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Show Censored: 1 Like LB J' By J. BAUMAN Chronicle Editorial Assistant The effects of a "national cooperation coop-eration between April Committee and Teachers' Strike for Peace" were felt near the Huddle Wednesday. Wednes-day. The stand sold "Telegrams to LBJ: Confront the Warmonger!" at 88c a telegram. The stand was manned by flower-costumed Hal Noakes, April Committeeman, and others of that committee., including Mrs. Sue Goodrich of Anti-Chrony fame. The propaganda business was pretty slack and not really worth a story until PR publisher Richard to the effect that I was against the war in order to use this service. I feel this abridges my freedom of expression . . . April Committee's rules are not Western Union's rules. "The issue is: does a private group when selling the services of a public carrier media have the right to change the FCC's rules? I think I can say anything I want to in a telegram as long as it isn't obscene or threatening. Student Affairs Af-fairs may have said 'Okay they have the permission to set a booth" as anybody should have the right to set up a booth but by using a public carrier such as Western Union the affair passed out of Student Stu-dent Affairs' jurisdiction." Goldberger walked up to the stand and asked to be allowed to buy a telegram for the president. His message: mes-sage: "Dear LBJ I like you. Goldberger." Gold-berger." Naturally enough, he was refused his telegram. He tried to explain that he shouldn't be told what he could and could not say in a telegram; tele-gram; April Committeemen told him he could "publish lousy poetry if you want, but you can't send one of these." Goldberger replied that the sign in front of the stand put no stipulations on the contents of the telegram; Committeeman Noakes told him to "roll this up into a wad, my friend (indicating a blank telegram) and stuff it!" Goldberger Gold-berger left. In a later interview an April Committee spokesman told this reporter that the group had permission per-mission from Student Affairs to sell anti-war telegrams, and since the purpose of the stand was to "help stop the war in Vietnam" they weren't going to send any nice telegrams to the President. Goldberger told this reporter "I was down there and I thought I'd send a wire it just occured to me because I was near the stand I wanted to tell LBJ I liked him. I was told that I should go to the downtown Western Union offices if I wanted to send this particular message. I had to say something |