Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1965
Lawrence, Kansas
53rd Year, No.14
EXPLOSIONS AND GREAT MUSIC—Soldiers of Ft. Riley, Kan., shoot off 105-mm. howitzers which were brought to KU especially for the concluding concert of the Midwestern Music and Art
Camp, which annually winds up with Tschai-kowsky's "1812 Overture," a composition that requires lots of noise in its climax.
Concert Ends In 1812 Fashion
Rockets, firecrackers, Roman candles and other fireworks traditionally supplement the percussion section when the final concert of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp at the University of Kansas is ended with Tschaikowsky's rousing "1812 Overture."
But Sunday Prof. Russell L. Wiley and the concert band used the instrumentation as Tschaikowsky specified in the concert overture which celebrates Napoleon's disastrous withdrawal from Russia.
He called for off-stage cannon fire.
Supplying the cannonade Sunday evening were four 105-mm. howitzers from Ft. Riley. Firing blanks, of course.
It began when several ROTC students who are counselors for the six-week program thought of borrowing some M-1 rifles and blank ammunition. The idea snowballed and an officer and 18 men provided the firing battery.
Voting Rights Bill Advances
WASHINGTON —(UPI) A quiet retreat by civil rights leaders has
Workmen Start Project Of Razing Fraser Hall
The long-awaited razing of Fraser Hall began Friday when workmen of the Champney Wrecking Co., Topeka, clambered to its 90-year-old roof.
Familiar flagpoles and railings were the first to go, and the roofing has been stripped from the structure. Workmen are now dismantling the roof beams.
The label of "oldest-building-on-campus" now falls to KU's Spooner-Thayer Art Museum built in 1894. Second-oldest is Flint Hall, formerly known as Fowler Shops, constructed in 1898.
The University's official flags have been moved to the front of Strong Hall. With razing of Fraser completed, construction on the new more-controversial structure is expected to begin soon.
This is the last issue of the Summer Session Kansan of 1965. The first issue of the University Daily Kansan of fall semester will appear Sept. 17.
Last Summer Kansan
Midwest Area Hit By UFO Spotings
WICHITA—(UPI)—The Weather Bureau at Wichita confirmed radar sighting of unidentified flying objects over a wide section of south-central Kansas between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.yesterday.
Other reports of the cigar-shaped silvery flying objects came from North Texas, Oklahoma, east Colorado and northeast New Mexico.
Deputy Sheriff Everett Tucker of Wellington said he and his wife saw one of the mysterious things at 4:50 a.m. Tucker said the craft was moving "rapidly to the north." He said a red vapor trailed behind the egg-shaped object.
THE WELLINGTON police department said officers had been seeing the objects most of the early morning hours. One was spotted four miles east of Wellington.
Wellington Police Dispatcher Julio Caudillo said the two officers looked at the thing through binoculars and reported it moving in an "erratic manner, but in a straight path." They did not report a vapor trail.
The Weather Bureau said radar tracking indicated the object was moving "at about 45 miles an hour."
DOZENS OF OTHER reports of the mysterious, multi-colored objects in the sky swamped police and newspaper switchboards across Oklahoma Sunday night.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tinker Air Force Base authorities reported tracking some of the objects on radar early in the evening, but Tinker officials later refused to confirm or deny the reports.
The objects were described as emitting various colors of light. Some were said to be flying an erratic course in diamond formation.
There was at least one unconfirmed report of an object resembling a flaming plane crash near Bartlesville.
AT LEAST EIGHT law enforcement officers were among dozens of Oklahomans who reported seeing the unidentified flying objects.
The Daily Oklahomaman described the rash of telephone calls as reminiscent of the Orson Welles "Mars invasion" panic of Oct. 30, 1938.
Reports of four mysterious craft flying in a diamond formation also
came from Chickasha, Cushing,
Shawnee and Chandler, Okla.
Some of the first reports came from Purcell, 29 miles north of Wymnwood, Okla., where the Highway Patrol said an unidentified flying object was picked up on two radar screens early Saturday.
OFFICERS IN THREE patrol cars at Shawnee, Okla., said they watched the diamond formation flight for 30 to 40 minutes shortly after 9 p.m. CST. They said the strange craft moved in a northerly direction and changed colors from red to white to blue-green. They said the objects moved from side to side at times.
Cushing officers also observed a formation of four unusual objects, beginning about 9:05 p.m. Their description of the changing colors was similar to the description given by Shawnee police.
At Chickasha, Policeman C. V. Barnhill reported a kite-shaped object with a red light on top. Police dispatcher Jim Cline said his switchboard was swamped with calls from citizens reporting similar sightings.
SIGHTINGS ALSO were reported at Wichita Falls, in North Texas, and at Borger, Pampa, Dalhart, Dumas and Tulia, in the Texas Panhandle.
Norman and Purcell, Okla., police reported seeing a stationary object in the sky between two communities.
Kansas Story: Clear and Cool
United Press International
By United Press International Clear blue skies dotted only by a few patches of high scattered clouds and comfortable temperatures are predicted to continue over most of Kansas, the Weather Bureau said.
Temperatures were expected to be in the upper 80's with the lows close to the 60's over most of the state.
Marvin Recalls Years as Journalism Dean
Rv Kit Gunn
Since its beginning in 1911, the School of Journalism, then only a department, has grown to its present stature. However, the greatest gains have occurred relatively recently under the leadership of Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information since 1948.
Marvin will leave this fall to direct a mass communications center at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. He will be succeeded by Dr. Warren K. Agee, dean of the Evening College at Texas Christian University.
ing Room and Historical Center as another major change in the journalism school.
Still another alteration in the structure of the school is the expansion of the advertising sequence, Marvin continued. In addition to a larger academic program, the school has had a more active relationship with the advertising field, he said.
WHEN ASKED about the future, Dean Marvin said there will "very definitely be an expansion of the graduate program." to meet the "growth of specialization of both personnel and media." He explained that the field of journalism was becoming more diverse, with radio, television, newspapers, magazines, trade publications and such each requiring training of a specific nature.
However, specialization does not mean that other fields are to be ignored. Said Marvin, "There is a trend toward seeing it to that each journalist is more of a generalist than he has been in the past."