KANSAN
79th Year, No. 51
Tuesday, December 3, 1968
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
WASHINGTON-Ambassador Averell Harriman predicted Monday that the Paris talks on the Vietnam War would weather the transfer from the Johnson administration to the Nixon administration with "no problem."
Harriman, the chief U.S. negotiator at the talks, told a news conference shortly after his arrival here, that he had "not yet" been invited to carry on in that capacity for President-elect Richard Nixon.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-A smoking twinengine airliner spiraled onto the shores of Foxes Lake during a frigid snowstormMonday,killing all 39 persons on board.
Paris talks continue
Plane crashes in Alaska
A helicopter from Elmendorf Air Force Base braved extremely high gusting winds and sub-zero temperatures to confirm the tragedy. No sign of life was sighted around the wreckage which lay on the beach, partially in the water.
Surcharge reduction seen
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-The chairman of the House Ways and Means Cor..mittee predicted Monday night the Johnson administration's 10 per cent income tax surcharge would be reduced or dropped for the next fiscal year.
In a drastic change from his previous public stand in regard to the surcharge, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., said the Democratic majority in Congress could not fight President-elect Richard Nixon's opposition to continuation of the surcharge.
US - Russia talks resume
WASHINGTON-The State Department said Monday the United States and Russia have renewed preliminary discussions on limiting nuclear missiles, but no "time, level or place" has been picked for actual negotiations.
Attorneys in Lawrence's first open housing case last Wednesday asked for a two-week recess in order to present further evidence. The trial, which began Nov. 20, was earlier recessed until Nov. 27.
Filed in Lawrence Municipal Court, the housing suit charges Mae Burgert, 1807 Ohio St., with violation of the Lawrence Open Housing Ordinance.
Negro plantiff Maurice Woodard, Houston, Texas, graduate student, charges the defender with discrimination in housing after attempting three times to rent a duplex from her in August.
Open housing case delayed two weeks
Rev. Norman L. Steffen, chairman of the Lawrence Housing Relations Commission, said that although seven or eight similar housing discrimination cases have arisen in Lawrence since the ordinance was passed, the Woodard case is the first to be brought to court.
Woodard said the defendant told him there were no vacancies in her apartment duplex; however, a classified advertisement of a vacancy appeared a few days later in the Lawrence Journal-World.
The housing ordinance, passed by the Lawrence City Commission in July 1967, forbids refusing to rent to a person because of "race, color, religion or national origin."
Report blames police
Director asks action
CHICAGO (UPI)—The director of a federal task force that found some Chicago policemen "rioted" during the week of the Democratic National Convention called Monday for "prompt and severe" disciplinary action against them.
"The blue curtain cannot be permitted to stay down," Daniel Walker said. "The guilty must be rooted out and disciplined."
Walker, head of the study team which submitted its report Sunday to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, told a news conference the report provides "the cold, hard-nosed, unadulterated facts."
The report, a new bombshell in the city where police and National Guardsmen battled thousands of antiwar demonstrators last August, charged that "the weight of violence was overwhelmingly on the side of the police."
The 233-page report acknowledged that the police faced "exceedingly provocative circumstances," but said that their response at times amounted to "a police riot."
Mayor Richard J. Daley, who was accused by the fact-finders of conditioning police to believe that violence against demonstrators would be condoned, said Sunday the report was an "excellent study" but criticized its summary as misleading.
"I do not agree," Walker said Monday. "I do not think the summary would mislead anyone. There were a number of policemen guilty of indiscriminate violence. That is the sum of the report."
Weather
Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy and cool with northwest winds 10 to 20 miles per hour today. Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight. Warmer Wednesday. High tone around 40. Low tonight low 20s. Precipitation probabilities 5 per cent today. Near zero tonight and Wednesday.
Walker, a lawyer and president of the Chicago Crime Commission, said he did not know how many policemen were guilty of such violence.
But he said "more than a handful" were involved and "the heart of the matter is police violence."
"Dismissal of a handful of police men will not be enough," he said.
"If no action is taken against them the effect can only be to discourage the majority of policemen who acted responsibly and further weaken the bond between the police and the community," Walker said.
A protest leader testified Monday that demonstrators tried to avoid violence during the Democratic National Convention in hopes people of "all classes and races" would join the street marches.
Thomas E. Hayden, Oakland, Calif., a founder of Students for a Democratic Society, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's well publicized buildup of police and troops was responsible for "scaring away" middle class demonstrators he and other protest organizers tried to recruit.
"Do you really think the hippies and Yippies seriously planned on taking on the police department?" Hayden asked. "That we would barge through the doors and tear up the convention? It's ridiculous!"
A committee staff member cited a document, identified by Hayden as one of the protesters' planning papers, which mentioned "pinning the delegates in the convention hall" until a presidential candidate suitable to the demonstrators was nominated.
"We knew we couldn't even get out of the downtown area and we didn't." Hayden replied.
Hayden said tough tactics by Chicago police spoiled demonstrators' plans to keep the protests peaceful.
Hayden said he "pitted" Chicago policemen. He said he believed Daley ordered the violence. "On the street they charged us in a disciplinary way," he said, contradicting the violence commission's report that individual officers were to blame.
"A lot of abuse has been heaped on the Chicago police," Hayden said.
American troops plan to observe Thieu's Christmas Eve ceasefire
SAIGON (UPI)—The U.S. command today said American forces in Vietnam will observe the 24-hour Christmas ceasefire called for by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
The ceasefire for American forces will start at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve. Command spokesmen said the standdown was ordered by the State Department in Washington.
They said specific guidelines would be given American commanders in the near future.
Thieu's declaration was seen by some observers as an effort to deny the Viet Cong a propaganda victory at the Paris talks.
The Viet Cong, portraying themselves as the true peace seekers,
scored a propaganda coup in November, 1966, by first announcing Christmas ceasefire that year.
The announcement Monday was made by a spokesman for Thieu's office on a regularly scheduled television newscast.
In contrast with previous truce declarations made with great fanfare, the statement was terse and almost matter of fact.
It said the ceasefire for "humanitarian" reasons, would go into effect throughout the country at 6 p.m. Dec. 24 and last for 24 hours. Previous truce communiques have laid down stiff warnings that allied commanders would react swiftly to any violations by the Communists. There were no such warnings this time.
Rides, hotels scarce
Rides, hotels scarce Miami now 'further away'
By STEVE NAFUS Kansan Staff Writer
Going to Miami? Prepare for the worst.
The two SUA flights are sold out, and accommodations are scarce anywhere within 30 miles of the beach. If you have not already made arrangements for the trip, be ready to pay liberally for your ride down and the room you stay in—or be willing to suffer for a smaller price.
Regular air fare for a roundtrip ticket to Miami is about $150 or about $200 if you fly first class. Students can fly standby for half fare on most airlines, but during the holidays standby could last until February.
The reliable train is not so reliable anymore. There are no Lawrence trains directly to Miami. The best train connection is from St. Louis. But if you arrive late, you may have a 17-hour layover in St. Louis. Roundtrip fare is around $175.
Buses are slower but at $90 roundtrip, many will endure them.
If your taste runs richer, there are cabs and rent-a-cars. Yellow cabs charge 45 cents plus 10 cents for each one-third mile. For a 1500-mile chauffeur, that comes to roughly $450—one way. A Hertz rent-a-car costs $11 a day and 11 cents a mile for a total of $230 roundtrip driving charges, not including the $11-a-day carge.
Some merchants offer to rent buses for groups, with gas the major expense item.
Assuming you get there in time for the game, the next problem is accommodations.
Most normal tourist haunts have been filled, so you may have to take a room several miles from downtown Miami.
Since the well-known places are filled, a travel agency might offer suggestions. Maupintour has no idea about accommodations. A company called Amoco Reservations in Springfield, Ill., lists not only the larger, but the smaller hotels as well. Their number is
1-800-637-9567 and they have a Watts line, which means they pay the long distance rates.
For the do-it-yourself traveller, Watson Library has a shelf of guide books from the major oil companies listed in the reference stacks 913 to 918. These are excellent books patterned after the famous Guide Michlin of France.
The guide books give information on the major hotels (the ones that are already full, remember?), the full gamut of restaurants (from the $50 a plate places to rock bottom hash houses) and the sights to see around town (for those who prefer buildings to bikinis).
They also have information on camping in the national parks. Rates are $1.50 a day on a 2-week permit plus 25 cents per day for electricity; or free in a "primitive" area.
Campsites are a good distance from downtown Miami, and sleeping on the beach is prohibited, so camping is not really practical.
No matter how you look at it, Miami costs.