Judge Takes Aim At State Courts
By Susan Tichacek
The Kansas judicial system is inadequate, antiquated, and poorly run according to David Prager, Topeka District Judge, who spoke last night at the "Citizen's Conference on the Modernization of the Kansas Courts."
The purpose of the conference was to gather citizens of Kansas to explore the Kansas judicial system. Prager emphasized that lawyers and judges alone could not give Kansas the reform which is needed in its judicial system.
IN ORDER TO accomplish this purpose a yardstick was needed for the evaluation, Prager said. According to a code established by the Joint Committee for the Effective Administration of Justice, justice is effective when it is administered without delay, by competent judges selected through non-political methods. Also these men must be adequately compensated with security of tenure and subject to an expeditious method of removal.
Rules of procedure should be simple and efficient, he said.
The modern court should be simple in structure, business-like, with methods to equalize the workload. Prager said.
The Kansas court system meets these qualifications, Prager said.
Another inadequacy of the Kansas system is that the judges are selected on a partisan basis, and judges in courts of limited jurisdiction do not have to be qualified lawyers, Prager said.
ALTHOUGH SPEED is important in court cases, they must be decided justly and equitably. According to national standards, court cases should be disposed of within six months, he said. In the past ten years, Kansas district courts have failed to dispose of 9,000 cases ready for judicial determination."
"How can any judge be expected to administer justice fairly and accurately without knowledge of the basic principles of law and equity?" Prager questioned.
Prager also showed figures demonstrating inadequate pay of Kansas judges. Kansas ranks 40th among the 50 states in salaries paid to Supreme Court and district court judges.
IN THE CASE OF inadequate judges, Prager said, their removal is difficult and requires a long time. There is no system of disciplining in Kansas.
In mentioning further weaknesses of the Kansas court system Prager said the system is not operating in a modern fashion. It is not unified and the Supreme Court is not at the head of the system. There is an insufficient number of judges in one area and not enough in another.
Prager continued to say that the Kansas court system was not business-like because there is no court administrator, no uniform procedures for analyzing budgets, no procedure for the purchase of supplies.
PRAGER POINTED out one good point of the court system Kansas does have a new code of civil procedure which places Kansas in the "space age" in this field.
Following Prager's address the 150 participants of the conference divided into six groups for further discussions. More talks and panel discussions will be held today and tomorrow.
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 6
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 25, 1964
GM Workers on Strike As Auto Talks Collapse
DETROIT — (UPI)— The United Auto Workers union (UAW) and General Motors Corp. today failed to reach agreement on a new three year contract and the union called a strike by more than 260,000 workers at 89 GM plants across the country.
The union left on the job nearly 90,000 workers at 41 plants that produce either key defense parts
The strike includes some 8,026 employees at four General Motors plants in this area. The plants are Delco Battery at Olathe; Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac, Kansas City, Kan.; Chevrolet and Fisher, Kansas City, Mo.
The walkout included 85 employees of a parts warehouse at Lenexa, Kan.
or vital components for auto firms in the first "selective strike" in auto-labor history.
The GM strike came after the union had already won 54 cent an hour contracts from Ford and Chrysler and was triggered by non-economic issues.
OFFICIAL WORD of the strike came 30 minutes after the 10 a.m. EST deadline.
UAW president Walter Reuther said it was with "a great sense of sadness we have to announce we were unable to reach a settlement with GM," the world's biggest and richest manufacturing company.
The red-haired union leader told a jammed news conference that a strike was called because GM was "unwilling to meet" the standards of
deceency demanded by workers. The major stumbling blocks were production standards and union representation—regarded as non-economic problems.
Rock Chalk Revue Adds Nineteen New Members
AS THE 10 A.M. deadline passed with no word from the bargaining room, thousands of workers went out at GM plants across the nation. The word came quickly.
WILL PRICE, Wichita sophomore,
is in-between acts chairman. Serving
on the staff are Stan Metzger,
Nineteen new members of the Rock Chalk Revue production and business staffs were announced by Hoite Caston, Independence graduate student and producer, last night.
California said three plants employing 7,200 were shut down. Texas said 2,800 were out at the Arlington GM plant. Cleveland reported 1,800 out at two Fisher Body plants. St. Louis said 7,000 walked out at 10 a.m. Several thousand walked out in the New York area.
Michael Milroy, Lawrence senior, is chairman of the advisory staff. Assisting him are Cliff Brisbois Jr., Leawood graduate student; Bob Benson, senior; Donna Mitchell, Lawrence freshman, and Teddi Kern, Kansas City, Mo. senior.
Ozawkie sophomore; Connie Mc- Williams, freshman, and Mike Griffith, Marysville sophomore.
Serving on the production staff are Paula Bruckner, Emporia junior, assistant producer; William Boulaure, Leawood junior, house manager; Glenn Bickle, stage manager; Terry Post, Wichita sophomore, assistant stage manager.
Music director for the Revue is Dick Wright, Lawrence graduate student.
Dan Wanamaker, Salina senior, is house liaison chairman. Serving on the committee are Larry Mellinger, Wichita sophomore, Dick Doores, Lawrence freshman, and Tim Vaughn, freshman.
Helen Nott, Evanston, Ill. senior and Carole Terry, Ponca City, Okla junior, are production staff secretaries.
Members of the business staff are Tom Ritchie, Wichita junior, controller; Martha Stout, La Grange. Ill. junior, assistant controller; Mike Vineyard, Wymore, Neb. junior, assistant business manager;
Program and layout editor is Susan Lawrence, Bartlesville, Okla. junior. Her assistants are Curt Heinz, freshman, Tom Shortlidge, Park Ridge, Ill. junior, Dick Shindler, junior, and Jim Stevens, sophomore. Lavonne Gregg, junior, is program copy editor.
From the Back of the Line The Situation Looks Confusing
Lines.
By Judy Farrell
To get food. To change classes. To catch buses. To pay fees. To buy books. To drop courses. To get football tickets.
The 1964-65 school year is a week old, and to KU's 13,000 students, life on the Hill has suddenly become a series of lines.
For KU is crowded. The 700-acre campus is bulging with more students than ever before in its 98-year history.
THOUGH KU has almost doubled its size in the past 10 years, from 7,603 in 1954 to more than 13,000, the impact of the increasing student population did not hit the sprawling campus until this year.
Fall enrollment brought a ten per cent increase in the size of the student body and the first of many lines that the KU student will face nearly every day of his college career.
There were lines in the Kansas Union Ballroom during enrollment. Winding around the ballroom balcony was a lengthy line of students enrolling in the Western Civilization program, calculation their course load and contemplating that first long weekend with 1984.
Hundreds swarmed the Kansas Union Book Store, eyeing thousands of books searching for a two-b-ythree inch card reading "This
book required for Political Science 55."
Lines behind the cash registers seemed almost endless to the students staggering under an eye-level high load of books. The clicking of the cash register keys and the ring of the cash drawer were punctuated by groans when the register's window flashed a total exceeding the student's careful estimates by as much as $20.
The lines in front of the office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and departments, such as mathematics and English, continued through today. Students queued up all week to drop courses and change sections.
After the third day of post-enrollment class changes, staffers in the College office relaxed Wednesday by jokingly suggesting innovations in KU's program - allowing two years of high school mathematics to substitute for Entomology or exempting a student with a year of junior high school French from sociology.
Weather
Clear skies and slightly warmer temperatures are forecast for the Lawrence area through the weekend. Temperatures will range in the 80s, accompanied by light winds. The low tonight will be in the 68s.
OTHER NEW students had minor problems adjusting to the campus. For Barbara Conard, Emporia junior and a transfer from Doan College in Nebraska, it was KU's unique abbreviations that stumped her.
For Becky Bauer, a freshman from Highland, a Kansas town of 750 people, KU is "new, exciting and strange." A biology lecture of 160 which is larger than her entire high school, and the vastness and variety of the campus, left her "completely floored" during her week at KU.
Mistaking the SU abbreviation on her class card for the Student Union, Barbara spent a few bewildering moments searching the third floor of the Union for her English class, until someone suggested she try Summerfield Hall.
A student's day that began with a line for breakfast, often ends with a line for dinner. Residence Halls are completely filled, with a last-minute rush in enrollments forcing many students to triple-up in what were once double rooms.
Because the school year is only a week old, the line situation is at its extreme.
In the next few days at least two more lines face KU students — the line for fee payment and for football tickets.
Then, perhaps, the snake-like lines that wind about the halls and buildings of the Hill, will somehow disappear — until February.
Publicity chairman is Ron Pullins,
Council Grove sophomore. His assistants are Richard Schaeffer, Beloin senior; Jane Larson, Scotch Plains, N.J. junior; Gary Gregg, Coldwater sophomore, Jane Paddleford, freshman and Linda Graham sophomore.
There will be a dinner for new staff members at 5:30 today in the Kansas Union.
John Pound, Fredonia senior, is sales committee manager and Ted Haggart, Salina sophomore, is his assistant. Committee members are John Vratil, Larned sophomore; Allen Schueler, Jim Keen, freshman and Pat McGrath, Junior.
Political Groups Set ASC Goals
Providing the student body with good student government is the goal of both University Party (UP) and Vox Populi (VOX) for the coming year.
Reuther said the company did not respond the way they should have in light of earlier agreements with Ford and Chrysler. Tht union sought to make these agreements a pattern for the GM contract. GM said it was willing to match the economic benefits of the other contracts but the two sides never did resolve what Reuther called a "broad question of working conditions."
In their party meetings last night, leaders in both parties urged their members to work hard to make student government successful in its service to the university.
Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla. senior and student body president, guaranteed UP an "administration they can be proud of with a record they will be proud to run on."
Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo. senior and UP general secretary, urged his party to "take the mickey mouse out of campus politics" and establish an "expanding student government for an expanding student body."
"GM CAN RESUME production any time they want," Reuther said, "if they want to sit down and provide the respect and dignity" for the workers.
GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton said the strike against his firm was completely unnecessary and unjustified."
He warned that if the strike is prolonged it will "have serious consequences for our employees, and their families, for our plant communities and for the public and the economy at large."
Reuther said that "nothing would have made us more happy" than to be able to announce an agreement. But he said "things looked hopeless" at about 7 a.m. EST today. He said the union's executive board will meet tonight to review the situation.
Reuther said that there were at least a half-dozen of these non-economic issues which still had to be solved including the matter of union committeemen paid by the company to handle worker grievances at GM plants.
HE SAID GM "made every effort" to settle the non-economic issues. But he accused the union of making demands which would have restricted GM's management responsibility and therefore "we are not prepared to accede to such unsound demands."
SEATON said that in the last 16 years "our differences have been composed at the bargaining table in five successive negotiations." He said it was "difficult to understand" why the union broke off negotiations and went on strike "because substantial progress towards resolution of our difference has been made at the bargaining table."
The GM vice president noted that the union had admitted the firm's economic offer "was satisfactory and equivalent to those upon which agreements with our competitors were based."
THE STRIKE followed more than 24 hours of continuous negotiations, During much of the night, Seaton, Reuther, and their two aides, UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock and GM Labor Relations Director Earl Bramblett, were closed in a private meeting to try and resolve the impasse. They failed.
The union had made two attempts yesterday to get third party intervention. First, the UAW asked for a three member board of arbitration. Then it asked for Chief Federal Mediator William E. Simkin to join the negotiations to offer the government's services.
GM turned down both proposals. The two sides then headed down the road toward this morning's strike.
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