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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, May 17, 1968
67 tornado reports in 24-hour period
By United Press International
More victims were found Thursday from a tornado rampage called among history's worst, an 11-state foray which left scores dead, hundreds injured and thousands homeless.
The known death toll climbed to 72 with the finding of bodies in Iowa and Illinois.
Rescue crews continued combing rubble in Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois and it was feared that more victims might be in the wreckage. Many of the injured were in critical condition and not expected to survive.
More than 1,000 persons were hurt Wednesday night and early Thursday when squadrons of tornadoes struck the midwest and lower Mississippi Valley.
Homeless countless
The number of homeless could only be guessed. In Charles City, Iowa, a small farm implement
manufacturing community of 10,-000, Floyd County sheriff L. L Lane said half the population was homeless.
Authorities said 372 homes were destroyed and 188 received major damage at Charles City.
In tiny Oil Trough, Ark., population 237, some 30 homes were destroyed.
Disaster areas
The governors of Arkansas, Illinois and Iowa prepared to ask that tornado stricken areas of the three states be declared federal disaster areas.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported at least 67 tornadoes during a 24-hour period, "one of the heaviest, if not the heaviest recorded."
Tornadoes occurred in areas of Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi and Wisconsin.
"A Time for Burning," a film about problems of racial integration in Omaha, Neb., churches, was shown Thursday night in the Kansas Union Forum Room. It was sponsored by the KU for Kennedy organization as a public service.
A spokesman for the organization said that they felt it was their responsibility, as supporters of Kennedy, to help promote understanding of racial integration.
A three-hour Negro history course, planned about a month and a half ago, will be taught next fall at KU by William Tuttle, assistant professor of history.
Kennedyites too busy sleeping to attend meeting
It is significant, he said, that in
The course—Topics in Negro Life and History—was originally planned as a course for Oliver College students. Then the history department decided to open the course to the entire University because of the course's value, Tuttle said.
Negro history to be taught at KU in the fall semester
indiana Kennedy received nine out of ten Negro votes and in Nebraska it was something like seven out of ten.
The course number will be above 100 so it may be open only to upperclassmen, but Tuttle said that was the only prerequisite set so far.
"The Negro respects the Kennedy name and they know what Kennedy is trying to do for them," he said.
The course will be a discussion and reading class, not a lecture course, Tuttle said. It will start with a brief survey of slavery and touch upon the Kerner report, the
There was to be an organizational meeting between showings of the film, but, as one of the members explained, most of the group had just returned Wednesday night from Omaha where they had been campaigning for Kennedy, and many of them were too busy catching up on classwork and sleep to attend the meeting.
Negro history will be covered chronologically from 1877 until now, including a comparison of the philosophies of W. E. B. Dubois, somewhat militant co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. who believed in developing the Negro intellectually, and Booker T. Washington, a non-militant Negro who believed in vocational training for the Negro.
recent report on civil disorder and the Moynihan report.
Tuttle said he hopes to study Negro contributions to the field of music, Negroes in the labor movement and the Negro renaissance in art in the 1920s if time allows.
The Nordic Council, formed in 1953, comprises Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland.
"We feel that three wars and numerous incidents during the past 20 years did not solve any problems but created new ones. A peaceful solution of the outstanding problems in the Middle East by an agreement between both sides is the only way for a permanent settlement and will be of great benefit to all the population there," he said.
There are more members than the 23 professors, but Unz said he wasn't sure of just how many. However, the membership is mostly professors and other faculty members, Unz said.
KU profs discuss Mid-East peace
Hillal Unz, professor of electrical engineering and acting chairman of the KU chapter's organizing committee, said he read a notice about the newly formed national organization in the New York Times and decided KU should have a chapter.
Twenty-three KU professors, trying to promote peace in the Middle East, have organized the KU chapter of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East (APPME).
APPME came into existence last June for "a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Arab states." It has a national membership of 10,000 professors, chancellors and deans from 170 universities.
There once was a lady named Mitzi,
Engaged to a Fritz from Poughkeepsie.
But she bade him goodbye
When his Schlitz had run dry.
Said Mitzi: "No Schlitzie, No Fritzie."
Schlitz
© 1967 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. Milwaukee and other cities.
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