County reports no additional cases
Condition of meningitis victim unchanged
Gene Vaughn, 17-year-old Baldwin High School senior, was still listed in poor condition Monday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he has been hospitalized since Wednesday with spinal meningitis.
Dale Clinton, Douglas County health director, said no new evidence of meningitis in Douglas county had emerged as of Monday. Baldwin area schools which were ordered closed Thursday and Friday as a preventative
The KU Latin American Festival staged by students from 18 different countries will be held Friday, April 17, in Westminster Center.
The festival is being sponsored by the Latin American Club. Robert Ortiz, Pemberton, N.J., freshman and chairman of the social committee, said that the festival will begin at 6 p.m. with an exhibit of handcrafts from Latin American countries.
A parade of the flags, in which students wearing their native costumes will carry their national flags, will open the program.
measure were reopened Monday.
Students from Trinidad and Guyana will present musical themes from their land, and Mariachis from Mexico will be
Latin American club to sponsor festivities
Clinton said there were still no clues as to where Vaughn contracted the disease.
included in the program. Dances from the Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia will be performed by students from these countries.
A pageant contest to select Miss Latin KU will follow the musical skits. Candidates are Livia Mendez from Venezuela, Silvia Diaz from Panama, Lily Chan from Venezuela and Ana Maria Lopez from Peru. Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, will crown the elected queen.
A Latin American night, including music from all the Latin American countries and the United States is scheduled for after the festival. The admission fee is $1.50. Members of the Latin American and International Clubs will be admitted free.
Vaughn attended a 4-H Club Days event at Eudora April 4 along with about 125 youngsters. Those who had close contact with him were sent home from Lawrence schools until Monday.
Clinton explained the disease as an inflammation of the spinal cord coverings. It is contagious and can be spread through the air, such as by coughing or drinking after an infected person. The incubation period is 4 to 5 days.
He said there were three types of meningitis—meningococcal or spinal meningitis, which affects the spinal cord; encephalitis, sometimes referred to as sleeping sickness, which affects the brain; and pneumococcus, a generalized infection affecting the spinal cord and brain.
The symptoms are described as sore throat, headache behind the eyes, fever, stiff neck and sometimes vomiting. Bacterial types of meningitis usually can be treated with antibiotics. Clinton said Vaughn had the bacterial type.
A congressional investigation held last month looked into charges that recruits there were overworked and susceptible to the disease.
Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., has reported 38 cases of meningitis and four deaths attributed to the disease since last October.
The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Richard Ichord, D-Mo., toured the base and reported that the Army was doing everything possible to curb infection and care for the ill.
Rep. Durward Hall, a physician and a member of the committee,
said meningitis was a recurring problem of close-quarter living, about which there was insufficient knowledge and no effective total prevention.
McCluer High School in St. Louis had a meningitis scare early last month when one of its teachers, Mrs. Burman Dyer, contracted meningitis.
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Santee seeks funds for portrait
A group of former track athletes from the University of Kansas are trying to solicit funds to buy a painting of Bill Easton, former KU track coach, said former KU track star Wes Santee Monday. The painting will be presented to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. during Kansas Relays Weekend.
Santee said he and his group would present the painting to the chancellor at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Chalmer's office.
"Chalmers said he would see that a painting of Easton would
Students oppose troop withdrawal
PITTSBURG (UPI) — Students at Kansas State College Monday voted 671 to 598 against an immediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.
The poll was taken as part of a nationwide referendum and was sponsored at Pittsburg by the Campus Committee for Peace. Members of the group plan to participate in an anti-war march and rally Wednesday in Kansas City.
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hang in a very prominent place to pay tribute to Easton for his years of service to KU," said Santee.
"We are asking for contributions of $5 and $10 to cover the cost and will make a detailed report of contributions for those who participate," said Santee.
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