THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.44
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, Nov. 13, 1969
Photo by Ron Bishop
Blood donors increase from last year
KU students apparently were more eager to give away their blood this year than last. As a result the Red Cross blood drive netted a total of 298 pints of blood Tuesday and Wednesday. The drive continues today with facilities set up at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
KU fee increase foreseen for 1970
Incidental fees at the University of Kansas will probably be increased in September, 1970.
"I would guess the incidental fee increase will be around $50 a semester," Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said Wednesday. "It is not definite that there will be a fee increase, but it appears highly probable."
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University of Kansas, listed three reasons for the increase.
"According to state policy, incidental fees should cover 25 per cent of the University's annual budget. The percentage covered by KU's incidental fees has fallen below 25 per cent." Nichols said.
"Also, our incidental fees are at least $50 a semester below the average for midwestern state universities. Three years ago our present fee level of $120 per semester was just above average." Nichols said.
"Third, Gov. Robert Docking requested the increase in his budget message to the Kansas Legislature last January." Nichols said. "I know from what he said that the fees will have to be increased."
Nichols pointed to the budget cuts made for fiscal year 1970-1971 by Kansas Budget Director James Bibb. Bibb recommended to Docking that the $43,952,764 budget requested by the Board of
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Mrs. Gandhi Boosted
NEW DELHI Mrs. Indira Gandhi crushed a bid today by old guard Congress party leaders to oust her as prime minister of India.
In a special meeting, a majority of the ruling Congress party's members of parliament expressed full confidence in the continued leadership of Mrs. Gandhi. The final vote count was not immediately available.
Her supporters cheered Mrs. Gandhi and unanimously adopted a resolution which condemned the attempts of Congress party President Saddavvanshali Nijalingappa and his backers to remove the prime minister.
Bandits take $1.4 million
NEW YORK—Three men armed with pistols abducted three guards and robbed a Wells Fargo truck returning from Aqueduct race track of an estimated $1.4 million yesterday.
It was the largest cash haul in a holdup since 1962 when a gang robbed a U.S. mail truck of $1.5 million in Plymouth, Mass.
The truck was carrying two days worth of Aqueduct receipts to the Morgan Guarantee Bank in Manhattan, police said.
Two down in riot trial
CHICAGO—Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, who walked out of the Chicago riot conspiracy trial yesterday without the judge's permission, returned to the federal building four hours later and surrendered to U.S. marshals.
Rubin said he left the courtroom about 15 minutes before the session was scheduled to end to make a flight to New Jersey, where he had been scheduled to make a speech at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. Rubin said he heard about the judge's order to have him arrested when he was on his way to the airport.
--crews planned to work through most of the 10 hours and 22 minutes of rest time that had been scheduled for the terminal phase of the countdown.
Apollo faces delay
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Ground crewmen found a leak in the vacuum insulation of a liquid hydrogen tank in the Apollo 12 moonship Wednesday and raced the clock to launch America's second lunar landing mission on time Friday.
If they fail, the launch would be postponed to Dec.14.
A space agency spokesman said that if the faulty tank cannot be replaced and checked out in time for astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, Richard F. Gordon and Alan L. Bean to blast off as planned between 10:22 a.m. and 1:27 p.m. CST Friday, there would be no attempt to meet an alternate launch time that had been set for Sunday.
Technicians took a liquid hydrogen tank from the Apollo 13 spacecraft, being readied for a March launch, to replace the Apollo 12 tank, which would not keep the liquid hydrogen cold enough because of a leak in the vacuum jacket insulating it.
To make the change, ground
Launch operations chief Paul C. Donnelly said the new tank should be filled with 28 pounds of liquid hydrogen by 5 p.m. today.
It was the first time the launch crew had attempted to replace the easy-to-reach tank on the firing pad.
While the battle with the technical problem went on, mission commander Conrad attended a lengthy conference with top project officials in which all phases of the voyage were discussed. The decision was made during that meeting to forego a Sunday launch try.
The space agency originally had planned to launch Apollo 12 Sunday if the Friday date could not be met.
Class of 1973 elects Steve Hix president
Steve Hix, Overland Park, defeated three other candidates Wednesday to become president of the freshmen class.
Computerized results released at 12 midnight, gave Hix 411 votes, 44 more than his closest opponent, Spencer Davies. Wichita.
Others elected to freshmen class
offices include: Tom Perry, Topeka, vice-president; Betsy Adams, Overland Park, secretary; and Melissa Wayne, Shawnee Mission, treasurer.
A total of 1,062 freshmen out of a class of 3,565 voted in the elections which were held from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Troops airlifted to D.C.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Nineethousand soldiers and Marines, dressed for combat and carrying rifles, began arriving by airlift Wednesday to be ready for use against possible disorders stemming from antiwar demonstrations this weekend.
A defense Department spokesman said all the troops, most from North Carolina, were "thoroughly trained in civil disturbance operations" but would remain on federal property unless asked by the Justice Department or the District of Columbia to help restore order.
A weekend of demonstrations organized by the new Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam begins tonight and will be climaxed by a Pennsylvania Avenue parade Saturday that will pass within a block of the White House.
Organizers, who have promised there will be no violence, have said they expect 200,000 war protesters to take part in the three days of demonstrations with
70,000 participating in the Saturday parade alone.
Those troopers unloading with their vehicles from C130 transport planes at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., wore green combat uniforms and most carried packs and their weapons, including sheathed bayonets.
Jerry W. Friedheim, a Pentagon spokesman, said the troops were summoned at the request of the Justice Department and the government of the District of Columbia, which have responsibility of maintaining order.