Interviews with Father Alfred Carney, Ralph and Mary Compton and Ken Solomon, 1965-05-21

File — Box: MS 017-08, Folder: MS 017-08-10

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1965 no. 03

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1965 no. 03 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

3 index cards - Carney, Alfred (Father); Folklore of the Middle West, 1965, No. 3.; Folklore - Kansas; Peyer, Gilbert;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Father Alfred Carney [misspelled as Carning], Ralph and Mary Compton, Ken Solomon

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction to interview with Father Alfred Carning by Father Gilbert Beyer on May 21, 1965 at Hays, KS

00:00:26 - Story about the stout Capuchin priest, Father Jerome Miller and the Bishop Cunningham's slippers

00:02:27 - Father Cunningham and Bishop Fink's long sermons

00:05:03 - Bishop Cunningham and the handwashing basin

00:06:36 - Song, "Die Ultima" or "The End" vocal in Latin, German, and then in English

00:10:39 - Song, "Er Liebe Hoch" or "He Should Live High" vocal in German and then in English

00:12:46 - Father Jerome Miller and "Chicken Eye Salve"

00:14:31 - Song, "Capuchin Ballad" vocal duet

00:19:23 - Introduction to interview with Ralph and Mary Compton of Greensburg, KS

00:19:31 - Mary Compton on her family coming to Kansas from England and Iowa and settling in Russell County and Stafford County and their life as homesteaders.

00:21:21 - Entertainment on the frontier

00:22:19 - Learning the alphabet

00:23:36 - Ralph Compton on the stories he knows about the old west

00:24:21 - Old proverbs

00:25:04 - Song, "Redwing" vocal

00:25:32 - Song, "Creole Sue" vocal

00:25:52 - Song, "I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home" vocal

00:26:13 - Song, "Casey Jones" vocal

00:26:53 - Square dancing at home and games played

00:27:36 - Introduction to interview with Ken Solomon of Hays, KS on May 16, 1965

00:27:58 - Sayings and customs learned as a soldier in Korea

00:30:13 - Treatment of American soldiers in Korea

00:31:07 - Kimchi

00:32:19 - Food eaten in the Philippines

00:33:00 - Food eaten in Japan

00:35:12 - Japanese bath houses

00:36:13 - Korean bath houses

00:37:53 - Korean customs of borrowing and returning items

00:39:25 - Animals in Korea

00:40:05 - Farming in Korea

00:44:09 - Living conditions in Korea

00:45:04 - Goats instead of lawn mowers

00:45:04 - Work with nuclear weapons

00:48:26 - Song, "Itazuki Tower" spoken word

00:49:10 - Song, "The Officer's Club" spoken word

00:50:17 - Song, "Airforce Toast" spoken word

00:51:44 - The tape jumps to a square dance call in progress

00:54:09 - Square dance call

00:55:50 - Square dance call

00:58:16 - Square dance call

01:00:51 - Square dance call

01:03:43 - Square dance call

01:06:33 - Elephant jokes

01:17:12 - Assorted jokes