Tranquil corps of cops guides peace march
Photo by Ron Bishop
On the march
Members of the "Guerrilla Theater" join the Chicago peace march with their faces and clothes smeared with red makeup.
By RICHARD MURPHY
Kansan Staff Writer
(Editor's Note: The author was one of more than 20,000 demonstrators who marched down Chicago's State Street last week protesting for peace in Vietnam.)
CHICAGO — The cold wind off Lake Michigan chilled the marchers gathering on Wacker Drive. Observing the demonstrators, as old as 80, as young as 3, was only part of the excitement of the peace march. The other part was walking $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles down a famous street and knowing the reason for it.
More than 20,000 demonstrators marched down the middle of State Street Saturday in a peaceful and orderly protest against the Vietnam war.
The march, which began at 2 p.m. at State and Wacker Drive, was sponsored by the Chicago Peace Council and included demonstrators from various antiwar organizations.
Merlin Nygren, deputy police superintendent, estimated the number of marchers at 10,000. Maxwell Primack, co-chairman of the peace council, and Sidney Lens, co-chairman of the National Committee to End the War in Vietnam, put the figure between 25,000 and 50,000.
Marchers started gathering at the corner of State and Wacker as early as 11:30 a.m., and by 1:30 p.m. the group occupied five city blocks. Demonstrators cooperated with police before the demonstration when they were asked to clear certain intersections to allow traffic through.
In spite of reports of eggs
being thrown at marchers along the parade route, the march was relatively peaceful. Leaders of the march and city officials had worked throughout the week to insure a peaceful protest, and the marchers ignored taunts they received from a group of 50 to 60 counter-protesters who marched alongside them.
The group marched south on State Street for two miles and then turned east at 14th Street for one block to Wabash Avenue where they rallied at the Chicago Coliseum.
Many of the crowd of
School bill considered
TOPEKA - Appropriations bills for Kansas state supported schools are now under consideration by the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee.
No changes have been made in the bills since they were first presented by the Senate Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago. Sen. Glee S. Smith, R-Larned, said he expects the bills to be passed by the House this week.
The University of Kansas including the KU Medical Center would receive nearly one-half of the total appropriations.
In the fiscal year 1969, the appropriations would allow the University to spend $175,000 from the Research Overhead Fund for additional equipment for the new biological science building.
This expenditure is needed both to restore essential items deleted due to price increases since original appropriations were made by the 1965 Legislature and to purchase items essential to the highly technical instructional and research programs to be housed in the new building.
To obtain additional federal matching funds for the Malott Hall addition to meet rising construction costs, the fiscal year 1970 appropriation of $50,000 for expanded electrical capacity of Malott and the reappropriated balance of $39,991 in the account would be combined in a single account.
This provides for total estimated expenditures of $53,745,869 for fiscal year 1969.
This would permit the
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1969 KANSAN 5
The fiscal year 1970 budget for KU would total $48,872,734 plus the amount to provide a $27 per month salary adjustment for all classified or civil service employees.
construction of the Malott addition as originally contemplated when legislative appropriations were made in 1966.
The $5 million increase from the current year includes a five per cent salary range increase, single member health insurance benefits, plus the $27 per month salary adjustment for civil service employees.
The Medical Center 1970
budget would total
$34,759,147.
"This is the one agency that should receive the full effect of the salary increase because the greatest attention has been focused there," Smith said.
marchers did not enter the coliseum to hear the speeches when they learned that a $1 admission fee was being charged.
The only major disruption came at 14th and State Streets near the end of the parade, when Marcia Wilson, 21, and Edward Shultz, 17, both from Chicago, were arrested. Miss Wilson, a counter-protester, was charged with disorderly conduct for shouting at marchers and attempting to tear up signs. Shultz was charged with aggravated battery after he swung at her and a police officer with a stick.
The parade featured many marchers, ranging from persons dressed in "hippie" type garb to well-dressed adults. A group called the "guerrilla theatre" chanted mystical phrases and condemned the Vietnam war.
One truck, called the "war machine" featured demonstrators running in one end and emerging from the other, covered with make-up resembling blood and burns. A large Uncle Sam symbol, covered with simulated burned children, was carried by one group.
A select group of 800 Chicago policemen, tested last week and chosen for their proper mental attitude toward the marchers, lined the parade route.
Police had been instructed to show courtesy to the marchers, who had applied for and received in advance a permit to conduct a peace march.
Speakers at the rally, attended by about 8,500 persons, included Sidney Lens, a leader of the National Mobilization
Committee; Rennie Davis, one of eight persons indicted by a federal grand jury last month for conspiring to cause disturbances during the national Democratic convention; and Marlene Dixon, a University of Chicago faculty member who was the center of demonstrations on the campus earlier this year.
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Smothers brothers blast CBS
In a news conference the two brothers, Tommy and Diek, said no decisions have been made yet to sue the network for dropping the show, although the CBS action amounted to an "unfounded breach of contract." The brothers signed a 26-week contract March 14.
NEW YORK (UPI) — Tommy Smothers accused the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) yesterday of using "censorship with all its ramifications" in cancelling the weekly television show he does with his brother.
"I'm very flattered by the offer," said Tommy, but he added the brothers had made no decision about whether to accept the offer.
The brothers said they had received an offer from the Canadian Television Network to produce their show for them if no American network would have them.
However, Tommy said "It's important we stay on television ... we intend to stay on. If CBS doesn't want us, maybe somebody else will take us."