Comanche, the cavalry horse on display at KU’s Museum of Natural History, was the subject of some dispute. A campus group was seeking signatures on a petition to ask the Chancellor to turn the horse over to the Army. The group’s objective was to remove the horse from the museum, where they disliked its prominent place among the Indian artifacts.

Thirty-one law students, in their third year of study at the KU School of Law, were working to meet the legal needs of indigent residents through the Douglas County Legal Aid Society. This was a big increase from the previous year, when only five participants of the law class participated.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, in a speech up in Milwaukee, said that his mission was to help elect men who would fight a national trend towards “permissiveness” and to mobilize a silent majority that had been “bulldozed” into thinking its values were out of fashion.

The morning low was a chilly 45 degrees, and a near-record low temperature of 37 was expected in the Lawrence area overnight.