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Thursday, June 17, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Fitzsimmons retains reins
LAS VEGAS- Teamsters President Frank E. Fitzsimons was elected without opposition to a new five-year term yesterday by delegates to the union's national convention who had earlier voted him a hefty pay raise and sweeping new powers over union locals.
There was no dissent among the 2,300 delegates, who stumped, shouted and cheered their approval with moaersmen, sirens, banners and placards. The entire team was outraged.
Fitzumza, 67, was nominated by the union's General Secretary, Treuurer, Ray Schosseless, who praised him as "North America's premier trade union leader."
Obscenity count dismissed
WICHITA—A federal court judge reversed an earlier ruling yesterday that newspaper and other publications criminally liable for reviews of obscene movies.
U. D. District Court Judge Frank Theis said he was reversing his earlier stand and dismissing a charge against him, whom accused of providing indictments against a allegedly obscene film.
Defendants Alvin Goldstein and James Buckley still faced 12 charges of conspiracy and mailing obscene materials into Kansas.
Theis said in his new ruling on the charge of giving information on obscene movies that constitutional protections of the First Amendment outweighed the moral objections.
South African riots erupt
JOHANNESBURG—Bloody rioting swept through a sprawling black suburb yesterday in an eruption of violence over use in schools of Afrikaans, a language despaired as a symbol of white oppression. Police opened fire on the mobs, and at least six persons were reported killed and dozens injured.
Hundreds of police with guns, dogs, tear gas and helicopters converged to herd the rotters onto a small hill in Soweto, a vast township eight miles outside Johannesburg. More than one million blacks live in Soweto, segregated from whites under South Africa's apartheid policy.
The riots began as a march by Seweto pupils to the Phefima secondary school, located atop the hill, to support pupils who there have been boycoting classes for them.
The language, derived from Dutch, is used by South Africa's Boers, who dominate the four-million-strong white minority that rules over the country's 18 states.
Two local motels to lodge CBS, NBC news staffs
Two Lawrence mottles will house major portions of the NBC and CBS network staff working at the Republican Convention in Kansas City. Mo, this August.
NBC News' personnel are tentatively assigned 25 rooms in the Lawrence Travelodge, 801 Iowa, and CBS plans to use 25 rooms in the Holiday Inn, 2309 Iowa.
The networks have made no indication of which parts of the staff will be using the rooms, but Jim Glenn. Travelodge managers would probably be used by technicians.
THE RAMADA INN, 6th and Iowa, is the only Lawrence hotel currently reserving rooms for delegates during the convention. The Ramada inns, or 30 per cent of the Ramada's rooms.
The only other Lawrence motels holding rooms open for the Republican Convention are the Westview Motel, 1313 W. 6th, and the Virginia Inn Motel. 2007 W. 6th.
Accomodations for the Utah delegation were switched to Lawrence from Kansas City at the request of a Kansas City motel manager, who reportedly felt that the tectonal Mormon delegates wouldn't contribute much revenue.
Roger Moyer, manager of the Westview rooms in his model for the conventioneers.
WILLIAM GRIER, Village Inn manager, said he would accept a block of reservations for 25 rooms in the Virginia Inn if conventioneers will prepay their reservations.
The final assignment of rooms for conventioneers and the presentation of room furnishings will be held on July, June Gibbs, chairwoman of the Republican National Convention Housing Committee.
Gibbs said the committee office was still receiving requests for rooms and wouldn't be able to complete contracts until all the requests have arrived.
The Housing Subcommittee is the sole coordinator for finding rooms for the almost 6,000 people expected to flood the Kansas City area from August 15 to August 21 to attend the convention.
GBIBS SAID she had hoped for more rooms in the Lawrence area motels, but that the convention period conflicts with Lawrence motels' business time. The University of Kansas begins its enrollment for the fall semester during this period.
Many of the rooms in the Lawrence area
Holiday Inn manager Rita Skaggs said that August is a peak period.
had been reserved at least a year ago and are reserved on a continuing basis.
"You don't kick out your regulars to some people you will never see again."
2 KU grads busted
Dennis P. Hitt, 1017 Alabama, and Ted Allen Adams, address unknown, were arrested Tuesday morning and taken to Dougas County Jail.
Seven burlap bags of marijuana and some unidentified plants and plants were found in the trunk of their car. The pills and plants were then sent to a plant identification. Marijuana seeds were also found
Two KU graduates were released Tuesday on $1,500 debt after being charged with fraud.
Adams graduated in 1971, and Hitt is a May graduate.
The trunk also contained a loaded hand-
drum and a 22 riffle.
Lawrence police officer Larry Kasson spotted a green leaf caught on a chrome streetlight.
the men for a traffic violation. Adams, who first identified himself as Richard R. Martin, got out of the passenger's seat, opened the trunk and threw a box of plants on the ground when Kasson approached the car.
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