Monday, November 11, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Shirley Gossett, Lawrence senior, was crowned 1968 SUA queen Saturday night by Andrea Sogas, Overland Park senior and last year's queen. Miss Gossett is shown with Drew Anderson, Plainville senior, following her coronation.
SUA Carnival shows a lot
Arms, stomachs, legs—all that the law would allow—was unveiled Saturday night at the SUA Carnival.
Thinly-clad coeds danced on platforms, swung on anchors, sold sweets, subjected bare stomachs to rubber balls and solicited viewers for their living groups' skits.
U.S. jets pound foes near Saigon
SAIGON (UPI)—Air raids yesterday by U.S. B52 jets sent more than 1 million pounds of bombs hurtling into jungles north of Saigon where North Vietnamese troops were reported regrouping for a new wave of attacks. The blitz knocked out a huge ammunition dump.
Shell City
South of Saigon, in the Mekong River delta, Communist gunners ignored the terms of the U.S. bombing halt over North Vietnam and fired two 75 mm. recoil rifle shells into the city of Can Tho. Two women and three children were wounded.
In announcing the bombing halt on Oct. 31, President Johnson said Communist troops were expected to stop indiscriminate shellings of South Vietnamese cities. Can Tho, biggest city in the delta with a population of 85,000, was shelled Saturday and again yesterday morning.
The eight-engine jets of the Strategic Air Command flew four missions along the Cambodian border in Tay Ninh province Saturday night and yesterday morning, the U.S. Command reported. One raid hit targets only 31 miles from Saigon.
Returning B52 crews said the shower of blockbuster bombs triggered the medium-sized secondary explosions, an indication that a large ammunition arsenal had been blown up.
American headquarters said other B52 flights hit Binh Long province further north along the Cambodian frontier and the central highlands province of Kontum.
Same Area
The general area of the B52 strikes is the same place where the 19,000-man U.S. 1st Cavalry Division airmobile has been moved to counter what American commanders describe as "a substantial" Communist threat. There are two other U.S. infantry divisions in the area.
Ground action throughout South Vietnam continued light, the U.S. Command said in its communique yesterday afternoon.
SAIGON—Army Spec. 4 John Mancini of Warren, Ohio, saying what he thinks will be the Vietnam move of president-elect Richard M. Nixon;
"He will bring a slowdown in the war in time but it will take at least a year for any big improvement."
Mens' groups displayed less skin, but proved to be equally inventive. Wheels of fortune, roulette and assorted gambling games, carried SUA's international theme to Monte Carlo.
Amateur actors traveled from the Olympic games to George's jungle home. Approximately 3,000 KU students were entertained with dancing and singing by performers of 10 carnival skits.
Excitement mounted at 10 p.m when students filled the Kansas Union Ballroom to receive announcements of skit and booth winners, highlighted by the crowning of the 1968 SUA Carnival Queen.
Miss Shirley Gossett, Lawrence senior, was chosen from 35 coeds to reign over the festivities. Miss Gossett was crowned by Miss Andrea Sogas, Overland Park senior and last year's SUA Carnival Queen.
After the crowning of the queen, trophies were awarded to the following winners of the booth and skit competition.
Womens' booth winners: 1st place-Pi Beta Phi; 2nd place-Delta Delta Delta, and 3rd place-Chima Omega. Men's booth winners: 1st place-Triangle; 2nd place-Delta Tau Delta, and 3rd place-Theta Chi. Coed booth winner: Oliver Hall.
Womens' skit winner was Gamma Phi Beta, Mens' skit winner was Alpha Kappa Lambda.
By STEVE NAFUS Kansan Staff Writer
Bustling about attending to her guests, Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer radiated excitement throughout the afternoon Friday as the Kenneth Spencer Research Library was shown publicly for the first time.
Widow dedicates library to memory of husband
And in a very real sense, the library is her triumph and her tribute.
She was so excited that as she sat down after presenting the building formally to the University, she said she thought, "Oh, when do I give my speech—and I'd already given it."
It stands with a commanding view of the valley around Lawrence which the Spencers always enjoyed. It is outfitted to her specifications in every detail. It is intended to provide the type of research facilities heretofore not found in the Midwest and it embodies Mr. Spencer's desire that more skilled persons should be lured to this area by the availability of such facilities.
Mrs. Spencer visibly flowered in the pride of her accomplishment. She could speak of nothing else the entire afternoon except the library she created as a tribute to her late husband.
Because her loyalty runs so high, she contributed the library to the University of Kansas, from which Mr. Spencer graduated in 1926. A highly successful industrialist and founder of the Spencer Chemical Co. and the Midwest Research Institute, Kenneth Spencer could have chosen any place in the world to live, but he preferred Kansas City.
Soviet ship pays visit
PERTH, Australia (UPI)—The first Soviet passenger ship to call on Australia arrived yesterday at Fremantle with 475 passengers, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, after a voyage from Great Britain. The 19,860-ton Shota Rustaveli was chartered for the cruise by a London-based travel club.
Helen F. Spencer, who prefers to be called Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer as a reminder of her late husband, shared his devotion to this area. She viewed the contribution of such a library as almost a duty when she learned it was needed.
It was not enough for her to just give any sort of library. It had to be a very special building, worthy of her husband's memory. For that reason she oversaw each step in the planning and execution of the building.
She explained that everything in the Spencer Room had belonged to her husband. And anyone who expressed interest was a candidate for a personally conducted tour, the student in faded blue jeans and cowboy boots as well as her old friends, many of whom wore mink wraps.
Incongruous though it seems, Mrs. Spencer said she had gotten down on her hands and knees to clean the Spencer Room a few days before the dedication, because no one could be hired to
do it on short notice. Those who knew her did not appear surprised—they knew her determination and had speculated that if the library was not completed or was not "just right," she would postpone the dedication ceremony.
When the finish on the wood floor of the Spencer Room did not suit her, she had it refinished.
"I have given my heart and soul to the library, and I did so want it to be done right," Mrs. Spencer said.
The barometer that had been Mr. Spencer's showed a drop in pressure, indicating a change in the weather, but Mrs. Spencer would not let foul weather dampen her spirits.
"The day and the dedication have been beautiful because all my beautiful friends were here to share it with me," she said to a woman on crutches and a cast on her leg. "Why just imagine your coming out in this weather with your leg in a cast—I certainly appreciate it."
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