THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 78
Area POWs Listed
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Monday, January 29,1973
End of Draft For Kansans Is Confirmed
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's announcement Saturday at the end of the military draft has drawn the induction of 1,600 military veterans. Elder, Kansas Selective Service director,
About 5,000 men were expected to be called into the service this year, and, in lieu of a large number of workers,
"We have heard nothing definite, but I take Sec. Laird's statement to mean the cancellation of any induction," Elder said Sunday.
Although inductions have been cancelled, registration has not. Men will still be required to register the payment for their hirthdays, according to Selective Service rules. Unless the Selective Service law is changed, the agency will have to continue the registration process.
The only part of the law which will expire on June 30 is one sentence authorizing the following:
The law now states that when an all-volunteer military is achieved, the Selective Service must maintain a capability on a basis to draft men quickly if necessary.
Kenson Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Also being discussed with the end of the draft is the co-location or consolidation of draft boards. The number of boards in the company has been reduced from 4,084 in 1970 to 3,917.
Colocation and consolidation will eventually come to Kansas, Elder said, but his office won't take any action until it is done. The company its fund allocation from the government.
"Consolidation would mean making one set of records out of two," Elder said. "Colocation would mean putting two sets of records in the same office but keeping them separate."
"I am going to Washington on Wednesday and two weeks from now we will have a pretty good idea where we stand," Elder said.
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coming early to Lawrence, the reappearance of ice, snow and cold winds was a rude awakening. Motorists derived little pleasure from driving on the ice-covered streets and highways. Blowing snow made driving exceptionally hazardous on both highways, and western cliffs on Saturday night in the western part of the state.
A few persons took advantage of the weekend snowfall by sledding at Potter-Lake. But for this young man, the task of pulling his sled back up the hill almost overrides the pleasure of racing down. For those who thought that Spring might be
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New 'Peace' Budget Trim
KEY BISCAYNE (AP) -- Declaring it is "Time to big government off your back and out of your pocket," President Nixon told the nation Sunday he was sending a message. He said that would hold the line on taxes and slash several popular federal programs.
A day after the official end of American fighting in Vietnam, the nation's longest, the President said in a nationwide radio address that his $29-billion budget "will give us the chance to make our new era of peace a new era of progress."
Nixon's budget goes to Congress at noon Monday, but he set the stage for his battle of the budget with Congress by unveiling some of his ideas, including a tapered before he flew to Florida on Friday.
HE SAID he proposed "some very sharp reductions in some very familiar programs regarded as sacred cows in the past." As he explained, the proposal is for construction program, urban renewal
assistance and special aid for schools near federal installations.
Nixon said he had searched for waste in "every knook and cranny of the bureaucracy." His own executive office payroll would be cut 60 per cent, while deep cuts would be made in projected defense and agricultural budgets, he said.
However, more spending will be shifted to such programs as pollution control, crime prevention, drug abuse, energy needs and cancer and heart disease research. Nikon
He will press Congress to set "a firm ceiling on overall expenditures," which was lower than his own estimate.
The first of these messages will reach Capitol Hill this week, Nixon said, and "will chart a new course for America—a course that will bring more progress by putting
NEXON DISCLOSED, too, that his State of the Union report this year would be "a series of detailed messages on specific issues." The report is supporting a laundry list of programs.
Aides said the chief executive worked on the messages Sunday after flying by helicopter from his Key Biscayne home to an island in the Bahamas afforded by a friend.
more responsibility and money in more places."
Nixon's slashes in programs popular with Congress, coupled with his vow to keep current fiscal year spending to $250 million by withholding, congressional approved funds, has already touched off major controversy on Canitol Hill.
THE PRESIDENT appeared to extend an olive branch to unhappy congressmen, while seeking public support for the White House position.
"Every member of the Congress gets enormous pressure from special interests to spend your money for what they want," he said. "And so I ask you to back up those congressmen and those senators, whether they have courage to vote against higher spending. They hear from the special interests, let them hear from you."
Viet Peace Not Sure As U.S. Speeds Exit
SAIGON (AP)—The United States speed withdrawal of its remaining 23,000 troops under a day-old cease-fire already shattered by widespread fighting. The Saigon authorities occupied the Communist side of 373 true violence on Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. Saigon time.
A South Vietnamese communique most of the significant action centered in the northern quarter of South Vietnam, but the biggest battle was in the central highlands, along Highway 14 about 16 miles south of Pletha.
Government militia forces spearheaded by armored units clashed with Communist-led troops trying to block Highway 14, the Saigon command said.
"INITIAL REPORTS indicated 200 enemy killed," the communique said. It listed South Vietnamese casualties as five men killed and 14 wounded.
Many of the alleged violations appeared minor, including light mortar and rocket
U. S. officials said they anticipated more hard fighting ahead.
The Saigon command reported more than 4,000 North and South Vietnamese casualties in the first five days after announcement of the cease-fire. The U.S. Command said four Americans died and were listed as missing during that period.
The cease-fire did not officially begin until 8 a.m. Sunday - 7 p.m. Saturday EST. A land grab preceded the truce and conferred the designated time for a halt in the fighting.
AS THE FIGHTING for political control flared in scores of hamlets, members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and Vietnamese Communist delegates to the peace agreement's Joint Military Commission converged on Saigon to set up machinery designed to strengthen the fragile cease-fire.
Two U.S. Air Force C130 transport planes flew to Hanoi Sunday night to pick up about 150 North Vietnamese military men who will serve with a new commission supervising the Vietnam cease-fire, the Pentagon announced.
Ten Viet Cong delegates refused to leave their plane for 20 hours because the South Vietnamese government demanded that they fill out customs and immigration forms. Finally the government waived the requirement on Monday.
Viet Cong action forced cancellation of a meeting Monday morning of the four-power commission, which includes representatives from the United States and the South Vietnamese government.
EARLIER, NORTH Vietnamese delegates had refused to ride in U.S.-provided limousines flying white and blue flags of the old International Control Commission on the grounds that the flags looked like emblems of surrender. Although U.S. Air Force servicemen removed the flags, the delegates went into Sapon on a bus.
The peace agreement signed in Paris Saturday calls for a full withdrawal of U.S. military personnel within 60 days, at which point Joint Military Commission will be enshrined.
The final daily commute from the U.S.
Command said in a single sentence: All
military personnel must be present at
the base.
in the Republic of Vietnam ended at 8 a.m. today."
HOWEVER, U.S. fighter-bombers continued to fly until the deadline, logging 494 airplanes on September 15. Cong Positions during the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m. Sunday. The strikes were the heaviest since May, during the August commish command staff's 1972 mine offensive.
Although there was still no word on the release of American prisoners of war, South Vietnam's military had thousands of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese POWs were being gathered in the Can Tho region in the Mekong Delta, 80 miles to Saigon, for an impending release.
Both the International Commission of Control and Supervision and the Joint Military Commission face a difficult task because there are no provisions written into the peace agreement giving them any enforcement authority.
DESPITE WIDESPREAD fighting which gave the Communist side territorial gains, mainly in the Saigon region, and which cut four major highways leading from the South Vietnamese capital, senior analysts said the attacks and counterattacks were not
unexpected. They said they did not think
they would see the country was
seriously threatened yet.
U. S. officials said about 400 American servicemen left Sunday and another 400 evacuated from a hurricane accelerated pace of troop withdrawals. Before the cease-fire, U.S. troop withdrawn had been averaging about 100 men per week. The deadline for all American troops was October 31.
U. S. OFFICIALS said some of the American servicemen leaving Vietnam were simply going "west," meaning they were being transferred to Thailand.
Officials have said that sufficient American military strength will be maintained in Thailand to deter violations of the agreement.
The U.S. Command disclosed that the last American killed in Vietnam before the start of the cease-fire was Lt. Col. William B. Hill, a second-generation live children from Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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U.S. Continues Raids Over Laos, Cambodia
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 120 U.S. war planes bombed North Vietnamese supply trains in Laos and military targets in Cambodia, prompting the United States to went into effect, informed sources said.
The American planes met light anti-aircraft fire, and there were no reported UBVs.
ONE HUNDRED F4 phantom jet fighter-bombers flew from three bases in Thailand, and 22 B52 bombs attacked from Guam. A top U.S. State Department official confirmed the continued bombing of Laos but said nothing about attacks in Cambodia.
William Sullivan, former ambassador to Laos, said on television, "In the period between now and whenever there is a ceasefire in Laos, we are continuing to provide assistance to our Lao forces in resisting whatever Communist movements there are place."
SULLIVAN, a deputy secretary assistant
organizing staff on the nature or
scene of the air support.
The Pentagon acknowledged Sullivan's statement and said it had nothing to add at
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim replied "no comment" when asked about reports that the United States still was waging air war over Laos.
Last week, Friedheim left open the possibility that U.S. bombers would continue to hit North Vietnamese supply trains to the capital, but have been stopped after the fighting stopped in Vietnam.
At that time, Friedheim said he could not go beyond the words of Henry Kissinger, chief U.S. negotiator of the Vietnam peace oac.
He recalled Kissinger's statement last Wednesday that the United States had "full expectation that within a short period of time there will be a formal cease-fire in Laos" and a halt in the fighting in Cambodia as well.
LAOTIAN PRI MINISTER Souvanna
haima said last Friday that he expected a
poll for his constituency.
The peace agreement worked out by Kissinger and North Vietnamese diplomats stipulated that "foreign countries shall put pressure on Vietnam to deal with Laos." But it did not specify a date.
The United States has more than 500 bombers, fighter-bombers and gunships stationed in Thailand. There have been many indications that this force will not be reduced at least until the 60-day period that started Saturday, during which the U.S. would withdraw to be withdrawn from Vietnam and all U.S. war prisoners returned to American hands.
THE BOMBING would appear to be aimed at interfering with any further flow of North Vietnamese supplies to Communist troops in the South for as long as possible.
The cease-fire agreement rules out any further North Vietnamese infiltration from Laos or Cambodia and limits resupplying North Vietnamese troops remaining in South Vietnam to controlled replacement of equipment engaged on a one-on-one basis.
However, the machinery for supervising this and other provisions of the cease-fire agreement is not yet in place. A month's time may be necessary before international organizations make up of Poles, Canadians, Indonesians and Hungarians can begin supervision.
'Hire-a-Nude' Looks to Lawrence
By CHUCK POTTER
By CHRICK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Could a nude modeling studio survive financially in Lawrence?
IM is one of three studios specializing in mute photography in the greater Kansas City area, all of which have opened within the last eight months. A fourth studio was recently closed by the Kansas City, Mo., voice squared because of alleged prostitution.
Jackson is engaged in a market study of Lawrence, one of four cities that are candidates for expansion of Jackson's lucrative enterprise.
Ed Jackson, owner of International
Knox College in Rockwell in Kansas City,
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The studio also pays for film and develops photographs for the customer. he said.
"We're considering four cities as possible expansion sites—Lawrence, Columbia, Omaha and St. Louis, he said. "We'll probably make our decision within 90 days. Personally, I love college towns. I like the atmosphere."
JACKSON, a 32-year-old former broadcaster, said Saturday that his business had become so good that he could easily expand it at any time.
Jackson said he had recently had an application for employment from a woman who claimed to be a University of Kansas student. Jackson said he did not consider her figure aesthetically pleasing and did not hire her.
"If we do expand to Lawrence, we would have lower rates for students, of course. But that works both ways. If you know a teacher in the car, your car, you should charge him accordingly."
IM'S MODELS range in age from 18 to 26. Most are married women who are in the business because the hours are short and the pay is excellent. he said.
"I enjoy doing it because the money is good and the working conditions are pleasant," she said. "Besides, it's funny. It's great. Walk out of here shaking in their shoes."
Linda, an attractive blonde model, said she averaged $100 to $115 for a 20-hour vacation.
than modeling sessions was available at his studio.
RECENTLY IMS business has fallen off about 60 per cent because of vice squad harassment and lack of advertising. Two weeks ago Jackson was informed by the Kansas City Sar that they would no longer carry his classifieds ad, he said.
"Some guys come in here thinking, 'She's a nude model, she'll do anything,' but that's not right," Jackson said. "They're not prostitutes. To them it's just a job.
Jackson emphasized that nothing more
"Someday I hope to write a book about my experiences running this place. So many funny things happen here," said Jackson, and because he objectioned to required courses.
However, Jackson is fighting the move. He hired an attorney to negotiate with the judge.
"If I don't get legal relief within a few weeks we're going to have clad-clad girls pickles."
"By cutting off our ads and the ads of the other two studios in town, they're losing between $20,000 and $30,000 a year," Jackson said.
IM was the first operation of its kind in Kansas City. The Blue Orchid Studio, former Art Models, Inc., opened at 3109 Main in Kansas City, Mo., last July.
Vic Damon and Phil Manuel, both 27-year-old college graduates, on the Blue Orchid and say they are in the business primarily for money.
"I got my degree in education from KU in 1970," Manuel said, "and with a family of four to support, I was starving as a teacher."
"WE'RE GOING to stay with this until we make enough money to hire a manager to run the studio." Damon said. "That way we can go on to other interests ourselves. Personally, I can't see myself managing a nude-modes studio for the rest of my life."
"Besides, I'm not sure how Vern (Miller) would react."
Until recently the Blue Orchid had two girls from KU working as models.
Damon said he did not think his business would succeed in Lawrence.
"The town is too small to support it," he said. With all those college girls around, it was easy for them to take over.
"one was only part-time, and she graduated," Damon said. "The other went to the coast. We did have a KU girl apply to back, but we have a full staff right now."
N.Y. Man Says Grandpa Brought Sunflowers Here
A brief adventure in Kansas by an upstate New Yorker during the bloody years before Hawaii became a state flower, the sunflower of the state flower, the sunflower.
As Kansas celebrates its 112th anniversary as a state today, the sunflower is still considered a native, as it was by the stat legislature in
Donald MacNab of Rochester, N.Y., however, tells a family story that would dispute the words of historians. Mr. MacNab, a MacNab camp, to Kansas in the 1850s.
The garden included golden sunflowers, the MacNab family tradition maintains. Grandfather MacNab
Grandfather MacNab, it seems, had been a nurseryman in the Rochester area. He resettled his family near Lawrence and planted a garden around his home with seeds he had brought with him.
moved his family back to New York after Quantrill's raid in 1863.
"We have always said my grandfather was the one to first bring the sunflower to Kansas," MacNab said. Our course, I have no real proof of that."
The Kansas Legislature declared the sunflower the official state flower June 1, 1903. Its hardiness was said to be among the best in winding trails and natal prairies.
"It was only a tardy recognition of the noted flower so intimately woven with the name of Kansas," Sen. George P. Morehouse, author of the book "Winter Flower is common throughout our borders and is hard and conscious."
Kansas since has been known as the "Sunflower State," but such a reputation may not be without merit nurseryman from the "Flower City" of Rochester, N.Y.