Daily Hansan
60th Year. No. 91
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1963
UP Candidate Would Change ASC Function
By Terry Ostmeyer
The replacement of political partisanship by effective representation in student government was called for by the University Party's candidate for All Student Council president at a party meeting last night.
Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, said KU stands a good chance of becoming the "Harvard of the Midwest" in the next 10 years and the role of the ASC is important in promoting the University.
WHITMAN'S CANDIDACY for the Spring ASC election was recommended by the UP Campus Committee and he was unanimously accepted at the meeting along with Doug Hall, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, for vice-president.
Whitman said political partisanship has made it impossible for the ASC to be an effective instrument in achieving the role of a student government, as well as bringing disrespect from the faculty and the students.
"We are being led by campus politicians who care more for their image and for the office than for the goals they are pursuing," he said.
WHITMAN SAID the goals of student government should not only be realized, but more importantly, these goals should be implemented.
He said it is apparent the student body presidency should be brought back to the students.
"It is time." Whitman said, "that we make the student body presidency a 'service position' rather than a stepping stone to state senator from Kansas."
THE UP CANDIDATE said more representation from the independents is also needed in the ASC, yet student government must not be a question of fraternal organizations and independents.
"It must be a question of which party can most effectively represent the entire student body, and through representing the entire student body I call upon its members to contribute in some measure to the future of this institution." Whitman said.
KCU-MU Set Merger Plan
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — (UPI) — The University of Kansas City will submit a plan to Gov. John Dalton to bring the university under the administration of the University of Missouri, it was announced last night.
Dr. Charles Kimball, chairman of the state Board of Trustees, said the agreement was reached after several months of negotiations between representatives of the two universities.
UNDER THE proposal, the University of Kansas City would transfer its lands, buildings, books, equipment and other assets valued at more than $20 million to the curators of the University of Missouri.
Administration of the local university, which would be renamed the University of Missouri at Kansas City, would be assumed by the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Kimball said the proposal suggested a transfer effective July 1, if the Missouri legislature provides the necessary funds.
DR. ELMER F. ELLIS, president of the University of Missouri, said
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UP CHOOSES CANDIDATES—Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, right, and Douglas Hall, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, left, were unanimously accepted by the University Party last night as its ASC presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively for the spring election.
House Committee Expects WU Vote
The House State Affairs committee plans to vote tomorrow on the Senate-passed bill to bring Wichita University into the state school system.
Rep. Jess Taylor, R-Tribune, and chairman of the committee announced yesterday that the vote on the bill and propositions will come some time after 1 p.m., when the commi
The State Affairs committee is expected to pass the bill pretty much as it stands, said Rep. Walter Ford, D-Ulysses, who has been on the committee since he came to the House in 1957.
"Any amendment will have to come from the floor." Ford said.
Rep. John Gardner, R-Johnson County, has proposed that the bill be amended to delete all references to "university."
He says that the bill, in its present form, augures for a third full university although the Board of Regents is under no legal obligation for such a program.
But he said there was feeling that the bill was so important that it merited discussion on the floor of the House.
Rep. Gardner said the committee members had all nearly made up their minds, and that those originally for it were still for it.
Meanwhile, Atty. Gen. William Ferguson yesterday held that the city of Wichita could not refuse to make a tax levy for paying off Wichita University's outstanding bonds.
If the bill passes State Affairs, the bill goes to the House Ways and Means committee, where it is expected to have a little more difficulty.
Ferguson had been asked for the opinion by Rep. Jerry Griffith, D-Sedgwick County.
The vote in Ways and Means is split about evenly at the present time, according to chairman John Conard. R-Kiowa County.
Opponents of the Wichita University bill have charged there is nothing in the current bill to prevent Wichita at some later date from refusing to continue the mill and a half levy to pay off the revenue bonds as agreed on in the bill.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today and tonight in the northeast, northwest, southwest, northwest, and north central zones of Kansas. Partly cloudy in the southeast and south central area. Warmer tonight and tomorrow in all zones.
Soviet Protests Ignored by U.S.
BERLIN-(UPI)-The U.S. Army sent a helicopter over East Berlin today in still another demonstration of Allied travel rights.
It was the first helicopter flight over East Berlin since Dec. 19, American officials said.
The Russians, as in the past, charged the flight was illegal in an oral protest to the four-power air safety center, an American spokes- United States planned
Today's flight took place without incident and was described as routine.
LAST AUGUST the Soviet's said such flights were illegal and warned the helicopters might be shot down.
However, the Americans told the Soviets the flights would continue. They said they may fly anywhere in the Berlin control zone. The zone has a 20-mile radius from the four-power air-safety center in the American sector and includes East Berlin.
In another expression of Western rights, American troops and tanks in a surprise alert tested plans to defend the city.
ONE OF THE army's three battle groups was called out in snow and slush at 5:30 a.m. for a four and one-half hour exercise.
A second battle group was alerted for a three-hour game at 1 p.m.
A force of 20 tanks and 140 riflemen rushed to Tempelhof Airfield, main airlift base during the Russians' 1948-1949 blockade of Berlin. The soldiers set up machine gun posts at the airfield, one of the city's key defense points if trouble breaks out.
SOME SOLDIERS of the 1,500-man battle group remained in their barracks as a reserve force. They were loaded on trucks ready to move.
Such exercises to test the readiness of troops are held from time to time. They were stepped up after the Russians issued their Berlin ultimatum four years ago.
An Army spokesman said the game was "a routine operational readiness test which is part of the normal training."
Neutrals Seek Compromise
GENEVA — (UPI) — Neutral states at the 17-nation disarmament conference met today to study a possible compromise bid to break the East-West nuclear test ban dendlock.
Neutral delegation sources said the eight may propose a total of five on-site inspections each year to police a test ban treaty halfway between the latest Western demand for seven and the Soviet offer of a maximum of three.
THE SOURCES said the neutrals will not move, however, while there is hope the three nuclear giants may agree among themselves. They ruled out any major neutral initiative at the next plenary session of the conference scheduled tomorrow.
Today's one-hour meeting was the second of a private weekly series called by the neutrals to discuss developments at the conference and olot future strategy.
Observers believed the neutral's were waiting to see if the unexpected return to Moscow Saturday of chief Soviet negotiator Vassil V. Kuznetsov heralded a shift by the Russians.
NEUTRAL DIPLOMATS hope Kuznetsov, Soviet first deputy foreign minister, has gone for fresh instructions and not because the Soviets have downgraded the conference.
Neutral delegates noted the chief Communist spokesman at the last plenary session, Romanian Deputy Foreign Minister George Macovescu, urged the West to "come halfway" towards the Soviets in negotiations. This possible hint, neutrals believed, could mean the Soviets have not yet said their final word.
Democrats Predict Passage Of Tax Cut Bill This Year
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Democratic leaders said after a meeting today with President Kennedy that a tax cut bill containing "certain reforms" would be enacted by Congress this year.
"Everybody recognizes that the taxes are too high." House Speaker John W. McCormack said after a weekly breakfast meeting between Kennedy and legislative leaders of his party.
"A REDUCTION is needed and the tax reduction bill will reduce the high rates." McCormack said. He added that he and other Capitol Hill leaders told the President that "tax reduction with certain reforms will pass."
Democratic leaders also said after last week's White House meeting with Kennedy that they had not given up on tying tax reforms to tax cuts. However, in spite of today's reiteration of this, it appeared that the President himself appears to have harpooned his tax reform proposals.
Kennedy apparently surrendered yesterday whatever leverage he
HE DID SO BY SAYING that he was willing to abandon every one of his tax reforms, if necessary, to win enactment this year of a net income tax reduction of $10 billion or more spread over three years.
might have had for enactment of revenue-producing reforms in the same package as tax cuts.
This had been implicit all along. But the fact that the President publicly acknowledged it strengthened the position of those battling against the tax-tightening reforms.
Conversely, it undermined the position of chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., of the House Ways & Means Committee, who was largely responsible for persuading Kennedy to include "tax reforms" with his tax reduction program.
MILLS DECLINED comment on Kennedy's statement. But no one doubted that the veteran lawmaker was unhappy over the President's latest tax pronouncement.
Some lawmakers were puzzled as to why the president was taking a line that could not help but hurt his own relations with Mills, who
presumably will be called upon to carry the legislative ball for the tax cut.
ONE THEORY WAS that Kennedy had become gravely concerned over his failure to generate public enthusiasm for tax cuts and felt he should try to whip up support by holding out the possibility that the reforms—distasteful to groups affected—would be jettisoned in the final bill.
Adenauer's Defeated Party Ends Coalition
BERLIN —(UPI)— Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party (CDU), badly beaten in last week's city elections, announced today it will leave the city government coalition headed by socialist Mavor Willy Brandt.
The announcement ended Brandt's plan to keep the coalition, even though his socialists now hold an absolute majority of the city assembly. He had hoped to preserve the coalition to present a united front to the east Berlin Communist threat.