'Century' Plans Boom
By Mary Dunlap
Carry A. Nation, ax-carrying prohibitionist, will return to Kansas next Spring as the main character in an opera especially written for KU's Centennial Celebration.
The opera has been written and composed by Dr. Douglas Moore, Pulitzer Prize winning composer of such operas as "The Ballad of Baby Doe," "The Devil and Daniel Webster," and "The Wings of the Dove."
DR. MOORE chose the theme more than two years ago when KU officials commissioned him to write an opera for the celebration.
Other events planned for the centennial celebration include an Inter-Century Seminar, at which some of the greatest living men will speak, the publishing of a book of KU's history, and the striking of a commemorative medal are included in plans for next year.
Bob Woody, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and senior class president for 1965-66, said that two special standing student committees had been formed to aid in planning the celebration.
The Traditions Committee will investigate and "dig up" historical facts surrounding KU's 100 years, Woody said. It will attempt to recall, and perhaps revive past events.
The Centennial Committee, also made up of students, will act as a liaison between the faculty members and the students. Woody said that the committees already have many good ideas for next year.
THE "INTER-CENTURY Seminar: Man and the Future," which was formulated by the Program Committee, will feature a number of outstanding scholars and famous men who will give a series of lectures between April 11 and April 14. 1966.
William Conboy, professor of speech and drama and the chairman of the Program Committee,
said that the committee members are still in the midst of processing the names of the men to be invited to the four-day seminar. The Program Committee, which serves as a calendar committee and special coordinator of the seminar program, is also printing brochures which will be included in the invitations mailed to the seminar participants.
The names of the seminar participants will not be known until their acceptance is verified by the committee members.
The five topics for discussion at the seminar were chosen from a wide range of interest and knowledge. The five are Man in a Mass Culture, Man and the World Community, Man and the Realization of Human Potentials, Man and the Design of Higher Education, and Man and the Freedom of Mind.
The seminar papers, which will be of approximately 7,500 words in length, will be bound and published in a special commemorative volume.
CLIFFORD S. Griffith, assistant professor of history, is preparing a history of the University, which will be printed by the University Press. It will be an attempt to present the school's history in a manner that will give the reader an easily-read yet factual account of KU's past.
A bronze centennial medal will be struck by Elden Tefft, KU professor of design. It will contain the seal of the University on one side and a special centennial design by Tefft on the other side. It will be about the size of a silver dollar.
Other activities which have been tentatively scheduled for next year are a traveling musical-lecture group which will take the history of the campus to the people throughout Kansas, three musical productions by the Fine Arts Department, and a discussion of the future by a faculty panel.
Fraser Residents Plan Exit in June
University officials were uncertain today on when Fraser Hall will be demolished.
Their comments came following yesterday's announcement of details on the transfer of offices and laboratories from Fraser to Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
Construction of New Fraser is scheduled to begin this summer—hopefully in June—but the exact date when the old structure will be torn down has not been determined. The demolition, however, will be related to the construction of the new building, Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations, said.
HE SAID SOME parts of Old Fraser, including perhaps the cornerstone, will be saved for the University. But he gave no indication that any display would be set up.
Easton Dinner To Draw Stars
Outstanding former athletes of Bill Easton, KU track coach, will appear in "This Is Your Life" at the Bill Easton dinner at 6:30 Monday night in the Kansas Union ballroom.
Wes Santee, real estate agent and former KU track great, is chairman of the banquet. Santee said today personal invitations have been issued to W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor, and Wade Stinson, athletic director. He had not received word whether they are coming this morning.
The returning track greats coached by Easton will speak from backstage. The names of these men won't be released until Coach Easton hears them speak and identifies them.
Tickets for the banquet are on sale at the Kansas Union information booth at $2 per person. They are also being sold by business concerns downtown.
Yesterday, George B. Smith, vice-chancellor for institutional planning, said Carruth-O'Leary, slated to house temporarily the exiled Fraser classrooms and offices, will undergo a minor reconstruction.
In addition, the laboratory facilities of the family life department will be housed in the north basement and the kitchen area of the residence hall.
Because the residence hall system is paid for by bonding, the Kansas Legislature has made available $81,000 in rental fees so that bond payments may be met. This figure approximates the income received from students living in Carruth-O'Leary for the school year, Smith said.
Eight classrooms will be partitioned off in the south basement of Carruth-O'Leary, and four more will be located in the first floor lounge.
MOVING OPERATIONS will begin June 8 when housing office workers move most of the fixtures from Old Fraser into Catruth-O'Leary for temporary storage in the south wing of the basement.
One June 11, buildings and grounds workers will move office materials, such as books, desks, and chairs into offices of the new building.
Formulation of plans for the move from Fraser Hall to Carruth-O'Leary Hall was begun last February after James Canole, state architect, announced that old Fraser Hall must be abandoned before construction of New Fraser Hall may begin. Canole said Old Fraser Hall is believed to be constructed on shale and that vibrations caused by heavy construction work of New Fraser Hall could cause the collapse of the old building.
The classic art and sculpture pieces in Wilcox Museum will be stored in a warehouse.
The centennial events will be scheduled throughout the year, but a heavy concentration of activity will begin following spring vacation next year. The events will continue to the culmination of the activities at Commencement. 1966.
Chairman of the Centennial Committee is George Anderson, professor of history. Other committee chairmen include: Screening, James Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor; Ways and Means, Keith Weltmer, professor of business administration; Program, William Conboy, professor of speech and drama; Media and State-wide Participation, Bruce Linton, director of radio television; Heritage and Traditions, Natalie Calderwood, associate professor of English; and Steering Committee, Professor Anderson.
Acting Vox Leadership Appointed Until Election
Tom Stanion, Pratt sophomore,
has been appointed temporary
president of Vox Populi for next
year.
Stanion and three other temporary officers were appointed last night at a Vox meeting by Jim Frazier, Topeka fifth year pharmacy student and out-going Vox president.
FRAZIER SAID they will be of officially elected next fall by the Vox general assembly.
The other officers are Bob Miner. Great Bend sophomore, vice-president; Kay Kloppenberg, LaGrange, Ill., freshman, secretary, and Brian Biles. Hutchinson junior, treasurer.
Frazier told the assembly that he was appointing the officers because he did not believe there was a
quorum present at the meeting to conduct an election.
Three executive vice-presidents were also appointed. They are David Grim, Belton, Mo., senior independent vice-president; Tom Rader, Greensburg freshman, Greek vice-president, and Bob Rosser, Topeka sophomore, freshman women's residence halls.
Frazier also appointed five Greek representatives and five independent representatives to the Vox executive council, a group that determines major party policy and acts as an executive board.
Daily hansan
STANION TOLD the assembly, "I'm very confident that we've got the people to work with and I'm looking forward to next year."
62nd Year. No.140
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
China-Mid East Jet Crash Third Worst Air Mishap
Thursday, May 20, 1965
CAIRO, U.A.R. —(UPI)— A Pakistan Airlines jet establishing the first commercial air link between Communist China and the Mid East crashed near here today, killing 121 persons. At least one was an American.
Six persons, all Pakistanis, survived.
AIRPORT OFFICIALS here, announcing the toll, said no Americans were listed as passengers, but the airline and the U.S. Embassy in Karachi said one American, identified only as D. Love, was among the victims.
The airline said it was also possible that three other Americans, identified as Joseph Layyous and a Mr. and Mrs. Howard, may have boarded the plane at its stopover in Dhahran.
Ten of the victims were identified as Chinese, and a Chinese Communist diplomatic pouch and anti-American propaganda from Peking were found scattered among the wreckage. It was not known if any of the Chinese on the plane were officials or diplomats.
The plane crashed in the desert while approaching Cairo Airport.
Weather
Cloudy skies will continue through tonight and tomorrow. A high temperature in the upper 70's is forecast by the weather bureau for tomorrow. Winds will be southwesterly with velocity 10 to 15 miles an hour. Low tonight will be in the mid 69's.
The crash was the third worst single plane disaster in aviation history. Only a 1962 crash in Paris and a 1953 crash near Tokyo were worse.
THE AMERICAN-built Boeing 720B jet was on an inaugural flight from Karachi to Cairo and then was to continue to Geneva and London. Pakistan Airlines has been flying to Communist China since 1963, and today's flight was thus widely billed as the first direct air link between Communist China and the Middle East.
Six gravelly injured survivors, all Pakistanis, were removed from the plane's charred wreckage, which was scattered over a half-mile area of the Halzouy Valley about 10 miles from the airport.
One of the survivors, Djalal Elkarimi, said he and the others who escaped death were in the back of the plane.
SANTO DOMINGO —(UPI)— United Nations representative Jose Antonio Mayobre said today he planned to see the leaders of both rival Dominican military factions to make final arrangements for Friday's 12-hour ceasefire to remove the dead and wounded from the city's streets.
Dominicans Agree To 12-Hour Truce
Mayobre said he would also visit the Red Cross which, under the cease-fire plan agreed upon in principle Wednesday night, would remove the bodies.
The Venezuelan, personal representative here of UN Secretary General Thant, said he had been told by an aide there was less fighting than usual during the night. The U.S. Army reported minor sniper fire at daybreak but said no heavy weapons had
been heard since Wednesday night.
THE ARMY said the body of a Marine missing from his unit since Tuesday night was returned Wednesday night by Dominican civilians to a U.S. checkpoint. Another Marine reported missing was in the hands of rebels and the Army said a Peace Corps worker was trying to arrange his release.
The Army said the two Marines were driving a water truck on a route entirely within the international zone. The Marine died of a gunshot wound in the chest.
The new death brought the casualty toll of American servicemen here to 20 dead and 102 wounded.
CRC Satisfied with Acquittal
Civil Rights Council members expressed pleasure with the defense attorneys and the outcome of the trials of three demonstrators in district court.
Comments on the decision of the jury and the trials of Walter Bgova, Ngara, Tanzania, senior; Pamela Smith, Kansas City, and Elbert Rinkle, Scott City, both former KU students, came at a meeting of the CRC last night.
SIMS STOKES, Mobile, Ala. junior and president-elect of CRC, said, "I feel the outcome of the demonstration and the following trial of the three defendants is a reflection of the type of leadership which the group had this year."
Stokes assured the members that next year the group would be
"I am definitely impressed with the people here in the group because they are the ones who are willing to stand up and be counted for civil rights movements here," he said.
"governed by some type of procedure" and that they would "not have to linger here as has been necessary many times during this year.
Marjorie French, St. Louis, Mo., senior and secretary of the group, said, "I was pleased with the outcome of the other trials and I certainly hope the outcome of the rest of the trials will be the same.
"WE ARE REPRESENTED by a team of excellent lawyers who are dedicated to carrying out the law as well as to the cause of civil rights," she said.
Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif., senior and CRC president, said, "I was very impressed with the defense attorneys and I felt that the jury did what was best to do with regard to the evidence which v s presented.
"In view of the fact that the state's case could not be substantiated, I feel it was a good show of American justice." Sims said.
SIMS' OWN TRIAL is set for June 4 in district court. Ralph King Jr., Douglas County attorney, would make no comment today on the acquittal of the demonstrators or whether he would drop charges against the other 107 persons arrested for the same charge.