THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLDER
81st Year. No. 75
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Hawks Ranked 5th in Nation
Tuesday, January 26, 1971
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GOP Seeks Lowering of Voting Age
TOPEKA (UPI) - A caucus of House Republicans agreed Monday to push for an April 6 vote on lowering the voting age to 18 for state and local elections.
House Speaker Calvin A. Strowg,
Rivilleme, made the announcement following a
debate in the House on Wednesday.
The GOP leader said that the House and senate leadership will now have to get together to determine which house will begin construction of institutional amendment to lower the voting age.
Kansans could vote on the question in the April 6 city and school elections under a constitutional amendment passed by the voters Nov. 3, 1970. The amendment has been raised in the courts and upheld by a district court, but that decision may be appealed.
Strowig said that the legislature would bring the question before the people, but the machinery could be halted by another court order.
Strong said that if the amendment passed, the 1972 Legislature could amend the election law.
"We are shooting at getting a determination from the people as early as possible so our election laws can be re-tooled if need be." he said.
The speaker said that the caucus also discussed Gov. Robert B. Docking's proposed $941 million budget. He said that they agreed with the governor that to finance his fiscal 1972 budget $26.3 million, in new revenue, would be needed. The governor has proposed several "tax reforms" to provide the funds. Strowg said that the GOP caucus took no
House Minority Leader Richard C. "Pete" Lux, D-Wichita, that they discussed the budget.
House Democrats caucused at the same time as the Republicans, but no action was taken.
Fund Sharing To Get Hearing
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The Chairman of the House Way and Means Committee finally agreed Monday to hold hearings on President Nixon's plan to share federal tax money with local governments, but this failed to brighten its prospects for passage.
as chairman of the committee that must initiate all tax legislation in Congress, Mills, more than any other legislator, holds the key to passing legislation. The proposal can win congressional passage.
"I told him I would hold a hearing on it, not for the purpose of promoting it, but for the purpose of killing it," said Rep. Wilbur D. Wilson after meeting with Nixon at the White House.
Called to the White House as the President began a drive to gain passage of the six broad goals he outlined in his State of the Union message Friday night, Mills got support from the ranking Republican on his committee in his opposition to revenue sharing.
"We told him we have philosophical problems with it and we are basically opposed to accepting that."
White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Mills and Brynes agreed to give revenue sharing "expeditious hearings." Mills said there were more pressing matters for the government to give first attention to welfare reform and an increase in the national debt ceiling.
Proponents of revenue sharing content that the federal government has preempted the best methods of raising taxes, and as a result, the states and cities are financially strapped.
Staff Photo by WM. RAY SELLERS
Greenhouse
the new humanities structure is built to make room for a refrigeration system. Harry M. Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said details for clearing of the greenhouse would not be negotiated until after the contract is let. However, Buchholz expects the clearing date to be sometime this summer. The greenhouse has been used to grow plants for spring.
The campus greenhouse, located behind Flint Hall, rumored to be on the verge of destruction for the past two years, will come down when
Demonstration Charges Dropped
Charges against six persons who were involved in a democracy dropout were dropped by Douglas County Attorney Mike Elwell after another person found no guilt of the same degree.
Ewell said Monday that charges against two of the personnel were dismissed and charges against the four others had also been dropped Friday but apparently were not dropped until next week.
All the charges were for riotous conduct and illegal assembly in connection with the demonstration during which approximately 10,000 people came to partitions in the Chancellor's offices.
Ron Washington, former University of Kansas law student and former Black Student Union chairman, was not found guilty of the attack. Judge Charles Rankin, Court Judge Charles Rankin, Washington defended himself and Rankin ruled that the state had failed to prove that Washington was personally responsible for the actions of the instructors and the damage to the partitions.
Ewell said Monday that the case against Washington was the best one for the state.
"After we lost our best case, he sane, we失精 to fail to try the other cases which
Ellswed said Washington's case was the best because he was BSU chairman and led the cadets.
Because KU of fatalities had signed four of the complaints, Ewell said, he conferred with the police.
Charges against three of the persons were filed on December 21. after Elwell filled a complaint. The charges against the four others were filed on January 5, after the officials signed complaints against the four.
The six persons that Eilwand dismissed the charges against were David Balm, Rochester, John Spearman Jr., assistant to the director of the school, Paul Rubenhton, St. Louis junior; Miss Jo Townsend, Tulsa sophomore; Daryl Bright, Miss Vanessa Collins, Lawrence freshman;
Jackson Suit Loses in Court
Case Dismissed
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan — A suit brought by Gary Dean Jackson, first law year student from Topeka, against the Kansas Board of Regents and University of Kansas Chancellor Bruce Chalmers Jr. was dismissed Monday in U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Stanley.
Jackson filed the suit in October, charging that he was fired as assistant dean of men for black studies at KU without due process of law. Jackson was fired July 26 after he purchased 22 boxes of ammunition in Topela the day after Rick Dowden's death in Lawrence.
The Regents directed Chalmers to fire Jackson after a Topika newspaper reported that Julio Moodle, St. Alibans, N.Y., senior and deputy commissioner, was sent to Topika to purchase the ammunition.
Stanley treated the decision to dismiss the suit as a summary judgment. He said there were "no genuine issues of material fact" in the suit.
Jackson's lawyers claimed in the suit that the reasons given for Jackson's firing were not the real reasons. They had requested that the judge accept all of charges and a hearing before the Revents.
At a bearing on Jan. 4 Stanley said it would be intolerable for the courts to interject themselves into the matter of hiring and firing in colleges and universities.
The attorney general's lawyers said "the Board of Regents determined that Mr. Jackson's actions evidenced lack of maturity and responsibility on his part that was incompatible with his duties involving the counseling of students and liaison between the Lawrence community and theLawrence community in light of the events then transpiring in Lawrence."
He then told Jackson's lawyers that they have to prove that information supplied by the lawyers was true. The Regents and Chalmers were represented in the case by lawyers from the Kansas attorney general.
A motion to dismiss the case had been filed by the attorney general's office before the
In Kissinger Case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI)—A Roman Catholic nuns was ordered Monday by a federal judge to testify before a grand jury that he had secretly obtained presidential advisor Henry A. Kissinger.
other persons. She had refused to testify earlier on ground; federal laws granting her bail were unenforced.
Nun Ordered to Talk
Levine first questioned the immunity law Jan. 14 and argued that it was unconstitutional after Sister Egan refused to answer questions put to her by the panel. Judge Herman, after hearing the arguments, continued the case until Monday.
Sister Jogues Egan, $2, of New York City, named as a co-conspirator in the allied plot, was ordered by U. District Judge R. Dixon and served until his death. He indicted the Rev. Phil Berrigan and five
Jan. 4 hearing. The decision Monday by Stanley to dismiss the case was based upon
Outdoorsmen Rip Morton
The grand jury earlier had indicted terrigon along with the Rev Neil R. Belch, the minister of the Baltimore deroth, 35, both Catholic priests from the Baltimore教会; former priest Ambony Sobick, 30, of Baltimore; Equal Ahmad, 40, of Baltimore; and Elizabeth McAlister, 31, of Tarnoy, N.Y.
Neither Lerner nor Jackson could be reached for comment and it was unknown if the response would have been sent.
Jackson's attorney, Michael Lerner, failed to file an opposing affidavit to the attorney in connection with the lawsuit.
Despite the criticism by the 113,000-member, California-based Sierra Club, the Senate Interior Committee was expected to approve quickly the Maryland congressman's appointment to replace ousted Walter J. Hickel.
Stanley cited a ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the dismissal of a member of the faculty of a state college in Colorado. That ruling said, in part, that it would be "molecular for the courts to indemnize them" and to require an educational institution or instructor on its staff a professor or instructor whom it deemed undesirable."
Morton, who has served as GOP National Chairman for the past two years, told the committee protecting the environment must be a priority and prioritize the quality of the nation's economy or defense.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—An influential outdoor group attacked the conservation record of Interior Secretary-designate Rogers C. B. Morton Monday as dismal and backluster, "reflecting at best apathy toward commitment and at worst outright hostility."
Miller Cancels Faculty Speech
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller has cancelled an appearance that was scheduled for Thursday before the University of Kansas Faculty Forum.
"Otherwise, at some point in time, how far in the future we do not know, there will be no economy to enjoy and practically no reason for defense."
Miller was scheduled to speak to University faculty members at the Westminster House, 1294 Orad. The Rev. C. F. Stozzol, who is in charge of Faculty of Law, said he had met Miller ceased his appearance because he preferred his appearance but with any Lawrence groups until his program in Lawrence began in February.
Despite Morton's testimony, Phillip S. Berry, president of the Sierra Club, said in a statement to the committee that the job of Interior Secretary requires a "distinguished and committed conservationist whose work is guided with protecting the broad public interest."
"Morton's own conservation record has been a dialim backluster performance, even if the environment and at worst outright hostility toward many of the basic reforms necessary to maintain it."
He somewhat tempered his criticism, however, by not noting Hickel had "similar deficiencies when appointed and he turned over them to the secretary and stalwart defender of the environment."
"Furthermore, Morton is a man who enjoys the highest respect in the Congress and in the Administration, enabling him to advance the goals of the nation," he added. "The greater degree than could anyone else today."
Apollo 14 Countdown Starts; Moon Trip Begins Sunday
Alan B. Sheapard, 47-year space pioneer, and rookies Stuart A. Roosa, 37, and Edgar D. Mitchell, 40, passed their last major prelaunch physical examinations without difficulty. Dr. Charles A. Berry 'certified' them for flight on the basis of preliminary
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -- The countdown started smooth Monday and doctors said Apollo 10's astronauts were in good shape and the mission was full, half-million mile round trip to the moon.
the astronauts are certified and ready to fly," said the astronaut chief physician. "There are people in training."
laboratory results.
After spending four hours in the doctor's office, the three pilots returned to spacecraft trainers to bge on critical parts of their ambitious expedition to a valley on the moon.
Senate Committee to Find Extent of Council's Power
A special committee of the University has been established to investigate the University Council, in order to find ways to more clearly define the extent of its power.
In essence, the resolution, if passed, would have stripped the Council of all its legislative powers. However, it was not acted upon ex-actually until last year when now has the issue under consideration.
The committee grew out of a resolution introduced in the October 22 University Senate meeting by Henry McKinney, who, as president, place limitations on the power of the Council.
According to Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classics, and chairwoman of the committee on the school's civil power is a result of "a general lack of confidence in a smaller group acting for a larger group."
The countdown started promptly at 9 a.m. EST and proceeded through the first hours without a hitch. Most of Monday's launch pad activity was devoted to checking electrical systems, includinginding craft and installing activating starting devices in the five booster rocket engines
However, Mrs. Banks said the specific occurrence that prompted the controversy was the action of the University Council in passing section 3.4.2 of the Senate Code.
gave students 20 per cent representation on all University committees, after the University Senate was unable to act on it because of a lack of a quorum.
The Council adopted this section, which
The Council derives its power from Article IV, Section 6 of the Senate Code, which states that universities should have a University Senate in the performance of its powers, subject to such limitations as the following:
However, as is the pervasive of the University Senate, they overturned the Council's decision.
"The action in approving the section was legal enough under the code," said Mrs. Banks, "as there exist presently no specific guidelines for the Council's power."
The University Senate has yet to impose any restrictions. Consequently, it is the committee's duty to recommend alternatives for the organization of legislative power from the council.
In order to help accomplish this, the committee will hold open hearings Thursday at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
Shearp, Roosa and Mitchell have been restricted to their quarters, their training building and a beach house for the past two years. They are designed to keep them healthy for lunch.
Backup commander Eugene A. Cernan unintentionally violated the unique authorization of a helicopter crashed in a nearby river. He was exposed to several rescues before returning.
Their contacts are limited to a select group of 112 people, all of whom are under close medical surveillance. Berry said he and his wife have no contact of contacts during the next five days.
Other aspects of preparation for the $400 billion mission were going well. Four larger aircraft and three helicopters were Force base Monday for stations on the other side of the world where they will support the mission.
One of the jets will operate out of Perth, Australia, another out of Darwin, Australia, and two will be based temporarily at the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
One of those jets will serve as a "Mooncoor Express" to rush a batch of lunar samples from Samosa the recovery area to the lunar receiving laboratory in Houston.
Manson, Girl Trio Found Guilty
BY JACK V. FOX United Press International Writer
LOS ANGELES— Charles Manson and three homeless young women, whom he snared into a cult of free love and bloody death, were convicted Monday of first degree murder in the senseless slaughter of Sharon Tate and six other helpless victims.
The same predominantly middle-aged jury now will decide whether the 90-year-old exconvict gurn and three dark-baked hippies would suffer imprisonment or death in the gas chamber.
"You'll never live to see that day," Manson snarled to Judge Calice J. Older as he was led from a courtroom that was wall to wall with armed deputies.
The girls piped after the verdicts were read and one said: "Oh don't the jury look
The seven-man, five-woman jury found the self-yled "Jesus Christ" guilty of sending a bomb to the United States and five persons at the Tate home and two others at the residence of the wealthy supermarket owner.
The girls, Susan Atkins, 22, Patricia Krenwinkel, 23 and Leslie Vane Houten, a former high school beauty queen, was arrested for plaguing and playing with conspiracy to commit murder.
The four were convicted largely on the眼度 testimony of tiny blonde Linda Kaslanian, who joined the wicked commune only a month before the August, 1987, slayings and who was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for turming up.
The penalty phase of the trial will start Thursday. Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bulgail said that he expected to call 567 (813) 401-2000 during all four go to the gas chamber at San Quentin.
They have a choice between life im-
ployment or death in the gas chamber at
JFK.
former She was last reported with her mother and two children in New Hampshire.
There is no way of knowing how many ballots the jury took before they decided on the first degree verdicts for all defendants. As they have been throughout the trial, the members of the jury were still sequestered in their Hotel and were not available for questions.
The three young women, dressed in blue denim prison dresses with darker blue sweaters, put they heads together and their district records were read by court clerk Gene Darrow.
Manson also said, "I think the jury's guilty."
Manson and the three girls heard the verdicts in absolute silence in a courtroom in 20 deputy sheriffs stood guard. As he was led out, Manson, dressed in a white blouse, black scarf and trousers called to out the verdicts, "we didn't allow to put on a defense man."
It took Darrow 16 minutes to read the 27 separate verdicts which included four counts of conspiracy to commit murder as well as the individual killings.
The same seven man, five woman jury will decide—starting Thursday—the punishment for the 96-year-old Manson and the dark commander of the Marvel comic book command from love-making to homicide.
Defense attorney Paul Fitsgerald said he felt it was quite probable one or the defendants would seek to take the stand during the penalty phase of the trial—with the young women trying to save Manson from the gas chamber.
The penalty phase was expected to last at least a month and possibly two months during which the jury will be locked up nightly at the court house. If they have been sequestered since last July.
The jury actually deliberated for 42 hours and 40 minutes, although they received the verdict in less than a minute.
Defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald said the defendants expected the guilty verdicts and that their lawyers were "disappointed but not surprised
"We thought we lost the case when we lost the change of venue motion. We had about as much chance of a fair trial in Las Angeles as Sam Sheppard had in Cleveland."
The verdicts came almost a year and one half after the slayings and, in the course of the uproarous trial, the victims were the all but forgotten characters in the case.
The slayings took place the nights of Aug. 8-9, 10, 1969, and at first police did not connect them despite the scrawling of the word "pig" in blood at both homes.
Manson and his "family" moved from the Spain ranch, and old Western movie lot on the outskirts of Los Angles, several weeks after the murders to Goler Wash in Death Valley where they set up another commune with lookouts and field telephones.
Miss Aikas testified before the grand jury but later recounted her confession and refused to answer.