Oread Festival Botched; Magazine Editorial Says
Bv Bill Lynch
The Oread Jazz Festival, hei
last April 25 at KU, has come under
fire from Downbeat Magazine for
failing to deliver its major-prizes.
In an editorial in its Oct. 8 issue, the country's leading jazz periodical describes the confusion over the top awards as a "botch," although conceding that other colleges sponsoring festivals have similar problems.
Michael Maher, associate professor of zoology, the faculty advisor to the OJF, called the editorial "unfair," claiming it gives a "onesided picture" by ignoring the other prizes.
The winning small group, the Bill Farmer Quartet, was given a playing tour of Europe with transportation to and from the Continent provided by the University Program of People-to-People, Inc., and a two-week engagement at Jazzland, a feature of the Louisiana Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
The Jazzland engagement would have paid each of the four musicians $250 a week, somewhat above scale of the American Federation of Musicians.
The Farmer Quartet had relied on the $2000 in wages to handle living and travel costs while in Europe
However, the New York engagement was a last-minute development and no contract was secured, so the group had no recourse when the date was cancelled.
The faculty advisor for the Festival, Prof. Michael Maher, told the
Kansan this morning that the failure to have a contract signed was mostly due to naivete on the part of the committee. He also said the festival organizers should have been more skeptical of the wages offered, in view of the current state of jazz nightclubs.
The Downbeat editorial also blamed People-to-People for backing out of an earlier commitment to help set up engagements in Europe.
"It seems incomprehensible." Downbeat says, "That a student was left in charge of making European bookings for a jazz group." The "student" referred to is Philip Jacka, a graduate student in architecture who handled much of the pre-festival promotion and who
handled negotiations with the directors of Jazzland. The magazine also criticizes the festival for accepting room and board as compensation for jobs in Europe rather than cash, although Prof. Maher said that one of the European dates was on a cash basis.
Prof. Maher contends that the Farmer group was not cheated out of anything that they had been offered before they entered the festival and that, in fact, they did receive quite a lot. The group received smaller prizes and after the festival was paid $75 for an appearance at a Kansas City Jazz Concert.
Asked if there would be a festival this year, Prof. Maher said there would, although he thinks that the Downbeat article may have discouraged some potential entries around the country. He said that there will not be a European trip offered, but that the festival will be organized in much the same manner. He regrets that the magazine has "damned the whole festival" for one mistake, because, he said, it was a big success on the whole.
Downbeat Magazine is one of the most widely read magazines which covers the field of jazz.
The editorial was mainly directed at the idea that big prizes were not needed at collegiate jazz festivals. The magazine went on to say that these festivals were well enough established that prizes were not needed to attract a large number of entries.
Daily Hansan
62nd Year, No.3
KU, K-State Rivals For New Water Lab
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
KU is busy trying to secure location here of a new water resources laboratory, according to William J. Argersinger, associate dean of faculties for research.
Reason for the effort stems from the fact that both KU and Kansas State University are being considered for location of the laboratory. KU officials feel they have a strong case for which Dean Arger-singer gives these reasons:
- The State Geological Survey, long interested in water problems, has its headquarters on the campus. The U.S. Geological Survey also has an office here, and between them, the two surveys have the nation's largest ground-water research program underway in Kansas.
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1964
- An extensive research program is already underway in the Environmental Health Laboratory at the Nuclear Reactor Center, and in the
- The University already has a Water Resources Institute, made up of faculty authorities on water law, conservation, control, and public health.
School of Engineering and Architecture
- The State Biological Survey, by law a part of the University, could make use of findings on water and water pollution.
- The KU Medical Center is involved in related research, and its personnel would be available for consultation.
- A variety of water problems are close to Lawrence. These include water treatment and use in the metropolitan areas of Kansas City and Topeka, flood control, ground water supplies, irrigation, and agricultural pollution.
Despite the difference of opinion between KU and Kansas State over the location of the laboratory, talks between the two have been "amiable," Dean Argersinger said.
"Regardless of which institution is selected by the U.S. Public Health Service—if one or the other is there undoubtedly would be close cooperation between water authorities on both campuses," he concluded.
Federal Jury Indicts Nine For Cuba Trip
Acting Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach said two of seven men indicted—Lee Levi Laub, 25, and Phillip Abbott Luce, 27, both of New York—were still awaiting trial on similar charges brought last year in connection with a trip to Cuba in 1963.
None of those named in the indictment made the trip to Cuba this year. But they were charged with conspiring "to induce, recruit, and arrange" for others to go in violation of state department regulation which require a specially validated passport for such travels.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)A federal grand jury indicted nine persons today on charges of conspiring to organize and promote a trip of 84 Americans to Cuba this summer in violation of state department restrictions.
Others named in today's indictment, returned in Brooklyn, N.Y. were:
Roger Jay Taus, 25, and Ellen Irene Shallit, 21, both of New York City; Albert Lasatar Maher, 22, Cambridge, Mass.; Christian Lee Raisner, 24, San Francisco; Martin Albrecht Nicolaus, 23, Waltham, Mass.; Michael David Brown, 22, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Patricia Ann Sopiak, 24, New Boston, Mich.
The indictment said the seven men and two women named had formed a committee to promote travel to Cuba and set themselves up as regional representatives in various parts of the country to promote the trip.
MISS SHALLIT traveled to Cuba in 1963, and was named as a co-conspirator but not as a defendant in an indictment returned Sept. 27. 1963 in connection with that trin.
To promote the trip, the indictment said, the committee spoke at meetings in Detroit, at the University of Connecticut, and the University of Rhode Island and held interviews at Ann Arbor, Mich., New York City, San Francisco and Long Island, N.Y.
Maximum penalty for conviction on the charges would be five years in prison and $10,000 fine.
Some Students Just Can't Win
The first day of classes always produces a number of confused persons who can't find the right room or building and are late arriving for a class.
One girl looking for her Family Life course mistook the abbreviation in the enrollment schedule for Fraser for the abbreviation of Flint Hall.
When she arrived at Flint she quickly found what she thought was her assigned room. However, when she opened the door she found there were no desks, no other students, and no teacher.
It was a broom closet.
Officials Clear Up Rumors On Food Poisoning
Rumors have been circulating connecting the food poisoning of the 31 Phi Kappa Psi's and the recent typhoid shots given to the members of the KU football team. The typhoid shots were given as a protection against food poisoning, it was said.
KU officials today issued a statement which endeavored to clear up some of the rumors.
The statement followed a report in a Lawrence newspaper which said the sick men may have been stricken with a type of food poisoning against which typhoid shots are used as a protective measure.
A report issued from the office of James Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor said, "the vaccination of students . . . who do traveling . . . is normal procedure."
"Members of the varsity football team who received inoculations Saturday following the game with Texas Christian were completing their regular series of inoculations."
"The typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine is given to them every year, customarily at a time when they will have a relatively quiet period following in which to recover from any reaction."
The food poisoning was acquired at a fraternity luncheon, and was traced by the State Board of Health and the Student Health Service as coming from a turkey casserole.
The casserole, according to the report, contained staphylococcus and salmonella bacteria.
Weather
On the first day of autumn, the weather bureau predicts intermittent rain and thundershowers ending tomorrow morning with partly cloudy weather tomorrow. There will be little change in temperature with a low of 60 expected and easterly winds of 15 miles per hour.
Gladys Pounds Atlantic Coast
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C.—(UPI)—Erratic Hurricane Gladys pounded the Atlantic coastline from the Carolinas to New Jersey with heavy seas and gales today on a slow northwestward course.
Precautions were urged as far north as Long Island for the storm, fourth hurricane of the season.
Manteo, N.C., was buffeted by wind gusts up to 65 miles an hour and minor flooding was reported on Norfolk, Va., waterfront streets by the sidelash of the king-size howler, located about 210 miles east of Cape Hatteras. It was moving toward the northwest at a sluggish 6 mph after virtually stalling for several hours.
Highest winds were estimated at 85 mph with gales whipping the ocean and coastline 400 miles to the north and 250 miles to the south.
"All interests along the coast from Hatteras northward to Long Island should keep informed so that they may take necessary precautions if hurricane warnings become necessary later today or tonight." the Washington weather bureau said.
Tides of 3 to 4 feet above normal were forecast from Cape Hatteras to Cape May, N.J., and for the lower Chesapeake Bay.
This raised the prospects of flooding for some areas and residents of islands and low-lying areas along the North Carolina coast were urged to evacuate while they could.
SCHOOLS ALONG a 60-mile stretch of North Carolina's outer banks north of Oregon Inlet were closed. The public school at Kitty Hawk was designated as a disaster shelter in case one was needed.
U. S. 158, the main north-south route along the outer banks, was washed by sea water in the Kitty Hawk area, but the highway was still open.
The big Oregon Inlet fishing fleet took safe harbor at Manteo and Wanchese.
Most North Carolina coastal residents, weather-wise in the way of storms, took little notice of Gladys, believing that the storm would bypass them. The tourist season normally ends with the Labor Day weekend and about the only visitors along the strip of barrier beaches that compose the outer banks were sports fishermen.
Water about one foot deep coursed into waterfront streets in Norfolk. There was some sandbagging and some cars stalled and had to be left in the water.
The highest wind recorded by mid-morning in Norfolk was 42 miles an hour. Rain squalls were expected to begin after noon.
THE VAST navy complex in the Norfolk area went on hurricane alert "Condition Two." All men on liberty were recalled to their ships and all vessels were prepared for quick departure to safer waters. All airplanes which could not be safely stored in hangars were ready to be flown inland if necessary.
The navy sent five ships to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and others went to pre-assigned hurricane anchorage in Hampton Roads harbor to ride out the storm.
Gale warnings were flying from Wilmington, N.C., to Provincetown, Mass., and small craft were urged to remain in port all along the east coast until winds and heavy seas subsided.
"Increasing tides and winds will cause damaging beach erosion and considerable flooding of the low-lying coastal areas," said a late advisory on the season's seventh tropical storm.
At 7 a.m. Gladys was centered near latitude 34.5 north, longitude 71.8 west, or about 225 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras.
Winds of 100 miles an hour extended out 50 miles mainly to the north of the hurricane's center. Gales ranged 400 miles to the north and 250 miles to the south.
Wind gusts of 65 mph were reported at Mante $ \sigma $ , N.C., during the morning.