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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 11, 1962
Major Quake Rocks Southern Mexico Areas
MEXICO CITY — (UPI) — A strong earthquake rocked Mexico City today, cracking walls, toppling debris into the streets, and causing a number of casualties.
At least 42 persons were treated for injuries in hospitals here. Four were reported in serious condition.
Another man was reported dead of a heart attack in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state.
THE QUAKE AREA covered much of Southern Mexico and included at least four states as well as the Federal district here. It was believed to be the most severe quake since 1955 when 56 persons were killed in the same general area.
ONE MAN COLLAPSED and died here of a heart attack as he fled his home.
At least 42 persons were reported injured and taken to hospitals in the Mexico City Federal district. Four of these were in serious condition.
(Officials said the magnitude of the tremors which shook Mexico City was more than seven on the Richter scale which has nine as its highest magnitude.
(In Washington U.S. officials classified the Mexican quake as a "major" one after analysis of seismographic readings by the coast and geodetic survey.
(In Berkeley, California, the University of California seismograph recorded the magnitude of the quake as 74. Officials there estimated the epicenter to be in Oaxaca state, south of Mexico City.)
Electric, telephone and water supply services were knocked out in Acapulco where several important buildings were badly cracked by the quake.
More than 100 pupils were evacuated safely from a school there when the walls suddenly cracked.
A water fountain on the main boulevard leading into Acapulco was knocked off its base.
Reports from Acapulco called the quake "the worst shock felt here in recent years."
IN MEXICO CITY the shock was heavy enough to knock government seismograph instruments out of order.
Bricks and cement toppled from buildings here and virtually all traffic on the streets came to a halt when the first earth shocks were felt about 8:15 a.m.
Thousands of fear-stricken persons ran into streets of the capital as cracks appeared in the walls of several hotels and office buildings.
Several electric power transformers were knocked over by the quake. They exploded and short-circuited power lines providing electricity for the Federal district.
THE UNITED STATES embassy reported "extensive damage" inside including broken glass and plaster knocked from walls and ceilings.
Several fires were reported, all of them apparently caused by short circuits. One blaze broke out in a chocolate factory.
One hospital reported plaster was shaken loose from its walls and ceilings.
The famed independence monument of a winged angel, which was destroyed in the 1957 quake, swayed perilously but did not fall.
Bees Cause Accident
FRIENDSHIP, N. Y. — (UPI) —
Odis Barber, 24, decided yesterday
the bees in Friendship are anything
but friendly.
Barber told state police he smashed his car up after a bee stung him on the face and the back of the neck.
xperimental Theatre Play 'The Acrobats' Is Puzzling
By Tom Winston
"The Acrobats," which opened Monday night in the Experimental Theatre and will play again at 8 tonight, is a puzzling play.
The production is one of three plays chosen for performance for the third annual Drama Symposium. The Symposium is jointly sponsored by KU and the Centron Film Corp. Centron will present a moneyed first, second, and third prize following the performance of Joel Oliansky's "Here Comes Santa Claus" on Saturday night.
THE AUTHOR of "The Acrobats." Berry Fleming, is a novelist. "Colonel Effingham's Raid" is his best known novel and "the Winter Rider" is his newest. "The Acrobats" is his first play.
Fleming' theme is that life is a caarnival and thata trickery breeds like flies there. Life, he says, is a one way street and no one is allowed to go the other way.
In keeping with the "one way" idea, all action on the stage moves generally to the right, but two characters move the other way. They are Mr. Shoes, a speechless, unassuming little old man who walks around observing life who plays cards at intermission, and Mort, a clown whose name is self explanatory. Mr. Shoes is probably meant to be God.
THE THREE MAIN characters seem to be Jimmy, whom we see as a young boy, as a man, and as an old man; Rosemary, whom we see as a girl and as an older woman, and Doctor Turnquist, RGD—that's a Rerum Generalium Doctor, a doctor of things in general.
The play is smoothly and imaginatively directed by Steve Callahan. Lawrence graduate student.
Outstanding among Callahan's actors are Dave Berey, Topeka senior, who plays Jimmy as a man; Miles Coiner, Lawrence graduate student, who plays Jimmy's grandfather and later Jimmy himself as an old man; Patti O'Berg, Leawood junior, who plays young Rosemary and later Rosemary's daughter Mary; Kay Carroll, El Dorado junior, who plays the older Rosemary, and Harold Courtright, McDonald junior, who plays Dr. Turnquist.
Martini to Speak at University Lecture
Fritz Martuni, visiting professor of German, will speak on "The Contemporary German Novel" at 4 p.m. Monday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Martini is the Rose Morgan distinguished visiting professor for 1961-62. This will be his final public lecture.
No Help Seen
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Communists, National Council of Christians and the Zionist.
Mrs. Gaillot picketed the archbishop's home. She heads an organization called Save Our Nation, Inc., which sponsors anti-integration newspaper ads, all based on the theory that the scriptures call for segregation.
Ricau, director of the South Louisiana (white) citizens council and a former news reporter, said he did not know what sin he had committed to warrant the excommunication. "I've done nothing but fight for racial integrity," he said.
Senior Receives Fulbright Grant
A KU senior has been awarded a Fulbright exchange grant to study at the University of Vienna, Austria, next year.
Mrs. Joanne Ruth Hull of Edgerton will study German literature at the Austrian university. The scholarship provides round-trip transportation, tuition, books and maintenance.
Mrs. Hull is a German and Russian major and has served as vice president of both the German and Russian clubs at KU. She has also held residence hall, Donnelly and Greater University Fund scholarships.
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