Life With Father Governor's Daughter Recalls Domestic Living In Politics
By Walter Nunn
There is no other sophomore at KU quite like Mrs. Barbara Lanahan, particularly in one respect — she is the daughter of Governor William Avery.
Mrs. Lanahan, a business major, and her husband Lauck (pronounced "lock") Lanahan, a business administration major, transferred to KU this fall from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
MOST OF Mrs. Lanahan's memories before college center around Washington, D.C. Governor Avery was in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1954 to 1964 prior to being elected governor last November.
Despite the political atmosphere in Washington, Mrs. Lanahan said she was not in the public eye.
"There just wasn't much opportunity for it," she said.
NOR WAS THERE much discussion of politics at the dinner table, she added. "When Dad walked in the door, it was just so much for that. He didn't burden us with his troubles. He was always whistling when he came in."
"Us" includes Mrs. Avery, an older brother now married and living in Washington, a 15-year-old brother, and a 13-year-old sister.
As a Congressman, Avery was usually up and away early in the morning and often worked at night, according to his daughter. "To wake up mother in the morning, he would get up and play the
only song he knew in the piano," Mrs. Langan laughingly recalled.
ALTHOUGH AVERY often worked long hours. Barbara insisted, "He never slighted us of his time. He gave us all the attention we needed."
Her husband's impression of the Avery family is a cheerful one. He said. "They're the only family I know that never fight." Lanahan met his wife in Washington while dating her best friend.
AVERY ANNOUNCED last month that he intended to run for re-election. This ended speculation that he might run for the Senate in the near future.
"My father's decision to run again was a family decision. It always has been, and my mother swings a lot of weight," Mrs. Lanahan observed.
Avery has been in politics as long as Barbara can remember. When she was a child Avery decided to run for Congress, and Mrs. Lanahan recalls asking him how far you have to run to get there.
THE KANSAS governor was politically active as far back as his student days at KU, when he was president of his fraternity. This was followed by participation in the civic affairs of his home town of Wakefield, Kan., then by election to the Kansas legislature.
He served in Congress for five terms. Last year, in the governor's race, he defeated a strong Republican field in the primary
and withstood the Democratic national landslide in the general election.
IT WASN'T UNTIL the gubernatorial race that Mrs. Lahanah did any campaigning for her father. She and her mother hosted teas and coffees and did a few radio and television spot commercials.
Mrs. Lanahan said, "I just went around and chatted with everyone." Photographs on the wall of the Lanahans' Stouffier Place apartment show her with her father greeting voters on the streets. Pointing to an Avery sticker on her dress in one picture, she chuckled and said, "I wore that all summer."
IT'S EASY TO SEE that Mrs. Lanahan would be an asset in a campaign. Attractive, slender, with shoulder-length brown hair, she makes a pleasant first impression. She also talks and laughs easily.
Mrs. Lanahan attributed her easy manner to her experience as an assistant in her father's Washington office (but not on the public payroll, she asserted). She said, "You learn about public contacts and how to meet people. There were always people in the office from Kansas every day without fail."
MR. AND MRS. Lanahan are proud of a fuzzy work of art in their living room. It is made of more than 30 multi-colored pieces of carpet samples cut into zigzag shapes and glued to a fiveby-three foot slab of plywood hanging from a wall.
Russians Admit Flop In Lunar Landing
MCSCOW—(UPI)—The Soviet Union admitted today it had failed again in an attempt to make history's first soft landing on the moon.
The official news agency Tass, breaking a day-long silence on the fate of Luna 7, said:
"Most operations necessary for a soft landing were fulfilled during the approach to the moon. Some operations however were not carried out in accordance with the program and need additional development."
HOWEVER, it was widely believed the failure was linked to the crucial retro-rocket fire which must gentle the space station to a landing without damage to the instrument pack.
The Luna 7 failure dashed Soviet hopes of leaping ahead of the United States in the race to put a man on the moon and to grab back some of the headlines that have gone recently to U.S. space achievements.
The couple spent nearly three weeks patching it together. They laugh at it and admit that it is a good conversation piece as well as a good match for the furniture.
THE LANAHANS have a lot to look toward. Tomorrow, for example, the Averys are coming to the Iowa State game. Afterwards, Barbara will have her first dinner party at KU for her parents.
The Lanahan's first wedding anniversary is Nov. 7.
After college? That's far off, but Lanahan is positive about one thing: "We definitely want to live in Kansas."
Daily Kansan
Friday, October 8,1965
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CRAWFORDVIILE, Ia. — (UPI)
— Negro pupils made three unsuccessful attempts today to board buses used to transport white children to schools in adjacent counties.
Negro Pupils Still Can't Board School Buses in Crawfordville
A force of 80 state troopers.
double the usual complement of police, stymied the attempts by pulling some of the Negro youngsters off the road when they lay down and by grabbing others when they charged the line of officers.
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THE SOVIET announcement was one of the frankest admissions of failure on a space shot ever to be issued here.
It marked the third time this year the Russians have been unsuccessful in trying for a vastly complex achievement of touching down gently on the treacherous surface of the moon with an instrument pack.
The Tass announcement issued more than 14 hours after the crash landing on the moon at 4:08 p.m. Thursday claimed that "considerable practical material for further work was accumulated in the course of the station's flight."
THE RUSSIANS said that Luna 7, a ton and a half vehicle launched on Monday, had reached the moon's surface at 1:08:24 a.m. Moscow time in the area of the Ocean of Storms west of the Kepler Crater.
ALTHOUGH it was widely assumed that Luna 7 was attempting a gentle landing, the Russians gave no hint of this until today's announcement of failure.
There was no explanation for the long delay making an announcement of the fate of Luna 7.
The Tass disclosure confirmed a the crucial retro-rocket fire which report from the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in England that Luna 7 had crash-landed.
The Tass announcement contained only nine lines and provided no details of just what part of the complex mechanism for a soft landing had gone wrong.
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