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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940
NUMBER 130
Name Relays Queen
Plonde Helen Johnson, c'41 has been selected to reign as queen of the eighteenth annual Kansas Relays Saturday afternoon. Her Royal Highness Johnson will be attended by Becky Trembly, c'43, and Marjorie Heimbrook, fa'41.
The presiding royalty for the athletic event was selected by the Nebraska track team which will be on hand Saturday to see its choice and her comely ladies-in-waiting in the flesh.
The Huskers intentions to carry off several relay trophies will probably become a matter of secondary interest after viewing the three cute Jayhawk coeds who were picked from nine University women. The Nebraska men selected Miss Johnson from photographs of candidates submitted to them.
The reigning beauty and her feminine escort will be presented to Relay officials, visiting dignitaries, and spectators from the queen's stand accompanied by the usual camera flashes of amateur and professional photographers.
Miss Johnson is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and will succeed Betty Martin of Kappa
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The New M.S.C. Prexy
To Make Awards At 10 Tomorrow
Dividends on scholastic and extra-curricular investments will be paid off tomorrow in the form of honors to students who have earned them at the seventeenth annual Honors Convocation in Hoch auditorium at 10 a.m. Guy Stanton Ford, president of the University of Minnesota will speak.
The Honor Man of the graduating class of 1939 will be named at the convocation. His name has been kept secret until this time. He must be a man of "outstanding character who has excelled in leadership, scholarship, breadth of interest, and unselfish service to the University."
ship were so nearly equal that the committee could not pick one man. All students in the upper 10 peri (Continued on page eight)
Last year the honor was won jointly by Dean Moorhead and Don Voorhees, whose qualities of leader-
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Bob McKay Wins Race 941 to 940
By Roscoe Born, c'41
A second count of ballots which awarded Bob McKay the M.S. C. presidency will be made Friday, political leaders said today.
Final vote was 941 to 940 but bulletins which announced five results in as many minutes kept the crowd in the Memorial Union lobby on edge.
But McKay knew how to use his School of Business too and when the returns from that district (II) came in,McKay had moved up close behind Farmer.
McKay's School Helps Him
The count was close all the way. Backed by his own School of Law, Farmer sailed through District I. He managed to win comfortably in the College, thereby leading the race after two turns.
The crowd in the lobby knew victory was still possible for either candidate in the remaining votes of the engineer's District III.
When hard-working counters in the ballroom sent down results in the crucial district, the figures in the lobby gave Farmer the victory with votes to spare.
On the heels of the first report came two more, cutting Farmer's lead to two votes.
Fifth Return Does It
The next report moved McKay into the lead by two votes and the fifth return showed previous figures incorrect—McKay won by a single ballot.
While dazed sympathizers cheered the victory for both sides, a hurried re-check was made but the totals still stood—941 to 940
Farmer left almost immediately. McKay said he had no comment to make on the outcome and he too left the crowd.
No assurance was given today that the recount would disclose any error and accord the victory to Farmer. W. R. Maddox, professor of political science who supervised the counting, said the result "was not beyond possibility of error," but added that counters had "more of a feeling of accuracy than we have ever felt before."
Marietta Calls it a Tie
Seth Gray, Pachacamac whip, said the race was closer than he expected and considered it "still undecided." Bob Marietta,
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Other Election Results
District I
Jesse (Pach.)
Mosser (P.S.G.L.)
Rickets (P.S.G.L)
District II
Yankey (Pach.)
Bruner (P.S.G.L.)
Huddleston (P.S.G.L.)
Ahnauer (Pach)
District III
Oberlin (Pach.)
Rijs (I)
Shane (P.S.G.L.)
Bunn (P.S.G.L)
District IV
Burdge (P.S.G.L.)
Weatherwax (Pach.)
Oliver (Pach.)
Klema (P.S.G.L.)
Ebling (P.S.G.L.)
Livengood (P.S.G.L.)
Whitney (Pach.)
Elliott (Pach.)
**Senior Class**
Pres.: Morton (Pach.)
Treas.: Arnold (Pach.)
**Junior Class**
Pres.: Watermulder (Pach.)
Treas.: Matassarin (P.S.G.L.)
**Sophomore Class**
Pres.: Norris (P.S.G.L.)
Treas.: Merriott (P.S.G.L.)