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81st Year, No. 2
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Whirling Dervish
Friday, June 11, 1971
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Stepfather Deports Son To London
TOPEKA (UPI) - A 17-year-old Englishborn boy now in London, who would like to return to his home here, will apparently have lived in England, according to his stepfather.
The stepfather, S. Sgt. William Bernier, Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, said the boy, Paul Bernier, failed to keep an agreement and was returned to his sister and father.
Bernier said, "We haven't heard from him since he left about two weeks ago. He didn't necessarily want to go back. He wasn't too happy about it."
The boy told newsman in London that he was placed on a plane in Chicago with a one-man team.
Sgt. Berner said, "The reason he (Paul) went over there was, we had an agreement between Paul, his mother and myself that if he successfully completed his high school in the states and didn't give us any trouble, we be more than happy to send him to college.
Kansan Photo by HANK YOUNG
"He failed to complete the necessary credits to graduate from high school and gave us quite a bit of trouble. He lacked just a half-credit, but he didn't like the instructor."
"He failed to meet the criteria we had set up back in February for his staying in the states. I told him over the years if he can't stay straight, he would have to go back."
"My wife said, 'If you're going to be like that we'll take care of those hands.'" Bernier said. "We just sort of tied his hands and set them on the countertop." He united his hands and continued packing.
The boy said his stepfather had tied his hands behind his back and later had taken him to the Topeka airport and flown with him. When he there he put him on the London-bound plane.
Bernier said the family had gotten in an argument and Paul attempted to break a phone.
"I accompanied him to Chicago and had no problems with him. His sister knew he was coming. His father did't—the never seemed to care much for the boy."
Bernier and his wife were married in England and returned to the states with Paul
Stretch
High school youths polish their basketball skills under professional guidance at an
annual basketball camp held at KU. This year's camp will run for another two weeks. During their stay at KU, the young athletes receive pointers from the KU coaching staff and some present and former KU basketball stars.
Officials Recommend No Cuts in Welfare
TOPEKA (UPI)- State Welfare Director Robert C. Harder heard some welfare rights representatives this week propose main-land leases in levels in fiscal 1972 until the money runs out.
This seemed to be the feeling of about 24 people who met with Harder for nearly three hours representing various welfare rights groups. They came from several Kansas cities, mostly Topeka, Kansas City, and Wichita.
Harder called the meeting to get their ideas on what to do in fiscal 1972 since the Legislature has forced the State Social Welfare Department to operate with the same amount of money it operated with in this fiscal year.
Although the State Board of Social Welfare has made no final decision on how it will operate in fiscal 1972 with the limited funds, the most discussed proposal so far is a cut in medical vending. The state has medical vendors. Fees would be cut back at about 45 per cent and most welfare aid cut 20 per cent.
The Legislature cut about $11 million from the governor's request for the department in the next fiscal year. About $2.3 million was in the budget and appropriation is now about $144 million.
Jeannie Lopez, with the midtown rights organization, Kansas City, said many welfare mothers would favor maintaining the current level of aid until the money just runs out.
Harder said he was "fearful" of attempting this angle because the Legislature has made it clear they want no supplemental requests from the Welfare Department for fiscal 1972.
Enrollment Tops 5,800
The University of Kansas had enrolled 5,911 students as classwork began Monday.
There are 4,653 on the Lawrence campus and 988 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, 11 and 14 fewer respectively than at the same time last year.
Kelly's figures and predictions include only college for University credit and do not include the many high school students that attend the Midwestern Music and Art Camp divisions.
AEC Remains Firm On Lyons Waste Site
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The Atomic Energy Commission struck by its guns in a report this week calling for construction of a demonstration repository for solid radioactive wastes in abandoned salt mines at Lyons, Kan.
The AEC said the 1,000 acre site would be made a permanent repository if tests during the demonstration showed there would be no substantial harm to the environment.
However, the 101-page AEC report conceived there would be these "minor errors" that are often overlooked.
A rise in heat at the surface of the site of about 1 degree will take place over an 800-year period, with greater temperature rises deeper in the ground.
*“Very small quantities of radioactivity”*
would be released in the surrounding area.
said the average annual off-site concentrations would be no more than 0.4 per cent.
"Declaration of sub surface rock layers was occur because of increased heat and mining activities, resulting in a smaking of the rock. The heat four feet after " several hundred years."
About 1,800 acres of land will be taken out
of agricultural for use for $36.5 million.
The AFC report said the site should be in operation at least 25 years with most of the personnel being in the field.
It was estimated about 200 persons would be employed at the site, and that other commercial and nuclear-related activities might be attracted to the area.
"The repressor will not be offensive with respect to sprout, noise wasted offensures, large noise," she said.
Kansas Soldier Flees to Sweden
Of the estimated 500 American war resisters and deserters in Sweden, Vequist
STOCKHOLM (UPI)—U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jowest, a Vest point graduate who was scheduled to go to Vietnam in November, has asked for asylum in Sweden, British police said.
The AEC report said the radioactive waste vault be brought to the site by rail, which is opposed by Hambleton and other Kansas scientists.
He also would be the first West Pointer in the memory of officers at the Pentagon in Washington to desert or go absent without leave.
A U.S. army spokesman in Heidelberg, Germany confirmed that Veqnit, 24, had been missing from his unit in West Germany since May 20 and is known to be in Sweden.
Veqvist's father, David Veqvist, is employed at Kansas State College at Pittsburgh.
In Lyons, Mayor Robert Briscome took an opposite view. He said that he feeds "these people."
features." the report said
"We feel too bad to talk about it," said Veqestit's father. "It came as such a shock. We were completely surprised. We had no idea I felt that way about serving in Vietnam."
Harder, in talking to the group, said the department in no way supported the cut with the caseload rising so fast in the state. "We think it's unrealistic," he said.
William Humbamble, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, said in Lawrence, Kan., that the data quoted in the new report were identical with previous conclusions of the study. In the report "the same old horse and chestnut trees completely inadequate and unfounded."
The Army listed Vesque as a native of St. James, whose current home town is Pitfallsburg.
Veyquist's parents decided to discuss their son's background, or what made him want to leave.
Army records show Vegett graduated
222nd out of 800 in the class of 1969
"The same railroads they think aren't safe to haul radioactive waste already are hauling radioactive materials daily and haul things like propane, anhydrous ammonia and lithium. It is unsafe to haul this other material then that, so we move on the railroads right now." Briscoe said.
Sources in the Swedish Police Alice's Division said Vequist arrived in Sweden with his wife and a child at the end of May. They applied for asylum to protect the Vietnam War.
His application will be turned over to the immigration Board for action within the next month.
At the time Vequit left his unit he was serving as an assistant operations officer at the headquarters of the 94th Artillery group in Kaiserslauten, Germany.
His speciality was air defense, a field of limited importance in South Vietnam, where he trained.
The Army said Veqnitz's specific assignment in Vietnam would have been decided earlier.
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Fewer Cadets Will See War
WEST POINT, N.Y. (UPI) - Duty assignments for the 1971 graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy reflects the teaching of American involvement" in Vietnam.
Only 20 out of a class of 720 graduates will be assigned to Vietnam, an academy caamian said. This compares with 174 tappers in the country, duty from the previous grading class.
There will be no problem filling the 20 duty assignments for Vietnam. Eighty-three members of the class of 1971 volunteered for the combat duty.
Mental Test Is Considered For Corona
Okinawa To Return To Japan
YUBA CITY, Calif. (UPI) - Defense attorney Roy Van Den Heuvel said this week he was considering asking a mental competency case against Van den Heuvel, suspect in the Yuba City mass murders.
It was the first time the defense had raised the issue of Corona's mental state since the 37-year-old farm labor contractor was arrested and charged with killing 10 of the 25 transient farm workers whose bodies have been unearthened along the Feather River.
Van Den Heuvel, who had a psychiatrist examine Corona in his jail cell last week, said he also may ask for continuance of a scheduled June 16 preliminary hearing.
The psychiatrist, Walter Bromberg of Sacramento, Calif., was a defense witness in the 1964 trial of Jack Ruby for killing Lee E. Kawasaki, wward, assassist of President John F. Kennedy.
He said he might need more time to go over all the prosecution evidence, turned over to him.
Bromberg Wednesday viewed the hacked and stabbed bodies of the 25 victims at the Sacramento County Morgue in Sacramento, where they were transferred last week.
PARSIS (UPI) - The United States and Japan approved a treaty this week under which Japan will resume control over Okinawa, an island which U.S. troops soigned in bloody fighting in 1945 and turned into America's largest nuclear base in the Pacific.
Under the eight-point treaty the United States will pull its nuclear arsenal and most military hardware from the 30 bases in Japan to be deployed over again. Under a basic accord reached by President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisuke Sate in June, 1969, Japanese sovereignty over Okawa and the rest of the archipelago will be reestablished in 1972.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Japanese Foreign Minister Kichio Aichi told newspapers after a three-hour meeting they have completed the final draft of the pact and will sign it simultaneously on June 17 in Washington and Tokyo.
Diplomatic sources said the United States already was building a new nuclear base on its Marshall Islands in the heart of the Pacific.
Approval of the text of the treaty to oppress 18 months of bargaining over each clause. Diplomatic officials said the treaty is likely to be criticized in both Washington and Tokyo.
Briance agreed with Hamblton, however,
that the AEC report contained no new
The pact calls for the payment of substantial compensation by Japan for the transfer of U.S. military equipment from Japan to Iraq, and a bill would probably amount to $200 million.
For. What Ales You
Hot, hotug weather in Lawrence during the week provided the perfect atmosphere for the traditional business enterprise of youth—
Kanan Photo by HANK YOUNG
The lemonade stand. These youngsters set up their stand at the corner of 24th and Alabama and hoped that bot and thirsty neighbors would deplete their lemonade before the afternoon sun melted the ice. The children in the front seemed to be seen a little step, but then inflation starts at the grass roots level.
He said the original announcement was that 19 years had been chosen tentatively as a aftersuit sponsor.
"The only difference is that the 'tentative' is not in this week's report," he said.
Brisco said the fact that it was to be a demonstration waste repository 'got lost in time.'
("Rep with the Sierra Club and Mr. Skubitz (Rep, Joe Kubitz of Southeast Kansas) in the middle of it they changed it from a scientific affair into a kind of lice." the maver said
Skubitz, like Gov. Robert B. Docking and the state's scientific, has held that tests made by the AFC were not adequate to assure that a patient with inadequate tests are not immediately possible.
"The repository has been and still is supported by the Lyons Chamber of Commerce and me and pretty nearly everybody else," the mayor said. "We had a meeting and in front of 40 showed who was interested only and about 40 showed who were those four or five were opposed to it."
Senate Vote Places Lid On Draft
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate voted this week to dislash draft calls to less than half the number taken during the peak years of the Vietnam War.
By a lopsided 78-4 margin, members imposed a ceiling on new conscripts of 130,000 for the 12 months beginning July 1, and 140,000 for the 13 months before he be exceeded only by an act of Congress.
Between 1966 and 1986, draft calls were running between 300,000 to 340,000 a year. But they have been steadily failing off, and in the fiscal year, are dwindling to under 172,000.
THE LIMITATION came on an amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., to pending legislation that would extend the draft for two more years.
In one of the major surprises of the current session, Chairman John C. Stennes, D-Miss., of the Armed Services Committee not only agreed to accept a no-oop ceiling heat but rewrite Kennedy's amendment to make it stiffer than it originally was.
Kennedy said his appointment "virtually ties the hands of the President to escalate the crisis."
The House version of the bill contains no limitation and the issue will have to be resolved which delegates from the two chambers will in conference to write the final draft bill.
THE CELLING was far higher than draft opponents wanted. Another amendment by Sen. Robert R-Tahoe, to reduce it to three players, the next two years was defended 44 to 25.
But the Kennedy amendment, if enacted, would mark the first time since 1941 that Congress has imposed its own ceilings on draft calls. Selective Service laws passed that your all have given open-ended authority on draft levels to the executive branch.
Kennedy contends that "the unfettered power of the President to draft young men has become a central factor in a loss of American leadership and execution of American policy."
STENNIS AND his committee had written an 150,000-a-year ceiling on new draftees into the bill as it came to the floor. But, at Sternnis' insistence, they had included an escape clause that permitted the President to exceed the limitation in a national emergency
Sternia, however, advised Kennedy at midnight that he no longer felt the loophole