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'Extra' News Rates UDK Extras
By Richard Currie
"Extra! Governor Woodrow Wilson will speak in Robinson Gymnasium Friday morning. Classes will be dismissed."
This was an announcement in a one page, seven column University Daily Kansan on Feb. 22, 1912.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT about the New Jersey governor, who was elected President later the same year, was the only item in the paper that day. This was the Kansan's first extra after only one month as a daily publication.
On Jan. 16 in 1932 the Daily Kansas celebrated its 20th anniversary as a daily in a Sunday edition. The eight-page, two-section edition told readers of the news it had contained in the previous twenty years.
The Sunday appearance of the Daily Kansan, however, was nothing new. The practice of publishing a
After the war the Daily Kansan scooped every college newspaper in America. It was the only college paper to have an accredited reporter to sit in the press corps at the United Nations conference in San Francisco in 1945.
ELOISE KNOX, a secretary in the Kansan's business office, had planned a trip to San Francisco about the time the conference was to convene. The news department here saw a chance to capitalize on her visit and wired San Francisco to have Miss Knox accredited as a reporter. She wrote articles in San Francisco and sent them by wire to the Kansan.
Extras have rolled frequently from the Daily Kansan's press. During World War II the Kansan hit Lawrence streets first with news of D-Day, President Roosevelt's death, V-E Day, the Russian declaration of war on Japan and V-J Day.
GOOD READING—Dr. Franklin D. Murphy and Phog Allen read a Kansan extra put out when KU won the NCAA basketball championship in 1952.
Sunday Daily Kansan had been begun eight years earlier on Sept. 23, 1923.
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The Kansan continued its extra day of publication until March of 1942 when it became the present afternoon daily published Monday through Friday.
INCLUDED IN THOSE 19 YEARS of Sunday papers was a May, 1939 edition celebrating the 75th anniversary of KU's establishment as a university. Four sections of seven column news pages and a pictorial tabloid (five column) section told of the University's early days and its development.
But the Daily Kansan has ha other special issues.
During World War II the University Kansan Review was published and sent to KU students at the battle fronts and in army camps.
Letters from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Payne Ratner, governor of Kansas appeared on the Daily Kansan's pages commending the University on its achievements and wishing it well.
THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN Review was a weekly publication consisting of campus news stories clipped by a Kansan Review editor from the daily editions of the Kansan.
The D-Day issue, June 6, 1944, was put out almost entirely by women and was on the streets at 5:30 a.m., after a night's work which began at midnight.
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, recalls that more than 500 copies of this paper were run off each week and sent air mail to servicemen by parents, wives and friends. Prof. Beth says there was a strong demand for this paper.
"We printed a map of Europe which covered the left half of the front page showing where the invasion had begun," Prof. Beth recalls. "We had thought the invasion would come through Italy, so we had to drill a hole through the plate to mark the start of the invasion in France with an arrow."
SPEED IS ESSENTIAL in publishing an extra. On March 27,1943, the old anatomy building, a frame structure behind Watson Library, caught fire at 7 p.m.
News of FDR's death was given to Kansan readers one hour after the first flash came late in the afternoon and 15 minutes before the print shop was to close.
The Daily Kansan had an extra on the streets at 9 p.m. with the news and reactions to the disaster.
Another of the Daily Kansan's extras hit the street early on the morning of March 27, 1952—one of the University's finest hours. The headline on the one-page sheet was only two words "KU WINS" in letters fours inches high.
KU's basketball team had become the NCAA champion by defeating St. John's of Brooklyn 80 to 63 in the national championship tournaments in Seattle. Wash.
The election issue in November, 1960, published after an agonizing
night of indecision caused by ex-Vice President Nixon's rising vote count. The Dally Kansan had planned to be first on the streets with the election results.
Despite the uncertainty, the Kansas went to press with a banner headline saying "Kennedy Close Winner." The presses rolled at 6:30 a.m. and the paper was on the streets at 7:30 a.m.
Murphy Wires Congratulations
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DAILY KANSAN'S 50TH BIRTHDAY. NO STUDENT LABORATORY WAS EVER MORE PRODUCTIVE AND THE DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF DISTINGUISHED KU GRADUATES IS PROOF POSITIVE.
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(Continued from page 3) newspapers. He was a "string" man,
(Guest note by Dean Burton W. Marvin; Louis LaCoss was the first editor-in-chief of the Kansan after it became a daily in January, 1912. Through hard work and ability—
And I must mention Guy Pennock who operated our only linotype machine. Guy was the best editor in the office, editing our copy as he set it. He did a good job too. Had he been around when I wrote that Stubbs editorial I am sure he would have talked me out of it, and rightly so.
Reminiscing can become a vicious habit, so I will say "30" with a nod of congratulations to those who have made the Daily Kansan today one of the best on any college campus.
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and by what KU journalists like to think was natural process—he rose from this beginning to the top level in American journalism. As editorial page editor of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1951 about the West Point cheating scandal. He retired in 1959 as editorial editor and vice president of the Globe-Democrat.)
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