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—UDK Photo by Pres Doudna
Recently elected Daily Kansan administrators are shown here outlining their plans for next semester. They are standing: Joan McCabe, Lawrence senior, managing editor; Tony Chop, Kansas City senior, business manager; and Barbara Phillips, Harrisonville Mo. senior editorial editor, and seated Dan Austin, Salina junior, editorial editor.
PLANNING NEW UDK ACTIVITIES
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
Friday. January 6, 1967
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
77th Year. No.62
Gala inauguration to usher Docking into governorship
Marching soldiers, waltzing legislators and political whoopee by the jigger-full will mark the democratic process of peaceful change—Kansas style—Monday as Robert Docking, Arkansas City banker, becomes Governor of Kansas in Topeka.
Then, Docking will return to the south steps of the Capitol and officially take command of the Kansas Air and Army National
Flanked by two companies of infantry and one artillery company and led by the Arkansas City High School band, the Governor-elect will begin a parade at 11 a.m. from the steps of the State Capitol Building to the Toneka City Auditorium.
EIGHT OTHER newly elected state officials will also be sworn in at that time.
At noon shear on the auditorium stage, Docking will take the oath of office as Governor—the first Democrat to do so since a decade ago when his father, the late George Docking, began his first term.
Guard to the boom of a 19-gun salute.
Following these official ceremonies will be a luncheon at Docking's new home, the Governor's mansion at Cedar Crest on the edge of the city, attended by Justices of the State Supreme Court, legislators and other state officials.
From 3 to 4:30 p.m. the people will have their first chance to participate in the festivities when the Cedar Crest doors swing open for them. At 6 p.m., back at the Capitol, Docking and the other new officials will hold receptions in their private offices for their constituency.
Then the fun begins.
HUNDREDS of the prominent and the not-so-prominent, hundreds in "black tie" formal dress and hundreds in business suits, will begin to arrive at the city auditorium at 9 p.m. for the top political and social event of the new year, the Inaugural Ball.
For the first time in Kansas gubernatorial history, admission
The Fantastiks
Stone wall builds love, not hate
Next to a building named for Saint Jude, Patron Saint of the Impossible, "The Fantastiks," a parable about love, will open Friday, January 15, at 8:20 p.m.
"We feel real good about the 'impossible' and 'Friday the 13th bit.'" Valerie Jones, Hays junior and co-director of the play.
The story centers around a boy and a girl whose fathers want them to fall in love. The fathers, knowing that to encourage romance is to thwart it, build a wall between their families. The two do fall in love but the necessity arises to increase the boy's determination.
THE TWO SCHEMING fathers unite their efforts again, this time coming up with a sure-thing, an infallible remedy: they will stage a rape-rescue scene.
The fathers (Eyron Lee, Vermillion, S.D., junior; and David Bailey, Wichita, Kansas Union employee) hire an old actor (Michael Fisher, Lawrence senior) and his assistant (Bob Wittsell, Uniontown junior) to stage the scene. True to melodramatic tradition the boy (Nick Eliopoulos, Prairie Village freshman) saves the girl (Kay McNeive, Topika graduate student) just in the knick of time.
Convinced of their success, the fathers tear down the wall and the first act ends.
WITH THE beginning of the second act comes the rising of the sun, and daytime always reveals disenchment. The boy
decides to take a stab at the world and see what it is like.
Bob Smykle, Sioux Falls, S.D.
graduate student, plays a double role of a narrator and a participant in the story, and is the other co-director of the production.
Gary Thomas, St. Joseph, Mo., freshman, plays a mute whose function varies with need. He is the builder of the wall and the giver of props.
The story doesn't end with the going into the world of Matt, the boy everyone is trying to direct. More, much more, happens.
The two-act play's profits are being donated to the Lawrence Student Center.
Music in the play includes: "Try to Remember"; "Much More"; "Love! You Are Love" (Metaphor); "The Rape Ballet"; "Plant Radish"; "Soon It's Gonna Fain"; "It Depends on What You Flay"; "This Flum is Too Ripe"; "I Can See It"; "Round and Round"; and "They Were You." The accompanist is Rocke Grauberger, Deerfield freshman.
"EVERYONE IN it is a volunteer," Miss Jones said. "All but Bob (Smykle) are carrying full loads and some of us have jobs besides."
The cast is of Protestants, Ca hilcics, Greek Orthodox, and indi fferences, all working for a Catholic charity so near to the time of final fatale. Performances are at 8:20 p.m., January 13 and 14 in the Knights of Columbus Hall at 12th and Vermont.
TENSION MOUNTS
—UDK photo by Monte Mace
Kay McNeive, Topeka graduate student, watches closely while Nick Eliopoulos, Prairie Village sophomore, jabs Bob Wittsell, Uniontown junior, while rehearsing for "The Fantastiks."
to the event will carry a price tag—a ten dollar per person fee.
But, says Robert Brock, a member of the state Democratic committee, the affair "will be a lot of fun.
"This will not be a high school dance with pop served in paper cups," explains Brock. "We're going to have low lights, waiters, tables and good music."
THE COST OF THE ball is expected to be $7,000—and the state does not pick up the tab.
The highlight of the ball will come at 10 p.m., when Docking and his wife lead their guests in the stately Grand March.
For three more hours the ball will continue. And its close will mark the end of Inauguration Day in Kansas.
Not less than two years, nor more than 20 years.
Arson act possibility in hall fire
That is the penalty for willfully and maliciously setting a fire, in other words, arson.
THAT IS THE PENALTY someone might face if the State Fire Marshall decides the fire in Ellsworth Hall Wednesday night was an act of arson.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said he has "not ruled anything out.
"However, it's hard for me to believe anyone was deliberately setting fires last night. I think it mut t have been careless handling of matches or cigarettes," he added.
Two more security officers were in Elsworth last night.
FIRE PROTECTION to KU has always been a service the city has provided to the school. The state pays no special fees to the city. The protection is a free service.
In the past two years the fire department has been called onto the campus 36 times, 22 times in 1965 and 14 in 1966.
Recently, Lawrence has pushed for a third fire station in the city. A suggestion has been made this station should be on the KU campus with a KU-paid staff. This plan has not met favor with the administration. Neither the city nor KU want to spend the money to finance the project.
SHOULD KU PAY for each call the fire department makes to the campus?
This question has been much discussed especially since the city decided to purchase a new $61,-000 fire truck.
"The city is pressing harder for
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