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on the tv cene Real-Life Disasters In 'Havoc7 Series UMKC announces Spring Semester Continuing Education Program YOUR FUTURE IS NOW Take the course you want to take Enrich your life Increase your income Enroll now Over 500 courses Credit or non-credit Arts Sciences Administration Music and Dance Education Dentistry Medicine Law Pharmacy This is your university the only comprehensive university in Greater Kansas City Take advantage of it Call now for your free bulletin of adult education courses 01 OTML lit AC Special operators on duty today from 10-4 Weekdays from 8-5 By Steve Nicely Television Editor Disaster films have been exploited by Hollywood and milked for all the profit that could possibly be squeezed from such gimmicks as and Towering The critics reviled them as phony and false but big-name actors mind the meal tickets the films provided The audiences care what the critics said They were fascinated by the contrived make-believe Hollywood spectacles It is against this background that a new Mobile Showcase series Havoc premieres at 6:30 pm Wednesday on KBMA Channel 41 Glenn Ford narrates 12 half-hour pro- Sunday Ext 101 Weekdays Ext 102 UMKC Office of Educational Services tion because it is said to provide insights into personal reactions to tragedy and introduces students to their common membership in family of It focuses on the lessons that have been learned in disasters and what can still be done to prevent their recurrence KCMO of Fairway KCMO-TV and its two radio stations ended the old year on a strenuous note last weekend by moving all their equipment and furnishings from 125 31st to new facilities at 4500 Johnson Drive in Fairway One thing that did not move was the 1000-foot tower that Mayor Charles Wheeler Jr and the city council described as blight on the when it became apparent that the city could not stop the move The television signals and the radio signals for KCMO-AM and KCEZ-FM are being beamed to the tower from Fairway The public fight to stop the move to Johnson County raged for several months and brought out something about the personality of Mayor Wheeler who appears on talk shows so frequently that he is as much a media personality as the announcers Even while Wheeler was blasting KCMO in public he remained cordial to KCMO executives and announcers and did not boycott the studios They learned there were two Mayor Wheelers the public political one who was attacking KCMO and the private one who seemed as cordial as ever While the efforts appear to have failed the stations still are under threat Last week Legal Aid of Western Missouri Inc appealed an earlier action turned down by the Federal Communications Commission The II University of Missouri-Kansas City GLENN FORD grams about disasters that have taken place in this century The series employs a documentary style that makes extensive use of newsreel footage and on-site commentary I was able to prescreen only short segments of the series but obviously the critics cannot label these disasters as phony They actually happened and with much more power and devastation than anything Hollywood could begin to show There are segments on hurricanes great airship disasters volcanoes the dust bowls bridge collapses floods fires disasters at sea and earthquakes One segment explores last Tenerife Airport crash in the Canary Islands of two 747s in which 580 lives were lost Another revisits the scene of a man-made disaster in 1966 when a slag heap 800 feet high gave way releasing a torrent of coal waste on the Pantglas Jr and Infants School in Aberfan Wales Inn -credible Offer Buy one pizza get the next smaller size free fc'4 Pizza Ion irresistible pizzas are now twice as tempting With this coupon when you buy any giant large or medium size thin crust pizza or any large size thick crust pizza at the regular menu price we ll give you one pizza of the next smaller size with equal number of ingredients and the same type crust free Present this coupon with 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will take Channel 19 out of its cramped makeshift quarters (resembling a metal barn and a couple of mobile homes at 2100 Stark about two miles north of the Truman Sports Complex It will provide the public -station with facilities of relative luxury and at a much better location KCPT will continue using its current tower and transmitter near the Stark location and use the KCMO tower only to beam its signals by microwave to its own tower In the episode about volcanoes Ford visits St tiny one-room Volcano Museum on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean It took six minutes for an eruption of Mount Pelee to snuff out 30000 lives in the 1902 tragedy the museum commemorates It lava that killed them It was gas It was the first time in recorded history that the side of a volcano blew out and super-heated gases and steam came down The kicker is that most of the live: probably would have been saved if election been scheduled that day The governor wajSt the place evacuated because he wanted the votes When Mount Pelee started to cough and sputter he blocked the roads with troops Only two persons survived The governor was among the dead The premiere episode Wednesday is Was No the disaster of Hurricane Camille on the Gulf Coast in 1969 The hurricane is described as the most destructive storm ever to hit US shores The series has been recommended by a major national education associa-.