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Tuesday, December 12, 1978
University Dally Kansan
Saia ...
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As a union organizer—he quit school when he was 13 and went to work in the coal mines—Salaa had at least three confidants who were occupied of workers who were ready to kill.
He single-handedly settled workers' grips. The most famous incident occurred when 1,200 miners threatened to tar and feather two government Workers' Representatives, who represented Joe Polzer and Evan Griffith. His followers are quick to reminisce.
GRIFFTH HAS long been dead, but Poizer, 74, retold the story from his home in Kansas City, Kan., where he's still a practice attorney.
Poizer said he and Griffith were sent to settle a miners' strike. As the talk began, he said, a "roar" went up from the miners and the platform on the platform the WYA team were standing on.
He said Saia jumped up and fired a pistol over the crowd, drew an imaginary line with his foot and said, "The first s.o.b. to this line, I'm gonna kill 'em dead."
Sara remembers the incident, and he says, "I've never been afraid to stand up for what I believe, you know. When I went to hear the first sermon, I thought everyone one guy to say, 'Let's get him,' and it hell."
He has handled individuals in the same you-wanna-fight-about-it manner. Commission meetings have been brawls at times under Sala's chairmanship.
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Perhaps it's because of those explosive moments that Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, George McGovern, Richard Daley and Kansas politicians have clung to his shirt tail to win Kanes's votes'.
SAIA SAID he has endless stories he could tell about his political experiences but is waiting to put them in a book that is in the works at stages at Pittsburgh State University.
Panel to seek someone to fill Calgaard's post
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
announced yesterday the appointment of nine members of a 13-member search committee. The RU vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Shankel said he hoped the committee would begin reviewing applications and nominations by late January and would reach a decision in mid-March.
Those on the search committee are: Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction; Joel Gold, professor of English; Robert Cobert, dean of the College of Liberal Arts; David H. Schultz, professor of the School of Pharmacy; Walter Crockett, professor of psychology; Charles Michener, professor of entomology; Mike Harper, student body president; Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs; Mary Green, assistant dean of libraries.
Shankel said he expected the three additional committee members to be a graduate student, a faculty member and a representative of the office of student afd-
Shankel said he thought the search would be within the University, but he did not want to rule out an exceptional person from outside the University.
The committee will be searching for a replacement for Ron Calgaard, who will leave KU this summer to become president of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
He can't get all politicians to koww,
however. He said he wondered why Vern
Miller—the former Kansas attorney general
whom he warned to stay out of car trunks
because "someone's going to slam one down
on your throat"—didn't back Schneider.
Saiya says he doesn't have any enemies and that politics is like football. "After the campaign's over, why hell, you ought to help each other and be friends," he says.
Schneider says that is pure Saale." He says a master at neutralizing enemies," he said.
Attempts to get alleged Sala enemies to attempt to about Saya Sain provided the evidence for about Scheidung of
In fact, Vernon Grassie, Girard, who formerly was Crawford County attorney until Saia moved to remove him from office, said the person who would talk about Saia's bad habits.
SAIA FLINCHED at the mention of Grasie's name, then said he was really proud to know he had enough power to get Grasie removed from office.
Grassie said that anyone who met Sai couldn't help but like him. But Sai, he said, was a great friend of her.
Grasa was one who said he thought
Sola's defeat in November signaled the old-
time rivalism.
The friction between Grassie and Saia began when Grassie made allegations against Saia's spending and won an investigation, aided by then Attorney General Vern Miller's office, into Saia's past handling of county funds.
Of course, Saim said the inspection with an unblemished record. As for his duration, Saim said it was 18 months.
Until then it'll be business as usual, he said, up with the sun and down after the last call has been heard. Six telephones spread out to his home allow for easy access wherever he is.
A telephone hung by the door. Above the hatch was a December 1977 page from a Playboy magazine.
He scurried ahead, through a small hole and down some steps. He was concerned that his visitor couldn't get along in the dark.
SAIA WAINTED to show off his wine. He went out through his garage, past a variety of vegetables grown in his two-acre garden and to the wine cellar.
"Wait here, kid. I give turn the lights on.
I used to work in the mines lower than this,
you see. But I had a light on my head, you
know," he said.
Siaa学习 to make wine from his stepfather. He said it was tradition. When he dedicated Joe Siaa Boulevard and Overpass he smashed a bottle of his dry "Dage Dro" on the bridge and sprayed people who stood too close to him.
HE TALKED about his businesses: an appliance store that he built, a nursing home, a Holiday Inn, other real estate and business. His business that he's owned since his mining days.
In the cellar he displayed three wines—white, dry and sweet. His favorite was dry.
"You should have seen it. Man, you could smell that stuff a mile away," he said.
He ains he's slowed down from the way he used to get around and tend to his business. "What are you going to do?"
As he handed out samples of his wine he talked about moonshine. He said miners were notorious for running "deep shaft" stills.
On the way out of his cellar he boasted
that he would please everyone would live on—he's got twelve grandchildren.
But he said his drink was Wild Turkey.
He said he didn't respect anyone more than he respected anyone else because he liked all people.
"You know, I'm always here. People always come. I don't turn away no one. You know, that my life. I got food and wine and make hoopy," he said.
That's how the man who says he "is a self-
made son of a bitch" lives like a legend.
Russell C. Mills, University director of support services, sent a letter of resignation yesterday to Chancellor Archie R. Hancock, who planned he to stay planed at KU in some capacity.
As director of support services, Mills is in charge of the KU police department, the University printing service, personnel and Facilities Operations.
director since 1978, said he and Dykes were still talking about what position he might have when his resignation takes effect.
Mills said that he wanted his resignation to be effective Jan. 1.
effect.
"It's been a big job," Mills said. "I don't know what I'll be doing. The chancellor and I are still talking."
Dykes and his office would conduct a
placement of all film replacement within and
outside of the facility.
Mills resigns post; plans to stay at KU
ous came to KU in 1946 as a professor of biochemistry. He transferred to the Medical Center and organized the office of research administration.
Touring Puppet Theatre canceled after three years
A three-year-old continuing education,
Puppet Theatre was cancelled Nov. 22 because it lost money every year, according to Wallace. The conferences and events were cancelled by Co-opting Education.
Puppet Theatre was a touring group of three persons who put on various puppet shows, including "Shadows of My People," written by an American Indian playwright
May made the decision to cancel the program.
The program was directed by Terry Asia, Newberg, Ore., a special graduate student. Nancy Ettlinger, St. Louis junior, performed and did technical work. Matthew Jones, a Kiowa Indian from Wichita, wrote the theatre's scripts.
Dykes said he thought Mills might help the University secure research grants from federal agencies and private foundations, which was Mills' previous job at KU.
Ettlinger and Jones resigned their positions when they were told the program was canceled. Alaa has been placed in another division of continuing education.
HOWARD WALDER, de of Continuing Education, said, "Somebody has to pay the fiddler. After a while, if a program can't support itself it has to be cancelled."
James Nabors, coordinator of art museum programs, was booking agent for the theatre. He said the program was experimental and was set up to pay for itself. After three and a half years, he said, its deficit was about $10,000 annually.
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Asla said the puppet program was needed to bring ethnic culture and live theatre to places where people were not exposed to it. He said it also offered a chance for Indian playwrights to create their own form of theater.
May said there were no bookings for the theatre for next semester, even though Nabors had tried to get them. Nabors said that at one point, he sent 75 inquiries out to find bookings and got no responses. He said the program was too expensive for many communities and did not meet the needs of other communities.
MAY SAID EACH performance cost about $400 in wages to produce and the group charged $200 for the performance. The program must be allotted the ways to keep the program going.
Asia said he would try to continue running the papar theatre because there was a great need for it.
"I'm hoping I can find another home for it," he said.
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