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VOLUME 79. NUMBER 22
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Kissinger departs
from peace talks
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
Cancer researchers win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM — The 1972 Nobel Prize for Medicine was
awarded jointly Thursday to scientists in New York and
Oxford, England, for their "breakthrough” in the
investigation of antibodies, the chemical protection in the
body that science has long hoped would hold the key to
cancer research and safe organ transplants.
The Royal Caroline Institute announced that the
prestigious award, along with a cash prize of about
$100,000. will be shared by Dr Gerald M. Edelman of
Rockefeller University in New York and Dr. Rodney R.
Porter of Oxford University.
Senate shelves anti-busing bill
PARIS — Presidential ad
viser Henry A Kissinger flew
back to Washington Thursday
after four days of secret talks
with the North Vietnamese to
report to President Nixon on
the progress of the negotia
tions — the longest on record
Kissinger’s departure coin
cided with Communist Viet
namese charges at the
weekly session of the semi-
public peace talks that the
United States was escalating
the air war and hatching a
plot to eliminate political
opponents of South Viet
namese President Nguyen
van Thieu.
WORLD NEWS
WASHINGTON - The Sen
ate Thursday shelved until
next year a tough antibusing
bill that was denied almost
certain passage when Nor
thern liberal opponents suc
ceeded for the third straight
day in preventing it from
coming to a vote.
The House-passed legisla
tion, containing stronger
curbs against pupil busing
than President Nixon had
requested, was killed for the
year after its supporters
failed for the third and final
time to invoke cloture and
stop a filibuster against it.
NATIONAL NEWS
Drug use big in New York schools
NEW YORK — Nearly half of the high school students in
the nation's largest public school system are on drugs and
in the junior high grades the percentage is 20 per cent, a
state commission on education reported Thursday.
“This heartbreaking phenomenon is spreading with
what appears to be the force of an epidemic in suburban
and rural areas as well," the commission said in a 496-page
report
Nixon eyes state desegration
ATLANTA — President
Nixon plans to send a Justice
Department official here to
determine if the government
will intervene in opposition to
school desegregation orders.
Rep Fletcher Thompson.
R-Ga.. said Thursday.
Thompson, a candidate for
the U S. Senate, met with
Nixon for about IS minutes
during the President's visit
here and the congressman
told newsmen later he urged
Nixon to intervene in the
Atlanta case.
STATE NEWS
Fulton schools ban "long-hairs"
ATLANTA — There won't be any "long-hairs" in Fulton
County schools next quarter At least, not if the Fulton
County school board can help it
The board reaffirmed a controversial hair code
Wednesday that it adopted last August The code, which
says male students cannot have hair below the shoulders,
will be implemented shortly after Thanksgiving at the
beginning of the second school quarter.
WEATHER
Mostly sunny and a little
cooler Friday and Saturday
Friday’s high in the upper
70’s Low Saturday morning
near 50. High Saturday in the
low 70's
Parts of oath
unconstitutional
Fire and brimstone
suit phot' by STEPHEN JACKSON
"And the sign spoke out its warning .” say Simon and
Garfunkle, as did the man who stood in Memorial Plaza
yesterday holding a large sign which read of God, the
Bible and warned students to "prepare to meet they
God.” The man projected his voice through a megaphone
and gestured vigorously to emphasize his message of
TICKER TAPE PARADE
Salvation and God. Small crowds of students drifted over
to hear him and discuss, sometimes rather heatedly, their
viewpoints on religion. Those manning the tables for
Nixon, McGovern, the Marine Corps and the Navy
watched enviously as they lost their audiences to God.
By MITCHELL SHIELDS
A three-judge federal panel in
Atlanta yesterday ruled in a two to
one decision that the state of Georgia
cannot enforce portions of the state
loyalty oath because they infringe on
constitutional guarantees of freedom
of association.
The ruling also described questions
16 and 17 of the state security
statement, which refer to member
ship in subversive organizations, as
as being vague and limited in scope
However the questions were allowed
to remain.
James Cornish, teaching asistant
in anthropology at the University,
refused to sign the oath and
statement and has been suspended
as a result said. "I don’t think they
went far enough There is one more
step needed, forbidding the right to
ask such questions."
Instead of striking the questions
the panel ruled that the definition of
subversive in the Sedition and
Subversive Act of 1953 to which the
questions refer was invalid. As a
result the state can no longer fire an
Georgians greet the President
ATLANTA (UPI) — An estimated
half-million Georgians gave Presi
dent Nixon a ticker tape-and-confetti
welcome to the deep South Thursday
in what wu.s probably the chief
executive's only Southern campaign
visit.
The huge crowd, lined along about
15 blocks in Atlanta's downtown
section, gave the President the
largest and warmest reception by far
in his limited campaigning for
re-election.
"This is the biggest one we’ve ever
had,” said the President as he and
Ms. Nixon reached the Regency
Hyatt Hotel after a motorcade up
famed Peachtree Street. “It was
very friendly as Atlanta crowds
always are."
Nixon then went into meetings with
Congressman Fletcher Thompson, a
candidate for the U S. Senate, and
Ben Blackburn, who is seeking
reelectin, and Rodney Cook, who is
running for the 5th District
Congressional post.
Afterwards, he was to meet with
Travel fund
extension
The deadline for student organiza
tions to request travel money has
been extended to Oct. 16, according
to David Burch. Student Senate
treasurer Requests should include
dates, number of people going, and a
breakdown of expenses Requests
should be turned in to David Burch
at the Student Government office.
southern campaign workers before
returning to Washington.
The crowd was overwhelmingly
pro-Nixon, although a few dozen
protestors greeted his arrival at the
hotel with shouts of "out of Vietnam
now" and “stop the bombing.”
A middleaged woman shouted
back, "four more years."
Nison, who arrived at Atlanta's
Hartsfield Airport in Air Force 1 to
be greeted by Democratic Mayor
Sam Massell and Republican digni
taries. actually began the motorcade
three blocks ahead of timedue to the
large crowds.
He had the top of the presidential
limousine opened so and Mrs.Nixon
could stand up before reaching the
starting point of the parade.
Maj. C. C. Hamby of the Atlanta
police, who was in charge of the
some 500 federal, state and vocal
officers who made up the security
force, estimated there were about 50
to 60.000 persons gathered in three
blocks before the presidential car
reached Peachtree and 500.000 in all.
As his car moved slowly along
Peachtree in a warm Southern sun,
Nixon got out of the vehicle to shake
hands with several persons, in the
crowd.
"Hev Richard, give 'em hell,”
shouted one middleaged man.
At another point, Mrs Juanity H
Gardner, a black teacher at Mount
Vernon elementary school, told the
President she had brought her entire
first grade class to see him.
"Thank you so much." Nixon said
Some black school children in the
crowd carried signs which, said
"America Needs Nixon” and “Nixon
No. 1, Not No. 2.”
A huge banner saying "South
Welcomes You" stretched across the
six lanes of Peachtree near the hotel
while another sign on building
described Mrs. Nixon as "Pat Our
Peach."
OD suspected
A drug overdose or reaction may have caused the death Tuesday
night of Harvey Gardner, a 23-year-old former University student,
according to police and medical reports
Gardner, a Miami native who reportedly graudated in August, was
found dead by his roommate early Wednesday morning in their South
Lumpkin St. home
"Drug intoxicatin of some kind" is suspected as the cause of death,
according to Dr James Clay, the pathologist who examined the body
"The absence of anything else" to cause Gardner to die resulted in the
state crime lab being called in to test for drug overdoses, the doctor
said.
Drug overdoses or reactions are sometimes hard to detect in routine
inspections. Clay said.
There were "no signs of foul play” connected with the death,
according to Athens Police Chief Tom McGahee
Pills, not heroin, are believed to be the killing drugs, if indeed drugs
did kill Gardner, according to the police.
Friends of Gardner said he was taking several types of drugs and
had experienced bad reactions.
McGahee said no syringe was found near the body
McGahee said an official cause of death would be announced as soon
as the slate crime lab completes an autopsy.
WUOG-FM hits air Monday;
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Davison td-switch on ceremony
By ANN HUTCHINSON
Associate feature editor
At 2 pm. Monday. Oct. 16,
President Fred Davison will throw a
switch to turn on the carrier wave
and officially sign WUOG-FM, the
campus radio station, on the air.
Members of the news media from
Athens and Alanta have been invited
to attend the opening of the station.
"We have invited quite a few
people who have helped in getting
this station aired." said Ed Dunbar,
station manager "Among these are
Dr Worth MacDougald. head of the
School of Journalism s radio-TV-film
sequence, and Charles Giddens from
WRFC Wilber Harrington and Alvin
Saylors, who have done a tremen
dous )nh with the station will also he
at the opening ceremony.”
"We want to keep the ceremony as
brief as possible." said Beau Allen,
program director. "It will probably
run abut half an hour "
WUOG. with 3.200 watts and a
range of 35-40 miles, is scheduled to
broadcast 19 and a half hours a day
Air time is from 6:30 a m to 1 a m
on weekdays and until 3 a m on
weekends
"It is possible that the station
might go 24 hours Friday and
Saturday." said Dunbar "WUOG is
licensed to go on the air 24 hours a
day We are also licensed to use
stereo and up our power' to 50,000
watts." he said
"We can do all these things, but
it's just a matter of finding qualified
people to work and gelling enough
money to use stereo and to up me
power "
WUOG offers a different format
from other existing stations in the
Athens area
According to Allen, there has been
a misunderstanding about the lormat
of WUOG "It was stated that WUOG
would be programming top 40," said
Allen "It won t be top 40 at all We
prefer to call it Contemporary
Rock The w hole operation is going
to be on low key." he said
"We won't have any fast talking,
garbage-mouth disc jockeys,” said
Howard Winkler, production mana
ger "For our program we'll have
album cuts mixed in with popular
We will be using songs that are
current and good, as opposed to
songs that are current and popular "
employee for answering in the
affirmative questions 16 and 17.
"The state would have to hold a
hearing and prove a prospective
employee not only was a knowing
member of a subversive organization
idefinition in the 1953 act) but also
had intent to further the goals of the
organization." said Roy Devine.
ACLU lawyer on the case
The portion ol the loyalty oath that
was stricken down required a
prospective employee to disavow
membership in the Communist
Party
The issue was brought before the
panel as the result of the case of
Allison Kitfield, a 23 year old
employee of the State Office of Drug
Abuse who refused to sign the loyalty
oath or security statement because it
"violated her rights under the first
amendment."
Kitfield said that she was "elated”
over the result and felt satisfied with
the ruling Cornish was less satisfied
and said that if he could find a local
lawyer to represent him and people
to support him he would attempt to
get questions 16 and 17 of the
security statement stricken.
"As I said earlier I haven't
enought money to continue further
myself, but if 1 could get monetary
aid I would take this as high as
necessary,” said Cornish.
Devine, Kitfield and Cornish’s
lawyer, said that he "may ask for a
rehearing on question 16, but I’m not
sure." He indicated he might carry
the case further it he felt he had a
good chance for success.
The majority opinion of the federal
panel was signed by Judge Lewis
Morgan and Judge Richard C.
Freeman Judge Charles A. Moye
dissented.
Photo by RICK DUNN
Socialist advocate
Sam Manuel, a member of the Socialists Workers Party and the Young
Socialist Alliance, told a small crowd at Memorial Plaza yesterday afternoon
that socialists would not support George McGovern because he. like
President Nixon, is a tool ol the capitalists “When McGovern says he is for
the people, just what people is he for’’" Manuel asked Manuel slated that
Socialist presidential candidates Linda Jeqqss was the only one who would
support the working class. "Nixon and McGovern represent two different
parties but they both represent capitalism." he said Manuel was sponsored
by the Ideas and Issues division of the University Union