Wednesday, April 14, 1971
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules By United Press International
Capitol: Railpax
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With unions and management deadlocked on the issue, Labor Secretary James D. Henderson said Tuesday that railroads to pay long-term severance pay to workers displaced by the new Railpad system, it was learned Tuesday. The Plan, which calls for up to a half million of the railroad's discharges, is beyond what the railroads were willing to agree to but falls short of union desire for a prohibition against any layoffs. In addition, it probably would context Holodyns's plan in the courts.
Texas: Abortion
AUSTIN—The Health Committee of the Texas Senate approved a bill that would give the state the most liberal abortion law in the nation. The bill, if passed by the legislature, would permit any woman 16 or older to obtain an abortion regardless of marital status under 16 years of age. The bill also gives the consent of the mother. The only present restriction to the bill is that the operation must be performed by a licensed physician.
STANFORD—Stanford University President Richard Llanford said his legal officer to investigate a raided maze on the school newspaper by local police officers looking for evidence of an alleged theft. In search of office files and desks "deplorable," and said it was "threatening the freedom of the press." Theraid officers, armed with a search warrant, spent 45 minutes probing files and wastebanks for photographs taken during a violent demonstration Friday at the school's library.
California: Student Press
Pennsylvania: Hoffa
LEWISBURG - Teamsmen President James R. Hoffa was back in the federal pentagon after an emergency week-long furlough to his sick wife in San Francisco ended. Hoffa, 58, returned to the prison to complete a 13-year sentence for jury tampering and fraud. Hefla's wife, Isabel, is also in the prison. "I considered serious" Monday at the University of California Medical Center where she is being treated for a heart ailment.
Topeka: Bingo
Attorney General Vern Miller said that the constitutionality of the bingo bill passed by the 1971 Kansas Legislature should be determined in the courts. Miller said he was not involved in any case. The attorney general has been working on an opinion for Gov Robert B. Docking on the bill. Monday he indicated he probably would recommend that the governor veto the bill.
Missouri: Robinson
JEFFERSON CITY—The state rested its case in the trial of State Treasurer William E. Raines, indicted for using his office for personal purposes on globe Democrae, was the final state witness. He testified that James B. Cramon, former president of the now defunct State Bank of Homer Terre, had the authority to obtain more deposits of state funds for his bank.
Louisiana: 'Quacks'
BATON ROUE—"Quack doctors" in the Nixon administration has made it easy to recruit them, u.S. Senate Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., said. In a speech to the Louisiana AFC-IO annual convention, Humphrey said high unemployment and low wages have fueled his campaign.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) – A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded and several other persons injured Tuesday night when violence flared at the close of Northern Ireland's civil war. The attack featured rival Roman Catholic and Protestant parades.
Violence in Ireland Results in Injuries
Police said the boy, shot in the calf, and four men were taken to hospitals after gunfire broke out during the end of a Protestant missionary trip to a mixed Catholic-Protestant Balmyacircle district of East Belfast.
One man suffered head injuries, another a broken jaw, a fourth a grazed ankle and a fourth a high injury, a police spokesman said.
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Funds totaling $552 were requested by the Folk Dance Club to purchase records and hire a pianist. An allocation for travel expenses for the club's founder to commute from his residence in Los Angeles was also requested.
THE COTTONWOOD Review,
a campus literary magazine
which was started in 1985,
requested $2,645.50 from the
Cottonwood Review and
Cottonwood Review publishes
literary works of students and
other individuals in two or three
issues during the year. Although
$1 a copy is charged, ad-
ditional fees are defianced the
defrayes the costs of printing
the Review, according to
the spokesman for the group.
Hearings sponsored by the Finance and Auditing Committee will continue through Thursday, March 4. The meeting will be p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union. Group wishing to appear before the committee concerning the proposed pension fund should make an appointment in the Student Senate Treasurer's office, according to chairman of the Committee.
Only the boy's injury was diagnosed definitely as a gunshot wound.
Excited crowds massed in the parade route street, and a police troop. Police rushed in to keep the crowds from storming into the street.
British troops and Royal Ulster Constabulary police, in full riot gear, rushed to the scene, cordoned off the neighborhood and moved in to disperse an angry crowd gathered around the injured.
About 300 persons, mostly Protestants, amassed at the intersection afterward. Police and 300 troops formed human walks around them to prevent the police from moving into Catholic streets.
Nansan Photo by GREG SOHRER
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UP)—The jury in the murder conspiracy trial of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale heard Tuesday a tape recording allegedly made while the victim, a suspected police informer, was accused prior to being shot to death.
Pom Pon
The 1971-72 Form Pon Pinoun was chosen Tuesday night after the final rounds of competition. The squadrade members are: (standing from left) Cheryl Williams, Kansas City, KAN, sonh, sophomore; Marcia Robertson, Kansas City, MO., sophomore; Peggy Croft, Overland Park freshman; Gloria John.
Leavenworth junior; Debbie Kamitsuka, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; and Linda Evans, Topeka sophomore; (sitting, from left) Sue Tagg, Sioux City, Iowa, junior; Jane Phelps, Lawrence sophomore; Gail Gatts, Lawrence freshman; and Cynthia Rowe, sophomore. Robertson and Miss Gaggs are the alternates. The squad will choose their captain next week. The yell leaders for 1971-72 will be chosen tonight.
Seale Jury Hears Tapes
The victim, Alex Rackley, 24, allegedly was scaled while being interrogated by a team of Panther questioners who recorded the conversation. The recorder was seized by police and the discovery of Rackley's body in a marsh on May 21, 1969.
Seale, 34, national chairman of the Panthers, is charged with ordering Rackey's death.
A voice identified as that of his co-deendant, Mrs. Ericka Huggins, 23, was among the first the jury heard on the tape.
The voice tells of Rackley's being doused with hot water and that he was in danger. How phony he was and that he was either an extreme fool or a pig, you know, so we began to ask the questions, but the answer and the forces came after
a few buckets of hot water. We found out that he is an informer."
A voice identified as Rackley's appeared at times to be on the verge of breaking, particularly after he was asked by a firm, commanding voice identified as George Sams Jr., the party envoy for the United States, or certain Panthers in the New York chapter meetings with police.
questioning at the New Haven home of Warren Kimbro, a 36-year-old former anti-poverty worker who, along with SamS, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder to trigger man in Rackley's death.
"I was." I "was seared, brother I was seared because the brothers there was talking about him. "I saw him," old his interrogators, during
The racial composition of the jury remained the same Tuesday with the replacement of Dennis Adams, 65, a black man who injured himself in a fall, by a white man. The judge was strong, 42, also black. There are seven whites and five blacks on the jury.
Youth Vote Small At Maryland Polls
ANAPOLIS, Md. (UPI)—only a small percentage of eligible 18. 19 and 20-year-olds voted Tuesday in a special election that marked the first time in Maryland that persons under the
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBES
JAN JANTZ, Marion sophomore and Syracuse Swim Club member,
practices with her teammates on dry land before they take to the
water this weekend for a water performance. The Syracuse Swim Club
will perform at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Robinson Naturatum.
age of 21 had the right to vote
A light turnout seemed evidence during early balloting in the election to decide Republican and Democratic nominies for the congressional seat vacated by Secretary C. B. Rorton.
The leading contender among six Democratic candidates was state Sen. Elroy Boyer, a leader in the fight against pollution of the pesticide Baeye Buyer.
However, lack of interest in the contests seemed greatest among the young, many of whom apopu-
tioned their victory to a chance to vote for lack of a clearer choice among can-
nibals. (The Conservative conservative in political views.
The district, which includes 138 Republicans and 82,000 registered Democrats and 82,000 Republicans. The winners of the primary will run in a special election.
Forerunner among three Republicans was William O. Mills, a congressional aide of Morton who held the Eastern Shore seat eight years despite a corporate majority in the district.
The 1970 Voting Rights Act made an estimated 47,000 18, 19 and 20-year-olds in the district eligible to vote in federal elections. But only 3,000 registered for the primary, and a spot check found that no more than a few hundred cast ballots by mid-affternoon.
Council Warns Steelmen About Unemployment Risk
WASHINGTON (UP)—The
administration warned
sunday that the risk
serious unemployment
if they press the steel industry for
more investment.
More than 35,000 carvings of rocks were used in building the four man-made islands that are Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Maryland.
The President's Council of Economic Advisers, in its third "inflation alert," and the pace-setting workers' union contract settlement with the can industry last month was "clearly positive," the assessment of long-term productivity growth prospects."
That settlement, providing average wage and benefits increases of 9 per cent annually in a three-year contract, "represents no progress toward the declining trend of wage increases that is expected to continue, again increased stability of prices and costs," the council said.
The United Steelworkers of America starts negotiations with the basic steelmakers on May 18 to negotiate a contract, replacing one that expires Aug. 1. Union President L. B. Young expects to win an even bigger settlement for the $50,000 union contract for about 40,000 can workers.
The union began contract talks with Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) and Reynolds Plumbing Inc., a U.S. aluminum producers, in
Mystery Fire Found in Lot On Oread Ave.
Another fire was started last night in the University parking lot of one of the Kansas Union on Wednesday, weeks small fires built with limbs and trash have mysteriously periodically at this parking lot.
There was no one near the fire last night, but on other nights people have sat near the fires. Although the Lawrence fire department has extinguished a building fire last night burned itself out.
Until last summer, the "White House," scene of several attempted firebombings during the war, occupied the parking lot site.
New York City Tuesday. The steelworkers have set a goal of substantial wage and benefits increases from the industry,
which has cut production and deferred the start of new facilities to recover from last year's loss in profits.
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