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University of Kentucky
Vol.LII. No. 50

LEXINGTON,

KV., TUESDAY, JAN.

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Neville Hall Destroyed By Fire
Three Alarms Sounded;
Building Complete Loss

By MIKE WENNINGER

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Neville Hall, a classroom
and office building condemn- ed 22 years ago, was destroyed

by fire yesterday morning.
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Lexington fire fighters arrived
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carefully descends the stairs in .Neville Hall shortly
after yesterday's fire was extinguished. A few minutes after this
photo was taken, another fireman slipped on the water-soake- d
steps at approtlmately the same place and was slightly injured.
In the wall at right Is the place in an unused elevator shaft where
the fire began, according to a battalion chief.
A fireman

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and
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second floor were not damaeed
WHIT HOWARD
too much by the fire, except along
At 1:15 p.m. yesterday the
the waUs near tne staircase but
front lawn of Neville Hall was tnere was considerable water
with water soaked re- - age.
The third floor " he said -- was
search data, blackened taix- - .re- .
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typewriters, and lxxks laid in
By MIKE FEARING

several students helped carry out charred and water-soake- d
step
books, typewriters, and office ma- - leading to the first floor. He fell
terials- nd hu hls back on the BteP nd
be helped from the build,
Fire Department Battalion Chief
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by fe!low firemen. IIe com.
the fre gUrted
In an unused elevator shaft beside plained of pains In his back.
lne first landing of the stairwell at
Many important
papers and
rw ?' th " E"ct,how mucn valuable equipment, lnclud- has not been determined, lng research Items, were either
began
Some of the furniture and equip- - burned or ruined by water during
ment on the first two floors were the disaster,
Thousands of persons, including
Protected by waterproof covers
mi
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it
they arrived.
A schedule of the psycholThe blaze was fought in below-freeziweather with five pieces ogy classes Is shown on page
two.
of equipment, including a
ladder truck, while a small ladder
truck and a salvage and rescue members, gathered to watch the
truck stood by. The trucks had building burn. Newsmen, includdifficulty getting to the site be- ing several radio reporters giving
cause of narrow driveways with
coverage, and photocars parked on both sides.
ty
graphers were everywhere.
Firemen began hosing the buildpolice were called out to
ing at approximately 10:15 a.m. keep spectatois out of the fireand stopped around 11:30 o'clock. men's way.
Fire fighters entered the building
Water from hoses soon caused
a few minutes afterward.
shrubbery around the hall to become coated with ice. When the
Conrad Wells, a fireman with
Engine Company No. 1, was in- hoses were shut off, water on the
jured shortly after noon when he sidewalks and driveways in the
Continued on Page 5
slipped while descending the

Only one person, a fireman, was
injured during the burning of the
$69,000 building. The blaze demolished the roof and third floor
and charred the stairwell and
tecond floor hall. The second and
first floors were heavily damaged
by water. E. B. Farris, University
chief engineer, said the building is
a complete loss.
Mrs. Peggy A. Mull, Psychology
Department secretary, said the fire
was discovered by graduate student Bill Inman shortly before 10
o'clock. Inman warned Mrs. Mull
in her second floor office and she
immediately called the Lexington
Fire Department.
She then carried some personnel
files and budget records out of the
hall and tried to go back for more
but was unable to reenter the
blazing building.
Mrs. Mull said some psychology
laboratory classes were meeting
on the second floor when the fire
began and estimated that about
Yesterday's Neville Hall fire
50 persons were in the building.
was uie University s s;vu ma- She said the building janitor and
jor fire in 15 years.
These fires have resulted in a
total loss of nearly one million
SUB Travel Board
dollars. The largest loss was $400,
For those students looking for
rides between semesters, the 000 In the Maintenance and Op
Student Union Travel Board has erations Building fire on Soutn
posted a list on the bulletin Limestone Street, Feb, 15, 1946.
A blaze in the Ouignol Theatre
board in the upstairs hall of the
ol B next to the check room. and Music Building on Euclid
at Harrison, Feb. 10. 1947.
All those Interested
are requested to sign up on this list. produced t loss of $35,000.
Norwood Hall, just west of

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Near Million In 15 Years

straight lines to dry.
Brad Block, graduate .student la
psychology, aid, "a lot of the
books will be readable after they
dry out "
After stepping over hundreds of
feet of fire hose and entering the
In tiding through the main hallway, covered with two Inches of
water, the aftermath of the fire
was cold and gloomy.
The building hiuelled like the inside of a musty trunk that hadn't
been opened in years. Holes "had
been chopped in the floors so the
water could drain.
In the main office of the psychology department the desks were
covered with a red tarpaulin
marked LFD, Lexington Fire Department. These had been hastily
thrown over equipment to protect
them from dripping water.
Over the main desk in the
a chunk of plaster had fallen
and the lights were hanging by
windows were
tie wire. The
broken and steamed.
Down the hall in one of the
classrooms, a few chairs were covered by fallen plaster. A book
lay on top of one desk; across the
room an empty coffee cup sat on
another.
In the office of D. L. Melln-bruc- h
it was raining. His oifice
eq'iipment was also covered with
red tarpaulins, and a few papers
lei t uncovered were water soaked.
Pick Ware, University photog- -

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Margaret I. King Library, caught
fire on Nov. 12, 1948. The loss
was $200,000.
On May 24, 1953, a fire In s
dairy barn, on the Experiment
Station Farm resulted in a loss)
of (75,000.
Frazee Hall burned on Jan. 24,
wiui damages 01 tiua.uuu.
Before 1946 the University suf- fered various other fires, the more
serious ones being the Expert-Avenrnent Station In 1891 with a loss
of $4,000: the Stock Pavilion In
1926. with a loss of $25,000 and the
Men's Gym in 1928, loss $8,000.
In 1946 the $400,000 Maintenance
and Operations Building fire had
80 local firemen fighting to keep
the flames under control. Students
were removed from the building
which also housed the women's
eym.
Lumber and oil stocks intensified
the damage when flames entered
the storage area.
When the fire began, a formal
dance in the Student Union Building was under way. The dance was
interrupted by the mass confusion
outside and the sirens.
Men and women in formal attire rushed out as onlookers but
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soon pitched in to help salvage
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Telephone lines caught fire,
threaten power and high voltage lines, but were cut off before
serious damage could be done.
The first destroyed the Extension Department books. Triangle
fraternity records and books, army
surplus equipment, and a power
supply owned by WBKV.
When the flames threatened the
University heating plant and the
American Suppliers Tobacco Co.
warehouse, tension was at its peak.
The fire, which began at approximately 10 p.m., razed the
building as the walls fell and oil
exploded.
The cause of the Maintenance
and Operations fire Is not definitely known. Three theories are
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"I think PE and liygiene should lie required, although they

could lxith be better taught."
This statement by Susan Dees, sophomore education major,
was typical of more than 100 students interviewed over the
weekend concerning abolishment of the College of Arts and
Sciences physical education and General Hygiene requirement for graduation.
went out of place every tlme x
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medical major, said. "The abolish- Freshman engineering student
mcnt of compulsory physical edu- - Jlm Mathis stated, "It's all need-caticombined with the relative less foolishness . . . most of us in
physical inactivity of the student good condition go on and get
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get any other kind of'ly no sport enhances it," was the
exercise.''
opinion of a senior drama student.
more
"Participation In P.E. and some "I think women should take
knowledge of hygiene is part of home economics to learn things
being a well rounded person." they will have to know as
Penny Hess commented, wives."
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Ann Early Hatton, freshman,
thinks some sort of physical exer- - major, said, "I don't see why they
I didn't
cine is necessary. "We don't get dont do awav witn it
get one thing out of it."
much exercise now as it is."
One senior girl said the only
Physical education offers a
break in the routine of other sound argument for keeping the
classes." Roberta Smith, sophomore requirement is that If it were
dropped some of the teachers
social work major, stated.
Don Hering, junior Agriculture would lose their Jobs,
Several students compared the
major said. "Americans are the
fattest, sloppiest people on earth; physical fitness of Russians to that
of the U.S. but don't think the
they need more physical education
two required hours of physical
than is required now."
Senior English major Caroline education would help the situation.
Miller said. "I
think One student thought the choice
physical education should be re- should be left up to the Individual.
"The students are paying for
quired, because It helps the student keep in good physical con- their education, and should be allowed to choose their own courses,"
dition."
acBetty Harris, senior education stated Paul Petrey, sophomore
major, thinks the idea of dropping counting major.
Senior Ann Moxie thinks a com- the requirement is "ridiculous."
Those for dropping the require- - bination of physical education and
ment thought P.E. and liygiene hygiene might solve the problem,
"I there were some way you
were "a complete waste of time."
"perfectly ridiculous," and "silly." could take four hours of both in
ne semester and have them tie
' Sandra Barrett, junior commerce
major, said, "The only thing I got in 'ith each other, there might
out of fencing was that my toe not be s mucn obejetion."
Only one person interviewed
stated that he hadn't given it
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Wednesday News Associate
psychology
It was a heart-sic- k
staff that went into a huddle before Neville Hall Just three hour
alter the top floors of the building had been gutted by fire.
They stood among the sopping
remains of books, research materials, blackened tape recorders, and typewriters that they had.
carried out of the building.
Years of research and work were
lost In the fire as it swept through
the third floor of the building.
Dr. Richard L. Blanton, associate professor of Psychology, said.
"All of my research data was
stored on the third floor and I
don't know Just how much of it
was lost. It represented about
three years work. I don't know
how much of the work can be
reconstructed."
Dr. James Calvin, head of the
alPsychology Department, said
though aoroe of the research
most
projects may be salvaged,
of the theies and dissertations of
student were stored
the graduate
on the third floor. These were
destroyed.
Ken
student.
One graduate
Berry, said that he lost his top
coat, equipment, and thesis on the
second floor when the fire broke
out.
Dr. Calvin also commented that
Dr. John W. Donahoe, assistant
professor of Psychology, had been
building some equipment for two
years. The equipment was hoased
on the third floor.
Another member of the Psycholspoke of Dr.
ogy Department
Calvin's materials. His research
had represented five years of work.
She faid, "I could Just cry. All
those years of work."
Two other members of the psyhad been
chology department
more fortunate. Dr. Frank A.
Pattie. professor of Psychology
said, "I have too much sense to
have left anything of value in the
building. The only thin? I lost
was a 125 year old book worth

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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL,

UK Coed, Back from Europe
Recounts Her Experiences
Picking flowers from the Rus-Ma- n
fide of the Iron Curtain may
not be safe, but It was too preat
a temptation
to forego, saiil a
UK honor student who Just returned from a term In a London
rthool.
Kathleen Poore, a Junior home
economics major from Eebrce, said
that when she reached across the
Chechoslovakian border to plcic
the flower, she was afraid It might
be for her own funeral. A week
be fere, the border guards shot at
a tourist who stepped across the
line.
Miss Poore ran into a little
difficulty with the Communists
when she got stranded overnight
in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. She was
flying from Vienna to Rome and
her plane had to land because
cf storms over Rome.
"As soon as we landed, officials
started crawling all over the plane.
One grabbed my passport. They
loaded everyone Into a bus and

KATHLEEN I'OOKE
took us to a modern hotel. They
said we could not leave the hotel
except in groups. I was glad when
we left there. Everything was so
bleak looking, and people talked
in whispers most of the time."
Miss Poore went to Europe July
1, with a group of 31 students rep- -

lesenting the Methodist Church
in the United States. The tour
included religious seminars and a
work scheme to help refugees.
The group had seminars in Germany, Austria, and France.
"We fpent two weeks in Lintz,
Austria which is located on the
Danube," she said. "I thought the
river was actually bluish looking,
but it isn't. The saylnu is that the
Danube is blue only when you are
drunk enough to see it that way."
Before starting to school In London in September, Miss Poore
toured England, Ireland, and Scotland.
"I mssed the Blarney Stone as
soon as I got the chance. At first
I was a little skeptical about leaning backwards over a rail, but I
decided It was worth the effort.
"Scotland is one of the most
beautiful places I have ever seen.
The heather was in bloom, and it
made the hills look as if they were
covered with a lavender mist.
"Most of the people In these
countries are wonderful," she continued. "At first they are reserved,
mostly because they never know
how an American is going to act.
Most Americans they meet have a
tendency to be brashy and flash
money around.
"The English attitude toward the
average American Is that he is
uncivilized. One person I met was
surprised that we have electricity."
Miss Pocre spent a term at the
National
College of
Training
Domestic Science in London. Doscience is the English equivmestic
alent of home economics.
"Their word for clothing' is
needlecraft. and foods is called
cookery. Their system of teaching
home economics is also different.
They tend to place moie emphasis
on the practical side rather than
actual textbook study.
"There is a difference in
t-teacher
she
relationship,"
said. "It is more formal although
they seem interested in you. Whenever a teacher walks in at the
beginning of a class, the students
stand up and say good morning.
The teacher says good morning
and class officially begins.
"I was a little surprised the first
day in class when the instructor

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stopred in the middle of her lecture and announced that it was
time for tea. So we all trooped
downstairs and had, of all things,
coffee. We always had our tea in
the afternoons though.
"But I was even more surprised
when I learned that the president
of the college always served cocktails whenever she had luncheons
for the students.'
Miss Poore said the chess for
college women was formal. She
said that they always wore hose
and high heels.
"I asked one of the students if
they ever wore bobby socks. She
didn't know what I was talking
about. I wore a pair one day to
see what would happen. No one
said anything. They Just stared."
Miss Poore stayed in Croslcy
Hall, a dormitory sponsored by the
International Federation of American Women. She said the dorm
was located in the Chelsea section
of London. Chelsea is London's
answer to Paris' Left Bank and
New York's Greenwich Village.
"You can meet all sorts of beatniks here," she said. There didn't
seem to be any set uniform for
looking beat. Some of them looked
way out, but most of them were so
ordinary looking that I was disappointed.
"Their coffee shops are wonderful. They have such an authentic
atmosphere, and you can start a
conversation with anyone on almost anything."
When asked about what first
impressed her about English colleges. Miss Poore replied:
"The textbooks. They're so much
cheaper."
Miss Poore is a member of Phi
Upsilon Omicron, home economics
honorary, Links, Junior women's
and Mortar
Board,
honorary,
senior women's honorary.
UK came into existence on Feb.
22, 1865, when the General Assembly chartered the Agricultural
and Mechanical College and made
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at the beginning of the meeting.
PINNINGS
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Cleveland,
Anderson,
to Phil YofTe, a member
Ohio,
of Zeta Beta Tau.
ENGAGEMENTS
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at Patterson Hall, recently became

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building. Firemen tried to lower the
escape to enter the building after the
fire but could not even pry it down
with fire axes. Anyone trying to escape
down the ladder would have bad to
jump from the second floor to reach
safety.
Another was in the drive that leads
to Neville, Miller, and Anderson Halls.
Because of the many cars parked on
the drive, fire trucks were tied up for
more than 10 minutes and unable to
reach the burning building until a
number of cars were removed. Inability to get to the blaze gave it an
added opportunity to spread before
firemen could act. If a blaze broke
out in Miller Hall, a similar bottleneck would hinder operations.
Before another fire breaks out,
these conditions and the attitudes of
a number of administrators must be
corrected. There are those who feel
that if state fire laws are complied
with all that can be done about possible fires has been done. Neville Hall
complied with fire laws, so did Frazee
IIall before it burned in 1956, so do
hundreds of buildings that burn every
year. It is apparent that mere compliance with fire laws is not enough.
The University must go even further
if it is to meet its obligations to its
students and staff.
We have said it before and say
it again: It is too late to act after
lives have been lost.

hardly the time to say, "We

toKl you so," with the ashes of Neville

Hall little more than cooled after
yesterday's fire which, for all practical
purposes, destroyed the building.
What we shall do, however, is repeat the warning we have made many
times before.
Several University classroom
buildings are as much firetraps as
Neville Hall was. Among these buildings are the Social Sciences Building
(known to students as "splinter hall"
and to architectural engineering students who make fire safety studies as
a part of thier class work as the "social sciences firetrap"), Miller Hall,
and White Hall. Several other campus buildings, including the Administration Building, are in a marginal
class.
We trust that since the Neville
Hall blaze reportedly began in a janitor's closet a prompt study of all
University janitor's closets and storage
rooms will be made. Perhaps the
many other tinder boxes on campus
will be investigated, but all the investigations in the world will not help
unless something is done about these
buildings and the conditions that
make them dangerous.
Several disturbing flaws appeared
yesterday that cry for immediate
action. One such flaw was the fire
escape on the front of the gutted

Foul Fowl Again
Last 'Nov. 1 we
tried to prod the University administration into doing something about
the pigeons which are turning the
Administration Building into a dunghill. Most of our comments were made
d
or a
with a
approach to the problem.
However, we did inject one serious
thought: that pigeons sometimes carry germs which can cause diseases in
humans.
Last week we learned from a
news story in the Lexington Leader
that a disease was transferred in such
a manner shortly before our editorial
was published. The Leader reported
that seven men became ill in October
while cleaning out a pigeon roost on
Short Street.
Several pigeons from the area were
examined at a U.S. Public Health
Service laboratory in Atlanta, Ga. A
local health officer said the laboratory found that two of the birds had
a type of ornithosis that is "contagious
and a potential source of trouble."
Tests showed that the seven men had
histoplasmosis.
The Leader story continued, "Ornithosis is a virus disease that infects
the body of birds, and their droppings
serve as the medium in which fungus
grows and causes histoplasmosis in
humans. Histoplasmosis is seldom
fatal to humans, but some forms of
ornithosis,
particularly
psittacosis
(parrot fever), were 'highly fatal' be
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fore the development of antibiotics,
the health officer said."
Histoplasmosis affects the lungs
of humans and the symptoms are
much like those of tuberculosis.
The University Health Service
took quick action to protect the health
of University students and personnel
when it learned of a diphtheria epidemic in neighboring Scott County
last November. Now that it is probable that carriers of a contagious disease found only four blocks from the
campus are contentedly perched on
a building beside the Infirmary, we
hope the Health Service acts just as
rapidly to have the foul fowl exterminated.
And if extermination is begun,
would someone please see that the
flock of starlings that recently made
the Administration Building its winter
playground is chased away by the
workers while they are getting rid
of the pigeons?

Kernels
"To know that we know what we
know, and that we do not know what
we do not know, that is true knowledge." Confucius.

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Where Are They?
much
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That man is possessed of
rationality, that he strives to
greater comprehension of his universe, that he seeks to create, to produce, all seem a vague, nebulous
concept to most university students.
For here, as well as in many American colleges, undergraduates possess
little intellectual
curiosity . They
wander into classrooms completely
unaware of three basic reasons for
being there. They sit, sleep, leave
class rooms without comprehension
as to why universities, colleges are
formed and operated.
But they know why they're there.
It is a simple understandable reason,
they want a degree, not an education.
It is said that students should be
classified as average "C" students,
seeking baccalaureates because conformity, success, insist on it. It is
sad that students must pay such a
high price for learning learning
wasted on deaf, unresponsive beings.
The manifestation of this wasted
education can be found in the emptiness of libraries, in the dissertation
on northingness in cafeterias. Where
lies that seed implanted of intellectual
discussion?
Where did students bury an interest for creative arts? Or did they
bury it? Perhaps they were never introduced to that world; perhaps they
left it without understanding. And
the fact remains.
Students do not discuss O'Neill,
Williams, O'Casey. They do not contemplate Spinoza, Kant, Marx. They
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question,
Lippman, Beston, Lewis Jr.
They care little of Kennedy's policies. They caie less for Wagner's concepts. They care, in fact, only for
the social whirl which binds thim
to a constant, endless, round of socials,
parties, dances, midnight parking.
This then is their burden, their problem, their existence unending fraternizing existence. And yet, they are
here to learn. Learn what? One wonders. The old adage, the time worn
cliche of the "MBS degree" shines
with infinite brilliance, a brilliance
which radiates its lustre in final
grades.
But yet there presumably are
some who lead a different course,
who seek to fulfill their obligation,
their duty, their goal of learning.
They want to know, to comprehend
life. They seek comfort in knowledge.
They do not hesitate to question,
where questions are appropriate. They
manifest clean, logical talk. They feci
with sensitivity the arts, the language
of their kind, the essence.
These are the students of a university. These are the leaders, the
ultimate guides of the world's destiny. These are the persons to which
universities are established. And it is
in this concept that such institutions
can rest comfortably.
But the question remains, the
ban ting, tantalizing question of
where are they?
,

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(Long Island University)

Business In Academe
"But the main thing is that there
isn't enough money; life is pinched
and mean (except for the new
nse-account
aristocracy who get
the big grants). A dean of a college
'
in the Northeast told me that a good
deal of his time is spent writing character references to finance companies.
Thus a promotion, let us say, to associate professor is likely to be a more
desperate matter than a hitch up the
corporate ladder. A $100 raise to a
teacher with a second or third child
on the way can be a necessity for
survival.
"As a result, academic institutions
are not gentle civilized retreats, high,
high alrove