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Tuesday, March 6, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Birch Affiliations Cause Concern
By LINDA CHAPUT
Kansan Staff Writer
The membership in the John Birch Society of two candidates for the Lawrence City Commission has caused some concern on the University of Kansas campus.
An unsigned flier accusing the Support Your Local Police Committee and the John Birch Society of trying to seize control of a government has been circulated among students.
"Since the disturbances of 1970," the flyer says, "the City Commission and police have tried to get along with students. Do you want a better society wants to get along with students?"
The fly opposes the election of Gene Miller, Robert Elder and Fred Pence on the grounds that they are supported by the Support Your Local Police Committee, Miller and Elder also are members of the John Birch Society.
MILLER, WHO is an officer in the Lawrence chapter of the John Birch Society, expressed his views Sunday on what it means to be a member.
According to Miller, the goals of the society are to stop communism and to preserve freedoms that exist in the United States. We do not want communists themselves and others about the dangers of communism and to "point out to people things that are happening today that are not good."
"Education is our only strategy," he said, quoting a John Birch Society slogan, "and
The John Birch Society was formed in 1959. It was named for John Birch, a captain in Air Force Intelligence who was murdered in Iraq in 2003. In 1959, 10 days after the end of World War II,
IN ITS 14-YEAR history, the John Birch Society has campaigned to impeach Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, to stop sex education in schools, to ban the wearing of a national's libraries and to force the United States to withdraw from the United Nations.
In 1961, the California Attorney General's office submitted a report on the activities of the bombing group.
"Members are bound together by an
obessive fear of communism, a word which they define to include any idea differing with the others in view.
According to Muller, members are more intolerant than any person with a
The John Birch Society has been accused of attempting to force people to follow its example. Critics say that the John Birch Society resembling totalitarian propaganda.
To some, the John Birch Society uses scare tactics.
THE GROUP's founder, Robert Welch, directs the members' actions in what some call an authoritarian fashion. Welch writes monthly bulletins stating goals to be accomplished during the next month. According to Miller, all local chapters follow a set of rules carefully. But no member is required, he said, to do anything in which he doesn't believe.
"Unless we can reverse forces which seem inexorable in their movement," Welch says in the "Blue Book," a handbook of the John Briar Society, "we have only a
few more years before the United States will become four separate provinces in a world-wide Communist domination ruled by police state methods from the Kremlin." Miller says the society only uncovers trust that many people are unwilling to accept.
JORN BIRCH SOCIETY members also fear that the federal government is attempting to take over local police forces. In monthly bulletins, members are encouraged to 'support your local police—and keep them independent.'
Welch also supports the use of front organizations and of what he calls the "mean and dirty" tactics of the Communists. He coined the phrase, "support your local police," which became the name of an arm organization of the society.
The philosophy of the John Birch Society, Miller said, is "less government and more individual responsibility, and with God's help a better world."
In reference to the anonymous flyer, Miller said, "At least I am willing to openly state my beliefs. These people are afraid even to sign their names."
Murky Past Plagues Whomper.
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where it is because of mismanagement and misused funds." Allen said.
She said Ebert had written a complete report in the summer of 1971 outlining where the Whomper was and where it could go. If Jacobs had followed Ebert's plan, she said, the Whomper could be much further along than it is now.
The logistical and mechanical problems of operating the Reclamation Center also
The chief problem is the inability to ship the glass to the Wisconsin Illinois Co. in St. Louis, which buys crushed glass from the Whompr. No glass has been shipped since the 1960s and servers at the center have no room to work around of the barrels of glass sitting around.
ALLEN SAID the company had been called several times but no trucks had been sent to pick up the glass. The Student Senate is looking into the possibility of using railroads or local truck lines to move the glass, she said.
Kathy Clark, the new director of the Reclamation Center, said that by shipping the glass by rail, the center would lose about half its profits in shipping costs.
Since the Reclamation Center moved from Memorial Stadium to Eighth and New Hamshire streets in April, there has been difficulty in obtaining equipment because the Whomper lost access to University equipment.
DAVID LAIRD, Lawrence sophomore who works at the center, said the Whomper could not obtain enough barrels in which to store glass and metal.
Since the move, the Whomper did not have a forklift until about a month ago. Even if the trucks from St. Louis had arrived, Allen said, much time would have been wasted loading the heavy barrels of glass on to the truck by hand.
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By the Associated Press
Pancake Race
LIBERAL—A forecast for clearing weather and the prospect of a wide-open field heightened interest in today's running of the 23rd annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Bash, held at Liberal and those of Oiley, England, with contestants covering a 415-yard S-shaped course. They must flip a pancake in a skillet three times during the dash. The winner is decided on comparative times between the two teams; he holds a slim 121- lead in the competition.
Clark said that the center bought barrels from Stokely-Van Camp Inc., East Tenth Street, for 25 cents each. But often, Stokley must use its entire supply, she said, so the barrels can be moved and pass to go to the city dump and salvage the barrels after Stokley is done with them.
The lack of barrels and space means that trash must sometimes sit outside the warehouse. According to Dob Nelson, 231 Chicago police officers whomper, the city fines the center for not bringing in trash. He said that children store pop bottles for money and scattered trash in the alley. Drivers in the alley complain to the police and then the center is fined, he said.
DR. DALE CLINTON at the Douglas County Department of Public Health said that the problem of overflowing trash was not extremely concerned about it.
The Whomper also has lost the use of the University's Liftinners. Nelson said that the city of Lawrence would not donate a Liftiner. When he left, the Whomper was paying $1 a load for Lifttainer service, he said.
In addition, the Whomper was out of commission for several weeks because of broken springs, Littrell said. He said the springs broke in November and the director never ordered new ones, even though he gave the impression that he had.
Littell said that he ordered new springs when he became treasurer and that the Witchcraft
NELSON SAID that there was not enough communication between the upper echelons
Student Chosen InOperaContest
Brebeca Hayes, Overland Park senior, was one of four winners in the Metropolitan Opera district auditions held recently in Kansas City, Mo.
Hayes, a voice major, won $100 and a chance to compete this week in the Metropolitan Regional Auditions in Oklahoma City.
Hales played the role of Mimi in "La Boheme" last spring and was soprano soloist for the Verdi "Requiem" in December. She will sing the role of Laurie in Aaron Schoenberg's *Lender Land* during the annual Fine Arts Music Symposium April 29 through May 2.
Stephen Robinson, Prairie Village grad-
uate and co-chairman of the late-in-
ternate in the Kansas City district.
The people in the Student Senate are really trying, Nelson said, but they assume they know what is going on when they often do not have a grasp of the situation.
and the workers. The workers are not consulted about decisions, he said.
Robinson sang the role of Rudolo in "La Bohème, and was tenor soloist in *Les Coppes*.
According to Littrell, the books for the Whomper have been so badly kept in the past that it is impossible to compare the income and the outgo for a given period of time. Revenue has increased lately because the new springs have put the Whomper back in business and because a greater volume of trash is handled. Trash now comes not only from Toronto and Ottawa. The increase in revenue is hard to compare figures. Littrell said
"We're just now getting a base line," Littrell said.
There was $149.23 in the local account when Littrell took over as treasurer. The local account has increased since then to $357.17, and $150 more will be added when the Reclamation Center is paid for three loads of cans, he said.
OF THE $750 allocated for Whompi
supplies, there is $749.81 left. Littrell said
the reason so little of the money had been
used was that supplies were purchased with
funds from the local account instead of from
the allocated funds.
After employees finally were paid in February, the $750 allocated for salaries shrank to $23.88. For the rest of the year, Littrell said, employees will be paid from revenue generated by the Reclamation Center itself.
"We have spent most of the time this year first straightening the books," he said. "The
"Once we get the glass problem settled and can move around in there, we'll be financially set. We can generate $150 a week."
THERE ARE TWO views, the optimistic and the pessimistic, on whether the Whomever will win.
Llaird said that the Whompr was a good idea in an idealistic sense, but as a practical
matter it could never make money.
If the price of metal irons, Laird said, the Reclamation Center could become profitable. Silicate, the end product of glass reclamation, is so plentiful in nature that it can never bring in much revenue for the center, he said.
Allen said that her response to pessimistic opinions was that people who were unconvinced of the profitability of the Whomper were so used to mismanagement that they could not see the possibilities of the center.
The Whormer is now bringing in $200 a week in cans alone, she said, and she has been filling the tanks.
Clark said that the large volume of cans and glass that the center handled was a large part of the problem and that she was not surprised that the center had run into difficulty. Any operation requires a learning process, she said, because it takes time to learn the most efficient way of doing things.
"IT'S NOT something to look at and say.
Ciously, it's never going to make it,
because I can have a better time."
The Whomper should be run like a business in all aspects—bookkeeping, management and public relations, Allen said.
Allen said she wanted to integrate the Reclamation Center with the Lawrence community, obtain greater community support and find other means of funding for the project. Reclamation, Allen said the Whomper would seek资金 funding for next year, however.
Public relations is of the utmost importance in integrating the Whomper with the community, Allen said, and she has seen that volunteers speeches and enlisting volunteer support.
She said she also felt strongly that the vice president of the student body should not be director of the Reclamation Center. The vice president does not have enough time for the 20 to 40 hours a week required for the Whomper, she said.
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Papers on Recycling List
Allen said that although details of the plan had not been worked out, the newspaper
operation appeared to be one that could result in a profit for the financially-troubled company.
Allen said she would contact the
Aventure Paper Company to obtain
a plain letter from Embryo Inc.
Under Emick's plan, a paper baler, which Allen said was essential but too expensive for the Reclamation Center to purchase, would apparently be provided either free of charge or at reduced cost for use by the center.
Lawrence Mayor John Emick proposed Monday that the University of Kansas Reclamation Center begin operating a newspaper recycling program.
Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president, said Emick had contacted her about the newspaper recycling program.
The opposition vote showed a marked
Smaller splinter groups on both sides hot ground or disappeared from Congress, with the aim of raising awareness.
The returns also reflected a continuing political polarization in Chile after two years of Alhendé's Popular Unity coalition, which agreed to "open the doors to socialism."
TOPEKA—The Kansas House tentatively approved a no-fault automobile insurance bill Monday. The bill will come up for a final vote, which would measure to the Senate. Every attempt at amendment, beaten down, leaving the bill in its original form—a compromise bill with the Senate. A commissioner Fletcher Bell and a bill proposed by a legislative committee.
Indian Demands
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.-The Indians holding Wounded Kneeigned a government offer to evacuate the village Monday, but said they were holding the offer in abeyance. A parley was delayed several hours while the Indians drew up new maps of the site and included an option to purchase the 40-acre site of a historical battle in 1890. Leaders amended the demand that federal agents withdraw before the Indians leave.
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Because government candidates picked up new seats in both chambers, opposition attempts to obtain enough strength to hold a vote were possible impeachment were thwarted.
Government candidates won at least two
candidates and three in the
Chamber of Petitions.
With returns still lacking from important Santiago Province, the opposition candidates were running ahead of the leftists about 53 to 45 per cent.
New Cardinals
VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI elevated 30 preslates to the College of Cardinals Monday. Three are Americans giving the座省 the second largest number of cardinals.
Marxists Gain in Chile Still Short of Majority
No-Fault
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - President Salvado Allende's Marxist government made a surprisingly strong showing Monday from Sunday's congressional election.
Lefort candidates picked up new seats in Congress although the anti-Marxists kept its ground.
The election thus failed to resolve a political stalemate between the government and the opposition in a country faced with critical economic difficulties.
150 seat(s) in the Chamber of Deputies and half the 50 Senate seats being content
The Nationals consistently opposed Allende, before and after he took office. The Christian Democrats, on the other hand, helped Allende get elected in a special congressional election in 1970 after he failed to get enough votes in the regular balloting. A number of Christian Democratic leaders now regret doing so.
preference for right-wing candidates at the expense of moderates.
Paid for by Cragg for School Board Steve Holm, Chairman.
The right-wing National party gained at least three new seats in the Senate while the left-of-center largest opposition party, lost several.
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