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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
A LITTLE WARMER
Siege ends; hostage killed
No.144
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, June 12. 1975
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Tiny singer raises roof
The solemnity that characterizes most church services was absent at the First Assembly of God Church Tuesday night as the "World's Smallest Gospel Singer," the Mason, brought congregation members to their feet, clapping and singing along.
Mason may be only 46 inches tall, but he has been a big attraction, Steve Wallen.
Mason, who has been appearing June 9-12,
new entries of over 100 people the first week
Mason's act included several members of this family. His daughter, Kathy, who is already taller than her father, appeared with him, singing harmony. His wife sang on the tape used for background music, he said.
Holding a microphone and standing by the altar, Mason sang several well-known songs, including "He's Got the Whole World on His Hands" and "Bass in a startlingly booming, boom voice."
His oldest daughter, Kelly, is also part of the act, but Mason said she was unable to appear because she was in a St. Louis hospital in a body cast.
Members of his audience, who ranged from old people with canes to small children and teenagers in blue jeans, clipped in time to the music and shouted "Amen!" after each number.
Gospel singing is nothing new to Mason. He began his career at age nine, singing on the "Children's Bible Hour" radio program and remained a featured performer on the show for seven years, he said.
Mason has been involved in evangelical work for some time. He said he had been a member of Youth for Christ. In 1955, Mason was a member of the Evangelism Team from his hometown, Jolim, Mo.
From 164 to 174, Mason said, he appeared on the television program "Revival
Mason
Senate delays veterans' checks
BULLETIN
The Senate passed the compromise report on the second supplemental appropriations bill by voice count late for approval, submitting to the House version.
By JACK McNEELY Kansas Staff Reporter
Some veterans at the University of Kansas found empty mailboxes this month when they were looking for their monthly benefit checks.
Steve Neske, veterans representative on campus, said yesterday that about 125 of the approximately 500 veterans on campus received no checks.
The mailboxes are empty because the Veterans Administration has run out of money to pay for educational benefits under the GI Bill.
The VA won't be able to send this month's
checks to about half a million of the 1.4
million recipients of educational benefits until Congress passes a $13 billion supplemental appropriations bill that includes money for the VA and other agencies.
A dispute between the House and Senate over an appropriation for improving railroad beds, which is included in the bill, or the appropriations bill, is holding up passage of the bill.
An attempt to compromise in joint committee of the House and Senate has failed. The House wants to spend $5 million but the Senate wants to spend $175 million.
The bill was scheduled to be considered by the Senate at 4:30 p.m. (EDT) yesterday, but at the Kanse's deadline it still hadn't reached the Senate floor.
A spokesman for Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan, said in a telephone interview from Washington that although Winn had voted against his campaign's benefits, he was powerless to help now.
Garage site revision accepted by citizens
The city maintenance garage site at 128 and Haskell was approved by the Far East Lawrence Improvement Association (FELIA) last night. Their approval ends the year-long controversy surrounding the placement of the city garage and enables Commission to proceed with land acquisition and construction bids for the project.
FELIA accepted a plan that includes a 10.7-acre tract west of Haskell Avenue, a 2.4 acre tract east of Haskell Avenue, a 1.7 acre park near Brook Street and the possibility of a 7-acre park northeast of the Brook Street intersection of the south side of Orville Ray's Garage and Salvage, 1146 Haskell Avenue, with evergreen trees.
Rockefeller Commission inadequate, Church says
Church said the Senate committee also
He said the President was drafting requests for comments and recommendations based on the commission report from Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon, Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi and CIA Director William E. Colby.
White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said President Ford would await recommendations from key advisers before deciding "what action to take after the decision, which action might be proposed" in an effort to prevent further illegal activity by the CIA.
Nessen said Ford probably would act within several weeks.
Continuing its investigation of alleged CIA murder plots, the 11-member Senate Intelligence Committee he testified for a second day Wednesday from Richard Nixon and ended the CIA's "dirty trieks" department at the 98th Bay of Pigs invasion.
He noted that the commission's 300-page report was limited to domestic activities and said his committee "must probe much deeper."
Meanwhile, Sens. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., and Howard Baker, R-Tem., said they would press for adoption of a resolution to have a permanent House-Senate oversight committee police the entire intelligence-law enforcement community.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Wrongdoing by the Central Intelligence Agency cited in the Rockefeller Commission's report "is all in the hands of Mr. Bush," Frank Church, D-Idaho, said Wednesday.
"When they say that the president ought not in the future to ask the CIA to engage in wrongdoing or illegal activities or when they say the CIA director ought not to do so, think that they are clearly insufficient," Claire told reporters following a closed committee session.
CIA tests called unethical
must examine the entire area of foreign covert operations including allegations that the CIA has been involved, directly or indirectly, in assassination plots directed against foreign leaders.
Church said he agrees with many of the commission's recommendations but said that the report should have proposed specific criminal penalties for future wrongdoing.
The commission report cited one incident in 1983 when the CIA began studying drugs. An employee of the Army was given LSD without prior knowledge while at a meeting with CIA personnel discussing the drug project.
But Church, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stressed that he wasn't accusing the commission of a coverup.
"There is nothing he can do," the spokesman said. "We've had so many people calling us about this thing, but we have not yet done anything to generate and the House just aren't agreeing."
WASHINGTON (AP)—While the CIA secretly tested LSD in the 1950s, dozens of the nation's doctors were busy performing similar research and publishing the results in scientific journals. Anyone could have been into a medical library and read them.
He was told of the dose 20 minutes later, but developed serious side effects and was sent to New York under CIA escort for psychiatric treatment.
"There is little doubt what the CIA was doing with LSD was both unethical and unnecessary," Dr. Solomon Snyder, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said yesterday. Snyder is a veterinary researcher with LSD.
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"Several days later he jumped from a window of his room and died as a result," the result.
Roch Thornton, newspaper coordinator for Campus Veterans, hasn't yet paid his tuition. He said he had convinced his landlord to hold off on the rent and had borrowed from the office of student financial aid to pay for books and food.
But the secret spy agency apparently sought in its research to do something that was ethically forbidden of doctors. It wanted to find out what would happen if the mind-altering drug was given to an unsuspecting subject.
For the veterans at the University of Kansas who didn't receive checks this month, the dispute over money for railroad expenses has been a tuition banning and meeting other expenses.
Bissell, who declined to speak with reporters, has acknowledged previously the existence of a contingent plan involving underworld figures John Rosell and Sam Giancana to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
Teresa Schwartz, 1222 Laura St., who lives opposite the salvage yard, said, "If you don't come through like you promised you're going to hear from us."
Although FELIA's agreement to the new plan doesn't officially bind the commissioners, the association received firm commitments from all five commissioners last night that the details of the plan would be delivered to the satisfaction of the neighborhood.
City Manager Buford Watson submitted the alternative garage site to the commission at their June 3 meeting and it did support from the commissioners.
Originally, the Commission promised FELIA that the salvage yard would be located near the area and replaced with a garage. However, the company 20.7 acres east of Haskell Avenue that included the salvage yard were appraised at more than $15 million. The missioners reconsidered their decision.
The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA released Tuesday briefly described the LSD experiments, noting that one person committed suicide several days after an adverse reaction to a dose of LSD administered without his advances knowledge.
Charles Hartman, Lawrence senior,
hasn't paid his tuition either.
Mayor Barkley Clark told FELIA members last night that the commissioners were "absolutely shocked" by the high appraisal.
"I thought the cost might go up to
Clark said, "but never up another
$100,000."
But neither Thornton nor Hartman is officially enrolled. Their names don't appear on class rosters and won't be in the student directory.
To acquire the land under the original plan would have cost the $237,000. The
Neske, the veterans representative,
blamed Congress for the lapse in benefit
money. Congress was warned what would
happen if he chose the bill but
choose not to act. Neske said.
"I don't have it as tough as some," she said. "Because my wife has a job. We won't starve."
"In this case a call to Winn's office could do a world of good," Neske said. "That's about the only option anybody's got right now.
Campus Veterans is encouraging people to write Congressmen and demand that some solution to the appropriations impasse be found.
Thornton让 Campus Veterans doesn't have enough money or manpower to set up an organized letter-writing campaign, so people should write on their own initiative.
Professionals have been told to let veterans attend classes even if their names don't appear on class rosters, Neeke said, and the office of financial aid will make short-term admissions and record the number of admissions and records will let veterans pay tuition without a penalty fee.
"If the people affected would contact their Congressmen and urge them to take some kind of action on this damn bill, it might come out in two days."
Neske said the University knew before enrollment that some veterans wouldn't get their checks and took steps to accommodate them.
The number of veterans who have applied for short-term loans because they don't need them is growing. It's enough to significantly reduce the amount of money available to other students for college.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said fewer veterans than anticipated had applied for short-term loans.
"Apparently they have other personal funds to get by for a while," Rogers said.
Neksa said that of the approximately 125 veterans who hadn't received checks, 25 to 30 percent were lost.
According to the spokesman for Rep. Winn, veterans educational benefits ran out before the end of this fiscal year because increased the benefits in December.
Congress apparently planned in December to pass a supplemental appropriation before June 30, the end of the year, to pay for the increased benefits.
Hartman, a veteran at KU, said the lapse See VETERANS page 4
NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted today of using holding an official public office for Parliament and was barred from holding any public office for the last 19 years to Parliament and was barred from holding an official
Gandhi convicted
But Judge Jag Mohanil Sinha delayed execution of the sentence for 20 days. The 57-year-old prime minister is certain to file an appeal to the Supreme Court, and it was unclear whether she could be forced to give up the prime ministership before the appeal was decided.
There was no immediate comment from Mrs. Gandhi. As soon as she learned of her verdict, she went into consultation with senior officials of her ruling Congress party, who told her to continue her investigation.
Judge Sinha's verdict set aside Mrs. Gandhi's landslide victory in 1971 in Alabama her home city, when she defeated Raid Nurai, a Socialist, by 183,000 to 170,000.
Narain charged that Mrs. Gandhi used at least one senior civil servant in her campaign in violation of the Indian version of the Hatch Act, that she spent more than the allowed maximum on the campaign and that she wrongfully used religious appeals to gain votes from the Hindu community.
Mrs. Gandhi defended herself in person, taking the stand in Allahabad in March and declaring her innocence of all the charges. She was the first prime minister of India.
Over the top
Over the top Betty Carile Cuney, personally awaits the results of the Girl's Stateubernatorial election Wednesday (left) and is congratulated by supporters after the results were announcement. See story page 4.