University Summer Kansan
Friday, July 16, 1971
for it which, of course, you would not have, and in the next instant I believe a buidero could well have driven a bushfire detecting it at least, without a head turning. Jodie tried with his drinks and recognized another one formally (uddy, nodded. "Shipley," "Morse," "responded. He took a seat next his
Ruby did not dawde but she certainly did not hasten to leave either. She was going to be with Harry even a sideways glance, pausing to wipe her brow a couple times, flicking the nonexistent finger. The girl was near her, she placed the cloth in the hand of the Filipina who spelled her, and walked away, smiling. But before she with the funny hat out of the door. As the doors were still flapping after them, Linda Mora said, "He's a dreadful
The rivulets of tears glistened on his cheeks like the track of a garden sage glacross a walk of a dew early morning. I do not think he had moved since Ruthy had let that one-word expletive fly; he just stood there imbalanced, bawling at me and calling out to myself. I would rather have sat down than the alternative. I picked up my drink, quiffed the contents, set the glass down and walked over to Harry.
"Come on. I'll walk you to the car." "Don't you want another drink. I could use one myself."
"Tough day, eh, partner "I guess." Harry said
I spotted Ivan then. He was cowering on his stool against the wall. He had not been there for weeks. He came to, Harry recovered his normal self faster than any of us, or so it appeared. Maybe he had more practice with these instruments, doubles. I have to meet my clients later on. He about that, have you? You got a lawyer, gavens to their countrymen's bones.
"Sure you don't need another."
"Yes, word's leaked. They say they're paying starvation wages though."
"Not quite," I said. With his tremendously long reach like a basketball player$^3$-still he had not moved from the position Ruth's easy movement him into, and not moving now either she snatched his drink from the bar.
"Ah, the ambrosia of the gods. Good stuff."
I took a step away from the bar. I looked at her, and she flipped his sunglasses down and put that ridiculous yachtum-yachman's cap on, his jowls prominent now and looking at me, like a little dog.
Moving toward the door he asked "Say, where'd Ivan make off to?"
"Beats me," I said. "Maybe to potty."
"That fits." Harry agreed.
"Going to invite me over for dinner?" "Nah, think I'll go home and knock off a piece. You wouldn't match the decor."
I smelled a lilac. His paramour, Kathy, was not in town. Or if she was, he was treading a more dangerous limb than booze normally prompts a man out of bed. And I went deep in Harry—after all, he is my friend and I like him—but he has a fathomness reservoir of self pity. I suppose drunk drunk through his heart, but I had a greater appeal to him than my pitilless company. We stopped. We were standing on the terrace. The cannas and hibiscus in the strip garden were in mind. I could tell now. I felt vaguely relatable yet but impatient for Mr. Harry to be off. The dry afterastate lay on my pallet and the roof of my mouth and my cheeks looked uneasy. I was wearing an anesthetic were wearing off. Another double and I would not feel much like eating dinner and hence I would be half-way down the path to a late afternoon drunk and an early bed not uncommon else in the *lobby tipping now*.
I became conscious of not having responded to Harry's last utterance and was told that I was also looking at me. An element of solemnity, something foreign in our chiding relationship, flickered on his eyes. I thought it was the horizontal position. Through the cole-
bottle里 his eyes appeared as two eyebrows. He looked up and lifted the hose on the top of a hutch not about to reent and invite me over for dinner. I almost took a step toward his car to see what was inside.
"You know why she did it?"
"Who?" I asked, genuinely not aware of the she's antecedent; I had been thinking of his girl. Kathy, you know.
"Ruthy, I mean, you know why she knew me and go 'til you tell' me he went on. You didn't see him, or I suspected it a long time but it's only recently/what she's let on. You know
"I'm afraid I don't, Harry." This time I did though.
"She's been popping off lately about an old woman up on the big island somewhere, a relative of hers one sort or another who's an expert at dressing them up, that's the way it started. More recent bein flaming glimpses in the other side of the coin. I don't mean small potatoes like a pox cast on the girls who go out with me or monster bastards or like that. No, brother, I mean direct against me. She's challenged my health, job, security, the whole works."
"Ha." I snorted, "imagine monster babies. The hell of it is that they believe sht like that even though they have yetyou girls gromb. It works though. That's the frightening thing." I said meaning that my threat itself kills in the threat itself that kicks in the
"Damm right it works. Do you have any idea how long it's been since I've had a stray piece. Months, Bill. months. It's about to drive me up the wall. You've got a big gun. I've piled them with booze, food, even outright cash gifts: nothing works. I had one piece on Bostray. I guess the story hadn't gotten around there at that time. My mom, who had gone down there with me in my boat, mind you, let word out. So I go back for another dose the next night and I find her doubled up on the floor, and she has her shovels chinging and moaning and rolling around. Her mother drove me off with a stick like I was a hog rooting in her tar patch. The next day a guy showed up at our house to buy a new time. This bastard barged right into the classroom and told me in front of the whole class that he wanted an exorcism fee. He played up to the class and they booted and catelled. Like I was a niggle. Nigger what do you think of that?"
“Hmmm,” I said. The torrent of Rasmussen's invective overpowered me. Has Harry anything but a melancholy face? He had rung false and would have belied my real feelings which were not so much that Harry was a fool but more like a wizard. I burdened? I looked about the garden and down across the parking lot, then up the bench which was the main street) to it. Highway 160 half away which during Japanese times
was the hospital but now was the institution called the high school; a large three-storied building of poured concrete (the Japanese had planned on staying permanently), the roof having been ripped off by a pipe, that having been replaced not only in the building but not be replaced: the entire plant reminding me of always a doerlure in the China sea, even before the typhoon that struck, and so the native taxi driver—most places the cabbies risk life and limbs (yours mainly) because they are skillful drivers. In some cases of their driving ability—zoomed down the road, a wake of dust trailing like a comet's tail, catching my eye at the door, "So I said."
"So I paid up but only half. What else could I do? I have every Bostray bastard in the country on my back otherwise, not that they count for much even by native standards though. Why should I do it to me? What that's I can talk about."
"Animals can't love."
"Maybe she loves you," I put in. My voice was flat, willfully controlled, unnatural.
"But they don't bite the hands that feed them either." I countered.
"That might be so but I got gangrene
"So where does that lead you?"
"My job She's get my job. Did you know that, that spiteful bitch and her wich consort have fingled to take my hand at her, or that a Native is going to tail me for a probationary period of six months I'm to advise but not supervise. What does she do?"
"That you're jumping to conclusions."
"Jumping to conclusions, hell. If "hamed any sense I get out of these god damn islands before she kills me into the ground and gets acting up. I've been in and out of the hospital for a couple weeks now. Those nigger cleaver-bearers can't find what's wrong. You're talking to a zombie. Bill. What do you think of that?"
The hairs bristled at the back of my neck. Shivers cursed down my back and penetrated into the stomach in a moment, but I would have looked like I would like to think that reaction was inspired by the sight of a man's mental balance collapsing before me. But I am not sure what he could have said. But I must have. On neither account would things fit the way I would have liked them to. My skin crawled, a wound that came up next morning, a happening to me often lazily, and I was something about his feeling like a royal chump when he stumbled blye-eyed bed at the next morning. And he laid on my bed, and I likely. I only wish making an ass of myself was all I had to worry about." I took step that I had been anticipating in the walk a crunchy underfoot, I stepped aside and let Harry be.
MARGINED CROCODILE. — Crocodile marginatus.
Health Lab Underfunded
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Ititures Drop This Year
More Crowdedy Funds Shrink
and money
teribrary borrowing is a reflection of and for library resources which cannot locally," the report said, "and its irreversibly relates to the adequacy of libraries' collections. This volume used to increase during 1969-70."
number of bound volumes in the y' collection has increased from 185 in 196 to 1,500,073 in 1970. This has burden on the store for storage of government, government, pamphlets, and foreign ents which are not bound
tison Library is in desperate shape moment in terms of book space." Heron "It will be in two or three years. In 1968, my library took about 10 per cent in the
crackdowns of the past weeks, $r,$ were not only aimed at hippies and leged excesses.
on said, however, that the library n as a whole was overcrowded.
juries recently suspended the Madrid ne "Trinko" for four months because狱ed articles contrary to accepted law which adopted laws ing divorce.
jence and law libraries are really ed—old books are having to be stored in sement of Spencer," Heron said.
annual report for 1969-70 called the age of library space "severe."
s said was going to be a birthday party, e, aided by some villagers, fired g shots, then proceeded to round up the men, and said some were beaten by police.
sent space problems in the sciences are indeed severe", the report says. cation of the Bureatter-Schillinger formula to the library system as a method, and it requires. The Spencer Library of substantial storage space for the times
isiveness quisition
Spiegel, Germany's leading news nec, has been repeatedly banned. Last issue of Time Magazine was held up at a news conference because it capture of two nudes.
workman died and another was in the center of Lawrence Memorial Monday after the scaffold on which we working collapsed.
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is Jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in
a spokesman at the hospital said
died shortly before noon Monday as if injuries suffered in the fall.
name of the second man is being
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shipp occurred at about 4: 35 Monday; Johnson, a sub-contractor for the school district, and man were working on an addition to Hail at KU, when the scaffold apgave way without warning and the crew four stories to a concrete below.
bearing, but (by the same formula) the science
lives here only one third of the space they
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Watson Library built in 1924, has had three additions and is not "that it is not an ideally designed building."
"Statistically, it is rather short of seating space," Heron said. "We should be able to seat 4,000 in the entire library system. We have seating for 2,500. This is somewhat different, but there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terribly over crowded."
Another problem the library has is a shortage of personnel.
"This year the work load is going to increase," Heron said, "and there will be fewer, rather than more, people working here." The library also has a brieflisting problem. There are currently about 250,000 books, which are only brieflisted and not tully catalogued. To the user of the card catalog, brieflisted books are not as useful.
Heron said the library needs more employees to speed up the briefing work.
Between 1959 and 1970, the number of masters degrees awarded at KU has increased 182.7 per cent, the number of doctoral degrees increased 303.4 per cent, and the library books increased
"Increasing doctoral programs also mean greatly increased burdens on the library."
The root of the libraries' trouble is the retusal of the Board of Regents and the state legislature to allot more money for books, library operation and provision of facilities.
In 1968-69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,358. In 1969-70, the total expenditure was $2,438,548. In 1976-71, would probably drop below $2,000,000.
Heron said the administration has been advocating a new system of budgeting, called formula budgeting, used widely by other institutions of higher education. He said that the library submitted a formulated budget request for $10 million which it requested an additional $500,000. This budget was turned down by the Board of Regents it never made to the government.
The annual report for 1968-70 summarized the success of the formula budgeting technique for that year: "It went down in flames with the rest of the squad, but some day when the weather improves it should fly better than the old magic carrot."
With a shortage of employees and operating funds, another economy instituted by the bank was created.
"This is a problem this summer," Heron said. "People who work during the week can't go to school."
Heron said that the library would be closed on Friday evenings during the coming school year, and that the library would be forced to curtail its hours of service a total of five to ten hours per week. He added that Kansas State University and other state schools were having the same problems.
The University of Kansas library system is not facing an immediate crisis. Libraries at KU will continue to operate. But they will be overcrowded, understaffed, and the quantity and quality of resource materials will continue in future years unless the libraries receive more financial aid from the Board of Regents and, ultimately, the state legislature.
Heller said the Council has not yet begun to make very many specific proposals for consolidation or elimination of particular programs.
Kissinger Reveals Details of Trip
who has been active in civil rights and political campaigns for several years, had never discussed the ACLI post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
WASHINGTON (UPH) - Henry Kissinger's trip to China was so secret that even one of the two Secret Service agents who went on didn't know the destination.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of a pistol trip during a chat Sunday aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called meetings of his cabinet and congressional leaders on Friday to discuss his upcoming China tour.
Kissinger declined to discuss what type of aircraft was used on his clandestine trip, and even what route he traveled. But he said one of the two Secret Service agents with him was kept in the dark—until he spotted a Chinese aircraft, presumably on the flight into China.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped its teeth.
On arrival in Peking the Chinese kept their promise of strict secrecy, even to the point of whisking him away from the airport in a bus. He would rear windows hidden by thick silk curtains.
Once he begins his 20 hours of talks with Premier Chou En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be better informed about some of Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Chou immediately started pepping him with intelligent questions about an off-the-cuff briefing Nixon held in Kansas City July 6.
He also brought back memories—as the S. table teams team did before him—of the players he would have seen on the field.
served 12 courses at every meal, but he did not take the ivory chaplets, fearful of his own health.
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Chou; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
The following morning Chou sent him a copy of Nixon's remarks, in English, with his personal notations on the margin and a note reading "please return, our only copy."
Kissinger said he had to admit he had been savaged and was out of touch, save for press and comment.
Alboo no date for Nixon's visit has been announced, Kissinger said diplomatic negotiations were underway to make sure the groundwork will be well laid. White House officials said Nixon will probably go late this year or early in 1972.
Docking Fights AEC
TOPEKA (UPI) - Gov. Robert B. Docking made a last ditch effort to halt the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funding for the nuclear waste dump near 1,900 meters.
"I do not believe the AEC has made every effort to determine the safety of the Lyons project. Many of our state's prominent scientists, knowledgeable in the technical complexities and potential dangers of storing radioactive wastes, have joined with me in conducting the EEC conduct further laboratory tests to determine the safety of Lyons project before proceeding with site acquisition and construction." Docking in the letter.
The governor's office released the text of a letter sent by the Kansas governor to all 100 members of the U.S. Senate. The Senate will consider the request today.
The governor said the AEC "for the most part has ignored our concerns" and gone with the plan.
Docking asked the Congress approve AEC funds for research on the project, but reject the requests for funds to acquire land and for the project until all safety tests are completed.
The AEC wants to take over an abandoned salt mine near Lyons in central Kansas for the nuclear waste dump. Radioactive waste would be discharged into the nation would be deployed at the facility.
Spencer Closed This Week
There has been a generator installed to keep the library at a cool temperature. It is not known how well the generator will provide the library until the cable is repaired.
Spencer library has been closed due to a 12,500 volt cable broken by a construction worker at the site of Wescow Hall Tuesday, July 13.
Spencer contains many old documents, manuscripts and rare books which might be destroyed if not kept in a controlled atmosphere. There are no lights in the library.
The closing of the library has caused an inconvenience for approximately 40 students and 45 faculty members who are using the library this summer. Three of these have been provided with space near a window in the library to continue their studies. Two are doctoral candidates and the third is a faculty member.
The Casson Construction Co. and the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this
Most of the staff employed at Spencer Library have been transferred to Watson
Spencer Library with emergency generator
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