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Kernel endorses the proposed
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WASHINGTON President Johnson called his Asian trip highly
successful today and said the nations at the Manila conference
agreed "to walk the last mile" in the search for peace.
The President assessed the
trip at a news conference a day East Room for the televised news
after announcing he will undergo conference Johnson told reportsurgery in about a week on his ers that he sees no reason why
throat and abdomen. During the the Tuesday election should
conference he termed the surgery greatly affect any North Vietnot "something to make a show nam decision on continuing the
war.
over."
He said however there could
Johnson said at no time had
his doctors advised him not to be a change of 40 or 50 seats
make the 31,500-mil- e
trip over- in the House without drastically
seas, or to ease up during the affecting the government's programs.
journey.
He said he was not a good
He said the best indication
of his physical condition excludjudge of what the Communist
ing the throat disorder and the reaction to the result of the coming congressional election will be.
repair work needed on the abdomen, was that he made the Suggestions in Washington have
trip, he didn't get weary and he opined that an administration
setback could encourage the
got plenty of rest throughout.
Communists.
Assembled in the White House
"The President is not a candidate in this election," he said.
Johnson said he did not see how
the election could change the
government's policies.
He also said he hopes the
Communists do not make any
miscalculations.
"I have every reason to beFor the, lieve they would like to see the
PHILADELPHIA
first time in its
history fighting stop," Johnson said
Cirard College will have to ad- when asked about the Soviet
mit Negroes.
Leaders' views on Vietnam.
U.S. District Judge Joseph
"Until we can reason this
S. Lord ordered the school for
out we must maintain the strength
orphans to admit seven Negro to defend our men," he added.
boys. To allow for appeals Judge
Johnson said that Cen.
Lord granted a stay of his order William C. Westmoreland, the
until Nov. 16, but the school must commander in Vietnam, made it
start
procedures clear additional manpower will
now.
be needed in Vietnam.
Colonial merchant prince,
"If more troops are needed
Stephen Girard who founded the they will be sent," he said.
school, restricted attendance to
"poor, white male orphans." Because of this "white" clause, the
school has been the scene of
picketing and rallies by the local
NAACP chapter for the last 12

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Kernel Photo by Bill Gross

Winter Scene
The Weather Bureau calls for warmer weather
this weekend and that should spell the end
of the season's first and the earliest in 50'
years -s- nowfall. But the 7.5 inches of snow
on the ground still is causing trouble as
the workmen from Spectro Magnetic Company can attest. They delivered a large
magnet, top photo, to the Chemistry-Physic- s
Building yesterday for use with the
Van De Graff Accelerator. A tree near the
King Library also felt the weight of the
snow -l- iterally as it's bent nearly to the:
ground. Another picture is on page eight.

Boycott Hasn't Hurt Business,
Chain Store Managers Report

Checks with three chain sua "very untnie picture" of the
permarkets in Lexington today situation.
decided previously in Cirard': indicated that the food price
White was referring to reports
favor by the state Supreme Court boycott has not substantially afthat many of the independent
Lord's decision en- fected trade at these stores.
Judge
Laurence White, manager of stores patronized by the
joined the tmstees from barring
as much as
admission to the school on an Albers store on Southland a "20 had enjoyed
percent increase in sales
Drive, said it has had "very
grounds of race.
In another racial development little if any effect on us." He over the weekend."
Mrs. T. S. Budzinski, leader
Thursday, Dr, Martin Luther called the boycotters' comments
King urged an overhaul of selective service exemption procedures 1
to correct the "disproportionate
number of Negroes in Vietnam." !
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At a news conference at the
-University of Pittsburgh, Dr.
King said about 40 percent of
the combat troops in Vietnam
are Negroes and only about 10
percent of this nation's population is Negro.
He said Negroes are drafted
because they do not have sufficient education to gain an exemption or cannot afford to attend college.
"It seems to me this is totally
unfair. There has to be some
changes in the exemptions. We've
got to restudy and revise the
the draft," Dr. King said.
MRS. BUDZINSKI SIGNS UP A SHOPPER
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of the price rebellion here, told
the Kernel she had paid a "courtesy call" on one A&P store,
but was not given any indication of price changes planned
because of the boycott.
Thomas Todd, manager of
Krogers on High Street had not
"noticed any difference." Harold
Carter, manager of the Eastland
Winn Dixie supermarket, said he
had not yet seen any boycotters
and that his sales remained unchanged.
Winn Dixie Stores closed a

batman customer contest Thursday night, and Kroger stores
will soon end a bingo contest.
Managers at both stores said
the "gimmicks" are meeting a
regularly scheduled closing and
are not related to housewives'
demands to discontinue them
to lower prices.

Shopper's Choice, a
endorsed by boycotters
because it uses no sales gimmicks, has enjoyed a slight increase in business, according to
nuiwiKer Ed Unville.
super-maik-

He said the increase came
last weekend, but that he had
no idea what to expect this weekend, especially due to the weather.

Petitioning in front of the
chain stores was cancelled Thursday due to the weather, but
Mrs. Budzinski said shoppers
would be enlisting such support
today and Saturday. To date,
she said, the boycott includes
"thousands" of Lexington shoppers.

The housewives have carried
their campaign to unions and
other persuasive organizations.
In a speech to the Lexington
Union of Operating Engineers,

Mrs. Budzinski said, "The grocery business has traditionally
yielded alxmt one percent profit
tor many, many years. The pres-

ident of the National Association of Food Chains told a news
conference
that fotd chains
make an average profit of 1.3
percent.' To me, this means,
they have increased tluir p. fits
by

one-third-

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* "We CanH Let Anything Spoil The Sacred

Aii Endorsement
One of Kentucky's most important issues of the century perhaps
the most important will he settled hy voters in the general election Tuesday. In deciding whether
or not to accept the proposed new
constitution, voters will determine
the future of the Commonwealth.
The state's existing constitution
y
was written in
days when the problems facing government were drastically different
from those of today. The 1891 document is restrictive and undoubtedly
has hampered Kentucky's progress
in the 20th century.
The proposed constitution, on
the other hand, is a flexible document establishing the basic framework of state government. It deals
with the fundamentals of government omitting details which probably would become outdated in
several years due to our
society.
Admittedly, there is considerable opposition to the revision. But
we think most of this opposition
is based on selfish political interests and distortions of the truth.
Many persons obviously are opposing the charter for political reasons.
Many other opponents of the revision have been brainwashed with
misleading and false information.
horse-and-hugg-

vision represents a significant improvement over the existing constitution, and, if passed, will indeed
modernize and improve Kentucky's
government.

The proposed

charter makes

major advancements at nearly every
level of state government. Perhaps
the most controversial section of
the revision relates to local government. Critics of the charter contend local units will lose their
autonomy if the document is approved. This is somewhat ironic in
that cities and counties presently

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This is not to say we believe
the new constitution is a flawless
and ideal document. Naturally, we
are not satisfied with all sections.'
However, we do believe the re-

Dealer-Patien-

are creatures of the legislature and
can do only what the legislature
specifically empowers them to do.
Under the new charter, however,
local government will have vastly
increased powers, and local citizens will be able to establish the
form of government which best
meets their needs.
Other major areas of improvement are:
The legislature, now weak
and ineffective, will have the framework to become a tndy coordinate
branch of government. The legislature will be designated as a continuing body and will have annual
sessions.
The governor and other statewide officials will be able to succeed themselves for one term in
office. This will create the op-

overhaul.
d
will receive a
A Supreme Court will be created,
and district courts will assume the
present duties of police, magistrate,
quarterly and county courts. In addition, methods of selecting judges
will be greatly improved, and all
judges will be trained in the law.
The number of elections and
consequently the expense -- will be
cut in half. The charter provides
for biennial regular elections in
years, replacingthe
present system of annual elections.
Three extremely significant
provisions are added to the Bill
of Rights: the right to waive prelong-neede-

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even-number-

trial indictment;

prohibitions

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Letter To The Editor

mil KEA

Seek Power?

the Editor of the Kernel:
Your editorial "A Political Divorce" indicates that you don't
understand the significance of the
provision in the proposed new constitution that calls for an elected
state board of education, which
would elect the superintendent of
public instruction.
To

against wire tapping and electronic
listening devices, and prohibitions
against the imprisonment of material witnesses in criminal proceed-

Far from removing politics from
the state's educational system, the
change in fact would virtually insure control of the Department of
ings.
Education by the Kentucky EducaThe revision will make it
tion Association.
easier to amend or revise the
The provision was inserted by
state's constitution, and will not
the Constitution Revision Assembly
permit a new constitution to go because
lobbyists for KEA flatly
into effect without the people votsaid they would not support the
ing on the acutal document. Under new constitution unless their dethe existing constitution, voters mand was met.
must approve the calling of a conThe reason for KEA's fight for
stitutional convention, but there is this
change is based on Kentucky
no provision requiring the work of
Revised Statute 156.030. Prior to
the convention to be approved by 1962
this statute provided that the
the people.
of public instrucThese are only a few of the superintendent
tion would be chairman of the
changes which will be effected if board of education. In 1962, the stathe proposed new charter is actute was amended, effective Jan.
cepted Tuesday. These and other 6, 1964, to
provide that "The Hoard
changes will provide the Commonshall elect a chairman from among
wealth with a framework for proits members at its first regular
gressive government.
meeting in each fiscal year."
We encourage all Kentucky votRefore the amendment, the supers to support the revised constitution. We hope voters will approve erintendent of public instruction
the document overwhelmingly, for had sole control over the agenda
at meetings of the board. A common
it represents an opportunity we canIf the docunot afford to reject.
complaint of board members was
that they were only rubber-stamp- s
ment is approved, the Commonwealth will have a far better future. for the superintendent of public
instruction.

The amendment abruptly transferred control of the board of education to the members of the board
The South' a Outstanding College Daily
and the consequences of this adUmvi hsitv of Ki:n H'c ky
ministrative change were astoundm
KMAHUSIIKI)
FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 19G6
ing: the "runaway" board ordered
Waiikii M. Chant,
school districts to shape up, to obey
Ti.iu.M k Hum, Executive Editor
Cist: Clams, Managing Editor state laws, to integrate their schools
Judy Ohisiiam, Associate Editor
Fhank Hhowninc, Associate Editor and faculities, else the board would
Iojin Zui, Associate Editor
Vmu Sihaw, Sports Editor
cut off their minimum foundation

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allotment.
It would be an understatement

to say that this show of independence by the board of education
alarmed school administrators
throughout the Commonwealth.
It was obvious to the educators
that they were effectively frozen out
of control over the policies of the
Department of Education, for existing law forbids appointment of
an educator to the state board of
education. (Rut this didn't prevent
KAE from persuading Gov. Rreat-hi- tt
to appoint Walter Jetton, a
retired school principal from
to the board).
Obviously, the only way KEA
can come in from the cold is to
have membership on the board
opened to professional educators.
Should the new constitution pass,
KEA will ask the legislature to provide that one member shall be elected from each congressional district.
It will take a considerable
of money to mount a camin an area this large, pospaign
sibly as much as it costs a candidate to run for U.S. Congress.
Pa-duca- h,

Considering the possibility that
such a race will generate as much
excitement as the current races for
Railroad Commissioner do, and
adding the obvious benefits that
will accrue to KEA by having
their hand-picke- d
men on the board
of education, I think it is reasonable to say that should the new
constitution be approved, control of
our public school system will be
vested in the professional educator.
Personally, I would not favor
putting a group of bankers in control of our banking division, or a
group of insurance men in control
of the Department of Insurance, or
a group of
in control
of our new public schools. The invitation to a conflict of interests
is apparent. I would rather wait
a few more years for a new constitution than to approve of this
grab for power by KEA.
Jim Hudson
stock-broke-

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Third-yea- r

law student

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. I'iicLi. Nov.

Negroes Seek Way Out

By PRISCELLA DREIIER
Kernel Staff Writer
There is a profound despair
among people in the black ghettos and they doubt that anything is likely to happen in the
future that will significantly
change their lives.
This dispair is part of a way
of life for 22 million Negro Americans and it was to this point
that William Stringfellow, a New
York

Perspective On The News
here last weekend

state's human rights conference.
Stringfellow, had just returned from an extended stay
in Chicago which he calls the
most racist city in the county.
He over and over again stressed
the sense of hopelessness in the
urban ghettos.
The impact of ghettoization
attorney, addressed himself

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is just as dehumanizing for the
whites, StrinRfellow said, and
this fact must be realized.
A white child going to school
in a white ghetto school is just
as deprived as a Negro child in
the same situation because his
education is not showing him
how to live in an interracial
society. "How many white kids,"
said Stringfellow, "reading the
present high school textbooks
know 20,000 Negros fought side
by side with Washington in the
Revolutionary War, or 200,000
Negroes fought in the Union
Army." How many know that it
was a Negro doctor who discovered the use of blood plasma,
or that the first settler in Chicago was a Negro. The white child
is not aware of the enormous
contributions of Negro Americans
because his history text usually
only devotes a page to 20 percent
of the population, mentions
George Washington Carver and
a baseball hero, and ends there.
What we confront is an era
in which black power becomes
a slogan and a provocative
challenge to a white society, only
willing to accept integration on
their terms. "And their terms
allow for the ghetto," said Stringfellow.
Stringfellow suggested that
the nation is experiencing a kind
of sickness similar to the "paralysis of conscience which struck

the Germans." Their ultimate
solution to their racial problem
was extermination. The strange
paralysis of conscience of morality of white society is known by
another name white backlash.
And he cautions, it's not impossible for what happened in
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UK Graduate Student Saw Soviets Crush A Revolution
In the
hours of Nov. 4, Laszlo
rumblMiklos was awaken by the
ing of Soviet artillery. His brother-in-lawas soon in his bedroom with the news:
"Soviet troops are entering Budapest."
Though that was ten years ago today,
Miklos still recalls the disbelief with which
he heard the news.
Dressing quickly, he half walked, half
ran, to the nearest major intersection. What
he saw was long columns of Soviet troops
marching slowly into the city.
"My Cod, all is lost," he recalls having
uttered in despair.
Today Laszlo Miklos is dn American
citizen studying for a Ph.D. in political
science at the University. But the long
years in prison, first under the Nazis and
pre-daw-

"
did not want to be
and help would come.
He says he is not bitter toward the
west anymore; that he understands now.
But a touch of bitterness does show in his
voice when he explains w hy, in his opinion,
there was no help.
"First," he says, "it was a matter of
timing. The U.S. was not ready for action.
The revolt broke out only days before the
1956 presidential election, and the world
could freeze over during an American campaign and the people wouldn't care."
Perhaps more important, he says, was
the split that had developed in the western bloc over Suez. The
attack on Egyptian bases near the
canal came early in the second week of the
Hungarian revolution. As a result, the Hungarian revolt was moved into the backseats
as far as western diplomats were concerned.

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then under the Russians, the
days during the Hungarian revolution, and a
harrowing escape to the west have all
left their mark.
And he particularly remembers standing
on that Budapest street corner in the chill
of a November dawn and seeing the revolution he had helped guide crumble at his
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The Soviet attack came at dawn-fi- rst
with a thunderous artillery barrage from the
hillside south of the Danube and then with
tanks and troops marching into the city.
At 9 a.m., four hours after the attack
began, Soviet troops stormed the parliament building and captured most of the
members of Premier Imre Nagy's government. Nagy escaped, Miklos said, to seek
refuge in the Yugoslav Embassy. He later
was imprisoned by the Russians and hanged.

Breach Of Conduct
News reports at the time said Nagy left
the embassy on a promise of safe conduct
and was then captured. However, Miklos
says that Nagy was in fact imprisoned in
the Yugoslav basement and the embassy
officials handed him over to the Soviets
directly "a definite breach of international
conduct," he says.
But before the building fell, Nagy made
a radio speech to the nation and the world
that Miklos remembers as the most dramatic moment of the revolution.
Almost with tears in his eyes, Miklos
said, he listened to the premier plea for
help from the west: "Early this morning
Soviet troops attacked the Hungarian capital with the open purpose to overthrow the
In the name of the
legal government
legally elected government, I plead to the
world . . . please help . . . The Soviets
are breaking their word."
A meaty hand chops the air as he talks
of the speech and how it was played over
and over from 5 a.m. until the station was
seized by Russian troops shortly after8a.m.
And he still is haunted by thequestion
why didn't help come?
He and his fellow countrymen were certain the west would respond to Hungary's
pleas, he explains. Through Radio Free
Europe and the Voice of America they had
been led to believe that "all we had to do

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Russians Undecided
"The Russians had been very undecided

as to what to do about Hungary until
Suez," Miklos said. "But they saw their
chance. They knew the west was not ready
to move." However, he adds, "There was no
one strong man in the Kremlin and none
of those vying for power were willing to
commit Soviet troops to combat on foreign
soil."
His voice takes on an air of what might
have been when he talks of those "ten glorious days" when the Hungarian people felt
they had finally pulled free from the Soviets
and were certain that help would come from
the western nations or the U.N. "If the
west had moved in just a division," Miklos
says, "I think the whole Soviet satellite
system would have collapsed. Poland was
ready . . . others were ready. We were
just waiting for help."
Those were days of confusion and turmoil and the passingof ten years has clouded
further the exact sequence of events in
Miklos' mind. However, from what he
remembers, he paints a sweeping picture
of a revolution that almost succeeded.
Miklos was coal mining in Komlo when
the violence in Budapest broke out in October, 1956, He had been a coal miner since
1953 when he was released from prison after
the death of Stalin.
He was jailed, he recalls, more because
of his family ties than anything else. His
of the
father, Bela Miklos,
Hungarian Army, served as interim premier
for a year and a half following the German
withdrawal.
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Tried To Restore Peace
The elder Miklos, backed by the Soviet
forces that had driven the Germans out,
spent his tenure trying to restore peace to
the war-tor- n
country. His son was made a
lieutenant general in the army because he
had attended military school prior to the

war.

Miklos remembers those days with exasperation. "I was terribly immature," he
says. "I just walked up to the Russians
and told them what I thought. I didn't

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never got up enough nerve to jail someone
Stalin had said he liked."
The next eight years were hard ones
for Miklos. He was moved from prison to
prison and often recalls wondering if that
was where he would spend the rest of his
life. Much of the time he was under a death
sentence.
But it was also a valuable period in
a way for it was in prison that he met
many of the men with whom he would
fight the Russians in 1956.
Stalin's death resulted in an overall lessening of tension in the communist
world, Miklos recalls. "The whole of East
Europe was ruled by a structure that resembled a pyramid," he says, "with all
When
power resting at the
Stalin died they told us three men would
rule. That confusion at the top was multiplied many times throughout the power
structure until there was a great deal of
confusion in the satellites," he says.
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Fear Of Stalin
"All of those people had been held
in line by the fear of Stalin but now
they felt free to talk and they found out
they also were united in their hatred of
the Russians," Miklos recalls.
The Hungarian hatred of Russians is
a historical matter, he points out. It can
be traced back to long before the comm-nist- s
seized power in Russia.
Not only did Stalin's death provide,
in Miklos' mind, the opportunity for the
revolution, it also paved the way for Miklos' release from prison. His release came
when Nagy, a family friend who had
served as minister of agriculture in his
father's provisional government, became
premier.
Miklos still was an outcast, however.

"Enemy of the people" was stamped in
all of his papers and he was told to stay
away from cultural and population centers
like Budapest. He was oneof 84 Hungarians
so described.
But he was free. Nagy had told h