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Tuesday, January 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Old City Hall Starts Drive
A $200,000 fund raising drive is well
way to transform the old city hall on
the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets
Elizabeth M. Watkins Community
Museum.
The building, erected in 1888 to house the 'Watkins Bank,' is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and noted as one of the most important buildings of romanesque architecture in America.
The identity of the architect is uncertain, according to Curtis Beesinger, professor of architecture and urban design and architect in charge of the renovation of the building. But, he has said he thought it may have been a design mistake after a Flemish Guild Hall in Cincinnati.
The original cost of the building has been estimated between $65,000 and $100,000; today its estimated at $1 million, its member investment at $8 million. Watkins Community Museum Committee
regard that estimate as conservative
IN 1829, Elizabeth M. Watkins, the University of Kansas' most generous benefactor, bequeathed the building to the city with some strings attached. The deed to the building stipulated that the premises be used as a city hall or for the housing of city departments and offices, exclusive of the police department. The building was abandoned the building, the deed further stipulated, the building would revert to nine residuary trusts, the building
In Oct. 1970, citing maintenance costs, city officials moved their offices to the First National Bank Tower at 910 Massachusetts Avenue; reverted to the nine residuary trusts.
A suggestion that a nonprofit corporation be organized to attempt to take official title was made by Raymond Rice, Lawrence Wheeler and former executor of the Watkins estate.
Confident Catnapers Seize Wrong Wildcat
By LINDA SCHILD
Kansan Staff Writer
A muffled squunch, squunch could be heard across the muddy ground at Sunset Park Zoo in Manhattan, Kam., as two children jumped into a raft on cases Thursday in the early morning hours.
Inside one cage a wildcat watched intently as they moved toward him through
Terry McEvilly, Littleton, Colo., freshman, and Tim Watson, Clifton sophomore, walked to the back of the cage and forced open the padlock with a tire-iron.
They had visited the zoo earlier in the evening to locate the cage of Kansas State University.
At 3 a.m. the two KU students returned
armed with a can of aardvids, entered the
Eagleton, Roy Plan KU Visit
Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, former Democratic vice presidential aspirant, and Dr William Roy, Kansas' only Democratic congressional representative, was chosen by the Kansas in February, according to Steve Clark of the KU Alumni Association.
Roy will speak at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 25, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. He is sponsored by the junior class. No admission will be charged.
Eagleton will speak Feb. 11. The place and time for his afternoon lecture has not yet been determined. His lecture is sponsored by the senior class and an admission fee will be charged to everyone without a senior class card.
Eagleton was dropped from the 1972 Democratic party later because of a past DACR scandal.
Eagleton was an honor graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School. He served two years in the U.S. Navy before attending Oxford University At the age of 27, he was elected St. Louis County attorney.
Four years later, he was elected attorney general of Missouri.
When he was 36, he was elected Missouri Lieutenant governor and two years later he became President.
Roy is the only member of Congress with degrees in both medicine and law. Roy was a physician in Topeka when he and his wife completed law school at Washburn University. He was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1970.
"We got him into a corner, and he was eating sardines out of my hand," Watson said.
"We made a path of sardines that led into a plexi-glass carrying cage that was stitting inside his cage, "Watson said. "He ate one at us and walked right into the cage."
"He was very nice about the whole thing." McEvily said.
Watson and McEville carried the wildcat to their truck, which was parked on a maintenance road, hidden from the zoo inside the house but in view of a residential district.
On the vacant cage they taped a note, scribbed on the back of a K-State transcript a student had given them earlier in the evening. The note thanked various persons and organizations in Manhattan for their hospitality and explained that the wildcat returned to K-State fans at the K-State K篮球队 game in Lawrence tonight.
The Douglas County Historical Society, which maintains a small museum in the basement of the police department, wanted to expand it by building to house and expand the museum.
McEvilly and Watson then a begin sane drive home, during which they kept to side roads.
The pranksters notified the Topeka Daily Capital, the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, the university Daily Kansan and WIBW TV of their caper Thursday.
Calls from the media alerted Manhattan to its loss.
Irate zoo officials said that the KU students had not confiscated K-State's $50 mascot, Touchdown VII, but had carried off a wildcat named Kansas, a veteran of television and motion pictures who was worth $1.500.
RICE WORKED with the society for over a year to get the nine agencies to deed their contracts.
Dr. E. J. Frick, director of the zoo, later attached that Touchdown VII had died in October, and that Kane and another, less than two years old, were used as mascots at KSatsa's home game.
In Lawrence, Kansas was kept at 1415 W. in 2nd St., the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, who are KU alumni and distant relatives of Watson.
After K-State authorities promised that no charges would be filed, the students agreed Friday afternoon to return the wildcat before tonight's game. The students emphasized that they were concerned with the animal's welfare.
"We began to plan this during finals last semester," McVilly said. "We were just going to case the Zoo Wednesday night, but we did not say so we went ahead." and took the wildcat.
Kansas was returned to Manhattan by envoys of the KU athletic department Saturday afternoon. The wildcat is reportedly in good health.
"Our only mistake was taking the animal too early," Alex Thomas, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, junior, who handled the students' public relations, said.
On Nov. 11, 1971 Rice announced that all nine deeds had been received.
The students said that over the weekend they mailed "more than enough money to our teachers."
Part of the museum will include the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame. On May 25, 1972 the Kansas Athletic Commission and the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame Advisory Board voted unanimously to move the Hall of Fame from Topeka to the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum as soon as the facilities were ready.
The hall, established in 1961, has 31 members.
Museum authorities have temporarily leased space on the main floor of the building to the Kansas District Court for $1 million because of an onboard on the court's docket.
The architecture and decor of the building will be retained. Remodeling will be limited to preservation of the property with only improvements and repairs necessary to make it usable for museum purposes. Those, however, will be costly.
THE $200,000 now being raised by the Elizabeth M. Watkins Campaign Committee directed by John T. Andrews, will cover costs of a new heating and air conditioning system, demolishing existing temporary partitions, repairs of exterior walls and downspouts, resetting stone copping, repairing and replacing window sash, new wiring, painting, plumbing and electrical services, repairing and replacement, new floor covering, new required exit provisions and repairing and resettling of marble trimming.
The museum expects to receive about 4,000 a year from the county historical library.
On Jan. 12, one week after the fund raising drive was launched, Andrews said that the Campaign Committee was pleased with the situation.
The fund raising campaign is divided into two phases. The first phase of the drive is
ANDRES ANNOUNCED last week that a large bronze plaque would be created which would include the names of all individuals who no contributed $500 or more to the campaign.
Andress said that all names would be on the same plaque with suitable wording, probably under the headings of founders, patrons and benefactors.
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Faculty Offered Chance to Get Fit
The cardiovascular fitness program for faculty and staff will be offered again this semester, Wayne Ossness, professor of physiology and cell biology and associate professor of physical education, said Friday.
Evaluations for new participants will be made Jan. 23-27 in the exercise physiology laboratory at Allen Field House. New participants in the program should make appointments for evaluations at one of the organizational meetings.
Last semester 180 faculty and staff members met at 7 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Allen Field House to improve their cardiophrenic fitness.
Ossess, who directs the program, said the basic organization of the program and the underlying rationale used to develop the program would be discussed at organizational meetings at 7:13 a.m. 11:35 a.m. and 12:35 p.m. today in 123 Robinson Gymnasium.
The fitness evaluation, which measures heart rate and vital capacity, is required of all participants and will be explained at the meetings.
This semester the program will be offered
from 7:15 a.m. to 8 a.m., 11:35 a.m. to 12:20
p.m. and 12:35 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Oweness said that each session would be divided into two sections—one for those who could progress at a regular pace and one for those who would prefer to progress more slowly.
Oness and Rodgers said they had noticed two main improvements which indicated that the hearts of the participants were functioning more efficiently than before.
participants from taking the second evaluation. He said that he expected most of the participants to take the second assessment and to continue with the program.
Ossess and Ken Rodgers, director of the exercise physiology research laboratory, said they were still evaluating the results of last semester's program.
Only 80 of the participants were reevaluated when the program ended in December. Rodgers said that bad weather and end-of-semester work kept many of the
"Most of them have lower resting heart rates and at a given exercise intensity most of the people are working at a lower heart rate," Rodgers said.
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