Jet car establishes world land record
By RICH LOVETT
It has four wheels and a jet engine. It looks like it could fly, and it almost does.
The vehicle in question is the "Exodus." an exhibition racing car on display at the corner of Crescent Road and Naismith Drive, which broke the one-eighth mile land speed record yesterday.
Race driver Bobby Tatore drove the car to 207.4 miles per hour at
the Lawrence Speedway to defeat the previous 193 m.p.h. record.
TATROE SAID HE traveled 89,000 miles last year on a U.S. tour with the "Exodus," which was built under the sponsorship of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and is "probably worth $45,000."
The "Exodus" is powered by a salvaged F-7 Cullass Navy jet engine which develops 8,000 pounds of thrust and 10,000 horsepower. Tatrote said it consumes 20 gallons of jet fuel every quarter mile and with the afterburner engaged would burn its 40-gallon capacity in about 10 seconds.
Two 20-foot drag chutes slow the "Exodus" to 40 m.p.h., when Tatroe applies conventional disc brakes. He said the car would probably go about 600 miles per hour, "but it would come apart at about 350."
ASKED ABOUT HIS feelings while driving the vehicle Tatree
Tatroe is the only man to drive a land vehicle over 700 m.p.h.
said, "It's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a new experience every time. You just have to remember what you've got there."
He said the "Exodus" has many safety features which help protect him during speed runs. The body frame extends into the car's nose, which is made of tempered aluminum. The tires have been tested at 1,200 m.p.h. under 15,000 pounds load. It also has a very low center of gravity, he said.
Mary Ann Torrence, Topeka;
Ellen Tyler, Kansas City; Ellen
Vance, Short Hills, N.J.; Christine
Walker, Shawnee Mission;
April Walstad, Joplin, Mo.; Diane
Gaye Wiksen, Topeka; Pamela
Withers, Kansas City.
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Patricia McCall, Raytown, Mo;
Leslie McElfresh, Osage City;
Barbara Mize, Atchison; Rogene Pfuetze, Overland Park; Julie Jean Reed, Madison, N.J.; Pamela Russell, Iola; Patricia Scott,
Topeka; Patricia Spencer, Overland Park; Sheryl Spivey, Wichita; Martha Stewart, Vancouver,
B.C., Canada.
JUNIORS CAPPED for membership in Mortar Board were: Sheila Beaman, Independence, Mo.; Sara Bly, Kansas City; Rosa Burns, Caldwell; Judith Cady, Beloit; Gloria Chadborn, Kansas City; Margaret Crist, Brewster; Nancy Gallup, Lawrence; Carolyn Gile, Delphos; Cynthia Hardin, Linecoln, Neb.; Nancy D. Matthews, Neodesha.
AWS awards-
Susan Menke, Webster Groves,
Mo.; Patricia Mills, Topeka;
Cheryl Parmely, LeRoy; Sara
Paretsky, Eudora; Martha Quade,
Kirkwood, Mo.; Deanell Reece,
Scandia; Patricia Samuels, Webster
Groves, Mo.; Susan Schaefer,
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Chess tournament awards trophies and $195 in prizes
"Exodus" and ignited the jet engine.
The International Club is sponsoring the banquet.
TICKETS FOR the banquet are available at the information desk in the Kansas Union, the International Club office in the Kansas Union basement and from Klaus Zerrahn at VI 2-9100. The tickets are $1.50 each.
Dishes from around the world will be featured in the annual banquet fo nations at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"In 20 seconds it disintegrated the old car down to the frame," he said.
The banquet will be highlighted by international entertainment and a beauty queen contest. About 20 candidates representing different living groups are expected to enter the contest.
Campbell won the five games of his series to take the title. Randy Mills, Shawnee Mission High School senior, won the Kansas Championship Title with the highest ranking score of any Kansas player.
MILLS ALSO TIED with Dr. Daniel Allen, of Kansas City, Mo., for the third place prize, both had a 4-1 series overall.
Foods from nations including Argentina, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Iran, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey will be served.
DURING RUNS Tastroe wears a partially soundproofed helmet to protect himself from the engine's roar and sits low in the cockpit so that much of the sound is blown away from him. He said the engine is so powerful that with the disc brakes set, at full speed it will push the car over the starting line, leaving "big black skid marks."
Internat'l Club prepares feast
Unrated trophy, for entrants who have not had ratings published, was won by Dan Prichard, Dodge City. Lance Williams, Lawrence High senior, won the tournament's junior trophy.
Kirkwood, Mo.; Nancy Schoenbeck, St. Louis, Mo.; Martha Selfridge, Wichita; Dorothy Sloan, Norton; Joyce Lynn Snapp, Wichita; Jennifer Speer, Wichita; Susan Tisdall, Winnetka, Ill., and Susan Weinlood, Hutchinson.
In Class A competition, A. D.
Baker, of Merriam, took first place
with a $3\frac{1}{2}-1\frac{1}{2}$ series. Class B
rounds were won by Marvin
Baker, of Wichita, with a $3\frac{4}{2}-1\frac{1}{2}$
record. Edward Sayre, of Seneca,
Mo., won the Class C rounds.
A Kansas City man, J. F. Campbell, placed first this weekend in the Jayhawk Open chess tournament sponsored by the KU chess club in the Kansas Union.
In an experiment Tatree once chained a junk car behind the
Players received $7.50 for each half-point over three. Campbell received $30, Davidson received $20 and Mills and Allen got $5 for placing. The highest scoring KU player was S.Madhavan, Indian graduate student, who lost the Unrated trophy to Prichard.
Forty-five players from five states entered the tournament, which offered $195, eight trophies and a plaque.
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