IVE A PLAN—Jo Lynne Talbott, Shawnee Mission senior, calms John Seeevs, Wichita senior, by telling him all is not lost. The scene takes place in the Alpha Tau Omega-Chi Omega Rock Chalk Revue skit to be presented tonight and Saturday in Hoch Auditorium. (Photo by Charlie Corcoran)
'Lacerated Legends To Compete Tonight
Sleepless nights and hours of rehearsals will end for the cast and staff of Rock Chalk Revue at 8 p.m. today in Hoch Auditorium.
At least 70 or 80 hours of rehearsals went into each of the four skits, David White, Prairie Village senior and producer of Rock Chalk, explained. "Lacerated Legends," the theme of this year's Revue, will be presented tonight and Saturday night. The skit judged best will be announced after the presentation of the skits tomorrow night.
White said yesterday afternoon that the tickets were sold out for Saturday night. However, there were about nine left for tonight.
"ALLEWDIN AND His Magic Pot," the Phi Kappa Psi-Delta Delta Delta contribution to the Revue, is based on the legend of The skit is a satire on the problem of the draft which
New Error Clouds Bill
TOFEKA—(UPI)—A motion was expected to be filed today asking the Kansas Supreme court to correct an error in the new House reapportionment act and prevent the calling of another special session of the Kansas legislature.
The error, placing Johnson County's fourth precinct of the second ward in Prairie Village in each of two house districts, was revealed yesterday by Gov. John Anderson and Atty. Gen. William M. Ferguson.
It was a complete reversal of last year's troubles when the Johnson County town of Leawood was left entirely out of the Senate reapportionment.
However, Ferguson noted that it was the Supreme Court's refusal to correct the legislative mistake in the 1963 Senate reapportionment case that resulted in the calling of the recent special session.
FERGUSON SAID he hoped the high state court would set the matter down on an "urgent" basis for a hearing next week.
"I think there is a definite possibility that the court will refuse to correct this error," said Ferguson. He noted the court would have to reverse its earlier stand if it rules in favor of correcting the error.
Gov. Anderson predicted the court would rectify the mistake and that no special session would have to be called.
"You Can Take It With You," the Kappa Sigma-Delta Gamma presentation, is set in a club for playboys. The legend of Faust constitutes the basis for the story about a street sweeper who sells his soul to become a "man of the world."
"A Shot of Sherwood," the Alpha Tau Omega-Chi Omega production, also uses the campus as a setting. Based on the legend of Robin Hood the skit concerns itself with the university's expansion program.
"All's Not in Vein," the Sigma Chi-Gamma Phi Beta skit, is a scene from around campus. The presentation is based on the legend of the vampires.
A NEW TRAVELING trophy "about 4 feet high" was obtained this year because the old one was retired last year, White said. The traveling trophy is given each year to the first place winners. After winning this trophy three times the winner retires the trophy. Last year, Alpha Tau Omega retired the trophy by winning first place in combination with Kappa Alpha Theta.
Each of the two groups, the men and the women, receive trophies. The awards are given for first place, second place, and the other two skirts receive honorable mention. All participating groups will get a trophy.
There is no one who could retire the traveling trophy this year. "We're starting out with a clean slate." White explained.
The tables have been turned on girl-watchers.
That means fellows who line the steps of Green, the rails of Bailey, and the walls of the Hawklet in Summerfield.
Girl-Watchers, Head for Cover!
Judging is done by five different individuals each night of production. White said that the judges are primarily professors in the fields of English, speech and drama.
For the last three years they have been relatively undisturbed in this pursuit. But this year, beware, Girls are watching the girl-watchers, and with more than "just looking" in mind.
According to medieval custom, during Leap Year, ladies may propose to the man of their choice and still be considered ladies in the public eye. Although Feb. 29 is official Leap Year Day, men are fair game for the total 366 days.
WHAT'S MORE, if the man doesn't accept a lady's proposal, he is required by custom to forfeit a certain sum of money, or prove his intention of marrying another. Face it, guys, there is no graceful—or cheap—way out.
"I've been polishing my track shoes for the last six weeks," confided one graduate student who asked that his name be withheld.
A few foresighted KU men have given this eminent danger some consideration.
Bachelor graduate students generally felt that after keeping single status through the under-graduate years they were obliged to maintain that status.
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In general, however, the whole idea was brushed aside by KU men as an amusing, but antiquated custom. Time will tell.
LEAP YEAR itself was not invented to give women an "open season" on men, but to make up for a 5-hour, 48-minute, 46- second per year fallacy in the Julian calendar.
61st Year, No.93
The Weather Bureau calls for fair and mild weather continuing through Wednesday, with high temperatures ranging from 54-59 degrees, and the lows in the upper 30's. Small amounts of rain are expected Monday.
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Party Begins with Music And Ends in Fatal Shot
"After dinner, we started hearing Mexican music which kept getting louder." Edwards told them that the people next door would start playing the Flamenco music and doing a lot of stopping, she said.
When the noise got louder, Edwards called Wolf and told him to cut down the music or he would
Lawrence, Kansas
By Gary Noland
Witnesses described yesterday how two dinner parties, which began with soft music, laughter, jokes and a few drinks, suddenly ended in the fatal shooting of Pedro Escobar.
Escobar, who was dancing near the door, opened it, and was shot in the chest, witnesses said. The other guests were sitting around the room. The parties were held in adjoining apartments at 121 West 14th Street.
Judith Ellen Nelson, Overland Park junior and one of the three guests at Edwards' party, said:
Thirteen person gave testimony in Douglas County court at the preliminary hearing of John S. Edwards, 32, a former KU graduate student and assistant instructor in the Spanish department, who is charged with first degree murder in the death of Escobar, 37, a former amateur bull-fighter from Mexico who also was an assistant instructor in the KU department of Spanish.
The witnesses recounted the events of last Saturday night during four hours of the preliminary hearing which was adjourned by Judge Charles Rankin at 6 p.m. Judge Rankin scheduled further preliminary hearings for 2 p.m. Thursday.
ACCORDING TO WTNESSES. Escobar was a guest at a party given by John H. Wolf, also an assistant instructor in the department of Spanish. Edwards, who had complained over the telephone a few minutes before of the noise, knocked on the door of Wolf's apartment with a 357 Magnum pistol.
- So, it's all legal. The girls are eager. And there are 306 days left in 1964.
The idea to allow women the right to propose marriage originated in the 13th Century in England when a law declaring this right for women was placed on the law books in 1288.
After the telephone call from Edwards, Pedro continued dancing. But the record player was turned down. King said.
AFTER THE DINNER, the men were offered a shot of grain alcohol. Later, the rug was rolled back and Escobar began dancing the Flamenco. Escobar was clapping his hands and stomping his heels. King said.
Kenneth King, Junction City graduate student and one of the eight guests at Wolf's party, said that during the dinner, which began around 6:30 p.m., everyone had one or two glasses of wine. There was soft music and the men were telling jokes. King said.
Friday, Feb. 28, 1964
come over and stop it. Edwards was jovial and laughing when he returned from the phone. Nelson said.
Donald L. Schmidt, Wooster, Ohio graduate student and a guest at Edwards party, said Edwards became irritated at the foot stomping which continued shortly after he returned from the telephone. Edwards walked into the bedroom, then back to the living room, and strided toward the front door, Schmidt said.
"WHEN EDWARDS WAS about half way to the door, I thought I saw a gun in his hands," Schmidt said.
Mrs. Kenneth King, who was a guest with her husband at Wolf's party, said that around 9 p.m. shortly after the telephone call, there was a loud knocking on the door. When Escobar opened the door, Edwards was pointing the gun straight at him, she said.
One witness said the gun was fired immediately after the door was opened, but another witness thought there was a lapse of from two to
five seconds before the gun was fired.
nive seconds before the gun was fired. Paul Lerner, Lawrence graduate student, said he rushed across the room, hit Edwards while Edwards was bending over the body, and took the pistol away from him.
SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID they heard Edwards say, "Oh God, Pedro, I didn't mean to do it"
William Cox, chief of the Lawrence police department, said Edwards told police that he went to Wolf's apartment intending to wave the pistol around. Edwards told police that he banged on the door, the door opened, and the gun went off.
Chief Cox said Edwards told him he had previously had trouble with Wolf over loud noise.
CHEF COX SAID that there was alcohol on Edwards' breath, but that he was definitely not drunk.
Wolf testified that it had been several weeks since he and Edwards had spoken to each other.
Comedian Helps Students In Maryland Race Strife
CAMBRIDGE, Md. —(UPI)— Negro comedian Dick Gregory arrived today to join the civil rights movement in Maryland's racially tense eastern shore where new anti-segregation demonstrations were expected.
Police said Edwards told them he had inherited the gun from his father.
Students at Maryland State College, who battled police in the streets of Princess Anne Wednesday, promised to demonstrate again—perhaps tomorrow—against restaurant segregation. Police used clubs, dogs and fire hoses to disperse Wednesday's demonstration but student leader Warren Morgan vowed "we are not surrendering."
Gregory joined pre-dawn strategy meetings with civil rights leaders from Cambridge, Princess Anne and everywhere on the eastern shore. Several demonstrations during the week and stern counter-measures by authorities raised an atmosphere of crisis on the rural peninsula that separates Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
Lt. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Maryland's adjutant general, called the situation in Cambridge and Princess Anne "critical" yesterday and warned that state police may have to get tougher on demonstrators.
"It looks to me like a revolution," Reckord told a legislative committee in Annapolis, the state capital, where he testified in favor of raising the pay of national guardsmen put on emergency active duty.
About 130 state police remained on duty in Princess Anne and the National Guard was put on alert.
Cambridge has been under martial law for seven months
Meanwhile, a legal question arose over whether the state health code would require that the two state police dogs who bit at least 14 students during Wednesday's rioting would have to be confined for the next 10 days as a check against rabies.
Dr. Robert Johnson, Somerset County health officer, said the state law says animals that bite humans must be "kept under observation." He said he would ask the state attorney general for a ruling on whether that meant continuous physical confinement or if troopers could use the dogs again for crowd control as long as they had them "continually under observation."
The campus physician at Maryland State, Dr. Neville Barron, said 14 students were bitten badly enough to require hospital treatment. He called on Dr. Johnson to impound the police dogs.
Student Loan Fund Gets More Money
An additional $334,775 has been allocated to KU by the U.S. Office of Education.
The allocation was made under the student loan provisions of the National Defense Education Act, and raises the total amount given KU to $884,775.