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Wichita oilman rescues Relays
By MARTHA MANGELSDORF Kansan Staff Writer
WICHITA — Wichita oilman James W. Hershberger, former University of Kansas spinner who referred to track as the "greatest un-fun sport there is" has donated $125,000 toward the purchase and installation of an all-weather Tartan track at KU
Hershberger made his announcement this morning at a press conference in his Wichita office.
It was like a dream come true for head track coach Bob Timmons and athletic director Wade Stinson, who were both on hand in Hershberger's office.
"It couldn't have come at a better time," said Timmons, who had been crusading for a new track at Memorial Stadium ever since coming to KU four years ago. The athletic department, woefully in debt to the sum of $1 million, had been unable to finance the needed improvements.
Ready by September
Work will begin on the new facility after commencement exercises next month, and Stinson said the project should be completed by Sept. 1.
Timmons said he was thrilled, and added "I still can't believe it, and the fellows probably won't believe it when we get back home. It's just tremendous."
The KU coach emphasized that the arrival of the new track would come in a year when Kansas hosts not only the annual Kansas Relays, but also the Big Eight outdoor meet for the first time in eight years. Reisen 'good calemer'
Stinson 'good salesman'
Hershberger joked that "Wade Stinson is a better salesman than I am," in explaining his generous contribution. In a more serious tone the Wichita businessman said that he was prompted by his loyalty to his alma mater.
Hershberger has been actively involved in KU athletics since the early 1950's when he ran the 220 and 440 on Jayhawk track squads. He anchored KU's victorious mile relay unit in the 1951 Big Seven indoor, and Hershberger has been a physical fitness enthusiast ever since.
Timmons, who has conferred with engineers from the 3-M Company, said that preliminary estimates called for $2.50 per square foot for the Tartan
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79th Year, No.125
So long, soggy cinders Photo by Ron Bishop
All the problems and headaches of directing the Kansas Relays under the threat of April rains are in the past for KU track coach Bob Timmons. The Memorial Stadium cinder track will be replaced by a new Tartan track this summer.
Tuesday, May 6, 1969
--demands of total amnesty, the administration might disagree and nullify the Senate's decision. This veto of Senate power would thus render the power of next year's Senate impotent. The core of the new Senate Code would thus be meaningless since it centers about an increased student voice in University government.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Voting laws challenged
The issue will be the subject of oral arguments before the court next fall or winter.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced yesterday it will rule next term on state voter residency requirements which barred an estimated five million Americans from voting for President in 1968.
Battleship returns
LONG BEACH, Calif. — With bands playing and wives and children waving from the shore, the USS New Jersey came home again from he wars yesterday-perhaps for the final time the world will see a battleship in action.
The salty skipper of the 56,000-ton dreadnought, Capt. J. Edward Snyder, Jr., was quick to jump on the notion that the New Jersey was hanging up its 16-inch guns. Snyder said "only an idiot" would decide not to send the battlewagon back to Vietnam.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
MIAMI - A National Airlines jet carrying 75 persons from New York to Miami was hijacked to Cuba yesterday without a word to ground controllers.
National flight 91, a Boeing 727 headed from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Miami landed in Havana at 6:18 p.m. CDT, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
Miami-bound jet hijacked
Barry's son sworn in
WASHINGTON - Barry M. Goldwater Jr., who says his name was a "two-edged sword" in California, was sworn in yesterday as a member of the House to complete the second father-son team in the 91st Congress.
Senate gets first test
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
The ISP dream of responsible student government will be tested in an emergency meeting of the student Senate at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The meeting has been called to decide on disciplinary action to be taken against Rick Atkinson, Belleville senior, Bill Berkowitz, New York senior, and Don Jenkins, Kansas City junior.
On April 23 the Three Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) members allegedly destroyed a ballot box and interrupted voting procedures in Strong Hall.
ISP has involved itself by requesting that disciplinary action be decided by the Senate. Prior to this request the University Discipline Board was responsible for the decision.
During an ISP meeting yesterday in the Kansas Union, John Berthrong, Norman, Okla. senior and ISP chairman, commented on the implications of the upcoming Senate meeting.
"We have to get into this and decide where the lines are to be drawn," he said.
Berthrong said the meeting would decide whether students were going to act like people or continue to allow themselves to be "pushed around by the paternalistic University."
The ISP chairman explained that the Senate Executive Committee (Senex), composed of half students and half faculty, had agreed to postpone their recommendations until after Wednesday's Senate meeting.
Discussion with ISP members yesterday included the following points.
In effect, this agreement allows the KU student government to grasp the meaning of the new Senate Code. Furthermore, ISP's hopes for responsible student government can materialize.
There are other implications of this shift in focus of government power. If the Senate decides to grant the three SDS members their
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (UPI)—No disciplinary action will be taken against members of the crew of the U.S.S. Pueblo or anyone else involved in the ship's seizure by North Korea, said Secretary of the Navy John H. Chaffee today.
Another implication of any modification of a Senate decision would be the absence of ISP strength in future years. Since ISP is the ruling party of this year's Senate, any mistake would immediately be blamed on ISP.
Radical reaction to this situation also was considered. If SDS does not receive its demands of total amnesty, it and other radical (Continued to page 12)
Congressional members ask Fortas resignation
WASHINGTON (UPI) Members of Congress called on Abe Fortas yesterday to resign his Supreme Court seat or answer questions raised by his acceptance of a research fee from the family foundation of an imprisoned financier.
Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, demanded the initiation of impeachment proceedings against Fortas if he does not resign, but there was no indication the House would act on his proposal. Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached, and the Senate failed to convict him.
Sen. Jack Miller, R-Iowa, also called for Fortas' resignation. Sen. Carl T. Curtis, R-Neb., said it was "shocking news" that Fortas
accepted a "fee of $20,000 three months after he went on the bench." He proposed a code of ethics for the Supreme Court similar to one adopted by the Senate.
From Fortas, who took his regular post when the Supreme Court handed down decisions yesterday, there was no further word beyond the mimeographed statement he issued Sunday saying he returned the fee from the foundation headed by Louis Wolfson, now serving a one year prison term for stock market manipulation.
Fortas said the payment was for "research functions, studies and writings" and was returned when he found no time to "undertake the assignment."