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Wednesday, February 25, 1976
University Dally Kansan
associated press digest
Pot penalty cut approved
TOPEKA - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved and sent to the Senate a bill reducing the penalties for possession of less than two ounces of marijuana.
The bill would provide that possession of two ounces or less of the drug was punishable by a sentence of 30 days and a fine. Present law allows for a one-year ban.
Food stamp cut proposed
The penalty for possession of more than two ounces of marijuana would remain the same under the bill, which originally was intended to stiffen the second-offence charge.
WASHINGTON - A food stamp plan designed to save $300 million a year was unveiled on Monday by the U.S. Committee. Critics said it would tap food stamps away from three million to four million.
The committee plan, approved 10 to 4, would limit the earnings of food stamp recipients. It would end itemized deductions from income to determine eligibility, and would limit the number of people eligible for the program.
Under the present program, administered by the Agriculture Department, food stamps go to 18.7 million persons. The program costs taxpayers $5.8 billion a year.
Grass fires threaten town
EMPIORA - Prairie fires flared up yesterday in the grasslands of the Kanas
finnish hills of Emporia, and in later afternoon the town of Gridley, population
thriving.
One farmhouse north of Gridley, about 35 miles southeast of Emporia, was reported destroyed by the fire.
Perry Johnson, a volunteer fireman at Gridley, said the prairie fire near there was still burning out of control.
was still burning out of control.
National Guardmen moved into the area to help firemen and residents fight the blaze.
"I've been fighting it all day and my eyes are so full of smoke I cann't even see," Johnson said.
"We've tried at every crossroads to hold it back," he said, "but it just jumps the road like there's nothing there. We've tried backfires and everything but we just run." He continued, "It's a long road, it's a long journey."
Schorr investigation begins
WASHINGTON—The House ethics committee met in closed session for two hours yesterday as it began investigating CBS newsman Daniel Schorr's admitted scheme.
After the meeting, Chairman John J Flynt, Jr., D-GA., of the house committee on standards of official conduct, said his panel reached no resolution in the case.
On Monday, Schorf said he believed the central question in any legal battle he may face is the public's right to know.
A CBS correspondent for 23 years, he has maintained that he "could not be responsible for suppressing the report."
Hearst psychiatrist testifies
SAN FRANCISCO- A defense psychiatrist told jurors yesterday that Patricia Heast, fearing for survival in captivity, adopted "alternate personalities," in an effort to help her cope.
Dr. L. J. West said that when he first met the newspaper herress after her arrest last September she was "a person without an identity."
West, director of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and an expert in the study of prisoner-of-war torture, frequently compared Miss Heart to the survivor of a terrorist attack.
Even now, he said, she suffers from "survivors' syndrome," fearing she will be killed.
"Patricia Hearst, improved as she is, still trembles at mention of the SA," said the doctor, who first examined her 10 days after her arrest and again nine days ago. "... Her last words to me when I last examined her were: 'My biggest worry right now is staying alive.'"
PEKING (AP)—Former President Richard M. Nixon gave a smiling Chinese throng a taste of American-style campaigning yesterday as he shook hands, tweaked babies and invited all to visit him in the United States.
Nixon's trip to China, however, wasn't all pleasure, Rabbi Baruch, a Nixon friend or an adviser in the war.
Baruch said that the purpose of the trip was for Nixon to met Hua and gain an insight into the current political ferment in China. He said Nixon had gone to China reluctantly "at the encouragement of the State Department."
The crowd, which gathered at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, appeared unhearsed as it pushed close to Nixon offering hands in welcome.
"bring you wishies from America. I hope some day you'll come see us," a vigorous-looking Nixon told his welcomers. Many of the Chinese wished him good health.
The encounter on the broad Tien An Men Square outside the Forbidden City was unusual. Foreigners visiting Peking sediment meet ordinary citizens in spontaneous group
This morning Nixon is scheduled for
Rabbi says China trip business
another excursion on the public- to visit Tsinghua University and have a look at wall posters reflecting the current ideological struggle between radicals and conservatives in the Chinese Communist party.
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Nixon met with Acting Premier Hua Kufeng yesterday afternoon for their third round of talks since he arrived in Peking last Saturday. There was no immediate response. The Nixonides or the Chinese Hainuina news agency on what topics were discussed.
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VOLUNTEER CLEARING HOUSE in taking applications for 1976-77 position with Big Brother, we are looking for dedicated, concerned students to fill positions such as Big Brother/Big sister co-operative relations, agency contact, etc.
But, for the time being, Watson, who Clark says has been scrutinized more closely than any city manager in the history of the state, is ready to get on with the task. "I am going to do good things happen here that shouldn't be ignored by alleged mismanagement, he says."
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clear in the public debates. Perhaps it never will be.
At Watson's suggestion, the commission also created an assistant chief of police position and changed the rank of a police officer in charge of technical services, to captain.
ALSO, THE COMMISSION approved preliminary plans for the remodeling of The Pladium, a bowling alley at Sixth and Mississippi, into a discotheque.
However, it rejected a request made by a representative of the Downtown Merchants Commission to erect $1,500 worth bicentennial markers on Massachusetts. The commission did not unanimously agree to erect them, withdrawn before a formal vote was taken.
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it's built. The sidewalks will be
built this summer.
The controls, Clark has said, will permit teachers to issue statements in municipal rather than district courts.
To schedule an interview or obtain further information call the VCH office at 864-3848 between a m.a. and b.m. or by drop on our office at 141B Union.
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On first reading, the commission approved the installation of stop signs and the establishment of 20-mile-an-hour speed limits on all highways, mission, which tentatively approved the traffic controls last week, is expected to end its discussion with the final reading next
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Prices: Friday, March 5—$2.00 and $3.00
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