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WEATHER
78th Year, No. 117
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. weather bureau forecasts mostly cloudy today through Tuesday, with little change in temperature. Wind velocity 15-25 mph becoming westerly tonight.
Monday, April 22, 1968
THE CHARRED REMAINS
Charles Foster, Bartlesville, Okla., senior, looks into what is left of a 1968 Chevrolet. According to a Lawrence Fire Dept. official, the car was gutted early Sunday morning by a molotov cocktail made from a gasoline can.
Violence mars weekend
Sporadic incidents of burglary and vandalism and several fights erupted in Lawrence Saturday night following an Eldridge Hotel dance and an Allen Field House concert by The Temptations.
KU traffic and security police reported that a number of juveniles were harassing audience members during and after the Temptations concert. They reported no arrests but said that an attempt to "calm" the juveniles was made.
In downtown Lawrence, local police reported the burglary of the Jean Litwin Retail Liquor Store, 705 Mass., "sometime between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m." Police said entry to the store was gained
by firing two pistol shots through a plate glass window and then "kicking it in." An undetermined amount of liquor was taken.
This morning, police said they were holding an unidentified man with a cut leg in connection with the burglary.
Police also reported that the front of Freemen's Retail Liquor Store, 315 E. 7th, was damaged by unidentified vandals. Police said nothing was taken from the store but placed the amount of damage to its front at about $50.
They also said that a pop bottle was thrown through the front window of Johnson's Furniture Store, 724 Mass., late Saturday. No damage estimate was reported.
Other incidents reported by police Saturday night include the alleged beating by unidentified assaultants of Tim MacArthur, Mission sophomore, and two high school friends in front of the Eldridge Hotel.
Police said they arrived soon after the beatings reportedly occurred and told the students to seek hospitalization.
Only MacArthur was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a scalp wound. He was released early this morning.
In a statement to the Daily Kansan, MacArthur said Lawrence police officers were at the hotel while the students were being attacked, but made no attempt to help the students.
Spock says the war is illegal; LBJ foolish
"I am not a pacifist," said Dr. Benjamin Spock, longtime fixture in the peace movement as well as the baby-doctoring business, to an estimated crowd of 2,500 students and faculty Sunday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Dr. Spock was indicted in January by a Federay grand jury because of his persistent opposition to the war in Vietnam and the draft. Named with the pediatrician for "conspiring to counsel, aid and abet" young men to evade service in the armed forces were four others: a Yale University chaplain, a novelist, a former White House disarmament aide and a Harvard graduate student.
Incendiary bomb explodes in car
A molotov cocktail made of a gasoline can was the apparent cause of a fire which damaged the interior of a car parked outside the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, 1425 Tennessee, Sunday morning.
The car, owned by the parents of Bruce Peterson, Prairie Village senior and a member of the fraternity, had been driven to Lawrence by a younger brother and was parked in the Beta parking lot for the night. The fire started at about 1 a.m., just after the members returned from their dates. Two members of the fraternity put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher before firemen arrived.
No estimate on damage to the car has been made. Peterson said fire officials will conduct an investigation.
"The present war is definitely illegal," Spock declared characteristically gesturing with palms up, hands spread. "The present war is also immoral and detrimental to the best interests of the United States."
Spock presented a detailed sixpoint defense for the illegality of the war before stating that in a preliminary trial in Boston last week, the five conspirators were denied permission to take evidence abroad on the illegality or legality of the war.
"The court decided the issue of the legality or illegality of the war is not 'judiciable,'" he said, chuckling. "Now, that's a nice juicy word."
The audience, many of whom sported peace buttons and lots of hair, laughed with him. When Spock entered the auditorium, they applauded him enthusiastically, and departed to a standing ovation which lasted until he had left the auditorium.
"I get my most enthusiastic receptions in universities, where there are many young men who have to bear the brunt of the war," Spock told the Kansan in an afternoon press conference.
Enthusiasm for Spock and his cause has leaped since the indictment, Spock confessed. "Since then, my audiences have been three times as large and three times as enthusiastic," he said.
In his meetings with Kansans and KU students Sunday afternoon at the press conference, and in the evening lecture as well as at an informal reception at the Wesley Foundation following the lecture, he dwelt on the foreign and domestic malaise of the United States.
"Lyndon Johnson is foolish to think peace is anywhere near, if
see Spock, page 6
Phone marathon begins...
If Alexander could see us now
Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., junior, unofficially began the McColum marathan in an attempt to break the record for the longest continual telephone call of 550 hours held by K-State. The recipient of the call in Hashinger Hall was Donna Shavlik, assistant dean of women, Doug Erickson, Kansas City freshman, talked next—for $16\frac{1}{2}$ hours.
AND THEY'RE OFF
The world record for telephone marathons, according to the Guinness World Record Book, is held by Kansas State University—550 hours set in 1966. The K-State Collegian said their record was 556 hours in a marathon conversation between Ford Hall, a women's residence hall, and Moore Hall, a men's residence hall, Nov. 28 to Dec. 21, 1966.
As a kick-off for Spring Ping activities, McCollum and Hashinger Halls started a telephone marathon at 4 p.m. Sunday. Presidents of both residence halls hope to establish a new intercollegiate telephone conversation record of more than 23 days.
In that marathon, a K-State freshman, Bob Miller, set an individual record of 26 continuous hours on the phone.
Doug Erickson, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, has been talking on the telephone with Hashinger girls from its official beginning Sunday until 9 a.m. today.
See Phone Marathon, page 12
Hashinger Hall residents plan to trade off every 30 minutes, Merry Sue Clark, Wichita senior and Hashinger president, said. However, Goad said, McCollium residents may talk to Hashinger girls as long as they wish and for an incentive, the longest "talker" will receive a trophy.
Emery Goad, Junction City senior and McColllum men's president, and Mark Lyman, Prairie Village freshman, conceived the idea, and said they believe the marathon could serve as a challenge for KU to beat its rival—K-State.
Phone strike continues; no end in sight
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Executive Board of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) failed Sunday to find any solutions to end a nationwide telephone strike affecting about 200,000 union members.
CWA President Joseph A. Beirne said after reviewing the strike and possible solutions, the Executive Board ended an eighth session "without anw prospects for an immediate settlement."
"Despite the fact that all hopes
Beirne said during the past 24 hours there "have been meaningful informal discussions" in the right direction, "but the position of the company in a number of economic and non-economic areas first has to be changed."
for a quick solution have faded, neither side has slammed the lid," he said. "We are going to try to keep it that way."
Earlier Beirne said one of the issues which "impedes any possible progress" toward a settlement is an injunction obtained by the Southern Bell Telephone Co.