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Tuesday, August 30, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Museum move near completion
One-thousand-pound marble sculptures, furniture, paintings and 400 boxes of small art objects are among 25,000 carefully wrapped items being transferred to the new Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art from Spooner Art Museum.
After several months of planning, the art objects were moved beginning last week until mid-Sepember. Charles Eldredge, director of both museums, said yesterday. Offices were moved to Spencer in early August.
Organization and placement of artwork will continue until January, when Spencer will finish.
The $5 million building, behind the Kansas Union, is a gift from Helen Foresman Spencer, a 1926 graduate of KU. Additional funds came from the Samuel Kress Foundation of the University to money travel throughout the country to expand and improve art collections.
Mrs. Spencer will attend a private dedication of the building on Sept.11.
SPENCER MUSEUM is four times larger than Spooner, having more gallery and display space and room for the department of art history's classrooms and library. Spooner is also the museum because of lack of display space will be displayed in Spencer. Eldredge said
Art history classes will begin meeting in the new museum in January, he said.
Improved conditions at Spencer include tighter security and better temperatures for preserving artwork, Eldredge said. A temperature range of 72 to 75 degrees and humidity range of 40 to 50 per cent will be maintained to protect artwork, especially in wood and ivory, which are affected by shifts and extremes in weather conditions.
"Spooner did not have the facilities to maintain the proper conditions for the artwork, and some of our objects were damaged," Eldredge said. "We're now in the second year of a $0,000 program to restore these items. The Endowment is providing federalawardment for the Arts, a federal organization, are funding this program."
HE SAID that routine care and restoration of all art objects would extend beyond this program. Priorities for the next few months are completing the move from museum to collector's artwork and caring for the steady flow of art gifts donated to the museum.
Sponner, the oldest building on campus, may be restored to its original condition, according to Max Lucas, director of facilities at McGraw-Hill, which would remain next year. Plans for Spooner's future use have not been finalized. It may hold offices for various University departments and schools and a multi-purpose room for lectures and expoitions. It will also be loaned to Jaenette Johnson administrative assistant to serve theATIVE vice chancellor.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
A 900-pound bronze statue of Buddha is moved to the new Spencer Museum of Art by Jim Kent. Shawney Mission junior, left, and Carl Ceder, Lawrence senior.
Ruddha moves
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter has decided to require farmers to reduce wheat acreage 20 per cent next year if they fail to meet federal general support prices and other crop benefits.
John White, deputy secretary of agriculture, told a news conference the administration also plans to enlarge a food-grain reserve announced earlier this year to include corn and other livestock feed grains.
Carter acts to cut wheat acreage; Congress to ponder food reserve
The U.S. wheat surplus left over from previous crops jumped to more than 1.1 billion bushels on June 1, from 664 million last year and 434 million on June 1, 1975.
White said congress also will be asked to approve a special international emergency food reserve of up to six million metric tons for use in meeting U.S. commitments for use in meeting U.S. aid commitments.
OFFICIAL SAY a cutback would have little, if any, effect on consumer food prices and that global grain stocks also are large enough to absorb an acreage reduction in
Also, there have been bumper world grain crops this year and leftover stocks next July 1 are expected to be the largest on record. One reason for expecting little impact on food prices is that the price of wheat makes up little of what consumers
Officials estimated that if the 20 per cent planting reduction is successful, it will reduce 1798 wheat acreages by about 1 million acres from the 74.4 million planted for the 2016 harvest. The proposal is similar to the one under by Agriculture Secretary B勃 Bergland.
pay for bread, which is the main use of the grain. Last month, for example, a loaf of white bread coating 35.6 cents contained 2.4 cents worth of wheat.
Meanwhile, three successive bumper U.S. wheat crops have depressed grain prices and have eaten deeply into farmers' income. Wheat prices have recently averaged $1.40 a bushel against $3.33 in mid-July of last year, according to the Agriculture Department.
PROPALSOS TO reduce wheat acreages followed four years of all-out production by 10% each year.
government. Wheat surpluses began developing in the early 1970s, but huge foreign demand, led by the Soviet Union's forces, in 1972, skimmed off the stockpiles.
By 1974 the reserve was down to 340 million buahs, the lowest level in more than a decade.
Under policies of the Nixon administration led by Earl Burl, former secretary of agriculture, old acreage controls for wheat, corn and other crops used until then unloaded entirely for 1974 production. They have not been used since.
KC schools adjust easily to court-ordered busing
KANSAS CITY Kan. (UPI)–School children waving at television cameras and a bus that ran out of gasoline marked the peaceful first day of a court-ordered desegregation plan that began Monday with the forced busing of black students only.
"There weren't any problems at all," said Glen Dewerff, school district spokesman. "As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the television cameras and reporters, no one would have known this day was different from any other opening day."
schools. It was the result of a four-year black schools in the northwest part of the city
About 9,000 of the district's students are bused. The longest ride because of desegregation lasts about 40 minutes and spans 11 miles.
The desegregation plan provides for the tousing of about 500 black junior high school students from the Bronx.
THE DESEGREATION EFFORT uproots fewer than 2 percent of the district's 28,000 students. But it has been heavily criticized by many black parents who believe the plan places the burden of desegregation on the black community.
Meanv backs canal treatv. criticizes Lance
WASHINGTON  (UPI)—AFL-CIO President George Meany said yesterday he disagreed with President Jimmy Carter's claim that Bert Lance was competent to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Meeny otherwise praised the administration for the first time in many months. He suggested the AFL-CIO, a conservative force on foreign policy issues, would endorse the proposed new Panama Canal treaty.
any law by benefiting personally from his previous position as a bank president.
Carter, who has been seeking support for the treaty, recently patched up his dif-ferent bill to override TCO by endorsing two key law bills. The treaty endorsement was seen as a return favor.
"The ethics seem to be that if you're the president of a bank, you get certain fees on every sale."
MEANY TOLD A NEWS conference during a meeting at the AFL-CIO Executive Council that the federation had no intention of taking any action. There was no evidence Lance had violated
But the labor chieftain said he disagreed with anyone who claimed Lance still was competent to serve as budget director—as Carter has done repeatedly.
"I'm not just saying that the argument of the competent is not substantiated by the record."
"Everybody says he's competent," Meany said. "Now from what I read he's pretty clumsy. I don't think his experience as a banker would indicate to me that he's got the qualifications that are necessary to the office of the Office of Management and Budget.
MEANY ALSO JOINED those calling for a congressional review of laws regulating
the banking profession, in light of questions raised about Lance's actions before joining the administration.
Anticipating action by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on the Panama Canal issue. Meany said he personally supported the treaty.
"My general attitude is that there is no particular reason for us holding on to territory 9,000 miles away just because we use it, or the body else a land back in 1940." Meany said.
"The point that is this 1977. I don't see any reason why we should lay claim to territory that was established 70-odd years ago."
IN A COMMITTEE of the Southern Governors Conference yesterday, a resolution opposing surrender of any U.S. control over the Panama Canal was
"Just by observation the attendance was "very good Monday," Dewerrf said. "It doesn't appear that any group is staging an effective bovocet of classes."
blocked. The action at least temporarily spared Carter the embarrassment of opposition from political leaders in his native South.
The resolution by outspoken Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards failed to clear the resolutions committee in a 3- vote, with a late appointment to the panel providing the tying vote.
Puerto Rican Gov. Carlos Romero-Barcelo was appointed to the committee yesterday to replace Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who did not attend the conference. Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe appointed Romero but said he did question Romero's stand on the Panama Canal issue before making the appointment.
Briscoe said he opposed ratification of the canal treaty and would vote with Edwards for the Louisiana governor attempted today to bring it before the full conference.
Black leaders say the Justice Department's decision to appeal the desegregation plan has tempered any moves for a class bovcott.
Dewerff said there were no problems among students Monday. He said most students appeared to be more concerned with finding their new classrooms and trying to get on television than with the implications of the desegregation plan.
"THEERE WAS A GREAT amount of curiosity among them, a desire by some to be on the camera, to wave to the world," he said. "To them, it was their moment of fame and fortune. Some come up to the buses not knowing what it was all about. But most of us would rather stay in the house and wanted to be sure to be at the front of the line to set on TV if they could."
A faculty gasoline gauge caused one of the district's 85 buses to run out of gasoline before the start of classes. The vehicle's arrival was delayed about 35 minutes. Dewerff said early morning fog also caused short delays for a few other buses.
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