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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 21, 1968
Wire Briefs
Housing bill goes before Senate
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The Senate decides today whether to drop the most controversial part of the administration's civil rights package—legislation to outlaw discrimination in all housing—to make it more acceptable to opponents who very likely could kill the entire bill in this election year. Liberals offered to soften the impact of the housing measure to keep it alive, lure added strength for a second attempt to halt debate Monday and pave the way for a vote.
TALLLAHASSEE, Fla.—(UPI)—Gov. Claude Kirk flew home from a California speaking tour early today, vowing to "go on a recruiting drive right now" if necessary to end a mass teacher walkout that has crippled Florida's educational system.
Kirk goes home for strike
Arriving on the third day of a classroom crisis instigated by passage of what teachers called an "inadequate" education budget by the legislature, Kirk went into immediate talks with his staff.
The walkout has seriously hampered most of the state's 67 school systems. The urban areas around Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, and St. Petersburg were the hardest hit.
Marines advance in Hue
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. Marines broke the stalemate in the battle for Hue today with a predawn ground assault, a helicopterborne attack and jet planes splashing the Communist positions with flaming napalm.
U. S. spokesmen said the Leatherneck onslaught is "moving pretty good" against the 300 to 500 North Vietnamese in the 22nd day of their suicide stand in the rubble of Hue's former imperial palace grounds.
Surprise and a break in the weather ended four days' frustration for the Leathernecks who had been measuring their gains in blood-soaked inches. "The Viet Cong were sleeping—we caught them off guard," a U.S. spokesman said.
Novel to appear in Garrison probe
COLUMBUS, Ohio—(UPI)—Gordon Novel, long sought after as a witness in New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy, will comply with a subpoena and return to New Orleans March 8.
Novel was subpoenaed last week by a ground jury investigating the assassination.
Pearson confidence vote is today
OTTAWA—(UPI)—Prime Minister Lester Pearson goes to Parliament today determined to win a crucial vote of confidence that would permit his government to retain power.
"If the motion of confidence in the government is defeated, and I believe it will not be." Pearson told newsmen Tuesday, "then of course the government resigns."
Passage appeared far from certain. The leaders of all the opposition parties agreed to vote against Pearson's Liberal government.
AF cadet accused of thievery
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.—(UPI)—An Air Force Academy cadet told a court martial Tuesday a fellow student confessed to him last year to taking some items from an academy store.
The testimony came during the second day of a hearing against cadet Paul David Speasl, a blond, 21-year-old youth from Tucson, Ariz. He is accused of two holdups in nearby Colorado Springs and of a number of thefts at the military school.
Cadet Charles J. Rockmeyer, testifying at the first court martial in the 13-year history of the school, said Speasl came to his room last year and asked for help.
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But freedom of thought and action,when backed with reason and conviction's courage, will keep and nurture individuality whatever the scene: in the arts,the sciences, and in business.
Scoffers to the contrary, the red corpuscles of individuality pay off. No mistake.
Encouraging individuality rather than suppressing it is policy in a business like Western Electric -where we make and provide things Bell telephone companies need Because communications are changing fast, these needs are great and diverse.
Being involved with a system that helps keep people in touch, lets doctors send cardiograms across country for quick analysis, helps transmit news instantly, is demanding. Demanding of individuals.
If your ambition is strong and your abilities commensurate, you'll never be truly happy with the status quo. You'll seek ways to change it and—wonderful feeling!—some of them will work.
Could be at Western Electric.