'Ed Howe' pays off for Calder Pickett
William H. Taft (left), professor of journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, presents KU's Calder Pickett, professor of journalism, with a check for $200. The check represented the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha research award for Pickett's book, "Ed Howe: Country Town Philosopher," cited as an outstanding piece of published research in the field of journalism and mass communication.
District court will hear case of attempted arson
Two men charged with fourth degree arson were bound over to district court yesterday in a preliminary hearing at the Douglas County Courthouse.
David Worthington White and William Eugene Benson were charged with possession of incendiary materials and devices.
The two were arrested the second night of the curfew after the Union fire. Police testified they chased three men down the 1200 block of Louisiana and found a molotov cocktail in their path. Police subdued two of the men and followed the third into a home at 1220 Louisiana where he was taken into custody. The third person apprehended is in federal custody in Topeka.
Judge Rankin ruled that the amount of circumstantial evidence
gave probable cause that the two defendants may have been involved in attempting arson.
Juvenile literature critiqued; apologies to literary connoisseurs
By JIM CZUPOR Kansan Staff Writer
10 KANSAN May 1
1970
Editor's Note: Once again the mild-mannered Kansan reporter escaped his strait jacket and was loose on the streets of Lawrence, wreaking havoc on his assigned stories. Our apologies to the literary connoisseurs of America.
The process of payment and point of purchase by the curious tykes was a ritual in itself. The sight was truly pathetic as the whippersnappers dug deep into their pockets, clawing and squealing with delight as they found
Young and old alike were seen tripping over the linoleum enroute to the stacks of profusely illustrated action-filled toms on sale. Prices ranged (depending on gas or electric), from the exhorbitant, outlandish and inflationary price of five cents to eight bits for real collector's items.
A myriad of juvenile literature flooded the usually placid halls of Hillcrest Grade School Thursday afternoon at the first (and maybe last) Children's Book Fair.
While the mental midgets sweated over choosing between "Smokey the Cow Horse," a rather confused animal, and "Onion John" the vegetable out-house, mothers were observed subtly suggesting certain books for their children, that they themselves might want to read, and shortly thereafter snatching the book from the feeble grasp of their lurchin's paws and racing to a far corner of the room to feast their eyes on the pretty pictures.
The miniscule phalanges emerged from the denim cavernas spewing forth a barrage of material all over the floor.
little pieces of silver buried among a veritable junkyard of marbles, yo-yos, lizards, and other assorted sundry items.
Reacquiring their money, they plopped their coins on the counter, gratefully clutching the epics in their hot little hands. One little boy was overheard to say, "Do you have my little lizard anywhere?" To which the capitalistic bookseller straight-facedly replied, "I don't know, but I'll look in the catalog."
Other hot items on the rack were "Sam, bangs and moonshine" (not necessarily in that order); The Helen Keller Story, which has never been seen or heard of since; and "Gay-neck" with its sequel, "White Stag."
More than 700 publications were pawned off on the little savages during the first day of the fair. One optimistic official prognosticated all over the counter that the supply might possibly vanish from the varnished book-shelves before Saturday afternoon.
The age-old "Oldberry Awards"
were discontinued this year, which soured many readers, and in their place were the "Newberry Medal Awards."
Other highlights were the "Caldecott Medal Awards" given to outstanding "bed books." The granddaddy award of all, however was the William Allen White award, which was postponed due to wet grounds. Everybody left with a funny feeling in their stomachs and the question on their lips, "Who the heck is William Allen White?"
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