Sledding crash brings disaster
What started out as an ordinary Thursday night sled ride, ended up in disaster for Larry Allen Habs, Kansas City freshman.
The amputation of his right leg will cause Hahs, son of Mr. and Mrs.Floyd Hahs,6018 E.13th St.to miss at least a semester of school. He is majoring in architecture.
The accident occurred Dec. 29, while Hahs and a female passenger, Diane Johnson, a senior at East high school in Kansas City, Mo, were sledding. The sled hit a patch of mud and came to a sudden stop.
A piece of wood about six inches long was driven into Hahs' leg. He pulled out the splinter himself, and was rushed immediately to the KU Medical Center for treatment.
The KU freshman lost about four pints of blood on the way to the hospital, where he was placed
under intensive care for a period of four weeks.
The wound resulted in the rupture of a main artery in Hahs' right leg. A blood clot later developed in his foot, forcing amputation of the leg from the knee down.
A mold will be cast in three to four months, allowing time for the leg to heal. In the meantime, Habs will continue to undergo treatment.
Dut to the injury, the KU freshman will miss the spring semester; however, he plans to return to Mount Oread next fall. Hahs said he would study for his first semester finals at home and hopes to take them sometime before next semester. This would enable him to enroll as a second semester freshman.
Hahs has been home for a week.
He is up and about on crutches,
and says he is anxious to get back
to school.
First woman gets journalism award
Mrs. Frank W. Boyd, Mankato,
has been awarded the 1966 William
Allen White Foundation
Award for journalistic merit. She
is the first woman ever to receive
the citation.
Announcement of the honor was made at the William Allen White Day luncheon today. Made annually to a Kansas newspaperman, the citation reads: "To a Kansas newspaperman who exemplifies the William Allen White ideals in journalism and in service to his profession, his community, and the state of Kansas."
Clyde Reed, editor of the Parsons Sun and past president of the William Allen White Foundation, made the award.
Citations for HOPE due soon
The deadline for nominations for the 1967 Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) Award has been set for February 28.
Jim Huntington, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and co-chairman of the selection committee, announced today that seniors wishing to make nominations should pick up the necessary application in the Alumni Office, 127 Strong Hall.
The HOPE Award is the only award given to a faculty member by KU students. The honor is given to the member of the faculty who they feel has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the students and to the prestige of the University in the past year.
OTHER CRITERIA for judgment are the professor's willingness to help students, success in stimulating and challenging his students to think, devotion to his profession, and contribution to the general cultural life of the University.
It is planned that the winner will be announced at the annual Senior Class Coffee, to be held late in the semester.
Huntington said that approximately 30 nominations have been received, and that the selection process has already begun.
IN HIS PRESENTATION. Reed outlined her life and work.
She, now 90 years old, has covered the journalistic happening from "Jim Lane to Jim Ryun and from Carrie Nation to Debbie Bryant," he said.
She is presently serving as editor of the Jewell County Record at Mankato. With her two sons, she also owns and operates six northwest Kansas weekly newspapers.
A gold medallion for 50 years of service, the McKinney Award, and the Kansas State University Distinguished Award are but three of the many journalistic honors already bestowed on Mrs. Bovd.
SHE HELPED organize, and is honorary life president of the Kansas Press Women. In 1966, she was elected honorary president of the Kansas Press Association.
Continued from page 1 lived in an age of "small government and at a time that image-making wasn't the industry it is today."
In a column written on her 90th birthday, Mrs. Boyd expressed her own feelings about her life.
"I have overcome the feeling of not being needed, having shak-I have lost myself in my work en it off like a discarded garment, and my memories. It has been said: 'God gave us memory so we could have roses in December.' I have great armloads of roses, and I clutch them tight when loneliness threatens."
Gallagher-
She reported the assailant apparently reached for her purse and made body contact with her. He was scared off by another male on the walk nearby.
A KU woman student was at attacked last night at 7:30 as she was walking along the sidewalk in front of Green Hall.
Girl attack last evening
KU police officers this morning described the man as medium build, six foot tall, dark hair, dark complexion, dark clothing, wavey hair, and wearing a short blue iacket.
Officers are investigating the case.
CITING THE GROWTH of a "new audience" for the journalist, the former war correspondent said newspaper readers today are "more informed, inquisitive and younger—51 per cent are under 29 years of age—then newspaper readers in White's day."
The new audience has become cynical and critical, Gallagher said, "and too impatient to waste time on trivia.
"This society doubts the credibility of almost everything and they have reasons for this attitude. In our time, the Vietnamese war has probably been the greatest contributor to the cynicism in this country."
GALLAGHER listed instances of contradicting statements made by Administration officials as an example of why some people doubt what they read in newspapers.
"Within a week last fall, we had Secretary McNamara saying that the troop buildup in Vietnam would be slowed up and leveled off.
"Meanwhile, General Greene of the Marine Corps, said they would need 750,000 men in Vietnam. Senator Stennis set the figure at 600,000. Confusion multiplied."
STATEMENTS LIKE THESE, when printed in newspapers, have much to do with the public's doubt of what it reads, Gallagher said.
"And in this continuing furor over the credibility gap, the reader associates the untrue statement of a public figure with the paper that publishes it. This is like getting mad at the local editor because the weatherman goofed."
But with conscientious and perspective reporting, Gallagher said, "the news will have that ring of authenticity, and we won't have to fear any credibility gap."
GALLAGHER NOW JOINS 18 other distinguished journalists who are recipients of the White
foundation award. The first citation was given in 1950 to James B. Reston of the New York Times. Other winners have included Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, in 1956, and Ben Hibbs, former editor of Saturday Evening Post, in 1959.
MEXICAN STAR
HOLLYWOOD—(UPI)—Mexican star Emilio Fernandez has joined John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in "The War Wagon" on location in Durango.
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Friday, February 10, 1967
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