KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.122
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER: COOLER
Details on Page 10
Tuesday, April 26, 1966
Jet downs Mig during dogfight
SAIGON—(UPI)—A U.S. Air Force Phantom jet shot down a Russian-built MIG21 fighter today in a dogfight over North Viet Nam, an Air Force spokesman reported. It was the second consecutive day of clashes between U.S. and Communist planes.
The American pilot shot down the swift MIG of unidentified nationality with a heat-seeking Sidewinder missile, the spokesman said at Da Nang Air Base 375 miles north of Saigon. He declined to speculate on the nationality of the MIG.
TWO MIG21 JETS dueled with a pair of Air Force Phantom jets during raids over North Viet Nam on Monday. A spokesman said the Americans fired 10 or 11 missiles but missed the 1,200-mile per hour planes.
There also was a dogfight on Saturday when American planes spotted a mixed flight of MIG17s and MIG21s. The war's biggest air battle developed and two MIG17s were shot down in the first aerial combat in 10 months.
Diplomatic sources disclosed in London early this month the Soviet Union had stepped up delivery of the MIG21 to North Viet Nam but there was no indication who would pilot them. Air Force sources speculated that Chinese Communist pilots flew the planes.
THE RUSSIANS WERE said to have sent at least 40 MIG21s to Hanoi. The MIG21 is described as more maneuverable than the American Phantom jet but the two man Phantom is faster, with a speed of about 1,400 miles per hour.
Today's was the first MIG21 reported downed in the Viet Nam war.
The spokesman said the MIG21 pilot was "believed" to have ejected from his flaming fighter before it crashed.
THE PLANE WAS SHOT down in a dogfight between two F4C Phantoms and two M1G21s about 65 miles north-northeast of Hanoi. American planes have been bombing rail lines leading from Communist China in this area. The Phantoms fly escort for the slower fighter-bombers and are equipped with radar and other devices to trigger their deadly weapons.
No major ground fighting was reported in South Viet Nam today but in Saigon a terrorist tossed a hand grenade last night in the yard of the home of the South Korean general commanding South Korean forces in Vietnam. The grenade injured a guard and damaged the automobile of Gen. Chea Myung Shin's deputy, Brig. Gen. Lee Hun Sup.
Humanities talk postponed
Tonight's Humanities Lecture has been postponed to Thursday, May 5 at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
day. W. Bedell Stanford, ciassics scholar from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, will speak on "The Emotional Power of Greek Tragedy."
REHEARSE, REHEARSE, REHEARSE! The "Carry Nation" cast certainly is—the opera's premiere performance is Thursday.
—Photo by Max Greif
CENTENNIAL OPERA
Carry Nation sold out; standing-room remains
By Judith Faust
Tickets for the world premiere of Douglas Moore's opera "Carry Nation," written for the KU centennial, sold out for four performances early yesterday afternoon. Ninety standing-room-only tickets will be available at the door for each performance.
It's a sell-out—standing room only.
Tickets went on sale April 21 at 10 a.m., but by 5:30 a.m. anxious theatre-goers had settled themselves in front of the Murphy Hall box office with cushions, sack lunches and transistor radios.
Half of eligible students register for draft exam
By Emery Goad
Only one half of the eligible KU men registered by the final day last week for the Selective Service draft test to be given May 14, 21, and June 3.
According to James K. Hitt, registrar, only 3,500 KU men picked up registrations and test samples. There are 7,200 men at KU but Hitt pointed out that some are too young, too old, in the ROTC program, or already veterans. Many also had the opportunity to get registrations over spring vacation from their local boards.
The four and one-half hour test, to be given in Allen Field House, will be a guide rule for the draft boards to use in giving the II-S deferment for next fall to students enrolled in college.
WHEN ASKED if the test would be a good guide rule with only one-half of the students taking it, Hitt said, "The fact that a student did not take the test is a guide rule."
The test is only one factor to be considered by the local boards when they issue the II-S deferment. They will also consider grade ratings which KU along with the other colleges will mail in mid-summer.
A specific grade will not be given though. A student is ranked with other male students studying in the same school in which he is studying.
"We are happy that everyone who wanted to register could and no one was turned down," Hitt said.
THE TEST is of the multiple choice type. The score will be based on the number of questions answered correctly. Scores will be sent only to the selective service boards.
To avoid the possibility of any unauthorized persons taking the test, each applicant will be fingerprinted when he reports for the test. According to test instructions, "an examinee who gives or receives assistance during the progress of the test will be dismissed from the examination, and his draft board will be notified."
Two pencils, number 2 size, the Selective Service Registration Certificate, and a ticket of admission with the test center address card are required for entrance to the examination room.
WHEN CARRY TAKES the stage Thursday night a good part of the formally attired premiere audience will probably be surprised by the story. It's not just about the familiar hatchet-swinging saloon smasher. There was another Carry—the same person, but very different—a young girl.
The prologue shows Carry and her disciples destroying a "joint" in Topeka. But the scene shifts, and in a flashback composer Moore tells us the classic story of a young girl in love. But Carry's story is a little different. Her husband, an Army captain during the Civil War and a physician, dies two years after their marriage—of alcoholism.
Perhaps it's easier now to understand why Carry picked up her hatchet.
Moore commented on the criticism with which American audiences approach an opera. They
demand believability in both characters and libretto.
When Moore was commissioned to do an opera set in Kansas, he chose Carry because he found realism in her story. She is colorful and alive.
"I TRY TO MAKE an opera an experience people will enjoy. Good opera is musical theatre, not the stuffy drama most people think," Moore said. "I want the audience to come in and enjoy the performance, to say, 'This is fun.'"
Four professional stars will have leads in the opera. Mezzosoprano Beverly Wolff of the New York City Opera Company will portray Carry. Singing with her will be Metropolitan Opera baritone John Rearson, Met bass-baritone Kenneth Smith, who joined the KU faculty last fall, and lyric coloratura soprano Patricia Brooks of the New York City Opera.
Heartpatientdies; setmedicalrecord
HOUSTON—(UPI)—Marcel L. De Rudder, the Illinois coal miner who turned in desperation to the nation's best-known heart surgeon and lived longer than any other man on an artificial heart, died today, "probably by a rupture" of his windpipe or bronchial tubes.
Methodist Hospital issued a brief statement saying it was "grieved to announce the sudden death of Mr. Marcel De Rudder."
"THE EXACT CAUSE of death will not be able to be determined until after the autopsy," the statement said. This is the opinion of the staff.
"The left ventrical bypass artificial heart was still functioning normally and the patient was relatively stable at the time of death, 2:04 a.m.