London delights drinker and gourmet
By LUCINDA L. FRANKS
LONDON (UPI) — The young American looking for a good time in London can find it just about anywhere—from the sawdust strewn pubs of East London to the bright lights of Picadilly Circus.
On a Saturday, there's the King's Road in Chelsea where
the dolly-birds (teeny-boppers) emerge in see-through blouses and watertight velveteen trousers. They cram into mirror-walled boutiques with rotating floors and blaring pop music.
On a Sunday, movers, hippies,
students and longhairs congregate
in spacious Hype Park for
a free outdoor pop concert, or
Sororities sell sodas for service projects
Four sororities at the University of Kansas have recently pledged financial aid to two Lawrence service organizations by means of a "Coke fund."
The Community Clearing House and the Pennsylvania House will receive more than $400 in funds gathered from a project using Coke machines, said Kathy Hoefer, Prairie Village junior and president of the Panhellenic Council. The sororities involved are Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi.
Those participating in the "Coke fund," which began in October of last year, hope to expand it next year to include all of the sororities. "We would like to make it a long-range and dependable source of income," Miss Hoefer said.
Speaker's Corner to hear anarchists, preachers and ordinary grippers, or just lounge on the grass with guitars and beer.
The Community Clearing House was set up by KU students and townspeople to coordinate campus facilities and resources with the needs of the community, Miss Hoefer said. It is designed to channel dependable volunteers and to make information available about area projects, she said.
The Pennsylvania House was created to offer opportunities for welfare recipients. The building is somewhat of a community center based around a series of clubs which help teach individual skills in leadership, management of financial matters and group participation toward common goals, Miss Hoefe said.
various programs include working with children, elderly persons and the mentally ill and helping with the restoration of decaying houses and hospital work.
The group is in the process of becoming financially independent of the University and establishing themselves on a permanent basis. The money will be used for operational costs and supplies, said Mary Martz, Cameron, Mo., junior and member of the Clearing House Board.
In order to maintain this operation, the center must keep money coming from outside sources, as the OEO grant from the federal government was not renewed this year, she said. Funds from the four sororities will aid in maintaining operation of the house.
Salary increases due for city's employes
The patrolmen's initial salary increase, effective May 1, will not affect the salaries of public safety officers. The second phase increase, effective June 1, will hike all city employees' paychecks five per cent.
A two-phase salary increase for Lawrence policemen and firemen and a salary increase for city employees were approved by the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday in a move intended to satisfy complaints following recent violence in the city.
The increases, recommended by City Manager Buford Watson, will cost a total of $72,000.
One major police complaint had been the difference between salaries of patrolmen and public safety officers.
One reason for London's popularity is price. Student hotels charge as little as 10 shillings ($1.20) a night. At Sussex Gardens and the West Side, you can find bed-and-breakfast hotels for 25 shillings ($3).
Watson told the City Commission: "I have informed both the fire department and the police department that it would be my intention to eventually have all patrolmen trained as public safety officers, and it is quite possible that in a few years the patrolman position will wash out."
He said the training for public safety officers would be offered to all patrolmen on a volunteer basis.
"Upon completion of the training," Watson said, "they would be eligible for the higher salary just as any other public safety officer. I believe that this will have a positive effect on both divisions and will eliminate the widespread differential which exists at the present time."
The increase in the police and fire department alone will cost the city $38,693 this year. The raise for other city employees will cost $34,034. The beginning monthly salary for patrolmen will rise from $481 to $505 and the top salary from $616 to $647.
Under the old system, firemen ranged below patrolmen. Under the new system, they will
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have the same salary. Earlier, the salary for beginning firemen was $548, for top firemen it was $587.
The salary range for the fire captain used to be $587-$750 and will now be $647-$827.
The only persons not included in the raise are the police and fire superintendents.
The cost of dining out also can be reasonable. London's myriad Indian restaurants offer a huge plate of rice pilau and curry for about 10 shillings ($1.20). For those who shrink from hot, spicy dishes, Italian bistros usually are good, inexpensive and at almost every corner.
The old fish and chips shops (French fried fish and potatoes wrapped in vinegar-sealed newspaper) practically have disappeared. Now the meccas of gather around the soapboxes at
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A citizens group which generally supports U.S. policy in Southeast Asia told President Nixon Thursday that the greatest threat to South Vietnam and American forces there now comes through Cambodia and Laos.
Citizen's group supports Nixon's Vietnam policies
A delegation of the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam told Nixon in a 45-minute White House meeting that the level of North Vietnamese activity in those two countries should be considered in ordering further U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam.
cheap food are pubs—sausages and pork pies for pennies—and the chain of Wimpy Bars—hamburgers for two bob (24 cents). Be ready, though, for the slight difference in taste between English and American beef.
They also said they told Nixon that the decisive struggle for Vietnam is taking place in the arena of American public opinion.
The pub is one of England's great institutions, a place where people go to meet people. A stranger may sit down at your table and buy you a drink. You'll be expected to buy the next round. Closing time: 11 p.m.
The committee, formed under the auspices of former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which usually takes a hardline view of Southeast Asian developments. Three members headed by Dean Edmund A. Gullion of the Tufts University law school, returned last month from a tour of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
East London is full of pubs which barely have changed for a century. Dirty Dick's, where butchers and fishermen gather for an after-work pint, has wooden tables, exposed beams and a fat, friendly bartender.
On the southeastern Thames, the lively Prospect of Whitby, famous for dockworker brawls, has beer kegs for tables and an ancient slot machine. At night it is shoulder-tight with fishermen and young tourists trading pints and drinking in songs.
In West London, there are a variety of pubs on King's Road and Brompton Road which cater to young people and where singles, male and female, feel welcome. Off Hyde Park Corner there's the happily ghost ridden Grenadier, Finches, on Fulham
Road, where beer is spilled on a sawdust-strewn floor, is a popular haunt of revolutionaries and hippies.
For the more conservative, The Hereford Arms nearby has a carpet and a clientele of law and medical students.
Discotheques, open until z or 3 a.m., generally are expensive, but your passport can get you into most at halfprice, usually about 10 shillings ($1.20). Try to do your drinking beforehand, as drinks usually are double at discotheques.
If you can splurge, sample the food and atmosphere at The Elizabethan Room, Kensington Gore Hotel. Its banquet room boasts long oak tables, a roaring fire and minstrels. For a flat five pounds ($12) you devour a great leg of lamb or slab of beef with your fingers, toast fellow dinners with mead and claret, sing lusty 16th century ballads, and are served by "wenches" in low-cut frocks.
Two of London's swinging nightspots are The Roundhouse, an avant garde theater, and The Marquee, a pop club where the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix got their start. The Roundhouse, a converted barn, offers Jean Genet plays, living theater happenings and pop concerts.
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