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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
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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
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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.
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; . 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)
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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.
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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 ;
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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.
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CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES
A&M CHRISTIAN CHURCH
8:30 A.M.—Coffee fir
Sunday
Morning Services
9 :45 A.M
11:00 A.M.
ime
School
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
CHAPEL
Sunday—Masses 7 :30 and 9 :00
OUR SAVIOUR’S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
FAITH CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship '
7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service
8:15 & 10 :45 A.M.-
nur<
Worship
9 :30 A.M:—Bible Classes For All
Holy Communion—First Sunday
Month • ' '
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY
10 :00 A.M.—Sunday
-Mornin;
Each
School
:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
fe :30 F.M:—Young People’s Service
7- :30 P.M*.—Preaching Service
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
9 :45 A-M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
People’s Ser
6 :30 P.M.—Young .People's t
7 :30 P.M.—Evening Worship
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
9 :30 A.M^.—Sunday School
26th East apd Coufter, Bryan
! ;30 A.M.-—Priesthood meeting
11 :00 A.M.—Sunday Service
7 :00 P.M.—Evening Worship
10:00; A.M. - 12 Noon Tuesdays-
ji ing Rootrt
7:00-8:00 P.M.—Wed.. Reading
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10:00 A.M.—Sunday School
6 :30 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting
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ST. THOMAS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
9 :45 A.M.—Bible Classes
10 :45 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :45 P.M.—Bible Class
7 :15 P.M.—Evening Service.,
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A&M METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 A-M.—Sunday School
10 :55 A.M.—Morning Worship
5:30 & (5:00 P.M. MYF Meetings
7 :00 P.M..—Evening Worship
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
4 :00-!> :30 iP.M 1 .—’Friday School, YMCA
Sundays
: 8:00 A.M.—H o I y Communion; 9:15
A.M.—Family Service & Church School ;
11 :00 A.M.-—Holy Communion 1st &
8 :00 P.M.—First four Sundays of eac
month—Fellowship Meeting, Call VI I
month—f ellowship Meeting,
5888 for further informatio:
A&M LUTHERAN
CHURCH
(Missouri Synod)
10:00 A.M.—Aggie Bible Class
11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship
Wednesday 7 :15 P.M.—Gamma Delta
4th Sundays ; 7:30 P.M. Evensong.
Wednesdays
6:30 & 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion
with Laying on of Hands
Saints Days
10:00. A.M—Holy Communion
Wednesday
7:10 P.M.—Canterbury; 8:30 P.M.
Adult Bible Classes
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
9 :45 A.M.—Church School
ill:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
9 :40 A.M.—Church School
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6 :lb t'.M.—Training
7:15 P.M.—Worship
11:00 A.M.-
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Two centuries ago a giassmaker in Pennsylvania pro
vided the land for the erection of a church. But he attached
a string to his gift. Each year the congregation must pay
to him, or to his descendants, one red rose, forever.
Annually in a traditional service the members of that
church fulfil the terms of their deed. In the words of a
reverent visitor, “God’s rent is paid in coin more worthy
than man’s.”
What, strange thrust of imagination devised such a price.
Certainly it was more than a man’s love of roses ...
Wisely he realized our tendency to take for granted
our blessings. Fervently he prayed that we would forever
treasure the privilege of worship. Gently he reminds us
•that there is beauty and happiness in every sacrifice for
the support of God’s House, - ..
THE CHURCH TOR ALU . . . AU. for the church
The Church is the greatest factor Church. 1 hey are: (1) For bis
on earth for the building of char- own sake. (2) For his childrens
acter and good citizenship. It is a sake. (3) For the sake of his com-
storchouse of spiritual values. With- munity and nation. (4) For the
out a strong Church, neither de- sake of the Church itself, which
mocracy nor 'civilizalion can sur- needs his moral and material sup-
vive. There are four sound reasons port Plan to go to church regig.
why every person should attend larly and read your Bible daily,
services regularly and support the
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