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Wednesday. May 20, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Southern Senators Hail Wallace's Feat
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Southern senators today hailed Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's strong showing in the Maryland primary as a grass roots protest against the civil rights bill, but they were uncertain how it would affect senate action on the measure.
Supporters of the bill brushed aside Wallace's feat. Senate Democratic whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., floor manager for the bill, said. "For a few days there will be a lot of talk about it, but Senators are going to vote on the basis of their present judgments about the bill. Their minds are pretty well made up."
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga. leader of the southern foes of the bill, said he hoped Wallace's showing would strengthen his hand, but he added: "The Senate is usually the last place in the government to get the drift of American public opinion."
Russell interpreted the primary results as evidence of increasing popular sentiment against the bill. "It is finally seeping through to the people of this country just what the politicians are threatening to do to their form of government in their bid for minority-bloc votes," he said.
BREWSTER SAID in Baltimore that Wallace's showing would have no effect on the Senate's civil rights battle. He predicted enactment of the bill by June 15.
Before the Maryland balloting yesterday, Humphrey had predicted Wallace would get more than 35 per cent of the vote. Wallace got about 42 per cent of the vote in opposing President Johnson's stand-in, Sen. Daniel B. Brewster, D-Md.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., said he thought the Wallace showing would "have a tendency to prevent a stamped" for a Senate vote to halt the southern anti-civil rights talkathon "but to what extent I don't know."
ERVIN SAID Wallace's showing "clearly shows the tremendous opposition to the civil rights bill in the country and to further centralization of government in Washington."
Sen. John J. Sparkman, D-Ala also saw the Wallace vote as a protest against the civil rights bill. He said the Alabama governor's showing "is bound to have some long-range effect."
The House-passed bill, now in its 59th day of debate in the Senate.
outlaws racial discrimination in voting, education, employment, public accommodations and in the use of federal funds.
The Wallace showing was almost certain to be among the topics today at a conference of Republican Senators to discuss the fair employment provision of the "package" of bipartisan amendments to the rights bill.
Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., also expressed concern over the job discrimination section. He said he would like to see it eliminated or applied only to employers with more than 100 employs.
Dirksen told newsmen after the first GOP meeting yesterday that he thought things went pretty well. There were some ominous comments, but Dirksen professed himself untroubled by them.
SENATE REPUBLICAN Leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., a resourceful legislative salesman, was attempting to sell his GOP colleagues on the equal job opportunity proposals at the conference, the second such session on the compromise package.
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, RIowa, chairman of the Senate GOP policy committee, complained that the fair employment amendments, drafted by leaders in both parties with the help of Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, "don't reach the meat of this thing."
Generally, however, Dirksen hailed the lack of critical "flak" at the harmonious session. Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., was another Senator who expressed hope that the package of amendments to the House-approved bill can win general approval.
"I think they are treating the symptoms rather than the disease," Hickenlooper said.
Dirksen made it clear that there would be no decisive action this month. He pointed out that the Senate will be in recess over the Memorial Day weekend. Democrats have emphasized that Republicans do not want a cloture vote before the June 2 California primary. The Republicans are said to fear it might embarrass Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz.
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This is Your Life, Potter Lake From Beach to Mudhole to Peace
By Jackie Helstrom
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Freshmen eat watermelon near it at their first party during orientation; ducks race in it; every now and then someone gets thrown into it.
Potter Lake is as much a part of KU life as is the classroom or the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. It is a subject for art classes, and
It is a subject for art a laboratory for science classes.
In the winter it is covered by sprawling beginners, and graceful figure skaters as its frozen surface turns it into an ice skating rink.
IN THE SPRING it becomes the site of peaceful hours of studying between classes.
It is the place for long hours of meditation, where troubles can disappear.
IT CAME INTO existence in 1910, and since then has gathered around itself a history of triumph and tragedy that hardly seems in tune with its placid peacefulness.
Its beginning is perhaps the most contradictory element in the lake's history. It was not planned as a haven for the dreamers, wanting to waste an hour, or even as a project to beautify the campus.
The original purpose of the lake was completely practical. It was built in 1910 to provide the campus with a reservoir of water in case of fire. Potter Lake was designed as safety precaution.
AT THAT FIRST regatta, the strange history of the lake began. During the dedication proceedings in honor of Sen. T. M. Potter, a former member of the Board of Regents for whom the lake was being named, what was thought to be a whale was sighted out in the middle of the small inland body of water.
However, as soon as the lake was completed, it began to take on a function as a part of student life. The 1911 graduation regatta was held on the lake instead of on the Kaw River, the traditional location.
A boat that set out to investigate the creature capsized before it was near enough to see whatever it was that had been there.
The object disappeared from sight, never to be seen again.
The phenomena has never been explained.
THE TRAGEDY of Potter Lake also began early in its history. Even before the lake was finished it claimed its first drowning victim. A group of students were taking a midnight swim; one of them went down.
The drowning of six students in 1921 led to a safety movement in 1924 which turned the lake into a bathing beach in the middle of campus. To go with the demanded lifeguards needed for safety, a pier, springboards and dressing rooms were built around the lake.
But in 1927 swimming in the lake was banned by an official decree of the University and the campus resort was turned into the quiet spot it is today.
Perhaps the strangest sight ever seen around Potter happened one night in 1959 when the lake went up in flames. Vandals had poured oil on the water and then set it afire.
The fish with which the zoology department had kept the lake well stocked, were miraculously saved from this ordeal, but they did not find Potter a happy sanctuary much longer. Last year for some reason which no one has yet been able to discover, all the fish died. About 1,000 of them floated to the surface, belly-up, killed by suffocation.
These are the secrets of Potter Lake. It is today a fishless body of water, no longer needed to fight fires, in which swimming and water sports are forbidden, but it still remains an important part of student life at KU.
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