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Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
New York: Smut
Three members of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography have written a dissenting minority report claiming the commission recommendations are a "magna carta for the pornographer." The commission report, scheduled for release today, recommends the repeal of most existing pornography laws. The three members, including two ministers and the founder of a morality organization, said the commissioners went far beyond the congressional mandate and assumed the role of "counsel for the filth merchant."
Connecticut: Bobby Seale
NEW HAVEN—National Black Panther party Chairman Bobby Boge. Seale, one of seven Panthers awaiting trial in the death of suspected police informer Alex Rackley, pleaded innocent to four charges of kidnap-conspiracy and murder in the case. Seale, greeted by a crowd of more than 100 supporters outside Hew Haven Superior Court, took the stand during a dual pre-trial hearing with codefendant Erika Huggins to disclaim as "false" charges of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to murder, first degree murder and kidnap.
New York City: Hijack Plot
The executive director of the Jewish Defense League admitted that a young Brooklyn couple, arrested Sunday in an alleged plot to hijack an Arab airliner to Israel, had been members of his organization. Rabbi Meir Kahane said Avraham Hershkovitz, 26, and his 19-year-old wife, Nancy, both had been members of the league. The young couple were arrested at Kennedy Airport when they tried to board a BOAC jetliner bound for London. They reportedly planned to transfer to an Arab jetliner which they hoped to hijack to Israel in retaliation for the recent wave of hijackings by Palestinian commandos.
Detroit: UAW Strike
United Auto Workers officials decided to cut staff salaries in half as the union began paying about $14 million a week in strike benefits to striking General Motors Corp. employees. The cut, effective Sept. 20, was announced hours after workers began lining up at plants in the United States and Canada to collect their first $30 to $40 a week in strike benefits. The union's $120 million strike fund was expected to last seven or eight weeks when the strike began two weeks ago. GM was expected to run out of stockpiled cars about the same time.
New York City: Balloon Search
The Coast Guard will reopen today the search for three balloonists who disappeared Sept. 21 off Newfoundland while attempting to drift across the Atlantic. A spokesman said the search, which was called off last weekend after five days of combing without success, would be renewed by order of Coast Guard headquarters. He said there had been no sighting in the search area to raise hopes of the balloonists' survival.
Capital: Gasoline Claims
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Trade Commission accused a big oil company of falsely advertising that its gasoline reduces air pollution and said it was investigating similar claims for other brands. The commission said Standard Oil Co., the nation's fifth largest oil firm, used a phony test to reinforce claims for its Chevron gasoline with F310 additive. In San Francisco, O. N. Miller, chairman of the board, said Standard "intends to take immediate and strong action to defend itself against the commission's accusations."
New York City: Panther Juror
The first woman was sworn in as a juror in the trial of 12 Black Panthers in state Supreme Court. The juror, Elether Yanes, was the eighth juror selected thus far and the second black on the panel. Miss Yanes was the 26th prospective juror out of a panel of 40. The 13 defendants are accused of attempted murder, arson and conspiring to bomb public places.
St. Louis: Women on Board
Continental Bank and Trust Co. announced the establishment of what is believed to be the nation's first bank advisory Board of Directors composed entirely of women. The bank said there would be 15 St. Louis area women on the baard, every one of whom has achieved distinction in some important business, civic, charitable or social field. "We are taking this step because we have recognized for many years that women are playing an increasingly important role in business, commerce and finance and destined to play an even bigger role," said Richard E. Fister, chairman of the board and bank president.
New York City: West Point
A federal court refused to reopen the case of a former West Point cadet who was refused recognition as a conscientious objector and ordered to report for induction into the Army. U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Frankel denied motions asking him to hear rearguments in the case of 20-year-old Cary Donham and to stay the order directing him to report for military duty.
Weather Conditions Improve As Fire Fighting Continues
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI) California's largest brush fire in history was reported 50 per cent contained Tuesday along its 75-mile perimeter as desert winds weakened and humidity increased.
Fire fighters concentrated on hot spots at Flinn Springs, San Miguel Mountain and Hauser Canyon. Another blaze raged out of control in Boulder Canyon and had charred 11,500 acres by midday.
The massive Laguna blaze raged across 185,000 acres in San Diego county near the Mexican border after it was touched off Saturday by a downed power line. At least 250 structures were destroyed and 50,000 persons evacuated.
Nearly 60 brush fires have blackened more than 400,000 acres in California since last Friday, when dry winds from the inland deserts offset the normal marine breeze from the Pacific.
In Los Angeles County, authorities announced that the destructive Malibu blaze in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles was completely encircled by fire lines. The product of four lesser blazes which merged Saturday, the Malibu fire destroyed 184 structures and a total of 31,000 acres of brusshal.
A spat of smaller blazes broke out in Southern California during the day Tuesday, but the more favorable weather conditions
allowed firemen to bring most of them under control quickly.
Eight persons were killed in fire-related incidents, including a helicopter pilot and four U.S. Forest Service fire fighters in a crash while en route to a blaze. In Northern California, 600 men battled a 32,500-acre blaze southeast of Bakersfield and started backfires and set up lines along all but two miles of the 45-mile perimeter.
A stand of California redwoods was endangered by a 12,000 acre
blaze in the Los Paders National Forest where 1,500 men were on the lines.
The Insurance Information Institute said fire insurance will still be available in high risk brushland areas despite the estimated $154 million damage to private property.
The institute said the Pacific fire rating bureau uses a five-year average of losses to set rates, so the fires of the autumn 1970 season will not immediately affect premiums.
Penitentiary Probe Claims Prisoners Control Rackets
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Day-to-day operations at Kansas State Penitentiary are controlled by prisoners who run gambling and homosexual rackets and grow marijuana, a Senate investigating subcommittee was told Tuesday.
Don Hardesty, head of a Topeka personnel evaluation firm which studied conditions at the maximum security prison, made the report.
During his investigation in 1968-69, Hardesty said he found inmates running gambling rackets, providing homosexual prostitutes from among younger and weaker prisoners, and controlling drugs and medical treatment within the prison hospital.
The warden at the Kansas prison, R. J. Gaffney, said Hardesty's remarks were "utter nonsense." He said "prisoners have not and are not now running this penitentiary."
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