Page 6 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 25, 1962
50-Nation Show to Be May 5
The 1962 International Festival May 5 at Hoch Auditorium will feature exhibits and music of 50 nations. Highlight of the afternoon and evening festivities will be a program starting at 7:45 p.m.
Margaret Cameron, Great Britain, and Esmeraldino de Oliveira, Brazil, will be the mistress and master of ceremonies of the program. It will feature song and dance performances from Israel, Latin America, Africa, the Philippine Islands, and India.
Jalal Razzak, Iraq, will serve as disc jockey in a music program representing the countries of KU international students. Prior to and following the evening program, exhibits from 50 nations will be on display.
Plywood Is Stolen
New Cuban Bank Building Burned
KU police reported today that more than 50 sheets of plywood valued at $240 were stolen from the construction site near Dyche Hall on Mississippi Street.
Construction company officials reported the theft yesterday. They said they last saw the plywood Thursday or Friday.
HAVANA — (UPI) — A fire apparently started by saboteurs transformed Premier Fidel Castro's unfinished national bank building into a giant torch that blazed over Havana last night and early today.
A crowd of about 10,000 persons gathered in Maceo Park and along the Malecon (waterfront) drive to watch the building burn. Every fire company in Havana turned out to fight the flames.
The half-completed building, covering a square block on the waterfront, was the particular pride of the Castro regime. Already 10 stories
tall, it was to have gone severa stories higher.
It was not certain immediately how much of the building it would be possible to salvage from the ashes.
The fire, which began about 8 p.m. yesterday and burned through the night, could be seen from all parts of Havana. An official spokesman said it "has the characteristics of an act of sabotage."
High government officials, including Interior Minister Ramiro Valdez and Industry Minister Ernesto (Che) Guevara, were on the scene directing fire-fighting efforts.
Because of a shortage of water in
the city's mains, fire engines dropped their intake hoses directly into the sea about 150 yards from the burning building.
Anti-Castroites have often used fire as a weapon in their fight against the regime. Tons of sugar cane have been burned in the fields or at the mill, and a number of buildings in Havana have been damaged or destroyed by fire.
The usual portrait in the foreign commentaries, picturing the American woman as idle, wasteful, and pampered, is not one she will herself recognize—Max Lerner