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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The End
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year. No. 68
Today's Kansan is the last regularly-scheduled edition of fall semester and of 1970. The next scheduled Kansan will appear Tuesday, Jan. 19, the second day of classes for spring semester.
Friday. December 11, 1970
Kansas Staff Photo
Striker Pickets Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads at Lawrence Station
Strike Moratorium Called
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
The Black Student Union strike against the University of Kansas ended temporarily
BSU Chairman RWashington, Chicago first year law student, announced Thursday afternoon the BSU had called a moratorium on the Board of the Regents on Monday, Dec. 14.
Washington's announcement brought to an end a three day strike that had involved picketing, marches, rallies and a short economic boycott of the Union. The BSU was striking to get Gary Jackson, Topke first year law student, reinstated to his position as assistant to the dean of men. Jackson was won by the students. The university reportedly purchased 27 boxes of ammunition in Topke the day after Rick Dowdell was killed.
WASHINGTON said part of the reason for calling the moratorium was the "recent acts of violence in Lawrence perpetuated by persons other than members of the BSU."
Black students at KU, Washington sanu, were still striking morally and physically, they were just calling a temporary end to the physical activities of the strike. Washington said the BSU backs the black faculty and staff and respects their position.
He said black faculty members had agreed to go to the regents' meeting Monday in Topeka, but he could not name the ones that would attend the meeting. Members of the black faculty could not be reached to confirm that they would go to Topeka.
WASHINGTON emphasized that the BSA would not stop until Jackson was reinstated. He said some people had been pointing to the assault and saying they had not describe the violence that he referred to.
rally have not been confirmed and the people responsible for calling it are unknown.
If students want to rally today, Washington said, they can, but the ISU did not call for a meeting. "We don't have a plan," she added.
In the statement released by Washington at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union, it is stated that the BSU "deems it appropriate to take the following actions:
“(1) TO SUPPORT the action of the black faculty and staff by declaring a moratorium on strike, activities until after their agreement with the Board of Regents on Dec. 14, 1970.
("(2) To plan activities which will be geared toward the development of strategy to be employed subsequent to the Dec. 14 meeting."
The statement ended with the following comment:
"Let it be clear that if the above actions are not positive and Gary is not reinstated, or if in the aftermath any repressive acts are taken against black faculty, staff, or students, then the strike activities will be resumed and escalated."
When asked where the BSU had obtained a copy of the personal letter from A. H. Cromb, Mission Hills regent, to Chancellor E. W. Cromb, he only said that he could not release the source. He said the important thing about the Cromb was or how it was obtained, not whose letter it was or how it was obtained.
Carriers Agree to Talks
Rail Clerks Return On Threat of Fine
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The striking racelers union ordered its members back to work Tuesday night after being threatened with a $200,000-a day fine if it continued nationwide walkout that paralyzed movement of passengers, freight and Christmas mail
Eighteen hours after the shutdown by four营ions began, the leader of the rebellion rallied the guards and returned to his jobs because carriers had agreed to hold 'expedited' contract talks.
As the first of these new bargaining sessions got under way Thursday night, only a few trains were moving along the 205,000 miles of track that crisscrossed the nation.
But union spokesman said they expected workers to start heading back for the midnight shift. Industry officials said they hoped service would be restored by noon Friday.
IN NEW YORK, a Penn Central spokesperson,
said comment operators—first to be hit hard by the strike—were expected to resume
on a "sufficient" basis by dawn.
C. L. Dienst, rail clerk's president who had dropped from sight since the strike began, reappeared to announce his back-to-work order.
"I now order my people to return to work immediately on a temporary basis pending final determination on our dispute." Dennis news conference at the Labor Department.
His announcement came shortly after U.S. District Judge John H. Priait held the clerka' union in contempt of court and gave it until October to return to work or face a daily fine of $200.00
BUT DENNIS MADE it clear his back to work order was only temporary. He indicates he might order his 200,000 members back on duty or to start producing a productive by the end of the strike
moratorium voted by Congress early tnn-
sday.
Congress ordered a delay in the rail strike until March 1. Dennis said federally mediated negotiations were getting under way immediately.
Besides ordering a delay in the strike that cupped anyway, a Congress had directed rail管理局 to reintroduce pay raise totaling 13.5 per cent. The raise was to inst at least until the no-annual cut.
"The actions of Congress in passing a partial wage increase for our members clearly indicates that they too are fed up with the labor management, our railroad management," Denis said.
*WE WILL SEE it to that there will be no reprisals or recriminations against any of the men.
Judge Pratt settled on a $200,000 fine, payable for each 24-hour period the clerk's union continued its strike, after the railroads suggested a fine of $100,000 a day.
"Only if the pocketbook of that union is hit in a substantial way will effective coercion be accomplished," Francis M. Shea, the railroads' attorney, said.
The bankrupt Fenn Central Railroad, which already has asked Congress for federal funds to repair its railway line and fund business in early January if forced to pay its employees the interim 12.5 per cent pay
PRESIDENT NIXON issued an executive
order under which Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe assigned top priority for the foods, fuel, hospital supplies, government equipment on all available transportation.
Volpe said the government was easing regulatory restrictions so that trucks, buses and trains would be by the strike—the Long Island Railroad and the Alaska Railroad—could handle extra
The main contract issue in dispute was wages. The unions had rejected the recommendation to board for a 37 per cent salary increase over three years, combined with work rule changes.
Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson said the White House had been in touch with officials of the clerks' union trying to persuade them to call off the strike. If this effort and efforts are not successful, he said, "we will have to take other steps" recommended by the Justice Department.
Although some scattered trains were moving Thursday, the strike that began about a week ago has not yet been resolved by entire national rail network. Some 600,000 big commuters were forced to find other
The railroads agreed to the commission's recommendations, but the clerks' union had demanded wage increases of about 45 per cent for our unions objected to the work rules changes.
Nixon Says Bomb Halt Tenuous
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon served notice Thursday night that he will resume bombing of military targets in North Vietnam if the Communists increase the level of fighting in the South and threaten the lives of withdrawing American forces.
He said he wanted "there to be no misunderstanding in Hanoi about what students should know during the high school two years ago and asserted the U.S. right to continue unarmed reconnaissance flights."
If such intelligence flights are attacked, he told a White House news conference, "I will order that the missile site be destroyed and that the military complex around that site which supports it also be destroyed by bombing."
An extended unilateral U.S. cease-fire, which the White House said Monday was unnecessary.
IN HIS FIRST formal news conference since July 30, the President ruled out any extended Vietnam cease-fire during the war to avoid the closure of the Communists' refusal to cooperate.
dangerous for our forces." Nixon said.
Domestically, the President declared that his battle against inflation was succeeding. He and his wife Walter J. Hoke in the interest of a "numeracy party's" unity in the face of the 1972 election, and announced that antipoverty director Wanda would become a White House counselor.
Nixon said Rep. George Rush, B.Tex., unsuccessful Senate candidate in the Nov. 3 elections, would get an important high-profile administration to be announced today.
As for Indochina, the President said there was no circumstances "whatever" that would prevent him from being a bodia. In Vietnam, he was explicit about the bombing halt conditions he warned Congress of.
Asserting his responsibility to protect U.S. ground combat forces which are "going down" in the war on terrorism.
"NOW IF AS a result of my conclusion that the North Vietnamese by their infiltration have been successful in taking over
BSU Suspends Strike, Awaits Regents'Action
develop a capacity, and proceed possible to use that capacity to increase the level of fighting in South Vietnam, then I will order the bombing of military sites in North Vietnam and lead from North Vietnamese into South Vietnam to military complex and military supply lines.
He added, "Let there be no misunderstanding with regard to this President's understanding about either reconnaissance flights or about a steppe of the activities."
THE PRESIDENT said that he was issuing the warning to clear-up "misunderstandings" about the informal agreement put into effect in 2014, and that it stopped the bombing of North Vietnam in 1968.
Nixon said the United States was prepared to undertake a cease-fire over the Christmas holidays in Vietnam; on a limited basis. But he had been informed of a prolonged cease-fire during the holidays. The President said there would be no unilateral American cease-fire for a extended period, and an extended cease-fire would be possible only if North Vietnam agreed.
BY DAN EVANS and MIKE MOFFET Kansan Stuff Writers
The strike is over. Perhaps the tension has been eased temporarily.
Whatever happens now hinges on the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 14. At that meeting representatives of the black faculty and staff at the University are scheduled to meet with the regents the restatement of Gary Jackson, first year law student from Topeka.
Jackson was dismissed from his position as an assistant to the dean of men in July when he allegedly purchased ammunition. At the July 26 meeting of the Regents, according to the minutes; "Chancellor Chalmers gave a statement of the employment of Gary Jackson."
"He also gave the reasons why Jackson felt he needed to purchase a rather substantial amount of ammunition. Following this account, Mr. Cromb was seconded by Mr. Cromb that the chancellor of the University of Kansas be directed to remove Gary Dean Jackson immediately as his attorney."
CHALMERS directed Donald K. Alderson, at men of KU, to inform Jackson of his death.
not send him a letter.
On July 30, Robert H. Waters, a Kansas City lawyer representing Jackson, sent a telegram to Chalmers and the Regents requesting that Mr. Johnson's dismissal. Waters made four requests:
"(1) An enumeration of the charges on which the termination was based.
("4) An answer to this request by Aug. 5,
"10 outings set out charges and hearing dates."
- ("2) A hearing before the Board of Regents on these charges, with the opportunity to be heard. * ("3) A vote for the Board of Regents.
“(3) A REVIEW of the prior decision to terminate based upon the hearing results.
1970 setting out charges and hearing date." This telegram, and the ensuing correspondence between Waters and the attorney general's office in Topeka, was delivered on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was by Assistant Attorney General J. Richard Foth.
Four days after Waters sent his telegraph to Cadmirals and the regents, Sexton wrote a letter asking for information.
THE LETTER stated that because of Jackson's purchase of ammunition, "The Board of Regents determined that Mr. Jackson's actions evidenced a lack of maturity and responsibility on his part that was incompatible with his duties involving
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Problems of the Poor: What Is Lawrence Doing?
By MARY JACKSON and LINDA STEPHENS Kansan Writers
Training Programs Scarce
In a town that has not been plagued by excessive strikes and other disabling factors of the economy, Lawrence has a large proportion of its population in above average
In a town that has several additions and subdivisions to attend to its recent prosperity, residents pay more to income individuals and families other than welfare checks and food stamps. No longer do some of the older adults.
dilapidated housing in east and north Lawrence.
income brackets. Twenty-five per cent earn more than $10,000 a year. In this group are professors, shop owners, businessmen and others. Ninety-one percent, 81.3 per cent, earn less than $3,000 a year.
These stories are the last in a series of articles on Lawrence in the 70s, a series that the Kansan hopes will help to clear some of the clouds of misunderstanding that separate KU from the city. Three other stories in the series appear on page 5.
In a town that is expanding and can claim many new real estate development areas, the property market is growing.
IN A TOWN with a 3.1 per cent unemployment rate, there is no real job training program. The major shortcoming of the existing programs, according to Vern Sterka, is that they are limited in scope and only reach a small number of people. Likewise, the job training
See TRAINING Page 5
Kanxan Photo by SHERRY ROY
The Spector of Poverty in an Affluent Society
... programs to combat the root's problems seared
BY BOB VELSIR and CHARLES CAPE Kansan Writers
Approximately 1,600 people in Douglas County are on the welfare books of the Douglass County Welfare Office. John Sparks, a lawyer, says that figure is definitely an all-time high.
"HALF OF OUR time is spent in bookwork and forms because the welfare program so often needs them." Derrick, "We give out aid, food stamps and many other services, so there are forms
"The population of Kansas, western Nebraska and western Oklahoma are among the states with the largest areas such as Kansas City and Denver. We seem to be in the middle of things," Derrick said. "You get an increase in people who need to sure to get an increase in people on welfare."
Derrick said that the welfare roils in Johnson County were skrewcocking, with some of the welfare falling over into Douglas and others probably fewer people on welfare than five years ago, but the casebound in Douglas County has increased about 100 per cent in the same period.
The eligibility of a person for welfare is determined on a financial need basis. The intake department takes the applications and prepares them to be sent unit to determine the eligibility of the person.
The financial unit has to determine all of the exemptions a person might have, e.g., a person over 65 years of age who applies for a disability or military security, her compensation of funds from a railroad retirement fund. They may add their own special diet which would add to their cost of living.
"These forms first determine if the person is eligible and if they are, it then determines the amount of assistance they are eligible to receive," Derrick said.
THE WELFARE agencies across the country also supplement existing incomes. In doing this, Derrick said, the government is saying that even though the person is making some money from a job, he is not making money to live, by the welfare standards.
Once a person has been accepted into the welfare program, they receive a medical card which entitles them to almost every kind of treatment. If you could receive drugs, dental work,
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