Presidential candidates woo the voters
Humphrey-
NEW YORK (UPI)-Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, pledging to give "first priority" to ending the Vietnam War, made a strong bid yesterday for support from the backers of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy and held out hope for eventual support from McCarthy himself.
The Democratic presidential candidate said on his arrival here that he thought he had already met most of McCarthy's conditions for support.
He said "Hopefully my friend will recognize he can't stand by" and allow Richard M. Nixon or George C. Wallace to become president.
In a speech here Tuesday, McCarthy refused to support the Democratic presidential ticket and said that one condition for his support would be
that Humphrey would call for a new government in Saigon.
Humphrey came to New York after a stop in Boston where he talked through a bull horn to a swarm of students who gathered outside the hotel where he spoke.
Police and antiwar protesters clashed briefly outside the hotel, but officers broke up the demonstration before the vice president arrived.
Nixon—
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Shouting "Sock it to 'em, sock it to 'em," a beaming Richard M. Nixon yesterday wooled fickle California voters who once left him a beaten and bitter man.
The GOP presidential candidate hit hard at pornography and hecklers as he stumped through smoggy sunshine in Los Angeles suburbia.
To 7,000 supporters at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Nixon acknowledged that the polls showed him leading Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in the struggle for California's lode of 40 electoral votes.
"But I don't care what the polls say, we're going to sock it to 'em." he said.
Heckler in the audience, some of them waving banners reading "McCarthy," shouted "fascist" and raised signs reading, "Nixon is a four-letter word."
But Nixon only smiled, noting that at Nixon rallies there were more supporters than hecklers. . . . "Sock it to 'em, sock it to 'em," he shouted, egging on his supporters to drown out the hecklers.
"I propose that we adopt a law making it a federal criminal offense to mail obsene matter to children under 16," he said.
Wallace—
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI)—George C. Wallace charged Wednesday that "eastern established monied interests" were "rigging the national professional polls" to show a slump in his popularity. He linked New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller with the alleged pollfixing.
The third party candidate flew to the state capital of the multimillionaire Republican governor for a rally on the capitol steps with a prediction that next week's Gallup poll would show his popularity slipping. Wallace said this was a lie.
"I think the national polls are not showing the extent of my strength and to that extent they are rigged. Yes, that's right—I think they're rigged," he told an informal news conference at Albany County Airport.
79th Year, No.18 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, October 10, 1968
Foiled by 'nefarious forces'
Union meet fizzles
Contrary to an earlier statement by the coordinating committee for a student cafeteria employes' labor union, many of KU's student cafeteria workers and housing personnel were surprised that a student labor union is being organized.
This was apparent last night as only a handful of dissatisfied student cafeteria employees met in Lewis Hall cafeteria—and learned that the organizational meeting of Student Cafeteria Workers' Union (SCWU) had been postponed.
"Due to various nefarious outside forces the union meeting has been postponed until 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Pine Room of the Student Union," read a note on the cafeteria blackboard.
The meeting is set for Monday because several members of the coordinating committee were unable to attend tonight, Dick Thorn, Mission junior and spokesman for the coordinating committee, said.
"A lot of people in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall couldn't come. We will have a better turnout Monday."
Other coordinating committee members are Reed Kline, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore and John Cadwalader, Mission sophomore.
The committee announced its plan to form a union earlier this week.
Committee demands included free meals for employees, more employes to ease the labor shortage, and improved safety conditions.
Few serving line and dish room employees in Hashinger Hall, McColum Hall and Ellsworth Hall, had been informed about labor union plans by the SCWU committee. At GSP and Oliver Hall, dish room workers were the only employees contacted.
"I'd never heard about any labor union until I read it in the paper," many students said. "The involvement of 300 employees is an exaggeration," they agreed.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said he knew the students were thinking about having a meeting. But Wilson said he didn't think the meeting should be in Lewis Hall because it is a women's hall and there would be men at the meeting.
"Anybody has a right to get together to gripe, however," he
"What a beautiful way to spend a crisp autumn. Leave the books behind, climb on a skateboard, and glide down a long hill.
ALL THAT GLITTERS . . .
"Of course, you do have to come back up the hill and you can't ride the board that way. Well, I guess it wasn't that much fun after all."
added. "That's their privilege."
"I personally don't know how they can get any more money," he said, referring to a wage increase appeal. Students' salaries were raised 15 cents this year, he explained, and may be raised 15 cents again next year.
"We're running a tight budget—costs are up," he said.
Student cafeteria employees' salaries are not funded by the University, Wilson said, but come from the residence hall budgets.
"Students in residence halls are the source of funds." he said.
Residence hall dieticians were surprised that student employees may form a labor union.
“It's news to us,” Miss Neosho Fredenburg, McCollum Hall dietician said.
Hashinger Hall dietician, Mrs. Wilma Morris, said students don't have much of a stand.
"We're alert for improved safety factors, but it often lies within the student's own realm," she said, concerning the committee appeal for improved safety conditions.
While Mrs. Clara Davenport, GSP dietician, refused to comment, saying she didn't want to become involved, Mrs. Fancelia Cox, Lewis Hall dietician, said, "Most students were taken by surprise—only a few are involved."
Walkout and fires at Chicago's HHS
CHICAGO (UPI)—A Negro-Puerto Rican walkout and a rash of fires Wednesday emptied 3,100-student Harrison High School, where youngsters have quit classes for three days in a dispute over the teaching of Afro-American and Latin-American history courses.
Police cleared the building after two cherry bombs and a stink bomb exploded and at least eight fires, all minor and quickly extinguished—sent smoke wafting through the hallways and classrooms.
Several windows and at least one desk were broken in the melee, which the editor of the school newspaper said reached "mass panic" proportions at one point.
A faculty meeting was held at the high school after the students were dismissed to discuss the current situation and the list of demands submitted to the administration last Thursday by a predominantly Negro group of students who call themselves "the new breed."
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Student demonstrations
BELFAST, North Ireland—Thousands or jeering Roman Catholic students and rival Protestant demonstrators came face to face across police barriers last night, bringing the city to the brink of violence.
The tense confrontation followed the firing of shots at a Catholic house and a Molotov cocktail explosion at a Presbyterian Church earlier in the day.
U.S. owned oil field taken
LIMA, Peru—The Peruvian military regime Wednesday expropriated the La Brea-Parinas oilfields and ordered the armed forces to occupy them immediately. The expropriation included all the industrial complex installed in the fields, including the refinery, pipelines and other facilities.
The junta Tuesday formally annulled the agreement, which the military said sold Peru short, between the deposed government and the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Esso Standard Oil.
Senators introduce bill
WASHINGTON—Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., and Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., yesterday introduced a Senate resolution calling upon the President to make available to international relief agencies surplus airplanes and other transportation to bring supplies to starving Nigerians.
Organization, or a lack of it, was the key topic of a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting last night in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
SDS decides to organize picks chairman at meet
Members and leaders of SDS complained that no progress was being made by the group because it had no formal organization.
After a half-hour discussion, the group decided to elect a chairman to preside over the group and coordinate its activities.
They also decided to form a central committee composed of the chairmen of all standing committees, when elected.
Dave Bailey, 2211 Tennessee, was elected chairman.
Reports were received from committees on high school organization and newspaper publication.
The newspaper committee will meet with representatives of Peoples Voice Tuesday night. In other actions, SDS:
- Decided to rent an office in the Kansas Union.
- Announced it will hold a dance at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Wesley Foundation.
After the meeting, the group viewed a film of a speech by Stokley Charmichael on black power.
Bailey said SDS must be organized to "change America."
Radical groups up to now have failed because they have not gathered support before demonstrating, he said.
The next SDS meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday in the Kansas Union.