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The South's Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Tuesday Evening, March 5, 1968

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Vol. L1X, No. 112

Senior Men Face
Early Physicals

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ROBERT F. BRANDT
Graduating senior men whose
local draft boards are in KenBy

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Students

Bogota-Boun- d

Students planning to participate in the YMCA's
South American project met Monday night to
discuss plans. The group, along with others, will
work in a farming community outside of Bogota,
Colombia. Anthony Scorsone, an international student from Italy, will be the project leader. Beth
Novingcr, Jane Tomlin and Greg Dougherty are

the other students planning to participate. The

work will include agricultural assistance, educational services, health services through a local
medical center and recreational programs. Applications for the summer project are available
in room 204 of the Student Center.

Berea Prof, Congressional Hopeful,
Criticizes LBJ, War, The Draft
By S. WAYNE SMITH
"The war at home" and the
one in Vietnam are the two

most crucial issues of upcoming
elections, according to J. Donald Graham, a sixth district
candidate for a seat in the U.S.
Congress.
Mr. Graham,
an assistant
professor of philosophy and religion at Uerea College, presented some of his political
views during a session of the
Law School Forum Monday afternoon.
He says he is undecided
whether to run as a Democrat
or independent.
"I'm not an avid supporter of
Johnson, he admitted.
He said U.S. policy in Vietnam is misguided. "I believe it
is misguided because we are
using the Vietnamese people as
an excuse to contain
Red

China."
Returning to the draft, Prof.
Graham said "I will try in the
next few weeks to come out
with a more definite stand, but

I think I'll be on the side of a
volunteer army."
Changing the subject, he observed "the Russians have found
that Communism doesn't work
. . Communism
.
is a political
heresy," but "I want the people
to fear the bomb more than
Communism."
"Here we are: playing nuclear roulette
If we ever
get into a situation where one
side can't back out with honor,
we've had it."
About "the war at home," he
contended "we're trying to
pacify the people of Vietnam
while we're not even able to
pacify the people of some of our
major cities."
Although Mr. Graham made
no precise policy stand concerning urban unrest, he observed that the problem is becoming increasingly critical. "In
my mind, the racial problem
should get top priority over our
Vietnam involvement."
The people of Vietnam do
not support the American pres

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ence, he claimed. "When the
Vietcong invade our embassy in
broad daylight, somebody is collaborating with the enemy."
"My argument is not with
Westmoreland and the boys because they're not elected. My
argument is with Lyndon John-so-

n.

He said a military victory in
Vietnam is impossible because
"the Russians are not going to
let us win in Vietnam."
Mr. Graham says he favors an
immediate effort at negotiation
with a complete halt to the
bombing of North Vietnam.
Of the present draft system,
he remarked, "There must be
a complete revision of the draft
law
it is not democratic."
"Now, how many young men
don't want to serve their country? Not many," He said, claiming that to serve one's country
does not always imply military
service. Social work and other
jobs of service roles, the professor said, should be rewarded
with military exemption.

tucky can expect to be called for
their
physical either in April or May.
Billie Corbin, manpower officer at state headquarters of the
Selective Service System in
Frankfort, said the action to
examine college seniors earlier
than usual is due to a "low manpower pool" in the state.
"Due to the large numbers involved, we will examine as many
graduating seniors as possible
in April," she said. "However,
we expect to have to postpone
some examinations until May."
Students in their fourth year
of school, but who are not graduating, will not be affected by
the action. However, Miss Corbin said their local boards "will
probably reclassify them."
The reason for the early draft
is to make graduates available
for induction in June and July.
These students will be given the
required 10 days notice prior to
induction.
Selective Service headquarters said the early physical
should benefit the student "in
that he will know whether he
will be eligible for military service under current standards of
d
acceptability which are
by the Department of
Defense. This will enable him
to firm up his future plans."
A registrant may request a
transfer from his local board
for physical examination when
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it would be a hardship to report to his parent local lxard.

Students wishing to do this
should contact the nearest local
board.
Students who do transfer will
probably have their examinations delayed until May, Miss
Corbin said.
The April examination was
chosen because it "will cause
least interruption to the student's normal routine." Miss
Corbin said early examinations
had been tried before, but
hadn't been successful because
students either were in the process of graduation or taking finals.
April examinations should alleviate the problem, she said.
The action came from a meeting held at Kentucky State College March 1 between representatives from the Kentucky
. Selective Service System and the
Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers.
The Selective Service spokesman emphasized that the National Security Council on Feb.
17 advised it "was not essential for the maintenance of the
national health, safety and interest to provide student deferments for graduate study in
fields other than medicine, dentistry and allied medical specialties."
the
He also emphasized
council's recommendation does
affect students graduating from
college this year, as well as
those who entered their first
year of graduate school last fall.

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By SUE ANNE SALMON

The Hoard of Student Publications dispensed
with the regular order of business at its meeting
Monday night and took action to aiiologize to
the "president of Morehead State University and
the entire Morehead community."
Reason for the apology was a letter written
by Jim Stacey, graduate assistant in the UK'
English Department, and printed in the Kernel
Fonini Monday. The letter was a satirical attack
on Morehead administrators.
"The letter was in bad taste and very likely
libelous," said Dr. Gilford Blyton, chairman of
the lxard. He added its appearance in the Kernel
"demands serious action must be taken."
Members of the UK administration ajologized
to Dr. Adron Doran, president of MSU, in a
telephone call to Morehead Monday afternoon.
Hoard members drew up a statement ofaixjlogy
to appear in today's issue of the Kernel. The
statement was signed by Dr. Blvton and Kernel
editor Dick Kimmins. It appears on page four.
The editor accepted full resxmsibility for the
appearance of Stacey's letter. "I usually read all
the copy to be printed on the editorial paue,"
he told lxard members, "but I hail an extra
volume of work that day and did not read the
it went to press This is the first
letter
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have missed reading edit.
time
I hope it will be the last time."

Dr. Lyman Ginger, head of the board's advisory committee questioned the value of" freedom
of the press in the academic community. Digging
into the Morehead problem can't help UK," he
said.
But Kimmins noted that "the Kernel has made
every effort to give fair news coverage to the
Morehead administration. We have repeatedly
asked the administration to explain its position
in the current controversy there, but without
success. Two editorials last week asked for resixuise
from MSU to keep news coverage from being

one-sided- ."

(Several stories have appeared in recent issues
of the Kernel reporting a link Ixtween faculty
firings and a
protest movement
student-facult-

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at Morehead.)
When members of the lx)ard asked how the
publication of libelous content might be prevented, Kimmins answered: "The Kernel organization is structured to prevent such incidents,
but it simply did not function in the case of

Stacey's letter."

Dr. Blyton closed the meeting with the understanding that the faculty adviser and the editor
of the Kernel will doublecheck copy for libelous
matter in the future.
scheduled discussion of Kernel
licy was
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the usually square Complex Cafeteria. Dandelion Wine (a
hand, not a plant, baby) hips things up complete with psychedelic
music and liht show in a Friday niht dance for Complex residents and their dads.
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Jo, a junior physical educat ion
major from I'ascagoula, Miss.,
is executive officer of Kentucky
Ribes.
As commander of the Saber
Platoon, Jo plans the sequences
used hy her platoon. She explains,
"A sequence is a whole series
of moves. It includes exactly w hat
you do commands, counts and

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Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

Models who arc to be featured in the Law Wive's
Fashion show arc from left to right: Mrs. David
Denton; Mrs. Charles C. Shackelford; Mrs. John

R. McCinnis; Mrs. CcHiard O.W. Mueller; Mrs.
Robert C. Patton. Fashions for the show are
compliments of Lowenthal's, Inc.

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child," Jo says. "I
try to add moves that are feminine
but require a high degree of skill.
We are only the second coed
platoon anywhere to use sabers."
The Kentucky Babes invade
the armory at least once each
day and many times at night.
"Going through Botanical Car-den- s
at night carrying a saber
is quite effective," says Jo.
lies ides commanding the
platoon, she is busy with
other activities
of Kentucky
Babes including ushering, greeting visiting athletic teams and
seeing the Wildcats off.
Majoring in physical education, Jo plans to work with the
YWCA after graduation. She says,
"I'm particularly interested in
camping and outdoor situations.
I always enjoy spending my summers working in camps."
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have helped in figuring out sequences.
The Kentucky Babes are affiliated with the Pershing Rifles
and are sponsored by Capt. James
Channon, Army ROTC.
"The Saber Platoon is my

Law Wives Sponsor Style Show

The Student Bar Wives Auxiliary of the University will sponsor a fashion show at 8 p.m.
March 12 in the Courtroom of
the Law Building.
Models for the show will be:
Mrs. Cerhard O.W. Mueller, Mrs.
Eugene F. Mooney, Mrs. Irene
Calk, Mrs. Ann Beckett, Mrs.
Gordon D. Chavers, Mrs. Jerry

the show in the Student Lounge
of the Law School.
Tickets are $2 and may be
purchased at Lowenthal's, Inc.,
the Law School, or from any
member of the Law Wives. They
will also be available at the
door the night of the style show.
The proceeds will go to the
building fund for the Bluegrass
School for the Retarded.

L. Cox, Mrs. David Denton, Mrs.
Robert Goebel, Mrs. Wendell V.
Lyon, Jr., Mrs. John R. McCinnis,
Mrs. Robert C. Patton and Mrs.
Edward Whitfield.
Drawings will be held for
two door prizes, one a gift certificate for $50 given by the Law
Wive's and the other from Lowen-

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There will be a reception after

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Transylvania College Presents
The New York Touring Production of
Jean Racine's 'PHAEDRA"
Mike Casey's grandmother, Mrs. Henry Smith of Finchville is one
of Mike's biggest fans. She has attended every home game Mike
has played since he played for the Simpsonville Bobcats in the
seventh grade
Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 5
Haggin Auditorium
For Tickets call 252-977- 3
or 233-824- 1

GRANNY TRAVELS TO
SEE MffiE PLAY

THE KENTUCKY REVIEW

Mrs. Henry

Smith

is Mike

Casey's biggest fan. She has

faithfully followed his career from his

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high school days and has been
to most of his games, including
away games this year at. Michigan and Ceorgia. Mrs. Smith is
Casey's grandmother.
Mrs. Smith enjoys the success
which her grandson has achieved
as a star on the
team. "It just thrills jne beyond
words," says Mrs. Smith. "I always knew he'd make a good
player because his heart was in

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One of her favorite pasttimes
talking aljout Mike when he

was a boy. He used to spend
a lot of time with his grandparents on their farm in Finchville, Ky.

Even then, says Mrs. Smith,
basketball was his greatest love.
In the summer he would set up
a net in the back yard. In the
winter when it was too cold to
play outside, he would set up
a net in the barn loft and play
there.

"Mike is just an all 'round
fella," says Mrs. Smith, who has
kept a scrapbook of clippings
about Mike from the time he
began playing basketball in the
seventh grade for the Simpson-

ville Bobcats.

She also has her own personal
record of every basket, and foul
shot Mike has made.
She thinks that Mike has done
some pretty note worthy things
in his basketball career and she
is giving some serious thought
to writing about her grandson.

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Aver age Americans' React To Disorder Report

By DAVID SMOTHERS
United Tress International
"It will be accepted because
so many people are tired of the

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threat of violence."
"A lot of speeches will be
made and some promises, but
no action. There probably will
be more riots this year and then
everybody will say

north

and south. They sought

theprivate feelings of average

'it's too late.

Let's arm ourselves and kill them
before they kill us.' "
"It took 10 years or more
to get the rights bill we have
now and something like this will
probably take to the end of the
century."
"Maybe if we all got guns
and shot at each other for a few
summers it would get rid of
hatred."
some of the deep-seate- d
These were the voices of a
Negro city council member in
Oklahoma City, a white housewife in Rensselaer, N. Y., a middle class Negro in Buffalo, N.Y.,
and a white, steel mill foreman
in Rensselaer.
They are Americans trying to
red
decide what a 250
port called the report of the
President's Advisory Commission
on Civil Disorders the Kerner
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means to them

and their neighborhoods.
United Press International reporters interviewed scores of persons in cities east and west,
Americans, not the carefully fashioned statements of public
figures.
They asked what people
thought of the commission's
warning that massive action is
needed now lest the nation become a house tragically divided
between white and black; that
white racism is largely to blame
for the ghetto misery which brings
riots; that billions perhaps $32
billion a year are needed to ease
this misery; that police should
use restraint rather than all available force in facing rioters.
Trends Emcrscd

The answers received were as
diverse and contradictory
as
America. These trends emerged:

Most white persons interviewed were willing to concede
that racist prejudice and suppression have helped breed riot con-d- it
ions, although few were will

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ing to exempt Negroes from spend the billions necessary until the Vietnam war is over. Some
blame.
Many were willing to pay shrugged off the Kerner Report,
more taxes if for no other reason named for Illinois Gov. Otto Kerthan to keep the ghettos quiet; ner, who headed the Advisory
but there were strong reservations
Commission, as a political ploy
aimed at the Negro vote in an
against such commission proposelection year. Some predicted the
al as increased welfare benefits
and a guaranteed annual wage. reiwrt would be filed and forgotten until the next round of riots.
Few white persons questioned thought police powers
One of these, is Alfred D.
should be curbed; most felt they Mannani, a San Francisco
should be strengthened.
butcher, who felt the report "is
There was widespread sus- just another one of those things
picion among both wliite persons they have spent a lot of money
and Negroes that major changes putting together and will put
or sweeping legislation will not somewhere in the bottom drawresult from the Kcmer report. er."
The last consensus, if it is
Jack F. Osborne, a Nashville,
that, may be the most significant Tenn., salesman, agreed, but for
in light of the commission's inwidely different reasons. He
sistence
and called the report "a license to
on immediate
riot" and said "I think most
sweeping action.
A large number of the persons
people in the white community
from southern
have lost any faith in the fedinterviewed,
whites who damn the report as eral government and its policies
a trouble maker to ghetto Ne- . . . they distrust any report isgroes eager for change, simply sued by any governmental agendid not seem to feel that a crash cy."
With many, there was a disprogram is in the cards.
Some said the country is not tressful fear that no report, no
ready for it. Some felt the Na- governmental program, can bring
tion could not, or should not, peace to American cities.

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Newark streets like this tell a tale of what the July rioting accomplished.
has been done and now the Kerner Report calls for definite action.

Little

Antiriot Report May Just 'Gather Dust',
Cost Of Effecting Recommendation Cited
By ROY L. MCCHEE
WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he
sweeping report on last summer's
urban riots by President Johnson's antiriot commission may
(k) little more than gather dust
on congressional shelves this year
because of the high cost of carrying out its recommendations.
The panel's call for broad
new federal programs for jobs,
education, housing and welfare is
likely to meet with a minimum
response because this election
year congress is preoccupied with
the war in Vietnam and nonmili-tar- y
budget cutting.
An indication of congressional
sentiment came this weekend
from Chairman Ceorgell. Mahon
.)
of the House Appropriations Committee, who said the
commission's call for "massive"
new efforts should be accompanied by some advice on "how
we are going to get the money to
pay for them."
The Commission report said,
"The major need is to generate
new will the will to tax ourselves to the extent necessary
to meet the vital needs of the
nation." But it did not spell out
specifically when the money
should come from.
It simply said that the "great
productivity of our economy , and
a federal revenue system which
is highly resionsive to economic
growth, can provide the resources." It did not pin a price
tagon any of its proposals.
(D-Tex-

Rep. Mahon's chief chore is
parceling out tax dollars among
the myriad competing demands
for federal money. How to raise
those tax dollars is the responsibility of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills
.)
chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee.

(D-Ark-

Three Wars One Tax
President Johnson has asked
that 10 percent be added to everybody's personal income tax bill
to raise revenues for fightingthree
wars: theonein Vietnam, the poverty war at home, and the war
on inflation. So far he has not
convinced Rep. Mills' higher tax
rates will produce victory in any
of those fights.
Reps. Mahon and Mills cannot, and would not try, to thwart
the national wil . But they are
fiscal realists am their ideas of
national priorities may not parallel those of h riot commission.
On jobs, the commission said
"unemployment and underemployment are the most persistent
and serious grievances in the
Negro ghetto! They are inextricably linked to the problem of
civil disorder."
It called for creation of two
million new jobs in the next
three years: one million in the
private and one million in the
public sector. It proposed 250,000
government jobs and 300,000 private jobs for poor people this
year.

do not quarrel
for tliose jobs.
Rep. Carl D. Perkins
said his House Education and
Labor Committee stands ready
to consider, promptly, any legislative proposals stemming from
the commission's report.
He also said he was "an ardent advocate" of the principle
that government should be "the
employer of last resort" that is,
hire everyone private industry
would not or could not employ.
But the commission ran into
a stumbling block in the person
of Mills on the question of how
to make many of these persons
employable, its two key proposals
involve changes in the tax laws:
one to allow tax credits to employers for the extra cost oftrain-in- g
hard-cor- e
unemployed, the
other to provide tax incentives
for investment in rural areas, to
offer the rural poor an alternative
to moving to the city when their
agriculture jobs run out.
The extent of the stumbling
block: already stacked up before
the Ways and Means Committee,
and apparently scheduled for action before any new proposals,
are medicaid and welfare program revisions, renegotiation legislation, the travel tax, inijoit
and export bills and tariff rates.
Mind On Economy
The list does not even include
the 10 percent surtax on incomes.
The commission's projxjsuls
for revision of the welfare system
Lawmakers

with the need

(D-Ky- .)

also will have tough sledding
in any economy minded congress.
The commission recommended
uniform national standards for
welfare aid of at least $3,335 a
year for a family of four. Also,
it said, the federal government
should bear at least 90 percent
of the costs.
Some of the commission's "vital" recommendations may not
cost anything, but still be difficult
to get through congress. It proposed, for example, "elimination
of racial discrimination" in all
scltools by "vigorous" enforcement of laws denying federal
aid to segregated school systems.
Such enforcement would not add
to the tax burden.
Neither would it cost any
money to put in effect the key
housing pro(X)sal to "enact a
comprehensive and enforceable
federal open housing law to cover
the sale and rental of all housing, including single family

homes."

But another proxjsal, to expand the rent supplement program and increase subsidies and
provide
low-co-

interest-fre-

e

loans

for

housing, undoubtedly
would add millions to the federal
budget.
Some commission members
are pessimistic that congress will
react with the urgency they feci
required. One congressional member of the commission observed:
"I have no firm belief we will
accomplish our ends immediate- -

iy."

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Ronald M. Green, a Harvard
graduate student, spoke for some:
"Perhaps we'll get some results

five years from now after five
more bloody summers."
If these people are wrong and
the hopes of the Kerner Report
become fact, the tax payers will
feel it. If, as it has been speculated, the commission's proposals
would cost as much annually
as the Vietnam war, there are
many who believe the war should
be disposed of before war on
slums squalor is declared.

Cuts in foreign aid, spending slashes in other areas, and
efficient, honest administration
were other suggested alternatives
to a tax increase. And of those
who reluctantly recognized the
probability of paying more taxes,
many objected to subsidizing a
guaranteed annual wage or fatter
welfare checks.
Sandra Bryant Richardson, a
Louisville, Ky., teacher, took her
stand in crisp fashion: "I think
a minimum salary is ridiculous

and absurd."
John Bardsley, a retired Navy
chief living in Washington, said,
"Those honestly deserving welfare are more than entitled to
it, for their misfortune must be

shared by us as Americans. But
I don't approve of handing out
welfare checks to women who
have illegitimate children, knowing the government will pay and
pay for each new child."
It is perhaps surprising that
so many of those interviewed
did not argue much with the
commission's charge that white
racism created the climate in
which riots fester. Most, including Negroes, refused to place as
much blame on white failings
as did the commission, but they
'
tended to grant the main point.
Not all, of course, strong exception was taken by such as
Raymond Jones, an auto dealer
in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"I think the white community
is so fed up with the federal
government telling us we are responsible that we are dulled to
such things as the report. We
certainly aren't ready to spend
billions of dollars to help people
who in most cases won't even
grab their own bootstraps."
But San Francisco Bank Courier Kirk McManus said, "I as
a white hate to say whites have
caused a part of it, but 1 don't
think we can escape that fact."
A Secane, Pa., housewife, Mrs.
Edith McFall, also spoke for
the majority:
"Every society has its lower
levels and either consciously or
unconsciously the upper levels
conspire to keep tliis level down.
But the Negro community cannot
remain blameless. If you don't
strive to get out of the slums,
that's the easy way."
Altltough white ersons such
as these were willing to buy
at least part of the Kerner
indict mentof white racism,
most refused to swallow the commission's sour view of the force-fi- d
tactics police have employed
against rioters.
"Once people start a riot they
become savages and should be
treated like savages," Mrs.
McFall said. "The answer is to
prevent them from becoming savages, to remedy conditions that
tend to make them savages."
s
These are the opinions of
for the most part, have
wlto,
taken the trouble to find out a
little of what is in the Kerner
Rexrt and to do some thinking
about it. There were a numb.r
of others questioned who did not
meet such qualifications.
"Who's got time to readthese
days?" a New York bank worker