Pueblo crewman warns of Red take-over
By TED ILIFF Kansan Staff Writer
One of the crewmen of the intelligence ship Pueblo, captured by North Korea in January, 1968, warned last night of a Communist take-over in this country unless citizens accept their responsibility as Americans and expose "the Communist conspiracy in this country."
The speech by radioman Lee R. Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, was sponsored by the Remember the Pueblo Committee of Topeka. A crowd of 150 people milled about in the lobby of the Whitson Grade School Auditorium before the speech, talking about the Red threat and browsed through a book display featuring such titles as "The Ugly Russian," "The Red
Web" and "Win Now or Lose All."
Two reporters were forced to show identification before being admitted. As they entered, a ticket holder instructed the reporters to "give us a good write-up for a change."
Ten minutes later Hayes, a thin bespectacled man in a brown suit, walked on stage. After a prayer
and the Pledge of Allegiance, he proceeded to relate the capture of the Pueblo and the crew's 11 month confinement in a North Korean prison, all of which he blamed on the civilian leadership, not the military.
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Navy transfers boats
SAIGON—In another move to "Vietnamize" the war, the U.S. Navy said today it is turning over 80 more river patrol boats worth a total of $7.3 million to the South Vietnamese.
The turnover ceremonies Friday will be the war's biggest single transfer of naval hardware from U.S. hands to the Saigon government, bringing to 229 the number of vessels given to South Vietnam.
Woman details atrocities
PARIS—"Often a woman was tortured in front of her husband and children, to make her speak."
A Viet Cong woman, embittered by the year she said she spent in South Vietnamese prisons after her arrest on a Saigon street in early 1967, detailed alleged atrocities against women in those prisons and blamed Americans for them.
Four trapped in sub
SAN DIEGO—Two specialty submarines and a U.S. Navy vessel were called in today to help unsnag the "Deep Quest" submarine with four men aboard trapped 430 feet below the Pacific off Point Loma.
The supply of oxygen in the craft was limited to 48 hours and the submarine had been trapped since noon PDT Tuesday.
Security pact planned
BRUSSELS—The Soviet Union is stepping up its campaign to unite Eastern and Western Europe in a collective security pact that would include cooperation on economic and scientific affairs, diplomatic sources said today.
The Western Allies have been reacting cautiously to the idea of an all-European security conference, the sources said.
80th Year, No.18
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1969
Two die in Vegas
Photo by Ron Bishop
Reminiscent of another Kansas campus?
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)]A third night of violence in the predominantly Negro West Side left two persons dead Tuesday night and at least 21 persons arrested as bands of angry youths roamed the district.
A private security guard shot and killed a suspected robber in a liquor store, and a salesman making a delivery to a home was fatally shot in the throat.
Weather-beaten and weed-grown as they are, they are neither part of a typical Kansas farm, nor the K-State campus. These barns and silo sit on KU's Campus West, just south of 15th and Iowa streets. Though they are hidden from the view of passing motorists, students and K-State fans, they are part of the KU campus. The barns are what is left of a farm purchased by the KU Endowment Association in 1950. The buildings and grounds department uses them for storage. The farm house and adjacent shed are used by the chemistry department's low temperature laboratory and the silo is unused—at least officially.
The violence Tuesday night was not as widespread as Monday night when 76 persons were arrested, mostly for curfew violations.
A large crowd threw rocks and bottles at police outside a bar shortly after the curfew went into effect at 7 p.m. and thereafter small bands of young persons gathered on the streets.
Municipal Judge Robert E. Mullen, a Negro, was injured when a bottle was flung at his head at the Doolittle Center in a West Side park. Mullen was attempting to quiet a crowd gathered to discuss the situation with a black state assemblyman. Mullen was treated and released.
Mayor Oran Gragson and members of the city commission planned to meet at City Hall Tuesday night with 25 representatives of the west side community.
Assemblyman Woodrow Wilson, R-Las Vegas, the first and only Negro elected to the Nevada legislature, was to select the representatives at a meeting. In addition,
10 black citizens were to be chosen to report directly to the chief of police from roadblocks around the curfew area.
Carl Arthur Benson, 71, Henderson, Nev., was shot at close range, police said. Benson, a caucasian, was a solicitor for a household products firm.
After a number of contradictory reports, Dist. Atty. George Franklin said late Tuesday that an 8-year-old girl witnessed the shooting but was hustled back inside the house by her mother.
Franklin said in view of the situation police decided not to enter the house to question the young girl.
Gov. Paul Laxalt again put the National Guard on alert Tuesday at the request of Wilson and Gragson. Laxalt was en route to Las Vegas.
Local hospitals reported treating 34 persons for injuries Monday
night and early Tuesday. One person was reported in critical condition.
Police used tear gas repeatedly to break up gatherings and make arrests as bands of young persons dragged motorists from their cars and beat them, smashed store windows and took merchandise, set at least three vehicles on fire and threw rocks and bottles at policemen.
Weather
Generally fair today through Thursday. Mild days and cool nights. Variable winds becoming light southerly today. High upper 70s. Low tonight upper 40s. Precipitation probability. Today near zero per cent. Tonight 10 per cent. Thursday 20 per cent.
Shultz to appear tonight at Senate
An appearance by State Senator Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, will highlight the Student Senate meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the combined Kansas Union Jayhawk and Big-8 rooms.
Shultz, chairman of the Federal and State Affairs Committee, will speak and answer questions concerning his acquisition of 21 student names from private University Disciplinary Board hearings after the disruption of the Chancellor's ROTC Review May 9.
Shultz subpoenaed William Balfour, dean of student affairs, September 18, forcing Balfour under penalty of imprisonment to turn the documents of the private hearings over to Shultz.
Although Shultz threatened to release the names for publication, pressure from his committee, other legislators, and the University has forced him to keep the names confidential.
Shultz's speech before the Student Senate will be his first public appearance at KU since he forced the names from Balfour.
David S. Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president, said the meeting will be open to the public.
Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y. graduate student, however emphasized that limited seating will be available because of the small capacity of the Jayhawk and Big-8 rooms.
Other topics on the agenda are the allocations for the 1969-70 budget, the October 15 war moratorium, and Student Senate bylaws.
The Graduate Student Affairs Committee of the Student Senate will present a series of reports outlining the nature of future graduate student organizations and activities.
ISP planning pleasure fair
A pleasure fair to be sponsored by the Independent Student Party (ISP) was scheduled for the afternoon of Oct. 18 at Tuesday night's ISP meeting in the Kansas Union Kansas Room.
The event, planned as a repeat-performance of last spring's successful fair, is in the planning stages. Further developments will be forthcoming.
Gus DiZerega, Wichita special student, proposed that efforts be made to raise funds for an off-campus outpatient clinic to supplement the always-busy Watkins Hospital facilities.
DiZerega suggested that a "bigname" pop group might be persuaded to give a benefit performance to help fund the clinic.
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