Thursday, October 31, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY, DAILY, KANSAN
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Governor hopefuls air campaign issues
Editor's note: In the six days remaining before Sunflower State voters go to the polls Democratic incumbent Robert Docking and his Republican opponent, Rick Harman of Fairway, spar with last-minute charges and countercharges for the state's highest office.
Interviewed by Kansan reporters Linda Loyd and Alan Hansberry, the gubernatorial hopefuls discussed campaign issues.
Kansan: Marijuana is now a popular "sport" in many Kansas colleges. Do you agree with the stringent laws now in effect covering the use of this drug?
Docking: Yes. I've never had any request for increasing them. I think the problem is more for the federal government and especially the judiciary.
Harman: I do agree with the laws-absolutely.
Kansan: Do you plan increased campaigning against growth of the plant in its wild state, one source for drug users?
Docking: We're trying to do that now through highway and weed control departments. However, city and county weed control agencies haven't been very efficient in this area.
Harman: I would do anything within reason to make marijuana inaccessible.
Kansan: Do you think the present level of aid to local school systems has forced cities to overtax property in order to finance their educational systems?
Docking: Ridiculous. Property tax is used for many different purposes, not just schools. The Republicans have used this issue continually in their campaign. They passed an education bill so unsound, I was forced to veto it. At best it was a stop-gap measure—a one-shot effort to appease educational interests. It contained no provisions for raising the $11.5 million. It was fiscally irresponsible; it was wholly unacceptable; it was simply a partisan gag.
Harman: Gov. Docking has forced school systems to tax property levels too high. Property taxes went up $47 million in the first year of the Docking administration and $53 million in the second.
Kansan: The Kansas City Star has accused the incumbent forces of personal attacks on the Republican candidate. One Harman supporter said the opposition was using "personal smears." Do you agree that the mud slinging has started?
Docking: I don't think so. I've never aimed my campaign at any one man. I'm running for the office, not against anyone.
Johnson quashes legislative action with pocket veto
Harman: If the campaign has turned to personal issues, it has been done by my opponent. I ignore his accusations. I think my record speaks for itself.
WASHINGTON (UPI)President Johnson yesterday killed the final piece of legislation he will ever be asked to approve as Chief Executive—a bill to create an independent Maritime Administration. He did it by pocket veto.
Instead of an outright veto, the White House said the President signed a memorandum disapproving of the legislation and would not sign it by the midnight deadline. Unless the measure was signed by then, it would not become law.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (UPI)
A 21-year-old American Indian coed was sentenced to six months at hard labor by a Hungarian court yesterday for helping smuggle an East German youth out of Hungary while she was on a vacation tour of Europe.
Coed given sentence in Hungary
Henrietta Blueye, a Radcliffe College student from Basom, N.Y., told the court she helped in the smuggling because "I felt it was my duty."
Mario Rocchini, 25, an Italian living in West Germany, was sentenced to one year in prison following his conviction as the principal smuggler of Frank Schober.
Schober was returned to East Germany after Miss Blueye and Rocchini were caught at the Austro-Hungarian border Aug. 11 with the East German hidden in the trailer being towed by their car.
Miss Blueeye, of the Seneca Indian tribe, heard the sentence with a calm expression. She was wearing her summer pink cotton dress and pink sweater.
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Plastic-paint art exhibition to open
But after spending 11 weeks in jail, all this appears to be like a bad dream, she said. "Now it was a crazy thing to do and I'm sure I never would do it again."
had to help them join their relatives and get where they wanted to go."
"I knew what I was doing was a crime but I felt I had to do it to help them."
"Paint and Plastics" is the title of the art show to open tomorrow at Spooner Art Museum, a museum spokesman announced today.
Featuring the works of Richard Schira, assistant professor of drawing and painting, the show will include seven six-by-six-foot paintings and five light boxes.
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