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Tuesday, November 7, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Ballots by Mail Increase
By the Associated Press
S spurred by applications from college students able to vote for the first time, requests for absentee ballots are setting records in many parts of the nation.
"There's something very special about your first presidential election," elections commissioner
Hare Dade College, Fla., office has sent out payment more absent balloons than it did in 1986.
Spot checks with voting officials show that the chief reason for a widespread increase in requests for absentee ballots is the 1971 constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age to 18. The demand is also being fueled by applications from ser-
men, increased registrations, a desire to beat the rush, and relaxed rules in some areas.
DELINES ARE reported in some big cities—Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago—but New York City reports an 80 per cent share, and some suburbs are setting records.
In San Francisco County, Calif., mix-ups that delayed poll closings in the primaries are credited with helping push the absentee ballots compared to 18,900 absentee ballots in 1968.
Georgia Secretary of State Ben Forton, who reported a "tremendous increase" in absentee balloting throughout the state, said, "More and more, it is becoming easier to vote. You stand in line and wait around to vote. I feel that this thing can be terribly abused."
Officials in the state of Washington were
Judges Delay Indian Arrests
WASHINGTON - A lower court order for the arrest of Indians who have occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building since 1974 has been rejected by a federal appeals court Monday. Some Indians, however, threatened to blow up the building. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Columbia said the lower court order would be stayed 51 hours—until 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Court to Decide School Support
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to decide whether states may provide direct aid to church-run schools as reimbursement for keeping attendance achievement tests. The issue was raised in appeals by New York state officials and a group of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish parochial schools from a ruling by a court in New York City that the assistance is prohibited by the First Amendment.
Heath Orders Wage Freeze
LONDON-Prime Minister Edward Heath ordered a wage and price freeze Monday to curb Britain's inflation and to keep the weakened pound sterling from breaking its汇率 crisis. Heath told a packed House of Commons that the freeze on wages, prices, dividends and rents would take effect immediately. It will run 90 days, and may be additional 60 days. He said there would be only a "limited number of exceptions".
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happy, however, at the prospect that the 1984 year saw in his papers in 1968 would so increase in 1960 this year.
"APPARENTLY PEOPLE are trying to avoid the crunch because of the long ballot," said Kenneth N. Gilbert, state representative of elections. "Frankly we encourage it."
In addition to state offices, presidential and congressional races, Washington has a Senate seat.
In Michigan, where spot checks showed the demand for absentee ballots were up as much as 33 per cent, officials attributed the increase to an influx of younger voters and from 70 to 65 at the age when an individual could vote without going to the polls.
In Dade County, that 14,000 absence
utes were cast in film at 17,000
at the casting office have been mailed out.
Slow Deliveries Cost Students Their Ballots
Several University of Kansas students might not be able to vote in this election because they have not received absentee ballots.
Rich Thompson, Iola junior, said he had written to his county clerk requesting an absentee ballot in September and had never recieved one.
"I voted absentee in the primaries and had no problem," he said. "I changed my address after that so I wrote a letter to the state's attorney office of the change and to ask for a ballot."
"I guess I will have to drive home and vote there now."
Jola is 75 miles from Lawrence.
"I applied for an absentee ballot two weeks ago and I have heard nothing," said Mallory Burnett, Parson sophomore. "I called home and was told it had been sent. I went to the ballot room and they said they had no way of knowing what might have happened to the ballot.
"It really makes me mad because I called the Labette County Clerk's office Monday, and they told me that I wouldn't be able to vote."
JOBN B. HARRIS, Lawrence pmetmaster, said he thought students who changed addresses might have trouble obtaining information and not inform their county clerks of the changes.
"We have no way of tabulating the number of absentee ballots that came through the mail for persons in Lawrence," he said, "but from the number of students it seems we can fill out their ballots, it seems as if the students are voting by absentee ballot."
Delbert Mathia, Douglas County clerk,
said his office had issued about 1,300 ap-
plications to him.
"I have heard nothing about problems in obtaining absentee ballots," he said. "I made it my policy to see that ballots were sent the day requests were received."
County Sets Arraignment For Former Supervisor
Robert L. Beech, charged with misuse of public funds for the operation of arrested at 11 a.m. at the Douglas County jail, the Douglas County
District Judge Frank Gray set the date of assignment for the county court县 court on Friday, afternoon after
Beech, 50, former collection office supervisor for the city water department, was charged Sept. 14 after an extensive investigation.
Shortages in a fund used to refund customer deposits were discovered in the annual audit of city books and led to the investigation.
The account is charged with missing the account between June 4, 1971, and June 22, 1973. The account was created on January 28, 1973.
According to the audit report, $8,000 of "unauthorized expenditures" were made during approximately the same period, with at least $1,400 between January and June of this year.
Misuse of public funds is a felony and carries a minimum prison penalty of one to three years with a 10 year maximum, and or a fine of up to $5,000.
Beech is free on $1,500 bond.
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The board will determine the final order expenditures after examining the list in section 31.
A tentative list of priorities, drawn up by the district facilities committee, was submitted to the board last Friday by Carl Knox, superintendent of schools.
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The capital outlay fund comes from a 1.86 mill levy which only can be used for permanent improvements to facilities, according to Knox.
The first item on the list was the establishment of an emergency reserve fund which would be used to meet any unanticipated events. The district requiring immediate attention.
One such problem discussed at the meeting was the possibility of bringing India Elementary School into the Lawrence city water system.
Fisher said that the problem was not serious, but he and the health inspector were very impressed.
KENNETH FISHER, assistant superintendent for business and facilities, said that recent county health department tests had shown a slight degree of pollution in the water at India School. The school now is using only well water.
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Stan Roth, Lawrence High science instructor, requested that the board allocate a vehicle for the science department to use on its field trips.
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