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The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 38
Thursday, October 22, 1970
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Chalmers Advocates Lowered Voting Age
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said Wednesday he favored giving the vote to 18-year-olds, but not on the basis of the "old to tight, old enough to vote" argument.
The Chancellor's justification for lowering the voting age centered on a more academic readiness.
"Today's 21-year-olds are as qualified or more qualified than were 21-year-olds when
Chalmers said for that reason he had been in favor of lowering the voting age even before Congress passed the necessary legislation last June.
"My support relates less to the usual arguments," he said, "and more to the fact that we have documented unquestionably the greater learning achieved by students at 18 than that achieved by 21-year-olds when they were given the vote.
"In a democracy we want every thoughtful citizen who's well informed to vote. I think the 18-year-olds add a substantial number of thoughtful citizens to the electorate."
fight the lowered voting age.
The Supreme Court this week is hearing arguments by attorneys from Texas and Alabama who contend that Congress acted unreasonably when it granted the vote to 18-year-olds.
Chalmers said he hoped those who oppose extending the voting franchise were not too alarmed by the change.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOEFMAN
"Frankly, I think the law is overdue."
Chalmers said he wasn't qualified to comment on the judicial questions involved in the court battle, but said instead he hoped "whatever processes it takes (to validate the law) will be pursued as expeditiously as possible.
"Frankly, I think the law is overweed." The議院 said voting by 18-21 year olds could have large impact politically in Lawrence although the effect would depend on the number of new voters who registered and upon previous voting patterns.
Vice President R. L. Bailey at Senate Meeting
Students especially, he said, would have to register in Douglas County rather than in their home counties before the consequences of a University vote would be felt.
The chancellor also said "if you go by the number of students who have voted in University elections" to predict student success, he said, "you very small number who are likely to vote."
... watches and hopes for more senators to arrive
Ill-Fated Plane Was Overweight
WICHITA (UPI) - Richard Stephens, a football player who survived the crash of a Wichita State University charter flight, was injured during Wednesday on an ambulance stretcher.
He told a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) inquiry panel that he noticed on May 1, 2004, when Martin 404 during the Oct. 2 flight from Wichita to Denver. He said he mentioned this to the pilot at Denver's Staples Field and asked if his planes were just put together loose like that.
The plane took off from Denver for Logan, Utah, where the Wichita State team was to have played Utah State the next day. The crash minutes later into a mountain 55 miles away, with twisters, including 13 players head coach Ben Wilson and athletic director Bert Katzemeyer.
A crowd of 300 persons filled the hearing room on the Witchhill State campus. An NTSB spokesman said he could not recall a hearing at which a survivor was wheeled in on a bed.
Stephers, 22, a 25- pound tackle from Andover, was brought from Wesley Medical Center where he is being treated for a double compound fractured leg, a dislocated hip, crushed sternum and burns. He spoke in a low, subdued voice.
His testimony followed another player involved in the crash, David Lewis, a defensive end from Duncan, Okla., who said he was "very, very scared" because the team was behind him. After the aircraft" after it took off from Denver, Lewis walked into the hearing on crushes.
Stephens said he was worried because the plane was flying below the peaks of the mountains. He said the mountains seemed to be above the plane remained at about the same altitude.
He said this prompted him to go to the cockpit, but the pilot and the co-pilot did not seem overly concerned.
As other witnesses before him, he said the plane made a right turn, followed immediately by a sharp left turn and then shook vigorously before impact.
Jerry Meyer of Silver Plume, Colo., who said he saw the crash from a highway above, testified the two propellers stopped just before the crash. He said it was "like the pilot cut the
He said it was "like the pilot cut th motors."
Russell J. Abbott, chief investigator of the crash, said, "no evidence of malfunction or internal failure of either engine was noted" by the investigation team.
He said, however, 24 gallons of oil was added to the engines at Denver. He did not complain. "I don't think we had any problems."
Abbott also testified the plane was 3,265 pounds overweight when it left Denver
Lewis said he overheard him he thought was the surviving co-pilot, Ronald G. Skipter, tell the team's trainer, Tom Reeves, that the plane would fly a "scene route" from Denver to Logan. Reeves died of injuries received in the crash.
Lewis said the pilot was supposed to point at ski resorts and other areas on his flight. He said his announcements were made, adding that he understood the intercom between the cockpit and the aircraft.
The chairman of the inquiry panel, retired Adm. Louis M. Thayer, said the panel was as interested in learning the charter arrangements made for the plane as it was in the mechanical and human aspects of the crash.
He said the board likely would "make a recommendation to the FAA that would hopefully make these types of arrangements more clear for the people who enter into
them "
He said, "it is just quite possible we may not have all the information we need after three or four days here." In such a case, he said, a second hearing would be called.
"The parties are concerned because they believe they have had enough time for preparation."
The parties are Jack Richards Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma City, owner of the airplane; Golden Avalon Eagle Co. of Oklahoma City; Wichita State University; and Wichita State University, and the FAA.
Thayer said apparently neither itticaum-
Golden Eagle nor the university would be
involved in a discussion.
Environment Group Is New to Campus
KU now has an established branch of the National Environmental Law Society.
As the name indicates, this is a national society. It has branches on most of the larger cities in the country.
As the name also indicates, it is combining what other environmental groups are doing (going directly to the source of pollution) with what other thing the laws are that affect pollution.
In the meeting held in the Regionalist Room Wednesday night, the group discussed some of the things it needed to do to get rolling. Among these was the problem of funds. So far a student is a recognized student organization and so can apply for funds from the University.
Wednesday night, the group elected Bob Ward, third-year law student from Wichita, President. He will be applying for recognition and training. The group will also be trying to get funds from the campus organizations, community groups and research grants from the Government.
The group is also beginning to do research on the current environmental status through
surveys of current Kansas environmental laws, discussions with environmental lawyers and discussions with state officials and representatives.
Another area discussed was the problem of informing the public of what the group was doing. If plans to set up a committee to give feedback were approved, it would engage engagements and dispense information.
The group plans to initiate action by drafting model environmental laws and ordinances, enacting in legislative process such as lobby formation and assistance for environmental interests.
Three things which were brought up as possible objects of investigation were the co-op plant, the land landfill and the problem of water pollution. We also reported on these in their meeting next week.
The group is still working on getting itself organized. The atmosphere of the meeting was one of high expectancy and willingness to work at getting something done. They feel confident that they will be placed on the learning of the laws will definitely help them accomplish their goals.
Warren Bases Race Problem On 'Bitterness'
MANHATTAN (UPI)-Earl Warren.
MANHATTAN (UPI) - Earl Warren,
forums U.S. chief justice, college students
would restore good will and cooperation regulation in race or color if we be a healthy nation."
Warren said for almost 200 years the United States had "boasted" that it had achieved a "plural society wherein we achieve unity and accommodated diversity through unity."
The former chief justice and California governor addressed an estimated 3,200 students at Kansas State University in a lecture in honor of 1936 Republican presidential nominee and former governor Alf M. Landon.
"But again the sins of former years are upon us, and it is my belief that the question of whether we can permanently have such a change in problem before the American people index."
Warren said the nation's 22 million Negroes were still struggling for full educational, job and family opportunities.
"The violence implicit in these denas, as exemplified by lynchings and other unlawful injuries, has provoked counter violence in many quarters, and the time has come when we are to have a good will and cooperation regard of reasonable if we are to be a healthy nation."
Warren said discrimination was still plaguing the nation. He said members of minority groups, not just blacks, were often left without adequate education and caught in automation, forcing them to seek hope in large cities.
"Without skills, or the education to learn them speedily, and without even hospitable treatment in they newly found homes, they did not become the usual victim of unemployment is out of all proportion, where housing is deplorable, and where degradation occurs it is rampant," said the former chief justice.
Warren said he was "particularly sensitive" to the discrimination issue because he was appointed to the Supreme Court when minority groups were appointeed to situtional rights. He was chief justice when the landmark civil rights decision in the case *Women for Education* was handed down in 1954.
Warren said in those days there were those who opposed discrimination, but asked him if civil rights leaders were moving too fast. He said he felt a attitude "an escape from responsibility."
Warren said the basis of the problem was "bitterness," and a solution was impossible without a compromise.
"Either all rights of citizenship belong to them (minority groups) or they are entitled to none, as was said of them in the Dred Scott decision which precipitated the Civil War. The plain words of the constitution answer that question."
"It therefore, seems clear to me that u we are ever to have a pidic nation again, at least during the lifetimes of our children and their children, it will be necessary for us to set
Earl Warren .. speaks at K-State
aside our prejudices on account of race or color, and be willing to live in a plural society where American citizenship means, in fact as well as in precept, that all men are created equal and as such are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," he said.
"There is only one other alternative—and that alternative is chaos."
Senators Wait For Colleagues, But No Quorum
After waiting 45 minutes for a quorum to show up, those senators that were at Wednesday night's meeting left; hence, the meeting was dismissed.
The first roll call showed that 18 less than the one over half needed for a quorum were required.
The next meeting, pending a quorum, will be hold Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Senators not in attendance, according to Susie White, Senate Secretary, were:
Dave Anderson, Interferen-tory Council, Mohammed Ahmad College, George David Ackley, College of Liberal Arts, William E. Bartlett, College of Humanities, Mark Biddle College, Brial Bial, Ki Ked Center, Dave Carter, Christian Holliday College, Brown Grad School, Ken Hottell Education, Brown Grad School, Ken Hottell Education, Brown Grad School, Ken Hottell Education, Brown Grad School, Thomas Coulter, Engineering, Barbara Doleman, Francis Frenchman, Oliver Graduate, Vlad Baladin, military, John Gage, Pearson College, Harry Hemlock
Titans Battle in B & G Employes' Championship
By DUKE LAMBERT
Kansan Staff Writer
"Owens!" Whiteside shouts.
"Owens!" Whiteside shouts.
"What you want?" comes the reply
"Come here and sit down, you're holding up the game. I know you are scared, so aim not use trying to run around and waste some time in trying to feel the weight of this arm anyway."
Owen Brooks ambles into the little corner of the building of the University of Kansas Housing Maintenance Department workshop known as the paint shop. In his left hand he carries a dinner bucket. In his right hand he carries a paper cup with some ice in it and a knife. He leans back over the back of the chair, leaning to his left as he sinks slowly, sitting and placing the items in his hands onto a vacant chair, all in one motion.
The fourseason is complete. Amid murmurs of anticipation and laughter from inexperienced fans, the team gathered around the table the partners face each other. This is the last set of 30 points, the last game, the last battle of the fierce six-man line that has been hotly contested for the past year.
Brooks ignores him as he shuffles the pack. Not that he does not have a reply, but it is his way to take his time: walking, talking, eating, even answering questions.
"Your Deal," Whiteside says, pushing the pack of cards towards Brooks. "Hurry up and give Wescoe a moon hand and let's get this done." Brooks makes sure Gonna make sure you don't get on the board.
he had come near to winning the monthly totaling, only to be shut out each time.
This is a personal battle, between him and Whiteside.
He shuffles the cards. He does it for all year, probably remembering the many times
The pitch game had become a way of life for the painters. It was something to look forward to at the end of a hard morning's work. A time for jokes, funny antics, saying stupid things and laughing at remarks aimed at the other people, and playing when someone caught "a whole husbai basket" of cards or bemoaning the fact that 'I can't have a damn hang all day.'
S of them had changed partners monthly by drawing names out of a hat, but Brooks and Brooks had never played together, and Brooks had always come out at the short end of the stick.
Six men, who live, it seems, only to put the mornings plans and schemes into play during the day.
Owen Broens, painter, Whiteside's arch rival, the biggest gambler of the group, whose philosophy is 'you can't win if you don't take risks' and so he wields them when he knows he is overblooding him.
Wilbert Whiteside, foreman of the painters, way ahead in the individual tally of games they can man them to be tryat. His modest reprexent says, "I'm too good. They just can't hold me."
Loren Hadl, painter, is the most conservative player in the competition who makes up for his lack of flair by drawing some of the most fantastic hands.
Robert Sheard, ground crew foreman. If you sit outside and hear Bob say, "You laying a lot of cards," to his partner, you know he is winning.
Wesley Jarret (Wescow), Shearad's deputy. Wes says, "Dammit, I wish you guys would deal me some kind of a hand," when he has all the high cards in the suite.
Gene Kale, they call Gene 'Lucky' because they regularly hide on nothing and draws six on one.
"Darn! I'm sitting here and the man wants to jump on me. Whiteside's the one who's gummie keep you off the boards. I'm just sitting here," Wesco says.
"Hell, Brooks, deal the pack." Heard say, fishing to be in back of the game. But true to form, Brooks was a bit nervous.
The final game is being played between Whiteside and Weseco, and Brooks and Hall. As Brooks shuffles the deck, Weseco keeps making his favorite sound, "huh, huh, huh."
Nothing seems to move closer for Brooks. Time adjusts to his tobacco chewing pace, his ambbling gait, his deliberate brush stroke, in the process of moving to stop recaps of past pitch games.
That same morning, for instance, the whole crew was working at Elwisworth Hall, painting the passageways. Brooks stopped to dip his paint brush, glancing at Hadl at the same time. Hadl too had paused, momentarily deep in thought.
Comes Brooks' long awaited reply to Whiteside's earlier dig, "I ain't even beering about you, your partner is beginning grunt already, and I know I've got you."
Had said as though to himself, "man, that whiteness, he in something, boy. I had four lessons."
"The way this game is getting tighter, a man's got to have everything at acc right. He's got to have it all."
Brooks threw back his head and laughed. He and Hadi were partners, but it amused him whenever something such as that happened. He had to throw a taunt:
It was now Hadi's turn: "Like you been taking care of him all this time!" He shouted down the hall to another painter, Paul Burcchi, who was working along with deputy attorney, Lawrence Ewinger; "hey, Paul, who is the only man on the board for the year, eh?"
"You can't hold Whiteide, huh! He's too good for you, huh! Well, don't you worry about a thing, Loren, you've got me for a partner and I'll take care of him."
Paul replied, "I don't know, but I hear there is some guy called Brooks who is going to bawl when Whiteids rushes him out at dinner time. Whiteside says he better say dearJohn to the board, and Whiteside ain't lied yet all year."
Laughter echoed through the passageway. Brooks himself almost lost his tobacco, but his band shot up to his mouth with a swifter breath. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't move as quickly as he wanted.
Paradoxically, Brooks has been given the nickname of Captain Lightning, not because his friends want to reverse the naming intent, but because did something which earned him the title.
Yet, as it turned out, Hadl was the one who
He and Hall always together, aren't they were painting the rear upper windows of buildings that had been destroyed and they disturbed a hornet nest. Brooks was directly under it, and he was the first one attacked and therefore shouted the warning painting at the other end of the scaffold!
suffered. He was stung twice, and sprained his right ankle. Brooks got a big laugh out of it and the opportunity to pull Hadl's leg for a long time afterwards.
The cards are all dead. As the dealer, brooms cannot offer his characteristic first bit of advice; he never says six—so Whiteside borrows his pearl before a dozen "a dozen." Hidden, with nothing of value, puts his cards face down on the table to indicate that he is about to take part in another probably could not help him, passes.
Brooks in turn borrows Whitleside's usual reply to his half a dozen. He says, "Just one more," sticking his finger into the air, "spades."
n't gimble but no eight and fall down. 'Just one more!" says Brooks.
"Now you doing something, Loren," Brooks says.
He turns to Hadi, "put something on the table, Loren," and everyone guesses that he is a spy.
Fortune is with him, however, for Hadl calls three trumps on the table, and with his five, he wins.
First bid to Had. He says, "I'll try six."
Second bid to Whiteide. He says, "I'm can't let this man get his bid, and know he isn't ganna bid no eight and fall down."
"Wwwwwww!" says Whiteside, "the dumm man is overloading his hand, but he may not be able to handle it."
They make seven points to their opponent's tree. The next four hands alternate, and the second hand is the most important call is now to be made. Wescos is dealing and will have the last bid, giving him something of an advantage, because in a hand like this the ladders win if he makes his bid.
Wescoe looks at his hand, knowing he has nothing with which to make nine points, but he wonders if the wristband was bidding on diamonds or clubs. He asks his friends wipes his face. He immediately wipes it again and draws in his breath sharply. He shuffles his cards, drawing his cards, drawing them close to his face.
He begins. "I ain't ..." and Whiteside screams, "Don't say no now Wesecake. Take it man, take it. The darn man's got his hands in my throat and we ain't have a prayer of setting him."
Wescoe says, "nine, in diamonds," looking at his hick, king, and a no counter, and trading on the price. "Everything is good."
The discarding begins. Hadl puts aside three trumps and Whiteside says, "Gad, never always has something." Then Brooks beats him on his cards down and Whiteside counts five.
"Owwwwwwww!" he says, jerking back in his chair with his arms straight out and resting on the table. He twists his face and presses his tights tightly together. He shakes his hands and says, seemingly to Wescow, but really wants it to be like the man's bid. And we called right into his arm. And to Brooks, "Dammit, I'm going to set you anyway."
Wescoe leads with a no counter and catches a no counter from Hail. Whiteside throws the ball to Wescoe.
Brooks already has his one point, so all that remains is for him to make another point and then he will back it. When he comes back with his king on Whitehill's lead and they take the trick, bagging Hadi's ten points.
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