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77th Year,SSK No.8
WEATHER HUMID
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Tuesday, July 11, 1967
Kansan photo by Don Hollinger and Mark Cerkovnik
DIGGING IN VAIN FOR WORKMAN
Construction workers and ambulance attendants battle to save the life of a 50-year-old construction worker who was trapped when a dirt wall caved in.
Dorm idea is altered to apartment living
By ROGER LINTEMUTH
The privately-financed dormitory complex slated for West Fifteenth Street, east of Templin Hall, has been changed into an apartment complex.
The announcement came Sunday from E. R. Zook, business agent for Jayhawk Investments, Inc., the private firm which will build the complex.
the original plans were
Kansan adds own cartoonist
Starting with this issue and periodically for the rest of the summer the Summer Session Kansan will run original cartoons by John Carter, Overland Park senior.
Carter is donating his time to the Kansan.
He is now living in McColum Hall, whose co-educational living may flavor some of his work. He will graduate this summer with a degree in fine arts.
changed due to great interest shown by students in apartment living, Zook said. The shape and height of the buildings will remain the same as in the original plans.
THERE WILL be four buildings, each six stories with 75 units per building. Also to be constructed will be a swimming pool and multi-level parking structures.
The project, calling for four residence halls, was postponed last fall and plans were resumed this spring. The original postponement came when the first privately-financed residence hall at KU. Naismith Hall, only was at about cne-third occupancy during the first semester.
Conrood, Walz, and Vollmer of Wichita were awarded the contract for construction of the complex.
Provided in the plans is a swimming pool as well as a number of large rooms for the use of tenants for meetings parties and recreation.
ALSO INCLUDED are two multi-level parking structures to be located at the east and west sides of the complex. Entrance to these parking facilities will be on Fifteenth Street with special stacking lanes provided so that cars may exit from or enter the street without interference with normal traffic.
Zook said that the apartments will have two bedrooms, with one of them being a small room.
All rooms will be carpeted as well as the hallways. Each apartment will have a complete modern kitchen. Also all units will be centrally air-conditioned and heated.
The building will be fireproof throughout and extra care has been taken for sound-proofing, according to Zook.
Zook says that 150 units will be complete by Sept. 1968 and the balance a year later. Work is now underway in leveling the area.
WEATHER
Clear to partly cloudy with humid conditions are forecast for today by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Highs today should be in the middle 90's with the lows tonight in the middle 70'. Little chance for precipitation is seen.
Worker dies in dirt cave-in
A 50-year-old workman was killed and one other man injured about noon Monday when the wall of a pit caved in at the site of a new KU building.
Karmen K. Kasson was in a pit dug for the air conditioner tower of the Experimental Biological and Human Development Building under construction east of Summerfield Hall.
P. H. DIETRICH, 51, 1121 Vermont St., was injured in the accident. He was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in "fairly good" condition, complaining of a hip injury.
The men were working at the bottom of a 20-foot pit when the accident occurred. The pit had been dug about two months, construction officials told police. The walls of the pit were sloped back from the steel grid.
The accident occurred about 11:35 a.m. Dietrich was free when police arrived at 11:45 a.m.
CONSTRUCTION workers
and a ambulance attendants worked about 40 minutes to remove the body. An oxygen mask was placed over Kasson's face as soon as it was freed shortly after noon, but apparently he was already dead.
Officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital refused to release information concerning the cause of death until after next of kin had been notified, although Kasson's name already had been released by other officials.
THE NORTH EDGE of the wall caved in. The pit was near the south edge of the larger excavation already made for the building's basement.
Photographs taken earlier Monday showed wooden supports running from the pit wall to a steel grid being erected inside the pit in preparation for pouring the concrete sides of the air conditioner tower.
Kasson was employed by Conrood Walz and Vollmer, Wichita, general contractors for the building.
-Kansan Photo by Lynniel Q. Van Benschoten
THE DING DONG MAN?
The street ice cream vendor takes on a rustic appearance with this horse-drawn cart. Here the wagon driver and horse slowly amble through the Stouffer Place parking lot while some of the little tykes run out for ice cream.