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Founded Feb. 23, 1893
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1965
Volume 72, Number 140
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A LARGE crowd was on hand yesterday at Raleigh-Durham
Airport to welcome Vice-President , Hubert Humphrey as he
stepped from an "Air Force jet at 4:30 p.m. Gov. Dan Moore
was also on band to greet the Vice-President. Photo by Ernest
Great Society
Wot Welfare State
By MIKE YOPP
DTH Associate Editor -DURHAM
Vice - President
Hubert Humphrey turned his
words to "students' last night
and told 6,000 of them that neV
ther he iior President Johnson
.. envisions' the Great Society as a
welfare state. -
Telling, the crowd in Duke In
door Stadium that "we are all
students,' Humphrey said both
he and Johnson see the Great
Society as a "state of oppor-
tunity." :
. "No : government owes every
man a Uvlngj,,'he- asserted to
loud applause "but just gov
ernment of the people, by the
people and for the people owes
every, man the opportunity
to enjoy1 the blessings' of life.
VThe Great Society is based
on the proposition that every
man .shall have that opportun
:.; ity." : y '
The Vice - President told the
predominatly youthful audi
ence that although the material
wealth of the nation is greater
than in the depression days of
his youth: "Your generation has
not turned itself inward or satis
fied itself with material pleas
ures." ;.
He praised today's youth as
the "volunteer generation."
"Ten thousand young Ameri
cans are! serving with little or
no pay in the Peace Corps as
volunteers . V . When VISTA
was launched, there were cyn
ics who said we couldn't get
them to volunteer for that, yet
there were 3,000 inquiries on its
first day of business."
He said: 01d men dream
dreams, but young men see vi-
i
the false hope of saving . our
selves. We will defend the cause
of freedom wherever it- may be
threatened.
"But, at the same time . . .
we will pursue each possibility
sions. Today there is the vision
of the Great Society."
Humphrey turned briefly to
Viet Nam, saying: "We live in
a time when we must exert our
patience as never before."
However, he said: "We will
not sacrifice small nations in
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1,000 .'Elans
For 6W
By ANDY MYERS
DTH Staff Writer
DURHAM The Ku .Klux
Klan took a brisk half - hour
walk down Main Street yester
day at 4:30 p.m. to coincide
"with the arrival of Vice Presi
dent Hubert H. Humphrey at
the Raleigh - Durham Airport.
i The Ku Klux Klan of North
Carolina had come to town to
stage a "walk-in,", which con-,
sists'of walking down the street
3,000 Greet
HHH9sPlatil
At the same time Klansmen
in full regalia marched in Dur
ham, a jet carrying the Vice
President of. the United States
landed at Raleigh - Durham
Airport. : . ; .;
A cheering crowd of 3,000 met
Hubert Humphrey as he left the
small airplane Gov. Dan Moore
let a smile rest on his face for
15 minutes as he met Humphrey
then walked; by a fence for the;
traditional handshakes with
well-wishers. U ' ; r
Scores of signs welcomed the
Vice - President. ' 'Welcome
HHH" and "Durham Is Behind
HHH" set the general tone.
Ten students, some from UNC,
waited with signs at the airport
exit. "We Are Murderers," read
one held by a Student Peace
Union member. But if the
signs were meant for Humph
rey, they were wasted- The Vice
President's Air Force automo
bile used another exit.
Confederate flags flew from
cars parked along the road from
the airport to U. S. 70, leading
into Durham. One pick-up truck
sported a . five-foot high paint
ing of the Stars and Bars.
A white station wagon was
lettered "Army Of Northern
Virginia, Confederate States of
America."
"tr --rfnYi-,-r'-'i,x's
And Klansmen Marched
m
.em
alk-In' At ;Diribam
in single file and entering vari
. ous stores.
A crowd had gathered steadily-
all afternoon along Main
Street, and by the time the Klan
arrived anyone would h a v e
guessed that a parade was on
the way. Newsmen and curious
ity seekers strolled along with
sneakered, shaggy - haired beat
niks and volatile college stu
dents, v '
,Duke sweatshirts and UNC
students on motorbikes w e r e
numerous. There was excite
ment in the air. The usual
crowd lounged around street
corners, "but yesterday they
were waiting for something to
happen.
When it did a cheer-, went up
and people surged across the
street. "There they are," some
one "called out, and suddenly
everybody was running.
About 1,000 white silk-robed
Klansmen appeared five min
utes after-. Humphrey's- plane
touched down at the airport,
Leading the marchers on their
swift walk were - olive -- uni
formed security-guardsmen, with,;
the Klan insignia on their shoul-,
ders and gold embossed hel-!
The movements sur
rounding the Ku Klux
Klan yesterday as the y
prepared for a big rally
in Durham led by Imperi
al Wizard Robert Shelton
are described on page 1
in today's Tar Heel. ,
Reporter Andy Myers,
behind the . scenes at the
rally, teams up with pho
tographer Jock Lanterer
for the inside story on
KKK. See page 3. - ;
The visit of Vice-President
Hubert Humphrey to
Durham is covered in pic
ture and story on page 1.
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In Full Regalia
DTHToday
Converge
mets. One Klansman mentioned
that they carried no weapons,
"only flashlights.: -
Most groups of the marchers
were silent, while a few laughed
and smoked and ' chatted with
the crowd. They entered Main
Street at the five - points inter-;
section and walked - six blocks ..
up Main Street as the crowd on
the sidewalk cleared a path for
them. - : i -; ' :
Some jibes were , heard, but
mostly cheers. One Klansman, -who
had been instructed not to
stop moving, said, "We donCl
sit down in the street like the
NAACP and another thing,"
he added, "you can put in your
notes we don't have sex for $10 .
neither!" referring to last
week's march on Washington.
Some of the Klansmen wore
red robes, '.signifying a higher
rank than the white - robed ?
members. None of the march
ers would give his name, but a ;
few said they were "all from
North Carolina."
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A Klansman in a red robe
took a look around him and
spotted u few beatniks. He
leaned over" to a fellow Klans-1
man. They're some more 'of
them beatniks -and tennis shoe
wearing " baboons." A laugh
went up in the crowd; -
The same Klansman said ,
their instructions were to "just
keep walking, not gang up, and I
go into a few stores." He said
they bad been told they could -
buy anything they wanted. "
' There was a woman in .
white robe, holding her small ;
daughter's hand. Her husband
followed her with two more -children.
"Sure, they- like it,"
he said. -"You can't think of any .;
place you can leave your kids." ,
: "I figure it's a lot better with
the kids here," he said "Where
else can you go where there
won't be a nigger' in the
crowd.'
Photo by Jock Lauterer
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