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by Fall, 1972.
The main Book Store in the Kansas Union is excessively overcrowded and is presently renting space off campus. The main Kansas Union is loosing participation in its programs because of the inconvenience for people in living groups in the southern portion of campus, said Longencker.
Presently the 200 seat Hawklet in the basement of Summerfield is the only available facility for food and refreshment service for a commuter population of more than 1,500 students and more than 5,000 students residing in that area.
The satellite union would mean about a $7 increase per semester in the student activity fee. However Keith L. Nitcher, vice chancellor of finance, said that the $3 operational cost in this amount could be deferred until the building becomes operational. There is no other way to fund the project, other than through this activity fee, Burge said.
Delaying the building, said Longenecker, would only result in higher costs because of inflation. The facility is a highly desirable part of long range plans for the University as it grows, Longenecker said.
'Sick-out' move slowed
By United Press International
Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, leader of the absentee air controllers, urged his men to return to work Tuesday, one day before a contempt of court hearing on charges he ignored an order to end an illegal strike against the government.
The executive director of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) told newsmen he had sent his membership telegrams saying that "those men not out legitimately should be back running air-planes."
But Bailey said he had no idea whether the absentees would heed his plea and end their protest sick calls that have slowed down commercial flight operations from coast to coast, hitting the Northeast and Middle West especially hard.
Bailey has denied throughout that the "sick-out" was a strike, as the government contends, but
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that the air controllers were really fatigued from overwork. However, he asked all the 14,000 air controllers last Thursday night to walk off their jobs, charging air safety was imperiled by the government's use of inadequately trained substitute controllers.
On Tuesday, Bailey said his appeal for a return to work was "triggered by the need to persuade the public I am not in favor of a strike or a walkout."
Snow and poor visibility caused further delays in flight departures and arrivals in the Northeast, from the Carolinas north and from Cleveland, Ohio, east.
The Federal Aviation Administration claimed what it called a "decided upward trend" in air controllers reporting for work at its 21 regional air traffic control centers across the country, especially in New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City and Denver.
On the 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift, the FAA said, absentee-ism was 29 per cent nationwide compared with 32 per cent during the same shift on Monday.
He said that the University was "crisis oriented" and did not look at a problem until it is too big to ignore. By accepting the need now and beginning to meet it this policy could change.
Longeneccker called the referendum a test of whether the students would vote responsibly. They must think of the students in 1972, he said, when more than half of the University's students will live in the southern part of the campus.
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"Its instrumentation revealed the existence of a radiation belt of the earth and opened up a massive new field of scientific exploration in space.
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Satellite dies-
"It inspired an entire generation of young men and women in the United States to higher achievements and propelled the Western world into the space age." Van Allen said.
The oldest man-made object in space now is the grapefruit-sized Vanguard I launched March 17, 1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Vanguard may remain in orbit between 200 and 2,000 more years.
Explorer 1, 80 inches long with its rocket motor attached, weighed 31 pounds when it was launched by a Jupiter-C rocket. It burned up between the continent of South America and New Zealand and between 500 and 1,000 miles southwest of Easter Island. a NORAD spokesman said.
Sputnik 1, the first man-made object in space, dropped back into the atmosphere three months after launch Oct. 4, 1957. The oldest Soviet object in space now is Lunik 1, a moon probe that went into solar orbit Jan. 2, 1959.
Photo by Ron Bishop
Even stop signs yearn for spring
Bob Johns, meteorologist in the public service unit of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Kansas City, Mo. attributed our unseasonal weather to an air pattern at around 20,000 feet. "Each time a storm like this appears," he said, "we always get snow on the north side of the low pressure area, or cold air." He confidently predicted the pattern would break up, "after a length of time."