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Thursday, July 27, 1972
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Kansan Photo by JOHN REEL
Lawrence Library Nears Completion
City's new library will have triple the space of old facility.
Chalmers Soars in Summer Goal
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalimers Jr. and his 16-year-old son Tom agreed that their project for this summer would be to take flying lessons and earn their pilot's license. They then have made their first solo flights, they are on the way toward accomplishing their goal.
Chaimers made his solo flight in a Cessna 150 Sunday. Students are not told in advance when they will make their first solo flights. Chaimers said that he had a suspicion that he would soad at morning.
Chalmers' son Tom made his first solo flight several weeks ago. Chalmers was called to the airport by his instructor to do some flying the same day, and then Tom flying without an instructor.
"I made five or six passes at the way that they were 'good' said Chaline. "I told me to drop him off at the terminal. He got out and prayed."
"I WENT outside, looked up at
him, and wondered what I was doing letting a 16-year-old boy fly that airplane." Chalmers said.
apparently Tom was relaxed enough to enjoy watching some water skiers in a nearby lake when he flew above them.
"During my flight," said Chalimers, "I didn't have any idea what was happening on the ground."
CHALMERS said that he was not as apprehensive as he thought he would be during his solo flight. He said he was more relaxed now than when he first began to fly. He did not think he did he will become too casual.
Chalmers said he found flying very relaxing.
Another aspect of flying that still worries Chalmers is the possibility of a mechanical failure. He has already had trouble with it when he was flying an instrument in a engine run roughly, the instructor took over the controls and immediately landed the
One of Chailmers's reasons for taking飞 lessons is that he would like to be able to fly the aircraft owned by the University.
airplane in a grass field beside the airstrip.
He said that if anything happened to the pilot during a flight, he would like to be able to take off and land the airplane safely.
WHEN ASKED how he did as a student, CHAMLED replied that on the basis of his ability but because of poor motor skills, he needed more practice before he could perform well.
He explained that 25 years of driving a car with a standard transmission had conditioned him to fly on the airplane like a brake. He also discovered that some motions necessary for flying are foreign sounds.
the air. In instructive however, makes up rather than point it down. Chalmers admitted that he still did not like to intentionally stall him.
If the airplane should stall for example, the pilot must nose the airplane down to gain the necessary air speed to remain in
Chalmers's son was able to make his first solo flight several weeks ago because he had good motor skills. Chalmers said that he had scored higher on his tests and had scored higher than he had a few times.
BOTH CHALMERS and his son
before they can take their flight
tests. This includes making a
couple of flights to airports that
are convenient for both.
Chalmers said that he would take the Federal Aviation Agency grant to get a part of August, and would probably take his FAF flight test.
The FAA flight test will be in Kansas City, and an FAA instructor will go up in the airplane with Chalmers.
Mary Lind, left, and jumpmaster Dick Mauk, in an airplane above Otwain airport, review parachutists before Linda's first jump
Editor's Note: Mary Lind,
Lady Derek, 24 weeks ago to try doing a story
George Plimpson-style. Her
agreement was skydiving. This
The earth below fades into a checkerboard of green, yellow and brown fields as the single-player takes over. The instructor nudges me and I watch his lips as he yells last minute instructions above the chessboard.
Kansan Staff Writer
By MARY LIND
Venue Staff Writer
Nicklaus, holder of the U.S. Open, the Masters and two other seasons this season and the year's leading derwent minor surgery on a badly infected forefinger of his brother, Nicklaus, Ohio hospital Tuesday night.
Reporter Packs Pen, 'Chute To Cover Skydiving Club
LIGONIER, Pa. (AP)—JACK Nicklaus was forced to withdraw from the National Team golf championship Wednesday, and he will play next week's PGA with his withdrawal left Arnold Palmer with a non-winning 25-year-old as a partner who gets underway Thursday.
He leans over and throws a streamer through the open door of the plane to check the air currents. As the plane circles the harbour he points out the drop immediately and I know that it is time.
"Get your feet out," Dick Mauk, the jumpmaster for the Kaw Valley Parachute Club. Hudson Auburn audible over the engine's roar.
Automatically, still not believing I'm doing this, I swing my
New City Library To Open in August
boots out the door and plant them firmly on a sturge step. The 90-degree angle is just right for my body through, but I am weighted by 35 pounds of
For a second I consider turning back, but the jumpmaster is gently pushing me toward the wing, so I grab for the wheel sturdy and swing my left foot onto the wing, allowing my right foot in the wind blast.
My mind blanks and I remember only to arch my body. Five seconds later the static line from the plane jerks on my parachute and suddenly I am a balloon of 3,000 feet above the earth.
I don't bear him yell "Go," but I feel him slap my leg and some insane reason my fingers let go and I'm falling.
"Get on the strut," he yells.
Between my dangling boots the world is stretched out below me and my ears fill with the quiet. I stop, take a sip of water, stopped—and I have stopped—in mid air. It is beautiful and clean and orderly down there, with straight roads and square streets where I drifted very slowly over it all.
Mary Lind, suited up for skydiving, waits for the "Go."
The new Lawrence City Library will open Aug. 23, according to Wayne Mayo, head librarian.
Too soon, approximately five minutes later, I am at tree-top level. Now I'm ready to flex my knees in preparation for the shock of land. Suddenly the earth bounces and hits me on the crumble shakily to the ground.
Presence of mind returns and I look up to check the canyon canopy above me. It's all right; I don't need my reserve chute.
Off to my right I see Ottawa
import and the litter circle of red
finishers, all in front of the
center. I reach up to pull the
steering strings and pull myself
onto the road.
I lay in the soy bean field, not caring that I have missed the drop zone, and marvel at my accomplishment. Then I
I'm down.
Injured Finger Puts Nicklaus Out of Tourney
remember that I must wind up my parachute before the wind catches it, and I get to my feet.
I hear a "Congratulations,
Mary," above me and watch
Mary, above me and watch
VW bus comes around the corner
and other members of the Kaw
Valley Parachute Club help me
back to the airport; and take me
back to the airport.
The doors will close Aug. 14 at the old library at the corner of Ninth and Vermont streets, said Mavo.
"The doctor said I had developed an infection in the finger and had to have it lanced, including the draining of the toe, and then a telephone from Columbus. "The finger had swollen like a balloon."
Organizing a 10-member skydiving competition is one of the goals of the Kaw Valley Parachute club, founded by Dick O'Brien. The other goal is to do the thing they like to do best - skydive.
Membership now includes students from the University of Kansas, Ottawa University and Baker University.
Mauk is hopeful that in two years the club will have a sport parachute team good enough to compete in tournaments for cash prizes.
In the meantime, the club will continue to jump for their own pleasure and to teach novices.
Mauk, with 285 jumps, is a jumpmaster and a qualified instructor. The club provides six to eight hours of instruction, gear rental, pike ride and the first leg of each lesson of each following jump is $3.
The first jump, a static line
opened automatically by a line
from the plane, is usually made
from feet (after six static
lines have been completed)
five to ten-second free fall from
3,500 feet in which he must pull
After the jumper has accumulated 20 five to ten-second free falls, he has to fall from a free fall from 7,500 feet. Once a jumper has done this, he loses the jump.
"Every jump is great, but the day you jump for the first time is a day you remember the rest of your life," said Jaworski.
"The doctors told me that it is had not undergone the operation in my opinion, but probably hospitalized for at least two weeks," Nicklaus said "I wouldn't have to go on a 24-hour minute, that I could play with Arnold in the team cham..."
I haven't forgotten mine.
Kansan Photos by Linda Schild
Nicklaus declined to commit himself on his ability to play in next week's PGA national championship. He the defense coach at Oakland Hills in Birmingham, Michigan, mack. next week.
Ryun, Young To Run Here In Mini-Meet
Jim Ryun and George Young, Olympic track and field team, will run a two-mile runepack on Kansas 'Hershberger Track'
Bob Timmons, KU track coach who is directing Yukun's pre-season training, said the race would be a "twilight mini-meet" and would probably take place on Sunday.
Ryun, the 25-year-old former Kiace driver entering the 1,500-mile race, finished the third time. He finished second in Mexico City in 1968, and finished ninth in the semifinals in 1973, eliminating him from the finals.
Young, 35 years old, is entering the Olympics and his fourth Olympic. He ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase in Rome in 1960, also and in Tokyo
Young holds the American record for the two-mile at 8.22.00, and the men's time in 1968. The record he broke then was 8.22.00 by Kyun set in 1966 as a KU freshman.
Dangling from her chuse~sune 3,000 feet above the Kansas patchwork is Mary Lind, Kansan staff writer.
Currently the sheeting is being installed on the main floor. Hopefully, said Mayo, the fur- rious should be set up by the next nexl work.
The lower level of the library will be comprised of offices and machinery. The upper level will contain primarily books and periodicals.
There will be several new offerings for the public. The frame projects are available to those wishing to check out reproductions of paintings Record facilities will be installed and will be installed Film programs are being scheduled and the frames will be space for organizations to meet
Approximately 6,000 books and periodicals are in storage at the city water plant. Another 1000 books are stored in boxes at the library. All of these books will soon be available to the public said Mayo.
Old Foe to Tab Nixon
NEW VORK (AP)—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who ought vigorously against Richard M. Nixon's omission of John F. Kennedy as the President's name in omination for a second term. a
source close to the governor said Wednesday.
The source said Nixon had asked Rockefeller two weeks ago to do the honors at next month's game in National Convention in Miami.
TOKYO (AP) — The Japan Communist party has replaced its hammer and sickle emblem with a stalk of rice. The party said the wheel symbolizes industrial agriculture, the rice stalk represents farmers.
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