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Show AH Overtown Ky5 Bit Homecoming's first activity was washed into the city sewers yesterday morning. Complaints were made from downtown workers and shoppers as a result re-sult of being splashed by paint on the whitewashed "U" at the First South and Maint Street intersection. University students gathered at two a.m. Monday and whitewashed. white-washed. Problems arose when traffic began to cross the intersection inter-section and by seven-thirty, KALL News reported that "the streets in all directions were white for a least a block." Complaints Filed Complaints were filed at the City Police Department and a City Water Truck was rushed to the scene, where it sprayed the street clean. No complaints have reached the offices of the City Commission, according to Mayor Lee's secretary, but it is possible that citizens may appear ap-pear at today's Commission Meeting to register formal protests. pro-tests. The Commission granted permission per-mission to the students for the whitewashing. "The paint had been applied in such a way, however, that when the cars started driving over it, they began be-gan to splash it on people on the sidewalk," remarked one bystander. Falling Pedestrians "The cars' under-sides were all being splattered," noted an other observer, "and whenever pedestrians crossed the streets, their shoes turned white. Some were even falling down." Enraged downtowners were declaring the incident "the height of idiocy" and "a stupendous stu-pendous blunder on the part of both the City Commission and the University." By the time traffic began to enter the intersection, inter-section, the whitewashers had departed. - , It- ' .. -,... I'llhl liUffli?:;," - ,i- ft iif "f m iniiirii " "I I 1 V 1 ft u ; j.::t-: . a.. . t l ih ' , I AFTER BEFORE |