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Monday, Sept. 14, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Japan: Expo '70
OSAKA—The Japanese closed Expo 70 Sunday in a brilliant flash of color with Geisha girls dancing, drums booming and trumpets blaring. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko took part in the closing ceremonies in Festival Plaza, center of the 815-acre world's fair. Expo 70 proved to be the most successful world's fair in history, shattering all attendance records and producing a profit of nearly $30 million. Total attendance during the six-month run is expected to total about 64.5 million, nearly 15 million more than the predicted 50 million figure.
Texas: Hurricane Ella
BROWNSVILLE—Hurricane Ella, which formed quickly in the Gulf and sent thousands of Texas coastal residents fleeing inland, beat herself out over northern Mexico mountains Sunday. There were no reports of damage or casualties in the storm. Remnants of the storm blew over south Texas, kicking up winds estimated at 40 miles an hour in some areas and dropping so much rain that the Brownsville Weather Bureau warned of possible flooding.
Atlantic City: Miss America
Phyllis George, Miss Texas, who said during the week-long Miss America Pageant that "youth wants to be heard today," was crowned Miss America Saturday night on the 50th anniversary of the competition. Miss George, 21, a curvacious 36-23-36 brunette, received her crown from Pamela Eldred of Birmingham, Mich., Miss America 1970.
California: Timothy Leary
SAN LUIS OBISPO—Dr. Timothy Leary, the druppromoting guru of the psychedelic generation, walked away Sunday from a minimum security prison where he was serving a sentence for marijuana possession. Leary left California Men's Colony West on foot, wearing his blue denim prisoner's shirt and pants and a blue pullover sweater.
Capital: Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressional leaders, seeking to satisfy Presidential demands for legislative action and lawmakers who want to adjourn to start campaigning, scheduled a heavy work load this week plus day and night sessions in the Senate. House leaders argued that the 91st Congress could adjourn for good by mid-October if the Senate did less talking and more work. Last Friday, after Vice President Spiro T. Agnew charged Congress with "goldbricking," President Nixon sent the House and Senate a carefully worded message complaining about lack of action on many of his major proposals.
Budapest: Noel Field
Noel Havilland Field, former U.S. State Department official and wartime intelligence officer who vanished in Communist Eastern Europe in 1949 has died in Budapest, said the news agency MTI Sunday. Field and three other members of his family—his wife Herta, his brother Herman and his step-daughter Erica Wallach—disappeared one by one behind the Iron Curtain in the summer of 1949. In the following years, Field repeatedly was denounced by Communists as a "spy," and served a five year prison term for alleged "espionage activities." Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., said in 1957 that Fields was "more of a Communist than a humanitarian" while serving the Unitarian Church in Europe.
Capital: United Nations
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The United Nations has fallen short of its lofty purposes because much of its basic structure has become obsolete in the last 25 years, a special commission told President Nixon Sunday. The interim report of the President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations, headed by former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, said the organization is "becoming increasingly incapable of dealing with the grave issues troubling the world." Lodge said the commission would submit its final report, recommending reforms, next April.
Atlanta: Maddox
Vowing to "meet you on the political battlefield," Gov. Lester Maddox wired President Nixon and four Republican governors Sunday asking them to stay out of Georgia politics. Maddox, who won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor last week, sent the telegrams after hearing reports that the White House had promised to send GOP emissaries to help Georgia Republicans in the general election. The Governor said he wanted to tell the Administration how the "federal police state" had caused Georgia to lose "millions of dollars in investments because of closed schools."
PORT ARTHUR—A tug pushing three barges loaded with fuel oil bounced against the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge and Exploded Sunday night, engulfing the bridge in flames. One person was killed and five were injured. The Coast Guard station in Sabine Pass said one of the barges rubbed against the lower pillars of the drawbridge, apparently causing sparks which touched off the fuel oil.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — At least eleven persons died Sunday and firemen feared they would find more bodies in the almost impenetrable debris from the worst hotel fire in Los Angeles history.
Texas: Fuel Explosion
By MARK JONES
Hotel Blaze Claims 11 Lives
By nightfall orly 68 of the 80-
120 occupants of the downtown
Ponet Square Hotel had been
accounted for. Twenty-five were
hospitalized, some for smoke inhalation or burns and others for broken limbs suffered when they leaped from windows or fell from ropes made of sheets and blan-
bets.
The fire broke out shortly before dawn in the basement of a first floor laundry room, and shot up a horseshoe-shaped stairwell in the center of the 60-year-old structure.
The fire mushroomed out on the fourth floor, where eight bodies were found by firemen on aerial ladders. Pockets of fire were still burning by late afternoon, and the building was considered too unstable to enter.
Coroner's workers were waiting on the curb for the charred bodies to be brought out in rubber bags.
Damage was estimated at $300,000 and officials said in terms of lives lost, it was the worst hotel fire since 1950, when eight persons died at the St. George Hotel here.
It was expected many bodies would not be found before the debris cooled, perhaps on Monday.
When firefighters arrived at the scene flames were shooting out of the upper windows of the 86-unit hotel. A tower of sparks and dark smoke curled several hundred feet upward, colored
deep red by the neon sign of a nearby building.
Five hook and ladder trucks arrived to rescue persons in the upper floors, some of whom were sitting on their window ledges.
Many could not—or would not—wait for the ladders. They either took their chances jumping from windows or sliding
down ropes or bedsheets and blankets knotted together.
Mrs. Martha Robles, 38, said she and her husband flung themselves out of their third story apartment. She sustained multiple pelvic fractures and lost track of her husband in the confusion.
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Happenings
Monday - Friday
LUNCHEON BUFFET $1.45
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
EVENING CHICKEN FRY $1.70
EVENING FISH FRY $1.49
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SPAGHETTI NITE $1.50
SUNDAY BUFFET $3.00
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Football Feast BUFFET $3.25
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POR
MIS
PISTOLAS
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