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Monday, Sept. 28, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Capital: Ky Cancels
WASHINGTON, D.C.—South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky said Sunday it was the possibility of violence rather than any pressure from the Nixon administration which made him cancel his address at a "March for Victory" rally here Oct. 3. The administration has been cool towards the scheduled Ky visit and many members of Congress have called on him to cancel the speech on grounds it would further divide Americans on the Vietnam war. Ky said in an interview in Paris that he understood the Army might be needed to quell disturbances and said to himself, "It is not a good time and a good occasion," for a Washington visit.
New York City: Missing Balloon
The fate of two men and a woman who hoped to become the first people ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean by non-powered balloon appeared destined to become another unsolved mystery of the sea. The air-sea search for the trio, whose huge helium-filled balloon fell into the sea Monday night, was suspended indefinitely by the Coast Guard. It will not be resumed unless some definite trace of balloon or balloonists is found. The missing balloonists are Rodney Anderson, a 32-year-old New York commodities broker; his 28-year-old wife Pamela Brown, and Malcolm Brighton, a 32-year-old aeronautical engineer from Franham, England.
St. Louis: Chained Pastor
An 11 a.m. religious service in conjunction with a fall festival was cancelled Sunday when the Rev. William L. Matheus chained himself to the pulpit of Christ Church Cathedral to protest racism. Matheus, pastor of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and a member of the militant civil rights group called ACTION, said he was protesting "the hypocrisy of Christian reconciliation." He said the Episcopal Church and its members were unable to give themselves to "honest elimination of racial and economic oppression of black and white people."
Capital: Housing Goals
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States will have to boost its total annual investment by about 40 per cent if it is to achieve its housing goals for the 1970s, the head of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) said Sunday. FHA Commissioner Eugene A. Gulledge said "we have the capacity to accomplish the 10-year goal of 26 million new and renovated dwellings set in 1968 by Congress, but the problem is to persuade housing "haves" of the need to spend more money to shelter the "have nots."
Colorado: Bond Arrested
GRAND JUNCTION—FBI agents and local police swept aboard a United Airlines jet ready to take off from Walker Field and arrested Stanley Bond, 26, of Cambridge, Mass., wanted for a bank robbery in Boston last Wednesday in which a policeman was shot to death. Bond is charged with the murder of Boston patrolman Walter Schroeder, the $26,000 robbery of the State Street Bank and Trust branch on the Brighton section of Boston, and with a break at a Newburryport, Mass., National Guard armory a week ago. Three other suspects in the case are still sought.
Capital: Campaign Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Placing a limit on television campaign spending seemed like a good idea in Congress but now that the idea has reached the states, enthusiasm has waned. A UPI nationwide survey indicates that candidates in most states simply have no intention at present to curb their campaign broadcasting expenses in line with a bill passed last Wednesday by the Senate. The measure would limit national and major state office candidates to 7 cents worth of radio and television time for each vote cast in the last previous election for the same office. The bill also suspends "equal time" restrictions in a presidential election and requires stations to give candidates bargain advertising rates.
Northern Ireland: Protestants
BELFAST—Protestant demonstrators stormed a British Army command post, breaking down the door with a battering ram, but were repulsed by troops with nausea gas. The invasion followed a night of violence, the worst in weeks, during which a mob of protestants rampaged through Belfast streets, looting shops and hurling bottles and stones after taunting Catholics in a housing project. One man died and at least 75 persons were injured in the rioting.
Capital: Welfare Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After stalling since April, the Senate Finance Committee reluctantly comes to grips this week with President Nixon's $4 million Welfare Reform Bill. A variety of alternatives—including a vehement demand from Sen. John J. William, R-Del., that the President's program be junked—face the committee when it meets Tuesday. Also awaiting action is a Social Security bill boosting benefits 5 per cent.
Fires in Southern California Still Raging Out of Control
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Majoi brush fires raged out of control for the third straight day in Southern California on Sunday and one blaze, fanned by galeforce winds up to 75 miles an hour, raced toward San Diego suburbs, destroying many homes.
El Cajon and Spring Valley, two heavily populated areas east of San Diego, were threatened by a fire which started Saturday and moved about 40 miles across mostly desert country to the threshold of the big urban area.
About 10,000 residents east of San Diego fled from their homes with what belongings they could carry. Harbison Canyon, Suncrest and Jamul were evacuated.
Other new blazes broke out in Orange County. Closer to Los Angeles, in Glendale and Pomona, there were flare-ups in the three-day old Malibu fire during sweltering weather when temperatures reached 103 degrees in some places.
A spokesman for the State Division of Forestry reported at least 40 homes destroyed east of the El Cajon area and others going up "right and left" in the 140,000-acre fire.
This was the latest in the worst series of brush fires in Southern California history.
After three days of flames, the toll stood at two dead, more than 340,000 acres charred, 367 homes and structures damaged or destroyed and millions of dollars in property damage.
Nearly 500 firemen and several civilians were treated for minor injuries such as burns and smoke inhalation.
the most destructive blaze en-
gulffed more than 105,000 acres in the Newhall-Malibu area, destroying the expensive homes of movie stars and the shacks of hippies alike.
Hundreds of persons fled their homes in the Las Flores and Topanga Canyon areas west of Los Angeles as the flames edged nearer.
"The whole thing is sort of like waiting for death," said Lola Jacobs, who was helping evacuate a friend from Topanga Canyon.
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