University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 12, 1959
90-Year-Old Templin Hall to Be Destroyed
Templin Hall, the massive gray house that has stood on the Eastern slope of Mt. Oread for more than 90 years, has been vacated to make way for progress.
The old house that has been called "home" by fraternity brothers, scholarship students (both male and female), and Navy men will be torn down to make way for the new housing for retired faculty members.
The tearing down of the old hall will mean doing away with one of the pet projects of one of Kansas University's most illustrious faculty members. Professor Olin Templin, a member of the KU staff for 60 years, was chiefly responsible in securing the old hall for University students.
The old structure at 14th and Alumni Place was built by H. W. Baker of Kansas City shortly after the Civil War. In the 1890s, Baker decided to move to Kansas City and gave the University its first chance to buy the house. Baker said he would sell the house to KU for use as a chancellor's residence. But there was the matter of the $8,000 cost—the University couldn't meet it.
So Baker sold the house and property to Brinton Woodward—one of the first druggists west of the Mississippi. Woodward had settled in Lawrence in 1865 when he started a drug store at 8th and Mass. St.
In 1919, the house was offered for sale due to the death of Woodward. Acacia fraternity stepped forward to invest $45,000 in the structure, $25,000 to purchase it, and $20,000 for remodeling and improving the building into a suitable fraternity house.
In 1937, the fraternity found itself not able to meet all financial obligations and left the house to bondholders. After a long hassle, the
holders finally agreed to sell the house to the University.
At this point, Prof. Templin began the drive necessary to raise funds to buy the house. He received financial help from Bob Bradford of El Dorado, class of 1902. He had appealed to the alumni for money to present the hall "to the University on her 75th birthday." In 1940, the house, known then as Alumni Place, was officially given to the University.
In 1942, the house was used as a co-op, and men living there were able to live on $19 a month. In 1943, the students made way for the Navy which used the hall to house V-12 students.
The close of the war brought numerous veterans to the KU campus and University officials turned Templein Hall into a women's dormitory. There was a fear that the female student would be shoved into the background. When Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall was completed in 1955, the men returned to Templein.
Prof. Templein died in March, 1943. His hall will crumble in 1959. The memory of the man who loved his University so well will live as long as the institution stands.
Armv to Answer Questions
Sgt. Earl Baltzer, U. S. Army Recruiting Service, Leavenworth, Kan., will answer questions from KU students about their military obligations on the second Friday of every month at 3 to 5 p.m. in the KU ROTC office.
On Wednesday and Friday of each week Sgt. Baltzer also will be at the Army Reserve Training Center, 609 Massachusetts St.
A QUIET CROWD — Many students jammed the Kansas Union last night to watch the televised KU-K-State basketball game. Gaiety was
absent from the gathering, for the Jayhawkers suffered their third conference loss, 82-72. Few students made the trip to Manhattan.
Wages Low in Jail, Tokyo
TOKYO —(UPI)— Police arrested a Tokyo construction boss who allegedly paid his workers a pack of cigarettes a day and beat them senseless when they complained, it was reported today.
Acting on a tip from an employee who ran away, police raided the offices of the Ueda Construction Co. Tuesday and arrested owner Takeshi Ueda, 38, and two assistants.
The employee who told police of the semi-feudal operation said the workers were given three "bad" meals a day and a pack of cigarettes
worth 40 yen (11) cents). He said the laborers slept in 10-foot by 10-foot rooms, eight to a room.
In Visalia, Calif., financial conditions resemble those in Tokyo. Prisoners assigned to road work at Tulare County jail have asked the board o supervisors for a 35-cent-a-day increase in their present 15 cent pay.
The inmates said they needed the extra pay because prices of personal items like cigarets and toothpaste have gone up.
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Teamsters Charged With Conspiracy
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - A juke box operator charged today that racketeers are conspiring with a Teamster Union local to take over the entire coin machine industry in the New York area.
Eli Kasper, who identified himself as a jobber for the National Novelty Co. of Long Island, told the Senate Rackets Committee that Teamster Local 266 was created by "dishonest" elements in the union specifically to further the conspiracy.