Friday, July 3, 1964
Summer Session Kansan
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KU Skyline To Include Dorm, Blake
By Emery Goad
September of 1965 is the date set for the opening of the new $3 and one-half million residence hall on Engle Road.
The new hall is one of many new buildings on the campus which will improve study facilities and housing for KU students in the next few years.
The hall will have a capacity of 976 students, making it one-third larger than Ellsworth Hall, completed last fall. The building, which is as yet unnamed, will be in a "T" shape, with the top facing the adjacent Ellsworth Hall.
THE 220,000 square feet will feature snack areas on the second and eighth floors, a music room, and a library.
The walk-in second floor will house the main desk. The first floor will contain the dining area and kitchen.
Blake Hall, a new three-quarter million dollar many-purpose building. will be completed in September.
The five-story building will house the departments of political science, governmental research, sociology human relations, and the social work office, in its 43,000 square feet.
The first and second floors will house general use classrooms.
THE NEW BUILDING replaced the controversial former Blake Hall, which stood in the same place, unused since 1952.
Watson Library will open its new east wing for use in the fall, pending arrival of equipment and furniture.
The second floor is already occupied by the preparations and acquisitions offices. The basement will house the special collections and a branch of the Union Bookstore
THE FIRST FLOOR, when ready will contain a general reading room, and the top level will have seminar rooms.
Faculty study rooms will be on the first floor.
Excavation work began on the new wing in the summer of 1962, and construction was started that fall. Because of the added space, all departments in the library have been re-arranged.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will move into its new building later this year.
It is expected that the building will house approximately 75 men, or 25 more than the former house at 1100 Indiana St. was able to house.
THE OLD HOUSE has been sold to the Acacia fraternity, which will move out of its residence at 1225 Oread. The new home for Acacia will mean twice as many members.
The new Phi Fsi house, being constructed by the Winn-Senter Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., will be of colonial design, and brick. The firm of Folger-Pearson is the architect.
Other items on the campus being replaced include sidewalks. The old asphalt and gravel sidewalk from the steps at the back of Strong Hall to the steps at Marvin Grove and from Memorial Drive to the steps at the west of the Student Union will be replaced.
THE UNDERWOOD Construction Co. is in charge of the sidewalks, and Norris Bros. Heating and Electrical Co. of Lawrence has the contract for walk lights along the new sidewalk.
A new door soon will replace the plaster and cracked stone door at the entrance to Watson Library. New aluminum and glass doors also will soon divide the lobby between the east and west wings on the third floor of Strong Hall. Work is being done by the Wilson Glass and Window Service of Lawrence.
Wallace Gives Terms On Quitting Contest
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — (UPI)— Gov. George Wallace says he might step out of the presidential race to support a national candidate if that man were committed to back the "principles of the South."
Wallace indicated he would consider supporting either major party candidate who would campaign on a platform favoring and protecting states rights and local government.
"We want people in both parties to worry about us and to think about the people of our region," Wallace commented.
'Lion' Wallace Hooplas in Jackson for Votes
(Editor's Note; Tom Coftman, Lyndon senior who was editorial editor of the University Daily Kansan in spring semester, is journeying through the South doing free-lance reporting on the racial situation there. This is the first of a series of articles he is sending for publication in the Kansan.)
By Tom Coffman
JACKSON. Miss.—The lion of Alabama, Gov. George Wallace, spoke here June 25. A crowd of 10,000 packed in to hear his call to block the electoral college in October with an uncommitted southern delegation
Approval appeared to be unanimous; the gracious-living delta folk joined with the rednecks of the hill country to shower the orator with magnolia. The nation is in grave danger, he cried, and he preached at the jammed coliseum about the Founding Fathers and constitutional government—yet there was not an American flag in the house.
It was a lily-white night in Mississippi (the only Negro on the fairgrounds was dressed and painted like a darky minstrel), and when the lion roared the crowd came back: "Give 'em hell. George!"
BEFORE THE speech-making started, there was a half hour of general hoopla. First, an invocation: "God, help us as a Christian nation to preserve its government as the forefathers designed it . . . preserve us from the gigantic forces which seek to destroy us today. . . . Let us be slave to none except Christ."
Then an introduction of honored guests, including members of the state legislature, which is now in extraordinary session to work on a new school bill in view of pending civil rights legislation. The proposed bill would give $185 to each student to attend either public or private school.
Out came the Hinds High-Steppers, a girls' precision dance team from Hinds Junior College, carrying signs spelling out W-A-L-L-A-C-E, A-L-A-B-A-M-A, and dancing to the tune of the "Alabama Bounce." In the middle of their performance, the emcee christened the High-Steppers the "good-will ambassadors of the sovereign state of Mississippi." The band broke into "Dixie" and the 10.000 stood and gave a rebel yell.
"DO YOU LOVE your Southern gals?" the emcee asked.
"Yes!" velled the audience.
Jerry Lane and his eight-piece swing band took over and gave the premier performance of "Good Ol' George," played to the tune of "When the Saints Go Marching In." "When good ol' George goes marchin' in, when good ol' George goes marchin' in, I'll march up to the White House, when good ol' George goes marchin' in . . . We'll all be free, like we used to be," etc., plus two more verses—one dedicated to Robert F. Kennedy and one to Dick Gregory.
The emcee* announced that the rally was sponsored by SCHENPOUS -Southern Committee to Help Elect the Next President of the United States.
GOV. PAUL Johnson introduced Wallace: "Our cause here tonight is the cause of our American forefathers who came to this country seeking liberty and justice under God. Remember it is not a lost cause. . . The recent decisions of the Supreme Court do not 1 repeat, do not—represent the views of America." Johnson was interrupted with hearty applause from the audience, and he repeated the statement about the executive branch of the federal government, then the legislative branch.
"The trend toward appeasing the black voter minorities does not have the approval of the majority. . . This country does not want help the Communists by outlawing prayer in school. These decisions were not made by right-thinking, hard-working Americans."
THE SOUTH has every right. Gov Johnson said, to hold the Supreme Court of the United States in contempt. "This is the last time we can turn this nation back to honest-to-goodness government." Johnson then called on the governor of his sister state, "the man who has shown that he will do well in any office for the white majorities to restore constitutional government to this blessed land."
The squarely built Alabaman took the podium and surveyed his audience. "Give 'em hell, boy!" someone yelled, and Wallace flashed a victory sign with each hand.
nor called for the South to vote for him in a bloc so he could take the 112 electoral votes of the Old Confederacy to the electoral college and bargain. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans, "both of which have deserted the South," would have a majority.
"THEN I ASSURE you that the man who gets the South's votes will pledge above the table to restore to the people state's rights and constitutional government and get off their backs!"
in essence, the 44-year-old gover-
The history of failures in the Dixiecrat bolts did not dim enthusiasm for the idea in Jackson. "During Reconstruction." Wallace said, "the South used its electoral votes in the switch from Tilden to Hayes (Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B. Hayes—1876 election) to get Reconstruction off our shoulders. I propose now to shake the liberals off our backs with our electoral votes."
The governor reached his conclusion after an hour or oration. He got to it after treading through many of the favorite political themes of the Deep South. Wallace started with some jokes on the "liberal press."
THEY HAVE NOT seen fit to cover his campaign adequately and accurately, he said, and he recalled that after a recent speech to the Washington Press Club he was not recommended for the usual certificate of appreciation.
"Castro and Khrushchev both got it when they spoke and they have caused more human misery than any two people alive. I was glad I didn't get it. I told them they could take that certificate and they know what they can do with it!"
When he talked about the press he was not talking about the "local press, which gets things straight. I'm talking about 'Time' made for those who can't think and 'Life' and the 'Saturday Evening Post' for those who can't read."
WALLACE HAD a confidential remark for the audience on the Maryland primary: "In Maryland we got a hell of a lot of votes, 44 per cent. That was with them doing the counting. I don't know how many I would have gotten if I had been in on the
counting," he said, and the crowd roared.
In a serious mood, he recounted his nation-wide protest campaign against the civil rights bill and said he believed there are people of southern thought all over the country. "The South is no longer a geographic term—it is a philosophy of constitutional government, state's rights, and sound local government."
Wallace recalled the Poles in South Milwaukee singing "Dixie" to him in their native tongue, and then the theme of his speech: "I am running for president because I was born free. I do not deny the existence of social, economic, and political problems in this land, but change by coercion amounts to tyranny."
IN THE NEXT 20 minutes the governor skipped through several reflections on what he called "the awesome trends which beset us."
- He had never, he said, made a statement reflecting on the race, creed, or color of any man. "Unlike the liberals, I believe in God; I can despise no man nor stir up hatred."
- In the North, there is more Negro unemployment than in the Old Confederacy, "even in states with strong civil rights bills."
- Because of the Supreme Court, school children cannot say "God is great. God is good. God we thank You for our food." "There are orphans in state-supported institutions." Wallace declared, "who cannot say 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep' because of the Supreme Court."
WALLACE PREDICTED that if the present trend in government continues, Communist-inspired forces would outlaw God in all phases of public life, scuttle the Constitution "as we know it," and abolish the right to hold private property.
"The liberals say that human rights are above property rights. I say that human rights do not exist where property rights have been abolished because in Russia and Red China property rights have been denied, and so have human rights."
Wallace commented briefly on the international situation, saying, "I.
like you, am sick and tired and fed up with a government which tramples down its own people and kow-tows to its enemies, a government which makes it unfashionable to wave the American flag yet sends it boys to an unknown land to be killed in a war without victory."
THEN RETURNING to domestic politics, Wallace stated that "JFK and LBJ" could not have won in 1960 if seven southern states had not given their electoral votes. The South, he said, must seek ways to be represented since both parties have deserted them.
"There is a great deal of talk today about being in the mainstream. The mainstream of American politics is leading down the road to state socialism, and I assure you I've gotten out of the mainstream long ago."
He then called for the unpledged electorate. "I assure you that the man who gets the South's votes will pledge above the table . . . to get off our backs."
The Alabama governor closed by saying, "As I said in my Inaugural Address, I pray to God for the freedom of all men, both white and black.
Afterward, with the band swinging out on "Dear Ol' George" the crowd surged around the stand to shake his hand. Wallace was their man, a real Deep South Dixie man.
Sister's Defection Is 'Painful' to Castro
HAVANA — (UPI) — Cuban Premier Fidel Castro says the defection of his sister, Juana, to Mexico was "very bitter and profoundly painful" to him.
It was Castro's first comment on his sister's flight from the island which she described as "an immense prison."
At a reception in the Canadian Embassy, Castro said Miss Castro's charges against the Cuban government were "edited in the United States Embassy in Mexico."
He accused American Embassy officials of using Miss Castro as a tool against Cuba.