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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Dec. 3. 1950
Many Found Dead In Wake Of French Dam Disaster
FREJUS, France — (UPI) — The French news agency AFP reported today that more than 300 bodies have been counted in the Frejus Dam disaster. The agency said 163 bodies were recovered in the immediate region of Frejus and "about the same number" in the adjacent villages of Saint Raphael and Huget. The number was not officially confirmed.
Additional scores of villagers were feared swept to their death when 45 million tons of water cascaded through the 10-mile long Reynan River valley.
Freijus, founded by Julius Caesar and a target of the allied invasion of the Mediterranean coast of France in August, 1944, escaped total destruction because a slight rise of ground divided the wall of water into twin torrents that roared through the town's edges.
Devastating Scene
But the town of 14,000 was a scene of devastation, stunned and flooded, some of its streets running in rivers six feet deep. A French Army rescue team said the scene during the night was blood chilling with screams and cries for help coming from the darkness.
Throughout the night, with the aid of lights powered by their own batteries, French Army and Navy men moved through the devastated area, answering calls for help, the frantic waving of flashlights and the occasional sound of a signal shotgun.
U.S. Helps
The United States Military in France placed its massive supply and transportation system at the disposal of the French Government to help out in the disaster. The Air Force was prepared to fly in all supplies needed.
First signs of trouble on the 300-foot wide dam came at 6 p.m. yesterday. The water level was dangerously high and engineers opened emergency sluice gates. This had happened before and engineers expected the dam, built in 1957, to hold.
But at 9:30 p.m. the dam suddenly gave way, letting loose the backed up water of the Reynan River—a lake six miles long and more than a mile across. The government immediately put its local disaster plans into effect.
Morgan Space Annexed
Today the morgue was a scene of chaos. Bodies of men, women and children, most of them naked, their clothes stripped off by the fast moving waters, lay side by side in the morgue, its chapel and neighboring buildings taken over as morgue annexes.
Long lines of anxious relatives
Belgian Government Buys Carey's Textured Urn
A textured urn created by J. Sheldon Carey, professor of Ceramics, is being purchased by the Belgian government for its state collections.
Prof. Carey made this urn from Kansas clay with a special glaze he developed from Kansas volcanic ash. The urn is being shown now in Europe as part of the second International Exhibition of Ceramics.
This is not the only work of the ceramics professor that has won acclaim. In the Missouri State Show at the St. Louis City Museum which opened yesterday, Prof. Carey won a prize for a branch bottle and textured urn.
Also in the show, Eldon Teft, as-
Soviets Differ
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19 Million Belong
there is no religion and that science is the answer to all problems.
"Nineteen million students belong to the Pioneers. It is all encompassing—everyone wants to be a Pioneer."
Nebrig said Russian students must pass an examination at the age of 17 before they are permitted to continue their education. In this way the government controls the number of people in each field. He said:
"Here again there is a big difference. All courses are prescribed. There are no electives. There can be no change of courses. A student must complete five years in one field or quit school.
"The students are dedicated and grades are all-important—there are no cars, playboys or class cuts."
Komsomol Popular
"Komsomol expounds the line of the Party and creates socialistic attitudes," Nebrig said. He continued:
Nebrig said the older students, aged 15 to 26, belong to Komsomol, a Young Communist League. He said it, like the Pioneers for the younger people, is so popular that everyone wants to be a member.
"A student must sign an anti-religious oath before he is accepted as a member. From Komsomol the Communist party selects its candidates for membership."
The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.—Carl Sandburg.
sociate professor of ceramics at KU, won the Martha I. Love prize for a bronze sculpture called "Ghost Dancer."
some sobbing, some moaning, moved through the morgues, looking for their kin and found them dead.
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Survivors told of seeing neighbors and even members of their own families swept from rooftops where they had clambered in an effort to escape. One rescue worker, a teacher, found several of her pupils half buried in the mud, all dead.
On a highway stood a car, only its roof showing. Its driver escaped by climbing a tree. His wife and child were swept away.
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