KU Flags Lowered To Honor Ellsworth
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The KU flag above Fraser Hall has been lowered to half-staff until 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, when funeral services will be conducted for Fred Ellsworth, known on and off campus as "Mr. KU."
This is the highest tribute that KU can pay the former executive secretary of the KU Alumni Association. The only other time the flag is lowered to half-mast is when a national figure dies, at which time the U.S. flag is also lowered.
"Mr. KU" died yesterday at the age of 69. He had developed heart complications Saturday following minor surgery Thursday at the KU Medical Center.
On the campus as well as throughout Kansas, Mr. Ellsworth was known as "a walking encyclopedia" on this University and its alumni. As a member of the American Alumni Council, he was a well-known figure with various alumni associations of colleges and universities all over the nation.
Ivin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association, recalled that he and Ellsworth often attended national meetings of the American Alumni Council together.
"KU already has taken steps to start many of the programs brought up as new ideas at these meetings," Youngberg said. "We can attribute this to Mr. Ellsworth's leadership.
"I would describe Fred Ellsworth as a genuinely modest person, because he honestly shunned publicity," Youngberg said. "He would try never to be photographed at alumni meetings because he didn't believe he was photogenic."
YOUNGBERG SAID ELLSWORTH inspired friendship in other people. He would meet an ex-student somewhere, Youngberg said, and even if he hadn't known the student well, it was like "old homeweek."
Mr. Ellsworth graduated from KU in 1922 with an A.B. degree in journalism. In 1924 he returned to the University to serve as alumni secretary. In that capacity Mr. Ellsworth was the editor of the Alumni Magazine.
Thomas C. Ryther, Director of the Printing Service here, said he was a student in 1924 when Mr. Ellsworth began editing the alumni magazine. Prof. Ryther said at that time they were printing the magazine on a hand-fed cylinder press which printed one page at a time.
"I CAN REMEMBER Mr. Ellsworth standing there waiting for the first page of the first issue he edited. He was jumping up and down, he was so excited. He never got over that. He was always excited waiting for the first page of his edition." Prof. Ryther said.
Prof. Ryther said he remembers a few years ago when a new editor came to the alumni newspaper here, and decided to do a story about Ellsworth. The alumni association had wanted to pay him tribute for some time.
"When Mr. Ellsworth found out that was going on, he rushed over to the presses and ordered them to be stopped. He removed the story about himself and had another story substituted for it," Prof. Ryther said.
FUNERAL SERVICES will be held for Mr. Ellsworth at the Plymouth Congregational Church of which he was a member. Rev. Paul R. Davis will officiate.
Rev. Davis said, "Mr. Ellsworth had a gentle quality about him. There was a kindness everyone sensed when they talked with him. He gave forth a great deal of warmth, and although he was not a very verbose person, after you left him you could not forget him. There was a quiet winsomeness about him that qualified him for his job as executive secretary of the Alumni Association," Rev. Davis said.
Ellsworth's neighbor, Harold L. Kipp, professor of mechanical engineering, said, "Almost everybody will remember Fred as a very dedicated person. And he devoted his lifetime to the improvement of the University of Kansas."
Bolivian Consul Will Address Spanish Club
The Latin American Consultant for People-to-People, Inc., Dr. Jose Baldivieso, will speak to the KU Spanish Club at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The topic of his speech is "People-to-People, the Answer to our Misunderstandings."
Dr. Baldivivo is an authority of Inter-American affairs. He lectured for many years for the Associated Clubs of North America throughout the United States. His travels have taken him to very Latin American country, to Europe and to all of the United States.
Robert Tomlinson, Linwood junior and president of the Spanish Club, said, "Dr. Baldiviego's speech will probably be in Spanish, but he will answer questions in English after the speech for the students who don't speak Spanish. The meeting will be open to the public."
DR. BALDIVIESO is presently working in Kansas City at the International Headquarters of People-to-People, Inc.
Dr. Baldivieso's wife is a graduate of KU, and was formerly a member of the Spanish Club, El Ateneo, here.
Dr. Baldivieso received a B.A. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.S. in language and political science from Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia and his M.D. at St. Augustine University in Bolivia.
Dr. Baldiviso holds a medical license (Anthesisologist) from the Bolivian government.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Republican sources said today GOP National Chairman Dean Burch will resign his post in favor of Ray C. Bliss, effective after a meeting of the Republican National Committee in Chicago Jan. 22.
Daily hansan
62nd Year. No. 66
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1965
Vietnamese War Slowed By Big Demonstrations
SAIGON —(UPI)— A wave of strikes and demonstrations against the government today complicated efforts by the United States and Premier Tran Van Huong to reconcile their differences and concentrate on the war against Communism.
The demonstrators consisted principally of schoolboys, and their numbers were smaller than those in past demonstrations. There was no reported violence and no anti-American overtones to the protests.
Demonstrations and strikes in support of a Buddhist-inspired effort to topple Huong's government virtually paralyzed activities in the country's three northernmost cities of Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang. Saigon was quiet.
A U.S. embassy spokesman, meanwhile, welcomed Huong's statement this morning that there were no more "misunderstandings" between his government and the United States.
However, the spokesman was un- able to say when talks would begin
again on a new U.S. aid package which has been held in abeyance since Dec. 20, as a sign of American displeasure over army interference in politics.
A RELIABLE SOURCE said the Americans would get around to discussing the new aid deal when they were sure that the army had given Huong full freedom to speak for the Vietnamese government.
Huong's statement today indirectly supported the army's "obligation" to take a hand in the nation's political affairs. This was the very principle which had aroused the United States when Vietnamese generals broke up the provisional legislature on December 20 and arrested a number of its members.
U. S. Ambassador Maxwell Da Taylor and Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson called on Huong this afternoon. What they discussed was not revealed. But it undoubtedly covered the strained relations.
American sources said they doubted that the meeting signaled the reopening of talks on the new aid package. They felt such a decision probably would wait the results of a regularly-scheduled weekly meeting Friday between top American and Vietnamese officials.
Cyprus May Get New Peace Plan
LONDON — (UPI) — A long-range peace plan for Cyprus has been readied by United Nations mediator Galo Plaza. it was reported today.
Plaza's plan reportedly would be put before the U.N. General Assembly after consultation with the three chief interested parties Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.
PLAZA, FORMER president of Ecuador, is the appointed representative on the island of U.N. Secretary General Thant.
The plan would provide unfettered independence for the Mediterranean island and a Future referendum on the question of union with Greece (ENOSIS).
Communal strife between Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriot minority culminated last year in bloody rioting. Greece and Turkey came perilously close to war supporting their respective interests on Cyprus.
It was learned that the prospective settlement would:
Official approval of the peace plan's existence has not been confirmed.
Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, commander in chief of the armed forces who bitterly criticized Taylor and inspired an anti-American campaign after the Dec. 20 moves by the Vietnamese generals, has snubbed the American ambassador by declining to attend the last two meetings. If he shows up Friday, it will be the first face-to-face encounter between them in more than three weeks.
- Ask Turkey and Greece to withdraw their troops from the island.
- Give complete independence to the island.
- Provide for a referendum on the question of union with Greece at a time to be determined later.
- Give safeguards to the Turkish Cypriot minority in a new constitution.
- Provide a U.N. "presence" to assure compliance by the government with the safeguards.
THE VIETNAMESE DEFENSE ministry reported nine small engagements around the country on Sunday and Monday. Government forces killed 23 Communist Viet Cong and captured 50 persons and seven weapons in the clashes. Government losses were 12 men killed.
Shops were shut for the second straight day in the old imperial capital city of Hue, 400 miles north of Saigon. Two big protest meetings were held there, with an estimated 4,500 persons involved.
The port city of Da Nang, 20 miles south of Hue, was also hit by a general strike. A crowd of about 800 Vietnamese shouted anti-government slogans and burned an effigy of Huong in front of Da Nang's largest theater.
But monsoon rains evidently dampened enthusiasm for the demonstrations. And shopkeepers were reported reluctant to sacrifice profits during the strikes, with some of them furtively doing business through the closed grilles of their shops.
Cars of out-of-state students will now be taxed as personal property in the college town, according to Alvin E. Jones, director of the State Property Valuation Department.
Cars Will Be Taxed
If a car is owned and registered by the student's parents in one county, KU students using a car in Lawrence will also pay property tax in Lawrence.
Hill won his job unopposed at a caucus of Hous Republicans yesterday, but a surprise fight over the position of majority floor leader almost unseated the incumbent.
New Kansas State Legislature Opens Its Biennial Session Today
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Rep. Clyde Hill, Yates Center, Republican will become speaker of the House of Representatives when the 1965 Kansas legislature begins today.
FRIEBLEY WON, 42 to 37, in an unexpected contest that livened up a caucus that had previously promised only a minor scrap between two men for the job of speaker protem.
Rep. Bill Fribley, R-Crestline, seeking re-election to the floor leader's post, was challenged by Rep. Wayne Angell, R-Ottawa.
Angell reportedly got support from friends of Rep. William Bunton, R-Topeka, in his bid for a job Friibley has held for several sessions.
Rep. J. C. Tillotson, R-Norton,
defeated Rep. Edward B. Boyd, R-Larned, for the pro tem's post, 47 to
33.
Bunter aledgedly was unhappy
about a coalition of Republicans including Fribley, which supported Hill for speaker.
REPUBLICANS IN the Senate also cucced yesterday, but conducted less significant business of firming up seating arrangements, hiring employees and other housekeeping chores.
Weather
Sen. Glee S. Smith Jr., R-Larned, was nominated president pro tem at a caucus of GOP state senators in November and will be installed in that post today. Sen. Frank S. Hodge, R-Hutchinson, was named majority floor leader at the November caucus.
The weather bureau predicted partly cloudy skies and colder weather tonight with a low of 15-20.
One big change in store for the Kansas senate this session, and both Smith and Hodge referred to it indirectly in brief remarks to the senators yesterday.
Former State Sen. Paul R. Wunsch of Kingman, a member of the upper chamber 16 years and president pro tem about a decade, ran for governor in the GOP primaries last August. He was defeated by William H. Avery, who was inaugurated Monday noon.
HODGE NOTED the former senate leader was "an exceptional man of great ability" who conducted business "pretty much alone."
"I don't desire to do it that wav." Hodge said, "and I'm sure senator Smith doesn't either."
Smith concurred with Hodge and told the senators there would be more GOP caucuses this session than in the past.
The meeting of house Republicans yesterday was opened by Oliver H. Hughes, Wichita, Republican State Chairman.
He urged the GOP representatives to work for enactment of planks in the Republican platform, and asked that they support wholeheartedly the legislative program of Avery.