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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Feb. 5, 1962
It's the End, Folks! Don't Sweat School
BENARES, India — (UPI) — Mother Earth spurn merrily through the universe today — unflipped, unshattered and still on course — despite a rare celestial display that had terrified millions of its people.
A total eclipse and an extraordinary lineup of five planets — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus — with the Earth, Moon and Sun delighted astronomers but confounded astrologers.
THE MEN OF SCIENCE witnessed a remarkable heavenly spectacle from their observation point in New Guinea.
The astrologers witnessed the collapse of their predictions of dire calamity which had set off the worst wave of superstition since Haley's comet in 1910.
Half a million Hindu pilgrims bathed yesterday in the chilly waters of the sacred river Ganges in a gesture for their survival.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims flocked to Benares as the time approached for the conjunction of the eight heavenly bodies in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
POLICE HERE ESTIMATED that about a million of them had bathed in the Ganges.
The bathers who lined the banks of the River yesterday were alternately smiling and deep in meditation but it was so cold that most of them ducked in and out of the water quickly.
According to Indian astrologers, the time of greatest danger ended this afternoon although some danger will continue all week. They had predicted earthquakes, floods, droughts — almost the whole range of natural disasters.
High priests conducted Yagnas — or non-stop prayer sessions — in New Delhi but at least one Yagna packed up its sacred fire and scented leaves yesterday morning and decided the job was finished.
THE WAVE OF FEAR was not confined to the Orient.
Twenty-two members of a California religious cult took to the hills around Cleator, Ariz., last August to prepare for doomsday, believing Cleator would be one of the 12 places on earth spared from plagues, tidal waves and World War III.
In England, members of the Aetherius Society climbed to the top of a 2.636-foot mountain near Coniston to "send off spiritual powers" to ward off calamity.
As the time for the conjunction drew near, the Society's secretary Keith Robertson, finally said there probably would not be anything spectacular although the Earth might "flip" 90 degrees, leaving the poles roughly in the present plane of the equator.
THE EARTH DID NOT FLIP.
In Nepal, most Nepalese stayed awake all night Saturday chanting prayers.
And in New York City, the Hayden Planetarium reported it had been flooded with thousands of calls from people worried that the end of the world was at hand.
In New Guinea, natives had built small grass huts to crawl into during the period of total eclipse.
In Berlin, the radio in the American sector announced a music program with these reassuring words: "The world has not ended. Our tea dance program will go on as scheduled."
Ice Jam Is Broken By Warm Weather
The recent Kansas River ice jam four miles northwest of Lawrence is under control, Elmer Ousdahl, chairman of the Douglas County Commissioners, reported last night.
"The river is flowing naturally now." he said. "The recent warm weather has greatly helped the situation."
The severe ice jam could have caused the river to change course resulting in severe flooding, Mr. Ousdhal said.
"We contacted the Corp of Army Engineers investigating the possibility of using dynamite to break up the jam," he said. "They said this would be impractical so we let it unjam by melting."
The last similar ice jam which occurred in 1910 caused most of Grant Township, just north of Lawrence, to be flooded, he said.
During the recent jam ice measured as thick as 16 inches in places, he added.
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