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Thursday, November 9, 1972
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Section 35
During its last session, the state legislature passed a law providing for the confiscation of cars belonging to dope peddlers. In conservative Kansas, such a law would prevent that startling is that the legislature apparently did so unintentionally or at least unwittingly.
The law is the Uniform Control of Substances Act and may be found on pages 941 through 958 of the 1972 Session Laws of Kansas. Section 35, paragraph 4, provides for the confiscation of "all conveyances, including aircraft, vehicles or vessels, which are used or intended for use to transport or in any manner to the transportation for the purpose of sale or receipt" of marjuanja or other contraband substances, unless such vehicles are not totally owned by parties to the crime.
This act, which first appears in the Senate Journal as a substitute for Senate Bill no. 347, is a model bill written by the federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), according to a Kansas pharmaceutical lobbyist, Joe Shalinsky. Through the efforts of a BNDD representative, Karen A. Koch adopted the measure nearly verbatim. The BNDD representative, in Shalinsky's recollection, was adamant in his demands that the bill not be contaminated with other legislation. Shalinsky says, "it (the model bill) was practically forced on us."
Insofar as Shalinsky can remember, Section 35 was never discussed during any of his meetings with the senate committee in charge of the bill. The main purpose of the bill, and the topic of most of the proceedings, is to better enable the state to control the misuse of drugs which originate from legitimate sources, drugs other than marijuana.
This was verified by the chairman of the Committee on Public Health and Welfare, C.Y. Thomas. When contacted, he said that his committee had paid, "practically no attention" to section 35. The committee made a statement to the committee, State Sen. Arden Booth, said the interpretation of Section 35 by law enforcement officials had "not been the legislative intent."
In Booth's opinion, the inclusion of such a provision was "obviously a mistake." He said, "You study a bill, you read it and读 it and . . . it means one thing to you and another to someone else."
Regardless of legislative intent, Section 35 has been invoked in Reno County. Porter Brown, Reno County Attorney, has filed court actions resulting in the confiscation and sale at public auction of three automobiles. According to sources in Reno County, the owner of one of those cars had one lid of marijuana in his car at the time of his arrest. The court placed him on probation and then confiscated his car.
Douglas County Attorney Mike Elwell indicated that his office would attempt to use restraint when applying Section 35, using it only against repeated offenders or major harvesters and dealers.
At any rate, one may be sure that nearly every county attorney in Kansas is aware of the law and its potential. Not only has the attorney general's office published directives but the Kansas County Attorney's Association has discussed it at length in their meetings.
This act represents a return to the excesses of prohibition era law enforcement. Such measures were not successful then and there is little reason to think they will be successful now. Like the generously dispensed death sentences of Elizabethan England, punishment of this sort, which in the public's eye bears no relation to the seriousness of the crime, serves only to undermine respect for the law and for the law's associated moral authority. And, since the offender may be punished through two separate court actions, one against his person and another against his property, this power resembles a sort of double jeopardy. Bringing suit against a man's car is only the thinnest veil for trying him a second time for the same crime.
Most appalling though, this legislation is a monument to weak and impotent local government. It is a monument to the type of injustice and sloth that creeps into any government that is too long ignored and too infrequently called to account.
—Robert Ward
Post-Election Remarks Include 'Hot Air,''Three-Ring Circus'
Bv HAL BOYLE
"The people have spoken." "I told you right at the start who the winner would be."
NEW YORK (AP)—Remarks you can't escape hearing after a national election:
"We may have lost the battle, but that doesn't mean we have lost the war."
"I don't know whether the best man won or not. All I know is that my man lost."
"I admit I told you that if we didn't win this one, I'd push a peanut from Times Square to Pike's Peak, but—uh—I was just kind of exaggerating a little to make my point."
"It's all a lot of hot air anywav."
"Maybe, now that we've got
"The whole thing reminds me of a three-ring circus."
"I think the mud we threw was better than the mud they threw, but the trouble was they had twice as much mud to throw."
that out of the way, everybody in the office can get back to business."
"The time has come to thank our loyal supporters. Without the kind of help we got from you, would have been impossible."
"No, I can! say we didn't have enough principles and issues. What we were short of was a little thing called money."
"Well, I'm glad the whole nonsense is over for another four years."
"To tell you the truth, the last
"What difference does it make to us, anyway? We still have to go on working five days a week from here to eternity."
one I really trusted was Calvin Coolidge, but I forget why."
"I the way those fellows talked,
"I thought that when we woke up
the day fier the election the world
would look completely changed.
But everything looks like it's still
in the same mess it always was.'
"Now that it's over, Henry, are we still going to move to Australia like you said we would want you out the way you wanted it to?"
"Well, if that's the way you voted, both of us might as well have stayed in bed and saved ourselves a trip to the polls."
Greece Sponsors Writers Tour
Jack Anderson
Editor's Note: James J. Kilpatrick, mentioned in the column below, appears regularly in the Daily Kansas.
WASHINGTON—The Greek dictatorship has sponsored a luxury tour for some of America's best-read conservative columnists. In some cases, their wives also made the trip.
Not surprisingly, the red carpet trip produced a gush of pro-junta columns in the nation's press. Readers, however, didn't know what to expect. It was $2,000 a head, by the government-controlled Hellenic Industrial Development Bank, whose urban governor, Paul Totomis, once rounded up thousands of Greeks in concentration camps.
Totomis was the junta's Minister of Public Order for six months after the 1967 coup. This charming Athenian man-about-town put up the columnists at the plush King George Hotel,
arranged for their first-class travel and picked up their bills for fine wines and Greek foods
The suave Totomis and his bosses would have gotten their money's worth out of the juket if he hadn't told them that, as Tolenda, who distributes his conservative views to 100 papers, "For the first time in its 150 years of independence," wrote de Fresco, a long-time living and the people satisfied."
But de Toledao had another gift for the Greeks. When Totomis's bank sponsored a Greek football team at AHEIA conference in Atlanta, de Toledao wrote Vice President Spiro Agone on Totomis' behalf. The Vice President did not know where the Greek game went, word for the Greek's good works.
In a personal letter, Agnew—without ever seeing the bank's pavilion-lauded Totomis' contribution to Greek-American amity. The letter has been proudly published by Totomis.
The dictatorship reaped fur-
the benefits from columnis.
James J. Kilpatrick, who praised
the way things are going under
the military regime. The
capable, sometimes caustic,
politician, the millions of readers that the bank had picked up his tab when he
singled out the bank for praise.
"The more the present government succeeds in promoting industrial growth, the counter-government more secure that the government becomes. Through . . . such energetic outfits as the Hellenic Industrial Development bank, the Klimakit just wrote that, "wrote Klimatick."
Other kind words were written by junketting columnists Anthony Harrigan, who doubles as executive vice president of the Southern States Industrial Council. Her former National Press Bureau chief, Dr. Darryl Daily Oklahoman bureau chief in Washington; Robert Baskin, Dallas Morning News political writer, and Oscar Naumann,
Journal of Commerce economics writer.
While most of the copy written by the subsidized tourists is favorable to the junta, Cromley and Naumann did take a few honest bites at the dictatorship. Cromley wrote candidly, "The fact is that the present government is a form of dictorship which has no endorsement of the press and exerts without periodic consent of the governed." Naumann criticized the Greek steel industry.
When we questioned the columnists about their week of junketing the reaction was so horrible that sticking to my friendship with Paul Totomis. I think he's doing a helva job there. The facile de Toledano said he has even helped him unpaid on public relations work.
Kulpatrick called it a "routine industrial tour" and said he had visited the government had not picked up the tab. Baskin, Cromley and
Only Harrison, who finds even President Nixon's politics too far left for him from time to time, refused to discuss the inknet
Naumann also spoke frankly with us.
We reached Totomis by overseas telephone at his bank in Athens. For 45 minutes, he vigorously defended himself. There was nothing wrong with the tour, he said. As for his Greekes in 1967, he said there had been no complaints from the detainees my case, he said he was merely out orders from higher up. "I have lived my entire life in honor," he said.
Footnote: Among other junketeers were travel writer Thee McCormick and U.S. Steel public relations man Tom Botsam of those invited to Totamis, or of those writer Sterling Green, turn down the junkette but free trips are against AP policy.
Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
Kansan Slipping? College . . .
of the one alleged purposes of a newspaper is to inform, it appears that the Kansan has been slipping lately. The advance news speaker that have come to KU this semester have ranged from mediocre to laughable in their content. Despite the fact that the news speaker is advertising, it seems that advance stories are considered publicity that should not be given. That would be shameful—a newspaper giving any depth or interest to announcements of speakers.
This might not seem like much if the coverage of what the speaker says is decent representation of the content, but the follow-up reporting has sometimes been a joke, covering too much. The following speech on the speech and not scratching the surface of what the speaker has
Compared to many colleges, KU's funds for guest speakers are sadly limited, with the students themselves paying a large portion of their time a period, if for nothing else, there should be more competent reporting for the sake of those unaware of the speech or unable to attend, even if it takes longer. Another article that does an adequate job.
really said.
It seems painfully ironic, that for coverage of a KU speaker, students must look to the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for a better idea of what was said about their own university publication.
Skip Kaltenheuser Prairie Village Junior
Through the kindness of a friend I received a copy of an
★★★
To the Editor:
article by Carlynn Olson entitled "KU Students Lack Vote on Tenure. As a student in the State University Special Policy Committee on Academic Tenure and Promotion I was interviewed over the telephone and quoted in the book *Five Fertile Imaginations*. I must say.
I can find only five words which were correctly quoted and they are, "but it can be done. I know you can," the student student on the committee, because I wasn't even enrolled while that was going on. Undoubtedly, there was a heated argument that statement was not mine.
The most fanciful pronouncement was, "The tenure committee thinks all tenured professors are and non-tenured professors are only is that not true, is childish. When asked if I thought more
Yes, I believe it is vitally important that a student, or more than one student if possible, have the knowledge we must, in the long run, either benefit from, or suffer with, the final decision—which by the way, we are trying to persuagely. I did not state the committee grants tenure, since we were about the subject knows the committee makes recommendations and the adminitses grant tenures or withholds it, as it sees fit.
students should sit on that committee I answered, "Not necessarily."
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
I deeply resent being made to look like a complete dolt and having people think that my fellow committee members would allow such a person to sit in such a responsible position, or government Association would appoint a student of that lik.
A position on this committee requires a great deal of research and practice. I will appoint you to this should be kept in mind. It is my hope that you will be allowed to make this move. I believe it to the facts, friends—the facts.
$ \textcircled{1} $Universal Press Syndicate 1973
It would behove anyone who has anything to say in print on the subject of tenure and promotion for a company in the AUAP statements of 1968 and 1971. At least this is something which would be enlightening to reporters who have a propensity informant's feet in their mouth.
Kathleen M. Garrett
Wishita
books, lectures, etc. These things are important but they only add, and are not the substance. I think the "education" or condition of experience is one of indifference to involvement. And it is working.
★★★
I have come to the conclusion that college does not teach those things that are most important. Maybe it is naive to think or expect that they should, but I think it is important to the survival of human beings to learn what is important. We can help institute changes.
Politically, there were differences in the two presidential candidates—wide differences. One I feel, is based on hope while the other fear and indifference are having a heyday. We have an obligation to ourselves to be involved in the totality of our world and revive our sense to “statistics” of body weight and half hour sum-up it news shows.
We have been programmed into experiencing so much secondhand through movies.
To the Editor:
Who can deny the psychological effect the Vietnam war had on him? Who can deny that he got into disillusionments? And who can deny that many of us feel it is hard to live and—accompany other world.
Alan Klebanoff Lawrence Junior
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