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Thursday, July 13, 1972
University Summer Kansan
News Briefs BY The Associated Press
Nixon to Ask for Storm Aid
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—President Nixon announced today that he will ask Congress to vote $1.7 billion in disaster relief funds and authorize one per cent interest loans for homeowners and businessmen in Eastern states recovering from Tropical Storm Agnes flood damage. The special request for $1.7 billion if approved by Congress, would be the "largest single amount ever allocated for a recovery effort," Nixon said, and would be used for every aspect of long- and short-term assistance.
Jail Melee Injures 27
ST. LOUIS (AP)—Order was restored at the St. Louis city jail Wednesday following a disturbance during the night which left 27 persons injured, including 14 inmates. Twenty-five inmates were occupying a size floor chapel in the courtyard of the police said. Officers battled with the prisoners for about 45 minutes. Two inmates suffered serious head injuries. Also injured were nine policemen and two jail guards. The violence came after several days of negotiations over demand that the prisoner be cleared, cleaner surroundings and recreational facilities.
Encephalitis Suspected
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Veterinarian Dr. Dean Price of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday there still were no confirmed cases of encephalitis in five suspect equine deaths, but he said tests were not yet complete on 14 horses from the Tulare area and two from between Las Cruces and El Paso, had been sent to the National Animal Disease Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, for testing. The lab is trying to determine whether the animals had Venezuelan or Western Envirus disease, which killed hundreds of sheep in New Mexico last year.
Rogers Raps Viet Proposal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Wednesday night the Democrat's proposal for an immediate pullout from Vietnam would lessen incentives for Hanoi to join the war. Rogers was asked about the Democratic platform plank on Vietnam and its expected espousal by George McGovern. "I don't want to get involved in the political battles so soon after my return," Rogers added. He stressed that if the Democrats need exactly what it wants under that method, that is incentive for a negotiated settlement is lessened."
Dallas-Bound Plane Hijacked
DALLAS (AP)—An American Airlines plane, en route from Oklahoma City to Dallas, was hijacked Wednesday night and ordered to Greater Southwest International Airport at Fort Worth, authorities said. First reports said the hijacker demanded $850,000, parachutes and transfer to another plane. Television Station WBAP had been flown from New York to Dallas by hijacker. The plane. As the plane circled the Fort Worth airport, heavy thunderstorms with lighting and gusty winds lashed the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
BELFAST (AP)—Thousands o of Orangemen marched Wednesday to commemorate the 17th century battle that established Protestant power in Northern Ireland. The operation kept the marches from erupting into clashes with Romar Catholic militants.
Irish Protestants March
But gunmen shot dead three youths, including a 15-year-old mentally handicapped boy, keeping sectarian tension much
In downtown Londonderry,
a 200-pound gellibrite bomb blasted
dozens of shops and offices.
The bombs defused another of
equal size.
in evidence, raising the death toll in three years of sectarian strife to at least 420.
In Belfast, troops and guerrillas traded fire in a series of skirmishes.
The Protestants ignored a persistent downpour to parade
They marched with thumping drums and piping flutes to mass rallies, and then gradually dissected.
across the blood-stained
battles of St. Germain,
Sardinia, and 50th anniversary of the Battle
the Boyne where William III defended the Catholic legions of
Bourbon Bay.
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The British army, fearful that he parades would spark a violent confrontation between the two idees, sealed off the centers of
MGO-VERN SUPPORTERS
disregarded analysis of
them's chances
them are optimistic that
Mgo-Vern run a strong race
units and use
Mgo-Vern
Kansas McGovenn supporters said they thought the governor's position was a politically expedient one; that while he might not want to vote for McGovenn, it would be the up against the winner, either.
"I see a closer analogy between
what is happening now and the
one that happened 1960," she said, adding that many
of the same people, like Frank
Lynn, were raised in that era.
"I think we can win," Fehr said, "but it will depend on several factors: the state of the economy and the number of young voters."
"I DON'T KNOW why the政军 is worried," Charlson said. "Humphry was beaten badly in the attack." The Docking won handily and the state party continued to increase its vote, becoming even more popular.
They were quick to point out that six months ago no one in America gave McGovern a vote of winning the nomination.
Betty Jo Charlton, 101 Pawnee, disputed the analogy of McGovern to Goldwater.
McGovern delegates said they were pleased with the party's efforts to make up for which McGovern could feel at ease. They defended the busing plank as the right approach to the challenge of ensuring the Supreme Court. They said it
The senator promised that "every American soldier, every American prisoner, every American now involved in the war in Southeast Asia" with withdraws, "every bomb will be destroyed," "every South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu will cease."
McGovern Speaks Issues, Says Stands Unchanged
Belfast, Londonderry and Portadown. Catholics hate the Orange demonstrations as a demonstration of Protestant ascendance.
The demonstrators questioned McGovern about remarks he made on the island of Guam, to keep troops in Thailand and naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. McGovern said Tuesday that he would keep the troops in Southeast Asia on what aides said was "an inactive basis" until the North Vietnamese released U.S. forces.
McGovern frequently had to shout to make himself heard as he stood in the lobby of the Doral Hotel during the crowd of more than 300.
Troops in full combat armor and equipped with high velocity knives but they were stationed inside cross streets to avoid
expressed the view of most Americans.
He conneceded there were bound to be some differences of opinion, but I didn't have an opinion that I'm not shifting my position on the fundamental stands that I know.
speaking just hours before he was to be nominated as the chair of the South Dakota senator sought to reassure the demonstrators on his policies.
"I don't have any doubt that within 90 days of my inauguration
The meeting climaxed a 6-hour, 15-minute demonstration during which the protesters blockaded stairways and elevators.
McGovern, who was surrounded by Secretary when he said would not sign a bill providing life imprisonment for any police officer who murdered a black, non-white minority group member.
Shirley  Wassenberg, 44, member of the Democratic platform committee, said the platform as adopted was
Another group of about 800 demonstrators converged on Convention Hall and set up a stage made of sandbags, on the lawn.
"Well, it's a McGovern platform; it expressed his views pretty well, and since he is the nominee, that is as it should be. There are several things I disagree with, but I can live with
THE KANSAS delegation voted down the minority report on which roll call votes were taken. The majority supported the income for a family of 4, the vote was 5 for, 3 against. The five black delegates from Kansas voted as a block for the issue. They was defeated by a 21-24 margin.
every American troop and every
American soldier will be home,
and that's the pledge I make.'
McGovern said.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
George McGeeGovern con-
dentors who had invaded
Wednesday night and told them
that he had not shifted his
position on any of the issues—
The vote for a liberalized abortion law was six for and 28 against, with one abstention. Many of the delegates said they believed issues of this nature had no business even being brought into question because there were state laws and courts to decide these matters.
delegation agree they must push, together if the party is to be defeated in the elections. His proponents stress the power of grass-roots organization, so sucessful putting them on his nomination, will be available to all Demo-
tics.
Fehr said he would be meeting with Jane Harrington. He will be the coordinator for organizational meetings Thursday and Friday.
The column included military-style vehicles manned by masked members of the extremist Ustar Defense Association.
In Belfast, a six-mile-long procession of Orangemen—ranks the same as in London and Protestants from Scotland, Liverpool and Toronto—snaked
The were clearly prepared to deal with possible Catholic or IRA attacks.
The tone of speeches at the rallies was clearly resentful of the religious extremism and months of direct rule in the North many militant Protestants claim they have been betrayed by the Romans to the Roman "holic minority."
The march skirted Roman Catholic enclaves and their havens for gunmen of the Republican Army without trouble.
In the case of Australia, where the quota was limited to shipments of 5,200 tons per week to the United States, the rate of demand and average between 8,000 and 10,000 tons per week, he said.
Shuizh declined to make an over-all assessment of the additional amount of meat that will become available.
U. S. Beef Imports Expected to Rise
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of Treasury George P. Shultz, in a campaign to lower meat prices, reported Wednesday that representatives of a nation-met-exporting countries expect to step up their beef shipment to the United States this year.
"It seems clear we will be getting action," said Secretary Shultz, who is also the sheriffman of the town. "We are Council, at a news conference."
Shuiz reported the slaughter of beef is now at the lowest rate of the year, but said the domestic market is much higher and will the flow of meat imports
The 12 importing countries provided the United States with 1.1 billion pounds of meat in 1971 and 1.4 billion pounds of meat in self-fertilization. Last month President Nixon suspended the tax for the remainder of the year.
Most of the supplier nations are asking the United States to extend the period which they can supply without restraint. Sully said,
been much skepticism whether such a program would do any good. "w'we will see some results and it will be helpful."
Shrulz said he expected that results be achieved by the use of that administration aims to hold the price of meat stable, then raise it.
Shulz tailed countries accords fourth of the normal import flow "spoke in terms ofbettering their staff expectations this year." He said that his group was "talking about
Snider said Wallace had made it clear he could not support the
McGovern supporters and opponents alike in the Kansas
He said that although there had
Snider said Wallace had refused to withdraw as a candidate for the Democratic nomination because his delegates had traveled to the convention to him and he would not deny them.
The top three meat importers are Australia, New Zealand and Mexico.
Wallace Aide Hints Third Party Race
A memorial gift to the University of Kansas Endowment Association will further research and training in hematology at the KU
The Warren C. and Helen K. Perham Research Fund will be used to provide a fellowship in the Department of physical medicine at the medical center
MIAMI BEACH, Fl. (Apa.) George C. Wallace, defeated in his attempt to write an antibiting plank into the Democratic party Wednesday, strongly Wednesday at another third-party race for president.
The campaign director,
Charles S. Snider, told newsman
the possibility of a third-party
advocacy in the upcoming stronger
and stronger every minute" because of the
Democratic National Convention's refusal to accept the Alabama's platform announcement.
Dr. Alan Fleming, resident in internal medicine at the medical center, has been named recipient of the Perham Fellowship which began July 1. He said he planned to study in depth the causes of leukemia and other diseases, particularly those of acute and chronic leukemia.
Wallace, paralyzed in both legs, by a gunman's bullet, presented his proposals from a wheelchair at the convention Tuesday night. Snider said he and Wallace had taken a possible possibility Wednesday and that a final decision would be made in the near future.
platform, and be said he did not see how the governor could support McGovern with such a platform.
Neither is it likely, the campaign manager, said, that Wallace will support President Nixon for re-election.
Snider said he presumed wallace would accept an invitation to the Republican Party National Convention next month at Louisville, Ky. The governor ran four years ago against the American Party emblem.
City Approved Rezoning Plan
A proposal to rezone a lot at the corner of Yale Road and Iowa Street was passed 4-1 by the City Commission Tuesday.
A story in the University Daily Kansas Wednesday incorrectly reported that the motion to rezone the lot was returned to the Douglas County Planning Committee for further consideration.
The proposal will allow the lot to be rezoned from RS-2 (single family) to C-2 (neighborhood shopping).
WASHINGTON (AP) — About one-third of the nation's affluent had the poverty level in 1971, marking little change from a year earlier.
But the figure was higher than the 7.2 million blacks who lived below the poverty level in 1969, by 35%. The same, in that year was 32.
In an annual report on the social and economic status of the black population, the bureau said 41 percent lived below the official poverty level of $4.137. This compared with 7.5 million or 34 per cent in other states.
Agency to Launch Program For Sickle Cell Detection
Black Poverty Rate Same, Study Saves
The bureau said that about 1.5 million black families were below the poverty line in about 29 per cent of all black families, no change from the year
"We'll be teaching the laboratory skills necessary to diagnose anemia, but various other types of hemoglobin abnormalities" Dr. Robert M. Schmidt, section of hematology on the CDC
ATLANTA. G. (AP)—The Center for Disease Control is launching a program to teach state health officials how to isolate sick cell anemia, a blood infection that primarily affects blacks.
The percentage was unchanged, however, from recent years.
The number of white families living below the official poverty line was 3.8 million, compared with 3.7 million a year earlier.
Ultimately, Schmidt said, funding for medicinal abnormally genetic to genetic counseling for persons whose marriage likely violated the law.
the federally operated center, part of the U.S. Public Health Agency, to establish a year to establish the national training program, said Schmidt, and 36 representatives from 28 colleges begin their first training July 18.
An estimated 2% million blacks are born in the United States that cause sickle cell anemia if two carriers marry and have four children. We examine odds ratios for each of these two will inherit the trait and only one one have a normaloglobin
Schmidt said the CDC training course would aid state health officials in clinically identifying those who more hemoglobin abnormalities.
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