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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday. December 11, 1968
Plaintiff makes plea to end Harrison hearing
WICHITA—The preliminary hearing continues today for Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center, and eight other black militants, despite a late appeal by one of the men allegedly beaten and threatened by the militants, to have the charges suspended.
Wichita Model Cities Program official, R. W. (Jaddy) Blake said in a letter sent to Keith Sanborn, Sedgwick County attorney, he did not wish to take part in the preliminary hearing.
In the letter Blake said he hoped further proceedings against the nine defendants would be suspended.
"It is inconsistent with my current pursuits to be an instrument in the destruction of young men's life chances, hopes and dreams," said Blake, a sociology professor at Wichita State University.
Testimony began in the preliminary hearing at 9:30 a.m. yesterday for Harrison and the other eight men charged with kidnapping, felonious assault, extortion and conspiracy to commit kidnaping in connection with the beating and threatening of Blake and Frank Carpenter, also an official of the Model Cities program.
In yesterday's testimony, a Kansas City community service official, Andrew Guiterrez, said the nine men threatened to throw him from a 15-story window in downtown Kansas City unless he signed checks for them.
The Sedgwick County warrant charges the nine militants with luring Blake and Carpenter to a downtown Wichita motel. They were allegedly beaten and threatened for not hiring another militant. The warrant, however, makes no mention of Guiterrez who claims to have been held against his will and forced to write checks to the men at the same motel.
Guiterrez, called as the first state witness in the hearing, said he met with the nine men in Wichita on Oct. 17 to discuss a proposed contract with them to hire young men for the job corps.
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The Dave Brubeck jazz trio and rhythm and blues singer Lou Rawls will appear during the third annual Festival of the Arts March 16 to 22 in Hoch Auditorium.
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A limited supply of vaccine to combat the Hong Kong flu is now available at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the Student Health Center.
Elderly and ill persons and retired faculty he said will be treated with the first 2,000 doses that arrived Monday because of serious complications suffered by older persons.
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Activities (SUA), the festival is a week-long series of films, lectures and concerts, Kent Longenecker, Mission junior and Festival of the Arts director, said.
Longenecker said only four of the six festival nights have been scheduled: Sunday March 16, stage production of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit." Tuesday, March 18, National Pantomime Theater; Wednesday, March 19, Dave Brubeck trio with Gerry Mulligan; Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21, speakers and films to be announced later, and Saturday, March 22, jazz singer Lou Rawls.
"Students will have an opportunity to purchase a Festival of the Arts coupon by checking an IBM card during second semester enrollment," Longenecker said. The coupon, which last year cost $5, entitles students to a seat every night.
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The negotiations soon fell apart, Guitierrez said, because the men were demanding more for their services than the $16 a day wages he was authorized to pay them.
Guiterrez said he and his aide, Larry Howard, attempted to leave the motel room but were prevented from doing so.
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"I was very fearful for my life." Guiterrez told the court. "I told Mr. Howard to write out the checks."
men to the bank where the checks were cashed. It was at this meeting that one of the men allegedly threatened to throw Guitarrez out the window.
In another incident in Kansas City on Oct. 18, Guiterrez said he again instructed Howard, to write checks to the men who demanded wages and consultant fees for a meeting which had been scheduled with another man from Guiterrez's organization.
Judge Daniel Dwyer of the Sedgwick County Court of Com-
Guiterrez said he escorted the
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