THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
TUESDAY JULY 3,1973
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Lawrence Airport Called 'Worst in State'
Kansan Photo by A.B. SOLSKY
Lawrence Municipal Airport Facilities are Called Outdated
By LAUREL DEFOE
Kansas Staf Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence's airport is "the worst in the state," according to a member of the state.
Conference.
Warren Barrand, acting chairman of Chamber's aviation certification, said that the airport's facilities had grown little since the airport was built more than 40 years ago, and said that now they were "embarrassingly outdated."
WHEN IT WAS first constructed, the airport consisted of four parking lots, 2,000 feet long.
Lawrence has maintained an airport in cooperation with the University of Kansas since 1928. The present airport site is the "Governor Robinson Farm," which is north of County 24 and just northeast of the Douglas County Highway Commission
Over the years, some improvements were made. In 1936, the surface of the runways were lighted, lights, markers and signs were added to the plex in 1940, three of the runways were
extended. The longest runway then was 3,200 feet.
Today the airport has one asphalt-surfaced runway, 3,000 feet long and one parking lot. The building which can be used by light planes. The compartment includes an administration building that has a waiting room, airport manager's offices, two office rooms and a few other smaller rooms, in the basement.
This spring, an Aviation Advisory Board was created by the Lawrence City Commission to help improve the Lawrence airport.
THE BOARD IS composed of five members, including one representative from the University of Kansas. All members are appointed by the mayor and appointees to the Commission. No more than three may be aircraft owners, operators or pilots.
The board's stated purposes are to promote, aid and improve interest in activities related to the arts.
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For Fourth, We'll Take 1-Day Break
Because of the Independence Day holiday, the Daily Kansas will not be published Wednesday. It will be published Thursday and will continue regular Monday-through-Thursday operations next week.
Most of the university will shut down for the holiday. However, classes in the School of Law and the Midwestern Music and Art Camp are scheduled as usual. The law library in Green Hall will be filled with Murphy and Flint Halls. All other university buildings will be closed, including the Kansas Union.
Classes and other university operations will resume Thursday.
Schlesinger Becomes Secretary Of Defense in Quiet Ceremony
SAN CLEMENTE—James Schlesinger was sworn in as secretary of defense in a quiet outdoor ceremony at the Western White House Monday. Schlesinger, who has headed the CIA since February, was confirmed by the Senate Thursday for the Defense Department post. He takes over the post from Elliott Richardson, whom Nixon named attorney general.
Dayan Vows to Get Terrorists
Having given us Monday night's severe weather, the weatherman predicts cloudy skies for today and slightly lower temperatures than Monday. There should be mild, southerly winds, but there is no sign of thunderstorms or showers.
TEL AIVI-Defense Minister Mosey Dahn vowed Monday the Israel would liquidate the Palestinian terrorists he said must have been behind the murder on Sunday of an Israeli air attack in Washington. He promised to strike at the terrorists "wherever they are" and could have a possible stepup in the shadowy war Israel and Palestinian agents have waged since the Munich Olympic Games last year.
FDA Yanks Vaporizer Off Shelf
WASHINGTON—The government and the maker of Pertussis medicated vaporizer have announced they are pulling the product off the market while officials study the death of an Ohio child. The Food Drug Administration said it is also studying the formulation of 22 other medications that are recommended to anyone with one of the 30 million cans of Pertussis medicated vaporizer spray sold since 1959 return it or destroy it.
Chinese Envoy to Visit Nixon
SAN CLEMENTE-Huang Chen, China's top envoy in Washington, will fly here for talks Friday with President Nixon amid speculation that Henry A. Kissinger soon will fly again to Peking. In announcing Chen's planned visit, Presidential Assistant Ronald L. Ziegler said: "This should not suggest there is a matter of urgency to discuss." He added that as part of "ongoing contacts" between Chen and Kissenger, Nixon's foreign policy adviser, Ziegler ducked questions about a possible visit to the United States by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.
INDIANAPOLIS—Swee Savage, the race car driver who twice survived critical injuries, died Monday—a month and three days after a fiery crash during the Indianapolis 500. Savage, 65, of Santa Ana, Calif., who was critically burned in a wreck, was the third person to die of injuries at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this year. Death was caused by lung and kidney complications.
Racer Dies from Indy Injuries
WASHINGTON—The National Railroad Passenger Corp. Amtrak was urged Monday by Missouri's two senators to reconsider its proposed discontinuance of service between Kansas City and New York City. Sens. Stuart Symington and Thomas F. Eagleton urged the route in a telegram not to file a petition to terminate the route until Congress authorized Amtrak aid authorization last week by the Senate. Amtrak earlier Monday as the state for discontinuance of the National Limited passenger train, the only passenger service between St. Louis and Kansas City.
Senators Fight Amtrak Decision
It'll Be Cooler Today
By KATHY TUSSING
Kansan Staff Writer
Rain,Winds Lash Lawrence
A violent storm with 77-mile-an-hour rain caused Lawrence Monday night, causing damage to the property and the loss of a few small trees on the KU campus and throughout the area.
No injuries were reported.
The city's tornado warning sirens were activated at 10 p.m., the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said. The all-clear was given on an hour later.
Nixon Plans Speech On Watergate Affair
John Schultz, a KU Traffic and Security dispatcher, said that most of the damage on the 30th floor was caused by fire.
Power was out in most buildings on
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—President Nixon will speak out about the Watergate scandal when the Senate Watergate committee completes the current phase of its probe, probably early in August, the White House said Monday.
Top committee members have said they want the President to come before their
But Nixon will not appear before the committee because of the prerogatives of the executive branch, nor will he meet in a meeting of the committee, a White House spokeswoman said.
The spokesman repeated earlier statements that, on constitutional grounds, the Court should not rule.
federal grand jury investigating the Watergate affair.
Ziogler ruled out any press conference until that time and continued to decline comment on the testimony of former White House adviser John W. Dean III or any other witness.
Exactly how Nixon intends to comment on the Watergate scandal still has not been determined, Press Secretary Ronald L. Zlegler said.
Ziegler's announcement was the first time that the White House had said flatly that the President would reply to Senate testimony.
campus from 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
The Lawrence police department reported considerable tree damage in the city. Numerous power lines were fled, bringing small electrical fires, the police said.
ALARMS WENT off in some university buildings, including Spencer Library. Schultz said that the alarms were activated to alert the owners of the valuable contents of the buildings.
Four mobile homes were reportedly overturned in the city.
No tornadoes were sighted in Lawrence, according to the National Weather Service
The Lawrence area was not under a tornado watch or warning before the storm, the sheriff's office said. There had been a number of other parts of northeast Kansas, however.
A funnel cloak was sighted near Silver Lake, went of Topeka, in the storm system that
The Lawrence area remained under a severe storm warning in 1 a.m. today.
MIDWESTERN Music and Art campers staying in McColm Hall evacuated their rooms and kept vigil in the halls of building offices. Jackie Raymond, residence supervisor.
The campers were instructed to open their windows and close the doors to their bedrooms.
McColllum met with their counselors and sang and played musics by flashlight during the rehearsal.
The Topeka area was put under a tornado warning at about 15:19 p.m. The city suffered downed tree limbs and power lines, broken windows and power outages.
A FIREWORKS DISPLAY will be the highlight of the 4th of July celebration beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Stadium. (Details on Page 3.)
THE SAUWA in Robinson Gynnasmium will be open to women from 5 to 7 tonight and each Tuesday for the rest of the summer session.
A LONELY, INNOCENT girl is picked up by a lonely boy in the big city in "Hello Sister," the SUA Tuesday night movie at 7 onnight in Woodruff Auditorium.
Dykes: Faculty Pay First Priority
By GERALD EWING
Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor Archie Dykes in his first press conference here said Monday that one of his major concerns would be the problem of faculty pay.
"I certainly share the feeling that improvement in the standing of faculty salaries in the state of Kansas ought to be top priority in the years just ahead" he said.
Dykes spoke to more than a dozen
newsmen at a short informal press conference Monday morning in the Regent's Room of the Chancellor's suite of offices in Strong Hall.
DYKES TALKED specifically about the recent reductions made by the board of
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
Dykes Discusses Communication with Taxpayers at First News Conference
Regents in the budget for the fiscal year 1974-75.
Dykes said he concurred with the regents and commended them for what he called their sensitivity to the faculty salary situation.
"I do know that the members of the Board of Regents have felt very strongly that their top priority here in fiscal 1974-75 should be the remuneration for the faculty," he said.
Dykes said another of his top priorities was the development of communications with the people of Kansas especiallyaruary to describe the role and scope of the university.
Dykes talked about the factors that would affect his decision of a new KU athletic director. He said the man chosen for the position would have to have experience concern for financing and the ability to handle the internal affairs of the athletic program.
He said a decision might come shortly after he received recommendations.
DYKES SAID that in the next several months he would be working very closely with faculty and students to develop the curriculum essential for the university to operate.
Dykes also discussed teaching approaches to education. He said KU had an enviable record in the field of undergraduate education and he hoped the university would continue to build the best program possible.
"I would hope that individual faculty members and all of its collectively could be imaginative and creative about how to form universities," he said, here at the University of Kangas, "be said.
Dykes said he planned to fully support the Dykes's University's Affirmative Action Plan, but cautioned that reverse discrimination in an enrollment quota was inappropriate.
"I feel that we have both a moral and a legal obligation in the university to remove, in so far as we possibly can, inequities that harm our women and by members of minority groups.