Thursday, February 8, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Sausage plant explosions in Chicago kill five persons
CHICAGO—(UPI)—A chain of explosions and fast-spreading flames ripped through a block square sausage plant on Chicago's south side Wednesday, hurling victims into the street.
At least five persons were killed and 78 injured. A number of the injured were reported in critical condition. One or more persons was thought to be missing.
Three of the dead and at least 18 of the injured were firemen. They were caught in the last and most powerful of the blasts as they battled flames and sought to rescue plant employees trapped on the roof by the fire. Many of the injured were spectators who came to watch the fire.
The first explosion occurred about 4:30 p.m. a half hour after 85 day shift production workers had stopped work at the plant. Office workers and a night cleanup crew were still inside.
The series of blasts—some witnesses counted three, some said four, some said six—leveled the Mickleberry Food Products Co. brick and concrete plant in a mixed industrial and residential area just south of Chicago's Union Stockyards.
The arson squad was called in to help determine the cause of the series of blasts. Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn said investigators were attempting to detain ne whether gasoline leaking from a damaged 6000 gallon tank truck in the alley behind the building triggered the disaster.
Firemen prevented the gasoline trailer unit from exploding by pouring foam on it, but the tractor unit was flame-charred.
Ramp to be built between Strong and new library
An elevated terrace is being built on the south wall of Spencer Library with a walkway leading onto it from the north wall of main floor Strong Hall.
The two-level concrete walkway is $14\frac{1}{2}$ feet above the ground, close to Strong, enabling trucks to pass under it on the driveway behind the building. The walkway will then drop to the terrace level built onto Spencer.
The open-air structure will have parking under the lower terrace level of Spencer.
Construction is expected to be completed by the first of June.
Kansas legislators to go on tour of campus today
Representatives of KU and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will lead 130 members of the Kansas Legislature through the hills of the KU campus this afternoon so legislators can see how State dollars are being put to use.
The tour will begin at 3 p.m. from Hachinger Hill, where refreshments will be served by derm members.
Later, five buses will carry the legislators through the campus with a stop at Fraser Hall. The representatives will be led through the new building by Keith Lawton. KU vice-chancellor for operations.
Other points of the tour will be the Center for Research and Engineering Science, the site where the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration building will be constructed, and the remains of old Robinson Gymnasium where, eventually, the 25-story humanities building will be constructed.
Keith Winter, executive director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said one KU student from the home county of each legislator would also be invited on the tour.
The tour will end with a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union where Chancellor W. Clarke Warcoe and Dajph Simons Jr., president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commune, will speak.
Deadline for Two-Year Air Force ROTC Program is Friday, Feb. 9
Have two years of college remaining—graduate or undergraduate
If you want to be an Air Force pilot or navigator, but are not currently enrolled in Air Force ROTC it's not too late to qualify for the two-year program.
Pass Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
Pass Air Force Flying physical
20/20 bilateral vision without glasses for pilots
20/50 bilateral vision without glasses for navigators
Sound interesting? Well if it does, contact Lt. Col. Brown, Room 108 Military Science Building soon.
Applications cannot be accepted for the next school year a ter February 9,1968.
So Hurry!!
More Cubans arrive in Texas
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — (UPI)
—The fifth freedom flight in 14
ramblings and the first on a regular
basis Wednesday brought 73 residents
of Cuba to the United
States.
the flights, for American citizens, or relatives and "fireside" relatives of American citizens, bring persons barred from the regular Cuban refugee program.
The group was the first since December "Christmas gestures" brought two planeleads of refugees to the United States from Havana through the efforts of the Mexican and Swiss embassies.
More than 2,000 American citizens remained on the island. The State Department said the flight Wednesday night consisted of 19
men, 27 women and 27 children under the age of 15.
There were 28 U.S. citizens aboard the plane and the remainder were relatives of Cubans already in this country.
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Travel Abroad this summer!
All students interested in the People-to-People American Student Abroad Program
should attend an important meeting Thursday, Feb. 8 - 8:00 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS FEBRUARY 15 IN PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE OFFICE