Let me tell the story
Old Pioneer to return
Bu JOHN KIELY
OK freshmen and sophomores, gather 'round once upon a time there was a statue at KU called "The Pioneer" (among other things like, "The Man Who Never Worked").
It is an eight-foot bronze statue of a man clad in knee boots, his shirt open at the neck. He's holding a spade in one hand and corn cob in the other and is (to quote a reliable source) "in the act of tilling the soil."
You had to know that to learn this:
YOU PROBABLY haven't seen this statue because it was moved, sophomores, the summer before you came here. (If it hadn't been moved, New Fraser would have had to be built around it.)
A local writer once wrote, "If only the old "Pioneer" could talk, he could recall the gaps in his history that no other campus personality can remember."
Maybe, but he'd probably just look solemn and say, "I'm moved."
That would be his best possible statement because he has been.
In fact, he has been in at least three different places. R. Keith Lawton, vice chancellor in charge of operations, plant development and coordination, said the statue is bound for a fourth.
LAWTON SAID THREE sites are being considered but declined to say where they are. When the Pioneer was put into storage, a University official said plans were forming to put it
south or west of New Fraser, upon that building's completion.
At least it's reasonably certain it can't go back to any of its other "permanent" locations. The one before last would center the statue in the Chi Omega fountain. And before that it stood in front of Marvin Hall.
There it provided a tempting target for law schoolers eager to retaliate against the Marvin-based engineers' attacks on Jimmy Green.
INDEED PAINTING the Pioneer became a favorite pastime as soon (about 1920) as the statue came outside, and remained a favorite pastime for 17 years, until the Men's Student Council said "anyone caught desecrating the statue would be fined $50 and be prosecuted in court."
But the statue stood up to it all. It even stood up to being lost for 11 years, from 1905 (when Dr. Simeon B. Bell, who moved to Kansas 110 years ago, gave it to the university) until 1916 when someone recalls that they saw it in Spooner (which was then a library and is now an art museum).
So, that's part of the story, students. And, if you start thinking now, you might come up with a better one and have it replace the legend that exists.
The story says that when a virgin walks in front of the statue he shovels a spade full of earth. It is not reported whether the immobile man has ever dug a spade full of earth.
Rift in Red army deepens
HONG KONG—(UPI)—Peking Radio said today Chinese military leaders are solidly behind Mao Tse-tung in Red China's raging power struggle. But other reports told of a major rift in the Communist army and increasing "sabotage" by Mao's enemies in southern China.
The Mao-controlled Peking Radio said today military garrisons throughout the country pledged support to the 73-year-old Communist party leader. It said the units, some as far as Tibet, promised to "seize all power" held by anti-Mao forces.
The broadcast followed disclosure by radio Peking yesterday that rebellious, young military cadets supporting Mao were confined to quarters by senior officers who refused to join Mao in the political upheaval.
OTHER SIGNS that Mao faced stiff opposition were seen in a Hong Kong newspaper report that Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, was away trying to win support of the army in Manchuria.
fled Peking for the provinces to reorganize his opposition to Mao.
Another newspaper said here that President Liu Shao-chi had
A third daily said that acts of sabotage by enemies of Mao have become "more frequent and more serious" in the area of Canton, South China's largest city. It quoted a Red Guard announcement in Canton as saying anti-Maoists have "beaten up Red Guards, sabotaged vehicles, openly distributed 'reactionary' leaflets and robbed 'stolen firearms,' it said.
LBJ to propose $73 billion for war
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson plans to propose the biggest defense budget since World War II next week, a whopping $73 billion "plus" for the next fiscal year.
This was disclosed by the President late yesterday during an impromptu news conference during which he also indicated he plans to ask for a $9.4 billion defense supplement for the current fiscal year ending June 30.
ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT.
Johnson reiterated, the administration still intends to cut spending $3 billion during the rest of fiscal 1967 by its announced deferral of a variety of federal programs which included some pub-
THE SOURCES confirmed recent rumors that Peking "grabbed several rockets" as they were passing by rail across the Communist mainland to Hanoi.
lie works and highway construction projects.
China watchers believe Peking may now have medium range ballistic missiles in operation within two or three years and intercontinental rockets by the early 1970's—an advance by several years on previous assessments.
A $73 billion defense budget, if adopted by Congress, would be the third largest in U.S. history, exceeded only by 1945's $79.9 billion when the nation was fighting a global war.
Official Bulletin
The rockets were described as SAM2's, Russia's most advanced surface-to-air missiles which Hanoi is using against American warplanes. The SAM2's are equipped with the latest electronic gear and guided by radar.
China steals Red rockets
The sources said the Chinese were using the rockets to bolster their own missile program.
LONDON—(UPI)—Communist diplomatic sources reported today that Peking was stealing Soviet rockets enroute to North Vietnam across the Red Chinese mainland.
**Foreign Students:** Feb. 17 Tour by People-to-People will be to U.S.
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TODAY
Psychology Colloquium, 4 p.m. Ray-
Room, Ullon. U. of all, Forum
Room, Ullon.
Lecture, 4 p.m. Reynolds Price,
novelist, Jayhawk Room. Union.
TOMORROW
University Brass Choir, 8 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall.
Computation Center Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Earl Schwepe, U. of Maryland. "On the Structures of Computer Languages." 303 Summerfield.
SUA Religion Forum, 4:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Kempel, Church in Crisis, Room Forum, Union.
Sigma XL Lecture: 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Chairman of the School.
School "Disease & Pain" Dyche Aud.
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B52's burn hideaway
SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. B52 bombers turned a Viet Cong hideaway into a mass of raging flames today with a rare fire-bomb attack that engulfed 18-square miles of jungle northeast of Saigon.
A HUGE sea of flames spread through the foliage as the B52s flying high above the clouds struck in wave after wave. A helicopter observer reported: "It looks like the Fourth of July."
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