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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Congressman Visits Prison At Leavenworth
Thursday, March 18. 1971
81st Year, No. 106
See Page 3
Another Judge Is Disqualified In Davis Trial
SAN RAFAEL, calif. (UPI) - Angela Davis' codiefund, a San Quentin convict who doesn't like lawyers and judges, brought him to trial on Wednesday by demanding the index discipline.
"Now this court has no further jurisdiction in this case," Ruckell Magee (the codefendant) said after submitting documents he prepared himself that ask the murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges be moved into the federal courts.
HOWEVER, ONE attorney said there "were no factual allegations" beyond Magee's statement that he could not gain a fair trial.
After a two-hour meeting in chambers with lawyers, Superior Court Judge John P. McMurray said Magee's motion for disqualification "for cause" was sustained. What "cause" Magee had offered was not immediately disclosed.
The motion by Magee, in a kidnap attempt that killed four persons, forced suspension of the proceedings against him. The police officer who accused him is named. That could take several weeks.
It was the third time a judge had disqualified himself in the case.
Judge McMurray was brought from Inyo County on a special appointment by the California Judicial Council. Now another judge must be appointed by the council because all local judges have declined to take part.
MCMURRAY HAD rejected a motion Tuesday, the first day of hearings, in which Magee asked to discharge his court-appointed attorneys, Robert Bell and Robert Carrow. Before Magee's motion Miss Davis' attorneys offered the crux of her defense against murder charges by arguing there is no illegal about buying guns.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM FORRICE
Defense counsel Michael Tigar told a pretrial hearing delayed four hours by bomb threats that there was no evidence Miss Davis "gave or furnished" weapons to a teenager killed with three others in a courthouse shootout.
MISS DAVIS, 26, a black militant and avowed Communist, was greeted with a standing oatment and cheers of 'right on' from her supporters as she entered the courtroom for arguments on a motion to challenge shaping and conspiracy charges against her.
Magee and Miss Davis were indicted by a grand jury after the escape attempt last August in which Superior Court Judge Harold Hakley and three kidnappers were shot to death.
Magee, the surviving kidnaper, is charged with firing a shotgun blast in the back of an escape van that killed the judge. Miss Davis is accused of buying all the guns used by the kidnappers and with conspiring with the ringleader, Jonathan P. Jackson, 17.
Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court W.Douglas
... gets standing ovation after speech
Government 'Too Remote'
Douglas Calls Civic Aid The Answer to Pollution
By BARBARA SCHMIDT
by BARBARA SCHMID
Kansan Staff Writer
William O. Douglas; associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, pleaded
Wednesday night for civic action to save
man's freedom from areas from his
society and destruction.
"The only salvation is in civic action," he tol
the audience of over 3,000 in Hoch
Audience.
Douglas said that the federal bureaucracy remote, too impossible to reach" to be an effort.
"We need radical revision of the law so that the public can participate," he said. "You have no voice even though they're your lands."
He said that Americans always thought in terms of money gained, but seldom took into account the loss of parks, open spaces and
Douglas said that in spite of all of the environmental controls established in the past few years, we were worse off today than we were 10 years ago. He said the problem stemmed from the fact that "we are addicted to the GNP, hoping that it will hit $1 trillion, but we never interpret it in terms of the net GNP."
naturality, and added, "We must make a new evaluation as to what this new progress is."
Douglas said that our environmental problems were tracable to our tremendous technological progress since 1945, and that Although the United States represented only 6 per cent of the world's population, it produced 70 per cent of the world's debris.
"The enemies of free-flowing water are in the federal government," Douglas remarked. He specified the Army Corps of Engineers as being "public enemy number one."
He called the Corpse a "free-wheeling agency with 40,000 civilian employees
"We pay farmers not to grow crops. Why don't we pay the Corm not to build dams?"
As an example of the opposition the federal government seems to give the conservation movement, Douglas said that until 1970 the Corps was not even concerned with the ecological impact of dredging rivers and dumping debris into them.
He said that because of this and similar oversight and carelessness on the part of governmental agencies and private polluters.
many of our wilderness areas were in danger of becoming "biological deserts."
Douglas noted that several states were acting to limit destruction by air, water, or fire.
He said, however, that the problem had already gone too far, pointing out that smog on the east coast had reached up to 30,000 feet, and quoted former Secretary of the Interior George W. Bush as estimating that it would take $10 billion just to make all of the nation's water swimmable.
He said technological decisions alone were losing importance and that instead, we were going to have to start making value matters about what kind of a nation we wanted.
Douglas said it was time that people realized our natural areas were almost gone. He added that people had to realize that it was their responsibility to take action to mold public opinion and exert pressure to begin saving our environment. He emphasized that they could not sit idly by and wait for the government to begin action on its own.
Whitney Young Is Buried After Presidential Eulogy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPI)—Whitney Young Jr. was buried Wednesday in his native Blue Grass Country after a eulogy in which President Nixon urged fulfillment of the black civil rights leader's dream, "recognition of equality" for all Americans.
Speaking at a pined-dotten hillside cemetery before several hundred friends, family members and high-ranking dignitaries under a bright March sky, Xionan said;
"To fulfill his dream is the responsibility of each of us. It is the commitment that each of us makes in his heart . . . to help realize his American dream."
Nixon, hatless and wearing a dark suit,
placed a wreath of red and white carnations
at the graveerberies. After greeting Ms. Young
and her memorial, the President began his
eulogy.
For the first time, Nixon confirmed that after he won the 1968 election, he offered
Young a Cabinet post, but Young turned up down.
"He was honored," Nixon said. "He told me to tell he could do more for those he needed to help."
"We respect his dignity, his individuality and his immortality. Whitney Young loved this country because he knew he had the power to change what was wrong."
State police estimated that 2,500 persons were in the cemetery and in the general vicinity during the graveside ceremonies, presided over by the Rev. Peter Samson, pastor of the White Plains, N.Y., Unitarian Community Church, and the Rev. Homer Nutter, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lexington.
Taps was played as Young's flower-decked coffin was lowered alongside the grave of his mother in the family plot, which is about 40 years old. Backside, ledge, KJ, where Young was born 49 years ago.
Dole Says He's Not Another Spiro
By MIKE MOFFET Kansan Staff Writer
WASHINGTON—Senator Bob Dole, said one member of the Kansas Congressional delegation, is by far the most popular political figure in Kansas. It became apparent two months ago that Dole's popularity extended beyond the state when he was selected chairman of the National Republican Committee.
Dole's rise to the top post on the national committee got its first impetus when he gained national attention by showing up religiously to take on President Nixon's former someone stood up in the Senate to knock presidential policy. Dole was there to defend it.
Since coming to the National Committee chairmanship on Jan. 15, Dole has become even more outspoken. Speaking at Republican fund raisers and meetings, he uses what many newspapers have called "Agnewswave" rhetoric.
Asked if he was taking over the role the vice president played as the most outspoken of nationally prominent Republicans, Dole said he wasn't.
"The vice president is just spending less time on the 'political' circuit," Dole said. "He's out selling the revenue-sharing plan, and we're taking on the opposition. But there's no design, in fact, I really haven't even talked to the vice president about it."
In an interview in his office at the new Eisenbauer Republican Center here, Dole said his rhetoric was "really pretty tame if you compare it with that of the opposition."
At a fund raising dinner the night before the
"If you read his statements about the President, my comments seem pretty tame," he said. "I think Clark is soft, and appealing to the far left. He wants to be president."
interview in Camendenton, Md., Dole had referred to former attorney general Ramsey Clark as a "left-learning marshmallow."
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Dole showed the interviewer some
newspaper clippings that reported Clark叫名 Nixon a "violent" house in the White House
"My criticism is no worse than the opposes said," he said. "This is a rough and tumble game."
"I think even LBI finally got tired of him. But that was his problem," said Dale.
Senator Bob Dole
"I'm not going to let Hubert Humphrey,
Dole blames U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia largely on the Democrats, and he believes that Nixon will get the United States out of the war.
Muskie and the McGovern get out of their responsibility for the war. They all voted for the Tonkin Gulf resolution. I'm going to keep the record straight."
Dole said, however, that he was afraid that many first voter intakes in 1922, "aren't going to work at all."
"We've got to get out—the quicker the better," he said.
In reference to the Laudan operation, Dole said that he thought the United States was not interested in helping the Iranian government.
"The best thing about the activity in Cambodia and Laos," Dole said, "is that it's very social."
"But," he added, "we've done enough for that country, it's time to come home."
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBER
Back on the political front, Dole talked about the situation in his home state.
In response to a question about the recent drug raid in Lawrence, Dole said he didn't want to condemn the attorney general for the raid, but he was wary of its consequences.
"The Kansas Republican party is very weak," Dole said, "but it's coming along. The most crucial thing we have to accomplish is the election of a Republican governor.
Our present governor is in a great position. He can blame the Legislature for everything that's wrong with our government.
Dole said he was afraid that the attorney general was picking on the students for his own political ambitions. But he said he didn't think it would work.
Roger Brown and Coach Ted Owens as they filed onto the bus to Wichita and the NCAA Regional Tournament. Police then escorted a car out of the turnpike. See story on Page 3.
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After the pep rep Wednesday, rereer Russell was followed by B贮 Stallwurth.
"You can't make the student the whipping boy for four years," he said.
"We're trying, as part of our reorganization of the national committee, to put together a youth advisory panel," he said. "We want our best to get our share of the young people."
Friday: An interview with Rep. Larry Winn.
Dole said that one of the things he wanted to accomplish as national chairman was to get students and other young people interested in the Republican party.
Welfare Woes Plague Local Officials
By RICHARD LARIMORE Kansan Staff Writer
Across the country the costs of women-
assistance have exploded in the past five
The welfare costs for Douglas County are no different.
The causes behind the increases are hard to pinpoint. J.Derrick, Douglas County Welfare director, attributed the increases to the changing complexion of American society. He noted that divorce rates were soaring throughout the country.
He added that the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) category caused the greatest increase in the welfare budget. Derrick would like to see marriage laws tightened and said that there were too many immature people getting married.
Since 1966, Douglas County's welfare care have more than doubled, and nearly twice as many persons received assistance in 1970 than in 1966. The entire expense for welfare assistance in the state has also nearly doubled.
"Divorces really scare me. These are all potential welfare clients." Derrick said.
"You've got to admit that they're pretty damn immature. Many marriages only last three months to three years, and then the divorcees come here for assistance. Sometimes they have two or three kids to put on ADC," he said.
Derrick said that if young people couldn't get married in Lawrence, they went somewhere else to get married and then returned home. A clerkeryman can do to stop someone from
getting married, Derrick said.
Transients present another problem in the County's increased welfare costs. Derrick said that America has a migration of people it didn't have 10 years ago. He said that 500,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 18 run away from home every year. In Derrick, they end up in "hippie communities," the police court, and on welfare.
"They're pouring in here by the dozens." Derrick said.
During the first half of February Derrick's office approved 47 persons for general assistance and 30 persons for ADC. Derrick said that generally the largest percentage of new general assistance cases came from the "happy and street elements."
"In the winter, layoffs in construction put
some people on general assistance bim-
pass."
group of transients. we have stacks of people that have started school, dropped out, and stay here. They have buddies in Taos and San Francisco; they kind of make the rounds." Berwick said.
According to Derrick, his office receives more applications for assistance than his staff can interview. Under the present welfare laws, applicants are allowed to mail their applications to the welfare office and are not required to appear in person. He said he would welcome any applicants his staff had mailed recently to welfare applicants 'have come back marked "no address"'.
Derrick said that he had no solutions for the problems of welfare. He told that welfare organizations
"You have these big squabbles, Ronald Reagan in California is on the air, as is John Lindsay in New York. Their main philosophy is that something has to give but
Persons on Welfare Assistance in Douglas County
Month & Year Aid to Dependent Children Old Age Assistance General Assistance Total
Oct. 70 867 244 328 1439
Oct. 70 611 241 221 1073
Oct. 58 437 232 144 813
Oct. 67 407 241 263 851
Oct. 66 343 258 133 734
Welfare Expense for Douglas County and Kansas
Year Douglas County State of Kansas
1970 $1,564,991.68 $10,153,367.30
1966 $725,190.75 $5,233,222.00
as long as the state and federal governments write the regulations, there's nothing the local Welfare Board can do. It hinges on the state and federal governments," said Derrick.
Arthur Heck, chairman of the County Welfare Board, sees the problem in much the same way as Derrick. Heck said that increased welfare costs have resulted because of liberalized welfare policies, the reticence on the part of many people about going on the welfare rolls, and the attitude of some people that the public owes them a living.
The solution to the burgeoning welfare budget, according to Heck, is to tighten regulations and establish priorities. Heck would like to see stricter eligibility requirements made but said that this would have to be done by the state.
Hekk said that the welfeal situation in Douglas County was not as bad as it could be. He noted that while Douglas County ranks fifth in population among all counties in the United States, fifth in its total number of welfare cases. He said that this was to the county's credit.
The County Welfare Board has considered a work program for welfare recipients, but nothing has been decided yet. Derrick said that, although the welfare office works closely with the State Unemployment Service, the job market is extremely tight.
"Two years ago I tried to get the local board interested in a work program. Jobs were going begging but that's not the case now. At the present time it looks like a long way up, so we need to create a work program. What are you going to have these people do?" Derrick asked.