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81st Year, No. 11 The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, September 15, 1970
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Rainrops
Light showers persisting throughout the day Monday forced students to bring out their rain gear. A moving sea of umbrellas was formed
by part of the 9,000 students and faculty members making their way to Allen Field House to hear Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. give the address at the annual fall convocation. Rain and drizzle is predicted to continue at least through today.
Nixon Requests $28 Million For Airline Guard Training
By ROBERT BUCKHORN
BY ROBERT BUCKHORN WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon asked Congress Monday for $28 million to train and maintain 2,500 security guards aboard U.S. airliners.
The request, made in the form of an amendment to Nixon's 1971 budget, would provide the money for implementing future airliner hijackings.
At that time, the White House was not specific about the number of guards to be
provided, but the President's message Monday said the funds would be used to hire 2.500.
The greatest number of the armed guards has been drawn so far from the Treasury Department. No military personnel have been put aboard any flight yet, government sources said Monday.
A Pentagon spokesman, Jerry W. Friedheim, said, "It looks like it will be some days yet before we are called on to provide any military personnel as sky marshals."
When the request does come, Friedheim said, the Pentagon hopes to "utilize volunteers" for the job. The military ultimately is expected to provide the bulk of the guards.
The government was offered still other sources of marshals Monday. An organization representing recently retired pilots—the Age 60 Committee—urged Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe to use the retired pilot pool as marshals or as instructors to train marshals.
Strike Starts; Federal Judge Orders Delay
WASHINGTON (UPI)—An estimated 40,000 railroad workers walked off their jobs on three major lines early today, stranding freight and passenger trains and adding even more confusion to an already complicated labor dispute.
A union spokesman said the men probably would return to work today after they received official work that U.S. District Court Judge Howard F. Corcoran had issued a temporary restraining order against selective strikes. The unions were bargaining with more than 200 railroads. The order was signed at 11:50 p.m. EDT Monday, 11 minutes before the strike deadline.
Commuter service on the Baltimore & Ohio in Washington and Baltimore, and on the Southern Pacific in San Francisco was cancelled for the morning rush-hour period. Long-distance passenger trains were stopped at division points short of their destinations.
A union official said a decision would be made within a few days whether to stage a nationwide walkout or to fight Corcoran's ban on "whipsaw" strikes. A hearing on the order was set for Sept. 22.
The year-old dispute was further complicated by the unexplained inaction of the White House. Under the Railway Labor Act, President Nixon could call a 60-day cooling off period and appoint an emergency board to mediate the dispute, but there were indications he might allow a strike this time, at least temporarily.
A strike was called against the Southern Pacific, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads after negotiations broke down Monday night over demands
for a 40 per cent wage increase by four unions representing 500,000 of the 600,000 railroad workers.
The railroads claim such a large wage increase would bankrupt them, while the unions said railroad management had failed to bargain.
Picket lines appeared at 12:01 a.m. today in most major terminals of the three lines.
Shortly after the negotiations broke down Monday night, the presidents of the four unions returned to their home bases to consult with their membership on the next move.
In addition to the clerks, the unions involved are the United Transportation Union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and a union representing dining car employees.
The UTU said earlier it would feel free to strike after midnight Sept. 23, on another issue—whether firemen should be used on diesel locomotives.
Nixon Talk Set for TV
MANHATTAN (UPI) President Nixon's speech Wednesday at Kansas State University will be televised live nationwide, a K-State spokesman said.
The spokesman said the CBS network telecast would begin at noon and would be anchored in Washington by newsmen Roger Mudd and George Herman. The coverage will originate with WIBW-TV, Channel 13, in Topeka.
Politicians Claim Credit for Nixon Visit
By ROBERT VELSIR Kansan Staff Writer
When President Nixon appears before the selectively assembled multitude at Kansas State University Wednesday noon it will not have been without considerable political activity at all levels.
Just who is responsible for the Nixon visit depends to whom you talk. Every one is trying to get the credit.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., has actively sought the role of Nixon's chief spokesman outside the executive branch and has been working hard to get the visit. When the Landon Lecture Series, which is sponsoring the speech, first contacted the President Dec. 29, the senator took it upon himself to assure Kansas State of a Nixon
visit, according to Sen. Dole's Washington office Monday afternoon.
DOLE'S SECRETARY said, "The amount of mail between here and the White House has just been unbeliev-
tended an invitation to the President at that time.
REPORTS afterward quoted the President as saying he was aware that the Kansas governor was a Democrat
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able." When asked about the assistance of other members of the Kansas congressional delegation, Dole's secretary emphasized that the senator had been the "prime mover" as opposed to them or Kent Frizzell, Kansas attorney general.
The attorney General's staff is eager to point out that Frizzell was in Washington last August, after his primary victory over Rick Harman, and ex-
and would like to see the office returned to the Republicans. Although they don't want to be quoted, members of Frizzell's staff said they thought that Frizzell's request was what prompted Nixon's visit.
Not mentioned by anyone with Frizzell or Dole, was the comment by Kenneth Thomas of the K-State Information Bureau.
"I THINK the prime reason the
President is coming to Kansas is out of respect for Governor Landon," Thomas said. "I think this has been true of every speaker we have had regardless of his political party or beliefs."
Thomas said the efforts of the entire congressional delegation were, in his opinion, helpful in bringing the President to Kansas-State.
Now that it has been settled that Nixon is coming to Kansas, the protocol surrounding the seating on the platform won't be determined until sometime this afternoon. It will be decided by a committee made up of Landon, representatives of the White House and K-State authorities. They will also decide who is to introduce Nixon.