Monday, October 28, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Crew of KU students clean-up neighborhood
Financially deprived residents of the 1200 and 1300 blocks of New Jersey street can now boast a more attractive neighborhood thanks to efforts by KU students.
A crew of about 50 students spend Saturday cleaning and repairing homes of needy people as part of a program sponsored by the schools of architecture and engineering and several Lawrence ministries.
"We hope to rehabilitate these houses in co-operation with the owners," said Pat McGauley, fourth year architecture student from St. Louis.
McGauley said that later, architecture students will do construction work on the homes in
the way of patching and painting.
The two-block Negro area was suggested for improvement by the Ballard Community Center in response to a request by the students and ministry for a central deprived socio-economic area, McGauley said.
Financial assistance for the program is coming from local living groups, churches and government.
McGauley said he noticed a diversity of students at Saturday's work session.
"There are large groups from the school or architecture and McCollum Hall, along with other scattered groups of volunteers," he said. "Some of the residents are even out helping."
The scene is not exactly Memorial Stadium during Saturday afternoon football games with students shouting "Kill!", but a special type of enthusiasm unique to chess players is generated.
Chess Club has tournament finals set
The semi-finals of the KU Chess Club tournament were completed yesterday after five hours of intensive chess play.
Kiehl Rathman, Houston junior and Dallas Dunn, Lawrence High School senior, emerged as victors.
Yesterday's play-off climaxed three weeks of tournament competition with 26 players participating.
Several of the tournament competitors were Lawrence High School students.
"We have a very good relationship with the chess players from the high school." Walter Strom-
quist, Charleston, III., junior and president of the club, said. "In years past Lawrence High School students have won the tournament championships."
Stromquist said in the event that a local high school student wins a tournament, he may receive the tournament trophy and participate in other matches, but he may not retain the title of "KU Chess Club Champion."
"The title of champion is reserved solely for KU students," said Stromouist.
Although there were no female competitors in this chess
tournament, Stromquist said that there had been female competitors in previous tournaments.
"KU has a really fine tradition for chess," Stromquist said. "We go to regional tournaments and play other Kansas schools as well as teams from Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska."
The Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary provides some of the toughest competition for the team, he said. "For years the players at the penitentiary have beaten us, but two years ago we finally started winning."
Grant given KU for studying life on other planets
A grant of $27,903 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been endowed to KU for study that may indicate if life on other planets can exist at high surface temperature.
Richard H. Himes, associate professor of comparative biology and physiology, will head the project to study bacteria that grow at abnormally high temperatures. Bacteria, such as that found in hot springs, can live at temperatures far higher than most forms of life. Himes' research will attempt to determine how this is possible.
NASA is interested in the project because it ties in with the possibility that life may exist on planets where temperatures are much hotter than temperature on earth.
He also criticized the civil rights movement and the Democratic and Republican parties for turmoil in the nation.
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Former Negro boxer supports Wallace
Two predoctoral candidates and one master's candidate are assisting Himes with the research. The master's candidate is Yuen Shing, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The two Ph.D. candidates are Mrs. Betty Barnes, San Francisco, Calif., and Mrs. Carol Irwin, Tulsa, Okla.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—A former Negro boxer Saturday night urged the election of George Wallace as President.
"This black man will vote for George Wallace because this black man loves his country." John Collins of Silver Lake, Ind., said at a $25-per-plate fundraising dinner for the Wallace campaign.
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