- Photo By Murrel Bland
BLAKE CRUMBLES—The old physics building, Blake Hall, crumbles as a giant ball thuds into its brick and sandstone wall destroying in a day one of the oldest buildings on campus.
Memories Smashed In Dust of Blake
By Blaine King
Yesterday, a one-ton steel ball ended what time and the need for expanded facilities started.
A workman manipulated the controls of a giant crane, sending the ball thudding into the brick and sandstone walls of Blake Hall the old Physics building.
BY 11:30 A.M., THE FRONT SECTIONS were gone. By 4:30 p.m. after classes had been dismissed from the language sound labs to reduce the danger of falling brick and rock, the back walls were down.
A group of students, standing near the southeast corner of Lilac Lane, cheered a battered wall defiantly resisting the onslaught of the ball.
But at 4:30, the operator lowered the ball and workmen, going home, walked casually in front of the wreckage.
"We've got two more to ball down tomorrow," one said.
BLAKE HAD TO GO, to make room for a new $750.000 classroom and office building which will be erected where Blake once stood.
But the excuses of classroom needs and modernization do not make Blake's razing any easier to take for George Hood, professor emeritus of engineering drawing, who stood yesterday and watched the old bricks smear red dust on the big ball.
"I hate to see any of these old buildings come down," Prof. Hood said.
PROF. HOOD ATTENDED CLASSES in Blake before it was named Blake in 1898. Before it was called the Physics building.
He taught for years on the third floor of Fraser Hall, when the engineers had the south end of the third floor, and the lawyers had the north end
the north end.
WISTFUL — George Hood, professor emeritus of engineering drawing, watches the workmen tear down Blake, the building in which he attended classes in 1893.
He remembers when Blake Spooner Museum, the old chemistry building, Fraser, old Snow Hall and old North College Hall, the first building used by the University, were all that made up the University of Kansas.
The old chemistry building was leveled this year to make way for the addition to Watson Library.
SNOW, WHICH OCCUPIED the land in front of the present library, came down years ago.
Now Blake is gone, and Fraser wil be razed in the next few years.
Tuesday, April 23, 1963
The old lime mortar was crumbling, and sent up clouds of dust when the ball hit.
nese old buildings". Prof. Hood said. But Blake was obsolete. No iron was used in the building below the third floor and the floors sagged.
ONLY A FEW LARGE timbers were salvaged. The contractor hopes to sell the stone for land fill.
"I WAS WELL acquainted with these old buildings." Prof. Hood said.
Blake was built in 1895, and although students hated its architecture, from that time on its one big eve was a familiar landmark.
But the building was hard to heat. The clock froze last year.
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year. No.126
Seniors Present HOPE Award to Prof. Haugh
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, was named the recipient of this year's HOPE award before a crowd of seniors who filled the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Prof. Haugh received the award from Mary Ann Warburton, chairman of the HOPE committee, for his outstanding contributions to students and to the University.
“AN HONOR LIKE THIS comes only once in a lifetime.” Prof. Haugh said in accepting the award. “I shall always cherish it.”
He received a citation, a $100 bill,
and a personalized pen-and-pencil
desk set.
HE SAID THERE is a year-end fee of $4.50 which must be paid before graduation. Seniors who have paid their senior dues and have received their senior identification cards have already paid.
The fee must be paid between May 1 and May 22 in the Business Office in Strong Hall. Receipts for caps and gowns may also be picked up at this time.
The seniors were also reminded of the details of graduation by Dick Wintermote, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association.
ALL THE MOTELS and hotels in Lawrence are reserved for graduation weekend, Wintermote said.
Prof. Oscar Haugh
But the University will open Gertrude Sellards Pearson and any other dormitory facilities necessary to provide rooms for parents and guests, he said.
Arrangements for such lodging
CAPS AND GOWNS will be issued from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 1, and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 2, in Hoch Auditorium.
should be made with the dormitory office, 26 Strong Hall.
Other information can be obtained at the Alumni Association office in Strong Hall, Wintermote said.
The desirability of joining the Alumni Association was also disclosed.
A SENIOR CLASS TGIF party for those who have paid their senior fees will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Big Barn. The Disciples will furnish the music, and beverages will be free.
Senior class president Mike Mead, Kansas City, Mo., said there are a number of sweat shirts and calendars remaining. Seniors who have paid their fees may pick theirs up in the Alumni Office, 127 Strong. Other seniors may purchase these items at the office.
Graduation announcements may now be purchased at the Book Store. They have been pre-ordered and are available in four styles, ranging from 15 to 80 cents. Class rings may also be ordered at the Book Store.
Respect for Senior Citizens, Socialism, Medicare Aspects
Bv Terry Ostmever
Would the enactment of the King- Anderson Bill to provide medical care for the aged be an act of "respect for our senior citizens" or a step toward "the sweeping fire of socialism?"
The question of Medicare was debated last night by Rep. Donald M.
Rep. Donald M. Fraser
Fraser, D-Minn., who defended the King-Anderson Bill against Dr. Thomas Butcher of Emporia, former president of the Kansas Medical Society.
Fraser argued that it's time aged persons receive what they deserve. The Congressman said the problem of medical care for the aged has captured the attention of the Kennedy Administration because there are 17 million people in the United States today over 65 years of age and the figure is expected to increase by one million by 1965.
HE SAID THE incomes of these people are less than half of those under 65, yet it is the aged who require the most medical attention.
Another reason for the administration's promotion of governmental insurance for the aged is the inadequacy of present aids, the young New Frontier Congressman said.
"I THNK if we would estimate those over 65 with insurance. I would say at least two-thirds to 75 per cent of them are unable to meet the expenses."
The Congressman said the Kennedy Medicare program, which is the King-Anderson Bill, would cover hospital insurance, skilled nursing
home care, diagnostic service and home health care service.
ITWOULD include benefits for all those over 65 and on Social Security or railroad retirement. After 1971, only those under Social Security would receive the benefits. It is believed by then most of the aged will be under that system.
Rep. Fraser said this program would affect physicians in that it would prohibit government control of the profession, guarantee the right of the patient to choose any hospital, and would not pay doctors' fees.
He believed the Medicare program would make doctors feel freer in prescribing medicines, knowing the patient would be covered.
HE SAID Social Security is a kind of insurance, but it is not intended as an insurance fund as found in private companies because it cannot go bankrupt.
Rep. Fraser felt the Medicare program has a good chance of being passed in Congress this session because the House is more "liberal" than in 1962 and also the important Ways and Means Committee has two new members, both pro-Medicare.
In answer to Fraser's argument, Dr. Butcher said the threat of national socialism and an endangered American economy are the real problems in the Kennedy administration's proposed Medicare plan.
The past president of the Kansas Medical Society, who said he was speaking only as a Kansas doctor and a private citizen, maintained that the King-Anderson Bill is inadequate for those under 65 because they are the ones who will pay for it.
For those over 65, "it's gravy," he said.
HE SAID the younger generations who must foot the bill are not being enticed by financial gains, but by political goals. Medicare, he said, "has a great deal to do with buying the votes of the younger citizens."
"The real problem lies in the American economy and our Social Security system in particular," Dr. Butcher said.
He said he was not attacking Social Security as such, but its weaknesses. "I think it's anemic and in trouble."
THE DOCTOR also argued that
Social Security is actually a tax, not an insurance program as the government terms it.
He said the taxpayers, who paid more than $300 billion into Social Security last year, have no guarantee they will get a return.
Dr. Butcher said the public would have to pay another $25 billion to
Dr. Thomas Butcher
aid the aged under the King-Anderson Bill. "I am opposing it solely because it represents financial incaution," he said.
The strongest threat foreseen by the Emporia doctor is socialized medicine, and even national socialism.
HE SAID Americans must ask themselves if they want this change in their way of life.
Dr. Butcher said the American Medical Association has its own propositions to the problem of care for the aged. He feels the AMA is canable of working by itself.
"The problems will be met and are being met where they belong-at the county level." he said.
Dr. Butcher disagreed with Rep. Fraser on the prospects of the King-Anderson Bill being approved by Congress.
"It won't happen this session." he said "But it will be a tough fight in the next one."
Weather
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