Research grants now $4.5 million
Grants and contracts totaling more than $4.5 million for research and associated graduate training projects have been received by KU and its Center for Research in Engineering Science during the first nine months of fiscal 1966.
For the 9-month period, $1,556,326 has been received. $870,844 ahead of last year's comparable figure, reported William J. Arger-singer Jr., associate dean of the faculties for research.
Of that total, $1,410,656 was awarded during the January-March quarter, $388,680 more than was received during the comparable months a year ago.
Also received but not included in the latest quarterly total was more than $2 million for construction of child research facilities. The U.S. Public Health Service awarded $2,104,200 to construct Centers for Research in Mental Retardation on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses and at the Parsons State Hospital and Training School.
Geologist named to Belgian award
An internationally-known geologist at KU has been selected as the first American to receive an award presented triennially by the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Raymond C. Moore, professor emeritus of geology, will receive the Prix Paul Fourmarier "for his scientific work in paleontology and sedimentology and for directing the 24-part Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology." The academy is considered Belgium's most distinguished group of scholars in the arts and sciences.
Prof. Moore has been invited to receive his gold medal at the academy's Dec. 16 meeting in Brussels. If he cannot attend, the award will be made through the Belgian ambassador in Washington.
The medal is awarded to a Belgian or foreign scholar who, according to the academy's secretary, "in the preceding decade has done work of great value, including important discoveries or significant advancement of theoretical concepts in the geological sciences."
City managers meet for three-day school
Problems of cities and the federal system will be emphasized in the three-day program of the 19th Annual City Managers School which began today in the Kansas Union.
The school is sponsored by the City Managers Association of Kansas and Missouri, the League of Kansas Municipalities, University Extension and the University of Kansas Governmental Research Center.
Speakers will be Rescoe C. Martin, professor of political science, Syracuse University, New York; Victor Fischer, director, Office of Metropolitan Development, Washington, D.C.; Russell E. McClure, city manager, Wichita; Harold E. Horn, associate director, International City Managers Association; A. J. Harmon, executive director, Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, Kansas City, Mo.; James Tice, regional coordinator, Community Action Program, Kansas City, Mo.; Joseph R. Coupal Jr., city manager, Bangor, Me., and president of the International City Managers Association; Milton Gan, executive director, Regional Health and Welfare Counsel, Kansas City, Mo.; and Jerzy Hauptmann, chairman, department of political science, Park College, Missouri.
Sue Pierce to reign as queen of Kansas Relays
SUE PIERCE Relays queen
Boeing airliners
undergo repairs
LONDON — (UPI) — British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC)
mechanics worked today to repair three of the line's six Boeing 707 jetliners grounded by handline crushs in the tail section.
Spare parts were on the way for the other planes. BOAC said it had to cancel at least seven flights because of the faults.
The cracks were discovered when airline mechanics, at Boing's request, began carrying out checks of the tail sections of its 707s.
Surface, Youngblood debate student wages
Surface explained the procedure on allocations for state schools in Kansas. The heads of the institutions notify the legislature about the areas in which they need money. The legislature then makes its allocation to each school, allocations which, said Surface, "have never, at least in my time, been enough to cover everything."
Eleven students heard Provoist James Surface and Student Labor Organization (SLO) president Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village sophomore, discuss student wages and SLO in the third KU-Y current issues forum yesterday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
"WE FELT THAT working together, the university administration, the Board of Regents, and SLO would be able to express the urgency necessary to get increased wages from the state legislature." Youngblood said.
Youngblood reiterated SLO reasons for campaigning for higher wages for student employees of the university. SLO contends that the present wages are not sufficient to pay for lost study time, and that wage scales have not kept pace with rising KU costs.
Sue Pierce, Kankakee, Ill., junior, will reign this weekend as queen of the 41st annual Kansas Relays. Her attendants are Fatti Slider, Lyons sophomore, and Sherry Buchanan. Toneke junior.
The schools then submit a priority list of the programs they will use the money for, and this list becomes the budget which
A committee composed of three Lawrence businessmen, Ted Owens, KU basketball coach, and Kala Stroup, assistant dean of women, made the final selection last Thursday afternoon in the Kansas Union. The panel based their decision upon personal interviews of 32 candidates representing their living groups.
LETTER FROM FRONT
KU-Y sets out office applications
Your son,the soldier,is dead
The KU-Y will be holding interviews for the 1967 producer and business manager of the Rock Chalk Revue on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
EVANSTON, IL. — (UPI) — For Mrs. Elizabeth Giles, mother of a 21-year-old soldier in Viet Nam, letters from the front will never be the same again. She received one last week and thought her son was dead.
The letter had come from her son's platoon leader and from his Army buddies. Enclosed was a sympathy card and a money order for $27.50.
THE REMAINER of the KU-Y Cabinet positions will be chosen by next year's executive officers this Sunday, April 24.
'IT SAID THAT my son had been a good soldier, well liked and respected by his friends. The letter said the platoon felt great sympathy for me. It said the money order was for flowers for his funeral.
"I saw it was a sympathy card," Mrs. Giles said. "But it didn't dawn on me that it was for us. I
"I almost passed out because I realized the letter meant he was dead. But we hadn't received any official notice of his death from the government."
saw the money order, and my name was on it. I began to read the letter.
Mrs. Giles telephoned the Red Cross, the Army, the Department of Defense, "anybody we thought could straighten this out." She asked them if perhaps there hadn't been some mistake.
Scheduled to begin at 9:50 a.m., the parade will move north along Massachusetts Ave. from South Park to 7th Street.
THE THREE WOMEN will begin Saturday's activities with a ride through downtown Lawrence in the Relays Parade. Grand Marshall Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, will lead the parade of floats, bands, horse units and special entries. Thirty organizations, including a Boy Scout Explorer-Girl Scout Mariner group, have submitted entries for the parade.
They all said they'd see what they could do. She waited. Her minister came. They prayed. Neighbors offered their sympathy. SATURDAY NIGHT about 3:30, the phone rang. It was an Army official calling from Viet Nam, a Col. Haad, she thought.
Indeed there had been a mistake, Pfc. William Giles was safe,
"I just fell down when I heard it."
Mrs. Giles said. "The only thing I thought was 'Billy is alive.'"
Col. Hoad explained what had happened.
There were two soldiers named Giles in her son's unit, he said. In a battle last week, the one named Barney Giles had been killed. William Giles had been wounded. After the battle, someone had become confused over which Giles was which.
must be observed.
Surface also said that even if there had been a raise in allocations this year, "there would have been serious debate among us as to whether to spend it to create more jobs, or to raise existing salaries."
SURFACE SAID. "This University, like most others, is in many ways underfinanced. The worst area may be student help, but that is a subjective judgment I am not prepared to make."
The University, however, Surface said, is selfishly interested in a higher wage scale for student help because it would greatly reduce the load on loan funds.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 20, 1966
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