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Baker Day Called; LBJ Talks Farms
(Compiled from UPI Dispatches)
On the East Coast Sen. Barry M. Goldwater proclaimed today as "Bobby Baker Day," while President Johnson in Iowa blasted Republican farm views as "heartless prescriptions of economic nonsense."
The Republican presidential nominee chose the Bobby Baker theme as he set upon a one-day tour of New Jersey precincts stretching from Atlantic City to Newark.
This was the Arizona senator's second consecutive day of campaigning in the middle Atlantic area. Yesterday, he swung through a tri-county area of Philadelphia suburbs.
HE RETURNED TO WASHINGTON from Pennsylvania to address the annual conference of United Press International editors and publishers. In that address, he charged that:
President Johnson "deliberately" misstated facts on control of nuclear weapons.
The Johnson Administration is "dominated by special interests" while the Republican Party "here and now, as of today, is free of such pressures."
In remarks prepared for an Atlantic City rally starting his New Jersey foray today, Goldwater said:
"THIS IS BOBBY BAKER DAY. Just one year ago today, Mr. Baker resigned his post as secretary to the Democratic majority in the Senate and as onetime principal assistant to the Democratic majority leader, Lyndon B. Johnson.
"Since then, there have been repeated disclosures of Bobby Baker's involvement in improper activities.
"After being put into his influential job and working for Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Baker, whose Senate salary never exceeded $20,000 a year, accumulated a personal fortune that has been estimated at $2,100,000.
"Every effort to find the truth has been stymied. It has been charged that the focus of the pressure to protect Mr. Baker is the White House itself."
MEANWHILE IN THE CORN-BELT city of Des Moines, Ia., the President devoted an entire speech to farm problems.
President Johnson pledged that his administration would strengthen and improve those elements in its farm program which needed improvement. He said his goal was "parity of opportunity for rural America."
He made the statements in a speech prepared for delivery on the steps of the Iowa state capitol, first stop on his most intensive campaign trip of the year. He was flying to downstate Illinois for speeches later today at Peoria and Springfield.
Declaring that he was proud to be the son of a tenant farmer, Johnson said "my roots are deeper in the soil than most presidents' have been" and he thought he knew what farmers want and need.
JOHNSON TOLD HIS DES MOINES audience that the basic issue in the campaign was "responsibility versus irresponsibility." He added, "and for my part, this is going to be a responsible campaign."
Johnson then repeated what he told an audience at Raleigh, N.C., last night--that ending farm price supports would cut net farm income by $8 billion a year and leave one out of five farmers bankrupt.
"Corn would sell for less than 80 cents a bushel, and wheat for less than a dollar," he said. "Soybeans would sell for less than $2 a bushel. It would mean 17-cent cattle and 13-cent hogs."
"Here in Iowa, net farm income would fall by more than $422 million.
"—Net farm income in the corn belt would drop by $1.8 billion."
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1964
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.14
Increased Enrollment Might Help ASC Deficit
By Susan Hartley
All Student Council members are hoping that the number of students attending KU will continue to rise, for the more students at KU, the more money the ASC will receive for student services.
And at the present time, the ASC can use all the money it can get, for it is over $700 in debt.
Although the deficit is not new to the ASC, (last year the ASC began the year on a $300 deficit), it still must be paid. Thus, the overall amount of money allocated to the various organizations supported by the council will be reduced by $700.
The ASC then takes this money and distributes it among various organizations at the third meeting of the year which is set up as a budget session.
"ONE WAY TO MAKE up for the deficit is to allot each organization receiving money a percentage of the deficit according to their percentage of money received by the council," Ray Myers, Dodge City senior and ASC treasurer, said. "This would be the fairest way, for every group would be assuming a portion of the burden according to the portion of the benefits."
The weather bureau predicts fair skies through Thursday with warmer temperatures tonight. The low tonight will be around 50 degrees. Temperatures will turn cooler Thursday.
The ASC receives its money, a percentage of student fees, from the University on July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year. The amount is determined by an estimate in the number of students attending KU the following year.
"The increase in enrollment may bring us some extra money." Myers said, "for we were allotted approximately the same amount as we received last year."
PRIOR TO THIS meeting, the ASC Finance and Auditing committee sends out applications to organizations desiring to be supported by the ASC. Each group desiring ASC support must submit a statement of the number of students they contact directly, the number of students they contact indirectly, and the number of students they benefit. They must include an itemized financial statement from the previous year, and a detailed estimate of how much they will need this year. The application must be signed by the organization's president and treasurer.
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When all of the petitions are in, the finance committee under the
chairmanship of the ASC treasurer, reviews the requests, and, after interviews with the president and treasurer of the various organizations, recommends action to the ASC.
Organizations eligible for ASC support must be service, social or administrative in nature. Educational and public relations groups must apply directly to the University for support. Groups are placed in these categories by the University Appropriations Committee in the spring of even numbered years.
SUA Plans Second Oread Jazz Festival
By Judy Farrell.
Despite criticism which followed the 1964 Oread Jazz Festival, the Student Union Activities Board renewed plans last night to sponsor the event next spring.
"The rumors going around that we are not going to have the festival are entirely untrue," Bob Enberg, McPherson senior and SUA president, said following a meeting of the 12-member SUA Board.
THE BOARD TRIED to evaluate the 1964 festival, the events which led to it and which followed and the criticism it received, Enberg said.
The festival was criticized in an editorial in Downbeat magazine for failing to deliver its major prizes.
"When such criticism is levied, it is always necessary for an organization to re-evaluate its plans," Enberg said. "Tonight we renewed our enthusiasm for the festival."
Dale Sprague, McPherson sophomore and chairman of the Festival committee, and Michael Maher, associate professor of zoology and faculty adviser to the festival, presented plans and a budget for the 1965 festival.
THE BUDGET, which was accepted by the board, includes costs for prizes and publicity.
"The prizes will be somewhat modified." Enberg said. "But, I don't
think the changes will effect the quality of the festival."
Enbeng said that no European trip will be offered the winners.
Complications in bookings and travel arrangements forced the cancellation of the European tour which was to have been awarded to the winners of last year's festival.
"THIS WAS SIMPLY a breakdown in communications," Enberg said.
The problems with the tour were the only hitch in last year's festival, Enberg said, which was otherwise "an overwhelming success."
"I am convinced that the festival of 1965 will surpass that of 1964," he said.
Enberg said that the festival will remain essentially the same as last year's. Only the appearance of a big-name band will be dropped from the program.
"THAT CHIANG IS only because we felt it was anti-climactic," Enberg said. "Most people were all wrapped up in the preliminaries." Another criticism, which was well-founded, was that the festival was too long."
Preliminary competition for the 1965 Festival will be April 27 in the Kansas Union. The finals will be that night at Hoch Auditorium.
SUA CARNIVAL QUEEN—Candidates for the SUA Carnival are (front row) Judy Long, Corbin; Lynn Mastricola, Hashinger; Margy Brown, Pi Beta Phi; Barbara Widmer, Lewis; Connie Fox, Delta Gamma; Beverly Smith, Corbin; (center row) Bambi Buck, Carruth-O'Leary; Susan Kurtz, Hodder; Shari Feeley, Sigma Kappa; Karen Giles, Alpha Omicron Pi; Carol Nelson, Gamma Phi Beta; Jareth Donnan, Sellards; (back row) Lu Surface, Gertrude Sellards Pearson; Claudia Fincham, Gertrude Sellards Pearson; Mary Jane Epp, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jane
Larson, Alpha Delta Pi; Paula Bruckner, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Julie Shottenkirk, Corbin; Karen Cox, Hashinger; Julie Lacy, Douthart; Karen McRae, Chi Omega; Becky Rogers, Watkins; Mary Sue Scardello, Alpha Chi Omega; and Becky Wall, Delta Delta Delta. Not present were Danielle Goering, Miller; Susan Dixon, Gertrude Sellards Pearson; Kay Willard, Carruth-O'Leary; and Susan Merrick, Hashinger. The queen will be crowned at the Carnival Oct. 17. (Photo by Steve Wi'lliams)