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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 13, 1963
Two Americans Dead In UAR Air Disaster
ZAHWEIIN, U.A.R. — (UPI) — The United Arab Airlines today said two Americans were among the 34 persons killed when one of its planes exploded "like fireworks" in flight last night.
Investigators sifted through the mangled debris for a clue to the disaster.
THE TWIN-ENGINE Dakota, en route from Cairo to Alexandria, blew up during a dust storm shortly after takeoff. Burning debris and pieces of shattered bodies were strewn through a lemon grove surrounding this village 20 miles north of Cairo.
One villager said "pieces of fire began showering on our heads."
United Arab Airlines identified the two American victims as Albert Lion and his wife Gloria of Baltimore. Md.
The UAA, revising its earlier list, reported that the plane carried 30 passengers, including two infants, and four crewmen. Earlier it said
here were 32 passengers and crewen aboard.
THE PASSENGER LIST indicated that many of the passengers were Lebanese and Iraqis, but a number of non-Arabs were aboard. Two United Nations passports were found in the debris.
Witnesses said the airliner "exploded like fireworks" high in the sky, raining wreckage over a 100-yard area. One wing, which lodged in a tree, was the largest single piece of the plane found. The door dangled from another tree.
"There were no bodies," said a rescuer, "only small pieces of them and bits of clothing and baggage."
The absence of proper roads in the area prevented the rescuers from bringing in large floodlights to aid in the search. Authorities awaited daybreak to begin a thorough investigation.
"WE HAD JUST gone to sleep when we heard an explosion overhead and ran outside." villager El-
wan Mohammed said. "The whole sky was alight. Then pieces of fire began showering on our heads. We ran back inside and a village elder called the police.
"Women watching from windows screamed when burning pieces fell around our homes. Someone said it was the plane because he saw the wing in the tree. We took our lamps and went out to see what happened, but police came and told us to stay away and took our lamps."
Sandstorms stirred up by occasional brief, violent winds had clouded lower Egypt most of the day before the crash.
The crash was the worst civil air disaster in Egypt since a French DC6B transport crashed in the desert near Cairo on Feb. 20, 1956, killing 52 persons.
The last crash of a United Arab Airlines craft was on July 19, 1962, when a Comet IV jetliner went down in Thailand, killing 26.
Progressive Jazz, Bossa Nova Highlight Winter Sextet Concert
By Delores Orman
New progressive jazz and bossa nova compositions were featured by the Paul Winter Sextet in its KU appearance Saturday.
Winter, in an interview after the concert, explained that many of the new compositions are contributed by various writers.
"We meet writers during our tours," he said. "They listen to us and then write pieces they think we would like. Sometimes we play as many as 30 compositions. Out of the 30, we may only end up with 15."
He explained it was very difficult to play standards. One problem was finding a new approach to the older songs.
COMMENTING THAT the group did not play any standard songs, Winter said, "We hope to strive for more balance in our programs soon."
Hammond flew from New York City to supervise the recording of the sextet's KU concert for nationwide distribution. More than $5,000 of recording equipment, microphones, cables, etc., were used.The record is scheduled to be distributed in July.
John Hammond, vice-president of Columbia Records, said the group was brave to present a program of entirely new musical compositions.
WINTER SAID THE group preferred touring college campuses to night clubs.
"The college audience is more receptive and intelligent than the night club audience." he said.
Winter explained that the group felt more oriented to college audiences since the six men are recent college graduates.
Commenting on the jazz group's approach to music, he said,
"WE TRY TO KEEP open-minded in everything we do." He said the
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"Improvisation is an integral part of jazz." Winter said. "The purpose of jazz is to perfect and improve your improvisation."
ON THE FUTURE of bossa nova, the 23 year-old leader said, "Some of the original bossa nova songs will last. But the application of bossa nova rhythms to popular songs is a fad. Some of them are travesties."
One of the highlights of the concert was the sextet's arrangement of part of a song in honor of Dizzy Gillespie, a jazz musician. The composition featured an electrifying drum solo by Riley.
One of the most impressive compositions was a suite entitled "Port au Prince." The song is based on the rhythms and folk songs the group heard in Haiti.
Winter said that the sextet was influenced by the rhythms it heard during its State Department tour of South America.
THE JAZZ GROUP is scheduled to appear at the United Nations, Carnegie Hall, and the Newport Jazz Festival before leaving in early July for Italy and Poland.
The members of the sextet have changed slightly from the original group which reorganized at Northwestern University and which toured South America, and later appeared at the White House.
Winter explained that one of the original members of the sextet is playing with Ahmad Jamal, and two returned to school. The new members of the group are Jay Cameron, baritone saxophonist; Chuck Israels, bass; and Ben Riley, drums.
The two original members of the group are Warren Bernhardt, piano, and Dick Whitsell, trumpet. Winter plays alto saxophone.
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Southern Pacific to Acquire Rock Island Lines in Kansas
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Agreement has been reached by the managements of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad on terms for a merger of the two roads, it was announced today.
The terms of the agreement also provide that if the merger proposal is consummated, the Southern Pacific Railroad will acquire Rock Island lines south and southwest of Kansas City "at a price to be determined on final conclusion of engineering studies now under way." the joint announcement by the three roads said.
The three-way proposal, the announcement said, will be presented "shortly" for approval by the boards of directors, and later by stockholders, of the Union Pacific and Rock Island. If the plan clears these hurdles, the three lines will then seek authority from the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to put the arrangement into effect.
A MERGER OF the Union Pacific and the Rock Island would give the Union Pacific its own direct trackage into Chicago from Omaha and Kansas City. In turn, it would provide the Rock Island with financial resources to make needed equipment and property improvements.
Officials of the three railroads declined to speculate as to when the commission might approve the
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merger. They said the Union Pacific and Rock Island would call special meetings of their stockholders "at an early date."
The proposed merger calls for the Union Pacific to exchange .718 of an authorized but unissued common share of its stock for each common share of Rock Island stock. Johnson did not disclose how much the Southern Pacific would pay for the Rock Island properties.
Union Pacific now has 22,429,235 common shares outstanding and Rock Island has 2,916,714 shares outstanding. Johnson said the three railroads contemplate that "this will be a tax free merger."
The three railroads began the merger study Sept. 17.
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