Community Relations Report Criticizes Schools, City Hall
By BOB LITCHFIELD
Kansan Staff Writer
A report critical of the unresponsiveness of city government and inequities in public education was submitted to the Lawrence City Commission and the Community Relations Steering Committee.
The report, based upon ten community relations workshops coordinated by committee members, identified specific problems expressed at the workshops and created a plan for creating community participation and awareness.
The steering committee was appointed in February, 1972, to continue community relations programs, as recommended by the Steering Committee in the 1989-70 Police-Community Relations Program.
MAYOR JOHN Emick said Tuesday that a meeting would be arranged between the city commissioners and the steering committee as soon as possible, but the commissioners had deemed certain recommendations "ill-advised," or "unfeasible due to budget limitations" or other reasons.
The report focused on problem areas categorized as:
—Unresponsiveness of City government.
-Issues concerning public education.
Employment practices and opportunities
— Police-Community Relations.
It stated that the final recommendations related to matters "of serious concern in the community, this conclusion strengthened by the fact that many of them were satisfied by the first steering committee and rejected."
THE REPORT said an overwhelming majority of complaints raised at the workshops centered on feelings that city government was unresponsive to the needs and desires of the citizens of Lawrence, and noted skepticism of citizens that any "positive" reductive actions would result from the workshops."
To counter citizens' feelings that they could not influence city government or the school system, the
report recommended two plans for increasing the probability of citizen participation and represent-
The inclusion of minority group members, notably black, Indians, Spanish-Americans and students on appointed boards and commissions was recommended 'in such numbers that these bodies become sensitized to the needs of all citizens of Lawrence.'
Also recommended were evening meetings for the commission to allow more community participation
THE REPORT recommended a reorganization of the city commission, increasing its size from five to seven members; four districts of the city electing one representative each, with three commissioners elected at large. Lawrence now has five at-large commissioners.
The steering committee was critical of the city's failure to act, and said that it is spite of warnings that the city is slowing down its development.
prevalent in the community in 1969 and 1971,
warnings had not been beeded.
Noting that the commission had failed to hold night meetings, the report proposed an alternate solution—that controversial and long-range policy meeting for night, with daytime meetings for routine patrols.
Each subcommittee would be concerned with a priority area of city business, and would conduct studies and recommend broad policies for subsequent commission action.
THE REPORT further recommended restructuring the commission into subcommittees chaired by a commissioner and composed of "appropriate city personnel and citizens."
A steering committee analysis of city commissions meetings revealed that "an inordinate amount of time is spent on details such as sign variances, spot and the like, rather than on formulation of solutions to problems such as land-use planning, long-range planning and modernization of city ordinances and codes."
A lack of communication between city hall and the citizens was again noted, and the report recommended the creation of a city public relations office. This was also a recommendation of the Menninger consultants and the original steering committee reports.
THE CITY commission disregarded these recommendations, the report said, and there is no formal avenue for giving information to news media.
The report noted that there was much duplication of effort in the number of citizen advisory groups formed to investigate specific problems and suggest solutions or pressure for change.
Several public education policies and conditions in schools were singled out for criticism. The report stated that a double standard existed in the selection of students, with minority students were disciplined more severely than white students—and recommended an end to arbitrary discipline, and a review of expulsion and
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Thursday, September 21, 1972
Discrimination Of Proposals On Sex Topic
TOPEKA (AP)—Proposed rules to implement 1972 legislation outlawing discrimination on the basis of sex are proposed by the Kansas Civil Rights Commission.
Art Festival To Display Slavic Culture
The proposed rules have been approved for legality by the attorney general's office.
The proposed rules would implement the 1972 law in areas of pay for equal work, fringe benefits, sick leave for pregnancy, seniority and actual job assignments.
The proposed rules would spell out that it is a violation for employers to differentiate between men and women in their treatment of employees except in cases where the distinction is a "bona fide occupational qualification."
The rules state that the fact an employee may have to provide separate facilities for a person of the opposite sex will not justify the cost of providing expense would be clearly unreasonable.
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The Civil Rights Commission said although such practices had the original purpose of protecting women, they "have ceased to be relevant to our technology or to the expanding role of the female workers in our economy."
The rules would bar practices which limit employment of females in occupations requiring lifting or carrying heavy items, working during certain hours of the night, or for more than a specified number of hours per week.
The commission said the practices "tend to discriminate rather than protect."
The rules would bar conditioning benefits available to employees on whether the worker is considered head of the household or principal wage earner of the family.
It said refusal to hire an individual because of preferences of co-workers, the employer, clients or customers is prohibited under the rules.
The principle of non-discrimination requires that individuals be considered on the basis of individual capacities and not on the basis of any characteristics generally attributed to the group, the commission said.
Annexation opponents had contended
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"The Riverside Committee had a great deal to do with the outcome," she said, "but I'm still not sympathetic. Nobody likes to pay higher taxes."
NANCY HAMBLETON, Lawrence vice mayor and city commissioner, did not vote that he was representative since 7,086 registered voters approximately 24,000 registered voters in Louisiana.
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Surcharge Application Ruled Out
In the wake of the defeat of the annexation referendum in Lawrence, the Kansas Power and Light Co. Wednesday promised to "promptly withdraw" its application for an electrical surcharge in Lawrence.
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
Kansas Power and Light Co. was considered the central figure in the anecdotal evidence was defeated Tuesday by a team of 4,817 in favor of repeat and 2,981 against.
Austin Stedham, division manager rokKPL, said, "We are very pleased that it not be necessary to pursue this matter further, and we should do something that we disliked and were reluctant to even propose. Its effect could have been highly regressive on the people of community, but there was no practical alternative if anexamination took place."
there would be no reduction of city taxes because of the increased cost of providing
Hambleton said she expected the Gustin-Bacon Cone, which owns part of the acreage, to file for annexation immediately. Gustin-Bacon has already been granted industrial revenue bonds, which require the company to be in the city.
"We'll take annexations now as they are requested," Commissioner Jack Rose said, "and this particular annexation will probably be tabled for the time being. I'm disappointed that this was defeated, but the vote certainly reflects popular opinion.
"This defeat will make orderly growth here more difficult. We will not be anxizing in a piecemeal fashion, which is not in the best interests of the city."
"The results speak for themselves," Commissioner J. R. Pullam said, "but I think the issue was not so much the安娜, but the increase in electrical taxes.
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THE RIVERSIDE Committee made the "DIE THE RIVERSIDE Committee they were well organized and handled their campaign as well as any I've ever seen."
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too much help, we rebelled.
COMMISSIONER Charles Fisher was not available for comment. City Manager Bufford Watson, who is in Kansas City, and John Emick also were not available.
Assistant City Manager Dennis Kallsen said he had thought the vote would be substantially closer than it was, and said, "In the long run this action will be detrimental to orderly growth in that area."
"I'm concerned about there not being any areas in the city for industrial expansion. It's important that we have an expanding industrial job market. They're being exported and we want to orient the town so they can stay."
"What most people didn't realize is that taxes went down last year. The annexation of Puerto Rico in 1980 was not a good idea."
Kallisen also said the annexation referendum could not be submitted to the electorate again until the next general city election.
"We can't amex without the vote of the people," he said.
Kallens declined to speculate on whether KPL's surcharge proposal would have been granted by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
"That's a moot point now," he said.
Bombs-by-Mail Plot Hits U.S., Canada
By The Associated Press
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A murder-by-mail plot alleges Israeli spread to the United States and Canada and across Europe to Israel itself Wednesday.
All of the letters containing compact plastic explosives were intercepted while entering the building.
Three of the letters mailed to Israeli envoys at the United Nations were removed from the post office in New York City by a police bomb squad. A bomb was
taken by Canadian police from the Israel
conglomerate in Montreal and detonated in a
Other mailed devices were uncovered in Parts, Geneva, Brussels, Vienna and Tel Aviv.
Like the one that killed an Israeli diplomat in London on Tuesday, they were mailed from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Police there launched an investigation in an effort to track down the senders.
Stans Can Be Named In Suit, Judge Rules
WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal judge Wednesday ruled that the Democrats could name Maurice Stans, chief political fund-raiser for President Nixon, as a defendant in their $3 million civil suit against the Republicans.
Judge Charles R. Richey of U.S. District Court, in refusing to dismiss the suit, said four others not previously named could also be named defendants. But he ruled that the defendants captured inside the Democratic national headquarters could not be defendant.
The staitum starea from the 17 break-in in the Democratic headquarters in the West Berlin.
Police elsewhere said some letters that had been intercepted and disarmed contained leaflets of the Black September group of Palestinian guerrillas who were held responsible for the killing of 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympics on Sept. 5.
Richey summoned attorneys for both sides to a meeting Thursday in an attempt to speed up the taking of depositions from witnesses and interested parties.
He also ruled that O'Brien could not bring the civil damage suit on behalf of all registered Democrats. His order limited plaintiffs to persons who engaged in conversation or telephoned the quarterstates between March 1 and June 17.
Liddy and Iind were among the seven Ladies印象 indicted last week by a federal grand jury on criminal charges stemming from the abusive bugging of the Democratic headquarters.
Israelis reacted anly to the latest plot, which comes on the heels of the weekend raid by the Israeli army into south Gaza to knock out Palestinian guerrillas.
Richey said in his opinion that the order does not resolve the dispute over whether the Democratic National Committee and the Republican Party should be parties to the suit. The President should be parties to the suit.
Other defendants added included Hugh W. Sloan Jr., former treasurer of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and former White House consultants G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr.
Republicans have sought to have the suit dismissed. In addition, Stans has brought a $3 million counterstaff and a $3 million libel law. The law was passed, former Democratic national chairman.
Israel's deputy premier said in Jerusalem that no Arab country would be immune if Israel decided on reprisals to stamp out guerrillas.
Yigal Allon, a former general, proclaimed a "systematic" new phase in the Middle East. The Arab country "will enjoy immunity as far as counterterrorist actions are concerned."
One Israeli military commentator, writing in the Jerusalem Post, noted the bombing as a "dangerous attack."
Zeev Schull said that sabotaging the oil fields would ignite loud protests from Western oil interests, but he added: "The United Nations is friendly to Israeli interests of security."
The Dutch officials said eight of the bombs were mailed to London, two to Tel Aviv, one to Geneva, two to Paris and one to Brussels, who provided no explanation for the others.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Knowledge of poll results probably has no significant effect on the voting intentions of the office. House subcommittee was told Wednesday.
Voter's Choice Unaltered By Polls, Study Says
However, bad polls do adversely affect campaign contributions, another speaker
The Nixon Administration subcommittee is examining polling procedures while weighing legislative proposals for possible federal regulation of the polls which many politicians believe will produce a found effect on the outcome of elections.
Joseph T. Klapper, director of the Office of Social Research of Columbia Broad-
Libyans Sending Troops To Uganda, Sudan Savs
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sudan revealed evidence Wednesday night that Col. Muummarm Kadafi of Libya was trying to fly troops and arms to Uganda to help President Idi Amin in his conflict with the neighboring East African country of Tanzania.
The Sudanese Foreign Minister said it refused permission for five Libyan airlifters from Sudanese territory. It said the planes landed at Khartoum and would be sent
Amin declared in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, that he was ready to order pre-emptive action into Tanzania to off it what he called a threatened invasion.
zanian territory, a dispatch from Nairobi, Kenya, reported.
The Foreign Ministry in Khartoum said Sudan has decided to seize machine guns and other arms found on aboard the Libyan aircraft.
Tanzania's president, Julius Nyerere, said he might be compelled to take his forces off a defensive footing unless Uganda halted a air strikes against Tam-
A Foreign Ministry statement expressed regret at Libya's action in entering Sudan's airspace without permission and that troops were ordered either to land or burn back.
Reports said Libyan officers on the planes told Sudanese authorities that another airlift of troops and weapons to Uganda is planned for Thursday in the apparent effort by Kadafi to aid Amin, a fellow Moslem.
The Libyan troops will be returned home Thursday, the statement said, adding that the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity have been informed.
casting System, Inc., clcid a study made by the Opinion Research Corporation.
Subjects of the study were asked who the opinion poll said would win the presidential election between Richard Kahn and John Kennedy and for whom they voted.
The study showed, he said, "that whatever these people thought the polls had said, they were equally as likely to vote one candidate as they were for the other.
Klapper said academic literature on the subject "indicates that voting preference is determined for the vast majority by such considerations as party loyalty and the interests of each individual of the groups with which the individual identifies or aspires to identify."
Albert H. Cantril, author of a book on poll, cited the 1968 president race as evidence that bad polls adversely affect campaign contributions.
"The Humphrey-Muskie ticket suffered a dollar deficiency early after the 1968 Democratic convention due in large part to poor showings in the polls" he said.
However, Cantril agree with Klapper that poll probably have little direct information.
A bill before the subcommittee would require all pollsters to file with the Library of Congress the name of the person or organization that commissioned any given poll, the method used, the size of the sample, the time-span of the poll, the location and number of the sample who were contacted but gave no answers.
Pollster Lou Harris in testimony Tuesday opposed this legislation, declaring that while he would be willing to provide such information on his polls he thought such a law would set a bad precedent and might be an unconstitutional violation of freedom of the press.