Hikers' Trophy: Aches and Blisters
By Terry Ostmeyer
A few blisters, sore legs, and a flat tire failed to daunt KU's five 50-mile hikers Saturday.
In fact, very few things seemed to bother Peter Miner, Kirkwood, Mo., freshman, who stepped off the grueling distance along Highway K-10 in 10 hours and 44 minutes, nearly seven hours ahead of two of his companions, Michael Hites, Prairie Village junior, and Wayne Wolfe, Shawnee Mission freshman.
Miner's time could have been a record of the distance, but before the day was over, it was broken by an Air Force man from St. Joseph, Mo., and several others around the country.
JAMES MURRAY, Leawood sophomore, and Ray Woods, El Dorado junior, evidently didn't complete the hike. They reportedly got as far as the Dine-a-Mite—and stopped.
The KU hikers almost began their walk early when they had a flat tire while driving to their starting point in Kansas City Saturday night.
They started hitchhiking and caught a quick ride the rest of the way.
The five began their trek at 2 a.m. Saturday from the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City. Minor walked up to the Chi Omega fountain at KU—the finish line—at 12:44 p.m. Hites and Wolfe made it to the fountain at approximately 7:30 p.m.
The hikers were accompanied by Michael Roberson, Abilene graduate student, who followed in a car—just in case.
WOODS WAS NOT an original member in the plans for the hike, but he was waiting in front of the Gallery when the others arrived. He asked if he could walk along and was given permission to join the group.
Miner's route measured only 46 miles, so he ran up and down a road four times which he estimated as being a little over a mile long.
Was Miner tired at the end of his trip? "Yes," he said frankly. "I think all of us were pretty tired."
HE SAID THERE ARE a few blisters or sore feet among the group, but otherwise, everyone came through all right.
"Really, the only things that got tired were my shoulders and my feet. My legs got sore off and on," he said.
Miner felt that the weather was the main reason he covered the 50-mile distance well under the 18-hour goal the group had set before the hike.
"The weather was really great," he said. "There wasn't any wind and it wasn't too cold. It was just right."
MINER SAID that he wore five layers of clothing under a white jacket.
He said he made his best time at first when it was still dark. "I started out real good, because when it's dark you can't see very well, so you don't aim at any certain spot, you just walk straight ahead," he explained.
Miner commented that he continued this way for about 25 miles. Then he began to jog down the hills and walk up them until he was about five miles outside of Lawrence. He walked the rest of the way.
California Man Pleads Guilty To Manet Theft
A 31-year-old Santa Monica, Calif., man faces a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both in connection with the theft last August of a painting from the KU art museum.
Francis Whalen, U.S. attorney for the southern district of California, said William R. Basham has pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging him in the theft of the $40,000 Manet painting of a little French girl.
LOSS OF THE PAINTING was discovered August 31 by KU museum authorities.
Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr., of the federal district court ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set sentencing of Basham for March 14.
Gerald Bernstein, museum curator, said today he assumed the painting would be "free" after March 14.
"The painting is needed in California as evidence until March 14." he said.
BERNSTEIN SAID he was notified that the painting is seriously damaged, with 27 abrasions across its surface.
Basham was indicted on a charge of concealing and storing goods in interstate commerce, knowing them to be stolen.
He was arrested January 14 by Los Angeles FBI agents, and the painting was recovered at his home.
Whalen said Basham had made no statement to authorities concerning the theft, but had pleaded guilty. Whalen indicated that Basham's arrest came after he attempted to sell the painting.
WHALEN SAID the government had evidence that Basham's car was parked a block from the museum on the day of the theft.
Joseph Skillman, KU campus police chief, said he is still checking the evidence and that his findings will be released later.
Monday, Feb. 18, 1963
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Regents Raise Fees For Watkins Hospital
Approval was given late Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents to an increase of student in-patient fees at Watkins Hospital from $3 to $7 per day.
The move also provides for a student health fee increase from $12 to $15 per semester by next fall.
BEGINNING NEXT MONTH, university employes and their families will be charged $14 per day for in-patient treatment instead of the current $9.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, health service director, today attributed the higher fees to increased medical costs. He said the hospital has been drawing on its reserve funds for more than a year in order to cover expenses.
DR. CANUTESON said the hospital must maintain a reserve fund to meet emergencies, such as an epidemic. Although no new services have been added, the hospital has appropriated more extensive laboratory and X-ray facilities. The mental health clinic has a five-man staff.
"We cannot operate on the old fashioned fee," he said.
The new $15 student health fee is the first increase since 1955, when rates were raised from $10 to $12. The health fee permits students to see doctors whenever needed, receive outpatient treatment, and get in-patient treatment at reduced costs.
Dr. Canuteson estimates the cost of one patient's occupying a hospital bed for one day at $20. With the increase to $7 per day the patient pays about one-third the cost of his treatment, the health director said.
OTHER ACTIONS BY THE BOARD of Regents include:
- An increase in zoology lab fees for field courses from $10.50 to $20 per hour.
- A $39,300 expenditure for repairs and improvements including the newly acquired Sunflower Ordnance property east of Lawrence on K-10.
- The program further provides for a new campus telephone system, relocation of the east campus water system, and a tractor for carrying radioactive nuclear research materials.
- Appointment of Joseph McGuire as dean of the School of Business, effective July 1.
Upon recommendation of Kansas State University president, James McCain, student health fees at that university will be raised from $10 to $13 per semester, and hospital room charge will go from $3 to $7 per day. Private music instruction fees will also increase.
CONCERNING K-STATE, THE regents approved: A resolution to issue a $1,500,000 dormitory revenue bond; $5,700 for remodeling Anderson Hall, and a $2,500 expenditure from the K-State student health funds to remodel parts of the student health center.
U.S. Terminates Surveillance Of Venezuelan Freighter
By United Press International
The United States has pulled back its surveillance of the hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui while it is anchored in Brazilian water, the State Department said today.
But Department spokesman Lincoln White said, "Our planes will remain in the neighborhood to resume surveillance should the ship again enter international waters."
"We plan to do nothing further so long as the vessel is in Brazilian territorial waters," White said. "The Venezuelan government has not asked us to do anything more than their original request to help locate the vessel. We have no request from the Brazilian government to do anything."
WHITE SAID the hijacked freighter was reported anchored at the island of Maraca, about one and a half miles off the Brazilian mainland, halfway between French Guiana and the mouth of the Amazon.
Earlier unconfirmed reports had the ship lifting anchor and heading for Belem or Recife to arrange surrender.
Brazilian authorities promised the Communist hijackers of the Anzoategui full political asylum. In Washington's view, the vessel's present anchorage and the Brazilian offer made the ship safe from capture.
In two radiograms directed to news agencies, second mate Wismar Medina Rojas took sole responsibility for the seizure of the ship last Tuesday and said all personnel were safe.
MEDINA ROJAS. WHO took over the Anzotegui in the name of the Venezuelan Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), said the ship dropped anchor "between the mouth of the Ampa Grande River and the Island of
Maraca" off Brazil's north coast at 9 p.m. last night.
Earlier, an FALN spokesman in Caracas claimed "our mission has been successful — 100 per cent. Betancourt can have his ship back now." The FALN reported that two of the group's operatives had gone to Recife, on Brazil's coast about 1,300 miles southeast of Maraca, to arrange asylum for the nine hi-ackers.
The hijackers took over the ship in the Caribbean en route to Houston, Tex., as part of a terrorist campaign to embarrass President Romulo Betancourt and force him to cancel his trip to the United States.
BETANCOURT PLANNED to arrive in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on schedule today in defiance of the pro-Communist campaign. He will continue to Washington tomorrow for talks with President Kennedy.
Medina Rojas' first radiogram,
sent at 1:45 a.m. read as follows:
"We inform you we entered (and) anchored Brazilian territorial waters between mouth Amapa Grande River (and) Maraca Island, waiting on board for Brazilian authorities. (Signed) Wismar Medina Roias."
IN WASHINGTON, the Pentagon had reported that the Anzoategui apparently dropped anchor about 30 miles North of Maraca Island.
A Pentagon spokesman said a U.S. Navy patrol plane sighted two small boats alongside the hijacked ship. But he refused to speculate whether this meant the FALN hijackers were preparing to disembark and said it was not known where the boats came from.
The spokesman said a U.S. Navy search vessel, the Josiah Willard Gibbs, was within 20 miles of the Anzoategui and would remain in the area to watch it. Surveillance by U.S. Navy patrol planes also would continue, he said.
MARACA ISLAND is opposite the small Brazilian port city of Amapa. The nearest sizable Brazilian port is Belem, 300 miles south.
Anderson Blasts Eurich Plan
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Gov. John Anderson today said he saw no need to create a State Universities Center of Wichita University unless it was made into a "sweeping program" encompassing the three other state colleges.
Anderson, in his morning news conference, said if Wichita U. were made into a Universities Center as proposed in the Eurich Report that Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State should be included in a sweeping revision.
Anderson commented, "The Eurich Report, despite the great amount of work which went into it, apparently didn't quite do the job it was intended to do."
In specific he signed out the plan to turn Wichita U. into a Universities Center under a 12-man secondary board composed of administrators of the two existing universities.
"This is completely unworkable and no one ever accepted it," Anderson said.
Asked if the State Board of Regents did not accept the report in its entirety, Anderson added that in his opinion the regents did not intend to endorse that section of the controversial report.
The governor said he did not consider himself bound by the GOP-sponsored and Senate-approved bill to bring Wichita U. into the state system but indicated that he liked it best out of all the other proposals.