University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 24, 1979
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Legislature
From the Kansan's Wire Services
TOPEKA-Kansas Legislators kept hearing rooms busy yesterday despite taking a break to bear Gov. John Carlson's message in a joint legislative session.
In the House, a bill was introduced that would change the date of the Kansas primary election from the second Tuesday in August to the second Tuesday in September.
Rep. Harold Dyck, R-Heston, one of the principal sponsors of the bill, said it was introduced to cut down the amount of time between the primary and general elections.
"I heard a lot of comment this year about the mud sliding and political rhetoric" Dyck said. "It seems to me two months is enough to get in touch with you to get information out about the candidates."
THE HOUSE Elections Committee also discussed elections yesterday after Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugoton, said he thought a general election candidate should represent at least 50 percent of the voters in the candidate's party.
Farrar told members of the committee that was the reason he introduced a bill to require a runoff election when the leading candidate would have won a majority of the primary election votes cast.
The Farrar proposal drew opposition from the elections division of the Kansas County Clerks Association and the election workers in the state's four largest counties.
"A major reason for our objection to this bill is the cost to the taxpayer," said Mary Hope, commissioner of elections in Shawnee County.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee was busy yesterday with legislation concerning a proposal to remove the open saloon prohibition from the Kansas Constitution, a measure that would permit saloons in Kansas and a bill that would legalize therapeutic use of marijuana to help cancer and glaucoma patients.
FOR PASSAGE of the proposal to remove the open saloon prohibition from the Kansas Constitution and the measure to permit liquor-by-the-drink on a county-option basis, a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate is required.
The two measures were introduced in the form of concurrent resolutions and were sponsored by the Federal and State Affairs committee.
The bill that would allow use of marijuana for medicinal reasons was sponsored by Rep. Mike Glauer, D-Lawrence, and the Federal and State Affairs committee heard testimony in support of allowing the Kansas law to establish a research program using the drug.
According to Ronald Stevens of the division of oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, research in other states and illegal experiment in Kansas has shown that marjania relieves nauseaatling side effects of chemotherapy.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the committee also heard testimony on a bill which would require all private clubs in Kansas to close by December of the 3 a.m. closing, you resumed by law.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill Eddy R-Leawed, originally set closing time at midnight across the state, but that was amended by the committee to 1:30 a.m.
Eddy cited the problem with Kansas City, Mo., residents coming across the state line after Missouri bars close at 1:30 a.m. to allow them to remain open longer as a reason for the bill.
In the Senate, Duane West, former Garden City major and currently a city council member, urged the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to reject a proposal which would deny use of groundwater by the Sunflower Electric Corporation generating plant being built near Garden City.
He said the plant would use no more of the water than if the land were used for farming and the groundwater was used for irrigation.
By ROBIN SMITH Staff Reporter
A University of Kansas professor has stated that his ancestors were violent and lawless.
Ancestors' legends inspire book
Staff Reporter
But that has proved to an advantage for the professor, Chelsea Sulivan, who was in charge of a book
The book, "Sullivan's Hollow," is based on Sullivan's research, during past summers, of a region in southern Mississippi called Sullivan's Hollow.
"The book is about the local history of a famous place, famous for lavasness and fire," he writes. "It is a place where history comes alive."
ACCORDING TO Sullivan, who is an associate professor of English, the hollow was settled in 1810 by Thomas Sullivan, who was the first white man in the territory.
"Thomas had two wives, each at different times, and 23 children. Within a 15 to 20 year span, about 60 percent of the region's population consisted of Sullivans. During the violent years then, the Sullivans among themselves—in the family," Sullivans
One of the first violent encounters in Sullivan's Hollow involve Neac Sullivan,
the great-great-grandfather of Chester Sullivan.
"Nace and Wild Bill, his brother, served as a catalyst for the numerous tales of lawless Sullivans," he said. "Those brothers were among the first to develop third generation, the Sullivans went mean."
"T W AS AT THE Shiloh Bishop Church, in Sullivan's Hollow, that Bill and Nease began their reputation. It happened in 1866 and always referred to as the Battle of Shiloh.
As the story goes, Ease and Gabe Chain were going to have a flat fight because Chain was so bad.
"Gabe was loosing, so he pulled his knife and cut Nease across the stomach so badly that his exposed intestines fell onto the sand on the ground. He picked up his own intestines, walked to the creek, washed the sand off them, put them in a bowl and body to a house where he was semen."
"Then, some said, he went out into the yard, climbed up on a stump. Flapped his head."
SULLIVAN'S BOOK continues to describe other events in the hollow.
Sullivan said it was the nature of the people who lived in Sullivan's Hollow to follow advice that came from the last words of Elizabeth Jackson to her son Andrew, who was seventh president of the United States.
Sullivan includes the advice in his book:
Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition. But sustain your manhood always. Never bring a suit at law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such situations that can satisfy the feelings of a true man."
Violence in Sullivan's Hollow resulted from revenge, practical jokes, defamation of character, drinking, boasting, gambling and sexual advances, Sullivan said.
"IN ONE 10-YEAR period, there were more than 40 homicides in Sullivan's Hollow," he said. "There were countless hearings, but no trials. It seems that every time someone was up for trial, the court would announce records, would mysteriously burn down."
Although Sullivan's Hollow has been mentioned in books and newspaper articles, "Sullivan's Hollow" is the first book to record the region's violent history, he said.
Most of the facts in "Sullivan's Hollow" were taken from 1938 interviews written by Grover Bishop, who recorded some of the stories in the volumes of the Works Progress Administration.
According to Sullivan, he had not had enough information to write a book until he stumbled onto the interviews in the Mississippi Archives.
"AFTER I HAD a copy of the interviews, I noticed that two pages hadn't printed well," he said. "I went back to the archives but was told that the interviews were unattainable for five years. It seems that the paper was so fragile that it had to be torn in half before I could later during the restoration, I wouldn't have had a chance to write the book."
Bell's refusal to resign his membership in rabidly and religiously exclusive clubs also
Griffin Bell to speak here
"My book is based on facts, although I account for two versions of stories because a majority of it is folklore. If someone was murdered, he is dead and that is fact. I recorded the most reliable facts that I could learn from the book for the time period covered, is elusive."
Griffin Bell, U.S. attorney general and long-time friend of President Carter, will speak at p.m. tomorrow at the University of Pennsylvania to explain why he forsakes Bell's speech has not been released.
Bell, who was chosen by Carter immediately after the 1976 presidential election, was one of the president's most controversial appointments.
Bell is from Americus, Ga. When he was appointed, he was working as a law partner with Charles Kirbo, one of Carter's closest friends and advisers.
During congressional confirmation hearings, members of civil rights and civil liberties groups raised questions about Bell's rose as legal adviser to Samuel Vandiver, Georgia's segregationist governor during the late 1950s.
"Sullivan's Hollow" was released Dec. 15. Thirty copies ordered for the Kansas Union Bookstore have already been sold. Walmart has ordered the book dan. 12, but it has not been shelved.
They also questioned his rulings on civil rights and the 1960s federal judge in the South during the 1960s.
As a Cabinet official, Bell cannot receive notice of the speaking engagement and will not attend.
In the past, the series has brought to campus Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.; George Bush, former CIA director; and Yitzak Rabin, former prime minister of Israel.
Bell's visit is sponsored by the J.A. Bickers & Co. Lecture Series, which was established in 1970.
Snow removal makes campus roads icy
Although most of the University of Kansas's streets and sidewalks have been cleared of the snow that fell yesterday, many remain slick, Jim Mathess, assistant
Panel considers pot proposal
The Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday heard testimony on a bill that would legalize the therapeutic use of marijuana.
Any prescription for marijuana would have to be approved by a subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, Glover said. After approval, marijuana would be supplied to a patient's doctor by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Ronald Stephens of the division of Oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center said research had indicated that marijuana relieved the nausea that occurs as a side effect of chemotherapy in some cancer patients.
director of landscape maintenance for Facilities Operations, said yesterday.
Sponsored by Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, the bill would allow doctors in the state to prescribe marijuana for the treatment of glaucoma and cancer.
Glover said his bill had been modeled after a program in New Mexico that had been approved by the FDA. Three other companies have the therapeutic use of marijuana, he said.
"The streets are slick for people who don't have snow tires or who don't have much weight in their cars." Mathes said. "Until they met a little bit, they will be a problem."
He said he had been prompted to sponsor the bill by a constituent who had cancer. The person had wanted to use marijuana, Glover alleged before a case could be heard in court.
Mathes said that all 38 members of his crew removed snow yesterday. The crew used 10 tractors, one sand spreader and one rearer to clear the University's streets and sidewalks.
Mathes said the road grader pushed loose snow off streets but left a glaze of ice. The sand truck then sands the streets. These streets have been very effective in reducing sickness.
"There's not much we can do with this powdery kind of snow," Mathes said. "The sand truck put down sand but there was no height." He added that he had enough and didn't help give cars more traction."
Mathes said the department used sand instead of salt on streets and sidewalks in some cities.
"By not using much salt we can push snow and sand off the streets and onto the grass," Mathes said. If we used salt, this salt would have brown patches of grass in the spring."
Mathes said that although roads were slick, many of the problems people had driving were the result of the tires on their cars.
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