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Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No.78
Friday, Feb. 7, 1964
P-t-P Fund Controversy Eases After Meeting with Wescoe
By Roy Inman
The dispute over the frozen People-to-People funds was resolved at least partially as a result of a meeting yesterday in Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office, the chairman of People-to-People said last night.
Jerry Harper, chairman of P-t-P, said:
"I hope that now a more satisfactory relationship can be worked out. Some type of progress was definitely made at the meeting."
HARPER, LAWRENCE SENIOR,
twice previously had refused to
submit a financial report to the All
Student Council, an ASC requirement
of all organizations under the
support of the ASC. People-to-
People's funds were frozen by the
ASC on Jan. 9.
"My reason for not giving the report was to bring the thing to a head," Harper said last night. "I will make the report at the next All Student Council meeting, with the understanding that more about our situation will be discussed."
John Stuckey, chairman of 'the ASC, and one of four persons who attended the closed meeting in Chancellor Wescoe's office, said:
"I am satisfied with Harper's decision to comply with the ASC stipulation. I believe that the requirement of a report is reasonable."
STUCKEY, PITTSBURG senior, said People-to-People's position could be negotiated.
Harper said he believes that if People-to-People is controlled by the
College Bill to House
The House Ways and Means Committee approved without change yesterday a Senate-approved bill to finance the operation of state universities and colleges in the 1965 fiscal year.
The 45.9 million dollar bill is the largest general fund appropriation of the session. It will now advance to the house for further action.
Included in the bill is a 6.5 percent increase in faculty salaries. This increase is a compromise between the schools and the Board of Regents, who asked for 7.5 percent salary raise, and Gov. John Anderson, who recommended a reduction to a 5 percent increase.
This faculty salary raise will not noticeably affect KU's relation to the Big Ten or the national salary average, but it will help in relation to the wage scale at Wichita University, according to Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of finance.
Weather
According to the weather bureau, the Lawrence area can expect fair weather tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures will increase with the high today expected to be in the 40's, and increasingly warmer on Saturday. Low tonight will be in the 20's.
Presently, the chairman, vicechairman, secretary and treasurer of People-to-People are appointed by the student body president.
ASC, it may become a political tool or "even inefficient." For this reason, Harper said he wants the organization under the auspices of the University administration
Marshall Crowther, Vice-chairman of ASC, who was also at the meeting said. "The idea of not giving the report was just an attention-getting device on Harper's part. His method was the best."
"I feel that People-to-People should at least have the right to elect its officers," Harper said.
"I CAN SEE no reason to turn over control of People-to-People to the administration as Harper seems to want," Crowther said.
Crowther, Lawrence second year law student, feels that the lack of communication between ASC and P-t-P could hurt People-to-People. "This is why a report should be made," Crowther said.
"The main idea of this meeting was to find out how far apart ASC and P-t-P were on the issue," Crowther said.
"In addition, if the administration should assume the responsibility of People-to-People, the Chancellor should know the situation."
According to All Student Council policy, a vote will have to be taken and passed after Harper gives his report before the frozen funds can be used.
Chancellor Wescoe, who acted as mediator, declined comment on the matter.
University a Launching Pad?
KU Alums Seek Governorship
By Lee Stone
If numbers count, there is an even chance a KU alumnus will be the next governor of Kansas.
Ten Kansans have already announced their candidacy for the office, and half of them are KU graduates.
KU alumni in the race are Republicans Paul Wunsch, Kingman, William H. Avery, Wakefield, and William Ferguson, Wellington; and Democrats Harry Wiles, St. John, and J. Don Coffin, Council Grove.
The present governor, John Anderson Jr., is a KU alumnus.
Miss Pat Kackley, a clerk-typist in the registrar's office descended to the KU vault to look up the candidate's yellowing transcripts. They yielded a wide range of academic achievement.
Wunsch was active in many campus organizations. He took the negative in inter-collegiate debates and won the vice-presidency of the sophomore law class. He was a member of the "Sour Owl" board, a now defunct KU humor magazine
PAUL WUNSCH'S high marks suggested he may have been an honor student, but it was not explicitly stated, Miss Kackley said. Wunsch was graduated from the College in 1924 and from the School of Law a year later.
HARRY WILES was graduated from the School of Business in 1938. He was on the honor roll his junior and senior years. In 1941 he was graduated from the School of Law. Dusty copies of the Jayhawker show that Wiles was the track team captain and a letterman in 1936-38.
Wunsch is now president pro tempore of the Kansas Senate.
Wiles, like Wunsch, held offices in campus organizations. He was a member of the men's Panhellenic Council, secretary of the K club, and president of the Coalition party.
The late George Docking appointed Wiles
chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission in 1957. Wiles' term expires in one more year.
William Ferguson majored in history at KU and was an honor student during his senior year. Ferguson is now the attorney general of Kansas.
J. DON COFFIN received his law degree in 1928. He studied mostly business and law. Coffin is now a Council Grove attorney and businessman.
William H. Avery majored in political science. He was on the freshman honor role and was graduated in 1934. Avery is now the U.S. Representative from the Second Congressional District of Kansas.
Other candidates in the race for the gubernatorial office are Republicans Harold Chase, Salina, now lieutenant governor of Kansas, McDill (Huck) Boyd, a northwest Kansas publisher and former candidate for governor, and Grant Dohme. Democrats are Jules Doty, Ottawa, supporting "liquor by the drink" and George Hart, Wichita.
Boyd Wants Students
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MANHATTAN—(UPI)—McDill (Huck) Boyd of Phillipsburg, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, last night outlined a plan designed to tap Kansas college students brainpower for ideas on improvement of state government.
The veteran newspaper publisher told a Kansas State University Collegian Republican Club meeting that the plan would involve formation of a governor's student advisory commission composed of student representatives from 11 Kansas colleges.
Officials Discuss Cuban Problem
Boyd said the students would meet with the governor twice annually to offer suggestions for improvement, of state government procedures, economy and facilities.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Johnson, facing increasing problems in the foreign relations field, met today with top diplomatic and military leaders in a strategy conference on the water cutoff by Fidel Castro at Guantanamo Naval Base.
Johnson has given assurances that the water cutoff will not create a health hazard for the 10,500 Americans at the base, considered by Castro as a capitalist sore on the body of his communist island.
The President said water will be shipped to the "Gitmo" base to meet needs indefinitely.
There was suspicion in Washington that Castro might have concocted the plan to raise an international incident over a Cuban fishing incident to provide an excuse to cut off the water supply at the base.
Among those called to today's top-level White House meeting was Llewellyn Thompson, former ambassador to Moscow and now a top Washington adviser on Soviet affairs. It was reported Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, a frequent adviser to the late President Kennedy on Cuban matters, also was invited.
The Soviet Union yesterday condemned U.S. arrest of 38 Cubans for fishing in U.S. territorial waters.
At the meeting were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Undersecretary of State George W. Ball, Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Director John A. McCone, and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff.
Johnson assured the American people last night that the Guantanamo Base would be kept supplied with water. He said that the United States had anticipated Castro's action and was prepared to move water to the base by ship and other sources "indefinitely."
"Our troops in Cuba and their families will have the water they need." the Chief Executive declared. He departed from the text of a speech he was delivering in New York to make clear the U.S. position.
THE PRESIDENT WAS nearing the end of a two-day speechmaking trip to New York when the Cuban situation erupted. He conferred by long distance telephone with top advisers throughout the day. After his flight back from New York last night, he conferred at the White House with McGeorge Bundy, his special assistant for national security affairs.
There was no immediate reaction from U. S. officials to a Castro announcement last night that he would permit a flow of fresh water for one hour a day to the big naval base. Castro cut off the water supply to Guantanamo in retaliation for U.S. seizure of 36 Cuban fishermen charged with poaching in Florida waters.
The State Department rejected Castro's charge that the fishermen were "kidnaped" in international waters. A U.S. statement said the fishermen were well inside U.S. waters—1½ miles from shore.
The department said that the fishermen knew they were in U.S. territorial waters. It said that one of the fishing boat captains, just prior to boarding by the U.S. Coast Guard, reported by radio to Havana that the vessels were in U.S. waters.
The belief in official circles here was that Castro had deliberately sent the fishing boats into American waters with full knowledge that they would be seized as trespassers in order to have a pretext to cut off Guantanamo's water supply.
The theory in Washington was that the Cuban leader felt the current anti-American agitation in Panama had created a favorable atmosphere for him to renew his demands that the United States give up its lease on the big Guantanamo base.
INFORMED sources said that at last night's State Department strategy session, more time was spent assessing Castro's possible motives within the framework of the Communist drive in Latin America than in considering possible counter-measures. This was because there appeared to be no crisis involved since the Navy is able to supply water to the base, although not in the amount obtained from Cuba.
Among the possible counter-measures discussed, it was learned, that was of "furloughing" several thousand Cuban workers who come to the base daily to work. The dollars paid them are taken by the Cuban government at an unrealistic rate of exchange and provide Castro with badly needed foreign exchange.
Officials emphasized, however, that this was just one of a number of suggestions up for consideration and no action along those lines had been taken.
Reaction from Congress to the latest Caribbean flareup was swift and unanimous with pledges of support for Johnson. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., called for "firm and decisive counter-action," and Sen. George A. Smathers, D-Fla., urged that a naval blockade be considered
"IF CASTRO chooses to cut off a commodity vital to our continued existence in Guantanamo," Smatthers said, "then I believe we should seriously consider preventing the arrival in Cuba of foods and supplies essential to the perpetuation of the Castro dictatorship."
Members of congress are urging President Johnson to stand firm in the Guantanamo incident and have promised him bipartisan support in any move to counter the Castro government's water cutoff to the naval base.
Rep. William C. Cramer, R-Fla., called the move an act of aggression to try to blackmail the United States into releasing Cubans seized for fishing in U.S. territorial waters.
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R.N.Y., suggested that the United States should "take possession and assure protection" of the water supply; blockade Cuba to all shipping until the water is fully turned on and encourage Cubans to increase anti-Castro activities.