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Strike bill introduced
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—With the nation's railroad workers moving toward a spring strike deadline, Congress was asked today to keep major transportation industries on the move during labor disputes through compulsory and binding arbitration if necessary.
Rep. J. J. Jake Pickle, D-Tex., recalling the six-week strike that grounded five major airlines last year, introduced a bill to add permanent strike-preventing provisions to the Railroad Labor Act, which covers railroads and airlines.
The bill would provide for extended cooling off periods—up to 270 days—during which there would be non-binding emergency board recommendations. As a last resort, there would be "final and binding" arbitration by a special board.
Six railroad unions—representing machinists, maintenance and repairmen and other skilled crafts—have set an April 12 deadline for a strike.
Their demand for a 20 per cent wage increase is currently being reviewed by a non-binding emergency board set up under existing sections of the law, but that is the last available step in forestalling a strike.
May punish Powell
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The special committee judging Adam Clayton Powell may recommend that if he is seated in Congress his $30,000-a-year salary be docked to reimburse the government for alleged payroll and travel abuse.
The plan was only in the idea stage, but it was learned today that at least one member of the nine-man panel was ready to put forward the proposal.
Besides having a legal purpose, the plan would put the stress on Powell by leaving it to him to decide whether he would be willing to serve in the House for reduced pay or for no pay at all.
Powell's lawyers hope the courts will accept a constitutional challenge to any action that would bar him from his seat in Congress, but they are less likely to win a court review of a method of punishment prescribed by the House.
New CIA accusations
WASHINGTON—(UPI)A National Student Association (NSA) spokesman today accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of "intimidation" against NSA leaders the spy agency feared would reveal the clandestine relationship between the two organizations.
"Officers of NSA who had signed national security oaths have not violated their trust. Yet they have still been threatened with legal action, and this has been only a part of the harassment," Philip Werdell, a NSA press liaison representative, charged in the statement.
"The CIA has intimidated them with personal threats ranging from character assassination to place pressure upon the 'establishment' to reject them from responsible roles in American society." Werdell said.
The security oaths Werdell referred to were said to be required of past and present NSA officers who were informed that the CIA was supporting the student organization with secret annual subsidies over the past 15 years.
A Washington newspaper said today it was informed by a "responsible authority" that President Johnson was "totally unaware" of the CIA's financial tie with the NSA.
Oppose death penalty
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(UPI)Three Democratic legislators, warning against future "mass executions" in the San Quentin gas chamber, today opened a drive to end the death penalty in California.
"It would be a matter of deep shame if California now should revert to this barbaric form of punishment on a mass scale," said state Sen. George R. Moscone.
But even the lawmakers conceded their attempt was unlikely to succeed in the face of a threat that Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan would veto a bill to repeal the death penalty.
Reagan has said many times that he favors the death penalty as a deterrent to murder.
There are now 62 inmates on San Quentin's death row. One of them, Dorman Talbot, a convicted murderer, is scheduled to die March 1.
New scholarship program among AFROTC options
By RUE CHAGOLL
A new scholarship program is among three options the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) offers college students.
The program was enacted by the ROTC Vitalization Act of 1964. Under it the Air Force will award
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scholarships to 3,000 cadets in its four-year ROTC program this year. The scholarships will be
Members of the KU chapter of the National Inter-collegiate Rodeo Association (NRA) met Tuesday to plan for a regional rodeo to be held here April 21, 22 and 23 at the Douglas County 4-H arena.
The NRA, which currently has 16 members, was formed here last year by Kent Hewett, Fort Scott sophomore.
NRA plans first rodeo for campus
The rodeo is the first to be held at KU, but members hope to make it an annual event.
As a special event KU fraternities will compete in saddlesteer riding.
given to qualified sophomore, junior, and senior cadets at over 140 colleges and universities.
Part of the Great Plains region, KU will compete against Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
CONTESTANTS WILL vie for trophy buckles in each event, trophy saddles for the best all-around man and woman and a trophy for the high point team.
Don Reichart, last year's national bull riding champion from Blackhill State College, South Dakota, also will compete.
Men's events include bareback bronc riding, tie-down calf roping, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, calf ribbon roping and Brahma bull riding.
Women's events are clover leaf barrel racing and goat tying.
Admission will be $1 for students, $1.25 for adults, and $.50 for children.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Interested students are encouraged to attend.
The scholarships cover costs of full tuition, fees, laboratory expenses, an allowance for books, plus a tax-free salary of $50 per month. They are available, however, only to students currently enrolled in AFROTC programs.
Block tickets for the 1967 Rock Chalk Revue will be drawn Monday evening in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Each block consists of a minimum of 20 tickets, and may be purchased by any campus group.
Revue draw is Monday
Single tickets will be sold on campus the week before the "Revenue" at the information booth and Bell's record shop. Main floor and first half of the first balcony seats cost $2. The remaining are $1.50.
There will be Rock Chalk performances March 2, 3, and 4.
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THE SECOND of these programs is the traditional four-year non-scholarship program available to entering freshmen.
The third program has been recently initiated to provide a two-year syllabus for students with at least two academic years remaining at either the undergraduate or graduate level.
Upon graduation, students who complete the two-year program will receive either reserve or regular commissions to the grade of second lieutenant.
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KU students wishing further information or desiring to make application for this program should consult Lt. Col. Charles H. Brown Jr., professor of aeronautics, 108 Military Science Building.
APPLICANTS MUST pass a qualifying test, a medical exami- national, and screening by an Air Force interview board.
Those selected must successfully complete a six-week field training course on an Air Force
base, during the summer prior to their entrance into the AFROTC unit. The course is designed to prepare them for entry into the Professional Officer Course (POC) when they return to campus.
Studies during the six-week summer training period comprise the General Military Course (GMC), which is normally completed during the freshman and sophomore years in the four-year program.
Travel pay to and from the cadet's home, amounting to five cents per mile, is provided for those attending the field training course. During training, each receives approximately $120 in pay.
all qualified senior cadets in AFROTC interested in becoming pilots, regardless of the program in which they are enrolled, participate in the Flight Instruction Program (FIP). Those who complete this program and pass the Federal Aviation Agency examinations receive their private pilot's licenses at the expense of the Air Force. Army and Navy ROTC also sponsor similar programs.
Upon returning to KU, new cadets will be inducted into the Inactive Reserve Section of the Air Force Reserve, and will begin drawing tax-free salary at the rate of $40 per month.
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