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Friday, February 9, 1973
University Daily Kansas
Kansan Staff Photo by DAN LAUING
Injured
Thomas Vaughn, Wichita fifth-year pharmacy student, was injured in a collision about 2:20 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Alabama and 23rd streets. Also injured was Ethel Jamison, 535
Maine St. According to a Lawrence police report, Vaughn was driving south on Alabama when, as he crossed the intersection, his Volkswagen was struck on the left side by the car driven by Jamison. The report said that Vaughn received leg injuries. He was on Walkins Memorial Hospital, treated and released. Jamison is in satisfactory condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
KU Unemployment High
By GARY ISAACSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The Douglas County unemployment rate is below the national rate announced last month by the U.S. Department of Labor, but the employment status at the University of Kansas is not consonant with the optimistic picture at national and county levels.
The national unemployment rate dipped to 5 per cent last month, the lowest it had been in $2\frac{1}{2}$ years. The rate in Douglas county for December was 9.3 per cent, said Edson Mills, manager of the Lawrence Opportunity Center. The unemployment figures will be slightly above the figures for January are computed, he said recently.
"The national economy was showing improvement in the last half of 1972, and although there will be some seasonal drop, the unemployment seems to be continuing in 1973," Mills said.
Mills said there was a seasonal decline in occupations such as construction, clerical and hospitality.
Bright as the employment picture seems
Douglas County, the job situation at
the county hospital is excellent.
"But the trend seems to be a general pickup in the economy," he said. "As soon as the weather improves there will also be an increase in outdoor work such as construction."
Bernard Taylor, assistant director of the office of Student Financial Aid, said that approximately 620 students had part-time jobs on campus. However, he said, there are
The work-study program, which is federally funded, is currently operating on a budget of $188,000. Taylor said, but could easily use $500,000.
"If the funds were available, we could employ three times as many students as we would have now."
Taylor said funds for the program were allocated to the state by the government. The University's allocation is based on the number of students, minority or low-income families, he said.
Once a student qualifies for the program, Taylor said, he is referred to a department counselor.
"The jobs range from animal caretakers in the various laboratories on campus to guards for the museums," Taylor said. "The salaries range from $1.60 to $3.00 an hour."
Darwin Eads, Lawrence graduate student in counseling and director of the student employment service, said the job market in Lawrence was tight. Job possibilities in surrounding areas, such as Eudora and Ottawa, were being explored, he said.
"I have even done some brainstorming with people about the possibility of opening a co-op gas station or store," he said. "But that idea is not very feasible because of the capital needed to open that kind of business."
Eads said that only three jobs had crossed his desk this week, but there were 75 people waiting for employment. The jobs ranged from baby-sitting to clerical work, he said, and 48 others ranged from $1 to $2. Most people want to work about 18 hours a week, he said.
National Guard Taking Women
TOPEKA - For the first time in its 112
Kansas Army National
Guard in going into war.
Brig. G, Edward R. Fry, Kansas adjutant general, said the National Guard Bureau in Washington had authorized enlistment of women in any positions in the 65th Public Information Detachment and the National Guard's 76 different positions in the 71st Transportation Co. of Coffeyville, Harper and Medicine Lodge.
Some students have found jobs in Lawrence however.
Approximately 15 University students work at Kroger's, according to Kenneth Murphy, store manager. He said all of them were employed and employees averaged 20 hours a week.
"I prefer college kids as checkers and stackers because of their maturity," he said.
Charles Crabtre, assistant manager at Gibson Discount Center 2525 Iowa St., said that 27 college students worked part-time there.
"Our turnover in May and January is very high, but during the semester it usually stabilizes," he said. "If someone does leave, it is usually because of a schedule conflict between school and the job."
Most students work about 26 hours a week, Crabtree said, and starting pay is $1.60 an hour. He said that raised were based on merit and that some of the part-time workers earned more than minimum wages.
Carol Garman, owner-manager of Vista Drive In Restaurant, 1527 W. 6th St., thist 20 college students worked part-time for her. Vista, like Gibson's, suffers high turnover at the end of each semester, she said.
"We start our college students at $1.50 an hour and most of them work 15 hours a day."
Moran said some of the employees were wives of students, others were men trying to earn enough money to return to KU and teach English. Most students wanted to work 14 or 20 hours, he said, and everyone starts at $1.60 an hour.
Wes Moran, general manager of Mc-
Donald's, said he did that when he
employed 40 college alumni.
"We have some part-timers making $2.50 an hour," he said. "The sky is the limit on raises, but it all depends on the volume that we do."
TOPEKA- The pros and cons of a Senate bill to bring the Kansas abortion law into accordance with a recent Supreme Court ruling, received an airing in a hearing Thursday at the statehouse, but no decision was reached.
They usually get what they want," he
said, because we want to have happy
employees.
Moran said that in scheduling the store tried to work around the students' class activities.
By CAROLYN OLSON Kansan Staff Writer
No vote was taken on Senate Bill 212, which was introduced by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The abortion bill was heard by the joint Senate Committees and the Senate and House Public Health and Welfare committees.
Senate Bill 212 allows a woman to have an abortion during the first 24 weeks of her pregnancy. The law also allows an abortion would be allowed only if performed by a licensed doctor who had determined that the abortion was necessary to protect the woman or physical or mental health of the mother.
More than 100 persons attended the morning and afternoon hearing. Many of them were Right to Life stickers. Right to Life is a group that opposed the recent Surpreme Court ruling allowing abortions through the sixth month of pregnancy.
Sen. J.C. Titloson, R-Norton and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would not allow the Right to Life speakers to discuss Senate Resolution 35, which calls for a possible convention to discuss a possible amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling.
Whenever an abortion opponent stepped to the podium to address the committee on Resolution 35 he was reprimanded by the senate bill and five supporters spoke.
Tillotson said there would be no further hearings concerning Senate Bill 212 but there would be a hearing next week to vote on calling for a constitutional convention.
Frances Heese, a Wichita lawyer for the Kansas Catholic Hospital Association, spoke against Senate Bill 212 and asked the committee to take no action to make the Kansas law comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
Tillotson said a vote on Senate Bill 212 should be taken within two weeks by the
Later, he told a reporter that a POW would have had to make more than a statement on Hanoi radio for the government to bring action against him.
He stressed that the official Pentagon decision against bringing formal charges for radio statements did not prohibit individual members of the armed services from filing charges against other servicemen.
"I believe the Supreme Clint will re-hear the abortion issue and decide that its ruling to legalize abortions through the sixth month was wrong." Hesse said.
White Award to Go To Southern Newsman
Kansas Abortions Debated
Some returning war prisoners may bring legal action against other war prisoners, he
The William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas will give its annual award for distinguished journalism to Barry Bingham Sr., chairman of the National Journalists Association, Times Co., in a ceremony Saturday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The award goes each year to a U.S. journalist for service to his profession and community that exemplifies William Allen White's ideals. A similar award goes to a state journalist who will not be named until the award is presented.
Propaganda Statements Not Charged to POWs
Other events in connection with the William Allen White Day celebrations are a reception Friday night for the trustees of the Kansas Union and the trustees meeting Saturday morning at the Kansas Union and luncheon later in the day at which the awards will be given. This is to be followed by a reception by the local journalism society, in the Kansas Room.
"We do not intend to bring charges," he said. "We have some of their statements were made."
He did not elaborate.
WASHINGTON (AP) - No charges will be filed against returning war prisoners for making propaganda statements over North Korea, the Defense Department said Thursday.
The Pentagon has published elaborate plans for handling the 562 returning American POWs, caring for their medical needs and readjustment.
Former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird took a similar stand about six months ago, and Freidhelm said that the policy was changed in April by Elliot Richardson, Laird's successor.
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said that disciplinary action against POWs for ratting on comrades or stealing food from fellow prisoners was not ruled out.
Friedheim restated Pentagon policy during a question and answer session with a lawyer.
There has been no reference in any of this material to possible legal actions against him.
Nonetheless, it is known that the retur-
ring POWs will be questioned extensively about what went on in the POW camps. The debriefing, designed in large part to shed light on the fate of more than 1,300 prisoners still unaccounted for, could well produce information on which to base charges.
Bingham began newspaper work in 1930. He worked with the Courrier-Journal and Louville Times as reporter forington (music) writer assistant to the publisher. Besides serving as editor and publisher for 10 years, he wrote articles on pany and is now chairman of the board.
He was decorated for service as the chief of mission in the Economic Cooperation Administration to France from 1948 to 1950 and the Order, Order of the British Empire, in 1962.
Bingham received a Bronze Star for planning coverage of U.S. Navy operations in the Normandy landings. He received a second star for similar duty in the Pacific zone. Bingham rose to the rank of commander in World War II.
Bingham received the President's award from the National American Legion Press Association for excellence in the field of americanization in the community, state and nation.
He was awarded Kentucky's Governor for outstanding service in the conservation of that state's natural resources, Bingham was also a member of the Senate and was president of the Southern Cancer and Stroke and the President's Committee on Mental Retardation.
Bingham has received a number of honorary degrees from colleges and universities. He has served as honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi and as member chairman of the advisory board of the International Press Institute, been chairman of the International Press Institute, and member of the advisory board for Pulitzer prizes.
Heese said the 21 Catholic hospitals in
kansas would not perform abortions, even if
they were allowed.
Senate BILL 212 states that no hospital or its officers or administrators would be required to perform abortions and such refusal would not be grounds for a civil suit.
"The Catholic hospitals would shut their doors before being required by law to perform abortions." Hesse said. After that abortion could be performed from the premidium anti-abortion crowd.
Speaking in favor of the compliance bill were Blair Watson, representative for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Mym Rew, executive director of Planned Parenthood in central Kansas; and Ann McGhee, an abortion counselor at Kansas State University.
Watson said that the ACLU did not want to
comment on the morality of the abortion issue, but that she is 'believed' "a moral reason" for much important work.
Rew said Wesley Medical Center in Wichita had more than 40 calls a day from women requesting abortions and abortion information.
MGhee said Kansas State University counselors were trying to keep in contact with women after they had abortions to keep them from suffering from depression.
Vincent DeCouray, executive director of the Catholic Conference, spoke against considering any abortion legislation on a court-appointed panel on the liberalized Supreme Court ruling.
"The citizens of Kansas have found themselves in an incredible situation where we owe the Coursey said. The Catholic Conference cannot accept the Supreme Court's ruling."
Haralick, f29, of 3414 Tam O'Chanter Drive, filed Tuesday. He is an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Kansas and a principal investigator in processing data from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite.
Pulliam was elected in 1969 to a four-year term and served as mayor from April 1971 to April 1972. Before that he spent four years on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. He was chairman for two years.
"The main issue I'm concerned about is community solidarity," Haraldick said Thursday. "The way the situation is now, the city commission suggests something, and we need to press get their say. Polarization between the commission and the community results."
As the filing deadline for the upcoming city commission election drew near, seven candidates from sixth candidate to file and J. R. Pullam became the second commissioner to withdraw from the
"My position is that polarization is destructive. My suggestion is that if the commission members see that an issue is close, they should go out and get interested groups to form subcommittees. Then, after meeting with their positions, a decision could be reached."
"Very simply the fact is that I've got to devote more time to my business and my family," Pulham said Thursday. "Between them, I'm doing about 20 hours a week of commission, I've put in almost nine years."
Haralick, who has taught electrical engineering and mathematics at KU since 1969, said that he hoped University people would support him.
Commissioner J. R. Pullam Tuesday became the second commissioner to announce that he would not seek a second term. Commissioner Chuck Fisher announced his intention not to seek re-election last week.
Four other candidates have filed for commission posts. They are Mike Morrill,
City Deadline Nears; One Files,One Drops
1520 Vermont St.; Gale Pinegar, 148 Minnesota St.; John Emick, 12W. Sikth St.; and Harry Kroger Jr., 352 E. 12th St. (Bell Tower). The last Friday his intention run again.
City Clerk Vera Mercer said Thursday that no other persons had filed besides the six men. The filing deadline is noon Tuesday.
Religion School Awarded Funds
The money will come from the Battenfell Foundation, Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, said Saturday.
A Battente Endowment Fund of $60,000 has been established by the University of Kansas Endowment Association for the Kansas School of Religion.
The School of Religion is financed separately from the University by 10 cooperating Kansas religious bodies and contributions.
Recent expansion and rising costs have made increased support from private sources a necessity, said Lynn Taylor, dean of the School of Religion.
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