Photo by Mike Frederick
A pain to rake but fun to play in
Each season brings tasks that must be done. The fall chore of gathering leaves makes itself known by huge crimson mounds. Ann Lowen, Hutchinson sophomore, takes advantage of the sudden spell of warm weather this week to soak in the beauty of the campus.
Ideas conflicting
Topekans view march
TOPEKA—Watching Saturday's march to the state house Topekans expressed several ideas as to the purpose of those participating. The marchers, in turn, gave just as many reasons for doing so.
Sipping a cup of coffee while he watched the marchers go by, one man said the march was "disgusting . . . these people are giving aid and comfort to the enemy and this shows dissatisfaction to the American way of life—that of giving our support to our elected officials once we choose them."
"Maybe I'm just part of the 'older generation' but I prefer to see clean cut kids than these hippies and radicals dressed like they are," said a service station attendant who watched the group leave the parade site.
One KU marcher, dressed in a suit and tie, wore an American flag sewed to the black band on his arm.
"This is to show that to be in the moratorium means to be patriotic," he said, "it's a response to the people who say it's unpatriotic."
A Topeka farmer followed the entire march and observed the rally because "I have never seen anything like this and wondered what it was all about."
I'm embarrassed," he said, "when people this age are doing something like this on a Saturday afternoon . . . I could take
half of them right now and find jobs for them."
"Just from those alone," he said, gesturing to the crowd sitting around the State House steps, $10,000 can be earned in one afternoon."
An assistant language instructor, who had let her students decide whether or not to come to class Friday, gave her reason for coming to Toneka.
"I think it's important to get off the Hill if we want to show people what we're doing," she said.
A woman standing on her porch said she thought the march was ridiculous. "As other people are over dying for them and all they want to do is protest it," she said.
A young car wash attendant stood apart from his buddies in a silent stance, his hand raised in the peace sign as the marchers passed him.
"I'm one hundred per cent in favor of this march, I'm only sorry it isn't bigger," he said. "I've had several friends who were killed in Vietnam."
A serviceman from Forbes Air Force base, dressed in civilian clothes and walking discreetly on the sidewalk next to the march, said he could not participate because he would be court-martialed for doing so.
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80th Year, No. 47 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, Nov.18, 1969
'Intrepid' prepared for moon landing
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—Apollo 12's astronauts looped the moon with unerring precision today, checked out the lander Intrepid and said "we're ready to go" for a pinpoint touchdown on the Ocean of Storms
Alan L. Bean and Charles "Pete" Conrad planned to unlatch the landing craft from the nose of the command ship Yankee Clipper late tonight and land on the moon at 2:35 a.m. Wednesday. Richard F. Gordon will remain in orbit.
"The Yankee Clipper with the
Intrepid in tow has arrived on time," spacecraft commander Conrad radioed at 10:07 p.m. as the Apollo 12 emerged from the back side of the moon.
Conrad, Gordon and Bean swept over the area where Conrad and Bean are scheduled to make America's second lunar landing early Wednesday.
They saw river-like rilles and bright impact craters below them and beamed back clear television pictures of the scene.
"I guess like all other troops
who have just arrived, we're plastered to the windows looking," Conrad said. "To a Navy crew, it doesn't look like a very good place to pull liberty, though." All three crewmen are Navy commanders.
Conrad reported that at first the moon appeared to have a "light gray concrete" color, but that as the spacecraft moved across the face of the moon tints of brown began to appear.
"It's a beauty," said Bean, look-
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Haynsworth gets boost
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. to the Supreme Court received a boost Monday when it was endorsed by Sens. Winston M. Prouty, R-Vt., and William B. Soong, D-Va.
The announcements raised to 40 the number of senators publicly or privately supporting the controversial South Carolina appeals court jurist.
At the same time, Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Mont., announced on the Senate floor he would vote against confirmation.
Metcalf's decision, provided privately earlier, did not affect the latest United Press International poll which now indicates 46 senators are opposed with 14 others
The timing of a vote on the nomination became even more uncertain when Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield postponed until Tuesday an attempt to work out an agreement. Mansfield said he would try to schedule the balloting for Thursday.
still undecided or unwilling to reveal their decisions.
"While some of his actions might be classified as mistakes or unintentional indiscretions, I do not believe they rise to a level which should cause one to doubt his basic integrity.
Spong, in a floor speech, said, "I believe Judge Haynsworth is an honest man. In my view the questions concerning his ethics have not been substantiated.
"I believe Judge Haynsworth
possesses the qualifications to serve with distinction as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Accordingly. I shall vote for his confirmation."
Prouty said he was convinced that Haynsworth was qualified to serve on the high court. Opposition to Haynsworth was "more on political grounds than ethical grounds and more emotional than reasoned," he said.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va... charged that the judge's liberal opponents are ignoring the desires of the electorate.
Nixon's nomination of Haynsworth is "reflecting the opinion of the people who elected him at the
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Goldwater backs Agnew
WICHITA—Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., Monday night accused "some" of the news media of polarizing the nation.
He said he did not believe vice-president Spiro Agnew went far enough in his criticism of television networks. The networks "better start policing themselves," said the 1964 GOP presidential nominee, who said "probably I received more abuse than anyone in America."
TOPEKA—State Penal Director Robert N. Woodson and Kansas State Penitentiary Warden Sherman Crouse appealed for restoration of funds Monday for the 1971 budget request for the Lansing facility which has been plagued by violence since early summer.
The initial $8,646,411 request was chopped to $3,767,255 by budget director James W. Bibb. After a series of hearings such as the one Woodson and Crouse appeared before Monday, Gov. Robert B. Docking will recommend a fiscal 1971 budget to the legislature.
SALT talks begin
Prison request cut
HELSINKI—American and Soviet arms negotiators met in secret session today to work out procedures and an agenda for talks to try to freeze and possibly even reduce their nuclear armories.
The first working session of the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) opened in the American Embassy with the Soviet delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir S. Semenov.