Friday, Oct. 11, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Barn
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The barn remained in the hands of the Grover family well into this century until two bachelor sons of Joel and Emily Grover died in 1953. The brothers, Ernest and Jay Grover, died within hours of each other at ages 84 and 75 respectively. The property then passed into the hands of Lillian Grover Brown, one of the Grovers' seven children, who sold it to Viking Investment Corp. of Lawrence.
The property then was sold to KU track legend Wes Santee and finally was bought in 1963 by Bernard "Poco" Frazier, professor of architecture and fine arts and internationally acclaimed sculptor.
But Frazier was a giant among KU athletes. He was elected captain of the KU track and cross country teams and set conference records at two and five miles. He also won six individual championships.
The late Frazier, a 1929 KU graduate, majored in design. His nickname, Poco, the Spanish word for "little" came from his diminutive stature — he was only 5 feet 2 inches tall.
Frazier decided that the arts were his passion and taught at KU from 1835 to 1944, and again from 1956 to his death in May 1976.
Frazier used the barn as a studio until his death.
Jane Plummer, a longtime friend of the Frazier family, said the barn's historical significance appealed to Frazier.
"He was certainly a Kansas patriot, and he had a great deal of feeling for the state," Plummer said.
Frazier's colleague, Elden Tefft,
professor of art, said it was
Frazier's love of Kansas that kept
him here when he was very much
in demand elsewhere for his skills.
"A lot of people looked up to him very much," Tefft said. "He had strong roots in Kansas and was one of the most reliable graduates from the design department."
Frazer might be pleased if he could see his barn today. Great care was taken to preserve as much of the original structure as possible, Capt. Larry Woydziak of the Lawrence Fire Department.
"We added the garage, but the rest of the building is pretty much original," Wovdiziak said.
The building's limestone walls and frame of rough-hewn timbers still support the original ceiling of beams that Joel Grover cut on the banks of the Wakarus River.
S. Africa
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students to sign a petition that says,
"The students of the University of Kansas, having reached the limits of their patience, do hereby demand that the KU Endowment Association immediately divest itself off all stockholdings issued by companies currently doing business in the Republic of South Africa."
The Endowment Association has said a state law, commonly referred to as the Prudent Man's Law, makes such divestment from companies that do business in South Africa illegal.
The law outlines standards for handling investments and says those who handle others' money must consider 'probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital.'
After students sign the petition, they receive passes similar to passes South African blacks must carry.
KU Democrats have been putting students in the place of South African blacks, who must follow pass laws, to inform them about the life of most blacks in South Africa, Myers said.
More than 400 students already have signed the petition and are carrying passes, Myers said.
After collecting signatures, Myers said, the petition will be sent to the Kansas University Endowment Association.
they probably had an expletive or two."
He said Reagan was prepared to be a similar action in the future if che�mus
Ship
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"The president is extremely pleased that this was a successful plan," he said.
The whereabouts of the hijackers had been a matter of much speculation and confusion since they surrendered off Port Said, Egypt, on Wednesday after taking the hostages aboard the Achille Lauro and holding them for 44 hours.
On Tuesday afternoon, as the four heavily armed pirates were trying to persuade Syria to allow the ship to dock at Tartus, Syria, they shot and killed 60-year-old victim Leon
Klinghoffer, an American Jew who had been confined to a wheelchair.
Giovanni Migliuolo, the Italian Ambassador to Egypt, who spoke to the ship's captain, told the Italian government's SAIA details of Klinghoffer's killing.
As the ship sat off the coast of Tartus, Syria, on Tuesday, the terrorists ordered all of the U.S. and British passengers to lie on the deck while they awaited a response to the radio message that Dammascus negotiate their demand for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
When the response was slow in coming, the ambassador said, the hi-
driver would walk on the wheelchair to the side of the ship,
shot him at close range in the
forehead and then threw him and his wheelchair overboard.
The hijackers were identified by Egypt as Alaa Abdullah el-Khesen, 19; Majid Youssef al-Malaki, 23; Mahmoud Ali Abdullah, 23; and Abdel Latif Ibrahim Fataayer, 20; all described as students.
The pirates claimed to belong to the Palestine Liberation Front, a splinter of the mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO has denied any involvement with the piracy, and PLO leader Yasser Arafat has denounced the action.
Asked whether Arafat had played any part in the pirates' surrender and release of their remaining hostages, Speakes said last night that the PLO leader's "role to this point remains unclear."
Floods
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In Mosby, Mo., 40 homes were evacuated when the Fishing River flooded the area, and in Wichita 4.58 inches fell within a 24-hour period ending yesterday morning.
Around Lawrence, wrecker services were busy.
In Leavenworth County, emergency preparedness officials reported 15-20 families near Easton along Stranger Creek had to be evacuated because of rapidly rising water.
"Nine out of 16 cars I've jumped or towed have been water related," said Chuck Hobbs, driver for Hillcrest Wrecker & Garage Inc., l120 E. 23rd next morning and only two hours of sleep. I'm very tired."
was exceptionally busy and that 80 percent of the jobs he had been called on were "hydroplanning wrecks."
Hobbs said that Wednesday night
Water was standing in several areas around the city, causing at least one street to be closed to traffic.
The Associated Press and United Press International supplied some information for this story.