The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 21, 1962, Image 4
THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 21, 1962 Americans Leave To Celebrate 4th REBILD, Denmark — Every summer, thousands of Americans leave the United States in order to celebrate America’s Independ ence Day. They come to the heather-clad, wooded hills of Rebild in the north ern part of Jutland, to a cele bration which sponsors claim is the greatest Fourth of July cele bration outside the United States. Rebild’s record is 40,000 guests but this year, when the Rebild tradition is 50 years old, a new attendance record is expected. Why is America’s independence celebrated by so many people 3,000 miles away from the United States ? It started 57 years ago in Ra cine, Wis. Ivar Kirkegaard, an A- merican poet of Danish origin, called a meeting in Racine to found a Danish-American Associ ation for promoting continued un derstanding between people in the old, and new country. Three years later, leaders decided to hold a Danish-American reunion in Aar hus, Denmark’s second largest city and. the capital of Jutland. This reunion was held on July 4. 1909, with some 1,200 Americans of Danish birth attending along with thousands of Danes, including Crown Prince Christian and Crown Princess Alexandrine. Dr. Max Henius, a Danish-born chemist living in Chicago, proposed to make the reunion an annual event. With the aid of friends he raised funds for a festival place and in 1911 bought 200 acres of moorlapd hills at Rebild. The land was later given to the state and made a national sanctu ary with hunting, farming and housebuilding banned. Rebild Park is still- an incredibly quiet place — apart from July 4 — although an international highway runs past it. The first real Rebild Festival was held in 1912 with 10,000 Danes and Americans attending. The crowd gathered leisurely among the flowering heather on the 600- foot-high hills. Standing or sitting in groups, they heard an address by the new King Christian X, who was to attend the festival fre quently during his 35-year reign. Since, the festival has been held yearly, except for some of the war years. At a Rebild Festival the crowd and a choir sing a score of Danish and American songs. There are a number of speakers, some Danish, some American, some well known, some ordinary people who wish to express their joy at being present. A band — usually American — plays. And the Danish flag, Dane- brog, and the stars and stripes, plus state flags now and then, are raised while the national hymns are sung by the crowd. The number of guests varies with the weather, with an average of 35,000 attending in recent years. In 1961, when the late King Chris tian’s son, King Frederik IX, at tended, accompanied by Swedish- born Queen Ingrid and their three SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION ^ SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar, Dallas . . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch . 7:31 p.m. Ar. Houston . 9:25 p.m. FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY Butlingtof Route N. L. CRYAR, Agent Phone 15 • NORTH ZULCH r > PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS teen-age princesses, there were 20,000 guests despite heavy show- Keynote speakers have included the late Jeppe Aakjaer, a poet and Socialist agitator, film maker Walt Disney, the late Jean Hersholt, Danish-born movie actor, Earl Warren, Supreme Court cheif jus- ice, Ezra Taft Benson, former secretary of agriculture, and Paul G. Hoffman, former Marshall Plan boss. There also is much entertain ment. Lauritz Melchoir, opera sing- ?.v, and Victor Borge, comedian- pianist, both Danish born, have per formed, as have some of Denmark’s top Royal Opera singers. Last year ’ Details of the golden aniiivif- sary program are still secret. The city of Aalborg, 19 miles away, celebrates along with ..Re bild. An entertainment progratn, running frorfr I June 30 through July 5, includes regaitas. in ,the Limf jqrd Si rait^ torchlight,, pa rades, fii-e:v£orks* displays dnd Con certs by bands from the U- S. £ir Force and Denmark’s colorfully uniformed itoyal (Aiards. r C M ;> ' ; . Miss.,Texas' Miss Jackie Faye Williams, left is shown after she was selected as Miss Texas at thj annual Lake Whitney competition. The Waxa- hachie gifl eaHier won the titlp of .Miss La^e Whitney. Xt right Is thfe srunned-up, Mks \Diaha Ketche]! of > Orange, who represented Orange County in the com petition. (AP Photo) A IS' . U- Wmmm SA Loses Air Center SAN ANTONIO <7P> — Najeeb Halaby, director of the Federal Aviation Agency, stirred up a hornet’s nest in May when he came to San Antonio and refused to discuss the Federal Aviation Authority plan to move an air traffic control center from San Antonio to Houston. Bexar County civic leaders said he was making a mistake to move the center without telling San An tonio residents why. The center employs about 250 persons and pumps about $2 mil lion a year into San Antonio’s economy. But just what is an air traffic control center? Gerald B. Fox, chief controller of the center, said: “In layman’s language, our pri mary function is to provide safe, orderly and expeditious service for a tremendous flow of traffic.” The San Antonio center moni tors almost 300,000 flights a year. The figure includes takeoffs and landings at San Antonio airfields and bypass traffic from other pbints. The center’s heart is a long- range radar system which has been called “the world’s largest pair of binoculars.” This instrument lets air traffic controllers “see” every airplane flying within 200 miles of San An tonio. The air controllers, called journeymen, can push a button and talk with any pilot within 400 miles. But the most amazing piece of equipment in the $5 million plant is the radical electronic brain. It is an instrument of tremendous sensitivity and accuracy, Fox said. The brain can quickly calculate important data in the pilot’s flight plan such as altitude, air speed. type of aircraft and witt tions. ORL Thousands of combinatOF such information are fed brain’s memory drum. pushed, wheels whirraiDEC brain computes which altih air speed the airplane sl»^. aK assigned as it passes by Si^^,, tonio. stori The controllers make of long distant telephone 0 f| s . day to other centers butn# passes through an operate Com center has its own elaborate^® ment for direct line senin , ine’ The center has more il w i|h miles of cable in its com as ; p tions system. There is at tional 60,000 feet of ;^ 0 lth t wire” for connecting cirtij la t ; various switches. anti of tl -v Read Battalion Classifieds Daily abut Program Planned To A id Transf ers A program planned, especially to assist juhior college isjudqnts in making th^ easiest possible transi tion to A&M has been announced here. The plan calls for these students to visit the A&M campus during any one of several fwo-day periods. During the visit, the student will have an opportunity to meet with his academic advisor and to plan his courses for the fall semester. Several meaningful tests will be given to assist the student and his advisor. This program for transfer stu dents is part of a broader pro gram planned to help all students who will be newcomers on the A&M campus in September. Di recting the program is S. Auston Kerley, director of the Counseling and Testing Center. The two-day visitation periods especially reserved for transfer stuHenfs are Thursday and Friday, June £8, 29; tMonjlay and Tuesday, July 30, 31; and Thursday and Friday, Aug. 30, 31. Special ar rangements will be made for hard ship cases and students coming from outside of the state. Accept ances for any two-day period are being kept relatively' small, so as to assure the visitor of a greater amount of personal attention. Tests will be administered dur ing the morning of the first day the transfer student is on the campus. From 1 until 3 p.m. that day, there will be an orientation to A&M and its campus, followed by an interpretation conference to ex plain the purposes and uses of the tests which the student took dur ing the morning Each student will report to his academic dean during the morning of the second day, following these conferences it is contemplated that the visit will be completed. Read Battalion Classifieds Daily take the trudgery out of shopping [■ . 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