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Wednesday, November 1, 1972
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs By the Associated Press
Train Crash Inquiry Begins
CHICAGO—Railway specialists began Tuesday a detailed investigation of the commuter train collision that killed 44 persons. One of the train engineers said an erratic braking system could have contributed to the rush-hour crash. The engineer of the lead car, Steve Lovett, said the accident had nothing to do with Chicago Today. "The brakes didn't work like they should." A spokesman for General Steel Industries St. Louis Car Division, manufacturer of the coaches highliners, said the cars have a dual braking system. He said it would "almost be impossible for both to fail at the same time." The braking systems of both trains and the structural cab cars will be thoroughly investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Newspaper Probes Phone Call
WASHINGTON - A California lawyer allegedly engaged in sabotage against the Democracys apparently made a telephone call to President Nixon's appointment secretary within minutes of being informed he was being investigated by the Washington Post, the newspaper said today. Records of credit telephone calls show, the Post said, that a call was placed to the home of the appointments secretary, Dwight L. Chapin, at 4:54 p.m. on March 30, less than 30 minutes after the attorney, Donald H. Schreiner, learned about the phone call from him. The newspaper said the call was one of four apparently made by Segretti. The Post said two were placed to Chapin's home and two to the White House switchboard.
Docking Favors Welfare Credit
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert Docking said Tuesday he is asking the state Board of Social Welfare to make a pass-on payment to persons who had their public assistance payments reduced by the amount of a recent Social Security increase. "This pass-on payment should be in the form of a supplemental check accounting to $12 and mailed in December 2018," he said, noting that the chairman of the state Board of Social Welfare. "I urge the department to make all necessary changes so that cheated mail from Jan. 1, 1973, will reflect a continuing $4 increase."
References Aid Nixon Backer
WASHINGTON—A General Accounting Office report released Tuesday said Kenneth Dahlberg, a $2,500 contributor to President Nixon's re-election campaign, named two of the President's top aides as references in winning a prompt federal bank charter. The president also said he was "very pleased that Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, finance chairman of Nixon's Re-election campaign, and Clark MacGregor, then the President's chief adviser on congressional relations and now his campaign manager, as references in his application for the charter," Mr. Stans wrote in a letter ordered by Wright Patman, D-Tex, and chairman of the House Banking Committee, after his committee refused to authorize a full scale probe before the Nov. 7 election.
Courts to Hear Suits On Voter Registration
By DIANE YEAMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Two suits will be heard today in Topeka and Kansas City concerning the constitutionality of the Kansas voter registration law. The law states that women change their names after the registered candidate cannot vote in the November elections.
Waxae said that the suit was a class action on behalf of Mater. Katherine Munzer, Bentley University.
One case was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., by David Waxse, lawyer and Democratic candidate in the 9th District of Johnson County.
"WE'RE WAITING to see how the case in
**WEARE DISTRICT Court turns out before**
it's sentenced."
The Shawne District case was filed last Thursday by two University of Kansas faculty members on behalf of Khristine Hall Gallop second year law student. A restraining order against the registration law also was granted at their request.
The case was filed, Waxe said, because the Shawne District case named only one Pruitt.
person and might not be applicable to all.
He said that the final results of the Shawne District court case would depend upon the wording and extent of the court's decision and the Attorney General's Office's interpretation of that decision.
WAXSE SAID that he was not seeking a legal opinion on the status of a woman's name upon marriage as was the Shawnee District case.
"This suit assumes that unless affirmative action is taken upon marriage." Waxe said, "a woman's name will automatically change."
The Shawnee District case asks for both a legal opinion on the status of a woman's name upon marriage and a decision on the constitutionality of the voter registration
Michael Davis, assistant professor of law and attorney on record for the Shawnee District case, said that the suit was not filed as a class action because the council was unsure of how to define the class of the plaintiff.
THE CLASS would depend upon the status of a woman's name upon marriage, Davis said, which was one of the basic questions that the court was being asked to decide.
If the court ruled that a woman's name changed automatically upon marriage, Davis said, then the law would be declared void. He said he didn't prevent the enforcement of the law, he said.
But if the court decides that a woman's name does not change automatically, then the decision will be limited to the individual named in the suit, Davis said.
Counselors to Speak In Ministries Building
John Anderson and Richard Nadeau will present an introduction to Transactional Analysis entitled "I'm Okay, You're Okay" at 8:00 onstage in the United Ministries Building. The Nadeau work as private counselors and consultants in the Kansas City area.
The program is sponsored by the Lawrence Growth Center.
The Shawne District case is scheduled to be heard at 2 p.m., but may be delayed if a jury trial, scheduled earlier in the day, does not proceed as expected.
Davis said that they were hoping for a generous response on behalf of the State.
The hearing of the U.S. District court case is scheduled at 1:30 p.m., though, Waxse said, he will not press for action until the Shawnee District case is heard.
McGovernites Dispute Third Party's Views
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
What began as a staid Young Democrats meeting Tuesday night evolved into a heated verbal exchange between supporters and opponents. The party endorsed Conservative Party policies and ideals.
A scheduled speaker, Gene Miller, the Kansas Conservative Party's candidate for S. Senator, began the meeting by exchanging an invitation of his party and attacking Richard Nixon.
He was followed briefly by the Democratic candidate for county commissioner from the 3rd District, I. J. Stoneback, who advocated a separate vote in the Senate. Lawrence Stoneback he also believed in recycling waste if it was economical.
Nearly three-fourths of the estimated 30 people present were Conservative Party members and the rest were McGoverners, in full half of the audience was over 30 years old.
The reserved tone of the meeting began dissolving when Clay Smothers, Texas radio commentator and newspaper columnist, arrived at the meeting and was invited to
SMOTHERS ARRIVED in Lawrence Tuesday night to campaign for Miller in his bid to nominate George Wallace as black nominated. George Wallace as Democratic Convention in Miami last summer, and was himself nominated for the vice presidency. He came fifth in the runoff.
Smothers explained that he could support George Wallace and the ideals of the American Party because the political interests of the man and the party were sincere.
"There are more racists in the Democrat and Republican parties than there are in the Republican party."
He said that he didn't believe in races sticking together but that he thought that people should follow their consciences. He worked with the methods or goals of the militant blacks.
"We've got rink-dinks in both races"
"We've got Mr. own people give me a
bite of that ice."
"IT'S TIME for men and women to obey the ideals and principles at the expense of women."
When he suggested that the problem of
racism in the United States was a minor issue, he was challenged by a young McGovern supporter. Smothers said blacks now have it better than whites because they can win games and get the government to hire blacks whether they were qualified for the job or not.
"It’s popular to be black now. You can get jobs if you want to," Smoothers said. "There aren’t civil rights now. In five years there is return to real civil rights for all people."
The McGovern supporter said that he didn't think racism was a dead issue.
The deadline for collections for the 1972 Lawrence United Fund Campaign was extended Tuesday after only 88 per cent of the goal was reached.
United Fund Drive Falls Short of Goal; Deadline Extended
Tuesday night total collections for the fund were approximately $147,000, which was $14,515 short of the $161,515 goal the organization had set to Charles Haverty, campaign chairman.
"The money is there." Haverty said. "It just needs to be collected."
Campus chairman Dana Beibengo praised the response of contributors and predicted that many persons would write contribution checks today. The campus total was approximately $7,000 short of the $22,000 goal.
"The important part is that we will make the goal," Haverty said. "When we reach it is not as important as the fact that it will be reached."
Haverty compliment all campus workers on the campaign, saying that they are working hard.
Haverty said that he expected all pledge cards and contributions to come in by Friday morning, and by that time the other divisions would have met their goals.
Anyone not contacted during the campaign who wishes to contribute should take or mail his money to the Lawrence United Bank in the Lawrence National Bank building.
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