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Two sorority members turn over a spadeful of dirt and snow for Alpha Chi Omega groundbreaking ceremonies Tuesday. Linda Bell, center, president, is helped by Mrs. Robert Timmons, corporation president. Mrs. Joe Brown province president, looks on. The new house will be on Emery Road, north of the Sigma Nu house.
Groundbreaking for new Alpha Chi house
ALPHA CHI GROUNDBREAKING
Flanked by cement mixers and earth-moving equipment, about 20 Alpha Chi Omegas shoveled a scoop of snow and mud for an informal groundbreaking Tuesday.
This first new house built by the KU Alpha Chi's, is needed to house more girls and enlarge the KU chapter, Miss Bell said.
room, project room, TV lounge,
typing room, library, dining room,
chapter room and a snack kitchen.
The house will be on Emery Road, north of the Sigma Nu house.
The March call continued a trend observers had predicted would require far heavier drafts this year because the two-year terms of men inducted in 1966 are now expiring.
The Provincial style, split-level building will house 80 girls.
The corporation board officers of the KU chapter of the Alpha Chi's came to Tuesday's ground-breaking.
Miss Bell said the house was a combination of sleeping dorms and individual rooms. It will have a formal and an informal living
A VISTA volunteer abandons a Hollywood career to work with alcoholic Indians. See page 3.
The Navy, Air Force and Marines will continue to rely on volunteers.
Five heart transplants have been performed since the South African medical first. See page 5.
Construction of the $400,000 house began in November. The house should be finished for the 1968 fall semester, said Linda Bell, Atchison senior and Alpha Chi president.
Sam Miranda enjoys his position as coach Ted Owen's top aide. See page 6.
The Alpha Chi's, established at KU in 1914, first rented a house, then bought their present house at 1246 Oread.
78th Year, No. 67
Some women want the residence hall dinner dress code changed so they can wear slacks. See page 4.
--anyone could have dreamed. She collapsed with the tumor Monday.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Army has boosted its draft call again, asking for 39,000 men during March.
The quota compares with a January call for 34,000, an increase of 18,200 over December, and a February call of 23,300.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Army draft call goes up
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, January 10, 1968
Formal groundbreaking will be after the house is completed.
Mark Ethridge recipient of White Foundation award
Mark F. Ethridge, who "retired" to college journalism teaching after 55 years in the newspaper business, will be the centennial year recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's national citation for journalistic merit.
The 11th annual citation will be made at KU Feb. 12 with Ethridge, longtime publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, delivers the annual William Allen White Lecture. The address will follow a noon luncheon at which W. L. White, son of the late Emporia Gazette editor, will pay tribute to his father.
White, who died in 1944, was born Feb. 10, 1868. K.U.'s William Allen White Day Activities will follow a centennial program in Emporia Feb. 10 and El Dorado, White's boyhood home, Feb. 11.
Ethridge, 71, now a professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, was associated with the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times for 27 years as general manager, publisher and board chairman.
After his retirement in 1663, Ethridge spent two years as vicepresident and editor of Newsday on Long Is'and, N.Y., before retiring a second time to the North Carolina faculty. He is still a director of Newsday and the Courier-Journal and Times and consultant to the president and editor of Newsday.
Ethridge's more than 50 years of newspapering includes service as reporter, city editor, managing editor, associate editor, general manager and publisher of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun and Macon Telegraph in Georgia, the New York Sun, Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts it will be partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Thursday. The low tonight will be in the 20s. It will be turning colder Thursday night with a chance of light rain. Precipitation probability is less than 5 per cent tonight becoming 10 per cent Thursday.
Though his formal education includes only slightly over two years of college, few Americans have been singled out for more academic awards and citations. Ethridge holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Tulane, Mercer, Ohio Wesleyan, Berea, Louisville and Kentucky, and is an honorary Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. In 1960 he was named a distinguished journalist by Columbia University—only the third person to receive such an honor.
Ethridge served as a vice-president and director of the Associated Press from 1950-60.
Since 1954 he has been a trustee of the Ford Foundation. Scholarships for continuing education for southern journalists are given in his name by the Southern Regional Education Board.
Mark Ethridge
Borrowed heart stops beating
Block, 57, a retired city fire lieutenant, rallied briefly after the lengthy eight hour operation, then faltered shortly after midnight when a team of 25 surgeons, doctors and nurses could not keep his blood pressure from plummeting. Surgery was performed by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. It was the famed heart surgeon's second unsuccessful transplant.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Louis Block, the world's fifth heart transplant recipient, died early today 10 hours after surgery because the tiny heart of the woman donor could not pump blood fast enough to run his vital organs.
Doctors said years of terminal heart disease had so weakened the patient's lungs that those organs could not assume their share of the burden of helping Block's healthy but grossly overworked transplanted heart.
Use woman's heart
The heart came from the body of Miss Helen Krouch, 29, of East Paterson, N.J., who died Tuesday of a massive brain tumor. Miss Krouch had remarked only Sunday how wonderful the new heart transplant operations were, and told her parents she'd like to donate hers if she should ever die. The chance came sooner than
The woman was rushed from New Jersey shortly before noon Tuesday, and died soon after. The operation was begun so quickly that Block's wife found out about it only after hearing a radio newscast.
Death came to the plucky ex-fire fighter at 4:35 a.m. Kantro-witz, who announced the failure at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn shortly after 6 a.m., said:
"We feel that the major problem of this case was related to the pumping capacity of the transplanted heart and the poor condition of the lungs due to the patient's long standing disease.
"It was a valiant and valuable effort by the medical team. Much was learned from this experience, and we still hold out great hope for this procedure in patients with severe heart disease."
Tribute to Block
At the brief news conference of which he announced the death, Kantrowitz, weary from an almost 24 hour ordeal and saddened by the failure, paid tribute to Block:
"He was a brave and courageous man, whose only real opportunity for life was through this procedure."
See Heart, page 9
KU student takes oath for House
Special to the Kansan
TOPEKA—A KU junior was sworn in as a representative in the Kansas Legislature Tuesday during the opening of the session.
Robert A. Velsir, 21, of Independence was appointed by Gov Robert Docking to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of W. Lee Cain, also of Independence.
Velsir, a Democrat, is the youngest of the Kansas law-makers.
He was sworn in by Kansas Supreme Court Justice Robert T. Price.
Many of the bills are designed to help implement the education amendment to the Kansas Constitution approved by voters in 1968
More than half of the 63 bills introduced Tuesday were presented by the House and Senate education committees.
One of the Senate bills would require state high schools to have at least 100 students unless there are fewer than 100 in a district.
The Senate committee also called for a moratorium on the establishment of community junior colleges until after the 1969
legislature. The bill also would increase state aid to junior colleges by more than $600,000.
In other action, Rep. Harriet Graham, D-Wichita, the only woman in the House, introduced a measure making it unlawful to discriminate in wage rates on the basis of an employee's sex.
The convening of the legislature Tuesday marked the first time a regular session has been held in an even-numbered year since 1876. The session is scheduled to last 60 days.