Kansan photo by Mike Guether
HUMPHREY ARRIVES IN KANSAS CITY
By JUDI DIEBOLT
Kansan Staff Writer
Few greet Humphrey at K.C. airport rally
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Vice president Hubert H. Humphrey arrived in Kansas City last night, but few people seemed to care.
Landing at midnight at Kansas City Municipal airport the vice president was greeted by a folk-singing group, a few attractive KU coeds, the press, his advance staff and the mayor of Kansas City.
Chubby Checkers, pop singer during the "Twist" days led a folk group in singing"We Want Humphrey" to background music of the song,"Give Me that Old-Time Religion."
As the odors of the stockyard and diesel fuel drifted over the airport one discovered that it was the celebrities who accompanied Humphrey on the campaign plane that generated the small amount of enthusiasm that existed.
Preceeding Humphrey during his walk down the runway were Inger Stevens, Rafael Johnson and Red Buttons.
Checkers said he was there to provide "a happening for Hubert."
The folk group accompanying Checkers in song called themselves the "Fabulous Farquar."
When asked why they were campaigning for Humphrey one member said, "Well, we all flunked out of Yale the same semester and we really don't have a helluva lot else to do."
When Checkers was asked why he was campaigning for Humphrey, he said, "He's the best. He's for all the people in the U.S., not just a selective few. If there was a Republican man I could believe in, I'd work for him."
When the vice president arrived at the Hotel Muehlebach approximately 100 young people, mostly Negroes, greeted him with a pro-Humphrey demonstration. Chanting "We want Hubert" and accompanied by a drum, the gyrations they employed were faintly reminiscent of old Tarzan movies. They remained in the lobby, blocking the entrances to the press room for more than an hour.
The vice president did not appear. Cancelling a press conference scheduled immediately after his landing, his advance man said Humphrey was still too weak from the flu.
And from the expression on the vice president's face, it appeared that even he didn't care.
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Sirhan trial set back
LOS ANGELES-The trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan, accused of the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was postponed yesterday until Dec. 9.
The judge announced that the jury would be locked up for the entire trial, expected to last three months.
Defense attorney Russell Parsons asked the delay because the lengthy trial would be a hardship on the panel during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays.
NYU students protest
NEW YORK-A student strike got under way at New York University yesterday when 200 students, many carrying signs, marched around the Washington Square campus.
The strike was called by militant student groups to protest the dismissal of John F. Hatchett as director of the 42,000-student university's Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student Center. The rebels also are demanding the controversial educator's reinstatement.
Heart transplant dies
HOUSTON—Louis J. Fierro, 54, an Almont, N.Y., used-automobile salesman who received a transplanted heart in St. Luke's Hospital May 21, died Monday night of cardiac arrest.
Fierro was the world's 15th heart transplant. The heart that he received was from 17-year-old Hubert Brungardt, of Pasadena, Tex., who died of a brain hemorrhage.
Fierro was the third transplant patient of Dr. Denton Cooley and his surgical team.
Teachers strike again
NEW YORK-Unionized teachers struck the nation's largest public school system yesterday for the third time since Sept. 9 in an effort to block a plan to place the city's 33 school districts under limited local control.
The strike of the 55,000-member United Federation of Teachers (UFT) was more effective than the previous strike, which ended Sept. 27, according to an early count of teachers and pupils absent.
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Group seeks rally
Voice wants open University Senate
Peoples Voice decided last night to "invite" the student body to the fall session of the University Senate Oct. 29, and members agreed to press for adoption of the minority report on student government.
Voice, meeting at the United Campus Christian Fellowship, said it hopes students turn out for the Senate meeting and support the minority report.
The present University Senate
Code closes the organization's meetings to non-members except by unanimous vote otherwise. Several Voice members said they believe most KU students don't realize that University Senate meetings are closed.
Voice voted to close its meeting to the press and a University Daily Kansan writer was asked to leave.
The minority report, the Dissenting Report of the Student Faculty
Chairman of Music Education dies at KU Medical Center
Dr. Marcus E. Hahn, chairman of the department of music education at the University of Kansas, died this morning at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
Dr. Hahn, who had been ill since last summer, had been a patient at the Center for several weeks. He is survived by his widow, one son, Christopher Mark, 16, his mother, Mrs. Nora Hahn of Hutchinson, and a sister, Mrs. John (Marcia) Grove of Houston, Tex.
Dr. Hahn was born in Lawrence on July 27, 1915. He received his B.S. in education from Fort Hays Kansas State College in 1937. He interrupted his academic career in 1942 to enlist in the Navy as an aerographer. He was commissioned an ensign in 1943 and served in the Pacific theater until 1945.
Dr. Hahn returned to Lawrence to attend the University of Kansas. He received his M.M.E. in 1947 and his Ph.D. in 1954. Dr. Hahn joined the KU faculty in 1947. He taught flute in the department of music
The study of psychology of music and music in society were of special interest to Dr. Hahn. He was a member of the Music Educators National Conference, the Music Education Research Council, Phi Mu Alpha, the American Psychological Association, president of the Kappa chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, and chairman for research, Southwestern Division of Music Educators National Conference.
Funeral arrangements are being made by Rumsey Funeral Home. Services will be in the Trinity Lutheran Church at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Today clear to partly cloudy and warm. Southerly winds 15 to 30 mph and gusty. High around 90. Considerable cloudiness and a little cooler tonight and Wednesday with chance of scattered showers
Committee on University Governance, calls for 50 per cent student representation on the Senate and its committees. The majority report now being considered by the All-Student Council (ASC) and the University Senate Council proposes about 15 per cent representation.
The student faculty committee drafted the proposed University Senate Code, which calls for abolition of ASC and creation of a Student Senate in its place. The Student Senate would have membership on the University Senate, giving KU students such membership for the first time in the history of the University.
Voice members said that, if allowed into the University Senate session, they will push for adoption of the minority report.
If not admitted, they tentatively plan to speak to students outside the meeting hall.
Voice actions last year, including a petition to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, the threat of a sit-in at Strong Hall and a mass meeting on Strong steps, led to the formation of the committee to study student government at the University.
Midway through the meeting, Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and a member of the Voice central governing committee, brought up the subject of the minority report.
Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student and Voice press coordinator, suggested that the rest of the meeting be closed to the press
Barrish called for a vote on the issue, and about one-third of those present voted to exclude the press. There were no dissenting votes, although some dissention was later voiced.
The Kansan staff writer was then (Continued on page 12)