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Friday, February 6, 1976
University Daily Kansan
associated press digest
Sirica suffers heart attack
WASHINGTON—U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who gained national recognition for his role in the Watergate case, suffered a heart attack yesterday.
Sirica, a month away from his 72d birthday, collapsed while delivering a luncheon speech about a lawyer's obligation to professional ethics. His audience was 270 alumni of George Washington University Law School, including many fellow judges.
"His face was flushed and he just keeled over straight into the rostrum," said Judge Bruce Mercher of the District of Columbia Superior Court.
Sirica had been speaking for 10 minutes.
A military doctor was summoned from another part of the building, the Army-Navy Club, and he administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. At one point, the doctor
Sirica was taken to the George Washington University Hospital, where he was transferred to the hospital's coronary unit, a spokesman said.
Anaolan reworks Red ships
A top official of a western-backed movement in Angola said yesterday that a fleet of Soviet ships believed carrying weapons and Cuban troops to aid the Communist-supported Popular Movement (MPLA) had sighted 30 miles off the coast of Lobito. Heavy fighting also was reported in central, southern and eastern Angola.
There was no independent verification of the claim of Soviet ships off Angola. The foreign minister of the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) made the claim at a news conference in Lusaka, Zambia. His faction, which is allied to the National Front (FNLA) has lobbed it.
In Washington, U.S. intelligence sources said the Cuban troop airlift to Angola has been halted for more than two weeks, and six Cuban ships were sighted on route to Angola. Analysts were not certain whether the airlift had finally ended or whether they could tell it left open the possibility that there might be Cuban troops aboard the ships.
Cuban troop strength in Angola has been estimated to be as high as 11,000.
Top IRS men to testify
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary William E. Simon disclosed on Thursday that top Internal Revenue Service officials, including Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, will appear next week before a federal grand jury investigating the IRS.
Simon's written statement said only that the probe would focus on allegations made against the commissioner and the service. Sources close to the investigation said the grand jury apparently was investigating the suspension of an IRS probe into the use of Bahamian banks as tax dodges.
Simon said in September that the Justice Department had reviewed Alexander's role in the incident, and decided no action was permitted.
A justice department spokesman confirmed the scheduled appearances of Alexander and other officials but declined further comment. Simon said the offence would not be prosecuted.
Sources close to the investigation said the grand jury apparently was involved solely with fact-finding now, with no specific charges pending against any party.
Fake doctor pleads guilty
BILLINGS, Mont.- A Kansas man who masqueraded as a physician at a veteran's hospital for two weeks won't face additional criminal charges relating to the deaths of two patients, one of whom he treated with improper drugs, the U.S. Attorney's office said yesterday.
In a statement, the attorney's office said an investigation into deaths, which occurred at the VA hospital in Miles City during the time the Kaiser man, Benjamin Vick, was employed there as a medical doctor, revealed the patients died of natural causes.
Only one of the deceased patients was treated by Vick. The autopsy indicated death resulted from "heart failure complicated by numerous other diseases," the
Vick is to be sentenced Feb. 23. The 53-year-old bogus doctor pleaded guilty to federal charges filed in the case, and old U.S. District Court Judge James F. Wilson was charged with his own crimes.
Vick, who later revealed his medical background consisted of being a medical corpsman in the service and attending a Texas medical school for one year, began work at the southeastern Montana hospital Jan. 5. He was fired Jan. 22 after several doctors became suspicious.
Committee forwards sales tax proposals
TOPEKA (AP)—The assessment and taxation committee of the Kansas House reacted quickly yesterday to a plea by Speaker Duane McClintock, R-Winfield, and introduce his proposals for a referendum on a statewide sales tax increase.
The proposals will be sent back to the committee for further study after they have been accepted.
One of McGill's proposals is a suggested constitutional amendment that would provide for statewide referendums on proposed legislation.
THE SECOND PROPOSAL would increase the sales tax from 3 per cent to 4 per cent.
At the same time, the sales tax would be removed from food purchased for consumption elsewhere and from prescription drugs.
According to McGill, half of the revenue derived from the increase in the sales tax would make up the difference in state revenues resulting from the food and drug exemptions and the remaining half would go to local units of government.
McGILL SAID the exemption for food and drugs would probably cost the state $40 million to $50 million, but he said the exact amount couldn't be predetermined.
Approximately 50 million would be returned to the counties of origin, he said, in proportion to the amount of revenue raised there.
He said increasing the sales tax from 3 per cent to 4 per cent would produce approval.
Kansas doctors experience quake
MGill said that in the county it would be divided on a population basis between city,
WICHITA (AP) - By a quirk of fate, a group of vacationing Kansas doctors carried a load of medical supplies into Guatemala only days before a major earthquake shattered the Central American country.
The plan would have no appreciable effect on state general fund balances, he said.
Thirty Kansas doctors were among a tour group that spent 10 days in Central America.
A bill that would allow Kansas family planning clinics to distribute, without restrictions, birth control information and contraceptives is being opposed in the Legislature. However, local officials have expressed support for the bill.
An opinion issued by Attorney General Curt Schneider late last year interpreted the family planning law as applying only to those persons who are over 18 and who are married, or who have been referred to a physician, landing center by a licensed physician.
By DAVE HAUBER
Staff Writer
Family planning bill controversial
Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said renter-died "I think it's critical that Kansas has done."
He said that certain groups opposed to revision of the law, such as right-to-life, anti-E.R.A. and fundamentalist groups, were trying to prevent what would have been unimpeded approval of the law's change.
Since Schneider's opinion, opponents of restrictions imposed by the interpretation of the Second Amendment eliminate that discrimination. Tuesday, the House Public Health and Welfare Committee vote 9-8 to send a bill removing any restrictions on the law to the floor of the house for debate.
Children are going to experiment with sexual activities regardless of whether they are restricted by law from obtaining help at a family planning clinic, he said.
Some parents are afraid, Glover said, that promiscuity will result if restrictions on age are lifted. However, he said, the kids should be encouraged because the ones who are promiscuous already.
"They think it's suspiration of parental right by the state." he said.
The revision of the law, Glover said, is really an anti-abortion measure that was designed to inform those needing help so they can prevent abortion. The predicament of seeking an abortion
An underground network of obtaining contraceptives might be the result of an unvised law, Glover said, in which the elicited cille could obtain what they needed.
If family planning centers are eliminated, could said, the poor and uneducated would be better off.
Most parents who have contacted him have agreed with his stance on the bill, he said; but he added that it was a matter of conscience that he vote for it. He said he
He said that unless the law were changed, an unequal and undemocratic distribution of property would continue.
"I think I'd vote for this (law) no matter
that she said back home." Glenn said.
The loss of $2 million in federal money, Glover said, has occurred because of the disparity between the Kansas family and federal funding guidelines, he said.
The chances for the bill's success, Glover said, are reduced by the controversial and conservative atmosphere surrounding the efforts of those seeking its approval.
didn't fear any political repercussions from his constitution when he would seek reelection.
The Kansas family planning law is in conflict with Title X of the Department of Health, 515th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Subpart A of Title X, concerning project grants for family planning services, specifically states that "services will be provided by a woman in her 25+ creed, age, sex, parity or marital status."
The interpretation of the family planning law, Glover said, was sought by a county health official who saw the ambiguity of the law's present wording. Since the law affects the patients, he said, it was in the interest of their operations to clear up any uncertainty.
Operation of the family planning center in Douglas County, however, hasn't changed since the attorney general's interpretation was made.
Mike Waring, a consulting physician employed by the health department, said yesterday that the way the center had been handling its patients had been different only in that its patients were being reclassified to avoid the law.
“It’s an attempt to circumvent a discriminatory and very unjust law,” he said. “It’s definitely not to the interests of public health services.”
The law doesn't prohibit private physicians from prescribing birth control pills or devices. Wiring said, so patients are not protected by pay only the nominal doctor fee, of $1.
Waring said that a group of private doctors would meet on Wednesdays and would refer patients to each other so that patients needing their services got them. He said that there wasn't any age restriction on the patients he saw and that parents of minors using the center didn't have to be in the house for advice helping. A doctor's discretion, he said, determined whether any minor would receive birth control devices.
"People come to us because they know we are running the risk of getting pregnant."
Making information more available to people, Waring said, wouldn't cause any increase in promiscuity, as some opinion says. The distribution have argued. He said that
Coffee buyers ignore cost
Staff Writer
By CONRAD BIBENS
Coffee may be the second most populaire
beverage on campus, despite the fact that it
is often the least popular.
Most local grocery store owners interviewed yesterday said that coffee is a regular item of many students' weekly grocery budgets and is one of their daily tasks. The customers will give up other things, they say, before they stop buying coffee.
Coffee is a mild stimulant that helps a student, at least psychologically, get attention.
"I drink a lot of coffee in the mornings or when I have to study." Craig Ador, St. Louis junior, said. "I'll buy it even if it gets more expensive."
Although coffee prices have recently gone up in Lawrence, the grocers and restaurant managers said this had had little effect on their sale.
"Coffee went up last year nearly 30 cents a pound, from $19 to about $17," said Sam Foley. "I bought it for $4.50." Falley's "Sales are down a little, but not much, lot of people stocked up before the holidays."
The price for restaurants has gone up in many Lawrence restaurant as well, including Wendy's.
Two similar increases came to Safety about two months ago, said Gary Vanyul, the director of the company.
Marcia Shadid, Wichita junior, said, "I don't think the price is rising because I am affected me yet."
Jussie Meyer, assistant manager of
fruits, said prices of national brands
were higher than those in other
countries.
known for their 10-cent "bottomless" coffee cups.
Sambo's manager, Cliff Pash, said, "We had to go up to 20 cents for all you can drink, with what free sugar, cream and the overhead. It hasn't affected our business at the town in town for good coffee and we're getting the same faces in here we usually do."
Coffee is 20 cents at JB's Big Boy restaurant, but within a few weeks it will be 30 cents.
"I doubt if it will affect our business that much," said Mark Wilkinson, manager of JB's. "People come here mainly for the food, I told some of our regulars about the increase, and they didn't seem to mind at all."
One new restaurant in Lawrence has deflated prices for coffee on weekdays. At Country Kitchen Monday through Friday coffee is five cents for all you can drink.
"We take a loss on it but we use it to get people to come in and buy a pastry or something to go with it," said Jerry Olesen, the Kansas' supervisor of the Kansas City region.
"We used this special in our restaurant in Eugene, Ore., last year and really increased our profits," he said. "Good advertising is what it bumps down to. It's a gimmick but it's not a phony one. When you pay a nickel you get a cup of coffee."
Local grocery managers said retail prices for coffee had flattened out, but that sales were up.
Olsen said Country Kitchen would keep you on course on weekdays as long as it works.
Kent Wurtn, Overland Park junior, said,
When I run out of cups I get some more.
"It's a big challenge," he said.
EJREKA CLASS 5 GERRY-WOOLRIN
people coming to the center were sexually active already and that promiscuity was often the fault of the parents of minors for not counseling their children.
"I think that the current feeling of many, many people is that it (distribution to unmarried and under-age patients) promotes promiscuity," he said. "I think that is false. You are treating the condition that is already on your doorstep.
Raymond Schwegler, a gynecologist and obstetrician at Watkins Hospital, agreed.
"That's a common reaction in our culture; most of us would rather think we are controlling the condition. I'm not at all sure their opponents approach is realistic. Once people come to grips with that idea, I think the law will be forthcoming."
Dale Clinton, a local physician
specializing in birth control services, said that he would give any women who came into his office whatever medical service they wanted.
The Kansas birth control law, Clinton said, was a good one but was hampered by powerful and rich individuals who, usually for economical reasons, got themselves appointed to public service boards and stymied progress.
"There are plenty of people who don't want to see the population stabilized," he said. "We push forward three steps and back two steps."
Clinton said he treated any patient that came to him because he believed that if they were old enough to know how to get in with them, or were old enough to seek help to get out of it.
SATURDAY, FEB. 14
5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
at UNITED MINISTRIES
1204 Oread
JAPAN NIGHT BANQUET
Curtiski Dinner, Movies, Cultural Entertainment, Souvenirs
Tickets: '4 at SUA office
No Tickets at Door
GRAD STUDENT MEETING Feb.9, 7:30, Jayhawk Room, Union
4. Pre-in-service training
1. Nominations for Grad.-Ex.
3. Taxation with representation
2. Constitutional
5. Open forum
TO THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Starting Monday night, Feb. 9th, and continuing every Monday evening thereafter, students in Basic Bible information will be taught at the Grace Bible Church of Lawrence.
1) God and His Essence, i.e., Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Love,
Omiipetion, etc.
2) The Gods of the Trinity, i.e., the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
31 Man and his soul essence/ His fall and salvation. The original languages will be considered as the final authority on all matters. Pastor E. T. Rhin. a man who was born in the United States and lived in New York City.
The class will start at 7:30 p.m. and conclude at 9:00 p.m. The Grace Bible School will be held on Sunday, March 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. yards due west of Don's Seak House. We are currently meeting in the small, green, rectangular Union building at the intersection of 3rd and Anderson Road. For more information, please call Carletta (342-3447), Bonnie (342-2658), or Bob (342-2657).
Phone 843-3255
939 Mass. St.