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Republicans Meet at Classic Political Rally
Bv RICHARD PAXSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
The Jefferson County Republican rally held north of Lawrence yesterday on the farm of former Kansas Lt. Gov. Reynolds Shultz was a classic Kansas political event.
The thermometer nailed on the old farmhouse marked the temperature at 104 degrees as 200 people sat in the shade of old oak trees on dusty planks stretched between hay bales.
Plastic elephants for Bob Dole swing from limbs hanging low in the breeze. A six-foot tall elephant, made of plaster and chicken wire, reared back on its hind legs, grasping in one foot a bucket containing a few coins. A sign hanging around his neck pleaded "Feed Me."
A band, the Country Goodtimers, played such
local favorites as “Your Chestnut ‘Heart’ and ‘Dead Skink in the Bed of the Road’ until they blew out
A teenage member of the "Dolls for Dole" organization sang "Battle Hymn for the Republicans," praising "individual initiative, fearless and strong." The song reminded the listeners that the Republican party was the nation's biggest segregation, welfare and housing for the poor.
Children played in the barn as their parents ate roast pork and farned themselves with a campaign literature. The other hams, the candidates themselves, basted in campaign promises before them.
Damian Webbler, finance director of the estate agency in New York, said, "Home on the Range." He then delivered the keynote.
John Bower, candidate for the state house of representatives from the 46th district, said that his seniority in the legislature was second only to a representative from Kansas City, Kan., who Bower said was from a "safe district." Bower has represented the same district for 22 years.
message that the state party was so far in debt that it might have to close the Topka office after the agreement.
Clay Hedrick, state auditor and candidate for state treasurer, told the audience, "We owe it to President Nixon to return Bob Dole to the U.S. Senate."
State Sen. Paul Hess of Wichita, Hedrick's primary opponent in the race for state treasurer, accompanied himself on the accordian as he sang his theme song, "Yes for Hess."
"I'll invest your money at the highest interest rate, let's see how much interest we can generate."
Tom Van Sickle, state treasurer and candidate for attorney general, said, "It is not necessary for the attorney general to kick down the door in every drug raid."
Robert Bennett, president of the Kansas Senate, and Forrest Robinson, Wichita minister, both candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, were represented by cammaon aides.
Steve Lowe, candidate for leautent governor, stressed the need for campaign finance reform. Lowe said we should "perform legal abortions on pregnant campaign coffers of some candidates."
Lowe is the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Robert Clack, former Kansas State University professor.
Ed Reilly, state senator from Leavenworth and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the second district, also spoke. Reilly was one of two state legislators who attempted to seize a film from the Erotic Film Festival held here last spring.
The father of a young family attending the event told a friend that he thought almost all personal contacts would be missed.
"They're going back to this kind of event more,
"the friend said. "Maybe they should."
"All we see now are radio and TV blurs," he said. "One man might be damn good, but if he's not a great artist, you can't."
His friend was more optimistic
84th Year, No. 160
Monday, July 15, 1974
Gallup Poll Says Watergate Overexposed
Nixon Says He Initiated Wiretaps
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Supports Kissinger in Letter to Senate Committee
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—President Nixon has reaffirmed his support of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in connection with the wiretapping of 17 officials and newsmen between 1969 and 1971.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler confirmed yesterday that Nixon had written a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee taking full responsibility for the wirestaps, which were intended to help plug news leaks.
squirt was launched after Kissinger asked that he be publicly cleared in the inquiry.
Neither the western White House nor the Senate committee made public immediately the text of the letter.
The Foreign Relations Committee last week began a new series of hearings on Kissinger's role in the wiredtapping. The
the panel meets in closed session with FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley.
The hearings are to continue today when
Nixon had said May 22, 1973, that he authorized a special program of wiredan-
Nixon Must Obey Ruling Of Court, Weicker Savs
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-, Con-Ron, said yesterday that the Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to yield Watergate tapes and Nixon refused, he would vote for the President's conviction in a Senate impeachment trial.
"As far as I am concerned and every other citizen of this country—and that includes
the president—when the Supreme Court rules, that it's," Weicker said.
Interviewed on the CBS program "Face the Nation." Weicker, a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, said that by defying the high court, Nixon would have "placed himself above the law—that's nobody that nobody can do in this country."
Israelis Give Life Sentences to Guerrillas
An Israeli military court in occupied Gaza sentenced three Palestinian guerrillas to life imprisonment yesterday after convicting them of murdering a Roman Catholic priest and a Gaza official. The convicted terrorists, who live in a refugee camp, are Mohammed Rukui, 23, a high school teacher, and two law students at Beirut's American University, Halab Mater, 20, and Farouk Hassan, 19.
South Vietnamese Vote in Local Elections
Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin moved from their Salut 3 space station into the docked Soyuz 14 transport craft during their ninth mission to pay in space to work on the Soyuz's manual controls. Tass reported. A brief press report from the government news agency said the men were feeling well.
South Vietnamese voters cast ballots in provincial and local elections that political experts said should increase the control of President Nguyen Van Thieu's Democracy party over South Vietnam's political system. Final returns are expected today. Political sources expected Thieu's party to capture a majority of the 478 seats for local councils in South Vietnam's 44 provinces and 11 municipalities.
Asked whether under those circumstances he would vote to convict the man, who was a former member of the U.S. Senate.
Cosmonauts Move into Transport Craft
Baltimore Police Head Threatens Discipline
Police Commissioner Donald D. Pomerleau said he would fire some of the 685 police officers who walked off their jobs in a wage dispute and discipline others. Pomerleau told a news conference there would be "no general amenity" for them, but they began a bribe a Thursday night after several days of a job slowdown.
Weicker also said the Watergate committee had voted in closed session to refer to the case. "I don't know if a prosecutor, apparent conflicts in testimony over the milk fund and a $50,000 cash transaction between billionaire Howard Hughes and C. G. "Bebe" Rebson, Nikon's lawyer," he said.
"The entire record and any observations that counsel might have in this area of perjury have been put into the hands of the special prosecutor," Weicker said.
Hostages Flee From Convicts
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seven hostages had an elevator key escaped to them and escaped yesterday from two convicts who were kidnapped in a cellblock at the U.S. Courthouse days in a cellblock at the U.S. Courthouse.
The gunmen, Frank Gorham Jr. and Robert N. Jones, remained barricaded in the basement that they had seized eight days earlier with a bid to win their freedom through terror.
Negotiations to gain their surrender dragged on for hours after their hostages escaped. Justice Department spokesman John Sanders said, "We are settled down for a long wait."
He said that there were no plans to break in but that authorities were considering turning off the lights and air conditioning in the cellblock to pressure them to surrender. The convicts had voluntarily released one of them on Friday, an early Friday and 14 other inmates Saturday.
When the prisoners were released, Washington chose to remain behind, apparently to keep the one female hostage alone. Another girl, Jones had made no threats against her.
Senate Report Urges Campaign Reform
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Judiciary Committee is expected to release more impeachment inquiry evidence this week on the heels of the Senate Watergate Committee's final report.
The Senate panel drew no conclusions about individual guilt or innocence in its three-volume report, which urged the creation of a permanent special prosecutor and a sweeping reform of the private system of financing federal elections.
It noted that at least some of the subpoenaed milk-fund evidence that the White House had refused to give to Senate investigators had found its way into the hands of the House impeachment probs.
One of the key questions left hanging in the Senate report is whether President Nixon was improperly influenced by the promise of campaign donations from dairymen when he raised federal milk price supports in March 1971.
"These may shed further light on the events involving the milk fund," the report said.
Judiciary committee members have said the tapes contain material damaging to Nixon but don't by themselves show evidence of their wrongdoing.
Among the evidence that may be made public by the Judiciary committee are two White House tapees of Nixon meeting with President Obama and President Bush.
The senate committee did not conclude that dairy donations were directly linked to Nixon's price increase.
Instead, the committee quoted testimony from a top dairy co-op official who said that he was asked to reaffirm a promise to give $2 million to Nixon shortly before the price increase was made and that he feared possible "adverse consequences" if he didn't give.
The Watergate Committee itself has now passed into limbo, the task of investigating Watergate-related matters passing entirely into the hands of the Judiciary Committee and the office of the Watergate special prosecution force.
ping because of what he said were leaks of information vital to national security.
"I authorized this entire program," the President said then. "Each individual tap was taken in accordance with procedures outlined in accord with long-standing precedent."
The panel rejected the idea of financing federal elections with taxpayers' money.
Instead, it recommended reform of the present system of private donations.
Kissinger, who at the time of the taps was Nikon's chief national security adviser, has said his only role is to provide the names of members of the National Security Council staff who had access to information that had been leaked.
If adopted, the panel's recommendations would limit individual donors to give no more than $3,000 for a presidential candidate's pre-nomination campaign and another $3,000 for the general election.
Kissinger's request that he be cleared in the matter followed news accounts last month based on FBI documents, including some memos written by late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, asserting that Kissinger had initiated certain taps.
Large Statue of Moses To Be Finished Soon
A 12-foot statue of Moses, which has been under construction for nearly seven years, should be completed by this time next year. This is one of the paintings of painting and sculpture, said Friday.
The reason that Moses has taken so long, Tefft said, has been due to many major setbacks. For a year there was nowhere to work on the project.
Tefft was finally given space in Fowler Hall where the statue is now being constructed. However, the project will have to wait until September 1, when Fowler will be torn down.
Work on the statue was held back another year when Tefft broke his leg. Tefft said this was a major setback because he didn't want to play and he said he was sort of a personal project.
The sculpture was begun with the construction of a light metal frame known as an arched arch. It has four columns and
Once the wax has been molded to the desired shape, it will be covered with a layer of plasticyte clay, which will give the statue a plastic feeling.
The sculpture of Moses is being done for the School of Religion and will be placed in front of Smith Hall. Tefft said the sculpture would probably be completed next year.
styrofoam, which was put on with a urethane foam adhesive. Recently, the structure was covered with wax, which was then exposed to UV light, spatulas, brushes and the artist's hands.
Then, a plaster mold will be made from which about a dozen patterns will be burned. These patterns will then be filled with sand and then pressed into the bronze pieces are welded together.
"Sculptures of this size arent in this area very often, so it is giving the students a unique chance to see and work on a major project," Teft said.
Elden Teft Works on His 12-foot Moses
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBIE GUMP