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University Daily Kansan Thursday,Feb.27,1964
KU Geology Professor Makes Report on African Survey
A KU professor has recently returned from Ivory Coast, Africa, where he has been engaged in ground-water reconnaissance.
Frank C. Foley of the Kansas Geological Survey, has returned two weeks early to KU in order to write up his report for the Agency for International Development.
Prof. Foley and his wife left Lawrence for the West African Republic of Ivory Coast in late October of 1963.
HE WORKED with R. W. Pike of New York in his survey.
Their job was to make a reco nissance of the ground water resources of the Ivory Coast and prepare recommendations for the development of the ground water.
Information on the experiences of this KU professor is recorded in his letters to another KU professor. The following, which includes the reactions of the Africans to President Kennedy's assassination and economic conditions in Ivory Coast, are excerpts from his letters.
"In Dakar we were four days at the Hotel Croix du Sud with a suite nearby, (and at $20 per day). Prices are very high. Meals ran about $4-$5 (500 francs-600f). Exchange rate is 245f to the dollar or about 40 cents per 100. There are interesting things to buy in Dakar but street vendors drive you frantic — worse than the African flies of which there really aren't very many." (Nov. 1, '64)
"This has been quite a week for the whole world and we were part of it of course. As a part of the Embassy family now we were rather close to the whole affair here in a foreign land with only a very few Americans." (Nov. 29, '64)
"We heard the terrible news within minutes of its happening, Dr. Pike has a radio and, as is his custom, was listening to it just before coming down to dinner with us shortly after 7:00 p.m. He told us at once that there was a report that President Kennedy was shot. We didn't realize the seriousness so we ate dinner and immediately went to Pike's room where at 7:50 (1:50 p.m. KU time) 3 minutes after it was announced we learned the terrible truth. In an unbelievably short time the news had spread around here completely. The depth of feeling of all was tremendous as it was all over the world.
KU Student Wins $200 For Design
Ron Holt. Lawrence senior, has received a $200 check as winner of the 1964 Reynolds Aluminum Prize for Architectural Students.
The presentation was made by Eugene George, chairman of the department of architecture. Also attending the informal ceremony was Les Dahlheimer, regional representative for Reynolds.
THE STUDENT prize, which is administered by the American Institute of Architects, is for the "best original design of a building component in aluminum." Holt's entry was a system of aggregate panels formed from scrap aluminum and plastic.
The national prize is a cash award of $5,000, to be divided equally between the winning student and his school. It will be presented during the American Institute of Architects' convention in St. Louis, Mo., in June.
HOLT is a member of the Air National Reserve, attached to the 185th Tactical Fighter-Bomber Squadron.
After graduation he plans to live in Kansas City, and has accepted a position with the First Construction Co. as head of the Department of Research, Design and Development.
Black and white reacted the same way. A local policeman, checking taxi drivers on Sunday, saluted me as I drove past — he recognized the U.S. Embassy license number on the little Embassy Peugeot we were driving."
"Saturday at noon the Ambassador called a meeting of the Embassy staff and spoke to us briefly. He had difficulty doing so—I believe he was a personal appointee of President Kennedy and that they were personal friends. The Ambassador received visitors all day Saturday at his official residence. Many local officials including President Houphouet-Boigruy and the diplomatic corps called." (Nov. 20)
"In preparation for field work we have purchased anti-dysentery medicine and especially anti-smake venom serum. Snakes are not plentiful apparently but they are especially potent it seems. The Pasteur Institute has developed a serum labeled 'echis, bitis, and naja.'" (Nov. 29)
Muslim Leader Welcomes Cassius Clay Into Sect
CHICAGO —(UPI)— The leader of the Black Muslims last night said heavyweight champion Cassius Clay had admitted he was a member of the black supremacy sect but did not say where he got his information.
"I am glad that Cassius Clay was brave enough to say he was a Muslim," Elijah Muhammad told a cheering crowd of almost 5,000 Negroes at the group's annual national convention. "I am happy that he confessed he is a believer."
Clay did not make any statement about Black Muslim membership in Miami Beach, where he won the crown from Sonny Liston Tuesday night.
ATTEMPTS WERE made to reach Clay for comment on Muhammad's claim but the new champion was not available. He said recently he would explain his position after the fight was over but failed to do so yesterday.
Rudolph Valentino Clay, the champion's younger brother and a heavyweight boxer also, told an impromptu news conference here yesterday that he was a Black Muslim.
Muhammad, self-styled "messenger of Allah," told the Muslims that the white man would never de justice to the Negro.
"GOD HAS told me he will destroy these people," said the wispy segregationist who has won the support of American Nazi Party Chief George Lincoln Rockwell. "I am not sorry to tell you that. What fool can love his own enemy?"
Muhammed, addressing the Muslims for the first time in two years, said Negroes who urge members of their own race to love whites are trying to "make you love the devil himself and drag you down to heil with him."
The Black Muslims, he said, are "children of the creator of heaven and earth."
MUHAMMAD ALSO said the moon was created 66 billion years
ago when "one of God's scientists tried to destroy the earth and blasted off a piece of it." The sun is six trillion years old, he said.
Stony faced guards protected Muhammad while he spoke. Blue and white bunting decorated the hall, which filled with resounding cries of "amen," "you tell them, father," and "that's right" throughout Muhammad's speech.
Many of the persons attending the convention may have come in the hope of catching a glimpse of the new heavyweight champion. Neither Clay nor his brother was observed at the meeting.
JOHN ALI, Secretary of Muhammad's Mosque No. 2 in Chicago, said earlier that he did not know whether Clay was a Black Muslim. "We keep no records," he said. "If a person is living according to our laws, he is a member."
The Muslims hold their convention every Feb. 26 in honor of the birth of Wallace Farb, who started the supremacist sect 34 years ago in Detroit.
Notably absent from yesterday's meeting was Malcolm X. fiery Muslim leader from New York who was suspended after expressing joy at the assassination of President Kennedy. Malcolm also expressed happiness at an airplane crash near Paris last year in which scores of Atlanta's leading citizens were killed.
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