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Thursday, March 29, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Park Funding Plans Await Corps Report
Plans for funding city park projects in the northern section of Lawrence will be set in motion shortly after subsidizing reports are from the Army Corps of Engineers.
Wayne Bly, director of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, said Tuesday night that no cost projection would be made for a new park or corps returned his studies on the project.
If the project is carried out as planned, a total of three city parks are planned for areas north of Lawrence that adjoin the Kansas River.
The areas would include minimal recreation facilities as picnic tables and toilets. Fishing would be available in all areas, except for the beach, to conserving the natural environments.
A proposed area at the end of Indiana Street would include over-night complying facilities, several shelters, a boat ramp, picnic tables and a short hiking trail. Plans call for a stand of cotton-wood trees to be preserved and the roads running through the area to be resurfaced. No large, new many projects are planned for the areas.
Across the river in north Lawrence, a small area located at Elm and Fourth Streets.
Funeral Planned For KU Student
Miss Baker died Monday in Memorial Hospital in New York City from cancer.
Funeral services for Elizabeth Ann Baker, 20, Pelham Manor, N.Y., sophomore will be at 11 a.m. Friday; at the伯基顿 Christian Institute in Peabody, at the will be in Peabody.
Miss Baker is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Baker of Pelham Manor, N.Y; two sisters and a brother; and her grandsons, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker Pebbleh.
Miss Baker majored in fine arts at the university of Kansas and was a member of the National Association.
with picnic tables. Play-ground equipment is also porposed for this area.
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Lecturer Notes Rise Of Science Fiction
By MARLENE SELLBERG
y MARLENE SELLBER
Kansan Staff Writer
Science fiction is attracting more and more interest, James Gunn, English and journalism lecturer, told the Faculty Forum Wednesday.
Gunn, who teaches a course in science fiction, said the reason for its sudden popularity was that man had begun to take the impact and omnipresence of change.
Science fiction movies have become more popular, Gunn said, partly because the 1969 movie "2001 : A Space Odyssey" was so successful.
There will be many more programs on television about science fiction, according to Gum. He said that three pilot films were created by the director, and it a recent CBS movie. Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, also created Genesis II, Gum said, so it will probably become a movie.
"When people pay $10 to attend a Star Task convention, there has to be something that works."
Gunn said that another sign of the rising popularity of science fiction was that one-ninth of all the books published last year were science fiction and two-ninths were mystery stories, which are closely related to science fiction.
Courses in science fiction are being taught everywhere, Gunn said. The first course was begun 10 years ago, he said, and in the last four or five years hundreds of colleges and some high schools have begun offering courses in science fiction.
As Alvin Toffler suggested in his book
Science fiction usually is taught as a literature course, he said, and in a few instances it has been used to teach sociology and political science.
News Briefs By the Associated Press Tax Bill
TOPEKA-The Senate Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill Wednesday to increase income taxes of corporations and nonprofits in an alternative to continuing corporate disallowance.
A spokesman for Gov. Robert Docking said the proposal was not acceptable to the governor, who wants disallowance continued to produce about $25 million in additional revenue. Both Republicans and Democrats say these funds are needed if all bills requiring new funding are passed by the legislature this session.
ITT Testimony
WASHINGTON- ITT board chairman Harold Geneen offered to set up a CIA-controlled fund in 1979 to block the election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile, William V. Broe, a top official of the CIA has testified.
Broe, who headed clandestine operations in Latin America for the CIA, said he rejected the "substantial" offer, made to him by the hotel meeting July 16, 1970, in a Washington hotel.
However, Bree said he explored with an ITT vice president two months later the possibility of bringing economic instability to the county.
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.—Negotiations that looked hopeful for ending the siege at Wounded Knee apparently fell flat Wednesday amid a government claim of a massacre among the occupying Indians. The Indian nation stated that the report was a fabrication.
Talks Fall Flat
Aaron DeSera, an American Indian Movement member, said Marlon Brando was on his way here. Brando turned down a Motion Picture Academy award for best actor Tuesday to protest the treatment of Indians in motion pictures.
Future Science, fiction fiction could be used to immunize against future shock. Gunn
"An example is myself," he said. "In 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped, I was horrified but I wasn't surprised and had science fiction about the atomic bomb."
"But science fiction is not a predictor of the future," Gunn said. "It dramatizes the real world."
Science fiction dwells on issues that require decisions, he said, and speculates about them.
"Science fiction is the only literature that deals with the present rather than the past."
He gave the examples of pollution, over-population and the energy crisis as topics that were explored in science fiction but neglected in most literature.
Gunn said science fiction was distinguished from fantasy because it tried to preshape the reader that what happened in the story was possible.
Some of the successful and influential science fiction writers have been Mary Shelley, author of *Frankenstein*, Alfred H. Gwynne, author of *The Martian* and Verne and H.G. Wells, according to Gum.
The second annual Carrie Watson Day celebration Friday will include a book sale, a reception with root beer and pretzels, and an exhibit of old pictures of Watson Library. The festivities, which will take place in the library on Saturday, are memorization of Carrie Watson's birthday.
Library Festivities To Include Reception
Used books donated by the library staff will be sold from 3:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the basement. Books will be sold for 10 to 50 dollars per book. Donations may be made at libraries ages. Earnings will go to the library staff.
Pretzels and root beer will be served during the reception from 2 to 4 p.m. on the patio area outside the library if the weather is good.
During the reception, Marilyn Clark, who is in charge of references, will answer questions from an information booth and will take names of students interested in the term paper clinic offered by the library staff.
Students can make an appointment to meet with a library staff member who will offer assistance in finding information on books and resources that took advantage of this service last year.
An exhibit, borrowed from the archives,
early pictures of Watson Library also will be
showcased.
Carrie Watson is honored for her contributions to KU libraries from 1878 to 1921. When she began work at KU, the library had about 2,500 books and received only four periodicals. When she retired in 1921, the library had about 1,185 periodicals, and 121 newspapers. After her retirement she continued to help the library without pay until 1940.
Watson saw the library grow from one
room in old Fraser Hall in 1787 to the entire north wing in Fraser, where it remained until 1844. By that time the number of books on the shelf were much lower, which were piled on the window sills.
At that time, Spooner Library, now Spooner Art Museum, was constructed through the bequest of William B. Spooner, Jr., and the uncle and uncle of Chancellor Francis H. Sowry.
Within 30 years, the library resources became too large for Spooner Library to accommodate. The Legislature appropriated $250,000 for a new building, which is now the original part of Watson Library. The building was com- pleted and has since been enlarged with two wings.
Benefits for Vets Usually Tax Free
Veterans benefits, in general, are exempt from taxation and need not be reported as income when filing federal income tax returns. The State Department administration recently reminded veterans.
The only exception, according to George Lappin, director of the veteran's center in Wichita, is interest on government life credit with the Veterans Administration.
Dividends and proceeds from G.I. insurance policies are not subject to federal income tax, Lapp said, but the proceeds must be returned the return for federal estate tax purposes.
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Applications are being accepted for the two-year NROTC College Program leading to a commission as an Ensign, U.S. Navy or 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps.
Qualifications:
- Second year college student or third year student in a five-year course, in good standing with a "C" average.
- At least 18 years of age and no more than 24 of June 30 of the commissioning year.
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- Applicants desiring Nuclear Power Training must have demonstrated efficiency in calculus and physics.
- Successfully complete the 6-week Naval Science institute at beautiful Newport, Rhode Island this summer.
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- 20% of top students will be offered full scholarships covering all tuition, fees, and books
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- $100 per month subsistence allowance.
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Deadline for Application - April 15. Apply Now for Fall Semester 1973 at the NROTC Unit, Room 115, Military Science Building, 843-3611.
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If all university students who are registered to vote in Douglas Co. do so on April 3rd, their votes would have tremendous significance.
Your input is needed.
Vote to re-elect Helen Gilles, M.D. to the
School Board USD 497
Dr. Griffes has been a pediatrician in the community for 24 years and a member of the board for 4 years. She is concerned about the needs of children and youths.
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