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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
Group to discuss tall tales, tent shows
United Press International
LUBBOCK, Texas - The popular culture of Kansas, Texas and other Southwestern states, ranging from humor and western fiction to television and architecture, will be examined during a three-day meeting this week at Texas Tech University.
The Texas and Southwest Popular Culture Associations will meet Thursday through Saturday at the Museum of Texas Tech.
The popular culture of Kansas, Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona,
Colorado and Louisiana will be examined by scholars
from across the country.
More than 20 topics will be covered — humor, architecture, ethnic groups, mystery, detective and science fiction, fantasy, sports, western fiction, televison, arts, museums, magazines, music, personalities, writers and outdoor entertainment.
Gary Cupp, a doctoral student at Texas Tech,
remembers the shows he saw in Missouri as a child.
He also toured with a tent show in 1969.
Tent shows and the pleasure they provided for millions is one of the topics to be covered.
"It's amazing how special tent plays were to people," Cupp said. "You can mention tent shows to people, and their eyes light up as they remember what was probably the only formal entertainment they had."
Cupp said a 1927 New York Times article estimated there were 400 traveling tent shows at that time — a trend that continued until around 1930. Most ran 40-week seasons and presented eight plays a week. Stops were made in some 16,000 towns, resulting in 96,000 performances a season and audiences which totaled 76.8 million people.
"That's 30 million more people than legitimate
theater was hitting at that time. It was a massive industry," he said.
Around 225 shows were traveling at the beginning of World War II. The Depression and the war proved to be hardships the shows could not overcome. In 1947, only 48 shows were left. In 1969, the year Cupp toured with the Schaffner Players, only two groups survived.
Another topic to be covered at the sixth annual meeting will be Texas popular oral narratives
While the stories are old, Davis said, they would be around centuries from now.
Kenneth W. Davis, Texas Tech English professor, said great storytellers were not limited to books but often were alive and well on the courthouse lawns or in the barbershops of Texas.
From Kansas, bootlegging, the Kansas Flint Hills and the daily life of a Dodge City buffalo man will be lecture topics.
Charges filed in drunk driving deaths of six
United Press International
WELLINGTON — An Iowa truck driver was charged yesterday with six counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and drunk driving in the deaths of six Kansans killed in a wreck on the Kansas Turnip.
Harold M. Hickey, 46, of Dallas, Iowa, was charged in his first appearance in Sumner County District Court, said Assistant District Attorney Kerwin Spencer.
Spencer said Hickey also was charged with driving at a speed in excess of reasonable prudence. Spencer said aggravated vehicular homicide was a
felony and carried a possible penalty of one to five years in prison.
"They (Kansas Highway Patrol troopers) said it was difficult for him to walk a straight line, and he had the smell of alcohol on his breath," Spencer said.
Spencer said Hickey's next court appearance was Feb. 20, at 1:30 p.m.
The accident on the ice-slickened Kansas Turnpike occurred about 8:30 p.m. Sunday about 20 miles south of Wichita near the Mulvane exit.
The wreck was the worst on the Turnpike since six people were killed in a two-vehicle crash Nov. 5, 1978, near Lawrence, a spokeswoman for the
Kansas Turnpike Authority said.
Spencer said troopers did not find any liquor containers inside the cab of the suspect's truck. He said the case would be based on Hickey's blood-alcohol content.
A southbound tractor-trailer rig driven by Hickey went into a skid, slid across the median and into the path of two northbound cars, a Ford and a Lincoln Continental, a dispatcher for the Kansas Turnpike Authority said.
The dispatcher said the wreck forced officials to close the highway's northbound lanes for nearly three hours.
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TRANSFER STUDENTS
(Plus any other interested upperclassmen)
The 37th Annual
Principal-Counselor-Student and
Community College
Conference
will be held on
Thursday, February 13
in the Kansas Union
Each year the Office of Administrators sponsors a conference which brings to the campus high school principals and counselors and community college personnel for a program of academic and student affairs presentations. On the morning of the conference, these individuals meet with their former students who are treatment, nonthorpeans, or community colleges.
and student affairs presentations. On the morning of the conference, these individuals meet with their former students who are freshmen, sophomores, or community college transfers. They will also invite interested students to take part in this year's conference. It will be an excellent opportunity for them to learn about academic challenges and your concerns for the future here. Your participation helps the University build a stronger relationship with your former school, while students attend the conference will be meaningful one for you. Students attending the morning meeting will be excused from classes between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. on the 13th. The following high schools and community colleges have indicated an interest in visiting with their former students in the Kansas Union. The list is:
Room Schedule for Student Conferences
9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
February 13, Kansas Union
B—Ballroom C—Cafeteria
Level 5 Level 3
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Allen County, Iola — B
Barton County, Great Bend — B
Butler County, El Dorado — B
Coffeyville — B
Cowley County — B
Dodge City — B
Fort Scott — B
Garden City — B
Haskell — B
Hutchinson — Walnut Room, Lav
Independence — B Johnson County
Independence — B
Johnson County —
Council Room, Level 4
Kansas City Kansas —
Centennial Room, Level 6
Labette County, Parsons — B
Longwell, Kansas City, Mo. — B
Neosho County, Chanute — B
Pratt — B
KANSAS HIGH SCHOOLS
Arkansas City — C
Atchison — Alcove B, Level 3
Atwood — C
Augusta — C
Baldwin — B
Belleville — C
Bennington, Tescott — C
Bishop Mlege —
    Cork II (Cafeteria), Level 3
Blue Valley (Stanley) —
    Meadowlark Room, Level 3
Chanute —
    Traditions Room, Level 4
Chaparral — C
Cimarron — C
Clafflin — C
Clay Center — B
Colby — B
Coldwater, Protection — C
Conway Springs — C
DeSoto — B
Dodge City — B
Downs — C
Effingham — C
El Dorado — B
Elkhart — C
Ellea — C
Ellsworth — C
Emporia — B
Erie, St. Paul, Thayer — C
Eudora — B
Fairfield — C
Field Kindley Memorial — B
Fort Scott — B
Frankfort — C
Fredonia — C
Garden City — B
Gardner — B
Goddard — B
Goodland — C
Great Bend — Alcove D, Level
Hays — B
Hesston — C
Hlawatha — B
Hightland Park — B
Horton — C
Hoxie — C
Hugoton — C
Hutchinson —
    Cork I (Cafeteria), Level 3
Immaculata — B
Independence — B
Inman — C
Iola — B
J.C. Harmon — B
Jefferson North — C
Jefferson West — B
Jetmore — C
Junction City — Alcove C, Level
Kapsun Mt. Carmel —
    Cottonwood Room, Level 3
Kingman — B
LaCrosse — C
Labette County — C
Lansing — B
Larned — B
Lawrence — Pine Room, Level 6
Leavenworth — Trail Room, Lev
Lincoln — C
Louisburg — B
Lucas-Luray — C
Lyndon — C
Macksville — C
Madison — C
Manhattan —
    Governors Room, Level 4
Marie Des Cygnes — C
McLouth — C
Mission Valley — C
Natoma — C
Nemaha Valley — C
Neodesha — B
Nickerson — C
Norton Community — C
Olathe North —
Big Eight Room, Level 8
Big South
Olathe North — Big Eight Room, Level 5
Olathe South — Kansas Room, Level 6
Olpe — C
Osage City — C
Osawatomie — B
Ottawa — B
Paola — B
Parsons — B
Perry-Lecompton — C
Piper — B
Plainville — C
Pleasant Ridge — B
Prairie View — C
Protection, Coldwater — C
Rosehill — C
Rossville — C
Royal Valley — C
Russell — B
Sabetha — C
Sacred Heart — B
Salina Central — Alcove E, Level
Salina South — Alderson Auditorium, Level 4
Scott City — B
Seaman — Alcove A, Level 3
Sedan — C
Shawnee Mission East — Parc L, Level 5
Shawnee Mission North — International Room, Level 5
Shawnee Mission NW — Regionalist Room, Level 5
Shawnee Mission South — Parc A, Level 5
Shawnee Mission West — Oread Room, Level 4
Smoky Valley (Lindsborg) — C
Southeast of Saline — C
St. Mary's — C
St. Paul, Erie, Thayer — C
Stafford — C
Sublette — C
Summer — Alcove F, Level 3
Tescott, Bennington — C
Thayer, Erie, St. Paul — C
Tonganoxie — B
Topeka High — Kansas Room, Level 6
Topeka West — Big Eight Room, Level 5
Trego — C
Turner — B
Wabaunsee — C
Washburn Rural — Alderson Auditorium, Level 4
Washington (K.C.) — B
Wellington — B
Westmoreland — C
Wetmore — C
Wichita East — Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Left From
2 Wichita Heights — B
Wichita North — Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Left Back
Wichita NW — Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Center Fr
Wichita South — Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Right Fr
Wichita SE — Woodruff Auditorium
Auditorium, Level 5, Right Front Wichita SE—Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Center Back
Wichita West — Woodruff
Auditorium, Level 5, Right Back
Winfield — B
Wendotte — B
ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL
Nina Went. Skokie — B
MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOLS
Raytown -- B
Raytown South -- B
NEBRASKA HIGH SCHOOLS
Marian, Omaha — B
Millard North, Omaha — B
Millard South, Omaha — B
This is your opportunity to give feedback and information about your experiences at K.U. to you former high school and community college.
In case you have any questions concerning the conference, please contact the Office of Admissions, 126 Strong Hall, 864-3991
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