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Thomas Buckman Replaces Vosper as Library Director
"My appointment as director of KU libraries was a big surprise to me at the time."
ENTHUSIASTIC—Thomas R. Buckman, director of Watson Library, said today he has accepted his new appointment "with willingness and enthusiasm." Buckman was head of the library's acquisition department.
This statement was made by Thomas R. Buckman in a Daily Kansan interview this morning.
MR. BUCKMAN SAID, "Of course I knew about my promotion before the official announcement was made. There were rumors that Mr. Vosper was leaving. However, none of us knew what would happen after that. I only knew that I was being considered for the position if Mr. Vosper left."
He continued enthusiastically, "I have accepted the responsibility of being his successor with willingness and enthusiasm. I say this because the years immediately ahead are going to be challenging and exciting ones for the KU library as they will be for the whole university.
"THEHEN WILL be a rising tide of books as well as of students. By 1964 the library will have well over a million volumes, and in the meantime there will be a new building addition to take care of them."
Mr. Buckman said it was well known around the library that Mr. Vosper's going to UCLA as the director of libraries there was in part due to his friendship and close association with former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
THE ENTHUSIASTIC young di-
Mobutu Rules With Threats
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (UPI)—The anti-Communist caretaker government formed by Congolese strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu began in earnest today the task of running The Congo in spite of veiled threats of armed resistance from ousted pro-Soviet Premier Patrice Lumumba.
At the same time, the United Nations command launched an investigation into reports of atrocities against supporters of Lumumba in the north of Katanga Province. The atrocities allegedly were committed by gendarmes loyal to secessionist-minded President Moise Tshombe of mineral-rich Katanga.
U. N. OFFICIALS here said 68 Ba-luba tribesmen were slain in the village of Luena alone. They said the final death toll probably would be higher.
But in Elisabethville, capital of Katanga, a senior U.N. military official said "we have no news whatsoever to indicate any kind of massacre by the Katanga gendarmerie in the north."
Luena is a coal-mining town in south central Katanga, it was pointed out.
"There were certainly grave incidents in Luena," the official said, "but in the light of the more than 2,000 killed in the fighting and savagery around Bakwanga the casualties were small."
The reference was to the bloody clashes between Lumumba troops and tribesmen loyal to Albert Kalonji in South Kasai province.
Air Force Missile Successfully Tested
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) The Air Force today fired its first Blue Scout rocket an estimated 17,000 miles into space, but lost radio contact with its payload within minutes after the launching.
The Air Force said all four stages fired normally, and that "there is no reason to believe" that the rocket did not reach its planned peak altitude. But radio contact was lost eight seconds before the final stage engines burned out.
the four-stage solid propellant rocket, which may herald new high altitude nuclear tests and early flights by models of earth orbiting gliders, blasted into the sky at 8:02 am. EST.
I would sooner part with my overcoat than my Oxford English Dictionary.—Robert Graves
rector of libraries has been at KU since 1956. Before his promotion he was head of the acquisitions department of the library.
He received his MA in Scandinavian area studies, as well as his professional degree, from the University of Minnesota. During 1954-55 he was a King Gustav V Fellow in Sweden. He has taught at the University of Stockholm and has published extensively in Scandinavian and American bibliographical journals.
Mr. Buckman has held positions in libraries at the University of Minnesota, Oregon State College, and the Neva state Library.
When comparing the KU library with the ones in which he has worked, Mr. Buckman said:
"THE KU LIBRARY is a library of unusual distinction for its size. We have special collections here which very few other libraries of its size can match."
the James Joyce collection and the Summerfield collection of Renaissance materials.
As examples of the library's rare collections the library director cited
While comparing the outlook, toward the library and its function, of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe with that of former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Buckman said;
"THE RALP HELLIS collection in ornithology is one of two or three best ornithological collections in the country," he said.
"I think Chancellor Wescoe has the same vision and strong qualities of leadership Dr. Murphy had. I feel encouraged by the fact that he is also interested in the library and knows its importance to the entire university."
French Class Sizes Favored
Richard L. Admussen, KU assistant instructor of Romance languages, said the French classes this semester were the size the French department liked them. There are 20 to 25 students in each lecture section and 10 to 12 in each of the lab sections.
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Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy continue their campaigning across the nation today—but in different directions.
Sen. Kennedy launched his second big campaign swing with a foray into Tennessee after promising to take quick action on three fronts if he is elected president.
Nixon, Kennedy Continuing Campaigns Across Nation
By United Press International
The Democratic candidate told a nationwide television audience last night he would undertake within 90 days after entering the White House programs to bolster national defense, send more help to underdeveloped nations and "attack poverty" at home.
KENNEDY FACED a busy day of campaigning in Tennessee with appearances scheduled in the Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City area, Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis before flying on to Sioux City, Iowa, to spend the night.
Kennedy indirectly answered a statement earlier in the day by his Republican rival, Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon deplored any talk of U.S. weakness lest it encourage the Communists.
KENNEDY REFILED, "I say it is wrong and dangerous for any American to keep silent about our future if he is not satisfied with what is being done to preserve that future. "This is no time to we can out-
“This is no time to say we can out-
talk or out-shout” Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy declared.
"I want to out-do him—to outproduce him—to prove to a watching world that we are the wave of the future and that the Communist system is as old as the Pharoahs."
MEANWHILE THE REPUBLICAN presidential candidate, putting a new look on the tested Republican theme of peace and prosperity, was scheduled to open his day of speech-making in Fort Wayne, Ind., dip into the border states with a speech in Louisville, Ky., and then move on to Springfield, Mo., for a speech and news conference.
Nixon was encouraged by his daylong trek through Michigan yesterday. A day of good crowds was climaxed by an enthusiastic outdoor rally at Bay City where police estimated that 14,000 people heard GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul D. Bagwell predict that Michigan will support Nixon in November.
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