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ASC Makes Revisions In Election Procedures
The All Student Council Tuesday night changed the polling places for the spring elections and made provisions for those students to vote who will not be able to be on the campus on Wednesday, April 11. the regular election day.
Education students who are practice-teaching and other students who have a written excuse to be away from the University on voting day may vote early, the council decided.
Joe Wimsatt, College junior, moved that one member of the A.S.C. elections committee from each party to be at the dean of men's office, 228 Strong, from 10 to 12 a.m. Saturday to take the early votes. The students must bring their activity cards to be punched. The measure was unanimously passed by the Council.
Marcia Horn, A.S.C. secretary, announced that the deadline for nominations in the spring elections will be at 10:30 p.m. today. Certificates of nomination should be taken to her at 1345 West Campus drive.
District II, the School of Engineering and Architecture, will vote in Marvin hall. District III, the Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Education, Pharmacy, Journalism, and the Graduate school, will vote in the west and center basement of Strong and Fraser halls, and District IV, the Schools of Law and Medicine, in Green hall.
Robert Becker, elections committee member, announced that polling places for the spring election have been changed. District I, the College, will vote in Fraser, Lindley, the east basement of Strong, and the Student Union.
council representatives have also reapportioned, Becker said. District I will have five men and two women on the Council; District II, three men; District III, four men and two women, and District IV, one man.
James Logan, elections committee member, said that polling procedure had been revised to make voting faster. Instead of recording the number of each ballot given to a voter, poll workers will use a tally sheet.
Members not present at the Council meeting were Richard I. Comstock, engineering freshman; Patricia Cameron, College senior; Arthur Kaaz, business junior; Janith Lewis, College sophomore; Natalie Logan, education senior; Richard Bardley, engineering junior; Helen Maduros, education junior; and Damon Simpson, engineering junior.
The next Council meeting will be on Tuesday, April 17.
City Council Gains KUMen
A University professor and two K.U. graduates were elected to the five-man Lawrence city commission Tuesday.
One faculty member and two graduate students were elected members of the school board. They are: Henry A. Shenk, chairman of the physical education department, 2,510 votes; Ralph E. Pine, 2,514; and Mrs. R. Wright, 2,507.
The commissioners chosen and the votes each received are: George W. Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering, 2,313; John P. Crown, graduate, 1,922; L. Lew Henry, graduate, 2,326; Simon W. Hurwitz, 3,045 and Chris Kraft, 2,388.
The total number of votes cast was 4,366 out of 6,608 voters registered. This election gives Lawrence its first city commission-manager plan. The five men elected to the city commission will elect a city manager.
Good Response To Draft Bill
Washington—(U.P.)-R ep. Graham A. Barden, (D., N.C.), said today response had been "absolutely tops" from house members to his plan to extend the draft but drop the universal military training proposal.
Barden, chairman of the house education and labor committee, would substitute his proposal for the bill pending in the house which combines the draft with U.M.T.
However, Chairman Carl Vinson (D., Ga.) of the armed services committee predicted the Barden proposal would be defeated.
Troops: The senate was expected to approve finally today the sending of four more American divisions into the Atlantic Pact army.
Elsewhere in Congress;
India: Rep. William C. Lantaf (D.Fa.) introduced a bill aimed at getting the other U.N.-members to share in the cost of sending 2,000,000 tons of American grain to famine-striken India.
Voice: President Truman's request for $97,500,000 for the Voice of America to wage a "campaign of truth" hit a snag. It was learned that a house appropriations subcommittee has voted to grant the voce only $9,500,000 of the request.
Symington: W. Stuart Symington, chairman of the National Security Resources board, was reported Mr. Fruman's choice to be administrator of a re-organized R.F.C.
Students To Vote On New Songs, Jayhawker
Adopting "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" as a new official school song, making the Jayhawker a one-issue annual, and making purchase of the Jayhawker compulsory to students are issues to be brought to the student body in the spring elections Wednesday, April 11.
A resolution and a proposition passed by the All Student Council will put the questions on the ballot. The resolution reads as follows:
Be it resolved that (1) the student body of the University of Kansas shall vote in the regular general election in the spring of 1951 on the question of whether the song of "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" should be made the new and prevailing Alma Mater of the University—replacing the "Crimson and Blue,"(2) the Alumni association shall be asked to sound out the various alumni on such a change and find their respective reactions to same, (3) if reactions on the part of the students (their majority vote prevailing) and alumni be favorable to such a change, that (4) the All Student Council of the University of Kansas shall pass an appropriate bill making "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" the new Alma Mater of our University.
The proposition includes statements (1) that the publication of the Jayhawker be changed to a book issue, and (2) that the purchase of the Jayhawker be compulsory by placing it on the activity fee. To vote in the affirmative for part 1 does not necessitate an affirmative vote for part 2, or vice versa.
Mrs. Kiesow To Topeka
Mrs. Orpha Kiesow, secretary to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of University Health service, is in Topeka today attending a district meeting of the Kansas Hospital association.
Election Reports Roll In From Cities Over Kansas
Topeka (U.P.)—In a record city election turnout, voters Tuesday named Ken Wilkie, 33-year-old attorney, mayor of the state's capital city over Martin Phillips by a final unofficial count of 12,194 to 11,248.
Arkansas City: Two school bond issues were approved by Arkansas City voters. A $135,000 bond issue will be used for additional rooms in elementary schools. The other issue, for $75,000, will be used to
C. L. Lemon defeated Frank G. Todd banker and member of the board, for the third position. William Stanton, Jr., and Carl W. Root were reelected.
Emporia: Emporia voters turned down a 1-mill levy for a community recreation program. The vote was 2062 against and only 990 for. The same proposal was submitted a year ago and lost by only 39 votes.
Other poll results are:
Atchison: A former school teacher won a place on the Atchison board of education.
Great Bend: Great Bend defeated its democratic mayor, Joseph A. Mermis, Jr.
Ottawa: Ottawa voters elected J. B. Stewart, native of Scotland, to the position of city commissioner of finance. He defeated George Herzog,ncumbent.
Larned: W. A. Barger was elected mayor, defeating R. A. King 750 to 404.
Parsons: Vernon C. Axton fell three hundred votes short in his bid for public vindication.
Winfield: Residents of Winfield approved a $195,000 school bond issue by a two-to-one margin. The money will supplement funds for construction of an education building.
complete a trade school now under construction.
Hutchinson: Hutchinson turned down an $80,000 street paving bond issue by a two-to-one margin.
The one time mayor had sought election again to the office from which he was removed a year ago by the state supreme court. He ran ahead of the three-man field in the primary but Tuesday mayor G. A. Berglund took an early lead in the unofficial count and built it until the count was completed shortly before midnight.
The unofficial count showed candidate Berglund polled 2,487 votes to 2,176 for candidate Axton.
Men Students Hear Malott On Draft
Mr. Axton won the mayoral election in a bitter campaign two years ago but shortly afterward his administration was accused of knowingly sheltering slot machine operations.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott Tuesday urged all men students at a special meeting to stay in school as long as possible, and make the best grades possible.
Chancellor Malott, L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, and Donald Alderson, assistant dean of men, explained the new educational deferment policy issued March 31 by President Truman. Under the new plan, students may be classified on either of two qualifications—satisfactory scholastic standing or aptitude test grades.
Dean Woodruff read a statement concerning educational deferments for military service compiled by Chancellor Malott. The statement was drawn up to assist students in determining whether or not to continue their education.
Copies will be mailed to parents, and faculty members. Any male students interested in procuring a copy should stop by the dean of men's office.
The content of the statement is as follows:
(1) One thing is clear above all else: as never before the security of our nation and the continuity of our ideology demand a continuous supply of able and well-trained individuals in all areas of human endeavor. Military and security planners are encouraging all young men and women to continue their education until such time as their services are actually needed. We are not yet in a period of total mobilization. Based on World War II standards, present plans, which probably will not be fulfilled for some time, call for approximately one-fourth mobilization. Short of total war for survival, our greatest strength rests in a balance between emergency and long-range educational values.
(2) Regardless of the final provisions of the Universal Training and Selective Act, few 19-year-olds and probably none below 19 will be inducted until after the close of the 1951-52 academic year.
(3) If the universal military training provisions of the bill are enacted, they will not be put into effect so long as the present emergency continues. Consequently, induction will continue to be exclusively for military service and will be on an individual basis through Local Selective Service Boards rather than by age groups.
(4) Students in high school when they reach induction age will be permitted to complete the academic year.
(5) Definite provision will be made to continue at least 50 per cent of all students now in colleges and universities and eligible for induction through Selective Service.
(6) Students in R.O.T.C., within quotas set by the Air, Army, and Navy, will remain in college to the completion of their education.
(7) The bill now before the Congress proposes military training and service for all able-bodied males, with induction at 18 years of age. It calls for a period of training of twenty-four months to be followed by an extended period of reserve status. It provides for the postponement of induction until the individual has completed high school or reaches his 19th birthday; and provides for postponement of induction for all students regularly enrolled in college and maintaining satisfactory progress during the academic year in which the individual becomes of induction age. Further, the bill authorizes the President to defer such categories of students as he deems to be in the national interest.
(8) Students currently enrolled in the University will be deferred to continue their education if they procure a satisfactory score on a national competitive examination, or if they rank in the top half of the freshman class, upper two-thirds of the sophomore class, upper three-fourths of the junior class. A graduate student may be deferred if he is in the upper half of his class during his senior year.
This examination, recently announced, will be given on Saturday. May 26, on Saturday, June 16 and Saturday, June 30 at the University and at nearly 1,000 testing areas in the nation.
ALL male students should be encouraged to take this examination, even those currently deferred, and those whose induction has been postponed until the end of the present year.
Application forms for this examination may be obtained on request from any local Selective Service Board. The registrar of the University, upon request, will make the necessary certification to draft boards concerning class ranking and enrollment.
(9) The phrase "academic year during which the individual becomes of induction age" needs clarification and will undoubtedly be defined more specifically. Meanwhile, to avoid technicalities, high school seniors and those currently enrolled in college whose birthdays fall during the summer months should safeguard themselves by applying promptly for admission for the 1951-52 school year.
K. U. students and prospective K.U. students may obtain complete information about Selective Service regulations and military service opportunities at the Office of the Registrar, University of Kansas, Lawrence.