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76th Year, No. 77
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, February 11, 1966
REDS ROUTED
New U.S. Drive
By United Press International
The U.S. Army today opened a major new offensive against the Viet Cong in coastal areas 300 miles northeast of Saigon. The first wave of troops landing by helicopter was pinned down by enemy fire, but air strikes and artillery routed the Reds.
U. S. and Vietnamese planes stepped up their air war against the Viet Cong today while U.S. 7th Fleet destroyers heavily bombarded coastal targets. Some of the actions presumably were taken in support of the new offensive.
A U.S. spokesman disclosed that a ninth U.S. warplane had been shot down over North Viet Nam since the bombing of the North resumed 12 days ago. The pilot was lost.
Communist terrorists struck close to Saigon, killing an American construction worker near Bien Hao Air Base while Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey was touring hamlets nearby under the protection of rocket-firing helicopters. There was no indication Humphrey was in danger.
IN WASHINGTON the Defense Department's weekly casualty toll showed that, as of Monday, a total of 2.005 U.S. servicemen had been killed in action in the Viet Nam war.
The total of Americans wounded in the conflict approached 10.000.
The tabulation showed that 161 Americans currently are missing. The number known to have been captured remained at 26.
Wescoe Expects Passage Of $107.1 Million School Bill
Since student fees annually contribute only one-sixth of the needed $26 million to run KU, the University looks to the $107.1 million higher education bill for support.
"I am not worried at all about Governor Avery signing the education bill into law as soon as he receives it," Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday of the bill which passed the Senate this week and will be up for final vote soon.
Besides $19 million in salaries, rent is a large annual payment.
THE BILL AUTHORIZES $26,073,817 for KU for 1967. Of this total, $15,073,826 is appropriated through the legislature and the remainder comes from government grants, fees, and other sources.
The University pays $80,000 to the housing fund for use of offices and classrooms in Carruth-O'Leary to pay off the bonds which finance the building.
Approximately $200,000 is appropriated for general repairs and improvements and another $65,000 for converting campus steam lines to higher pressure for increased efficiency.
SIGNING OF THE BILL into law will give legislative approval to raze the Strong Hall annexes for construction of the Spencer Library. Congressional approval is always required to raze publicly owned buildings.
The KU Medical Center in Kansas City will receive $6 million. Major projects at the Center will include a health-related
Osborne Named to Speak
The KU commencement ceremony June 5 will break a 93-year tradition with its baccalaureate services.
For the first time, a University
science building, and purchase of needed land. Additional funds will come from the federal government.
faculty member will deliver the baccalaureate address. He will be Clifford P. Osborne, professor of philosophy for 28 years, who retires this year at the age of 70.
Faculty salaries in the Law School will be raised 16 per cent or $30,000, in addition to the overall increase. The additional revenue will come primarily from a $50 increase in law student fees each semester.
The original administration request was $276,263 more than the approved $3,234,297. The major result of the cut is a faculty-to-student ratio of 1 to 20. University officials had urged a 1-17 ratio. They also requested a 10.6 per cent faculty wage increase which was cut to 6 per cent.
Clear to partly cloudy skies today and tonight with light northwest winds are forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Saturday will be partly cloudy and warmer.
Weather
Low tonight near 30.
Bangs Alleges Hall Campaign Never Planned
HOWEVER, ONE Templin hall resident affirmed that he intends to approach certain people in his dormitory. He agreed that "in a sense it will be" solicitation. He added each worker will decide on the tactics to employ in seeking new members.
Lawrence Hartzell, residence director at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said that the fact no one could go door-to-door within the halls was a standard policy of the dean of men.
Earlier residence hall directors expressed their intentions to prohibit door-to-door solicitation in dorms since it violated University regulations.
soliciting, although representatives of the organization will be placed in the various dormitories.
"I will try to stop any door-to-door soliciting within Templin," Marvin Crocker, residence director, said.
Leaders of the newly organized Student Labor Organization today denied they are planning door-to-door membership solicitation in University residence halls, but individual workers have admitted their intentions to "talk to switchboard and cafeteria workers and certain people on each floor."
Carl Bangs, Prairie Village junior and organizer of the labor movement, said this morning there would be no door-to-door
At McCollum Hall the policy is not nearly so strict.
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"Of course our policy is not to allow anyone from the outside to solicit within the dorm, but personally I am in favor of the labor movement and I am sure that it will not be hard to find some students in their respective floors or wings that could find interested members," said Joe Mosier, resident director. "Maybe even some of my counselors will help with the project."
Once the Student Labor Organization is set up, Bangs said.
"We plan on talking to the Aids and Awards office, where most campus jobs are filled, and with the Kansas Union, where several hundred students are employed."
THE ORGANIZATION is also looking forward to a letter writing campaign to members of the Kansas Legislature about the low paying jobs on the KU campus.
Over 100 students have joined the organization thus far. Bangs said, "We are pretty sure of success because of the number that have signed up since we began the campaign,"
A meeting of the organization is planned for 7:30 Monday night in the Kansas Union.
Joe Knight, Quinter freshman and president of the organization, said they received official recognition from the university this week on the basis of a petition filed last Friday and that they are not a labor union.
King Aide To Visit
A Baptist minister who believes in love, non-violence, and no hereafter, the Reverend James Bevel, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), will speak at 4:30 p.m. next Tuesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Bevel is a lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King in the SCLC.
Bevel, an advocate of nonviolence who has been active in such civil rights movements as the Freedom Rides to Mississippi and the demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala., is on a campus tour sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. He is sponsored at KU by the KU-Y and the Civil Rights Council.
IN ADDITION to his speech, Bevel will speak informally with Hill and local civil rights leaders, and Tuesday evening, he will speak at the Ninth Street Baptist Church.
KU's Own Junkyard Trap
By Tom Rosenbaum
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
The intersection you see in the picture is 16th and Louisiana Streets. The Soroptimist Club calls it one of the 50 most dangerous intersections in Lawrence.
As one who lived near the intersection for almost two years, its characteristics are still quite real in my mind.
That's an understatement.
The T-intersection is at the crest of a hill, with streets going downhill on all three directions. The
other side of the intersection is the back driveway to the chancellor's house.
As most of the members of the four fraternities who live near the intersection will testify, you have to stop your car completely before proceeding through it and your vision is limited to only several feet in any direction.
During winter, when the streets are slick, if the car stops, the chances of it making it through the intersection are quite small.
The survey was made in January as a service project of the Soroptimist Club. Another survey is scheduled for spring.
The pilot study was conducted by 20 members of the club, with Mrs. Edwin O. Stene as chairman. The results of the study will be presented to the Lawrence Traffic Commission March 7.
Another dangerous intersection mentioned in the list is T-intersection at University Drive and West Campus Road at the opposite edge of the KU campus.