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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 15, 1963
Cupid's Faulty Aim Severes Romance
By Joanne Prim
Did you have a slight case of rheumatism when you shot your arrows yesterday, Cupid?
Either your aim is getting a little faulty, or your targets are acquiring an unusual sense of humor.
What did you put on the tip of the arrow when a young man sent his sweetheart two goldfish yesterday.?
Her roommate glibly explained, "She likes ugly fish because she feels sorry for them. That's why he got them for her."
But, Cupid, how do you explain the "bouquet" one coed received yesterday?
"I got a call from the desk that I had flowers," the woman related. "I was thrilled to death, and everyone was waiting out in the hall when I came back with them."
Her hopes had soared as she began to untie the huge box, but they collapsed with a thud when she undid the ribbon and found a bunch of long-stemmed — you guessed it — thistles.
An accompanying card said, "Your beauty is like a red, red rose." It was signed "Your Valentine." The recipient said she had "no idea" who sent the card and thistles.
You'll have to quit dancing around in the clouds so much. You even let a mouse slip by you.
Thistles and fish! And the women who received them were room-mates. Cupid!
Luckily, it was only in the form of a collar pin about one inch long. The woman who received it estimated the varmit was three-fourths tail.
Now what do you think about the student who threatened to send his ex-pinmate a cactus and another male who did send a coed a rose in a beer bottle?
Maybe you'll have time to do a little extra practicing before next Feb. 14. Target practice and proper exercise will help you get your old zing back.
However, you really did a quite excellent job in some respects. Many women students received candy, flowers, or jewelry. The switchboard operator at a women's residence hall said bouquets were still coming in at closing last night.
You deserve a new arrow tip for sending one coed TWO dozen roses, and you made one young lady happy with a heart-shaped pendant on a gold chain.
In fact, you were so efficient you put an added burden on the post office. An avalanche of packages, filled with goodies and pretties, flooded the mails.
One woman received a dozen rosees and a box of lollipops.
"When we started going together, there was a popular song about lollipops and roses," she explained. "In the song, roses meant the girl
was beautiful like a rose and lollipops meant she was sweet.
"For about a week after we started dating, he sent me one rose and one lollipop a day," she added.
One literary-minded couple exchanged books. She gave him a volume on the development of motion pictures. He gave her a fifteenth century "Cokry Boke."
One young gallant has loaned his car to his girl for a week.
One upperclass woman received a KU class ring and enjoyed a steak dinner yesterday evening.
Another described a Valentine she and her fiance gave each other — a trip to Oklahoma to see each other.
"I went to Oklahoma City by bus," she said. "He drove all night from where he is stationed in Texas."
Maybe the most sentimental of all hearts you pierced yesterday. Cupid, was that of a gentleman who sent his girl a Valentine and then left her poems throughout the day.
Let's hope that nobody gets a Valentine like this one a woman student made and gave her roommate:
So you didn't get
a rose . . .
or candy . . .
or a call . . .
Happy Martyr Day!
Asian Flu Cases Confirmed at KU
Two patients at Watkins Hospita from Feb. 5-11 had Asian Influenza the State Board of Health said yesterday.
At present no suspected cases are in the hospital, Dr. Ralph O. Canuteson, Health Service Director, said today.
INFLUENZA VACCINE is available. A booster dose for those previously vaccinated will increase protection.
Persons not previously vaccinated will need 10-14 days to build up sufficient immunity to protect against or appreciably modify the disease should they be exposed, Dr. Canuteson said.
An increase in the number of Asian influenza cases has been noted, but Dr. Canuteson does not expect an epidemic. He said about half of the student body is protected by vaccination.
AT PRESENT, there are only scattered cases of influenza in Kansas. Asian influenza can break out anytime between November and March. By April, the hazard should be over.
Furthermore, out of the two to four cases tested each day since the start of this outbreak, only two cases have been proved influenza.
Dr. Canuteson emphasized, however, that the behavior of Asian influenza cannot be predicted.
British Labor Leader Leans To Kennedy
LONDON — (UPI) — Labor Party leader Harold Wilson, who has high hopes of becoming one of the youngest prime ministers in British history, worked today on plans to visit the United States and secure a "happy relationship" with President Kennedy.
Wilson, 46, was chosen to succeed the late Hugh Gaitskell as leader of the resurgent opposition party in a run-off election against acting party leader George Brown. Wilson captured 144 votes to 103 for Brown in the second round balloting by Labor parliamentary members.
THE DAILY MIRROR, which supports Labor, hailed Wilson's victory and said:
"Wilson belongs to President Kennedy's generation and the future belongs to the young."
Wilson, in a post-election news conference last night, said his energies would be concentrated on maintaining party unity, along the guidelines laid down by Gaitskell before his untimely death last Jan. 18, and winning the next election battle with the Conservative Party.
Gaitskell, after a turbulent struggle with the party's left-wing, set labor firmly on a course of full support to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and U.S. leadership of the western alliance.
WILSON, WHO HAD the support of the left-wing in the party election, said he planned to take steps to secure a "happy relationship" with Kennedy and the United States.
"I would naturally want to go there and make my contacts in Washington again as quickly as possible," Wilson said.
British newspapers took the opportunity of Wilson's victory to comment on Labor's excellent chances of ousting the Conservative Party from power after 11 years as the loyal opposition.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan can hold off a general election until October 1964. But many observers feel he will go before the nation for a new mandate before then.
THE TIMES OF London said "favorable omens" greet the new Labor shief.
"He inherits a party which is in good shape . . . and with excellent prospects of winning power at the next general election" the Times said.
The former Oxford University lecturer's victory came at a time when the Conservative rank-and-file MPs were reported growing restive over Macmillan's handling of the Common Market defeat and his age.
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No casualty figures have been disclosed for the clashes that followed the overthrow of Kassem a week ago today. Authorities are censoring all reports of new fighting here.
Kassem Supporters Continue Fight In Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq — (UPI) — Machinegun fire indicating new fighting between the revolutionary regime and supporters of slain Premier Abdel Karim Kassem broke out for half an hour last night shortly after the 11 p.m. curfew.
Quick bursts of gun fire were heard from the direction of the Kifa Street area on the East bank of the Tigris River, a largely Kurdish neighborhood with strong Communist elements. In the same area, government troops clashed with Communists Wednesday night after a Communist sniper wounded a revolutionary army man.
Revolutionary troops sealed off the Kifa district after the fighting Wednesday night.
THE CURFEW prevented Western correspondents from making an on-the-spot inspection.
Silent crowds of frightened Kurds watched the mopping up operation, which resulted in at least one truck-load of prisoners being carried away.
Throughout the day, green-uniformedgendarmerie escorted small groups of arrested persons to the police station amid jeering, screaming crowds of Baghdad citizens.
WESTERN diplomats said the arrest figure is now so high it is believed special concentration areas are being set up to hold the prisoners.
A HOUSE TO HOUSE search was carried out yesterday by revolutionary forces. This correspondent watched troops smash in windows, poke guns through shattered frames, and collect prisoners.
(The Soviet Union meanwhile made its first direct complaint of the new regime's anti-communist drive.
(Pravda said the Soviet people are deeply concerned about the wave of terror in Iraq . . . sinister forces are trying to avail themselves of the situation to physically annihilate the most devoted defenders of the interests of the Iraqi people.)
TEHRAN RADIO said rebel forces and pro-Kassam troops clashed yesterday in the area around Al Amarah, a city on the Tigris 20 miles southeast of Baghdad and 35 miles west of the Iranian border.
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