Tuesday, December 12, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Demonstrators risk deferments
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Draft director Lewis B. Hershey and Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark met for two hours late Monday but were unable to resolve their differences over reclassifying antiwar demonstrators.
Hershey, in an interview, said as far as he was concerned draft boards still have authority to revoke deferments for students who break the law during antiwar demonstrations.
He acknowledged he and Clark were still at odds over the issue despite a joint statement issued by the two Saturday in an effort to clarify the government's policy.
Hershey said the disagreement was "unfortunate." But he said he could not accept arguments by
Clark and others that demonstrators should be judged by the courts, not draft boards.
Time consuming
He said the time consumed in handling some draft cases in the courts could leave the nation's manpower needs unmet, since an individual is ineligible for the draft when he is in court custody.
"To keep producing the people we need," the 74-year-old Selective Service director said. "You've got to move. We would have had quite a time at Lexington if someone said he was going to joinn Paul Revere from waking him up because he didn't want to shoot at something red."
Hershey was known to have
caused the attorney general dismay.
LSD raid
Clark had no comment on Hershey's view of their joint statement Saturday, which was intended to patch over disagreements between them on how to proceed and what legal techniques to use against demonstrators.
Let people know
According to Hershey, the statement "let people know with a thump that we're going after..." those over draft age and otherwise ineligible for military service who Hershey believes are behind the antiwar protests.
Timothy Leary, patron busted, charged in N. Y.
MILLBROOK, N.Y. — (UPI) — Timothy Leary and his millionaire patron surrendered to police Monday on charges stemming from a raid on a nearby estate which had long been a haven for believers in the "mind-expansion" of LSD.
Warrants for the arrest of Leary and socialite William Mellon Hitchcock were issued over the weekend after a raid which sheriff Lawrence M. Quinlan said resulted from several months of investigation. Five persons were arrested in the Saturday raid, including Leary's son, John, 18.
Leary and Hitchcock were released on $2,500 bond each. Hitchcock, as Leary had done eight hours earlier, pleaded innocent before a Justice of the Peace. After his release, Leary said he had sent a telegram to Archbishop John J. Maguire of New York charging "religious persecution" in police raids on his Millbrook headquarters.
The draft director did not identify these behind-the-scenes-person by group or name. He referred to them as "those people who are trying to get our kids in trouble."
Hitchcock turned himself in to the sheriff Monday night and was taken to Millbrook for arraignment.
Hitchcock also put up $1,500 bail for Len Howard of New York City, who was arrested Monday at the Leary estate. Howard, identified by police as a former radio announcer, was charged with criminal possession of dangerous drugs.
Hitchcock rented the estate to Leary and his followers for a nominal fee. Leary and Hitchcook are charged with conspiring to violate the penal law by the use of dangerous drugs; conspiring to permit the crime of a criminal nuisance; conspiring to permit the crime of facilitation; maintaining a criminal nuisance and criminal facilitation.
Howard's arrest brought to eight the number of persons arrested in connection with the raid.
Hershey said that "if the fact could be established to the satisfaction of local boards" that a protestor's actions disrupted the Selective Service System, he could be reclassified.
Reclassification can mean loss of deferment and, with a declaration that the act involved made the individual a "delinquent" in accordance with draft regulations, place an individual at the top of the draft pool.
ACLU holds public meeting today
A Christmas party sponsored jointly by People-to-People and the International Club will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room. All foreign and American students are invited.
P-to-P will party
The cost is 50 cents per person, paid at the door. The "Furies" will provide the music, and refreshments will be served.
A new dance group of students from Balkan countries will perform during intermission.
Committee, will speak on "Civil Liberties and the Draft."
The meeting is open to the public.
Members will also elect officers and an executive committee for next year and vote on a proposed amendment to the bylaws of the local chapter.
People-to-People
Leonard Tinker, a member of the American Friends Service
The annual fall meeting of the Lawrence chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Parish House of the Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St.
International Club Christmas Party
Music by the Furies 50c per person
December 16-8-12 p.m.
Big Eight Room
Any American or foreign student invited
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