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Thursday, August 24, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Museum Hostess Studies Raid of 1863
By MARY PITMAN
Kansas Staff Writer
William Quantrill and his bushwhackers abruptly broke the slow, sweet rhythm of August 21, 1863, when they galloped into Lawrence by daybreak, burning more than 150 men. The survivors of that notorious raid have dwindled and gone and no onepower remained to pick up Peterson, the hostess of the Douglas County Historical Museum, cannot actually remember the raid, she has so much to do that her witness accounts of it, that she almost seems to remember.
Peterson, at 81, although she herself was born near Concordia. speaks as if she were a collective memory of Lawrence.
The small Douglas County Museum, which she hosts, is located at 745 Vermont in the basement of the Lawrence Police Department. Weekends: Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. In several months, the museum collection will be moved into the much larger Waltkins Community Museum.
The move is necessary for PETER but the presentation, said she for some time and personality of the present display may be lost in the shuffle.
and colorful three-dollar bills issued by early Lawrence banks. James Clarke Quintilli, who lived and worked as a private school teacher in Lawrence before being laid in Missouri in 1863.
"He was a handsome man," he said. "I had daddys lads were very much enamored with me, then he became like all these fellows who get excited about a game."
The pro-slavery Quantrill raided Lawrence, Peterson said, because "as a Free State slave we were the vital spot to strike." Peterson related the route of the raiders from South Park down the road where the first people killed by the raiders was a soldier who Peterson discovered, in the course of which he had to have been her distant cousin.
Frank James, brother to the outlaw Jesse James. was said to
Potter's Ice Disturbed for Laking
Potter Lake is the scene of lakings to celebrate the break the ice before throwing in the happy victim, anything from birthdays to engagements. And just to make sure he stays in, you might have to walk around with him.
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Writer
Miller Criticism Stirred By Lawrence Drug Raids
Dawn drug raids carried out by approximately 70 Kansas law enforcement officers on June 29 in Lawrence resulted in a number of arrests for sale of hard drugs and also renewed the controversy over the tactics of Vern Miller, the plaintiff state attorney general.
Officers participating in the 6 a.m. raids were from the KBI, Miller's office, the Douglas County Sheriff's office, the office of the county courthouse, Mike Elwell, and the Lawrence Police Department.
The raid was the largest in Lawrence since February 1971. Forty-two warrants were issued, most for of sale of narcotics, including eight for heroin and nine for methamphetamine, allowing for the arrest of those named at any time wherever they were located.
were charged with possession.
SEVERAL University of Kansas students were named by the warrants, but none of the raids were conducted in residence halls on or University property. Drugs, ranging from cocaine to heroin, related paraphernalia were confiscated and several persons
Elwell said later that he was surprised to find newsmen and photographers at a briefing held at 5 a.m.
were charged with possession. After the raids Elwell lashed out at the news media for notification of the news media and for his attempt to grab most of the publicity when the credit was not his, according to Elwell
"WE PLANNED the briefing to coincide with the regular shift change so that the coming and next meeting attract attention." Elwell said.
"I wasn't our local people who told the press. In our original request to the attorney general's office, I said Nothing was gained by Vern being here and there was a chance for a serious news leak."
Miller held a news conference in Topeka the afternoon before the raid, notifying the press of the plans. At 6 a.m. radio stations began broadcasting information about the raid, which was just beginning.
"The public has a right to have it, and we have to be informed in such a way that it warns the defendants that we have a chance to arrest them?"
ELWELL was also disturbed because he believed that Miller's publicity had overshadowed the fact that most of the preliminary work had been handled by his office and not by Miller or the KBI.
Initial investigations were begun in September by the Lawrence Police Department and the county attorney's office, which was centrated on suspected dealers of hard drugs. Elwell pointed out that county funds had been used to purchase drugs off the street to build the cases. Seventeen of the cases originated in the county jail, where the KBI was invited to help coordinate the case later.
Elwell's verbal assault launched a stream of criticism of Miller by other state political fixtures.
Ewell said that he was pleased by the results of the raid and noted that eight of the arrests involved with heroin traffic.
"this was not a hit-and-miss approach," he said. We set out individuals as targets, intending to get dealers passed over in the process, and over the list of those booked, the names were pretty familiar."
On Massachusetts Street, unrebel splits up in different directions, killing and pilaging and setting fire to more than 75 houses and 100 residences throughout the streets of Lawrence.
Veterans Receive Benefits Plan Social Events for Fall
be invited to attend.
Bruns said that veterans on campus would have to pay one or two dollars a plate, at all, with other guests paying $10 a plate for the veterans scholarship fund.
Arrangements for a Veterans Day Banquet on October 23 in the Union Ballroom has been part of the planning of the banquet. Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., Second District Rep. William Roy, D-Kan., and Third District Rep. Larry Wimm, R-Kan., had all attended invitations to attend the banquet.
have been one of Quantrill's raiders; and, Peterson said, Jesse, too, was sometimes among the murdered crew.
Campus Veterans will operate booth at enrollment for the fall semester. Benefits will be available and a prochure on the Campus Vets organization will be distributed, and an orientation program. Veterans will be requested to complete a questionnaire to aid the group in planning
Veterans on the University o.
Kansas campus this fall will be
eligible for a wide variety of
organizations. The Kansas
Campus Veterans organization
is already at work planning a full
workday for veterans for veterans
enrolled at KU.
ervers Administration, Kansas
erans Commission, American
Legion. Veterans of Foreign
masters will also be invited to attend.
BRUNS said that he is now trying to contact the office of presiding officer, McGovern, D.S.D., in an effort to arrange for either McGovern or his vice-president running for governor, and dress them. Members of the Vet
Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman,
Campus Veterans president, said
Tuesday that although the organization is experiencing financial turmoil it will go ahead with plans for activities for the fall semester.
Several of the Campus Vets' projects and recommendations have been realized by both a Body of Beliefs and May meeting accepted a Campus Vets proposal submitted by Vice Cancellor for Business Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania for veterans attending KU on the GI Bill to pay tuition in three installments, rather than at the end of the semester procedure beginning this fall.
By BOB LITCHFIELD
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence's mayor in 1863, General Collamore, hid in a wall to escape the guns of the raiders. But Peterson described how the men infiltrated the house and suffocated the mayor, adding him to the list of 143 men known to have been murdered in the raid. Other dead included those bodies were not recovered because they fired set by Quantrill's crew.
Ten housing units in Stouffer Place were reserved for married veterans. Married veterans who have been registered preferance on the waiting list. A different system of payment is also available at Stouffer, in which they receive the schedule by which the veteran receives his GI benefit check.
CAMPUS Veterans is outlining programs that it hopes to be able to administer through an Office of College Development to the Higher Education Act signed Monday by President Nixon contains a program for federal funding of such a college office on college campuses.
VETERANS will be able to pay
Lawrence ladies—sometimes sweet-talking the raiders into the city and strenuously in saving their husbands and homes. In the museum's collection of data about the 1913 semicentennial memorial of the raid, suggested, "There was a woman who still clung to the guerrillas."
in equal installments due October 1, November 1, and December 1,
because of the present Veterans Administration payment schedule
many veterans were forced to pay fines when paying their fees.
The eye-witness accounts of the raid in the magazine documented the fact that the fierce raiders sometimes succumbed to a
woman pleading for the return of her stolen keepsake. One woman returning to her burat-out door found that she mementoes carefully cared a distance outside the burning house by the raiders. Thus the raiders manifested unthinking distress and a sense of southern manners.
But the pleading of Lawrence male residents was to no avail. Eye-witness reports, included in a document that some Lawrence men were rounded up in a bunch in the street to be shot by the police, had been filed and raid did so because they made themselves scarcity—hid in cellars, or as in the case of one promush cap, an merchant, hid in
One youth borrowed sun bonnet and a dress to fool the raiders and helped them out. He artfully to save their husbands and repeatedly put out the fires
"I can hear the pounding of a man, said Mr Suffitt for Ira Braun, made coffins for two nights in their shop just across the alley to get them.
Quantrill's Raid and other aspects of Lawrence history—now dim and far removed from the world around them are real to Gail French Peterson.
coffins. One survivor of the raid, Mrs. J.B. Sulliv, vived recalled the aftermath of the raid in the magazine eye-witness accounts.
Nevertheless, in its wake, Quantrill's Raid left 80 wowds, 259 orphans, a disheartened and impoverished citizenry, and the main street of the town burn-out city, of only two businesses.
Bruns said that until KU is accepted into the program and money is appropriated to it by the program, it is available to begin administering the programs needed by veteriners.
Quantrill escaped to Missouri to die a few years later in another vigilante raid.
History is important to her because it reveals to a man his relatively small position in the perspective of time, she said.
Her work as a journalist, a researcher for the state of Kansas and a historian in the US, is also an historian's passion for truth and accuracy. The tendency on the part of most people to embellish the facts has been one of the greatest problems as an historian.
The problem of burials in Lawrence was huge. Some of the dead were interred without
Peterson is eager to talk about Lawrence history but reluctant to talk about herself.
"I'm just an average person," she insisted.
Space Lab to Be Dedicated
By DEANNA VANDERMADE
Kansas St. Writer
Diversion is Provided For Lawrence Inmates
Every Monday for the past three months, a box of assorted books and magazines have been delivered to the Lawrence jail.
The Space Technology Lab, which once received in June 1964 of June 1965 was submitted to NASA for a grant to construct, in cooperation with the state of Kansas, a spacecraft. The initial grant was awarded in April of 1967 the planning was completed and the construction was start in 1969.
been extensive research done in the remote sensing lab. Ability to be performed research and utilizing radar for earth exploration. On their other jobs, NASA is the sponsor of the NASA is sponsoring next year. They also have remote sensing equipment to unmanned satellite ENTS now.
Betty Barlow, Lawrence librarian, is collecting books and magazines to be sent weekly to provide some entertainment.
"There is a very desperate need for diversion there. Some people are there for three to six days and they have nothing to do," she said.
The new Space Technology Laboratory at 19th and Iowa State Universities, p.m. sept. 29. Robert L. Walters, facilities manager, said dedication activities and an open campus Thursday. Friday and Saturday.
Until the move to the new library sometime in August, Barlow is storing the books in the family room of her home.
Library cannot be used, she said,
because of the way they are
treated.
Barlow said that she was trying to build up a big backlog of books and material so the project could be made permanent.
Books from the Lawrence City
Books to be donated to the proje ct can be left at the library, Barlow said.
An official from NASA will be in Lawrence to speak at a joint Lawrence Chamber of Com- mmerce and NASA, in the Union Ballroom at noon on Sept. 29, and NASA and University officials as well as astronauts, will preside over the brief dedication ceremony at the Space Technology Lab.
Murphy Hall was built in 1957.
Aler the books are read by so many people getting on in line that they are no dition to be used anymore. For a book that are best suited for them, the books are
On the morning of Sep. 29 there will be a seminar on "University, Industry, Government cooperation to Stimulate Job Opportunities in the Seventies". The purpose of this is to get graduates who have used research facilities and have gone into business utilizing the materials they gained to come up with new ideas for local businessmen about how they got started and what problems they encountered.
There will be tours all day
in the museum.
Public. Professors will be present
conducting research in the labs
of their presentations of
their projects.
Murphy Hall honors Franklin in a recolored image from to 1960 and then to 2004 at the Medical School from 1948 to 1951. He is now chairman of the board of the Murphy Hall Society.
ON SEPT. 28, the lab will be holding an earth science application designed to relay to state and regional officials ways of using Earth Resources remotely sensing projects taking place at the laboratory. Dr. Arch Park of NASA's Earth Resources Survey Program will give an overview.
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IN A communique about the laboratory, Walters said, "The building was designed to establish a physical environment for cooperation between disciplines and graduate students and member students from most of the major University departments including business, engineering, and the social, biological and scientific sciences are now working on projects in the building."
for yourself.
During the past year there has
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Funding consisted of $1.8 million from NASA, $34,500 from the State of Kansas and about $600,000 for furniture and equipment.
There is a great diversity of research done in the lab. It is designed as a multidisciplinary course and all schools will use it. Research projects on radar systems, behavioral sciences, air pollution and high temperature chemistry will be worked on, with the work being done in the building.
The Space Technology Laboratory has been partially occupied since last fall. At the present time between 65 and 75 percent of the labs are functional. The remaining labs need utilities expected to be completed in time for the dedication ceremony.
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