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Monday, Sept. 28, 1970
University Daily Kansan
School of Journalism Hosts High Schools
The 52nd annual High School Journalism Conference was held Saturday in the Kansas Union. Dana Leibengood, assistant to the dean of the School of Journalism, said 450 students and advisers from various high schools attended the conference this year.
The conference was sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism in cooperation with the Kansas Organization of Publications and Advisers. The program included special sections for newspaper and yearbook
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staffs, advisers and a television workshop.
Each section included a series of lectures and discussions by faculty members of the school of journalism, high school journalism advisers and professional newspapersm.
The high point of the conference was a panel discussion titled "How Do You Handle Controversy." The panel members were John B. Bremner, professor of journalism and chairman of the Kansas board; Terry Murphy, editor of the Chanute Tribune; Calder Pickett, professor of journalism and Ed Bassett, dean of the School of Journalism.
The panel answered questions from the audience which covered such controversies as the handling of State Sen. Reynolds Shultz's statement that Lawrence "didn't lose a thing" when Rick Dowdell was killed last summer, to how much coverage should be given to the different sports in student newspapers.
There are many shadings of gray to every issue, they are not just black and white, Murphy said.
The panel ended its discussion with comments in regard to student coverage of a long hair controversy in Baldwin.
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It is absolutely criminal to pull a little boy out of school because his hair is too long." said Pickett.
His statement was greeted by a round of applause from the audience.
Fulbright: We Can't Bluff Soviets Again
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said Sunday that if the Soviets were actually building a submarine base in Cuba, the United States would not be able to bluff them into pulling out as President John F. Kennedy did in the 1962 missile crisis.
Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said reports that the Russians might be building a nuclear sub base at Cienfuegos on Cuba's south coast were still "inconclusive." He said stories of that sort surfaced every time the Senate considered a military appropriations bill.
BUT IF THE base is being built, Fulbright said, it is a "dangerous situation" that "calls for diplomacy and not bluff."
He made his remarks on the ABC program, Issues and Answers.
"I would like to keep them out of the Caribbean," Fulbright said. But he said that times had changed since October, 1962, when President Kennedy imposed a naval quarantine of Cuba and forced Russian ships carrying long-range missiles to Cuba to turn back.
"It was possible at that time to bluff them," he said. "I doubt it is possible now."
Besides, Fulbright said, the United States maintains bases with nuclear weapons near Russia's borders.
THE SOLUTION, he said, is to pursue the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the negotiations in Paris and on the Middle East, and to try to revive the influence of the United Nations.
Fulbright said that President Nixon's current European trip, especially his two-day visit to ships of the 6th Fleet, should not be viewed as a veiled threat to the Russians of U.S. military might in the Mediterranean.
Father Claims Hendrix' Death Was Accident
SEATTLE (UPI)—The father of Seattle rock star Jimi Hendrix said Saturday reports that his son died of an overdose of drugs were erroneous.
"No drugs were involved." James Hendrix said after arriving back here from New York. "It was just an accident."
Hendrix died Sept. 18 in London, and friends of the late pop star said he had taken sleeping pills the night before he fell into a fatal coma.
An autopsy report on the singer's death is scheduled to be released in London later this week.
War Mishaps Kill 12 GI's
SAIGON (UPI) — Twelve American soldiers were killed and five others injured Saturday in two combat accidents, the explosion of a mine and the collision of two helicopters in flight. U.S. military spokesmen said Sunday.
The mine, a Claymore antipersonnel device that sprays an are of steel slivers and can kill at a range of 100 yards, exploded prematurely as a 4th Infantry Division Unit was setting up a defensive perimeter in Binh Dinh province 286 miles northeast of Saigon.
Spokesmen said four Americans were killed and five wounded in the explosion.
In Cambodia, military officials said Communists harassed Cambodian troops around the Kirirom Plateau south of Phnom Penh with fire Saturday night for the third consecutive night. There were no casualties reported, but the officials said Communists in the area were increasing pressure on Highway 4 that links Phnom Penh with the nation's only deepwater port and oil refinery at Kompong Som.
All four helicopters downed Saturday were destroyed, spokesmen said, raising to 1,788 the total of American helicopter losses in South Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961.
Earlier they had reported the collision of two U.S. Army UH1 helicopters Saturday over Long Khanh province, about 44 miles northeast of Saigon. Eight Americans were killed in the collision.
Two other American helicopters were shot down Saturday by Communists. One was a UH1 craft downed in Thua Thien province, wounding two Americans. The other was an OH6 observation helicopter shot down about 178 miles southwest of Saigon. There were no casualties aboard the observation craft.
In Saigon, government spokesmen said South Vietnamese troops were ambushed by a Communist force in Cambodia late Saturday about 50 miles southeast of Phnom Penh in the Parrot's Beak section near the South Vietnamese border. Six South Vietnamese troops were killed and 24 wounded in the ambush, spokesmen said.
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