Daily Hansan
60th Year, No.144
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, May 17, 1963
NEW RED ROOF—That is what the replacement for Blake Hall will look like when it is finished in the fall of 1964. The new structure will retain the traditional red roof in the center of the campus. The model shown above will be on display in the lobby of the Kansas Union through Commencement.
New Blake to Keep Traditional Look
The University officials recommended that the replacement for Blake Hall have a red roof in order to "retain the traditional flavor" of the heart of the campus.
The new building will be visible throughout the area, just as was the old building, although the new building will be only about three-fourths as tall as the now-razed Blake.
Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of the physical plant, explained the top of the building would not reach as high as the spire on old Blake, but the eave line of the new building will be almost a full story higher than the eave line of the old building.
ALL THE SPACE above the eave line in the new building will be usable. In the old building all space above the eave line was attic space. Because of this architectural planning, Lawton said, the new building will provide almost twice as much floor space as the old building, although it will occupy about the same space.
Blake Hall was razed earlier this year as part of a reconstruction program for the center part of the campus. The 1963 state Legislature provided funds for the replacement of Fraser Hall, scheduled to be razed sometime after 1954, and for the first phase of the replacement of Robinson Gymnasium. After the replacement of Haworth, which stands next to Robinson, a new office and classroom building will be constructed across from Strong Hall.
The replacement for Blake Hall will have 14 general purpose classrooms, 4 case-study rooms and 4 seminar rooms on the first three floors. The too three stories of the six-story building will provide offices for faculty and for the departments of political science, sociology human relations and social work and the Governmental Research Center.
THE OLD WORLD WAR II surplus buildings behind Strong Hall, known to students as the barracks, will continue to be used for offices for assistant instructors.
A name for the new building has not been selected, but administrators assume the name Blake Hall will be retained for old Blake's replacement.
Old Blake had stood empty since 1954, when the physics department moved into Malott Hall.
U.P. Elects Co-chairmen
Larry Bast and Carl Linquist are the new co-chairmen of University Party.
"TM SURPRISED, but not overwhelmed by this task." Bast told the UP general assembly. He said he expected better organization and more enthusiasm next year.
Bast, Topeka freshman, will be the party's Greek co-chairman. Lindquist, Prairie Village sophomore, will serve as UP's Independent co-chairman.
The two, along with the party's campus committees, were elected last night.
"I don't like to lose," he said, "and I hope that next year at this time Vox Populi is hearing rumors that they are about to fold."
Greek members of the campus committee elected were Robert Ritter, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore; Robert Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla. sophomore, who is the party's outgoing Greek co-chairman; Jane Lefebvre, Prairie Village sophomore; Susan Flood, Hays junior; and William Henry, Leawood freshman.
Lindquist expressed optimism over the party's chances for next year. "I really want to win," he said.
Independent members elected to the campus committee were Chuck Marvin, Lawrence junior; Fred Hoffman, Topeka junior; Judith Gottberg, Hoisington sophomore; Douglas Hall, Rayton, Mo., sophomore who was UP's candidate for vice-president of the student body in the past election; and Claudia Reider, Overland Park freshman.
Cooper Undergoes Testing, Questioning
ABOARD USS KEARSARGE — (UPI)—Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, back to earth from a "magnificent" space flight, today underwent intensive medical tests and questioning to reveals what a 575,000-mile trip through space does to a man.
The tests were scheduled to continue through tomorrow aboard the Navy carrier USS Keararsge, which picked Cooper and his Faith-7 space capsule up yesterday after a bull'seye landing in the Pacific.
Preliminary medical examinations indicated the peppery, 36-year-old little Air Force major was in fine shape after experiencing a day and a half of weightlessness on America's longest space flight to date. He flew a distance equivalent to a round-trip to the moon.
Tomorrow, Cooper will be flown to Honolulu for a reunion with his wife and two daughters—and the start of a round of celebrations honoring his feat. Among the celebrations will be a reception at the White House on Tuesday.
THE MEDICAL examinations and technical questioning of Cooper were expected to concentrate primarily on man's ability to withstands the rigors of a flight to the moon and back.
Space officials viewed Cooper's feat as another step, perhaps a giant one, toward putting an American on the moon.
THE SPACE OFFICIALS heaped praise on the astronaut for bringing his space capsule back from space in the pioneer tradition of airmen-by the seat of his pants.
They hailed his flight as "magnificent" and a great feat of science.
Cooper, who made a bull'seye landing in the Pacific by manual control after his automatic control system failed, offered his praise to all who took part in the project.
In a special message to Carl Huss of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's flight dynamics office, he said:
"LOOKS LIKE YOU did a fine job on calculation for retro weight. You must have even figured in that one second.
"Thanks." signed, "Gordon."
Cooper lost seven pounds during the flight, but apparently suffered no ill effects from the prolonged period of weightlessness while whirling around the world at 17,544 miles per hour, according to Dr. Richard Pollard, Space Agency physician.
"Gordon is in good spirits but tired," Pallard said. "He had a dizzy spell when he first set foot on the deck and this was exactly as we expected. His first words to me were,
"Dick. I don't feel too good."
"HOWEVER, HE quickly recovered as we began to walk across the hanger deck and I am certain he could have made the walk without assistance."
Cooper blasted off from Cape Canaveral on the tip of an Atlas missile at 7:04 a.m. CST Wednesday and lowered his capsule into the Pacific 34 hours, 20 minutes and 30 seconds later at 5:25 p.m. CST.
Describing the flight over 100 nations, islands and possessions, Cooper said, "I agree with the other fellows—Wow!"
"Faith 7 did well," he said. "I had a few little problems, but nothing major. It's a pilot's airplane."
At Cape Canaveral, however, space officials took a more serious view of the malfunction on the 20th orbit that required Cooper to grab the controls and manually put the capsule in the proper position to descend through the atmosphere. The braking retroockets also had to be fired manually instead of automatically.
WALTER WILLIAMS, director of Mercury operations, said the flight was "a textbook flight" in that "in the last five hours we used every page in the book."
Williams said Cooper was "very much on top of the situation... this guy shined." he said.
Alan B, Shepard, America's first man in space who worked in the control center during Cooper's flight, said Cooper had turned in "a magnificent performance . . . it is a tribute to his pre-flight training."
Williams agreed with a suggestion that Cooper's performance proved that the astronaut on board was "absolutely essential." He was referring to Cooper's ability to analyze and handle the problem.
D. Brainerd Holmes, director of manned space flight for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Cooper's flight was "another step toward going to the moon and making America first in space flight. We're all pretty happy."
PRESIDENT KENNEDY telephoned congratulations to Cooper aboard the Kearsarge and invited the astronaut, his wife and two teen-age daughters to the White House Tuesday.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said President Kennedy expressed amazement at the fact Cooper landed just five miles from the Kearsarge. This equaled astronaut Walter Schirra's landing last October after his six-orbit flight.
Williams said Cooper was forced
to resort to visual reference points, such as stars in space, to put Faith-7 in the correct position for re-entry. This became necessary when an apparent short circuit caused the capsule to lose its atttitude control gyroscope.
John Glenn, who made America's first manned orbital space flight, directed Cooper in the manual firing of the rockets that slowed the capsule so it would not burn up as it entered the earth's atmosphere. Glenn was stationed on a communications ship off Japan.
The nonchalant Cooper, who managed to cat-nap and sleep up to 45 minutes at a time during his flight, told Glenn as he headed to earth that his re-entry was "right on the old bazoo." NASA recorders picked up Cooper's comment as "Roger, right on the gazola."
As the 2,400 pound capsule dropped into the Pacific two navy frogmen dropped from a helicopter and attached flotation gear around it to prevent it from sinking.
UN Authority Dies Today
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI) Omar Loutfi, 55, United Nations undersecretary, collapsed and died today in the U.N. secretariat building.
Loutfi, a former U.N. delegate from the United Arab Republic, was serving temporarily as undersecretary for political and security council affairs when he died.
He was the second man in that position to die in the past month. Eugeny D. Kiselev of the Soviet Union, who held the post before Loutfi, died of a heart attack April 17.
LOUTFI COLLAPSED at midmorning while waiting for an elevator on the second floor of the conference building after having morning coffee in the delegates' lounge.
Three guards administered mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration before medical aides took the veteran Egyptian diplomat to the U.N. dispensary on the fifth floor.
There he was given injections and oxygen, but U.N. officials said Loutfi's death apparently occurred immediately after his collapse.
Weather
Cooler temperatures are forecast for tonight with a low in the lower 40's. Saturday will continue mild with a high in the 70's.
Senior Class of 64 Organizes, Announces Committees, Chairmen
The senior class of 1964 has organized.
Committee chairmen and members have been appointed by the following four executive officers: Jerry Pullins, Council Grove junior, president; Phil Harrison, Colby junior, vice-president; Dave Stinson, Lawrence junior, treasurer, and Merry Moore, Raytown, Mo., junior, secretary.
A DINNER WILL be given by the 1963 senior class officers for the new officers and chairmen. The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m., Sunday at the Lawrence Country Club.
The committees and respective co-chairmen are the following: breakfast committee co-chairmen are Bruce Hall, Coffeyville junior, and Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., junior. This committee will plan a graduation breakfast.
The promotion and selling of the class rings will be handled by Susan Smith, Lawrence junior.
the picnic and senior day committee co-chairmen, Bill Anderson, Park Ridge, Ill., junior, and Susan Flood, Hays junior, will plan fall and spring parties.
THE GIFT committee co-chairmen are John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior, and Becky Williamson, Wichita junior.
The publicity co-chairmen are Linda Machin, Ottawa junior, and Bob Herchert, Webster Groves, Mo., junior.
Jay Cook, St. Louis, Mo., junior,
and Dennis Nelson, Topeka junior,
co-chairmen of the special events
committee, will plan senior play
night, intramural events and senior
coffees.
Tom Tatlock, Wichita junior, and John Middleton, Kansas City, Mo. junior, are co-chairmen for the calendar committee.
Cordell Meeks, Kansas City junior. will be in charge of selling graduation announcements.
THE HOPE AWARD co-chairmen are Marilyn Murphy, Leawood junior, and Bob Swan, Topeka junior. The award is presented annually to an outstanding KU professor.
Tim Hamill, Colby junior, and Jo- Ann Kessler, Hutchinson junior, are in charge of the senior sweatshirts, pins, hats, and pennants sales.
Brian Grace, Lawrence junior, and Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, will correspond with mid-year graduates and work with the Alumni Association.
Nancy Lane. Hoisington junior, the house representative chairman.