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Relays Float Chairman To Check Rules Tonight
Final plans for the 1961 Kansas Relays Parade Saturday will be made at a meeting today of chairmen in charge of floats for individual living groups. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m.
John Falletta, Arma junior and chairman of the parade committee reported that the group is still seeking entries of houses to participate in the parade.
These houses have entered so far:
ALPHA DELTA PI with Triangle;
Gamma Phi Beta with Delta Tau
Delta; GSP with Sigma Chi; Lewis
with Templin; Pi Beta Phi with Phi
Delta Theta, and Sigma Kappa with
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
At tonight's meeting, the float chairmen will be assigned places to build their floats. Committeemen will explain the regulations involving float size and the order in which
The theme this year is to correlate the Centennial year with the Relays weekend. Along with this theme the parade will include several horse drawn vehicles in commemoration of the Centennial.
they are to appear. There is no limit on expense.
EIGHT FLOATS have been entered by Lawrence merchants while other downtown businessmen have contributed their money to the different houses participating to help finance the building of their floats.
Approximately 15 high school bands and the KU band will march in the parade. The queen of the Relays, her two attendants and Miss Lawrence of 1961 will also appear in the parade.
The march will begin at 10 a.m. traveling north on Massachusetts Street from 11th to 7th Street. The floats are then required to park in Zone X for display.
KU Poet's Magazine Previewed at Forum
By Fred Zimmerman
The well-dressed young man who had come to read his poetry neither looked nor talked like a poet.
"I don't wear tennis shoes." H. M. Hershberger, poet and assistant instructor of English, told about 45 persons at the Poetry Hour last week. "And my underwear is clean."
Mr. Hershberger said he suspected many had come just to see a "modern poet in action."
THE POET then quietly read a statement in which he blasted modern critics and poets alike for "drawing a veil of obscurity and mysticism around poetry."
modern criticism has nearly succeeded in removing poetry from any serious consideration on the part of the public," Mr. Hershberger said.
However, "beneath the roar and clash of the diseased standards of the critics . . . the public is becoming increasingly aware of the real poetry that is going on, less vocally, behind the scenes," Mr. Hershberger said. "The only lack the new poetry has is an adequate spokesman."
Hoping to do his part to fill this gap as adequate spokesman of poetry, Mr. Hershberger is editing a magazine of the "new poetry." The
Mental Health Man To Give Lecture
Anatol Rapoport, a member of the Mental Health Research Institute of the University of Michigan, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Rapoport's topic for this public lecture is, "Fights, Games and Debates."
first issue of the magazine, called "The Western Poet," will be out this summer. Don Eulert, assistant instructor of English, is also working on the magazine.
Mr. Hershberger read from three volumes of his poetry, several copies of which he has bound and issued himself.
THE VOLUMES are "The Landsmith," "Random Verse," and "Man and the Moment." Most of the poems communicate vivid pictures and show a feeling for poetic situations.
When the poet had finished, the audience applauded, then rose to leave. But the student sprawled a few feet from the speaker did not stir. He was sleeping there when the room had filled an hour earlier, and he still slept after the room had emptied.
Habitual orderliness of ideas is your sole road to happiness, and to reach it, orderliness in all else, even the most casual things, is needed.—Eugene Delacroix
Academy Award Winners Told
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — (UPI)
—Winners in last night's 33rd annual motion picture academy awards were:
Best motion picture—"The Apartment."
Best actress—Elizabeth Taylor, for her performance in "Butterfly 8."
Best actor—Burt Lancaster, for his performance in "Elmer Gantry."
Directing—Billy Wilder, "The Apartment," The Mirisch Co., Inc., United Artists. Best supporting actress—Shirley Jones in "Elmer Gantry." Best supporting actor—Peter Ustinov in "Spartacus."
Best song—"Never On Sunday," from "Never On Sunday," music and lyrics by Manos Hadjidakis, Melina-film Production.
Witness Testifies to Eichmann Statement
JERUSALEM — (UPI) — Adolft Eichmann, charged by the Israeli state with being the man "who set out to destroy the Jewish people, wholly or in part," voluntarily made a full statement to the Israeli police after he was captured, a police witness testified today.
Israeli Police Captain Avner Less, one of the men who interrogated Eichmann after his arrival in this country, told the court trying the former Gestapo leader that Eichmann tape-recorded his life history as well as a statement he had written down on paper and 107 pages of his memoirs.
The trial adjourned at 9:55 a.m. Lawrence time today until tomorrow.
All this he did completely voluntarily after expressing the wish to help Israeli police, Less said.
Earlier, the court heard Israel's state prosecutor Gideon Hausner wind up a slashing 10-hour denunciation of Eichmann and the entire Nazi system.
Oklahomans Lead in KU Gifts
It appears that in 1960-61 for the sixth consecutive year KU alumni living in Washington County, Okla., will lead all communities of comparable size in the percentage contributing to the Greater University Fund.
A record-breaking 91.3 per cent of the KU alumni living in Bartlesville and Dewey gave $25,372.75 through the Greater University Fund.
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Conservatives Win Young GOP Post
By Bob Thomas and Bill Mullins
The president of the KU Young Republicans was elected chairman of region seven of the 13-state Mid-West Federation of Collegiate Young Republicans at a meeting last Saturday.
Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior, was previously elected chairman of the Kansas Collegiate Young Republicans on March 25 at their state convention. Region seven is composed of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.
A BATTLE BETWEEN the conservative and liberal elements of the Mid-West Federation for control of the group was predicted by McIlwaine immediately after his election as chairman of the Kansas Collegeate Young Republicans. The conflict quickly materialized.
The delegates were split between liberal and conservative candidates for the chairmanship of the federation as the convention opened Friday night.
The conservative candidate, Jim Abstine, Indiana law student, won the chairmanship after a fight over voting rights that lasted until Saturday evening.
THE LIBERAL candidate, Pete McPherson, Michigan State University, was not running on a liberal platform, but the Abstine group had declared a conservative platform and the McPherson group was typed as the liberal opposition.
The convention opened on schedule but broke down immediately during a meeting of the executive board. The board met to consider the report of the credentials committee. The committee cut the voting strength of many delegations.
THE CONSERVATIVE groups were hit hardest by the vote cut. They attempted to change the committee report in the board meeting, but were defeated on every attempt by the liberal majority. The conservatives then took the fight to the floor.
The heated floor discussion adjourned at 5:30 p.m. to gather again at 9 p.m.
The evening meeting was again a battle of parliamentary maneuvers. The Abstine group worked under the leadership of Scott Stanley, Bethel law student and a KU delegate to the convention.
AFTER TWO HOURS of mae-neuvering by both sides, a roll call vote was taken to appeal the decision of the chair permitting all registered delegates to vote. The votes were tallied, challenged and tallied again. But the conservatives won by a comfortable margin. From this point the Abstine forces had control of the convention.
McPHERSON CONCEDED immediately and nominated Abstine for chairman. He was elected by a voice vote.
The convention then moved smoothly, and the platform was passed quickly.
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