Friday, June 26,1964 Summer Session Kansan
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NOW, LET'S TRY IT AGAIN—Mrs. Linda Converse, lower right, and Mrs. Lita Snodgrass, facing the camera, are teaching Ryukyuan students from the Kumoji Junior and Senior High School in Naha, Okinawa. The two, along with 16 others, recently completed a goodwill tour of the Brass Choir in the Far East.
ARE YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY?—David Boyd, Leavenworth, of the KU Brass Chorus, is playing the drum of a Havesi (drum corps) in Ceylon.
Money from Two Concerts Sends Lacy Banks to Asia
Lacy Banks, a University of Kansas student with a penchant for work, literally has sung his way to Hong Kong.
When the Kansas City senior boards a plane tomorrow in San Francisco, his ticket will be bought with proceeds—nearly $1,600—from two vocal concerts.
And when he arrives in the Far East, he will spend most of his time, not sightseeing, but helping to build playgrounds and recreational facilities on roof tops of Hong Kong's large refugee housing complexes.
BANKS IS ONE of eight United States college men chosen on the basis of leadership and scholarship to participate in an International Workshop-Seminar June 25-Aug. 25. Sponsors are the national Young Men's Christian Association and the West-Central Area YMCA.
The bulk of the summer will be spent in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, where the U.S. group will help build a YMCA camp and work on the housing-project roof tops. The Americans also will participate in seminar discussions on personal philosophies and world issues with Chinese students.
BEFORE GOING to Hong Kong, Banks and the U.S. students will spend a week and a half in Omuta, Japan, working with a World University Service team to help alleviate problems accompanying a mine cave-in there.
Final week of the summer will be in Manila, the Philippines, where the group will have a work project, to be assigned.
Banks, a Negro, said he has "always tried to communicate across racial and cultural barriers," and the summer would give him such an opportunity.
On campus, he has been active in the KU-Y, moving from steering
committee membership in his freshman year, to cabinet membership in his sophomore year to the vice-presidency in his junior year. He will be one of two co-presidents next year when he is a senior.
A 1961 GRADUATE of Sumner High School in Kansas City, Banks gave one of his spring vocal concerts there. The other was at the Wesley Foundation at KU.
Between them and added gifts from friends, he raised the needed $1.600.
Arid Wasteland Becomes Sea of Grass Through Inexpensive 'Water Spreading'
KARACHI, West Pakistan—(UPI)
—West Pakistan farmers are turning
130 million acres of arid wasteland into a virtual sea of grass for cattle grazing with a simple, inexpensive technique called "water spreading."
Farmers at first doubted that their bone-dry land, pock-marked by tufts of brown grass, could become green pastureland for the hungry, scrawny cattle of Pakistan.
THEIR DOUBTS WERE dispelled when they saw the results of water spreading conducted on a 3,000-acre area of the Rak Miran section of the Dera Ismail Khan district, about 800 miles north of here.
This venture was sponsored jointly by the Pakistan Forest Department
Ft. Riley Fund Is Higher in Senate
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Senate Armed Services Committee has recommended an appropriation totalling $18,632,000 for Ft. Tuley, Kan., in the military construction bill for the fiscal year starting July 1.
The figure was $1 million higher than the sum approved in the House and included $15.1 million for acquisition of 50,000 acres of land for a training range.
The moon entered the earth's shadow at 1:09 a.m. and at 2:16 a.m. the last speck of yellow-faded moon was completely darkened by the earth's shadow.
The total recommended for various types of construction at Kansas military posts in the Senate committee—approved authorization bill was $21,939,000, compared to a total of $29,977,000 in the House version.
FRETORIA, South Africa — (UPI)
—Hundreds of South Africans braved sub-freezing temperatures early yesterday to watch a total eclipse of the moon.
For Ft. Leavenworth, the Senate committee allowed $352,000, compared with a higher House allowance of $380,000. Both versions agreed on $2,743,000 for McConnell Air Force Base and $152,000 for Schilling Air Force Base.
Total Eclipse Seen In Cold Weather
A well-known South African astronomer, Dr. W. S. Finson, said the most striking feature of the eclipse was the patchiness of the illumination of the moon during totality of the eclipse.
He said that during the eclipse the light was more orange than the usual brick red.
At the end of the total phase of the eclipse, when the moon once again was illuminated, a few of those orange patches still could be seen.
Through a telescope this gave the appearance of striking plasticity to the moon's surface. The moon left the earth's shadow almost two hours after entry.
KRAKATIT
People-to-People Presents:
(A Czech movie with English subtitles)
WATER SPREADING IS a simple, inexpensive method of holding back and storing run-off flood water by a system of small dams and dykes. The stored water slowly seepes into the soil and spreads a rich silt which nourishes starving grass roots.
Based on the novel by Karl Capek
The test area near the Suleman Hills was typical of land in West Pakistan, most of which is a flat alluvial plain where flood waters pass in well-defined channels.
At present most of the plain areas become pastures only when rare cloudbursts cause floods.
and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Pakistan.
starring Florence Marly and Karel Hoger
THE PROJECT IN Rakh Miran was started last spring by Norman H. French, range management adviser for USAID from Rock Creek, Ohio, and Aijaz Hussain, range management program director of the provincial West Pakistan government.
June 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union
When the initial survey was completed, French and range officer Muhammad Akran Kurdi discussed the technique with Union Council Chairman Ghulam Hasul.
No admission charge, but the film is open only to students staff
The native grass of the area—porobulus helvolus—grew 30 inches high. The grass, which makes an
THE SURROUNDING 900 acres soon became rich pastureland when the waters of a medium flood were channeled, spreading rich silt which fed the listless grass roots.
The council agreed to provide the necessary labor at nominal wages. They quickly built more than 200 small dams and dikes designed to store flood water and spread it over adjoining land. Construction costs were only about $4,000.
Zuther to Make Study In American Literature
especially fine hay, is relished by livestock, which eat both stalks and leaves.
As one American official said, however: "The role of USAID in this project was that of a catalyst. It was the Union Council and the people of the villages who actually helped themselves."
The reception accorded by post-World War II readers in Germany to American literature will be analyzed by a KU English professor who has won a fellowship in a world-wide competition.
Dr. Gerhard Zuther, associate chairman of the KU English department, has received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to support his studies in Germany. Competition for the German award was open to young university teachers in all fields throughout the world.
Last fall the villagers harvested an extra one million pounds of hay because of the water spreading technique. The cash value of that extra foliage was valued at about $10,000, a big increase in a land where the per capita income is about $70 a year.
USAID OFFICIALS term the project a "minor miracle." They feel it is a good example of what can be accomplished when Pakistan officials, AID personnel and villagers work as a team on development projects.
Dr. Zuther will be on sabbatical leave in 1964-65 and will make the University of Munich his headquarters. He has been a member of the KU faculty since 1958.
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