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Vol. 94, No.61 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, November 14, 1983
Blacksmith teaches beauty of a lost art at forging workshop
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Joking all the while, Manuel Calderon casually pulled a piece of brightly colored cloth with a pair of tongs, explaining every move to the audience.
With a few quick strokes of his hammer, Calderon began molding the steel into the shape of a leaf.
"I've been a blacksmith for a long time," Calderon said Saturday between swings. "I'st still got all my fingers, and they're in pretty good shape, too. Tools are the key. My fingers would be all beat up if I used the wrong tools."
Calderon, 64, has been a blacksmith since he was six years old and
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began working in his father's blacksmith shop. Today, Calderon is considered the dean of blacksmiths in the Kansas City area.
ABOUT 50 PEOPLE squeezed into the foundry room in the Art and Design building Saturday to watch Calderon perform his blacksmith magic during a forging workshop.
Calderon was born in Mexico and raised in Iowa. When he was 10 years old his father died and Caldoner became an apprentice to a miller.
The '40s and '50s. Calderon ran his own blacksmith shop in Des Moines, Iowa taking time out to serve with the armoured infantry during WWII.
"I've done a lot of things, but that was just playing around." Calderon said. "My heart was never in anything but this. This is me."
Manuel Calderon, who started work in his father's blacksmith shop at age 6, demonstrates the craft he still practices at age 64. Calderon displayed his blacksmithing skills Saturday for an audience at the Art and Design Building.
Blacksmithing is a dying art, and Calderon devotes much of his time today to teaching it.
See FORGING, p. 5, col. 3
Recent dog attacks inexplicable, official says
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Roxanne Bonham was in her house baking bread around noon Wednesday when she heard her 8-year-old son Kever scream.
She rushed to a side door to what was wrong, and there she saw Keen, who was alone in the room.
"It was five minutes before I found out what happened." said Bonham. Route 2.
What had happened was that a Doberman pinscher had attacked her son.
BONHAM SAID THATKeven was outside washing windows when the dog ran up to him
and knocked him to the ground. The dog did not bite him, she said, but it was growing and "wallowed him on the ground for about three minutes."
Kevin's screams apparently scared the dog away, she said. But a question remained — why did the dog do this?
DOGS BY NATURE are not prone to attack people, Sterling Beebe, animal control officer for Lawrence and the University of Kansas, said Friday.
The same question was asked Oct. 22 when two pit bull dogs maused a 67-year-old Harper woman to death as she stepped outside her house to pick up her paper. It was asked again Oct. 25, when an 80-pound boxer bit an 8-year-old girl in front of her several times on the face, neck, chest and legs.
apparently after the baby had approached the dog's puppies.
And two weeks ago, a 60-pound malamute mauded to death a 3-year-old in Holton, Mich.
"The dogs that attack are dogs that have been trained to attack." he said
But he could not explain what causes unprepared attacks, the kinds that have been reported. I expressly agree.
He said, however, that injured dogs were likely to bite when approached by people.
Forty-two dog bites were reported in Law-
See DOGS, p. 5, col. 1
Universe will expand forever, scientists sav
By United Press International
SYDNEY, Australia — A team of Australian, British and Chinese astronomers has concluded that the universe will go on expanding forever, with a spectacular explosion as many scientists think.
The scientists also said that eternity would be cold and dark because stars would use up their nuclear fuel and be extinguished one by one, but they said "we need not worry . . . for a long time."
The team, working at the Siding Springs Observatory near Coonabarabur, 250 miles
northeast of Sydney, said in a report in the November issue of the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society the universe would be warmed with a uniform temperature just above zero.
THE SCIENTISTS SAY their findings show that the gravitational pull of the total mass of the universe is insufficient to stop it from continuing to exend.
This contradicts the popular Big Bang theory that the mass of the universe is so great that eventually the force of gravity will cause it to stop expanding and collapse in a massive bubble.
Bruce Peterson, research fellow of the
Australian National University, said in the report that stars in the universe are moving farther and farther apart and using up their fuel, will end up with a universe which is cold and dark.
The astronomers' findings were the result of more than four years of work involving measurements taken with a number of telescopes at the Sidings Springs Observatory.
"But we need not worry, as this won't happen for a long time.
The aim was to calculate the total density of matter in the universe, then compare its gravitational energy with the energy causing the universe to expand, Peterson said.
President's trip to Asia is considered successful though largely symbolic
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — President Reagan flew home yesterday, ending a symbolic trip to Asia to reaffirm U.S. defense commitments — a journey highlighted by his viewing of a North Korean encampment and his strong challenge to communism.
Air Force One left Kimo Airport in Seoul this morning (7:33 p.m.) CST yesterday on a 15-hour flight to Washington, with a stop for refueling at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan accomplished his fundamental objectives on the six-day trip — establishing "an agenda for progress" with Japan and reaffirming a 30-year-old commitment to the defense of South Korea. Secretary of State George Shultz said that the trip was an outstanding success.
REAGAN, HOWEVER, skimmed over tough issues facing the governments of Japan and South Korea — Tokyo's continued limits on American trade and Seoul's crackdown on opponents of the authoritarian regime of President Chun Dao Hwan.
New charges of human rights abuses, including the detention of government critics during Reagan's visit, prompted White House concern about the outcome of the trip.
Secretary of State George Shultz brushed aside reports of human rights violations in the country, declaring that the Seoul government was making progress in curtailing abuses.
Shultz, speaking at a press conference following talks between Reagan and Chun, insisted that the most important accomplishment of President Reagan's three-day visit to South Korea was the president's personal experience with the people of South Korea at a time of increasing tension.
THE CHUN REGIME has been accused by international human rights groups of repressing political dissent and jailing opponents. The UN-backed campaign deals harshly with student and other protesters.
"That isn't to say there aren't problems, but we also have to bear in mind that there is a country just a few short miles away from here and continually threatens this country, Shultz said.
Chun planned to accompany the president and Mrs. Reagan to Kimpo Airport for a brief ceremony before Air Force One took off on a 14-hour journey home, Sunday night.
Reagan was to arrive in Washington at 11 a.m. (CST Monday).
Earlier, the two presidents issued a joint statement of unity and friendship, saying that they "took note of the strong and myriad bonds of friendship and cooperation that have linked the United States and the Republic of Korea and judged those ties to be in excellent condition."
The presidents made little mention of the human rights issue, merely saying that they had "affirmed the importance of defending and protecting our rights," and that they serve freedom, openness and political stability."
REAGAN AND CHUN dedicated themselves to principles of freer trade and greater economic cooperation and to the 30-year-old defense pact linking the two nations.
They also charged that the Oct. 9 bombing in Burma that killed 17 South Korean officials was a "deliberate act of state terrorism," committed by North Korea.
On his last full day in South Korea, Reagan — wearing a fur-fur-collared Army jacket with his name stenciled on the chest — visited the stark Demilitarized Zone. Peering through binoculars at an uninhabited North Korean "propaganda village" 1,000 yards across a minefire. "It looks like a Hollywood back lot and it isn't any more important," he said.
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Crescent-Engel group objects to proposed Catholic church
More than a dozen residents of the Crescent Road neighborhood near campus yesterday voiced objections to a proposed Catholic church to be built at Ennel and Crescent roads.
Father Vince Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center which is building the church, yesterday asked his congregation to attend a Lawrence City Commission meeting Nov. 22, when the site plan for the proposed church would be debated.
For almost two hours, neighbors attending a meeting at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road, argued that the proposed church would interfere with their neighborhood and worsen traffic problems.
THE CENTER PROVIDES church services for students. Student Masses are now said in Spanish.
Several members of the church's building
committee, including State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R/L Ashland and project architects, met with state officials to discuss the project.
But many of the residents at the meeting complained about the size of the project, saying that when it was first proposed they pictured a small neighborhood chapel.
Mike Ott, 1520 Crescent Road, said, "The project is large, and it seems to keep growing and growing. It has been a real shock for some of the people in the neighborhood."
*or*, associate professor of art, most of the residents had lived in the neighborhood for more than a decade.
AREA CATHOLICS April announced plans to build a church, chapel and student center on church property at Engel and Crescent roads. But, during the summer, residents of the neighborhood formed the Crescent Engel Road Association to oppose construction of the church.
See CHURCH, p. 5, col. 1
Recent gains should inspire young blacks, speaker says
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Recent achievements by American blacks have made this an "interesting and inspiring" for young blacks seeking careers, a Kansas City Urban League official said Saturday.
"the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson has to ignite a spark in all of us," said Carl Boyd, director of research, planning and communications for the Kansas City Urban League.
"Because none of us is in the black race alone," Boyd said, "Jesse Jackson cannot be in the presidential race alone. We have already won in that his candidacy is seen more and more as a serious candidacy and not a symbolic campaign."
Boyd spoke to about 70 University of Kansas and high school students in the Kansas Union in the opening lecture of the seventh annual black student-alumni career conference.
ALTHOUGH SOME SAY Jackson cannot win the election or even the Democratic nomination, Boyd said, blacks have already won because of the increase in voter registration among blacks and because of the inspiration he has given to Third World blacks.
The half-day conference, which included lectures and workshops on education and career planning, was sponsored by the KU Black Alumni Committee.
Boyd asked the audience to be encouraged by the recent gains of Jackson, the mayoral election victories of his father and brother, and the welcome in Philadelphia, the approval of a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King
"We can stop chanting, 'Run, Jesse, run,' and start chanting, 'Win, Jesse, win,'" he said.
NOT EVERYONE WAS called by God to be an astronaut or a Miss America or a presidential candidate, Boyd said, so each must be the best he can be. He told the audience that because "we are all Americans," he would strive to achieve in academic fields as it has done for other blacks in athletics or entertainment.
Jr. and the crowning of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Wiliams.
"Our world is full of superstars," Boyd said.
"Superstardom is not our problem, but it need not be our goal. Superstars and leaders can inspire you, but they cannot study for you."
Boyd said the achievements of one black help the rest by improving the image of blacks in a white-oriented, oppressive society, he said. Boyd also added to the negative image held by white society.
The young black male suffers most from a negative image. Boyd said, not only among those who wear black, but also
"Television portrays us as buffoons, and the various media play up our crimes more than our own. It is a glorifying view of the human condition."
Because of that, black men must match their academic achievements with an "exemplary"
BOYD'S TOPIC Saturday was educational motivation, a subject to which he has devoted much of his life. He works as a consultant for the superintendent of the Kansas City, Mo., public schools, and has been a substitute teacher since he came to Kansas City in 1980.
He grew up in a Chicago housing project, in a South Side area he called "the dirty 30s." After college, he returned to that neighborhood to teach seventh and eighth grades. Boyd did not think it was out for the day, but worked as an "active teacher," often visiting students in their homes.
United Dream International
PARDOMTEMPS, Grenada — U.S. 82nd Airborne soldier Pfc. Duane Matteson of San Diego shows his M-60 machine gun to Grenadian children during a break from patrol in the island's mountains. Fewer than 2,000 U.S. troops remain from
an invasion force of about 6,000. U.S. military officials yesterday turned over to Caribbean authorities 31 leaders of the former Marxist government of Grenada. The officials said they might face trial. See related story p. 2.
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