Photos by Joe Bullard
Chilly, tricky September sledding
September sledding? All you need is a block of ice, other students for moral support, and an acute sense of balance.
The Kappa Kappa Gammas and the Alpha Kappa Lamdas found that balancing on the foot square block of ice, trying to avoid trees, large holes and other sledders while speeding down
the hill, was as difficult as it sounds. For the more athletically inclined, however, try adding a passenger.
Pictured on the hill west of Potter's Lake were top, left: Patsy McCoy, Shawnee Mission sophomore and John Coffey, Winfield junior. Bottom: Cathy Shea, Salina senior.
80th Year, No.11
Monday, Sept. 29, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
AEC reports Red blasts
VC shell US camps
WASHINGTON—The Atomic Energy Commission reports it has picked up seismic signals from the Soviet Union and mainland China equivalent to "a nuclear test in the low intermediate range." The commission, as is its policy, did not definitely identify the signals as having been caused by an atomic blast. Both were recorded last week, one from northwest China and the other from an area south of Volgograd.
SAIGON — North Vietnamese troops shelled three U.S. camps and attacked an American tank column in the northern combat zone that Marines have begun abandoning in the latest pullout plan.
Troops of the U.S. 5th Mechanized Division—the only Americans to be left just below the Demilitarized Zone DMZ when the Marines leave—weathered two of the mortar attacks.
Up before the House Wednesday will be a $21.3 billion version of the Senate-passed $20 billion military procurement bill. It includes permission for start of the antiballistic missile system, purchase of the C5A cargo plane and other projects.
House gets purchase bill
WASHINGTON—The House this week hopes to pass a multibillion dollar military purchasing bill.
Chinese official dies
NEW YORK—Nationalist China's Minister of Economic Affairs S. Y.Dao,50,died of a heart attack here Saturday.
Dao, considered a leading architect of Nationalist China's recent economic development, came to New York City two weeks ago to be treated for cancer.
Brandt seeks approval to form new government
BONN (UPI)—Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, confident of decisive third party support, today asked President Gustav Heinemann for permission to farm a new government and unseat Chancellor Kurt George Kiesinger.
Heinemann was expected to give his okay to Brandt to form a new government if the Free Democrats—the only other party that won seats in the election—agreed to serve as a junior partner in a Social Democrat coalition.
The fourth major party in the
campaign, Adolf von Thadden's extreme rightwing National Democratic party, failed to muster the minimum 5 per cent of the vote required by election laws to enter parliament. Von Thadden said he will go to court to demand a new election.
Official returns said 33.5 million voters gave no party the 249 seats needed for a majority in the 496-member lower house, which elects the government.
The Christian Democrats, government leaders since the nation's 1949 founding, won 242 seats, a loss of three. The Social Democrats won 224, a gain of 22.
The Free Democrats won 30 seats, a loss of 19. Whichever of the two major parties it decides to support will control the lower house.
Foreign currency exchanges remained closed today. They were shut Thursday to prevent speculators from gambling on a possible upward revaluation of the mark following the election.
The Free Democrats said during the campaign they would be willing to join Brandt in coalition. Their votes clinched the election for the first time of a Social Democrat, Gustav Heinemann, as figurehead president of West Ger-
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Chief's position in danger
A prominent KU alumnus, W. W. Keeler, of Bartlesville, Okla., is facing a law suit threatening to unseat him as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Keeler is a past president of the KU Alumni Association and chairman of the board of Phillips Petroleum as well as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the "official" political body of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Keeler was named principal chief in 1949 by former president Harry S. Truman.
Murray Wax, KU sociology professor, is aiding the Original Cherokee Community Organization (OCCO), the organization that brought the suit against Keeler. Wax is not only a friend of the OCCO's attorney, Stuart Trapp, but has worked, as have
other sociologists and anthropologists, with the Cherokees for five years.
From this academic group, and the foundations they've worked for, comes the main support for OCCO and the ouster of Keeler.
Wax said, the government originally promised the Cherokees a nation in the Indian Territory. The nation existed until 1906 when white settlers began moving in and the government saw the problems created by a sovereign nation within its midst.
The Cherokees didn't want their nation dissolved. To facilitate the dissolution peacefully, an act of Congress gave the President the right to appoint a principal chief, Wax said. It was through this chief the Indian nation successfully dissolved and statehood de-
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W. W. Keeler