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Tuesday, February 24, 1976
University Dally Kansan
associated press digest
First primary today
CONORD, N.H. — Campaigning Democrats reached out for final handshakes, and rival Republican campers mapped their get-out-the-vote days yesterday on the eve of New Hampshire's primary election, the first of the presidential primaries. In the tight race between President Gerald R. Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, today's outcome could hinge on the nuts-and-bolts tasks of getting supporters to the polls.
While Ford and Reagan vie for Republican delegates, five Democratic contenders will be carving up the primary vote. That race is said to be close, too, with former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall expected to be the ton finishers.
be the top nominee. Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, former Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma and 1972 vice presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver are the other nationally rated candidates.
Ford proposes arante
WASHINGTON—President Gerald R. Ford proposed yesterday that Congress grant the states $2.5 billion for social services such as day care programs. He warned lawmakers that they would endanger economic recovery if they didn't renew federal revenue sharing.
Ford made his proposal for an annual block grant for social services shortly after urging the nation's governors to support renewal of federal revenue sharing. He told the National Governor's Conference that economic recovery would be imperilled if Congress failed to act.
improved in Congress. Ford said the $2.5 billion would be allotted to the states on a population basis
Hearst refuses to testifu
SAN FRANCISCO.-Patricia Heerst calmly invoked the Fifth Amendment 42 times before her jury yesterday and said she was pressured into writing of a desire for sexual relations with her terrorist captors, including a man who she swore had raped her.
The testimony came shortly before Hearst ended six days on the witness stand and risked a contempt of court citation for refusing to answer questions which she also had.
Death penalty bill killed
TOPEKA- The Senate Judiciary Committee killed yesterday the bill it had under consideration to reinstate the death penalty in Kansas.
The Senate last week passed another bill reimposing the death penalty in Kansas for all first-degree, premeditated murders and sent it to the House. That measure was passed on Thursday.
Sen. Norman Gair, R-Westwood; a death penalty opponent, moved to kill the bill. He said that because the Senate had passed one bill, another wasn't needed.
the bill. Norman Gaur, R-Westwood, a death penalty opponent, moved to kill the bill. He said that because the Senate had passed one bill, another wasn't needed. Strategy was said to have played an important part in Gaur's move. With this victory, the bill was available for enactment if the House kills the bill already passed by the Senate.
Nixon meets with Mao
At the close of the midday conversation with the 82-year-old chairman of the Chinese Communist party, Nikon was asked to convey Mao's regards to President Gerald R. Ford. Mao met with Ford during Peking visit last December. Other information was released about the meeting at Mao's Peking home.
CBS suspends Schorr
NEW YORK (AP) - CBBS newsman Daniel Schorr, who has admitted released a secret House intelligence report to a weekly investigator, was uncovered from reporting duties by CBS yesterday.
CBS, in a statement released by President Richard Salant, noted that government investigations had been called upon and prosecuted for releasing the secret report.
Schorr admitted releasing the report, prepared by the House committee on governmental intelligence operations, to the New York State Department, published in New York's Greenwich Village.
"In view of the adversary situations in which Dan Schorr is placed in pending government investigations, he has agreed with CBS that he will be relieved of all
reporting duties for an indefinite period." Salant's statement said.
Schorr wasn't immediately available for comment.
The statement said the network would provide legal counsel to Schorr "insofar as investigations relating to his CBS news activities are concerned" and said the network "will fully support Mr. Scharr's efforts in obtaining information from a source through which he obtained the report. These aspects of the matter involve fundamental issues of press freedom."
The House has ordered its Ethics Committee to investigate the leak of its report and determine if any action should be taken against Schorr. The Justice Department indicated it also was considering an investigation.
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BUZZI SAID the bill would probably be amended in the Senate so that it couldn't go into effect until the state was sure that the federal resolution had passed and that there was no chance of losing any badly needed federal highway funds.
Buzzi said a new bill that would require helmets only for cyclists 16 and under had been favorably voted out of the State Transportation Commission to pass the resolution within three weeks and by that time the new bill should have cleared the Kansas House.
Motorcycle riders older than 16 may soon be able to ride without helmets if a bill attached to the 1975 Federal Highway Act passes Congress.
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Richard Wright, Eudora, who is a member of a group called BATEA (a medical advocacy group of mental ements), which has protested the present helmet law, said that the threat of losing federal funds had always been the big hammer held over the Legislature to enact
The resolution will change federal mandates that allow the Department of Transportation to withhold federal highway revenue and provide cyclists to wear protective head gear.
THE NEW LAW would still require riders to wear some kind of protective eye device approved by the Department of Transportation, Buzzi said.
State Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, said yesterday that the law requiring cyclists to wear helmets stood a good chance of being repealed in the Kansas Legislature this year if House Resolution 3869 is passed by Congress.
"It's really a form of blackmail." Wright said.
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THE HELMET LAW has been highly controversial since its inception in 1968, when only riders under 21 had to wear helmets. In 1970 the law was repealed, but in 1974 a law was passed that required riders to wear helmets was enacted, largely as a federal mandate. State officials have
State may annul cycle helmet law
By JOHN FULLER
Wright's statistics show the following results. In 1967, before the first helmet law was enacted, there were 31,538 registered ANSAs and 14 fatalities involving cyclists.
In 1968, the year the first law was enacted, there was an 8.2 per cent rise in registered motorcycles to 34,356. But three were 30 percent that year or a 114 per cent increase.
IN 1972, two years after the law had been repealed, the number of cycles had more than doubled to 88,000, but there were only 22 fatalities. In July of that year the current number of cycles rose only 11 per cent to 99,499. fatalities rose 90.9 per cent to 42.
He said that as "a tax-payer, a physician and avid motorcyclist," legislators shouldn't be swayed by sensationalism or illogical pleas to repeal the law.
defended the bill with numerous national statistics and medical investigations that
"They prove that the helmet isn't doing what it's supposed to do." he said.
In recent hearings in the State Transportation Committee, Horman E. McSwain Jr. of the KU Medical Center defended the new bill.
"HELMET LAWS save lives and save tax-payers' money," he said. "If you choose to repeal the helmlet law, at the same time you must use appropriations for every hospital in the state to provide medical care for those so injured."
"The government says if you protect you
if it kills you, and that's just what has
been done."
Wright said that helmets killed more riders than they saved. He said he had statistics to prove his point that were gathered from state records in Topeka by an independent research firm, Dane Mootz Memorial Foundation in Kansas City, Mo.
Several riders interviewed debated the pros and cons of helmets. One of the most
Wright said the statistics disputed officials' assertions that the only reason there are more fatalities is that the number of cyclists had increased.
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common complaints was that helmets
are rider's ability to hear
surrounding traffic.
"I got arrested for resisting arrest because I couldn't hear a policeman's siren behind me and I kept on going," Keith Harold, 316 N. 8th, said.
"If you stuck a meat thermometer up in between your head and the helmet on a 90 degree day in the summer, it would register about 120 to 130 degrees." Wright said.
ANOTHER COMPAINT was that the helmets are hot and distracting in the rain.
Riders said that they constantly had to wait in line for three days, which distracted them from driving.
Studies have shown, as the helmet makers admit, that even the best helmet is up to only 13 to 15 miles an hour. At a distance of 20 kilometers are prone to crack or break in a collision.
Most riders admit that helmets can help prevent injury in some situations, and many said they would wear their helmets even if they weren't required. However, most said they didn't like the idea of being forced to wear one.
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