Vol. 99, No. 62 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday November 22,1988
JFK
Campus recalls Nov.22,1963
By Terry Baurou
Kansan staff writer
On a typical Friday morning in late November 1963, tests and papers were due, students were busy making plans for Saturday's football game and Thanksgiving vacation was only a few days away.
But the afternoon brought a silence that would soon envelop the campus.
The news came that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.
net. For those old enough to remember Nov. 22,
the moment is frozen in time.
"I can remember it with crystal clarity," said John Stuckey, chairman of KU's All-Student Council in 1963.
Council in 1963. Stuckey said he had fallen asleep on the floor of his room when he was awakened by a newscaster's voice.
newBaster's son.
The tone of the voice was dreadful. The response that Kennedy had been shot, "Stuckey said." "I picked up the phone to call someone and there was no dial tone. The phone system was swamped with everyone trying to reach out to someone else."
Stuckey said that within 15 to 20 minutes everyone on campus had heard.
everyone on campus had heard
"For the next 72 hours no one on campus
was allowed in." He added, "else he said.
For the next 72 hours no one on campus thought or talked about anything else," he said.
The mainstream campus life stopped, and the mood was one of disbelief and sadness.
mood was. Students walked home from canceled classes in freezing rain. Students and faculty crowded around the nearest radio or television hoping that someone would say that President Kennedy was alive.
was alive.
Like most other football games scheduled for Saturday, KU's 72nd meeting with the University of Missouri was postponed.
One of KU's most prominent sports figures, Gale Sayes, an All-American in 1963, was quoted as saying, "How can you play football when you can't must fight mast for the Presidium of the United States."
Marsha Dutton, who was a senior at KU in 1963, was in Boston listening to the Boston Symphony Orchestra when the conductor announced that Kennedy had been shot.
Please see JFK1. p. 10, col. 4
'Camelot' image tarnished with time
By Terry Bauroth Kansan staff writer
Twenty-five years have passed since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but the event continues to touch people.
confinement. As党中央 was the youngest president ever elected. He served almost three years before he was shot and killed in a Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963. Many people still remember him with a striking sense of loss.
Francis Heller, professor emeritus of law, recalls his feelings at the time of Kennedy's death.
theory's denomination.
"He was three months older than me. He was my generation. This was my generation's chance and it had gone down the drain." said Heller, who taught at the University of Kansas at the time.
University of Kansas He said that young people felt positive about Kennedy because they could identify with his optimism.
"It was his manner they could identify with," Heller said. "Kennedy managed to articulate a sense of let's do something good for the country, and in those days a lot of students responded."
For instance, Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961. And Heller said that people lined up to interview with the Peace Corps when they came to the University of Kansas campus.
hasis camps
Food for Peace, the Alliance for Prog
ress, economic aid for underdeveloped nations and for the dissident Communist regimes of Yugoslavia and Poland also were programs inaugurated or increased by his administration as part of its more flexible strategy in the Cold War.
He was credited with the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis when the Soviets agreed to remove offensive missiles from
Please see CAMELOT, p. 10, col. 1
Mulroney wins in Canada
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Conservatives won a majority of seats in the House of Commons, more than enough needed to save the free trade pact with the United States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projected last night.
duan Broffcasting Corp. project. The CBC projected the new House of Commons would have 170 seats for Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party, 22 more than needed for a majority in the 295-seat House of Commons.
it projected that John Turner's opposition Liberals, who fiercely attacked the trade pact, would win 84 seats and the socialist New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent, which also opposed the accord, would win 41 seats.
seats.
Without giving specific figures, the public network said its breakdown of the popular vote showed the Conservatives with 43 percent, down by 7 percentage from 1984; the Liberals with 36 percent, up 8 percentage points, and the New Democrats in third with 18 percent.
16 per cent. The President Reagan and Mulroney signed the trade agreement last Jan. 2 and Mulroney needed a majority in the Commons to keep it alive. The U.S. Congress has approved the pact, but Parliament has yet to do so.
do so.
The plan is to take effect Jan. 1, 1989, and phase out remaining tariffs over the next 10 years between Canada and the United States, whose two-way trade is worth $150 billion a year.
Judge asks for decision President could order closing of North case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The judge in the tran- contra case yesterday appealed for President Reagan to decide once and for all whether to let Oliver North stand trial and thereby risk the disclosure of national security secrets.
U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gessell warned that if the former White House aide went to trial, probably in late January, the court would have "very little control" over the testimony of many witnesses "acquainted with high-security matters."
The judge invited a final administration decision on the problem, noting the dangers posed by public questioning of current and former government officials who would be called to testify as prosecution witnesses.
court. Geseil was not suggesting, as some of North's supporters have, that the president consider pardoning North before he even goes to trial. Rather, the judge was referring to the president's discretion as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, either directly order that the case be dropped or by invoking secrecy laws to prevent disclosure of classified information.
Hopper, county commissioner, dies
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff write
Douglas County Commission Chairman David C. Hopper lost his fight against cancer yesterday morning and died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He
Hopper
Hopper was forced to enter the hospital Nov. 13 because of lung and brain cancer.
brain
washs McKenzie, county administrator,
said the disease began to trouble Hopper about eight months ago, but he slowed down only when
Bill Martin, head of economic development at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Hopper convinced other commissioners to pay for a $200,000 water tank in Eudora. The tank ensured that UARCO Co. a printing firm, would move to Eudor*
Colleagues said the Eudora Democrat was a power behind some of the county's business development and its corrections program.
pain compelled him. During a hospital visit last week, McKenzie said that Hopper wanted to cast votes for the next commission meeting.
District Court Judge Mike Malone said Hopper convinced other commissioners to implement the county corrections program, which supervises the rehabilitation of nonviolent offenders for the police, which began in March 1987, the court had to decide between prison and probation.
pritting out, would be. "If it hadn't been for David's work on that project, the company would now be in Iowa," Martin said.
"I head an incredibly bright outlook on life," McKenzie said.
"I know it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for his initiative," Mone said. "He saw it as a chance to help the lives of some individuals."
Martin said Hopper also helped develop the East Hills Business Park in Eudora and projects in Baldwin and Lecompton.
McKenzie said that the Douglas County Democratic Party Planning Commission must appoint a commissioner to replace Hopper until county Commissioner-elect Mike Amyx takes office in January.
Hopper won his commission seat in 1984, after retiring from Haskell
takes an active parish rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. The Rev. Charles Andalikiewicz will preside at the funeral services at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Holy Family Catholic Church in Eudora. Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery.
Hopper is survived by his wife, Patricia; two sons; three daughters; a sister; and 13 grandchildren.
War games company seeks land permit
Indian Junior College as a vocational education instructor. He did not seek re-election this year.
By Mark Fagan
December 7, 1988, is a day that could live in infancy for Lawrence resident Curt Baxter.
Kansan staff writer
"We hope that we are actually going to some community of Lawrence," he said, noting the significance with the same day in 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Boumman Pearl Hearst
The Douglas County Commission will vote Dec. 7 on a request for a conditional use permit, which would allow Baxter and his roommate, Glenn Skulberstad, to organize their war game company, "Splatter Inc."
The game would be an elaborate "capture the flag," in which two teams would wage战 against
each other with guns armed with paint pellets.
In June, the planning commission unanimously recommended denial of the game's original site just west of the Cedar Hills subdivision, about three miles south of Lawrence.
For Baxter and Skulburstad the day would not signal the beginning of a war, but rather the end of one. Their plan for the game has been shut down as Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
On Wednesday, however, the commission approved a plan to place the game on a 47-acre tract of land northwest of Eudora, just south of the Kansas River and north of the far reaches of East 15th Street.
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“There are no other residential uses around there. There’s probably a half mile to the nearest house.” Banks said. “They’re down to the last ship.”
Price Banks, city planning director, said the planning commission approved the second plan because the site was not near any residential areas. The plan passed 4-3.
step. But the last step could be a big one, Baxter said. He still must meet with Eudora residents, most of whom are opposed to the game.
The Eudora Planning Commission recommended denial of the latest plan, but its role was
Please see GAMES, p. 8, col. 3
Kansan staff writer
Man chooses pigs over mobile homes
When John Fisher announced plans to build a mobile home park across the street from a housing subdivision earlier this fall, he met the resistance of community members and the Franklin Township zoning committee. In contrast, he threatened to build a pig farm developed land instead. Yesterday, he said he would act on his threats.
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
After months of trying to rezone his land, a Wellsville man has decided that the hassle is hogwash.
Wellsville is about 17 miles southeast of Lawrence.
Peter Nicholson, Ottawa resident and zoning administrator from Franklin Township, said that the county commissioners could
his ears.
"They think they want a pig farm." Fisher said. "They thought it was cute. The hell with them. We're going to go ahead and put in a pig farm."
On Oct. 26, the Franklin Township zoning board voted against the proposal to rezone Fisher's land But yesterday, the Franklin County commissioners decided to reconsider their decision, referring the proposal back to the zoning board.
either have accepted the decision or reconsidered it. They decided to reconsider because if the land is rezoned, Fisher would need a special use permit to build his proposed mobile home park, Nicholson said.
The board will reconsider the proposal tomorrow.
Merle Haas, Wellsville resident and Franklin County commissioner, said the townpeople wanted the pig farm instead of the mobile home park because they were afraid of the influx of people to their housing area.
"Anytime you have more people, you have more trouble." Haas said. "It's just as simple as that." So Fisher is going to give the
It is just as simple as that. So Fisher is going to give the people what they want.
people what they "After they smell it a while, I'm sure they'll come around."
The proposed mobile home park would have come with a swimming pool, clubhouse, playground and other features. Fisher said he was trying to develop the community with his park.
"I don't care about the people of Wellsville anymore," he said. "This is the third time the mobile home park has been turned down. If they don't want to help their economy, that's fine."