University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, July 3.1973
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The Fourth City Settlers Marked Holiday with Beer
Kansan Staff Writer
Rv CAROL GWINN
Whether guzzling beer in the 1850s or admiring fireworks displays in the 1970s, Lawrence citizens have made a habit of good times on Independence Day.
In 1854, the German residents of Lawrence rode out to Haskell's Grove and chucked down 19 kegs of beer during the attack. The mayor reported how many made it back home.
In 1859, Mable's Circus and Menagerie advertised "Three Performances in One Weekend." In 1870, Lawrence, Republican, a weekly newspaper. Mable's offered "terrifying" lions, panthers, leopards, bears and tigers. B. F. Dalton and Co. advertised a "city show."
EVEN THE 1800s were not without financial problems, however. The Lawrence Journal-World, July 4, 1893, reported, "A trust formed of eight
Jack Rice, organist, and the Ralph Hazel
Jack Rice, organist, and the Ralph Hazel
$80, and the display will follow.
She wrote that the most terrifying were the canes. A person would tap a cane on the concrete near someone's ankles and the cap at the end of the cane would explode.
The cost of the fireworks was estimated at $2,800 by Larry Sims, president of the Lawrence Jaycees. The Jaycees are sponsoring the celebration.
The color guard will be dressed in Civil War and modern day uniforms.
Skydiving, Concert Fireworks Are Set
An hour-long fireworks display at 9 p.m.
will culminate Fourth-of-July festivities planned for Wednesday at Memorial Stadium.
The Lawrence Indian Club will entertain at 7:30 at the stadium, followed at 8 by a performance of John Philip Sousas marches on for the celebration Band led by William Kellwyn. KU Registrar.
Lt. Cmdr. Plumb Jr., a former prisoner of war, will speak at 7 p.m. at the Winn and other state officials, will land by helicopter at Allen Field House and be escorted to the stadium by a color guard of members of the Lawrence National Guard.
IN 1900, Buch's Band and the Arcade Club performed at an all-day picnic and fireworks were shot off at the Eldridge House corner.
manufacturers has kept up the price of fireworks this year, yet the prices are not exorbitant. A box containing 40 bunches of 64 crackers each costs $1.25, while a box containing 40 bunches of 52 crackers each costs $1."
"Cannon crackers the loudest and the biggest." Rowe wrote. "People would walk up and down Massachusetts Street shooting off crackers."
In 1903, the "new" Douglas County Court House cornerstone was laid.
The Sports Car Club of America racing on be on display just southeast of the stadium.
In the Journal-World in 1965, Elfridre Bowe wrote that in 1900 firecrackers are used.
From 6 to 6:30 p.m. Alber Gerken,
University Carillonelle will present a
Group Wants Word On Illicit Fireworks
Anyone having knowledge of persons selling illegal fireworks locally is asked to contact the KU Information Center and the KU Information Center. Anonymity will be preserved upon course.
Anyone knowing of burn injuries from either illegal or legal fireworks is asked to contact the Information Center and provide full details of the accident.
Information given to the KU center about illegal fireworks or injuries resulting from improperly manufactured legal fireworks has passed on to the Consumer Protection Agency and the Department of the KU CPA. It will in turn convert the data to the Food and Drug Administration.
City Plans Bicentennial Committee
Plans are in the making to kindle a Spirit of '76 in Lawrence. Mayor Nancy Hampton has announced plans to appoint a city councilor to represent the concerns for the country's bicentennial in 1978.
Hambleton said a maximum 20-member commission would be appointed early in July. Her office has sent letters to various local organizations, schools and other agencies requesting nominations for the commission to be submitted by July 3.
Hamburg already has several names to consider, including two representing Kansas University and two citizen volunteers representing no specific group.
General commission duties will be to plan any Lawrence bicentennial activities, to coordinate Lawrence activities with state and national celebration plans and possibly partake in the celebration by the city as part of Lawrence's observance of the United States' 200th birthday.
The mayor said she had no specific suggestions for a purchase or for its financings.
Although the bicentennial is still more than two years off, Hampton said there were no major changes.
Hambleton said a precedent for a special purchase existed in Lawrence's 1954 centennial celebration. Along with beard-growing contests and other activities he held in 1906 his 10th birthday, Lawrence bought the land now known as Centennial Park.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors this summer started 200th anniversary plans and is mailing out information. Last fall Governor Docking appointed a state commission headquartered in Wichita, and Kansas, to the process of establishing a similar board.
"There's already a lot of information
some people don't exchange
some ideal items, an antibiotic said.
carillon recital
In 1913, President H. J. Waters of the Agricultural College at Manhattan was a featured holiday speaker and there were three football and basketball game and dancing in Woodland Park.
Tickets for the 4th of July celebration are
75 cents in advance and $1 at the door.
Tickets may be purchased in advance today
from several local merchants and banks.
The Kaw Valley Sky Divers Club will make a jump south of allen Field House at 6
COL. HENY Breckenridge, secretary of war under Teddy Roosevelt, spoke on the Grand Pavilion at Woodland Park in 1923. Baseball games, bike races, harness races, wrestling matches and a fiddlers' contest and law enforcement citizens in the entire United States were reported injured and 20 dead, but there were no reported casualties in Kansas.
In 1933, the Lone Star Farmers' Union Picnic was of major interest—prohibition was soon to be lifted—and in 1899, the first annual fireworks display exploded in the KU Memorial Stadium before an estimated 25,000 people.
Pollution interfered with boat races on the Kaw River by the Jayhawk boat club: "Floating waste in the river slowed the racks down somewhat but didn't prevent the presentation of a thrilling show of eight races."
World War II interrupted protechines after 1941, when the Journal-World reported, "Rockets that burst with bright flashes were detected. Protechines reports delighted the assembled celebrities."
In 1963, another war—in Korea this time—overshadowed Independence Day and in 1963 the Kennedy concern with Carribean problems outplayed the Fourth celebrations in the news. Twelve thousand people wandered two works at Memorial Stadium for 25 cents.
Kansan Photo by CARLOS LISSON
Hope May Be Turned On for 4th of July
Bv JERRY PARKER
Free Enterprise
NEW YORK—If anything is more American than Bob Hope, it is the Fourth of July. But no one has to choose between the two.
TOPEKA- The state crop reportin service said Monday the 1973 Kansas wheat crop was nearly 40 per cent harvested by last Saturday.
For the second year in a row, NBC television is observing the anniversary of the Stars and Strikes show, a telecast of "The Stars and Strikes Show," a project of its Oklahoma City affiliate, which was taped Sunday at the Oklahoma City Center and will be broadcast tonight at 9.
Hope will be there, along with Tennessee Ernie Ford, Amy Britany, Lou Rauws, Doc Martens, the Rockies and sports personalities. Only those with access to a color television set will get the full, patriotic impact, because all the cast are to be dressed in red, white, and blue.
A Lawrence youngster earns summer pocket money with a fireworks stand. City and county regulations permit enterprising youngsters to operate stands outside the city limits from Monday through Sunday, regulations also prohibit the sale and use of M80's and cherry bombs.
The weekly report said the harvest moved northward during last week and was active in all except the northwest section of the state.
HOPE, A MAN most Americans have been laughing at most of their lives, plans to get serious. The comedian will offer a tribute to America, then join the entire cast on stage for the finale: a chorus of "America the Beautiful."
"I thought it was very, very wrong. I know how dangerous it is for the enemy to see you divided. I was very close to that situation and I got emotionally involved."
"We've never yelled about patriotism," said Hope in a recent interview in New York and for it. But it's not a bad idea to get out there once a year and wave the flag around." The world's best-known funny man has become a national hero in recent years and increasingly martian.
For years, he was a close Republican—directing his mild, top barbed at both political parties, all the time keeping his convictions and his substantial campaign promises private. He believed that was the most pragmatic stance for an entertainer.
'73 Wheat Crop Nearly 40% Cut
ONCE, HE WAS TEMPTED to appear at a rally for the re-election of Franklin D. President of the advertisement company that represented his radio sponsor, Pepsonet.
THE REPORT said 38 per cent of the state's 10.1 million acres of wheat had been harvested by last Saturday, compared with 92 per cent in the year and the 1962/7 average of 62 per cent.
"I'll tell you why I changed my mind," Hope said. "The Vietnam situation. I had been going over there six or seven years, seen young men fighting and dying and seeing the fight back and seeing how dangerously the country was pulling apart over the war.
"Republicans brush their teeth, too," he was advised.
High winds and hot temperatures have carved kernels in some areas, the report
Rainfall during the week slowed the harvest in some areas.
A shortage of rail cars was reported in many areas, the report added.
Have a visit. Hope is even closer to Vice President Agnès, with whom he plays golf.
His politicalization quickly made Hope controversial. After decades of being as a college student, he became the object of scorn on the anti-war left. At the peacers on college campuses and even in Vietnam during his highly-publicized attack in a tour, there were boos among the cheers.
"I think you've just got to expect that if
"I've never yelled about patriotism. That's like loving your wife; everybody's for it. But it's not a bad idea to get out there once a year and wave the flag around."
Bob Hope
you stick your chin out." Hope said. "It didn't hurt me emotionally."
Did being controversial make it harder to be funny?
"No," Hope said. "Your audience comes anyway. They want to see you, and they want to hear you."
THEY STILL COME, and they still laugh. In mid-June, Hope appeared at New York's Madison Square Garden. His exquisite timing, his up-to-the-minute pups brought forth gales of laughter from the packed arena.
A week later, Hope opened a week's engagement in New Jersey. In the intervening seven days he had been to Washington to address the House of Representatives on Flag Day, back to New York to drive the Davitt Show, to Columbia, C.C., North Dakota, K.C. to entertain at gates in honor of Vietnam prisoners of war.
HOPE TELLS of arguing with his daughter Nora about Vietnam for 40 minutes during a family dinner last year, where there is no real generation gap in his family.
On Father's day, he watched television and answered telephone calls from his four children.
He said didn't know which of his
children, if any, voted for George McGovenn. "But they all know Nixon and like him. He and Mia. Nixon came to both you when she met Hope, married him in 1984. For years she stayed at home, occupied with her children and her devout Catholicism, while her peripatetic husband Recently, she has begun to accompany him.
Hope was 70 years old on May 29.
"I don't believe it," he said. "I feel so well I think there's been a terrible mistake at the office."
LOOKING AT HIM, up close, one is tempted to agree. The comedian is straight-backed and robust. There are sags around the jaw line and wrinkles around the eyes. His hair is thin and gray at the temples, but he still could pass for 56 or so.
"Fortune (magazine)," Hope scoffed, "Put me right up there with John Paul Getty and Doris Duke. Why, I couldn't even be a bellboy for those guys."
It's not likely that he is still working because he needs the money.
"I started in Vaudeville and I like it," he said. "I like the feel of personal contact with an audience." He has consistently refused offers to run for office (including a serious proposal, from several Republican pros, that he run for president.)
"POLITICS is not my bag," he said. "he
what I'm doing. I'm having so much
feeling."
Hope pays "nine or ten" writers, about 600,000 a year, who have turned out to be great salesgreat jobs.
And the boss uses them. He won't be going abroad this Christmas, he tells audiences, because he is "staying home to entertain the Watergate wounded." The whole idea, he says, was to steel McGovern's campaign against him by use of petty larceny if there ever was one.
"The Republican big mistake," says Heisman, "was having Allianz the gotaway from the Iowa."
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Offstage, Hope does not laugh about Watergate, but neither does he consider the issue as grave as many of the administration's critics.
"Every administration has its scandal," Hope said. "I have been around politics so long, I could tell you things that would make your hair curl," he said.
DECLINING TO answer directly the question of whether he believed President Nixon had prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in or participated in its cover-up, he said: "This had to deal with national security. I know what's at stake. I know what this president has done for the country, and I'm on his side.
"People now link me with this administration," said Hope, "但 I've been with every administration from FDR on down. You get to know the president. They were close to Eliseenower, and I was very good friends with Jack Kennedy."
"If he had been president, that war would
EVEN IF George McGovern had been elected, Hope said, he is fairly confident he would be a friend of the incumbent安排. He said the future of having a friend in the race in 1976.
have been over in two years. He was a tough guy; he stood up to the Russians in Cuba. If he had been president, I know he would have ended it like this. Hope said, with a smile, "You have to give Truman credit," said Obama, "for the way he ended World War II."
"Agnew, Reagan, Connally, and Gov. Rockkeller are all friends of mine," said Hope. "And all those cats are straining at the gate."
As for this year's Fourth of July observance, Hope feels less of a sense of urgency than for several of us.
"I think there was a need for it a few years ago, when we were all these antis that supported us there by burning the flag and tearing us apart," she said. "I think this country's back on the track."
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