THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 86
Eighteen Sign Intent Letters
Wednesday, February 10. 1971
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White Day To Honor V.C. Royster
The former editor of the Wall Street Journal, Vermont C. Royster, will become the 22nd journalist to receive the William Allen White Award today as part of a day-long conference of journalists at the Kansas Union.
More than 150 journalists are participating in the William Allen White Day, which an annual event held at McCormick became nationally prominent in the early 1900s. The day-long activities are sponsored by the William Allen White Foundation and a journalism school, also named after White.
McDill "Huck" Boyd, editor of the Phillipsburg Review will also be honored today. He will be named "Kansas Editor of The Week" and will speak after he receives the award.
Royster will receive his award at 2 p.m. in ceremonies in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. In past years the recipient of the White award for journalistic merit has presented an essay to Royster in presentation of the award but this year Royster will lead a discussion of "A Wish in Wall Street."
The White award for journalistic merit is given each year to an American journalist who exemplifies William Allen White ideals in service to his profession and country."
Joining Royster in the discussion will be Joseph Pichler, associate professor of business; Ronald Calgaard, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Edward P. Bassett, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Kansan Photo by DAVE HENRY
Henry Jameson, editor of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, will present the award to Boyd, and Roscoe Born, associate editor of the Observer, will present the award to Royster.
Adventure?
Debbie Bickle, Prairie Village junior, considers summer jobs at the job fair sponsored
by KU-Y. The fair, held Tuesday in the Jawahar Room of the Kansas Union, provided opportunities for students to learn and at summer camps in the United States.
Apollo 14 Returns; Journey Ends
ABOARD USN USE NEW ORLEANS (UPI)“Old Pro” Alan B. Shepard and his rocky copilots of Apollo 14 splashed safely into the South Pacific on Tuesday, ending man's boldest exploration of the moon and putting America's space program back on the track
Their flight to Fra Mauro Valley and back won "autosolutely perfect" marks from the 1. No man in the space program and the grinning astronaut said: "We had a good time doing it
Awaiting them aboard this recovery ship was a dinner of steak, baked potato, asparagus and apple cobbler—and the start of 17 days in quarantine isolation to make sure that they carried no alien organisms home from their 1.2 million mile journey.
DR. WILLIAM CAPENTIER said a thorough examination showed the astronauts were in good condition after their $400 million mission.
Before starting a $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ hour physical
Student Opinions Solicited At All-University Forum
State Department Official William Boudreau solicited and received student opinions he would he take back to the University Forum Tuesday night in the Kansas Union.
After stating that he was not at KU to answer questions or to defend the administration, but to collect opinions, Bouredra opened the floor to students.
One student said U.S. foreign policy was shaped by expanding capitalistic enterprises.
Another student said the United States had taken a counter-revolutionary position and was only interested in maintaining the status quo. Another student called for uprooted Bouredau to "tell Mr. Nixon to cut it up."
Many students at the forum said that they thought that Bouredre's visit was planned because motives in mind and that the Secretary of State wanted to improve students' thought. One student called Bouredre's visit a "cruel joke" and argued it wasn't a good idea, and it wouldn't make any difference.
"People who have no money have no power," he said.
Government officials want to keep tabs on, control, repress, use and manipulate people who don't believe in them, the same student said.
Another student said this approach was another-minded. Another said elected officials did it.
Members of the audience discussed the possibility of future use of nuclear weapons. Boudreau said he could not foresee use of nuclear weapons for military strategy.
Boudreau urged students to maintain peaceful efforts to end the war. Protests only turn great masses, besides Agnew and his bard hats, against students, he said.
Members of the audience dwindled in number, whether or not the Vietnamese valued life.
The forum continued with arguments among members of the audience.
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examination in their quarantine van, Shepard, at 47 the oldest American astronaut and the most experienced of his feelings after a bulls eye landing so close to this carrier that television viewers all over the country were terrified.
"We have had a terrific flight. It been just super all the way around. We've had a lot of fun," said Steward, who was obviously enchanted by the flight and in the place he put in awaiting his second space flight.
The successful end to their nine-day, $400-million mission put the nation's space program back on track and salvaged the rocket that disastrous Apollo 13 mission of last April.
MISSION CONTROLERS back in Houston estimated that Shegar, Edward D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roos splashed down within 30 miles south of Pagoda Paggo. They hit the water at 3:06 p.m. midnourishment after Pacific time—before they blasted off from Cape Kennedy.
APOLLO 14 CARRIED out a series of experiments at putting in space to work for the first time. It was weightlessness and lack of atmosphere when the United States begins flying long-duration missions.
Smiling and in apparent excellent shape, they brought back 96 pounds of moon rocks and other scientific data that could turn outer space into a room for mankind
"Alan Shepard and his crew in Apollo 14 have shown us what man can do, and given us a vision of what man will do in the future," the astronaut acting administrator of the Space Agency.
"Welcome Home," the recovery force communicator yelled when Apollo 14 hit the water after its 24,800-mile-per-hour re-entry through earth's atmosphere.
Search for Trapped Continues
Death Toll Mounting In Quake Aftermath
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The mightiest earthquake to strike California in 38 years smashed sections of Los Angeles and its sprawling suburbs into fire and rubble while killing at least 33 persons and forcing 120,000 to flee their homes beneath a taking dam.
Nearly half the victims died when the earthquake, which struck at dawn, collapsed a three-story Veterans Hospital and trapped 80 persons in a 10-foot-high pile of rubble.
Firemen chopped holes in the roof, trying to locate the trapped and dying by the muffled cries from inside. But officials said it would take two days to reach all of them.
MORE THAN 900 persons were injured. At east 140,000 fled from a 12-square-mile area n front of the leaking Van Norman Lakes near Los Angeles, and state officials said a fire at Los Angeles, and state officials said a fire at Los Angeles.
Buford Watson, city manager, said Tuesday that Ron Walker's position as city administrativeide for community relations would be cut to half-time and placed under the supervision of Vernell Sturms, director of the Human Resources Department.
Walker's letter said that in order to bridge the gap between alienated groups it was necessary for conservatives in the community to have the same opportunity for democratic participation in city government as the black and street communities had.
Watson Cuts Walker's Job To Half-Time
Watson said he would "investigate the availability of a person who might relate to the problem," and suggested by Mr. Walker." Walker recommended the action Monday in a letter to
"I should, therefore, like to strongly urge the creation of a new administrative post," Walker said in his letter. "I believe this kind of input to be essential to any work done toward effecting a peaceful reconciliation of communities which have divided the community."
Walker said in the letter that his proposal should not be interpreted to mean that he thought the city government had a black community, the street community, the University community and the city governance.
He said the proposal reflected his conviction that any realistic approach to tensions in the community presupposed the participation of all disaffected elements.
"We started this work on an experimental basis in November, Watson said in a press release Tuesday," and Mr. Walker has bridges to some of the University personnel and has done a commendable job of public relations with the so-called street community. I hope he will continue to help alleviate those which are evident in our community."
Watson said the city government was caught in an era of rapid social change and was responsible for easing social tension. He said the city's public services were safe, healthy and desirable place to live.
In a telephone interview before the release Walker said he proposed the measure "in an attempt to reach out" to conservatives in the country, but he has never been demanding Walker's dismissal.
of a million ultimately might have to be evacuated.
More than 400 buildings were damaged in downtown Los Angeles. The sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard were strewn with broken glass. Hundreds of fires from broken gas and electrical mains lighted the horizon as the sun rose.
PRESIDENT NIXON declared California a disaster area, Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a "State of Emergency" and flew to Los Angeles to direct the operations.
Residents ran terrified into the streets in their night clothes when the quake, centered on the town of Newall, 40 miles northwest of the Los Angeles area for more than a full hour.
A 12-MILE AREA in the San Fernando Valley was evacuated after water started seeping through cracks and splits in an arten dam.
Tall buildings swayed, dropping bricks and hunks of plaster into downtown streets. The front steps were stained, way topped. Furniture and dishes flew about inside houses as their occupants clung to their floors.
At midday, the darn was holding as rescue workers frantically drained off a 4.2 billion-gallon lake behind it into sister lake, which being emptied into the Los Angeles 'tiver.
As 6,000 persons in the threatened area
wound bumper-to-bumper to safety and shelter in Red Cross centers, engineers said the two lakes were 'stable' and their dams were expected to hold.
THE QUAE WAS registered at 6.5 in magnitude on the Richer scale, releasing energy equal to the explosion of a million tons of TNT. It was felt over a 300 mile stretch of California from Fresno, 200 miles north of Los Angeles, to the Mexico border.
After-shocks registering up to 5 on one Richter scale jarred the area for hours afterward and scientists said they would continue.
ELEVEN PERSONS DIED and 40 were trapped eight hours after the earthquake in a Veterans Administration Hospital in the San Fernando Valley. Three died when a wall collapsed in a brand new $23 million "earthquake-proof" sanitarium.
Two men were killed when a freeway structure collapsed on their pickup truck. A transient was crushed in a shower of bricks at the floundhouse. Nine persons died of heart attacks.
Twelve buildings had major structural damage along downtown Los Angeles Third Street. Shattered glass littered Hollywood Boulevard. Virtually every building in Newhall, the center of the quake, was damaged.
Second in a Series
Commissioners Talk About Local Turmoil
And yet the powers and procedures of the commission are not generally known, especially to students.
Two city commissioners consented to an informal interview in a local restaurant that discussed the problems of Lawrence government and specifically, the turnover.
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The election of city commissioners to come up April 16. KU students and faculty are able to vote be engaged by several University and city officials.
Commissioner Jim Black is a tall, bushy contractor who will soon leave the commission for financial reasons. He drives a bus and works in the mold of a "hard hat," but he isn't one. He approaches each issue independently, and he may be conservative on one issue and liberal on another. He has a flair for the swinging door of the commission."
BOB PULLAM, a local store owner, will continue on the commission after the election. A well-dressed, mutatched man is considered a liberal commissioner.
Both men winced when the curfew of last spring were mentioned, but they both said it was necessary.
Black said the purpose of the curfew, a unanimous decision by the commissioners, was to isolate and identify the problem areas.
"Our police and firemen" Black said, "we were out to the night of the Karausan attack, but we did not double shifts for several days, and we needed help. So we asked Gov. Docking for
"That area turned out to be around
Oread Street." Black said
Pulliam balked at a blanket condemnation of residents in the area, but he said he was disappointed in the actions of the curfew violators.
THEY BOTH said the commission wanted to end the curfew as soon as possible. They denied, as had been reported, that local businessmen were influential in shortening the third curfew night to allow evening shopping.
"Some businessmen actually wanted an antiseptic pill, "Pallum said. "But you had to learn it or be exposed to an adverse resistance builds up. We had learned what we wanted to know, so the pill was safe."
Pulliam called the shooting of police L.K. Eugene Williams the night after Dowdell's death "the only vigilante action during the whole time."
Three months later, when Rick Dowdell and Nick Rice were killed within a five day period, the commissioners didn't call a crime because of what they had learned in April.
PULLIAM SAID sniper fire in East Lawrence had drawn police into the area of the Dowdell death. In 2015, an officer named "black" was trying to create an incident.
"We had a good idea where to watch, and we didn't want to penalize the entire community with another curfew," he said. "The goal was to develop an environment pattern would develop if trouble occurred."
"That shooting was a planned ambush and nothing else."
A curfew wasn't called, Black said, because the city commission expected the Oread area to be the only trouble spot in the city.
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Eclipse
Using a 1000 mm lens mounted on $5mm camera, Kansan Staff Photographer Jim Hoffman took
this succession of shots of the total eclipse of the moon Tuesday night. Skies were clear, which made perfect viewing of the eclipse possible. The eclipse started at 11:52 a.m. when the moon began to pass through the earth's shadow. The moon darkened as the shadow spread across the lunar disk. Total loss lasted from 1:03 a.m. until 2:28 a.m.