81st Year. No. 3
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Humphrey Sees Nixon Out in '72
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey insisted this week that he now is not seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, but then he condemned nearly every one of President Nixon's policies and his ouster from the White House next year.
"We will defeat Richard Nixon," said Humphrey, the Minnesota senator and titular leader of the Democratic party since his untimely campaign against the President three years ago.
"We will do it not only because or we use credible disarray of our economy . . . but because, frankly, the American people have lost confidence in this administration."
Humphrey admitted that he found the idea of another battle with Nixon "tempting," but he said: "To be very candid, I am not a candidate. I reserve for myself the right to enter it later on. I have no plans to enter any preparations. Now that's exactly where I stand."
The former vice president conceded that the Johnson administration in which he served also suffered from lack of public trust, especially where the Vietnam War was concerned. But he said the credibility problem was "much more serious" for Nixon.
Tuesday, June 15, 1971
"This administration lacks a sense of social concern. It lacks determination. It has no real programs that you can put your hands on. People don't know what this administration stands for. Things are tossed out but never followed through . . ."
Former Student Is Found Dead
A former KU student from Osawatamie was pronounced on arrival Sunday evening at the University of Oklahoma.
The dead man is James Joseph Murphy, Jr., jr. of, 1390 Ohio. He had been a freshman at KU this past spring until he withdrew March 18.
The Douglas County Sheriff's report said Murphy was brought to the hospital by some friends at 8:20 p.m. Sunday. His body was identified by his father at 3 a.m. Monday.
An autopsy was performed Sunday night by Douglas County Coroner Dr. James S. Reed. Determination of cause of death is pending from the coroner. Douglas County Sheriff Rey Johnson said.
Track Star Jim Ryun and His Wife, Anne
be wants to "show her a good time"
Hay Fever Slows Ryun In Training for Meets
HAWYARD, Culhf. (UPI) -Jim Ryun, once the brightest star among a stable of American track and field stars, is in a sort of eclipse today.
Ryun wants to compete next week in the National AAU Track and Field Championships at Eugene, Ore., and for two good reasons.
Second, he'd like to win a spot on the American team which will compete against the Russians in Berkeley, Calif., next month and then make a tour of Europe in August.
First, he wants another crack at Marty Liquori, who beat him in their "race of the century" at the Freedom Games in Philadelphia last month.
To achieve both these ends he must finish one-two at the AU, but right now he needs
Ryun, the world record holder in the mile and metric mile, suffers from the hay fever and the pollen count in the Williamette Valley of Oregon right now is in running high. If it remains that way next week, Ryun says he will pass up the AAU.
Ryan, who won a special 100 meter race here Saturday in the soo-time of 149.3.
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at the twilight meet in Eugene. Hay fever caught up with him in that race.
"I'd like to salvage something from this season," Ryman said after racing in the Pacific Association AUA Saturday. "That's why I want it." But right now everything is very unsettled.
"I don't know where I'm going to work out for the AAU. I may stay here in the Bay Area because I certainly can't train in Eugene or anywhere near there.
"If the pollen count is high there next week I'll then have no alternative but to scratch from the Nationals. I just couldn't run in that situation. There would be no point in it."
Ryun has had his share of the limelight and his fill of trips to foreign places. But that was all while he was a student at KU and single. He's married now and says the only reason he remains in track is so that he can share some of the fun with his wife.
"It would be nice to compete in the Nationals and do well," he said. "Then I could take my wife to Europe and show her a good time. That's my only motivation now."
So it all comes down to how high the pollen count will be in Oregon next week for Rynu to stay.
Government Surveys Wreckage at Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—The Coast Guard restored this week operation of the Alacatraz light tower, which was knocked out of use during the 19-month Indian occupation.
The navigational aid, atop a 214-foot tower,
flashes warning lights to ships entering San Francisco Bay. It is on the southwest tip of San Francisco. It is an federal prison system's touchtest institution.
The U.S. government recaptured the island Friday when a force of armed marshals removed the 15 Indian holdouts and took them to a hotel.
The Coast Guard also said that it would be "several months" before they completed repair of the islands' fog horns. In the case of a broken horn, sound devices would remain in operation.
The Coast Guard light was extinguished on May 28, 1970. Officials said the Indians wrecked it. A subsequent fire "extensively damaged" the tower, the Coast Guard said.
During the repair operation, armed guards with leashed German sheepdog patrolled Alcatraz. Also on hand were representatives of the U.S. marshal's office.
Small-49-foot Coast Guard patrol craft circled the island warning the many sailboats and pleasure craft, on the bay because of the stormy summer weather, to stay a safe distance away.
Meanwhile, other special crews from the General Services Administration (GSA) continued a survey of the shambles left by the Indians who were removed last Friday after 19 months occupying the island, former site of the grim prison criminals called "The Rock."
"And it is a shambles," said Thomas Hannon, regional GSA administration. "See
He spoke to some 34 newsmen, photojournalists and 9 cameramen, who were either in hiding or on the run.
The only things not broken were the concrete walls, and even those were in bad shape. Great hibiscus had been knocked in the paving. Amelia's head was removed of copper cables that were sold for junk. Great strips of insulation laid scattered on the walkways. Evidence of fire could be seen where the lead seating for the cables had been replaced with hardened steel pools of the hardened lead—not worth money.
the effort to save, even at junk prices
Only a few windows remained unbroken in the echoing cell block building and the guards' quarters. Stacks of clothing donated to the occupying Indians remained in the living bales. An infirmary used for the Indians children was strewn with unused medicine.
"We took the indians off on warrants from the U.S. district attorney's office when we could prove the island was being looted," Hannon said.
The lighthouse tower, which carried a giant clenched fist painted in red paint, was a charred wreckage. A fire had destroyed the entire space once occupied by the huge generators that operated the navigational light.
There were no Indians on the island. The last taken off were six men, four women and five children. Indians on the mainland have dogs. Indians on Seven Indian dogs remained on Alcatraz.
The island was occupied by a band of 89 Indians on Nov. 29, 1969, claiming it was their under an old treaty because the government had abandoned it.
Young Cadets Attend Classes In Leadership
Nearly 200 Civil Air Patrol cadets from an sight-state area are attending the first North Central Region cadet staff college at KU this week.
The "college" is a leadership program sponsored by Civil Air Patrol, a civilian auxiliary to the Air Force. During the week, the cadets, ranging in age from 13 to 21, will be instructed in such subjects as organization personnel relations and communications.
CAP Major Ronald Weissaft, one of the directors of the program, said the objective of the program was "to give cadets knowledge and experience for leading groups—knowledge that they can take with them no matter what field of endeavor they so into."
Activities for the week include tours through KU's aviation laboratories and TWA in the air.
Scholarships Offered In Essay Competition
A California book publishing company has announced a $25,000 scholarship essay competition for all registered college students graduating seniors and graduate students.
Entrants will write a 3,000 to 5,000-word essay on the subject *Objection*. Censorship
The competition, sponsored by Greenleaf Classies, Inc., San Diego, and their distribution division, Reed Enterprises, Inc., offers a first prize of $1,000, second prize of $3,000 and third prize of $2,000. Ten $1,000 and 100 $90 prizes also will be awarded.
No entry forms are required. Students must, however, include a single sheet of paper with entries, giving their name, address, phone number, and date of birth and signature. Deadline for entries
is July 4, 1971. Winners will be announced September 1, 1971.
Essays should be sent to 'Scholarship
competition', P.O. Box 69800, Los Angeles,
CA 90210.
Judges for the competition will be: William Shinto, director of Christian Higher Education, Baptist Board of Education, Warren M. Cox, County Supervisor; Frank Brown, senior editor of Harparks Magazine; Dana Antei and book reviewer for The Hollywood News.
Other judges will be Donald K. Cheek, vice president of the Human Resources Institute at Claremont College; Martha Boaz, dean of University of Southern California School of Law; and Jonathan Knight, film critic for Saturday Review and press contributor at UCSC, Sammy Days Jr., entertainment.
KU Tornado-Makers Suggest New Safetv Measures
By TOM.JOHNSON
Joe Engleman pulled on his leather gloves and lifted the flat blocks of dry ice out of their insulated container. He covered the 12 by 12 plastic matform with the ice and then a swipe.
Overhead, a wire mesh "squirrel cage" began to spin and the motors of the aeronautical engineering wind tunnel pulled air up through the spinning cylinder.
The speed and suction increased and the nurse reached a deafening pitch. Suddenly, it was impossible to hear.
made the 8-foot spinning funnel visible and
Joe Eagleman had created another tornado
For the past year and a half, Engleman, assoc. professor of geography, and his colleagues, Vincent Murhead, assoc. professor of aerospace engineering, and Nicholas Willems, professor of civil engineering, have been producing scale-model toroides in the KU engineering lab. These models are used in the lab and by investigating the destruction of actual toroides, may save lives and property in the not-too-distant future.
Ice Crystal Twisters
Whirling Cylinder Creates 2-Foot Mini-Tornado
... ice crystals make the simulated funnel visible
"We have several goals," Eagleston explains. "We would like to find out, statistically, where the best and safest place a house that may be in the path of a tornado."
For the past three years, Eagleman and his team of researchers have been on stand-by, ready to fly to the scene of any major tornado. They have investigated the devastating results of the funnels from Ohio to Mississippi and from Texas to Kansas.
"Secondly, we want to discover if there is a better way to build homes . . . a way that might prevent property damage and the loss of lives."
They have examined more than 300 homes that were partly destroyed by the high-rise collapse.
Eagleman and the survey crew tries to reach the scene of a tornado within 24 hours.
"If we get there too late and the clean-up process is well under way, it is difficult to record the type of data we need," he says, "and we must be careful; they may be before the area is cleaned up."
The on-site research usually begins with a flight over the storm's destructive path. Extensive aerial photographs are taken to record the general direction of the storm, and if possible, the direction of the damaging wind. The refracter, the general direction of the fund)
"The occasional ground-looping action of a tornado, and the loops might cover as much as a couple of miles—can cause damaging winds from any direction, even though the funnel-producing cloud formation has moved from southwest to northeast." he says.
With the fly-over quickly completed, the survey team lands to inspect all of the possible homes that have both "safe and unsafe locations" and to take more pictures.
If a building has been completely
destroyed, then, of course, there is no safe
area in the structure," the young man says
"We're looking for homes that have partial damage, but more than just roof damage, to determine where the safest location would have been in those particular buildings."
Contrary to popular belief, the safest location in a home during a tornado alert is not the southwest corner of the house, Eagleman has found.
If there is no basement available, Eagleman suggests a small room on the first floor of the house near the north side or in a central location.
"If the approach direction of the tornado is uncertain, then pick a spot in the central part of the house. If you can get to the basement or stern cellar, naturally that's best."
"A small bathroom or a closet on the first floor is the next best thing, if a basement isn't available, he says, but always to find a place where the direction of the approaching storm."
"We have damaged houses that apparently were just set on their slab foundations and the fastening bolts were never secured with nuts," Eagleman says. "The whits which lifted the house off the foundation which lifted the really nothing to hold it down."
The scientists have also discovered homes are not always constructed as well as they might be—especially homes without basements.
Another potentially weak point in home construction, Eagleman and the engineers have found, could be cured with a few more nails.
The joints between the wall and where the roof beams are tied to the walls often lack lift. The joints should be designed with
required to have the same strength as the structural members."Wilson says.
"Also, roof sheeting, shingles and so forth,
should generally be nailed with much closer spacing of nails that usually takes place," he recommends.
With the dry ice-rotating cylinder tornae model, designed by Murhead, the men are currently studying the ground path of tornae as well as developing some new techniques for producing thunderstorms. Ultimately perhaps, they will find the key to controlling
"The first problem in controlling the winds is to understand them and their causes. We hope we're approaching that understanding," Eagleman says.
the 400 to 800 mile per hour winds.
The second question is, "Is it practical to control them?" That is, how much money can you spend on them?
That is something the scientists cannot answer, yet. They hope they will soon have some positive options to make available to their supervisors or officials for controlling the destructive storms.
Photo by JOE KAGLEMAN
Tornado Damage in Lubbock, Texas after 1970 Storm KU researchers hope to help avoid such destruction