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The North Texas Daily
Friday, October 28,1983 North Texas State University, Denton, Texas___________
67th Year No. 36
Photo by GINA JURIK
Brown listens to tapes of conversation from Grenada
University honors Luther
German serves as focus of activities
NT student overhears
Grenada conversation
By STEFANI GAMMAGE
Special Writer
It was about 6 p.m. Tuesday when
Steve Brown, Conroe graduate student,
turned on his ham radio.
Earlier that morning, U.S. military
forces had invaded the Caribbean island
of Grenada. Brown said he knew that
somewhere on his ham radio he could
probably hear some of the action on the
island. He listened to a Dallas frequency
to find out the Grenada frequency.
While he was listening, he overheard
a frequency being given and then heard
someone say, “Do you got that?”
Although he had heard the frequency,
Brown said, he knew no one was sup-
posed to use it, but he kept quiet. For
the next six hours, Brown listened to con-
versations between two American medi-
cal students on the invaded island and
four persons in the United States.
Brown has his ham radio on a cluttered
desk in his bedroom. He became an ama-
teur ham operator 1Vi years ago. Since then,
he has tuned into conversations from all
around the world.
But the Grenada conversation is the
most exciting contact he has made, he
said, and he recorded what he heard that
night.
The two students at St. George's Med-
ical College were referred to as Mark
One and Mark Two and maintained con-
tact with persons in the United States.
They reported events as they saw them.
Brown said he believes the people the
students were talking to were “four guys
in the United States who were each au-
thorized by Uncle Sam, who had tele-
phone lines to the U.S. Defense
Department.”
At 6 p.m. when Brown first made con-
tact with Grenada, the two Marks, who
Brown could not distinguish between, had
not seen the military. It was not until
about 9 p.m. that they reported “some
distant shell fire being heard right now."
At about 10 or II p.m.. one of the
Marks reported seeing troops about a mile
away. There was no response from the
United States, and Brown said he believes
this could have been because there was
a breach of security.
Brown said most of the earlier conver-
sation was about how long the generator
would last with its fuel supply and pos-
sible ways to cut down on energy usage.
The two Marks said that they had 10 gal-
lons of gas left, and that this would last
for about 20 hours of operation They
said. “There is a generator outside some-
place. but we aren’t going out there at
the moment.”
The conversations dealt with the con-
solidation of the American medical stu-
dents on the island.
A bit of light-heartedness that broke
some of the tension occurred when a
Brazilian broke onto the line and started
talking to the Marks about what he
thought was a ham radio contest. The
conversation follows:
Marks: “I’m here having someone cook
me some meat.”
Brazilian: “Excuse me friend, I don’t
like bothering you in your contest, but 1
never talked to Grenada and think you
are America. Uh. uh, excuse me. could
you send to me a card from Grenada
where you are?”
Americans: “You gotta be kidding.”
Brazilian: “Could you send me that
card for my collection in Brazil.”
Americans: “God, do you believe
this.”
Brown said most of the conversations
on the ham radio on Wednesday night
were welfare traffic He said reports were
being sent about the safety of people.
Brown said he is hopeful of finding
the frequency to Grenada again, even
though it's hard to find. He said his next
challenge will be trying to contact the
astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger
as they fly overhead for eight minutes
during the next flight, scheduled for later
November.
★ ★★★★★
More forces join fight
Island's leader resists
By ANGELA PAYNE
Staff Writer
Martin l.uther. father of the protestant
reformation, will be the focus of a week’s
worth of programs on the NT campus
Nov. 14-20.
“Martin Luther: Yesterday. Today, and
Tomorrow,” will feature lectures, collo-
quiums. exhibitions and musical and dra-
matic performances, said Dr. John
Kincaid of the political science faculty.
Kincaid is coordinating the events.
The commemorations mark the 5(K»th
anniversary of Luther's birth. The events
are a result of interdisciplinary coopera-
tion between the various departments in
the College of Arts and Sciences. Prep-
aration for the events began last Febru-
ary. Kincaid said.
NT's commemoration is the largest in
Texas, he said. “Most universities are
having some lecture or program in con-
junction with Luther’s quincentcnnial. but
we are the only one having an entire
week's worth of programs," Kincaid said.
Although Luther is primarily re-
membered as a religious reformer, he had
a substantial effect on many areas of mod-
ern life, and was one of the principal
founders of the modem era, Kincaid said.
"The religious, social and political worlds
of the middle ages were so intertwined
that it would have been impossible to
change one part of the structure without
changing the other parts,” Kincaid said.
All of the events during the week are
free, except the drama division’s produc-
tion of “Luther,” he said.
On Nov. 14 there will be two speeches
on “Getting to Know Martin Luther and
the Reformation,” along with several
other speeches. All events arc in the
Lyceum.
On Nov. 15 the Chamber Choir will
perform in the Union Courtyard at 2 p.m.
On Nov 16 the NT Interpreters Thea-
ter will perform “Martin Luther and the
Reformation" at noon in the Rock Bot-
tom Lounge. A Pastors’ Colloquim will
meet at the University Ministry Center
at 2 p.m.
"Martin Luther: Mediations on the Oc-
casion of an Anniversary” by Hans J.
Hillerbrand of Southern Methodist Uni-
versity will be the keynote address of
the week. The speech will be at 8 p.m.
on Nov. 16 in the Lyceum.
A Madrigal Concert by the Chamber
Choir of Strickland Junior High School
will be performed at 12:30 p.m. on Nov
17. There will also be morning and af-
ternoon symposiums that day.
The drama department’s production of
"Luther" will open in the University The-
ater on Nov. 17. Performances arc at 8
p.m. Nov. 17-19 and a 3:30 p.m. mati-
nee on Nov. 20.
The NT Collegium Musicum will per-
form in the Union Courtyard at 12:30
p.m. on Nov. 18. There will be morn-
ing and afternoon symposiums that day.
“One of the funny things about this
week is that many people think 1 mean
‘Martin Luther King’ when I say 'Mar-
tin Luther.’ ” Kincaid said “1 suppose
King is, in a way, a symbol of Luther's
continuing influence in our lives.
BRIDGEPORT, Barbados (AP)—
American forces crushed a final strong-
hold of Grenada's defenders Thursday,
but the Caribbean island’s Marxist leader
was reported still resisting the invaders
and holding hostages.
The United States continued to pour
hundreds of fresh paratroopers into the
fight for the tiny nation.
Armed Cubans who had been holding
out at Richmond Hill prison, in the hills
cast of the harborside capital St. George's,
were overrun Thursday, two days after the
U.S. invasion began, the Pentagon said.
A second St. George’s strongpoint. the
Grenadian army headquaters at Fort
Frederick, was captured Wednesday, the
sources said, confirming earlier reports
by a Barbados radio station.
Gen. Hudson Austin, Marxist head ot
the island’s military junta, had been
believed to be at Fort Fredrick But on
Thursday, U.S. intelligence sources in
Washington said Austin was holding hos-
tages on the southern part of the island.
Reagan administration officials said,
meanwhile, that Americans forces
discovered nearly 1,000 Cubans on the
island, some 400 more than clamed by
the Cuban government.
The Cuban government said almost all
the Cubans on Grenada were airport con-
struction workers who had been issued
light arms. But the U.S officials said it
appeared the Cubans may have been plan-
ning a military installation there.
In the third day of the Grenada inva-
sion. the officially reported death toll rose
to eight, a U.S. congressional commit-
tee pushed for a time limit on the mili-
tary operation, and international anger
deepened over the American action.
KNTU-FM to celebrate 15-year anniversary
By JENNIFER FULKS
Daily Reporter
Fifteen years ago on Halloween night. KNTU-
FM 88.1 began its first broadcast on the air.
and the station's been through many changes since
that first day in 1968.
Dr. Ted Colson, who now teaches in the in-
terpersonal and public communication division
of the speech communication and drama depart-
ment, founded KNTU.
"I distinctly remember that first night of broad-
cast being Halloween night.” Colson said. “We
decided that since it was Halloween, we would
play a recording of Orson Welles “War ol the
Worlds.”
Much planning and hard work went into the
beginnings ol KNTU, he said. At that time.
Colson was director of the radio/television/film
division.
The R/TV/F division was originally in the His
torical Building. Colson said the division was
cramped and there was little money for a station.
Plans were made to build the Speech Build-
ing. and Colson supervised the planning of a
radio station in the new building.
The next step was to apply to the Federal
Communications Commission tor a license.
"I spent a little bit of everyday for 18 months
working on getting a license because of all the
red tape.” Colson said.
The department encountered several obstacles
during the creation of KNTU.
Students chose the call letters for the station,
he said, and KNTU was their first choice be-
cause it In the campus name.
The FCC said the call letters KNTU were not
possible for NT’s use, because the letters were
already assigned to a Coast Guard cutter ship.
The cutter was old and not in use anymore, so
the letters were not in use.
NT wrote to the Coast Guard and asked if it
would release the KNTU letters, which it did.
So, now NT’s station was officially KNTU.
KNTU started broadcasting with a 250-watt
station, the lowest level of broadcasting that ex-
ists. The station could only be heard on the cam-
pus and the surrounding area.
During its beginning. KNTU experimented with
the format of its progamming, he said. It broad-
cast mostly jazz since many stations in the Dallas
and Fort Worth area were Top-40 Classical mu-
sical and popular music were added.
Shortly after KNTU’s beginning. Colson turned
the station over to Bill Mercer, who became the
first faculty station manager. Mercer still teaches
in the R/TV/F division of the speech communi-
cation and drama department.
Several years later, KNTU increased its watt-
age to 440 watts, and the station could be heard
throughout the Denton area. A course in radio
programming was designed and classwork in-
volved learning the equipment.
KNTU soon changed to primarily a Top-40
format, with such programs as "Museum Mad-
ness,” “Roots and Rhythms" and “Night Talk
88.”
The 1970s had programs like “The All-New
KNTU with Good Vibrations." Music at that
time included groups like Osmonds and Cowsills.
KNTlJ's present station manager. Dick Kunkel.
came to NT in 1977.
Kunkel changed the format to jazz and in-
creased the station's power to 6700 watts. KNTU
could now be heard in the Dallas/Fort Worth
area.
In six years that Kunkel has been station man-
ager. KNTU has increased its power, increased
its antenna height and significantly increased its
budget size.
Phonothon profits
exceed $10,000
By TONYA McMURRAY
Daily Reporter
NT’s phonothon has netted $10,232
in alumni pledges during the first three-
nights, leaving $49,768 ol the $60,(XX)
goal still to be collected during the
remaining 19 days ot the phonothon.
Jay Bruner. NT advancement official
and phonothon coordinator, said he is
pleased with the results.
NT-40 members manned the phones
Monday night, collecting a total ol $4,081
in pledges. Last year, $3,139 was col-
lected the first night.
Members of the Alpha Phi sorority and
the Student Association manned the
phones Tuesday night, collecting $3.821.
in 1982, $2,329 was raised the second
night.
Students representing Clark Hall and
the Pi Beta Phi sorority manned the
phones the third night, collecting $2,330.
Pledges last year on the third night to-
taled $3,565.
Student volunteers said Wednesday's
low contributions were due to many
alumni not being home.
Paula Pace, Euless senior and Pi Beta
Phi member, said, “Wednesday is just
a bad night because a lot of people go to
church."
Each night, two $25 gift certificates
are awarded, one to the volunteer who
gets the most donors and one to the in-
dividual with the most money in pledges.
Time changes Sunday
Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m.
on Sunday, and people should set their
clocks back an hour before going to bed
on Saturday night.
The idea behind daylight-saving lime
is to get an extra hour of sun during the
time most people are awake, Lon Clay
Hill of the physics faculty said
Wednesday.
By setting the clocks ahead an hour
in the spring, people are able to save an
hour of electricity, he said.
The nation went on daylight-saving
time after the oil crisis in the early 1970s.
but some places had already been ex-
perimenting with it before then, he said.
Hill said when he was growing up in
central Kentucky, some counties were on
daylight-saving time. Farmers already
knew it made more sense to adjust their
schedule to the sun.
Dr. Harriet Aronson of the psychology
faculty said the time change causes stress.
Human bodies are set on a circadiam,
Latin for "around the clock" rhythm.
Aronson said. Human heart rates, blood
pressures and temperatures fluctuate
throughout the day and these changes oc-
cur because humans become accustomed
to the cycle of time.
The extent that a time change affects
an individual depends on his lifestyle
"Some people adjust better than others."
Aronson said.
Photo by GINA JURIS
Gate to Denton’s emergency facility
In case of fallout,
campus buildings
serve as
By BRENT LINKER
Staff Writer
With a strong dose of self-reliance
and a two-week supply of food and
water, Denton residents can make-
preparations that would enable them
to survive a nuclear attack on Dallas
and Fort Worth, said John Maxwell,
emergency management coordinator
for Denton city and county.
Maxwell said all large Denton build-
ings with basements can serve as fall-
out shelters, but the amount of pro-
tection available in them varies with
the amount of mass in the shelters’
walls and ceilings.
“The more mass you get between
you and the radiation, the more pro-
tection you have,” he said.
People would have to bring their
own supplies of food and water be-
cause none of the shelters is stocked.
Maxwell said.
Maxwell said the shelters were
equipped with medical kits, but they
were removed after some of the medi
cine aged. The kits included aspirin,
penicillin and diarrhea medicine
Maxwell said the installation and
removal of the medicine w as ordered
by the federal government
NT buildings don't have markings
designating them as fallout shelters.
Maxwell said, but he is planning to
shelters
place familiar black-and-yellow.
three-pronged design on the signs out-
side NT buildings in about two weeks.
Buildings on campus that do not
have basements, like the General Ac-
ademic Building, would still offer suf-
ficient protection since any amount of
radioactive dust that did seep in would
not be plentiful enough to cause harm.
Maxwell said.
See related stories,
pages 2 and 5
Homeowners can build an adequate
defense against fallout by covering the
floor and all ground-level vents with
two to three feet of dirt to absorb ra-
dioactivity, and by staying in the
basement or. if the home has no base-
ment. in the space underneath the
floor. Maxwell said.
Maxwell said a two-week stay in a
shelter would be necessary to avoid
exposure to harmful levels of radio-
activity.
The Denton pow cr and w ater plants
have enough fuel stored to operate for
a month without fuel from the outside.
Maxwell said He said the water
plant's filtration system can screen out
radiation
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