun warmed things up voting was increasing and the total stood at 191 at noon. The booth in the basement of Marvin hall was last with an even 100 votes.
Cliff Ratner, president of the KU Young Republicans, was quite pleased when contacted this noon by the Kansas. "I think the good vote indicates what will happen throughout the country this year as everyone is interested in the election. I think the big vote definitely will help Gen. Eisenhower."
The indication of a fairly large vote cheered the leaders of both compus political organizations.
Bob Walker, president of the KU Young Democrats, was quite surprised at the turnout. "I believe that the vote indicates that people are interested. It also seems that the big vote will help Gov. Stevenson greatly."
Council Faced With 4 Controversial Bills
Four bills will come before the Council for a second reading according to Nancy Landon, ASC secretary, and Bill Wilson, Council president. Three of them are controversial political issues.
A FACTS-sponsored measure to create a "little Hoover commission" to study problems of reorganization of ASC's administrative setup, and one to establish a student labor committee, will be presented.
In addition, a Pachacamac-sponsored measure to place the Rock Chalk Revue under the control of a Council-appointed governing board will be presented. Also an amendment to an existing bill which would make future primaries open primaries, in which students would be able to vote without producing evidence of party membership is pending.
Plans for Council members to attend the Big Seven Student Government conference at Missouri university in December will be discussed. The Council has no social media, so will be the guests of the Kansas State college student council at the KIL-K-State football game.
Ronald Sammons, college junior, is a newly elected organizational representative, and will be sworn in at the meeting.
The Rock Chalk bill has been called by opponents of the measure "part of a plot to drive the YMCA off the Hill." By placing the show under a Council governing board, the Y, which has sponsored and produced the show since its beginning in 1950, would be relieved of control of the show.
Supporters of the measure declare that the organization has been getting too much money from the student body through several channels. The bill is an attempt to even up an unfair situation and give the students a squarer deal, they explain.
Termed "open theft" by FACTS party, the measure will be contested in the Council and the Student Council if necessary, according to Chester Lewis, FACTS president.
The primaries amendment would
Convocation Hours Set for Tomorrow
Special hours for morning classes will be in effect tomorrow morning preceding and following the Statewide Activities county convocation at 9:20 a.m.
The schedule:
The schedule
8 of clock classes will meet from
8:30
9 o'clock classes, 8:40 to 9:10
Convocation, 9:20 to 10:30.
10 o'clock classes, 10:40 to 11:10
10 o'clock classes, 11:20 to 11:50
completely reverse the existing ASC legislation, which provides that parties shall hold closed primaries one week before an election, and that evidence of party affiliation is required before a student is allowed to vote in the primary.
The measure is opposed on the grounds that a machine could control an election by having its supporters cross party lines at the polling booths.
The idea of the student labor committee is endorsed in its basic form by both parties, but the difference arises from a question of how much power the committee should have to arbitrate disputes between students and employers.
Pach also opposes a provision of the bill as submitted which would create a research commission with paid student assistants. Pach contends that most of the research which the commission would do, has already been done.
Coming on the eve of the freshman primaries, the results of tonight's meeting are expected to provide kindling for the political fires which will burn brightly next week as the two campus political factions vie for the favor of the freshmen in their election on Nov. 5.
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BUSY POLLING PLACE—Balloting in the campus preferential vote during the early morning hours was comparatively light except at the entrance of the Hawk's Nest. Among the first to vote were, (left to right) Bill Wilson, ASC president; Wayne Knowles-college junior, in booth; Donald Tice, journalism junior, poll official; Donna Summers, college sophomore, poll official; and Claude Wright, college junior.—Kansan photo by David S. Arthurs
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50th Year, No.30
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1952
Student Interest Mounting In Tomorrow's Frosh Primary
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At each county's meeting the students are to elect a permanent county chairman from their number and begin discussion of projects to bring the University into the thinking of everyone in the state, Sammons said.
County Clubs To Help KU
Posters telling the location of each county's meeting have been put up throughout the campus buildings and in most organized houses. The meeting places also were listed in Monday's Kansan.
"We have to get through to the people back home," Sammons said, "to the newspapers in every county, to the schools, and especially to the young people."
An opportunity for every student to help his University is present in the county clubs to be formed during convocation at 9:20 a.m. toorrow, according to Ron Sammons, college junior and publicity director of Statewide Activities.
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Gen. Eisenhower was particularly angered by Gov. Stevenson's charge that his promise to visit the Korean
Adlai, Ike Swap Accusations In East Coast Campaigning
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson are winding up a tour of the East coast today, after levelling campaign charges at each other in speeches in New York, N. Y.
"If a journey to Korea and a close study of our military and political problems there can save the life of a single American soldier and bring peace of mind to a single American family, I must make that journey," he said."I shall make that journey."
Gov. Stevenson denounced Gen. Eisenhower as a political chameleon today, saying he changed his political ideals to match those of his audience.
Stevenson told his audience he would only earn its contempt if he promised "we could infailly attain peace or maintain prosperity, or achieve equal opportunity . . ."
"I am not a Vandenberg internationalist in Michigan and a Chicago Tribune isolationist in Chicago," Stevenson said. "I talk the same way about tideselands oil in Texas as I do in Michigan and I talk the same way about civil rights in Richmond as I will talk here tonight."
to be held tomorrow.
He countercharged at Pittsburgh last night that Stevenson, the Democratic candidate, had a mentality "completely untutored" for the "tough business" of dealing with Russia.
He repeated his promise to make the Korean trip the top item on his agenda if he is elected President of the United States.
battlefront could have delayed an armistice.
If each party should win one freshman representative, the Council would remain subject to the sort of deadlock which threw the procedure-on-bills wrangle into the Student court two weeks ago.
Norman Capps, co-chairman of the Pachacamac forces, and Edith Sorror, recently elected president of FOR, reported lively campaigning on the part of the candidates.
From a total of 68 candidates for six offices, FACTS and PachacamacFOR each will nominate a candidate for freshman class president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, men's ASC representative, and women's ASC representative.
Both parties are extremely desirous of nominating strong candidates for the ASC posts, since either party, by winning both seats, would have a decisive majority on the Council.
"The campaigns are being conducted along democratic principles," Capps said, "with a spirit of friendly rivalry predominating." Posters adorn bulletin boards in many of the houses.
Miss Sortor indicated that "things are going well" in Corbin and North College halls.
All entrants will be introduced at the senior convocation at 10 a.m. Monday. The winner will be chosen by vote of the entire class. Booths will be provided and voting will begin at the convocation.
Deadline for entries in the KU Calendar queen contest is tomorrow at 6 p.m. All entries must be submitted to Dick Hughes, business senior in charge of the contest, or Charles Burch, journalism senior, editor of this year's calendar, which is a project of the senior class.
Each organized house may choose an entrant from its members or any senior woman who is backed by 25 other seniors may enter.
The Pach campaign among pledges in the fraternity houses is also developing steam under the guiding hands of Phil Owen and Capps.
Queen Entries End Tomorrow
FACTS is concentrating its efforts in the organized independent halls, but is also conducting a get-out-the-vote campaign among men in private homes.
The real contest, however, will come Nov. 5, when the candidates
who are victorious in tomorrow's contest will be pitted against each other. The voting will be open to all University freshmen.
Both parties have already formulated fairly complete campaign plans, and each has expressed in almost identical phrases the desire to "back the successful candidates to the hilt."
Forest fires blackened timberlands across the country today, and frustrated firefighters prayed for rain, but none was in sight.
Forests from the Pacific coast to New England were placed out of bounds to hunters and campers in an effort to thwart outbreaks of new fires in critical areas.
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Fires Blacken Rainless U.S.
Firefighters, including thousands of National Guardsmen, prisoners, students, and volunteers, were meeting with some success in several states.
Only two small fires were still burning in Colorado, the last of 50. Hunting was banned on the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies, and won't be resumed until snow or rain wets down the dry areas.
Some of the fires that flamed after weeks of dry weather were attributed to careless hunters.
National Guard units around Bloomington, Ind., controlled all but one fire, in many cases saving homes and buildings.
Weather
The weather prediction called for another cold night in eastern Kansas, but a warming trend in the west.
COLD & FAIR
Tomorrow will be warmer over all of Kansas. N o rain is in sight. The temperature fell to 16 degrees Celsius. At 17 at Hill City, last night. After a m o n d a y maximum of 67 at Chanute. Scattered c l o u d s
rain disappeared with the night's cold air. Humidity continued at a "desert like" low, the weather bureau said.