Snow-bound Chicago
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Students recall break
By NED VALENTINE
Miss Nancy Fagan, Palis Heights, Ill., junior, after being delayed one night in a crowded motel in Joliet, managed to get a commuter train to within 10 miles of her suburban home.
Fortunately her father, who heads S. G. Hayes and Company asphalters, sent two road graders to meet her at the station. "He sent two in case one got stuck," Miss Fagan said.
DON HAMMEL, Clay Center junior, who spent the semester break in Chicago, described the situation in the grocery stores "pushing and shoving. Where I was it was dog eat dog."
The newspapers dubbed it "The Great Snowstorm of '67." But to many KU students returning for semester break to buried homes, there was nothing "great" about the snow.
NOT ONLY WAS it necessary to clear the streets of snow but also of thousands of vehicles stuck and abandoned on freeways. In some downtown streets cars were lined up bumper to bumper and buried in snow.
In a matter of a few days Chicago clouds dumped 36 inches of snow on the city in a series of three major attacks.
Hammel explained that after the first storm people were anticipating more snow and were stocking up.
Stores quickly ran out of eggs, milk, and bread. In some areas these items were rationed.
TRAFFIC that wasn't stopped moved at a snail's pace. Van Buchanan, Chicago junior, said, "My parents visited some friends
five miles away. They took a four-lane expressway and two and a half hours."
But a strong desire to remain mobile forced Chicago ingenuity to its peak. Miss Longley reported people skiing down a hill to stores near her home.
Buchanan said he saw someone hitching a dog team to a sled but was unable to get much cooperation with the house-trained canines.
Tickets were issued to abandoned cars on streets. As soon as an owner was able to locate his car he found a $10 fine, a $10 toll fee, and a $2 per day storage fee.
cars could be removed. Long lines formed in the freezing cold waiting for buses.
MAYOR RICHARD DALEY asked citizens to use the public mass transportation system until
"The object was to kill time," Buchanan said. "Study and watch the tube was about all you could do."
The low temperatures and overwork took their toll of lives. Besides the $150 million in damage 60 persons died.
Art Forum explores eighteenth century
A comedy, extremes in 18th-century dress, and Thomas Rowlandson's satirical drawings were the subjects of a SUA Art Forum behind-the-seenes look at the University Theatre's current production, "School for Scandal," yesterday afternoon.
Rowlandson's drawings, on display until March 12 at the KU Art Museum, satirize the theater of 18th century England, including R. B. Sheridan's "School for Scandal." They are being shown in conjunction with the University Theatre's production.
"The men in the play and in London at that time wore green silk hose and buckles on the toes of their shoes," Chez Haehl, costume director for the "School for Scandal." said.
Bret Waller, associate director of KU's Ara Museum, told of Rowlandson's highly satirical drawings, some of which show frowning or sleeping audiences at 18th-century plays like Sheridan's.
JACK BROOKING, director of the play, told the Dyche Auditorium audience, "Our version of 'School for Scandal' may be the only color-coordinated production of the play ever done; we have given each character an
individual costume color for the production."
Daily Kansan Friday, February 10, 1967
ALTHOUGH ROWLANDSON and Sheridan were contemporaries," Waller said, "they probably never met because they moved in different social circles in London; unlike Sheridan, Rowlandson enjoyed drinking beer with the boys."
MASSEY HONORED
HOLLYWOOD - (UPI) Raymond Massey was honored by the U.S. Public Health Service with a citation for his contribution as host of the service's documentary film, "The Watch Over Health."
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