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78th Year, No.41
WEATHER CLOUDY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, November 13, 1967
Travelers stay calm
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — (UPI) — To the 72 passengers and six crewmen aboard the jetliner the noise sounded like a firecracker. The passengers looked around at the luggage compartment but otherwise took little notice.
Then the air pressure rose in the Boeing 727 jet—an American Airlines flight from Chicago to San Diego—but the pilot, Capt. Dwain C. Duncan, assumed there had been a malfunction. He switched to manual control and the pressure stabilized.
The jet landed safely and all aboard disembarked without ill effect. Only when the passengers learned that the FBI was confiscating their luggage temporarily did they realize what had occurred—their plane apparently had been bombed. The makings of a homemade bomb were found in the debris-littered luggage compartment.
No panic
The passengers and crew of the American jet heard and felt the jolt while the plane was flying high over Hill City. Kan.. Sunday. Some attributed it to air turbulence. There was no visible fright and no apparent realization of what had happened aboard the big, three-engine jet.
But when ground crewmen at San Diego's Lindbergh Field opened the cargo space they found it in shambles. At first they thought an animal carried as freight had broken loose and caused the mess.
"It looked like an animal had been in there chewing everything up." said an airline spokesman.
"Three pieces of luggage were torn up quite a bit. He thought there was an animal loose in there and he immediately shut it up," the spokesman said. "Then we called our Chicago office to see what kind of animal we were shipping."
No animals aboard The Chicago office said no animals were shipped on that flight. Then the FrI was notified.
Agents found a clock mechanism and a battery inside the compartment which appeared to be a crudely made bomb, the airline said.
Among the passengers were the coach and seven members of the San Diego State College cross-
country team on the way home after winning NCAA college division cross country championships in Chicago.
"The explosion sounded like a sharp bang, like a cherry bomb or a firecracker," said Peter Virgadamo, 20. "I didn't think it was a bomb or anything. I thought it was just part of the rough weather we had flown through."
Lecture features 'Heavenly' music
Heavenly music and the exotic sounds of Bali, Java and Indonesia will highlight a Humanities Series Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the University Theatre.
Mantle Hood, director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, will speak on "Lokanata,
An informal reception with Hood is scheduled to be held in Murphy Hall Lounge after the lecture.
Heavenly Music Played on Invisible Instruments." His lecture will be illustrated with color slides and sound tapes.
William Tell set to open Thursday
The legend of "William Tell" will be performed by the Children's Theatre for Lawrence grade schoolers at 1:15 p.m. Thursday and Friday and for the public at 7:30 p.m.Friday and 2 p.m.Saturday at the University Theatre.
Military theme to fill SUA Affairs program
"It's not democracy we brought to Vietnam—it's anticommunism," said Donald Duncan in the February 1963 issue of Ramparts magazine.
Duncan Ramparts military editor, will be the main speaker Tuesday in SUA World Affairs Week. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Duncan is a former member of the Green-Berets who received his honorable discharge in 1965.
Duncan served 18 months of combat duty in Vietnam and he is
William Tell is a Swiss folk-hero who refused to do homage to an Austrian baliff's hat. The baliff, Gessler, insisted that people bow to his hat on a pole to show their respect.
the recipient of numerous decorations including the Bronze Star, the U.S. Army Air Medal and the South Vietnamess Silver Star.
His appearance is sponsored by the Student Union Activities Minority Opinions Forum, The Wesley Foundation and the American Friends Service Committee.
Films devoted to "U.S. As Peacekeeper in Asia?" will also be shown in the Forum Room.
9:30 a.m. "Land of Fire"—Filmed on the battlefields of Vietnam by the North Vietnamese.
See MILITARY, page 13
Tell was seized and condemned for insolence, but was granted his life if he would shoot an apple off the head of his own son. Tell shot it successfully, but he admitted that his second arrow was meant for Gessler in case of failure. He was kept as a prisoner but escaped.
"In our version for the Children's Theatre, Tell escapes and returns for his son. But Gessler imprisons the son, and this final indignity against Tell is what starts the revolution."
"In the legend Tell killed Gessler," said director Richard S. Jackson. "This was the spark that set off the Austrian-Swiss revolt,
except for one document, according to research.
Although several chapels in Switzerland have been dedicated to William Tell, there is no solid evidence that Tell ever existed—
This document was written in 1388 at the dedication of a chapel at Lake Lucerne where 144 people signed a paper stating they knew Tell personally.
There are similar legends in Denmark and Iceland of folk-heroes who led their people to revolt against oppression. In Old English folklore is Adam Bel and Wyllyam of Cloudesle. Gessler, though, seems to be a fictious character representing Austrian tyranny.
A technical problem in this play is how to show Tell shooting the apple off his son Walter's head.
In former productions Tell would shoot the arrow into a backstage curtain. At the same moment a crewman would jerk the apple off with a string.
This was so hard to coordinate, however, that shop foreman Clarence P. Seaver devised a trick mechanism in the tree which Walter stands under.
Set designer Norman Dodge, Denver graduate student, is building the sets to fold down and fit into the back of a truck. The show will play in Wyandotte Dec. 4 to 7 and in Kansas City Music Hall Dec. 13 to 18.
At 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Swarathout Recital Hall, Hood will show a documentary film called "Atumpan, Master Drum of the Ashanti, (West African people)."
Hood and his wife produced the film while he was a visiting professor at the University of Ghana, Africa.
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During his three day visit to KU Hood will speak to classes and other groups. Recognized as a scholar in East Asian and African music, he has spent 12 years of field study in these areas.
This year Hood is at the University of Hawaii completing a book on the tradition of Javanese gamelan—native orchestras.
In 1963 Hood was sponsored by the African-American University program as a visiting professor to the University of Ghana.
He has presented the KU radio station KANU with his first-in-n-series recording of "Music of the Venerable Dark Cloud." KANU will play it at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
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The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts it will be partly cloudy tonight with slight chance of light rain. Little change in the temperature. Low tonight in the mid 30s with Tuesday mostly fair and mild. Rain probability 10 per cent today and 20 per cent tonight.
WEATHER
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William Tell (Jerry Koellsted, left) listens as Gessler (L. J. Smoot, far right) and henchman Rudolph (David Morgan, center) tell him he must shoot an apple off his son's head. See other pictures page 4.