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Mondav. November 6. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Democrats Anticipate GOP Upset
By DON JEFFERSON
Kanson Staff Writer
Kansas Democrats, confident of winning at least two major state offices, are hoping to keep the race alive.
Besides the office of governor and attorney general, sought by incumbent Democrats Robert Docking and Vern Miller, the office has been filled by winners in tomorrow's election, Democrats have set as major targets the offices of secretary of state and state treasurer. In addition, the office of lieutenant governor is charged with hope of capture for the Democrats.
Mike Manning, 23-year-old Lawrence resident, has campigned hard against incumbent Republican Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having his chances of unsetting her are good.
"I don't want the office because I have nothing better to do nor do I want it because I want to move up the political ladder in Kansas." Manning said last week.
"I THINK that is an important office and it is one that has gone along for a long time without the proper public scrutiny or oversight. When you have a person in office such as Shanahan, who really effectively does nothing and is so sure of re-election because her name has been on the ballot for the last ten years, there is a hazard for a perennial office holder."
Manning, a graduate of the University of Kansas and executive vice-president of the National Association of Student Governments, has spent much of the last week at the Robert Docking in the hope that some of the governor's popularity will rub off.
Manning's most prominent planks have included the establishment of a voter registration system which will allow Kansas voters, a campaign spending ceiling, a law requiring candidates to reveal their campaign funding before the election, a law to restrict lobbyists, and a weekly publication reporting records of the Kansas Legislature.
MANNING's opponent, Elwil Shanahan,
60, secretary of state since 1968 when she
was appointed to the office, appears to
hear Democratic opponent's challenge.
"I think you will find that anyone who has and experience in an office is always more confident than anyone else."
Marjorie Taylor of Wichita, who is opposing Republican Tom Van Sickle for the treasurer's post, has joined Docking and Manning frequently on the campaign trail, and is also hopeful that some of the her popularity will infect her campaign.
Vanick Sible, however, has not been idle in his campaign and has hit hard at the issues. He has been especially vocal in advocating the use of accounting machines in the treasurer's office and giving the treasurer control over the accounts in the Kansas Board of Treasury Examiners.
Taylor, 49, a former delegate to the White House Conference on International Cooperation, is present chairman of the United Nations' council on Intergovernmental Relations.
Van Sickel, 35, an attorney from Ft. Scott, has served in the Kansas Legislature for two years and in the state senate for the past 12 years.
George Hart, the Democrats' 68-year-old perennial candidate for a variety of state offices and state treasurer 1959-61, has posed a much stronger adversary for 34-year Senator Dave Owen in the race for lieutenant governor than anyone had expected.
Hart has made economic progress in Kansas the major issue of his campaign, and has said that he would work to bring new industry into Kansas. Extension of the Arkansas waterway through Kansas to the Colorado border is one of his key programs.
To carry these plans out, Hart puts empa-
plish on his experience and business knowl-
edge.
Masked Man Hijacks Plane Out of Tokyo
TOKYO (AP)—Police disguised as airport workers captured a middle-aged Japanese man who, wearing a mask and carrying a gun, took over a domestic store with 125 other persons aboard and demanded a plane to Cuba and $2 million ransom.
The hijacker, described as in his 50s, commandered the plane 40 minutes out of Tokyo on a flight to Fukuoka in western Japan. He threatened to blow up the air-borne between 30-pound bombs he claimed to have planted in the baggage compartment.
The blipacker forced the plane to return to Tokyo when the pilot told him the 727 had fallen.
Confusion followed the exit of the house. A man was being beaten by a busier man for more than six hours.
The first group of men to leave the hijacked Boeing 727 jet walked to the long-range DC8 readied for the flight to Cuba and climbed to the top of the loading stairs. They shouted instructions from a stewardess, they hesitated and walked back down again.
Three buses sent to take the passengers to the terminal building left without them after a steward talked with the hijacker and the captain of the plane.
A few minutes later the buses pulled up
some of the passengers and crew
members.
All of the 121 passengers and five of the six crew members appeared to have left the 727. The pilot and the hijacker were still aboard.
"I HAVE experience," Hart said. "You can't substitute experience, you know. My opponent, he's a nice fellow, but, as I say, he has the job." He needs a little more experience.
Hart has campaigned on similar programs for the economic development of Kansas, but feels that his experience has a stronger foundation than that of his op-
"I think my education, which has been in economic finance, lends itself to the job that needs to be done in terms of economic development.
"My business career as a banker and a realtor for 12 years, dealing with financial problems, gives me a much better chance to succeed in terms of practical business experience."
HART, besides his term as state treasurer, is a member of the Sedgwick County Democratic Central Committee and is a Democrat. He is a Democratic precinct committeeman.
Owen, a senator, is a graduate of Ottawa University. He studied banking at Ohio State University and Rutgers. He is a past president of the Downtown Overland Park Business Association and is presently President of Commerce and the Metcalf State Bank.
Incumbents appear safe betw town reelection in the other state offices.
THE LATEST polls agree that Morris Kay is running well behind Democratic incumbent Docking, despite Kay's vigorous campaign.
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller, who upset Republican former Assistant Atty. Gen. Dick Seton two years ago to claim that the Republican nominee has since 1890, is favored to meet the challenge
Hoffman, 53, has attacked Miller's methods of fulfilling the office of attorney general and has advocated that the return of the office to an administrative and legal capacity. He also has said that he would advise the staff in the attorney general's office.
of Robert E. Hoffman, Topeka, another former GOP attorney assistive general
"THE ATTORNEY general's office has become a kind of on-the-job training ground, and there isn't enough experience in the office to give them the appropriate guidance they need, Hoffman said. "Certainly they can't get it from an attorney general with an unused law degree." Hoffman said.
Miller, 43, was Sedgwick County sheriff for six years, a president of the Kansas Peace Officers Association and a member of the Kansas and Wichita bar associations. He has held the office of attorney general for the past two years.
Hoffman has served as an assistant attorney general for 19 years, six of those as first assistant. A resident of Topeka, he is a member of the Kansas Law, a United States Navy veteran and a member of the Kansas Bar Association. He is a co-founder of the Law Enforcement Assistance Foundation, and be organized the Kansas Consumer Protection Division in 1962.
STATE AUDITOR Clay E. Hedrick, seeking his seventh term since first winning in 1980, appears a likely winner over Janet Riggs. The team won not campaigned vigorously for the offices.
According to Myers, the office is strictly administrative and there are no real issues involved. She is running, she said, "primarily because I was approached to
Hertick, 71, has agreed that there are no issues involved, but feels that his ex-friend is too important.
run" and "the office is called for on the ballot."
"I think she (Myers) is a very likable person," Hedrick said. "I don't think that I could say what her qualifications for the office would be."
Myers, 44, is the widow of Jack A. Myers who was a CPA. She worked closely with him in his private accounting firm and was named as the "Outstanding Democratic Woman in Kansas." She is a resident of Prairie Village and has five children.
INCUMBENT Republican Fletcher Bell of Lawrence, the state insurance commissioner, has drawn praise from Docking for his work on a no-fault automobile insurance bill and appears a shoof-in over Democrat Bob F. Falcone.
Bell, 43, has said that he plans to present a no-fault bill to the legislature next session. He has also pledged to crack down on misrepresentation of insurance and to press for legislation to plug the loop-holes in present insurance laws.
Falcone has also advocated a no-fault bill, but has attacked Bell for being part of a dynasty which has ruled the office for the past 50 years.
"There have never been any new companies allowed in the state except through political allegiances and the business has done so as actively as it should have, Falcono said.
"I feel that we need some young blood. I'm 27 years old. I've been in the business 10 years and I've built up a multi-million dollar insurance company. I feel that I am qualified to be in this position to modernize the office."
White House Aides Deny Reports Of Meeting with Indian Protesters
WASHINGTON (AP)—Indian demonstrators who have held control of a government building for more than three days said Sunday night that White House aides agreed to a meeting to discuss grievances on government treatment of Indians. But a Nixon administration spokesman denied it.
Vernon Bellcourt, national coordinator of the American Indian movement, said President Nixon's top domestic adviser, John Ehrlichman, and his minority-affairs consultant, Leonard Garment, will meet with the Indians at a vel-unspecified time.
However, an Interior Department spokesman said no agreement for such a plan.
Bellecourt said negotiators who were meeting with lower-echelon officials from the Interior and Justice Departments and the General Services Administration broke off talks earlier Sunday after learning the White House was trying to contact them.
The White House is "willing to begin negotiations on the 20-point program we laid down before the government and also the administration," he said. The Interior Department, "Bellcourt said. He said the Interior discussion would not proceed because the Indians got further word about it."
Dennis Banks, field director for the American Indian Movement, said the In
tervention program was a success.
from the government, an offer of an interdepartmental auditorium—the same facility proffered repeatedly in the last four days—with the addition of shower facilities.
Banks praised a ruling by a two-judge federal appeals court panel which may clear the way for the Indians to conduct spiritual services at the gravesides of two men who died in the raid to the Supreme Court would stop the demonstration. "The caravan is quite excited about the decision because it proves to us there are men sitting in judicial power backing the Constitution of this government and denying their rights today," Racks said.
Banks said if the Indians had agreed to move into the auditorium, federal officials would have arranged an appointment for Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton.
The government has opposed the cemetery demonstration on grounds it
Banks said a delegation of Indians, possibly no more than 50, will be at Arlington at 12:01 p.m. today. The court heard them from entering until this afternoon.
Banks said the services will include rites not only for Indians who died protecting their country and the preservation of Indian culture, but also that they have been killed trying to "correct the
wrongs that this country has done to us.
An estimated 200 Indians took over the BIA building last Thursday as part of a protest against life in a white-dominated community. The building the Sunday was put at about $50.
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