RECORD-BREAKER—Hylke van der Wal of Manitoba University is shown here leading the field in the 3000-meter steeplechase which he won in the record time of 8:56.3 in the Kansas Relays Saturday. (Photo by Charles Corcoran)
Mizzou, SWC Win KU Relays Honors
By Marshall Caskey (Sports Editor)
KU trackmen won three individual events in the 39th running of the Kansas Relays over the weekend.
The Jayhawks, however, were unable to win any of the relays which were dominated by teams from the Southwest Conference and by the Missouri Tigers.
Floyd Manning won the pole vault with a 15-9 $ _{1/2} $ effort—the third highest vault in Big Eight history. Manning won the event on fewer misses as Oklahoma's Jim Farrell also cleared the winning height.
Bob Hanson won the 100-yard dash for KU with a time of 109.7 and Tyce Smith wound up on top in the high jump with a 6-4 1/4 lean
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE teams won four of the five relay events Saturday as Missouri brought the Big Eight its only baton win in the two-mile. The Tigers, who were thought by some to be in line to smash the world's record in that event won the event with a time of 7:26.6—somewhat above the world mark. The Tiger's middle distance star, Robin Lingle, anchored the race with a 1:49.9 clocking.
Southern teams swept the rest of the relays. Southern Methodist trounced Oklahoma in both the 440 and 880 contests. In the last event of the relays, Rice defeated Nebraska in the mile relay, despite a nearly successful effort by the Cornhuskers.
Six meet records were broken and two tied in the finals of the meet. The 31-year-old record in the Glenn Cunningham 1500-meter run fell to Ray Stevens, formerly from Nebraska, as he ran a time of 3:47.9. The old record was set by Cunningham himself in his days as a trackman here. The metric distance is run only on Olympic years and Cunningham's record of 3:53.3 had survived.
DANNY ROBERTS, from Texas A and M heaved the shot put a distance of $60 - 23\frac{1}{4}$. Roberts' victory in that event gave him a rare double victory in the weight events as he had won the discus throw Friday. The Jayhawks' Bill Nieder set the previous record of 59-77 in 1956.
Hylke van der Wal of Manitoba University set a new mark in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Van der Wal ran the distance in a time of 8.56.3, erasing the old record of 9:12.5 set in 1958.
Relays records also fell as Emporia State roared through the college distance medley in 9:48.4 as anchor man John Camien turned in a 4:03.2 mile to cap the record-setting effort. Texas and Southern Methodist set the other relay records with their winning times.
A crowd of 9,000 assembled Saturday to watch the contests, despite temperatures which ranged in the 50's.
JIM RYUN, a high school junior from Wichita East drew roars of approval from the crowd as he turned some of the best prep times
Jazzmen to Converge for Festival
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This Friday and Saturday should see the campus crawling with musicians, but musicians of a very special breed.
And by Monday, the KU campus may have lost the dubiously distinctive title of the "hinterlands" of jazz, once bestowed on it by west coast jazz writer, John William Hardy.
PLANS FOR THIS weekend's Oread Jazz Festival have been in preparation for the past year and a half. Saturday, the twelve members of the Festival's steering committee, headed by Prof. Michael Maher of the department of zoology, and Mike Bush, Glendale, Mo., senior, will reap the fruits of their sweat and labor.
They will be bringing to Kansas the first major Midwestern collegiate jazz festival.
Twelve jazz groups, ranging in size from a 16-piece band to a trio, will be competing for awards
Saturday. The big prize is a European tour for the top group of six men or less. Other prizes are instruments, a stereo phonograph, records, and $200 scholarships to the Berklee School of Music.
IN ADDITION, the best small group and best big band will play at "Jazz Homecoming" next Sunday in Kansas City. "Jazz Homecoming," sponsored by Kansas City Jazz, Inc., will be a marathon jazz "bash" including such name jazz men as Bob Brookmeyer, Carmell Jones, and Woody Herman. The small group will be given $75 for their engagement, and the big band will be given $150.
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One of the competing groups here will be the Midwestern Jazz Quintet, based at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. The group's altoist, Herb Smith, Memphis, Tenn., senior, is the only musician from KU competing in the festival.
61st Year, No. 122
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Lawrence, Kansas
By Bobbie Bartelt
Sargent Shriver today praised the Peace Corps, because "we have done exactly what we said we would."
Shriver, director of the Peace Corps and director of the "War on Poverty", spoke this morning at a convocation in Hoch Auditorium.
"We have seven people of all ages, all sexes, and from all backgrounds to serve in countries, living just as the people do, without the advantages of better housing, transportation," he said.
Shriver Observes Corps As Real Success Story
SHRIVER SAID THAT THE Peace Corps was unique because its cost of operation has been decreasing throughout its three-and-a-half year life.
It is possible that the All Student Council may be operating on a deficit budget by the end of the semester if it goes ahead with the printing of an updated constitution bill booklet.
"By keeping the cost of the Peace Corps down, we are one of the few organizations in Washington that has the combined support of both Sen. Hubert Humphry (D-Minn.) and Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.)." he continued.
"There is no discrimination,racial or religious,in our selection of volunteers," Shriver said.
"WE HAVE PROTESTANTS working in predominantly Catholic countries, and the fact that we employ Jews doesn't keep us from working in Moslem nations," he continued.
The ASC now has a balance of $560 for operating expenses, according to ASC treasurer, Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission senior.
"In government..t, this is very unusual." Sbriver said.
Shriver spoke to about 3300 people and a stray dog, which wandered on stage mid-way through the speech.
Council Budget May End in Red
Portwood said he had previously estimated expenses to the end of the semester, and projected a possible $300 to $400 deficit. This figure is not definite. Portwood said, and if some expenses are less than expected, there may not be a deficit at all.
Shriver praised the fact that Peace Corps volunteers are selected on the merit basis.
"MUST BE ONE OF Goldwater's supporters." Shriver equipped.
Portwood said that unexpected back bills of around $300 had to be paid out of this year's budget. Most of these were bills that had not been received, he said.
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"At the outset of our idea, we were cautioned against sending any more Americans abroad, but I guess we were too ignorant to be scared by these warnings." Shriver said.
"Peace Corps volunteers have proven competent," Shriver said.
He said only one Peace Corps volunteer has ever been asked to leave a country because his work was incompetent.
"ABOUT 85 PER CENT of the volunteers are college graduates, and 15 percent hold advanced degrees," he continued.
"At present there are over 300 volunteers teaching in colleges and universities abroad," Shriver explained.
"We have volunteers in 60 Latin American universities, universities that are supposed to be cesspools of
Marxism and hotbeds of radicalism," he said.
"IT WAS IN THESE SAME Latin American areas that Richard Nixon was stoned and spit upon."
Members of the Peace Corps have proven extremely popular wherever they are sent, Shrivc said.
Peace Corps programs have worked out so well in the United States that currently 19 nations are trying to implement similar programs, Shriver said.
"I will leave for West Germany on Thursday to meet with officials from the West German Peace Corps, who have displayed a real interest in work of this nature," Shriver said.
Following the convocation Shriver was honored at lunchon given by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe in the Kansas Union.
Electrical Display Gets First Award
KU electrical engineers received the award for best display Saturday night for their student project at the 4th Annual KU Engineering Exposition this weekend.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Eta Kappa Nu, two student groups, were presented the award at a banquet, which was held in the Kansas Union.
The Petroleum Engineering Club and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), won second and third places, respectively.
The winning electrical display, introduced the concept of simulation with some examples of its application. A model radar system was shown as a particular example. The display showed a radar set working under water as cardboard radar displays were explained by electrical students. John Kroger, Lawrence senior, was chairman of the electrical engineering group.
THE SECOND PLACE petroleum engineers winners built a display which depicted the use of natural gas in the formation of certain petrochemicals which were being used by the petroleum engineers in scaled chemical engineering processes to produce nylon, synthetic rubber, and plastic. Wimoh Tiokronegoro, Djakarta, Indonesia senior, was chairman of the petroleum engineers.
Weather
The weather bureau predicted unsettled weather for tonight and tomorrow. Scattered thundershowers are forecast for this afternoon and evening. It will be slightly cooler tonight and tomorrow, with skies partly cloudy tomorrow. The high today will be in the 70's, the low tonight in the 50's. The high tomorrow will be in the 60's.
The third place winners, AIAA, showed applications and principles of the ground effects machine (GEM III). They showed in detail its application to different types of roadbeds. They built a model country side, to the scale of about six inch trees, over which they flew model GEMs powered by batteries. The AIAA exhibit chairman was Kenneth Leone, Alexandria, Va. sophomore.
The student exhibits were judged by three criteria. The first was voting by the visitors who came to the exposition. They were handed ballots as they entered the engineering building and placed them in a ballot box when they left.
THE SECOND AND THIRD criteria were judged by men from the Engineering Council, the administration, and several professional men.
Along with the 11 student displays, there were eight departmental exhibits. Among the most popular was the Mechanics and Aerospace departmental exhibit, KU's GEM III, which flew in the new engineering building parking lot.