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Show Pickets Protest At Parade Demonstrators Dispute Viet Nam Involvement Eleven demonstrators protesting protest-ing U.S. military involvement in Viet Nam greeted Sunday afternoon after-noon visitors to an Armed Forces Day parade and show at Fort Douglas. THEY STOOD at the intersec-section intersec-section of Hempstead Road and Wasatch Boulevard. Two corners of the intersection are University property on which the Annex and the Meteorology Building are located. The other two corners cor-ners are part of Fort Douglas. The pickets were friends and disciples of Ammon Hennacy, noted Salt Lake anarchist, pacifist paci-fist and conscientious objector. Hennacy, Who picketed personally, personal-ly, told a contingent of "Chronicle" "Chron-icle" reporters that the demonstrators demon-strators had originally planned to picket on Fort Douglas property. prop-erty. THEY CHANGED their plan, he said, when they were met at the main gate of the Fort aTid read and presented with a mimeographed mim-eographed announcement stating that according to a Fort Douglas r e g u 1 a t i on, "Demonstrations, posting of signs, carrying of placards and signs . . . are prohibited pro-hibited without the prior approval approv-al of the Post Commander." The regulation was dated May 15, 1965. THE NOTICE also quoted military mili-tary code which imposed not more than a $500 fine or six months imprisonment, or both, for entering a military reservation reserva-tion for a purpose prohibited by law. Hennacy, who said he had been imprisoned 32 times, stated that he would risk imprisonment again if he did not have the responsibility re-sponsibility of running the Joe Hill House for transients in Salt Lake City. PICKETS were also told that they would be arrested by Salt Lake City Police if they went out into the street. A Salt Lake Police patrol car was parked nearby. Across the intersection on Federal Fed-eral territory, a group of army officers in and out of uniform maintained surveillance of the pickets and directed traffic of military vehicles into Fort Douglas. Doug-las. TWO SOLDIERS wielded a camera and a movie camera and photographed the demonstrators from across the street. "Chronicle" "Chron-icle" reporters who crossed the intersection to interview guards at the gate were also filmed and photographed. The signs carried by the pickets pick-ets were small, and all citicized U.S. military intervention in Viet Nam. Some read: " 'Defense': Govt, word for murder"; "Stop Napalm"; "For peace in Viet Nam"; and 'Stop war in Viet Nam." TWO OTHERS bore quotations from pontiffs of the Roman Catholic Cath-olic Church: " 'Nothing is lost by peace, everything is lost by war' 'Pius XIIX"; and " 'Everyone 'Every-one has a right to be told the truth about public events' John XXIII." Reaction to the demonstrators by convoys of soldiers was varied. var-ied. One national guardsman yelled, "We're with you" and grinned as his truck rolled by. Another shouted, "You're all morons." CIVILIANS visiting the Fort for the parade and Armed Forces Day demonstration generally watched the pickets with interest but said little. lAmong the 11 demonstrators were two high school students and several University students. HENNACY TOLD the "Chronicle" "Chron-icle" that he planned a 21 day fast in late July and early August to protest use of U.S. income tax money for armaments. He said he would picket in front of the Federal Building in downtown Salt Lake City each day during the fast from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to underscore his opposition op-position to taxes and to weapons. - tV '.-. """""" l . sy ft A i t t f A' . I i s l 1 v "WE HATE WAR" The small, but enthusiastic band of picketers carried small, but criticizing, signs which expressed the dislike in the United States' military action in Viet Nam. |