Furor Continues In YD Election
By Dennis Branstiter
Last year's president of the KU Young Democrats was accused this morning of trying to make a deal to cover up the disputed March 14 election of officers.
In a telephone interview this morning, Lawing said, "They offered Pete (Peter Aylward, Ellsworth junior and defeated candidate for YD president in the disputed election) a deal. They wanted to make him president to take the heat off"
Jim Lawing, Lawrence graduate student, accused Verne Gauby, Grand Island, Neb., graduate student, of trying to make the deal.
This morning's charge came in the aftermath of a special YD meeting last night in which the memberships of Gauby and four other Young Democrats were suspended. New officers and delegates to the state convention in Kansas City this weekend were also elected at this meeting.
The Gauby - Bennington (Barry Bennington, Cheney junior elected YD president in the disputed election) faction boycotted the meeting. Both Gauby and Bennington were among those suspended.
THESE ACTIONS, however, may not be constitutional. The club's constitution states that members can be suspended and officers and state convention delegates elected at "general" meetings. Last night's meeting was a "special" meeting requested by a petition signed by 28 Young Democrats. According to the constitution the club's president is obligated to call such a special meeting if he is presented with a petition and if no general meeting has been called during the month.
Lawring circulated the petition for the meeting. He said last night that the March 14 meeting was invalid because the election held at the meeting was invalid. He said last night's meeting was the only valid
meeting held in March and the actions taken at the meeting were therefore legal.
This morning Bennington said, "Tuesday night I talked to Pete Aylward on the phone and he told me he would not recognize this meeting (last night's)."
"We do not recognize the legality of this meeting or any of the results thereof.
"IN THE EYES of the elected officers (elected March 14) this action by Mr. Lawing and Mr. Aylward constitutes bad faith on their part...They have no interest in the future of the Young Democrats at KU."
In a telephone conversation a few minutes later, Lawing said, "Aylward didn't say that. I was there." Lawing then charged Gauby with offering to make a deal.
After last night's meeting, Lawing said, "I'm confident that the state convention will seat the delegates elected here tonight and that the officers elected will be fully recognized by all interested parties.
"It would be a welcome investigation if anybody wished to challenge the propriety of this group to act as it has here tonight."
MICHAEL THOMAS, Ft. Riley junior and YD membership committee chairman, one of the five members suspended in last night's meeting, said in a telephone inter-
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Kennedy Hits GOP For Tax Opposition
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Kennedy accused Republicans today of trying to block his tax revision program and called on "every member of the House of Representatives who believes in spreading the tax burdens fairly" to support the bill.
Kennedy devoted much of his 10th news conference in the last 11 weeks to defending the measure, which has been approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. A House showdown was expected late today.
ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT single out the GOP by name, he said he had "great difficulty in understanding the position of any political party which tries to kill proposals" such as are contained in his tax proposal.
Defeat of the measure, he said, would deprive businessmen of capital investment incentives which would help them compete with foreign companies. It also would mean abandonment of "an effort to close foreign tax havens" to American investors overseas, he said.
"If it is killed," he said, "we will have lost a valuable opportunity to find jobs for college and high school graduates."
He said it would mean losses of American gold reserves abroad and additional harm to this country's balance of payments in international trade.
Other subjects covered during the conference included the nation's economic outlook, the steel industry settlement, the Berlin situation and a nuclear test ban treaty. He also discussed the nuclear test ban issue in a lengthy statement issued after the conference.
THE MEASURE'S TWO main points opposed by Republicans would provide business tax credits of more than a billion dollars a year and set up a withholding tax system on interest and dividends.
In the statement, he said efforts to agree on a treaty with Russia on the subject had reached "a real impasse." The Soviet Union, he said, refused flatly to accept inspection controls in any form.
HE TOLD THE CONFERENCE that the United States cannot accept an agreement which does not provide adequate assurance against cheating.
On the basis of a first-hand report yesterday by Secretary of State Dean Rusk on Geneva negotiations, Kennedy told the conference the Russian roadblock to an acceptable inspection system seemed solid.
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The President also called on national state government officials to try to solve the problem of under-representation of urban areas. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Federal Courts can consider cases involving charges of unfair apportionment of seats in state legislatures.
59th Year, No.113
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 29, 1962
Candidates May Be Ineligible for Election
By Mike Miller
An unheeded amendment to the All Student Council constitution may prevent two University Party candidates from running for office.
Gerald (Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior and UP candidate for student body president, and Thomas Hardy, Hooisington junior and one of UP's candidates for student body vice president, may be declared ineligible to run for the offices.
Kepner signed a statement authorizing two Kansan reporters to look at Watkins Hospital records to verify that he was in the Hospital.
The unheeded amendment says any candidate for the presidency or vice presidency of the student body, who is not a member of the ASC, must attend all ASC meetings after the first meeting in December "except that the council may, by a two-thirds vote, permit the aspirant one excused absence."
KEPNER MISSED A MEETING Feb. 27 because of illness and Hardy missed a meeting Jan. 9 and one last Tuesday night because of an evening examination.
However, Dr. Maurice Gross, Watkins Hospital staff physician, refused to let the reporters look at Keper's record.
A Watkins Hospital official said that Kepner's record would be released if a written statement by Kepner was presented.
"I see no reason why the information should be released," Dr. Gross said. "We don't want to become involved in anything political."
The two candidates' eligibility will be voted upon by the ASC when it meets April 10. A two-thirds vote of the ASC delegates would allow the candidates to remain in the race.
Gross told the reporters to tell Kepner to come to the hospital if he wanted any information released.
Mel Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student and chairman of the ASC elections committee, explained that the amendment had been added to the original constitutional article which read, "No student shall be
eligible for the presidency or the vice presidency who has not served on the All Student Council previously, for at least one full school year."
He said that the amendment originally was passed in 1958 when one party, Vox Populi, had control of all the ASC seat. Candidates not affiliated with Vox, therefore, were unable to run for offices.
MAX EBERHART, GREAT BEND senior and student body president, said, "It is in the hands of the ASC now. The two-thirds vote of the council will mean that some of the Vox Populi members on the council will have to switch over and vote for the UP candidate.
"It would seem likely that the Vox members would do this, because they probably would want to see a race for the student body president," Eberhart added.
The trouble arose because Kepner and Hardy are the first two candidates running for the positions since the amendment was passed who are not members of the All Student Council.
When asked about the situation, Kepern said. "If I'm ineligible to be a candidate for student body president because I was in a hospital bed the night of an ASC meeting, I will lose much confidence in the judgment of some of the student representatives to the ASC. I will continue to campaign because I don't think the ASC will deny me the right to run."
HARDY AGREED WITH Kepler, saying, "If the ASC decides to rule against us, it would lower the level of the spring elections."
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and Kepner's opponent in the race for student body president, said, "Even though Mr. Kepner is not a member of the council, he should be given a chance to run. I will do everything within my power to give Vox to excuse Mr. Kepner for this meeting which he missed."
"It is fortunate that this was brought to light at this time rather
than at a time when Mr. Kepner could not have been in a situation to restore his candidacy condition," he added.
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and chairman of the ASC, said, "It is an unfortunate situation that neither Mr. Kepler norMr. Hardy had been on the council. I don't doubt that both of the men have good excuses, but I do think they should have been informed of the rules and taken the proper measures.
"I anticipate that all will be well, but no one except the council has the right to judge; good excuse or no good excuse, it must go through the Council," he added.
Unions Cause Space Delay
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Vital missile and space programs were "intolerably delayed" over a four-and-a-half year period while union members and their local officers put greed ahead of country in wildest strikes and work stoppages, a Senate subcommittee reported today.
In a speech prepared for delivery on filing the subcommittee's report, chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., suggested that the Senate "consider immediate action" on his proposal to prohibit strikes at defense establishments including missile bases. He said "extremely beneficial results" followed subcommittee hearings almost a year ago but added that work days lost through stoppages are again on an upward trend.
Last Issue of Kansan
The Kansan will suspend publication today until after the spring vacation. The next issue of the Kansan will be Tuesday, April 10.
AWS ELECTS OFFICERS—Elected in yesterday's Associated Women Students elections are left to right (front row), president, Marilyn Mueller, St. Louis junior; secretary, Susan Gerlash, Garden City freshman; (second row). Cwen Adviser, Wendy Wilkerson, Wichita sophomore; vice president, (There was a tie for this office
which will be broken at a special meeting of the AWS Senate tonight at 7 p.m.) Kay Timberlake, Leawood junior; and George Anne Porter, Kansas City junior; (third row), treasurer, Patricia Kendall, Holton sophomore; All Student Council Independent Representative, Jane Breckenridge, Louisburg freshman.