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81st Year, No. 107 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, March 19, 1971
Kansan Staff Photo by BOB HARTZLER
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and power lines along U.S. 40 toward Topeka and 21st Street were blown down. Dust storms were reported in southern Kansas and tornado warnings were posted in sections of Oklahouna, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. In Nebraska and Minnesota winds were reported to have reached 100 m.p.h., and snow was heaped into drifts up to six feet high.
Winds up to 58 m.p.b., praged through Lawrence Thursday as part of the Winterside of winter storm that dumped snow on many Midwestern cities. The state's weather agency says it expects no
Lack of Quorum Thwarts Senate
By MIKE BROWNLEE Kansan Staff Writer
For the second time in less than a month, the University Senate failed to obtain a quorum Thursday and was unable to conduct business.
Approximately 130 people attended the meeting at Swarthout Recital Hall and three people were present at the Medical Center. A quorum for Senate meetings is 227 members which put Thursday's meeting almost 100 members short of a quorum.
Thursday's Senate meeting was made
necessary because the Senate failed to assemble a quorum at its last meeting on
Frank Zilim, presiding officer of the Senate, said that an emergency meeting of the Senate Executive Committee would probably be the first step in the business on which the Senate failed to act.
"These amendments are not controversial," Zilim said. "It is only a procedural matter, but not being able to pass them could really foul us up."
Zilim indicated that he was disappointed with the Senate's failure to attain a quorum on the vote.
"It almost takes a situation of emergency to get them all here," he said. "We should be advantage of this peaceful situation on casualty, pass some of the more routine legislation."
One of the urgent issues facing the Senate is the passage of a package of amendments
The Senate employs a closed circuit television system to link senators at the Med Center with those at the Lawrence campus. According to one of the technicians present at Thursday's meeting, the television hookup involved more than $14,000 in equipment brought from Kansas City for each meeting. He was asked how much money was wasted on setting up the television link for the two meetings which never took place.
designed to advance many election dates for various committee and government bodies
KU Advances to Finals
Hawks Bounce Houston With Last Half Flurry
By DON BAKER
Kansan Sports Editor
FOR KANSAS IT WAS the same old story that has kept Jayhawk fans on the edge of their seats and for the most part a nervous wreck the past few weeks as the game was not done until just last few seconds. KU has now won its last five games by a combined total of 12 points.
WICHTH - Faced by the 29 and 25-point scores efforts of Dave Robisch and Bud Sutcliffe, the Kansas dayhawks squeezed past the Houston in the night, 78-77, and will now play Drake Saturday afternoon for the Midwest Regional championship and the right to travel to Houston.
Drake defeated Notre Dame, 79-72, in overtime in the evening's first game to make their way into Saturday afternoon's championship game that will be seen at 3:10 p.m. by a national television audience and a soliton crowd in Wichita State's Henry Levy Ace.
But, as has been the story in the past, whatever it has taken to win, Kansas has done just that. This time it was an early second half fourth inning deficit with a 38-41 deficit with 18:43 minutes to play a lead with 14:15 showing on the clock. Houston could never recover, coming only as close as three points to the remainder of the game until a touchdown secured the last clip to one. 78-77
After trailing 36-37 at halftime, Pierre Russell started the deciding flurry for KU with a long jump shot to make it 40-11 in favor of Houston.
The Jayhawks could never expand the lead to more than 10 points during the remainder, however, keeping the Cougars in the game and preventing their own narrower lead to the final margin.
STALLWORTH, WHO SEEMINGLY regained his shooting accuracy of early season, followed with four of his 20 second shots. Then he lipped up a revitalized KU fast break. That put the Jayhawks on top, 44-41, with 16-54 minutes showing. Russell kept the attack going with a baseline jump shot and a lob over the fence, and a free throw to give KU the 94-41 lead.
With KU leading 66-57 with 6:37 minutes left to play. Houston made its final move behind the strength of 6:7 forward Dwight Davis and i-3 guard Poo Welch. Davis started the recovery with a rebound layup at the 6:18 mark to make it 66-59.
THEN WELCH HIT THE next 10 Houston points during a four minute spin and only the consistent shooting of Stallworm kept the lead in KU's hands. During the Welch streak Stallworm hit five of his own to make the score 71-68 with 2:17 minutes showing.
just that with seven pressure packed free throws during the last two minutes to keep the Jayhawks in front. Five came in a row betweenset of the four to expand the KU lead to seven, 76-69.
A layin by the Cougars' Bob Hall and a jumper by guard Sonny Wilms cut the Jahyahs' margin to three, 76-73, with 48 seconds to play. But Robisch came through again with two more free throws with 34 seconds remaining to make it 78-73.
SAGGING ON DEFENSE to keep from foiling, the Hawks gave up layups to Welch and Hall with the latter coming with 0:04 showing on the clock to make the final score 26-19. The Hawks made their 25th straight win and their 26th trump of the year as compared to only one loss.
Again KU managed to win with losing shooting percentages. The Jawkens contended good attempts for 40 per cent accuracy and on 48 of 129 free throws for a 62 per cent mark
But then it was Robbins's turn to play here and the 6-10 Springfield. III.All-America did
But it was the play of Robisch and
Stallworth that keyed the victory effort. The pair combined to score KU's last 16 points while cutting short Houston's final comeback bid. At the end the pair had scored 54 of the Jahwynks' 78 points and had pulled down 24 of the team's 41 rebounds.
THE LOSS DROPPED HOUSTON to a 21-7 overall record and pits it against Notre Dame in the 1:00 p.m. Saturday consolation game. The loss was the second of the year suffered to KA later having left to the Jayhawks, 89-73, in the championship game of this year's Jayhawk Classic.
Wichita led the Houston scoring effort with 28 points, Davis, who fouled out in the game, scored 13.
Only eight teams now remain in contention the NCAA championships after Thursday. The include Pennsylvania and Villanova in the East, Kentucky in the Middle and Kentucky and Ohio State in the Midwest Regional, UCLA and Long Beach State in the West Regional and Drake and Kansas in the Midwest.
Gardenhire Trial Set
Gardenhire is charged with attempted first degree murder in connection with the Dce 7 shooting of Harry Kirk Snyder, a resident incident occurred in front of Wadson Library.
The jury trial for Keith Gardenure, in Wichita, is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Monday, March 22, in Douglas County Court, Judge Frank R. Gray will preside.
Gardenite has been free on $10,000 bond since Dec. 9. He was suspended by the University for unlawful possession of a firearm on campus.
House Votes to Stop SST Funds
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The supersonic transport (SST) suffered a stunning, serious and possibly fatal attack Thursday when the plane made an emergency landing in money for development of the futuristic teller.
The House vote, a switch in sentiment since last year, was not only a blow to the proposed 300-mile-per-hour airplane, but to the Nixon administration. The Congress intensely to it approvated.
The SST still could be reviwed if the Senate could to continue to give it federal money
toward development of two prototype planes.
But the Senate last year voted to deny the SST any more money and an informal UPI poll showed that if there was a vote Thursday in the senate, the SST would lose 50 to 48 with all members absent.
In the House, members voted 217 to 294 and then 215 to 294 for an amendment offered by Rep. Sidney Yale, D-ILL, to knock out of a Transportation Department appropriation $134 million to finance the SST between now and June 30.
Houston fell, 78-77
KU Situation Upsets Winn
"Vern Miller was just doing what he said he would do. He does have the authority, but, the way it was handled by the press, it seemed like showboating. Miller should have notified the University, at least as a courtesy." Winn said.
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He hopes Congress will approve a proposed Constitutional amendment that would make 18 the votine for all elections.
WASHINGTON—Larry Winn, who represents Lawrence in the House of Representatives, is disturbed with the reputation that KU is poor.
WINN SAID the raid probably did not stop the drug traffic in Lawrence to any great extent.
In an interview on March 7 in Winn's office, he said the apathetic student body had laid the groundwork for KU's situation. The solution Winn said, was for more students to take part in student government. Winn said he wasn't surprised by the recent drug raids in Lawrence
Winn said he wasn't surprised by the recent dru raids in Lawrence, but he didn't like the way the raids were carried out.
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"It would take so long for all the states to pass separate 18-year-old vote legislation that a constitutional amendment is better." Winn said. "Some states, and Kansas is one, will probably defeat the legislation at the polls because people's opinion of the disturbances at schools"
Winn said he supported Nixon's plan for withdrawal from Vietnam because "He knows more about all phases of the war than anyone else, and he has done exactly what he said he would do in having an orderly withdrawal."
Winn predicts an April announcement by the President that the withdrawals are ahead of schedule.
"IF THE PRESIDENT doesn't announce a speed-up of withdrawals
"I hope we don't over-react and become 'too loose' by passing legislation and having court interpretations that drop all barriers," he said. Then our security would not be protected. We must not be so protected because rights that we will let anyone do and say anything they please."
WINN HAS INTRODUCED a bill that would establish a National College of Ecological and Environmental Studies. This would, he said, bring colleges in on the federal study and use student know-how to solve some of our problems.
by the end of this year, I think Congress will adopt something to put the pressure on the President," he said.
Some provision must be made. Winn said, for the prisoners of war. He said the North Vietnamese did not honor the Geneva conference at all. Perhaps, he said, we could get the POWs back as part of the withdrawal plan.
He said he had co-sponsored a bill to oversee the next elections in South Vietnam as insurance they would be fair.
"You can't have your cake and eat it too. The general public is asking for cutbacks in defense expenditures—and were going along with this—but when it happens it is against the loss of jobs," he said.
it is disturbing, he said, that the U.S. Army has been used in spying,
but the security of the nation is important.
Winn said he was troubled by the fact that many people were being laid off by the Sunflower Ammunition Plant near Eudora. This, however, was what happened when appropriations for defense were cut, he said.
He said he was discouraged that there had been no effort to retrain or transfer some of the personnel that have lost their jobs.
When the result of the first vote was announced, the packed House galleries whooped with approval. The vote climaxed weeks of legislative and cloakroom maneuvering between those who backed the SST and those who opposed it.
Opponents had hammered away at possible adverse effects on the environment from fleets of the supersonic planes flying high in the atmosphere. They also questioned government subsidies for the project when there were other needs for government money.
Backers of the 300-passenger plus plane argued it would be foolish to halt the project now after having spent $500 million on it and underfunded a virtual construction of the first two test planes.
They also said that the United States could suffer economically—and possibly lose its lead in world aviation—if the Russians, the French and French built SSTs and America did not.
Backers—and this included the Nixon administration—also claimed that building the SST would provide jobs at a time when the U.S. industrial industry was suffering serious unemployment.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D-Wash., one of the strongest supporters of the SST, acknowledged the seriousness of the setback to the project. He pledged to keep up the fight to continue the program and was confident there would eventually be an American SST. Mr. Magnuson would be what role the federal government would in its future development, he said.
The government had figured it would eventually recoup its investment through royalities once the SST went into commercial operation on a large scale.
The contractors have put up $164 million and the airlines $82 million, some of which were purchased by the Airbus Group.
It was expected that it would cost the government $1.28 billion to complete the project.
Military spokesmen acknowledged that the South Vietnamese army in Laos had been forced into a 12-mile retreat because of heavy North Vietnamese counterattacks.
SAGON (UP1) - Badley beaten South Vietnamese soldiers were pulled out of Laos Thursday and replaced by elite rangers and marines. Some whose units had lost up to four-fifths of their men were quoted as saying they would rather surrender than fight anymore.
Despite front reports to the contrary, allied officials from Sangai to Washington continued to insist that the U.S. supported Laes offensive was going well. Early Thursday, military spokesman described the report of a South Vietnamese rout just a "rumor."
North Viet Counterattacks Push Back Laos Offensive
At the front just inside South Vietnam, members of the tough South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division told Vietnamese-speaking soldiers they had refused to fight another day in Laos.
"We had been fighting for six weeks in Losos," said one battle-wearied soldier. "We would rather surrender than fight anymore." The soldiers were badly battered by North Vietnam troops before their pullout to South Vietnam. One battalion lost at least 300 men, and two men in five days of heavy fighting, the South Vietnamese high command reported.
In the four days of heavy fighting, Saoqen's forces have fallen back to a front that lies
About 2,900 of the bloodied and battered South Vietnamese were airlifted into Laos by U.S. helicopters that deposited them at the U.S. base of Khe San inside South Vietnam. The same helicopters brought the fresh South Vietnamese rangers and marines back into Laos.
within 15 miles of the South Vietnamese frontier.
One of the turning points was when use of South Vietnamese were forced to abandon a military artillery base in Laos called Lelo, Militia commander. The Vietnamese were killed there and 270 wounded, but they claimed that at least 1,867 people were killed since Sunday in the same battle.
The spokesmen said 2,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen were still defending artillery base "Brown," now Saigon's westernmost position in Laos, but were braving for all an-out assault from Communist forces ringing the hill.
In Washington, one Pentagon spokesman reported some indications of increased enemy activity in the northern half of the United States Zone between North and South Vietnam.
Other Pentagon sources said this posed a potential threat to South Vietnamese troops operating in Laos and might shorten their campaign there.
Allied command figures put Communists captured in the Laotian campaign at 160. South Vietnam losses were given as 800, 3,353 wounded and 193 missing in action.
Government troopers who retreated from Lolo on foot were pursued by North Vietnamese forces trying heavy tank guns and machine gun fire, which they were later flown back to Klao Seng.
They said the Communists would occasionally stop fireing and call through loudspeakers for the South Vietnamese to surrender.