Monday, Nov. 19, 1962
University Daily Kansan
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Late Sen. Chavez Aided Poor People
SANTA FE, N. M.—(UPI)—Sen.
Dennis Chavez rose from the anonymity of a dusty New Mexico village to the United States Senate, but never forgot his poor background.
It was this background that furnished his preoccupation with the "poor people," a preoccupation he never lost from his first Congressional term 32 years ago to his death early Sunday morning.
Expressions of grief and sympathy flooded the homes here of his family.
FORMER President Harry S. Truman, called "The Boss" by Chavez when the New Mexico Democrat was working with Truman's proposed legislation, said Chavez was "a great man and a very good friend."
Truman said Chavez was "a good public servant, and that's about the highest thing you can say about a man."
Chavez was born April 4, 1888 in Los Chavez, a small cluster of adobe houses in Valencia County. The Chavez family under his leadership grew to politically-powerful dimensions, while he himself drew the adulation of thousands of fellow New Mexicans with similar backgrounds.
In the hills of New Mexico Chavez was known as the "Fatron," a Mexican word given a rough interpretation of protector or benefactor. A mite of a man, wasted in his later
years by cancer, Chavez made few speeches because of his throat difficulty, and after his larynx was removed in 1931 spoke hardly at all.
BUT WHEN he had his health, his followers at political meetings would watch his every movement, listen to catch a possible whisper. Chavez would on occasion see a friend of long standing, and throw his arms about him in a violent embrace.
Chavez, who ranked fourth in the Senate in seniority, always kept his roots in the state despite wide travels to examine U.S. defense installations. He was the third-ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and chaired the committee's defense subcommittee. He was chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Works and the Senate Building Commission.
The 74-year-old Democrat was always known as a liberal, using government funds where there were no private funds.
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KU Faculty Senate Appoints Members to Committees
The advisory committee of the KU Faculty Senate has made assignments to four ad hoc committees.
The Faculty Senate is the all-university governing body composed of senior faculty members.
The new committees are:
Committee on library violations: James E.
Gibbs, dean of history; Lawrence C.
Woodruff, Dean of Arts; Stuart Forth, associate director of Watson
Library and Keith L. Nitcher, compi-
Committee for creation of a senate standing committee on research: Karl D. Schwalb professor of education, George B. Smith, professor of engineering, institutional planning; Dan Hopson, associate professor of law; William P. Smith, professor of electrical engineering; Anderson, professor of history, and Richard H. Benson, associate professor of geology.
Committee for policy on non-University
associates professor of political science;
Earl B. Shurtz, associate professor of law; Ethet P. Eain, professor of political science, and Wiley Mitchell, acting dean of the School of Business.
Committee on research, teaching, and other duties: Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry; Ivan V. Nemecek, professor of chemistry; Danish Andersen, engineering; Howard Baumgartner, associate professor of human relations; Frederick E. Samson, associate professor of comparative biochemistry and physiology, and William P. Albrecht, professor of English.
Pub-Keeper Off Wagon
RICHMOND, England—(UPI) —Horace Redknap, retiring as a pup keeper, celebrated with friends last night by drinking a glass of lemonade. It was the strongest drink the teetotaler has had in 40 years behind the bar.
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