University Summer Kansan
Friday, July 16, 1971
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by little. I'm not worried about me so much as all the little children. When they come, They'll just all move us to the schoolhouse. But to the Jews, don't you think so?"
"No," we smiled, "no, no, no, no."
"It's because we folk don't think right," he added as he mosed the door, attempting sarcasm.
He was nervous about the subject. I think his wife could go on about it for hours, and he had found out we didn't agree, so he rather gracefully ended it.
They were nice people. They liked animals. They said for us to come fish in their pond. They think Communists in the world and will kill everything that lives!
After a while, you learn about things. The first peas we picked were smallish and still shrivelled but we were excited little, small as we were. Wonderful small as they were. Flickering peas is my favorite garden job, one of my favorite pleasures. This last time the pods I gathered were taut and brittle and crunchy, but get each time I split one open and saw the lovely peas unfold, on one, on this side, on one that side, it reminded me about a God. After a half hour I had a big pan of peas, put them in the oven and so much enjoyment already from the harvest and shelling. If what they say about putting good vibrations in your food for the best taste and is true, then these peas will be superb.
Larry is back working on his stone wall. Digging the stones out of the old wall, he turns up some unfinished construction site, the north border of the garden. There he sets upon arranging and rearranging them so as to form a monument, a thing of love. He is quite good at it, finding just the stone to fit together. But when he sees two ones too, they seem to fit together as a
predetermined puzzle only now being put together.
So we live here, suspended between those friends who live with only wood stoves and pumped and candlight, and those used washers, three T.V.'s, two phones, cars, central air and dinner in a cardboard box. We are driving direction rapidly now, but have been here in the middle for some time. No phone, no TV, no dishwasher. One VW, one RV, one propane furnace and electricity! We have a big garden and good food for us. We have our nice antique furniture, a fireplace and spare and we don't always succeed.
We have two cats and hundreds of friendly potted plants. We haven't hung them in the corner, but cumulated over the years because to us now, it is ridiculous, an avenue away from boredom, a diversion, an easy place for our kids to play and Creative, but not always truthful.
It's quite here. In the mornings as we go to work we see a huge blue heron on the pond standing still and silhouetted against the grasses. There is a cairn by the pond too, with good pie mubberies and below that, a cairnals marsh.
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What we really want is for things to go backwards from now on. I want bicycles to prevail all the nation. I want to see the now mek grasses come back. We need to end to those prefabs neighbourly with all the animals. I want things to slow down. Larry wants to build beautiful handcrafted furniture and end to those prefabs duplexes and vignettes that doesn't anybody take time anymore? They have all the time they want to use. Craftsmanship and prideful works are gone and we mourn as I hand see my children. They are joined in our bookcase. Those thing that were made with loving care and pride show it where they still exist. As much as innate things can be, they are not. I can't be quick, are you finished, hurry then. Tomorrow is only a Thursday in July.
There is something about a mailbox. One always expects the best out of it. When you know that there will only be one, you should look for a little anxious-happy that this time it will hold a treasure, a notice of your winning contest, an invitation, or a welcome. Waiting For You. You expect a little Christmas mailbox and it always turns to out only a crummy day in June. Here on we receive an odd new type of mailbox. Tobacco, enticing us to try its hearty, familiar taste. Also we have twice received the Tractor Supply Catalog, in which replacement parts and machines.
In the faraway wishdream corner of my mind I think that any day or evening I will go to the mailbox will hold a golden letter information I have heard about me and would I please send them any novels, stories, poems, I want published and they will be sent to me. We have have won 500 acres in Canada complete with cows, and the mailbox will be my quiet informer, my Friend who finally walked it through, the jewel I knew always it was.
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"Well, I've got to do something," he said, "summer's on its way."
Larry can't decide whether to cut his hair or his beard.
Poetry in a cookbook: "serve with bread, cheese and fresh fruit."
But summer is so hot. It is not only hot, but also so humid. I feel that someone is crying, and I'm dry, okay, hot and humid isn't bearable. Lots of people leave and stay in the city.
Larry doesn't like his chin and he inserts the way his head scarf it up in with his teeth. A bit of a whiskers, they are a secret he kept stared away and just not brought to life. A big smile.
"Maine, Canada, north," Larry said.
"Yes."
We think we'll move permanently north, so as to avoid the anticipation and actuality of the heat. It makes us uncomfortable and Depressed and we feel Worthless.
and watched it unfold.
"It's beginning to get hot. Can you feel it? It's coming, slowly, but it's on the way," he reported, sounding a little nervous.
"It just drains it all out of you," Larry says as he steps out of the shower that will only keep him cool for 30 more minutes. Then the perspiration will begin again.
"I hear the blueberries in Maine are good." I say.
"North . . . " is all he says.
A DREAM
We, Larry and me, lived in the suburbs like my folks do, and Judy's lived behind us. Judy was visiting our house early in the week, away I began to notice things. Her dad had filled the whole house up with two feet of water so he could float his yacht on the water. Judy's pretty strange as we sloshed from room to room. And it fit very well, this huge yacht most to the couch and coffee table, but it also felt fit. Judy's mom was having a very high society lady to lunch. They were sitting at a table and a waitress was taking her order. Judy explained that this society lady was very uppery and that was the only way to serve lunch, so Judy's mom had taken her order.
Judy's mum was also always saying to her, "... get rid of that Mike ... dumb old Mike, ... and various such things. She didn't like him and Judy was starting not like him either and I ... "Oh, too, had they, it probably split."
Health Lab Underfunded
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tures Drop This Year
More Crowded Funds Shrink
d. money.
library borrowing is a reflection of for library resources which cannot locally, the report said, "and its inversely relates to the adequacy of raires' collections. This volume if to increase during 1983-70."
number of bound volumes in the collection has increased from in 1865 to 1,500,073 in 1970. This has allowed for storage of lupins, in addition to government on, pamphlets, and foreign its which are not bound.
in Library is not in desperate shape ment in terms of book space. "Heron will be in two or three years." In 1968, a copy of *The Works* of the *and* staff of Watson Library ."
said, however, that the library s a whole was overcrowded.
ce and law libraries are really—old books are having to be stored inment of Spencer," Heron said.
nual report for 1969-70 called the of library space "severe."
int space problems in the sciences are indeed severe," the report says. formation of the Barettter-Shillinggrimula to the library system as a result requires that Spencer Library aftestant storage space for the time
siveness uisition
crackdowns of the past weeks,
; were not only aimed at bippies and
aged excesses.
ritenously suspended the Madrid
treaty "itkunfo" for four months because
aided articles contrary to accepted
principles which one advocated laws
divorce.
said was going to be a birthday party. aided by some villagers fired
, aided by some villagers, first shots, then proceeded to round up followers. Witnesses said some were beaten by police.
Spiegel, Germany's leading news site, has been repeatedly banned. Last June of Time Magazine was held up at a fire because it cipicture of two mules.
is Jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in
a spokesman at the hospital said
died shortly before noon Monday as if $f$ injuries suffered in the fall.
orkman died and another was in the are center of Lawrence Memorial! Monday after the scaffold on which re working collapsed.
name of the second man is being
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ship occurred at about 9:45 Monday
Johnson, a sub-contractor for the
Construction Company of Topeka,
and man were working on an addition to
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gue way without warning and the
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being, but the same formula) the science libraries have only one third of the space they
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Wadson Library built in 1924, has had three additions and is not yet designed that "it is not an ideally designed building."
"Statistically, it's 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 better than there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terribly 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 Johnson which are only brieflisted and not tullt 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 brieflisting work.
"Increasing doctoral programs also mean greatly increased burdens on the library."
Between 1969 and 1970, the number of masters degrees awarded at KU has increased 182.3 per cent, the number of doctoral degrees increased from 47 to 53, and the library budget has increased 180%.
The root of the libraries' troubles is the refusal of the Board of Regents and the state legislature to allot more money for books; library operation and extension facilities.
In 1968, 69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,358. In 1969, 70, the total expenditure was $1,918,291. In 1970, 71, the total expenditure 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 for years and in 1864-69 in which it requested an amount. This budget wasturned down by the Board of Daughters it never made it to the legislature).
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 United States in the 1950s became one of the most important
"This is a problem this summer," Heron
"People who work during the week can'
not get enough time."
Heron said 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 per cent during the year. He added that the state college in the state's capital 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 to decrease in future years unless the Board 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 ACULU post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
WASHINGTON (UPN)—Henry Kissinger's trip to China was so secret that even one of the two Secret Service agents who went with him didn't know the destination.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of his Poking trip during a chat SUNS aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called on Kissinger and congressional leaders of both parties to discuss his upcoming China tour.
Kissner 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 plane, presumably on the flight into China.
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 car and then rear windows hidden by thick curtains.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped his teeth.
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Chen; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
He also brought back memories—as the U.S. table tennis team did before him—of a 1978 visit to Japan.
Once he began his 20 hours of talks with Premier Choi En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be well informed about some of Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Choi immediately started peppering him with intelligent questions about an off-the-cuff briefing Nixon held on newsmen in Kansas City July 6.
served 12 courses at every meal, but he did not use the vory chopsicle, fearful of his taste.
Althou 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.
The following morning mornin' 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 traveling and was out of touch, save for press reports.
Docking Fights AEC
TOPEKA (UPI) - Gov. Robert B. Doocking Monday made a last ditch effort to halt the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funding for the nuclear waste dump near Lyons.
"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 waste, have joined with me in asking that the AEC conduct further research on the safety of Lyons project before proceeding with site acquisition and construction." Docking said 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 gave him more details.
Docking asked the Congress approve AEE funds for research on the project, but defer the requests for funds to acquire land and perform 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 deposited at the facility.
Spencer Closed This Week
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.
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 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.
Most of the staff employed at Spencer Library have been transferred to Watson
The Cason Construction Co. and the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this week.
Spencer Library with emergency generator
Kansan Photo