Cigarettes Unwanted; Packages in Vogue
Bv Charles Corcoran
"How many have you guys got?"
"How many have you got? You tell me first and I'll.. ."
"Hold on a minute. Whoa! You tell me first.. ."
Thursday, May 21, 1964
And so it goes. A contest sponsored by a national cigarette manufacturing firm has as its top prize a stereophonic phonograph . . . all the two KU living groups entered in the competition have to do is submit the largest number of the manufacturer's cigarette packages that they can beg, borrow or . . . scrouge up.
All that representatives from either of the competing groups will say is that "We have over 12,000 packages."
Dan Vossman, Beloit junior, a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity, said that he had no choice in not disclosing the exact number of packages his group had gathered. The contest ends at noon today, but until then "Mum's the word," for both groups.
The contest was to have closed last week, but when one group discovered that the other had more packages, members of the first group hustled to find more than the second group.
Eric Petersen, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., senior, a resident of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said just that. His group's tally is classified and will remain so until what is supposed to be the final whistle, noon today. But one never can tell who may find out what about who and the race will start all over again.
That was just the beginning! The second group discovered what the first group was up to, and it sent members out to dig up a few more packages. . .
But then the first group discovered what the second group had found out and . . . well, you can guess how the contest has escalated.
Shown above, left to right, Wayne Burdick, Overland Park junior, Richard Reynolds, Shawnee Mission junior, and, behind Reynolds, Carl Lindquist, Prairie Village junior, all residents of JRP.
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Daily hansan
61st Year, No. 145
Stevenson Vows U.S. Aid To SE Asian Countries
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.- (UPI)
Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson said today that the United States "cannot stand by while Southeast Asia is overrun by armed aggression."
shall weary of the burden of support that we are rendering these people—it can only be due to ignorance of the strength and conviction of the American people."
"As long as the peoples of that area are determined to preserve their own independence and ask for our help in preserving it," Stevenson told the security council, "we will extend it
"And if anyone has the illusion that my government will abandon the people of Viet Nam — or that we
STEVENSON ADDRESSED the Security Council against a background of accelerating crisis in Laos where Communist troops have won control of the north-central portion of the country, and of increasing criticism of U.S. strategy in South Viet Nam where 129 Americans have died in combat against Communist guerrillas.
Phi Gams Awarded Campus Chest Prize
The men of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity won a trophy for collecting the highest amount of money per capita for the 1964 KU Campus Chest.
The Phi Gams collected more than $290, about $3.50 from each member in the house, John Pound, Fredonia junior and chairman of Campus Chest said.
This year Campus Chest held a contest between different types of living groups based on the amount of money raised per capita.
The winner of the men's large residence halls was Joseph R. Pearson Hall and of the women's large residence halls was Carruth and O'Leary Hall.
women's scholarship halls in which Sellards Hall won.
A third classification was fraternities and men's scholarship halls in which Phi Gamma Delta collected the most.
Phi Gamma Delta was also the group collecting the largest total amount.
The fourth was sororities and
The 1964 Campus Chest collected more than $1,300.
Half of this amount or about $650 will go to the Glenn Cunningham Boy's Ranch near Augusta, Pound said.
The remainder will be divided among World University Service, Foreign Student Service, and the All Student Council John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund.
Kansan's Last Issue
This is the last issue of the University Daily Kansan for the 1963-64 school year.
The Kansan will resume regular publication in the fall.
He said the United States felt the threat was "the same in Viet Nam today as it was in Greece in 1947 and in Korea in 1950."
He rejected demands by Russia, Communist China and France for a reconvening of the Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1962 which set up the present arrangements in the former French Indochina and guaranteed the neutrality of the newly created countries.
"THEER IS no need for another such conference." Stevenson said, "Another Geneva conference, if it reached any agreement at all, would prove no more effective than the agreements we already have.
"What is needed is not more conferences, what is imperative is to carry out, to respect and honor the agreements we already made. If the parties will do in good faith what they promised to do in Laos and Viet Nam, whether in good faith or not, there will be no danger to the integrity of Cambodia; there will be peace in southeast Asia and another threat of international security will be removed."
Stevenson said there is fighting in Viet Nam today only because the political settlement reached at Geneva in 1954 "has been deliberately and flagrantly and systematically violated."
"The same disregard for the political settlement reached at Geneva has been demonstrated—by the same parties—in Laos," he said. "Violation has been followed by a period of quiet—and then another violation...
"Mr. President, the long crisis in Southeast Asia has taken a turn for the worse . . . my government takes a very grave view of these events. Those who are responsible have set foot upon an exceedingly dangerous path."
Democratic Victory Expected
For the moment a Republican professor of political science has conceded the 1964 presidential election to the Democrats.
"At the moment, I don't see why the Republicans should win, but then, lots of things can happen," Earl Nehring, associate professor of political science, said.
BECAUSE REPUBLICANS could waste a potentially good candidate on a hopeless race, the professor believes Richard Nixon would be a good standard bearer for the Republican Party in 1964.
Nixon, who is an experienced
politician with proven ability, would be capable of running for president but without doing the party "any irreparable damage."
"Regardless of who wins in California, my guess is that the convention will nominate either Nixon or Scranton," the professor said.
"If Rockefeller wins in California, I think Scranton's chances may improve rapidly. If Goldwater wins, Nixon would seem to remain the logical compromise choice," Prof. Nehring said.
ASKED IF A Goldwater nomination were possible, Prof. Nehring said, "No, I don't think he'll be nominated, and, for the sake of the party, I hope he won't be nominated."
"I think Goldwater (his popularity) is a product of several things. Maybe you can call it the right man in the right place at the right time," Professor Nehring said.
The professor examined several reasons for Goldwater's influence in among conservative Republicans.
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Nixon Seen as Nominee
Rv Lee Stone
Richard Milhaus Nixon will be the Republican Party candidate for president, predicts a Democratic political science professor.
After weighing the chances of Republican candidates to win the nomination for the office of president, John G. Grumm, associate professor of political science concluded that he favors Nixon."
"HE (NIXON) obviously wants it. He's being doing everything he can get it without being a candidate for it." Prof. Grumm said of Nixon's
"I suppose that leaves Nixon."
Weather
Temperatures will be around 90 degrees tomorrow with the low tonight expected to be in the upper 60's, the Weather Bureau said. Skies are expected to remain fair with 10 to 25 mile an hour southerly winds through Friday.
alleged play for the Republican nomination.
"The thing about Nixon," Prof Grumm continued, "is that he's got the situation sized up pretty well. He's trying to appeal now, in a more or less subtle way, for the votes of Goldwater's delegates to the convention. In recent speeches I think he's been putting on a conservative front."
ON ROCKEFELLLER'S candidacy.
Prof. Grumm said: "Winning in California won't do him enough good. Rockefeller's only function in California is a 'stop Goldwater' function. Maybe he doesn't conceive it that way, but that's what the practical effect of his candidacy is."
Lodge, the professor says, is the "least qualified" of all the Republican candidates. Most of the successful presidents have held elective office for many years before being elected to the presidency. Lodge, the professor feels, should get more public experience before trying for the chief executive's office.
Prof. Grumm noted that Goldwater has more committed delegates to the San Francisco convention than the other candidates, but said, "If Goldwater wins in California, I don't think there will be any stopping him. If he doesn't win in California, he's through."
The professor feels that William Scranton, Pennsylvania governor and another alleged presidential candidate, would be the best Republican choice for the nomination. "He seems to have a lot on the ball," Prof. Grumm said.
On the convention, Prof. Grumm said, "Every vote that is not a Gold-water vote on the first ballot is a moderate vote." The outcome of the convention depends upon how someone like Nixon can mobilize the votes of moderates and conservatives.