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82nd Year, No.15
Whomper Moves to Town
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, June 28. 1972
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Bomb Blasts, Fights Mar Irish Truce
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)—Two bombs shattered the calm of Northern Ireland's fragile truce Tuesday night and British troops were called in to halt street fighting between rival gangs of Protestant and Roman Catholic youths.
The bombs, both planted in cars, exploded in quick succession in East Belfast. One blast was on Kilmood Street and the other on Queens Road, both in a Protestant neighborhood.
Security officials said there were no casualties, but houses in the vicinity were damaged.
The street clashes broke out on the opposite side of the city in the Crumlin Road area. Young threes stones back and forth, and the troops moved in to keep them apart.
THE BOMBS were believed to be the work either of dissidents of the Irish Republican Army or else of militant groups. There was an agreement between the IRA and British authorities administering the province. The truce was the first in three years of
The truce was the first in three years of violence.
Militants of the Irish Republican Army had their guns and bombs in secret caches. Patrols of Britain's 15,000-man security force in Dublin strove to storm streets and return them to our outposts.
IT WAS the start of a fral cease-fire that came into force at midnight Monday as the result of an offer by the Provisional wing of the IRA.
Minutes earlier, the three-year-old insurrection involving Protestants and Roman Catholics had claimed its 389th death. A lured lion to his death in an ambush.
Although random rifle shots disturbed the earie quiet of the Ulster summer, it seemed as if words not bullets would become the order of the day.
"We have now won a valuable breathing space," declared a British minister for Northern Ireland, Paul Channon. "The talking can start in real earnest."
Custodian Terry R. Boyle examines damage caused by a fire he discovered in Strong Hall room 238 at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Boyle, who was in the hall on Thursday, was stabbed.
Kansan Photo by ROBERT PATRICK
Fire Discovered in Strong Hall
door had ignited, and Traffic and Security officers said the fire was the result of an accident. Damage was minor.
House Opposes Arms Reduction
WASHINGTON (AP)—Backing President Nikon's bid for sustained U.S. development of new offensive weapons under the Moscow accords, the House decisively rejected proposals Tuesday for a cutback of more than $1.6 billion.
The House also rejected by 245 to 152 a proposal to order all U.S. forces out of the indochina war by Sept. 1 in return for release of American prisoners.
The House backed the President's request for accelerated development of the New Trident missile submarine and B1 bomber plus a Safeguard antimissile site for Washington and tighter SafeGuard radars in the $2.31-billion weapons bill.
"WE OUGHT to take the President at his word that he wants to stop the arms race," said Rep. Robert L. Leggett, D-Calif., in appeal for the cuts.
The authorization for planes, missiles,
ships and all other U.S. weapons for the fiscal year starting July 1 then was passed
334 to 59 and sent to the Senate.
But House Armed Service Chairman F. Edward Hewlett, D-LA, had contended in a lawsuit that US weapons development while the Soviets were permitted to continue arms improvements under the Moscow accords could play with our national defense."
The opponents argued the new weapons could undermine the U.S.-Soviet armies in Syria.
Pike, D-N-Y, contended they should be prepared because they were too tight and not yet responsive.
"OBVIOUSLY we've got the power to blow the Soviets to smithereens," Pike said. "And all we talking about here is that we're working with them and the other peoples of the earth into."
Pike's amendment to reject all $445 million in the bill for development of the B1 bomber to replace the BS2 in the early 1980s was voted down 729 to 94.
Amendments by Leggett to cut $700 million to slow the 2-missile Trident submarine development back to last year's pace and cut all $140 million for strengthening Safeguard radars were shouted down with voice votes.
AN AMENDMENT to cut the $110 million weapons increase requested by the administration along with the $628 million decrease was also rejected by voice vote.
The $110 million includes a $60 million speed up on the tighter Safeguard radar system; $20 million for development of a Navy submarine-launched cruise missile; $30 million for triple warhead development and $10 million for communications and control.
The $2.1-3 billion weapons authorization bill was cut a new $82 million on the administration's recommendation because it would "Safeguard sites that had been planned."
Judge Dismisses Petition to Close Gaslight
Douglas County Court Judge Floyd Coffman refused Tuesday to lock up the Gaslight Tavern to dismiss a state lawsuit. The tavern, where he closed the tavern as a common nuisance.
The petition, filed jointly in Oct., 1971, by
Alabama Delegation Wins Seating by Slim Margin
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention voted 69 to 55 late Tuesday to seat Alabama's 37-member delegation, including 22 pledged to that state's Gov. George C. Wallace.
At the same time, the 150-member panel received a report from a hearing officer which held strongly in favor of challengers trying to unseat Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other uncommitted delegates from Chicago.
In another major development, another hearing examiner issued findings which appeared to support front-running Sen. Cruz's claim to all 271 California delegates.
THE ILLINOIS and California cases
were taken up by the full committee
later in the year.
The vote to seat Alabama's regular delegation—which was challenged by a predominantly black faction—is almost flat, with the floor of the convention in Miami Beach.
The delegation was accused by challengers of having inadequate representation of women and minorities, pointing to the delegate primary last May.
In another delegate fight, the convention's credentials Committee Tuesday rejected by a vote of 70 to 64 a move to ban women on grounds it contained too few women.
IN THE Chicago challenge, hearing examiner Cecil F. Poole found that Daley and 88 other delegates from Chicago had been slated in violation of party reform rules on "procedures, notice, openness and timeliness."
Poole, in his report, made no recommendation for action to be taken against the Chicago delegation. The full committee is expected to take up the case Friday and decide how many, if any, of them should go to the insurgents, two-thirds of whom support front-running Sen. George S. McGoventry.
the offices of Atty. Gen. Vern Miller and Doug Astley. Mr. Mellwell sought to close the Gasligh because of alleged riflicfishing on the premises of the tavern.
Coffman's decision came after he overruled earlier Tuesday a motion by defense attorneys Gene Riling and George Melvin to dismiss the suit. None of the defendants had testified at that time, and Coffman denied the motion stating the court would hear the testimony of the defense.
Riling represented the tavern's lessee, Reginald Scarbrough and manager, Harold Stagg, in the hearing. Melvin the Gaslight's owner, Mary Rowlings.
In his deciding opinion, Coffman said that the state's evidence did not prove to him that the proprietors of the Gaslight operation had drug activities on the tavern's premises.
Coffman also said that although he did not discount the state's evidence of drug transactions on the Gaslight premises, he did not believe that evidence of drug sales in Pennsylvania supported the state's argument that drug offending was continuous at the Gaslight.
"I am not convinced the proprietors permitted any of these sales to go on with their knowledge," he said. "It seems to me that I am highly diligent in seeing it did not go on."
In his closing argument given before the court's rink, Mike Ewell argued that the injunction for closure of the tavern was warranted on the basis that illegal drug activity was carried on and permitted to be carried on at the Gaslight.
Elwell said that the state's evidence of drug sales at the Gaslight, presented with the testimony of undercover agents who had purchased drugs at the Gaslight on October 25, 2014, showed a "continual pattern of activity," not isolated incidents.
To judge differently, he said, would be to
leave it on the road and go home.
Elwell then argued that ignorance of drug traffic at the Gaslight on the part of the defendants was not a defence against the defendant's attitude toward the drug problem
was "stick your head in the sand and it'll go away."
In his closing statement, Melvin argued that any evidence of drug transactions on the premises of the Gaslight was irrelevant because the state presented
See GASLIGHT, page 5
East Lawrence Improvement Plan Will Be Focus of New Committee
By PAT RUPERT Kansan Staff Writer
At a Neighborhood Development Planning (NPD) meeting for East Lawrence residents Tuesday night, a committee was established to make recommendations for the rehabilitation of East Lawrence for the summer of 1973.
Committee members will select goals and list projects that East Lawrence residents want. Projects may include the construction of a property, improvement of the sewer system, streets, street lights, land acquisition and clearance and the building of vocational schools in the committee member's projects in the projects' preference. The projects would then be
The proposed East Lawrence project is a continuation of the downtown improvement program. Funds for both programs are allocated to income tax and are handed out by HUD.
subject to approval by city commissioners.
"WE DO not want this committee to be a rubber stamp committee," said Jack
There will be $500,000 allocated for the East Lawrence program. But City Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said that a planned $100,000 grant would be available for next year. Half of the proposed $500,000 grant already has been earmarked for a project to create a plaza area south of the Kaw River bridge and another at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Don Schaake, NDP director, admitted that there were complaints that the project so far was just subsidizing downtown business. He said, however, that it was necessary to keep up the downtown area provided the tax base for city revenue.
East Lawrence residents, those living south of the river to Fifteenth Street and
east of downtown to the Santa Fe Railway spur between Delaware and Haskell streets, were notified by mail about the event. Approximately 150 people attended.
RESIDENTS attending voiced opposition to the NDP project. Some did not want to wait until next summer for improvements in East Lawrence to begin.
"Our homes are falling down. We need improvement now." said one resident.
Others were suspicious about the taxes
being paid and moved on their property once
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"After our houses are fixed up, will they be 'appraised and taxes raised on them'?"
City Commissioner Rose admitted that improved houses would be reassessed and refurbished.
Other residents wondered why planers were brought in from the coast when there were people in Lawrence who were appointed and paid for this type of work.
Commission Defers Economic Opportunity Ordinance
BY BOB LITCHFIELD
Kanson Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence is still without an economic opportunity ordinance and Tuesday's
The proposed ordinance, as submitted by Ray Samuel, director of human relations at the University of Kansas recommended changes. Action on the proposal was deferred for three weeks to enable the Human Relations Commission to conduct further action. 1972 Kansas Act Against Discrimination.
The existence of the new state law was brought to the attention of the commission only Friday. Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said that it would take some time to approve and that the legal staff would have to check for compliance with the state statute.
"WE HAD hoped to have the first revised reading after minor changes today," she said, "but the state law makes that impossible."
Samuel urged that the ordinance be drafted and adopted as soon as possible so the Human Relations Commission could begin work.
Howard E. Mossberg, chairman of the Mayor's Drug Abuse Committee, presented that committee's report, based on a month study of drug usage in Lawrence.
problems encountered so far had resulted from a lack of coordination among the different groups making recommendations.
A cutoff date for recommended changes
the ordinance was set for July 11.
Compliance is optional.
MOSBERG said that the committee divided into three subcommittees—on law enforcement, education and treatment—for recommendations were made in each area.
Mossberg said one unresolved question was whether drug abuse was a public health problem or a law enforcement problem.
The report's recommendations call for establishing a coordinating committee from July 1, 1972 to July 1, 1973. Other cities in Kansas and throughout the country have such committees, Mossberg said.
"If drug activity is a felony, then the people involved must be treated as felons. By seeking rehabilitation as a solution, it becomes a medical problem." Mossberg said.
REQUESTS for federal and state funds to finance the coordinated drive drug
should be made, the report advised. Mossberg said that the city had already implemented a recommendation to hire a law enforcement officer for drug abuse.
The report also recommended that funds be authorized for the purchase of street drugs, with emphasis on hard drugs; the program was supported by Mosberg said the study concluded that a TIP program, similar to one in Kansas City was not a viable program for Lawrence, and recommended that the program provide treatment and rehabilitation of juveniles.
In the field of education, recommendations were made to continue all programs by civic groups and schools and be prepared for future youth, especially in the winter months.
The committee recommended endorsement of the methadone program at Watkins Hospital, and suggested $3,000 be appropriated for its support.
MOSSBERG said that while the methadone treatment was highly controversial because it substituted one addictive narcotic for another, it was the only program that public health officials had agreed to back.
Also recommended was financial support for Headquarters to assure its continued operation. Mossberg said that this was debated at great length by the committee because several of the members were disturbed by Headquarters' operations and programs.
The majority sentiment of the committee was that other funds should be sought, but that the city should assure its staff that they will have adequate assistance to the community. said
Commissioner Jack Rose asked if the drug problem had reached a "high water point" and had called for the use of paychedelic drugs may be waning, there was evidence that hard narcotics use in general and amphetamine and barbiturate use among juveniles was in increase.
"ARRESTS in Lawrence since 1967 have gone up, indicating an increased problem," Mossberg said. "The use of drugs has not subsided in the last year, but at least discussion of it among youths bas."
The commission took the report under advisement.
Mossberg said Lawrence could anticipate traffic in drugs because of its location "in the dog tracks of the nation, Interstate 70."
Many of the proposed changes in the Human Relations Commission ordinance involved the definition of "affirmative action" and a discussion of whether the ordinance should apply only to city construction contractors or to all suppliers with business with the city. It was later learned that the state law pertains to all contracts.
Sarah Scott, 1332 Massachusetts St. and KU Affirmative Action Board member, stressed a need for flexibility in the ordinance and the desirability of having specific guidelines and timetables developed before implementation began.
SCOTT SAID that the ordinance should move in the direction of providing for equal employment opportunity and away from becoming a non-discrimination act because discrimination is difficult to prove.
Harriet Nehring, president of the Lawrence chapter of the League of Women Voters, proposed that the Human Relations Commission conduct hearings in case of noncompliance and supported recourse to legal action.
The Rev. Carl Johnson, 833 Indiana St., said that he thought the adoption of the statute would be "very helpful."
interests of the people of Lawrence demanded quick action.
"If we are going into specifics, I hope the people are there to back us up when the time comes. We seem to be spinning our wheels with this ordinance which has already taken six months to get on the books," he said.
IN ROUTINE business, the commission approved ordinances authorizing the issuance of temporary notes in the amount of $400,000 to pay for paving and sidewalk improvements, and $38,000 to pay for the sidewalks in the Indian Hills neighborhood.
The city manager was authorized to enter into a 90-day option with William A. Cherry, the City Manager. The land will be used to supply sand for the construction of the Clinton dam. The city will receive a royalty of five cents a cubic yard for砂 removed from the site.
A site plan for the installation of a self-service gasoline pump station to be located on the Kwik Shop property at 1714 W. W3rd St. (205) 649-8900, concerning the implications involved. The present city ordinance is considered insufficient in regard to self-service pumps.