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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 8, 1968
Wire Briefs
Congress ready to bust LSD users
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Congress was enthusiastic today about President Johnson's proposal to crack down on LSD peddlers and other drug pushers, but the other keystones of his 22-point anticrime program were already mired in trouble.
The President sent his 1968 package of anticrime legislation to Capitol Hill Wednesday in a message urging action to make "conditions of life for most law-abiding citizens safer, and thus freer and happier."
There were a few surprises; stiffened penalties for those who distribute or use LSD, a prohibition against interstate dealing in the master keys widely used by auto thieves, a requirement that banks use modern camera and alarm systems to forestall robberies.
Kerner won't run; field is open
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—(UPI)—Gov. Otto Kerner's decision not to seek a third term opened the Illinois political field wide, inviting maneuvering by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R. Sargent Shriver and Adlai E. Stevenson III.
Kerner's announcement he would neither run again for the governorship nor seek a seat in the U.S. Senate leaves both nominations up for grabs. There had been speculation Democrat Kerner would oppose Dirksen, a Republican, for the Senate.
Political observers see Shriver, federal antipoverty chief, as a possible candidate for either governor or senator. State Treasurer Stevenson, son of the former Illinois governor and two-time presidential nominee, is, likewise, mentioned as a contender in either race.
Johnson, Wilson will confer
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Johnson and visiting Prime Minister Harold Wilson open a two-day round of talks today expected to center on Vietnam and Britain's scheduled withdrawal from the Far East.
The President and the prime minister, who is under heavy pressure from a sizeable segment of his Labor party at home to disassociate Britain completely from U.S. Vietnam policy, were to meet at the White House at midday.
Presidential hopes
Wallace to announce
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — George Corley Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama who gained national notice by defying the federal government, was expected to announce today his third party candidacy for president.
Wallace, who flew into Washington Wednesday night in a chartered plane, scheduled a morning news conference.
The 47-year-old Wallace has been running hard for several months to get his name and that of his "American Independent party" on the ballot in key states. Aides said he planned to run in all 50 states.
Wallace's strategy apparently was to try to keep either major party candidate from getting the required majority of electoral votes, thereby throwing the election of the next president into the House of Representatives.
Against federal power
He based his early campaign appeals against powerful federal government, "beatniks," "peaceniks," and "pseudointellectuals."
In 1964, he shocked Democrats by taking 42.8 per cent of the primary total in Maryland, 33.8 per cent in Wisconsin, and 29.8 per cent in Indiana, running against stand-ins for President Johnson. He withdrew from the race later.
His candidacy this year was expected to hurt the Republicans in
the south and Democrats in the big northern cities. Political forecasters thought that overall he would do more damage to the GOP cause.
Wallace has toned down his racial stance since he stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama in 1963 to try to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, and since 1962 when, in his inaugural address, he proclaimed "segregation now,
segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
More recently Wallace has said he is not against a state having the type school system is wants—even racially mixed—but is against the federal government or the courts telling a state what to do.
Wallace campaigned extensively in California to get the required 66,059 registrations to put his third party on the ballot.
Kansas draft officials reviewing deferments
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Kansas selective service officials are moving to cancel draft deferments of college students whose past credit hours are insufficient to meet new standards, director Francis Martin confirmed today.
Martin said the revised federal law enacted last July stipulates that the deferred students must amass approximately one-fourth of the total credits needed for graduation during his freshman year, one half by the end of his sophomore year and three fourths by the end of his junior year.
Martin said "we allow some variance of one or two points."
However, it appeared that the student who took 12 hours of college work per semester, formerly considered the minimum load for draft deferment, through his first
two or three years of schooling,
was in trouble.
In Wichita, cries of retroactive enforcement were raised, as students received notice of cancellation of their deferments.
Martin said that in many cases a student who had not carried a heavy enough class load under the old regulations could make up the deficiency by attending summer school.
However, since a student carrying 12 hours work per semester would be "down" a total of 3 or 4 hours per semester, or 12 to 15 credit hours in two years, this course of action apparently was not open for students who had taken no more than 12 hours per semester for more than one year. Eight hours usually is regarded as the maximum load during summer sessions.
SUA presents
John Williams
John Williams' extraordinary debuts in the capitols of Europe, Scandinavia, North America, as well as in Japan and the Soviet Union, have made him one of the most heralded musicians of his generation. A protégé of Andres Segovia, Williams' appearances in concert, his Columbia recordings and his many appearances on radio and television have already won him a large following.
Monday, Feb. 12, 8:00 p.m.—University Theatre Tickets $1.50 and $2.00 at SUA office and Information Booth on campus Bell's Music downtown