THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.12
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 15, 1971
KU to Offer New Program For Blind
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Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Headed for Trouble
Hard hats have become a common sight on campus as work construction works slowly converts, Wesco Hole in Wesco Hall. The
worker seems to have missed out somewhere. Perhaps he has the ultimate answer to heady problems.
Hours after the medical examiner's report, State Corrections Commissioner Russell Owens conceded that the official prosecution was incomplete. The rost of the hostages, was erroneous.
Hostages Died of Gunshots
ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A county medical examiner disclosed Tuesday that hostages slain in the storming of riot-attic Attica prison all died of gunshot wounds and none of them died of slashed throats as officials had maintained for 24 hours.
Although other corrections official earlier said crude guns had been found, no guns were listed in Oswald's recital, in which he listed among hundreds of homemade weapons molotov cocktails, sharpened shears, steel and metal pipes, gas guns and projectiles, swords, bolts, straight razors and spiked baseball bats.
"There were no cut threats or any kind of mutilation," Edland reported after examining eight of the nine bodies. A ninth body had been established as a gunshot victim.
Oswald met with newsmen at the prison late Tuesday night. He told them he agreed with the report of Monroe County medical examiner John F. Edland that the hostages had been shot, but refused to answer questions from newsmen.
THE NINE HOSTAGES were among 41 persons within the prison who lost their lives during the four-day rebellion, according to a revised State Corrections Department assessment of the bloody prison riot in New York's penal history.
Officials had reported after the riot was put down Monday that some of the hostages appeared to have been killed in the furious attack by state forces.
But Eldand said: "The hostages all died about the same time—I would assume yesterday morning some time... Some were shot and some were shot as many as 9, 10, 12 times."
One Corrections Department statement said in part: "We have confirmed reports that the inmates had bombs in their possession which had roofing nails
protruding from them and other fragments of metal and foreign projects
"There were various types of armaments in the possession of the inmates that could have inflicted bullet type wounds."
Later, however, Deputy Corrections Commissioner Wim Van Eekeren said in Albany that there were witnesses to throat slashings of hostages. And for the first time, he claimed the roisters had zip guns in their arsenal of homemade weapons—including rifles, their firing pins powered by rubber bullets, able to dispatch regular bullets.
"THIS IS DEFINITE, these weapons were found," Van Eeken declared. But Eeken's statement being told of was Eeken's statement being told of was made, the Corrections Department public relations chief, Jerry Houlihan, was asked by newsmen if any firearms were found in the apartment.
"No, no firearms have been found," he relied.
A few of the hostages who escaped the prison bloodbath had even described how their lives were spared by sympathetic helpers. The police tried to execute them by shaking their throats.
The first Attica fatality stemmed from the initial convict seizure of four of the prison's five cellblocks last Thursday, when fires were set and hostages taken. The victim was a guard, who died 48 hours later of head injuries.
were shot in the head, others in the chest and back. Some appeared to have been beaten, he added, one in the back and buttocks, others about the face.
Eldland said some of the slain hostages
Miller Plans to Ask Activity Fee Survey
Miller stipulates in the bill that no part of the results of the survey will affect the present student activity fee. Students now demand that he be allocated as the Senate sees fit.
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
While campaigning for student body president, Miller stressed a need for revision of student tree distribution. After attending the annual opportunity to show his colors on budgeting.
David Miller, Eudora senior and student body president, will submit a bill tonight to the Student Senate calling for an all-University poll on activity fees in conjunction with the fall elections to be held Oct. 20 and 21.
A NEW BUDGET had to be drawn up for the student fee allocations because the proposed budget formed under the Senate Hart had been nullified by referendum.
If passed, the bill will authorize the Senate to send a letter to each KU student asking him to mark three of eight options. The results, Miller said, will be reported to the Student Senate and published in the University Daliy Kansan.
Miller worked up a budget incorporating a $12 fee but left the Finance and Auditing Committee two options. One was to cut back athletic department funds with the difference to be made up by a $2 raise in ticket prices.
After considering the results of the ballot, the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee will send a recommended amendment to the Assembly for adoption or rejecting it.
92 CWC Students File For Seats in Assembly
By DEBBIE BAEDER
and
REES OLANDER
Kansan Staff Writers
The new policy-making body will set freshmen-sophomore and graduation requirements and approve proposed courses for credit. It will also review
Ninety-two freshmen and sophomores have filed for the 55 College-within-the-College (CWC) seats in the College Assembly.
Four committees in the assembly will review educational policies, faculty tenure and promotion, budgetary plans and educationation and advancement of instructors.
petitions signed by 25 assemblymen.
Each committee will consist of nine faculty members, two graduate students, three undergraduates and either a dean of students or an executive, who will be a non-voting member.
8 Options Listed
County Courthouse Is Far Outdated
By GAYLE TRIGG
Kansas Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of two articles dealing with the upcoming bond election at which Douglas County government will borrow $3.6 million toward a new city-county government center. The first part explores the present facilities, and the second discusses the proposed complex of townspeople toward the mill levy.
One has only to enter the Douglas County Courthouse to realize that the building is
Military Asks Draft Return
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force meet with Sen John C. Stennis, the Mississippi Democrat who is chairman of the Services Committee and Sen. Margaret S. Bush of Maine, the ranking committee Republican.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Manfield said there was a good chance the bill would be tabled when it comes up for a vote Thursday. This would, in effect, make it easier for Congress to send and report it back to conferences for revision which might not be ready this year.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Pentagon sent its top brass to Congress Tuesday to push for revival of the draft law Secretary Kerry warned of dangers facing national security.
Aides said the Pentagon's new lobbying blitz reflected Laredo's fear that the draft extension bill will be in serious trouble. Aides say the government manpower shortage for the armed forces.
The nation has been without a draft since June 30 when the old law expired. Efforts to renew the induction authority have been made, but not as recently as Mansfield amendment to withdraw all
A PENTAGON spokesman, Jerry W. Friedheim, said Laird had canceled his morning appointment schedule to take personal account of the lobbying effort. A veteran of 16 years in Congress, Laird spent most of the morning on the phone with Stems and conferring with the service secretaries and military chiefs.
"The Secretary is deeply concerned," Friedheim told reporters, "about the dangerous national security situation which will arise early next year if Congress fails to extend the Selective Service induction authority now."
Without the draft, Friedheim said, "the readiness of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps—and importantly also the National Guard and Reserve forces—would, in Mr. Laird's view, decline to levels totally unacceptable to him as Secretary of Defense and, he feels, totally unacceptable to the American people."
U. S. troops from Vietnam, and a $2.4 billion military pay raise which might take effect during President Nixon's wage-price freeze.
Laird has said the Army will suffer manpower shortages in beginning in 2016.
out of date. Bare lightbulbs with dangling pull-strings hardly light the dim corridors. One feels cramped and stuffy. There is no air-conditioning in much of the building, Boxes, records record meant to be in safety vaults, clutter the offices. Water damage has left walls stripped and stained.
Few people took advantage of a tour offered last week by the League of Women Voters. The tour was designed to let the voters see for themselves the needs of the county. If he went, a voter saw that it was difficult for a visitor to remain in the building on a hot day for just a few hours, let alone work there.
The building houses the probate and district courts, and the offices of the county assessor, the county attorney, the county clerk, the probate judge, the county commissioner, the registrar of deeds, county commissioners, engineers, and probation and police officers.
During busy times in the various offices, tables are set up in the halls to serve as desks. Long lines form in the corridors of people waiting to enter the three feet by three feet office space, and in county offices. In inside, 12 employees try to conduct business in space designed for four
The Courthouse, at Eleventh and Massachusetts streets, was built in 1903. Since that time the population has quadruped. Office space now means breathing room only. There is practically no staff offered is needed to take care of the demands of the county, but there is no place for new personnel to work.
Interoffice communication often means someone running up and down two flights of stairs.
VITAL RECORDS must, by law, be kept forever. But the lack of fire and theft-proof vaults but the means that boxes of valuable permanent records must be piled to the ceiling, making them almost inaccessible to anyone but a thief.
The county has farmed out to other old
Even worse than the deplorable working conditions of the County Courthouse are the cubylobes termed jail cells, which are built with multi-purpose building behind the courthouse.
buildings as far as two miles away the health department, the welfare office, the park and recreation department, and the county extension offices.
Technically there are bunks for 26 prisoners in the County Jail. When they are juveniles or more than one woman, however, the county must send some prisoners to the municipal jail or to another county.
The jails are not safe—for the officers. Some cell doors cannot be locked individually and contraband can be passed between cells.
Two prisoners occupy a five by eight foot space, which has bunk beds, a seatless toilet, a cold-water-only sink, a ragged and worn washcloth and a deck of cards within. There are three such cells in each cell; cell-blocks have no provisions for exercise.
A 15 foot by 20 foot room holds all dispatching equipment, the dispatcher's server papers, run down bad checks and collect delinquent taxes. It is also the reception area for the sheriff, who does not handle the delivery, who shares his space with the undershiff.
There are three rooms in the building that are about the size of walk-in closets. One is the squand room, which also serves as a dressing room. Another is the shower for women, which includes clothes and dishwashing facilities. The other holds the office of the manager. There is a photography, and fingerprinting lake place on the second floor landing.
IN ADDITION to housing, paper work and communications, the room, is the meeting place of law officers such as the prosecutor. It also serves the cooperation with the Douglas County officials.
The other was to eliminate the athletic funds completely and to rely on 11 athletic season tickets to make up the differences. A cut was made, but the ticket price increase was canceled by President Nixon's economic freeze.
During the summer, Miller formulated a plan that would appear in the letter, if it is sent out.
The options are:
A $2-a-year student study fee to be audited by the Student Service. This is the interest charged.
An $18-a-year student activity fee for athletic admissions, University Daily
Kansas subscriptions, University Theatre,
Concert Course, Student Senate and
University Film Series, but not for student
organizations.
A $12 yearly student activity fee that would pay for a Kanasi subscription with the rest going to the Student Senate and the remainder distributed by the senate). There would be an optional $18 activity ticket that would entitle the owner to admission to athletic events, University Theater, Concert Hall, or Film Series and intramural activities.
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Quickening Pace Likely In Troop Withdrawals
SAIGON (AP)—Mounting anti-American sentiment and internal political unrest in Vietnam appear to signal a rise in the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops.
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia, is also beset by a host of other problems among GIs in Vietnam that would be solved by a speedup in the disengagement of American forces.
Informants said that statements attributed to Abrams that he does not endorse the president's acknowledgment of five major problems among Gls tended to indicate that the Nixon administration is changing its role and probably in a fairly short period.
McGovern, a long-time opponent of the U.S. Vietnam policy, said he 'was somewhat surprised, although not convinced, that the general was willing to accept the policies of the United States and the capacity of the South Vietnamese to fight without close-in American support.'
Sen. George S. McGoven, who met with Abrams for 45 minutes Tuesday, said the general told him that his five troublesome problems among U.S. forces were drugs, racism, anti-war feeling, morale and language between GIs and the South Vietnamese.
The South Dakota Democrat, the only
declared candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he had assumed a residual force was built into the Nixon administration's Vietnam policy.
In April, Nixon said, "Our goal is total withdrawal. We do not plan to have a permanent residual force such as we have practically in Korea at the present time, I am not going to set a date because I am setting a date is not in our interest."
Sources here said Nixon was speaking in terms of a long-range haul, as long as five years. But they are convinced there has been a shift in the thinking of the Pentagon to avoid withdrawal except for advisers could be accomplished in a year or 18 months.
The residual force would include artillery, air, and logistics support to the South Vietnamese and some combat support to provide security for the U.S. themselves. An advisory force would perhaps only several hundred Americans.
Abrams set no time frame in his conference with McGovern, but the general's remark was seen as significant in that it challenged Mr. Gorsuch's statement by him on the residual force to date.
It had been generally accepted that the United States intended to leave a residual force of 20,000 to 50,000 troops in Vietnam for an indefinite period.
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
County Jail Cells Are Five by Eight Feet . They hold banks, a bunk, a toilet and two men . . .