KANSAS RELAYS OPEN—Dennis Moore of Abilene Christian College won the opening event of the KU Relays, the 10,000 meter run, in Memorial Stadium yesterday. Here Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe congratulates Moore on his win.
KU Relays Opens With Distance Run
The Kansas Relays weekend opened yesterday in Memorial Stadium with the 10,000 meter run, equivalent to six and one-fourth miles.
Dennis Moore, an Australian attending Abilene Christian College, came from behind to defeat Oklahoma State's Danny Metcalf in the final five yards to win in 30:46.5, four minutes faster than last year's record time.
ABOUT 1.000 HIGH SCHOOL junior college and college athletes are expected to compete in the 37th annual running of the Reiays.
Held annually in conjunction with the Relays is the Engineering Exposition. A formal opening ceremony was held at 9 a.m. today at Allen Field House with Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe and the Kansas Relays queen and her attendants.
Mrs. Wesco cut the ribbon signifying the opening of the exposition. Following this the chancellor's wife and the queen and her attendants were given a guided tour through the exposition.
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. Chancellor W. Clarke Wesooe will serve as Grand Marshal for a 27-unit Kansas Relays parade that will be held along Massachusetts Street from 7th to 11th Streets.
Four floats sponsored by KU organized living groups are entered in float competition. They are Templin and Lewis, Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Phi and Triangle and Sigma Chi and Gertrude Sellards Pearson.
A fifth float is entered by the local chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars
Joe Skillman, KU police chief, said that all parade entries must be at North Park Street by 9:15 a.m. tomorrow. The parade will start at 10 a.m.
Chief Skillman added that all bands will march on the east side of the street and all floats will drive on the west side of the street.
Numerous ROTC units will march including an Air Force drill team from Forbes Air Force Base.
Special features will include about a dozen antique cars such as a 1908 Buick and a 1928 31A Model.
Saturday afternoon's track program will start at 1:15 p.m. with the presentation of the queen, Miss Lois Rhodus, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and her attendants Anne Peterson, Clifton junior, and Anne Leavitt, LaGrange, Ill., sophomore.
Saturday evening the Kansas Relays dance will be held in the Kansas Union Ballroom starting at 8:30.
French Arrest Number One OAS Leader
ALGIERS — (UPI) — French forces in Algeria today captured ex-Gen. Raoul Salan, chief of the outlawed Secret Army Organization (OAS) and immediately flew him to France for trial that could result in a death sentence.
SALAN WENT underground after the four day revolt collapsed and since then has led the OAS in its terror fight against De Gaulle's policy of giving Algeria its independence under Moslem role.
Government officials said Salan, already under sentence of death, was arrested in a big roundup in central Algiers this afternoon, on the eve of the first anniversary of the abortive Algiers generals revolt.
The arrest followed decisions by Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joe, French High Commissioner Christian Fouchet and the provisional executive headed by Abderrahmane Fares to get tough with the OAS and smash its strength in this violence-torn territory.
Fouchet and Joxe also announced that the new 40.000-man Moslem "local force" will be used in heavily-European cities to fight the OAS terrorists who are seeking to upset the cease-fire.
A communique said that as of next Monday, French Army troops and security forces will fire without warning on armed, uniformed OAS commandos in the western port city of Oran.
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SALAN, ONE OF THE four retired generals who led the unsuccessful Algiers revolt a year ago, had moved almost unmolested through Algeria since his escape last April 25 when the uprising collapsed.
SECTION A
59th Year, No.122
Friday, April 20, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Court Orders Serra Restored to Ballot
Justice Smith, in his dissention, said that as far as he could see. Section 10's provision for a three-day time limit on a complaint before a petition becomes valid, does not pertain to a violation of the time limit for petitions to be filed which was set by the elections committee.
The Student Court last night ordered the All Student Council elections committee to restore the name of a candidate which the committee had omitted from the ASC election ballot.
After more than an hour of deliberation, the four-man judicial body decided that Bob Serra, Frontenac first year law student, had been unjustly omitted from the ballot for the ASC election next week
THE COURT ACTION followed a series of events Wednesday night in which Serra sought a court injunction to postpone the printing of the ballots after he had been notified that his name was no longer on the ballot.
The 3-1 decision was made with only Justice Dick Smith dissenting.
The decision to restore Serra's name to the ballot was based on a violation of Section 10 of the ASC constitution by the elections committee, the court said.
THIS SECTION SAYS that complaints on a petition must be given in written form to the elections committee within three days of the petition's filing.
Thus, because the elections committee did not decide to omit Serra's name from the ballot until 22 days after his petition was filed, the committee violated an ASC law.
The court interpreted this to mean that a complaint by any one, including a member of the elections committee, must be submitted to the elections committee within three days after the petition was filed.
THE COURT ALSO CONSIDERED two other points in its decision, but these two points were in favor of the elections committee.
The court said Serra did break an ASC rule when he failed to file his petition before the deadline set by the elections committee.
Serra's attorney had said during the hearing that Serra had been unable to file his petition because he was hospitalized the day it was due. A doctor's statement was submitted which said that Serra was in Watkins Hospital from 10 a.m. the day the petitions were due until 8 a.m. the next morning.
IT WAS SERRA'S FAILURE to file his petition on time that prompted the elections committee to omit his name from the ballot.
Serra had testified that he went to the hospital immediately after his 8 am. class, talked with a doctor, went to Green Hall to explain to an instructor why he would be absent that day, and then returned to the hospital where he remained until the next morning.
U.S. AMBASADOR Arthur H.
Dean said even if Russia accepted
(At the same time the Soviet Union rejected a plea that it accept a test ban. In a note delivered in Moscow today, Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda appealed to Premier Nikita Khrushchev to agree to a nuclear test ban with international controls. But Moscow reports said Soviet officials threw cold water on the appeal immediately).
Serra also testified that his petition was completed and ready for filing the day before the deadline.
The elections committee's counsel said that since Serra had time to leave the hospital to talk with an instructor and since his petition was already completed, he had sufficient opportunity to file in time to meet the deadline.
But Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin still refused to accept the western point of view that compulsory on-site inspection of a suspected violator by an international organization must be part of a nuclear test ban treaty.
THE SECOND POINT favoring the elections committee involved the deadline for the filing of petitions.
U.S. Refuses Test Delay at Geneva
AT THE END of more than three hours of wrangling, the conference adjourned until Tuesday morning, with East and West apparently agreed to accept a neutral proposal for breaking the nuclear test stalemate as one, but not as the exclusive, basis for further negotiations.
Since the ASC constitution says that a petition must be filed "at least 10 days" before the election, it was the unanimous decision of the court that the elections committee was within its right to set a date, as long as it is reasonable, before the 10 days prior to the elections.
Serra's counsel had argued that
GENEVA — (UPI) The United States refused today to postpone nuclear testing for the duration of the 17-nation disarmament conference here, and Russia warned that this may mean the end of the talks.
The American statement and Soviet threat came in an unusual Good Friday meeting of the conference forced by the Soviet Union, which kept filibustering in a last-ditch effort to block renewed American nuclear testing in the atmosphere scheduled to start next week.
that principle again, as it once did for three years, the United States will continue to test weapons until an effective treaty is signed.
Replying to a Soviet question whether the United States would undertake not to conduct nuclear explosions during negotiations here, Dean declared:
"The answer is no — the United States will not undertake such an obligation.
"The United States has learned its lesson with regard to a voluntary, unpoliced moratorium which can be broken at will by the Soviet Union on any pretext it wishes to dream up."
“Renewed nuclear testing,” Russia's Zorin replied, “will create an extremely tense international atmosphere fraught with dangers for a test ban, for disarmament and for relations between governments.
"TESTING WILL put negotiation on a test ban and on disarmament under a threat and nobody would forgive the United States and the United Kingdom for cessation and failure of these negotiations.
"We would not like to have these negotiations come to a failure, but they may come to that."
In a second intervention, Zorin added, "Fruitful negotiations cannot take place with the thunder of nuclear explosions in the background. We hope that reason will prevail. But the United States and the United Kingdom will bear the full responsibility for whatever ensues."
Serra's petition was required to be filed not less than 10 days before the general election instead of 10 days before the primary election. He said that since Serra is trying to run independent of party support and would therefore not participate in the primary elections, his deadline should have been 10 days before the general elections.
The elections committee's counsel had argued that the 10-day stipulation was a minimum and that the deadline set by the elections committee was valid if it was 10 days or more before the election. He contended that the deadline was not restricted to exactly 10 days before the election but only to a minimum of 10 days.
UP Man Pulls Out,Slams Bias
The UP candidate for the seat in the Law School withdrew from the ASC race today in favor of Bob Serra, independent candidate who the Student Court ushered back into the race last night.
In doing so, he charged Vox Populi with pressuring the elections committee into its decision to omit Serra's name from the ballot.
In a prepared statement, Young said:
JOHN YOUNG, the UP candidate, resigned from the race this morning after finding that Serra's name, by court order, would be restored to the ballot. His resignation leaves only Serra and Leo Kelly, Vox candidate, in contention for the Law School seat.
"SINCE THE STUDENT court found that Bob Serra's name had been wrongfully omitted from the ballot for the ASC seat from the law school and ordered that his name be placed on the ballot, it is my desire to withdraw from the race in favor of his candidacy. Bob has demonstrated both enthusiasm and good judgment in his campaign. These same qualities would be exercised by him as a member of the ASC.
"I REGGET THAT political pressures were allowed to influence the elections committee's decision. The decision as to who will represent the law school should be made by the members of the law school themselves. The elections committee should not pre-empt that choice by eliminating candidates for political reasons."
Young said this morning his charge that the elections committee had been influenced by political forces, namely Vox Populi, was his "own personal allegation."
HE SAID THAT last night, in the Student Court hearing which ordered Serra's name to be restored to the ballot, it seemed to him that the committee "was using one set of standards to judge the legality of the candidates of political parties and another set to judge Serra's candidacy.
He said that he thought this double set of standards resulted from "political reasons which would benefit Vox" because it would limit the persons in contention for the law school seat.
Mel Saferstein, elections committee head, had stated earlier that his committee was not unduly pressured by members of Vox and that the committee did not decide to omit Serra's name from the ballot because of pressure from Vox.