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Vol. LX, No. 110

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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With Driesler
By LARRY DALE KEELING

Assistant Managing Editor
Two members of UK Young Republicans have accused Student
Government presidential candidate Thorn Pat Juul of offering a deal
to the YR's to gain their support and the support of their organized dormitory canvassing forces.
The two YR s, who wouldn t had been any deal offered to the
allow their names to be used, YR's.
said the original offer was to
Driesler conceded he was
make a YR member, Steve Drieshelping Juul in his campaign
ler, Juul's vice presidential can- and that he would have a voice
didate and to allow the YR's in selecting a vice presidential
to select a slate of six assembly candidate and an assembly slate.
He added, however, that there
candidates to run with Juul.
They said Driesler lacked the were others who would have an
grades to be a vice presidential equal voice in the selections.
Juul confirmed that Driesler
candidate, however, so the offer
was changed to allow the YR's was one of his advisers for the
to choose Juul's vice president. campaign.
"He will have a say in the
They added that Juul's al- selections, as will
others," Juul
leged deal promised the YR's said. "I trust Steve
complete- that no more than three or four
members of the Students for Ac- ly."
Driesler said there are other
tion and Responsibility (SAR) YR's
who are working in Juul's
would be on the assembly slate.
campaign but that it was not
Juul is a founding member of a club effort. There are also
SAR.
YR's who are helping Tim
l,
The two sources said that
another probable candidate
while Juul has made the offer to for the SG presidency, Driesler
Driesler, it has not been ac- added.
cepted yet.
"Tim has also offered to put
Both Juul and Driesler de- some of the club members on
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Members of CARSA and SDS counted out their pennies Wednesday
in the SC Cafeteria in a protest over the sale of grapes by University
Food Services. The "penny protest" took the place of the picnic boycott the groups had participated in earlier in the week.
Kernel Photo By Dave Herman
(Story on page Seven.)

YAF Begins

Pro-Grill- e

Campaign,
Attacks Grille Boycott, Kernel
By TOM HALL
Kernel Staff Writer
About 16 members of UK
Young Americans for Freedom
(YAF) met Wednesday night to
toast with grape juice their plans
for a
campaign, a
membership drive and "reform"
of the Kernel.
According to YAF coordinator
"pro-Grill-

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He said YAF has 300 "Down
Rusty Booth, members will operate a recruiting table in the with the Kernel" buttons left
efStudent Center from 10 a.m. till from an earlier
6 p.m. every day next week. fort.
Giving impetus to the effort will
"I bet you I pick up 1500
be the speech here Tuesday night Kernels a
night in the Grille.
of Sen. Strom Thurmond(R-S.GOh, some of the words they write
a YAF national advisor.
when they cross out the headMembers also condemned a lines," Booth said of Grille
recent "picnic" boycott of the
patrons. He is a Grille cashier.
Student Center Grille, students
Dick Daniell, new head of
who participated in the picnic
their own lunches YAF's Reform the Kernel Comprotest brought
to the Grille to protest the serving mittee, nevertheless said he
of California table grapes and to "ranks it high among college
support the grapepickers' strike. newspapers." YAF
Regardless,
plans to put
Vice Chairman Bill Dawson
t.
"The boycott efforts were out its own weekly
said,
The reason, Booth said, is that
"
rather' fruitless.'
the Kernel "ignores" the YAF,
He aired a resolution attackalthough "if the SDS finds a
the
pro"penny
ing
test" for being an "intentional penny on the sidewalk, headand uncalled-fo- r
attack on Grille lines!"
YAF plans to operate an
personnel, especially the cashtable next to its recruitiers."
ing post. Members claim to have
YAF adopted the resolution
and agreed to carry signs in the 700 names on their old
Grille asking students to continue petitions, to which they hope
to add more.
to buy food there.
"We'll really lam them," said
Dr. Wasley Krogdahl, physics and astronomy professor and Booth. "If they can do it at
y
in West
YAF faculty advisor, offered to Berea, at
Virginia, even at Vanderbilt, I'm
Rockedonate some of his "old
feller posters" for use as YAF sure we can do it here with the
he added.
protest posters. He suggested the Kernel,"
be called the
After the meeting, all the memmovement might
of YAF."
bers gathered around and toasted
"Grapes
The Kernel also was singled their decisions with grape juice.
out for YAF criticism. "We're When Booth accidentally spilled
gonna get 'em' coordinator his, he used a copy of the Kernel
to mop it up.
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Donovan Art

art show of work done by the Donovan Scholars is presently showing
in the Student Center Art Gallery. The Donovan Scholars program
allows persons over 65 to attend the University without tuition.
An

USAC Revises
By SUE ANNE SALMON

Kernel Staff Writer
Nearly a year ago, former President). John W. Oswald formed
the University Student Advisory
Committee (USAC) to work as
a liaison between students and
administration.
Since its first meeting last
April, USAC has worked to solve
student problems in four
upperclass midterms,
the student affairs section of the
University's Governing Regulations and the proposed Student
Bill of Rights formulated by the
Student Affairs committee of the
University Senate.
USAC probably, will present
its revised proposal on advising
to the University Senate at its
areas-advis- ing,

Its Proposal On Advising

March 26, chairman
Pegeron says. The revision is much shorter and less
detailed than the original proposal presented last semester, but
it is "more feasible," according
to USAC members.
The proposal reads:
"Whereas there is increasing
concern among students regarding difficulties in obtaining
knowledge of the necessary requirements for graduation from
the different departments and
colleges of the University, and
"Whereas there seems to be
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tion (e.g. Arts and Science and
Education), and
"Whereas changes in departmental requirements are often

slowly made known to the students,
"Be it resolved that a central office for advising be created. Each department and college would be required to keep
an
listing of all degree
requirements in this office. All
changes in requirements would
be made known to this office
immediately.
"The purpose of this office
would be to supplement the current advising system to the advantage of both advisers and
advisees, since the student would
already be informed of his general requirements before conferring with his adviser."
The revised Coveming Regulations of the University, which
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will probably be presented later
this semester to the Board of
Trustees for approval, give too
much authority to Student Government, USAC member Evelyn
Smith says.
USAC members also dispute
the revised regulations' delegation of responsibility for the formulation of the Student Code to
the University Senate.
USAC has presented to the
Board of Trustees' committee on
revising the governing regulations a petition suggesting the
establishment of a University Student Advisory Board (consisting
of four students, three faculty
members and two administrators)
with the responsibility of reviewing cotnplrints about the Student

Code and proposed revisions of
it.

In the event someone proposed
a change in the Student Code,
the proposed student board
would consult the dean of students, the University Senate and
Student Covemment and then
present their opinions alongwith
the suggested Student Code revision to the University president.
According to US AC's petition,
the president would have final
authority to accept or reject the
revision.
If the president accepted a
proposed Student Code revision
it would be implemented within
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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, March

Care-B- y
By JEAN RENAKEH
And BRADLEY JEFFRIES
Kernel Staff Writers
A hospital
spotless corridors,
the smell of ether, men and
women dressed in white, the
prevailing quiet. Even college
students have an aversion to these
surroundings. Put a child here
and he will be confused and
frightened.
A small boy or girl entering a
hospital fears the strangers and
the sudden change from his normal environment. If, instead, he
stays in cheerful surroundings
with his mother close by and
other children to play with, his
fears will be greatly reduced.
To achieve such a result is one
Unit
aim of the
at the UK Medical Center.
The playroom at the entrance
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of the unit has a "happy" look, side of his body is physically meals a day.
Because the mother cares for
with its brightly colored walls, smaller than the left.
her child, there are no nurses in
"Peanuts"
comic characters
A Typical Day
the unit. During the day, child
painted on the windows and
A typical day for Bobby would
shelves filled with toys and games
care assistants are on hand, but
go v something like this: up in the unit's .staff goes home at
for the children.
8 o'clock breakfast
10.30. All this means the pediaThe rest of the unit is arranged time for an
with hit mother, then to various tric ward can admit more children
much like a small motel. There
are 14 private rooms, each with parts of the hospital for tests; without increasing the nursing
an appropriate bed for the child back to the unit for lunch; and staff.
and a couch that makes a bed off again for more tests in the
If a nurse is needed, a clinic
for the mother. Also in the unit afternoon.
nurse responds during clinic
By late afternoon Bobby is hours. She makes rounds in the
is a utility room with a refrigeramachine back in his room, and at 5 o'clock unit each morning and afternoon.
tor, stove and washing
dinner is served. Bobby and his Her most
for parents to use.
important role is that
mother may have visitors until of
educating the parent regarding
Probably the best way to 9 o'clock.
Everyone is expected the illness of a child.
demonstrate how the
to be in bed by 10:30. And,
unit operates would be to
Second, allowing a parent to
observe a child throughout his in case of emergency, help can room-i- n provides emotional supbe summoned by simply lifting
for the child, relieveingmuch
stay. For example, Bobby, a
the receiver of the red telephone port
boy, was brought to the at
anxiety for both parent and
the nurses' station.
Doctors find, too, that
unit to determine the cause of a
five days at youngster.
a boy or girl is more apt to cophysical impairment; the right the During Bobby's
UK Medical Center heunder-wen- t
when mother is there to
tests including an electro- operate fears.
calm his
encephalogram, electrocardioTests take half the time they
and
gram, skin biopsy.
normally would because the
hormone tests.
mother is there to answer queAt the end of the week Bobby
doctors
to
and his mother went home to stionspermitting with children
spend extra hours
await the results of the tests. more
acutely ill.
Meanwhile, physicians across the
More Beds Available
nation were contacted for information about cases similar to
Third, the unit makes availBobby's. The prognosis at this able more pediatric hospital beds
writing was uncertain.
despite nursing shortages. Re
The
Unit was
opened in April 1966. The unit
was started at UK primarily to
teach medical students how to
deal with parents and children.
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of other ways.
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Reduces Costs
First, it had made possible
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nursing care.
Fourth, the medical students
and house staff work closely with
the parent and have an excellent
opportunity to develop skills in
handling patients and parents.
Working full time in the unit
are Dr. Vemon James, director
and assistant professor of pediatrics; Dr. In grid Daoud and Dr.
Arturo Bautista, both pediatricians. Other staff members include medical students, interns,
pediatric residents, a physical
therapist, a psychologist and social workers.
To be admitted, the child
must first be referred to the University Hospital by someone associated with the child a minister, teacher, doctor or social worker. Dr. James and his staff decide whether the child should
be admitted to the unit.
From all indications, the
Unit has been a success. The parents of children
who have stayed there have the
highest praise for the unit.
And Dr. Daoud herself says:
"If I were sick, this is where
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, March f,

1969- -3

Country -Rock Natchez Trace Twangs Into Grille
By JACK LYNE
Kernel Arts Editor
Don't put her down,
She'll be there till you're dead
Buy her a tractor instead.
from "Okay Farmer"
The Natchez Trace
The words sound like fodder
for a "Beverly Hillbillies" spinoff, while the two guitars, bass
and drums blend with that tight,
twanging camaraderie reminiscent of The Grand Ole Opry.
Yet, the shaggy quartet known
as The Natchez Trace would
appear to be more at home on
the edge of The Day than on the
stage of Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, more relaxed with
water pipes than corncobs.
Zappa And Buck?
What has arrived at The Student Center Coffee House is another manifestation of the pervasive musical synthesis that type-fie- s
contemporary rock. Since
Bob Dylan turned a country corner with "John Wesley Harding," steel guitars have been
whining away from some rather
unlikely places. Such disparate
figures as country king Buck

Owens and acid rock iconoclast
Frank Zappa recently Jammed
together recording with The
Flying Burrito Brothers, each
emerging from the session apparently unscathed. It was tantamount to Pope Paul accepting
an invitation to a
has arrived.
party. Country-rocThe four from Cleveland, The
Natchez Trace, classify themselves somewhere inthis musical
mutation, expanding its scope by
terming themselves
wife-swappin- g

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"countryfolk-rock-s-

oul-acid.'

Their inspiration apparently
stems from the defunct Buffalo
Springfield, a group into the
the country bag several years
before Dylan. They seem particularly receptive to the compositions and stylings of
Springfielder Neil Young whom
they backed in a recent concert.
In fact, they teeter on the
brink of becoming The Neil
Young Experience. Much of their
material comes from Young's
writings and the vocal nuisances
are almost a Young caricature.
It seems no accident the backup vocals sound remarkably like
Buff Spring's Stevie Stills and
ex-Bu-

Dr. Locker Loses Man
By LINDA RAIMONDO

Kernel Art Critic

Editor's Note Dr. Locker spoke at Pence Hall this past week.
The following is a critique of both Locker's speech and his work.
Where one s mind is at is
what it's all about. Painter Tom in the world today, good and bad,
it would seem that Locker would
Locker's mind is presently residhave a very abundant source to
ing in the Claude Lorraine tra- draw from.
Instead he chooses
dition of landscape painting.
to escape to the past for inHere to give a lecture, Locker

spoke on his very personal and
meditative approach to painting.
Working primarily in oils, Locker
draws his source material from
his dreams and the surrounding
countryside of Franklin, Ind. He
is head of the art department at
Franklin College.
A Cozy Womb
All in all it's a very cozy
womb Locker has created for
himself. It seems that he is searching for an "Arcadia," a world
where natural law prevails, a
world devoid of interference by
man.
He attempts to express the
"intensity of the moment in the
common, mundane facts of the
nature scene." He craves "harmony, a rapport with the essence
of life." He means to involve
his own spiritual life in an engagement with nature.
Very poetic. But it doesn't
come off as intended. Even if
Locker's quest is sincere, the results fall short of being convincing. What one experiences when
viewing a Tom Locker landscape
is not a spiritual awakening.
Instead a sense of avoidance
comes across.
Where Is Man?
Why has Locker eliminated
man from the picture? Why has
he turned to trees, sky and grass
for his answers? It's very curious
why a painter, or any artist,
would deny the importance of
human activity in understanding
his world. Why does Locker go
landthe route of still, death-lik- e
in his quest? If he is truly
scapes
involved in such a search, why
not explore all the raw data
available?
With all that is happening

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spiration as well as goals.
An artist's work is what the
man is all about. It indicates
where his mind is at. By starting with traditional landscapes
and running the gambit of past
styles and movements up to the
present, Locker has revealed his
true intentions.

His

land-

better-than-avera-

scapes are the result of this
cess of withdrawal.

pro-

Richie Furay.
Still, they handle their instruments with some authority
and are at least competent with
their vocals. Though their sound
texture is seldom flawed, they
fail to approximate the musical
purity of, say, The Band. It's
still a musical pastiche, still four
city boys riding a country horse.
But one can only help wonder how good the group really
is, as they understandably arc
not exactly overjoyed at playing
a stand at the grille. It is
hardly a launching pad to fame,
fortune, etc., playing a stand at
the grille.
Acid Comment
There is quite a bit of help
from friends on stage, too much

in fact, as the Trace spends an

inordinate amount of time wandering aimlessly around the
stage, rapping and exchanging
beatific smiles.
While this is at first disarm
ingly unpretentious and leads to
some very funny improvised
lines ("Yeah, we're real happy
to be here, direct from our last
big engagement at Slashville,
North Carolina at The Christian
Science Monitor R e a d
g
Room."), it tends to drag midway in the set.
It is a maimed and crippled
troop of entertainers that has
wheezed, slouched and stumbled
through the grille this year,
though, and one is tempted to
overlook obvious shortcomings
in The Natchez Trace. They are
the closest thing to twentieth- -

psychc-dclicizc-

CONCEPTION
To those for whom sleep
has been the only way to survive a Sunday in Lexington,
wake up!
There will be a FREE jam
session sponsored by Kirwan
3 from 2 to 6 pan. Sunday,
March 9 in the Complex Central Facilities (above the
Complex Cafeteria).
t
new
Conception, a
Louisville group
featuring former Oxfords'
lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Bill Tulles, will furnish the sound.
Although they are psychosomatic, Conception will not
do Porter Waggoner, Motown or any of Stephen Foster's stuff. Literally they will
be doing their own thing.
So, after church and chick
en come on over to Central
Facilities and wig out. Re
member it's FREE, so bring
your parents if you like.

A touch of grass a dream

sleeps among wild berries,
drifting in, knocks
to be admitted
from the past;
the bittersweet smell
of clouds and time,
the taste of
spring and birth is
quiet, sad
and always has
the final word.
Ralph Charles Brown

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The eyes of the

cat were
transfixed
upon the sparkling object
dangled before him:
One jump and the prize
would be his, but he dared
not.
His reluctance was not
founded upon fear

but

upon the knowledge, perhaps instinctive, that if once
grasped by the finite (claw)
the sparkle
would disappear and
he
liked only
the sparkle.
Rick Rose

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century music to hit the grille
since Canada's Dickens
the place last year.
Yet, the group was introduced
Tuesday night with an apologetic disclaimer ("Well, some of
you all have been asking for
some different types of music,
so here it is."), whereupon the
Coffee House hostess consulted
the boys to make sure she had
correctly memorized the group
monicker. She had introduced
them twice the previous night.
Great for group morale.
Natchez Trace plays three
final sets this week, at 8 and 9
Thursday night and at 8:30 and
9:30 Friday and Saturday.' If
the hostess can remember who
they are and they can forget
where they're playing, it could
be interesting.

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* Conservative Reform
Back in Washington after his highly successful effort to get off
on the right foot with this country's allies in West Europe, President
Nixon must start making crucial policy decisions in foreign and do-

mestic affairs.
Topmost arc such questions as the Middle East, Vietnam, arms
control talks with the Soviet Union, Berlin, the wisdom of resuming
deployment of the Sentinel missile defense system and the over-al- l
approach the Administration will take to solving the monumental
problems of the cities.
The spirit, style and strategy of the new President will be made;
clearer by his actions in the weeks immediately ahead. But the guidelines are already set.
In the natural rhythm of two-parpolitics, the liberals innovate
and the conservatives consolidate. The liberals annex new areas of responsibility to Government's domain and the conservatives prune, clip
and tidy them up. After eight years of liberalism, President Nixon
heads a conservative Administration with a basically conservative,
mandate.
tend to obscure philosophic difThe necessities of
ferences as each party borrows the other's slogans and tries to match its
appeal. Thus, liberal Presidents insist they are really frugal economizers
and conservative Presidents talk vaguely of fresh initiatives and bold
new programs. But these are matters of rhetoric, not substance. The
people who elected President Nixon last November did not want any
new governmental initiatives or bold programs, at least not any that

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But the traditional task of conservatism is not wholly negative.
Ideally, conservatives should provide a judicious mingling of firmness
and timely reform to strengthen Government programs and, where
necessary, social institutions which are under attack and which have
to succeed for the sake of the nation's stability. Where essential fairness
is in doubt, equity has to be restored.
There are several institutions and programs which cry out for reform.
There is the Electoral Collegewhich the candidacy of George C. Wallace
showed is potentially subject to undemocratic manipulation. President
Nixon's reform recommendations, though disappointing, should not end
search for change.
The enormous cost of political campaigns is another threat underKernel Intolerance
mining confidence in the nation's representative institutions. Public
office must not become a rich man's plaything. Access to television,
To the Editor of the Kernel:
to jetage transportation and to adequate staff has to be available on
I must protest the attitude of the
Kernel concerning your recent editorial,
all major aspirants for office.
equal terms to both parties and to
Grille Boycott." I wish
The military draft is another Government program in need of reform. VThe Wild-Eyeyou people would get off your hobbyPresident Nixon has pledged himself to the substitution of an
horse and quit flogging it to death.
Whenever a "slap-happperson" promilitary service once the Vietnam war is ended. But, whatever
the practicality or wisdom of professionalizing the military, the im- tests, the Kernel leaps to the fray and
rides the cause to death. But let one
mediate fact is that the draft is a grinding necessity. Its unfairness person with a coat and tie and medium
and inner contradictions, as now constituted, are notorious. A responlength haircut protest a protester and
sible conservative Administration should not permit this ugly problem watch the Kernel brand him a "bright
young Southern Gentleman," who gave
to fester much longer.
the "slap-happ- y
picnickers" the sole right
With respect to these and many other current problems, the Nixon to protest? Doesn't the freedom of speech
Administration's mandate is to strengthen the bonds of community. It belong to everyone, or is it reserved for
"
persons?"
must calm the public debate, enhance public confidence in the nation's
If a "slap-happ- y
person" has the
elected leadership and established institutions, and lessen dangerous right to protest the treatment of migrant
antagonisms. It can best carry out that mandate if it remembers that workers in the grape fields of California,
person has
right to
apathy and stagnation are the enemies of true conservatism, and that another them, even the it goes protest
if
against
against
reform sometimes has to precede reconciliation.
the Kernel's ideas of right and wrong.
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Black Business
report released recently by the Kentucky Commission on Human
Rights on "Black Business in Louisville" points up just how retarded
the state is in the area of black capitalism. This is a critical problem
because almost any knowledgeable person in the field of urban affairs
will say that before any substantial base for racial harmony can be
established on a long-terbasis, all segmentsofthe population must be
able to share in the wealth.
Just how bad the situation is can be seen from figures taken from
the commission's study. While 13.3 percent of Jefferson County's population is made up of Blacks, only 4.6 percent of all the county's
business establishments are black-owneAnd of these, more than
half are barber shops, beauty shops and funeral homes all traditionally
segregated categories.
Not only is the number of black-owne- d
businesses in Jefferson
miniscule, but the number of people they employ is also very
County
small because most of the businesses themselves are small. The commission's study reports that only
of one percent of the total
number of persons employed by firms in Jefferson County work for
black-owne- d
businesses.
These figures should register a shocking effect on Kentuckians everywhere. If Louisville and Jefferson County, probably the most "cosmopolitan" area of the state, are so backward in this area, what must
be the situation elsewhere in Kentucky? The Lexington-Fayett- e
County
Human Relations Commission has announced plans to conduct a
similar study here.
Would anyone like to guess what it will find?
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scream and rattle an editorial sabre if anyone appears to infringe upon the rights of
a protesting "slap-happ- y
person," but
let anyone else protest, and up leaps the
Kernel to brand them "bigot" or even
worse, "Southern Gentleman."
According to a Kernel front page story
concerning the boycott, the young man
eating grapes in front of the
picnickers" was unidentified. But now,
according to the editors of the Kernel,
the man is a "bright young Southern
Gentleman." If the man is unidentified,
how do the editors know he is a gentleman, or even from the south? Can it be
that the editors are themselves bigots
of the worse kind, branding others "bigots" if they don't happen to believe what
they read in the Kernel. Don't try to tell
me that there are no bigots in the North,
East or West. I'm from the North myself, and know that bigots live there.
Bigotry is not strictly a Southern phenomenon, as the Kernel would have you be"slap-happ-

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lieve.

According to the Kernel editorial, the
boycott of California table grapes is probscheme."
ably "another funny
That is a statement I will agree with,
but not for the reasons put forth by the
Kernel. The migrant workers are conducting the boycott badly, and consequently
so are the "slap-happpicnickers" and
the editors of the Kernel who blindly
tag along with any protest against the
"Establishment." The Kernel is more
than happy to mount its hobbyhorse and
take a poke at the "Establishment" if
it gets a chance.
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If the protesters were serious about
boycotting for better living conditions,
or living conditions period, then they
want to hit the grape growers where it
will hurt them the most right in the
wallet. I assume that is exactly what
they are trying to do. Table grapes represent however, only a small portion of the
total crop of California grapes harvested.
Why not boycott the entire California
grape crop?
Was the Kernel aware that raisins
were made from, of all things, grapes?
Check a package of
raisins and
you'll see it spelled out very clearly,
"grown and packed in California USA."
Grapes California get it9 Was the Kernel aware that the wine business is one
of the major industries in California? Was
the Kernel aware that the majority of
'California wines are squeezed from, you
guessed it, California grapes? Jams, jellies,
and juices are also products of the California grape.
Gentlemen, if you must insist on riding
a hobbyhorse, ride th