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84th Year, No. 85
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 7, 1974
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"AT LAST! A FLAG WE CAN IDENTIFY WITH!"
Legislature Seeks New State Flag With More Relevance, Distinction
By JAY GLICK Kansan Staff Reporter
Kansas may have a new state flag.
You didn't know Kansas had an old state flag? You knew, but you didn't really care? For you, my friend, the legislature is studying proposals for a new flag.
Sens. Jack Janssen, D-Lyons, and John Simpson, R-Salina, are sponsoring a concurrent resolution that would establish a common goal of desirability of a new tide gate.
oer present flag was officially adopted in
It is, according to the Kansas Directory,
that flag.
The Great Seal of Kansas is centered in a rectangle of blue silk or bunting and is surrounded by a crest with bands, shipped proper, which divested of its heraldic language is a sunflower as torn from its stalk in its natural colors on a bar of twisted gold and blue."
THE NAME "KANSAS" is printed immediately below the Great Seal.
"The design comprises the inner field of the seal state and the military crest," the directory says, "and in these designs can be read the high points in Kansas' early history."
The Louisiana Purchase is signified by the bar or wreath.
Kansas was the 4th state admitted to the Union. This is represented by 34 stars.
"The hills almost identify terrain near Fort River," according to the directory, "The buffalo and the Indian, the oxen and the prairie schooners, the cabin and the ploughman tell their own story and the story of Kansas in sequence."
Ho-hum, you say, Symbolism is fine, but where is the relevancy?
That's exactly what the senators are seeking in a new flag; relevance. The senators have been using the "holds little meaning for the citizens of this state; it is not easily recognizable among various other flags with which it is associated." The senators display of the great seal of this state."
HOW DOES the present flag compare aesthetically with the flaes of other states?
"I can't recall it very well," said Phil Henderson, an professor of design. "I guess it is one of those things some people might be asking for." I something about Ad Astra per Aspera?"
The state motto "Ad Astra per Aspera," which translated from Latin means "to the stars through difficulty," is, indeed, on the verbs used there, however, may be less asterisk per Aspera.
Perhaps a new flag is what the state needs to gain national attention. After receiving a new flag, Kansas could be launched as a state of interest for the aesthetically conscious individual.
Doubtful you say?
Maybe the most aesthetically pleasing, and indeed the most relevant proposal for a new flag, is that which is rumored to be sponsored by persons who persist in atheism. In Kansas, That proposed flag is 3 feet on the staff by 5 feet on the fly and solid white.
Meat Prices Zoom As Strike Continues
By the Associated Press
The week-old independent truckers' protest struck deeper blows at the nation's economy yesterday as violence on the highways sent toppled contractors to stop the walkout continued to fail.
New layoffs were reported, bringing to more than 100,000 the number of workers idled by the drivers' strike. Truckers are raising high fuel prices and low freight rates.
In Washington, Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp warmed last night that state authorities might not be able to control the virus, which could meet with President Nixon at once.
IT WAS LEARNED a few minutes later, however, that Nixon didn't plan to meet with Sharp, who asked in a message the strike could be "solved easily and quickly tonight" if only he could meet with Nixon. He asked Nixon to take him. Userj 'rued' to ask she last night.
Lawmen in several states escorted convoys carrying critical supplies of gasoline and food. Shoppers in populous areas like the Northeast were warned they will have a tough time finding beef and produce by the first of the week.
Govs. Daniel Walker of Illinois and Otis R. Bowen of Indiana acted yesterday afternoon to activate the National Guard in their states, bringing to six the number of states using guardsmen in an attempt to keep peace.
PLANELOADS OF BEEF were on the way to several cities in the Northeast, but his price was zooming up from $9.50 to $49 catt-a-pound price being paid for dressed beef carcasses could be the highest ever, and it warned there will be little or no beef to buy if the shutdown continues.
Police in Ohio reported more than 300 arrests since the strike began, and in 18 of those cases a clashed in fist fights with striking independents. Authorities in at least 10 states reported shootings in the past 24 hours, including one death, the second of the
In Washington, representatives of the strikers sent back to the White House their demands that fuel prices be rolled back and freight rates increased.
Time Is Precious to Former POW
Kansian Staff Reporter
By CRAIG STOCK
Time is precious to Charles Boyd
Almost seven years of his life were lost in a prison cell in North Vietnam, so Boyd is now determined to waste as little of his time as possible.
Boyd, an Air Force major and Lawrence junior, received the Air Force's highest honor, the Air Force Cross, in a ceremony on Friday afternoon at Woodruff Auditorium.
The medal was awarded for Boyd's heroism as a combat pilot on April 22, 1966, the day he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. The citation accompanying the award noted his bravery and skilful airmanship in an attack on a surface-to-air missile site 35 miles north of Khe Sanh province before his plane was shot down.
BOYD WAS A PRISONER until his release Feb. 12, 1973. He said he had been busy with interviews, debriefings and personal matters the first five months after his return and for the past six months he was then trying to relax and regain his identity.
Boyd enrolled at the University of Kansas last fall to study Latin American affairs in New York.
assignment. He will be an area code specialist, a liaison in diplomatic service, and a manager.
Boyd, age 35, and his wife, Milicent, a 1960 graduate of the KU School of Education, said they had no difficulty adhere to his other after Boyd's return from captivity.
He said yesterday that his release was such a damn relief" that nothing else could have happened.
"I IT WAS FUNNY," Mrs. Boyd said. "I didn't hit him for seven-and-a-half years. I did."
Social changes, he said, were the most surprising things he faced upon his return to France.
Boyd said the tremendous reception given to the returning POWs was a pleasant surprise. It was reassuring, he said, to find concern about the welfare of the POWs.
"OUR CAPTORS TRIED to convince us that our country was against us and we were wrong," she said.
But he has been taught to accept and adjust to the changes because he said, the only rule he knew was that "you can't eat".
Boyd said the most valuable lesson he learned while in captivity was about the importance of time. Most persons spend their lives doing things they really haven't chosen, he said. Their habits are formed by the experiences they have to think about the priorities in their lives.
BOYD SAID THAT HE though most books written by POWs about their imprisonment were purely commercial ventures and that he found the book of Jack and Harry who want to write a book."
An author approached Boyd after his release from North Vietnam hoping to meet him at the airport or prisonment. But Boyd said that he had no intention of permitting someone to "ghostwrite" for him and that he didn't want to waste a year of his life writing a novel.
"I've been able to sort out the priorities in my life—the things that really have value for me."
Boyd maintains close contact with other POWs. He and his wife spent New Year's Eve in Mexico City with Boyd's former cellmate.
Committee Gets Subpoena Power
Boyd said his seven years in captivity had greatly affected his political views,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House, by a vote of 410 to 4, armed its Judiciary Committee yesterday with broad subpoenaes from the Justice Department and President Nixon should be impeached.
"Whatever we learn," said Rep. Peter W. Rodino, D-N.J. and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, "whatever we conclude, the manner in which we proceed is of historic importance—to the country, to the presidency, to the House, to our constitutional system and to future generations."
Taking solemn note that only once before in the nation's history has such a resolution been acted on, the House adopted it as a constitutional duty in impeachment cases.
*IF EVERY STUDENT could live in, not just visit, a Communist country for one
Rodino said the new power given to the committee will enable it to gain "full and complete access to any persons, information, or things in the custody or under control of any agency, officer or employee of the United States, including the President."
THE OVERWHELMING VOTE for the resolution opened a new stage in the im
Asked by Rep. Louis C. Wyman, R-N.H., whether he intended to submerge Nixon, Marx and Clinton in water, question that he knew whether it would be necessary for a full investigation.
peachment investigation, which has been gone on since last fail.
RODINO TURNED ASIDE all questions about what he intended to ask in the way of a question or a question and answer.
"I hope it will not become necessary," said Wyman.
The subpoena resolution also includes
authority for the committee to compile answers to written questions and to take notes.
Although strongly in support of the need for the committee to have such powers to conduct an investigation that could clear as much confusion as possible, objects to some features of the resolution.
Boyd received his Air Force Cross from Lt. Gen. Felix Rogers, commander of the Air University. Boyd also received four other medals, recognizing his actions in 1962 and 1963, and in 1964 to April 1966 and during his imprisonment from April 1966 to Feb. 1973.
REP. ROBERT McCLORY, R-III,
declaring that the impeachment inquiry
will paralyze the government, said
the resolution should include an April 30
deadline for reporting the Judiciary
Committee's recommendation back to the
year," he said, "we'd have the most conservative branch of college kids in the world. The indigency of life in a Communist country is like a prisoner, but for anyone—in glassth."
The other medals were the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Force Aerial Medal, the Air Force Commandment Medal and the Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters.
Rodimo said he would do everything he could to meet that date but opposed fixing any rigid deadline. His pledge was the backing of House Republican Senator Eric McClary's effort
In presenting the award, Rogers said Boyd embodied the soldierly virtues of physical and moral courage. The physical courage shown by Boyd was great, Rogers said the moral courage shown by Boyd and other prisoners of war was the most unusual virtue.
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PRESIDENT NIXON FROZE diesel fuel prices Tuesday until Congress can approve ways for the independents to pass along to them. It will ultimately to consumers—their higher costs.
The strike has idied many of the estimated 100,000 independent drivers and kept a few of the Teamsters' 170,000 members off the roads.
One North Carolina hog slaughtering company closed eight of its 10 operations yesterday, and the strike began to hit the company. It said mine workers mines in northern West Virginia closed for lack of supplies, and another 2,000 miners were reported absent from work because they couldn't buy gasoline. Other coal companies in the region were reported near a shutdown.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN patrolled that region of West Virginia yesterday, escorcing roads and enforcing traffic laws.
The violence that has marked the protest since its beginning last Thursday increased and appeared more serious. One trucker was shot to death Tuesday night in
Delaware and several other drivers were shot and wounded overnight or early
THE OHIQNATIONAL GUARD called up
1,500 troops houst to replace me
nurses.
The Ohio Highway Patrol said trucker-related arrests passed the 300 mark. At least three arrests were recorded yesterday, officials said.
The auto industries reported 26,000 persons off the job or working short hours in 2018.
The shutdown—which has affected virtually every state in the nation—caused mounting layoffs and food shortages, mostly at the distribution level. Some large food store chains chartered planes to ship equipment companies switched their cargo to the rails.
THE MEAT PACKING industry also was hurt. Richard Ling, president of the American Meat Institute, sent a telegram to the governors of 48 states urging them to help truck stop operators remove blockades.
By the Associated Press
Truck Strike Cramps Regional Commerce
Plant closings and cutbacks were reported yesterday and shortages were felt in Kansas and Missouri as the strike by independent truck drivers continued.
The Farmland Foods Inc., beef packing plant at Garden City shut down after Tuesday's slaughter and about 130 persons were laid off.
Don Fender, plant manager, said, "We are having difficulty obtaining adequate equipment to move our meat products," he said. The closed until equipment could be obtained.
AF SALINA, Tony's Pizza Service,
products of frozen pizza, shut down and
reopened.
The Stokley-Van Camp plant on E. 10th Street in Lawrence closed late yesterday because of difficulties in obtaining raw materials. Mr. said. About 150 employees were affected.
The plant usually processes about 2,000 head of cattle daily and Roeser said the move would cut production by about 40 percent.
THE IOWA BEEF Processors (IBP) plant in Emporia beef to a single shift on both the shaughter and processing sides, Jack Hirsch, vice president for transportation, said.
The Union Stockyards Exchange in Springfield, Mo, was at a virtual standstill. John Kush, exchange president, said, "We have no idea what the market might be."
Tom Donatell, plant manager, said the warehouse was full of products, but the uncertainty of fuel availability across the nation for keeping the pizza frozen necessitated the move. In terms of number employees, it is one of the largest firms in Salem.
Later, Harry Henderson, IBP director of labor relations, said plans had changed and there would be two shifts in both processing and slammer operations.
He declined, however, to say whether there would be two shaft Friday, indicating that he was not ready.
THE SALINA PIZZA manufacturer also
changed its plans after it found it could distribute some of the product to other places. It announced work would resume at midnight.
"We could really feel the pinch this weekend if things don't loosen up," said one producer broker. "We're short on cucumbers, potatoes, peppers, lettuce and grapes."
Felony charges have been filed against three University of Kansas students in connection with the Jan. 29 bombing incident at Oliver Hall.
Charges Filed Against Three In Oliver Blast
Jeff Lysaught, Shawne Mission freshman, has been charged in Douglas County Court with possession of explosives. He will be arraigned at 4 p.m. Feb. 13. He was released yesterday on $2,500 bond from Douglas County jail.
Brad Wallace, Eureka freshman, will be arranged at 4 p.m. F12. on 12 aon of delivering an explosive. He has also been released on a $2,500 bill.
David Little, Overland Park freshman,
has been charged with attempted grand
theft. His preliminary hearing will be at 2
a.m. Tuesday, October 19, and released
yesterday and released on $1,500 bond.
David Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney, said yesterday that the three charges could carry one to five-year prison. He said he was confident apparently won't file additional charges.
The explosion, caused by a large firecracker or bomb, occurred in the north stairwell on the 10th floor of Oliver Hall. It caused about $10 or $2 damage to a window, according to a KU Security and Parking Department report.
Lysaight, Wallace and Little were later moved from the hall.
The Great Debate
Kansan Staff Photo by ALAN McCOY
The advising system at KU should be revamped. Ed Rofls told students last night in a debate between candidates for student body president. His opponent, John Beisner, agreed. See story back page.