Voter . . . at the polls.
Election Starts At Turtle Pace
By 11:30 a.m. today 345 students had voted in the first day of general election balloting for student body president and vice president, All Student Council representatives and class officers.
In last year's general election, 603 students had voted by this time on the first day. The polls will remain open until 5 p.m. today and from 8 to 5 p.m. tomorrow.
ROBERT IOTT, McPherson senior and Elections Committee chairman, said the turnout at the polls has been good up to this time.
In last week's primary elections, only 355 voted on the first day.
Today 119 had voted in the fraternity district, 87 in the sorority district, 41 in the women's dormitory district, 38 in the men's dormitory district, 34 in the unmarried-unorganized independent district, 6 in the co-op and professional fraternity district, and 18 in the married district.
IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 163 students had voted in the College, 51 in the Engineering school, 36 in the Education school, 7 in the Graduate school, 23 in the Business school, 10 in the Pharmacy school, 9 in the Journalism school, 16 in the Law school, and 25 in the Fine Arts school.
Voting for class officers were 99 seniors,68 juniors,and 109 sophomores.
House Committee Bars Cuban Aid
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The House Foreign Affairs committee formally approved a $4,038,500,000 foreign aid authorization today, cutting $136,500,000 from President Eisenhower's request and barring any assistance to Cuba.
The measure would ban U.S. aid to Cuba unless the President specifically ruled such assistance to be in the "national or hemispheric interest."
Only $350,000 in technical aid had been programmed for Cuba in the administration's new foreign aid proposals.
The measure, which was tentatively approved by the committee last week, faces efforts at further cuts in the House. The aid program is likely to have even rougher going when the appropriations committee determines how much actual money to put up for the fiscal year starting July 1.
African Police Fight Negroes To End Strikes
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — (UPI)—Police clubbed, whipped and shot their way through the native township of Lyanga outside Cape Town today in an effort to drive stay-at-home Negroes back to their jobs.
The series of raids by heavily-armed policemen left at least 84 African men, women and children injured—some critically. One Negro policeman was killed before a drenching rain imposed an uneasy calm on the area.
"They've just passed through again," one African who was helping the lone medical doctor treating the injured natives said by telephone from Lyanga. "It's impossible to give casualty figures."
POLICE OFFICIALS said the raids were made to break the stay-at-home movement by native black Africans and force them back to work.
Dozens of injured Negroes were given first aid, many of them under a pouring rain. The first aid worker, who was not identified by name, said in the telephone report that "there were some bullet wounds among the injured."
The raids began at 10 p.m. yesterday (Lawrence time), and were still going on six hours later.
Africans in the native quarter said police ripped into the township, smashing doors and windows, and dragging blacks from their homes.
MESSAGES from inside the negro township said every African girl with the least bit of first aid experience was mobilized to help Dr. C. K. Mazikiza, the only medical man in Nyanga.
One tear-streaked helper was quoted as saying, "this rain is the tears of the African people."
The raids today were a follow-up to the series of lightning swoops carried out in Nyanga yesterday in the 16th day of racial violence throughout the Union of South Africa.
IN VATICAN CITY. Pope John XXIII has condemned racial strife, holding out his appointment of cardinals from Japan, the Philippines and Africa as an example of the
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Favorable weather will continue in the Lawrence area today and tomorrow. According to the United Press International weather report it will remain fair today and tonight becoming partly cloudy tomorrow. The high today is expected to be in the mid-60s. No rain is forecast.
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57th Year, No. 118
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wisconsin Primary Vote To Climb to Record High
Hubert Humphrey
...the underdog ...
An address by G. W. Foster, Jr., a law professor at the University of Wisconsin will climax the proceedings of KU Law Day Thursday.
Prof. Foster will speak on "Desegregation-The Problem of Judicial Administration." He was once special assistant to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
Tuesday, April 5, 1969
A noon luncheon will be held for current members of the Law Review staff and later in the afternoon a moot court trial will be conducted.
Taking part in the moot court trial will be Robert Edmonds and Norman William Hines, both of Lawrence, vs. Stanley Adams, St. Francis, and Donald Lee McMaster, Wichita. All are second-year law students.
Foster to Give Law Day Talk
Also attending the banquet and proceedings will be alumni of the Law School, judges, state officials and university administrators.
By United Press International
The outcome in the crucial Wisconsin presidential primary contest between Senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey is hours away as polls closed this afternoon in the rural areas where Sen. Humphrey's strength is strongest.
Mid-day reports throughout the Dairy State indicated the total vote might reach record proportions. United Press International reported. Voters were standing in line in Milwaukee suburbs. Earlier predictions of the total vote expected to be a million, were revised upwards.
Balloting will continue until 8 in Milwaukee, which is considered Sen. Kennedy's strongest area.
The religious question, which both Democratic candidates had put aside during the campaign, broke into the open this past week.
SEN. HUMPIREY (D-Minn), a protestant, has consistently refused to make a campaign issue of Sen. kennedy's (D-Mass), catholicism, saying, "The religious issue has not been an asset for either of us."
But some protestant leaders have chosen to make religion a campaign issue over Sen. Humphrey's protests.
The emergence of the religious issue coupled with a strong effort by Sen. Humphrey this past week has tempered the predictions of a Kennedy sweep.
Some observers think this first head-on collision between the two could result in a virtual deadlock, with neither candidate scoring a clear-cut victory.
The latest manifestation of the religious issue in the primary occurred when a Lutheran minister passed out letters questioning whether Sen. Kennedy was subject to pressures from the Roman Catholic Church.
LAST WEEK, Sen. Humphrey had to repudiate a newspaper advertisement urging protestants to rally behind him.
THE CONTEST is expected to draw more than one million of Wisconsin's 2,300,000 registered voters to the polls, and may exceed the 1952 primary record of 1,018,000 votes cast.
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'Ben Hur' Gobbles Up Oscars
By Frank Morgan
Ben Hur roared through the Pantages Theater in Hollywood last night grabbing up Oscars for almost everything but the Picture That-Ran-the Longest-Without-an-Intermission.
Charlton Heston was named Best Actor and William Wyler, Best Director. The picture also reaped awards for cinematography, art design, costumes and of course, best picture.
FRANCE'S, greatest export since vintage champagne, Simone Signoret, won the Best Actress award despite her handicap of having no chariot. But then the guy (washisname?) who won Best Supporting Actor did, and therefore deserved to win.
The cast of thousands, budget of millions and length of more than three hours was too much for the others in contention to cope with.
Where was everybody? Where were those greats of filmdom like Debbie and Jayne and Vera Ralston and Mickey Hargaity?
AND HOW COME nobody wants to pick up
Comments from the floor on the Academy Award proceedings as KU watched the television presentation of the Oscars:
their own Oscar? Those gals parading across the stage were no doubt a lot better looking than the old guys that won them. But wasn't there one time there when the little girl accepted for somebody who was supposed to accept for somebody?
KINDA HURT to see Jimmy Stewart miss out for his latest showcase, "Anatomy of a Murder." This was his most recent in the series of classics—you remember the others — "Jimmy on the Ball Diamond," "Jimmy in the Air," "Jimmy in a Danceband." and now "Jimmy in Court."
Models of marital bliss were in abundance all night long. Liz and Eddie, Janet and Tony and those best of all possible pairs, Natalie and Bob. One thing to hope for from year to year; seeing the same players on different teams.
"I couldn't be up here tonight if it weren't for many people, too numerous to mention. But I'd like to try; there's Sarah, Melvin, Horace, Alfred, Amelia, Sam Hortense. . .
ONE TIME we'd like to see a recipient come up. take the Oscar, step to the mike and say:
Or better yet, Bob Hope's interpretation of the acceptance speech by an award winner from France;
"He said 'I did it all myself.'"
John Kennedy
...still the favorite ...
Huxley to Give Lecture Tonight
Man's solar plexus, rather than his intellect, may save him from destruction by his own hand, declared Aldous Huxley in a recent interview.
The prolific novelist, poet, and essayist will give a Humanities Series lecture on "Visionary Experience" at 8 p.m. today in the University Theatre.
The desire for animal pleasure and comfort may keep us from blowing ourselves to bits, said Mr. Huxley, but many of the developments which he predicted 29 years ago in his "Brave New World" would enslave man within six centuries have already come to pass.
In fact, Mr. Huxley says in "Brave New World Revisited," some enslaving techniques he had not dreamed of are already inducing us to give up individual freedom and accept mass-reaction slavery, which seems more comfortable. The effects of television upon children and the use of subliminal projection are two of them.
"There is no reference in my table to subliminal projection," said Mr. Huxley. "It is a mistake of omission which, if I were to rewrite the book, I should most certainly correct."
In "Brave New World Revisited," he discusses these forces which are pushing or enticing us along the path he predicted: overpopulation, propaganda, selling techniques, brainwashing, chemical persuasion (like his "soma"), subconscious persuasion, and instruction during sleep (hypnopaedia).
East-West Reach Arms Stalemate
GENEVA — (UPI) — The East and West rejected each other's overall arms reduction plans today and sent the 10-nation disarmament conference into temporary stalmate. But both sides indicate they hoped for progress in the future.
The United States also warned the Soviet Union it would sign no East-West arms pact that endangers American security.
Western spokesmen, furthermore, warned the Soviets that military disengagement" in the heart of Europe is as unacceptable as the Soviet disarmament plan itself.