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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 12. 1961
Laos Native Wants To Live in Peace
By Phil Newsom
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The UPI Foreign News Analyst monitors a marked, distant, for violent, death.
In this, he displays a characteristi common to most intelligent men.
But in a nation wracked by civil war, with great issues between two bitterly opposed philosophies at stake, he also shows no great desire to inflict punishment on or to subdue his enemies.
IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE capital of Vientiane along the muddy Mekong River, life goes on as if there were no war less than 40 miles to the north.
Despite reports of fierce clashes, the war itself seems a haphazard affair involving a few pieces of artillery, some outmoded airplanes and sporadic clashes over such unlikely place names as Van Vieng, Pahom and the Plain of Jars.
In Vientiane, the Saffron robes of hundreds of Buddhist Monks mingle with the drab uniforms of Laotian soldiers.
Along the banks of the Mekong, meandering now among sandbars in the dry season, Chinese merchants pull back their metal grills just after dawn to draw customers before the city dozes again in the hot midday sun.
THERE IS NO CONFUSION, no
soaring prices, no block market
Rice, fish and other commodities may be purchased at prices fixed months ago. Prices on some foreign goods have gone up under pressure of the foreigners who have poured into the capital.
With help of the United States
the Laotian kip has remained stable at a rate of 80 to $1.
In all this there seems significance. Except for a minority on either side, neither the western Democracies nor the Communists have been able to export their opposing philosophies successfully to Laos.
THE COMMUNISTS would take it by conquest, using as their instrument the hard-core native Pathet Lao.
United States aid to Laos over the last few years now hovers around the billion dollar mark.
Its purpose has been two-fold: first, to supply arms and training to the Laotians to permit them to defend themselves against aggressive Communism, and, second, to build a free society which of its own accord would choose to align itself with the Democracies.
BUT TO BUILD a free, self-governed and ordered society takes time and that time, in Laos and many other of the world's underdeveloped lands, is not yet here.
The Communist nations realize yeas ago the value of propaganda and infiltration among peoples whose freedom still was far in the future. That is why, when the freedom did come to nations of Asia and Africa, trained, native Communist leaders were ready for their assignments.
And so, typified in Laos, lies Democracy's monumental task—to regain lost time while simultaneously holding back Communism's relentless march.
As for the native of Laos, he just wishes both sides would take their war elsewhere.
SUA Applications Available in Strong
The Student Union Activities officer and board applications are available now in the Business Office of the Kansas Union.
The deadline for returning the applications is at noon April 21. Interviews will be held on April 25 through the 27th.
JFK Comment Given Today
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Text of President Kennedy's statement;
The achievement by the USSR in orbiting a man and returning him safely to ground is an outstanding technical accomplishment.
We congratulate the Soviet scientists and engineers who made this feat possible.
The exploration of our solar system is an ambition which we and all mankind share with the Soviet Union, and this is an important step toward that goal.
Our own Mercury man-in-space program is directed toward that same end.
Scabbard and Blade Meets
Scabbard and Blade, honorary military society, will meet at 7:15 p.m. today in the Kansas Union. Election of next year's officers and a talk by a Greek Major from the Ft. Leavenworth War College are on the agenda.
Faculty Club Plans Dinner
The Faculty Club calendar omitted the notice of a buffet dinner Sunday at 6 p.m.
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable—George Moore
Jayhawkers to Don Cowboy Duds
By Tom Turner
Dig out your rusty spurs and six-guns, podners or you may wind up in the Jayhawk Jailhouse.
The KU vigilantes (better known as the Centennial Committee) will round up them sidewinders who don't turn out in western garb next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 20-22.
You see, buckarooes, next week is Centennial Week on the old KU range and the vigilantes want to do it up proper.
SCHOOL MARMS and masters aren't left out of the fun, neither.
Charges at Eichmann Continue Many Hours
JERUSALEM — (UPI) — A stony faced and seemingly emotionless Adolf Eichmann heard Israel's chief prosecutor brand him today as "the man who tried to exterminate the Jewish people" and defend Israel's right to bring him to judgment.
PEERING OWILISHLY through his heavy horn-rimmed glasses, Eichmann sat in his bullet-proof, glassed-in cage throughout the day while hour after hour Hauser battered away with legal arguments designed to prove the Israeli court's right to hear the Eichmann case.
Hausner was trying to demolish a move by Eichmann's German defense
When the court adjourned until Friday, Hausner had spoken for nearly nine hours. He told the court he would need another hour Friday to complete his arguments.
counsel Robert Servatius yesterday to get the Israeli court to rule itself incompetent to hear the case and have it handed over to an international tribunal.
THE COURT IS NOT sitting tomorrow because it is "Holocaust Day," the day on which Israel commemorates the slaughter of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis in World War II. It begins with two minutes of silence at 8 a.m. Jerusalem time.
Marshal Jay "Hoot" Richardson, a senior from down in Bartlesville, Okla., heads up the vigilantes. Other riders include prominent townfolk from the IFC, IFPC, ACS, MRA, IRA, SUA, the Douglas County Centennial Committee and the Relays Committee. Man, that har' is a mouthful—a band of hard ridin', fast drawin' good Kansas men.
TOWNSFOLK FROM the Lewis and Templin bunkhouses will ride to town in a good, down-to-earth buckboard. None of them fancy wagons for our folk—they're rugged. The buckboard will run from the bunkhouses to that center of civic pride, the Chi Omega fountain on both Thursday and Friday. The wagon and hosses is being furnished by Gayle "Zeb" Mott of Mott's Livery Stables.
Nixon Chooses GOP Dinner Rather Than Ike Tribute
They'll share the jailin' quarters out on Jayhawk Trail iffln they don't go along.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon is standing by his plans to speak at a Los Angeles Republican dinner on June 1 rather than take part in Washington's $100-a-plate Eisenhower tribute the same night.
NOW FOR THE big surprise.
Hold on to your ten-gallon som-
berros, podners. There's a goin' to
be a big hoedown over to coral X
on Friday night, April 21. And get
this, cowpokes. You don't have to
spend none of your trail pay—this
shindig is free!
The decision, revealed by his friends, pointed up the importance Nixon places on California as a crucial state in 1962 and 1964.
It also struck down reports that Nixon intended to introduce former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the big dinner here, which could have stirred resentment among other potential 1964 presidential candidates.
It was learned that Nixon has put himself on a "standby" basis for the coming Senatorial runoff campaign in Texas.
Nixon feels that if he entered Texas first, he would be liable to charges of "carpetbagging" which might hurt Tower.
Informed sources said Nixon feels he shouldn't enter Texas to help Republican John G. Tower unless his opponent, Sen William A. Blakley, brings in Democratic aid from outside.
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Don't forget now, folks. Next week is Centennial Week. All of you is urged to participate. Mayor Wescoe, Sister Em Taylor and Sheriff Alderson will all be there. And say, by the way—any of you all interested in the tough bitter, heroic Kansas history can read up on it next Monday in a special Centennial issue of the Daily Tombstone (some folks call it the Kansan).
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The Mouse That Roared
NOEL, Mo. — (UPI)— A newly-elected provisional government has taken command of McDonald County, Mo., as secession talk grows louder in the southwestern county.
A "congress" of mayors of towns and villages in the county was organized here yesterday, and a president elected.
Z. L. McGowan of Noel has been inaugurated as president and an imposing list of titles bestowed on ranking citizens of this and other McDonald county towns.
THE WHOLE THING started recently when the Missouri State Highway Department left McDonald county resort centers off a "vacationland" section of the official 1961 map.
The "congress" yesterday instructed the new Attorney General of McDonald Territory, Robert Yocom, to begin drawing up the necessary papers for secession from the state of Missouri.
And it has taken under consideration proposals of what to do when McDonald Territory becomes free and independent.
AMONG THEM are (1) invite neighboring counties in Arkansas and Oklahoma to join in forming a
51st state. (2) Accept Gov. Orval Faubus' invitation to become a part of Arkansas. (3) Accept Cherokee Indian Henry Suagee's bid to make McDonald County an Indian reservation or territory. (4) Or, to declare McDonald a sovereign foreign nation and ask the United Nations for $4 billion in emergency aid.
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Missouri Gov. John M. Dalton says McDonald County cannot secede. McDonald County says it can, and has posted signs on its borders declaring lands therein are "McDonald Territory."
The Missouri General Assembly has turned an ear to the problem. And a resolution which, if passed, would order the Highway Department to withdraw the offensive maps, has been introduced.
"These are suggestions made by students, faculty members and the alumni office," Naylor said. "The choices on the ballot are selected from the suggestions by the senior class gift committee."
Frank Naylor, Kansas City senior and president of the senior class, said that three or four choices will be on a ballot to be drawn up by the committee.
NAYLOR SAID that trophy cases for Allen Field House and the completion of the fountain in front of Murphy Hall are two suggestions the committee was working on at present.
"The trophy cases are something the athletic department has wanted for a long time," he said. "A past class gift for the fountain was not sufficient. They could only build the base with the $2,000 provided. Another $2,000 is needed to build the fountain."
McDONALD COUNTY is easy to locate on any map, if you want to look at the newest U.S. "Territory." It's located in the corner of Missouri where Arkansas and Oklahoma and Missouri meet.
No one knows where it will all end, but the majority of McDonald Territory residents are backing their congress, and it sure ruffles the feathers of Mr. President McGowan if his title is referred to in jest.
Seniors Want Suggestions For Gift From Senior Class
The senior class gift committee is accepting suggestions for the senior gift to the university which will be decided at a senior coffee.
NAYLOR SAID a committee is being selected to make the annual Honor to Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) award. This is a $100 cash award to a faculty member.
The committee is composed of a student in each of the university's schools selected by the deans of the schools.
"The heads of the schools are selecting the committee members now," Naylor said.
NOMINATIONS FOR the award are made by students. The student must turn in a letter at the alumni office giving his reasons for selecting a certain faculty member. The deadline for the letters is April 19.
Naylor said a party for the senior class has been scheduled for 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. April 21 at the Big Barn. Admission will be by senior ID.
With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren—Mary Baker Eddy
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KU Men's Bowling Tourney
Entries are being received and periods are filling this week for the KU men's campus bowling tournament starting Sunday, April 16, at the Jay Bowl.
Singles, doubles and all-events entries must be made by individuals in order for them to participate. All teams will bowl at their regular periods.
Trophies will be awarded. The tournament will run April 16 through April 23.
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