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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Wednesday Evening, March 22,

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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Candidates for minor state offices in the upcoming
May primary, including Willis V. "Tobacco Bill"
Johnson, left, and James Sutherland spoke at
Tuesday night's Young Democrats meeting. Mr.

Johnson is seeking the nomination for superintendent of public instruction, and Mr. Sutherland,
a former UK trustee, is running for clerk of the
court of appeals.

Young Dems Hear Candidates
By JOHN ZEII
Kernel Associate Editor
A candidate for the nomination for state auditor promised to "take the politician's
hand out of the taxpayer's
pocket."
A representative speaking in
behalf of the woman wanting
the state treasurer's post admitted the candidate, now secretary of state, is "playing musical chairs," but condoned it because "she's qualified."
A man running for superintendent of public instruction, a
perennial candidate who has
been called a "Rube," said he
wishes he would get elected so

he could start playing musical
chairs.
to goodness
An "honest
farmer" seeking the nomination
for commissioner of agriculture
said farming is more important
than most people think.
And a county judge who has
been a University Trustee and
wants to be clerk of the court
of appeals said he has dedicated
his life to public service, but
doesn't believe in asking people

Three Dorms

ing.

to vote for him.

Doing the talking were candidates running for the Democratic nomination for minor offices in the upcoming May primary. The scene was Tuesday
night's Young Democrats meet-

Favor Hours

Experiment
The willingness of three residence halls to participate in an
experimental hours program to
begin March 27 was reported
Tuesday to the AWS Senate.
s
president Connie
then delegated a committee
to seek "final approval" for the
experiment from AWS adviser
Sandra Kemp and Associate
Dean of Students Rosemary
Pond.
Senators Jonell Tobin and
Jane Tiernan told the second
joint meeting of old and new
senators since the March 1 election that Complexes 7 and 8
and Keeneland Hall are "very
much in favor" of instituting
k
a
program of extended hours which the Senate
would later evaluate in terms of
e
operation.
Contacted about her stand
on the experiment, Miss Fond
said she is "quite willing to cooperate as long as students
not the staff take the responsibility for implementing it."
The plans will be submitted
at the next housemothers' meeting to see if any sororities wish
to undertake similar experiments.
If not, Miss Mullins said, the
residence halls alone may go
ahead March 27 through April
14. The Senate had talked of
postponing the experiment until
next fall, but both Miss Tier-naand Miss Tobin said the
d
women they spoke to
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On Page 8

The politicians spoke after
Young Dem president Charles
L. Lamar announced that the
club is bringing to campus April
13 Charles L. Weltner, the former
Georgia congressman who gave
up his seat rather than support
a segregationist for governor. He
is now head of the national
party's newly created Youth Division.
Speaking first was Mary
Louise Foust, a lawyer and certified public accountant who says
a professional auditor, specifically she, is needed in Frankfort.
She wants to make sure youth

"not saddled with burdensome
interest charges" on money borrowed by the state and other
fiscal irresponsibility. She closed
with some humor: "I asked one
man to vote for me because I
was a CPA, and he said he'd
be glad to vote for a CPA for
a change, instead of an SOB,"
she said.
Next Mrs. Francis Travis, assistant to secretary of state
Thelma S to vail described her
boss' virtues, conceding that if
she had to talk much longer she
might have to "start lying."
Having sat in the treasurer's
Miss Stovall
chair from 1959-6"
"knows how, and
is one of the most important
qualifications for retaking the
seat, she said. The candidate's
plane was grounded, somewhere,
preventing her appearance, she
told the 50 Young Denis present.
The most color fid and enthusiastic speaker was Willis V.
"Tobacco Hill" Johnson of Lancaster, who has gained a reputation as "always running for
something," and never winning
anything.

Introducing himself, he said

"I call myself a writer, actually

call myself anything." He said
he is an attorney, "but don't
practice" and a teacher, but
"not now." He holds an LL.B.
degree from the University.
If he gets elected he said he
will "improve the quality of edI

ucation" especially at the primary level by "revamping the
schools, not with new buildings
or teaching aids" which are
"gadgets, just crutches for teachers who can't teach." He promised to see that current "watered-down- "
text books are improved
and said he would recommend
to the governor, who he said he
thinks will be David Trapp, a
severance tax on natural resources shipped out of the state.
The tax would provide $82 million, he said.
Burl St. Clair, candidate for
commissioner of agriculture,
noted that he has not run before for public office, but has
been quite active in farm bureau
leadership. Asked privately how
he conceived the role of the
commissioner of agriculture as a
Trustee of the University, he
said he is now not familiar with
UK's problems and needs. "I
Continued On

President Johnson led an exhausted team of
WASHINGTON
senior government officials back from Guam last evening from
a conference
that they publicly celebrated as constructive but
privately described as hasty and threadbare.
The President returned to vt,rsal wearim.ss, officials said.
Washington in a heavy fog and
mt nf several of
cold mist.
the workingconferences at Guam.
After stepping off the airplane
It showed even in the apiearance
he made a brief statement outof the President and his principal
lining the seven major concerns
aides, including Secretary of
at the meeting held in Cuam. He State Dean Husk and Defense
added:
Robert S. McNamara.
"We did not adopt any Secretary
Mr. Johnson said no major
spectacular new programs at this decisions were made at the brief
meeting. The nature of this war conference. He left tlie impression
is not amendable to spectacular
that the assembly of leading
programs or easy solutions. It
on Page 3

Pagre 8

requires courage, perseverance,
and dedication. "
Mr. Johnson said that during
his flight home he learned that
Hanoi had made public an exchange of letters between himself and President Ho Chi Minh
of North Vietnam.
"His reply to me of mid- February and his earlier public
reply to His Holiness, the Pope,
were regrettable rebuffs to a gen
uine effort to move toward
peace," the President said.
"This has been the consistent attitude of Hanoi to many
efforts by us, by other governments, by groups of governments,
and by leading personalities.
Nevertheless, we shall persevere
in our efforts to And an honorable
peace; until that is achieved,
we shall continue to do our duty
in Vietnam."
The President landed in the
capital at 6:50 p.m., just 68 hours
after he left on the 15,200-mil- e
roundtrip journey. Of that time,
Mr. Johnson spent barely 30 hours
on Guam, the farthest American
territory across the Pacific
In that time, hardly any of
the dozens of American officials
in his party caught more than
a few hours of sleep.
The jet journey across a dozen
time zones and past the international date line took a heavy
toll of their energies. The uni- -

Ho Rejected
Johnson's Bid

For Conference
New York Times News Service
WASHINCTON-Preside-

Johnson had sent aletter toPresi- dent Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam in early February suggesting
"direct talks" between their two
countries on ending the war in
Vietnam.
The letter was delivered to a
North Vietnamese representative
in Moscow Feb. 8. It contained
an offer by the United States to
cease the bombing of North Vietnam and to freeze the U.S. troop
levels in South Vietnam, if North
Vietnam would give assurances
it had stopped its "infiltration into South Vietnam by land and
by sea."
The U.S. offer was rejected by
the North Vietnamese leader in
a Feb. 15 letter to Mr. Johnson.
Ho took the position that before
there could be any talks, the
U.S. must first stop its bombing
and "all other acts of war"
against North Vietnam.
The exchange of correspondence, treated until yesterday as
a tightly held diplomatic secret
Continued on Part S

MurrelL Wheeler In SG Race

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Srw York Tlmri Nfwn Service

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third slate of candidates
Government's top
two posts announced Tuesday,
one day following announcement
by two other slates.
The candidates, William
for president, and Martin
Wheeler, for vice president, are
being sponsored by the local
chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
Wheeler's candidacy may be
judged invalid even though it
corresponds with election procedures announced by the SG
rules committee Tuesday.
According to the SG constitution, a candidate for vice president must have completed at
least three full semesters as a
student, one of which
must have been at the Lexington campus.
However, the rules committee's requirements say a vice
presidential candidate "shall
have at least one full semester
as a UK student, regardless of
the campus location." Wheeler
A

for Student

Mur-rel- l,

full-tim-

has completed one full semester.
SG President Carson Porter
said that although the decision
will be that of the rules committee, he imagined that the constitution rules would take
Porter opined that the
difference between the regulations of the constitution and the
rules committee might be attri
pres-cedenc-

...

butable to a "typing error in the
office."
Murrell, a sophomore physics
major from Covington, is secretary of the UK chapter of SDS,
a member of the President's
Council of Students and coordinator of the Vietnam Forum
,

Continued On Page

WILLIAM MUItRELL

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Guam Conference Failed To Solve
South Vietnam's Pacification Woes
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American officials considered the
most pressing business of the
Guam conference was left undone at the end of the meeting.
to authoritative
According
sources, the participants never
really came to grips with the
problems of the crucial pacification program for South Vietnam.
Nor did they work out the allocation of responsibility for it

within the

Embassy in Saigon.
The program's goal is the
of local government and security in the myriad
villages and hamlets of the Vietnamese countryside. It has faltered because
of manpower

American

day, President Johnson was asked
whom Komer would work for. He
replied in part:

"He is working for me. He

assistant. He will
be working with the United States
missions there, civilian and military, and the Vietnamese governis my special

ment.

"The details of where he will
spend his time, and how he will
spend it, were not gone into."
After listening to this, one of
the ranking Americans in Saigon said: "I think the President
is holding out. I think he has
something else maybe another
appointment still to announce.
It doesn't make sense this way."
Among the unresolved questions were the following:
Who is to oversee pacificaw hile Mr. Komer is in Washington? What is to be the role
of Wade Latliram,operatingchief
of the office of civil operations?
To what degree will Mr. Komer
be authorized to control American military operations in connec-

tion

Neics Analysis
rivalproblems, military-civilia- n
ries and the depth of the Viet-con- g
penetration of the rural com-

munities.
Furthermore, the
pacification teams have been subjected to increasing enemy pressure. The White House reported
Monday that there had been 127
attacks on such teams through
March 15 of this year, compared
with only 25 in 1966.
Deputy Ambassador William
J. Porter has been responsible
for American stewardship of the
program. He has acted through
a newly created organization
called the office of civil operations, which controls the field
activities in South Vietnam of
the Agency for International Development, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Information Agency.
Mr. Porter, along with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, is
to leave his post sometime next
month. But it is still not clear,
following the frenetic 31 hour
conference here, exactly who will
replace him as pacification boss.
His successor as deputy ambassador will be Eugene M.
--

Locke, now American envoy in
Pakistan. Mr. Locke will reportedly function as the traditional
No. 2 man, relieving Ambassador-Designat- e
Ellsworth Bunker of
y
most
chores, rather
than focus on pacification.
That job at least in partis apparently to fall to Robert
W. Komer, a White House special assistant.
Mr. Komer is considered by
Americans in Saigon to be knowledgeable and energetic, but his
abrasive personality has created
some animosities. More important, it is still not clear whether
he will live in Saigon, or Washington, or both.
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assistant, began trying to unravel the situation Monday night.
But it became evident that all
were exhausted from long plane
trips and the effort was soon
abandoned as unproductive.
Mr. Komer flew to Saigon
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tion with pacification?
The phrase in Mr. Johnson's
remarks that most distressed Americans from Saigon was "working with." They suspected this
meant Mr. Komer would be a kind
of free agent, outside normal military and civil chains of command.
Be retaining Mr. Komer as a
White House aide, some of these
officials believe, the president has
in effect taken the problem into
his own office. He is known to
be dissatisfied with the speed of
the effort, and he may feel that
only White House attention will
produce results.
But the American role in pacification remains advisory in nature. It can succeed only by patient persuasion and cajolery, and
it is questionable whether this
can be done by someone who
spends a large part of his time
in Washington.
The problem will be complicated by the anticipated departure this spring of Edward G.
Lansdale, who has built an extraordinarily close relationship with
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Due Thang,
the South Vietnamese minister
responsible for pacification. When
Mr. Lansdale and his team leave,
it will be difficult for anyone
else to retain these ties.
One reason for the failure to
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Guam conference may have been
fatigue.
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Johnson, Exhausted Team Return
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Continued From Tare 1
final involved in the Vietnam
war had not even spent much
time on the basic issues of future

military tactics.
As one official remarked as
the party set out for home, "it
was a heck of a trip just to
make sure that W'esty, Hunker,
and Komer get along all right
out there."
"Westy" is the U.S. Commander in Vietnam, Cen. William C. Westmoreland.
Ellsworth Bunker and
Robert Komer, a special assistant
to the President, along with the
ambassador to Pakistan, Eugene
M. Locke, are replacing Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and
Deputy Ambassador William J.
Porter in Saigon next month.
The announcement of this
shift and the introduction of these
men to each other and to the
leaders of South Vietnam appear
to have been the original reasons
for summoning a council of war.
But the Saigon contingent
found many of the men from
Washington too exhausted for
prolonged business sessions outside the fomal meetings of the
conference. Moreover, some said
it never became entirely clear
who could talk to whom and
when. As a result, still another
meeting of many of the same
men was called for Washington
next weekend.

Ho Says No
Jo Talks JSoif
Continued From Page

by the Johnson Administration,
was first disclosed by the North

Vietnamese Foreign Ministry and
then confirmed by the State Department.
Hanoi Radio broadcast the
text of Ho's letter replying to
President Johnson, and then a
few hours later, after hurried
consultations with President
Johnson and Secretary of State
Dean Rusk in the presidential
plane over the Pacific, the State
Department made public the text
of the U.S. leader's letter.
The Johnson letter, his first
direct communication with the
North Vietnamese leader, was
designed, according to officials,
to set the stage for highly secret
negotiations, using the Lunar
New Year Truce last month as
a springboard and as diplomatic
"cover."

Perhaps because of the central problem of focus, even th5
mood of tlic assembled officials
was conveyed in varying ways
by different participants.
Over the first 21 hours, the
dominant theme in statements
to the press and private conversations was that the war is
not only going well but much
better than most had even re-

cently expected militarily, politically, economically, in almost
every way.

The President himself set this
tone by describing the moment
as a "favorable turning point"
in the war. And even the
Westmoreland offered
testimony of "great improvement."
super-cautio-

news conference

At a long

Monday Westmoreland, Husk,
McNamara, and Komer offered
some details to support their
optimism, with only a few qualifications that the war was not
yet over.
When read together with the
even rosier reports of Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky of South Viet-

nam, their testimony created the
clear impression that the Johnson Administration felt itself to
be moving down the home stretch
in the war. It created the further
impression that only the blindest
sort of stubborness could now
keep Hanoi from the bargaining
table for very long.
Yet when the President appeared at an unannounced news
conference of his own at the
close of the meeting, the emphasis suddenly swung back to
the long struggle that he still
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prove "very helpful." Hut these,
he repeated, "are not the answer
to our problems."
It appeared to be a highly
personal but also detached statement, not a lament but a deliberate effort to prevent a new
epidemic of false hope back home.
But the President, too, was
tired and he had little else to
report about the meetings. The
reporters in his audience were
exhausted and ran out of questions even before their time had
expired. It was a listless exchange.
Mr. Johnson suggested that
there had been only a broad discussion of the nonmilitary parts
of the war effort. He gave special
weight only to the political progress made in Saigon since the
Honolulu conference a year ago.

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Tickets for the annual Arts and
Sciences dinner, to be held April
4, are available for departmental
secretaries in the College, or from
Dr. Lois Campbell, Geology Department, Miller Hall, before
March 31. Checks should be made
payable to Lois Campbell. The
price of $3.25 includes the social hour, 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. at
King Alumni House, and the
dinner, 6:30 in the Student Center Ballroom.
Dr. Ernst Jokl, Distinguished
Professor for 1966-6will speak
following the dinner. He has
titled his lecture "Limitations
of Human Performance. "

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Ilcrshcy's Decision
The decision of Lt. Gen. Lewis
Hershey, Selective Service director, to accept President Johnson's proposal of a draft lottery
was disappointing for two reasons.
First, Hershey has, for years,
been opposed to the lottery, and
now suddenly has changed his mind
because "I'm an operator." He
added, "I've never played in the
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of 1968 will be entirely voluntary.
As the 1967 plates don't expire
until March 1, 1968, and as the
last numeral of the 1968 plate
determines the month in which
inspection is necessary, January
and February of next year will
be months in which the motorist
may have his automobile inspected
at his leisure. In this manner, it
would not be necessary for him
to have his car inspected during
the mandatory month.
There will be between 2,000
and 2,500 inspection stations across
the state, according to Dunlap
Elliott, director of motor vehicle
inspection, and they will check
automobiles for safety for about
$2.50. Of this amount, it is expected that 25 cents will be remitted to the state to finance supervision of the program.
Two dollars and fifty cents,
spent annually, seems a reasonable
price to pay for the peace of mind
of a safe automobile. It also brings
a feeling of relief that the dilapidated cars now on the highways
with faulty brakes, burned-ou- t
head and tail lights, cracked windshields and dangerously worn tires
may soon be on their way to either
the repair shop or the junk yard.

son's coattail, the public should
certainly demand some changes.
Hershey's decision also was unfortunate because it gave a tremendous boost to a draft system
that would be only slightly fairer
than the one with which we are
currently limping along. With a
lottery, there would still be many
who would not be required to
serve their country. True, there
could be no planned avoidance
of service as there is now, but
many would remain free while a
few would be given the task to
serve.
The answer seems to continue
to be either two years of mandatory service for all to the United
States (such as Peace Corps or
VISTA), or a voluntary national
service with a professional army,
having a pay scale high enough
to induce a sufficient number of
volunteers.

"There Seems To I5e A Certain Element
Of Chanee Already"

Letters To The Editor

Aggression

Jrc

Interest Of Human Rights

To the Editor of the Kernel:
It is shocking that the educated editor of the Kernel can be
so naive as to categorically state
that it is a crime for the U.S.
to be in Vietnam. The crime arises
from the fact that the U.S. has not

and necessarily heir to the job
to be done there.
A recent poll of the Congress
of the United States showed that
only 20 of the members favored a
withdrawal in the face of the
enemy, while the rest of the over

been physically attacked, according to the Editor. He apparently
fails to realize that the indifference
he is expressing in that statement
has already resulted in a Munich,
a Pearl Harbor and a Hungary.
The enemy of which I speak
is, in the editor's own terms, both
vicious and inhumane. They are
mounting devastating and cruel
attacks on the civilian population
of South Vietnam, preventing the
establishment of a stable,
government. The Viet-con- g
practice government by intimidation and murder. These facts
are a direct confrontation to our
principles set forth in our Constitution, and the events occurring
in Vietnam today represent a
powerful threat to our principles
now, and to our very lives if that
threat is not placed in abeyance.
It would seem that our role
there is thrust upon us by our
principles, rather than by desire
for conquest. I think history bears
me out on that point, that America represents the best possible
enemy. Can it then be stated that

200 replies expressed a determina-

America is an aggressor in Vietnam? Of course!
Our aggression is in the interest
of human rights, not only our own
which have been well preserved
for many years now, but those of
the less fortunate who fall prey to
those aggressors seeking power and
wealth, and have no means for their
own defense. We are irrevocably

tion to continue the war until the
autonomy of Southeast Asia was
assured.
It is entirely probable that the
Kernel editor would find himself
in a similar minority in any significant poll taken in the United
States. Would the Kernel editor
value his right to be wrong enough
to fight?
William Hayden Smith
Research Associate
in Chemistry

Another Parking Adventure
Editor's Note: TJiis letter was
also sent to President Oswald anil
appears in the Kernel by request
of the author.
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Enclosed is my check for $2
in payment for the violation cited
(citation also enclosed). Although
I'm sure that you are more interested in the $2 than in the
circumstances which precipitated
the misfortune it would give me
some small satisfaction to voice
my opinion of your rules of traffic
"management," your sense of
"equality" and "justice" and your
method of enforcement.
At 8:50 a.m. on March 3 I
arrived at the C parking lot east
of Rose St. (Boone Alley) enroute
to my chemistry class at 9 a.m.
I was late this morning (I usually
arrive at 7:30) because my wife
was in Central Baptist Hospital

with our
daughter who
was undergoing an operation and
I had to care for and deliver the
baby sitter for our
daughter.
I also report to work at 10:30
a.m. at the Lexington Army Depot. If I can park relatively near
the Chemistry-Physic- s
Building I
can usually get out of class and
to work on time. It was for this
reason I had purchased a $10 parking permit (?) for a C lot.
Back to the story. The mudhole
back of Boone Alley designated
as a C lot was, as could have

been expected, full.
The next observation to catch
my eye was the B lot directly
across the alley. This had been
finished for some three weeks and
easily accommodates in excess of
160 autos, is graveled and marked
off. Daily observation has failed
to reveal any time when this lot
was more than half filled.
Now mind
tax-payi-

you I am a

law-abidin-

citizen and an

obedient student (this is my first
"offense", your honor), but considering the circumstances I just
g
couldn't help making the
rationalization. Surely no one
would mind i