Lawrence marchers missing
Four marches from Lawrence and KU are officially listed as missing after the moratorium march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Louis Wolfe, program director for the Lawrence Peace Center, said 60 persons from Lawrence left by bus for the march. The busses returned with only 56 persons.
"Ive got no idea where the other four are," Wolfe said. "They could be in jail, but I doubt it. I hope these people decided not to come back on the bus and just didn't tell anyone."
Wolfe stayed in Washington through Sunday to look for the missing marchers. Working with the New Mobilization Committee, he helped stranded marchers find transportation.
Gun control passes House
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The House virtually guaranteed Monday prompt exemption of shotgun and some rifle ammunition from registration requirements of last year's gun control law.
Ammunition for pistols would remain subject to the restriction, under which the government now requires dealers to record name, address, age, and other information about persons buying ammunition.
Technically there were further formalities ahead. But practically, the issue was settled when the House, on a 313-36 roll call vote agreed to a house-Senate conference on the Senate-passed language.
Acts on complaints
The Senate had added the exemption to an unrelated tax bill previously passed by the House. It acted in response to complaints by hunters and other sportsmen that they and the thousands of hardware merchants and other small dealers from whom they buy ammunition were being unduly burdened by paper work without any offsetting benefit to the war against crime.
Sports-minded House members had planned a motion to instruct the House conferes to accept the Senate provision. They abandoned that plan after being assured the conferees already had made up their minds to do just that.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Dark., who heads the House conference group, not only had said publicly, in advance, that his conferences liked the Senate amendment; he also indicated they wouldn't waste any time accepting it. He promised the House to have the package wrapped up and ready for final approval by midnight Tuesday.
That would clear the way for final enactment of the repealer, with another routine Senate endorsement and signature of the President, within a matter of days.
Piecement destruction The House action came over the vigorous protest of Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., chairman of the judiciary committee, who saw it as the first step toward "piecemeal destruction" of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
The law was intended to curb sale of guns, and ammunition to criminals, minors, and mental defectives.
Interview to be Nov. 15
The measure exempts all shotgun and high-power rifle ammunition from the record-keeping provisions of the law, but does not exempt pistol ammunition or 22-caliber rimfire ammunition. The latter comprises the great majority of all ammunition sales.
Representatives from the Upjohn Co., a national pharmaceutical house, will be in 206 Strong Hall on Nov. 25 to interview seniors interested in employment.
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"Of the estimated 750,000 marchers, only a few hundred were stranded in Washington in desperate need of transportation," Wolfe said. "I think this is rather remarkable considering the amount of confusion there was among the hundreds of thousands trying to leave Washington Saturday night."
schedule were nearly empty. It took some fast talking to keep more busses from leaving." Wolfe said.
Wolfe said much of the confusion was caused by federal authorities that wouldn't allow the busses inside the city itself. The KU busses, originally scheduled to load at Hains Point, loaded at the Pentagon parking lot and left three hours later than expected.
"The few busses which left on
"One of our busses picked up seven people at Breezewewod, Pa., who had missed their bus to Antioch, Ohio." Wolfe said. "We took them as far as Columbus, Ohio."
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