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Viet Nam Typhoon Blows Itself Out
SAIGON—(UPI)—Typhoon Kate fizzled in the mountains of South Viet Nam today. It had pelted storm-ravaged coastal provinces with torrential rain.
Communist North Viet Nam appeared to be taking political advantage of thousands of homeless and hungry peasants in the hinterlands with a promise of relief supplies.
The North Vietnamese news agency, in a dispatch heard in Tokyo, reported that President Ho Chi Minh offered rice, clothing and medicine for the victims of three typhoons which have raked South Viet Nam in the past two weeks.
THE OFFER WAS MADE in a statement addressed to the South Vietnamese Red Cross and the National Liberation Front, according to the Hanoi report. The clandestine front is the political arm of the Communist insurgency movement in this country.
"The (Communist) Viet Nam Red Cross Society is preparing to send you a quantity of rice, textiles and medicine in the way of sharing wealth and woe," Ho's statement said.
The Communist report mentioned 20,000 tons of rice, 10,000 tons of medicines and almost 2 million yards of fabric for clothing. It made no mention of how the supplies would be delivered.
IT WAS POSSIBLE that the North Vietnamese might use the Ho Chi Minh Trail to deliver some of the promised supplies. It is a winding series of jungle tracks through eastern Laos which the Communists have used to smuggle military supplies into South Vietnam Nam.
The National Liberation Front was also seeking to exploit the storm damage for its own purposes.
A statement attributed to the front by Hanoi blamed the South Vietnamese government for not taking adequate precautionary measures against the weather. It said the U.S. Strategic Hamlet Program had left the population in a state of "poverty and exhaustion."
ON THE MILITARY FRONT, South Vietnamese Premier Tran Van Huong met yesterday with a Philippine mission to discuss a plan that would provide more than 3,000 Filipino combat troops for the anti-Communist war.
The unofficial proposal was put forward by attorney Antonio Aquino in a meeting with Huong. It is believed to have the backing of Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal.
In another development, Vietnamese intelligence sources reported recent discovery of several mass graves filled with the bodies of Communist guerrillas. They said these indicate that Viet Cong losses in the mountains have been higher than previously estimated.
THE DISCOVERY CAME after a series of clashes between Viet Cong forces and government troops in the mountainous area of the Army Corps district.
Auto Strike Nears Possible Ending
(United Press International)
Ford Motor Co. automobile production was cut to 10 per cent of normal today by crippling local strikes. But the United Auto Workers (UAW) union was a giant step nearer to settlement with the strike-bound Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Teamsters union boss James R. Hoffa threw his weight behind striking pulp and paper workers on the West Coast and federal mediators tried to head off a nationwide railroad strike set for next Monday.
The effects of local UAW walkouts in five plants across the country was felt sharply by Ford, the nation's second largest auto producer. Lack of parts has shut down all but two Ford assembly plants and kept more than half the firm's 130,000-man work force off the job.
THE STRIKE began Nov. 6 in disputes over local issues at nine plants despite agreement on a national contract. Ford was expected to shut down completely by the end of the week if settlement is not reached at the five plants still on strike.
The UAW and Allis-Chalmers, the agricultural and heavy equipment manufacturer, announced agreement last night on central contract issues involving five plants in four midwestern states.
Local issues have been resolved in the 10-day strike at four of the struck plants, but negotiations continued today at the largest, West Allis, Wis.
Six off-train unions yesterday formally set 6 a.m. local time Monday as the deadline for their threatened walkout against the nation's railroads. A strike could tie up the country's rail traffic.
THE TENTATIVE three-year pact announced last night covers nearly 11,000 Allis-Chalmers workers. It provides a 5.3 per cent wage increase during the period as well as increased cost-of-living, holiday, vacation and insurance benefits.
A federal mediator, who met with representatives of the unions yesterday, slated talks today with the carriers in an attempt to resolve the perennial railroad dispute. The unions are demanding wage increases in excess of those previously approved by a presidential emergency board.
ON THE WEST COAST, where about 21,000 pulp and paper workers are on strike against mills in Oregon, Washington and California, the first round of negotiations wound up with a "no progress" report last night.
62nd Year, No.43
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ASC Cancels Session; Will Reconvene Dec.1
The All Student Council won't attempt to untie the tie that is strangling its legislative process until after Thanksgiving vacation.
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1964
The Council cancelled its special meeting scheduled for tonight to consider 27 bills and amendments to the ASC constitution
The bills have now been sent to the Committee on Committees and Legislation, Miner said. The Committee must recommend passage or failure of the bills at the next ASC meeting.
"It is a general consensus that these bills have had their first reading when they were first submitted to the Council last year," Miner said. "We don't think they need to be read again."
Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, announced the cancellation of the meeting last night
AT THIS TIME the bills will be presented as the first items of old business.
The Council may then discuss and vote on each bill.
"I called it, I can cancel it," he said.
This meeting will be the last meeting for many ASC representatives who did not run or who were defeated in the living district elections last week.
the bills and amendments will instead be considered at the next regular ASC meeting on December 1, the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
The 27 legislation items were passed by the Council from October 6, 1963, to May 12, 1964. They had not been submitted to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for his approval or veto as required by the ASC constitution
THE ONLY function of the special meeting would have been to read the bills for the "first" time, as required by the ASC constitution, Miner said.
Miner said he had talked to other council members and to Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of Students and ASC adviser, about the necessity of the special meeting.
THE BILLS will come to the floor of the council during the first part of the meeting when the "old" council is still in office.
When this business has been completed, the new council members, elected last week, will be sworn in.
The string of legislative snarls began at an ASC meeting, Oct. 13, when Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior, attempted to introduce a resolution amending ASC Bill No. 7.
Bill No. 7 aims at guaranteeing civil rights at KU. It would prohibit discriminatory clauses in the constitutions of new university organizations and set a deadline for removal of such clauses in the constitutions of organizations already on the Campus.
BGOYA'S ATTEMPTED resolution was ruled out of order by Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, because an amendment to a bill must be treated as a bill. It cannot be presented as a resolution.
The Council allowed Bgoya to rewrite his resolution into the form of a bill that night, and agreed to consider the bill at the next regular ASC meeting.
Under ordinary circumstances the bill would have had to be reintroduced at the next ASC meeting and considered by the Council at the meeting following that.
By this time, however, the membership of the Council would have changed because of living district elections. Bgoya, a representative from the unmarried-unorganized district, could have gone out of office, as subsequently happened
So the council allowed action on the bill during his term in office.
THE BILL was submitted to the ASC Committee on Committees and Legislation and favorably recommended by the committee at the next ASC meeting on Oct. 27.
The bill, at that time, set a deadline of fall, 1965, for removal of discriminatory clauses in existing university organizations. Organizations practicing discrimination by race, national origin, or color were the target of the bill.
The bill was amended by the council that night to exclude "organizations and living groups organized on a purely religious basis."
Mike Stevens, Hutchinson senior and president of Sigma Nu fraternity, spoke to the ASC before it considered the bill. Sigma Nu has such a discriminatory clause in its national constitution.
The local chapter has tried twice in the fraternity's national convention to have the clause removed. Each time the effort has failed.
STEVENS THEN told the council that the local fraternity might be able to obtain a waiver from the fraternity's high council in December.
George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and past chairman of the Civil Rights Council, then spoke to the Council about the bill.
Ragsdale said he was for the amendment, not only because he is a Negro, but because he is a KU student.
The council then passed the amendment by a roll call vote of 23 to 7 and one abstention.
The bill was then sent to Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, for his approval or veto. Stewart had ten days in which to act.
STEWART COULD have vetoed the bill, approved it outright, or approved it by a pocket signature. If he had vetoed it, the council could have over-ridden the veto by a two-thirds majority. If he approved it, it was to go to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for his approval or veto.
In the ten days before Stewart was to take final action, Chancellor Wescoe and James A. McCain, President of Kansas State University, sent a letter to the national chapter of Sigma Nu urging a waiver for the Kansas chapters of the fraternity.
The national chapter has replied, saying that the letter has been forwarded to the proper authorities and is under consideration.
Night Buses To Continue
The night bus service which has been provided by the Lawrence Bus Company on an experimental basis for the last two weeks, might possibly be continued on a regular basis.
"Although you couldn't exactly call the experiment a success, it was better than it has been in the past," Duane Ogle of the Lawrence Bus Co. said.
"It will be continued on a four-day-a-week basis from Monday to Thursday if there is a need," Ogle said. "There has been very little demand for the Sunday night run, so it will be discontinued."
"Service will end Thursday, November 19 for Thanksgiving vacation and begin again Monday November 30 when the students return to school," Ogle said.
The buses have been running from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., from the freshman residence hall complex to the Daisy Hill complex, stopping on campus at the Kansas Union, Strong, Green, and Snow halls. A bus runs from the complexes every 20 minutes.
Fog and Cold Rainy Weather Make KU Resemble London
By Karen Lambert
London on the Kaw might describe the scene greeting early risers in Lawrence today, who were greeted with heavy fog. The campus shrouded in fog seemed more like a dream world than a complex of solid buildings this morning. Students with 7:30 classes may have felt they were headed for an ivory tower as they climbed aboard the early busses.
Fraser's twin towers were obscured for even the most sharp-sighted Daisy Hill resident. A bleak greeting from the weather made today as dreary as the traditional "Blue Monday."
The weather is an ideal study guide for students in introductory geography classes.
Those mysterious stratified, nimbus and cirroform clouds that seemed to be a figment of a geographer's
imagination are hovering all over the Lawrence skyline.
Kansas weather is finally beginning to seem like winter. Tomorrow's early birds may see frost on the ground. The weather bureau predicts cold weather through the night, with near-freezing temperatures by morning.
Coeds who have been sweltering in woolls because they wanted to be fashionable and dress according to the season can now be comfortable in their sweaters and wool socks
NOW IS the time to break out the latest fashions in rainwear, as well as winter garb. Unexpected heavy rains although a boon to farmers, have been greeted with dismay by girls interested in keeping every hair in place. But what can you expect when 71 per cent of the earth's surface is water?
Heavy rains over the weekend have brought near-flood conditions to drought-stricken Kansas. Topeka and Wichita Weather Bureaus predicted that some rivers in the state will crest at flood stage today or tomorrow.
The weather bureau says recent rain has brought the Lawrence rain accumulation up to the usual average for the first time in two months.
LEO OUSDAHL, KU Assistant Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, said KU plants and shrubs desperately needed the rain.
His department has been watering shrubs and trees on campus for the previous two months.
So far KU has had 5.06 inches of rain in November. The average amount is 1.98 inches.