University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1970
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Candidate Skeptical of Police
Racism, Oppression Major Issues for Kimball
By SUSAN WHITE Kansan Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER George Kimball
"The major issues are and always have been racism and oppression; my purpose in running for sheriff is to allow certain facts to come out with media exposure," said George Kimball, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Douglas County.
In an interview held amid the noon crowd in the Gaslight Tavern, Kimball explained the reasons prompting him to become a candidate for sheriff.
Kimball said he chose these two issues for his campaign because "as long as they're going to keep killing people, racism and oppression are the main issues."
"The inquests into the deaths of both Rick Dowdell and Nick Rice are campaign issues. I didn't expect any other outcome and anyone that thought it would be otherwise was being unrealistic. These are both concrete examples of the oppression I have been talking about."
Kimball said he thought certain elements, including the police, have hampered his life and his campaign. He said issues of Vortex which featured an article about William Garrett, Lawrence police officer, were confiscated. Kimball also said copies of a Kansas City Star article which featured him were bought out completely by the Kansas City Police Department.
The hate mail sent to him at the Gaslight, plus personal threats were being received about once a day last July, Kimball said. The volume of threats
Homecoming To Be Changed
Activities for Homecoming, which will be Oct.24, were discussed in a meeting Tuesday in the Governors Room of the Union.
There will not be as large an emphasis placed on decorations this year as there has been in the past. Mike Helbert, president of the junior class and representing the Board of Class Officers, and Mary Ward, co-chairman, are investigating ideas for an all-student activity for the Friday before homecoming. This will take the place of decorations KU has had in the past.
There will be a panel discussion in Woodruff Auditorium homecoming morning at 10:30 a.m. The topic for this panel will be, "Confrontation: How Lawrence has met the Challenge of Unrest."
Participating on the panel will be Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and Buford Watson, city manager.
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An increase from the 410 votes that Kimball received in the primary is expected for the general election, he explained, because of the campaigning that has preceded this election and the greater number of voters.
voters," Kimball predicted, "and also some votes from disenchanted liberals because I happen to be the lesser of two evils."
Kimball said if he were elected his first official duty would be to appoint deputies to follow members of the Lawrence Police Department. By this action, Kimball said he hoped to "negate some of the oppression they (the police) now practice."
"I think I will get a large majority of the black and student
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Financial support for the campaign, Kimball said, has come from "Hanoi, Havana and the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers Association."
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Kimball described the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers Association as a "tightly knit group of financial and campaign organizers."
He said his supporters plan to take the campaign into Eudora and Baldwin by using rock bands on flatbed trucks.
Kimball's plans for the future include getting married on Thursday. Kimball and his fiancee, Mary Ann Stewart, hope the weather will permit the ceremony, which is being officiated by Tim Miller of Bethany Park Christian Church and is to be held at a cabin Thursday evening
Kimball said he definitely advocated the violent overthrow of the American government. He said he believed this was the course to take because of the condition of American society. "Oppression is on the upswing," he said. "The only way people in Lawrence and the American people are going to return to the ideals of the first American revolution is to tear the society down and build a new one—build a society for human beings."
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