Daily hansan
61st Year, No.114
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, March 30, 1964
Alaskan Disaster Victims Begin Rebuilding Tasks
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — (UPI)—Pioneer-spirited Alaskans, ignoring still another massive earthquake, today began rebuilding whole towns and parts of shattered cities, searched for more victims of Friday's quake and buried the dead.
Rescue units and medical teams fanned out through the 900-mile coastal arc ripped by a force more than 10 times greater than an atomic bomb to aid the injured and prevent typhoid epidemics. Food kitchens brought food to the homeless and even bowling alleys were turned into hotels to shelter them from the 18-degree weather.
At least 63 persons were known dead, with the possibility that scores of Aleutian natives may have been killed. Federal authorities, after an
aerial survey and on-the-scene checks, said the total of known dead and missing numbered 88.
TEN PERSONS were dead and 16 missing in Crescent City, Calif., battered by four tidal waves from the quake on Good Friday. Three children were missing, one dead, from one family which was swept from a beach at Depoe Bay, Ore.
Damage estimates in Alaska ranged from $500 million by Edward McDermott, director of President Johnson's Office of Emergency Planning, to more than $850 million by state authorities.
Officials said it would be weeks, possibly months, before the full number of casualties would be known and the damages completely determined.
Rights Group Pickets During Greek Week
By Gary Noland
KU civil rights demonstrators picked the Greek Week torch lighting ceremony at Topeka Saturday and then hurried back to Lawrence to picket the Greek Week chariot races.
At Topeka, about 75 demonstrators, organized by the leadership of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC), picketed at the steps of the capital building while Atty. Gen. William Ferguson lighted a torch which was relayed from Topeka to Lawrence by fraternity members.
The demonstration, which protested alleged de facto segregation by KU fraternities and sororites, seemed peaceful and orderly. Ferguson, who last week said he was heartily in favor of the pickets as a way to call attention to the problem, went among the picketers, shaking hands and asking names.
FERGUSON STOPPED when he met George Ragsdale, Kansas City senior and chairman of the CRCC, told him, "Real nice demonstration you have here."
A number of fraternity and sorority members attended the ceremony on the east steps of the capital. One of them, Jay Strayer, Shawnee Mission senior, said, "This (the picketing) serves no purpose in my mind. It is just a way to get some recognition. Moral suasion is the only way to solve the problem."
Ferguson said he was pleased to inaugurate the marathon again. He lighted a torch in the same type of ceremony two years ago.
HE ALSO SAID that demonstrating is the most successful way to explain to the public an unpopular cause.
Ferguson, a Republican candidate for governor, said he did not think the demonstration would have any effect on his campaign.
At the chariot races in Lawrence, over 100 demonstrators marched quietly while several hundred cheering Greeks and spectators shouted encouragement to their favorite runners.
THE GREEKS had known for some time that the demonstration was to take place. One of them, Steve McCammon, Keota, Iowa senior, said, "We knew they were going to do it, and it is anti-climactic."
WHEN TOLD THAT most of the Greeks were not paying much attention to the pickets, Ragsdale said. "This indicates that something ought to be done because these people do not take segregation seriously."
Many of the picket signs were directed toward Chancellor Wescoe's policy of "moral suasion" to eliminate segregation. The chancellor stated his policy two years ago, and again this year.
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Voting Move in CR Meet
Following the Greek Week picketing, about 60 of the picketers attended a meeting and decided to take their civil rights cause to the student body presidential candidates.
Bert Rinkel, Scott City junior, suggested that if each person was to contact four or five people who would vote for the candidate most favorable toward civil rights, they might be able to swing the election, with 250 to 300 votes, to the candidate they wanted.
After a lengthy discussion of several possible tactics, the people at the meeting agreed to have Rinkel and George Ragsdale, Kansas City senior and president of the Civil Rights Council, ask the candidates if they would do two things:
- Make all appointments regardless of race, color or creed.
- Strengthen the Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council.
Rinkel suggested that the latter could be accomplished by putting experienced members who would be willing to take action, on the HRC.
Since the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee was automatically dissolved after the demonstrations Saturday, (it was formed only for the purpose of the past demonstrations), the persons at the meeting did not officially represent any organization. They preferred to be referred to as just individuals interested in civil rights.
Futhermore, they emphasized that they would not be working as an organization, and that they would not endorse as an organization, any candidate. However, as "individuals for civil rights," they would consider the candidate most favorable toward their cause.
Weather
The quake caused "a tremendous economic impact . . . many will never recover," said state Commerce Commissioner Abe Romick.
THE TOWNS OF Kodiak and Seward appeared to have been worst hit by the rolling, wrenching upheaval.
Skies will remain fair tonight and tomorrow, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. Temperatures will begin their climb back to seasonal normals this afternoon and tonight. Tonight's low temperature will be between 25 and 30 degrees. It will be warmer tomorrow.
A fresh quake last night struck near sparsely settled Unimak Island at the extreme southwest of the Aleutian Islands. It registered at almost 7 on the Richter Quake Scale—compared with 8.5 on the scale for the Friday tremor.
Officials said they doubted any new danger from tidal waves. Technically, such waves are seismic, not caused by tides, despite the commonly accepted description of them.
HUNDREDS OF tons of goods, supplies, tools, electrical generators and medical supplies, including water purification tablets, were being shuttled into Elmendorf Air Force Base at battered Anchorage.
Casualties included 31 known dead at Valdes, 11 at Kodiak, 12 in Anchorage, 8 in Seward and 1 at Whittier.
This was the scene at major points of devastation:
In Anchorage, a city of 100,000, most downtown office buildings ruined or severely damaged. One store sunk so far in a fissure only its roof showed on the buckled street level. The modern residential community of Turnagain was a shambles with homes carried off their foundations by a massive slide
IN SEWARD, a town of 2,000, Presidential Aide McDermott described the situation as "aawful, awful." Smoke still rose from the blackened remains of a dozen waterfront oil storage tanks. The shoreline looked as though it had been bombed. About 50 freight cars lay scattered like a child's toy trains. Twisted track rooped into the sea.
In Kodiak, a town of 2,600 on an island, it's famed crab and salmon canneries were shattered and power was off. Buildings from the town
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Weather Moves Greeks to Allen
Despite picketers, dandelions, cold weather and a broken microphone, the 1964 Greek Week closed out its activities Saturday night.
Greek Week was officially begun Thursday night with the annual banquet. The banquet was highlighted by the crowning of Martha Parmely, Wichita senior and member of Kappa Alpha Theta, as the Green Week Queen. Mary Morozzo, Council Grove junior, Delta Gamma, and Carolyn Eymann, Atchison sophomore, Pi Beta Phi, were named attendants.
Beta Theta Pi received a first place scholarship award in its division and Kappa Alpha Theta received the award for the sororities.
The scene switched to Hoch Auditorium Friday for the Greek Week Sing. The winner of the large sorority division was Delta Gamma. Delta Delta Delta won the small women's division.
IN THE fraternity division, Delta Tau Delta won the small men's award for the third consecutive year while Lambda Chi Alpha took the winning trophy for the large men's with last year's winner Sigma Alpha Epsilon taking second.
Saturday morning found everyone in Topeka either watching the lighting of the torch or carrying a sign. About 100 picketers turned out for the torch lighting ceremony with Attorney General Ferguson. Ferguson talked with both picketers and the Greeks before lighting the torch, saying he was pleased to be asked to do the honors for the second year in a row.
He also complimented the marchers on their orderly demonstration.
Bill Dotson, former KU track star, began the first leg of the torch's journey back to Lawrence. The torch was carried by 33 runners from all of the fraternity groups.
WHILE THE torch made its way along U.S. 40 back to the campus, picketers and Greeks alike hurried to their respective posts in front of Allen Field House. Here everyone waited for the last runner to bring the torch up Naismith Drive, and for the traditional Saturday events to start.
With the torch's arrival, the chariot races began. While more than 100 picketers circled the island in the center of the road, Delta Upsilon fraternity pulled its way to the first place trophy.
Signs such as "Ferguson is with us. Where is Wescoe?","Equality now," and "Eat at Joe's" continued to circle as everyone else moved into the field house for the athletic events.
DELTA TAU DELTA won the 440-yard relay and Phi Gamma Delta won the 880-yard relay. In the "walking race," Ray Hartzell, Lompoc, Calif., sophomore, of the Delta Chi fraternity edged Walter Wesley, Fort Myers, Fla., freshman, of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity for first place.
In the tug-of-war, the west side gained an early advantage but the east side began to recover. Then a large part of the crowd sprung to the aid of the team on the west end of the rope, and the west won—under protest from the east side participants, who were watered down with a hose.
DELTA UPSILON was awarded the first-place trophy for total team points, and the crowd moved to the lobby or cars for a picnic box lunch.
Greek Week was concluded Saturday night with the Peter Nero concert in Hoch Auditorium.
Owens Named Successor to Harp As Head KU Basketball Coach
By Bob Jones (Assistant Sports Editor)
Ted Owens was named Friday as the fifth head basketball coach in the history of KU.
He was born and raised in the southwestern Oklahoma town of Hollis, and played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma under Bruce Drake.
Drake said Owens "was one of the greatest two-handed set shots that I have ever seen in basketball."
"He achieved this by wearing out three or four basketballs shooting baskets every summer."
AFTER GRADUATION from OU, Owens was assistant to Drake for a year. He played basketball in the U.S. Army and played for the Ada Oilers in the National Industrial Basketball League.
He was then head coach at Cameron Junior College, Lawton, Okla., compiling a 93-24 won-lost record.
He never won fewer than 20 games per season at Cameron, and his teams reached the National junior college tournament semifinals an unprecedented three straight years.
In 1960 he became assistant coach at KU, producing some outstanding freshman teams.
What kind of basketball does Owens like to play?
He says he likes to be on the offense, even when the team does not have the ball.
HE SAYS he does this by "pressure" defense—pressing the opponent all over the court.
Owens emphasizes that his teams will have a
lot of enthusiasm and hustle, and he will actively recruit any player-high school or junior college that will help improve the KU basketball team's overall speed.
"If we find that we cannot find the proper ingredients for a championship team in Kansas, then we will go outside the state.
"We want to get every outstanding prospect in this state," Owens said.
"Actually, we are looking for the type boy who will help us compete for not only the Big Eight title, but put us in the national picture as well.
"But, first of all," he added, "we will seek to recruit every top boy in Kansas."
COMMENTING on the petition which was signed by 17 KU basketball players supporting his appointment to the head coaching job, Owens said:
"I think that in any type of organization the support of the members is required if you are going to succeed. I was quite pleased the boys who know me best have that kind of confidence in me."
As far as the outlook for next season, Owens thinks the present KU team has many assets. He sees lack of speed as the biggest handicap to the team, and he says he is going to try to correct this problem through recruiting.
"The theories I have (about basketball) are not necessarily the result of my close association with Bruce (Drake) or Dick (Harp)." Owens continued.
"But rather, I think that many of my thoughts about the game have come from the fine opportunity I've had at the University of Kansas to see how the game is played on both the east and west coast as well as the midwest."