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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
4th Year. No. 127
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 17, 1974
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Lawrence and Campus Police Examine the Alleged Getaway Car
Robbery Suspects Sought
By DENNIS ELLSWORTH Kanaan Staff Reporter
Law enforcement authorities are seeking three men who escaped with an undisclosed amount of money after an armed robbery at the National Bank of Lawrence.
Two black men entered First National Bank South on 23rd Street and Ousdahl Ave. In their hands were money from three employees, according Lawrence police. The men reportedly were in their 28s and were coveralls and skin masks. All leauses one of the robbers had to pass under.
One female customer was reportedly told that she would have her belt cut if she called her.
Three customers entered the bank during the hold-up and were tied with clothesline rope and forced to lie on the floor. Credit was taken from them, they said.
A customer, William Gallagher
Lawrence graduate student, said, "One robbed told me to lose upon or he would blow
Gallagher said he saw a car sitting in the parking lot with its motor running and a black man sitting in the driver's seat when he didn't think anything was unusual about him. He did not think anything was unusual about him.
He described the driver as being short and stocky.
When Gallagher entered the bank, he said, a gun was put to his head, his hands were tied behind him and he was wrestled to the floor.
Another customer, Rick Kaufman, said the first thing he saw when he entered the bank was a girl on the floor in front of the counter.
As he entered, he said, the door seemed to close quickly behind him.
"I caught a gun in my face when I turned around," he said.
Kaufman was forced to lie down on the floor and was tied up in the robbers
Beisner Protests Increase Of Student Ticket Prices
Increased prices for football season tickets are appropriate, Beisner said, but his main concern is basketball season tickets.
"The Student Senate expected some increase as a result of the allocation, Beisner said, "but I don't think the athletic corp. should increase it to $15 for basketball season tickets."
"The Athletic Corporation is using the reduction in funding as a facade to greatly increase the amount of money the student pays to the athletic corporation." Beisser said.
Letters of protest were to be sent today to Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, and to John Eberhardt, chairman of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation by student officers. A committee of applicants to have the recent increase of student ticket prices to sports events reconsidered.
Beisner said the $180,000 allotted to the KUAA earlier in 1974 for the floor in Allen
Field House wasn't taken into consideration by KUAA when it raised the ticket prices. "This money amounted to about $12 a student," Beisser said.
"The budget of the KUAA wasn't to be considered until May," Beiser said. "We were briefed on the budget, inspection; however, we were handed copies of the budget at the beginning of our April meeting and told that the Board of Regents wanted the matter settled by the budget."
Beisner produced figures to show that the average student who attended all football and basketball games in the past two years contributed $70 to the KUA, while the student who attended none of the games conceived about $30 in student activity fees.
continued to demand more money from the bank employs, he said.
"I think the move is defeating and, as a result, the athletic corporation will take in less money next year because students aren't going to buy the tickets."
The car, a late model Ford, green with a black top, was reportedly found about 7:15 last night in the parking lot of Stouffer Place apartments.
The robbers reportedly emptied the cash drawers and tied up the employees before walking outside and getting into a waiting car.
Authorities wouldn't confirm that they found the car but it fit the description of a BMW.
Mitchell Calls Memo Crude Vesco Attempt
Walker couldn't be reached for comment.
The car used in the robbery and the one found in Stouffer Place parking lot fit the description of a car stolen in Kansas City, Mo., early yesterday. The only apparent damage was to the stole car had Missouri tags and the car found in Stouffer had Kansas tats.
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell testified yesterday that he pigeon-holed a memorandum by financier Robert L. Vesco that was intended for the White House. He called the memo "a crude attempt to use muscle."
A silent alarm and a videotape system weren't activated, according to Warren and others.
"You had been the top law enforcement officer in the country "
"Yes." he agreed.
"No, I did not," he replied.
They are charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.
"Did you consider this an effort to obstruct justice?" Mitchell was asked.
"But you didn't think it was releavable to let Mr. Casey know what was going on, asked Asketh Atty. Atty John Wing, reiterating William Casey, the Security Team's answer.
Mitchell's two days under cross-examination concluded his defense, and his lawyer rested the case. Still to be completed in the defense of Mitchell's attorney was a plea for an injunction.
Some reports have placed the amount of money taken at more than $40,000.
The SEC was engaged then in a massive fraud investigation of Vesce's corporate empire. The memo threatened to reveal a secret $200,000 cash contribution to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign unless the SEC probe "is stopped promptly."
Mitchell and Stans are accused of seeking to obstruct the SEC probe in return for the $200,000 donation, which was kept secret after it was received by Stans (10).
Authorities confirmed that they were looking for a brown canvas bag with First National Bank markings. It contains checks and other documents of the company's Monday evening deposits.
"Yes." he agreed.
It was revealed during the day that the defense had sought, unsuccessfully, to call Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., as a witness in Michelle's behalf.
When questioned about the amount of money taken, Rhodes said, "To me it is nothing."
The branch office, a converted mobile home being used temporarily, will be replaced by permanent structure now under the control of feet south of the branch office's location.
Voters Bounce GOP Democrat Wins Michigan Election
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP)—Riding a tide of urban votes, Democrat Bob Traxler captured Michigan's special congressional leader, who served for whom President Nixon campaigned.
Traxler's victory, the fourth by a Democrat this year in five elections for previously Republican seats, ended a 42-year GOP hold on Michigan's 8th district and cost Republicans their second district in the state this year.
A heavy majority for the 42-year-old Trader in his Bay City home and a smaller margin in the city of Saginaw enabled him to withstand a surge for Republican James Sparling Jr. in the Saginaw suburbs and the district's rural areas.
Returns from 290 of the district's 396 precincts gave Traxler 58,730 and Sparling 55,699, indicating a turnout of more than $3 million, considered big for a special election.
Acknowledging victory while his supporters chanted, "Nixon Must Go." Traxler said his victory meant "more good people will be elected in November with the idea of throwing the rascales out and giving good government to the people."
The Democratic candidate had campaigned as much against Nixon as against Sparling, calling the contest "a referendum on Nixon's policies and moral leadership."
Sparling and State GOP Chairman William McLaughlin, who spent most of the
last month here, declined to blame Nixon for the loss.
"If the campaign was lost," Sparing said, "it was lost by Jim Sparring."
Mclaughlin, who blamed the GOP loss Feb. 18 of Vice President Gerald Ford's old Grand Rapids' seat on Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal, said, "It's easy to blame the President, but I don't know whether that's the right thing."
Traxler's victory increases Democratic
house strength to 247. There are 187
Republicans and one vacancy, in California, which won't be filled until November.
The results here provided a dismal conclusion for the Republicans to the year's five special congressional contests. All districts had long been Republican, and only one, in California, stayed in GOP hands.
Sparling and he would decide within three or four days whether he would run away.
Subpoena Requested By Special Prosecutor
WASHINGTON (AP)—Special Prosecutor Jen Lawerksi asked a federal court yesterday to issue a subpoena for tape recordings of 63 presidential conversations, saying the White House had ignored his repeated requests.
He told the court the tapes and written material about the conversations were needed in the upcoming Watergate cover-up trial.
Jaworski filed a motion with U.S. District Judge John J. Sirtica, saying he had been accused of murdering his wife.
requests and he felt "obligated to seek these materials by subpoena."
At Key Biscayne, Fla., a White House spokesman said there would be no comment on the investigation.
Many, but not all, of the conversations already have been subpenated by the House committee inquiry. That subpoena is returnable April 25. The White House said it would let the committee know what it would supply soon as Congress "Easter recess ends next Monday."
Suspect Named In Hearst Holdup
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — a shocked Randolph Hearst said yesterday that his daughter's appearance with heavily armed soldiers in the neighborhood things I've ever seen or had happen to me."
Returning from a 10-day rest in La Paz, Mexico, Hearst, the distraught man and editor of the San Francisco Examiner, said: "Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child; 60 days later, a picture of her in a bank robbery."
Hearst said he had no idea whether his daughter Patricia was coerced into joining Monday's violent holdup of a San Francisco bank, where she worked with bank cameras with a carbine in her hands, is being sought on a federal arrest warrant as a material witness to the robbery.
Police said the man shot and wounded passers-by as he bled the bank with his band
Minutes before Heearst's down, twinengine jet touched down, Donald D. DeFreeze, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist Symbionne liberation Army, was
After a brief ride to the family's Hillsborough mansion, Hearst told newsman, "We're more or less in shock because of what happened about it, we don't have anything to say."
named by the FBI as the mystery man who bid Miss Heard and three other women in
Miss Hearst's fiance, Steven Weed, said he believed the slA contrived the robbery "to get people to believe she is converted without having to let her go." He accused them of using Patty to gain a propaganda victory.
"She is sick. She is exhausted and she is being humilated at the hands of a group of people that are determined not to let her get away. Her weight is too heavy for weight. She looks as if she can hardly hold."
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Jaworski asked that the subpoena cover conversations on 27 specific days, beginning June 20, 1972—three days after the Watergate break-in—through June 4, 1973, a day when President Nixon listened to some key tapes.
Most of the conversations were face-to-face or by telephone with H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon's principal assistants and two of the seven men charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate cover-up.
Some conversations also were with Charles W. Colson, another top White House staff member.
The trial of the three men, and codefenders John N. Mitchell, Gordon Strachan, Kemmeth W. Parkinson and Hardman, is scheduled Sept. 9 before Siracha.
"information now available to the government indicates that each of these materials contains or is likely to contain evidence that will be relevant and material to the trial of this case." Jaworski's motion said.
Jaworski said he asked the President's Watergate lawyer, James D. St. Clair, for the tapes and related documents on Jan. 9 and March 12.
On April 11, Jaworski informed St. Clair he would seek a subpoena in five days "to secure a prompt and fair trial for the government and the defendants."
Time Out
Three minutes alone is the most severe disciplinary measure dealt in behavior analysis classes of the Human Development and Family Life program. This student was separated from classmates because he broke a classroom
Kansan Staff Photo By DAVE CRENSHAW
grade. Sherrill Bushell, lead teacher in the Woodland kindergarten, said "there is discipline, not punishment" in the classes. A special focus on the behavior analysis program appears on pages 6 and 7.