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Wednesday, April 10, 1968
The Doily Nebraskan
Vol. 91, No. 96
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by Jim Evinger
' Senior Staff Writer
I A group of University students
lias called for a position state
ment by the Lincoln Board of
IRealtors regarding the Civil Rights
(Bill now before Congress.
In a release last week from the
Lincoln Board of Realtors, Angelo
Manzitto, local board president,
was quoted as supporting the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards' opposition to a certain pro
Vision of the Civil Rights Bill.
The National Association op
posed the legislation now in Cong
ress because of a provision which
would force the home owner of a
single - family house listing his
dwelling with a licensed realtor
to sell his house to anyone, re
gardless of race, religion, color
or creed.
Manzitto emphasized that no ac
tion has been taken by the Lin
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University students stand silently in a vigil held as a
memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King.
Election to reflect
opinions on issues
University students will express
their opinions on national as well
as school issues in Wednesday's
ASUN elections.
Choice '68, a mock presidential
election, will be held in conjunc
tion with voting on ASUN student
senators, executives and advisory
boards.
Also under consideration will be
committee's report released Sun
day and University affiliation with
the United States National Student
Association.
The SAF bill was endorsed by
the Senate Sunday and the de
cision to place it on the ballot as
a referendum was made at that
time. The statement must also
face consideration by the faculty
n1 the Regents.
By a majority vote the students
can also affiliate the University
with NSA.
In addition to Choice '68, NSA
affiliation and the SAF report,
ASUN executives and Senators
will also be chosen Wednesday.
Craig Dreeszen, running under
the Party for Student Action ban
ner, and Dave Shonka are the
presidential candidates.
Paul Canarsky, running on a
slate with Shonka, Mike Naeve
(PSA), and .Ed Wenzl are run
Polling places for Wednes
day's ASUN and Choice 68
elections are the Nebraska
Union Lounge for Arts and
Sciences students; Teachers
College for Teachers College
students; Love Library for
Business and Architecture
students; and the East Cam
pus Union for all Agriculture
and Home Economics students.
coln Board of Realtors or its Board
of Directors to support or not sup
port the open housing section of
the bill.
At the April 3 meeting of the
Lincoln Board it was decided that
the entire next meeting would be
devoted to the discussion of the
open housing section. The meet
ing is scheduled for later this
month.
Manzitto indicated the Board
will work with Governor Norbert
T. Tiemann in connection with
an open housing bill his office is
drafting.
George Hancock, a member of
the Board of Directors of the Lin
coln Board of Realtors, said Tues
day he thought a majority of the
Lincoln realtors would be in fa
vor of the forced open housing.
Another Lincoln realtor also
thought the bill will be supported.
About 20 University students be-
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Cheryl Adams (PSA) is the only
candidate for second vice presi
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Sen. Eugene McCarthy is ex
pected to deliver a "major policy
address" in Lincoln Wednesday
night when he makes his second
appearance within one week, ac
cording to a spokesman from the
Lincoln McCarthy for President
headquarters.
Speaking at 8 p.m. at Pershing
Auditorium, the Minnesota senior
senator, who is expected to bat
tle with New York Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy for the Democratic presi
dential nomination, will speak 40
to 60 minutes, the spokesman said.
Although the Lincoln McCarthy
headquarters had not, as of Tues
day noon, received a text of the
Minnesotan's speech, McCarthy
backers expect a "good-sized
crowd" to fill Pershing, the spokes
man added.
Ed Hilz, a McCarthy supporter,
eaid officials from the McCarthy
national headquarters visited the
Comhusker state last week to for
mulate plans for McCarthy's cam
paign in the final weeks before
Nebraska's May 14 all-star presi
dential primary.
The McCarthy Lincoln head
quarters confirmed that a tenta
tive schedule for the Senator's vis
it to "Nebraska's major large cit
gan picketing Monday in front of
the Occidental Life Insurance Co.
building, which houses the Lincoln
Board of Realtors, and at the State
Federal Securities Building.
Bob Ginn, group coordinator,
said the picketing was prompted
by an editorial in the Lincoln Star
newspaper wn Wednesday of last
week.
Ginn explained the picketing was
originally aimed Monday at the
Board of Realtors for its position
as attributed by the Lincoln Star.
The protestors' intentions have
since changed.
He said picketing will continue
this week with the intent of forc
ing the Lincoln Board of Realtors
to take action regarding its stand
on the open housing section.
"We're not out to get the Board
we're out to move them," Ginn
emphasized. He said between 40
and 50 people, including students
and Lincoln residents participated
Students
hold service for
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Junior Staff Writer
Silently, 60 students Negro
and white alike marched Mon
day from the Mueller Tower to
the Student Union Nebraska ball
room in remembrance of the late
Dr. Martin Luther King.
Along the way, other students
observed the procession. They
smiled. One said, "Well, there
go the marchers."
Across 14th Street the 60 march
ers strode. The traffic light
changed but still the marchers
walked on in an unbroken line.
They were met only by the rude
honking and gunning of automo
bile engines.
"We shall overcome someday.
We are not afraid today. Deep in
my heart I do believe. We shall
overcome someday."
Spiritual songs, one containing
the above lyric, opened the Mem
orial Service in the ballroom. The
crowd, which by now had swelled
to about 100, sang along, creat
ing an eerie, almost funeral at
mosphere. Get
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"It's being held at night so that
adults as well as students will have
a chance to hear him," Hilz said.
McCarthy was expected to ar
rive in Omaha at 8 p.m. Tuesday
and will begin a handshaking cam
paign Wednesday at Armour Pack
ing House and Western Electric
Plant in Omaha.
On Campus . .
Today
Senator Eugene McCarthy,
wDI speak at Pershing Auditorium
tonight at 8 p.m. His visit is be
ing sponsored by the Nebraska
Union Talks and Topics Commit
tee in conjunction with Students
for McCarthy.
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The Ag. Exec. Board meeting
will be held at 10 p.m. at the
Farm House fraternity house.
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A U.S. Marine Corps Officer Se
lection Team will be in the Ne
braska Union today and tomorrow
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tbe
Marine Corps bat officer programs
realtors position
Tuesday noon in the picketing.
He announced the group would
leave from the south steps of the
Nebraska Union Wednesday at
11:30 and proceed to the State
Federal Securities Building at 134
S. 13th.
Ginn said the Lincoln Board of
Realtors could stimulate open
housing in the city by refusing to
deal with owners who will not sign
contracts with realtors permitting
ie realtor to sell the listed home
to anyone, regardless of race, re
ligion, color or creed,
private homeowner who lists with
a licensed real estate agent must
indicate in the contract whether
he is willing to allow the realtor
to sell the home to anyone without
discrimination.
If the homeowner indicated he
is not willing, the realtor is under
no obligation to sell to a member
of a minority group.
stage memorial
After the signing, five people
spoke in honor of King. They
represented different attitudes of
sympathy. They had different
ways of expressing themselves.
Those at the service mourned
the death of Martin Luther King.
But also, they looked iinto the fu
ture. They attempted to answer
the question, "Now that Martin
Luther King is dead, what can
mare," Lonetta Harrold, a follow
er of King eulogized,
we do to promote and carry on
the cause for which he stood'?'
"Dr. King had a dream of a
better world for all, but white
racism turned it into a night-
"Not one individual person killed
King," she said. "Society kiEed
him."
"Don't preach Christianity on
Sunday morning and burn crosses
on Sunday night," she concluded.
Ann Duncan, also a Negro,
worked and marched with the
late Dr. King.
Miss Duncan professed that she,
while once a firm believer in non-
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hing
After having lunch with Demo
cratic leaders in Omaha, McCar
thy will arrive in the Capitol City
at 3 p.m., said Mike Oldfather,
Lincoln Campaign Coordiantor.
Oldfather added that McCarthy
will hold a press conference at 3:30
p.m. at the Cornhusker Hotel.
Following the Pershing speech,
McCarthy will attend a reception
with Democratic party officials,
available for freshman through se
niors; ail lead io a second lieu
tenant's commission upon gradua
tion. r
NU Mods will meet in the Bes
sey Hal Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Nomination of officers for the May
election will be held and Dr. Frank
Menolasclno, one of six U.S. psy
chologists working in the field of
mental retardation, will speak on
the medical aspects of mental re
tardation. A
The Rodeo Club will meet at
7:30 In the Ag. Building.
The open housing provision of the
Civil Rights Bill would force all
licensed realtors to sell to any
one regardless of the owner's
wishes if the owner lists with the
agent.
Hancock said individual realtors
were naturally disturbed with the
provision which would remove the
property owner clause from cur
rent contract requirements. He
thought the Lincoln realtors would
be in favor of the entire bill be
cause of its overall goals, rather
than rejecting because of one
clause.
Manzitto refuted statements in
Tuesday evening's Lincoln Jour
nal which said he had resigned his
post with Gateway Realty after
being asked for his resignation as
vice president.
Manzitto said he was asked to
resign as , vice president and re
main with the firm if he was go
Dr. Luther
violence, now has some doubts in
her mind.
She questioned, "Is white Ameri
ca really ready to deal with love?
Is this the only wray to get free
dom?" The Rev. Charles Stephens,"who
took part in the Selma, Alabama,
march with Dr. King, spoke.
"Martin Luther King was a very
difficult man to have around. He
kept reminding us of what we had
left undone."
Stephens said that King never
faltered, that he gave his time,
efforts and finally his life for love
and non-violence.
"Let us dream of better worlds,"
Stephens said. "But dreams have
to be acted upon."
Martin Luther King was a dis
ciple of love. He was rich in
many things, but he never could
afford the luxury of hatred and
bitterness, according to Joe L.
Butler, the University's newest
administrator.
"Few have had the impact of
the life and death of Martin Lu
ther King," Butler contined. "He
was a man who stood for truth,
sense and decency."
The final speaker was Gene
Pokorny who attempted to an
swer the question, "What can we
personally do?"
"Do we get together every cou
ple of years when someone fam
ous is assassinated," Pokorny
questioned. "Is this what all we
can do? We are alive. Does that
mean that's all we can do?"
"We ought to write our Con
gressmen," Pokorny stated. "For
once, we ought to let them know
we want them to cast a vote for
open housing."
How many people know that
Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf has a
Human Relations Commission
Pokorny asked. This commission
should draft a code of ethics on
how the police should treat Ne
groes when they are arrested.
"There have been problems of
a m
onigi
Lincoln's mayor and City Council
members and candidates for the
Democratic convention who com
mitted themselves to the Minne
sota Senator, Oldfather said.
He added that McCarthy would
also appear at a Thursday break
fast at 8:30 a.m. in the Comhusk
er Hotel. Students tickets for this
breakfast are available at the Stu
dents for McCarthy booth at the
Nebraska Union for 12.75 apiece.
McCarthy will also make a brief
appearance at 10:20 a.m. Thurs
day at Nebraska Wesleyan Uni
versity before leaving Nebraska
for Boston, he added.
Speaking last Tuesday in Oma
ha, McCarthy told an estimated
j2,0C0 Civic Auditorium listeners
that it is a matter of moral obli
gation to seek out the judgment
wf the young persons of this coun
try on political issues.
"The older generation is posi
tively delighted to have young peo
ple talk with them about problems
and politics," he said last week.
McCarthy win be the second
to speak in Lincoln within two
weeks. The Minnesota legislator
(follows the March 28 appearance
4y Sen. Kennedy who spoke to
come 12.000 persons at the Univer
sity Coliseum.
ing to continue as president of
the Lincoln Board of Realtors.
Rather than accept those condi
tions, Manzitto resigned and left
the firm.
Hancock explained that the Lin
coln Board of Realtors lists about
90 per cent of the available hous
ing in Lincoln. He said on the
present list 49 per cent of tha
housing was open to people on a
non-discriminatory basis.
He emphasized that three years
ago only about 20 pe4 cent was
considered open housing.
He attributed the progress to
several recent Unicameral bills
backed by the boards of realtors
in the state.
Hancock explained that the avail
able open housing in Lincoln
amounts to about 300-400 houses
on any given day. He said that
over a matter of months, this would
total more than the number of
Negroes in Lincoln.
march,
in off-campus discrimination ia
housing. The only reason we can't
enforce open housing is that there
is no manpower to investigate the
problems," he said.
"Also we can press for the in
clusion of a course in Negro his
tory in the University's curricu
lum or perhaps that contribution
could be realized in American his
tory courses, Pokorny said.
"We shouldn't just leave here
and because we made an ap
pearnace here, that's it. That isn't
it. There are lots of things to do.
Let's go out to do something.
Let's keep the cause going."
"We shall overcome someday.
Deep in my heart I do believe
we shall overcome someday. We
shall be free someday."
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Unitarian minister Charles
Stephens speaks to Uni
versity students at the
Memorial service held for
Dr. Martin Luther King
Friday afternoon.
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