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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1958
Near-Tragedy Retraced
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, principal geologist for the State Geological Survey, left Saturday to retrace part of an exploration route through the Grand Canyon which nearly brought him death and disaster 35 years ago.
In 1923 Dr. Moore and six other members of a United State government expedition down the Colorado River were the focus of national concern when they were caught in a flash flood in the canyon. They started the hazardous 450 mile trip in five wooden rowboats to chart the river's course.
This time Dr. Moore is traveling by motor boat with a party working for the Arizona Power Commission. He is helping locate dam sites, power sources and reservoirs for irrigation water. During the week's trip, the men are sleeping and eating in the canyon.
On the 1923 trip, Dr. Moore's party was in the canyon from August to October. The men battled flash floods, dodged rocks, climbed crevices and lost their provisions, but landed in California uninjured.
The party was feared lost for several weeks when an oar lock and a splinter from the side of a boat were found near a treacherous waterfall. The men had a radio receiving set, but no way to contact the world except by sending telegrams when they were able to leave the canyon.
Dr. Moore has no qualms about retracing part of the trip. When he left, he said he was 'thrilled to get
a chance to go down again." After the first adventure he brought back moving pictures, the first to be taken in the canyon, and a collection of fossils which were new to geologists
DR. RAYMOND C. MOORE
On the first trip the men often went for three weeks before replenishing supplies after their boats were lost or damaged by currents in narrow passes. They were able to send telegrams only twice. Often they went without sleep for fear flood waters would rise. They camped only when they could find a bar or ledge in the outcropping of the sheer canyon, walls.
A few places along the route, supplies were brought in by pack
horse. Most of the time not even mules could get near the boats. Mail was delivered by Sunai Indians.
The party escaped from the Colorado River flood by climbing through a crevice in the canyon wall to high ground. From a precipice, the men saw a wall of water sweep through the canyon where they had just been. Waves and flood waters were 20 feet high.
At the time National Geographic magazine carried an account of the "Boat Trip Through the Grand Canyon."
A telegram sent from Peach Springs, Ariz., was the first word heard from the party after the flood. It said, "Been getting splashed a good deal lately. Arrived safely, several days delay."
As the men passed through rapids and gorges they listened to weather reports, market news and concerts on their radio.
As a youngster Dr. Moore had read accounts of the first trip down the canyon in 1869. "Often I visualized the thrills and dangers to be encountered," he said.
His trip in 1923 was the first geological expedition of its kind. One of the two boatmen on that trip was the chief boatman for the original canyon expedition.
Since then Dr. Moore has taken geology students into the canyon on field trips and has vacationed there to "answer some of my own questions." But this is his first extended boating and camping trib up the river since 1923.
The Arizona group will end its trip in Las Vegas, Nev. Dr. Moore is expected back in Lawrence next weekend.
Economist Proposes 60-Year Student Loans
Traffic Statistics
To date To date 1958 1957
Accident total ... 14 17
Fatalities ... 0 0
Injuries ... 1 1
submitted to the college entrance examination board, suggested that private financial institutions be the "lenders" in his proposed program. He proposed the federal government as an alternative source.
Pacing Violations ... 2,307 ... 3,207
City ... 235 ... 253
vard, said the proposed program, in addition to spreading tuition costs over a student's working life, would permit colleges and universities to raise tuitions and double faculty salaries.
Moving traffic
violations ... 85 ... 3
Speed check locations last week: 16th and Illinois.
MOSCOW—(UPI)—The Union of Soviet Writers today expelled Russia's Nobel Prize author, Boris Pasternak, for conduct "incompatible with the calling of a Soviet writer."
Red Writers Union Boots Pasternak
The Harvard economist, in a paper
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A noted Harvard educator today proposed a revolutionary loan program which would give college students up to 60 years to pay for their tuition.
Parking violations
the announcement appeared in the Literary Gazette less than a week after Pasternak had been designated by the Swedish Literary Academy at this year's winner of the $41,000 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Literary Gazette said Paster-
nak had betrayed the Soviet people.
It stripped him of the title "Soviet
writer."
The official Soviet news agency Tass said the decision took into consideration "the political and moral downfall of Pasternak, his betrayal of the Soviet people and of the cause of socialism, peace and progress rewarded by the Nobel Prize in the interests of fanning cold war."
The Literary Gazette charged that "Pasternak has severed his last links with his country and its people and transformed his name and his activity into a political weapon in the hands of reaction."
DR. WM. H. BRAY
AND DR. H. R. WILLIAMS
Seymour E. Harris, chairman of the department of economics at Har-
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Former Plant Director Dies
William Calvin Sanderson, 70, former director of the KU power plant, was found dead in his home yesterday at 1800 Maine in Lawrence.
Mr. Sanderson's body was found on the kitchen floor about 4:15 p.m.yesterday. He apparently died from a heart attack. The body was discovered by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. McKinley, relatives of Mr. Sanderson's late wife.
Mr. Sanderson was a University employee for almost 24 years. He retired a year ago last July. He was originally from Topeka and had lived in Lawrence about 28 years. Surviving are two sons, Wayne, Midland, Mich., and Milton, Urbana, Ill., and a daughter, Mrs. Alan Schenck, from Monterey Park, Calif. The body is at the Rumsey Funeral Home.
Robert Vosper, director of the KU libraries, has purchased two volumes on turnpikes and toll-bars.
The body is at the Rumsey Funeral Home.
2 Turnpike Volumes Bought for Library
The volumes, published in England in 1930, provide an extensive study of the turnipke developments in England, including reports on turnipke law, and financing and construction problems.
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