Spring cold hurts first KU Rodeo
By WILL HARDESTY
KU's Jayhawk Rodeo Club sponsored its first annual rodeo this weekend, but the rodeo almost killed the club.
"We could have broken even or even made as much as $500 if the weather had treated us nicely. As it was, we lost $700," said Arden Gray, Phillipsburg senior and club president.
"We're going over to the Endowment Association today and try to borrow $1,000. That way, we'll have a little operating cash, which might have saved us if we had had some before the rodeo."
"THE WEATHER was a little too cool Friday night. It was down right cold Saturday night, and it even snowed a little yesterday (Sunday) afternoon." Gray said.
"If the weather had been sunny, we might have had 1,000-1,500 people out yesterday afternoon. We only had 135, and I was surprised that many came," he said.
The rodeo club, formed about
two months ago, is the first collegiate club ever to sponsor a rodeo in the first year of its existence.
KU'S TEAM had three people in the money:
About 155 contestants from 12 school participated.
Gray placed third in Steer Wrestling; Kent Hewett, Ft. Scott sophomore, won fourth in Bull Riding; Bob Krehbiel, Hutchinson junior, took fourth in Bareback Brone Riding.
"Krehbiel had never been on a bareback horse or a bull until about four weeks ago." Gray said.
The event which opened all three performances was the Fraternity Wild Steer Riding Contest. A team of three had to pull, push, cajole, or in other ways manipulate a 500-pound calf into a circle. The first team to get the calf into the circle wins. Friday night, Sigma Nu won. Saturday night, Phi Gamma Delta won, and Sunday afternoon, Delta Tau Delta won.
Bomb threat disrupts KU Chorus in Hoch
A performance of Johannes Brahms greatest choral work, "Requiem," was bleakly interrupted by a bomb threat at about 4:30 yesterday in Hoch Auditorium.
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, rose from his front row seat and said, "Ladies and gentlemen. I would like to ask you to evacuate the auditorium. We have had a bomb threat."
IT WAS THE MIDDLE of the sixth movement. The conductor, James Ralston, put down his baton in frustration. The University Choruses of 300 and the University Symphony Orchestra of 65
hurriedly moved toward the side exits.
The main part of the slightly nervous, but more irritated audience quickly and quietly went out the main exit.
In less than two minutes Hoch Auditorium was cleared. Police came in with flashlights and searched behind the stage and under the seats.
A DISGUSTED CONDUCTOR puffed on a cigarette in the vestibule of the auditorium, while an equally frustrated audience surveyed the situation from the side-walk.
In less than 20 minutes, Hoch was restored to order and the sixth movement began again.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures with southerly winds 10 to 15 miles per hour tonight. Low tonight in the upper 30's.
'We'll Do It'—
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A banquet was held Saturday evening to close the exposition. Clifford Charlesworth, mission director for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, spoke and showed slides of the lunar landing on the moon.
Ken Mathiasmeier, Arkansas City senior, publicity director of the expo said, "The exposition went very well. People were really interested and the students did a fantastic job!"
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