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Friday, Sept. 25, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Paris: POW Letters
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong hold from 457 to 600 Americans prisoner in Vietnam, but letters have been received by the families of only 324 of them, a spokesman for the U.S. delegation at the Vietnam peace conference said. Stephen Ledogar said he issued the figures to refute claims by Hanoi and Viet Cong negotiators that all Americans in their hands are allowed to write home and receive parcels.
MIAMI—The first accused airline hijacker returned to the United States against his will by the Cuban government arrived in Miami aboard a refugee flight from Havana. Robert J. Labadie, 24, former U.S. Army private, was indicted in South Bend, Ind., Sept. 11 on charges of hijacking a Trans World Airlines jet Aug. 24 and forcing the pilot to fly him to Havana. Labadie was returned by U.S. marshals, who were permitted for the first time to go to Cuba to make the arrest.
Florida: Hijacker Returned
Voluntary Cutbacks Help
Eastern Power Crisis Eases
By United Press International
The Eastern seaboard power shortage eased Thursday, although voltage rationing remained in effect in the Middle Atlantic states and consumers continued to use electricity sparingly.
Five per cent cuts in voltage were the rule throughout the affected area which reached from upstate New York to the Carolinas and into western Pennsylvania.
Power purchases from New England and the Midwest
An unseasonable heat wave soared into the 90s Tuesday but on Wednesday, moderated slightly reducing the power drain of air conditioners, but the weather bureau said the end of the scorcher was not yet in sight. Temperatures of 85 to 90 were predicted through Friday.
bolstered reserves in the needy power pools. Voluntary cut-backs by industrial, commercial and home users were reported throughout the area and won praise from federal officials.
Power was restored to several New York City neighborhoods which were selectively blacked out Wednesday and the five per cent voltage cut was imposed instead of the eight per cent required on Tuesday and Wednesday.
George A. Lincoln, director of President Nixon's Office of Preparedness, said the "outstanding cooperation" of the public had prevented the worst power crisis in four years from deteriorating into a blackout situation such as that experienced in the Northeast in 1965.
Floodlights atop the Empire State Building and on some of the
WASHINGTON, D.C.—"Failure of leadership and inaction" by the Nixon administration has brought the nation, particularly the northeast, to the brink of a major fuel crisis, a Senate subcommittee was told. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., told the Senate Small Business subcommittee hearing that President Nixon, "with the stroke of a pen" could have taken the steps necessary to avoid a fuel oil shortage that threatens the New England states. A. Thomas Easley, executive vice president of the New England Council, charged the administration had not shown foresight in its handling of the nation's fuel supply problems.
The search for a trio of balloonists missing in the North Atlantic widened Thursday but zero visibility minimized hopes of finding a clue to their fate. The balloonists took off from Long Island Sunday in the hope of reaching Europe in what would have been the longest balloon journey in history. They were last heard from south of Cape Race, Newfoundland, Monday evening when a storm forced them to splashdown in angry seas. A search of a 52,000 square mile area by Coast Guard planes and cutters revealed neither the 10-story high balloon nor its "unsinkable" gondola.
Capital: Fuel Crisis
city's major bridges were ordered out until the crisis ended.
New York City; Missing Balloon
Four municipal hospitals in New York City operated on emergency generators as a precaution against a power shortage during surgery.
WEST PALM BEACH—An attorney has threatened to bounce the Palm Beach County school system into court for enforcing a dress code that he insists includes a "bra test" for girls. Sylvan Burdick claims the test, in which a girl suspected of not wearing appropriate undergarments is made to jump up and down in front of the woman dean to check for "bounce," is an invasion of individual privacy. The principal of one Palm Beach high school admitted several girls had been sent home for not wearing bras, but said the "bra test" had never been used at his school.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Ford Motor Co., prompted by a Senate Ethics Committee admonition to legislators, announced it was abandoning its practice of leasing Lincoln Continentalts and other luxury model cars to favored members of Congress at heavily discounted rates. Ford said that committee chairmen and ranking minority members would be offered the cars at regular commercial rates in the District of Columbia—$3,600 a year. Favored legislators had been able to rent Continentalts for only $750 a year, with maintenance and many other expenses paid by Ford.
Capital: Car Rentals
Florida; School 'Bra Test'
JEFFERSON CITY—The Missouri Personnel Division has launched an investigation into charges that some of its supervisors in the division of employment security tampered with the merit system. The investigation was ordered after disclosure that a close friend of state Democratic chairman Delton L. Houtchens was named director of the Job Banks program at the Employment Security Division's Kansas City office, even though there were 21 persons ahead of him in line for the promotion.
Capital: Flammable Hats
Service Stores, Inc., in Queens reported a run on flashlights, bulbs and batteries.
In Washington, D.C., endless corridors in five congressional office buildings were darkened, and tunnels and subway routes between buildings were dimly lit, but the congressional train was still working. The Capitol building had an emergency generating plant ready in case of a total blackout.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Trade Commission warned that some imported women's chenille berets, a current fashion fad, sometimes burst into flames. The commission said it was issuing a general warning about the potential hazards of the berets because so many brands appeared to be dangerously flammable. It said these fabric berets were particularly hazardous because they "burn with great intensity, release a large amount of heat and are extremely difficult to extinguish."
Missouri: Employment
Teacher to Challenge Missouri Pension Plan
teacher quits permanently. Mrs.
Lawrie said it took at least four
months, and sometimes up to 10
months, to get the money back.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI)—A suit challenging the constitutionality of the state retirement system for teachers will be filed Friday with the Missouri Supreme Court by a former Columbia teacher.
In her petition Mrs. Lawrie contended the system was in violation of the state constitution in that it granted special privileges to teachers who have been employed more than five years. They receive interest on their deduction, while others do not.
The teacher, Mrs. William Lawrie, wife of a Kansas City attorney now living in Jefferson City, has prepared a suit contending the system violates both the state and federal constitutions.
She said the constitution was violated because credit was allowed for school employment before the retirement system became operative.
The retirement system deducts eight per cent of a teacher's pay, and matches it. The teacher's contribution is returned when the
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