The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 174, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1962 Page: 5 of 8
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A Student Newspaper Serving the University of Oklahoma
48th Year No. 174
NORMAN OKLAHOMA SATURDAY JUNE 23 1962
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THEY MADE HIM A MAJOR! Ned Hockman (in the torture chair)
director of the OU Motion Picture unit receives a somewhat over
sized majors oak. leaf awarded to him by Jeni Wilson secretary
at the MPU (left) Layton Mabrey Producer-Director working with
the MPU (with the screwdriver) and Donna Grace also a secretary.
As a reserve officer in the Air Force Hockman serves directly under
the Deputy Chief of StaffPhotographer USAF in Orlando Fla. He
is Chairman of the Photographic sub panel of the Air Force Officers
Educational Requirments board. .
(Photograph by Richard A. Gilmore)
New Degree Tempts
Variety of Enthusiasts
By JAMAE STEWART
Twenty-five men and women
ranging in age from 28 to 70 of
varied backgrounds education
and occupations this week con-
cluded a 3-week residential BLS
social science seminar.
The initials BLS imply a unique
degree program for adults. The
relatively new bachelor of liberal
studies program allows adults to
obtain a degree through an inten-
The Unity of Science will
be the topic for study for the
bachelor of liberal studies natu-
ral sciences seminar to begin
Monday. The 3-weeks session
will close July 14.
Dr. David B. Kitts associate
professor of geology and Dr.
Thomas M. Smith acting curator
of the DeGolyer collection will
have charge of the seminar.
sive reading and testing process
supervised by a team of faculty
advisors. The students pursue a
program of independent study
preparatory for a comprehensive
examination in each of the areas
of humanities social sciences and
-natural sciences.
Each seminar is led by teams
of OU faculty members in the
universitys center of continuing
education.
A few adults with unusually
broad experience may complete
the BLS in two years. Most adults
should expect to spend from four
to six years in the program how-
ever. Those enrolled in the current
seminar range from a white-
haired retired attorney a petite
31-year-old doctors wife a dy-
namic young business executive
a coast guard lieutenant to a
charming counselor - housewife -teacher.
What is it that brings all of
these hurried adults together in a
continuing education program?
The answers are somewhat var-
ied but the basic reason is per-
haps best explained by the motto
of the college Learn a better
living.
'Many of the people attending
the seminar have no formal edu-
cation after high school. An ex-
ception to this however Is Mrs.
Madeline Willis -counselor -and
teacher from Duncan who has a
liberal arts education and a mas-
ters degree. '
Mrs. Willis like most of the
other students is a constant read-
er and feels that many areas in
her education were neglected
particularly the natural sciences
and philosophy.
In addition to filling in these ne-
glected areas Mrs. Willis said
The thrill of re-discovering the
beauty of a piece of literature
through the eyes of an adult is an
experience in itself which makes
the time spent worthwhile.
This busy housewife - mother -teacher
added The older one
gets the less interested he is in
physical activities and the more
important things of the mind be-
come. I want to learn so many things
that have aroused my interest
through this program that I feel
there is not enough time left in
my life Mrs. Willis concluded.
A 70-year-old retired attorney
expressed much the same idea
when he said he was interested in
in every field but had neer be-
fore had the time to delve into
each area.
Reading and learning are two
things which are not reserved for
any one age the attorney said.
Lt. Robert Farmer USCG and
Albert Mankoff executive with
American Airlines both said their
jobs are so highly specialized they
want to avoid getting into a rut.
Our tendency today is more
and more toward specialization.
The higher a businessman moves
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FINAL PERFORMANCE The Opera theater players will go on stage for the last time tonight in the
OU version of South Pacific. Jane Sneed Norman -graduate student and T. Roy Carmichael Sayre
sophomore romp through the Sooner rendition of Honey Bun. The performance begins at 8:15 p.m. in
the Union ballroom. Tickets are available at the door.
Senator
Stricken
On Job
WASHINGTON ) Sen. Fran-
cis Case R S.D. a member of
Congress since 1936 died Friday
of a heart attack after he was
stricken at work in his Capital
Hill office.
An outpouring of sorrow at
Cases sudden death and praise for
his ability and integrity was led
by President Kennedy. The Senate
met briefly to hear formal announc-
ment of death by South Dakotas
other GOP senator Karl E. Munt
and then the Senate adjourned for
the day out of respect for their
65-year-old colleague.
Case . served 14 years in the
House and had been nominated by
the Republicans for his third
Senate term. His successor to
serve until the November election
will be named by South Dakotas
Republican Gov. Archie Gubbrud.
The selection of a candidate to
oppose Demor' -'- George McGov-
ern n the xs'euiDer election in
Cases stead will be made by the
GOP State Central committee in
Pierre soon.
Case a national champion col-
lege orator at the age of 19 and a
horseman and rancher made his
mark early as a South Dakota
newspaper editor before entering
politics.
As a member of the Senate a
bill to sell stockpile surpluses.
Then in midafternoon he went to
his small office negr the Senate
chamber to finish a speech he was
to have made that night at a lime-
stone convention here.
Case felt faint and called the
Capitol physician who advised him
to cancel the talk. But the sena-
tor after resting felt improved
and resumed work.
But within a short while he was
rushed by ambulance to the Naval
Medical center in suburban Beth-
esda Md. He had been treated
there for three weeks in March
for a mild heart involvement and
flu.
U.S. Sets Off
Blast No. 22
WASHINGTON .? The 22nd
nuclear shot of the current U. S.
test series in the Pacific was fired
Friday.
The Atomic Energy commission
and the Defense department said in
a joint announcement that the de-
vice was dropped from an airplane
and detonated in the vicinity of
Christmas island with an interme-
diate yield.
The term is used for an explos-
ion with a force ranging between
that of 20000 and 2 million tons of
TNT.
People Die
In Plane Crash
POINTE-A-PITRE Guadeloupe (A3) An Air France
Boeing 707 jetliner with 112 persons aboard crashed during a
predawn storm while coming in Friday for a landing on this
Caribbean island. All aboard perished: . 102 passengers includ-
ing seven children and four babies and 10 crew members.
Search crews who circled the wreckage of the $5.5-million
jet plane by air reported it had exploded on impact and that
the debris scattered over nearly a mile had burned.
Theres nothing left of it said James Welsh held of the
U.S. Information agency in Guadeloupe who flew over the
disaster site on a forested hillside in his private plane. Its a
terrible sight.
f l 1 Guadeloupe is a French over-
Rusk Seeks
Quiet Along
Bei lin Wall
BONN Germany Itf) The
United States may press the So-
viet Union for a 4-pow7er meeting
to put a stop to the increasing
gunplay along Berlins wall Amer-
ican sources reported Friday.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
apparently suggested the idea Fri-
day to West German Chancellor
Konrad .denauer in a five-hour
meeting.
American sources said the in-
creasing danger of serious trou-
ble as a result of shootings across
the Berlin wall will cause the Uni-
ted States to suggest a get-to-geth-er
with the Soviet Union Britain
and France the four occupation
powers.
More than 30 persons have been
killed in trying to get through the
wall. Two East German guards
were killed recently. The shooting
has been getting wilder and West
German police have begun to build
their own trenches and sandbag
nests.
From the western viewpoint a
four-power meeting would be a
natural strategem to emphasize
over-all Soviet responsibility in
East Berlin as an occupation pow-
er. The Russians usually turn aside
protests over shootings on the
grounds that East Germany is a
sovereign country and is respon-
sible. American sources said the ques-
tion of international authority to
control access to West Berlin was
discussed with Adenauer although
Rusk was reported to feel this is
now a hypothetical question.
The Russians have never
warmed up to the proposal to cre-
ate such an authority.
seas department in tue Leeward
Islands a long chain separating
the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
It is 350 miles southeast of San
Juan.
The disaster the second to
strike an Air France Boeing with-
in 20 days came on a hill that
rises more than a quarter mile
above sea level on Basse Terre
the western segment of Guade-
loupe. The pilot had been cleared for
a landing at the Pointe-a-Pitre
airport on the eastern segment
Grande Terre. A narrow channel
separates the two.
A thunderstorm was blamed by
the pilot of an Air France liner
who made his regular run later
from Guadeloupe to San Juan.
The ceiling was very low
said this pilot Capt. J. Corme-
nier. A list announced by Air France
showed 10 crew members. They
were headed by Capt. Andre Le-
sieur 42. A veteran who at times
piloted French President Charles
de Gaulle he had logged more
than 15000 hours of flying time
including 1850 hours in the Boe-
ing 707 on intercontinental flights.
lt was June 3 that a chartered
Air France Boeing with leaders
of Atlantas cultural and business
communities among the 121 pas-
sengers faltered and crashed on
takeoff at Paris Orly Airport. In
all 130 persons were killed. It was
the worst single-plane tragedy in
aviation history.
The plan wrecked on Guade-
loupe which leaves Air France
with 18 of the big U.S.-built four-
jet craft was named the Chateau
de Chantilly.
Landing points scheduled on its
route from Paris were Lisbon
Portugal; Azores and Guadeloupe;
then Caracas Venezuela; Bogota
Colombia; Lima Peru and San-
tiago Chile.
Three-Act
Play Due
To Open
Critics Choice
dy by Ira Levin
hearsed for presentation Wednes-
day evening in Holmberg hall.
The drama school production is
under the direction of Charles
Suggs associate professor of
drama. The play was first pre-
sented by Otto Preminger at the
Ethel Barrymore theatre in New
York - in 1960.
Richard Bradley Muskogee
senior plays the part of Parker
Ballantine a Newr York drama
critic. Henry Fonda played the
part of Ballantine ou the New
York stage.
Gaye Beale McAlester junior
is cast in the role of Angela Bal-
.lantine Parkers aspiring play-
write wife. Their precocious 12-year-old
son John - is portrayed
by Gino Smith son of Dr. and
Mrs. ' Orcemlh Smith . Norman.
Gino -appeared in the South Pa-
cific cast this week.
James T. Martin junior from
Lawton depicts Dion Kapakos
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