University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 18.1973
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Kansan Photo by CARLOS LISSON
Fallen Tree Is Sign of Job Ahead for City Trash Crews
Storm Damage Clean-Up Going Surely, But Slowly
Clean-up of the storms of June 18 and July 2 in the city and on the University of Kansas campus is slowly progressing.
Harry Bucchloh, director of the physical plant, said the clean-up was "progressing as well as is ex-10 years old" and dangerous areas were taken care of.
Fred DeVictor, assistant director of Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said that the city clean-up was "going slow."
Both Buchholz and DeVictor attributed the slowness to other duties that had to be taken care of at the same
time, Buchholz said that the same crew that is working on the storm clean-up also does the mowing and trimming on campus. He said that the clean-up may continue into winter when the leaves are bare. He said the broken branches are easier to detect.
DeVictor estimated that the city clean-up will take at least two more weeks and probably longer.
He said that the Parks and Recreation Department is asking that people help by taking the branches off the streets or cutting them up into three pieces, making it easier for the sanitation department to pick up the loose branches.
KANSAS CITY (AP)—In what is thought to be the first conviction since the U.S. Supreme Court's latest obscurity ruling, a Waynecount County District Court jury Tuesday found a man guilty of promoting obscurity by selling movie films.
Howard Doran, 45, was convicted on two counts of selling two film films to a special agent of the Kansas attorney general's office Jan. 4.
THE NEW HIGH court ruling decreed that local or community, rather than national standards, should be used in determining what is obscene.
Kansas First with Porno Conviction
A hearing for a new trial was set for July 30 in the court of Judge John Swinehart. Sentencing will be imposed at that time if a new trial were refused.
"The films, one called "Marcus and Jodie" and the other "Bob and Carol," depicted the lives of teenagers."
THE REV. ROBERFLY EB, 38, pastor of the A靈建 Unit Methodist Church in Wichita, said he found the dominant theme films to be "nasty, nasty interest in sex."
Defense attorneys argued that the films were not obscure because they portrayed actors simulating sex acts, not actually performing them.
The minister said he did not see any social, education or scientific value in either film. He testified he has studied pronography for sociology and psychology courses while working toward two master's degrees in theology.
THEY ALSO CONTENDED Doran did not know the contents of the films when he left.
In Topeka, meanwhile, the chairman of a special Kansas legislative committee said that its members would look at Kansas obscurity laws to determine whether to
Departing Prof Clarifies Story
Several inexactitudes crept into the story
July 11th at the departures of Rosalee W.
Neville.
First, I was not criticizing the State or the University concerning their funding of social research, although there is a problem here. My criticism was directed at the way in which constrictive systems of state regulations are applied to the regulation of financial institutions which are supported by outside funding (usually the federal government).
When a researcher develops a research project and has it reviewed and approved by the deans of the Office of Research and its administrators, then approved by the federal government and a contract duly negotiated between the federal and state governments concerning the conduct of the research, then the research department will have obligation to sponsor the research investigation and be actively of assistance to him. Instead, he encounters a system of state regulations that derive from the need for federal review and service employees of the State of Kansas.
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These regulations are sometimes quite inappropriate to research that is conducted in the field (far from the State of Kansas). For example, a perpetual irritant is that one whose substance is irritating Regents to travel outside of the state and this permission must be gained at least
thirty days prior to travel if the traveler is to reclaim any part of his expenses from the funds for this project. This is claimed to be necessary, though the need for travel and the amount budgeted for travel are already contained in the project proposal which has been approved by the governing officers of KU and then further approved and funded by the federal government.
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Seemingly, this would be a minor problem, except for the fact that during the past few years the federal government has been tardy in contracting the projects which were supposed to begin June 1st in Arizona may be approved but not contracted until July. Meanwhile, research assistants have to travel to the southwest, but they will not be in a position to reclaim their travel expenses or obtain permission for travel thirty days prior to their journeying. Moreover, if crucial events such as the foregoing do chance to happen in June, the project funding may again be in trouble because the state closes accounts and uncles account was properly established and funds properly earmarked by the correct forms sufficiently early in June, the researcher may not be able to reclaim from his project budget the funds which he expended on the most necessary project activities and personal funds on matters vital to his research and duly outlined in his approved
research proposal, he tends to feel the victim of injustice when he is informed that he cannot secure reimbursement because the expenses were not made in accord with the accounting procedures of the State of Texas. The researcher is inclined to feel that the State is not fulfilling its pledge to sponsor the research project.
It is this kind of frustration that led one of my colleagues (a long term and responsible member of the faculty) to remark that he had been driven to cheat and lie in the conduct of his research in order to cope with state regulations.
Second, I objected to the ways in which some members of the graduate faculty try to control the training that is being conducted in departments totally alien from their own. As an instance, I mentioned to her that it was important that it was termed the oral defense of the dissertation. Several social science departments that I know have voted by large margins to abolish this examination or to make it optional. Nevertheless, when she asked her students to form a assembly of the graduate faculty, the members of other departments (notably, in engineering and natural sciences) voted that the examination must be held. But in fact, this requirement cannot be monitored. Those who insisted upon the requirement were forced to serve or judge the process of graduate training in departments so alien from their own.
Fire damage to any service records in the July 12 fire at the Military Records Center in St. Louis, will have no impact on the 13 million veterans and dependents now under military benefits, according to a Veterans Administration Center press release.
The VA maintains backup files containing essential, though not complete, military service information, Johnson said, which would prove helpful in processing any new militia insurrections from veterans whose military records might have been destroyed in the fire.
Fire Won't Affect Benefits For Veterans, VA Savs
More important, the ultimate test of a program of graduate training is whether or not the doctoral students issuing from a department can secure professional positions and then impress their colleagues with their expertise. You cannot help my colleagues of departments across campus to place their students and they cannot help me in placing my students.
These backup records contain information on dates and branch of service, character of discharge and other information necessary for VA to adjudicate a GI. Training, G.I. Laws, VA Pension and VA Medical and Hospital Care.
According to the press release, even if these medical records are not duplicated elsewhere in the Military System, VA would be able to provide a way of developing the veteran's claim.
master records of some 3 million Vietnam era veterans discharged since that date. Computerized Master Index Records are also maintained by the VA in Washington for more than 32 million veterans living and dead.
Veterans primarily affected would be those future applicants for VA service-connected disability compensation whose records may have been destroyed in the fire.
Since 1968, the VA Data Processing Center at Austin, Texas, has kept computer
Since the interview of your reporter with me was conducted via telephone and some of these issues are complex, it is natural to ask if you could creep into the record of the conversation.
VA records for those now receiving benefits are maintained mostly at the agency's 57 regional offices throughout the nation, and also at VA's 169 hospitals and two insurance centers, according to the release.
Murray Wax, professor of sociology
Rep. G. T. Van Bebber, R-Troy, a member of the committee, said the Kansas law was now more permissive than would allow it to ensure the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision.
recommend a more restrictive statute for the state.
Doctors named in the suit included Herbert Mellier, Gary Underhill, Dan Kelly, James Kogan, D. L. Therou, B. R. Cole and others. The doctors were not known at the time.
Dannenberger, Paul Wunsch, Robert
Helman, Prudence Johnson and Max Bicke
Lindenberg
Kansas law contains a phrase, taken from an earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision, that for something to be found pornographic without redemption social significance."
UNDER THE LATEST U.S. Supreme Court decision, this test no longer has to apply. But, in Kansas, it would be necessary to change state law if the state desired to take the more restrictive approach, Van Bebber said.
Van贝塞伯 said his committee's primary concern was to clarify the Kansas statutes that require a waiver of the rule.
"IN SOME WAYS the Kansas law is longer than the federal law, but it is less likely to happen."
U.S. Grant to Train Houseparents at KU
He said the reporting requirements were different and the list of types of criminal activity for which wiretapping could be used was different.
Van贝德's committee is looking also at state laws governing wiretapping for evidence in certain cases of alleged criminal activity.
Van贝蓬 said there also appeared to be some question under Kansas law as to
The suit charges an over-application of oxygen following the baby's birth July 13, 1969. It further alleges that the use of defective equipment in administering the results in "pernament damage to the eyes" that left the child "permanently blind."
The baby was hospitalized from birth until September 18 of the same year.
Regents named in the suit were Jess Stewart, James Basham, Henry Bubb, Carl Kern.
The suit was filed in Wyandotte County District Court by Deborah Bryant, a resident of Kansas City, Kan., at the time, and is accused Lynn Bryan, who is now 4 years old.
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Members of the Kansas Board of Regents and nine doctors have been named defendants in a $4 million malpractice suit alleging that improper use of oxygen at the University of Kansas Medical Center blinded a baby girl.
which law enforcement officials could ask for permission to conduct wristwrapping
The offices of U.S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr. and Senators James Pearson and Robert Dole have jointly announced that the University of Kansas has received a three-year, $97,837-a year training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The purpose of the grant is to finance continued training of married couples to operate juvenile centers like Lawrence's two Achievement Place's.
Regents, Doctors Charged In K.C. Malpractice Suit
"The general thing is that we need uniformity with the federal law." Van Buren said.
Man Asks Kansas Supreme Court To Rule County Zoning 'Unjust'
By LIZ EVERITT
Kansan Staff Writer
A man from the community of Big Springs, 12 miles west of Lawrence, is taking a suit against the Douglas County commissioners to the Kansas Supreme Court.
THE COMMISSIONERS had requested and obtained a temporary injection June 28 to stop Fickel from operating the so-called trailer park.
The injunction was also to apply to what the commissioners called a junk or salvage yard on another piece of Fickel's land, north of Biz Sorinus.
Homer Fickel, who owns several pieces of land in the Big Spring area, is appealing a recent Douglas County District Court ruling that the commissioners were not guilty of making an arbitrary or unjust decision when they denied a request from Fickel! that some of his land be re-zoneed from agricultural to general business.
Fielder said that he has also answered, in Douglas County District Court, a charge by the commissioners that he had been accused of stealing on land that he owes east of Big Springs.
Fickel said that he had asked for rezoning in January so that he could build an
electrical shop on the land east of Big Springs. He denied that he had ever asked for utilities to serve mobile homes at that site, saying that he had put a special notice board in front of his house asking for a permit for an outside facet on the land, but never for anything else.
FICKEL SAID THAT he had parked of his own trailers on the agriculturally zoned land because he had been unable to move them to his legally zoned trailer park until the damage from the storms had been removed. The man who moved from the land east of Big Springs.
Fickel denied that anyone had been living in either of the two trailers while they were there. Mr. Fickel said he had
He denied that he was operating any sort of junk or salvage yard on his land north of Big Springs. He said that what the commissioners had called 'junk' was actually his own heavy equipment, which he had used to use to build the shop on the other land.
THE SAID THERE is also some debris from the recent storms, which he was storing on the land behind his trailer park. Two problemless homes damaged in the storms
Two mobile homes damaged in the storms
have also been moved to the land east of Big Springs.
Fickel said that he had been having trouble with the county commissioners for two years.
Fickel said of the trailers temporarily parked on the agriculturally zoned land, "There's no law to keep me from parking them; apparently as long as they are not being used.
"WE WANT THEM (the county commissioners) to go ahead and file all their charges in District Court, so that we can answer them," Fickel said.
Wayne Kellum, the county zoning administrator, said that he thought there had been people living in the two trailers. He said that Fickel would need a conditional use permit if anyone were to live in the trailers.
Such exemptions are likely, but not such, says Keth Nitcher, KU's vice chancellor.
The District Court hearing on the permanent injunction to stop the operation of what the commissioners called the trailer for salvage or salvage yard is set for 9:30 a.m. Monday.
"It's up to the courts to decide," he said. Walt Craigan, chairman of the county commissioners, said Fickel needed a permit and did not have one.
correction
In Tuesday's Kansan, it was reported that, according to a newsletter published by the Executive Director for State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the federal Cost of Living Council had exempted fall fee increases from the price freeze.
What the newsletter said was this;
"OCLC officials indicate that Phase 4, which will follow the maximum 60-day freeze, will definitely not be a continuance of the freeze. There may be percentage cuts to the stock in this case, which would probably be sufficiently flexible when higher costs justify higher increases in charges. The officials believe that it is likely that institutions raising tuition for the academic year beginning in the autumn will be within the regulations, which are set forth in dormitory fees, laboratory fees, prices at the bookstore, football tickets and so on."
Nitcher said that KU would probably be able to justify this fall's planned fee in order to keep it from being shut down.
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