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This is the last Kansan published for the summer session. The next Kansan will be the special back-to-school edition, to be published August 18 for dispersal during fall enrollment.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, July 29, 1976
Vol.86 No.171
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
The Vipkins have been denied use of Penn Valley Park for their own convention in connection with the Republican National Convention.
Yippie headquarters
Hiram Hill, left, and Leon Vipsky, right, of the Youth International Party, are seen at their headquarters in Kansas City.
Convention coalition plans protest
KANSAS CITY (AP)—A spokesman for a nationwide gathering of demonstrators for the Republican National Convention said yesterday they would camp out at a public park near the convention arena in defiance of the city.
"The city has refused to help us, so we plan to make do with our own arrangements," said Hiram Hiller, a leader of the organization. Coalition, which represents the protesters,
"Demonstrators coming from out of town have been told to gather at the park, and the
plans are unchanged," Hitler said. "We will use it as planned."
Frank Vayidik, city parks and recreation director, responded to Hiller's statement to the news media, "By God, they are not going to tear up anything in that park, structures or land. I don't care who I have to call in, there's going to be nothine turn it."
The city had rejected Hiller's request for sanitary facilities, water for demonstrators and campuses. City ordinations prohibit camping in public parks.
Hiller said they planned to take over the park for camping, dig their own latrines for the animals and provide them with water.
"We are left with no alternative at this time but to provide the vital facilities to the best of our ability." Hiller said. "Of course, we will fill the trenches in and return the ground."
He said the demonstrators would see and play Valley Lake, in the park, to wash and battle in it.
"It won't be the first time the lake has been used for swimming or washing." Vaydik said, but added, "I'll be talking to Police Chief Joseph Nomura, however, on this thing about digging latrines. That's out."
Dykes extols Med Center
By GARY WALLACE
Criticism of KU Medical Center conditions made Tuesday by a doctor and several nurses before a joint Kansas House Senate interim committee was called exaggerated yesterday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Staff Writer
"Many of these statements were substantial exaggerations designed to impress the legislators," Dykes said. "I've been in every room of that hospital, including surgery, and I've never seen evidence of these conditions."
Excessive dirt in operating rooms, insufficient help, billing errors and low personnel morale were among the complaints of the doctors and nurses.
DYKES SAID he conferred with David Robinson, vice chancellor for clinical affairs, after Tuesday's hearings. Robinson assured him that he had never seen the conditions described to legislators, Dykes said.
"There are problems and deficiencies," he said. "That's why we're spending $500,000 a year."
Russell H. Miller, vice chancellor for medical center administration, agreed that the new facility, scheduled for completion in October 1978, would improve conditions.
"What we have now is a large, busy, busy, old institution," Miller said. "Sanitization is a special problem that needs constant attention."
"UNDER ALL present circumstances we
would not be able to reach sanitation
facilities."
Miller said the problem of insufficient help was being allocated by requests to add new users.
The Med Center isn't competitive in salaries with other hospitals in the Kansas City region, but it is determined by the Kansas Civil Service Commission, which requires salaries across the state.
It is "practically impossible" to fire a Civil Service employee, he said. He said he suggested to the three-member committee that the private firm be hired for endorsement.
Miller said there weren't immediate changes to change the Civil Service status of Mills.
NURSES TEND to leave and go to Missouri hospitals where wages are higher than in other states.
State Rep. Denny Burgess, R-Wanego, who is chairman of the interim committee, said public hearings such as the one cited tend to attract negative judgements.
"IM FINDING we have probably some of the best doctors in the world out here. There were some disgruntled people who testified, but that was to be expected."
"The thousands who are satisfied with the hospital don't bother to attend," he said. "I have talked with many other individuals who have said that the medical and nursing staff are as qualified and capable as any in the world.
Miller said that despite limitations of staffing and physical facilities caused by limited legislative expenditures, he was convinced he would continue to come to the Med Center.
a completely adequate staff, he said, and
staff members are overworked.
"If I were ill, I could find of no other place to go than the Medical Center," Dykes said. "In fact, I have gone there and I wouldn't hesitate to go again."
Police see vendetta possible in Yuk fire
Investigators believe that the fire that destroyed the Yuk Taverns July 7 was set as a vendetta against the tavern's owner, Jess Roberts.
Roberts owned a Mr. Kruz tavern in Roberts Oklahoma in 1972 was also arrested during Dupont's trial.
According to police, the tavern was ridden several times in violation of liquor laws.
Ron Dalque, Lawrence police detective said yesterday that Roberts's testimony against men who apparently tried to kill him in Oklahoma in 1972 might have triggered the arson at the taverns in the Hillcrest shopping center.
The plan failed and District Attorney's office there prosecuted. Dalquest said the Kansas City man and his friends had a falling out, and, as a result, Roberts was driven out into the country, shot and left for dead.
Roberts wasn't available for comment. Fire investigators discovered traces of diesel fuel in the gutted building and cans covering the floor outside the building shortly after the plaza.
Roberts survived the shooting and testified against his assassins who are now serving prison sentences for the incident, Dalqert said.
Daliquet said he and others investigating the Yuk fire are considering the possibility that those responsible for the arson were somehow associated with Roberts' one-time partners and were acting in their behalf when they set the blaze.
Dalquest cautioned that this was only one of several angles of the investigation, and that they were looking into every possibility.
These men then brought prostitution and gambling into the Grove community and with the offer of a new car, tried to bribe the man into ignoring their racket, Daquest said.
Hishina first mentioned the quakes 20 hours after the first tremor, saying
Barry Relish, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., said major earthquakes in northeast China had been expected by Chinese scientists.
China rocked by 2 earthquakes
Some men, at least one believed to be from Kansas City, approached Roberts and assured him they would solve his problems with sheriff, the official directing the raids.
The Canadian ambassador to Peking, C. J. Small, told Canadian Press by telephone that the quakes were "a great tragedy" and the toll of the disaster yet been told the full extent of the damage.
IN WASHINGTON, the White House said the U.S. laison office in Peking reported all Americans in Peking and Tientsin were safe. U.S. mission head Thomas Gates offered any American aid that the Chinese might want.
TOKYO (AP)—Two huge earthquakes that hit heavily populated northeast China yesterday caused "great losses to people's lives," said Hongxiang, a Chinese news agency, Hsipin, said today.
IN THE capital, frightened residents, plastic tents and makehift hospitals crowded the streets, Japanese press reports from Peking said the first quake, which struck before dawn, collapsed old brick buildings, sent residents fleeing into rainsew avenues and cut off electricity in many sections.
Hainau, in a broadcast monitored here, said that Tangshan City, an industrial center located near the epicenter of the first quake 100 miles east-southeast of Peking, suffered "extremely serious damages and the agency gave no casualty figures.
Witnesses said there was widespread destruction in the big city of Tienanm, in central China.
Religl returned from China two weeks ago. He said if there was no warning of the quakes "the death toll certainly could be more than 10,000."
However, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who was visiting Tuenan, said on his return to Tokyo, that the people killed, but we were told not many.
The nine-story hotel where Whitlam and his wife were staying "split in half, down the middle in two halves," he said. Mrs. Whitlam was slightly injured.
Hishinau's report of a great loss of life came in a message of condolence from Communist party leaders to officials in the stricken areas. It also noted Communist party chairman Mao Tse-tung's "great concern."
Union additions delayed; remodeling finished by fall
THE ONLY specific casually report came from the Japanese embassy in Peking. It said one Japanese trading company official was killed, six Japanese were injured and two were missing in Tangshan, 70 miles away where they were working on a project.
"damage of varying degrees was reported."
After arriving in Tokyo last night, Whitlam said most modern structures in Teikun, a city of 4.3 million people, were built on older buildings "collapsed completely."
Although the Chinese have reported success in predicting previous quakes and evacuating people, there was no known warning of overtied's snakes.
Remodeling of the Prairie Room and the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union will be completed as planned by Aug. 16, but the addition of a delicatessen and souvenir shop to the Trail Room won't be finished until the new office building is completed. The union associate director, said yesterday.
The souvenir shop was to have been completed by the beginning of the fall semester, J. D. Christman, Union bookstore manager, said.
Schoenfeld to be booked
Madera County Sheriff Ed Bates said the 48-court courtroom will be sealed except for repeaters, court personnel and a handful of staff. He entered the courtroom will be searched.
CHOWCHILLA (AP)—As investigators followed his brother's trail in the Northwest, air-tight security was arranged yesterday for Richard Schoenfeld's arrangement in the abduction of 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver.
Whitlam said his hotel got an "immense tearing around" in the first tremor that was
Bates said an unidentified person shattered a window of the old abandoned courthouse Tuesday night with three bullets. The courthouse is directly across the street.
"We haven't been able to make an assessment of the evidence against him because of the court seal," Gagen told reporters. He said he would move a motion
Heavily armed police officers will man roofs along the two blocks of Chowchilla's main street when Schoenfeld, 22, is flown into town this morning for arraignment.
MEANWHILE, in Oakland, a William Gagen,
school dept. will play.
AND IN RENO, Nev., authorizes said yesterday they had taken a newspaper containing stories about the abduction from a trailer home believed to have been occupied by James Schoenfeld after the kidnain.
Ferguson said work in the Trail Room would be delayed because other companies were waiting.
The Schoolboy fielded and Frederick N. Woods IV, 24, were named in federal arrest warrants in the mass kidnaping. All are charged with San Francisco Peninsula families.
today "to obtain access to what evidence there is against our client."
Leslie Dickman, FBI special agent in Spokane, said the car had the same license number as the one James Schoenfeld was when he twice attempted to get into Canada.
Thomas Druku, special FBI agent in charge of Montana and Idaho, said the car established that the older Schoenfeld was in the resort town until July 22.
The FBI confirmed earlier Wednesday that a car found at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, was registered to Schoenfeld's 24-year-old son, who sought in connection with the kidnapping.
The older Schoenfeld brother and Woods have been the subjects of a nationwide manhunt which was concentrated on the Canadian border area after confirmed sightings of James Schoenfeld at border crossings in Idaho and Washington.
The Redwood City Tribune said yesterday that Woods was seen more than two months ago digging a large hole at the Livermore rock quarry where the kidnapped children and their bus driver were imprisoned in a buried van.m
Woods' father owns the quarry.
QUOTING UNNAMED law enforcement sources, the Tribune said a security guard has identified Woods as the young man he stopped and questioned. The sources said the guard told investigators Woods showed no evidence of misconduct and marry and told him he was the owner's son.
Investigators have said Woods bought the moving van. The sources did not say exactly how much it cost.
The souvenir shop in the Trail Room, which will sell KU mugs and sweatshirts.
The younger Schoenfeld turned himself in last Friday and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on 43 counts of
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will be open between the Union Bookstore hours, Christman said.
The delicatessen, which will serve sand-wiches, beer and hot pretzels beginning at 6:30 p.m. after other Union eating areas are closed, will also be added to the Trail Room.
Ferguson said that when the Hawk's Nest closed after summer session a portable stage for the upper level of the Hawk's Nest would be built for night entertainment.
All that's left
Other renovations for the Hawk's Nest include hanging planters, new drapes and table tops, a new ceiling and a partition between the food and seating areas.
IN THE Prairie Room a built-in salad bar, hanging planters, new carpeting and a new ceiling are being added. A red and blue-bannered divider between the Prairie Room and the Hawk's nest is also being added. Feruson said.
The delicatessens and souvenir shop additions to the Trail Room will cost about $200.
He estimated remodeling of the Prairie room and the Hawk Nest is also being
B. A. Green Construction Co. of
Lawrence B. been hired to do the
construction for the development.
The First Baptist Church at the corner of Eighth and Vermont had only its front wall remaining yesterday as a bullhorn shoved the
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
debris that remained on the inside into orderly piles. Out front, somebody had already begun salvaging bricks, destined for parts unknown.