The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, October 18, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 41 USPS 650-640
Pickford fund contributes $100,000 gift
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
The Mary Pickford Foundation has given the Kansas University Endowment Association a $100,000 gift to establish a scholarship fund, an investment in Association trust announced Saturday night.
Dohim Sphyn Sr., chairman of the board of trustees, said the gift established the Charles "Buddy" Rogers Scholarship Endowment Fund which were intently pursuing their academic studies.
Simons spoke at the annual meeting of the Chancellor's Club held at the Holiday Inn Holdmole, 200 W. Turnippe Road. The club includes more than 200 people who contribute money to KU. Rogers also spoke at the meeting.
"I AM MOST delighted that this scholarship program is being initiated through the Mary Pickford Foundation's gift to my alma mater, which is a great fund and kind is to bear my name." Rogers said.
Simons also praised the new scholarship fund.
Simons also praised the new scholarship fund. "Buddy Rogers always has been a loyal and generous Jayhawk." Simons said. "The fact that he was always a kind man undoubtedly prompted him now to want to be of assistance to worthy young men and women seeking a broad education.
ROGERS, who was born and raised in Olathe,
is a member of the Chancellor's Club and a life
member of the University of Kansas Alumni
Association.
He attended KU in 1922. A year later he was chosen by talent scouts from Paramount Pictures to study at the Paramount School of Acting in New York. He starred in "Wings" in 1928, which won the first Academy Award for best picture.
In 1937, Rogers married Pickford, "America's sweetheart" in silent movies and the first "talking" movies of the 1920s and 30s. Pickford died in 1979.
ROGERS LANDED his first role in the 1928 movie, "So's Your Old Man", which starred W.C. Fields. He later became known as the son of the boyfriend and made more than 50 movies.
Skip Coons tried a low-key marketing strategy in the alley between Mississippi and Maine streets Saturday. See story on page 6.
Glickman advises career flexibility
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Glickman, who was on campus to speak at a savings and loan association convention, said he was optimistic about the long-range job picture for college students.
College graduates will continue to scrap for work in a stitty job market until the federal government can mend the economy with higher salaries, Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., said Friday.
But Kanaas' lone Democratic congressman and a bloomy prognosis for the availability of loan funds to pay the bills.
Unemployment climbed into double-digit figures last month, when more than 11 million, or 10.1 percent, of the nation's workforce were unemployed. Kansas has a 6 percent unemployment rate.
"In the short term, people are just going to be more 'eure'-ve and innovative in terms of their skills."
*Thesis*
A LOCAL economist also presented a grim analysis of the job market for the next few months.
"Nationwide, I definitely see the unemployment rate high for several months." said Rich Sexton, a research economist at the KU Institute for Economic and Business Research.
"I don't think the unemployment rate will drop because it is at least seven or eight months down the road."
Sexton said Kansas' economy would continue to stagnate because of the deep recession that has hampered the national economy.
Establishing job flexibility was the foremost piece of advice that Glickman said he could offer to his clients.
"THE BIG THING is to be adaptable, to be able to have a fall-back position in the event that your first choice for a career doesn't take place," he said.
Glickman said society's growing dependence on information, and the technological ability to pass on news in new ways, put people with communications skills in a good position.
The congressman also listed high-technology careers that Sexton and were the most reliable.
"If I were at the point of choosing a major,"
Sexton said, "I would choose one that would give me a specific skill, like engineering, computer science or business with an emphasis in something like accounting.
"People with general skills will have to look harder. But it is always possible to build a machine."
GLICKMAN, who is seeking re-election in the 4th district, which includes Wichita and south central Kansas, blamed part of the unemployment and the Reagan administration's economic policies.
"I'm not saying that President Reagan is responsible for every problem in America today," he said. "That would not be true and would be political demagogy."
"But he is not very sensitive to the unemployment problem. He is pursuing a very traditional role in tightening money and keeping interest low, which has its inevitable results in higher unemployment."
Interest rates, though still in the double digit range, have sild lowd recently. Last week, four large banks lowered their prime interest rates to 12 percent, marking the first time interest rates have hit that mark since Sept. 12, 1980.
TO CREATE high employment figures, Glickman said, Congress needs to scrap its tendency to throw multi-billion dollar job losses and invest in investment problems and formulate a new game plan.
"The long-term answer is developing an employment base, based upon new industry like the high technology, long-term situation, so we ensure that people have meaningful long-term jobs," Glickman said. "I don't think the government has done much in that area."
Sexton listed two ingredients — greater confidence by consumers, which would lead to more spending, and lower interest rates — as essential for turning unemployment figures around.
"The big thing missing is a surge in the confidence of consumers to spend more," he said. "If consumers spent more on durable items, it would be a catalyst to recovery."
GLIICKMAN, along with many other Democrats, is skeptical that interest rates can continue their downward trend.
Bess Truman dead at 97
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bess Truman, the former first lady described by the late President Harry S. Truman as "The Boss" died today of congestive heart failure. She was 87.
Mrs. Truman died on arrival at Research Medical Center at 4:38 a.m. Her doctor said her condition was complicated by a bleeding ulcer that caused a recent hospitalization.
Dr. Wallace Graham, Mrs. Truman's longtime physician, said the cause of death was congestive heart failure. He said no autopsy would be conducted, but a news conference would be held at 9 a.m.
Gemayel arrives in U.S. seeking aid to rebuild
By United Press International
NEW YORK-Lebanese President Amm Gemayel, on his first overseas trip since his election last month, arrived yesterday in New York to welcome his supporters and inspirations of the Lebanese people."
Gemayel, 40, a lawyer and moderate Christian who is trying to unify his nation, went directly from Kennedy International Airport to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where he prayed for five minutes with Roman Catholic Cardinal Tarence Cooke
Gemayel said that during a meeting with President Reagan tomorrow, he hoped to explain "the need for a comprohenative program of humanitarian action," she said in sovereignty and play its role in bringing peace."
Alfred Mady, a special adviser to Gemayel, estimated that his country needed about $10 billion for reconstruction and said that Gemayel hoped to raise $50 million to $1 billion in the first quarter.
Presidential counselor Edwin Meese said in a interview on CBS television that during Gamayel's visit, the administration would agree to provide Lebanon with more assistance.
Government sources in Beirut said they expected Reagan to unveil a $10 billion aid package to Iraq.
The Lebanese president is scheduled to return to Lebanon Friday.
Gemayel, who considers U.S. support crucial to easing Lebanon's military, social and political crises, will be the first Lebanese president to visit the White House.
The paper, quoting sources in Washington and Jerusalem, reported that despite Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's rejection of Reason, the U.S. would be expected to accept an invitation.
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Reagan was prepared to call a Camp David summit of Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the United States. He said he would be willing to enter the Mideast peace talks.
The Globe said some consideration was being given in Washington for agreement at a second Camp David summit for parallel negotiations, one on a fiveyear interim plan for limited status and another looking toward a permanent arrangement and a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
In Washington, a Reagan administration official said that although there were no plains in the country to accommodate past that he will do whatever is necessary to mould a permanent peace in the Middle East."
It reported that Begin would accept the invitation, provided that it was made clear that the summit was designed to continue negotiation in Washington as charted in the Camp David peace accords.
Weather
But Jordan has declined to join the talks.
Today will be increasingly cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper 70%, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the southeast at 15 to 25 mph.
Tomorrow will be windy and much cooler with a chance of showers. The high will be
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. The low will be
By DON KNOX
Baldwin revels in maple's tradition
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
BALDWIN—The Rev. Mites. Stotts quietly stood on a porch outside the Old Castle Museum Saturday, greeting visitors with a smile and a warm shake of the hand.
That 50-year-old tradition, begun by former Baker University professor Ivan Boyd, lives on.
"You know, here in Baldwin," he said, pointing towards an unusually busy Fifth Streetlined with golden-leaved trees, "when an elm tree dies, we plant a map."
Stots should know. Saturday was one of the busiest days he's spent in 15 years as curator of the museum, which is operated by Baker University. And it was the 28th annual celebration of those gold and adurn maples leaves — Baldwin's Maple Leaf Festival — that swelled the town's population of 1,800 to 10 times its normal size.
"It's just a good time for people to get out and
Monday Morning
celebrate the maple leaf, "Stotts said as he tipped his orange-and-black Baker hat in a slight smile.
AND CELEBRATE they did. More than 20,000 people jammed the city's brick streets this weekend to square dance, parade, sing and eat under the protection of Royal Maples.
"This is the first time I've ventured this far from home," said Kirkes, a familiar face to fargoes in Wichita and south-central Kansas. "And I'm not going to say anything. But I'd beying if I said I have sold anything."
Max Kirkens of Wichita attracted crowds as he carved figures of Indians, horses and boots out of wood at a booth in front of J & I's Tire and Automotive Service at Seventh and Main.
TWO BLOCKS up the street, Guy Pease and his wife, Martie, sold odds and they ended up with a big deal.
during Kaness' quest for statehood, attracted hundreds of fairgrounds to four performances
The Peases, from Atchison, said they traveled to Baldwin every year to sell their goods, although some years were better than others. The weather and the crowds cooperated this year. Mrs. Pease said, to make this festival one of the best.
In Baker's nearby Rice Auditorium, the author-director of "The Ballad of Black Jack" said this year's performance was the strongest given in its 12-year run at the festival.
"This one here is only $2." Pease said, picking up a glass bowl, one of many sitting at a cloth-covered table. "But I'd go as low as $1.50."
"In 1976, we didn't do it," Mueller said of the play. "And everybody they said liked the play we did in between (in 1976), but they said, 'When are you going to bring the Ballad back?'
"THE BALLAD" has really become a part of the Maple Leaf Fest'Ral," said Jo Dummer, Muskegon's head of marketing.
"And we've been doing it every year since." But near Soott's Old Castle Museum, three blocks from downtown, things were a little less hectic.
INSIDE A replica of the historic Palmyra
Post Office. It is convenient just west of the
building. NEEWESTERN
Guy Pease points out the advantages of his crank telephone to a possible buyer. Pease and his wife, Marle, peddled their wares this weekend at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin.