Five gun-runners sunk in major naval battle
SAIGON — (UPI)— U.S. forces destroyed five Communist supply ships and captured a sixth today in what military officials, called the "most important" naval battle of the Vietnam war.
U. S. Navy and Coast Guard patrols caught three 100-foot steel trawlers carrying munitions trying to break through the allied blockade on the South Vietnam coast.
Gov. Robert Docking will address the annual band banquet 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The U.M.K.C. Swinging Choraliers will entertain with a half hour program of show tunes and dancing, said Wayne Erck, St. Louis senior and toastmaster. The 15-member troupe, including a pianist and drummer, is led by U.M.K.C. Professor William Fisher, Erck said.
They sank two of the three gun-runners in predawn battle and drove the third onto the beach. A fourth big trawl fled,
A highlight of the evening will be the recognition of outstanding senior bandsmen by Russell L. Wiley, who is in his last year as KU band director.
Docking will speak here
not daring to enter South Vietnamenese territorial waters.
At the same time two 40-foot guerrilla sampans tried slipping into the Cua Viet River just under the North-South border. U.S. forces caught them, sinking one and capturing the other. A third sampan gun-runner was caught by a U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division patrol on a waterway two miles north of Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport.
After waiting two days in international waters one trawler plunged toward shore on the northern coast, 40 miles southwest of the marine base at Chu Lai. The Coast Guard cutter Winona and the U.S. Navy's five-man swift boats chased it down. The Red ship hit the beach while helicopter-borne allied troops were fighting Communist troops waiting for the arms it carried. When American troops tried to capture the vessel and its tons of guerrilla arms the ship's crew blew it up.
Military officials said the trawlers came from either North Vietnam or Communist China. Two American sailors were injured in the incidents.
Never had the Communists tried such a large blockade run. U.S. intelligence sources said the vessels made their fatal runs in an attempt to rearm Communist forces heavily depleted of weapons during the past month's urban warfare.
The ambush patrol blew the vessel apart.
kansan
78th Year, No. 88
A student newspaper serving KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Friday, March 1, 1968
Thailand ambassador to US named Model UN speaker
The Thailand Ambassador to the United States, Buncha Athakor, has been announced as the key speaker for the KU-Y Model United Nations Assembly to be held at KU March 21-23.
Danai Tulalamba, First Secretary of the Thailand Embassy, will accompany Atthakor and his wife during their two-day visit to the University.
Tentative topics for considera-
ASC, LBJ among Rock Chalk targets
ing toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."
The Orient, Alaska, "a small Kansas town" and ancient Macedonia were the places visited by the audience of Rock Chalk Revue on its opening Thursday night.
In the tradition of Rock Chalk, nothing is sacred—not even the Chancellor. This year's Rock Chalk was no exception. Everyone and everything from Dean of Women Emily Taylor and ASC to "dorm food" and Watkins Hospital received its share of satire. The Kansan was not exempt either.
Commission sees laws, funds as riot cure
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson has been challenged by his top-level antitrust commission to return to Congress and ask for laws and more money to save America from "large scale and continuing" race warfare in the streets of its cities.
Since the hot July when Newark and Detroit erupted at a cost of 69 lives, not much has been done to prevent it from happening again, the President was told
Instead, the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders said, "our nation is movin 1968 but asked for "national action-compassionate, massive and sustained."
"Little basic change in the conditions underlying the outbreak of disorder has taken place," the commission said Thursday night in a summary of its 1,400-page, 250,000 word report.
The commission, headed by retiring Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner of Illinois, included New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay.
They said their recommendations may not be enough to prevent more bloodshed in America
--tion at the Assembly include Vietnam, international narcotics traffic, world population control Middle East conflict and Chinese representation.
Fair this afternoon, turning partly cloudy and colder tonight. Saturday will be generally fair and colder with the high in the 30's.
WEATHER
--tion at the Assembly include Vietnam, international narcotics traffic, world population control Middle East conflict and Chinese representation.
Some of the skits even attacked the fraternities and sororities in subtle ways, and some not so subtle. The "Greek system" is satirized in "Watchman, What of the Knot, or Alexander's Ragtime Bond," by Delta Chi and Alpha Gamma Delta.
The University administration and organizations were the subject of Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Kappa Alpha, "The Old Man and the She, or Through Hell with Nell."
"North to Alaska or Get Your Berings Strait," by Pi Beta Phi and Delta Tau Delta, tells of the rivalry between ASC (Alaska State College, that is) and UDK (University of Distant Klondike).
In "The Gong Bongs Wrong for Wong Tong, or Water Water Everywhere," by Delta Chi Omega and Tau Kappa Epsilon, everything gets it—the President and the draft board notwithstanding.
The "in-between" acts offer relief with the only part of the show that is "straight" with three songs and choreography numbers.
Opening night saw a record Thursday night crowd of 1,000, according to John Newlin, Master of Ceremonies. There are still two nights to see Rock Chalk Revue, tonight and Saturday night, at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Delegations to the eighth annual KU Assembly are now being registered by the Model UN steering committee under joint sponsorship of the KU-Y and the political science department.
Several delegations from KU and off-campus groups have already been accepted. However, many countries with delegations on the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Security Council are still available.
The Model UN will include four committees speaking before the General Assembly, an ECOSOC Council, a Security Council. Awards for the best on-campus and off-campus delegations.
The winning on-campus group will have their names and living group engraved on a plaque to be placed in the Kansas Union Trophy Room.
Members of the Model United Nations steering committee planning the Assembly are: Nancy Thompson, Burlingame senior, Secretary General; Bill Ward, Wichita senior, publicity chairman; Fred Hack, Lawrence senior, and Barry Albin, Topeka sophomore, delegate accommodations and Mary Pat McQueeney, Paola senior, delegate liaison.
Class drops end after Saturday
Saturday is the last day a student may drop a course and have his enrollment officially cancelled, said James K. Hitt, registrar.
Photo by Bruce Patterson
DOWN ON DE LEVEE
While many of today's generation groove to the psychedelic sounds of sitar and soul rock, the Gaslite Gang, and its audiences, get their kicks from New Orleans style Dixieland. Swinging out on a hot jazz number are Harold Keen, trombone; Wayne Erck (in hat), drums; Gale Dillehay, bass horn; Larry Rigler (dark coat—face reflected in piano), piano; Skip Devol, banjo; Paul Gray, trumpet; and Dave Murrow, clarinet.
Dixieland jazz band swings in local pub
Paul Gray and The Gaslite Gang, eight KU music majors, can be heard regularly Wednesday nights playing dixieland jazz at a local pizza pub—and at times from Boston to Tahiti.
The Gang has played in such diverse places as a Boston hotel a church in Kansas City, Mo., and at Allen Field House.
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Since Paul Gray, Windsor, Mo., senior, organized the band in 1964, it has played on regional TV, in front of 20,000 U.S. Army troops, with the KU Brass Choir in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, and for dinners and other KU special events.
Members of The Gang are band leader Gray, on trumpet and piano; Dave Murrow, Topeka junior, clarinet and vocalist; Harold Keen, Houston freshman, trombone; Gale Dillehay, Kansas City, Mo., senior, tuba and string bass; Skip Devol, Chicago sophomore, banjo; Larry Rigler, Chicago junior, pianist and vocalist; Wayne Erck, St. Louis senior, drums and vocalist; and Vince "Corky" May, Hilo, Hawaii, senior, trombone.
Six of the members met and organized the band at the 1964 KU Summer Music Camp and became "really great buddies," Gray said.
The Gang's name didn't evolve, however, until 1965, the year they first played at KU, and practically "lived" at the Gaslight Tavern. So naturally, Gray said, they became known as The Gaslite Gang.
See Dixieland, page 6
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