—Photo by Don Black
MILITARY QUEEN CANDIDATES—One of the above will be named queen at the ROTC Military Ball Dec. 4. The candidates (from bottom, left), Army-Jane Speirs, Dodge City senior, Lynn Eickmeyer, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Air Force-Tina Barnes, Hugoton junior, Karen McRae, Wichita sophomore; Navy Carol Jo Weber, Raytown, Mo., junior, and Nancy Jefferies, Wichita sophomore.
TWA Jet Explodes On Rome Take Off
ROME —(UPI)— A Trans World Airlines jet airliner with 55 passengers and crew members aboard exploded and caught fire today as it taxed down the runway for take off from Rome's Fiumicino airport.
Police tentatively reported 47 persons killed. At least 25 survivors were in hospitals, some in critical condition.
The giant plane faltered on the takeoff, veered off the runway, and crashed into the steamroller, which was being used on a construction project.
A TWA SPOKESMAN in New York said the 707 airliner was flight 800 which originated in Kansas City yesterday. The plane made stops at Chicago, New York, Paris and Milan en route to Rome. From Rome, it was to have gone on to Athens and Cairo, the spokesman said.
A pilot of Mediterranean Airlines who witnessed the disaster said the airliner was about to take off when something went wrong. The aircraft never got off the ground but screeched to a halt and exploded about 30 seconds later, he said.
The airliner was gutted by the explosion and flames. All that was left was the tail assembly and one of the four engines.
Eyewitnesses said flames had appeared to be coming out of the airliner's jet engines before the explosion, which occurred shortly before 2 p.m. (8 a.m. EST).
FIREMEN, WEARING ASBESTOS suits, battled the flames with foam. Hundreds of spectators rushed to the scene, about 2,500 feet from the terminal building.
They said the survivors were lucky to get out of the flaming wreckage because within seconds after the blast the heat became so intense that firemen could not get within 100 feet of the aircraft.
THE WRECKAGE WAS RIPPED by a series of explosions. Part of the fuselage was hurled into the air and smoke billowed high into the clear sky.
The plot was discovered when airport officials heard muffled groans from inside the trunk. The intended victim of the plot was Mardecal Ben Masuud Luk, an Israeli renegade who said he had spied for the Egyptians. Police caught two Egyptian diplomats who had brought the trunk to the airport and expelled them from Italy.
All incoming flights were diverted to Ciampino Airport, the former Rome civil airport, 12 miles south of Rome, which is now used for military and charter flights
FIUMICINO AIRPORT LAST week was the scene of a bizarre attempt to ship an admitted spy to Cairo by air freight inside a trunk
Five ambulances, their sirens screaming, raced to the scene.
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A spokesman for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board said in Washington that initial information received by the CAB also was that the plane hit a ground vehicle on take off.
62nd Year, No. 47
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Transportation, Weather Cooperating for Holiday
Clear skies and clear highways await KU students heading home tomorrow for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Bv Judv Farrell
The two threats-bad weather and a railroad strike-which might have spoiled the vacation for many students, disappeared this weekend. Instead, fair weather is forecast for most of the nation, and the strike has been postponed for a week.
Monday, Nov. 23, 1964
The University will close officially for the vacation at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, but tonight students will begin streaming out of Lawrence, bound for all parts of the country.
HIGHWAYS SHOULD be open throughout Kansas, the Douglas County sheriff's office reported. The Kansas Turnpike will be open all the way to Oklahoma, unless weather conditions change drastically, a Turnpike attendant said.
For students heading eastward, Brokaw said, weather conditions should be fair, with possible snow flurries by mid-week.
The season's first snowfall last Wednesday had aroused students' fears that bad weather would continue, making driving hazardous. The return of sunshine Saturday cleared the skies—and the minds of anxious students.
In the south weather should be mild with little change in conditions and a few showers along the Gulf Coast. he said.
To the west, fair weather is expected with some light snow in the mountain areas, Brokaw said. Snowfall would be limited to small areas, he said, with no large storm center expected.
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at Topeka sees no immediate change in weather conditions for the Middle West.
SOME SNOW could be expected in the northern plains areas, as far north as the Canadian border, Brokaw said.
The postponement yesterday of a nationwide train strike also relieved many KU students who are depending on railroads for transportation
A cold front might reach Kansas by tomorrow, Gordon Broakw, meteorologist, said yesterday. At present, there is not enough moisture in the air to bring about precipitation, including snow, he said.
The deadline for settlement of the strike problems and the time of the scheduled walkout was to have been 6 a.m. today. Mediators have arranged a postponement until next
JOHNSON SAID those in his car did not immediately know what had happened ahead. When his car arrived at Parkland Hospital he said he was told to hurry inside where he was routed into a room with drawn shades and told the news.
WASHINGTON -UPI- President Johnson told the Warren Commission he heard the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dalles but that before he could even speculate on their nature he was knocked down in his seat by a secret service agent.
Johnson rode in an open convertible "about three car lengths" behind the car in which Kennedy was shot along with Texas Gov. John Connally.
"Almost in the same moment in which he hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat and sat on me." Johnson said in a statement for the commission investigating the assassination.
Johnson Recalls Deadly Shots
Weather
Temperatures are expected to be warm tonight and to turn colder tomorrow. The low tonight will be in the upper 30's according to the weather bureau. Southerly winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour will diminish tonight.
Monday, which will enable students to return to KU before the strike can go into effect.
STUDENTS MAY still obtain seats on trains leaving Lawrence, both railroad companies reported last night.
Scats are still available on both east and westbound Santa Fe trains. Only the Santa Fe Chief has been filled since early November, Union
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Pacific also has seats available for students.
For the few KU students who will not leave the campus during the holidays, residence arrangements have been made.
Students going by bus do not need reservation, the Lawrence Bus Depot said. Extra buses will be added to insure seats on trips, such as Kansas City or Wichita, which are expected to be crowded with homeward-bound students.
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Men student4 may move into Oread Hall. A hall has not been provided for women, but they must check with the Dean of Women's office in arranging for residence over the vacation.
Church, State United In First Thanksgiving
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Since the first Thanksgiving in 1621 thanked God for the first harvest in the New World, the country has drifted away from the union of church and state.
By Cheryl McCool
The Reverend Dr. Maynard Strothmann, campus minister of the United Campus Christian Fellowship of the United Presbyterian Church, said early settlers of America had very self-conscious religious connections. Most of these settlers were religious refugees, since they came to America to form a religious community in which religious freedom could be found.
DR. STROTHMANN said the early colonists had no conception of a separation of church and state. There is a sharp difference in religious holidays and national holidays, he said.
Dr. Strothmann said in the Biblical orientation of Thanksgiving, the community of faith recognizes that it does not exist primarily by the virtue of its own reasons for existing, but it understands itself as being formed by God. Everything the community does is a response to God.
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"The best way to sum up this response is to use the word 'thanksgiving.' Our whole life and existence is a response to God's doings." Dr. Strothmann said.
"In the community of faith the whole of its life is thanksgiving. Worship is thanksgiving and what we call ethics is a response for thanksgiving.
"OUR INCLINATION is to thank God for lots to eat, for the turkey, and for good health." Dr. Strothmann said.
He said he did not think these things were irrelevant because he likes them, too. He said Thanksgiving Day does not mean "Thanks for a full stomach."
In Biblical terms, Thanksgiving is the thanks for God's concern for the religious community. Dr. Strothmann said this thanks can't be measured by how big the turkey is.
"Another thing that strikes me is the early Pilgrims in having their Thanksgiving really knew what it meant to live with the possibility of not having much and when they did have something, there was a spontaneous joy of thanksgiving."
Dr. Strothmann said it is bad to measure Thanksgiving on the terms of how much we have to be thankful about.
"BIBLICAL TRADITION has permeated our culture and at that point Thanksgiving Day is not strictly a national holiday," Dr. Strothmann said. "If we miss this point Thanksgiving might become aday of 'self-congratulation.'"
Father Downey said he will say a High Mass at 9 a.m. in St.
Lawrence Chapel at 1915 Stratford Road.
The Catholic Student Center is having a Thanksgiving clothing drive in connection with the Bishop's Relief Fund. Clothes will be collected for the needy before and right after the Thanksgiving vacation.
Jewish students will begin the celebration of Hannekah Nov. 29 during Thanksgiving vacation. Hannekah lasts for eight days. It will end on Dec. 7.
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