Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 14, 1966
76th Year, No.1
Lawrence, Kansas
(Photo by Glen Phillips)
SUMMERTIME. AND THE LIVIN IS EASY
SUMMERTIME, AND THE LIVIN' IS EASY Two of the more popular pastimes in the vicinity of Potter Lake
Out with the boys, in with the girls
High school girls from all over Kansas will get their chance to run the government their own way this week as the 24th Sunflower Girls' State gets underway on the KU campus.
The seniors, 424 of them, will elect officials for 12 cities, six counties and state government.
General elections will be held Wednesday morning. Registration for the event was held Sunday in Joseph R. Pearson. Precinct elections were held last night.
IRIS BICKFORD, SEDGWICK, last year's Girl State governor is assisting as a staff member this year and is presiding over the meetings.
The director of the convention is Mrs. Bettie Norris, Burdette and her assistant is Mrs. Doris Seymour, Bird City. 12 counselors and 12 assistant counselors are assisting the staff.
Meetings are being held in Strong Auditorium, the Kansas Union and Hoch Auditorium.
The high school seniors discussed and passed much legislation being discussed in the State Legislature at the present time.
And as the girls entered the picture, the boys left it. 1.009 Boys' Staters learned how to run the government of their state and experienced a week of electioneering, campaigning and fun.
BOYS' STATE GOVERNOR, Larry Wohlford. Hutchinson, presided over legislation including bills to increase the number of mental health institutions in the state, reduce corporate income taxes, prohibit sale of cigarettes to persons under 21 and to lower the voting age to 19.
Other House legislation included compulsory teaching of communism in Kansas public high schools and establishment of watershed districts in the Arkansas River Valley.
Driver tests were another topic of conversation for the House. A measure was approved which provided for reexamination of licensed drivers soon after each passes his 65th birthday.
Senate members introduced legislation regarding highway signs and regulations and also called for elimination of the office of state superintendent of public instruction.
ACTIVITIES SET
Summer fun begins
For those summer school students who tire of watching Batman reruns, drinking beer at one of the local establishments, and
studying, the University has planned a full round of summer entertainment.
The SUA Classical Film Series
Tornado-hit Washburn opens in high school
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Washburn University, facing the greatest challenge of its 101-year history, began summer classes yesterday in a Topeka high school.
Four days ago it appeared a summer session would be impossible. Washburn was directly in the path of a tornado which carved a 15-mile path through Topeka, causing an estimated $100 million in property damage, killing 16 and injuring more than 500 persons.
Job Corps aids Topeka
Every building on the Washburn campus was demolished or damaged.
Approximately 200 Job Corpsmen from four Mid-Western centers moved into Corbin Hall Sunday afternoon.
The 180 workers and 20 crew leaders and counselors will assist the tornado stricken citizens of Topeka in clean-up work. They will supply their own transportation to and from Topeka throughout their stay in Corbin Hall.
S. L. Coleman, Job Corps program coordinator, said that the four crews will remain in Lawrence as long as the Topeka Civil Defense Director indicates a need for them. He estimated their stay at a week to 10 days.
"THIS IS THE FIRST time in the history of the country that a school of this size has been demolished," Washburn Dean A. J. Engelbert said after surveying the ravaged buildings, many of them stone.
"We've lost the physical plant," Washburn President Dr. John Henderson said. "But there is more to a university than a physical plant."
Washburn, in operation since 1865, had an enrollment of about 4,000. It was chartered as Lincoln College but, after Deacon Ichabod Washburn of Worcester, Mass., donated $25,000 to the school, it was renamed.
IN FIVE MINUTES the twister tore the picturesque campus into grotesque piles of stone and wood. Six of the 14 major buildings became irreparable rubble.
Luckily, Washburn was between sessions and the student body was not on campus when the storm hit.
Dick Vogel, Washburn's treasurer, placed the university's loss at between $4 and $6 million. Other estimates have reached $10 million.
began last night with a Buster Keaton comedy, "The General," and continue Thursday night with "Duck Soup," a Marx Brothers film.
OLD-TIME COMEDIES will be shown every Monday and Thursday nights at 7:30 in Dyche Auditorium, and will feature such greats as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers. Season tickets will cost $3.00 and single price is $.50.
15 $3.00 The Friday Flicks will also continue with "The Cardinal" beginning the summer session. The popular films will also be shown in Dyche Auditorium at 7 and 9.30 p.m. on Fridays. Admission price is $3.55.
Also, preview dances sponsored by Student Union Activities, will begin next week.
For those students who prefer the theater, KU will sponsor bus trips to the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, according to Henry Shenk, professor of physical education and sponsor of the trips.
THE TRIPS WILL TAKE place Thursday, June 23. "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"; July 7, "Desert Song"; July 14, "Bye, Bye Birdie"; June 21, "Bells Are Ringing"; July 28, "Flower Drum Song"; August 2, "Oklahoma."
Buses leave from New Robinson Gym at 6:30 p.m. The price will be $3 or $4.25. Reservations may be made by calling the Physical Education Department.
The swimming pool in New Robinson will not be available this week.
Interested students may sign up for the intramural program which will include softball, tennis, horseshoe pitching, golf, handball, and badminton, Shenk said.
MEMORIAL STADIUM WORK PROGRESSES Workers build the annex higher and higher
(Photo by Glen Phillips)