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78th Year, No. 116
Friday, April 19, 1968
Political action by women urged
Housewives Thursday were urged to take a greater part in politics by a University of Missouri professor, and Mrs. Eugene McCarthy, wife of the presidential candidate.
Women were asked to "become politicians" by writing their congressmen and being certain to vote in elections. Speaking at the Vietnam Information Conference in Kansas City, David Wurgel, professor of political science, also called for the removal from office of Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Mrs. McCarthy said Americans protest against the government as a "monolithic evil" and accept no responsibility when "we indeed are responsible."
Wurfel said leaders such as Rusk, not the American people, are the ones who could not accept less than a total victory in Vietnam.
"We put our leaders in a position of leadership and we can change leadership by voting," she said. "It's up to us."
A solution to the problem of politicians who change their positions and don't keep promises after they are elected is for women to take a more active part in politics, Wurfel said.
In the five-and-one-half-hour
conference at the World War II Memorial Building, a group of about 350 Kansas City Women surprised U.S. political and foreign policy experts with questions one expert termed "unlike what you would normally expect from housewives."
The conference grew out of living-room discussions conducted by a small group of women who were "unhappy with America's involvement in the Vietnamese war," Mrs. Donald M. MacKenzie, a conference chairman, said. She said the women sponsoring the conference were neither doves nor hawks, but "human beings."
The Women, working with the Greater Kansas City McCarthy for President club, invited Mrs. McCarthy to speak to the group.
"I am happy to be here with you today on the side of life," Mrs. McCarthy, who talked on "Vietnam: Challenge of Our Days," said.
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Mrs. McCarthy, who holds a B.A. degree in English and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, did not allow her talk to become a campaign speech for her husband, a peace candidate. Without a prepared text, she gave a brief his-
Paris seems best Viet peace talks site
LONDON -(UPI) - Paris appeared today the most likely site for the Vietnam peace talks.
Diplomatic observers said the fact that it was not mentioned in the latest American-proposed selection of 10 new conference sites suggested that France has been quietly earmarked as the least controversial meeting place.
French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville's Thursday offer of Paris as the meeting place also suggested, in the view
The Communists were certain to refuse on principle any place proposed by the United States, after Washington declined the two sites offered by Hanoi—Phom Penh and Warsaw.
Sweet soul music of Temptations comes to Oread
Sweet soul music will fill Allen Field House at 8 p.m. Saturday when the Temptations present a concert.
The Tempations have appeared on several television programs, have given numerous concerts and are well known as recording artists.
"In my estimation three things improve with time," comedian Bill Cosby said. "Number one is good tobacco, number two is a woman and number three is a Temptations performance."
The five members of the Tempations are David Ruffin, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, Eddy Kendricks and Odia Williams.
of diplomatic sources, the French government may have received informal hints that the French capital would be acceptable to either side.
The U.N. Secretary-general U Thant is expected to stop over in Paris next week and is understood likely to meet with Hanoi's chief representative in Europe, Mai Van Bo.
The group has appeared on such TV programs as Shindig, the Mike Douglas Show, American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, and Anatomy of Pop.
Paris, in the view of diplomatic sources, would meet the main conditions required for Vietnam talks to get under way.
Some popular singles of the Temptations are "My Girl," and Since I Lost My Baby.
It offers free access to all parties involved, has good communications, is readily accessible and provides the technical facilities indispensable for the type of negotiations envisaged.
Agreement on the site may emerge later next week, diplomats said.
The group now has five albums out.
Failing this, they saw the prospects for peace talks fading altogether.
Paul Krassner, today's Lenny Bruce, spoke and, at times, turned the air blue Thursday night at the Wesley Foundation. Above are studies he provided a photographer as he assailed mom, the flag, and apple pie: at left, he enjoys his own humor; center, he salutes, apparently mocking the draft; and right, he ponders a more heavy subject such as the Vietnam War, which he opposes.
Photos by Lee Campbell
Krassner, purple words, slap America's sacred cows
By Jerry Bean Kansan Staff Reporter
A small, curly-headed New Yorker dressed in a denim coat and jeans, bad-mouthed the Establishment Thursday night before a crowd of 300 in a packed Wesley Foundation auditorium.
Paul Krassner, editor and ringleader of a national underground publication, said he came to KU to raise money for the underground newspaper, the Screw, which has ceased publication for now. He was to be reimbursed for his plane fare but refused, saying he couldn't ask for it "because there is such a need for underground papers like the Screw in Kansas."
Krassner arrived with a quiet personality that surprised those who had read his bitter writing in the Realist. His personality was meek compared to his vituperative pen. He also displayed a sense of humor on the stage that seems lacking in his writing
Sprinkling his speech with four-letter words, Krassner said, "—— the Establishment."
His speech opened with a remark that made it seem like a typical Methodist gathering.
"I'd make a good Methodist."
he announced, "because I don't have any socially unacceptable vices."
"I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke cigarettes—normal ones," he added.
"I don't drink coffee because it is bad for your chromosomes," Krassner said.
After talking for ten minutes, Krassner said he'd like to get to his subject, the "Yippee Hippie."
It stands for the Youth International Party,—an "ice cream type party" he added.
The Yippie-Hippies plan a "festival," not a demonstration, during the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, Krassner said.
He is urging all participants to come equipped with helmets on their heads to Chicago.
"We'll just have a 'browse-in' in a department store—looting will be optional," he said.
Krassner was asked if the Beatles had accepted the invitation to participate in the "Yipp-in." He commented that it would upstage the Democrats and "cause such a flurry if they came, the Great Society would-sink into the Great Lakes."
Turning to political candidates, Krassner criticized McCarthy and Kennedy for putting other things above the loss of lives in Vietnam.
He concluded that the election would be a good theatre to watch, as he nervously gestured and paraded around the stage.
Politicians weren't the only game for the activist—he criticized the police, the Civil Intelligence Agency, Pope Paul, Christianity, atheism and semitism.
Ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, were fair game as he cited their case as an example of how it pays to be a celebrity when arrested on drug charges. The charges against them were dropped because of insufficient evidence.
Minuteman DePugh 'ordered' King killing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—Robert Bolivar DePugh, fugitive leader of the right-wing Minutemen, allegedly ordered the assassination of several persons, including Dr. Martin Luther King,
if he ever went to prison, the U.S. attorney's office said Thursday.
Anthony P. Nugent Jr., assistant U.S. attorney, said an informant of "apparent reliability" told the federal government of
An artist's conception of a new Theta Tau house under construction at 1942 Stewart Ave. is shown above. Located between the Lambda Chi Alpha and the Alpha Epsilon Pi houses, the 52-man house to be made of brick and stone was designed by Hays and Meyer, Overland Park architectural firm. It is being built by B. A. Green Construction Co. and Norris Brothers, Inc., both of Lawrence.
Members of the national professional engineering fraternity will occupy the house in September, 1968.
Theta Tau recently sold their old house at 1602 Louisiana St. to Phi Delta Theta.
The 32 active members of the fraternity are living in apartments until completion of the new house.
DePugh's alleged threats some time before King was murdered April 4 in Memphis.
DePugh, 43, convicted in 1966 of violating the national firearms act and sentenced to four years in prison, disappeared late last year while free on $5,000 bond. He has appealed his conviction.
"DePugh has issued orders to other Minutemen that, if he goes to jail, certain persons connected with his prosecution and others are to be assassinated, including Martin Luther King."
Nugent said the purpose of the motion was to strengthen the government's case to nullify DePugh's appeal and did not imply that the Minutemen chieftain was involved in King's slaving.
In a motion filed with the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, the U.S. attorney's office quoted the informant as saying:
"Nobody to my knowledge considers DePugh a suspect," Nugent said.
If the court grants the government's motion to remove De-Pugh's appeal from the docklet, Nugent said, the government would then file a motion asking for dismissal of the appeal. The sentence—four years imprisonment—would then stand.