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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
MONDAY JULY 23,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wescoe Past ... Wescoe Present
In 1967, Idea for What Might Have Been
Jet Crashes In Sea Off Tahiti; At Least 4 of 79 Aboard Dead
PAPEETE, Tahiti — A Pan American jetliner with 79 passengers reported aboard crashed into the sea north of the Papetee Harbor channel Sunday night. Four survivors were taken to the Papetee hospital, but one of them, a stewardess, died there. Three bodies have been recovered. The boeing 707 jet crashed at 10:15 p.m. local time—3:15 a.m. Lawrence time Monday), shortly after taking off for Los Angeles.
Nixon Does Well at Camp David
CAMP DAVID-President Nixon, maintaining a fairly busy weekend schedule here was described by one of his doctors as showing "no sign of fatigue." Nixon, who drove to Camp David Friday after being hospitalized with pneumonia, conferred for two hours Sunday with staff chief Alexander Haig Jr. and Press Secretary Ronald Kleepy. Deputy Press Secretary Gerard Warner said Nixon spent much of the day working at Aspen Lodge, reviewing a "a variety of domestic and international matters."
IRA Relives 'Bloody Friday'
BELFAST—British authorities said two members of the outlawed Irish Republic Army, one teen-aged girl, blew themselves up Saturday night with their own bomb. This was on the first anniversary Friday, when 19 IRA bombs exploded in Belfast leaving nine personnel dead and threatened violence to average the nine deaths. In anticipation of trouble, thousands of British troops were brought in to keep the lid on violence.
Porno Film on Christ Underway
COPENHAGEN—A pornographic Danish film called "The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ" is to be made in the south of France next month, partly financed by the Danish government. The Danish Film Institute will be giving $110,000 toward filming costs. Criticism of the venture as being blasphemous has been voiced. Berlinge Tidende a conservative newspaper, has said in its criticism of government action that "to allow obscenity without punishing it is not the same as supporting it."
Gray Weather Today
We're in for another round of drab and humid weather and there is little chance of seeing very much sun today. There may be a few scattered thundershowers in the area and the temperature tonight should go down to the 60s.
By KRISTA POSTAI
Kansan Staff Writer
Wescoe Hill just ain't what it used to be. Originally designed in 1967 as the tallest building in the state of Kansas, it was to tower 25 stories over the KU campus and provide 487 faculty offices and two five-story classroom wings.
"The at risk of being corny," said W. Clarke Wescoe, then chancellor, "this building is the high-point of the University's master plan."
THE HIGHPONT was reduced to 15 stories in March 1968, however, after bids were taken and it was discovered that the estimated cost of $5.8 million for the 25-story structure was short by about $2 million.
Once again, the humanities building went back to the drawing board because of lack of funds and eventually emerged as the museum's story structure now nearing completion.
In the process, however, the original architects, Woodman & Vandoren—who were paid $210,700 for their work on the design of the Tower, were paid the Tooka firm of Horat. Terrill & Kerst.
Matching federal funds to supplement state funds had been requested, which put KU on a federal time schedule. Delay ensued, coupled with the need to wait for funds made available of the Hawthorn Hall and the replacement of the building both located on the site of the new building.
THE REASONS for the discrepancy in the estimated cost and the bids received were numerous, according to Keith Lawn, vice president of charge of facilities, planning and operations.
"It was not a common project," said Lawton. "It was first thought that it would be a two-phase program determined by the availability of site."
ROBINSON WAS TO be torn down and construction begun. It was eventually determined that this wouldn't work, Lawton said.
A tremendous price rise in the 1960s also accounted for the increase in the building's
*Construction costs increased precipitously, and the contract for far too expensive.*
"Wesco fatally and historically fell in a conflation of all complicated in a constellation."
"THE ONLY THING to do was to start over."
Start over they did, with a reassessment
Architect's Plans Show Wescoe Hall as It Will Be When Completed
of the availability of funds. The estimated cost of the accepted construction plan ran about $8 million—$2.5 million less than the University had accumulated.
Requests were futfully made to the state legislature and it was finally determined by the Board of Regents that the issuance of revenue bonds, secured by a pledge of the debtors, would be sufficient for humanities building and the gross revenues from a humanities building fee levied upon
all regularly enrolled students, was the only means of financing the building.
University students and administrators weren't too happy with the idea of assessing students for the construction of educational buildings, nor was the legislature.
REP. REEES HUGHES, former president of Kansas State College of Pittsburgh, moved on March 11, 1970, that Wesco Hall, along with a power plant and science building at Wichita State and a physical education facility at Ft. Hays State, be deleted from
a bill allowing the levying of bonds to cover campus construction costs.
Hughes said it was a policy matter and that he was opposed to establishing a policy of using student fees to finance general-use buildings at state colleges and universities.
Although the motion passed, 51-49, which sent the bill into a compromise committee, approval was eventually given to levy the revenue bonds.
ACTION WAS mixed following a 36 to See 25. Page Three
Nixon Sits Tight on Evidence; Panel Likely to Issue Subpoena
WASHINGTON (AP) -The White House has informed the Senate Watergate committee that President Nixon will not surrender White House documents and tapes of presidential conversations, The Associated Press learned Sunday.
The Senate panel is scheduled to meet in executive session today to receive Nixon's letter of refusal, and all indications are the seven-man committee will vote unanimously to issue a subpoena for the Watergate-related materials.
THE PRESIDENT earlier refused Sen. Sam Ervin Jr.'s request for White House documents and pointedly rejected the committee chairman's suggestions that the President appear voluntarily before the committee to defend himself against charges by John Dean III that Nixon participated in the Watergate cover-up.
include tapes of presidential conversations with Watergate figures.
After discovering that since 1971 Nixon had recorded his meetings and telephone calls from his Washington offices, Erwin Schroeder, the director of the handling the committee's shopping list to
White House officials had indicated the request would be denied, and it was learned
that word of the refusal was conveyed to the committee. The position was determined. Details were revealed.
See SENATE, Page Two
Senate May Investigate Bombing of V.C. Hospitals
MIAMI (AP) - Disclosures by a former Air Force pilot that he was ordered to bomb a Viet Cong hospital may open a new chapter in the Senate Armed Forces Committee investigation of secret war tactics in Indochina.
The former pilot, Gerald J. Greven of Miami, said that while he was serving in South Vietnam in 1969 he directed a bomber attack on the Lebanon defence report call to a Viet Cong hospital.
Greven said in a weekend interview that
his superior officer later reprinended him for identifying the target as a hospital over his radio and in a later briefing on the mission.
"I DON'T KNOW whether my commanding officer knew of the strike before it took place, but I was admonished by him for using the term hospital on the radio and in a briefing," said Greven. He declined to name the commanding officer.
even said Sunday, "Hospitals were
See PILOT, Page Two
Two Views of Kansas Kansas Realities Add Authenticity in 'Paper Moon'
David Healy is a 1973 graduate of KU's School of Journalism who now works for the Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tattler. Here he's described Kansas to Floridians.
By DAVID HEALY
"Paper Moon," the Ryan and Tatum
"Owl team officer," was filmed in the central kennel.
Although the credits said the movie was filmed in and around Hays, Kan. (which the locals call Hays, America), most of the scenes were actually filmed in Wilson, Kan.
Wilson is a small, dusty town with about 1,300 residents, five churches, a grade
school, a high school, a bowling alley, two pool halls and several grain elevators.
Wilson has three claims to fame. It is directly south of Interstate 70 which connects Kansas City with Denver; it is the gateway to a large federal reservoir named Wilson Lake and it is the home of the annual harvest, every summer after the wheat harvest.
I KNOW WILSON because every summer we all went to Czech festival to hear oompah bands, dance the polka and stuff our faces. (An afternoon service, head cheese, kolaches and beer.)
Crowds Haven't Swarmed To View Concrete Flag
Eric Morgenthaler, a 1967 graduate of KU's School of Journalism, is a reporter in the Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. This article was presented Wednesday on the front page of the Journal.
But like so many good times, the females were only an escape from some bitter rain.
(Laughter.)
"Somebody steps by every day to look at it." Sweeps Wayne Mangrove, the clerk here.
Don't laugh. In here in Cawker City the "Gateway Across Waconda Lake," you can pull up next to the Co-op gas station on U.S. 24 and marvel at the world's largest ball of twine-4.5 tons of it. (Snickers.) Don't snicker. That ball of twine is so huge that if it were unraveled down U.S. 24 it would reach all the way to Carrollton Mo.
BY ERIC MORGENT HALLEY
CAWKERT CITY, Kan.-I" isn't too late to change your vacation plans and come to Kansas.
FOR THOSE who have already seen big balls of twine Kansas has other tourist
Good times in Wilson were not limited to the Czechs. The Swedes, the Danes, the Germans, the Irish, the Russians and even the Democrats had a good time.
By ERIC MORGENTHALER
Several reviewers of "Paper Moon" have commented upon how the movie evokes those good o' depression days through its scenes and settings.
attractions. You can drive over to Quinter and take a ride in a covered wagon that is complete with a toilet. Or stop off in Greensburg and see the world's deepest (109 feet) hand-dung well. or tour the home of Gen. Frederick Funston in iola, or visit a place on the island (for example, featuring the first U.S. flag ever made of cement). or visit a big fish hatchery in Pratt. or go to the Teopala Zoo and see the only breeding pair of golden eagles in captivity in the U.S. You can even ski Kansas: Monbile (formerly Bleu Mound) or skip the skiff complex towering, as it does 215 feet above the eastern Kansas farmlands.
And you'll seldom run into any big crowds.
I find these comments to be very ironic. Wilson should evoke the depression because like most rural towns it never recovered from the depression.
Which might be a nice thing for you, but it's a bad thing for Kansas. For Kansas is trying to promote tourism but it really doesn't want that. Although "Home on the Bane" is a swell
See KANSAS, Back Page
WILSON DEPENDS on the sun, the soil,
the rain and a lot of hard work to produce
sugar.
Neither can Great Bend nor Hays.
It needs bumper crops every year that it can send its sons to college, its daughters to Europe, its women to the market and its men fishing at Lake Wilson.
Kansas town are all bending over backward to catch some of the glitter of suburban life in Pasadena, New Canaan and Hollywood.
FOR YEARS, they have been using the technology at the highest possible prices.
But Wilson just cannot do it.
America's farmers are drowning in their ability to produce an overabundance.
Huge machines sweep the fields, leaving vapors of anhydrous ammonia. Hay is mowed, raked, baled and stacked without benefit of human strength.
The farmers have been caught in a price squeeze. Low prices for farm commodities forced farmers to produce more per acre to meet rising technology prices.
Increased production meant increased supply. That caused lower prices and the need to produce even more which would create even larger supply.
In the meantime, the rest of the nation had hitched itself to a shooting star at agriculture's expense and inflation took prices to heights never the 'possible.
THE BOTTOM dropped out of our economy last summer. The great stockpile of wheat that the nation kept on hand in 1905 was used up and the down the drain by American financiers.
Now corn and soybeans are very scarce. Last fall's rains stopped their harvest and they rotted in the fields. This spring's floods wilted crops, hastening, thus decreasing this fall's harvest.
Grain prices have skyrocketed to the point where they now have reached the parity that Franklin D. Roosevelt used to talk about. But this in, has driven
See RURAL, Back Page
THE SWIMMING POOl in Robinson Gymnastics will be open for recreational swimming from 7 to 9 to tonight. Faculty swim is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those wishing to swim must present their ID or pool or urllibricard file.
LAWRENCE GAY Liberation Inc. will meet at 7 tonight in the Regionalist Room of the United States Embassy.