KU
THE SUMMER SESSION kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year,SSK No.2
WEATHER HUMID
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, June 16, 1967
Girls State wraps up spirited year
Edited by LYNDAL H. Van Benchgen
Sunday afternoon the 423 citizens of Sunflower Girls State, 1967, began their exciting week, this being the 25th Anniversary Session.
Sunflower Girls State is presented by the ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary. Department of Kansas. These ladies, under the leadership of Mrs. Agnes Reichers, of Clay Center, Department President of the American Legion Auxiliary, and official hostess of Sunflower Girls State, have spent many hours in preparation for this week.
GIRLS' STATE GOVERNOR
With the guidance of Mrs. Bettie Norris of Burdett, the counsellors and staff have planned a perfect 25th session.
TWO OF THE most important aspects of Girls State are the campaign and election, and the girls started their work when they entered the door of Joseph R. Fearson Hall, their home for the week.
Monday night individuals prepared campaign material for their own respective offices, creating original slogans and posters to hang up or wear.
After an unusually short night's sleep, the girls got their first real taste of politics with the signing of petitions to run for office.
Having succeeded in obtaining the required 30 names on a state petition or nine on a county one, many girls entered the primary election on Tuesday. As a result of that primary election, the two gubernatorial candidates were
Kay Harris, Council Grove senior, was elected governor of the Annual Girls' State held here. A member of the Nationalist Party, she is shown here addressing the assembly after her victory was announced. Girls' State will conclude Saturday.
Kay Harris, Council Grove, a member of the Nationalist Party, and Ellen Pence, Pratt, a Federalist.
EARLY IN the week, under the leadership of Girls State advisors and two KU professors of political science, the two parties were born. Party platforms were planned, party yells were perfected, party enthusiasm grew, and tension mounted, until on Tuesday the girls burst forth with one of the most spirited political rallies Sunflower Girls State has seen. Then, exhausted but content, the girls went home to continue their campaigning.
Wednesday the general election produced a Nationalist governor for 1967, Kay Harris, from Council Grove, Kansas.
Other elected state officials were Marlys James, a Federalist, for Lieutenant Governor, Beth Bouchard, a Federalist, for Secretary of State, Cathy Ledeker, a Nationalist, for Attorney General. State Auditor-elect was Keena Unruh, a Nationalist; State Treasurer-elect was Janet Mills, a Nationalist. Superintendent of Public Instruction was Marsha Graham, a Federalist, and Commissioner of Insurance was Margaret McCoy, a Nationalist. State Printer-elect was Janet Council.
Justices of the Supreme Court are Gretchen Ripple, Federalist; chief justice—Chris Glover, Nationalist; Debbie Stinson, Federalist; Sally Olson, Nationalist; Jackie Herring, Nationalist; Evelyn Rock, Federalist; and Kim Saunders, Federalist.
The Nationalist Party carried a majority in the state offices, and Federalists were the most popular party in Congress.
STATE OFFICERS were sworn into office Thursday in the Inaugural Ceremony, with the speaker, Gov. Robert Docking. Girls Staters congratulated their new state officials in the governor's reception in the Union following the Inauguration.
State officials have a special treat in their invitation to spend the day with Governor Docking in Topeka, having luncheon with the Dockings at the Governor's mansion.
With the elections completed, the officers have begun to carry out the duties of their newly as-
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WEATHER
Partly cloudy, hot and humid, is the forecast for the first part of the weekend by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Scattered thundershowers are likely Friday afternoon. Highs should be in the 90's with lows around 70.
Do you recall the 1951 flood?
North Lawrence under water, highways closed no commuting students,and mail by boat
As the water backs down Second Street into Mud Creek, memories are brought back of another flood one much more disastrous-in North Lawrence 16 years ago.
The average college student probably was in grade school. The junior to be in high school was born that year. But many members of the University faculty remember working on sandbag dikes and other troubles caused by the raging waters.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, points out there were two floods that year. The first rise of water came sometime in mid June, as it did this year.
DEAN WOODRUFF recollects he. Vice Chancellor R. Keith Lawton, at that time director of dormitories, and the then Inter-Fraternity Council President were returning from a fact finding trip concerning fraternity management to Ohio State, Indiana, Illinois and Purdue universities.
On their return they found their entrance to the city through North Lawrence was blocked by high water. He said that they had to back track to make the last leg of their journey.
But the worst had not yet come.
The big crest arrived on July 13,1951. The Kansas River rose to 30.52 feet, while flood stage is 18 feet. The Wakarusa, south of Lawrence rose to 32 feet, five feet above flood stage.
NORTH LAWRENCE and the eastern sections of the city were underwater. A water-line still remains on the Tee Pee. Chief of Traffic and Security E. P. Moorman, who was then Captain of the Kansas Highway Patrol stationed in Lawrence, recalls the water
Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson remembers going to the Sante Fe station and looking at the water. It was near the station and went past with terrific speed.
almost covered the building where North Rusty's IGA is today.
Vice Chancellor George B. Smith, then as he is today director of the summer session, said the worst problem the University suffered were calls from concerned parents.
Most of the calls came from the East Coast where newspapers and radio stations carried the reports of Lawrence being under water. The parents, not knowing the topeography of Lawrence, wondered where their sons and daughters were, now that the campus was under water.
VICE CHANCELLOR Smith said the city of Lawrence was isolated for a time. The only way out of the city was west on K 10, but once one got to Topeka, there was no other place to go. Classes were held as normal, although commuters did not quite make it for about a week.
University personnel and Lawrence citizens joined hand in hand in cleaning up the mess and piling up sandbags to protect the not yet ravaged sections of the town.
Vice Chancellor Smith recalls, while he was helping build a wall of sandbags, looking up to see a two and a half ton truck pass by. Sitting on the tailgate were Jim Nickerson, then professor of Music Education here and now president of Mankato State, a
Both Dean Alderson and Vice Chancellor Smith recalled the effectiveness of KLWN-Radio. Then a fledgling station, less than a year old, the station stayed on 24 hours a day (because of the emergency) and was a guiding light to all the citizens.
Just as the KU Buildings and Grounds crew were rushed to Topeka to aid Washburn University after last year's tornado, they also worked with city and county crews in the flood.
BUT PROBABLY, the one of the four most involved in helping Lawrence, was Chief Moomau. Because of the few number of highways left open, he assisted the sheriff entirely.
Lawrence businessman and Max Driesen, professor of nuclear physics, going to another work assignment.
He remembers bringing the mail by boat from Eudora and patrolling the highway in a motor boat.
COULD A FLOOD like that happen again? It could, but the chances don't seem as likely. Dean Woodruff recalls the disbelief of the people in North Lawrence in 1951. They said it had never reached their houses in all the other floods, it would not then either—but it did.
But now Kansas has the huge conservation dam. There is Tuttle Creek on the Blue River and Milford on the Republican. And the soon to be completed Perry Reservoir.
Milford, just completed this spring is now increasing in water level and two tenths foot per hour, but is still far below conservation level, let alone flood level. Although Tuttle Creek is past conservation level, it too, is a long way from flood level.