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BLAZING
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
82nd Year, No.31
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Worst Crash Of War Revealed
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Thursday, July 27, 1972
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Clinton Parkway Project Assailed
By TRISHA TEETER
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence may be headed for serious trouble if the Clinton Parkway continues as planned and is completed, Barry Wellar, assistant professor of geography and space technology laboratories, said Tuesday.
He said the logical solution was to make the reservoir a limited access facility, using city bus lines to move people in and out of the area. It also improved pollution and parking problems, he said.
"I know this won't make any friends for me," Wellar said, "but I can visualize a heavily crowded facility at the lake with too much traffic for the city to handle."
"The transportation lobby in Kansas is exceedingly powerful," he said, "and has a definite highway bias. Very few people perceive that traffic benefits traffic, and the expressway project does not represent a balanced program."
WELLAR said that a balanced transportation program was one that made use of a
mode that was most efficient for the particular transportation task.
"Everyone acts as if this project is already a fact," Wellar said, "but actually, the citizens of Lawrence and Douglas County must vote on the proposed project and ratify it. It will cost the tax payer $130 million, six million dollars. I can't imagine why the planners are so confident that they can sell the public on this program."
He said that big business, construction and land owners were involved in the project and were a strong force for pushing the project through.
"I think that if the expressway is not built, people will not come to the lake," said Wellar. "Congestion is one way of controlling traffic. This may sound harsh, but it it took people several hours to get to the water." "You've never truly had an interest in the recreation,"
Wellar said that this form of control would also preserve local residents' rights to vote.
Headquarters Director Is Pleased with Support
A recent report presented to the city commission by the Mayor's Committee on Drug Abuse had recommended that the city appropriate funds to Headquarters, if other means of funding were unavailable, to its continued operation in Lawrence.
Because of the limited resources, Silber said, Headquarters had not been able to expand its services either in drug treatment or counseling work.
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Writer
The approval by the City Commission Tuesday of a statement of support for Headquarters, Inc. was a sign that the controversial drug and crisis center was winning its battle for acceptance and approval of the local community.
"THE GRANT would enable us to divide our resources between those presently related to drugs and the personal crisis services." Silber said.
Ric Silber, Headquarters director, had requested the resolution of support from the city commission to aid the organization of treatment programs at Shawnee County Health Department is making the request for a federal grant for the entire area, and plans to coordinate drug treatment and crisis counseling with Lawrence, Topeka and other communities.
INCLUDED in the grant request would be funds for the methadone program, an out-patient clinic one night per week, and a substance abuse center operated by the Meinninger Foundation in Topeka, and at least one full-time staff position of drug coordinator.
Silber said Tuesday that, should the grant be awarded, Headquarters would become the base for services in Douglas and Washington. Headquarters to participate in its program, Silber said. The grant's approval would result in benefits for the community which Headquarters is present to provide because of its lack of funds.
Programs which are currently related to the drug program but which could be separated and expanded with the grant money include a personal crisis counseling
service, a suicide prevention program and a crisis hotline, Silber said.
Several factors credited by Silber with helping Headquarters to win community approval include acceptance into the University, a strong sense of responsibility, and the Douglas County Mental Health Center.
"I feel good about what our volunteer staff has been doing and we have quite a few local people on the staff now. The response to our call for volunteer workers is great and I anticipate that the rate of staff turnover for the fall will decrease."
"When I came here a year ago, I'd say our community image was not a good one, but that is changing now and I believe we are winning public support." Silber said.
Sibber said that Headquarters or any service organization should an-
fluent out-of-towns full reign on the lake and property.
"THIS has all the earmarks of a rip off," he said, "and the public will be hurt if the parkway is built. The facility is being paid for by Lawrence residents and they will not get to use it if all these people have access to it as well."
He said he was hopeful that the lake would have limited uses and prohibit bottom mining.
"There is no organization which is ac-complishing anything that is not going to be done."
"Boating and swimming just don't mix," he said. "I think it would be a mistake to let all these different forms of recreation—boating, fishing and swimming—get into each other's way and congest the lake."
"Who is responsible for the Clinton Parkway? Who are the people pushing it? Who is supposed to benefit from it? Why are the questions be answered?" Wellar said.
"I CAN'T help but think the business community feels they will benefit from added traffic through the downtown area. But surveys have shown that the weekend vacationers won't stop to shop on their way to the lake," he said.
Wellar said that the issue was complicated and sophisticated.
"Lawrence is a microcosm of all the transportation facilities, with the highway as the most powerful force. There is some element for real concern," he said. "There are qualities that Lawrence and Douglas County residents are getting into something deep."
"IT SEEMS incredible that the citizens would vote to spend an additional $8 million for this project. They will either have to issue bonds or raise taxes to do it."
He said that federal support was desired by the planners, but the chances of it being achieved were limited to the renovation of the downtown areas and partially funded by federal grants but that the citizens of Lawrence had recently been given a million dollars worth of other city programs.
The Army Corps of Engineers, who planned the reservoir, said Wednesday that the recreation aspects were part of the justification for the lake. The primary
See PARKWAY, page 2
Withdrawal Condition Is Told by Eagleton
HONOLULU (AP)—Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton said Wednesday he would withdraw as the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket if he thought his medical history of psychiatric care would jeopardize Sen. George McGovern's bid for the presidency.
"If my visceral feeling is that my candidacy is uninvolved, I won't wait for George McGovern," Eagleton told newsmen on arrival here to address a clerk's union meeting. "I'll get off myself."
President Nixon has ordered members of his administration and campaign organization to refrain from making an issue of Eagleton's medical history, the chief Republican campaign official said Wednesday.
CLARK McGregor, who heads the Committee for the Re-election of the President, said Nickon had specifically ordered "that no one connected with him governmentally or politically would have any comment."
Only a handful of party backers and newspapermen demanded he withdraw from the race.
Eagleton said that although the decision was basically up to McGovern, he would be watching public opinion polls and other indications of public sentiment and would withdraw if it appeared he was an embarrassment to McGovern.
HE TOLD a Los Angeles news conference that McGovern's offer of the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket had come on a hectic day and that he believed he would have told McGovern if he had had more time to think.
Euglenon's colleagues in the Senate, including many Republicans, quickly declared him to be a sound candidate after he made his disclosure. And some newspapers editorially defended
The Missouri senator said earlier he had made a mistake in not disclosing his history of treatment for nervous exhaustion sooner but still viewed it as nothing more serious than a "broken leg or broken arm."
Eagleton's position that he is fit to serve if elected.
MgGovern aides said the Democratic nominee received about 30 telegrams on the latter, with less than two-thirds urging McGovern to dump Eagleton. One aide also said some big financial backers were expressing concern.
SENATE Republican Leader Hugh Scott urged Eagleton "to go on with your campaign."
A survey of national Democratate Committee members indicated they were overwhelmingly in favor of keeping him at the table and expected little trouble at the polls.
Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago said he thought the disclosure had "nothing to do with his capabilities."
The New York Post in an editorial urged Eagleton to quit. The post said "the fact that stands out starkly in Sen. Eagleton's story is his avowed failure to tell Democratic nominee George McGovern the whole truth before he was designated for the vice presidency."
"Quite frankly, I didn't think that these experiences were of that great moment," he said. "I now realize that it is. I've read the morning headlines."
EAGLETON told reporters he thought it was a mistake not to inform McGovern about his hospitalization before McGovern recommended him to the Democratic National Convention.
Engleton also refused to publicly disclose his medical records concerning his voluntary submission for hospital treatment in 1960, 1964 and 1966 for "nervous exhaustion and fatigue" brought on by overwork. He twice received psychiatric care and electric shock treatments.
EAGLETON said his medical records were private "and it is my intention that they so remain."
He added that he thought he was perfectly qualified to serve as vice president and take over the White House.
The only medication he currently takes, he said, is "an occasional, very sporadic tranquilizer. I don't even know the name of it."
Eagleton also said he would have no further comment on the matter as he jetted westward from the mainland to Hawaii on his first major campaign swing as the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
In other political developments, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, undergoing treatment for the gunshot wounds that left him paralyzed from the waist down, was reported to be ready to announce his plans Saturday.
Wallace has not unequivocally ruled out a third party candidacy, although there have been reports he would not attempt to run for president on a third-party ticket.
By VICKI MONNARD
Kansan Staff Writer
Local Political Races Leave Voters Unsure
In a recent survey taken of the 44th district in Lawrence by staff members of the University Daily Kansan, a large number of voters were undecided in their choices for candidates to be state senator and 44th representative for the Kansas House of Representatives.
Gov. Robert Docking is leading the race
Kennedy Reveals Letters, Relations with N. Vietnam
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., made public Wednesday recent correspondence he has had with the president of North Vietnam and disclosed he received 24 letters from prisoners of war for relay to their families.
The list updated one he received in December, 1970, a . . . ennedy said 24 new names on it have been sent to the State department for notification of the next kik of
"Only July 23," Kennedy said, "1
He also said in a statement that on June 29 he received a list of American pilots captured and being held in North Vietnam since Nov. 15, 1970.
received 24 letters from the new list. These letters were addressed to family members in this country. I have informed the Department of State of these letters, and have transmitted them to the parents and wives."
An aide said this was the first time letters from prisoners have been relayed through a U.S. government official, rather than through a court or American visitors to North Vietnam.
The aide said the letters appeared to have been written in mid-June.
for governor with 37 per cent. He received 30 votes of the $2 votes cast. John Anderson, former governor of Kansas, received 19 votes of the $2 votes. Kay received 8 votes for 7 per cent. One vote was cast for Ray Frisbee for 1 per cent and two votes were cast for Reynolds Shultz for 2 per cent. However, 43 per cent did not vote. He undecided about their choice for governor.
Over half of those polled for 2nd District state senator were undecided. Fifty of the voters did not know whom they were to vote for, and 30 led the race with 17 votes or 21 per cent. Harold Keltz and Dave Broyles, both Democrats, received 11 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Eighty-one persons voted for them and in the representative race.
Forty-three per cent were undecided in the choice for the 44th District representative. This district is newly created and included the University of Kansas campus and downtown Lawrence. College students, members of Greek organizations, Old West Lawrence voters, and a large black population make up this district.
Mike Glover, the only Democrat running for 44th representative, received 21 per cent of the vote. Richard von Ende received 21 per cent also with 17 votes. Twelve votes were cast for Winston Harwood for 15 per cent.
Businessman in GOP Representative Race
By RALPH NICOL Kansan Staff Writer
"I know this area and I know what is concerning the people here." Harwood they want some common sense in the area and tax programs that the state passes."
Running a state government is basically like running a very large business, according to Winston Harwood. Harwood thinks that his 25 years as a businessman will prove invaluable for obtaining qualifications for being the 44th District Representative to the Kansas Legislature.
Harwood has been a resident of Lawrence all of his life. He went to school here and attended the University of Kansas. Because of this, Harwood feels he is on more than a "speaking acquaintance" with the 44th District.
HARWOOD said he entered the race to win by a slight edge other than the two younger candidates.
"I think that I have some things to offer
because I've had more experience in this community and with my own small business.
From conversations he had with members of the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee, he said that he had found that the state was going to get enough increased revenue from business and industries to enable it to forego tax increases. However, he did consider some tax reform necessary for Kansas.
Harwood thought that government, just like a business, had to be economically and that common sense must be used in the laws and programs.
"THEE have been proposals to reduce property taxes and make up for it by increases in income tax. I am not against this," Harwood said. "I can see that we should put the burden on the people who can best afford it."
However, Harwood thought that the property tax played an important part in determining the quality of land.
"Probably the property tax gives the greatest value to citizens in service for the money," he said. "Property taxes now pay for schools, fire and police protection. It's
Winston Harwood
often better administered than other state taxes."
HARWOOD also said he saw the possibility of having capital gains paid at the state level instead of to the federal government.
"It would be the same amount," Harwood said, "but the benefit of that money is less."
Harwood said he considered support of education to be a question which must be kept in balance with the requirements of all the state's services.
"IM IN favor of giving them everything they need, and some of what they would like," Harwood said, "but we also have to keep in balance what the welfare system needs and wants and civil service and all other state services."
"More money for education will depend on how much tax money Kansas is willing to spend. There is, unfortunately, a little difference between what the schools absolutely need and what they would like to have.
Harwood said that he saw no reason why all state employees, including faculty and staff of state universities, should not get salary increases in order to keep up with inflation. However, he said he wanted to keep his proposals realistic.
"There are candidates promising 15 or 20 per cent salary increases, but the legislature would never deliver something like that. I prefer to make realistic answers to our problems and then work to get those passed."
Harwood said that he was "running to win against aggressive and competent" opponents. His strategy included door-to-door campaigning, coffee, and newspaper and radio spots and signs, which he said he was forced to do in self-defense even though he preferred not to "clutter up the landscape."
Harwood's opponents in the GP race are Barry Albin and Richard Von Ende. Mike Glover is the only Democratic candidate for the 44th District.