Choice 68 primary is Wednesday
By Robert Burdick Kansan Staff Reporter
Students may vote for their favorite presidential candidate Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Strong Hall, Murphy Hall and the Kansas Union in the nationwide collegiate presidential primary, Choice 68.
For those who miss the day hours, voting on the main floors of residence halls will take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Choice 68 ballot lists 13 presidential candidates, three referendum issues and offers a place for a write-in candidate.
Because the ballots were printed before President Johnson's decision not to seek re-election and his announcement of a partial bombing halt on North Vietnam, revisions have been made on the second referendum question, specifically on the second and third alternatives of that question.
The revisions state:
"Temporary suspension of bombing will be interpreted as a temporary suspension of all bombing. Maintain current level of bombing will be interpreted as maintaining the present level of limited bombing."
The Choice 68 program at KU has been handled by a committee of the ASC headed by Jack Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
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Residence hall presidents have been requested to set up voting areas so that committee members can begin the vote in the halls as soon as the campus booths close, Rowe said.
Ballots will be taken to Rowe when the voting is over. They will be packaged and sent to the Univac Center in Chicago for tabulation. Rowe said the results of the balloting should be known by May 4.
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All students at the University are eligible to vote in Choice 68. They need only present their KU ID and registration card at the voting booths to cast their ballot.
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versity this week in connection with the Choice 68 poll.
Student groups supporting Sens. Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and Richard Nixon for president have been campaigning at the Uni-
Nixon supporters are planning a torchlight parade which will begin at McCollum Hall at 9 p.m. and pass by the campus residence halls and Greek houses, said Dennis Embry, Great Bend freshman who planned the march.
Members of KU for Alternatives (KFA), the organization backing McCarthy, visited several Greek houses during the dinner hour Monday night and dispersed information on McCarthy. KFA also plans to set up tables in residence halls tonight.
Kennedy's supporters have been working inside the residence halls and Greek houses encouraging people to vote for the New York senator in the Choice 68 election.
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There is nothing like a cold shower to dampen spirits on a cold rainy spring day. At least, that's what Mary Dahl, Miami, Okla., junior was thinking during Monday's downpour. More than one and a half inches of rain fell during the storm. (See story below.)
Reports of flooding
Rainstymies Lawrence area
By Kathy Hall Kansan Staff Reporter
Heavy April showers Monday resulted in 1.37 inches of precipitation in Lawrence by 6 p.m. and reports of car stalling, and flooding.
By 7:30 p.m., police had received no reports of injury accidents, although the wrecker and towing
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts the weather tonight will be mostly fair and a little colder. The low tonight will be in the mid 30's. Wednesday will be fair and warmer. Precipitation probability tonight and Wednesday is less than 5 per cent.
services answered numerous calls because of car stalling in flooded intersections of the city.
One wrecker service reported 20 calls between 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m., the heaviest period of the storm.
A car owned by Charles Worley, Route 2, and a truck owned by David Houseworth, 1608 Harper, were stalled in water about 3 feet deep under the Union Pacific underpass in North Lawrence. The vehicles, which were in water up to the tops of their tires, were towed away by 6 p.m. after most of the flooded underpass had drained.
The intersection of Indiana and
There were few reports of damaging winds which reached up to 30 miles-per-hour at the height of the storm. Visibility in the rain was less than a quarter of a mile at times.
Illinois at 9th street were reported to be hub-cap deep at 5 p.m., but by 6 p.m. were back to normal, police said.
The Lawrence area was under a tornado watch originally from cancelled by 6:30.
Thunder activity was in a line northeast between Manhattan and
Although the rains caused temporary flooding of intersections and low areas, the Kaw river did not reach its 18 foot flood stage. Water level at 5 p.m. was recorded at 11.4 feet.
Monday's storm was caused by a north-south cold front with the low center in Nebraska and Central Kansas.
Topeka, with spotty hail reported southeast of Topeka and south of Kansas City.
No hail was officially recorded in Lawrence.
Hershey asks for 340,000
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said in secret Congressional testimony released Monday that up to 100,000 more men than originally scheduled may be drafted in the 12 months starting July 1 "if the war doesn't get over."
Hershey said as many as 340,000 men may be called up during the next fiscal year even though the Pentagon allowed for a draft of only 240,000.
He said the draft in the current fiscal year was scheduled for 285,000 men, but a total of 345,000 will have been inducted by time the fiscal year ends June 30.
The Pentagon Monday announced draft calls for 45,900 men in May and 29,500 in June. These will bring the total number of men inducted through the draft during the current fiscal year to about 385,000 men.
Hershey said that since actual draft calls in the current fiscal year were considerably higher than the budgeted draft calls, he expected the same thing to happen to the budgeted 240,000 call for the next fiscal year.
"Therefore, when I get 240,000 in my figures for the coming fiscal year, it will take another 100,-000," he said in explaining why he felt 340,000 men would be needed.
Speech I verdict expected today
"If the war gets over, everything is gone," Hershey said. "But if the war doesn't get over, I have to think of the worst, because the best I can always live with."
Hershey, testifying before a House appropriations subcommit-
The subcommittee had recommended that the speech requirement for freshmen and sophomores in the College be abolished, that Speech 1b be extended to a three-hour principal course in social sciences, and that the departments in the College provide more training in discussion and informal presentation in their classes.
The Educational Policies subcommittee has made a three-part proposal to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences which will be voted on at the College faculty meeting at 4:30 p.m. today.
Until the 1967 spring semester,
the College freshman-sophomore speech requirement was Speech 1, Fundamentals of Speech. The speech department then created another speech course, Speech 1b, which deals in group communication. The department renamed the Speech 1 course Speech 1a. Both courses were approved for the speech requirement.
The subcommittee read the textbooks and visited the classes of both courses. From their observations and reading, the subcommittee members concluded that the skills taught in Speech la would be more easily understood if the student first had the skills of 1b.
Consideration was given to making Speech 1b the speech requirement, but this idea was discarded because the course is new and will undoubtedly change as it develops. Therefore, they concluded that it was too early to make it the speech requirement.
All University faculty members from schools that accept transfer students from the College after their sophomore year are eligible to vote on any proposals that effect the freshman - sophomore College requirements.
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tee in February, said the figures were higher than had been projected because of the rate of rejection of inductees and fewer
Gov.Docking talks of riots
If Americans approach the problems of rioting in the nation's cities with a defeatist attitude we will surely be defeated, Gov. Robert Docking told a group attending an Accountants' Day dinner Monday night in the Kansas Union.
"Our nation is not necessarily showing signs of collapse," Docking said. "We must take meaningful actions toward solving problems of rioting, poverty and race relations," he said.
Docking said too many Americans do not realize that ghettos exist in America and that Americans spend too much time "polishing our glasses."
People wait for a jolt before demanding positive action, according to Docking. He said we are just beginning to realize riots do not end with guns and tear gas.
Docking called for cooperation between business and government in solving problems in the cities.
"We need a systematic approach to problems in the cities," he said. "Business has special qualities that are needed for work in civil rights."
Docking said the problems Americans are facing are not new and many presidents in the past have had to call out federal troops to keep the peace over similar issues.
He cited the riots of 1877, shortly after President Hayes took office as an example of this use of federal troops.
W.C. exam registration in Strong, not Blake
Registration for the May 11 Western Civilization examination will be in the registrar's office, 122 Strong Hall at window two instead of the Western Civilization office in Blake Hall as was reported in Monday's Kansan. The registrar's office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except during the noon hour.