THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
81st Year, No. 84
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAS
Monday, February 8, 1971
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City Sales Tax Before Voters In April Ballot
Lawrence citizens will decide Arliff if they want to spend a half-cent more on every dollar purchase to pay for better police and fire protection.
The Lawrence City Commission approved ordinances Tuesday to put a proposed half-city sales tax before the voters in the April municipal elections.
If passed, the tax would be raised about $425,000, which would be spent to hire 2.6 additional policemen and 15 more firemen. With the added manpower, policemen and firemen would work fewer hours each week and take home the same pay, according to the tax. The firework week would be reduced from 18 hours to 7 hours for policemen's from 44 to 40 hours. An increase of 26 men would give the Lawrence police a 77 man force.
The officials said there are 17 policemen on each of three eight-hour shifts. During each shift, 14 men patrol the six patrol districts in the city. If the tax proposal is passed the policemen on each eight-hour shift and the number of patrol districts will be increased to seven.
Kansan Photo by DAVE HENRY
There would be 23 men on each shift to patrol the seven districts. This means that during any hour of the day, the officials said, there would be between three and four districts in each patrol district instead of between two and three men in each district as is now the case.
If the tax is passed in April, the city could begin collecting revenues July 1. The state could return the money to the city in September if additional men would be hired at that time.
Members of the Lawrence chapter of the
Fraternal Order of Police and Firefighters
are appointed by the Governor.
Opening
Chu Tsing Ll, professor of art history,
examines the crafts in the Kansas Uni
Gallery which opened Sunday, Over 300 works created by Kansas craftsmans are displayed as parts of the 17th Annual Kansas Designer Craftsmans Exhibit. Chancellor Chalmers spoke Sunday at the opening of the exhibit. See related story page 2.
Voltage Cuts Dim New York Lights
New York (UPI)-Voltage reductions dimmed lights, snarled subway service, knocked television stations off the air and forced service in New York City on Sunday night.
A complete blackout hit a 10-block area shortly after 8.15 p.m., and the rest of the city struggled through a dim-out that began shortly after 7 p.m.
The midtown Manhattan area was most seriously affected, but eleven service was made possible by advertising sings on Broadway's "Great White Way" and on Times Square dimmed.
The voltage reduction was attributed to an explosion inside a large generator at ConEdison's East River generating station near the United Nations.
Power was cut to the Empire State Building, forcing the city's seven television stations in New York to stay on the rest of the country was not affected. In some areas of the city, viewers were able to pick up the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, but the station was not blocked by New York transmitters.
Traffic lights stayed red or green, and pedestrians were reported directing traffic at 10am.
Mayor John V. Lindsay, who was taping his own television show at the time, broadcast an appeal to city residents to stay calm. The mayor also prepared his emergency control board to city hall.
Tactical patrol policemen were sent by police to the town of Jewel and diamond centers on the west midtown Manhattan. The action was taken because the伏otrop drain spurred burglary
Lights in police headquarters also dimmed, but police said there was enough light for motorists.
Fire Department alarm boxes were not affected by the reduction, nor were lighting controls. The LaGuardia airports. The Fire Department sent a floodlight unit to Grand Central Station in Queens.
A spokesman for the New York Telephone Co. said the utility had switched to emergency power and that some service was not drastically affected by the reduction. The company, however, appealed to customers to limit calls to emergencies to conservation power.
The nation's largest newspaper, the New
York Daily News, hailed prime room
office.
Department teletypes and the Marine radio network. Con-Edison has been plagued by power failure and generator problems for the past year.
abloid did get out its first edition.
The New York Times reported no disruption in its production. Other communication efforts have been successful.
Source Says Liaison Offers Half of Pay to Conservative
Rick Waller, administrative assistant for community relations to Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, has volunteered half of his salary to provide a similar position to the conservative element of Lawrence, source close to Walder, said Sunday night.
Walker was appointed Nov. 1 to serve as a liaison between the University and the Lawrence city government. The source said that Walker believed that all sides of the Lawrence community must be able to participate in the expression of attitudes and
Walker's salary was not revealed. Walker has served as a voice for the University and the street people. Lawrence blocks have been demolished, and the Lawrence Human Relations Department.
ideas. The source said Walker claimed that the expression from all sides was necessary for a meaningful solution to the problems of Lawrence.
The source made no comment about who would fill the position created by Walker's action.
South Vietnam's Troops Enter Laotian Territory
SAIGON (UPI)—South Vietnamese ground troops with American helicopter and artillery support pushed into Laos early Monday in what President Nguyen Van Theu called a "limited" drive against Communists supply lines.
Western newsmen were kept at the border by South Vietnamese military police armed with MIB rifles. At least 18 armored personnel carriers were involved in the first crossing.
COL. DUI LE DEU, commander of the South Vietnamese armored units, said a man from Vietnam was the town of Cheopep, 27 miles across the frontier and a strategic shading area and one of the villages.
Braddick said more than 20 UHI "Huee" troop-carrying helicopters were seen crossing the river from the landing zone with troops waiting to board were at the Khe Sahin outpost reoccupied by the Allies one
Thien said when the operation was over "the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam will withdraw completely from the Laotian territory."
No U.S. Ground Troops
Hundreds of armored personnel carriers, tanks and trucks were lined up for miles along the coast to deliver the equipment. The precise number of South Vietnamese troops involved in the operation was not known.
The U.S. Military Command in Saigon labeled the drive into Laos as "interdiction" operation and spokesman said, "No U.S. ground combat forces are or will be involved in these attacks we are with ARVN (army of the Republic of South Vietnam) ground combat units."
The crossing began at 6 p.m. with South Vietnamese forces moving across the Laotian border in scores of armored personnel carriers, and then through J. Kenneth J. Braddick reported from the fronters.
Several hours later American troop carrying helicopters began ferrying crack government paratroops across the border. Braddick reported the troops crossed into Laos on Route 7 to the Xe Don River in the far northwestern corner of South Vietnam.
Returning Astronauts Show 'n'Tell
SPACE CENTER, Houston (U1R)—America's homeward-bound astronauts beamed a plea from Apollo 14 Sunday night to NASA for an expanded space exploration to benefit all mankind.
"THIS IS an operation limited in time as well as space with the clear and unique objective of disrupting the supply and infiltration networks of the Communist North Vietnamese troops lying in the Laotian border and which for many years was occupied by the Communist North Vietnamese and used to launch attacks against our country."
President Thieu went on nationwide radio during the morning and said:
THE FIRST known casualties prior to the incursion occur when an amphibian plane crashes into a Vietnamese army position near Khe Sanh. Six South Vietnam soldiers were killed and 51
A U.S. spokesman said the accident oc-
relatively small audience watching closed circuit monitors at the Space Center.
The color telecast—dubbed a "scientific show and tell" by one official—presented the first demonstrations of ways to use space to manufacture methods and to cure disease.
But spacecraft commander Alan B. Shepard and his coplots Stuart A. Rossa and Edgar D. Mitchell thought they were out of evidence, which they likely will in later reapers.
The 50-minute telecast reached only a
The astronauts four experiments testing the effects of zero-gravity. One dealt with the risk of spacewalking.
Five Dead in N. Ireland Violence
Shepard said that while setting up the ex-periments he and his companions had been discussing how such efforts could immediately and directly improve "American lives and the lives of people around the world."
and another with a way of separating organic compounds, such as blood or virus cultures that may, within a decade, provide vaccines far purer than those produced today.
No date for the hearing has been set, but the University must hold the hearing before the Michigan State University board ruling in Wichita. The University will present its findings from the hearing March 2 in Wisconsin.
Keith Gardenhire, a former KU student who was suspended after a shooting incident on campus Dec. 7, will receive a hearing from the jury. The defendant is attorney and professor of law, said Friday.
Gardenhire to Get Hearing
The killing of the sniper brought the known casualty toll to five. Dozens more have been killed in the latest outbreak of violence which has erupted as a feud between Catolics and Protestants.
Oldfather said the hearing will be scheduled after formal charges have been filed against Gardenhill by the University. The attorney told reporters that he heard the University in the hearing, Oldfather said.
"This is quite clearly warmer with the IRA," Premier James Chichester-Clark said in a statement. The government appealed to civilians to stay off the streets and warned that tough security measures would be necessary.
An army spokesman said one sniper was shot to death and another was wounded when they slammed about 12 bullets into a military post in the Catholic Falls Road area during pre-dawn rioting. He said the soldiers returned the fire.
by Gardenhire which asks that he be reinsted a KU student.
Oldfather said a decision on whether or not to appeal the federal suit would be reserved until after the final decision in the case is reached March 2 in Wichita.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI)—A sniper was shot and killed Sunday during the fifth day of violence described by Northern Ireland's premier as war between British troops and the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Four of the dead were civilians. The fifth
"For example, if specifically these manufacturing processes of metals turned out to be better in the space environment, or when metal was developed in weightless condition can be used effectively and immediately, then certainly they can become immediately beneficial."
was a British soldier slain by Catholic extremists.
An army spokesman said the civilian toll could be twice as high. He said a centuries-old custom of secretly burying the dead is still in use. In some working class districts of Belfast,
The latest trouble started Wednesday when British soldiers came under machine gun fire from gunmen believed to be backing the IRA in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Earlier in the day the astronauts slightly corrected the trajectory of spacecraft to line themselves up for a Pacific ocean splash-down near the International Dateline.
Depending upon which side of the Dateline the terminal at the end of their $4 million mission is located, they will be on Wednesday. But whichever side it is, it will midmorning in the South Pacific and about two hours later.
The men who will fish the astronauts from the warm, four-mile deep waters of the Pacific, near Pago Pago made their final practice recovery Sunday and all was good. The water was gentle and gentle sea swells of three to six feet are expected at the time of touchdown.
The Apollo 14 astronauts have 198 pounds of moon rocks loaded aboard their spaceship, and scientists are hopeful some of them may be fossil chunks of the primitive lunar crust. If so, the rocks would be a billion years old than those returned by other Apollo crews, and if so, a missing chapter in the geological history of the universe.
curred Saturday night in fog and mist-covered mountains six miles northwest of Klahe Sah, the outpost serving as a base for the South Vietnamese paratrooper unit was hit by a 500-pound "cluster" bomber, which burts chucks of steel across a wide area on
The spokesman said it was not determined whether the booth was dropped from an airplane.
Cellings were 500 feet for aircraft in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, where 29,000 Allied troops are taking part in a mission to build a along a vast stretch of the Laoian border.
THE ALLIED task force was poised at the border, but South Vietnamese military spokesmen in Saigon continued to maintain that government troops would not cross the
frontier into Laos.
The U.S. Command said Sunday that no artillery barrages had been fired into Laos from American bases along the border. North Vietnamese gunners in Laos hit allied forces with rocket and mortar fire Saturday, killing one American and wounding three.
News correspondents have been barred from all South Vietnamese bases in western Quang Tri Province. Spokeness in Saigon said the government does not have "enough transport to allow newsmen to visit" the countries.
Spokesmen in the operation area said American casualties from all causes in the border operation numbered five dead and eight wounded. No government casualties had been reported prior to Saturday night's accident bombing.
Egyptian Newspaper Says Canal Offer Surprised U.S.
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Cairo's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram said Sunday that Egypt's offer to reopen the Suez Canal in exchange for a partial Israeli attack in drowned caught the United States by surprise.
The Israeli cabinet met in Jerusalem and discussed the canal proposal made Thursday by the government. It was announced that Premier Golda Meir will give Israel's formal reply in a speech to the leaders.
The Israeli State Radio, however, said Mrs. Meir was not expected to reject out-of-hand the Satad proposal but would seek further clarification as urged by several Parliament members. The hawkish right wing Gahal Mossi called for Gahal's coalition in protest against the indirect peasants' use of the Arabs, called Sunday for the rejection of what it termed Satadi's "ultimatum."
Israeli political sources refused to speculate on the cabinet's decision. But it was noted that in a television interview Friday, Mrs. Meir dismissed the Sadat proposal as more than a restraint of Arab demand and withdrawal without a peace agreement.
Sadat had agreed in an address to the
Egyptian parliament Thursday to continue observe the cease-fire with Israel for another year, after the same time, he announced, a new Egyptian law which called for reopening the canal to "international maritime traffic" if Israeli troops back from the bank of the waterway.
In a dispatch from its correspondent in Washington, the Cairo newspaper said the U.S. government feared that the proposal might push West European governments to take a more "independent attitude" toward the crisis in the Middle East. It said it might take the European differences between Washington and the European capitals on how to deal with the situation.
Al Aitram said Sadat's proposal confronted the United States with two alternatives: either to reject it and offend West European countries who would profit by the reopening of the canal, or reverse itself and pressure the U.S. to pull its troops back from the east bank.
In Jerusalem, a brief communique issued after the four-hour cabinet session said, The Minister Aliba Eban reviewed the development plan and said it was the statement of the President of Egypt on Feb. 4.
Kanan Photo by BOB HARTZLER
John Schneider Demonstrates Traying Technique
many injured by sledding accidents
Weekend Sledding, Traying Account for Many Injuries
For many University of Kansas students snow brings much fun via sledding, but some students found little happiness on snow-covered hills over the weekend.
Sledding and traying accounted for the majority of 27 accidents treated at Watkins Hospital from 11 p.m. Thurs. to late Sunday afternoon.
Soon after the snow ended Thursday evening 12 persons were treated at the hospital within a period of two hours. Sledding injuries over the weekend included runs, falls, legs and hands; sprained ankles; head injuries and one brain concussion.
Marilyn Richtarik, Watkins physician
said the accidents treated between 8 p.m.
Fri. and 3:30 a.m. Sat. made Watkins
look "ike a battleground."
Most of the accidents were caused by slids or objects used as slids—inertibles, lunch trays, cookie sheets and plastic, lunch trays, microwave ovens and coats to doctor Dr. Raymond A Schwarzer Jr., director of the Student Health Services. Schweder made suggestions for future safety in the lab. He presented apparatus and stake out a course to avoid hitting objects. He said many accidents could be avoided by banning sliding at a distance, but "it is too good a sport to prevent."