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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year. No.53
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Thursday, November 9. 1972
Antinepotism Regulates KU Faculty
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Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Operator?
"Male operators? I didn't know they had them," is one of the frequent comments Randy Wiles, Lawrence sophomore, receives
in his work as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Wiles is one of eleven male operators in Kansas and the only male operator among 66 women in the Lawrence job in July because it was the only one available at the time.
Democratic Congress Overshadows President's Re-Election Landslide
WASHINGTON (AP)—A firmly entrenched Democratic majority in Congress left President Nikon in divided command of the White House to help him make his overwhelming re-election trump.
With all but one House race decided and with one independent elected, the Democrats held a 57-43 edge in the Senate and a 243-190 majority in the House, stretching their unbroken hold on Capitol Hill to 20 years.
The results in the Senate boosted the Democrats' majority by two over the present Congress. In the House, they held their losses to 12 and could cut it to 11 when the undecided Massachusetts race is settled.
WOMEN INCREASED their overall membership by two, and the Negro total rose.
Besides a new lineup, the 93rd Congress convening next Jan. 3 will present more than 100 new faces and an influx of youthful members that could have a market effect
But the defeat of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, D-Maine, left the Senate without a woman member for the first time since 1948.
The 74-year-old boy's 24 year Senate career was ended by William D. Hataway, a law professor.
Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, R-Del., 63, running for a third term, was topped by a 29-year old county councilman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., 40, age of 30 for senators for two weeks.
Sen. Gordon L. Allett, 65, a pillar of the Republican establishment in the Senate, was a surprising loser, as was Iowa's Jack Miller, a two-term Republican veteran.
RETIREMENTS REMOVED even more of the congressional elders. Sen. Clinton M. Anderson, D-N.M., was replaced by Pete Domenici, a Republican.
But the trend was more noticeable in the House. Five elderly chairmen and a dozen
other members high on the seniority list
retire and their replacements are mostly
The election winners included the first two blacks elected from the South in this century—and Andrew Young of Georgia and Barbara Jordan of Texas, both Democrats. There will be 16 blacks in the House in January.
The number of women members increased from 12 to 14. Besides Texas, Maryland, California and New York elected new women members, but the defeat of Louise Day Hicks, D-Mass., and retirements kept the net gain to two.
DILUTING THE impact of the Republican House gains was the fact that five seats they picked up had belonged to conservative Southern Democrats who generally voted with the Republicans anyway. Democratic liberals welcomed the changes and reduces the influence of the Southern Democrats in the policy-setting party caucus.
On opposite sides of the continent, Rep. Paul McCloskey, R-Callip, a persistent critic of the war, tough re-election fight, and John Kerry, leader of a Vietnam veterans movement against the war, who had hoped to launch a missile toward the bearer, was defeated in Massachusetts.
NEXON, WHO ran a generally non-partisan campaign, made a last minute effort on behalf of three Republicans who won Senate seats that had been held by the Democrats. The more vicious presidential campaign might have saved some of the GOP losers.
Political analysts will be debating for weeks the effect of President Nixon's landslide on House and Senate races, but an early assessment of House turnovers indicates that 20 of them were due mainly to redistricting.
Nixon went into Oklahoma, New Mexico and North Carolina in the final dawes of the
campaign to plug Republicans running where the Democratic incumbents had most to lose.
Voters in Louisiana and Alaaska re-elected two congressmen who have been missing since Oct. 16 when their plane disappeared on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Rep. Hale Boggis, the Democratic leader of the House, was unopposed, but Rep. Nick Beigel, Alaska's only congressman, was elected over a Republican opponent.
A similar foray into Rhode Island on behalf of his former secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee, didn't help, however. Chafee, who had been considered a likely winner over incumbent Sen. Claiborne Pell, was defeated.
Nixon Plans Changes In Election Aftermath
BY WALTER R. MEARS AP Political Writer
President Nixon, astride his lonely land-slide, made arrangements Wednesday for a shake-up of his staff and Cabinet during his four more years in the White House.
The White House said there was no feeling of disappointment among the spiked election tickets that the greatest landslide margin over Democratic challenger George McGovern but left the race by a wide margin.
NIXON DISCLOSED that he has asked for standby resignations from every official he has appointed to office, to make way for his successor. A branch as he approaches a second term.
Nixon's Republican party actually lost two seats in the Senate, which will convene in January with 57 Democratic members, 43 Republicans.
In the House, the GOP scored a gain of 12 seats, not even one-third of the massive majority in the Senate.
That divided verdict came Tuesday while Nixon was burying McGovern beneath these returns, with 97 per cent of the national vote counted;
Nixon 45,766,218 or 61 per cent.
NIXON'S SHARE matched closely that gained by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in trouncing Republican Barry Goldwater eight years ago,
McGovern 28,357,667 or 38 per cent
But it appeared the distance between the candidates was even greater than in that record landslide, with Nixon ahead by 23 percentage points.
in electoral-vote terms, the landslide was even greater, with McGovern winning only one state, Massachusetts, and the District Columbia to gain a total of 17 electoral votes.
Nixon won 49 states, 521 electoral votes. McGovern was flying from Slaux Falls,山西, to Washington, where he slept in night with a qualified pledge of support, to Washington, on his way to a Virgin Islands flight.
NIXON, WHOSE PERSONAL cam-paigning was held to a minimum, was at his White House desk after five hours of sleep. He had been with aides and Cabinet and agency headcases.
Later, he was flying to Key Biscayne, Fla. for a stay of four or five days.
White House press secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler said the election returns sigmared
the problems the people support the
President and what they believe in.
Ziegler said ticket-splitting and continued Democratic control of Congress were "not marked by a feeling of disappointment" at the White House.
But the mood was different in many another Republican headquarters, notably those of four senior GOP senators beaten by the President was sweeping their states.
REP. WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY ended the 32-year Congressional career of Marigret Chase Smith of Maine, where he got 62 per cent of the presidential vote.
In Iowa, Democrat Richard Clark beat Sen. Jack Miller, while Nixon was polling 58 per cent.
and in Colorado, when Nixon got 63 per cent. Republican senate. God. What a pity.
Historically, the party with White House power loses congressional seats in midterm elections, so Tuesday's ticket-splitting race is a test of years of Democratic control on Capitol Hill.
Ziegler announced that Nixon had told the administration high command he plans a $10 billion and reorganizing of the executive branch. Nixon wants "new ideas and new thoughts."
Kansas Demos Gain, Cut GOP Veto Threat
By ELON TORRENCE Associated Press Writer
TOPEKA-Republicans retained firm control of both branches of the Kansas Legislature in Tuesday's election, but Democratic gains mean the GOP no longer has numerical power to override a veto by Democratic Gov. Robert Docking.
Complete but unofficial returns show that the Democrats scored a net gain of five points in 2014, even though
The new Senate will line up with 27 Republicans and 13 Democrats. The House will have 79 Republicans and 46 Democrats. It takes 84 votes to override a law that goes the House and that is the number of seats the GOP held in the outgoing legislature.
The Republicans will have enough seats in the new Senate to override a veto, 27 required, but a veto has to be overridden in the house before it can get to the Senate.
In the outgoing Senate there were 32 Republicans and eight Democrats. Three Senate incumbents went down to defeat on the basis of the unofficial returns, including Frank Hodge of Hutchinson, Republican floor leader, and Harold Herd of Coldwater, who led the race. The other incumbent defended the state and Parsons Democrats. StateRep Rep Bert Chaney, Hutchinson Democrat, was the vice over Henge, 11,500 to 7,523. Charle
Angell, Plains Republican, had 11,277 votes to 10,847 for Herd.
Cale Hudson, Chanute Republican,
defeated Dearth 11,088 to 10,824.
On the House side, a veteran Republican, Rex R. Borgen, was upset by Ronald W. Peckham, Hunter Democrat. Peckham had 4,194 to 3,947 for Borgen.
Other House incumbents going down to
to defeat included six Republican and
one Democratic.
The Republicans were Oscar J. B.
Nolwin, Holton; Carl G. Ossmann, Topea;
William R. Novak, Lost Springa; Gene
Stover, K. Stoppel, Phillipsburg,
Loren Loken, Prout.
The Democrat was James C. Ford, who sought election this time from Wichita, Iowa, after he lost to the Republican.
Steffes and Jacobs bowed to two Democratic incumbents who were placed in their districts in a reapportionment of the House. Irving Niles, Lyndon, defeated Steffes, while Dr. Edward F. Steichen, Lenora, downed Jacobs.
Al altogether, 55 Republican incumbents won re-election, while 26 Democrats were not.
One woman, Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, was elected to the Senate. There is no point.
Four women won election to the House.
BY DENE TEAMMANS
Kansan Staff Writer
By DIANE YEAMANS
County Demos Reduce GOP Control
When the final returns from 28,330 Douglas county voters were tabulated from Tuesday's election, county Democrats won 46 percent and 40 per cent of the contested county races.
By winning four of 10 contested races,
Democrats shattered the hard-lined
Republican image once found in Douglas
County.
One of the tightest races had been for the Douglas County Attorney. In the end David Berkowitz, Democrat, pulled ahead of Ed Colistier, Republican, by a narrow margin of 493 votes. The final counts gave Berkowitz 13.018 votes to Colistier's 19.506.
"The Democrats have been picking up strength in Douglas County over the last few elections," Berkowitz said Wednesday. "48% of voters in the legislative districts two years ago."
THE OUTCOME was not surprising, Berkwitz said, with the 18-year-old vote. He said he expected the Democrats to keep gaining power.
"This establishes more of a two party base in Douglas county," he said.
Berkowitz said this was a particularly good year because of the larger turnout of activists. "It's a very big turnout."
Steven Hill, chairman of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee, said that although he expected the Democrats to gain about as many spots as they had surpassed by the results of the race or county attorney in which Berkowitz won.
I. J. Stoneback, Democrat, was elected over the incumbent Raymond Ice, Republican, for second district commissioner of Douglas County. He won with a margin of 373 votes, having received 5,371 votes to ice in 4,998.
Student Demo Vote Affects County
By ANN McFERREN Kansan Staff Writer
By ANN McFERREN
During the general election Tuesday, the University of Kansas student vote appeared to the Democrats, although the trend seemed to have a limited effect on the final results.
In the presidential race, precipite one, ward three, which consists of KU scholarship halls and several sororities and fraternities northeast of the KU campus, indicated a preference for McGovern over Nixon nearly three to one.
S six precepts that were predominantly student populated indicated certain Democratic trends. Although students appeared to be voting for Democrats, however, their candidates were having a more difficult time in the rest of the county.
ALTOUGH THE vote in this precinct
Results from precinct four, ward two and precinct one, ward three were indicative of the student trend.
was overwhelmingly Democratic. Nixon
carried a majority in almost 4,000
votes. 13-26 to 13-16.
The gubernatorial race in Kansas was dominated by Democratic votes from Douglas County. In this race, the KU election also went strikingly Democratic.
Precinct four, ward two, which includes Daisy Hill and Oliver residence halls, Jayhawker, Gatehouse and Part-25 apartments, showed strong support for Mike Democratic candidate for secretary of state, who lost to Ewlill Shanahan.
The support of Manning in this precinct was more than two to one over incumbent Shanahan, Manning, a University of Kansas student. The support of Douglas County by more than 5,000 votes.
Robert Casad, professor of law and Democratic candidate for the Douglas County Division II District Judge, received a large number of student votes from the
two precincts in his losing effort against James Paddock.
THE STUDENT vote was a big factor in his campaign, Casad said. He said he thought the race would not have been nearly as close as it could be, by almost 800 votes, 13,160 to 12,373.
The contest for the office of Douglas County attorney showed a definite Democratic trend from students, as votes on the ballot rose over his Republican opponent, F.A. Collison.
"I wouldn't have made it without the youth vote," said Berkowitz.
Berkowitz said he thought the student vote played a definite role in the contest for county attorney. He said he campaigned door to door specifically for that support.
BERKOWITZ BEAT Collister in precinct one, ward three by over 300 volumes, 500 to 211. With six preicincts still left to count, the two candidates were extremely close, but Berkowitz finally pulled away to win 13,058 to 12,525.
Another race where student support helped carry a candidate to victory was in the contest for the 44th District Kansas House seat.
Mike Glover, a 25-year-old road construction worker, defeated Republican Winston Harwood 5,686 to 3,132. Harwood admitted Wednesday that the felt Glover had provided more appeal to the student voter to win the election.
The vote from prescinct one, ward three,
co-chairman of the favored Glover more than
three to one.
Democrat Sue Neusifter swept past Republican incumbent, Janice Been to win the office of Register of Deeds for Douglas County. Student votes in both precinct one, ward three and precinct four, ward two helped carry her to victory.
Neusiffier carried precinct four, ward two by almost 200 votes and defeated Beem in precinct one, ward three by over 150 votes.
"This election has certainly made a change in county government," Stoneback said. "It's the first time in history that the governor has gained control of county government."
"MY ELECTION I attribute to the students 'Stoneback said.' I lost in all the rest."
"Down there in centennial precinct I beat me two to one," Stoneback said. "In Allen Field House it was just the opposite. I beat him two to one."
"I think that with the students you have to be liberal thinking to gain office in this country," he said.
In the contest for Register of Deeds, Sea
Neistefter won with 14,208 votes. Janice Beem,
the incumbent Republican, had
11,932.
"I think there are some people that were just wanting a change," she said just wanting a change.
She said she had clowns at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin and in shopping areas of Lawrence last Saturday but was not sure if they had any effect on the election.
HILL SAID he thought the Register of Deeds race election was a personality race. Neusafter became a Democrat, he said, and she was the only way she could run for the office.
Michael Glover, Democrat and former University of Kansas student, won the legislative seat in the 44th district. Where he won, the governor opponent, Winsterv Harwood, received 3.12%.
The other six county races went to the republicans of which four were in-
Hill conceded the 44th district seat to Democrats by saying more Democrats than Republicans would vote.
Republican James Paddock defeated Robert Cassidar 13,160 to 12,737 in the race for the division I district judgeship. Robert Cassidar II Ekkeson defeated Herman Reed 14,168 to 11,059.
REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT ART
Heck defended Fred Stewart, 4,688 to 3,027
for second district commissioner. Sheriff
Rex Johnson, Republican incumbent
override the competition of Virgil Foust
15,027 to 10,896.
John Vogel, Republican incumbent, swept past Loren Ipson 4,618 to 2,743 to remain state representative from the 4th district in 2012 and then defeated defeated Richard Kithchel 5,234 to 3,791.
Of the 28,330 ballots cast, 1,124 were absentee ballots.
Sen. Arden Booth, who won re-election from the second district over Howard Keltz 13,105 to 11,072, said he contributed the Democratic gain to a 'lack of willingness on Republicans to get out and the kind of grassroots work that's been required."
"I think the gains have been made not through platforms or programs," Booth said, "but have been made because of apathy."
NOT TRYING to be critical of the leadership, Booth said, he thought that the Republican party has depended on its power as the majority party to win elections.
In the past, Booth said, if a candidate won in the Republican primary, he almost conceded.
The Republican party has not made effective use of the young people. Booth said
"The losses may continue to happen until the Republican party becomes hungry," Booth said. "Then we'll do as the Democrats have done—done to work."
Hill said he expected the Democrats to gain some ground with the election but noted that the majority of the incumbent Republicans had been re-elected.
"This is testimony of the regard that people have generally held for the incumbents," Hill said. "The county, including the students, have perceived that the majority of incumbent Republicans have done a fine job."
In the future, Hill said, the Republican party will concentrate on its organization and will continue to offer well qualified candidates.
"We will try to get candidates and present them in such a way," Hill said, "that we get a good deal of feedback."