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Texas Cattle Drive Is Way to Relive History
Editor's note: The following is an article written by Jack Harrison Hays senior, who will be managing editor of the fall semester Kansan. The article appeared in the Salina Journal.
In two years the state of Kansas will be 100 years old. It's about time we were planning our birthday celebration.
Oregon is publicizing its centennial this year by sending a wagor train over the old Oregon Trail from Independence, Mo., to Independence, Ore.
A wagon trip from Independence, Mo., to Kansas would hardly be worth the trouble of hitching up. But maybe we can go the other way.
Surely we can find a stunt as good as Oregon's. We can't let a bunch of lumberjacks outdo us.
It seems Kansas owes a social call to those border ruffians in Missouri.
We might retrace the route of Coronado into our fair state. This time the travelers may locate those elusive Seven Cities of Gold.
Perhaps a pilgrimage to Kansas should come from the south.
Will Quantrill and his boys paid a visit to the town of Lawrence back in '63. The only civil thing to do is return the favor.
We couldn't follow the Spaniards' route to the end, however. Coronado got discouraged with it all turned around and went back home.
We could organize a cattle drive from Texas. If the Legislature can't see spending the money, a little rustling from the Okies along the way will help defray expenses.
To give the state that real frontier look in '61, we might outlaw automobiles for the year.
The slow-plodding oxen would surely cut down the highway fatality rate.
The use of animal transportation would also slow down the rapid transit through the state of tourists and their money.
Those numerous soil-bank acres could be planted to sunflowers.
We might even do something constructive and give ourselves a useful birthday present—such as a revised state constitution.
Perhaps we should plan a statewide centennial exhibit that could be seen by all, whether in the air or on the roads.
Maybe we will need to hire some help from out of town for the big celebration. Most of the suitable fellows are living in Hollywood now.
The Maverick boys can set up shop in Abilene, and move down the road when the customers get nasty.
Watt Earp can have his old job as sheriff in Wichita.
Bat Masterson can be Dodge City marshal. Bill Hickey can again wear the tin badge in Hays City. We might even find a place for Flint McCulloch and his wagon train.
Planning for the centennial is a problem. But if we think it over we may decide 100 years in this country is long enough, and just give it back to the Indians.
Director of NEA To Talk at KU
Dr. Ivan A. Booker, director of the Membership Division of the National Education Association, will give an address in Bailey Auditorium at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. The talk will be open to all University students, faculty members, and the public.
Before assuming his present position, Dr. Booker was assistant director of the NEA's division of Press and Radio Relations, and of its Research Division. He has been in charge of the nation-wide promotion of National Education Week and the public relations film project which the NEA carries out in cooperation with the state education associations.
GOP State Chairman Challenges Beatty
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TOPEKA — (UPI) — Republican State Chairman Sam Mellinger today called on Democrat Kansas Corporation Commissioner Marion Beatty to "name names ... under oath" in connection with his charges last week against Gov. George Docking.
Beatty resigned as KCC chairman Just week, claiming he had had difficulties making impartial decisions because of interference from the governor.
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Magazine, Fund Receive Awards
The KU Alumni Magazine and Greater University Fund each won two awards at the 4th general conference of the American Alumni Council last week at Makinac Island, Michigan.
The Alumni Magazine received the third place award in the category for coverage of students and third place in the alumni news category among institutions with more than 30,000 alumni. The K-Stater Magazine also received an honorable mention in the students category for institutions with from 10,000 to 30,000 alumni.
The KU Greater University Fund earned the second place award for a single mailing piece in annual alumni fund raising. The Alumni Assn. received third place for a single piece of dues and membership promotion.
A grant of $39,905 for small business research to be done cooperatively by KU and Kansas State University has been made by the Small Business Administration in Washington. D.C.
Grant Made For Business
The one-year grant is for study of "Management Strategy in Establishment Sizes Operated by Both Independent and Centrally-Controlled Companies."
H. K. L'Ecuyer, associate professor of business administration, will be project director. Associate director will be Prof. Leland S. Hobson of the Division of Engineering and Industrial Services of Kansas State University.
Prof. L'Ecuyer said the project will consist of case studies of both independent and centrally-controlled companies operating small size establishments, particularly those which are competitively effective in their fields.
Services of the Center for Research in Business will be used in connection with work done at KU.
Up to four full-time research assistants can be used for the project. However, individuals of the experience and training necessary for this type of work are currently in short supply, Professor L'Ecuyer said.
Martha Cook, reading laboratory assistant, announced recently that two courses, one in rapid reading and one in reading and study methods, are open between 1-3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Students who feel the need to learn better study methods and speed in reading may still enroll in courses in these fields.
Courses Available In Study Methods
The schedule within these hours may be adopted to fit individual needs.
Students who wish to enroll in these courses may do so at 102 Bailey between 1-3 p.m. today through Thursday. Enrollment will be open during the rest of the semester. No credit will be given, and no home work will be involved
Labor Institute Draws 100 Men
The thirteenth annual Steel-workers Summer Labor Institute brought nearly 100 workers in the steel and allied industries to the KU campus this week. The six-day program will run through Friday.
GOP Will Hear Simpson
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Republican State Committee has announced another prominent speaker for its July 11 meeting at Wichita. He is U.S. Rep. Richard M. Simpson, Republican, of Pennsylvania, Simpson will appear with Sen. Thurston B. Morton (R-Ky), the party's national chairman.
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The institute, sponsored by the educational division of the United Steelworkers of America (AFL-CIO) and University Extension, is intended to provide its participants with an opportunity to increase their knowledge and understanding of their union's impact on the economy, its position in the community and its influence in government.
Two separate courses are offered at the KU institute: a first-year program for workers attending for the first time, and a second-year course for those having attended previously. First-year men are studying union history, the position of steelworkers in the economy, labor's role in political action, speech and communication, and local union organization and procedure. The second-year program includes discussions of the national economy, community relations, the government and world affairs, stewardship, and the press and the public.
Certificates of completion will be presented to those attending the program on Friday, by A. F. Kojetinskov of District 34 headquarters. Other instructors and speakers at the meeting will include E. C. Buehler, professor of public speaking at KU. Thomas Cosgrove and John McColum of the University of Chicago; William Lavelle, representative of the United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Iden Reese, Kansas City, Kan., junior College, and Dr. John Ise, professor emeritus of economics at KU.
Ground Water Sources Subject of New Study
Among the buried treasures of northeastern Kansas are some sand-filled channels that are sources for ground water and possibly may be developed as underground storage reservoirs for surface water.
"Sandstones of the Douglas and Pedee Groups in Northeastern Kansas," by Donald T. Sanders, published by the State Geological Survey, contains 25 pages of general information about these permeable rocks found in below-the-surface channel-like trends.
The trends, as interpreted in the report, are ancient river valleys, and the distribution of the deposits shows two drainage patterns. In the report the deposits known as the Ireland and Tonganoxie Sandstones are described in detail.
At a position above a subsurface rock unit identified as the Haskell Limestone, the Ireland Sandstone is the dominant sand body. The sand-stone deposits occur in two major trends; the principal channel, which crosses Wabaunsee, Osage, and Franklin Counties, is about 100 feet deep.
Below the Haskell Limestone, the Tonganoxie Sandstone is dominant. It has been deposited in a southwest-trending valley, traced through Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Coffey, Lyon, and Greenwood Counties, and in places it is more than 140 feet deep.
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A summary of present uses of water from buried Tonganoxie-Ireland Sandstone reservoirs is given in the report. Several small communities in northeastern Kansas, for example, obtain all or nearly all of their water supply from such reservoirs.
The water systems of Wellsville, Baldwin, and Waverley, are supplied entirely from the Ireland Sandstone; Quenemo gets its supply from the Ireland and from Pleistocene gravels; Overbrook and Tonganoxie municipal wells tap the Tonganoxie Sandstone; and Pomona may obtain water from both the Ireland and the Tonganoxie.
Subsurface data on which the study is based were obtained by examination of logs of approximately 1,000 wells drilled in the search for water, oil, and gas.
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