Thief hits IGA
BULLETIN
An unidentified suspect has been apprehended in Topeka at the intersection of Highway 40 and Dupont Road. He was driving a 1967 Dodge Charger and had a Trans World Airlines bag containing a large amount of money and a gun in his possession.
The car had been purchased in Kansas City recently. The suspect was approached at 1:20 p.m.
Rusty's IGA Grocery in the Hillcrest Shopping Center was held up shortly after noon today with an undetermined amount of paper money taken.
The exact amount of the cash taken may not be determined until sometime this evening, Rusty Springer, owner of the store, said. One clerk said the robber got "every paper bill in the store."
The bandit entered from the loading docks in the west of the building. He first approached a Pepsi Cola delivery man and forced him into a freezer.
IN THE FREEZER at that time was Cecil Rogers, clerk, who had just turned around with an arm load of frozen vegetables. He said the man approached him with the Pepsi Cola man, and he thought it was some kind of a gag.
"Then he got one of our cashiers, Mrs. Ruth Foster, who had just returned from a break and brought her back and put her in the freezer also." Rogers estimated he spent about 15 minutes in the freezer.
"He tells me to sit on the floor and stay there. I said you've got to be kidding and he cocks the gun two or three times and I say I will. He left the freezer and told us he would have someone let us out."
The man then sent a clerk to empty the safe in the front of the store and fled out the rear, less than a half hour after entering.
Fair housing topic of city commission
A proposed fair housing ordinance will be among topics on the agenda when the Lawrence City Commission meets tomorrow at 3 p.m. in City Hall.
The proposal, which if enacted will strengthen the powers of the Human Relations Commission, was drafted by the commission at the recommendation of the Lawrence Fair Housing Coordinating Committee.
Such an ordinance would outlaw "discriminatory practices in renting, leasing, selling, financing.
"AGGRIEVED PERSONS," as defined by the draft, "may be residents of Lawrence, persons who have accepted employment in Lawrence, or students."
showing and advertising of dwelling units, commercial units, or real property."
Carol Fields, Lawrence sophomore and spokesman for a KU-Y study group concerned with the fair housing issue, said her group has contacted the International Club and People-to-People in
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The parents then suggested the following list of equipment: two separate swing sets consisting of the kindergarten chair swing and stand swing sets, a two-board see saw, a six-foot slide, climbing equipment, merry flyer, four saddle mates, wooden slab benches and a 9 x 12 foot sandbox.
Monday, May 15, 1967
Editor attacks US policy
A bearded young man in a business suit came from California Friday to tell an overflow crowd in the Kansas Union Forum Room, "The U.S. is the prime aggressive force in the world today."
Aided by a questioning audience and several glasses of water, Robert Scheer held most of the crowd for three hours by attacking U.S. foreign policy, President Johnson, war demonstrators, and "hippyism."
By ALLAN NORTHCUTT
Scheer is managing editor of
When the parents suggested benches, Wilson at first said there would not be enough money. But the parents said all they needed would be wooden slab benches
Stouffer children to get playground
Stouffer Place parents, J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, and a recreation consultant will meet at 3 p.m. today in front of apartments 16 and 18 to decide how to arrange new playground equipment.
After more than three years, the children of married students at Stouffer Place will get a playground.
FRIDAY, SIX PARENTS met with Wilson to request $1,550 worth of equipment, but Wilson told them he could only allot between $1,000 and $1,200.
Wilson okayed the altered proposal.
without backs, just something for them to sit on while watching the children play.
The playground will not be fenced-in, Wilson said, so space limits its location. The parents suggested that it be erected down the hill from apartments 16 and 18, west of the practice football field.
SUCH A LOCATION would be far enough from the buildings to avoid annoying studying residents and to allow parents to go with their children to oversee the area.
The parents wanted a playground for a mixture of ages, enabling even the very young to play with parental assistance.
Wilson said the state law requires that bids on playground equipment be taken. After the lowest bid is contracted, it will take 60 days before delivery.
Then, he said, "it should be built in a couple of weeks, depending on the weather."
Ramparts magazine and a spokesman for the "New Left." He has traveled in Southeast Asia, published "How the U.S. Got Involved in Vietnam," and is preparing another Vietnam book for summer publication.
SCHEER WANTS the U.S. out of Vietnam.
He claims the Vietnam war is "being fought to save a U.S. foreign policy that's terribly out of date."
"We should stay in Vietnam only if the U.S. wishes to demonstrate it possesses the world's greatest technology of death," Sheer said. He then pointed out the recently-announced use of anti-personnel fragmentation bombs by U.S. planes in Vietnam.
“This is a war fought very much against civilians, in spite of what the administration says—it’s a punitive war.” Scheer said.
CALLING FOR THE 1968 DEFAT of President Johnson as "absolutely essential to ending the war in Vietnam," Scheer charged that American policy is in "a crisis."
"We can't go on backing U.S. foreign policy with a theory of an international Communist expansion threat when the Russians can't even control Albania and the Chinese are splitting with the U.S.S.R." Scheer said.
Scheer said the Communist containment theory of U.S. foreign policy was valid after World War II when communism was spreading through East Europe, but is no longer valid, especially since this model can't be applied to North Vietnam.
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Peaceful mission
Russians fly over city
By DON WALKER
Russians flew over Lawrence this weekend. They freely maneuvered for more than 30 minutes above the KU campus, unmolested by the military and undetected by Civil Defense.
Fortunately, the mission of Yusuf Mamedov and Alec Pirogow was peaceful.
MAMEDOV, AN EXCHANGE researcher in chemical engineering to KU from the Soviet Union, was taking his first flying lesson from Pirogow, a Lawrence resident and naturalized U.S. citizen.
The two have been close friends since Mamedov's arrival here last September from Baku in the Soviet Union's province of Azerbaijan. With his research in this country finished, Mamedov is squeezing in a few flying hours before he leaves KU this Wednesday.
"Yusuf may solo before he leaves," Pireogw said before their first flight Friday afternoon. "He will need five or six hours of instruction, but it is possible for him to take two lessons a day."
In that initial lesson, Mamedov sat in the pilot's seat of the single-engined Cessna 172 and took the controls during much of the flight.
As "co-pilot," Pirogow wheeled the plane about freely while his student held onto the wheel "to learn what he'll want later on."
Together they soared 1.600 feet above Mount Oread, cruising at 120 m.p.h., and banking frequently to view the campus from every angle. Mamedov grew excited when he located his home and the CRES building west of Iowa where he has done his research.
PRE-FLIGHT AND IN-FLIGHT instructions were entirely in Russian. Pirogow showed his student the basics of instrument flying and explained the functions of the dials and gauges which would overwhelm most novices.
After the stint above KU, they headed out over the countryside and then returned to the airport northeast of the city.
While his 32-year-old student still felt the controls. Pirogow did a pattern and landed 35 minutes after taking off.
"THEFE IS NO PRIVATE FLIGHT training in Russia," he said in heavily accented English. "It is all done through government flying clubs or the military."
The knack of learning quickly is necessary if Mamedov is to learn to fly. He must acquire a pilot's skills in the short time he has left here.
Mamedov's fellowship here, sponsored by the governments of both countries, has enabled him to do post-doctorate research in his specialty of gas fields. Holding a degree "slightly higher than your Ph.D." he has worked closely with George Swift, associate professor of chemical engineering, during his nine-month stay at KU.
Mamedov is the first Russian to come to KU on an exchange program in ten years.
— UDK Photo by Don Walker
RUSSIAN "VIOLATOR" OF U.S. AIRSPACE
Yusuf Mamedov, exchange researcher to KU from the Soviet Union, prepares for his first flying lesson. Mamedov, here since last September, hopes to solo before he leaves Lawrence, Wednesday, to return home.