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SAMMY SCHIZOID—Interviewed at the polls yesterday, Sammy explained his voting quandry. "My gal's running for Vox, but most of my buddies are in UP . . . I wish I were dead." Sammy wears a UP stetson, a UP "We Try Harder" button, a Vox sweatshirt, and a Vox "I'm Particular" button. Voting began yesterday morning and ends tonight.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Nov. 12, 1964
62nd Year, No.40
Draw Heavy Vote
By Judy Farrell
The voters came through in the first day of all Student Council living district elections yesterday—to the surprise of campus politicians.
Predictions of a light voter turnout disappeared under a heavy surge of votes late yesterday afternoon.
By 6 p.m., when the polls closed
2.431 votes had been cast.
This is 175 votes above last year's first day total of 2,256 votes. The final vote total fall of 4,865 votes was a record for any campus election.
Brian Grace, Lawrence first year law student and election co-chairman, said this year's total would be similar to that of last year. Grace said, however, he did not expect the count to reach 5,000.
POLL'S WLL BE open until 6 p.m. today. Students may vote in the Kansas Union, Murphy Hall and the rotunda of Strong Hall.
"If things run true to form, Thursday (today) should be a bigger day for voting," Grace said "But the way this election's going Thursday might be a smaller day."
Grace said voting is up in the fraternity, men's large residence hall and freshman women's districts. Votes are already up 145 over last year's first day results in the freshman women's district.
GRACE HAD PREDICTED early yesterday that voting would be light this year. He cited lack of organization, publicity and spirit on the part of the two parties, University Party and Vox Populi.
But increased campaigning in the afternoon brought the heavy voting. Both parties had an estimated 40 to 50 cars hauling potential voters to the Hill by afternoon. Door-to-door campaigning in the large residence halls was also planned as parties regrouped their forces for today's last-minute push.
Tom Shumaker, Russell senior and UP secretary, said the party was urging candidates to make personal contact with voters, and to get more students out to vote today.
SHUMAKER SAID HE didn't think the slow start in the voting yesterday was completely due to poor organization on the part of either party.
"I would like to think it was partly because of the national elections. A lot of people worked on them that could have been working for us," he said. "Also, Homecoming was a factor. We couldn't get anything done between Wednesday and Sundav. People were either putting up or taking down decorations."
Brian Biles, Hutchinson junior
and Vox treasurer, said what might have appeared to be poor organization and lack of spirit yesterday, was just a matter of the time element.
"PARTIES DON'T spend a large amount of money or time in a fall election and the enthusiasm may appear to be down," he said. "But it's obvious it isn't. We had a real fine turn-out today."
Supporters of both parues appeared on campus today decked out in buttons, hats and sweatshirts proclaiming their affiliation.
While UP members signified "We try harder", each Vox member designated his preference with a button reading, "I'm particular".
VOX SUPPORTERS also sported sweatshirts featuring a caricature holding a sign asking, "Are you a people?" above the words, Vox Populi—the Latin words for "Voice of the People."
UP's male followers donned black cowboy hats, while the women dressed in red and white the party's colors.
The polls will stay open until 6 p.m. today — or if there is a line they will stay open until all voters have cast ballots, Grace said. However, he said, the latest this would be allowed would be 6:30 p.m.
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Japanese Students Injure Policemen in Nuclear Protest
TOKYO — (UPI) — Fifteen policemen were injured today in a clash with about 1,700 members of the fanatical Zengakuren organization who were protesting the visit of a nuclear-powered U.S. submarine.
The students hurled rocks and attacked policemen with placards in a rally at Hibaya Park, near the imperial palace. Two students were arrested. Officers emptied the park saving the rally was not licensed.
An attempted march on the parliament building by the students was blocked.
THIS EVENING another rally at Hibya Park also was dispersed, on grounds that its sponsors, the leftist Soho Labor Federation, had no permit.
Sohyo had gathered about 10,000 persons. A cold driving rain helped to disperse them.
At Sasebo, three demonstrations materialized after the submarine Sea Dragon sailed into the naval base. An expected massive demonstration by Socialists in the morning failed to live up to its sponsors' predictions.
In the afternoon, the Socialist Party mustered about 1,200 persons and the Pekin-oriented Communist Party about 400 persons in two separate protests.
The nuclear-powered Sea Dragon and its crew of 100 sailed silently into Sasebo at 8:55 a.m.
JAPANESE SOCIALISTS and left wing students had predicted that 12,000 demonstrators would turn out to protest the visit, the first to Japan by a nuclear-powered vessel. Sasebo is only 40 miles from Nagasaki, the second city to be atom bombed during World War II.
But at the height of the demonstration, shortly before the submarine pulled in, only 2,000 socialists and members of the radical Zengakuren organization marched toward the main gate of the naval station here.
Two thousand police in white raincoats met them 100 yards from the gate and held fast, blocking the march. Ten students were arrested in some minor scuffling, but the
back of the demonstration appeared broken.
By the time the first of the Sea Dragon's crew came ashore at 12:30 p.m., 1,000 demonstrators remained. They staged a sitdown in the streets a couple of blocks from the naval base. Some pulled out box lunches and began to eat despite the rain.
MOST OF THE demonstrators had been trucked into Sasebo for the protest. For the Zengakuren, the organization behind the 1960 riots which prevented a visit to Tokyo by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the demonstration represented a failure.
President Plans End Of 10% Excise Taxes
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. — (UPI)—President Johnson plans to ask Congress next year to repeal the 10 percent federal excise taxes on toilet articles and cosmetics, jewelry, furs, luggage and handbags.
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon announced the decision yesterday after talks with Johnson. The taxes concerned are generally measures enacted during World War II.
DILLON SAID Johnson also would seek repeal or reduction of a "good number of other excise taxes" in addition to the items he listed.
Dillon said the move would cost the government $550 million. He said overall cuts in excise taxes would not go beyond $4 billion—out of a total of $12 billion or 13 billion brought in by all 75 categories of excise taxes.
Dillon said repeal of the retail consumer taxes definitely would be proposed to Congress but the exact composition of other cuts had not yet been determined.
IN TALKING ABOUT the $550 million excise tax cut definitely arrived at. Dillon said:
"There are four basic consumer taxes. .levied on the retail value, rather than the manufacturers. They consist of taxes on toilet articles and cosmetics, on jewelry, on furs, and the fourth is on luggage and handbags—ladies' handbags, which you always hear about. Those are the four that are involved in consumer items."
"But there are a great many other excise taxes at the manufacturers' level that also hit items used by consumers, and a good many of those will also be affected, such as taxes on ballpoint pens and things of that nature that run across the whole gamut of articles, some 75 excise taxes. . ."
DILLON SAID the administration's objective in seeking the repeal was only partly to stimulate the economy. A larger reason, he said, is that they originally were meant to be wartime anti-inflation measures and are no longer needed.
"These were put in during World War II and maintained and then increased again during the Korean War," Dillon said. "For the purpose . . of reducing consumption, because we were afraid of inflation at that time.
"That is anachronistic now. These excise taxes would never have been put in effect the way they are presently in effect if we were starting fresh now."
Weather
Northwesterly winds will drop temperatures into the 35 to 40 degrees range tonight, the weather bureau predicts. The sky will be clear to partly cloudy, with predicted 15 to 35 miles per hour winds diminishing tonight.
KU Possibly Hosting Big 8's College Bowl
KU may be the site of the 1964-65 Big Eight College Bowl this spring.
There is also a possibility that the Big Eight competition will be broadcast over television, the Altamont senior said.
Bill Cibes, chairman of the College Bowl Committee, said although the plans are not final, KU stands a good chance of being the host school.
The College Bowl contest pits the intellectuals of the campus against each other in fast-moving question and answer competition. It is held in the spring, this year probably from Feb. 28 to March 21, and is divided up into weekly matches held on Sunday afternoons.
Teams are entered from living groups, or any group of interested students who get together, select a name for themselves, and enter the competition. A team is composed of 4 members and 2 alternates.
Formerly, men's and women's teams competed against each other, Cibes said, but since the women's teams never got beyond the semifinals, the competition has been separated this year.
EACH TEAM WHICH enters will compete in three matches on three different days, Cibes said. Their win-lose record determines the quarter finalists. From there on the tournament is conducted in single elimination style.
The College Bowl is sponsored by the College Intermediary Board to stimulate intellectual interest among the members of the student body, Cibes said.
The committee determines the policies and activities of the College Bowl, Cibes said. For instance, last year the committee changed the contest from a single elimination contest to a round robin tournament. The committee also sets the competition date and decides any protests which arise during the competition.
The fourth annual event will be planned by a 19-member steering committee which was chosen last week.
Cibes, a member of the College Intermediary Board, is general chairman of the Committee. Publicity chairman is Mary Ruth Lanning, Lawrence junior; Arrangements committee chairman is Terry Hammons, Oswego junior; and Questions Committee Chairman is Hank Bisbee, Toledo, Ohio, junior.
OTHER MEMBERS of the committee are: Janice Brenner, Parsons freshman; Carol Crumrine, Tulsa, Okla., junior; Maxine Davidson, Allen Junior; Mary Geiger, Topeka junior; Lea Hirschberg, Topeka junior; Carolyn Hoke, Prairie Village junior; Dan Householder, Wichita senior; Tom Payne, Salina junior; Boyd Pearce, Topeka sophomore; Madeline Reeder, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Dave Tilford, Wichita junior; Billie Thompson, Baldwin Mo., junior; Judy Thompson, Lawrence junior; Dave Truxal, Vicksburg, Mich., junior, and Steve Walsh, Salina freshman.