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77th Year, No. 7
Tuesday, September 27, 1966
ASC to open term tonight
By RUTH ROHRER
Campus politicians, already looking toward spring elections, will hold their first meeting of the school year at 7 tonight in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
With fall elections only seven weeks away, the All Student Council (ASC) will reconvene in an open meeting to organize and discuss plans for the year. All interested students are encouraged to attend this first meeting.
JIM PRAGER, Fullerton, Calif., senior and ASC chairman, said, "We have lots of energetic people this year starting to do some things that haven't been done before. We plan to take great strides to take advantage of our responsibility and authority as delegated to us in our constitution."
Prager said that numerous vacancies on the committees have been created by people moving out of their respective living districts or leaving school. The presidents of the two major campus parties will appoint persons tonight to fill these vacancies.
University Party has announced the filling of the following vacancies: unmarried - unorganized — Bill Radford, Kansas City, Mo., junior; large men's halls—Tom McCrackin, Kirkwood, Mo., senior; large women's halls—Barbara Renz, River Forest, Ill., senior; and Susan Moorhead, Atchison junior. Yet to be announced by UP are positions in the unmarried-unorganized, graduate school, and large men's halls.
LEADERS OF VOX POPULI were unable to be reached for comment.
Other ASC committee positions are unfilled, the applications for which will be out next week. Freshmen are particularly urged to apply for these positions.
ASC plans to study the results of information compiled from letters sent to more than 200 universities this summer questioning them about policies in regard to the English Proficiency Exam and stop week.
According to Prager, "This information is being compiled and will be sent to university officials, in hopes of fulfilling campaign promises."
VARIOUS ASC COMMITTEES have been functioning already
KU may get new airplane
An $80,000 airplane for the use of Chancee W. Clarke Wescoe and his staff is part of the University's budget request for the coming fiscal year.
The fate of the proposal will be determined at a budget hearing early in December.
KU now maintains two aircraft at the Lawrence airport. One of these, a war-surplus Beech C-45, is used by the Chancellor for instate travel. The other airplane is a single-engined Cessna 172, acquired for use by the mechanics and aerospace engineering department
this fall. The Student Health Committee again made it possible for students to get Blue Cross-Blue Shield under student group membership.
The Traffic and Safety Committee has been attending campus traffic and safety meetings, something not done before because of the amount of time involved.
Costs hike bus fares
By ALAN POLAND
The recent five-cent increase in fares made by the Lawrence Bus Company resulted from the increased cost of living, Duane E. Ogle, president and general manager of the company, said today.
"An increase was long overdue and is our first since 1954," he said. "The cost of equipment and labor have gone up and we would not be able to provide the services required without the raise in price."
The new fares for adults, which went into effect about September 12, are 15 cents for rides on campus and 25 cents for rides off campus. Ogle, said the increase was a permanent one, or until the economy of the company changed.
"IT IS OUR GOAL to stay in business and provide the students and townspeople with up-to-date equipment and a more frequent time schedule," he said.
He noted that some of the company's buses are 18 to 20 years old and have to be replaced. He said that the company purchased two new buses last year and another two this year.
"Ten years ago, a bus cost about $8,500," he added. "Today one costs over $16,000. We have 16 buses, 10 that primarily work the campus, and we want to keep and increase this service."
Ogle said that the company worked at full capacity last year. He said that it is too early yet to tell whether the increased rate will cause a drop in student riders.
"We have a lot of 'snow-birds', students who only ride the bus when it snows or is extremely cold. When this happens, our regular riders are mistreated because buses are overcrowded and run behind schedule," he said.
"IT IS OUR hope to be able to provide for this overflow and any other increase of riders during the coming years. In order to do this we had to raise the fare; it was too late to go to a token or ticket system."
"Buses are leaving every 10 minutes for the campus and every 20 minutes for downtown," he said. "This should give the student a more convenient schedule."
Ogle said the only major schedule change this fall is an increased frequency of bus runs on campus and to and from downtown.
U. S. MARSHALL LOOKS FOR WESCOE
—Photo by Dan Austin
"I'm sorry, Chancellor Wescoe isn't here right now," James R. Surface, provost, told U.S. Marshall John Craig, who was on campus this morning to serve a summons to the Chancellor.
Manila talks beckon LBJ
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson is expected to go to Manila next month for a sevenation summit meeting on the Viet Nam War and the prospects for peace, official sources said today.
The purpose of the Oct. 18 meeting of the leaders of the nations actively engaged in the military action against the communists in Viet Nam is two-fold. It is to review the military situation and to discuss possible ways of persuading Communist North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong guerrillas in the South to come to the peace table.
Particular emphasis also will be placed on the rural "pacification" movement in the South, efforts at economic rehabilitation, and the steps being taken by the Saigon government to enlist greater popular support.
Plans for the meeting were disclosed late Monday in Honolulu by Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
The White House would say only that the President was "interested" and his reaction would be forthcoming today.
DRAFT—Dates have been set for a student draft qualification test this fall. Page 4.
WHAT'S INSIDE
WIRE—News from around the world can be found on page 9.
LOANS—The availability of short-term student loans is discussed on page 8.
CAMP—KU-Y will sponsor a weekend camp for freshmen soon. See page 14.
The nations involved, in addition to the United States, are the Philippines, South Viet Nam, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand—all of which have troops actively fighting in Viet Nam—and Thailand.
The thais provide five airbases from which U.S. warplanes carry out many of the air attacks on North Viet Nam and Communist forces in South Viet Nam and in the Red-held portions of Laos.
Soon after Marcos' announcement, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky of South Viet Nam and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt said they were planning to attend the meeting. It was expected that other Asian leaders would announce similar plans today.
Johnson and Ky have met once before. They conferred in Honolulu last February. From that session emerged the "Honolulu Declaration," outlining plans for the "other war" in South Viet Nam—the economic and social struggle.
Officials said that when Marcos conferred with Johnson here early last week, he suggested that the presidents or prime ministers of the seven countries get together.
The Philippine leader found Johnson receptive to the idea and agreement was reached on Manila as the meeting place.
the countries to be represented at the Manila meeting actually will consist of all the members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, SEATO, except the three who are not participating in the conflict. These are France and Pakistan, which oppose U.S. policy and actions there, and Britain, which generally endorses the American position but says it has no forces to spare.
The non-SEATO members are South Viet Nam and South Korea.
Summons delivered; no Wescoe
BULLETIN
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was served the summons at 12:45 p.m. today in the office of Dr. George A. Wolf jr., Provost of the KU Medical Center and Dean of the School of Medicine. He was not available for comment.
U. S. Marshall John Craig attempted this morning to serve a summons to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe as a result of a civil suit filed in U.S. District Court Sept. 20, by Gerald A. Ehrenreich.
Ehrenreich, a professor of clinical psychology at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, filed the suit to test the constitutionality of the Kansas loyalty oath.
The State of Kansas requires all of its employees, from maintenance men to college presidents, to sign such an oath.
Chancellor Wescoe, who was in his office early this morning, had left to go to the Med Center, by the time the U.S. official arrived. The marshall proceeded from here to Kansas City to try to catch the Chancellor.
Chancellor Wescoe was to return to KU by 3:30 this afternoon to attend a meeting of the University Senate.
He, along with the attorney general, the Board of Regents and the presidents of Kansas State University and Kansas State Teacher's College of Emporia were named as the defendants in Ehrenreich's complaint.
The defendants will have 20 days to file a responsive pleading, an answer, or petition, Attorney General Robert Londerholm said earlier.