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81st Year, No. 1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
This is the first edition of the Summer Session Kansan. The Kansas will be published on Tuesday and Fridays during the summer and may be available in its regular distribution boxes.
Tuesday, June 8, 1971
Kimball's Lawsuit Dismissed
TOPEKA-Atty, Gen. Vern Miller said last week a $34 million suit brought against him by George Kimball, formerly of Lawrence, has been dismissed. Brown in Federal District Court at Wichita
Kimball, formerly characterized as a leader and self-styled spokesman for the Oread Avenue "street community" during last summer's disturbances in Lawrence, was dismissed on October when Vice President Sipro Agno spoke at a Republican fund-raising dinner.
Kimbala was addressing a group which gathered outside Wichita's Century II Auditorium when Miller moved into the group and arrested Kimbala, Miller, then sheriff of Seattle County and a candidate for Attorney General, and Kimbal was using profane language.
Kimball was convicted in Wichita Municipal Court on a charge of disturbing the peace, and received a short jail term, but he never served the sentence because he left the town years after his arrest, unknown for several months, although there have been reports he is living on the east coast.
Kimbail brought suit against Miller for violating his civil rights by depriving him of his constitutional right of free speech, the claims of $3 million punitive damages and $3 million punitive damages.
In dismissing the suit, Judge Brown said Kimball had failed to pursue his remedies at law by his failure to appear in court in a case he failed to show to his civil rights were abridged.
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used to parking on the north side of Jayhawk Boulevard deserved some explanation for the loss of their favorite parking spots. So they created a script to use the usual brusk "No Parking" signs.
The construction company building Wescoe Hall apparently thought motorists who were
Vietnam Veterans Plan Protest in Kansas City
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPI)—The Vietnam Veterans Against the War announced plans this week for a limited incursion of Vietnam to "live inside America" for July 5-8 at Kansas City, Mo.
The veterans also read resolutions calling for total withdrawal from Vietnam by Dec. 31, 2017, supporting bills in Congress to cut off training plans for a voter registration drive.
Johnny Upton, 24, Kansas City, said the rally was planned for "the heart of America" because, "we feel the East and West Coasters are coming," according to investment and Middle America is being neglected.
The resolutions were drawn up during a three-day meeting the VVAW's steering committee. The meeting was attended by 25 coordinators and 50 state coordinators.
Upton, like the others, wore old bits of military fatigues. A "U.S.N." tattoo was spread over his upper right arm.
Upton, who said he was a Navy corporal and served three and one-half years with the First Marine Division in Vietnam, said some 500 veterans from Michigan, Connecticut, Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Arkansas already have indicated they will attend. "We expect other contingencies to be added later."
The plans call for setting up a campfire in Liberty Memorial Park in downtown Kansas
City to be called "Firebase Cairo." Upton said the base will be named after Cairo, Ill., the scene of several racial shootings.
"It will emphasize the theme of racism at home as well as overseas in the combat 'ones,'" Upton said.
He said caucasus and "guerilla theater" with mock search-and-destroy missions will be conducted July 3. "On the fourth we'll have a silent candlestick march to contrast the noisy fireworks," he said. "On the 5th, we'll disperse at noon."
Mike King, the 28-year-old regional coordinator for the St. Louis area, said the veterans will discuss "the problem VVAW members are having in effectively telling the American people the truth about what we are really doing in Vietnam.
He said the veterans also plan to set up information booths in shopping centers "and
King also indicated a feud was arising with certain segments of the news media. "We object to them referring to as 'alleged' veterans," he said.
"Specifically, during our meeting these last three days we have heard several reports of stepped up harassment around the country by the police, FBI, etc," King said.
King said he earned a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and nine awards of the Air Medal while in Vietnam. "I started as a grunt infantryman and flew door gunner
in a helicopter." The back of his left hand shows a scar where King said he was struck by a bullet.
12 Suspects Are Named In Robbery
MANILA (UPI) — A police official named four of his patrolmen and a key city official Sunday among 12 suspects in a $50,000 robbery at the Sangley Point U.S. Naval Base.
A U.S. Marine officer and one of the robbers were killed in the holdup Friday.
Capt, Oscar Pugeda, acting deputy police chief of Cavite City which adjoins the base, said the national police had taken over the case from local police and naval authorities at the American base 15 miles southwest of Manila.
He said charges of robbery with homicide were being prepared against 12 suspects, one of whom was a teenager.
Pugeda said five of the suspects, including three policemen, were in custody and another policeman and six more suspects were being hunted.
Sunflower Girls' State In 29th Annual Session
Kansas high school girls--nearly 450 of them--began checking into Lewis Hall Sunday night for the 29th annual session of Sunflower Girls' State.
The model government program is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary II.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. welcomed the girls' staters in an address Sunday night. Gov. Robert B. Docking is scheduled to address the delegates at the inauguration of the 1971 Girls' State governor Thursday night. Lt. G. Revnolds Schultz is
Campaigns began almost immediately; posters went up on walls and campaign literature flourished. The delegates to the state legislature, who were led by governments during the week of activities,
Mrs. Lyle Seymour, Bird City, is director of this year's session.
also scheduled to speak to the delegates during the week.
Kansas Boys' State, which ended Saturday,
was attended by 1,651 high school boys. Joe Gutterer,
a blind youth from Kansas City,
was elected governor.
Delegates to Boys' and Girls' States are sponsored by civic organizations in their home towns and are selected from among the most outstanding high students in Kansas.
Delegates to Boys' State, now in its 35th year, introduced mock legislation ranging from the areas of pollution to modified income tax laws.
Girls' State Delegate Welcomed to KU
annual event enters 29th year of operation
Government's Old Programs 'Go On and On'
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Controllor General Elmer B. Staats said this week that government programs, once launched, tend to be ineffective matter how obsolete, ineffective or wasteful.
In a UPI Washington Window interview, Staats said the General Accounting Office (GAO), once concerned primarily with discovering fraud or improper procedure in expenditure of public funds, now is attempting "more and more" to get at the "new fronts" of programs are working, or whether some alternative approach might work better.
Once in a while, he said, Congress will terminate a program that has clearly outlined any usefulness, but such instances are "few and far between."
GAO does not presume to advise lawmakers in advance which goals should be pursued through federal spending programs, but said. But once Congress has decided to try a particular solution to some social or economic problem, GAO looks to see 'how well the programs are being managed and how much impact they have.' GAO recommends improvements in existing programs or alternative ways to achieve the same goal at lower cost.
He said this is being at the behest of Congress, which the GAO serves in a 'wat-tal' capacity.
A UPI reporter cited an estimate by some GAO staff members that upwards of 10 per cent of all federal spending is wasted on overlapping, duplicating or ineffective programs. That would amount to at least $20 billion a year.
"I don't know how anyone could estimate exactly what the percentage of waste would be." Shaas replied. But there is bound to be a lot of waste, and it may be easy to ways to reduce that waste to a minimum."
KU Debater Chosen For International Team
A University of Kansas debater, Dan Beck, Shawnee Mission, has been named to a twoman United States International Debate Team, which will tour the British Isles next winter. His colleague will be Paul Cullen of Seton Hall University.
Beck, who has been a member of the third place team in the National Collegiate tournament the past two years, was nominated by the KU coaching staff. The field was narrowed to eight debaters by examination of tournament records and the eight were interviewed in Chicago. Final selections were determined by the Association of America after the interviews.
Beck and Callen will leave for London in early January and tour the British Isles for three months. They will debate "British Nationalism" or rather than that sacrometry to U.S. college debate.
Donn W. Parson, the KU coach, said the format would vary. In some cases each American will be paired with a British debater and at other times Beck and Callen will be paired with a British colleagues will be public officials such as mayors or members of Parliament.
Some of the debates will be audience participation meets where the audiences are encouraged to participate.
Bock's debating achievements in four years at KU have been outstanding. He has earned many awards and accolades.
He is the second KU debater to represent the United States abroad. Ray Nichols Jr., was a member of the International Debate Team in 1959.
Great Britain Gaining On Common Market
LONDON (UPI)—New Zealand worries about its butter and cheese, Norway about its fishing and France about the pound sterling. They add up to headaches for Britain in this perhaps most decisive month in its bid to join Market.
Four major issues remain unresolved between Britain and the six member nations—France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, West Germany and Italy. New international markets, fisheries, Britain's border security and identity and the position of the pound sterling.
British and market sources said compromises likely can be worked out in most areas. For example, France has withdrawn from Britain eliminate New Zealand imports.
Britain has proposed its contribution to the community start at 3 per cent. France has countered with an offer to extend the tran-
dition period by three years to a final eight years.
The sources said a new fisheries formula doubtless can be worked out, probably along the lines of an agreement setting up special conditions within a six-mile territorial waters limit.
The sterling issue likely will take longer, the sources said, because of financial complications which could involve shifting sterling reserves to an international consortium or funding them through the International Monetary Fund, which also would involve the United States and Japan in the market's finances.
He said the three policemen in custody surrendered to national police troops early Saturday after the city official's house in which they had holed up was surrounded.
Eyewitnesses said eight of the robbers gained entry into the base by hiding in a commandered baker's truck which regularly called on the base. A ninth man positioned himself in a rooftop outside the base perimeter fence.
The truck went to the Quenset but housing the American Express bank after being waved on by Marines at the gate. The lone Marine guard was disarmed. Some of the bandits then entered the bank and others stayed outside as lookouts.
The robbers inside held up about 15 persons and scooped up $50,000 in American currency. They were about to clear out when shooting erupted outside.
A group of 25 Marines including lst Lt. James Pumpowski, of Dalton, Ill., responding to an alarm, were met by automatic fire from the lookouts.
Pumpbooms, 22, squeezed off a shot from his service revolver wounding a holdup man who had a gun pointed at the disarmed soldier. Another robber fatally shot Pumpbooms.
A 10-minute exchange of fire followed,
during which one robber was killed.
During a hull, the robbers marched out the American Bank manager, Robert F. Gillman, and several other persons as shields, then stepped in a Navy truck, to the west end of the base.
They Hate It— But They'll Stay
NEW YORK (UPI)—U.N. delegates polled by Time magazine voted more than 2 to 1 to keep the headquarters of the world in New York, it was reported this week.
Time said the delegates agree that New York is "intransferably dirty, rude, crowded, expensive, unpleasant and even dangerous," they favored remaining by a vote of 53 to 24.
The reasons given were various. Time said a common worry appeared to be that the United States, which pays 31 per cent of the 127-nation organization's annual bills, "would eventually lose interest" if it moved to another country.
Music and Art Camp Plays On Despite Difficulties
The sluggish national and state economy has produced a sour note at the University of Kansas' annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp, according to the camp's founder and director Russell L. Wiley. The senior high division of the camp will have about 900 students enrolled this summer, compared to 1,620 last year. Wiley said.
The junior high division begins June 9 and the seniors arrive June 22.
Wiley said the junior high division would show a slight increase in the number of students enrolled. The music section will have 151 students, and the band section will have 115 students, or 14 more than last year.
sections, which have for some years attracted hundreds of students to the Mt. Greer caravan.
The senior high music section probably will have 272 enrollees, although organizers had hoped for nearly 600. The senior art camp included about 35 students, but 200 were expected. Wiley said.
Enrollment Drops Again
Because of a lack of interest, the language
This year the University is insisting the camp pay its own way—as it had for 31 years until the downturn in the economy and the turnover on the campus last spring and fall. As a result, each section of the camp is on notice that it must meet its own expenses.
Wiley also attributed the declining enrollment to prior increases put into effect in institutions.
The KU summer camps. Wiley believes, will come back, "in direct proportion to the success"
"The camp," he said, "is as valuable today to people with talented youngsters as it ever was."
The other sections, operating as the KU Academic Institutes this year, and the
number of students anticipated are: journalism, 30; science, 48; and speech, 45.
The junior high music section will feature two bands, two choirs and an orchestra. The senior high section will have three bands, two orchestras and two choirs. Wiley said.
The senior high section will run through July 21, and each weekend will feature this schedule of performances in the University band. Students may also join bands, the concert orchestra, the symphonic
choir; 2:15 p.m. Sundays, the Symphony Orchestra and the concert choir; 7 p.m.
Sundays, the concert band and one of the color hands.
Guest conductor at the junior high camp will be Dr. Milburn Carlurn, managing director of the Tri-State Music Festival, Enid, Okla.
Guest conductors and others associated with the senior high division this year include Victor Alessandro, San Antonio Symphony conductor; Carmen Dragon, Glendale, Calif.; symphony orchestra musical director; Arnold D. Gabriel, conductor of the U.S. Air Force band; Alberto Bolet, Long Beach Symphony conductor; George Lawner, KU orchestra conductor;
Bob Jager, Old Dominion University band director; Gary Fletcher, music supervisor, Newton, Kan.; A. H Long, music supervisor, Ponca City, Kan.; Robert Hollowell, music director, Wichita North High School; Richard Brummet, director of instrumental music, Winfield, Kan.; Larry Williams, director of orchestral music, Lawrence High School; George Wise, director of music, Pasadena, Tex.
Robert Foster, director of bands at KU; Gerald Carney, professor of music education at KU; James Raleshn, director of cloral music at KU; Darrell Bence, ass.t' instructor of choral music at KU; and Connie Schroeder of Highland Park High School, Topeka.