A lonely hospital room will be the substitute for a family reunion in Scotland for Priscilla Campbell, an accident victim.
UDK News Roundup
Army plans savings
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The Army announced Thursday it will close down Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missiles sites in four states to save $22 million a year. It will be a 12 per cent reduction in Nike-Hercules strength.
The step affects 10 firing batteries and five headquarters companies. Three of the firing sites are in the Niagara-Buffalo area of New York, and three in the Cincinnati-Dayton area of Ohio.
Hayakawa fires ten
SAN FRANCISCO—President S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College fired 10 student aides Thursday in a crackdown on the school's rebellious black studies department.
He said the department had become "a training ground for revolution."
Hayakawa said he was cutting the students off the payroll in an effort to bring the department back into the control of the college administration. He said the salaries of the 18 faculty members would be continued for the present, but might have to be withdrawn.
Korea to get U.S. aid
WASHINGTON—The Senate earmarked $50 million for South Korea's military forces Thursday before approving a $2 billion foreign aid appropriations bill.
The final vote was 55 to 35. It came shortly after the Senate rejected 47 to 38 an amendment by Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., to cut out $50 million earmarked for aid to Korea's military forces.
The administration had not sought the Korean funds but the House inserted the money in its bill anyway.
Secret funds near approval
WASHINGTON—Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ak., charged Thursday that the $69.8 billion defense appropriations bill contains several hundred millions of dollars of secret funds for military operations in Laos.
The measure neared final approval, then the House approved and sent to the Senate a compromise version of the measure worked out by a joint conference.
Fulbright, urging President Nixon to adopt a policy of "no more Laoses," told the Senate the amount in the bill for Laos was "many times" the $200 million annual expenditure estimated in an article by the Wall Street Journal.
Scottish lass has 'bad break'
By JULIE THATCHER Kansan Staff Writer
More than 5,000 miles from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Priscilla Campbell's family will be celebrating Christmas without her
The 22-year-old Scottish Highlands native was headed home for the holidays when icy roads changed her plans.
The misadventure began one and a half years ago when Scylla, as her family nicknamed her, came to see America. She worked in Washington, D.C., for six months and then began traveling.
She traveled south then west, working in New Orleans and Los Angeles when she needed funds. She had traveled 11,000 miles and visited most of the states before her car broke down in Cheyenne, Wyo.
In the meantime, Scylla's parents had the opportunity to rent the three story, 25-room house in Ross-shire county, Scotland where she was born. The family has scattered so they no longer need the large residence and have leased the estate for five years.
There she met a graduate student on a bus and he persuaded her to visit Gunnison, Colo., a small college town high in the mountains. Priscilla began working there as a waitress in a pancake house at the end of the summer.
For the Campbell children, living in England, France, the United States and attending the university in Scotland, Christmas was to be the last family reunion in the old house. Priscilla's older brother sent her the money to fly home and her employer granted her a leave from work.
She and a friend made their flight reservations and were preparing to drive to New York to make connections when some students offered to take them.
"We jumped at the chance," Priscilla said, "because we were afraid our car wouldn't make it that far."
Priscilla, her friend and three others started eastward over snowy roads. They crossed an 11,000 foot mountain pass satisfactorily but ran into trouble on the Kansas plains. The car went out of control on the icy turnpike. Priscilla was the only one seriously injured.
"I was asleep at the time and remember very little," Priscilla said. "We were very lucky though. The doors were ripped open and all the windows were smashed."
She suffered a broken arm, a two-inch cut on her forehead, a cut foot and a badly gashed knee in the accident.
The leg injuries are causing her the most difficulty. She can't sit up in bed because her foot must
be kept higher than her heart to aid circulation past the cut. She won't be able to leave the hospital until that heals.
Priscilla's companions went on the day after the accident so she knows no one in Lawrence. Although she has no visitors of her own, Priscilla said she talked to lots of different people visiting her roommates. She also keeps busy reading magazines and books and the hospital service league workers have brought handwork for her to do.
"It took me one day to write my parents a letter and tell them what happened," she said. "I broke my right arm so I had to write with my left hand. Now I know why children hate to write letters."
Priscilla hasn't made any plans for Christmas. She is fairly certain she couldn't get on a flight now and has given up the idea. However, if she's released in time she'll go to Iowa City with her friend. Otherwise, she will return to Colorado alone.
"My doctor wouldn't say when I will be able to leave. I just don't know what to do," she said.
In June Priscilla will be going back to Scotland for good but that isn't much consolation now. Lawrence is a long way from the Scottish Highlands. The flowers left when a roommate went home and hospital gowns are a poor substitute for what might have been Christmas.
80th Year, No. 65
The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas
Friday, Dec. 19, 1969
Edward P. Bassett
J-School names dean
The new dean of the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism will be a 40-year-old professor at the University of Michigan who has been a general assignment reporter, city editor, editorial writer, and columnist.
He is Edward P. Bassett, assistant professor of journalism at Michigan, who will be acting chairman of the department there in the spring semester. He will assume the deanship at KU shortly after July 1.
Bassett attended public schools in Decatur, Ill., and earned the B.A. degree in history and political science at Washington & Lee. He attended the University of Virginia law school one year, then earned a master of arts degree in journalism and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan in 1955. He received the Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Iowa in 1967.
He has taught at the Lower Columbia Junior College, Longview, Wash., the University of Iowa, where he also served as
publisher of the Daily Iowan, and at the University of Michigan.
Bassett began his newspaper career as a general assignment reporter for the Southern Illinoisian of Carbondale in the summer of 1954, was a court reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, assistant editor of the Falmouth, Mass., Enterprise, city editor of the Anderson, Ind., Herald, and editorial writer and columnist on the Longview, Wash., Daily News. He also was a copy editor for the Journal in Providence, R.I., and the Times in Seattle, Wash.
He has received the New England general excellence award and the award of the American Political Science Association for state and local reporting.
Bassett's research interests include British press-government relations, American political figures and their relations to the press, media technology, teaching methods, the press and society, and the newspaper in the 20th century.
Bassett and his wife Karen have three daughters: Sarah, Laura, and Lisa.
KU asks for funds today
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers will present the Board of Regents' requests for the University of Kansas' financial needs from the state to 41 state legislators at KU this afternoon. The lesislators are from the northeastern Kansas region.
Chalmers said Thursday that he would stress to the legislators that two-thirds of KU's needs would be met by the Regents' increase in student fees. He will concentrate on "the most troublesome areas" of the budget, he said, such as larger faculties and supporting staffs to match KU's expanding enrollment.
After Chalmers has presented a summary sheet of the Board's requests for KU, Dr. George A. Wolf Jr., dean of the KU Medical Center, will present the Board's requests for the Medical Center.
Also present at the meeting will
one some visiting administrators from other state colleges and universities. The meeting is one in a series to be held at each of the state schools at which the legislators of each respective region, as well as visitors from the other schools, will meet.
After the meeting the legislators and visitors will go out for dinner, and later in the evening they will attend the KU basketball game at Allen Field House.
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