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University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1962
Iowan convicted for not registering
By United Press International
DES MOINES—a Federal jury, undered by a pre-trial protest that resulted in 21 arrests, deliberated 45 minutes yesterday before finding Gary Ekland guilty of failing to register for the draft.
Ekland, 22, of Davenport, was the first lowan to be convicted of failure to register for the draft and the fourth nationwide.
Meanwhile, a student at Bethel College in Newton who is charged with failure to register for the draft, said yesterday he would change his plea in federal court from not guilty to no contest.
Ekland's one-day trial began for federal marshals arrested protesters
who formed a human chain to block entrance to the courthouse.
Ekund said he did not register for the draft because he was confused about legal rulings on the registration law. He also noted that registration was only voluntary.
BUT ASSISTANT U.S. Attorney Joe Beck said it was clear Ekland understood he had a continuing duty to register with the U.S. Selective Service System well after the draft law was clarified.
Eklund said he would appeal. Sentencing was set for Dec. 3.
Twenty of the protesters were charged with obstructing the administration of justice and arraigned yesterday. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
The Bethel College student, Kendall Warkenline, 21, has said through court documents that he would allow himself to be convicted of the charge if the judge would accept his plea of no criminal charges. Oct. 13 and entered a plea of not guilty.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE U.S. attorney's office said the government would oppose the no contest plea, based on a U.S. Department of Justice policy not to go along with a plea of no contest in any criminal matter.
Warkentin's attorney said his client's actions had been based on rules.
A hearing has been set for Nov. 1 before U.S. District Court Judge Sam Crow, Charles Epp, also a Bethel College student charged with avoiding draft registration, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The flu season has arrived, and common-sense precautions should be used to avoid illness this winter, the clinical staff at the Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Department said recently.
Flu precautions include rest, sense
Kay Kent, director of the department, said antibiotics had no effect on the flu, so rest, proper nutrition and lots of fluids should be in order.
She said the clinic vaccinates children and senior citizens against the flu because children and senior citizens develop complications from the flu.
Effie Simmons, clinic nurse, said the staff begin giving the vaccines this month so people could begin building immunity to the flu before December and January, the flu's nastiest months.
THE VIRUS is airborne in crowded populations such as buses and residence halls, and said, and said, that the virus can be transmitted with viral droplets can catch the flu.
Simmons said weather conditions were indirectly responsible for the flu, because people were more likely to stay indoors and come in contact with others who had gotten the virus.
She said that some symptoms of the flu were headaches, fever, chills, and aching muscles.
Research from a recent study by Israeli physicians published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that smokers have a 25 percent higher risk of lung cancer and are more likely to be ill than are non-smokers.
Frat council elects officers
The Interfraternity Council elected officers last night at the Sigma Nu house after speeches by the candidates.
THE WINNERS are: president — Brad Becker, Leawood sophomore, Tau Kappa Epsilon; vice president for membership — Dennis Strickland, Bucyrus sophomore, Sigma Phi Epsilon; vice president for fraternity affairs — Doug Scherke, Dearfield, III. junior, Sigma Nu; vice president for public relations — Bill Middleton, Wichita senior, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; vice president for Overland Park junior, Kai Kappa Psi; vice secretary — Mike Bischer, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, Pi Kappa Alpha.
'Candy Man's' execution postponed
By United Press International
NEW OLEANS — A federal appeals court yesterday blocked the execution of "Candy Man" killer Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who had been ordered put to death by lethal injection on the eighth day of his son's Halloween poisoning.
Two of three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to postpone O'Bryan's execution just
three days before he was to face death in the Texas prison at Huntsville.
But a spokesman in the Texas attorney general's office said the U.S. Supreme Court would be asked to let the execution proceed.
A 5th Circuit spokesman said O'Bryan's case had been scheduled for a "hearing on the merits" during the week of Jan. 24, 1983.
'O'BRIYAN, OF the Houston suburb of Deer Park, was convicted of substitution.
candy in a "Giant Pixie Stix" given to his son Oct. 31, 1974.
The boy died of cyanide poisoning an hour after eating the substance.
O'Bryan, dubbed the "Candy Man" by fellow death row inmates, was to have died at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. He would have been the first person in the United States to die by injection and the first executed in Texas since 1964, when Joseph Johnson was electrocuted for a Houston murder.
On campus
TODAY
GERMAN CLUB will have lunch at 1:45 a.m. in the Cottonwood Room of
KU SWOOR AND SHIELD will meet
at p.m. in the Oread Room of the
unit.
MARANATHA CAMPUS MINIS-
IN THE JAYHAVK ROOM of the Union
STATE REP. JESSIE BRANSON,
DAYTON, wives will at 12:36 p.m. in
Browneville, will attend
KU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 2029 Learned Hall.
Solidarity, will be at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Room of the Union.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM series, "Hemingway and Benchley," will be at 4 p.m. in 4019 Wescow Hall.
FILM, "The Intelligence Network," sponsored by Latin American Solidarity, will be at 8 p.m. in the Alderson Room of the Union.
EAST ASIAN lecture series, "East-West Connections During the Mongol Period," will be at 7:30 p.m. in 4033 Wescoe.
COMPUTER AWARENESS videotape presentations will be at 3 p.m. at the Academic Computer Center Auditorium.
VOLLEYBALL, KU vs. Kansas
She will be at 8:30 p.m. in Allen Field
Hill.
TOMORROW
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
14:50 p.m. in Danfort Chapel.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at
8:30 p.m. in 500 Lindley Hall if it is a clear night.
CARDS &
GIFTS
Russell Stover
CANDIES
GIFTS
for all occasions
ARBUTHNOTS
Pizza 32%& wine 10%
841-796-3211
10:00 AM
Jimmy Page Robert Plant
John Paul Jones John Bunham
FEATURING HIT SONGS
By LED-ZEPPELIN
Starring
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
Varsity ALL SEATS $3.00
Downtown 843-1063
WARNING to students enrolled in LA&S courses: Friday, October 29 is the last day to drop a class without petitioning the College. Normally, petitions are not granted except when they involve unusual circumstances which do not include poor performance in the course.
No petition will be accepted after the last day of classes which is December 6.
MIDNITE FLICK FRI & SAT
Forum Room Kansas Union
FALL MUSICAL
Introducing the
Funded by the Student Activity Fee
BSU INSPIRATIONAL GOSPEL VOICES CHOIR
Free to everyone!
Friday October 29 7:00 pm
IN THEIR ANNUAL
Come and hear beautiful Gospel music
Spring Rush
There will be a Rush informational meeting for any women interested in participating in the Formal Spring Membership program.
- Pick-up registration materials
- Question and Answer session
- Talk to women in Sororities
TONIGHT day, October 28th 7:00 p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom
sponsored by the K. K.U.-P. Hallerellin Associati
n
"I want my MTV Weekend"
Friday Night
3D "Classic Film"
"Robot Monster!"
Saturday Night
Ozzy Osbourne
Exclusive Premier
Concert at
Irvine Meadows
Ampitheatre
Sunday Night
Frank Zappa
The MTV Halloween
Concert at the
Palladium, NYC
Cult Classic Movie:
Night of the
Living Dead
1982 WAGEC
10 p.m. On Channel 2
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