Nudist speaks at Forum
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Speaking on "Nudism and the Modern Morality," Karr said the amount of clothing a person has on doesn't make him a moral person. He said morality is a state of the individual.
There's nothing to hide about the human body — contrary to what most people think, Karr said.
"To me the natural way to swim is in the nude," Karr said. He said he first got that idea when he was 12. "So you see, I'm not just a nasty, dirty old man."
To play volleyball, a net is tied between two trees. It's a game in which persons of assorted abilities can have fun and be involved, he said.
"Nudists aren't against clothing, but we adopt a casual attitude towards it. We're all young at heart and have a lot of fun together," said Karr, owner and director of the Echo Valley Nudist Retreat near Tonganoxie, four
miles north of Leavenworth County State Lake.
Karr, who has organized three nudist camps, believes the hallmark of nudism is honesty.
"Everything is so natural at a nudist camp. Nudism tends to
"The time is soon approaching when you will see people doing their yard-work in the nude and thinking nothing of it," Ahman Karr, an active nudist, said Thursday night.
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He said the basic philosophy of nudism prevails at his nudist camp—the philosophy that men and women can logically associate with each other in the nude. Karr said the camp is based on family-type activities and added that about two-fifths to one-half of the nudists at his camp are under 18.
Karr, speaking at a Student Union Activities Minority Opinion Forum in the Kansas Union Ballroom, gave as an example a girl carrying the trash out in the nude, forgetting she didn't have any clothes on.
"Any boy who doesn't know what a girl's body looks like hasn't ever seen any calendars, with nude pictures that is. Most girls should know what a boy's body looks like if they have ever changed diapers," he said.
He said nudists at his camp swim nude in the creek together, pitch horseshoes, play cards and have a good game of volleyball—"the national sport of nudists."
Karr and his wife, Emily, who accompanied him, have been nudists for more than 30 years, and their two teenagers have "known no other life."
Karr criticized the idea that the form of the opposite sex should be left up to the imagination.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Friday, March 15, 1968
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Gold crisis sparks emergency moves
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The gold crisis grew to such proportions Thursday that the United States summoned its six active European partners in the international gold pool to an emergency weekend meeting here to deal with it.
Following history's heaviest speculation in gold, these developments came in rapid order:
—London announced its big gold market, scene of frantic buying, would be closed on Friday along with all banks and stock exchanges in the United Kingdom. About 200 tons of gold changed hands in London alone. On a normal day, three to five tons are sold.
London reports said the weekend meeting and closing of the gold market came after a hurried telephone conversation between President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
American officials responded
with a new avowal to defend the dollar and maintain the $35-anounce fixed price of gold and called the emergency meeting for Saturday.
The Senate passed 39-37 and sent to President Johnson for his signature a bill he sought that could make the entire U.S. gold supply of $11.6 billion available to defend the dollar if the administration chose. Under the present law, it is necessary to hold $10.5 billion worth of gold as "cover" for American currency but the bill will cancel the requirement that every U.S. dollar be backed by 25 cents worth of gold.
The Federal Reserve Board authorized nine of the 12 federal reserve banks to raise their discount rates from 4.5 to 5 per cent—the highest in 40 years.
But the effect of this action appeared to be diluted by refusal of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the key one of the system, to go along with the rate increase
at this time. Neither did the San Francisco or Philadelphia Reserve Banks. None of the three made any explanation for their decisions.
The discount rate is the interest rate charged by the 12 federal reserve banks on loans to member banks. A discount increase usually tightens up interest charges all along the line to the ultimate user of credit. Normally the reserve board "authorizes" but does not compel the 12 banks to change their rates, but it can do so. It has not exercised this power for 40 years.
The news from London that all bank, gold and stock exchange activity would be halted—following a proclamation of a bank holiday from the Queen—brought this statement from Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler and Chairman William McChesney Martin of the Federal Reserve Board:
Silent flicks return to film screens
By Jill Brackbill Kansan Staff Reporter
"The silent film has come back again,"—or, more correctly, the purpose of the silent film has come back, says King Vidor, a film director for forty years.
In a lecture Thursday night on "40 Years of Hollywood Directing" Vidor entertained and informed an audience in Dyche Auditorium with extracts from his own career and compared the silent film era with today's movies.
The silent film, Vidor said, developed a group of actors who were able to act with freedom of expression. Sound changed many aspects of filmmaking. Dialogue had to be written, edited and lines learned. In silent films only scenes were learned, often with the actors not reading the script before shooting in order to remain objective. This gave the director more control over his actors.
Vidor believes today's films have captured the expression of the individual which was the mark of the silent film. This seems to be truer of European directors such as Ingmar Bergman and Frederico Fellini, he said, although he included Cecil B. DeMille and Frank Capra, American directors.
"The temporary closing of the London market does not affect the United States' undertaking to buy and sell gold in transactions with monetary authorities at the official price of $35 an ounce.
See Silent, page 10
See Gold, page 16.
RFK to speak at KU Monday
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D.N.Y., will speak as scheduled in Allen Field House Monday, it was announced by Gov. Robert B. Docking in Topeka.
Kennedy will arrive at KU about 1 p.m. from Manhattan where he will have earlier spoken at Kansas State. His speech is expected to begin at 1:30 p.m.
The senator is expected to cover a variety of subjects in his address, including the Vietnam war and the American domestic crisis.
Time helps Nixon's image, nerve
(Editor's note: This article is part of a series dealing with the 1968 presidential race and the election process.)
By Jerry Bean Kansan Staff Reporter
Richard Nixon may be overcoming his loser's image.
Richard Nixon may be overcoming his loser's image. The former vice-president has not won an election on his own since he defeated Helen Gahagan Douglas for the Senate from California in 1950. His only victories after that were as Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate in 1952 and 1956.
Since then he narrowly lost a presidential race to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and, by a wider margin, a California gubernatorial campaign to Edmund G. Brown in 1962.
But Nixon, now a New York attorney, is on the presidential trail again—and facing his brightest political prospects in nearly a decade. In the recent New Hampshire primary he polled 79 per cent of the Republican vote, beating a belated Nelson Rockefeller write-in campaign by 71,000 votes.
Rep. Melvin Laird (R-Wisc.) said in February, "It is
the reluctance of Gov. Rockefeller to get into the race in 1968 that will nominate Dick Nixon."
Regardless of the presence or absence of other prominent Republicans in the race, Nixon may well win the GOP nomination on his own power. Although out of office for eight years, party leaders concede that Nixon has indeed "done his homework."
Before and during the New Hampshire campaign Nixon has spoken out on several major issues, both international and domestic.
Perhaps his most striking statement is his unequivocal promise to end the war in Vietnam if elected—although he has not said how.
Nixon also is concerned about the Middle East, which he says is "another powder keg developing, and we've just got to get some leadership in the United States and some cooperation from our European friends . . . or it will explode again. And the next time it could ignite a world war.
The state of the economy also bothers Nixon—and he considers Johnson's travel tax no real answer. Speaking
in New York shortly before the New Hampshire primary, Nixon said:
"The trouble with the American dollar is not what tourists are spending abroad, but what the administration is spending in Washington, D.C. What we need is not more millions on welfare rolls, but more millions on payrolls."
Nixon, a Quaker and a grocer's son, was noted for his quick rise to national prominence.
He began his political career in 1946 by winning a California Congressional campaign when he was 33 years old. Four years later he defeated Mrs. Douglas for the Senate seat.
In 1952, at age 39, he was elected vice-president—the second youngest man to hold the office. John C. Breckenridge was 35 when he was elected James Buchanan's vicepresident in 1856.
Throughout his political career Nixon seemingly relished in the controversial. In both his Congressional and Senatorial contests he campaigned ardently against communism—at a time when communism did not have nearly
See Time, page 16