Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.124
Monday, April 13, 1959
Posters Stolen; Kansans Are Burned
Political Campaign Material Taken and Found on Weekend
Allied Greek-Independent party campaign posters and photo engravings were stolen from the Lawrence Outlook publishing company Friday afternoon. They turned up Saturday evening on the Pi Beta Phi sorority front porch.
The materials, valued at $163, were taken by five men representing themselves as members of the AGI party.
The posters and engravings $ ^{4} $
The posters and engraving were given to the men by Ed Abels, editor and publisher of the Outlook. The incident occurred while AGI publicity chairman Ron Barta, Salina senior, was waiting for a phone call from Abels informing him that the printing was completed.
The theft was discovered Saturday when Barta visited the Outlook to check on the posters. Abels then signed a complaint with county attorney Wesley Norwood.
Abels told The Daily Kansan:
"I couldn't identify them (the five men) if they were standing in front of me."
Detective Jack Laptad said at a meeting Saturday between the sheriff's department and Vox Populi officials that there were two possibilities for the AGI campaign materials being missing;
LOST AND FOUND—Terry Elliott, Fort Scott junior and AGI president, examines the stolen posters after their return Saturday night.
Either some Vox people did not want the posters to be seen, or some persons in AGI stole the materials to embarrass Vox.
Urges Search
Mr. Laptad urged Vox president Tom Gee, Leavenworth senior, to begin a search in his party's houses for the stolen materials.
Before the materials were returned,Mr. Laptad said:
"Starting Monday morning, we will begin working hard on it, and then somebody will get prosecuted."
A search was also started in AGI houses by Terry Elliott, Fort Scott junior and AGI president.
Gee told the undersheriff:
"I'm not going to accuse anybody from my party, or anybody from the other party, as I don't know who did it. Any thinking person on our side wouldn't do that. Of course, there are non-thinking persons everywhere. But no matter what, the publicity will be against Vox."
Elliott said the posters will be displayed as originally planned.
Barta also dispelled a rumor today that the AGI brochures, "Speaking Frankly," were stolen by saying that he delivered many of them to AGI houses last night. He said Vox houses would receive their share today.
regarding his suspicions, Elliott said;
No Suspects
"I don't have anybody to suspect. I don't think anyone in either party, at least the hierarchy I know, would be foolish enough to do this. I can't help but think that it is something that was done without the major political officers in either party knowing about it."
Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson was contacted shortly after the theft was reported. He said today he has not had time to confer with everyone concerned in the matter.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Eisenhower went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for a visit with cancer-streken Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was rehospitalized unexpectedly yesterday.
Dulles Rehospitalized
Weather
Mostly fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in 30s. High tomorrow 65 to 70.
Voting Begins at 8 a.m. Tomorrow
Voting in the general election for All Student Council members and class officers will begin tomorrow at 8 a.m. in Strong Hall.
The polls for the election tomorrow and Wednesday are located east of the Business Office, in the rotunda, and west of the Registrar's office. The polls will open both days at 8 a.m. and close at 5:15 p.m.
Before a student votes he must go to the basement of Strong where five tables will be set up alphabetically. The voter must present his I.D. card and pick up a dean's card. The card gives the voter's name, living district, class, and school.
The voter will then go to the polls on the main floor. The pollworkers will determine from the dean's card which ballots the voter should receive. A party card is not required for a student to vote in the general election.
O'Brien Named Relays Queen
Nancy O'Brien, Great Lakes, Ill., junior, was chosen yesterday as KU's Kansas Relays Queen to hold forth over the track marathon Friday and Saturday.
Sharing the throne will be Carol Earls, a University of Missouri sophomore from Ironton, Mo.
Four KU women were selected as attendants to the queens from 19 attendants. The Big Eight choice was selected from pictures submitted from each conference school.
In the above picture are the attendants chosen. From left are Sarah Dillaha, Topeka senior; Annette Martin, Dewey, Okla., sophomore; Miss O'Brien; Cynthia Hunter, Hutchinson senior, and Barbara Everley, Lawrence senior.
Miss O'Brien is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
In 1957 she was elected queen of the Student Union Activities Carnival.
The Big Eight co-queen was MU's Homecoming Queen last year.
The royalty will appear in the Saturday morning Relays parade downtown and reign over the Friday night dance.
During the two days of track events in Memorial Stadium the queens will be on hand to give medals to the high school and college winners.
Miss Earls will arrive sometime Thursday and stay at Miss O'Brien's sorority.
Selecting the queens and their attendants were state senators Don Hults (R-Lawrence) and August Lauterbach (R-Colby); Art Wolf, of the Lawrence Centron Movie Corp., and John Kreamer, Kansas City, Mo., lawyer.
Burned Over 1,000 Issues Disappear in Fire
Ashes taken from an incinerator in back of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house Saturday evening turned out to be an estimated 1,200 to 1,500 copies of the Friday. April 10, edition of the Daily Kansan.
The newspapers apparently were removed from distribution boxes around the campus.
They and another Vox Populi party member checked the incinerator. They did so, they said, to
Ted Childers, Wamego freshman, and Roger Minneman, Sabetha sophomore, who live in Foster Hall, which is across the street from the Alpha Kappa Lambda house, said they saw a fraternity member "burning large amounts of white paper in the incinerator."
See page 2 for presidential candidates' opinions on campus issues.
dispel rumors that Vox Populi had stolen the AGI brochures, "Speaking Frankly."
The party members thought the brochures were being destroyed by AGI because it had lost its usefulness as a surprise after stories about the brochure had been printed in the Daily Kansan.
Political Stories Involved
The fraternity member who allegedly was seen burning material said he was only disposing of "trash, cardboard backings for shirts, and personal papers from my room."
The issue of the paper which was found in the incinerator contained two stories and an editorial about the brochure.
Minneman, Childers, George Ryan, Kaenas City, Mo., sophomore, all of Vox Populi, and a Kansan reporter, removed all ashes from the incinerator later that evening, and took them to the basement of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. They were joined by six others who began sorting the ashes.
It was apparent that a large number of Daily Kansans had been burned. There was no trace of the AGI brochure.
Asked if he could explain the presence of the Daily Kansans in his fraternity's incinerator, Ron Barta, Salina senior and AGI publicity chairman, said:
Out on Date
"No, I can't. I don't know anything about it. I was out on a date when the Kansans came out and didn't get a paper until I came back.
"The pledges are the only ones who know anything about papers, because they are the ones required to bring back our house's allotment every day.
"But I don't think the pledges in our house would do it. Because they heard me ranting and raving this past week about all this stuff that's been going on—posters missing, and copies of the 'Speaking Frankly' getting out."
Fraternity Comment
Vincent Meyer, Cincinnati, Ohio junior, and vice president of Alpha Kappa Lambda, made the following statement:
"I suppose the fraternity is responsible for every man's actions, but the chapter doesn't vote on every man's actions. We are responsible for every member's actions, although sometimes we would rather not be."
Dick Lewis, Kansas City, Kan. senior, and AGI presidential candidate, was shocked when he heard the accusation. But he said:
"I'd rather not make a statement on this."