Family affair
about 1,500 people in Kansas City, Mo. yesterday as his wife, Rosalynn, looked on. Carter told the National Catholic Charities Convention that he was creating a new Office for Families with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
City to tackle zoning issue
Rv ANN LANGENFELD
Staff Reporter
An ordinance to immediately downsize a section of the Oread neighborhood will be presented at the Lawrence City Comptroller, Mayor Barkley Clark said yesterday.
Clark said he requested yesterday that the city staff write the ordinance. If the commissioners approve the request for downzoning, Clark said, he will ask the commissioners to declare an emergency for the district. It could be effective by the end of the week.
Usually the city commission would have considered the request and, if it was approved, the city staff would have written the ordinance to be read at the next two city commission meetings.
THE PROPOSED ordinance would downzone the section from multiple family to residential duplex.
The section, Known as Area One, is bounded on the south by 11th Street, on the west by Missouri Street, on the north by 12th Street, and on the east between Illinois and Mississippi streets.
Clark's action was prompted by a court order issued Friday that requires the city to issue a building permit for an eight-plus unit apartment in an area under consideration for downsizing.
Construction began at the site in the 900 block of Maine Street early yesterday morning. Eight Oread residents staged a protest as workers cleaned the bill.
CLARK, A KU law professor, said legal precedents set in Kansas indicated a downizing ordinance would negate the legality of a building permit to build a building for a project.
The building permit was issued to Milton Milstead late Friday afternoon after judge Ralph King Jr., of the Douglas County jail, said it would be held in building permit could not be held up
simply because the zoning in an area might change.
Earlier last week, City Manager Buford Watson had suggested hold up issuance of the building permit until after the meeting tonight. He said the legal question of what would happen if the area was closed because the permit was issued should be explored.
MILSTEAD'S ATTORNEY, Kernit Beal, said he thought that once the permit was obtained, the judge Jerry Cooley, city attorney, said the issue might have to be settled in court.
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Two groups to picket private club
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Organizers for the International Committee Against Racism and the Progressive Labor Party are planning a rally to protest alleged discrimination in the distribution of membership applications at a Lawrence private club.
Finley Campbell, national co-chairman of INCAR, said yesterday the upper body could be at 9 p.m. Saturday at
Investigations by the University Daily Kansas, BIWW-TV, Topeka and KCMO-TV, Kansas City, M., soo-inpositions in the granting of membership applications to minorities at Shenanigans and another club, Blanklew's, 643-718-2015.
"We're going to have a get down with John Brown beats at Campsbell." Campbell said, "We intend to
"Biasism is growing like a cancer and we're going to administer cobalt treatments."
GRACIE MORENO, a representative of the Progressive Labor Party, said protesters would picket the club and
have a sit-in.
Protesters also will try to persuade Shenanigans mem-
birs to bring to the club as guests, according to Ron Kaukai of cNAR member and member of the KU leadership.
A representative for Shenanigans was unavailable for comment.
In addition to promoting the protest at Shenanigans, Campbell advocated an aggressive attack on racism when he spoke to about 40 people in the Jayhawk Room of the University Union. His speech was sponsored by KU-Y and INCAR.
"We advocate neither violence nor nonviolence," he said. We advocate using whatever means are necessary to deter crime.
Campbell had nonviolent resistance to racism should be thought of as a toolical tool but should not be incorporated
"INCAR is a radical reform group. With the resurgence of fasciac, the urgency of our work becomes more evident in our practice."<sup>[1]</sup>
CAMPBELL CALLED Angela Davis, Andrew Young *1996*
Jesse Jackson traitors to the anti-racist cause because of
the stains against direct confrontations with the Ku Klux
Klan and the Nazis.
"The period of nonviolence was valuable to the movement," he said. "It pointed out the decadence of
INCAR and the Progressive Labor Party also plan to hold
their first convention on Friday to downtown Lawrence Oct. 27, KU1s/Homecoming Day.
"We want it to be a fearful experience to join the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi Party. Once they put on the uniform or the sheet, we will see them as agents of suppression and we will be prepared to deal with them."
THE MARCH, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m., will take protesters down Jayhawk Boulevard, 13th Street and Massachusetts Street. Moreno said. The march will end at where marchers will be held, at where marchers will bear speakers and eat a box lunch.
Moreno said the rally would begin at about noon in front of the library.
The University Events Committee last week approved the groups' plan to gather in front of Watson Library and
receive information.
Moreno will ask the Lawrence City Commission tonight for permission to use a sound truck on the march route.
Mobil Oil executive advocates nuclear power
Bv AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
Maximum development of domestic energy sources, particularly nuclear power, electricity and gas energy problems, an executive of Mobil Oil Corp. said last night in a public lecture in New York.
Herb Schermata, vice president of public affairs for Mobil, told the Kansas State University alternative facing the United States, declaring war on oil producing nations, and calling for a rethink of alternative domestic energy, the latter was the most viable and best suited to the environment.
"I don't think we can conserve our way
Schmertz said Mobil was among the leaders in the development of alternative energy projects that would convert low-grade uranium to high-grade for use in nuclear reactors. The project would move Massachusetts and a coal-to-gasoline conversion plant as significant innovations.
Nuclear power is the only available alternative energy source that can begin to solve America's problems immediately, he said.
out of our problems," he said. "I suspect Americans would give up many things before they would give up driving."
"Nuclear power has proven to be so safe that we should proceed at a rapid rate in
THE MAJOR problems of nuclear power have been solved, he said, and the U.S. should follow the examples set by other nations who have developed safe and ef-
developing it for large scale use," Schmertz said.
"There is more radiation in Grand Central Station than in any nuclear power plant in the United States," he said.
He said radiation leakage was not a significant problem in the nuclear industry.
The same people who are against nuclear power, Schmerz said, would support an energy independence and security for nations in order to secure energy. Such "invasion scenarios" now are being tested by the U.S. military.
States, among them the New York Times, which published an essay supporting such an effort last year, he said.
"THESE SCENARIOS seem to be emerging as a fad. The motive for this warmerongening apparently is arrogance or sadism," said, "This is an invitation to disaster."
Oil-producing nations should have the right to determine what the price of their resources as commodities will be and how and when they will be distributed, he said.
"Why should they be asked to subsidize American lifestyle?" We should learn that small nations have the same right as big nations to develop their interests. "Schools
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Families now part of HEW Carter tells crowd in KC
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
President Jimmy Carter announced yesterday in Kansas City, Mo., that a new Office for Families was being created in the department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Carter's announcement was cheered by about 1,500 people who attended the National Catholic Charities Convention at the Radisson-Muehlich Hotel.
Carter's announcement was interpreted as a victory for the Catholics because much of their seven-day conference concerned family issues, including family therapy, child care, parish and family ministry, church issue and the intergenerational family.
"This office, the first of its kind, will provide a focal point for the development of federal policies and programs affecting families." Carter said.
Carter also announced that the United States would send $7 million to Cambodia to
People were admitted to the speech only after being checked by security agents.
"help feed tens of thousands of starving human beings."
WHILE THEY wait anxiously to hear the famous Southern drawl, a band wired up for "Pump and Circumstances" and their new seten set up cameras in the press area.
The crowd stood when Carter and his wife, Rosalyman, entered the ballroom, and people on the far side of the room stand on chairs to catch an initial ilumination of the president.
"I was in Sunday school yesterday morning," Carter said, "and someone said, 'Mr. President, you've been spending an awful lot of time with Catholics later.'"
"And I told them it had hurt a lot.
Carter preceded his announcement about the new Office for Families with a talk on how important the family unit was."
"FAMILIES ARE a foundation of a healthy and vibrant society," he said.
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By ELLEN IWAMOTO Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Iranian organization drops charges of discrimination
The Iranian Student Organization has withdrawn its charges of discrimination against the Iranian Student Association, according to Hossain Mahlahi, president of
After meeting with about 100 of the group's members, Mahalati said yesterday he thought it was the consensus of the organization that the charges should be
"We would like to unify the Iranian students on campus," he said, "and the charges would only further separate the two organizations."
During fall supplementary budget hearings last week, the ISO charged the LAW with holding closed elections without prior notice of the election and students of the LAWS' bylaws or use of its Senate funding and with carrying out political activities in violation of University
ISA officers could not be reached for comment yesterday.
"All we needed was a budget from the University, " We didn't want to get involved with the ISA." Mahalit said. "We didn't want we would be confronted with this."
The ISO requested $1,550 from the Senate the State Senate and Senate Budget Committee to disburse $200,000. The ISO was duplicating the services of the ISA. The ISA received an $855 allocation from the Senate.
As a result of the allegations made by the
ISO, the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee decided to investigate the alleged discrimination by the ISA.
THE INVESTIGATION would have created a task force to research the allegations and to present its findings to the Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, Matt Davis, Finance and Auditing Committee chairman. If the allegations were found to be valid, Davis said the matter would have been forwarded to the Student Senate for a vote.
Davis said that since the charges had been withdrawn he was "almost sure the investigation would be dropped."
"I see no reason for us to pursue it," he said.
However, he said, he would discuss the investigation with other committee chairman involved in their task force.
"We decided to investigate on the basis of the allegations," he said. "Who are we to push it without any allegations?"
REX GARDNER, Senate Rights Committee chairman, agreed with Davis.
"It'll probably drop because they're innocent until proven guilty," he said. "We really should not pursue it without allegations."
Mahalati said an investigation would not benefit KU Iranian students.
"In the interest of all, we will try to cooperate with the ISA as much as we can in cultural and traditional programs," he said. "We are also fighting politics and gather for cultural events."