Friday, March 29,1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Judges re-reapportion voting districts in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan—(UPI)—A federal tribunal late Thursday upset the latest Kansas Senate reapportionment law, and decreed a new one under which the 40 senators will run in 28 districts.
In the decision, the three-judge panel — Judges Delmas Hill of Wichita, Wesley Brown of Wichita, and George Templar of Topeka — said they were forced by time to draw up the districts because the secretary of state needed to know the new districts in time to send out election notices to counties. They said this was one reason they were forced to make four multi-member districts in the three urban areas of the state.
The opinion said they did not have time to further divide the districts for the allotted senators.
"The evidence before us leads to the conclusion that a majority of the members of the legislature, and more particularly the members of the state senate, were motivated by other considerations than the constitutional objective of "practical equality," they said.
The court also said that this plan was only a "stop-gap measure" designed to serve only until a lawful reapportionment statute can be enacted. In other words, the legislature is still left with the responsibility of eventually working out the plan.
Parole conference focuses on family
Welfare and parole departments must cooperate more and work to strengthen the family relationships, a speaker told 80 county employes Thursday at the Seminar on Probation and Parole in the Kansas Union Jayhawk room.
"We must provide more than the basics of food, shelter and clothing; we must help our clients be recognized as members of society," said Paul Thomas, Social Service Supervisor of the State Department of Social Welfare at Chanute.
"We are trying to enlarge our programs and orient them toward families," Thomas said.
The family can be best helped by better communication and cooperation between departments, he said. Many see this as a problem of allocating responsibility, but Thomas said the key was better planning.
"We should ask what each family needs and who can best give it to them." Thomas said.
Thomas felt this cooperation must begin with the juvenile courts and extend to other departments.
The seminar also focused on creative problem solving by role playing.
Members of the Larned State Hospital Staff demonstrated how a psychologist or trained case worker can promote better communication through the establishment of an effective rapport.
After the demonstration, the audience was divided into groups and asked to play roles of felons, welfare clients and alcoholics to better equip them for the problems they would meet.
The audience was reminded that they were not always mentally and emotionally prepared to give a client the necessary reassurance by listening to him.
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presents
EDGAR SNOW
Author of:
Journey to the Beginning
Red Star Over China
The Other Side of the River: Red China Today
War and Peace In Vietnam
Edgar Snow, the only American to travel throughout Red China virtually unrestricted, will discuss factors that make China the boiling pot it is today. He will also premier his documentary film:
"One-fourth of Humanity"
7:30 p.m.
April 3
Hoch Auditorium
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