Monday, September 8. 1975
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University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by DAVID COENSHAW
Sprint to the finish
Although K-State's Baymaker No. 3 were the first team across the finish line, they weren't official, the winners the annual KU-K
State cannse race. To be considered for a trophy, all members of the team must be from an organized group. The first three teams are determined by the following criteria:
Quilt show opens museum
Lawrence residents had a chance yesterday to preview the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum at the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The third floor of the museum was open
pm to 10 pm, to help house a
historic exhibit.
The exhibition is being sponsored by the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission and will continue until Oct. 12. It consists of seven panels depicting residents. The quilts date from 1814 to 1948.
Arthur C. Townsend, museum director, said the third floor was opened to help the Lawrence Arts Center, which didn't have enough room for the entire exhibit.
When the museum officials opens in early November, he said, the third floor will have a special gallery with floor consists of a 72-by-38-foot gallery, which will show exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of the University and University of Kansas museums.
One room on the third floor will be a late 19th century period room. It will be restored to resemble the banking office of J. B. Watkins, the first owner of the museum building, which was completed in 1888 at a cost of $100,000.
The building was a bank until 1929, when Mrs. Wattles bequeathed it to the city. A deep stipulated that the facility be used as a city hall or for housing city departments
and offices exclusive of the jail and fire department. If the city abandoned the building, the deed stipulated, it would revert to nine residuary trusts.
Citing maintenance costs, city officials moved their offices to the First National Bank Towers at 910 Massachusetts St. in New York and the property revered by the nine trusts.
The Douglas County Historical Society obtained title to the building in November 1971 and began plans to expand its collection of area memorabilia. The collection was then in the basement of the police department.
Museum authorities temporarily leased space on the second floor of the building to Division II of the Douglas County District Court because of an overload on the court's dock.
Townsend said the restoration of the building was about two-thirds completed. Most of the first and third floors are completed, he said, but it will take about two years to restore the second floor. The building is a new county-city judicial and law enforcement building, which should be completed by then.
The long-range plans for the second floor, he said, include a permanent exhibition on the growth and development of Lawrence and Douglas County. Among subjects included will be Lawrence minority groups such as blacks, Indians and Cincinnatus, and
the histories of religious groups, commercial development, railroads, industry
"Over the next few years we will try to collect enough material to do a credible job of it," he said.
Already on exhibit on the second floor is the Milburn Light Electric car. The car has a four-hourpower electric motor and is capable of traveling 28 miles an hour. It can go 90 miles on a charge of its original batteries.
Townsend said that no bree was certain when and where the car was built but that it would be much more expensive.
Marth. Arthur Henley, a resident of Lawrence, left the car to the city in 1937. The car sat neglected in the city water plant until Ralph Hoffman, a member of the Lawrence Antique Car Club, restored it in its original condition on display in the museum last year.
Townsend said the second floor also would have some circa 1882 restored bank cages. The original ones destroyed when the present offices were built, but the museum has obtained some similar ones from St. Joseph, Mo.
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KU meets Dykes in chat
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes came out of his classroom Friday afternoon to meet the University.
About 40 students and faculty members attended an open meeting with the chancellor in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
expressed concern about the Student Senate's Report on the Quality of Classroom Instruction. Shankel, using a chalkboard at the front of the room, explained how KU's enrollment was expected to level and then decline within the next 10 years.
A faculty member complained about the parking problem in the parking zone across campus.
Shankel stood during the session while Dykes sat. Shankel, seeming to stress the informality of the session, addressed the audience in shirt sleeves and losing tie
Despite the small turnout to talk with the two administrators, the session lasted for almost two hours as Shankel and Dykes discussed topics ranging from liability insurance to the KU football game this Saturday against Washington State.
Dykes announced the University was looking into the purchase of a liability insurance policy for faculty and administrators. He said the University was making an effort to make sure which is being written by a yet unannounced Kansas City brokerage house.
The meeting occasionally dragged, the
obese often were dry. But Stankee peppered
them with salt and sugar.
Most funds for the museum come from private donations, Townsend said. It also could help raise money.
Students and faculty voiced their opinions and complaints about University matter. Dykes and Shanker listened to opinions and decisions that come from their offices.
Actually, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, did most of the talking. He and Dykes answered questions from the students. We spent the meetings they plan to have during the year.
He predicted that KU would beat Washington State 21-13.
Currently, the museum has enough money to operate till the end of the fiscal year, he said, but more will be needed before the restoration is complete.
"In this case, the statement, 'I am an optimist,' is correct," Shankel said.
"The museum will not only be an institution that houses and preserves Lawrence and Douglas County," he said, in reference of research that teaches the community.
Three teams finished the course
before a trophy was officially
given to the winner.
The 110-mile race on the Kansas River was officially won by K-State's Haymakers at nine minutes, 20 minutes longer than the official race. The race was sponsored by KU's Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) and Kansas State University Residence Halls (KSURH).
By J. MARTIN DOLAN
Staff Writer
Haymaker III touched the shore at 4:40 pm, 38 minutes behind the team from KUAK. He followed a dependent teams from KUAK. AURH officials said only teams from residence halls were eligible for the trophy and officialIndividual induction teams are allowed to run unofficially, however.
Because of sandbars, teams frequently had to carry their canoes. Taylor said the second half of the trip, from St. Mary's to Newburgh, was when the water was about waist high, he said.
The Moore Hall team wasn't eligible because it wasn't entirely composed of hall residents. Neither were the first and second teams in the 1980s and the Sigma Omega Betas (S.O.B).
Tom Smiley, K-State sophomore and a member of the unofficial winning team, said the team ran the race to beat the Rogues. Smiley and his teammates finished in 16 hours and 34 minutes, almost 20 minutes ahead of the Rogues.
Teams were timeed Saturday night as they arrived at a sandbar at St. Mary's which marked the half way point. They were launched the next morning at 6:45 in the morning and were provided by AURH and KSURH at St. Mary's and a tent were provided by the Rouen.
K-State paddlers win annual race
Dan Hill, Kingman senior and the organizer of the S.O.B.s, said many of the teams in the race, including his own, came back each year. He said the best teams were before the race. Hill began organizing his team at the beginning of August.
Brad Taylor, K-State senior and member of the law faculty, reported about the low level of the river that swam
An atypical team in the race was the Little Itty Bity Ducks, an independent team from K-State. Rick Cline, K-State senior and a team member, said half of his team was on the Ducks, said many team members had met another the night before the race. Recruiting for the race was conducted in the bars in Manhattan, Cline said. The team's players came from last year's race. The Ducks finished fifth of the 37 teams who started the race.
"You could be (as big as) a horse, but if you didn't know the river, or canoe, you'd just go to the river."
The race requires detailed maps of the river, coordinated checkpoints for crew changes, patterning the team members to move efficiently in the water, sporting the members to each checkpoint. The rules also require that both sexes be represented at all times in the canoe. Each three-man crew paddles from three to eight people and spends 45 minutes to an hour for the best teams.
“It’s sort of hard to work the race into the first two weeks of school,” he said, “especially if your team is serious about winning the thing.”
Confusion among the teams was evident throughout the race, especially among the inexperienced. But even veteran teams had difficulties.
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One member of KU's S.O.B.s drove a car belonging to a K-State router to her next checkpoint, unaware of her error. She was arrested and the mistake K-Staters and the mistake was recalled.
Several teams missed connections on crew changes. Some missed them entirely or did not reach the end of the day.
river. There was a rumor that one team had been unable to find the river.
The final team from KU landed at 7:30 p.m. placing 28th. Sumburns were abundant, shoes were muddied or lost and complaints of sand were common, but all who finished the race said they would race again next year.
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