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Lawrence. Kansas
61st Year, No. 127
Monday, April 27, 1964
NTSU Sweeps 'Oread' Festival
North Texas State University ran away with the Oread Jazz Festival Saturday.
The N.T.S.U. Lab Band won the "best big band" award over four competitors, while the Bill Farmer Quartet, composed of the lab band's rhythm section, took the small group honors.
The University of Kansas emerged a victor too. Herb Smith, Memphis, Tenn., senior, was judged the best reed player in the festival, even though his Midwestern Jazz Quintet did not make the finals. A $200 scholarship to the Berklee School of Music and a new Le Blanc saxophone were awarded Smith.
IN ADDITION, three members of the Farmer combo won personal acclaim for their performances.
Three members of the Farmer Quartet received individual awards, Ed Soph, drummer for the quartet and the N.T.S.U. band, received a $200 scholarship to Berklee School of Music.
THE QUARTET'S pianist, Dan Haerle, also with the N.T.S.U. band, received a stereo phonograph. The group's bassist, John Wilmeth, received a scholarship to the National Stage Band Summer Camp, for his trumpet work with the N.T.S.U. band.
To the Bill Farmer Quartet went a two week engagement at the Lousiana Pavillion at the World's Fair in New York, and a European tour.
Both the Farmer Quartet and
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Herman Herd Shakes Hoch
Bv Glen Phillips
The walls of Hoch shook Saturday night when Woody Herman and his herd unlimbered a swinging, hourlong concert that ended the Oread Jazz Festival.
The new Herman herd, now about two and one-half years old, has been acclaimed by critics as perhaps the greatest Herman band yet. When asked, after the contest, how he felt about this statement, Herman replied that it certainly was possible. "This is the most consistent band I have had." Herman feels the men in his organization now are as good or better musicians than he had in the past. He feels that each of his men has the potential to become another Stan Getz or Shorty Rogers, jazz greats who worked with the Herman band.
Herman attributes most of this success in choosing talented members for his band to the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Presently, eleven members of the fifteen-man group have attended the Berklee School. The production of such musicians "is certainly a compliment to Berklee."
THERE IS no doubt as to the future of big band jazz with Herman. He says emphatically, "There will always be some big bands!" There has been a resurgence of interest in the large bands, he said, however, "there will never be another 'Golden age' for the big bands."
The groups that appeared here at the festival pleased Herman very much. He said that they were all very good. The Lab Band from North Texas State University impressed him greatly. "I have heard the North Texas State bands for the last several years and I think that this organization is the best I have heard."
The idea of having a jazz festival has the approval of the veteran band leader. He hopes that the Oread festival will continue because "... these things do some real good work."
the N.T.SU. Lab band appeared at "Jazz Homecoming" held in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium yesterday. The Quartet received $75 for their appearance, and the band received $150.
Other awards went to Lynn Zoric, trumpeter with the Denver University Stage Band, who received a $200 scholarship to Berklee School of Music.
BRENT McKESER, bassist with the Mitch Farber Sextet, received a scholarship to the National Stage Band Summer Camp.
al Stage Band Joe Fisher, trombonist with the Quincy College Contemporary Ensemble, also received a scholarship to the National Stage Band Summer camp.
More than 120 jazz musicians participated in the festival. Groups ranging in size from a trio to sixteen piece bands played before the audience in the Kansas Union Ballroom Saturday morning and afternoon.
FIVE OF THE twelve groups were chosen as finalists during the semi-finals held in the afternoon. They were the North Texas State University One O'Clock Lab Band, The Mitch Farber Sextet, the Bill Farmer Quartet, the "Bunky" Green Trio, and the Denver University Stage Band.
The five groups performed Saturday evening in Hoch Auditorium and were followed by a concert by Woody Herman and his Swingin' Herd.
While Woody and his band wailed, the judges deliberated as to who the winners would be.
MICHAEL MAHER, professor of zoology, and one of the organizers of the festival, said that the Farmer Quartet was chosen because of its cohesiveness as a group and the high quality of improvisation they displayed during their afternoon performance.
According to Prof. Maher, the chances are pretty good that about this time next year, there will be a second Oread Jazz Festival
Victor D. DuBois
AUFS Man Visiting KU
An American researcher of Guinea and French West Africa will be visiting on campus for the remainder of the week.
Victor D. Du Bois, KU's second American Universities Field Staff speaker this semester, is visiting classes in politics, history, geography and economics.
His topics range from "Communism in Africa" to "African Nationalism and American Foreign Policy" to "Tribalism Versus Nationalism in Former Sub-Saharan French Africa."
Du Bois, who was awarded his Ph.D. in political science by Princeton University shortly after he joined AUFS in 1962, returned to West Africa in that year to observe and report on developments in the area that formerly was French West Africa.
Having majored in anthropology for his B.S. at Northwestern University, he earned his M.A. at that university in political science before completing his graduate studies at Princeton.
Under the terms of a Ford Fellowship in 1959, he did the field work for doctoral dissertation on Guinea.
Doom Predicted For Capitalism
A Minorities Opinion forum speaker Friday predicted doom for American capitalism but not for American democracy.
John P. Quinn, Socialist Labor Party (SLP) candidate for California senator, said that as automation applied to industry, a man's labor will lose its value, and so will the man.
Since a job-seeker will not be able to compete with cheap machine labor "the machine will get the job," the socialist said.
AS WORKERS FEEL the pressure of automation, they will organize themselves into "socialistic industrial unions" and democratically take over the country. Quinn said.
Being organized, workers will have the power to "back up" their votes and sustain the necessary constitutional changes to effect a "ballot-box revolution". Quinn said.
Although Quinn's prediction is rooted in the Marxist theory of dialectical materialism, he cited only "capitalistic evidence" to show that automation threatens all classes of workers.
workers.
• Center for the Study of Democratic Action, Santa Barbara, California, states: By the time the automation of industry is complete "90 per cent of the labor force will have no work whatever." Quinn said, the organization also reported that the labor force was increasing twice as fast as job opportunities were increasing.
creasing.
• Francis Heller, economic advisor to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations says: The U.S. has had an unemployment problem for 71 months in a row. Fifteen per cent of the production capacity of American factories is idle.
- John L. Snyder Jr., a manufacturer of automated machinery states: Five thousand dollars will eliminate the job of one man.
Quinn's party, however, is not opposed to machines. "The more machines, the better," Quinn said.
Machines reduce a man's hours of toil. When their beneficial effect is distributed among all, men will only have to work a few hours a day, Quinn said.
Technical Skill of Little Use To Americans in Viet Nam
Editor's note: In Viet Nam 15,500 Americans are involved in the only current shooting war between east and west. Who are these men and what is it like for them in this country? United Press paddies an internal arrests? United Press's Saigon manager, who has returned to the United States after two years in Viet Nam, describes them and tells how they are the communist chief in the following story. It is the first of three reports on the fighting men in Viet Nam.
By Neil Sheehan United Press International
The lean American captain, his two-day growth of beard glistening with sweat, looked across the river where the villagers' huts were burning and said quietly, "Well, if those people weren't Viet Cong before, they sure are now."
When the Vietnamese government battalion had camped in the village the previous night, several men had been wounded by grenade booby traps cleverly hidden along nearby paths. Unable to find the guerrillas who had acutally planted the grenades, the government troops put the peasants' huts to the torch.
It was just a passing incident in the listless, years-long war against the communist guerrillas in South Viet Nam.
BUT TO the young American it represented another wasted dav
in the rice paddies, another in those endless, frustratint series of marches where a few men are killed, a few wounded and a few more discontented peasants left behind to aid the still elusive and increasingly dangerous enemy.
"When I first landed in Saigon and had my briefings I thought I was lucky to get to Viet Nam before the war was over. But when you spend some time down here in the Mekong Delta it looks like a mountain nine million miles high," the captain added.
The remark typifies an experience thousands of young American officers and men are undergoing in South Viet Nam, where they are fighting and dying in the third war America has waged in Asia in the last 20 years.
They are learning that their highly technical western military training is often of little use to them here.
THE INSTRUCTORS back home taught them how to lead a company in an assault on a line of
Weather
Skies will remain partly cloudy tonight, turning fair tomorrow. Tonight's low will be about 40; the high tomorrow will be in the 60's.
concrete pillboxes, but didn't explain how to tell when a simple-looking Vietnamese peasant is actually a communist district chief. Nor did they learn how to root a Viet Cong shadow government apparatus out of what appears to be placid village.
They learned to command and lead men in battle. In Viet Nam they are not commanders, but "Advisers", and the books said nothing about how to get advice across to a Vietnamese officer who frequently does not want to listen.
There are approximately 15,500 American military men in South Viet Nam. Roughly two-thirds are staff officers, mechanics, communications technicians and administrative personnel. They are referred to somewhat derisively as Saigon Commands" by the remaining 4,500 U.S. Army field advisers, helicopter and air force crews and special forces teams in the field who risk their lives in combat against the Viet Cong day in and day out.
For these combat soldiers life consists of rising from a mosquito-ridden bunk at 5 a.m. to pilot a troop-laden helicopter into a rice paddy, while the tracers from the
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"The only way to earn a living is with a job which the worker does not own" the socialist said. And, "No capitalist runs a business to fulfill the needs of people," Quinn said.
"PRESIDENT JOHNSON faces a formidable opponent as he fights his war on poverty," Quinn said. He said the reason is that "capitalism cannot do away with unemployment." Instead capitalism creates unemployment.
Unemployment will not be eliminated as long as the tools of production are owned by capitalists, rather than by all the people. Quinn said. About fifty persons attended Quinn's speech. They asked him several questions about his ideas on government.
QUINN WAS ASKED how money would be distributed under a socialist economic system. He said, there would be no money, as such, but "vouchers for useful social labor." Men would be paid according to what they produced, Quinn said. U.S. gold reserves could be used to fill workers' teeth.
Quinn was also asked how socialism was working in Europe. He replied that there was "no socialism in the world." It would "take a highly industrialized country like the U.S." to bring about socialism. He believed that if the United States became a socialist country, the world would follow.
What would become of capitalists, he was asked. "Capitalists are always saying how good work is for the people, how it builds moral qualities. We will give some of it to the capitalists." Quinn said. ___
Soviets Fight To Save City
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Soviet engineers today expressed confidence of winning a "battle of nature" to save the fabled ancient city of Samarkind from a threatened flood by millions of tons of water.
Waters of the Zeravshan River strained against a natural dam caused by a massive landslide in the Central Asian region. Collapse of the 800-foot-high barrier would send the water down the valley across the ring cotton and grape area where 500,000 people live.
Moscow radio said this morning, however, that engineers had nearly finished a "by-pass canal" around the dam, slowing the rise in pressure.
Dynamite is being put into place and the charges will be detonated Wednesday, forcing the river into a new bed and allowing the accumulated water to run off harmlessly, the radio said.
At that time, it said, "the danger of floods will be completely eliminated."
Reports from the dam said the water had been rising 15 inches an hour and had formed a 100-foot deep lake in three days. But Moscow radio said this morning the rate of increase had slowed to six inches an hour.
At least 50,000 persons were removed from their villages.
Lack of Interest Kills Train Trip
The senior class train trip has been cancelled due to insufficient interest.
canceled Jerry Pullins, Grove Council senior and president of the senior class, said the train trip which was scheduled for May 2 did not fill up enough cars to make the charter possible.