Largest turnout of college tour
Pat gets warm welcome at Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPI) — First Lady Pat Nixon won her most enthusiastic welcome and was received by the largest crowd on her five-day college swing Thursday when she arrived at the Springfield Airport.
Her plane, a 707 jet with an American flag insignia and part of the presidential fleet, was the largest ever to land at the airport.
The crowd, estimated by police at 3,500, broke through wooden barriers to greet the First Lady. Most were children from girl scout and brownie troops and campfire girl organizations who
wanted to shake Mrs. Nixon's hand and get her autograph.
Mrs. Nixon then motored for 90 minutes from the airport through the rolling countryside and lake resort towns to the School of the Ozarks at picturesque Point Lookout near the Arkansas state line.
Church bells chimed, children waved American flags and others carried welcoming placards as the First Lady experienced a bit of Ozark hospitality that compared favorably with her previous stops, some of which had been stormy.
Libraries open doors to all Kansas students
Libraries at the seven Kansas state-supported institutions of higher education have opened their doors to students from any of the institutions, including University of Kansas Medical Center students and faculty.
Students may use the library facilities by supplying evidence of their current enrollment as a student or appointment as a faculty member at any of the seven colleges and universities.
The privilege is the result of an agreement by the Kansas Academic Librarians' Council. It
was reached in order that library materials and services paid for by state funds could be made directly available to all Kansas students and faculty.
The borrowing privileges will apply at each library and the borrower must follow the local rules. Returns may be made in person, by mail or through the home library.
Failure to return books or pay fines could result in the termination of borrowing privilege or action from the borrower's own institution.
Production costs rise on Air Force's C5 plane
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lockheed Aircraft Corp., told the Pentagon Thursday it can not continue to build the C5 beyond the end of the year without more federal money to cover increasing costs of the big jet transport program.
The Air Force reduced its order from 120 to 81 planes and has refused to estimate the cost of the smaller number of purchases,
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pending court suits to determine how much of the excess costs should be absorbed by Lockheed
Estimates of "cost overruns" on the program have run as high as $2 billion. When the order stood at 120 planes, the cost was estimated to have risen from an original $2.9 billion to $5.1 billion.
Her visit to the peaceful rural campus was low key.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said he viewed the claim by Lockheed as "extremely serious" but that no action would be taken until the matter had been reviewed by the Defense Department and the appropriate committees of Congress.
The security also was in great contrast to the tours of helmeted police who guided her in Denver and Boulder. There are no hippies here; there were no demonstrations.
"We really just don't have time for that," student Jerry Brannan, 20, told Mrs. Nixon.
"This is an unexpected surprise," Mrs. Nixon said, "to see so many people out at the gate, all the flags. I'm going to enjoy the tour of your great school."
Elbert cautions candidates not to slam,sling mud
"I had to move away; they were breaking down the fences," she told reporters with a smile.
Mrs. Nixon was obviously delighted by the turnout, weather and welcoming. She received a thunderous reception at the Springfield airport, where her only cause for alarm were the children who broke through the barricades just to shake her hand.
Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and student body presidential candidate, cautioned his party's candidates that during the final week of the campaign there might be some mudslinging, but that the Alliance should continue to run their campaign "above board." Ebert spoke at an Alliance organizational meeting Thursday night in the Kansas Union.
"Our intention is to keep the campaign issue oriented and avoid the kind of personality slam and character defamation that appeared today (in Thursday's Kansan). There is not going to be any mudslinging coming from the Alliance," he said.
"Bantering back and forth between candidates about personalities and pseudo-issues only works to turn students off to the importance of the political process," Ebert said.
The meeting was held to help the Alliance candidates to organize their campaign for the final week and to discuss the party's issues.
Mrs. Nixon stepped down from the plane in an electric blue wool coat on a bright, sunny day in the Missouri Ozarks, the best weather she has had to date. She was officially greeted by Mrs. Warren E. Hearnes, Missouri's first lady.
"We're glad you came our way," said Mrs. Hearnes, "Glad you came to see our volunteers."
"It's great to be here on this wonderful day," said Mrs. Nixon in a brief response. She was handed the key to the city by Mayer Carl Stilwell.
David W. Backs of Southwest Missouri State College, acting as a cheerleader, urged the children to shout "We want Pat, We want Pat."
They responded loudly with shrieks that drowned out some of the welcoming remarks, Mrs. Nixon was handed a red apple which she clutched as she moved along the fence. She laughed when she saw the sign of one little girl which read, "My name is Pat, too."
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It was strictly a Republican- boosted welcome.
Mrs. Nixon signed only one autograph—on an inaugural program which a woman pleadingly handed to her. Among the many welcoming signs was one which read, "God bless you and your work."
Two welcomers who apparently came by on their own to greet Mrs. Nixon were former Congressman O. K. Armstrong, R-Mo., and Attorney General John C. Danforth, the only statewide GOP officeholder in Missouri.
Study in Guadalajara, Mexico
She was on the last lap of her college tour to spark student volunteerism. Her appearance later Thursday at the School of the Ozarks was the first time she had actually set foot on a campus.
The first lady was slightly perturbed when she came upon blonde 9-year-old Ruby Ferguson, who was crying in her father's arms. She had been slightly bruised in the crush of the crowd.
There were no "anti" signs and security was much lighter here than in Denver and Boulder,
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Colo., where Mrs. Nixon toured student volunteer projects Wednesday.