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University of Kentucky

LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, NOV.

Vol. LI I

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No. 25

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Cats Defeat Vandy 27-0-,
Bettie Hall Elected Queen
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Delta Delta Delta sorority,
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and
tlie coed quadrangle won the
display contests-Be- tty
Delta

Hall, representing Alpha
Pi sorority, was elected

Queen
And. to highlight the weekend,
the 'Cats defeated Vandy, 27-for the University's 13th straight
homecoming victory.
theme was
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"Weave A Win Sew It Seams."
Twink McDowell, sophomore; Gail
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Students gathered and marched from Wildcat Manor to Memorial
Coliseum Friday night for a pep rally to kick off the weekend.

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Peterson, senior; and Barbara
Johnson, sophomore, were chairmen of the display. They got their
idea from the sorority's national
convention.

The TiKA's, with Fred Haas,
senior, heading the display committee, used 360 square yards of
cardboard for "Commodores Get
The Shaft When The Cats Steal

theme.
Alpha Tau Omega and Boyd
Hall won the attendance contests
Their Craft."
in the men's and women's divisions,
A spokesman for the fraternity respectively, at the Student Union
dance Saturday
said they spent less than $50 for
night.
display.
their
Queen Bettie Hall's court IncludThe winner in the independent
ed June Moore, representing Alpha
division was the coed quadrangle
whose theme was "We Finally Fig- Gamma. Rho; Carolyn Reld, Chi
Your Omega; and Janet Lloyd, Haggia
ured Out Your Weakness
Halt
Team."
Rainy weather held the crowd
p
diRunner-uin the sorority
down somewhat below last year's
vision was Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority's
"Kentucky Refreshes Homecoming Game with the UniWithout Filling While Half Pint versity of Tennessee. The sun did
come out at about half time and
Vandy Takes A Spilling."
received an ovation from the
Fraternity division runner-u- p,
crowd.
But clouds' soon obscured the
welcome sunlight.
The displays, many of which
were ruined by rain and wind, were
Judged early Saturday morning.
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The winners were presented
during halftime of the game.
Board-sponsor-

Engineer Convention
UK Students Favor
To Be Largest At UK
Nixon For President
majority cf UK students will
vote Republican today if the indications of a pell made by the University Social Research Service are
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The poll also shows that students
faor calling a limited constitutional convention.
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pared to 39.9 percent for Kennedy
and Johnson.
The limited constitutional convention appears to be favored by
92 8 percent of the students.
The pollsters asked students who

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would vote for on election
day. If they were not sure of their
they were a.'ked to indicate
ch:k-who they favored.
A total of 51.5 percent said they
would delinitely vote Republican.
Three percent favored the Nixon-LcdgtUket but were not certain
hOiV they would vote.
As "for the Democratic ticket.
37.3 percent of the students polled
6id they would definitely vote for
it and 2.6 percent said they were
leaning toward it.
Only 3.9 percent were undecided
and f.7 percent gave no answers.
The strongest support for the
Republicans was found in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics and the Commerce College.
Democratic Party support was
found in the Graduate School and
in the Colleges of Arts and
Engineering.
The, freshman class was the only
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one with a Democratic majority.
Republican support increased In
direct proportion to the class level,
with 65.1 percent of the seniors
favoring Nixon and Lodge and
only 7.9 percent supporting the
Democrats.'
Only 5.3 percent of those polled
oppose calling a constitutional convention.
Equipment at the University's
computing center was used to tabulate the poll's results. The sample
questioned comprised three percent of the students and was taken
from various colleges and classifications.
The Social Research Service is
n research arm of the Sociology
Department. It is directed by Dr.
Thomas R. Ford, associate professor of rural sociology.

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the planning committee was held Friday.
Included In the estimated 60 who
attended the meeting were Dr.
A meeting of

Leighton Collins, executive secretary or the ASEE from the University of Illinois; President Frank
G. Dickey, the executive committee for arrangements, and other
University personnel.

Today's Meetings
IFC meeting. Room 128, 6:30
p.m.
Panhellenic pledge trainers.
Room 204, 4 p.m.
Student Union Board meeting.
Room 205, 4 p.m.
Phalanx Luncheon, Room 205,
noon.
Pershing Rifles reception. Music Room, 4 p.m.
Sl'KV tryouts, Social Room,
5 p.m.
Football review, Social Room,
6:30 p.m.
Personnel and Campus Affairs
Committee, "Y" Lounge, 5 p.m.

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Education
is "Engineering
in
World Affairs." according to Dr.
Merl Baker, director of University

research and industrial relations
and chairman of the planning
The program in June will include outstanding international
speakers. The University is not responsible for the entire program
but will provide a banquet speaker.
The convention will begin with

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Sunday
After the Homecoming festivities one grim reminder of the wet,
Saturday game.

Winning
had trouble
with the motor providing power
(or its display. They constructed a
frame, and, having found this one
inauequaie, iiau 10 uuiiu anouier.
Then Saturday morning-- the motor
quit. But the display had already
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been judged.
The PiKA's had difficulty get-

ting their cardboard painted and

keeping ' its border from being
blown off and getting the motor

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Bettie Hall, representing Alpha Delta Pi
game.
sorority, is crowned during halftime at the Vandy-U-

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Debate

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Nov. 7 (AP) The U.N.
Soviets Display 'Might'
General Assembly today decided to delay debate on
MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (AP) Rocket detachments and
the Congo for 24 hours in order to permit President
other examples of Soviet might paraded before leadJoseph Kasavubu to take part.
By a vote of
2
with 12 abstentions the as- ers of world communism under an icy drizzle in Red
sembly thus put off until tomorrow what promised Square today. Premier Khrushchev was host at this
airing of the complicated problems observance of the Bolshevik Revolution's 43rd anto be a
niversary.
of the chaotic young African republic.
Later Khrushchev offered toasts to world peace
and to the liberation of colonial peoples, at a govCandidates Battle On Last Day
ernment reception attended by about 2,000 persons
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AP) Sen. John F. Kenin the Kremlin's grand palace.
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nedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon exchanged unpleasantries today as each drove himself
New York Teachers Strike
through the last day of the exhausting presidential
NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (AP) The first teachers
campaign.
strike In the city's history today disrupted the
Kennedy remarks Nixon Believes peace can be nation's largest public school system. Caught in the
secured "by parades and visits' to the Soviet Union." dispute over wages and union benefits were a milThat was the Democratic nominee's theme In Prov- lion pupils, some of whom ran wild for lack of class'
swing In New room supervision.
idence, R. I., as he made a last-da- y
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England.
Leaders of the striking United Federation of
,
Nixon said his rival's farm program "would cause Teachers predicted the walkout would snowball
a million jobs to be lost." The Republican standard among the system's 40.000 public school teachers.
bearer hit that note at Madison, Wis., Just after a The union, claiming only a minority of the total,
flight from a quick foray to Alaska.
estimated 15,000 already were on strike.
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a general meeting of representatives from all' phases of engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and English..
The ASEE meeting Is held at a
different school each year. In 1959
the convention was held at the
University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology and
in 1961 It will be held at Purdue.

There are approximately 11
thousand members of the ASEE in
the United States and Canada.

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of these are
atives of Industry and the remaining percentage is from educational
institutes. Membership in the
ASEE is encouraged for qualified
educators In the designated fields.
The program is designed to make
better professors of the members.

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The theme of the lMi meeting

committee.

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The largest convention ever to meet at UK will be held
Three thousand are expected to attend the annual
June
national meeting of the American Society for Engineering Edu- cation.
represent23-3-

Kappa Sigma, used "Wildcats
Polaster Commodores" as their

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letter from Dr. Melville
accepting the petition as first
director of the Agricultural Experiment Station Is on display In the
Margaret I. King Library.
Part of an exhibit commemorate
lng the Experiment Station's 75th
anniversary, the letter was dated
in 1885.
"The station came into being with
passage of a resolution by the
Board of Trustees on Sept. 25 of
that year. Two years later, the
Hatch Act was passed granting
federal aid to agricultural experi-

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passed setting up experiment stations on a federal basis.
The letter stated that it would
not cost more than $58 in expenses to support . the bill and
thought the Trustees should appropriate no more than $100.
office in the
From a
Administration Building, the station has expanded to more than
4.600 acres of land on which research on about 200 projects U
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The exhibit also contains a letter to the trustees from a committee Interested in getting a bill
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Anderson; the Rev. T. M. Johnston, Presbyterian
Foundation; the Rev. James XV. Angell; and Mr.
Charles Harber, Snyod Westminster Fellowship.

Dedicating the new University Tresbyterian Center
at Rose Street and Rose Lane are, from left,
Norman Chrisman Jr, architect; the Rev. Olof

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Cornerstone Dedicated
At Presbyterian Center
Laying of the cornerstone for the new University Presbyterian Center took place last Friday morning at a" brief service.
The Center, located at the cor- - Education, Synod of Kentucky.
participating

were Dr.
Angell Mr stewart
approximately $190,000.
Winstandley, Mr. Charles Harber.
i Participating
In' the dedication Dr. Frank Loef fel, the Rev. John
services were Dr. T. M. Johnston, r. King, and Mr. Norman
of the Foundation man Jr. "
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AO AND HOME EC COUNCIL

Fred Ross Shank, Mt. Crawford, Va., was elected president of
the Agriculture and Home Economics Council.
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The council is composed of presidents of the 10 student organizations

in the college

plus two

representatives from the freshman and sophomore classes. Dr.
Stanley Wall, associate dean of
the College of Agriculture and

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Home Economics, serves as adviser
to the group.

Student enthusiasm, dampened little by the elements, ran high
the Wildcats won 27-- 9 over Vanderbilt. Dotted by colorful
umbrellas the student section added its usual color to the fame.

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French Coed Comments On Style
cjasses are larger and there is no
Can you imagine a French girl time for a student to talk to his
with an aversion to short skirts? instructor. At UK she likes the
Pomerais, an idea of having smaller classes and
exchange student from Dcauville, of having an adviser.
Calvados, Franc, can't get used
Dating customs in France are
to the
which are so much different from those in the
popular with Amreican coeds right United States, according to Miss
now. Tennis shoes and socks aren't Pomerais. In France there is no
for her either, but our raincoats "flxlng-up- "
and the boys would,
with plaid linings and the Initial never date a girl only once. Usually
blouses worn by many U.S. stu- a French boy and girl will date
dents meet heartily with her Ap- each other for at least a month.
proval.
She states, too,- that there is a
Aside from these minor differ- greater tendency to go places in
ences, Miss Pomerais thinks that larger groups rather than in
French girls aid American girls couples. The theatre and sporting
dress pretty m ich the same. She events are popular places to take
says that girls here are prone to dates. Afterward, instead of going
wear much nvjre make-u- p
than to a place like Jerry's they go to
someone's house to dance.
those of her l tive country.
"The food is very different," says
Comparing college life in the
two countries, Miss Pomerais feels Miss Pomerais. "American pastry
that the French university is much is too sweet and I hate jello." She
more difficult. She maintains that states that she misses cheese more
there the student is required to than any other food.
do much more personal work. The
Miss Pomerais is studying here
under a scholarship provided by
the Lexington Women's Club. She
is taking courses in library science
and journalism. She plans to be
on campus for one year.
When she arrived here, she said
she was completely lost. Since
PRESCRIPTION
then, Miss Pomerais has become
SERVICE
more familiar with the campus.
She states that she enjoys the
Prompt
friendliness of the students here.
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This friendliness is something
which is less common in France,
DELIVERY
she said.
SERVICE
Miss Pomerais feels at home in
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Lexington because it is the twin
city to DeauviUe. Much of. the
scenery. Is the same because
Deauville is the heart of. the horse
Fountain Service
country of France. She said you
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KA rLEIH.E CLASS
Bill Young, Lexington, was
elected president of the Kappa
Alpha fraternity pledge class.
Other officers are Roger Oliver,
Berea, vice president; Bob Foy,
Lexington,
secretary - treasurer ;
Tom Hutchinson, North Albany,

Ind.,

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Rifles

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The Pershing Rifles
tcill sponsor a Dance
November 12 from. II ta 12ikiu.

Wayne Tollis, Lexington, chaplain.
HAMILTON HOUSE
The members of Hamilton House
had their annual tea for their

alumnae Saturday after the Home-

coming game.

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had a spaghetti supper Friday
night for their alumnae.
All experience is an arch to build
upon. Henry Brooks Adams.

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member or at the P. R.. Office, Barker Hall.

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* The Falling Sky
We recently witnessed in the campus "hoodlum" scare a prime example
of what happens when people allow
themselves to be carried away by unfounded rumor.
The whole thing, including the accusations of starting the scare which
were levied against the Kernel, was
just so much poppycock. Just as one
Chicken Licken of a childhood bedtime story ran to warn his friend
Turkey Lurkcy after being hit in the
head by what he believed to be a
piece of the sky, a Lexington police
officer ran to the Dean of Men's Office after hearing a rumor that
toughs were planning to invade Lexington.
Following the nursery tale to its
conclusion, the assistant dean of men
notified fraternity presidents of the
peril and the fraternities, again following the script, panicked and began to arm themselves just as Chicken
Licken's barnyard friends gathered
all available umbrellas to protect
themselves from the falling sky.
out-of-to-

It is unfortunate when a police de
partment allows one of its representatives to make such a warning without
adequate investigation of the matter.
It is even more unfortunate, however,
when the acting police chief attempts
to shift the blame for the false report
from his shoulders, where it rightfully belongs, to those of the publications that merely report such happenings.

It

is also regrettable

that a member

of the staff of the University Public

Relations Department chose to blame
the Kernel's Tuesday news story for
the fraternity panic which began after
a meeting in the dean of men's office five days before. Such is the lot
of the press for reporting the news
with an eye toward the truth instead
of going along with an administrative
snow job.

We wish that in the future Chicken Licken, Turkey Lurkey, and their
barnyard brethren would keep their
fearful tidings to themselves and leave
the campus alone.

THE READERS' FORUM
loss, specially told this group that

A Clarification
To The Editor:
Perhaps the Kernel has put its
foot in its mouth before; however, it
has not done so "by distorting and
failing to report all the facts concerning a matter of editorial interest," i.e.; the 1959 election for Homecoming queen.
Mr. John B. Farra Jr. in his letter
of Nov. 4, 1960 stated that "it was
a matter of the active chapter being
incognizant of the rule concerning
campaigning in the main lobby of
the Student Union Building" which
lost the crown for their candidate.
His fraternity had every opportunity to learn of the rules concerning Homecoming.
1. It is a standing rule that no
campaigning be done on the main
floor of the SUB during an election
unless it is a Student Congress election.
2. At 5 p.m. CDT, Nov. 3, 1959,
in Room 128 of the SUB, there was
a mass meeting which discussed
Homecoming rules. Notice of this
meeting was sent to each organization that had entered any Homecoming event. This included Mr.
Ferra's fraternity.
3. To each Greek organization, as
well as to the residence halls, there
was sent a letter which stated the folcamlowing: "We encourage 'all-opaigning for each candidate anyplace on campus EXCEPT ON THE
MAIN FLOOR OF THE SUB the
days of the election."
Could the fraternity involved not
know of this rule? Though the probability is great that they had contact
with it, it is possible that they had
not. For this reason, it is necessary
to clarify what happened on Nov.
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19, 1959.
1. Several lx)ys entered the SUB
and unrolled a banner with a candidate's name on it.
2. A member of the committee
whose job it was to prevent electioneering on the main floor of the
SUB asked this group to take down

their banner or the candidate would
be disqualified. At this time, their
pledge pins were noticed.
3. This group left but returned
within the hour ami resumed campaigning.
4. The chairman of Homecoming
Steering Committee, Miss Becky Car- -

their behavior would disqualify their
candidate if they did not cease immediately.
5. Miss Carloss then called the
Phi Delta Theta pledge trainer to tell
him that if he did not want his candidate disqualified that he should instruct his pledges of the consequences
of their actions.
6. Approximately one hour later,
Phi Delta Theta pledges reappeared.
At this time, they commenced shouting their candidate's number and
calling for those voting to support
her.
7. This candidate had a plurality.
S. On Nov. 20, the Homecoming
Steering Committee, after having deliberated for 12 hours, consulting the
dean of men and the dean of women,
and investigating the actual happenings, contacted the girl involved.
9. This candidate, on hearing of
the events that had taken place, immediately (without asking the steering committee its decision which has
never been announced) asked that
her name be withdrawn from the
contest.
10. The runner-u- p
was then contacted. She declined to accept the
crown unless it be made known that
she had not actually received a plurality of votes and that the one who
had was the victim of unfortunate
circumstances which would in no
way throw a poor light on her (the
actual winner) character.
11. The editor of the Kernel Bill
Neikirk, was given the full story.
12. The headlines of the day,
though, were of the "riot."
It was and is my desire that with
the clarifying of the events concerning last year's Homecoming queen
the matter be forgotten. My hope is
that if there is any effect on the
future it is only to insure that nothing so unfortunate should happen
again.
T. W. Harrincton
1959 Homecoming
Steering Committee
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Mature Attitude

To The Editor:
To your editorial "On Firing
Coaches," (Friday, Nov. 4) hooray!
The Kernel demonstrates a mature attitude rather than that of a "Monday
morning quarterback."
Bets Boriues

University Soapbox

Writer Blasts Chandler
ny WARREN WHEAT

(Editor's Note The opinions

ex-press- ed

in the following article are

those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Kernel.)
If the Constitution convention referendum is defeated today the voters
of Kentucky can blame only themselves and former Cov. Albert B.
"Happy" Chandler and certain of his
followers.
The former governor has appeared before people all over the
state attacking the proposal. He has
used his typical appeals to the "great
unwashed masses," avoiding pertinent
information and emphasizing negative approaches.
Two weeks ago, on a television
program, Chandler attacked the referendum, saying that it is backed by
selfish men seeking to destroy the
(ratified in
present Constitution

commonwealth is not even required
to "bo a practicing lawyer. He docs
not have to have any knowledge of
A county judge docs not even have
law ami the process of justice,
to In? literate enough to sign his own
name. One must wonder about a

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Considering the source, the "selfish
men" reference is not only absurd,
but somewhat humorous.
It seems to me that Chandler's
charges stem from the fact that his
name is not associated with the convention. The legislature should have
.called it the "Chandler Constitutional
Convention." Then the proposal
would have had the support of
Chandler and his followers as well
as the intelligent people of the state.
Mr. Chandler claims that there is
no such thing as a limited convention. But in typical Chandler fashion
he was either unaware of or strategically ignored such a constitutional revision by the people of Tennessee.
He said the convention would have
the power to revise every protective
provision of the 1891 Constitution.
The people should realize that every
change must be approved by a majority of the voters. And the delegates (he claims they are incompetent) will be elected by popular
vote.
The Louisville Couricr-- J ournal
quoted Chandler as having said,
"Would you tear down a fine old
house to fix a couple of leaks?" Sure
I would if these leaks were so bad
that they were undermining the house
and the very foundation on which it
stands. And that is just what is in
store for Kentucky if the present
Constitution remains unrevised.
His attack on the revamping of
the judiciary system might be expected from Chandler. It is a fact,
however, that a county judge in the

Kernels
"Anger and urgency assail me . . .
Anger that so rich and fat a country
as ours, dedicated to individual personality, should still, so desperately
late in history, be starving the educational and personal development of
tens of thousands of able children
whose only fault is that they are poor,
or a wrong color." John V. Monro.

someone who supports a constitution
with no literacy requirement.
Chandler said it would take as
long as three years for the revisions
to be submitted to the people. This
is true, but this is only another safety
factor for the people because the
delegates will need time to make investigations and decisions.
The proposed convention is a step
forward for Kentucky. It cannot be
detrimental to a state that is Inhind
most others in education, development of agriculture and industry, and
administrative efficiency.
The matter is now in the hands of
the people. Only they can decide now.
The future of Kentucky and its people is at stake. If the projxsal is not
defeated, and there is "ABC in C3,"
Chandler will have another opportunity to satiate his cgeentrism by
attaching his name to the new Constitution.

Overdue Recognition
It finally happened.
A Lexington city official has acknowledged the value of the University to the city.
In justifying the widening of
Euclid Avenue, Howard Cabbard, associate city traffic engineer, said recently, "UK is the largest business
Lexington has. Anything we can do
to help the flow of traffic in that area,
the better off we'll all be."
Although the associate traffic engineer is not the principal determiner
of city policy nor are his opinions
necessarily those of the city administration, we are pleased to know
that someone in city hall knows the
University is here.
Perhaps the city will eventually
even get around to doing something
about Rose Street's traffic problem.

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WASHINGTON, (AP)TThe Democrats and Rcpuhlicans
call the 19G0 election campaign probably the costliest in history.
But none seemed able to give Thev said the KDeed of let nlanean over-a- ll
estimate of the actual frv.i u ,
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total fund raising and spending too For one thin thev said it
ln the presidential and congress- - mflit- -, tt more difficult tn relert
lonal elections.
sneech invitations reauirine costlv
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tours,
Each side pictured the other as
Some of them thought more
they thought money
"spending as if
than the usual number of gim- was going out of style."
- cracks campaign buttons, stick- The Senate Elections Subcomcostume Jewelry.
. literature,
mltlee. after Investlratinr the 195
hats, and the like had
presidential and concessional
enVed this year, with 400 vend- ramoairns. estimated the cost
ors turning them out for both
reached at leat W3.185.725. It said
the total must have been far hich- - parties.
A top Republican campaign of
er, but that it was impossible to
ficial, declining 10 dc quoted Dy
trace the rest of it.
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name, said the I inn maiionai 1
The subcommittee had heard un- Committee and three companion
confirmed estimates that the fedcommittees
in scope, have
eral elections might have cost a combined national of $7,200,000
budget
something closer to $100 million,
this year. A top Democratic of- and that state, county, and local
corresponding four
ficial said
election costs might run the figure committees the
in his paVty have -- a
up to around $150 million.
budget something like six and one- Why would the 1960 campaign
to seven million dollars.
be the costliest? Both sides said half
there has been more television
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advertising, extensive
stumping tours by the candidates nBUOn ana ,ower neion ixixon- uua,
iui ivnni,- in Jet planes and by other means,
Johnson, and dozens of other
the addition of the new states of
and Hawaii, and hicher tional. state, county, and local
committees of many titles.
costs of goods and services.
A Democratic campaign execuAt GOP headquarters, an aide
noted that Vice President Richard tive said his party's four major
M. Nixon in a single day had national organizations are spend flown from St. Louis, Mo., to At- ing about three million dollars for
lantic City, NJ, Roanoke, Va., and television broadcasts. He figured
Kansas City to deliver speeches campaign travel bills would run to

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