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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 26, 1968
Teachers go to court
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — (UPI)
—Florida's dissident teachers,
vowing not to return to classrooms until the state satisfies their demands for education reform, take their case to court today.
Some 24,000 of the state's 61,000 public school teachers await the results of a three-judge federal panel ruling on their protest.
The Dade County Classroom Teachers Association seeks to set aside a circuit court injunction prohibiting it from striking, picking and encouraging teachers to miss work.
The CTA says a constitutional question is involved, but on Friday U.S. District Court Judge Ted Cabot in Miami refused jurisdiction, contending the issue
belongs in the state not the federal courts.
While the legalities of the injunction were being argued, members of the Dade CTA planned a noon meeting with legislative leaders in Tallahassee.
Gov. Claude Kirk, invited to the meeting, instead chose to make "walking tours" of ghetto areas in Jacksonville, Tampa and Miami, winding up the day with a speech in Miami.
Teachers in at least five counties who refused to work today faced losing their teacher certificates for one year. School boards in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Leon, Palm Beach and Hendry counties announced they would enforce the penalties under state law for unauthorized absences.
Watts, however, claimed Sunday night he failed the test purposely because his life was threatened.
Watts fails polygraph test
Watts' nearest neighbor, Hershal Mayhugh, who lives three-quarters of a mile away, said he heard no shots Sunday night but local and state police had thrown up roadblocks and were checking all passing cars.
the road. When he stopped to help the woman, Watts said, he was knocked to the ground by two men carrying "automatic weapons."
Watts said he had not decided whether to continue trying to get a Congressional investigation into his claims.
Al R. Wynn, who performed the lie detector test on Watts, said, "He failed it. You can pass a polygraph test on purpose, but you can't fail one on purpose."
Watts said Sunday night he "emptied an M-1 rifle" at a car which fired shots at his house.
LOCO, Tex.—(UPI)—The man who put this tiny West Texas community on the map with his tale of flying saucers and Martians, 29-year-old Carroll Watts, failed a polygraph test Sunday, indicating his story was all a hoax.
"I got a telephone call Saturday night warning me not to pass the test," Watts said.
He said, "They told me if I passed the polygraph test I would never make it home. So I failed it. I tried my best to fail it."
Freshman composer presents new march
out about the threats. I don't like to put my family's safety at stake. If they are in danger I will drop the whole thing.'
Watts claims he rode in a spaceship manned by six four-foot-tall men from Mars. The little men, he said, had white or grey skin, broad flat noses, thinline mouths, no hair and eye sockets that ran back nearly to their ears.
"It depends on how this turns
"They said they did not have war on their planet and they were going to have to do something to keep us from bringing it to them," said Watts.
Then, as he was on his way to take the test Sunday, he said he was flagged down by a woman standing beside her car next to
Next fall, the KU marching band may file into Memorial Stadium to the strains of "The Pepper Rodgers' Triumphal March." James Barnes would like nothing better.
Wynn, the polygraph operator, said "He is not a nut. He is at least normal intelligence, possibly above average. It just appears he got talked into the thing and got in so deep he couldn't get out."
Barnes, Hobart. Okla., freshman, composed the march and conducted the University Concert Band in the premiere performance of his work Sunday at the band's Winter Concert in the University Theatre.
"I suppose I could have written a march about anything," Barnes said after the concert, "but I come from Oklahoma and that's football country. I wrote in honor of Pepper Rodgers (KU football coach) because I think he's a great coach and KU is really pleased with him. We may just be doing this march in the Orange Bowl next year."
Guns, saucers, martians . . .
Barnes said he wrote the march during Christmas vacation, finishing it on New Years Day while watching a football game on television. He said he gave a copy to Rodgers' secretary.
William Davis, Natchitoches, La., freshman, also presented an original composition at the concert. His work, "The Happy Jayhawk March," was written in honor of the summer Music and Art Camp he attended at KU in 1966. Since that time the march has become a standard at sports events.
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