KU FAN—Governor-Elect John Anderson gives the Kansan photographer the eye at Saturday's homecoming game. Next to Mr. Anderson is Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe who acted as hostess in the absence of Dr. Wescoe who was ill.
Homecoming 1960 is past. It was an exciting homecoming, though with girls in pink hair drawing prolonged applause in the student section before the game and airplanes flying overhead, one dropping pamphlets welcoming TNE (the outlawed drinking fraternity) alumni to KU.
Decoration Awards Cap Homecoming
But all the excitement took a poor second place to the excitement generated by the announcement of awards for house decorations.
ALL WAITED IN hush expectancy for the announcement of the winners from the public address system. Then it came:
"Welcome to the 1960 Homecoming. Before I proceed with the names of the decoration winners, I want to remind you all that there is a well equipped first aid station under the south end of the stadium."
The student section broke up in laughter from the tension and unexpected.
Then the winners; Fraternity division; Phi Kappa Psi, first place; Delta Upsilon, second; Sigma Phi Epsilon, third; Tau Kappa Epsilon, first honorable mention; Delta Sigma Phi, second honorable mention
SORORITY DIVISION: Sigma Kappa, first; Chi Omega, second; Kappa Alpha Theta, third.
Monday, Nov. 14, 1960
Men's Residence Halls: Foster Hall, first; Battenfeld Hall, second; Templin Hall, third.
Women's Residence Halls: Lewis Hall, first; Gertrude Sellards Pearson, second.
During half-time the queen, Janice Guyot, Arkansas City junior, and her two attendants, Sharon O'Neal, Kansas City sophomore and Sherryl Duckworth, Freedonia sophomore were introduced to the crowd and presented bouquets by Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe, wife of the chancellor of the university. Mrs. Wescoe represented Dr. Wescoe who was at home with a virus infection.
By Sunday everything was quiet. The stillness was shattered briefly as one of the massive decorations was pulled to the ground. There was not much conversation among the cleanup crews.
THE ALUMNI WERE all positive that the spirit was not as good as "when I was in school," that the hill is steeper and that everything is much more crowded than ever before.
Homecoming '60 is history.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI)— Belgium today threatened to withdraw from the United Nations unless U.N. officials cease attacks on the Belgian government.
The original count early Wednesday gave the victory to the president-elect by a margin of 102 votes. However, mathematical errors were found during the official tabulation later—including a 200 vote error in favor of Nixon.
Belgium Threatens UN Withdrawal
Hawaii's three electoral votes fell to Vice President Nixon by a razor-thin margin today as California continued to count absentee ballots which may add 32 more electoral votes to the Nixon column.
Belgian Foreign Minister M.P. Wigny told a press conference "what they have done is not permitted in my country, even by the head of the opposition."
58th Year, No. 42
With a record high 67,718,263 votes already counted, Kennedy's numerical margin in popular votes was the smallest in any presidential election since 1892.
In Hawaii, Nixon won the state's three electoral votes by a margin of 96 of the 184,904 ballots cast Tuesday, according to a complete but unofficial tally.
Over the nation, the popular vote showed president-elect Kennedy leading by less than 390,000, or .56 of one per cent of the total.
Democratic party officials have indicated they may go to court to seek a recount of the ballots, in a belief that the majority of the votes went to Kennedy.
Going into today's tally, Kennedy had 3,125,554 votes and Nixon 3,098,169 of California's popular vote.
In California, almost all of the state's 58 counties began counting absentee ballots to see if Kennedy holds the state's electoral votes he gained by 35,455 votes in the regular count.
Cuba Discussed at Forum
Hawaiian Votes Fall to Nixon
In three counties counted earlier—San Mateo, San Luis Obispo and Napa—Nixon gained 3,070 votes to cut Kennedy's lead to 23,385.
Wigny declared that U.N. officials are "servants" of the world organization's member governments, not their masters.
By United Press International
The United States continues to think of Cuba in military rather than social, political and economic terms, Irving P. Pflau, a specialist on Cuba for the American Universities Field Staff, said at the Current Events Forum Friday.
Nixon needed 57.8 per cent of the state's estimated 250,000 absentee votes to overcome the president-elect's lead. In the three counties whose absentee ballots were counted earlier, Nixon got 61.9 per cent. They were also for Nixon in the regular count.
"In the last two years Russia has shown more political interest in Cuba and has advanced in its government more than the United States has in 60 years," Mr. Pfaum said.
The United States had a stable military position and did not believe political problems on the island could be of vital interest, he said.
"SINCE WE acquired Cuba from Spain it has been important because of its strategic location. The island controls strategic routes to the Mississippi River and the Panama Canal." Mr. Plaum said.
He said the United States has ignored Cuba's domestic issues.
He said that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Gen. Batista turned Cuba over to the United States for military use. Cuba was the first Latin American country to declare war on Germany.
Mr. Pflaum pointed out that the United States judged the Cuban government by its willingness to go along with the United States on international issues.
"Military forces are insignificant. The war in Cuba is political and psychological."
"AMERICAN military strength in Cuba has not been weakened by the revolution." he said.
He did not offer an immediate solution to the Cuban problem. He said the big question is whether the United States will remain loyal to its treaties.
"IF THE United States keeps its treaties, all it can do is accept the regime and use all the power and money possible to keep the Revolution from spreading to other countries," he said.
It would be dangerous for the United States to encourage rebellion because of treaty agreements, he said.
Military action by the United States would cause us to be deemed an aggressor by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Only when Cuba attacks United States property first would we be justified in military action, Mr. Pfluum said.
Vox Balloting In Question
By Byron Klapper
Several complaints were received by the Daily Kansan recently that poll workers were giving Vox ballots to students with University Party cards at the primary elections last Tuesday.
sly Party cards at the primary elections last Tuesday and Wednesday. Connie Smith, Lawrence sophomore, yesterday described her experience at the polls Tuesday.
"I went to the polling table and gave them all my cards, I.D., IBM and University Party card. They started checking and asking my address and telephone number. I thought it was to find out which living district I was from.
"ONE OF THE checkers said something to the effect that I was with the wrong party. I wondered if all the checkers were from Vox or just him." she said.
"Then they gave me a ballot. I knew who I wanted to vote for but she wasn't on the ballot. I wondered what was wrong.
"I went back to the table and told them I had the wrong ballot and they exchanged it for the correct one.
Negroes Enter Schools in La.
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI)— At least four Negro girls walked into formerly all-white first grade classes today and the state troopers under orders to stop integration made no attempt to halt them.
No violence was reported.
There was no violence, but jeers welled up from huge crowds kept across the street from the schools by police.
At least two dozen white parents immediately marched into the schools and began taking their children out. One mother said she was removing her three children because she didn't "want them in there if anything happens." Others said they would not let their children go to school with Negroes.
The Legislature, in spite of a federal restraining order, sent state police to the schools to inform teachers and pupils that it was a holiday.
The schools were integrated about half an hour after classes began. City police swarmed around the schools and federal marshals wearing yellow arm bands brought children out of police cars and accompanied them into the school buildings.
No one paid any attention to them.
About 40 teen-agers began parading in front of one school carrying crude signs saying "segregate," but a U.S. marshal herded them down a side street away from the school.
When the white parents brought their children out, cheers came from the crowds across the streets.
State troopers stood in front of the schools and told all the principals as they arrived that there would be "no school today." The principals thanked them and went on into the buildings.
Some of the parents reported that school officials tried to talk them out of removing their children.
Crowds totalling approximately 500, police said, milled across the streets from the two schools hours after the Negroes disappeared inside, and parents continued marching out with their children.
Weather
Kansas — partly cloudy west mostly cloudy east this afternoon tonight and Tuesday. Warmer northeast and north central portions this afternoon. Continued unseasonably warm tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 30s extreme northwest to mid 60s southeast. High Tuesday 60s northwest to around 80 extreme southeast.
1 didn't know whether the error was deliberate or an accident. With all those checkers it doesn't seem likely that it would be an accident," she said.
Ronald K. Dalby, Joplin, Mo., senior and student body president said that each polling table is required to have two poll police, one from each party, to act as a check before students go into the voting booths and also before they deposit their ballots in boxes.
SEVERAL WOMEN indicated that at times either no poll police were present or only one from a single party performed the final check.
Melinda N. Kirkman, Russell junior, said she submitted her UP card at the voting table along with the other cards and after they were processed by five different people she was handed a Vox ballot.
"I went through the procedure and was handed a Vox ballot but didn't realize it," she said.
In a telephone interview last night Charles A. Menginih, Pittsburg junior and independent co-chairman of the University Party said, "I was at the polls when Nancy J. Bena, Pittsburg freshman, was going through the checkers to vote. She received her ballots for the amendment and for freshman class officers."
Miss Kirkman said she saw that her candidate's name was not on the ballot and figured it may have been turned in late. She then wrote her candidate's name on the Vox ballot and placed it in the ballot box.
MENGHINI SAID he knew Miss Bena as a member of the UP. After she deposited her ballot in the ballot box he said he asked her if she voted for her candidate. She answered that she didn't receive a UP ballot although she presented her UP card.
"I went to the poll police who happened to be a Vox man and informed him that if I caught a similar infraction of the rules I would request that this poll be closed," he said.
Jack L. Roberts, Kansas City junior and president of Vox, attributed the mishaps at the polls to be purely "human errors."
"The poll workers spend eight hours a day at those polls and there is bound to be a few errors over that period of time," he said.
"THEERE ARE just as many UP poll workers as Vox. The responsibility for checking ballots falls on the shoulders of the Vox and UP poll police," he said.
Roberts said that many of the poll workers were doing it for the first time and probably weren't familiar with the procedure.
He said that the elections committee chairmen would hold a meeting of all poll workers before the general elections tomorrow and Wednesday to brief them on the polling procedures.
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