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Traffic editorial ... p. 2
Basketball ... p. 4
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Kentucky dean interview ... p. 8
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Considerable cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Occasional light rain west tonight and in west and north portions Thursday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 44
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1958
KINGSTON TRIO—This popular singing group will appear at KU Nov. 23. The trio's record of "Tom Dooley" is now high on popularity lists.
The versatile performers play guitars, drums, ukuleles and banjoes. From left they are Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds.
Kingston Trio to Sing Here
The Kingston Trio, popular new singing group which recorded "Tom Dooley," will perform for KU students at 8 p.m. November 23 in Hoch Auditorium.
"Tom Dooley" is one of many folk songs which the trio includes in its repertoire. The trio is not considered primarily a folk-singing group, but it was that kind of music which brought the three men together.
In the last eight months the trio has collected songs from the U.S., England, Tahiti, Mexico, Hawaii, Spain, Africa and the West Indies.
Each member of the trio is a
skilled musician on a variety of instruments. They accompany their singing with guitars, banjoes, ukuleles and conga drums.
The three young men were discovered only a year ago as they sang in college hangouts in California where they were students.
Dave Guard was a graduate student at Stanford University and Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds were attending nearby Menlo College.
During one of their songfests at the Cracked Pot, a student hangout near the Stanford campus, they were heard by a San Francisco publicist, who undertook the job of making them a top entertainment attraction.
Guard and Shane were brought up in Hawaii, where they learned to strum the ukulele at the age of seven. Reynolds is the son of a Navy officer, who brought back songs from the countries he visited.
The Kingston Trio performance will climax the KU Campus Chest fund drive. Tickets for the show may be obtained at the information booth and Kansas Union ticket office starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow. All seats are reserved. Prices range from $1.50 to $2.
ASC May End Racial Study
A resolution designed to end the committee for the study of racial discrimination was introduced to the All Student Council last night by Terry Davis, Frontenac senior.
The resolution was given its first reading and was not put to a vote last night. It will be voted upon at the next meeting of the ASC, Dec. 2.
The resolution states that the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations has functioned effectively in the past and that a similar group would duplicate and impede the GIHR's work. It asks, for this reason, that the ASC Committee on Committees be relieved of the responsibility of appointing a committee to study racial discrimination.
The racial discrimination committee was established at the Sept. 30 ASC meeting after a resolution introduced by Janet L. Cameron, Topeka junior, passed in the council by a 10 to 9 vote. The Committee on Committees has not yet appointed any committee members.
The proposal introduced by Miss Cameron said the committee would investigate racial discrimination in the KU area and promote the work of any organization concerned with racial discrimination, such as the GIHR.
Ballots Questioned
In other business at the meeting, Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student, questioned Glenn Smiley, Kansas City, Kan., junior and chairman of the Elections Committee, about the ballots used in the fall freshman election.
Becker asked Smiley if there were two amendments printed on the ballots, and if the printing arrangement of the ballot was according to the ASC constitution.
"I was instructed by the ASC that there was just one amendment on the ballot." Smiley answered. He continued:
"Printing of the ballot was done according to the constitution, and
instructions as to the voting procedure were printed on the ballot. There were a few errors made, but the total number of voided ballots would not have made a difference in the outcome of the election."
Becker said he would study the ballot before the next ASC meeting to see if he wanted any further information from Smiley.
Three new representatives were sworn in at the meeting by Patricie Little, Wichita senior and chairman of the council. They were: Miriam Schwartzkopf, Larned sophomore; Susan Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Sue Barrett, Oklahoma City, Okla., freshman.
To Study Eligibility
Other new business brought up at last night's meeting;
Becker introduced a resolution to establish a committee of ASC members to study the eligibility rules for students who wish to participate in extracurricular activities.
Council members absent from the meeting were: Janet Cameron, Topeka junior; Edgar Dittemore, McLouth senior; Howard Ellfeldt, Kansas City, Mo., senior; William Fricke, Jefferson City, Mo., junior; John Husarli, Chicago I, ill. senior; Richard Lewis, Kansas City, Kan., senior; Judith Neil, Abilene junior, and Chester Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla., senior.
U. S. Planes Ready For Blockade Threat
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—American officials said today the United States has more than 600 four-engined aircraft available "almost immediately" to meet any threats of a new blockade of West Berlin.
This statement came in the wake of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's announcement that he might turn over the Soviet's remaining occupation of East Berlin to Communist East Germany. In such a case, there is speculation a blockade such as the one in 1948 might develop.
'Hanging Man' in Blake Clock Mystifies Police
Man in the Clock
A mysterious voice on the telephone about 10:30 last night informed Daily Kansan editors that "there's a man hanging in the clock on Blake Hall."
Soon a squad of campus policemen, accompanied by reporters and photographers, hurried to the building. The shadow of a man was visible on the luminous face of the six-foot clock.
A policeman tried a key in the two doors of the building, but drew a blank. He then hustled over to Fraser Hall to track down a wachman who was supposed to have a key.
Meanwhile, spectators and policemen stared up at the eerie sight.
"Maybe they got through a window or walked up the side of the building," one policeman ventured.
"He must have broken his leg doing it," a smiling sidekick answered. The leg on the image was bent in three places.
"Maybe it's that missing physiology skeleton all dressed up," another observer offered.
"We'll soon find out," someone replied. "Here comes the man with the key."
Hurrying down the sidewalk from Fraser Hall with keys jangling were the policeman and a building watchman.
Two abreast the investigators stumbled up the creaking, dusty stairs, with flashlights illuminating dark corners and holes in the floor.
The door on the east side of the building squeaked open at the turn of the key and nearly a dozen men squeezed into the dimly lit, narrow hallway lined with packing boxes and old desks.
"I'm getting a lot of exercise this week," one puffing campus policeman said. "I had to replace that stolen flag on Fraser and now I've got five more flights of stairs to go."
"Where's the clock?" a man near the end of the line asked.
"It's up here somewhere," another answered.
"It's up here somewhere." another answered.
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