Dickson Candidate For Top YR Post
Jerry Dickson, outgoing student body president, has announced that he will be a candidate for chairman of the National Federation of College Republican Clubs.
The only other announced candidate for the national position is also a Kansan. He is Ward White of Russell, a student at Cornell University.
By Roy Miller
Monday. April 15. 1963
There is a possibility that a third candidate, a student at the University of Texas, will also enter the contest.
Election of the national collegiate club chairman will be held at the national Young Republicans convention at San Francisco, June 25-26-27.
Dickson, Newton senior who was chairman of the KU Young Republicans last year, made the announcement in an interview last week in St. Louis. He was attending the Midwest Federation of College Republican Clubs convention being held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel there.
The term of national chairman is two years. If elected, Dickson would serve during the national election year of 1964.
DICKSON WILL BE representing the Midwest for the position. White, presumably, will be running as a candidate from the East.
Jerry Dickson
"I CERTAINLY WANT to insure the election of a capable, conservative successor."
The present chairman is Jim Harff, a student at Northwestern University. Although he declined to say whether he supported Dickson or White for the position, the present chairman said:
Dickson was a member of the State Executive Committee for the St. Louis convention, and was elected chairman of Region VII of the Midwest Federation at the convention. Region VII is composed of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa.
Dickson made his intentions known publicly following the election of Andrew Hickam as chairman of the 13-state Midwest Federation.
HICKAM, ADMINISTRATIVE assistant to Oklahoma Gov. Harry Bellmon, was supported by the Kansas delegation over a native son candidate for the position.
Hickam, a student at Oklahoma City University, endorsed Dickson for the national position. "I personally believe Jerry's principles are more in line with Midwesterners' than other candidates," he said.
Hickam said Dickson is assured of two-thirds support of the Midwest Federation at the national convention.
MIAMI — (UFI) — The Cuban Revolutionary Council meets here today to decide whether to reveal a document it says will "embarrass" the Kennedy Administration and to plan the future of Jose Miro Cardona, council president.
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BUT STATE DEPARTMENT officials insisted today that Miro's resignation followed the administration's rejection of his ultimatum to resign unless the United States supplied him with $50 million to develop invasion plans.
Cuban Exiles to Meet; May "Embarrass" JFK
One member of the council, the
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largest Cuban exile organization in Miami, said that if Miro's letter were made public "it would prove very embarrassing for the Kennedy Administration." But he said he will ask the entire council to endorse the letter before releasing it.
A council spokesman here has termed this report "false and tendentious."
The officials said Miro's demands amounted to dictating what U.S. policies should be and that an untenable situation had developed between him and the U.S.
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL reports, Miro accused top administration officials of having "misled" him and giving "false assurances" of support to exile attempts to infiltrate the island.
U. S. officials, making no attempt to hide their anger over Miro's attitude, are holding fast to their story that Miro came to Washington on April 5 and presented his demands in a highly emotional state.
"Miro certainly came (to Washington) with the intention of dictating terms to us, and if he denies it he is not telling the truth," one official who attended the meeting said.
In Washington, however, high state department officials said that any charges made publicly that President Kennedy had secretly promised the exiles support to overthrow the Castro regime and then had reneged on his pledge would be challenged forcefully.
Miro's resignation letter reportedly outlines President Kennedy's public and private assertions to him about the eventual liberation of Communist Cuba.
Miro resigned from the council last week in protest against Cuban policies. The exile group backed Miro's criticisms, but rejected the resignation.
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The official defended the administration's action in giving newsmen its account of Miro's visit saying this was done to prevent a one-sided account of what happened.
The jeering, nose-thumbing demonstrators taunted police by crying: "Get your official secrets here!" This referred to distribution over the weekend of thousands of pamphlets that—to the shock of government—gave locations of top secret hideaways from which Britain would be run in event of nuclear attack.
Peace Marchers Clash With Police in London
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LONDON — (UPI)—An estimated 35,000 young ban-the-bomb b merchers, many chanting the location of a secret government hideaway, batted police today in a noisy invasion of London. The marchers stormed right to the walls of Buckingham Palace and surged past Parliament.
Fists flew and police helmets topped to the streets in dozens of skirmishes as the marchers broke through police cordons outside Buckingham Palace and along Regent Street, one of London's smartest shopping districts.
THE DEMONSTRATORS pushed on, breaking through cordon after cordon of reinforced police, to reach the area of Parliament and the Whitehall government buildings.
her to the ground. A man was kicked by a police horse and was taken to a hospital
At least two persons were reported injured. One girl suffered facial bruises when a policeman threw
By late afternoon police said they had made 73 arrests and expected the total number taken into custody to approach 100.
Police tried to halt distribution by marchers of some 20,000 pamphlets revealing details of the nation's preparations for war. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan broke off his Easter weekend in the country to confer with key cabinet ministers on the security leak.
Two youths were swept away by policemen when they unfurled a small banner giving the location of an underground "regional seat of government."
But the marchers made sure the now-public "secrets" got out. In addition to shouting "get your official secrets here" to Londoners lining the route of march, they chanted the location of the hideaway. Some youths had chalked the location on their black leather jackets.
THE INVASION of London eliminated a four-day, 60-mile march from the government's nuclear weapons establishment at Aldermaston, northwest of London.
Mysterious Ship Clouds Sub Probe
The 3rd Congressional District comprises the following counties:
Anderson, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson, Linn, Miami and the eastern one-half of Wyandotte County.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. — (UPI) — A naval officer testified today that an object at first believed to be a submarine was seen a few hours after the Thresher sank. He said the object disappeared and it may have been a fishing boat.
Lt. Cmdr. Stanley Hecker, 36, skipper of the escort vessel Skylark which was nearby when the Thresher sank Wednesday in the Atlantic with 129 men aboard, testified at a Naval court of inquiry.
He said that during the search for the Thresher Wednesday afternoon the Skylark spotted an object which was believed to be a submarine "sail" or fin.
Max Logan, chairman of the KU Young Democrats, was elected vice-chairman of the 3rd Congressional District for the Kansas Young Democrats organization.
"WE WERE ANXIOUS and possibly hoping it was the Thresher." Hecker said.
Logan, Holliday junior, was unopposed for the position. He succeeds Mrs. Marsha Gerig of Lawrence.
Hecker said the Skylark moved in closer and challenged the object. It refused to answer the challenge, he said. At one point, he said, the Skylark was within 6,000 yards of the object when it disappeared.
Asked if the ship or object carried any identifying numbers, Hecker said, "No, it might have been grey at one time. It was a dirty color. I don't know what happened to it."
"It was lying to." he said. "Maybe it was a fisherman." He said the Skylark did not pursue the object.
CMDR. HECKER testified that because of the deep depths in which the Thresher apparently plunged, his vessel, the Skylark, was in no position to offer any assistance.
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Hecker earlier described the
Thresher's death throes and said he was concerned the submarine might surface beneath the Skylark.
Hecker read off to the inquiry board the Skylark's log of the Thresher's last minutes in water one and one-half mile deep, 220 miles east of Cape Cod.
With one or two exceptions, his testimony was about the same as that of Skylark officers who testified Saturday.
BE SAID THAT at 9:12 a.m. on Wednesday, the logged message from the Thresher was "have positive up angle—attempting to blow (straighten out by blowing water out of the ballast tanks)."
He said he thought the message from the Thresher began with "ex-piercing minor problems" though these words were not in the log. He testified he heard the word "minor" and not "major."
While the court was investigating the tragedy ashore, the navy was trying to locate the Thresher at sea.
Hecker said the waters were fairly calm though the Skylark rolls even in a quiet ocean. Asked if the rolls could disturb a man making entries in the log, he said "possibly but probably not."
HE SAID THAT at 9:14 a.m. the Skylark advised the Thresher that there were no other surface vessels in the area.
He said, "I thought he (the Thresher's skipper) was becoming heavy in his depth and wanted to blow and give the ship positive buovance."
Hecker said he asked the Thresher for its range and bearing from the Skylark. He said he took the microphone and asked, "Are you in control." There was no answer.
Hecker said that at that time, "I was concerned he would come up underneath me."
At 9:17 a.m., he testified, "I heard what sounded to me like tanks being blown." He described the sound as a "muffled rush of air." He said he heard the noise for 20 to 30 seconds.
Hecker was asked if the air being blown seemed like a normal emission. He said it was indeed normal, but that he heard noises in the background "like a microphone being dropped or something falling in the vicinity of the telephone."
As they neared London, the marchers broke into three groups—two of them composed of members of the campaign for nuclear disarmament, various peace groups, union delegations, national groups and members of Communist and Socialist parties.
Between the two groups marched a band of about 3,000 youths, most of the members of the pacifist "committee of 100" and anarchist bodies.
When police tried to channel them to one side of the road, the marchers howled, "on, on, on," "we want peace," and "we shall not be moved."
WITH A BUGLER in the lead, the marchers—many bearded and the vast majority in their teens—spread across the road, blocking traffic and straining time and again at police cordons.
The marchers and police pushed and shoved each other. White police horses snorted through the crowd. One youth was hauled off by his heels his head bumping on the pavement.
THE CROWD fell back, screaming, "fascist pigs," and "it's worse than America."
London police helmets knocked off by the marchers, rolled in the streets as the demonstrators surged against police lines. No serious casualties were reported.
The marchers, often skirmishing with police in the suburbs, penetrated into the heart of London, and broke through line after line of police reinforcements.
When mounted police rushed in to try to restore control, the crowd booed and smashed more helmets from the heads of the "bobbies." One marcher threw an apple which knocked off a policeman's hat.
Traffic in central London was paralyzed as the marching columns moved determinedly to the White-hall area, seat of the British government, and parliament.
A moist flow of southern air triggered showers over a large section of Eastern Kansas early today, and weathersm predicted occasional rain would continue through tonight.
Sun, Easter Gone; Rain, Cold Ahead
Measurable amounts of precipitation recorded by midmorning were .17 inch at Chantelle and .13 in Emporia.
A cold front pressing eastward from the Rocky Mountains was expected to set off showers over Western Kansas later today and move across the state during the night.
Afternoon highs were predicted to range from near 70 in the east to the 80's west. Tonight's lows were anticipated between 55 and 65.
Mild, sunny weather continued throughout the state during the Easter weekend. The Weather Bureau said yesterday was the first Easter Sunday in Northeast Kansas since 1956 to pass without a threat of rain or cold weather.
Top readings ranged from 82 at Garden City to 72 at Topeka and Olathe. Overnight lows were from 49 at Emporia to 60 at Garden City.
Arrest Spring Vacationers
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —(UPI)—Police said today they arrested about 200 vacationing students during Easter weekend carousing, but there was no property damage or major incidents.
Police Capt. C. W. Carr of the student squad said the arrests were mainly for drunkenness, drinking on the streets, possession of liquor by minors and disorderly conduct.