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Wednesdav. November 9, 1977
University Daily Kansan
KC voters repeal closing laws
By the Kansan's Wire Services
Voters in three Kansas City-area counties yesterday, repeated Missouri's Sunday Closing Law in a special election marked by extremely high voter turnout despite rainy weather. In Johnson County, Kan., an increase in sales tax was rejected but in Olathe, the county seat, voters approved a bond issue to build a new library.
A tax to operate a proposed science museum must be approved by a Union Station also dedicated by voters.
The repeal of the closing law, commonly called the Blue Law, means that for the first time in 152 years such items as Bibles, soap powder and baby bottles can be sold in Jackson, Platte and Clay counties on Sundays.
In Jackson County, with 32.5 per cent of the votes tallied, 81 per cent favored repealing the law prohibiting the Sunday sale of non-essential goods.
With $3 per cent of the votes counted in County 7, 74 per cent favored getting rid of them.
In Clay County, where all votes had been counted, 72.3 per cent of the voters favored repeal with 43.8 per cent of the county's 63,152 voters casting ballots in the election.
centage for a special election," an election official said. "Usually only about 20 per cent of the voters go to the polls in a special election."
Repeal was expected, as many as 70 per cent of the voters favored repealing the law, according to a recent poll. Groups support repeal, while some oppose it, and apathy would be the only thing that could
"That's really an extremely high per-
State Rep. Philograpi Scallag, D-Kansas City was the author of a bill in the House this year that provided for special election. He argued for a battle to repeal the Sunday Closing Law.
stop the repeal effort.
"It's a victory for the state of Missouri," the 60-year-old Democrat said Tuesday night. "For once the voters have approved something that will bring in more revenue
The rejection of a half-cent sales tax increase in Johnson County was by a more than 2-1 margin. The tax would have increased the sales tax from 3.5 to 4 cents throughout the county, except in Overland County from 4 to 4.5 cents. The approval of the bond issue for Oclate's library was by a vote of 1,825 to 1,435.
without raising taxes."
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New Yorkers elect Koch to mayor seat
By United Press International
By United Press International Democrat Rep. Edward Koch yesterday was elected mayor of New York as expected in a nationwide off-year election.
Democratic Gov. Brendan Byew reelection in New Jersey and conservative John Dalton kept the Virginia governorship for the Republicans.
But both plodded through the summer and fall to win, leaving the party division of the
nation's governorships at 37 Democrats, 12 Republicans and 1 independent.
Early morning returns indicated.
Byrne once trailed Republican challenger Raymond Bateman by 20 points in the polls and Dalton was far behind veteran Democratic campaigner Henry Howell as the only two 1977 statewide campaigns began.
- In New Jersey, with 93 per cent counted.
    - In Jersey was 1,153 of 864 to 861,-or-57
    - for 43 per cent.
- In New York City, win is per cent counted, Koch led secretary of State Mario Cuomo, the Liberal Party candidate, 503,970 or 428,853 - or 50 to 42 per cent.
Early morning return in wakeup:
counted, counted,
called on 689,494 to 359,711 or 55 to 43
to 689,494.
In Detroit, Democrat Coleman Young, the city's first black mayor, easily won a second
Cleveland Democrat Dennis Kucinch, 31.
become the nation's youngest big-city mayor, succeeding Republican Ralph Perk.
Byrne's victory was an astounding comeback for a governor who took the blame for forcing New Jersey's first statewide income tax, his opponent, and Mr. Sen. Ray Sesterman, had said he would let the tax self destruct when it expires in June.
Voting was slowed by heavy rains all along the East Coast. There was flooding in Virginia and torrential rains in New Jersey and New York. Byrne tried in vain to have the state's courts delay poll closing because residents found it difficult to get out to vote.
Israel bombs port in rocket attack retaliation
Rv United Press International
Israeli gunners pounded the Biblical port of Tyre, two Palestinian refugee camps and a half dozen Lebanese villages yesterday in swift and heavy retaliation for a rocket attack that killed a woman in the Israeli town of Nabariva.
Palestinian and Lebanese sources said the three-hour barrage of six-inch shells killed at least 20 persons. The brother of a teenage girl brought to the American University of Jerusalem by Israeli police said neujury caused by mortar wounds said scores of other people were wounded.
Tyre's power was knocked out and many of the city's residents fled 25 miles north to Sidon to escape Israel's long-range arsenal. The city was a few hours after the Falklands attack.
"If bombs fall on Israel, bombs will fall on Lebanon," Israel's Defense Minister Ezer Weizmann told reporters while dedicating a ceremony to the victims of the attack in Jordan and Israel-occupied territories.
In Washington, the State Department condemned the Palestinian rocket attacks and urged all sided to show restraint. There was no reference to Israel's retaliatory
artillery barrage "because we have not
received the latest information," a spokesman said.
WEIZMAN EARLIER threatened Israel ground troops might move into Lebanon again, as they did last month, but military no such action was likely immediately.
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THE ISRAELI military sources said the massive bombardment was an answer to the latest cross-border attack by Palestinian guerrillas, which resulted in the third civilian death in Nahariya in three days.
Other sources in Israel said the Jewish state had asked the United States to try to help save the deteriorating cease-fire in south Lebanon. The U.S.-mediated truce of Sept. 26 was supposed to end fighting between Hamas and their Palestinian-Lebanese leftist forces.
Four volleys of Soviet-made Katyusha rockets that hit nihatarya killed Rivka Sennakov. The two were included in a 6-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl. Residents of the resort town run for shellers to escape the salvos. About 10 explosions wrecked an apartment house and a police station.
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)—A special U.N. report charged yesterday that Israel frequently tortured Arab prisoners with hypnosis, electric shocks and having "their manliness mocked" by Israeli women soldiers.
An Israeli spokesman said his mission would comment after he had carefully checked the information.
suspected of belonging to Palestinian guerrilla groups.
The lengthy report released by the U.N. Special Committee to Investigate Israel Practices was certain to provoke a strong reaction from the United States and denied allegations and reports of torture.
The report said the methods of torture ranged from the use of hypnosis on prisoners, to beatings, electricshock treatments and long periods of confinement in cells so small there is not enough room to lie down.
The report by the three member committee cited testimony by a defense lawyer and reports by both the Israeli and the western press to document charges of "frequent use of torture" by Israeli security agents when interrogating Arab prisoners
U.N.report claims Israel tortures Arab prisoners
MOST OF THE HEARINGS were based on testimony by Lea Tsemel, a defense lawyer for Arab prisoners, and reporters from the Sunday Times of London, which published a series of investigative articles on the torture of Arab prisoners in Israeli fails.
But the three members of the U.N. committee—Sri Lanka, Senegal and Yugoslavia—also cited International Red Cross reports of severe overcrowding in Israeli jails and Israel press reports to back up many of the allegations.
A Palestinian rocket attack Sunday killed two men in a carport show in Nahariva.
6 Hughes jurors picked
A panel of eight persons and four alternates must be seated before the testimony begins. A judge will confer the honorary tarners representing Hughes relatives who say the will is a forgery, can each bump four jurors without cause under the preemption clause. None of the challenges have been exercised.
LAS VEGAS (UPI)-Six persons—including a Mormon Church elder, a bank loan officer and a 72-year-old housewife—were charged with the assault on an eight member jury which will determine whether the "Mormon Bill" of the late Howard Hughes is valid or a
The military sources confirmed the Israeli artillery laid down a massive carpet of shells in the town, said two shells landed in Gamal Abdel Nasser Square in the heart of the town, which was one of the great cities of the ancient world and a center of Phoenician culture.
Jurv selection resumes today.
Attorneys had worried before jury selection began that it would be almost impossible to find jury candidates, especially in Las Vegas, given the flood of cases involving the documentary and fictional television programs and other publicity given Hughes.
Two people died in the square and a dozen others were injured, the Lebanese reporter
The "Mormon Will" trial will determine how the fortune of Hughes is divided, but the verdict is expected to be appealed regardless of the jury's finding. The Hughes fortune has been estimated to be worth from $169 million to $2.5 billion.
The artillery attack was the first Israeli assault on Tyre during the past year of battles between Christians and Moslems in south Lebanon. The town of about 10,000 people was a leader in world culture and commerce in Biblical times.
Battles among the bitterly divided Lebanese factions also faded yesterday in the Marjayoun area, near the Crusader castle beafurt and the village of Armon.
Then, he wore a cardigan sweater and sat by a lighted fireplace in the White House library. This time, he was attired in a blue suit and matched tie, and made his 21st Oval Office against the traditional backdrop of the American and presidential flags.
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The Palestine Liberation Organization news agency Wafa said Israeli warplanes fleed repeatedly over the target areas near Gaza and Israel gunboats were sighted offshore.
Carter's manner was somber and formal, in marked contrast to the folksy "fireside chat" form he used to introduce the theme of energy conservation in February.
The Palestinian news agency said other shelters in the refugee camp of Raadiyah and AlAjali have been affected.
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AMERICA'S CONTINUING, record consumption of imported fuels, he said, 'causes unemployment ... It costs us business investments. Vast amounts of American wealth no longer stay in the United States to build our factories and give
"This is not a contest of strength between the President and the Congress, nor between the House and the Senate," Carter said. The two houses are now trying to resolve vastly differing versions of his original energy proposals.
WASHINGTON (UP1)—President Jimmy Carter warned the public last night it was endangering the nation's economy and security by guzzling energy at record rates and urged Congress to pass energy conservation laws that he could accept.
Gas guzzling endangers economy, Carter says
In a televised election-night address, he indicated he would veto any energy bill that provides windfall profits to producers and businesses. He also suggested conservation, fairness and budget restraint.
Trying to whip up public support for his tax-based conservation proposals, which are still tied up in Congress, Carter told his audience that the energy crisis was a pocketbook issue of direct concern to working Americans.
"What is being measured is the strength and will of our nation—whether we can acknowledge a threat and meet a serious challenge together."
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How to convince Mom and Dad to buy you a pre-paid Trailways ticket home
Dear Mom and Dad,
Things are swell here at college except, of course, the food, which is so bad that I'm □ down to 91 lbs. □ living on salted water □ sending samples to the biology lab □ hoping you'll buy me a prepaid Trailways ticket home to get a decent meal.
I sure could go for some of Mom's good oil' □ apple pie □ Riz de Veau à la Financière □ blood transfusions □ Trailways tickets paid for at your local station and picked up at mine.
Dad, next time we get together, I want to tell you
□ about my part-time job □ how I suddenly realized what a truly wise and magnanimous fellow you are □ where I left your car last New Year's Eve □ thanks for making this trip possible with a prepaid Trailways ticket.
I also need some advice on □ a personal matter □ my backhand □ where one can hire decent servants these days □ how to separate you from a few bucks for a prepaid Trailways ticket.
Got to sign off now and go $ \Box $ to class $ \Box $ to pieces $ \Box $ drop three or four courses $ \Box $ to the Trailways station to see if anyone sent me a prepaid ticket to get out of here for the weekend.
Love,
P. S..Just go to the Trailways station and pay for my ticket, tell them who it's for and where I am. I pick the ticket up here when I go to catch the bus.
There is a 36 service charge for prepallet tickets. The user will be charged the nearest railway terminal when the ticket is ready. Prepaid round trip tickets are good for one year from the date of purchase. Prepaid one ticket was good for four days from the date of purchase.
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