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Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No.94
Monday, March 2, 1964
THE WINNERS — Members of the Sigma Chi fraternity-Gamma Phi Beta sorority Rock Chalk Revue skit, "All's Not In Vein," display the first place trophies they won in the competition, plus the traveling trophy. Their winning skirt was a satire of Watkins Hospital. From left: Lyle A.
"Mike" Robe, Jr., Arkansas City sophomore; Barbara Bauerle, Harlan, Iowa, Junior; Sandra Bornholdt, La Crosse senior; Hoite Caston, Independence senior; and David Nesbitt, Overland Park junior, who played Count Dracula. (Photo by Paul Kivett.)
Vampires' Win Rock Chalk
"All's Not In Vein," Sigma Chi-Gamma Phi Beta skit, won first place in the 1964 Rock Chalk Revue competition, Saturday night.
Based on the legend of the vampire, "Count Dracula," the winning skit satirized the operations of Watkins Hospital. The cast depicted the staff of the hospital as vampires and ghouls. All ended well when Blue Cross, played by Jack Powell, St. Louis, Mo., junior, and Blue Shield, played by Sandra Bornholdt, La Crosse senior, convinced the vampires to be like the "purest of the pure . . . Dean Emily."
The vampires are known blood drinkers and in the final scene Count Dracula, played by Dave Nesbitt, Beloxi, Miss., junior, said, "I was a four-pint-a-day vampire but I know I can kick the habit, Dean Emily."
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Barbara Bauerle, Harlan, Iowa, junior, and a
director of the winning skit, said, "I think it's
great . . . it's worth every single minute."
"I think it's the greatest thing that has happened to us in a long time . . . and, Dean Emily, we love you," Mike Robe, Arkansas City sophomore and a director of the winning skit, commented.
Placing second was the Phi Kappa Psi-Delta Delta Delta offering, "Allewdwin and His Magic Pot."
The skit was based on the legend of Aladdin. Trying to escape the induction into the sultan's army. "Allerdwwin" consults a reference book.
"How to Escape the Draft." The book's advice coupled with the magic of a genie, place "Allewdwin" in the Sultan's Palace. Eventually love conquers and "Allewdwin" escapes the draft by marrying "Princess Bodroll Boudoir." The couple are to begin "marital bliss" in the Abdull Stouffer's Place.
The Alpha Tau-Chi Omega skit, "A Shot of Sherwood," and the Kappa Sigma-Delta Gamma skit, "You Can Take It With You," won honorable mentions.
Based on the legend of "Faust" the Kappa Sigma-Delta Gamma skit told the story of a sanitation engineer. Desiring to become Hugh Hefner, editor of Playboy magazine, the engineer, Faust, sells his soul to the devil. As the scene is shifted to a Playboy club, an angel comes to save Faust from his fate. However, the angel, a beautiful girl, falls in love with Faust. In the final scene, the Playboy club, Faust, and the angel all descend to hell to live "happily ever after."
The legend of "Robin Hood" served as the basis for the Alpha Tau Omega-Chi Omega skit. The production satirized KU's expansion program using a fictional Sherwood University as a setting. Robin Hood endeavors to find a way to raise more money for the university. However, he faces a problem in the form of the Sheriff of Nottingham, a wealthy alum. In the end, Robin Hood with the help of a clever Maid Marian outwits the sheriff.
Airliner Search Starts in Sierras
TAHOE VALLEY, Calif.—(UPI)—A wind-whipped snowstorm yielded to clearing skies early today over the High Sierra where a Constellation airliner with 85 persons aboard vanished within sight of Lake Tahoe's gambling and ski resorts.
A three-quarter moon broke through the overcast about three hours before dawn, as the swirling snow diminished to a few scattered flakes and the wind velocity decreased.
The four-engine Paradise airliner was believed to have crashed either into the lake or the rugged 9,000-foot mountains which surround it during an approach to the Tahoe Valley airport in a blizzard shortly before noon yesterday.
AIR, ground and surface units stood ready in northern California and Nevada in hope that the change in the weather would permit a full-scale search operation at daybreak.
The plane was flying from Salinas and San Jose, Calif., to the resort area with 81 passengers, including 37 patrons of a San Jose tavern and 16 employees of a Salinas department store. It carried a crew of four.
Search officials said the plane could have hit any of numerous peaks in the area or could have gone down in Desolation Valley, a wilderness area west of the lake which is so rugged it is almost impassable even under ideal summer conditions.
LT. COL. Alexander Sherry, who arrived here from the air rescue center at Hamilton Air Force Base to coordinate the search, said there was "no pattern" planned. He said reports of a low flying plane had been received from points throughout the area.
Search and rescue experts said there was an outside possibility the plane might not be found until after snows melt or-if in a Sierra lake—not at all. Other planes have crashed in the Sierras and not been found for months or years.
impressible even under heavy pressure. However, they would not discount the possibility that the constellation might have plunged into the lake, which nestles in the mountains at an altitude of 6,225 feet and is 1,645 feet deep.
The plane captain, veteran pilot Henry Norris, 43, of Alameda, Calif., made three brief radio reports as he approached the airport near the end of 150-mile non-stop flight from San Jose.
He radioed at 11:21 a.m. that he had sighted the south shore of the lake and was going off instruments for a visual approach. Four minutes later Norris reported he was over Meeks Bays about 15 miles from the airport, but his final transmission ended abruptly with the words, "Flight 901..."
AMONG the reports received at search headquarters was one from Charles Ebright, who lives on the southwest corner of Lake Tahoe. He said he heard a plane flying toward 9,800-foot Mt. Tallac about noon.
Austrian Air Crash Claims 83 Victims
INNSBRUCK, Austria—(UPI)—Mountain police today began digging out the bodies of 83 vacationers from snow-covered wreckage of a British airliner which crashed into an Alpine peak in Austria's worst air disaster.
Austrian and British experts sifted through the scattered wreckage for clues to the cause of the crash of the four-engine turbojet, Britannia, on Mount Glungetzer, six miles east of here. There were no survivors.
All persons aboard the British Eagle International Airlines charter plane were British except for a South African and an Austrian girl. Six of the passengers were children and three crew members were hostesses. Two families of four and five members perished.
THE RECOVERY teams were flown to the site by helicopter yesterday, a few hours after search planes discovered the wreckage.
terday, a few hours after search planes discovered the wreckage. Aviation experts said the airliner apparently hit the mountain about 70 feet from the summit Saturday afternoon. It then slid down the sheer side of the mountain to the tree line.
Johnson Finishes 100 Days; Confident of Future
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Johnson completed his first 100 days in the White House Saturday in a mood of confidence about his own and the nation's future.
The Chief Executive and his advisers moved past the 100-day marker with belief the administration's record has been good domestically and, despite criticism, on foreign fronts too.
Since succeeding to the presidency last Nov. 22 in Dallas, Tex., within hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson has faced one international crisis after another.
EXCEPT FOR A brief while ir which the world caught its breath after the Kennedy slaying, Johnson has had to deal with flareups involving Viet Nam, Panama, Cuba, Cyprus, Ghana, and Zanzibar.
The President took special note of international troubles when, in his
speech at the University of Southern California last Feb. 21, he said there was "room neither for complacency nor for alarm" in U.S. foreign policy
"The world has become small and turbulent," Johnson said. "New challenges knock daily at the White House, America's front door. . . If we were to solve them all tomorrow, there will be more next week.
"BUT THE WEATHERVANE of headlines is not the signpost of history. Larger than the troubles I have noted is the spreading civil war among Communists. And larger still is the steadily growing strength of the worldwide community of freedom."
The President's optimism on the international scene has not been shared by critics, particularly among Republicans, who feel that Johnson has been less than surefooted in his handling of foreign affairs.
On the domestic front, however, Johnson has used his strategic and tactical abilities to excellent advantage. His aides are encouraged by legislative results thus far—particularly the tax cut—and by a succession of polls showing high popularity and political strength for the President.
They do not expect the road to November's election to be smooth. But they are confident on the basis of present evidence that Johnson
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Occasional snow and colder temperatures are forecast for tomorrow, after a low tonight of 30 degrees. Skies will be partly cloudy tonight and overcast Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the 30s tomorrow.
will defeat any Republican opponent.
THE 30-DAY PERIOD of mourning that followed Kennedy's death provided a moratorium on political criticism, but since then the Republicans have opened up on Johnson. The sharpest jabs have dealt with foreign policy issues—Cuba, Panama, Viet Nam.
It was during Johnson's first 100 days as President that Congress gave final approval to the tax cut.
But with the New Hampshire primary providing at least one major forum for Republican presidential contenders. Johnson also has undergone criticism on domestic matters. Questions have been raised about the economic results he has forecast from the tax reduction and about the impact of other measures, including the pending civil rights bill.
Johnson signed it into law Wednesday, hailing it as "the single most important step we have taken to strengthen our economy since before World War II."
AND IT WAS DURING those 100 days that the House—with much prodding from Johnson—approved the civil rights bill that is now before the Senate and will be for some time to come while southerners filibuster against it. But even southerners expect it to pass.
Johnson also, during this time, has set forth an additional list of priorities including medical care for the aged. And he has announced, and is laying strategy for, an "unconditional war on poverty" which will encompass a variety of measures under the coordination of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver.