THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 86
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Bottle Cap Infant Bike Seat Designed
Thursday, February 8, 1973
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Kansas Photo by BILL JONES
Communists To Release 27 Prisoners
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Communist forces plan to release 27 American prisoners of war Sunday from jungle camps in South Vietnam, Pentagon sources said Wednesday.
These men, among more than 500 held by
the National Guard, are free near An-
napolis for a Provisional 40 miles on tarmac.
Pentagon sources said there still was no word when the first POWs would be released by North Vietnam, but indications were that this would be scheduled to coincide with Henry Kissinger's visit to Hanoi Saturday.
Kissinger, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Paris peace talks, is scheduled to arrive Saturday in the North Vietnamese capital for four days of talks.
Although the Pentagon had no official comment on the report of the first FOWs to be released, relinable sources said the understanding as relayed by the Viet Cong to U.S. officials in South Vietnam tied in earlier statements from Michel Gauvin in Saigon, head of the international commission supervising the cease-fire.
Once released by the Viet Cong, the POWs will be picked up by helicopter and flown directly to Saigon, then transferred to specially equipped medical evacuation jets and flown to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.
At Clark, the returns will be given medical examinations and intelligence debriefings before they are flown to one of 31 hospitals in the United States.
Of the 562 U.S. servicemen identified by the Communists as prisoners of war, 456 are held in the North, seven in Laos and 99 in Southeast Vietnam.
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The peace agreement signed in Paris to end the fighting in Vietnam stipulated that the first POWs would be released within 15 days. The 15th day is Sunday.
The agreement also calls for four groups of men to be released about every two weeks, in roughly all installations All POWs are to be set free by March 28.
Sheila Carney, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, gives blood at the Bloodmobile in front of the Kansas Union. The Bloodmobile collected 214 pints of blood in its first day of operation Wednesday. This is less than was collected during the drive
last fall, according to Doug Spencer, Shawnee Mission sophomore and chairman of the spring Bloodmobile. Spencer returned from a combination of factors, including the cold weather and the great number of persons sick. Red Cross personnel responded in addition to 14 to 4:30 p.m. Returned from 12 to 4:30 p.m. Friday and from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Center Called Inadequate
By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Three members of the Lawrence Park and Recreation Board appeared at the monthly Human Relations Commission meeting Wednesday night to answer charges that the East Lawrence Center played a role in teenage recreational activities.
Norma Harrod, a member of the Park and Recreation Advisory Board, said that the Center was only a temporary facility and that planned neighborhood recreation centers would provide adequate recreational opportunities for teen-agers.
Appearing at the meeting with Harrod were Wayne Bly and Fred DeVictor, director and assistant director of the Park and Recreation Board.
Claude Norris, Chairman of the Human Relations Committee, told the group that committee members recently became concerned with the regularly limited usage of the ELC and the "inadequacy of the ELC and the supervision of it."
Bly said that the ELC was "quite decrepit and poorly planned" but that it was intended to be only a "stop-gap center" until a better building could be constructed.
Bly said if Lawrence wanted a community center, it would have to be funded with tax money. "The city commission hasn't taken definite action yet," he said, and he pointed to the commissioned-to we over the building.
Marijuana Bill Argued Today
A Kansas House of Representatives bill that would remove legal prohibitions on personal use, possession and sale of marijuana in Kansas is scheduled for a hearing at 3:15 p.m. today in the Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Glover said he anticipated a committee vote tomorrow to either and the bill to floor or to kill. He said that the bill will be voted on by the legislature this term were "about 1 to 24."
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, who introduced the bill, said the measure would strike the word marijuana from the bill. The Glover may be the only person to testify in favor of the bill, but he said, he may ask other people to give testimony, also. He said he would argue for the bill and "individual rights" point of view.
If the bill was to pass, Kansas would be the first state in the country to legalize marijuana. The closest marijuana legalization has come to being passed in a state was a 2-1 vote against making it legal in California last November.
Norris asked Bly whether "there was any validity" to the accusation that "there's a problem with our case."
"In every community, they say, 'there's nothing to do here.' Bly said, "We've had all kinds of structured programs here, but teen-agents aren't what they used to be, and we're only doing it until about four years ago, and we haven't had any structured programs since then."
That prompted a remark by Harrod that neighborhood centers would provide an
"As far as the ELC is concerned, it's the only answer for right now," she said.
Harrod said that she visualized at least six neighborhood centers for Lawrence. Commissioner John Purcell the cost of each six centers would be at least $600,000.
Commissioner Nelson Greene had told Bly earlier that one chargelevel against the ELC was that the "person in charge" was never there.
"We're going to look into that." Bly said.
"For the last few weeks, though, that hasn't hurt us."
Harrod said that community centers on a neighborhood basis would not work unless staffed correctly, a matter she termed more important than facilities, such as the quality of facilities.
Norris, apparently attempting to determine exactly when the center was open, said, "They're not open at all times, right?"
"They weren't open at 8 p.m. last night," Commissioner Hedy Rubion said.
Commissioner Tom Beaver asked Bly whether the ELC and the South Park Center were involved in the development.
Chairman Norris told Harrod, Bly, and DeVictor that he was glad they were "moving on some things" the Human Nations Commission was concerned about.
"We'll have to talk to him (Brown)," Bly ensued.
"No." Bly said.
The commission then discussed local busing problems, after listening to a report on the issue by Ernest Coleman, 924 Holiday Drive.
"We try to get the best people we can," Blv said.
director of federal programs, gave a comprehensive report on the transportation problems of North and East Lawrence students.
According to Coleman, providing transportation for low income students living a long distance from their school was not a new problem.
Two years ago bus service was supplied
Coleman, Lawrence public schools
Navy Plane Crashes Into Apartment House
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ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP)—A U.S. Navy jet fighter exploded in flames Wednesday night when it slammed into an apartment building with an estimated 80 persons inside. The building, across the bay from San Francisco, was reduced to rubble.
Witnesses said they thought "only a small
percentage of residents in the building could have gotten out alive."
Highland Hospital in Oakland reported at least 11 persons injured. A spokesman at the Almada County Coroner's office said 11 people were taken and he had received no reports of any deaths.
Coroner's shift commander James
Kissinger Off to Asia For Postwar Parleys
WASHINGTON (AP) - Henry Kissinger left for Thailand Wednesday on a multi-purpose Vietnam postwar mission that will climax with visits to Hanoi and Pekin.
Shortly after Kissinger headed for Bangkok, White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler reaffirmed that the presidential adviser would stop over in Vientiane Friday to discuss prospects for a cease-fire in Laos.
Prime Minister Souvanna Phoua, with whom Kissinger is to dine Friday night, is optimistic about reaching a cease-fire between the Communist Federal Lao in about a week.
Settlements in Laos and Cambodia would be, in the view of U.S. officials, of major help in carrying through the Jan. 27 Paris act for an end to the war in Vietnam.
Kissinger is to fly from Vientiane to Hanoi Saturday morning for four days of talks with North Vietnamese leaders on postwar relations, including U.S.-North Vietnamese reconciliation and the rebuilding of Indochina's torn country.
After a one-and-a-half day rest in Hong Kong Feb. 13, 14-12, Ziegler said, Kissinger will go to Peking for consultations with Chinese and Iran and then return directly to Washington.
In the Chinese capital, Kissinger plans to push for further improvements in Washington-Peking relations and to discuss the need to increase the reference to guarantee an Indonesia peace.
China is one of the 13 parties going to the Indochina peace arrangements conference in Geneva.
Scattered fighting was reported throughout much of South Vietnam Wednesday as the peacekeeping missions met on Wednesday to sharpen their plans for the upcoming year, according to truce-watching teams into the field to attempt to halt the fighting.
Williana said, "I'll probably end up in a job where I work on stuff working we are working with the living."
U. S. C130 transport planes continued daily runs into Hanoi to pick up North Vietnamese and Viet Cong personnel to show up the Communist side of the Joint
A ball of fire shot hundreds of feet into the air after a Navy A7 jet fighter from Lemoore Naval Air Station hit the top of a building, building and exploded, witnesses said.
Delays in getting the military commission up to its full complement have hampered the International Commission for Control and Supervision in its attempts to field a full supervisory force, supposed to be in place a week ago.
Alameda men Terry Lacroix said were 72 to 80 people in the building.
Other eyewearers said two apartment buildings fanking the three-story structure of the building.
Patricia Posche, 19, of Alameda was a passenger in a car passing the building at 705 Madison Street.
"The jet hit flat on top of the building" she said. "The only ones who could have made it were on the bottom floor. Flares of wood came through the car window."
She said a man burned and clad only in T-shirt and slacks fell backwards out of a first floor window and "started yelling my name" before she came back to grab him. "pull his wife and two small kids outside."
The site of the disaster is in the center of a block in a residential neighborhood.
OMB Director Chided By Senate Committee
WASHINGTON (AP)—Members of a special Senate panel scaled federal budget director Roy Ash Wednesday and advised President Nixon not to circumvent congressional attempts to make Ash's position subject to Senate confirmation.
Appearing for the second time in a week before a Judiciary Committee subcommittee on the separation of powers, Ash maintained that as head of the Office of Management and Security he is not a President's personal staff and is not subject to such confirmation.
Sen, Charles H. Fercy, R-III., said he had heard reports Nixon might appoint a figurehead to direct OMB and shield Ash D. Kelsey, who he continued to shame the federal budget.
the Senate 64 to 17. Ash said he had heard no discussion that attempts might be made to get around that bill if it passes Congress and, given the time constraints, consider, an inevitable presidential veto.
A bill subjecting Ash and future OMB directors to Senate confirmation has passed
Percy said, "I hope we will override that to, and I trust there will be no attempt to罢谗."
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., lectured Ash on the Constitution as it relates to the impoundment of funds and to the appointment of a new commissioner. The second most powerful official in government.
Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Mont., said impoundment of funds appropriated for the regulatory agencies could endanger their continued independence and impair enforcement of their orders—perhaps at the request of large Republican contributors.
Farmers, Street Crews Feel Brunt of Winter
By ZAHID IQBAL
Kansan Staff Writer
It's been a long, hard winter this year for many Kansas, and the wettest one some remember. Many are not happy with the way nature seems to be acting up, especially farmers for whom this winter poses a question of economic survival.
William Bradley, veterinarian and farmer, said Tuesday that this winter's weather had created serious backpacks for him and other farmers by upsetting ploughing and planting schedules and causing livestock losses.
"It'll put some of them out of business," she said, and it might be very, very difficult on others.
Earl L. Van Meter, Douglas County extension specialist, confirmed that it had been a rough winter for farmers and that they would be hurt financially. He said, however, that he thought they would pull through somehow.
VanMeter said that the government would not be able to help the farmer have provided emergency loans for distressed farmers. Referring to the crop and livestock losses that occurred this year, VanMeter was being "spoiled on both ends."
Farmers are not the only ones who have been affected. The excessive moisture this season has created problems for road maintenance crews, who are experiencing the frustration of repeatedly having to repair roads.
Arnold Wiley, Lawrence street superintendent, said this had been the worst winter for roads in the past 15 years. Part of the problem is the intermittent below-freezing temperature, he said, but most of his image has been caused by excessive wetness.
In some areas of Lawrence, Wiley said, drainage problems could not be solved by
spreading rock on roads because there was too much moisture. He said he did not think that the drainage system was to blame but that there was just too much water around. There is no way of getting the problems being caused, he said.
"I just hope Spring will hurry up and get here." Wiley said.
Dean Anderson, county director of public works, also said he thought that winter had been very hard on roads this year. The deep penetration of moisture, he said, spoiled the base, the sub-base and went through to the subsoil below the roads.
"You just don't have any bottom to them. That's how the school bases get stuck on."
Where the roads are not made of asphalt or where they do not have sufficient lateral drainage, Anderson said, they just turn into mudholes.
Snow and ice on the roads has also presented problems by making it necessary to send the snow-plough out more often, he said.
Also affect is construction of Wescoe Hall, which is about 60 days behind schedule because of the rain and snow conditions that have persisted in Lawrence since August, according to Keith Lawton, director of facilities and planning.
Lawton said that completion of Wescow Hall was originally scheduled for late July or early August. He said the construction crews had completed most of the outdoor work on Wescow Hall and that they were now working inside.
Lawton said the biggest problem in the construction occurred during the rainy season.
Watkins Memorial Hospital should be completed by next February, Lawton said. Construction for the new health center is on schedule, he said, because of the large amount of work performed last summer when the weather was favorable.
Kansan Photo by LESLIE RISS
Long, Wet Winter Creates Many Problems for Kansans . . . Cold and mud delay construction of campus buildings . . .