University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 2, 1977
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Literature map is one of many illustrations in the Calendar of Kansas History.
*Oct. 9:* "Kansas University reports an enrollment of 1,233 students, with 14 blacks,
Calendar describes trivia of Kansas history
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*Feb 3: "Kansas University plays its first varsity basketball game against a Kansas City, Mo. Y.M.C.A. team, 1899. Coached by Dr. Mo. James A. Naimshim of the University of Missouri, the game, the Jayhawks lose 16-5 in what is reported to be an 'exceedingly fast game.'"
- Jan. 26: "William A. McKeever, philosophy professor at Kansas State Agricultural College, speaks before a child welfare group in New York and advocates 'scientific race breeding to produce better cross of boys and girls.' 1911."
- March 11: "During a day when county-seat feights are common, a graveyard ghost in McPherson County turns out to be a man copying names from tombs to bolster a petition for a special election to move the county seat to Galva, 1886."
- April 27: "William Allen Allen, working for the Kansas City Star, marries Salie Lindsay, whose mother tells him before the wedding; 'Well, Mr. White, I always told Salie she would go through the woods and pick up a crooked stick' 1883."
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Now comes a calendar that allows a person to make a date with history.
It is the 1978 calendar of Kansas history, researched, written and designed by Tom Averill, instructor of English. Averill has gleaned the calendar from several dozen books, journals and documents to provide a record of Kansas history that would be found in more said texts.
For example, Averill records the following:
Averill admitted to be a Kansas history buff who conceived the idea for a calendar while working for the Iowa State Historical Society.
"There was a woman there who was putting together an Iowa 'Deep Roots' calendar," he said. "I helped her get photos for it.
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"FIRST OF ALL, I tried to cover basic historical facts," he said. "Things like prohibition, population and the cattle towns."
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Averill said that although the calendar features many items that would not be standard textbook fodder, he stick to stick in basics on his account of the state's past.
one Japanese, one Italian and one Indian,
1903."
Dec. 2: According to a survey taken by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Kanser are averaging one divorce for every 15 men and two divorces for every woman, however, since it was conducted in 1887.
The calendar features poems and recipes pulled from the pages of early Kansas newspapers. Photographs and illustrations from the pages of early Kansas State Historical Society in Tooneka.
- Dec 9: "Hugh Cameron, the 'Kansas' herms, dies at Topeka, 1908. Born in Bison, Cameron staked a claim at Lawrence in 1854. He offered traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the inaugurations of presidents and to visit his friends, among them Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. After meeting the president, he letting his white hair grow halfway down his chest and his beard to his navel and he was at one time reported to be living in a tree."
HOCKEY
KANSAS JAYHAWKS
"I liked the idea of a calendar and thought
it would be a good way to get down what I knew about Kamala."
"We came to Kansas when I was five," Averill said, "and I grew up in Topeka.
"About 1989 or '70, I was trying to write a novel that was set in Kansas. It intrigued me. I ended up abandoning the novel, but never did my interest in Kansas history and culture."
The calligraphy and original drawings for the calendar were done by Eva K. Williams, a family friend from Topeka who now lives in North Carolina.
"The first one I did was a trial balloon," he said. "I borrowed the money and put out 500 copies. They sold immediately so I made 1,200 more."
Averil and Williams published the first campus calendar last year as an experiment.
He spent last summer putting together the 1978 calendar, then sent it to the printer Aug. 29. Within a few weeks, 3,000 copies of the calendar were ready for distribution.
The calendar is available at the Kansas Union bookstore and at several other stores in the state. We also work to distribute the calendar throughout the state. Each Thursday he travels around Kansas, visiting bookstores and leaving his calendars for consignment
"They'll say, 'Oh, yeah, we can sell this,'
Averill tells us, 'Everybody's nut about
that. They're not going to care."
Reaction by retailers has been excellent, Averill said.
permits would have to be issued for a proposed southern pipeline—from Long Beach, Calif., to Midland, Texas—within four months after the bill is enacted. The Interior Department yesterday gave its tentative approval to that line.
natural gas pricing today. The panel must reconcile the House-passed bill, which calls for continued price controls with the higher levels sought by Carter, with Senate legislation, which would remove all federal regulations on gas from newly discovered fields.
THE AGREEMENT ALSO requires that the president make a decision on a northern pipeline route to carry oil from the Pacific Northwest to the upper Midwest in early
Faster pipeline construction urged
WASHINGTON (AP) - House-Senate energy conferences reached agreement yesterday on a measure designed to speed construction of two pipelines to carry surplus Alaakan crude oil from the West Coast to inland parts of the nation.
The conferees are expected to take up
With the action, the conferences completed work on the third part of President Carter's five-part energy program and prepared to continue this work. His highly disputed issue of natural gas pricing.
Under the pipeline agreement, federal
Conferrees have now completed work on sections of the energy / legislation dealing with electric rates, general energy connection and conversion to convert from oil and natural gas to coal.
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"That's why we've got recipes and odd facts and poems and a whole lot of things in the calendar. We wanted people to read it, to enjoy their state and be of pride if it. Sure there is some whimsy in it, but then Kansans did some pretty whimsical things."
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