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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Thursday, April 18, 1968
Photo by Mike Shurtz
"I SAID. 'TD LIKE TO REPORT A GEYSER!"
Rising ground water, boiling off underground steam pipes, gave the area near Murphy Hall Old Faithful-like qualities Wednesday, although the policeman was not as concerned as he appears. Furthermore, rumors that KU is opening Mount Oread National Park are completely unfounded.
Travel tax is no student pain
Possible Congressional enactment of a tax on overseas travel expenditures should no longer be a source of concern to students planning study or travel abroad this summer.
This was the opinion expressed in an advisory bulletin issued to students recently by the nonprofit Council on International Educational Exchange.
The Council indicated there was little likelihood that Congress would pass any foreign travel tax measure in time to affect students who will go abroad this year.
There is a strong possibility that a five per cent tax on trans-Atlantic air tickets will go into effect this summer, but it is not expected that a tax will be imposed on ship fares.
The Council based its statement on a report of the House Ways and Means Committee issued April 1.
The bulletin said the Congressional report had asked American travelers to keep their expenditures to a minimum, but that it had not requested students to
Recently, the Council conducted a survey to study the effects of the tax proposals on student interest in travel abroad. This study showed that enrollment in 1968 summer programs for college students was slightly lower than in 1967; that enrollment in 1968 summer programs for high school students was somewhat higher than in 1967; and that enrollment in 1968 summer programs for high school students was somewhat higher than in 1967; and that enrollment in 1968-69 year abroad academic programs for college students was about the same as in 1967-68.
cancel or defer their plans to go abroad.
WHAT'S INSIDE
SECTION A
Dr. Benjamin Spock, famous pediatrician charged with conspiracy to resist the draft, will speak here Sunday. See page 8.
Track star Jim Ryun will try out his recently-injured leg in the Kansas Relays Saturday. See nage 20.
An estimated 2,800 high school students are expected at KU's 31st annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp. See page 5.
Visitor from miles around come to see the Hill's "flower power." See page 18.
The annual KU Engineering Exposition opens at 2 p.m. Friday. See page 13.
Choice '68 voting is Wednesday. See page 11.
SECTION B
Lawrence residents from eight to 80 are jogging for exercise. See page 2.
The hammer throw will be a new element in this year's KU Relays. See page 7.
Torches and chisels create art in the Bailey Hall Annex sculpture studio. See page 17.
Who is KU's official people greeter? See page 19.
The Council further reported that the number of individual students booking passage on 1968 trans-Atlantic sailings of its student ship, the M.S. Aurelia, was less than the figure for a year ago.
A Watkins hospital physician tells of her 35 years as a medical missionary in India. See page 23.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts scattered drizzle or rain likely tonight and Friday. The low tonight will be around 40 degrees with considerable cloudiness. Friday will be mostly cloudy and cool. Precipitation probabilities 50 per cent tonight and Friday.
King a victim of 'conspiracy'
By United Press International
The FBI issued a warrant Wednesday charging that Eric Starvo Galt and a man he said was his brother conspired to kill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Memphis police responded by charging Galt with murder as FBI agents across the nation distributed a photograph of the man they said was Galt.
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's announcement was the first official confirmation of a conspiracy in the April 4 assassination of King, Clark had first said it was the work of one man.
However, witnesses in Memphis and Birmingham who said they had seen Galt claimed the man in the FBI photograph did not resemble him. The FBI refused to comment.
The FBI warrant said the 36-year-old Galt, alias Harvey Lowmeyer and John Willard, and a person "whom he alleged to be his brother entered into a conspiracy which continued until on or about April 5, 1968, to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate Martin Luther King Jr."
Memphis police issued a warrant charging Galt with "the first degree murder of Dr. Martin Luther King." It did not mention a conspiracy.
It claimed he and the other man began their plot March 29—seven days before the slaying—and that Galt came to Memphis the day before King was killed.
The FBI said Galt—a man without a past whose trail ends abruptly in Atlanta the day after the killing—was a passionate dancer, a bartender and a hill-billy music fan.
The FBI did not explain how it had tied Galt to the case. But it said the white Mustang which he purchased in August had been driven 19,000 miles before it was found in Atlanta the day after King died.
It said he had driven to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Birmingham and Mexico before the assassination.
The FBI refused to say how it acquired the photograph it said was a likeness of Galt. It issued two prints—one in which his eyes were closed, and another in which an FBI artist had sketched in opened eyes.
In Birmingham, Peter Cherpes, operator of a rooming house where Galt stayed from Aug. 26 to Oct. 7, 1967, was shown the picture and said, "No, that's not him. I don't think so."
Authorities were unable to explain why Galt went to Atlanta after the killing.
Investigators said that if the killer intended to flee the country, New Orleans would have been a more logical destination.
Law dean quits post to join firm
James K. Logan, dean of the School of Law, has resigned his position to go into private practice, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today.
The resignation will be effective July 1, at which time Logan will become a partner in the firm of Payne, Jones, Anderson, Martin and Payne in Olathe.
Logan has been dean since July 1, 1961, when he was 31.
Logan, born and raised in Quenemo, came to the University in January 1948, and earned numerous honors, including the designation of Summerfield scholar, the presidency of the All-Student Council, election to Phi Beta Kappa, designation as the University's Honor Man for 1952, and appointment to a Rhodes Scholarship. He declined the latter to accept a scholarship to the Harvard Law School.
Logan is one of the relatively few persons to have been graduated from the University with all "A" grades.
He earned his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard, where he won appointment as Harvard Law Review editor for two years, served for a year as law clerk to Judge Walter A. Huxman of the U.S. Court of Appeals, was an associate in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, and returned in 1957 to the University of Kansas as a faculty member of the School of Law.
"My years at the University of Kansas have been happy ones," Logan said. "The University has provided the essential support necessary to build a fine law school, and I believe we have accomplished much."
Photo by Bruce Patterson
WORKING WITH LASER BEAMS
Leland Johnson, Wichita graduate student, experiments with transmitting sound over a laser beam as part of the KU Engineering Exposition, which opens Friday. See story on page 13.