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The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 1

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ORfENT HHBIBHBMMHBIi President fa revolt within own party Now fhaf real Talk on all TV networks By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr. New York Times A I President Nixon, has moved on a variety of fronts to repair his lines of communication with the campuses amid fresh evidence of revolt against his policies within the administration and among his academic advisers. Working with visible urgency, Nixon promised, in an 80 minute conference with the. presidents of 8 major universities, that he wo'uld henceforth restrain hostile comments about students, from high administration offl- rials, including Vice-President' To discuss crisis He also summoned the governors of all 50 states to meet NEW YORK (AP) Spokesmen the three major networks say President.

Nixon's news conference will be carried live tonight on both radio and television beginning at 9 pm (Salina time). NX here Monday and ordered 'his speech writers to prepare material on the student crisis for his news conference at 9 pm Friday, At the same however, it was learned that Arthur Klebanoff, principal aide to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, counselor to the President, had decided to NX resign. The director of the Health, Education and Welfare department's student liaison staff, Anthony J. Moffett, announced his resignation Friday. It also was learned a group of prominent Harvard professors would confer with Dr.

Henry A. Kissinger, the President's adviser on national security affairs, arid announce publicly i break with the administration's policies.in Southeast Asia. Until Nixon's decision last week to broaden the war into Cambodia, members of group which includes Adam Yarmolinsky, George Kistakow- sky, Richard Neustadt, Edwin. 0. Reischauer and Francis Bator, among others had conferred frequently and anonymously with officials here and agreed to keep silent on policy differences.

According to Bator, 'however, the Cambodian decision had SALINA THE HOME EDITION 99th YEAR No. 128 pushed the administration's Southeast Asia policy "beyond- the pale" 'and persuaded them to adopt a stance of open opposition. Nixon dispatched an aide, John C. Whitaker, to confer with Sec-, retary of the Interior Waiter J. Hickel, who accused the White House (Thursday of insensitivity KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970 22 Pages Student at Kanopolis lake to the problems of youth, and ejcpressed dismay at the recent speeches of Vice President Agnew.

Interior department sources reported nickel's office was deluged with telephone calls, tele- grams'and memoranda from Interior department employes sup- porting the secretary's position. These and other expressions of frustration with the administration's foreign and' domestic policies contributed to an atmosphere of gloom at the White House an atmosphere hardly improved by "the prospects of Continued to Page 2 NX- Dear Sal: Someone said they heard the President humming, "Who can I turn to when nobody loves me?" Yours, Ina -NX sidelights CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) Police Chief Dallas Bias says he has directed his officers "in any event where the flag is being torn up or burned in their presence that they are to risk their lives and the lives of others to rescue the flag and to retain its honor." He said he expects his men to shoot "if their life is in danger while attempting to rescue the flag." SCHENECTADY, N.Y. '(AP) Eight housewives, who say they don't want to join a plan a quiet candlelight vigil Mother's Day to protest killing, whether in Indochina or on college campuses.

"It's just a small, gentle protest," explained Mrs. James McGary, 47, in whose kitchen the idea for the vigil was evolved after 4 Kent State university students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina's top military officer says an "unreasonable, emo-. tional wave of anti-Guard sentiment" has resulted from the slaying of 4 students at Kent State university in Ohio by National Guardsmen.

The officer said it should be remembered about 200,000 National have been called out In the past 2 years throughout the nation because of civil disturbances and "there hasn't been a single incident to blot the performance of these men." MIAMI (AP) Thousands of Cuban university students paraded through, downtown Havana streets Thursday "in homage to the 4 North American students murdered during in Kent, Ohio, and in protest of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia," the Cuban Radio reported BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) As former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz was predicting greater turmoil in education and government in a speech Thursday night, police were using tear gas on dissident college students across the street. A few hours later, Buffalo State college was ordered closed for the semester.

PITTSBURG, Kas. (AP) Someone stenciled an extra 3-Ietter word on many of the stop signs which control traffic at street intersections in Plttsburg. The word is The.bo- dy of a inan identified'as Pvt. Donald E. Johnson, 20, Ft.

Riley, was recovered at 7. am Friday in Kanopolis lake. 'P'Vt. Johnsoh drowned Thursday Charles Zavesky, -Ellsworth county sheriff, said Johnson was among 3 men aad 3 women swimming in the East: Shore area. Zavesky said that just before twilight, Pvt.

Johnson, swimming with one of the women, shouted, threw up his arms, and sank. They were unable to save him and called for help. High-winds and waves hamp- pered emergency crews which searched the area until 3 am Friday. The body was found as the search resumed shortly after daylight. Pvt.

Johnson's home was Athens, Ala. Zavesky said others in the party were 2 servicemen from Riley and Liz Taylor, 220 W. Minneapolis; Mrs. Rex Eshelman, 61o S. 10th, and Marilyn Diedrich, 103 N.

Ohio, all of Salina. It was 'the second fatality in 2 days at the reservoir. Wednesday, Richard Burke, 18, Williston, N. a MdPherson col- died when the car in which he was ridifig went out of control in the Venango state park area. ieduiing choices for students at KU A hug from Pat Linda Light, 25, Buena Park, is greeted at White House by Mrs.

Pat Nixon for launching of Hope Chest appeal of National Multiple Sclerosis society. Mrs. Nixon is honorary chairman. Linda, former Miss Kansas from Topeka and runnerup in Miss Universe Pageant of 1962, has the disease and is cover girl for campaign. (UPI Photo) LAWRENCE, Kan.

(AP)--The executive committee of the University of Kansas Senate recommended today that classes continue on a regular basis but that each student be given an opportunity to choose on a class- by-class basis whether he completes the semester or elects one of four alternatives. Chancellor 'E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said the proposal would be presented to in a convocation at 2 p.m. in Memorial Stadium.

He-said if the students approve, the plan will go into effect. Chalmers said discussion groups and workshops would be held' simultaneously next week with regular classes. Can choose Under the proposal, students who choose to participate in discussion groups and workshops rather than complete the semester in the usual way could Dangerous turban taken off the market A turban for holding women's hair in place has been removed from the shelves of Salina stores after the Federal Trade commission said the material is "dangerously flammable." The product is "Lu Wane Magic Turban" manufactured by Lu Wane Products Wayne, N. J. It was sold locally by the Woolworth and Woolco stores and by Gibson's Discount Center.

Both Gibson and the F. W. Woolworth Co. have notified the FTC "they have taken the turban off sale. The product is made of a treated self-adhering fabric which is wrapped around the hair, covering the cars and part of the temples and upper neck' as well as the head.

A FTC news release said the commission made the announcement "in order to use all possible means of notifying persons who have the 'Lu Wane Magic Turban' of the dangerously flammable nature of the fabric used in that-product," elect one of these alternatives: --Credit or. no credit on the basis of work accomplished. --Letter grade on the basis of work accomplished through May 10. --Letter grade or credit or no credit based on work accomplished to date and performance on final exam at regularly scheduled time without class, attendance during the week of May 11-16. --Acceptance of an incomplete, i course to be completed at a later date mutually agreeable to the student and the instructor the limit prescribed by university regulation.

Dr. John McNown, professor of engineering and a member, of the executive committee, was asked, what would happen if a majority of. the students disapprove the proposal. "We would be right where we were," McNown said. The action followed on the heels of protests, rallies and calls for student strikes on campuses across the nation over the issues of war and the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University.

Regular classes are scheduled to end May 15 at KU with final exams the following two weeks. A confrontation at KU up early today when a large force of police and highway pa- Continued to Page 2 Northwest Orient Airlines, you've come a long, long way, Baby! That tiny, tiny plane you see under the tail of the big, big Northwest Airlines' new Boeing 747 at Salina's Municipal airport is a 1927 Waco. An open-cockpit the Waco was the type Northwest-- then 'named Northwest Airways-- used in 1927 to carry U.S, mail, and that's how the airline got its' start. The one you see in the photograph above is owned by Daniel Neuman 24, Seattle, Wash. Dan is a 1st officer and copilot on a Northwest Boeing 707.

His' father, Dan Minneapolis, also is a. Northwest pilot who just this week got checked out here to fly the new 747.. Dan bought the Waco about 4 years ago and has flown it some 200 hours and 20,000 miles. It took him 5 hours and -5 minutes to fly to Salina from Minneapolis. It takes a 747 about an hour to make the trip.

"It's -real flying, with the wind and fresh air right against your says Dan, explaining why he likes to fly the Waco. Today's News Highlights WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has planned a televised news conference for Friday night-- the eve of an antiwar demonstration expected to attract tens of thousands of antiwar protestors to the nation's capital, Pg. Some 227 colleges and universities have been closed in the widening protest against the war in Indochina and the fatal shooting of 4 students at Kent State university, Pg. 2. SAIGON (AP) The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have battered South Vietnam's northernmost provinces with rockets and mortars in a new "high point" of attacks, Pg.

2. TEL AVIV (AP) Arab guerrillas in Lebanon have again attacked northern Israel despite a new threat of retaliation from Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Pg. 6. Bethany teach-in replaces classes LINDSBORG A featuring talks by professors, students and a man who saw the slayings at Kent State university, Ohio, replaced regular classes at Bethany college here Friday. The devoted to discussion of Cambodia, Southeast Asia in general and the violence at Kent State, was arranged by the 'college administration.

It was the third "teach-in" at Bethany. It was in Presser hall and attracted a large crowd. Among the speakers was Jim Abrams, an ex-Marine who is a.graduate student at Kent Stale. He was flown to Lindsborg through the cooperation of the Office of Lutheran Church Relations at Ohio Faculty speakers and their topics were: Prof. Gerald Shannon, head the history department, "Some Question about Cambodia and Tom SWbling, instructor in English, "Cambodia and the Language of Albert Hayes, assistant professor of sociology, "The Social Consequences of an Expanding War Situation and Chaplain Stanley Swanson, "A Collect for Students also spoke, and there were frequent discussion periods.

The teach-in was chaired by Arthur Quallo, Bsthany junior who is president, of the Student Congress. Dr. Arviu Hayn, college president, said: "I am pleased to see Uie Bethany students take what I consider a most intelligent approach to the national and international concerns, and feel today's pro. gram as scheduled certainly is in accord with the goals and objectives of learning at this Tulip-sniffing time Kris Wilcox, Ohio, couldn't care less about campus violence. To her, warm wenther and Spring spell new experiences, including fragrant Photo).

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