EMERGENCY DECLARED
British ports clogged
LONDON —(UPI)— Seamen and shippers held firm to no-compromise positions today despite Prime Minister Harold Wilson's declaration of emergency and the vast powers it give him to deal with Britain's crippling, nine-day maritime strike.
"There is no question at all of compromise," said William Hogarth, leader of the 62,500-member National Union of Seamen (NUS) which called the strike to back demands for more pay and shorter hours.
Wilson went before Parliament
Oregon polls test LBJ popularity
PORTLAND, Ore.—(UPI)President Johnson's Viet Nam policies today drew their first test at the ballot box.
The test came in an Oregon primary at a time when presidential popularity was reported in a national sampling to be at its lowest mark since Johnson entered the White House $ 2 ^ {1 / 2} $ years ago.
THE POLL said only 55 per cent of the public thinks Johnson is doing a good job.
The test gave Oregon national attention in today's voting. A Kentucky primary and runoff elections in Oklahoma and Florida also were being held.
The Florida race showed signs of giving a fresh indication of whether federal pressures of segregation has changed the balance of political power in that southern state.
one of political power in that sojourn. But in Oregon the main issue was Viet Nam in the battle for the Democratic nomination for the seat being relinquished by Sen. Maurine Neuberger (D-Ore.).
Rocket unveiling celebrates Kennedy moon declaration
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI)— The U.S. space agency will commemorate the fifth anniversary of President Kennedy's men-to-the-moon declaration Wednesday by unveiling a test model of the Saturn 5 rocket that will send them there.
At the same time Wednesday, the Space Agency plans to try again to launch an Explorer satellite designed to tell man more about the upper fringes of
earth's atmosphere. The shot was postponed from today by a faulty ground electrical circuit.
While officials prepared for the Saturn 5 rollout and the Explorer launch, teams of engineers were continuing the around-the-clock preparations for the rerun of Gemini 9 May 31.
Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew in from Houston Monday and inspected their rendezvous target and its new Atlas.
Monday to announce that Queen Elizabeth II had signed his declaration of national emergency.
THE STATE OF emergency went into effect at midnight Monday but it was only a formality until both Houses of Parliament ratify specific measures that Wilson wants. That is expected Thursday after debate in the House of Commons.
Among the 35 emergency provisions in the declaration are powers to order the Royal Navy to clear choked ports of strikeled ships and to control food prices, fuel supplies, dock labor and road transport.
During a state of emergency, the government does not have to ask special permission to use troops. It can use any existing military unit, although it cannot conscript troops or labor without special enabling legislation.
The emergency measures are valid for one month and then the declaration must be renewed and the specific regulation passed again by Parliament.
News briefs
CHICAGO — (UPI)— No one was murdered in Chicago between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday, police said today.
Francis Flanagan, commander of the homicide detail, said it had been so long since that happened that he can't remember the last time.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 24, 1966
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