BLAZING
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
82nd Year, No.14
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Democrats Shape Pro-Busing Plank
Tuesday, June 27, 1972
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Quota on Import Of Meat Ceased
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon acted Monday to dampen surging meat prices by removing all restrictions on meat imports.
But he shunned any general food-price freeze and said there would not be immediate reductions in meat costs at the supermarket.
Officials said that while Nixon had ruled out a temporary price freeze on meat and other farm products, controls still could be imposed on now-exempt agricultural products such as fruit, vegetables and meat.
NIXON SAID the lifting of meat-import quotas for the balance of 1972 should
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Cattlemen Doubt Value Of No Quota
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Agricultural associations, meat packers and ranchers express doubt Monday that the lifting of quota restrictions on cattle from Argentina slow the upward spiral of meat prices.
One group, the American National Cattlemen's Association, said the lifting of quotas by President Nixon could backfire because the price of meat to go even higher.
"We think that competing products come in and raise their prices, and Mrs. Houseley wants to wind up paying more than she is now," said Trotman, president of the firm.
The president of the American Farm
pureau Federation, William J. Kunfus,
of Burlington, Vermont.
"We don't think that lifting import levels will significantly lower beef prices at this time," Trotman added. "We are very happy and upset at the President's action."
"Farmers and ranchers are relieved that a decision has been made to avoid imposing price ceilings on raw and commercial corn; their losses are deeply concerned at the continuing reluctance of the Nixon administration and Congress to deal with the root cause of crop failure."
Kuhfuss urged Congress to "move vigorously to reduce federal spending."
Two of the country's larger meat packing firms, Swift Fresh Meats Co. and Wilson Certified Foods, said they expected an action to have little effect on meat prices.
Noel L. Ikel, president of Swift, said the effect on prices "will depend entirely on the amount of meat available from other countries."
overcome “a short-term shortage” but “may not fully solve the problem” of rising prices. He vowed, however, that he would “take whatever further measures that are necessary to prevent increases in the cost of food.”
His quota removal decision was prompted by recent rapid rises in wholesale meat prices, the third surge in the wholesale level in five months. It appeared aimed at reducing pricing costs to offset retail meat counters this election-year.
"I intend to monitor this situation closely, and I want to assure every American housewife that this administration is firmly determined to prevent unjustified increases in the cost of housing and insurance," he then statement issued at the White House.
In A BRIEFER statement he read for television cameras Nixon said meat prices had been rising because increased demands not yet be matched by in-store sales.
Most of the meat imports arrive frozen in refrigerated ships and are processed for such products as hamburger, frankfurters and luncheon meat. Little of it is placed on the counter as higher-cost cuts such as steak and roast.
At about the time the President was acting, a House Agriculture subcommittee voted 10 to 3 in favor of keeping livestock prices uncontrolled.
BUT THE subcommittee recommended also that the General Accounting Office and the Federal Trade Commission inquire into the retail meat-pricing system. And it urged intensified efforts to improve productivity in the meat industry.
Under the 1972 voluntary quota program, imports of 1.24 billion pounds of meat were to be allowed, an 11 per cent increase from 1971. Nearly three-fourths of the imports come from Australia and New Zealand. Secretary of State William P. Patterson, Australian officials about increasing the level during his current visit there.
Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz, who heads Nixon's cost of living council, said there were no ironclad assurances that other countries would be willing to send larger quantities of meat to America since demand was high in Europe and because it would have been flow "may well be possible" because U.S. prices historically were higher.
Under the now-suspended quotas imports would have amounted to a little over $200 million.
Kansan Photo by STEVE CRAIG
State Secretary Candidate Speaks Mike Manning addresses Labor Town Hall meeting
Killing Continues Until Cease-Fire
BELFAST (AP)—The hour of Northern Ireland's first full truce in three years came at midnight Monday but blood flowed down to the deadline. A British soldier was shot dead minutes before the ceasefire was defiled the cease-fire in the early hours.
Gummen killed a policeman and another soldier in a rash of shootings, bombings and robberies during the last hours before the truce, declared by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. At least nine persons were killed in the attack, including as many as 17 guerrillas.
A massive bomb damaged Queen's University just before the truce took effect. Bursts of automatic fire were heard from across the bay and in a fire in East Belfast. Barricades were reported being thrown up in the Duncanium Gardens sector of Belfast, scene of force which led to evacuation.
Security sources speculated that the shooting came from trigger-happy guerrillas of the IRA's Provisional wing, which ordered the truce, and from Provisional "police squads" bent on enforcing the ceasefire.
"There is still a lot of running" on a British army soxman said early today
Voter Registration Becomes Issue
By MARY PITMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Taverns and firecrackers stands were jokingly referred to as good outposts for firefighting, but the group attended an otherwise serious discussion of ways to reach and register more Kansans eligible to vote, at a Labor Town Hall meeting in the Douglas County State Bank Monday.
Featured speaker Mike Manning, candidate for Kansas secretary of state and graduate student in political science at the University of Kansas, called for "simpler and more convenient voter registration."
Jack Briar, assistant secretary of state in Kansas, also was a featured speaker at the meeting. Briar represented Kansas Secretary of State Elwil Shanahan.
Manning called cumbersome methods of voter registration "an impediment to voter participation." He said he advocated the use of voter education outpost centers in department stores, on
college campuses or in any "high-traffic" area.
Volunteers from the League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce could serve as deputy registrars, Manning said.
Briar, who saw several problems involved in increasing the number of outpost centers, objected to the use of volunteers to register citizens. Briar said that inept volunteers had been known to lose registration cards.
"The people that get the job done are the paid professionals that are on the job to do
Manning also suggested postal registration as a means of making registration more convenient. Brian said he will consider such a proposal this year.
The burden of registration is currently on the individual, Manning said. He advocated that the burden be placed on the state.
Manning and Briar disagreed about
whether the Kansas secretary of state is the chief election official in the state of Kansas. Briar explained that county clerks handled registration in 101 counties in Kansas and election commissioners in the other four counties of Kansas.
Briar said that the secretary of state held election seminars to train the county clerks in registration procedures, and he estimated that these seminars were regularly attended by 75 per cent of the clerks.
Manning said that the secretary of state in Kansas should be a strong advocate of measures to facilitate voter registration. Lobbying and working for the removal of poor election officers should be among the duties of the secretary of state, he said.
Manning said he hoped that voter registration outposts would be placed at the end of enrollment lines on college campuses this fall. Brair said his office had been approached about the matter but would probably approve such a proposal.
McGovern Eyes First-Ballot Win
said he had gained the support of enough black delegates to swell his past past a convention majority, but his strategists in the union and later in the day they were wrong.
They claimed 1,492 votes for a
nomination that will go to the Democrat who can assemble 1,509.
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George McGovern claimed Monday he was within a handful of votes of locking up the Democratic presidential nomination, but rivals challenged his claim to two blocs.
The South Dakota senator at one point
DISSENTING blacks and aide to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota disputed McGovern's claim that the endorsement of some black political leaders would deliver him 96 previously uncommitted黑 male delegate votes.
McGovern and his allies claimed to have gained the support of seven of 11 black leaders in the war.
out and I'll have to say someone's playing games."
Humphrys also challenged the winner-take-all system under which McGovern won the entire 271-vote California ballot. The state's presidential primary election.
SEN. HENRY M. Jackson of Washington and Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York sent a delegation in statements filed at a hearing of the Democratic Credentials Committee.
But one delegate said, "I've checked this
The soldier was killed and another wounded when gunmen opened upon a foot patrol in East Belfast. The other dead soldier was cut down by a burst of submachine gun fire in Londonderry. The policeman was killed in Newry.
Eight persons were wounded in a
crowd fighting in the Garden of
Givens in Montserrat gardens.
At least 386 persons have died in three years of sectarian strife that have toppled Three Uster prime ministers, smashed the seemingly unbreakable rule of the Protestant Church and forced the British to assume supreme powers over the rebellious six counties.
The truce was announced last week by the nationist Provisionalis, but they warned Monday that the battle would begin anew if necessary.
The Provisionals said they were prepared to mete out summary justice to any dissidents who refused to observe the cease-fire.
"We shall be keeping a close watch on some people," a Provisional leader told newsmen in Londonderdy. "They will be with very quickly if they step out of line."
But a statement from Provisional headquarters in Dublin added that the group "stands on full alert to take defensive action should the need arise and ready to resume offensive activities if the leadership decide this is necessary."
It is said the IRA was "stronger and better equipped than ever before."
Members of the group said they had formed a Region 7 American Indian Council Saturday as an Indian counterpart for programs in the four states.
Indians Seek Faster Action On Programs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP—Representatives of Indian groups in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri met here Monday to seek faster action on funding programs for the estimated 56,000 Indians living in the four states.
The Indians said they had asked federal officials to recognize their regional council as a reviewing board. The council would then take proposals from local Indian organizations and funnel those proposals to the appropriate federal agencies.
Federal agencies included were the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of transportation, housing and urban development, justice labor, and health, education and welfare.
Each were asked to establish an Indian affairs position within their departments. Douglas Gradipe, treasurer of the Nixon administration, distribution of federal funds had been too slow, despite President Nixon's call in 1970 for greater attention to Indian problems.
Kansan Photo hv KEVIN RAGAN
Gay Liberation Front Pickets Realy Firm
Leonard Gray, Lawrence senior, left, and Reginald Brown, Lawrence junior, protest . . .
Real Estate Agency in Lawrence Picketed by Gav Liberation Front
Two members of the Front, Dick Perrin,
former graduate student from Corning,
N.Y., and Joe Prado, fifth year
architecture student from San Juan, P.R.
san they were evicted from a house which
had rented in January from Edmonds.
By CONNIE PARISH
Kansan Staff Writer
Members of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front picketed Edmonds Real Estate Co. at 1903 Massachusetts St. Monday, charging that the firm's rental procedures discriminate against homosexuals.
According to Prados, they lived in the house at 1147 Ohio St. approximately 10 blocks north of the house.
The Front's official position paper, which Perrin and Prados said spoke for the movement, said eviction was "that their involvement in Gay Liberation, especially in the Court case ("Lawrence Gay Liberation Front et. al.") had been made, they made them admissible as tenants."
The Front's position paper stated that in
Prados is a co-plaintiff in that case which asks that the University recognize the Front as a legitimate campus organization.
May, Edmonds also "inquired as to the sexual orientation of two men seeking tenancy in a house for which he was the rental agent, with the explicit statement that he did not desire to 'get into the same house' as with the previously evicted tenants."
'I can't tell you the real reason the two were excited.' Edmunds said. "because it was a personal moment."
"I did not discriminate against them," be said.
Edmonds said that he knew the two were members of the Gay Liberation Front.
Last week the Front wrote a letter to Edmonds asking that he consider their complaints. In the letter, the Front said he had otherwise picket his business Monday.
"That's what makes it so ironic that now
we're discriminated against them
because of us."
Mark Edmonds, reallor, said Monday before the picket began that he had received their letter, but had not replied to it.
Perrin said, "I'd be glad to hear his reasons for evicting me so I could defend
Prados, said, "He (Edmonds) complained that I was gay. The only other thing I know of that he complained about was that I took 20-minute showers."
Pointing to a placard reading, "We want to rent houses, not closets," Leonard was asked if he had not ashamed of his hornosexuality as some people are. We'd like Edmonds to give a pledge in writing that the won't have any property Obeyed when we are prepared to take further action."
The Front is basing its argument on the Kansas AntiDiscrimination Act, according to its position paper. The act, which will go into effect July 1 and will be retroactive, prohibits discrimination in housing because of sex.
Four and sometimes five Front members walked in the picket line from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Monday. Reggie Brown, education coordinator and Kansas City sophomore, said that the reaction of passersby had been favorable.
"Most honked and yelled 'right on.' Only a few leered," he said.
During the picket, Edmonds issued a written statement: "This picking is unjustified and based on erroneous and unfair factions have no further statements at this time."