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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. April 16, 1959
Around the World—
Delhi, Taipei Report Tibetan Revolt Flaming
By United Press International
The Chinese Communists have launched a heavy surprise attack against Tibetan positions 150 miles southwest of Lhasa in their first penetration of this strong anti-Communist area, reports from the India border said today.
Fighting was reported raging near Mangar-Tse-Dzong north of the highway running from Gyangtse to Shigatse, home of the Communist-sponsored Panchen Lama. The reports said the Tibetans still held the fortress village.
From Formosa, Nationalist-Chinese intelligence reported the anti-Communist revolution has spread to the border of Szechuan province in inland China.
The sources said in Taipei that fresh intelligence reports from mainland China disclosed that "thousands of people" in Szechuan have taken out hidden arms and joined in guerrilla warfare against the Communists along the Kingsha (Gold Sand) river.
Previous Nationalist Chinese reports said Tibetans residing in Sikang, Chinghai and Sinkiang on Tibet's border had joined the revolt. This was the first report that the fighting had spread inland.
Other world news in brief;
At Vanderberg AFB, Calif. British newsmen openly questioned the "operational" label the United States has placed on its Thor intermediate range missile.
The visiting journalists have been here all week waiting to see the first Thor launching by a Royal Air Force crew, but so far they have waited in vain.
The Thor was slated to be blasted over the Pacific range both Tuesday and Wednesday but firings were
postponed, once because of weather and then for unspecified "technical" reasons.
In Perlin, American sources reported that Soviet jet fighters used "dangerous harassing tactics" against the turboprop C-130 which flew here at 25,000 feet yesterday in defiance of Russian altitude limitations.
Contradicting earlier reports that two Red planes merely "shadowed" the C-130, the sources said they "harassed it in flagrant violation of flight safety."
And news from Washington finds Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro greeted by wildly cheering fans and picketing opponents as he started a round of appearances to win new friends for his regime.
The only scheduled appointment on the first day of his 11-day U. S. visit was lunch with acting secretary of state Christian A. Herter.
But associates said Castro might give his worried security guards more headache by getting a whim to go shopping or sightseeing.
An American official said precautions taken to protect the 32-year-old Cuban leader were tighter than those applied when Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan visited here in January. The Cuban embassy and U.S. State Department have received anonymous threats against Castro's life.
The average salary of full-time professors in the United States is $8,875 a year.
The state motto of California is Eureka, a Greek word meaning "I have found it."
Red Tape Rampant
Senior Finds Voting Tough
A letter-of-the-law poll worker wound a few yards of red tape about a senior woman in yesterday's elections.
By Martha Pearse
She was stopped from voting four times within 20 minutes by the zealous poll worker.
At first she was refused a ballot because she was a senior. After an argument with the poll worker, she summoned election police, who allowed that seniors were authorized to vote.
The next problem arose when it was found the woman carried a double major and was entitled to vote for representatives in both schools. Again the poll worker argued and again election police confirmed the woman's right to vote—in both schools.
By this time the voting booths were full, so the distraught young lady marked her ballot while sitting on a nearby window sill.
The poll worker now tried to take away her ballots for "campaigning within 50 feet of the voting area." She was allowed to move further away where she would not be "campaigning."
Harvard Professor To Lecture Tonight
Dr. Alfred S. Romer, Harvard University, will present the fifth and final lecture of the Darwin-Linnaeus Year lecture series at 7:30 tonight in Bailey Auditorium.
"Darwin and the Fossil Record" will be his topic. Dr. Romer is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology at Harvard and is the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology there.
The woman was accompanied by a sorority sister also looking for a place to vote. The charge this time was that she was "influencing another's vote by standing too close to another person."
Again she was given a reprise by election police and finally was able to vote without committing another "error."
She left the polls proclaiming she was "terribly glad she was a senior and would not have to go through another election."
Docking Like Gary Cooper?
Movie starlet Dolores Michaels finds publicity agents are "abom- inable," but Kansas' Governor George Docking is "lovely."
After an interview with the governor yesterday in Topeka she likened him to "an articulate Gary Cooper."
"What a lovely man to talk to," she said. "I would have stayed the rest of the day if he would've let me."
"I know actors and actresses who can't do any work because they cann't get an agent. Agents are an abominable lot. Having one you like and one who likes you is almost second best to having a happy marriage."
Her opinion of that special breed that thrives in show business, the agent, was not as high as that of the governor.
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