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Show Jack Has Conversation With 'Yippie' on Trip Third in a series about the authors trip to the National Softball Tournament Tour-nament in Ohio. CONVERSATION WITH A NON-DELEGATE BY Jack Hill A few miles outside of Kansas Kan-sas City, the Winnebago Motor Home came to a quick stop. We glanced out the rear window, win-dow, into a bright red Missouri sunset, to see three figures with back packs sprinting sprin-ting toward us. In a few seconds, Hiram Hiller and two friends, one female and one male, were aboard. For the next 150 miles I sat face to face with a "yippie." Hiram Hiller, 23 year old "yippie"(thats what he called himself) and his (or theirs', by Hillers own statement,"she sleeps with both of us") 18 year old girl friend and a musky smelling 27 year old male were "heading out" from Kansas City. Hiller, a free lance journalist for several "underground newspapers," had spent the previous four weeks "organizing the non-delegates" non-delegates" to the Republican National Convention. "Non-delegates."? Immediately Im-mediately the questions poured out. Who? What? Why? "Non-delegates," a colective term that included all groups who came to the convention with the goal of getting then- ideas included in the party platform. Hillers job included, finding housing for the non-delegates, getting them passes to the convention hall, bailing out those who got arrested, spotting spot-ting police informers and taking pictures for his underground un-derground newspapers that would show the police in the worst possible light. The two groups that Hiller worked hardest for were; Ms. St. Jeurs' Decriminalize Prostitution Movement, and "yippies" for legalization of all drugs. A confessed former addict, Hiller freely admitted that his experience was a "nightmare" but felt that "everyone should have the right to do with their own body what they wanted to." When asked, "what do you see yourself doing 10 years from now?", he replied "I have no idea." A drop out from a private prep school, Hiller had been "on the road" for five years. After a brief enrollment in a Florida University, studying marine biology, he had taken up free lance writing. Just as I finished quoting him part of the 13th Article of Faith, the motor home stopped stop-ped at the junction of Missouri highways 36 and 61. "This is where we head north," nor-th," Hillers male friend stated. As our riders got out into the darkness, this line ran through my mind: "Two different dif-ferent world's we live in"! |