The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
82nd Year, No. 21
Tuesday, July 11, 1972
Civil War Feared As New Fighting Rages in Ireland
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Kansas Demo Delegates Say Credentials Vote O.K.
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Writer
MIAMI BEACH—Gov. Robert Docking sounded ready to concede the Democratic presidential nomination to Sen. George McGovern early today in the wake of the Senate's vote on a convention floor fight over restoring 131 California delegates to McGovern.
Kansas' McGovenn delegates said they were overjoyed with the credentials votes, that the margin of victory was greater than they'd dared hope for on the Californias. The Kansas vote on California went as predicted, 18 for McGovenn, 17 opposed.
State Sen. Harold Herd of Coldwater,
Kansas' McGovern floor leader, said it
was his belief that "it virtually guarantees nomination" of McGovern to have the en-
gagement.
"I'm very optimistic; every indicator points to a McGovinnation nomination," he added.
Muriel Owens, assistant director of the Juniper Gardens project, a child research center in Kansas City alternate, pledged to McDonald's, contain his joy after the California vote.
"THAT'S IT; that's the nomination!" he said elatedly.
Herd said that he would ask later today in the Kansas case to bid votes for him and in the Kentucky Westboro case, or other the Kansas McGovern delegates said they were confident many of Kansas' supporters will be there.
The Rev. Melvin Long, Salina alternate, said, "We should be able to influence some of our uncommitted votes in McGovern's favor today. Right now it is politically expedient to start stressing what it is about McGovern that you like. Of course, there are other alternatives, but McGovern's nomination, regardless, but I feel that they are in the minority."
uncommitted delegates would come over to their side.
Charles (Wooy) Duncan, 28, Kansas City McGowen delegate, said, "These people are professional politicians and I'm going to maximize the value of being on the winning side."
it would it only be speculation to discuss how Kansas would vote Wednesday. Corcoran and Norbert Drewling, Wichita, a city where they met earlier, probably caucus later today but that the first priority was getting some sleep. The delegation did not get back to the hotel unattended.
Tom Corcoran, national committeeman from Topeka, an uncommitted delegate.
DALEY'S OUSTER was somewhat surprising and was unexpected by many. The Illinois delegation vote, with the Daley regulars voting, on the California debate, showed that McGown's favor, appeared to be the result of a deal between McGown and Daley.
Both the McGovern and opposition ranks
were defeated by Kawasaki. Kanasa
voted 13 for the ouster, 22 again for the
remainder.
the McGovern delegates were confused as to how they should vote on the Illinois con-
The first order of business after the main address by Lawrence O'Brien, National Party chairman, was the challenge to the South Carolina delegation filed by the women's caucus. The South Carolina vote was considered because it was to be a test of Florida's California vote, the fifth challenge, said Caroline Rooney, Shawnee alternate.
The McGovern lines formed behind the challenge, but were beaten 135 to 1429. Kansas voted against the challenge, 18 to 17, but the Kansas McGovern forces picked up one vote for the California fight. Herd said that vote was due to circumstances peculiar to the California decision and did not represent a strong McGovern
THE ROLE of the black caucus in the stop McGovern drive did not affect any of Kansas' five black delegates, three of whom are committed to McGovern, Karlin Thomas, a black McGovern delegate from Kansas City, said.
To the 18 Kansas delegates committed to McGovern yesterday were added Homer Kurkenberg of Pratt and Ken Marshall of Topeka.
Docking said he would expect some members of Kansas' uncommitted faction to defect to McGovorn "If it's cut and dried by Wednesday night."
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Youngster Views Eclipse
Kansan Photo by CLAY LOYD
Collins said he had notified Traffic and Security to be on the lookout for the snake and he had also alerted zoos and pet owners in matching for a person trying to sell the snake.
The snake is non-poisonous but has big teeth and is not torn even though it has been bitten.
Mellissa Rader, 2628 Bardith Court,
watches a projection of Monday's solar
eclipse on the screen.
Collin said the value of the snake was $400-$800 and that it could live in captivity for years.
Brazilian Boa Missing
If you see an emerald green and sulfur yellow snake, don't panic, think you are having a heat stroke or that you have been drinking too much. Instead, contact the Museum of Natural History.
"The snake is bright green with a yellow belly and has white ridges down its back," Collins said.
The eclipse darkened about 40 per cent of the sun in Kansas.
Tom Collins, preparator at the National History Museum, said that a 5 feet 6 inches, green, tree boa constrictor was stolen on 2 p.m. June 28 from the research room on the fourth floor of Dyche hall.
Collins said the snake came from Brazil and that this kind of boa wasn't very common even there. He said that some zoos, but not many, in the United States have them.
The snake was a research reptile and had been here for over two years, Collins said.
The boa was four feet long when it was
The boa feeds upon rats, birds, and mice, Collins said.
brought to KU. Collins said it had now reached its maximum size.
McGovern Gains Delegates
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Sen-
George McGovern, staging a dramatic demonstration of political power, swept to the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination in an open session of his party's national convention that ended at 3:55 a.m. CDT.
Ted Repeats He Is Out
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy repeated Monday that the presidential nominee and had no plans to go to Miami Beach. He said he would go to the convention after the ticket was seen if the presidential nominee asked him to.
Kennedy spoke to newsmen as he walked along the pier of the Hyannis Port Yacht Club. He said he had some personal experience with the presidential nomination—"members of the Senate and others"—who would be good running mates for Sen. George McGovern—trontrumer for the president, and said he was not about to disclose them.
"I think Sen. McGovern ought to be able to make his own recommendations to the convention," the Massachusetts Democrat said, adding that in his own case "my position has been made as clear as it could have been."
McGovern's display of organizational muscle came when he recaptured 151 disputed California delegates at the peak of a tumultuous session.
The South Dakota senator claimed his long, uphill battle was near success and that victory in Wednesday night's nominating session is "within our grasp."
condition of McGovern rivaled that host the crucial California vote, declined to concede the nomination. But he admitted that a victory would make him more assured and promised to say more in the morning.
But with victory within reach in the convention's opening session, the McGovern camp failed in an effort to engineer a compromise to seat both the Democratic Richard J. Dalley and a heavily pro-McGovern group of Illinois challengers.
The convention then voted to oust the powerful Chicago mayor in a move expected to have far-reaching consequences both throughout the party and in its fall campaign for the White House in the politically crucial state of Illinois.
But the showdown votes on California and Illinois were followed by a series of compromises that quickly brought the race to a close a few minutes before 4 a.m. CDT.
Party leaders had feared the opening night session would run into the daylight
In terms of the party's presidential fight, California test was crucial, perhaps decisively.
According to an Associated Press count, addition of the 151 California votes brought McGovern with about 25 votes of a first-ballot nomination with other uncommitted
Registration Deadline Near
Today is the last day for voters who wish to cast a ballot in the Aug. 1 primary to register, Douglas County Clerk Debert Moberly will announce the open until 9 p.m. for registration.
Citizens whose names or addresses have changed or those who wish to switch their identities are not allowed. Also, those who did not vote in the 1970 general election must re-register if they were born before that date.
registered before they can vote. But persons voting in rural areas, where registration has not been required in the past, may choose to poll placing when they vote, he said.
This year is the first time in Kansas that every voter, urban and rural, must be
Matha said that to vote a person must be at least 18 years old and have lived in Kansas and in one's voting precinct for at least 20 days.
On the primary ballot this year will be five constitutional amendments for which a person can vote without declaring his party affiliation, he said.
delegates expected to move his way.
It took two votes, both decided by larger than expected margins to settle the case.
First, the McGovern forces overturned by a vote of 1,616,28 of 1,238,22 of the Credentials Committee's decision, which had been engineered by backers of Mr. Muskie and Gov. George C. Wallace, deny McGovern all the California votes.
Then, by an even broader margin of 1,689.52 to 1,162.32, the McGovorn forces defeated an attempt by a Florida backer of Wallace to challenge the parliamentary majority and by the presiding officer, Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien.
In the Chicago case, too, there were two votes as the McGovern side sought at the last moment to compromise, even though the side said compromise was impossible.
Former Gov. Frank Morrison of Nebraska, a McGovern supporter, sought to suspend the rules and bring the compromise to the floor, a procedure requiring a two-thirds vote. But it failed to command even a majority, losing 1.483 out of 1.411舍。
Then, heeding the plea of fiery Terry Jessie Jackson, who warned that "if one cancer remains in the body, the rest of the population will die," the convention voted 148-9 and 1.371 to supplant the group led by Jackson and Chicago Alderman William Singer.
SAIGON (AP)—Tank-ked North Vietnam infantrymen counterattacked northeast of occupied Quang Tri Tuesday, but government marines beat them back with help from artillery and U.S. 7th Fleet destroyers off the coast, the field reports said.
Viet Marines Turn Back Attack by Enemy Troops
Six enemy tanks were destroyed-five by artillery and U.S. naval fire-fire—and 45 North Vietnamese were killed, the reports say. The corpses were sorted as five men killed and 10 wounded.
The action occurred along a coastal strip of land nine miles east-northeast of Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province, to the North Vietnamese 10 weeks ago.
At embattled An Loc on the southern front, North Vietnamese gunners loosened more than 450 rounds against South Vietnamese positions in the city and south along Highway 13. Casualties were described as light.
THE NAVY said the U.S. 7th Fleet destroyer Robison sank three enemy barges off the coast of North Vietnam after they had unloaded supplies from a Chinese freighter. A spokesman said the Robison attack the freighter in the action Sunday.
There have been several reports of barges unloading supplies from freighters offshore to circumvent the U.S. mine blockade of North Vietnam.
Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that newsmen were barred from entering the Quang Tri front. But he said sources on the army turned from forward units told him government paratroopers on the city's eastern side were heavy mortar, machine-gun and rifle fire.
THE INFORMANTS said that air strikes were being called in against enemy positions surrounding the Citadel, a walled fortress in the heart of Quang Tri. The troops were receiving heavy antiaircraft fire from guns inside the Citadel, it was reported.
The airborne, together with South Vietnamese marines and supporting armored cavalry launched a drive June 28 to recapture Quang Tri Province, has been stalled in an effort to capture the one battalion pushed close to the Château on Friday but fell back under heavy fire.
The South Vietnamese strategy appeared to be to hold back while U.S. warplanes blasted North Vietnamese bunkers, and then moved the countryside around Quang Tri and the former imperial capital of Huong 32 miles to the southeast, the U.S. Command re-confirmed its position with snipers and at least one strike was within a mile of the city of Quang Tri.
25-Year GOP Tradition Contested by Demo
By RALPH NICOL Kansan Staff Writer
For 25 years the office of Kansas Secretary of State has been a "give-a-way," but the Republican's. This year, however, Mike McMahon upfight a fight for the job for the Democrats.
"We see some inequities in the Secretary of State's office and a need to right them," said Manning. "We were appalled at the over-all inactivity and complacency in the office. They are not fulfilling the spirit of the law."
The most important function of the position, Manning believed, is the responsibility for voter registration. He first saw a county clerk at an annual when he worked with Countdown 72.
"THEY SEE voting as a privilege rather than as a right," Manning said. "It's more than a difference of semantics. As a result, we can't guess how many of some groups from the voting process."
Manning said he saw voter registration as the key to voting participation.
*Studies have shown that 89 or 90 per cent of the people who register in this state are nonviolent.*
Instead, Manning claimed, the current secretary of state was inactive and complacent. He said that Secretary of State Ewell Shanahan had not taken an advocacy position for any issue relating to migration. Manning thought the secretary should take the initiative to recommend changes and reform of "inequities."
registration benefits everyone. The secretary should be in making election decisions.
Manning said an example of this inactivity was Atty. Gen. Vern Miller's ruling two weeks ago about residency issues. The ruling struck down the six-month reservation for Kansas voters, and was based on a Supreme Court decision March 21.
"What amazed me," Manning said, "was that the secretary of state did not raise this question. It was Rep. Pete Loux who requested it. As soon as the Supreme Court had made its decision, the secretary of state was written or phoned the attorney general and asked to look. The secretary of state has to keep abreast of legislative and judicial decisions."
MANNING PRAISED the attorney general's ruling. He said that it encouraged participation by all people. Manning argued that government "as endangered as the poll tax."
Manning, who will be 23 next week, has
Mike Manning
had a variety of experience for the office he is seeking.
"THEN I also carried the plans to the field in a dozen states, helping to plan rallies and conferences on voter mobilization." A group of groums working at it. both younge and old."
As one of the organizers of Countdown 72 last year, Manning decided some of the obstacles to voter registration were with the secretary of state's office. He saw a lack of leadership and direction there, and decided to challenge the incumbent.
"In Washington, D.C., I helped plan voter registration drives across the country," Manning said. "This was not restricted to just students, but included such things as nursing homes, automobile plants.
At Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, from which he was graduated in 1971 in psychology and political science, and who served as the body vice president and president. He was also executive vice president of the National Association of Student Governments (NASG). While working with NASG, he became interested in voter registration.
"What I want to do in this campaign is to get out and meet the people," Manning said. "We are making use of three 'motor homes' to drive around Kansas. In each town we stop, and my staff and I try to work with them." We're working at the grass-roots level.
The complexities of a state-wide campaign on a low budget is also a challenge to the organizers.
"We would like to prove that an ordinary person can run for office without being rigid. My staff is working for just room and board. We are going to hold some fund raisers, and we've had small contributions. I think it's important that I haven't had to compromise my ideals to get the contributions we need."
ALTOUGH MANNING faces no prici-
nial challenge, he says that he is running
hard.
"We've been working seven days a week since last May, although the hours vary," she said.
The average, he said, is about fifteen hours a day.
Manning is pursuing a master's degree in American government at KU.