Wednesday, January 8, 1969
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Glenn Cunningham arraigned in El Dorado
EL DORADO, Kan.
(UPI)—Glenn Cunningham,
a famous Kansas track star of
yesteryear, yesterday pleaded
not guilty to' a charge he is boarding children under 16 at his youth ranch without a state health license.
Cunningham and his wife, both appeared in Butler County Court before Judge Roy B. Darlington and both entered
In his annual state-of the-state message at Sacramento, Reagan asked lawmakers to tighten penalties for campus troublemakers while providing an "qualified education plan" for all qualified students at the nine university campuses and 19 state colleges.
"I will continue to use every power at my command to insure that safety and security—and the proper academic atmosphere—is maintained on every campus. I am determined that academic freedom and the pursuit of knowledge will be upheld, protected and preserved."
"We are greatly concerned about the attacks on our educational system by small groups of criminal anarchists and latter-day fascists," he declared. "At the moment, the problem confronting all of us is not just the problem of procedure of financing. Our overriding problem is anarchy and insurrection."
pleas of not guilty. Trial was not for Feb. 4.
Hayakawa vowed to keep 18,000-student San Francisco State operating with police force and volunteer teachers if necessary.
Reagan attacks SFS 'fascists'
Acting President S. I.
Meanwhile, the American Federation of Teachers threatened to spread their strike to other state college campuses.
As the GOP governor called on the state legislature to move against campus "anarchy and insurrection," militant teachers and students picketed San Francisco State College.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Gov. Ronald Reagan said yesterday California's educational system is under attack by "criminal anarchists and latter-day fascists."
In Augusta, Cunningham said he "didn't have any idea," such a charge was to be filed.
"The thing of it is," he said, "we have some papers here that supposedly make us legal guardians of these kids."
He said authorities "haven't asked to see them (The papers) or anything else."
Leonard Watkins, assistant Butler County attorney, said the charge, a misdemeanor, alleges Cunningham and his wife are "keeping children under age 16 years in a boarding home without having obtained a
license as required by state law."
The charge was filed following a state attorney general's report last week that revealed two children under 16 were being kept at the ranch.
Cunningham has claimed he is the legal guardian of both children, but the state Department of Health says it has "no proof" to support Cunningham's claim.
The charge was the first to be filed against Cunningham since the health department requested an investigation into the operation of the youth ranch last Sept. 30.
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