More than 300 entrants from 34 smaller high schools in the northeast part of the state will participate in a district speech and drama festival Saturday at KU.
The festival is an official event of the Kansas State High School Activities Association. The KU speech and drama department and the University Extension are co-operating.
Twenty-two one act plays will be given in the University Theatre, Lawrence High School and Central Junior High School. All other events will be in Murphy Hall.
Library hours for break listed
The schedule of hours for Watson Library during spring break are as follows: Saturday-8 a.m. to noon, Sunday-closed, Monday through Friday-8 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 28-8 a.m. to noon, March 29- closed, March 30-regular schedule resumed.
Branch library hours are posted at the door of each library.
Strike stops N.Y. mail service
Due to a carrier's strike in New York City the University Post Office has announced that it will not be able to accept mail to the following places until further notice: New York City, N.Y.; Bronx, N.Y.; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Flushing, N.Y.; Far Rock-a-way, N.Y.; Jamaica, N.Y.; Long Island City, N.Y.; Staten Island, N.Y.; Minneola, N.Y.; Hicksville, N.Y.; and Riverhead, N.Y.
It is not known when the carrier's strike will end and when mail to these places will again be accepted.
Ninety per cent of money from donations now in use
About 90 per cent of the $19.6 million given to the University of Kansas through the Program for Progress campaign is already in use at the University, Maurice E. Barker, fund director of the KU Endowment Association said Wednesday.
Barker said he wanted to stress the fact that most of the money was used for specific purposes determined by the private donors. He said only about $1.5 million was unrestricted, approximately $600,000 of which is in the form of pledges still to be received.
The unrestricted funds, Barker said, will be allocated by the
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Executive Committee of the Endowment Association.
Of the money raised by the Program for Progress, Barker said, $2.5 million went to the Spencer Research Library, $350,- 000 to the Nunemaker College and $1.5 million was unrestricted; it was not given by the donors for a specific purpose. The rest of the money is put in trust funds to be used for such purposes as a medical research center, a museum of art, professorships, book supplies for Watson and Spencer libraries and scholarships and loans, Barker said.
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The KU Program for Progress was launched in 1966, its goal being to raise $18,617,00. By December 1969, gifts and pledges totaled $19,600,000. In addition, $1 million in gifts had been made directly to the University during the campaign period.
"the purpose of raising private funds for the University is not to supply, but to supplement state funds," Barker said.
Community Clearing House:
Utilizing student and local volunteers to fill the needs of various civic organizations in Lawrence is the function of the Community Clearing House located in the Wesley Foundation at 1314 Oread Drive.
The Community Clearing House began in the Fall of 1968 as a result of an idea formulated by Associated Women Students (AWS).
Volunteers aid civic clubs
Becky Morrell, Prospect
Heights, Ill., junior and one of 12 Clearing House staff members, said many KU students are involved in the program but it is basically a community organization. She describes the operation as "a referral service where we connect student and local volunteers with organizations in Lawrence needing various types of help.
Institutions and organizations utilizing Community Clearing
Announcer banned from election room
KUOK was banned from the election room Wednesday night in its first attempt at live-coverage of student elections.
Joe Vaughan, Kansas City, Kan., senior and KUOK announcer was banned from room 110 in Summerfield Hall, the room used for last night's ballot-counting.
Vaughan was greeted at the door by Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student, who apologized for the station's banishment. "We're counting ballots in here," he said, "and only authorized people are allowed in here." Von Ende told Vaughan he could obtain the results as soon as they were posted.
According to Vaughan, the reason he wanted in was because KUOK had been authorized to use room 110.
"I was authorized two days ago by the head secretary of the computer office and by Frank Burge of the Union," he said. Vaughan had planned to use the room to phone election results to KUOK's newsroom and set up radio equipment in the Hawklet.
When Vaughan received confirmation to use the room, he said he was not aware the ballots would be counted in the same room. "I asked for a room assignment," he said, "and that's the room they gave me."
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Miss Morrell said a file is kept containing information on the needs of organizations and the names and qualifications of volunteers. Clearing House staff members then match organizational needs with volunteers having the desired qualifications, she said.
House services are Head Start, Lawrence Public Schools, Lawrence Department of Parks and Recreation, the Ballard and East Lawrence Centers and the Beth Stone Activity Center, which works primarily with retarded children.
Robert Sullinger, Overland Park, junior and general manager of KUOK, said, "We should have gotten written permission or else more authority than we did, but still the fact remains, a member of the press was not allowed in there to preserve the right of the people to know the results."
Clearing House volunteers engage in various types of work including working with children, tutoring, providing transportation and housing restoration, Miss Morrell said. Other volunteer jobs include secretarial and hospital work and helping the aged
She said a program to help the aged called Ring-A-Day has begun in Lawrence. The program utilizes Clearing House volunteers for telephone conversations with lonely, aged people who simply need to talk with someone.
"Response to the Clearing House has been good," Miss Morrell said, "but we definitely need more volunteers."
When a reporter later tried to find out why KUOK was banned, von Ende said David R. Miller, Hays senior and co-chairman of the elections committee, and the computer operator did not want anyone else in the room.
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