Nixon puts narcotic blame on government
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon said today Americans tend to blame kids for the nation's mounting narcotics problem when it is the government that has fallen down on its job.
Book may lead to second award
Research made possible by a $12,569 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service could lead to another award-winning book by a KU professor.
Fritz Heider, University professor emeritus of psychology, is recognized as an international authority on the subject of interpersonal relations. His last book, "Psychology of Interpersonal Relations," was hailed as a classic in its field.
Following the book's publication, he received a distinguished scientist award from the American Psychological Association in 1965. Heider is also one of two KU faculty members who hold the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award. The Lewin Award is given by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Heider received a doctorate from the University of Graz, Austria, in 1921. He taught at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and Smith College. He also served as director of psychological research at the Clark School for the Deaf, Northampton, Mass. In 1947-48, he held a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. He joined the KU faculty in 1947 and retired in 1966.
Real choice offered to Howard voters
ST. LOUISE (UPI) — Howard Boksenbaum said that, if he won the homecoming queen contest at Washington University, he would follow tradition and kiss the football players.
Boksenbaum is competing with 11 girls for the title, and his campaign posters carry the message "A Choice—Not an Echo."
Boksenbaum, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pa., said the homecoming contest was mainly for the fraternities and sororities and his campaign was trying to unite the other elements on campus.
The results of this week's voting will be announced at Washington's home football game with Valparaiso. Boksenbaum said, "I have complete confidence that when the results are announced Saturday, I will have won or lost."
He added graciously, "All the girls are beautiful, and may the best man win."
Rifle team up against Iowa State
The University of Kansas Varsity Rifle Team will compete against the Iowa State Rifle Team Saturday at Ames.
The teams will fire a half-international match which consists of two targets each at prone, kneeling and standing positions with a time limit of 100 minutes
The President called top officials within the executive branch and Capitol Hill — along with some outsiders such as entertainer Art Linkletter — to the White House for a conference on how to improve narcotics control.
Shooting for KU will be Mike Jenkins, Salina sophomore; Ben Zavala, Kansas City junior; Mary Arnold, Holton junior; Rick Daly, St. Louis senior; and Lin Covey, Ft. Leavenworth freshman.
"We have had a narcotics bureau for the last 50 years . . . but we have been ridiculously outgunned," Nixon said of government efforts to dry up the narcotic flow into the country. "We tend to blame the kids for the growing use of drugs when the government hasn't done its job," he said.
Team coach is Capt. G. Gary Vernon, assistant professor of Army ROTC
Linkletter, a longtime Nixon friend who was an overnight White House guest, was invited by Nixon because of a recent personal family tragedy in which his 20-year-old daughter who had taken drugs leaped to her death from a building.
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Linkletter told the group that rather than trying to hush up the background of his daughter Diane's death, he wanted everyone to know about it—particularly young people.
"Diane was not a hippy, or a drug addict or a nutty girl," Linkletter said. "The point is the kids of America today are reacting to a drug society."
He said Diane committed suicide out of fear and that she was losing her mind after an LSD "experience."
HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch and John E. Ingersoll, head of the Justice Department's Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, spoke in favor of lighter initial penalties for persons caught using drugs.
Wiley honored
Russell L. Wiley, director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, has been named a national honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional honorary music fraternity for men. Wiley, who retired last year as Director of Bands at KU, will be installed in the honorary Oct. 26 at Pittsburg, Kan.
Air groups go to meet
Arnold Air Society and Angel Flight officers will attend the Air Force Area Commander's Call at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Saturday.
The meeting is to plan the year's activities which include an area conclave and inspection procedures.
Astronauts rehearse for next performance
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — A dress rehearsal countdown for the Apollo 12 rocket and moonship began Thursday, aiming toward a simulated launch next Tuesday.
The exercise is the last major ground test before the Nov. 14 launch of Charles Conrad Jr., Alan L. Bean and Richard F. Gordon on America's second lunar landing expedition.
The countdown drill includes fueling the Saturn 5 rocket and covers virtually every operation except the actual ignition of the booster's engines.
The first hours of the test proceeded satisfactorily, and were devoted primarily to communications checks for the spacecraft modules and pressure checks for ground fueling equipment.
SMOKERS BEWARE
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — "Don't switch-fight!" That's how Dr. Sol Silverman, Jr., of the University of California Medical Center, feels about the smoking habit
Silverman and his colleagues
recently published a study of 636 patients treated for oral cancer last year at the medical center. The report said 90 per cent of the male and 66 per cent of the female patients were tobacco users.
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