Page 4
Summer Session Kansan Tuesday. July 12. 1960
1924 Demo Convention Sets All-Time Record for Balloting
WASHINGTON—(UPI) The Democratic National Convention of 1824 set an all-time record for marathon balloting on a presidential nominee.
It took 103 roll calls for the delegates to settle on John W. Davis, an eminent New York lawyer, as the party's standard-bearer.
The Democrats met in Madison Square Garden, New York, on June 24. The Republicans had already held their convention in Cleveland and had quickly renominated President Calvin Coolidge.
Although there were a dozen aspirants in the Democratic camp, the leading contenders were Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York and former Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo of California.
Smith, an ardent foe of Prohibition and a Roman Catholic, had powerful support from states of the industrial East. McAdoo was champion of the dry forces and the rural sections of the South and West.
Democratic conventions operated in those days under a rule,
Vice President Spot Important
WASHINGTON — (UPI) - Both Democrats and Republicans will try to breed their appeal to the voters when they nominate their candidates for vice president.
The vice presidential nominee of each party is chosen after its presidential candidate is nominated. If the presidential nominee is considered to have weakness in certain areas or with certain segments of the voting population, the man chosen for second place on the ticket is likely to have a special appeal to some of those areas or voting blocs.
Once the presidential nominee is chosen, national convention delegates defer to his judgment about a running mate. The vice president candidate may be chosen by the presidential nominee himself after consulting a small circle of advisers, or by the group of advisers.
In 1856, Adlai E. Stevenson broke away from that tradition by inviting a wide-open convention contest for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. In this contest, Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) narrowly nosed out Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass).
Although geographic balance is usually a factor, the Democrats ignored that qualification in 1948 when President Truman of Missouri was chosen to head the ticket and Sen. Alben W. Barkley from the neighboring state of Kentucky was nominated for vice president.
Each party has a sizable group of men who are viewed as possibilities for the vice presidential nominations this year.
Among the Democrats, Sen. Kennedy probably would be rated first if he failed to win the presidential nomination.
Other possibilities include Govs. Leroy Collins of Florida, Herschel Loveless of Iowa, Orville Freeman of Minnesota, George Docking of Kansas, Edmund G. Brown of California, G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey. Possibilities from the senate include Sens. Albert Gore of Tennessee, Henry Jackson of Washington and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota.
On the Republican side, those viewed as vice presidential possibilities include Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Secretary of Interior Fred Seaton, Attorney General William P. Rogers, Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. Other prospects are Sens. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, Kenneth P. Keating of New York, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, and House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana.
since repealed, requiring a two-thirds majority for nomination. It is widely, but mistakenly, believed that this rule caused the ensuing Smith-McAdoo deadlock.
Actually, neither Smith nor McAdoo was ever able to muster a simple majority of the 1,097 convention votes. McAdoo's highest vote was 530 on the 69th ballot. Smith's peak was 368 votes on the 76th ballot.
The roll calls began on June 30 and continued for 10 days and nights. There was no such thing as air conditioning then, and the delegates sweltered in the mid-summer heat as the endless balloting ground on.
It was the first year in which national conventions were extensively covered by radio, and from coast to coast, Americans stayed glued to their sets to follow the
drama in Madison Square Garden.
Soon it became a national joke to quote the too-familiar words that opened each roll call. The clerk solemnly intoned "Alabama," and the delegation leader responded invariably, "Alabama casts 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood."
Davis, a conservative lawyer who had served as ambassador to Great Britain, received on the first ballot only the support of his native state of West Virginia plus a few complimentary votes from other delegations.
But after 102 ballots had failed to break the deadlock between the two leading contenders, the delegates were in the mood for a dark horse, and Davis walked off with the nomination on the 103rd roll call. Coolidge easily defeated him in the election.
Nine Top Performers Aid KU Music Camp
Students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp in session at the University are developing their talents under the study of nine outstanding guest conductors this year.
Each of the musicians works one week with students in the band, orchestra or choral division of the camp and directs the students in performances Sunday afternoon and evening.
Artists who already have appeared include Lucien Cailliet, conductor, composer and arranger, formerly with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; Robert McCowan, director of choral music, Iowa State College, and Donald Johanos, associate conductor, Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Eugene Kenney, director of choral music, Texas Tech College, and Victor Alessandro, conductor, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, are working with the camp this week. Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor, Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, will appear next week.
Leo Kucinski, conductor, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and American Legion Band; Lloyd Pfautsch, director of choral music, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., and Henri Temiana, conductor, The Temiana Little Symphony and founder and first violinist, Paganini String Quartet, will on campus July 25-31.
Robert E. Bell, director of the Robert Bell School of Ballet, Oklahoma City, and director of ballet at Oklahoma City University, is directing the ballet division of the camp.
That group will present its summer performance July 28 in Hoch Auditorium.
Bell was a featured soloist for
many years with Colonel de Basil's Original Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and has been a soloist with the Paris Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and others.
The six-week camp closes its 23rd session July 31. Its enrollment of 717 students has been the largest in its history.
Junior Gets $250 Steffens Award
Virgil D. Thompson, Valley Center junior, will hold the $250 Steffens Dairy Foods Company, Inc. scholarship in the School of Pharmacy for 1960-61.
The award for a pharmacy student from the area served by the Steffens company was set up by John D. McEwen, president of the firm. He has long had an interest in pharmacy and set up in the Wichita "Cow Town" an old drugstore typical of the first establishments in Wichita.
Thompson will be a junior in the pharmacy school. He took two years of pre-pharmacy work at Wichita University and transferred to KU last fall.
Flies Hold Down Milk Production in Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. —(UPI)—Dr. George MacCollon of the University of Vermont says flies can cost Vermont farmers about $700,000 a year.
He said persistent switching and stamping among cows from the pain and irritation of fly bites causes loss of weight and milk production.
"The Golden Twenties" will be featured in the Bailey film series at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 3 of Bailey Hall. The film reviews events, personalities, sports and fashions of the 1920's. Commentators include Red Barber, Elmer Davis, Robert Q. Lewis and Frederick Lewis Allen.
Television Gets Summer Boost
In ratings, revenue and general madness, the quadrennial political pyrotechnics provide television with its most lively subject matter.
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) - Television has jolted itself free from the summer doldrums with razzle-dazzle convention coverage, chasing tired re-runs from the nation's video screens.
Summer Home
Your
for meals, snacks,
and refreshments . . .
The three major networks—ABC CBS, NBC—will spend some 12 million dollars to bring both conventions to home viewers.
1920's to Be Featured In Bailey Film Series
William McAndrew, NBC's vice president in charge of news, says his network probably will air 65 to 70 hours of convention activity. CBS and ABC also plan to spend that much time bringing the conventions to viewers.
"Because of space limitations on the convention floor we will all share six cameras, which will take up about 70 per cent of our air time.
"All three networks are involved in a camera pool." McAndrew said.
"Our individual commentators, however, will provide narration for the audio portions."
The "stars" of NBC's team are Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who joined forces for a daily NBC TV news show following their popular acceptance during the 1956 conventions.
The Rock Chalk Cafe
John Daly, news chief for ABC and moderator of the panel show "What's My Line," is anchor man for that network.
CBS features Walter Crankite and Robert Trout as its anchor men.
The commentators in front of the cameras are backed by hordes of competent newsmen who filter and feed the latest development to the personality boys on camera.
Closed Sundays
All told the three networks have rushed almost a thousand newsmen and technicians to Los Angeles to cover the convention, making it the biggest single show of the TV season.
7 a.m. to Midnight
It's cool and convenient . . .
just off the campus
There will be 13.5 million new workers in the labor force in the '60's.
618 W. 12th
VI 3-9886
Exchange Grants To 3 Students
Direct exchange scholarships to the Universities of Exeter in England, Aberdeen in Scotland and Clermont-Ferrand in France have been awarded to three University graduates, John H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate School, has announced.
Karen Joanne Krueger, Yates Center, who received an A.B. degree in American civilization and international relations, will study next year at Exeter University.
James Parker Mall, Atchison, who majored in French, will be at Clermont-Ferrand. Both are 1960 graduates.
Studying at Aberdeen will be Wesley Loyde Hales, Kansas City, Mo., who received his B.S. degree in education in 1956 and his master's degree in education in 1957.
The scholarships include tuition and complete maintenance for the 1960-61 academic year. The candidates were selected by the overseas institutions.
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Telephone lines will carry proceedings of the Republican National Convention to more than 1,000 radio stations.
9th & Indiana
LEONARD'S STANDARD SERVICE
Smoke-Filled Lines Set
to
Follow the PARADE
to the finest banking service that human ingenuity can devise when you pay us a call. Right now, treat yourself to banking at its best. Stop in and get acquainted.
( MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION )
ST
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Lawrence 8th and Mass.
ZN
(Tl port." to pr velop Unitec
Wh in th brick
MF walk huar
Th asker resul year. show The most
Lil have same you off y
So thro
and "tell
with wou
lecte
Mato
peal
radi
nigh
join
take
Or you Mex corn more to it
Hrive the tain sect
Th you vari wou wor lum rem
Cloc tour Dip visit Mex the ica.
Ir visit The anti ceiv som dele arri now dur Car
Wern
Cul
tha
up
two