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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 6, 1962
The Story Behind The Music Of The Memorial Campanile
By Karl Koch
This Sunday at 2:45 p.m., the bronze bells of the KU Campanile will begin to create music, just as they have since May, 1951.
Shortly thereafter, he finds that the set-up is not mechanical, but that a man plays the bells.
There's a story behind the music. It starts with the new freshman asking his roommate how in the world they can set up those bells to play a tune every Wednesday and Sunday.
THE MAN IS Ronald Barnes. His title is carillonneur to the University of Kansas. He began his career in 1846 at a church in Lincoln, Nebraska. A few years later he was
the carillonneur at Stanford University. Then in the Spring of 1951 he came to KU.
In addition to his duties as carillonner, Barnes is an instructor of music history, is in charge of the University's collection of rare musical instruments, and is consultant to the music library in Murphy Hall.
He has also had a number of carillon arrangements published, in addition to articles dealing with 17th and 18th century carillon music.
This is the man. Now for the carillon that casts its music over the University campus. To start with, the carillon was constructed as a memorial to the University people who gave their life in World War II. It was dedicated in 1951.
Gas, Cigarettes, Sales Tax Are Highest in History
CHICAGO — (UPI) — The nation's vacationers are paying the highest tax bills in history on gasoline, sales and cigarettes this year, the Commerce Clearing House reports.
Smokers will feel the pinch of higher cigarette taxes with 2 cent boosts per pack in Delaware, Michigan and Mississippi, and a penny a pack hike in Wisconsin.
Missouri has boosted its gasoline tax 2 cents per gallon, and a penny a gallon is being tallied in Alaska and Delaware.
The Clearing House, which keeps tabs on national tax trends, said only 14 states do not have a sales tax. Texas and Wisconsin have newly enacted sales taxes of 2 and 3 per cent respectively and Washington, D.C., has a 3 per cent sales tax, it said.
SALES TAX: 13 states impose taxes at rates below 3 per cent. Twenty-three states have rates ranging from 3 per cent to 4 per cent.
The carillon consists of 53 cast bronze bells weighing from seven tons to twelve pounds. The total weight of the bells is about 50 tons. They were made by a company in England that has been casting bells since 1308.
THE CAMPANILE with its carillon of tuned bells and the Memorial Drive running by its base are all a part of that memorial.
GASOLINE TAXES: No escape in any of the 50 states. Rates range from 5 cents a gallon to 8 cents,
The breakdown:
One won't find a zebu living in a house.
CIGARETTE TAXES: 12 states collect taxes at 4 cents a pack or less; 20 states at 5 or 6 cents a pack; three states at 7 or 8 cents a pack; Colorado, Oregon and North Carolina have no cigaret tax. Two states tax on a percentage basis, the Clearing House said.
with 35 states levying a tax of 6 or 7 cents a gallon.
The carillon is played from a manually operated keyboard located in a small room in the bell chamber of the tower.
This keyboard employs no electric or pneumatic mechanism, but is completely mechanical, permitting the player to vary the loudness or softness of tone through touch.
A practice studio half-way up the tower contains a duplicate of the carillon keyboard which is used for practice and giving lessons. Tuned metal bars take the place of bells in the practice keyboard.
There are about 100 carillons in the United States. KU has one of the largest bell towers.
This is the story behind the music that wafts over KU every Wednesday and Sunday night. The story doesn't have an ending. It will continue Sunday, as a matter of fact, when Ronald Barnes sets before the Campanile keyboard and begins playing "Prelude No. 5 in D Minor for Carillon."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States has authorized NATO Ambassador Thomas K. Finletter to inform the Western allies of a new electronic "lock and key" system to prevent an unauthorized or accidental firing of nuclear weapons by front-line commanders.
U.S. Sets Up Nuclear "Lock"
Officials said Finletter was authorized to tell the allies about the device at the North Atlantic Treaty council meeting in Paris or at some subsequent meeting of the group. The officials assume he has already done so but that they had no confirmation.
Existence of the system was disclosed last month but this was the first word that official confirmation of the project had been relayed to the NATO allies.
The Defense Department
Party Honors Prof. Gaston
Prof. and Mrs. E. Thayer Gaston were honored Tuesday evening at a surprise party given at the Kansas Union by his colleagues in the department of music education. The party was both for his birthday, July 4, and to honor him upon his retirement from the chairmanship of the music education department, a position he held for 17 years.
Prof. Gaston was presented a slide projector to complement his hobby of color photography.
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Present were Vice Chancellor and Mrs. George B. Smith, Dean and Mrs. Thomas Gorton, Dean and Mrs. Kenneth E. Anderson, Prof. Marcus Hahn, Prof. and Mrs. Gerald M. Carney, Prof. Elin Jorgensen, Prof. Clayton Krebbiel, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Buttram and Miss Genevieve Hargiss.
Movies Moved To Union Ballroom
The movies in the Kansas Union at 7:30 p.m. will now be shown in the Ballroom, rather than the Forum Room.
The change was made because of overcrowding in the old location.
Keeping JFK Happy
ARTESIA, N.M. — Artesia is experiencing deflation.
Price wars have cut gasoline prices to 24 cents a gallon and hamburgers to eight for $1.
charged with developing the secret device, which would give command headquarters located far behind the front remote control of nuclear weapons in the hands of frontline commanders.
Officials said development of the device was prompted by the fact that U.S. divisions in Europe recently have been armed with the Davy Crockett and other "hand-held atomic weapons."
SOME OFFICIALS feel the elaborate precautions designed to prevent unauthorized or accidental expression of longer-range atomic weapons would not be completely foolproof in the case of low-yield short-range weapons.
Officials said the electronic "lock and key" system had been under development for some time but that it might be necessary for President Kennedy to seek more funds from Congress for the project.
The system still is shrouded in secrecy. But it was said to involve an electronic signal from a higher headquarters before gun or missile crews could loose a nuclear weapon against an enemy target.
Some military officials doubt the necessity for the new system because of the elaborate interlocking arrangements already in effect to safeguard against the discharge of nuclear weapons without top authority.
The Kennedy administration apparently felt the additional safeguard was worthwhile, however, and is pushing ahead with it.
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