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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER WARMER
77th Year, No.86
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, February 24, 1967
ASC supports cigarette bill
By JOHN MARSHALL
Well students, start shining those boots and polish your saddles, 'cause it looks like we're back in Marlboro country.
A resolution introduced by Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., sophomore and fraternity representative, requesting the Kansas Legislature to allow the sale of cigarettes on campus was passed last night by the All Student Council (ASC) in a special meeting.
The resolution, passed by voice vote, strongly urges passage of a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Kenneth
Winters (R-Prairie Village), and Bill Brier (R-Overland Park).
IF THE BILL is passed, it would direct the State Board of Regents to allow the sale of cigarettes on the campuses of state colleges and universities. The bill also directs that all the profits from cigarette sales would go to the Kansas Union fund of the college concerned.
Soon after the Surgeon Generals reports came a ruling by the Board of Regents that cigarettes should not be sold on the KU campus.
Interest in cigarette smoking and the sale of cigarettes on campus came early in 1964 after the U.S. Surgeon General issued several reports stating that cigarette smoking was a health hazard.
THE BOARD OUTLINED two basic reasons for this ruling. KU is an institution for learning, and the medical center in Kansas City has proved that cigarette smoking is hazardous to health. The Board believed that KU students should benefit from this research and outlined their proposal for the removal of cigarettes from the campus. By removing cigarettes
from the campus, there would be less possibility of encouraging young people to make the decision on whether or not to smoke.
Since April, 1964, cigarettes on the KU campus have been banned.
the KU campus have been built. The ASC now is urging abolition of this ban, and will send copies of its resolution to Kansas state colleges and universities asking that they consider support of the bill proposed by Reps. Winters and Brier.
A copy of the ASC resolution also will be sent to Rep. Jess Taylor (R-Tribune), chairman of the
House State Affairs Committee.
The bill has been pigeonholed in committee at the request of Reps. Winters and Brier.
DEBATE LAST NIGHT on the proposed resolution was short, and argument boiled down to two basic sides.
Rusty Wells, Leawood sophomore and fraternity representative, said that the question seemed to be one of convenience.
"Medically, it has been proved that smoking is a health hazard." Wells said, "and I don't think we should aid and abet this. I really
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'Little Man'artist marks 20th year
A nationally syndicated cartoonist and former KU student, Richard Bibler, is celebrating his 23th anniversary as creator of "Little Man on Campus," which appears regularly in the UDK.
The single-panel cartoon also appears in about 350 other university, college and high school newspapers. Bibler started it as a KU freshman in 1946.
"I WAS AN ART major at KU." Bibler said, "and the UDK ran a cartoon contest. I stayed up all one night and drew about 25 of them and took them to the Kansan office the next morning.
"That's fine,' they said. 'You win the contest. Now do us five a week."
Bibler said he had "used up my last idea," so he developed a bumbling student character, Worthal, and dubbed the series "Little Man on Campus" (LMOC). The title was suggested by Gordon A. Sabine, then faculty advisor to the UDK.
THE TITLE, even abreviated, started trouble, Bibler says. Sabine had gotten it from an article which had appeared in another KU publication and the student who had written the article threatened to sue Bibler, Sabine and the UDK for stealing the phrase.
Bibler, now an art instructor in Monterey, Calif., said, "There's sort of a funny sequel to the story.
"When I came to Monterey nine years ago, one of the first people I met was a car salesman who said he had gone to KU too. And who was it? The guy who had written the article and threatened to sue."
BIBLER RECEIVED $4 per cartoon from the UDK. By 1948, however, "Little Man on Campus" was providing him with a further source of income. Oklahoma, Texas and Utah universities all asked if they could run the cartoons in their campus newspapers.
Room to be remodeled
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A $3,000 donation was presented by the KU Interfraternity Council (IFC) to Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, at a meeting last night at the Delta Tau Delta house.
IFC donates to Union
The money will be used for remodeling room 306 in the Kansas Union. The new room will be renamed the Centennial Room.
THE DONATION was made possible through a series of U.S. government savings bonds which have been maturing over a period of years. George Fletcher, Toledo, Ohio, senior and president of the IFC, was not sure exactly when the bonds were purchased, but he
commented that it was somewhere around 1953.
Last spring the IFC decided to present a gift to someone at the University. It was finally decided to donate the money in the investment fund to the Kansas Union; however, construction on the proposed room could not be started immediately, and the actual presentation of the money was delayed.
No definite completion date has been set. Wood materials from old Fraser Hall will be used in the construction.
BURGE EXPRESSED deep
"I've never before received a gift from an organization which had this amount of money to spend and didn't know what to do with it," said Burge.
Burge commented that the amount presented by the IFC is equivalent to four years of net profit for the Kansas Union.
THE ROOM will contain meeting and dining facilities and is expected to hold approximately 100 people.
"This is the most generous contribution I've ever received at the Kansas Union," Burge said.
McCollum sick recover; food samples are tested
By PAUL HANEY
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts a low tonight near 20 with a slow, mostly fair, warming trend through Saturday. Precipitation probability will be less than five per cent through Saturday.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, health service director, said several days will be needed to culture samples of meatball gravy, chicken and salad dressing served in the residence hall cafeteria Wednesday evening
Tests are being conducted today on food samples in Watkins Hospital in an effort to learn the cause of yesterday's wide-spread illness in McCollum Hall.
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tera Wednesday. “WELL PROBABLY draw a blank.” he said and added the tests will only indicate the presence of organisms and not toxins. “Organisms are killed when food is cooked," he said. "The toxins remain, and they're what cause the illness."
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He said food hinders him. Schwegler and Dr. James W. Campbell, KU physicain, treated 150 students between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. "None of them are critical," Schwegler said. "They're just uncomfortable."
He said food handlers will also be checked.
He said most should recover today.
The first call for assistance was made at 7:45
He said most should recover today.
a. m. yesterday by Carolyn Power, Kansas City graduate student and women's residence director.
Schwegler and Cambell treated women residents first, going to the men's wings of the hall at 11 a.m.
SCHWEGLER SAID all the students he treated had eaten in the hall Wednesday evening. "It was definitely caused by something in the common utilities," he said.
It's not likely it's virus-spread because multiple floors and different wings were involved."
He diagnosed the illness as acute gastroenteritis. He said the symptoms were abdominal pain, diarrhea and in some cases vomiting.
RESIDENTS WITH ACUTE vomiting received shots. Other were treated with pills. One girl was admitted to Watkins hospital last night from McCollum, hospital records show. residents throughout the day. Doctors told residents to avoid solid foods.
Schwegler said he is suspicious of the food because "the incubation period was almost constant for all the students." He said most students became ill between 5 and 6 a.m.
DA Garrison assassination arrests ready
NEW ORLEANS—(UPD)—Dist. Atty, Jim Garrison said today he has solved the assassination of President Kennedy and will arrest every individual involved.
Garrison made the startling statement on his way to a meeting with a group of local businessmen who said they will finance Garrison's investigation of a conspiracy hatched in New Orleans to kill the President.
Garrison revealed less than a week ago he had been investigating the conspiracy for three months.
He promised arrests, charges and convictions.
Two days ago, David W. Ferrie—a man Garrison said was deeply involved in the conspiracy—was found dead in his apartment. Garrison said Ferrie killed himself and repeated his belief today.
and repeated. However, Orleans Parish county Coroner Nicholas Chetta said less than an hour earlier it appeared Ferrie died a natural death.
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