Native of Viet Nam Urges Peace
By Mary Halloran
"We want to live peacefully, But the war still goes on and on." Mrs. Do Thi Do Oanh, a native of South Viet Nam, said.
"I hate the Communists very much," she continued. "They make us much trouble."
In the United States a little over a year on a government grant. Mrs.Oanh is studying weaving and crafts at KU this semester.
When her studies are finished, she will return to South Viet Nam to teach vocational education in a Salign school's home economics department. She is one of seven
women in the United States on a similar plan.
AT THE TIME Mrs. Oanh left South Viet Nam, the conditions were "peaceful, very fine. Right now there is too much trouble in politics."
She characterized the Diem regime briefly.
"Ngo Dinh Diem was first appointed by the Americans," she said. "Then when it was time for elections, he was elected by the people. And before the trouble among the Buddhists, the Catholics and the Communist, he was very good. But he was influenced by his family too much."
"I don't know very much about General Nguyen Khanh, the latest leader, except he should be better. He is very young, an army man. He even got some training in the United States.
"TODAY THERE ARE bombs, bombs, all the time, even in Saigon. Before, the guerrillas were out in the country. They were only a little trouble. Now they are even in the city, Saigon, where it was always so peaceful. And they kill the people. What do they get?"
Mrs. Oanh said the guerrillas, the Viet Cong, are fanatics.
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61st Year, No. 98
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 6, 1964
Attorney General Predicts More Reapportionment Woes
By Lee Stone
Is another storm on political representation brewing over Kansas?
William M. Ferguson, attorney general and Republican candidate for governor, said last night that a case soon to come before the U.S. District Court in Kansas City may be the beginning of—not legislative
—but congressional reapportionment woes for Kansas.
The case will come before the court on March 20 and can have three results—two of them spectacular, he said.
This case, Meeks versus Anderson, was discussed at the Young Republicans meeting last night while Ferguson was answering questions from the floor.
Ex-Assistant Instructor Bound Over Without Bond
John S. Edwards, 32, was bound over without bond yesterday for trial in the May term of district court on a charge of first degree murder.
Edwards, a former graduate student and assistant instructor in the KU Spanish department, is charged in connection with the Feb. 22 shooting of Pedro Escobar, 37, who also was an assistant instructor in the KU Spanish department.
A fifteen-minute session concluded the preliminary hearing which was started Feb. 27 in Douglas County Court. Judge Charles Rankin presided.
The defense requested that bond be set for the defendant and that the charge be reduced from first
degree murder to some lesser offense. Botn requests were refused and Edwards was returned to custody in the Douglas County jail.
During four hours of testimony Feb. 27, witnesses testified that Escobar was a guest at a party given by John H. Wolf, Penkintown, Pa., graduate student and an assistant instructor in the Spanish department. Edwards, who was having a party in an adjoining apartment, complained to Wolf over the telephone of the noise.
A few minutes later Edwards knocked on the door of Wolf's apartment with a .357 Magnum pistol. Escobar, who was dancing near the door, opened it and was shot in the chest, witnesses said.
FERGUSON SAID the case is similar to Georgia's Mayberry case which went before the U.S. Supreme Court and ended with Georgia's legislature being ordered to reapportion its unequal congressional districts strictly on the basis of population.
Georgia has not reapportioned for 50 years, Ferguson said, and neither has Kansas, except for a token reapportionment in 1954 when Kansas lost one congressman.
From the First to the Fifth Congressional District, there is a population difference of 40 per cent, Ferguson said. This does not meet the Supreme Court's direction of one man for one equal vote "as nearly as is practicable," he said.
If the district court decides in favor of Kansas, that will be the end of the matter, but if it decides otherwise, Kansas will have two choices. Ferguson said.
FIRST, he said, the governor could call another special session of the legislature to decide new districts.
Second, candidates for U.S. representative could run at large.
"Bob Dole would have to beat the bushes around Kansas City," Ferguson said.
Dale is the congressman from the western First District.
By extension of Ferguson's remark, Garner E. Shriver, the con-
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Wichita Battles Drake
Missouri Valley Fans Invade KU
By Bob Jones (Assistant Sports Editor)
The game was expected to draw only 10,000 people. When the tickets went on sale, that many were sold in the first few hours.
Wichita University and Drake University basketball teams will meet here tonight to decide the Missouri Valley Conference representative in the NCAA tournament before a standing-room-only crowd of more than 17,000.
OF THIS TOTAL, 2,200 were purchased by persons in the Lawrence area. The rest were snapped up by eager Wichita fans, who are expected to begin flooding into Lawrence this afternoon.
By 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, the Missouri Valley Conference office stopped ticket sales in Lawrence and Wichita after over 12,000 of them were sold.
The remainder of the tickets were sold in Des Moines, making a total of over 15,000 people coming to Lawrence from out-of-town.
This is the third meeting for the two teams, their earlier games being a solit.
KTVH-TV in Wichita will broadcast the game for the Wichita and Des Moines areas. Jack McCelland, member of the MVC television committee, said the game will be broadcast because of the "unprecedented demand."
"WE HAVE PARKING space for 8,000 cars," Lonborg explained, "but I want to urge people to arrive early so we will have an orderly operation. Late comers will be forced to hunt for parking spots."
KU officials are anticipating more than a few woes in handling a crowd of this size. Athletic Director A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg issued an appeal to fans to arrive early for the game to avoid a huge traffic crush.
Fans for the Wichita-Drake basketball game may run into a bit of trouble with the weather tonight. Light snow is predicted for tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight will be in the upper 20s. It will be cloudy and colder toorrow. At noon today, winds were gusting at more than 40 m.p.h. on the campus.
Lonborg also stated he has enlarged the usual staff of ushers, Pinkerton men, city and campus police and highway patrol to handle the crowd.
Weather
Another problem arises from the
The 8 p.m. game will feature the co-champions of one of the top basketball conferences in the nation.
fact that all tickets will be general admission. Because there are no reserve seats, people will have to arrive as soon as the field house doors open at 6:00 p.m. to get good seats.
Wichita's team will be led by allAmerica Dave Stallworth, the Valley's leading scorer. In addition to Stallworth, the starting lineup for Wichita will be Kelly Pete, Dave Leach, Nate Bowman and Ernie Moore, who will be playing his last game for the Wheatshockers.
Moore is still eligible for college basketball under Missouri Valley rules, but the NCAA will not permit him to play in any post-season games.
For Drake, the starting lineup will be McCoy McLemore, Gene Bogash. Billy Foster, Fred West and Larry Prins.
More tickets to the game here were sold in Wichita than is the capacity of Wichita University's field house, which seats 10,500.
The Drake team is essentially the same one which was in the Missouri Valley cellar a year ago. The only addition to the team is Bogash, a transfer from Wilmington, N.C., Junior College.
VOX CANDIDATES—Marshall Crowther, Lawrence second-year law, and James Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, were announced last night by Vox Populi as candidates for president and vice-president of the student body. General elections will be April 1 and 2.
Vox Populi Picks Running Mates
By Susan Flood
Stressing that Vox Populi is the party which does things because "they needed to be done and are right for student government," Marshall Crowther, Lawrence second-year law student, accepted the nomination for student body president last night.
Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, is the party's candidate for vicepresident.
"I DO NOT BELIEVE in change for the sake of change," Crowther said, "but I do believe that Vox has and will continue with progressive improvement. What is necessary is the continuity of student leadership and effective programs to meet the demands of the students."
John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior and ASC chairman, compared what Crowther had said with what he called "UP's challenge for a filthy campaign."
"I view with contempt the kind of campaign UP may wage," Stuckey said. "For five years UP has talked about Vox, not about what Vox has done, for we have laid the groundwork for an outstanding student government.
"The two Vox men nominated tonight have not stood still all year waiting to be nominated," he said. "They have worked where they are and have not aspired to higher positions.
"There is nothing to the rumor that Vox is going to fold. We are not going to leave student government to irresponsible leaders. Work for Vox and what it has done and will do, not against the other party," Stuckey advised the party's general assembly.
REUBEN McCORNACK, Abilene senior and student body president, stressed the qualifications of Crowther and Cline.
Commenting on the statement by Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior and general secretary of UP, that the "KU political system is rotten to the core, Vox especially." McCornack said that there was more behind the story of the affiliation shifts than most students knew. He called Whitman's statement, "highly inappropriate."
CROWTHER SERVED ON THE ASC as a freshman in 1955. He transferred to Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, his home town, as a junior. He was treasurer and president of the student body at Kansas Wesleyan.
After a seven year lapse, Crowther was again elected to the ASC last spring as School of Law representative and has served as vice-chairman of the Council since last November. He is also chairman of the ASC committee on committees and legislation, which makes recommendations on all ASC legislation, and prior to this was chairman of the Athletic Seating Board.
Cline is now chairman of the Athletic Seating Board, a member of Templin Hall Senate and social committee, a founder of the Men's Residence Association and past independent vice-president of Vox.
BORNHOLDT ANNOUNCED THAT interviews would be held after the meeting and on Sunday concerning ASC nominations. Vox candidates for school districts and the party platform will be announced and ratified Thursday.
Contacted about the meeting, Whitman said he would concur with Vox in the desire for a "clean, above-board campaign."
"We would welcome Vox to join us in what UP has always stood for, and we ask Vox to join with us in a pledge for high-level campaigning," Whitman said.