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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
82nd Year, No.19
California Votes Back to McGovern
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, July 6, 1972
Kansas Photo by STEVE CRAIG
Check Your Odometer
New law requires proof of mileage . . .
Vehicle Mileage Required
By BECKY PAGE
Kansan Staff Writer
A new law, which requires that a certification of mileage accompany all certifications on the airplanes.
Fairness Plan Near Approval Backers Say
The Affirmative Action Program neared compromise approval Wednesday evening at the Lawrence Human Relations Commission (LHRC) meeting.
John Purcille, LHRC member said, "We are almost there. There are really no problems left that we can not solve with ease."
One problem that remains is that a proposal concerning minority groups does not meet the "Kansas Act Against Discrimination."
It was agreed that there were vague stipulations placed on contracts with the city and contractors don't know what is required. A previous bidding from contractors, it was said.
Purcell said, "Contractors are going to know exactly what is expected of them."
Jack Rose, member of the city commission, said, "We don't want to scare off the little firms by making them fill out affirmative forms."
Dennis Carlton, assistant city manager, said, "The main problem is in deciding whether the criteria for large firms will also be necessary for smaller firms. The rules must be necessary for both but naturally will not be able to meet the standards of the large firms. It is not a problem of intent, but one of implementation."
vehicles in Kansas, became effective Saturday.
The purpose of the law, according to Elton D. Lobban, superintendent of the Kansas Motor Vehicle Department, is to require that any mileage recorded on the title is correct.
"The law protects the consumer," said Lobban.
All titles issued since Saturday have had a space for mileage for each owner of the car.
PERSONS who wish to sell or trade a vehicle, and who have an old title which permits them to drive the mileage, must include the mileage on the title before they can sell the vehicle. The forms for an abstract may be obtained from the county treasurer's office.
The only problem caused by the law thus far, said Eddin Norman, Douglas county police officer, is that you can't register the titles on cars frequently forget to record the reading on the odometer.
The law seems to be causing no problems for local automobile dealers.
"I think it is excellent. I have nothing but high regard for it," said M. D. Guthrie, general manager of Turner Chevrolet, 738 New Hampshire St.
"I MEANS a little extra work for us," said Harold Manose, owner of GI Joe's Used Cars, 603 Vermont St., "Personally, I think it's a good idea."
Lobban said that there had been some trouble in Wichita and Topka before July 1 from dealers who had broken a law that prohibited any tampering with the computer. They were separated from the new one which merely requires that the mileage be recorded.
Lobban said that the new law also protected the dealer. If the original owner tampered with the odometer of a vehicle, and recorded the incorrect mileage when he sold or traded that vehicle to a dealer, it would be eligible for any legal action which may result.
Agents for the motor vehicle department periodically check dealers' practices, but investigations are begun after the department received a complaint against a dealer.
The minimum punishment in Kansas is a $1,000 fine, or a jail sentence of not over six months.
FBI Foils Skyjack; 3 Die in Gunbattle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Two armed blackiers were shot to death yesterday by FBI agents and a passenger was slain in the shootout after the gunmen commandered a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner.
Three passengers were hit by gunfire from one of the air pirates, the FBI said.
free passengers were n't by gunfire one of the airports' FBI said. He was among the injured. H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Longueuil in Quebec, Canada. The injured passengers were identified as Leo R. Cormley, 46, of Van Nuyz, Calif., and Victor Sung Yen, 56, of Universal City, Calif. who plays the lead role in the movie Bonanza. Both were in fair condition.
An airlines spokesman said the agents shot the highjackers after on highjacker flight.
Seventy-nine passengers and five crew members had been held captive for almost six hours as the jelimer sat a mile from the airport at San Francisco International Airport.
The highjackers, who had demanded $800,000 and passage to Siberia, were identified as Dimitr Alexiev, 28, Hayward, and Michael Azmanoff, 28, no address.
The FBI said an agent dressed in a pilot's uniform approached the airliner with bags containing the ransom and parachutes demanded by the highjackers.
He said a highjacker ordered the agent to strip to his underwear to show he was wearing a mask. The agent of the plane, three agents who had been in a nearby boat on the bay rushed the plane from a front entrance. When the gunman in the rear began firing, agents opened fire and struck him.
The highjackers, armed with three handguns, took over the Boeing 737 yesterday morning on a flight from Sacramento to San Francisco.
The highjackers send demands through the ship, Capt. Dennis Wailer of San Diego.
Gary Kissell, airlines spokesman, said the airline had ordered a larger Boeing 727 flown from San Diego in case the gunmen wanted a plane with a rear exit for their purposes and had ordered the 727 has side exits that likely would suck a jumper into the tail section.
J. Floyd Andrews, company president,
said the airline asked the highjackers "if
they would let the women and children off
to work on the ship." He added to
leave until the demands are met."
Waller said one highjacker did all the talking and that he appeared "very calm, very deliberate," Kissel said one of the highjackers was in the cockpit monitoring reports of his own actions on a local radio station.
Poor People Seek Site
SCLC to Ignore Camp Prohibition
Kansan Staff Writer
3y DEANNA VANDERMADE
Konson Staff Writer
Emanuel Cleaver, director of a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) program in St. Louis, said that a Kansas City, Mo., park, said that the project would be continued, even if the city was not.
Cleaver is expected to appear before the council Friday when it again considers CLCU's request to ordinance stamping and religious and political activities be waived.
The Kansas City SCLC chapter intends to erect what it calls Resurrection City III, patterned after a poor people's shanty-town in Washington in May 1970. The SCLC building, a three-story apartment residences in Mill Creek Park, just north of the J.C. Nichols Fountain, for six days.
CLEAVER said the SCLC could cite many incidents over the past several months in his book about political and religious projects and had not been cited by the police. Cleaver said he saw no reason why the city should be given a policy of favoritism on use of parks.
Martin Luther King established the
SCLC on the principles of non-violence ano cooperation, Cleaver said, "but it has also been the policy to disobey unjust laws, and this is a prime example."
"The First Amendment guarantees every citizen the right to dissent." Cleaver said, "but it seems that when black people or poor people disent in a manner that is equally uncomfortable, that rights is suppressed. We don't want that to happen here."
Resurrection City III is SCLC's third attempt to demonstrate the plight of poor people in the U.S. Thousands gathered in the original Resurrection City in 1985 to demonstrate against poverty and lobby for more effective laws to protect the poor.
THE PROPOSAL for a poor people's city in Kansas City was first presented to the SCLC last month. They approved the plans and full-scale plans were developed.
The "Washington project suffered because of poor internal planning and too many people not dedicated to the cause, Kansas City city project intends to be strong.
Only 150 poor people and their families
will be allowed to participate in the Kansas City project. These people will be in-seen before being allowed to camp in the park. They must go through a training session.
Cleaver said the SCLC did not want any unpleasant incidents to occur. But there were no such incidents in this project. There have been several threatening letters and phone calls. But Cleaver said he didn't want anything to happen and could create a bad name for the group.
"IF 10 people on the outside came by and threw rocks, nothing would happen," he said, "but if one of our people threw trash out in the parkway it would be headline news. We're not going to let that happen."
The purpose of the campout is to make the city and political officials, particularly those running for office this fall, aware of the position of the poor people in Kansas City. Cleaver said many wealthy people never ventured into poor neighborhoods, but he said that the wealthy have a great deal of influence over how long they are poor. Clearner said,
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This was the third time this year a Pacific Southwest jet has been hijacked. After one in April the airline was fined $1,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to follow procedures to prevent highjackings.
Viet Troops Fight Enemy At City Edge
SAIGON (AP) - South Vietnamese forces bethe edge of Qiang Tri City to win the conflict, their flanks. Thirty-two miles tothe southeast, enemy artillery loosened its heaviest bargeation on Hue since the Com- mondy began more than three months ago.
Reliable sources said LL. Gen Ng Qiang Trong, commander of the 20,000-man team in Iraq, said he believed he could recapture South Vietnam's northernmost capital without a bloody battle. They said he was in no hurry to evacuate the region necessary street fighting and destruction.
In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. Command announced the most intense raids in weeks against three major countries: China, Vietnam and Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital.
Field reports said more than 100 rounds of mixed artillery, rockets and mortars had hit Hue in the predawn darkness, most striking in and around the old walled section known as the Citadel. There was no immediate report on casualties or damage.
Spokesmen said enemy shells struck a military hospital in the Citadel on Wednesday, wounding 11 patients. The walled area was the seat of Vietnam's emperors in the last century and now is a military headquarters.
Government paratroopers penetrated the Quang Tri city limits Tuesday, then took up defensive positions on the southeastern edge, awaiting an order to press on after their week-long, 10-mile drive up Highway 1.
Sources said the enemy's strength inside Quang Tri was not known, but the defenders were believed to be chiefly militia.
The North Vietnamese main divisions are believed to be dispersed generally to the west of Quang Tri, which fell to the enemy May 1.
Prof's Law Research Aids Supreme Court
The shelling of Hue continued for the fourth day. A military hospital in the Hue Citadel was hit Wednesday morning. Spokesmen said 11 patients were wounded.
By BARBARA STROH
Kansan Staff Writer
Articles by Casad, which had appeared in a book, "Religion and Public Order," and in the "Kansas Law Review," were submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in its opinion.
"The main importance," said Casad, "of the case for the larger society is that it does not under the constitution more broadly than it had been thought previously and shows that the Supreme Court is willing to consider the under religion in a broader interpretation.
Robert C. Casad, professor of law, who focused his research in the church-state area of law, provided much of the information leading to a recent Supreme Court decision providing a broader interpretation of the freedom of religion.
In its May 15 ruling, the court affirmed a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that that at-risk children require all children to attend school through age 16 was unconstitutional as applied to members of the Old Order Conservative Amish Monmonite Church.
"Implicit is recognition that the concept of religion in the United States Constitution emphasizes the definition of religion by the belief rather than general standards of relation."
CASAD ALSO wrote a memorandum, which was distributed to the press through the Association of American Law Schools, on the case.
The decision was one of several reached
by the Supreme Court in recent years affirming the rights of individuals to religious beliefs unusual to the general American public.
IN A 1963 landmark case, "Sherbert Verner," the Supreme Court agreed that Sherbert, as a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, had a right to refuse to work on Saturday because the church was not permitted. The was then allowed to collect unemployment compensation because she was fired for refusing to work on Saturday.
In another well-publicized case, "People w Woody," (1964), the Court said that William T. Moore, a professor of American Church could be allowed the use of a mild hallucinatory drug in connection with his priesthood.
The drug, peyote, was considered essential in the ritual of the church, which is composed mostly of American Indians. The Court said that the state had no "compelling state interest" allowing it to interfere with the use of the drug.
Casad became involved in the state rights versus religious freedom controversy when in 1865, a Hutchinson Armish man was convicted of violation of the compulsory education law for refusing to send his daughter to high school.
KANSAS LAW requires attendance of children in school until age 18, which for most children would be through the tenth grade. The Amish consider attendance beyond the eighth grade against their religious beliefs.
See AMISH, page 3
Amish Win Education Battle
KU law professor's research aids Supreme Court in decision
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED