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YANKEE IN MEXCO- American Author, Foreign Press Reveal New Assassination Theory Page 2 PROVISION WRONG: But There's Hope The City of Lincoln, rather its City Council, redefined family this week and in doing so made it illegal for more than three students to rent a house. In effect, this made it virtually impossible for three students to rent a house because only in isolated cases can a house be rented eco nomically by only three students. The Council gave the reason for the revision as the problem of parking created when four or more students rented a house in a residential district. Of course the Council knew that every University student owns a car and drives it to school. City Attorney Ralph Nelson said that the noise and parties that students have are additional problems. The topper was this statement of Nelson's, though: . . . that the mode of living of these groups was incom patible to the family-type neighborhood. It is difficult to understand how a group of four stu dents can make more noise and cause more disturbance than a three-radio, TV-set, record-player, five-bawling-kids family of today can. If they are living in a retire ment neighborhood, maybe . . . In addition, many, if not most, Lincoln families own two or more automobiles, causing as much of a parking problem as the four students with two or three cars do. How to interpret Nelson's backhanded slap at the student mode of living is a good question? It is conceiv able, however, that a group of near-adult, nearly-educated students, well-versed in the values of their society, would live as well or better than the average family of today. Frankly, it seems that Nelson does not know what he is talking about. Mayor Dean Peterson indicated that enforcement was difficult, yet Vice Chancellor G. Robert Ross, dean of Stu dent Affairs, said that only a handful of students would be affected by the provision, which lends but indirect support for the provision. In addition, Ross, when saying that, indicated that he was more concerned with quantity than with quality hardship, inconvenience and personal freedom. Small rulings like this, whether they emanate from Administration or the City, have added up and will add up further restricting the freedom of the student. There is one hope, even if it is slim. Dizzy Dean would say there are two, "slim and none." But, Administration remains as the sole strong stu dent representative in this case and the City Council has shown by its record that it is not opposed to reversing a decision. The University has legal facilities. All it must do is present some evidence and ask the City Council at its next meeting to reverse this decision. Whatever Administration hopes to gain by this new housing provision would be over shadowed by student respect and gratitude should it get the Council to change its mind next week in behalf of the student 'New' Family Dear Editor: Why did the City Council redefine "family"? "The family may include two but not more than two persons not related by blood, mar riage or adoption. No more than three students can rent a house which is clas sified as a single family housing unit." Why? Just where does our free dom end? Why can't Ameri cans live the way we want to live? Must I be told how to spend my money? I share a home with three other students. This has been the most economical May for me to live as a stu dent There are many things which can be learned by living in an apartment which dorm-life or fraterni ties do not teach you. So where do I go from here? To a dorm? Certainly not! Or maybe a room ing house so that I can eat out all the time? Again, a resounding no! I want to cook my own food, tidy my own home, and man age my own household. What better time to learn than now as a student? And where do the dear old University offici als stand? Well, naturally, Vice Chancellor G. Robert Ross, dean of Student Af fairs, stands like the wise shepherd who is leading his flock to gieener pas tures. He says that this provision will only affect a handful of students. I say he la wrong. This University Is dealing with people and aot with numbers! Even if I am one of those students la that handful, I am still Important to this Universi ty. And so is every other Individual. To me, Ross is like the strong, muscular farmer of old, who is whipping h i s o mini m Friday, April 17, 1964 Costs More team of mules while he guides the plow. He will reap the harvest, but the reward for the mules is a bucket of oats and a tank full of water. Why doesn't even one University official defend the students? Is Vice Chan cellor Ross eur new leader? Is he coming through with the Big Flan? The main problem seems to be one of noise and parties. Well, then certain ly this should be settled by the police as disturbances of the peace, "hy d i d Mayor Dean Petersen indi cate that enforcement was difficult? What is the func tion of a police force? If the police can't en force the ordinances of the community, then the police force is either too weak or too lax. It is not weak. Any general housing problems because of t h e definition? Yes! I cannot afford to spend more money for my education. But it is going to cost me more if I am to be forced to live with less than three roommates. Mine is not the only case. There are others who are in the same finan cial situation. What shall we do when we have no more money? Why can't we have the benefits of living off-campus? Why do the University officials just let things ride? 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Thus we can smoke and de plore the habit simultan eously. But it took advertising 40 years to build the cigarette industry into the giant it is today and it may take twice that long for believers in science and medicine to ef fectively combat the ciga rette tradition. Just one of the groups in the United States which is waging a war against cig arette smoking is the American Cancer Society. And it doesn't take a college graduate to figure out why that particular group is fighting cigarettes. Accord ing to ACS figures, there wUl be 49,000 new cases of lung cancer in the United States next year. Of this. 43.000 will be fatal. Experts brand lung cancer as the cause of 75-90 per cent of these cases. Cigarettes then are the biggest single killer in the United States today. Not even traffic accidents kill as many in a year. In fact it has become a socially ac ceptable, even commend able thing to fight traffic accidents. But those who argue against cigarette smoking are still believed to belong to the soap box clubs. Yet if those soap boxes are ef fective enough to even stir a desire to stop smoking, then they are worth while. Still, the fight against cigarettes is not a new one. Three centuries ago, the Czars of Russia penal ized smokers with nose slit ting for the first offense and death for subsequent of fenses. Today, the penalty for smoking is still death JOHN MOftBJK. rdlUli: AltVIF. t,UIV num,einse efilUB ; M SAX SMITH-BI-.KOK.B new editor: FRANK PARTM'H. MICK SKtD, m-ninr staff writers; KAV KMn. 1 1)1 PT-Tr.KHOV BARBARA BFRNEV. PRIWIf.LA MIXLINft, WAM.I M'KltKKV TRAVIS HIVF.K. Junior stall writT: RICHARD HALHKRT, HALE HAIKU. CAT I.KITSCHI CK. turn Jltiir: ORKKM DeFBAJK, photogra pher; FEftftV M-FFfE snorts ertit.n-. JOHN HAI.LCRE. assistant sports U tl!;!lN M'VE "teululum ntupiiirr; JIM IMCK, snlMcrintion mananer; ?r:''''M:,-B- business manaeer; BILL (.1 NLK KK. BOH Cl'NMNGHAM. PETE LAi.E. biurine' assistants. SurMwrtptinn rates f nei -e.nesler m r, oer year unto"? AT "i"' UnC"'n- el""" u.The.. D,1"','b!,"",n1J whMshed al mm si. Student Union, on Monday. Wednesday Thursday. Fridar b.v I mveixity f Nebraska siudenta under Uw juiisdirtion ot the Farult '..bcommittee Student Puhhrationa. Pub notation shall be Iree fi-im censorship by the Subcommittee nr any TZrtKHL fVE l"'vr',' ' nhr tht Nebraska are responsible lor what they cause Mi bp or ned for STUDENTS New S'64 directory lists 20,000 summer job openings in 50 states. MALE or FEMALE. Unprecedented re search for students includes exact pay rates and job details. Names employers and their addresses for hir ing in industry, summer camps, national parks, resorts, etc., etc., etc. Hum!! jobs filled early. Send two dol lars. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send to: 'Summer Jobs Directory P. (). Box 1339:1 Phoenix, Arizona. but a much slower, much more painful death. In the 17th century, James I of England chas tised cigarettes and tobacco as loathsome to the eye, hateful to the lungs and for having a deplorable stench. And in spite of early anti tobacco edicts, the cigarette market continued to grow. In 1959, the American Pub lic Health Association esti mated that cigarettes, through lung cancer, would claim the lives of more than one million American chil dren who were then in school before they reached age 70. One of the most stirring cancer cases I have read is the story of Sigmund Freud's 16 year fight with cancer of the jaw and mouth. During this period he endured 33 operations for cancer. His jaw was entire ly removed and an artificial one substituted. He was al most constantly in pain; often could not speak and sometimes he could not eat or swallow. He often tried to quit cigars but returned to the habit each time until he finally died. I wonder how a comparable quantity of cigarettes would have af fected him. Still, in spite of all the sci entific evidence tying ciga rettes to death and con trary to all the rational ar guments against cigarettes, our generation along with every other, continues to in dulge. What will it take to con vince us? The background for the above information and sta tistics was obtained from "The Consumers Union Re port On Smoking And The Public Interest." The book contains medical evidence, easy to read scientific background, a study of the tobacco industry and adver tising, and a point by point program for fighting ciga rette smoking. It is avail able through the Consumers Union. Mount Vernon, N.Y., for $1.50. A worthwhile in vestment for which I thank Dr. George Pickett, direc tor, Nebraska Chronic Dis ease Control. By Susie Rutter Over four months have passed since the assassina tion of President John F. Kennedy. The special inves tigating commission named by Lyndon B. Johnson has confirmed the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, one time sympathizer and defector to the Soviet Union, fired three shots which mortally wounded President Ken nedy. Jack Ruby, Dallas night club owner, broke through police guard and shot and killed Oswrald, supposedly because he was over wrought with sorrow and anger over the death of his beloved and admired Presi dent. He has been tried un der the American system of justice and sentenced to death. Case closed. Justice tri umphs again. Yet an interesting aspect of the many investigations made since the assassina tion is that of Thomas Bu chanan, American journal ist and author. Buchanan first attempted to publish his theory in New York but was unable to find an editor that was willing to take the risk and re-open for speculation the Oswald Ruby case. His article was first pub lished in the French maga zine, L'EXPRESS, and la ter in Mexican magazines SIEMPRE and POLITICA. Buchanan's conclusions are: First: Not one, but two men assasinated the Presi dent. Second: Not three bullets, but four were fired at the President's car. Third: The shots were fired from two different angles. Fourth: Oswald was not the assassin of President Kennedy but merely an ac complice in the well planned crime. Fifth: According to plans the ex-Marine was to have ""SLACKER'1 LARRY'S CAFE OPEN 24 HOURS Closed Sunday Breakfast Anytime Hamburgers & Short Orders Delicious Dinners 2023 "O" STREET fr perking and tntrnwc in the rear. JOBS ABROAD STUDENTS & TEACHERS largest NEW directory, lists hundreds of permanent career opportunities in Europe, South America, Africa and the Pacific, for MALE or FEMALE. Totals 50 countries Gives specific addresses and names prospctive U.S. employers with foreign subsidiaries. Exceptionally high pay free travel, etc. In addition, enclosed vital guide and procedures necessary to foreian emalovment. ntlcfnrtiAr. , jt'iu iwo uuiinn ig jobs 13593 Phoenix, Arizona. been killed immediately af ter the assassination. Sixth: Ruby was forced to kill Oswald to prevent him from exposing the other members of the group. The assassination of Ken nedy was carefully prepared by a group of people. Two of these, provided with Ital ian rifles of the same make , killed the President. One shot was fired from the fourth floor of the Book Depository building and one from the bridge crossing the path of the parade. The police ran to the bridge only in time to see a man fleeing and carrying an object resembling a rifle. Evident in photographs taken by onlookers w ere two men in the window of the fourth floor before the shots were fired. Police rushed into the building and attempted to reach the fourth floor. Os wald was on the first floor at that time drinking a coke from the machine there. The police that had climbed the stairs said that it was impossible in the short time period before they entered the building for Oswald to have come downstairs without running headlong into them. Contradictory statements of doctors performing the autopsy and those attending Kennedy at the time of his death confirm that he re ceived three wounds : two of which entered from behind through the head and shoul der and one which entered at the neck. The fourth bul let wounded Texas Gov ernor Connaly. Buchanan also deduces that the gun powder found on Oswald's hands was from a revolver, further proof that he did not kill Kennedy. There were then two as sasins: one on the bridge and one in the window. Os wald, an emplovee and thus free from suspicion, brought the rifle into the building. Oswald was on the first floor at the time the shots were fired. Another point to be con sidered is the statement vol- 7 -lie Aoroaa Directory P 0 Box untarily given by Mark Lane, lawyer for Oswald's mother before the investiga ting commission on March 4. Lane said that a week be fore the assassination, a se crct meeting was held in Ruby's night club and po lice agent J. D. Tippit was present. Buchanan con cludes that Tippit pursued Oswald to kill him and pre vent him from disclosing the plot. Ruby, who claims to be a passionate admirer of Ken nedy, was not standing in the street to see him pass but rather was in the office of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Four journalists there have testified that they heard shots from the bridge. Ruby was in an ex cellent position to observe the entire crime. In sum Buchanan arrives at these conclusions: the murder of Kennedy was a well organized and premed itated plot involving many people in which Oswald played a secondary part. There were two guns and two assassins, one in the window of the Book Deposi tory and one on the bridge. Osw ald did not kill Kennedy but knew enough of the plot that Tippit wanted to pre vent him from "talking." Ruby enters the picture to finish the work of Tippit and kills Oswald in a moment of temporary insanity. Why wasn't Thomas Bu chanan allowed to publish his account and investiga tion in the United States? Granted his account is on ly the theory of one man and must be considered as such. Yet under our system of government and freedom of the press he had the right to publish his opinion. The facts that he was de nied this right and had to go to a foreign country to publish his discoveries seems to lend some signifi cance to what he savs. CARTOON . . . 7:30 ACTION GALORE ELVIS PRESLEY 3 M PIUS GET THE NEW BIC "FINE POINT" -ONLY 25! Thit ii really fine writing. Until today, only i spider Z H could spin men a fine line. 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