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Moore, His Hall Share Spotlight Today, Tomorrow
84th Year, No.24
Friday, September 28,1973
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Gas Forces Evacuation Of Snow Hall
An explosion of a bottle of acrolein, an irritant used in manufacturing tear gas, caused a partial evacuation of Snow Hall at 11:58 a.m., yesterday.
The toxic chemical, which is used by the department of biophysics as a preservative for flesh tissue, exploded two hours before it was to be disposed of.
Moving the chemical from refrigeration and allowing it to warm to room temperature caused the explosion. Larry Hill, professor of radiation biophysics, was killed.
Beach said the biophysics department usually didn't purchase the chemical in as large a quantity as that which exploded. He added that he was planning to dispose of the chemical yesterday afternoon because too large a quantity had accumulated.
The explosion occurred in a first-floor office at the southeast corner of office 7.
Beach and Roger Smith, Lawrence junior, smelled the spilled chemical while they were in a classroom on the sixth floor.
"WE WERE DISSECTING cadavers when we smelled it," Smith said. "Girls eyes were watering so we started looking around."
Smith said he found the broken bottle with liquid in it and he and Beach put it in a box. "It made my eyes water," Smith said. "There was a lot of mucus and I started coughing. I got one good whiff and thought I was going to throw up."
Tear Gas
Kansas Staff Photo by SUSAN MARIE WINSLOW
placed it there after it exploded about noon yesterday in Snow Hall.
Beach, left, and Smith prepare to open a box containing a broken vial of tear gas. They
Senate Votes Troop Cut Overseas Forces Would Drop by 110,000
The vote was 48-36.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted last night to require a reduction of 110,000 U.S. ground troops overseas within the next 27 months.
The amendment added to the $21-billion weapons procurement authorization bill would require a 40,000 worldwide troop reduction by June 30, 1974. The remainder of the 110,000 would have to be withdrawn by Dec. 31, 1975.
The compromise was worked out on the Senate floor after a 51 to 44 vote Wednesday rejecting a 190,000, or 40 per cent, overseas troop cut within three years.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., originally proposed a 125,000 overseas reduction by June 30, 1975, but it was amended with the 73-14 addition of the 110,000 figure as proposed by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-Wa.
Administration supporters held out against any troop cut. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S-C, said President Nixon had nicked during the day that it wasn't the size of the cut, but the principle, he had objected to.
Thurmond the President told him he was going into negotiations for mutual force reductions in Europe and needed all the negotiating strength available.
Humphrey responded that the troop reduction could be made entirely from the 225,000 troops stationed in Thailand, Korea, Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries.
Earlier yesterday the Senate had refused to block the Navy's full-speed-ahead schedule for development and production of a $13-billion fleet of Trident submarines.
By a 49 to 47 vote, the Senate turned down an amendment to a $21-billion weapons authorization bill to stretch out production of the weaponry into 10 of the larger vessels by two years.
The Navy proposes to get the first of the 540-foot submarines, equipped with a new longer range 4,000-mile Trident missile, ready for launch by 1978.
At the White House, deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren said President Nixon was "extremely gratified" with the rejection of the Trident amendment. Warren also resisted the President's delight with the defeat of a move Wednesday to cut U.S. troop strength in Europe.
The Trident slowdown was proposed by Se. Thomas J. McIntyre, D-NH, and Sen. Peter H. Dominick, R-Cole., senior members of the Senate Armed Services sub-
They argued that the Navy planned to put all 10 Trident submarines under construction before the first could be tested in war. The Navy had no justification, costly engineering errors,
McIntyre referred the Senate to cost overruns on the abandoned Cheyenne Helicopter and the F111 and SGA military aircraft as examples of proceeding with production before research, development and testing was completed.
A two-year extension in the Trident program, he said, would cost the taxpayers an extra billion dollars, not counting inflation.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash,
defended the accelerated Navy schedule as justified both from the standpoint of cost and ability to achieve maximum successes with unseen weapon technologies.
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Agnew to Seek Halt In Jury Proceeding
By LEE LINDER Associated Press Reporter
BALTIMORE (AP)—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's lawyers planned to go to court to stop the political graft inquiry by a federal judge who is investigating a special federal grand jury opened its unprecedented investigation by meeting for more than seven hours before adjourning proceedings.
One of the lawyers, Judah Best, said in Washington that a motion would be filed, possibly as early as the first of next week, seeking a temporary injunction to halt the lawsuit against the company that has been expected from the lawyers yesterday morning before the jury session started.
"We are going to file," Best said, adding that he did not believe that Agnew's argument against the grand jury probe was genuine. Agnew later after the investigation was under way.
The Baltimore Sun said five witnesses had appeared before the grand jury during the first hours of work, but only one of the witnesses could be positively identified. He was William J. Muth, former vice president of the Baltimore City Council, now the chair of the Hurst-Kosche Engineers, Inc. Math has been an Agnew fund raiser.
"The investigation of the vice president is a lot of bull." Muhl said as he left the federal courthouse after testifying. In a telephone interview afterward, Muth accused the prosecutors of holding a "fishing expedition" and said he refused to testify on Muhl's case. The judge wouldn't say what they wanted me to testify about," the Sun reported.
THE NEWSPAPER said another witness apparently had been the chief Internal Secretary.
Agnew laughingly talked to reporters. He warned reporters not to take as final the House of Representatives' rejection of his appeal against charges charged against him. He did elaborate.
Later yesterday, Agnew and his wife were in a jovial mood as they attended a White House party for Norman Kirk, the New Zealand prime minister.
Agnew was notified last month by federal prosecutors that he was under investigation for possible criminal violations of tax, extortion, bribery and conspiracy laws. He has insisted that he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
The allegations against him center on kickbacks from contractors during the 1960s. He was appointed Baltimore County and later governor of Maryland. There also have been published reports, which Agnew has denied, that he had a cash after becoming vice president in 1969.
IN A RELATED development, three CBS television crewmen were detained by federal marshals after they were found on the roof of an eight-story building next door to the federal court house where the grand jury was meeting. Marshals said the men
had been filming the court house from an angle at which they could see the grand jury room. The men were released after several questions, but their film was confiscated.
The grand jury session was conducted under conditions of strictest secrecy. The corridors leading to the grand jury room were sealed off by federal marshals so newsmen could not see who was coming or going.
IF AGNEW'S LAWYERS file a motion to stop the guard jurory proceedings, the case will be heard by Walter Hoffman of Norfolk, Va., U.S. District Court Judge. He was appointed supervising judge after all nine District Court judges in Maryland disqualified themselves because they were friends or business associates of Agnew.
Edward S. Northrup, chief judge of the
S. District Court in Maryland, said in an
interview with The New York Times that
Docking Asks Nixon For Disaster Help
From Kansan News Services
Gov. Robert Docking, in a letter to President Nixon yesterday, asked that 28 Kansas counties including, Douglas county, be declared disaster areas.
Docking asked for federal aid amounting to $1,209,900 for tornado damage to public buildings and equipment in four counties that declared disaster areas because of flooding.
"Protracted heavy rainfall, severe storms and torrents occurred throughout the state of Kansas commencing on Sept. 22, causing flooding conditions that persist through to the winter." "We were seeing in some areas," Docking said in his letter to the President.
Docking said five deaths had been attributed to the tornadoes and more than 220 homes had been reported destroyed or severely damaged.
The National Weather Service in Topeka issued a flash flood warning last night for north central and eastern Kansas following the heavy rains last night.
In Douglas county, the Wakaraus river south of Lawrence, was seven feet out of its banks last night. The National Weather Service reported that the river was starting to fall, but that additional rains throughout the night could change the situation.
The Kansas River was eight inches above flood level here late last night and was expected to crest a foot and a half above flood level by noon today.
If Hoffman refuses to grant the temporary restraining order, *Aguers*'s lawyer claims that the judge had been unaware.
Stranger Creek at Tonganoxic was expected to crest three feet above flood level.
Chavez and Teamsters near agreements on fight in lettuce and grape fields.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Agnew spent a relatively routine day. He went briefly to Capitol Hill to perform his duties as president of the Senate, and then put final touches on a scheduled trip to the West Coast this weekend.
"Then there will be no evidence presented to the grand jury until Judge Hoffmann acts."
The AFL-CIO issued a brief statement saying the talks between farm labor leader Cesar Chavez and Teamsters officials had ended and that an antitrust lawsuit was underway.
is conducting the probe, and Agnew's lawyers had a gentleman's agreement that the lawyers would notify Beall in advance of their legal filing.
No details were disclosed, but the statement indicated all that remained was final approval from AUC CIO President George Meany and Teamsters President Stephen L.
Station operators everywhere were awaiting the announcement. One source close to the council said the increase in the ceiling would be 1 or 2 centimeters.
But dealers also want new rules that would permit them to pass on to customers any future increase in wholesale prices. The council was said to
IF THE TEMPORARY ORDER is issued, Northrup said, there must be a hearing on it within 10 days. At that hearing, the constitutional question of whether a vice president can be indicted while in office could be argued and probably decided, he said.
Cost of Living Council's announcement on gas price ceilings is expected today.
Pilot error, not sabotage, caused crash that killed Mrs. H. Howeyd Hunt
The National Transportation Safety Board made the report on the Chicago plane crash that killed the wife of convicted Wateregant defendant Hunt and his wife.
that killed Mrs. E. Howard Hunt.
The board said the probable cause was the captain's failure to exercise positive flight management, which caused the plane to lose air speed and go down.
Soviet launched a two-man space flight on a test mission in a Soyuz craft.
Soyur 12, the first Soviet manned space flight in more than two years, was launched yesterday on a two-day flight from the Soviet space center at Baikouon on the Kazakhstan plains in central Asia, Tass news agency announced.
Soyuz 12 is carrying two rookie spacemen, I.L. Col. Vasily Lazarev, the commander, and flight engineer Oler Makarov. The craft is an improved version of the craft in which three cosmonauts were killed at the end of the last manned flight in 1971.
Two Chileans were executed in one day as curfew in Santiago was relaxed.
German Castro Raso, the former leftist governor of Talca, and a 28-year-old man, Teovalda Saliva Villalon, were the ninth and 10th persons to be reported executed after summary courts-martial as the armed forces overthrow the Allende government. Rojas was the fight high official who arrested Saliva Villalon.
The curfew in Santiago was moved from 8 to 10 p.m., a major step toward normalizing life in the battered capital.
A man tried in a civil rights murder
was arrested with a ticking time bomb.
Acting on information, New Orleans police intelligence officers were waiting for Bryan De La Caye Beckwith, who has been tried twice but never been found.
In addition to a dynamite time bomb that was set to go off later in the day, police said Beck with carried three rifles, a pistol, several boxes of ammunition and two rounds of ammunition.
Special committee will recommend later what to do on Prairie Park proposal.
A special legislative committee in Topeka was unable to arrive at a recommendation on a proposed Prairie National Park in Kansas. Instead, the committee decided to seek additional information before deciding on a definite recommendation.
The Douglas County Civil Defense Headquarters reported that Mud Creek, located north of Lawrence, still was out of its banks and flooding low-lying areas.
Sen. John Simpson, R-Salem, chairman, said he doubted whether the committee would ever recommend a creation of 60,000-acre park.
Civil Defense reported no evacuations in the Douglas county area.
Flooding was reported on seven other rivers in north central and eastern Kansas. The heaviest flooding yesterday occurred along the lower Solomon and Saline rivers. Small farm towns in these river areas were be evacuated as water rose five to 18 feet above bankfull. Evacuation of small rivers surrounding Salina began late last month.
Docking said major state units of the Army and Air National Guard had been
Calls Handled By Radio Club
Several hundred emergency calls in tornado-striken Clay Center were handled by members of the KU Amateur Radio ClubWednesday and Wednesday.
Three members of the club responded to assistance requests from the area Red Cross and established emergency communications in Clay Center Wednesday morning, Eric Hardman, Salina junior and a member of the club, said yesterday.
Telephone lines were down, power was out and only one mobile radio unit was on the scene Wednesday morning, Hardman said.
"It was pretty much a mess when we arrived," he said, but he added that the National Guard and emergency clean up had everything under control before long.
They transmitted and received casual lists, emergency messages and personal inquiries inside Clay Center's National Library. They also worked neatly through last night, Hardman said.
advised of potential flood threats in Kansas communities. He said there was no formal alert, but guard unit leaders were notified to take action. The agency duty in the event they were needed.
The Kansas Highway Patrol yesterday listed 22 highways closed in Kansas because of high water. Numerous other places reported that water was over roadways, but that traffic was proceeding, although sometimes on a one-lane basis.
U. S. 59 from Lawrence to Pleasant Grove, is miles south of the city, was open on only two days in 1839.
The National Weather Service in Topeka reported that approximately 1½ inches of rain had fallen in the Lawrence area by late last night. The forecast is for continuing rain through tonight with a chance of clearing by Saturday.
The weather service said the continuing rains were caused by an intense storm centered in the pandhandle of Oldahoma and drifting slowly in a northeastern direction.
Kansas Photo by BILL CAMPBELI
Rains have made the footing in front of Malott Hall treacherous. Mul has washed from Wesco Hall above it, covering the sidewalk.