Daily hansan
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1961
58th Year, No. 72
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Campus Chest Aids Many in Distress
At the end of the Campus Chest drive, after Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond have gone home, a weary group of KU students hope to be seated in a smoke-filled room with lots and lots of money.
The expected thousands of dollars will have come from KU students who contributed to the largest fund raising drive of the year. The drive will run for Feb. 13-18.
An airplane crash, around Christmas time, killed many members of the football team from California State Polytechnic College. Surviving wives and children of these football players will receive a percentage of the money collected during this year's Campus Chest Drive.
LAST YEAR'S DRIVE totaled more than $4,000. The progressive goal for 1961 has been set by the Campus Cbest committee at $5,500.
Douglas L. Mayor, Kansas City junior and chairman of the drive said:
"If every student contributed one dollar, we would have the biggest campus chest in the nation." The present goal calls for only 50 cents per student.
ALMOST 300 STUDENTS will be ringing doorbells of fraternities, sororites, dormitories and private apartments for contributions during Campus Chest week.
On Feb. 11, a "kickoff breakfast" will be held in the Kansas Union
Reds Claim Attack by U.S.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — A Soviet ship claimed it was "molested" for 25 minutes today in the Arabian Sea by a destroyer flying the American flag.
The official Soviet Tass news agency said word of the incident was received in a radiogram to Moscow from the captain of the Soviet motor vessel Andreyev.
The radio message said the destroyer Ingraham molested the Soviet vessel for 25 minutes and twice approached to within one cable length—600 or 700 feet.
It said the destroyer approached the Andreyev flying the American flag and "bearing the number 694 on its side."
Tass said the Soviet ship and crew expressed its "profound indignation" at the destroyer's action.
The agency added that the Andreyev was on a cruise from Archangel to Basra with a load of timber.
Tass gave no further details immediately of how the destroyer allegedly molested the Andreyev.
No Hope Left for Tower Survivors
Aboard the U.S.S. Wasp at Sea (UPI)—Rear Adm. Allen M. Shinn today gave up all hope of finding any survivors in the wreckage of a "Texas" radar tower that collapsed into the storm-swept Atlantic Sunday night.
Shinn, directing search operations from aboard this navy carrier 60 miles off the New Jersey coast, suspended surface search operations. Of the 28 men aboard the tower, 26 are missing and presumed dead. One body has been recovered and another was sighted but lost.
"I don't honestly think there is anybody alive today in or out of the wreckage." Shinn said.
Any of the men possibly thrown clear of the tower when it toppled in the northeaster Sunday night long since would have died of exposure, Shinn said.
where the members of the Interfraternity Council, service fraternities, some freshmen women's organizations, and fraternity pledge classes will receive instructions on how to solicit funds. A key speaker will also be present. The speaker has not been named.
The Campus Chest drive will end with a concert by Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on Feb. 19, in Hoch Auditorium.
TICKETS FOR THE CONCERT will sell for $1.50 per seat. Tickets may be bought in blocks beginning Feb. 8, and single seats will be sold beginning Feb. 9. Funds received from ticket sales will go to the Campus Chest as part of the overall contribution from this university.
The fraternity, sorority, and men's and women's dormitories with the largest per capita contribution will be awarded trophies.
STUDENTS ARE ALSO URGED to contribute their Union rebate slips toward the charity drive. These slips will then be redeemed at the Kansas Union for seven per cent of their face value, and the students who turn them in will receive credit for contributions for their house.
Forty per cent of all Campus Chest funds will go to the World University Service, an organization dedicated to aiding students all over the world.
WUS SPENDS most of its funds to improve student health programs. In the United Arab Republic, examinations have shown that large numbers of students have active tuberculosis. The WUS will assist the University of Alexandria in procuring the necessary X-ray equipment.
Other organization which will receive a percentage of the Campus Chest total will be the American Heart Assn., Infantile Paralysis Society, Damon Runyon Cancer Society, Tuberculosis Assn., The Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, KU Travel Fund and the Near East Foundation.
ON STAGE dinners will be served before each performance of "Look Homeward Annel."
From left to right, around the table, are Becky Davis, Cheyenne, Wyo., freshman, closest to the camera; Mike Jackson, Prairie Village junior; Mrs. Charlsia Schall, Lawrence senior; Dan Kocher, Topeka sophomore; Mary Ann Harris, Independence, Mo., junior; Laura Earnshaw, Shawnee graduate student; and Pepper Webber, Bartlesville, Okla., senior.
Play Cast Eats on Stage
The cast of "Look Homeward, Angel," by Thomas Wolfe, is seen eating dinner on the stage of the University Theatre, Murphy Hall.
Although the actual dinner was not part of the play, director Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech, said the cast would be able to more realistically "project" themselves into the first scene if they remained in character and costume before the play, and ate dinner on the set.
In the first scene the characters are gathered on the veranda discussing the meal they have just finished. The meal was prepared by Mrs. Jack Brookings, the director's wife.
The play will open its four-night run Feb. 7.
The Cast of "Look Homeward Angel" includes the characters:
Miss Davis as Mrs. Clatt; Jack son as Jake Claff; Mrs. Schall as Mrs. Snowden; Miss Miller as Miss Brown; Kosher as Mr. Ferrell; Miss Harris as Laura James; Miss Earnshaw as "Fatty" Pert, and Miss Webber as Floumie Mangle.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Continued mild. Low tonight 25 to 30. High tomorrow in the 50s.
Laotian Troops Seize Red Town Key Airstrip
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — Laotian government troops captured the red stronghold town of Vang Vieng and its strategic airstrip noth of Vientiane and U.S. supplied planes poured rocket fire at retreating pro-communist troops, advices from the front said today.
The pro-Western regime of Premier Prince Boun Oum, moving to consolidate its hold on the key area, about 68 miles from Vientiane, took immediate steps to establish an advance outpost at Vang Vieng.
LAOTIAN FIGHTER aircraft doubled their rocket firepower to batter the retreating Communist troops. Three American-made T-6 trainer planes took off from Vientiane carrying four rockets each under their wings. They had carried only two of the five-inch rockets on previous missions.
The fourth of the old T-6 planes supplied by the United States was temporarily out of action because of engine trouble.
CAPTURE OF VANG VIENG, a key supply base that had been handling Soviet air-dropped equipment, was considered the most significant victory in a month for the pro-Western government forces.
The retreating rebels left behind a 105 mm. Howitzer and at least one 120 mm. mortar. They also left a sizable quantity of trucks and jeeps, most of them still in working order.
Col. Kouprasith Abhay, commander of the government forces which retook Vang Vieng, left to install his headquarters there this morning. He intended to make the town, with its valuable airstrip a forward base for further operations against pro-communist rebels in the surrounding mountains.
Gym Lags Behind KU Enrollment Boom
By Linda Swander
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles on Robinson Gymnasium. The series was prompted by an article appearing in the Daily Kansan Thursday.)
Nestled between Flint Hall and Hoch Auditorium, an ivy colored building stands. It has watched students come and go for 55 years. It has watched the University grow into a great educational institution. But the old building is bending under the weight of its years. Its steps show the wear of thousands of feet, its walls bulge from the overflow of students. It has grown small as the University has grown large.
This old building is Robinson Gymnasium. Today the gymnasium is inadequate for KU's growing enrollment. It has only one basketball court, one swimming pool, two handball courts, no dance studio for the women and no wrestling facilities.
IN 1905 the legislature appropriated $100,000 for a new gymnasium. Previously, physical education classes, mostly in callisthenics, were held in Old Snow basement and then in the north dome of Fraser Hall. The appeal by Chancellor Francis Huntington Snow for a new gymnasium had stressed the use of the building as an auditorium. The funds were granted and the building was named after the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson.
The gymnasium occupies one of the prime locations on the campus. Situated on Jayhawk Boulevard across from Strong Hall, it is at the geographic core of campus activity.
The gymnasium was originally built for a student body numbering between 2,500 and 3,000. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said that when the plans for the construction of University buildings were made at the turn of the 19th century, the administration and Board of Regents did not anticipate that enrollment would ever rise as high as it has today.
The old gymnasium has suffered a lot of wear and tear over
the last 55 years, Henry Shenk, chairman of the physical education department, said. Many times during heavy rain or snow storms the roof of the building leaks and intramurals and other activities have to be canceled because of water on the courts.
FIFTY YEARS ago the facilities in the gymnasium proved adequate for the University's limited enrollment. But no longer.
Prof. Shenk said recently, "With more than 10,000 students and an increase of more than 3,000 expected in the next few years, the building has become outmoded. Robinson Gymnasium has the poorest facilities in the Big Eight Conference."
Shortly after World War II, Robinson Annex, a converted army barracks adjacent to Malott Hall, was brought into use as "temporary" emergency measure. The annex, still in use, houses physical educational classes.
"Although the 20 by 60 feet swimming pool is well built for its size, it is not adequate. The pool is used for varsity swimming, recreation, intramurals, Quack Club and life-saving and swimming classes.
MORE THAN one pool is desirable on a campus this large. Ohio State University has three pools for the men alone," Prof. Shenk said.
The gymnasium has one basketball court. There are 142 men's intramural basketball teams plus the women's teams. The courts are in use most of the time and the teams have little opportunity to practice.
BECAUSE OF the lack of space, the gymnasium has no facilities for wrestling or room for a women's dance studio, he added.
(Editor's Note: Tomorrow's article will compare the KU gymnasium with those of other universities.)