SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, June 27, 1961
49th Year, No. 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Writers Meeting Opens Today; Lectures Slated
Several nationally known writers will be on campus this week to participate in the 11th annual University of Kansas Writers' Conference, which opens at 8:30 a.m. today.
The writers include Karl Detzer, roving editor for the Reader's Digest; Edsel Ford, a poet whose works have appeared in many amagazines; John Alexander, feature writer for the Kansas City Star; Susan Kuehn Boyd, a contributor to Harper's Magazine and Mademoiselle, and Mary Francis Shura, a children's book editor.
The conference is being directed by Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism. Calder Pickett, acting dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, will give the welcoming address in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall at 9:30 a.m. Other sessions will be held throughout the day and the week.
Alexander, a 1931 KU graduate,
will conduct a session in features
and pictures at 9 a.m. tomorrow. He
wrote a story about Dr. Cora Downs,
professor of bacteriology at KU,
which was published in the April 1
edition of Saturday Review.
Mr. Detzer will give a lecture on "publishing for world readership" at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Big 8 Room of the Student Union Building. The lecture is open to the public without charge.
The conference winds up at noon Friday. All of the lectures, except the one by Mr. Detzer, will be held in GSP.
Conference members pay $30 tuition which enables them to submit for criticism one juvenile manuscript up to 20,000 words, two short stories up to 12,000 words, two articles up to 12,000 words, and eight poems not more than a page long.
Mary Francis Shura
'Kansas Story On to Wichita
TOPEKA — (UPI) — "The Kansas Story" has moved to Wichita after its Topeka run fell about $75,000 short of meeting its half of the $420,000 production cost.
The outdoor musical spectacular played its last performance here Sunday night and will open a two-week run in Wichita July 4. Sets, props, professional actors and livestock are being moved to Wichita.
"Wichita will have to run at capacity all 12 nights to break even on the entire show," said Maurice Fager, Kansas Centennial commission chairman. But he said Wichita "is on fire about 'The Kansas Story.'"
Weather Goes on Rampage Floods, Wind, Heat, Cold
The centennial chairman said the National Broadcasting Co. had expressed interest in the show. He said the network was thinking about producing a television show based on the script used for the historical pageant.
By United Press International
Flash floods washed out railroad tracks in Texas and near gale force winds shut off the electricity for half a South Carolina town yesterday in a Deep South outburst of weather violence.
At the little town of Camden, S.C. half-inch hail and winds up to 65 miles per hour tore down power lines in half the community.
More weather-blamed deaths were recorded in Louisiana. Four members of one family were killed during a thunderstorm Sunday when their car was smashed by the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited near Lafayette, La. The driver was apparently unable to see the speeding train through the rain.
Two other Texas deaths were blamed on the floods, bringing the state's total to three. High waters forced 110 families from their homes in the Fort Worth suburb of Richland Hills and 30 families had to flee their Wichita Falls, Tex., homes.
The great plains also were lashed by summer storms. Gale force winds swept hail and heavy rains over west central Kansas, beating down thousands of acres of wheat just ready for the harvest.
Elsewhere in the nation, a marathon heat wave baked deserts in the far Southwest and cold records were set in the Middle West. North and South Dakota crops were threatened by a critical infestation of grass-hoppers.
Rain-driven flash floods in Texas washed out the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad tracks near Roanoke. A railroad crewman was killed when his freight train hit the washout.
Farmers near Munger, Kan., reported their crops were practically
a total loss. Winds up to 70 miles an hour uprooted trees and tore down power lines in the area.
The U.S. Weather Bureau charted a blanket of clouds over the Gulf and south Atlantic coasts, as well as the southern Ohio valley. Showers and thunderstorms broke out throughout the area.
To the north, the 48 degrees at Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio, were both record lows for the date. The 52 degrees at Indianapolis tied the record low.
Stationary fronts across the southeastern and northwestern corners of the nation sandwiched a warning trend between the northern great plains and the Tennessee valley and the U.S. Weather Bureau forecast showers throughout the day in the upper Mississippi valley and Atlantic coast states.
Cool breezes were in store for the northern Rocky Mountains and central California, where interior counties temperatures shot into the low 100s.
Shortage of Teachers Looms for Fall Opening
Ey United Press International When school bells ring again next fall, 138,000 teachers will be absent
The result: The teachers present will be overworked, classes will be too large and children won't get the individual attention they need.
About 140,000 teachers graduated from the nation's colleges this month, the National Education Assn. estimated. But only 102,000 of them were expected to take teaching jobs.
They will have to fill the shoes of 120,000 teachers leaving the field, the NEA said.
A spot check by United Press International indicated that the teacher shortage will be the greatest in states with low salaries and increasing populations. But even where salaries are comparatively high and the population is stable, there aren't enough teachers to go around.
The shortage is greatest in elementary schools and kindergartens. Also lacking are teachers with
special skills, such as foreign languages, science, English and girls' physical education.
Chicago has one of the higher salary scales in the nation. Beginning teachers are paid at least $5,000 a year. Yet the nation's second largest city is short 3,000 teachers.
New York, with salaries of $4,200 to $8,800 a year, reported a "tight" teacher situation but said there was no real shortage.
Detroit, which pays $5,000 to beginning teachers, said there is "no actual shortage." But 400 Detroit teachers are not fully qualified.
John P. Schaefer, Pittsburgh -Associate School Superintendent, reported a shortage of 309 teachers but said it was no worse than other years.
Arkansas and Oregon educators complained that some states hired potential teachers before they graduate from college. An Iowa expert said teacher recruiting has become a "year-around job."
Music Campers 'Solid' In Opening Concerts
Where did you get those strings,
Mr. Carney?? Trés bien.
This was the general feeling of much of the audience at the Midwestern Music Camp's opening concert Sunday afternoon in the University Theatre.
Several of us had heard good things about this year's orchestra, so its quality and the size of several of its sections was no surprise. There were, of course, all of those unexpected little things, such as missing reeds, which happen at any concert, particularly an opening concert.
Many pizzicatos and some attacks especially in the introduction of the Beethoven would not be quite what Mr. Toscanini would consider satisfactory, but with only five two-hour rehearsals it is hard to quibble over such things.
David Clark and the trumpet section of the orchestra, and Robert Baruch, principal clarinet, should receive honorable mention for their solo work. This reviewer believes the solid foundation that a good string bass section can give an orchestra helps either to make or break the orchestra. You are out-numbered slightly, kids, so stay away from the finger-board.
In Massenet's "Sciences Pittoresques" the cello and oboe make a nice combination for a beautiful solo. The first movement, a ceremonial march, was based on the repetition of a single theme. Of the three movements, the second, the Angelus, was my favorite. Although the chimes were not used, they were not missed. The French horns and
In both the band and orchestra the first few measures showed signs of being shaky, they then both settled down to the business of the day. To all outward appearances, there was an amazing lack of "first night jitters". The cornets and trumpets immediately proved to be a very strong section in the band.
This concert which was given Sunday evening offered many old favorites from the concert band repertoire, plus a new one—the audience thoroughly enjoyed the "Parade of the Charioteers" from "Ben-Hur."
the orchestra painted a warm and flowing sound picture of a provincial French village in early evening.
Adaptations from one medium to another always make it harder for the musician to make the music sound well. However, with a few exceptions, the final works of the program were executed creditably, and they certainly drew admiration from the audience.
Parts of Sousa's march lacked the zest a high school pep band would give it. This could be because of the size and weight of this group, or it could be that the players were concerned about what lay ahead of them, as well they might have been.
The chorus performed both in the afternoon and evening; it presented a solid program of interesting works which were varied and exciting within themselves. The fine jobs done by Doris Peterson and Douglas Susu-Mago must be mentioned. This is a group to look forward to in the future.—E.W.
PERCUSSION SECTION—Four members of the percussion section of the Summer Music Camp Orchestra are shown playing in the camp's first concert Sunday afternoon in the University Theatre. They are from left: Steve Brown, Maryville, Mo.; Ernie McDaniel, Danville, Ill.; Bill Stinnett, Winfield; and Dave Goldberg, Prairie Village.