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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
Family victims of murder-suicide
WESTBROOK, Maine—(UPI)—A teenaged boy apparently shot and killed his father, mother, younger sister and himself, after writing a "wild" suicide note, police discovered Tuesday.
The frozen bodies of four members of the family of Roger C. Allard were found in the bloodspattered Allard home ater a relative became worried when he could not reach them in nearly a week.
Cumberland County Atty. Robert Cram told newsmen at the scene, "four bodies were found in various parts of the house. All four were shot in the head. Their bodies were frozen stiff."
The dead were tentatively identified as Roger G. Allard and his wife, Frances, both in their 40's, their son, Peter Charles, 16, and daughter, Susan, about 12.
Atty. Gen to move for review
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Atty. Gen.
Robert Londerholm said late Tuesday he plans to file a motion in U.S. District Court Wednesday to call for a judicial review of the new senate reapportionment law.
Gov. Robert B. Docking, Tuesday, allowed the measure to become law without his signature. It reapportions the 40-district Senate which is under a federal court order to reapportion by April 1.
Docking said he failed to sign the Republican-backed measure because it allowed up to a nine per cent variance between districts and divided several Kansas towns. He said the other plan, authored by Democrat, allowed a variance of only three per cent.
"In good conscience, I cannot approve the least fair of the two bills," he said.
Londerholm said Tuesday he will file the joint motion with Rep. Thomas Van Cleave, D-Kansas City, to bring the new plan before the three-judge panel which reviewed the previous plan and retained jurisdiction.
Two rifles were found beside the boy's body, Cram said, one of 22 caliber and the other .303 caliber.
A long handwritten note was found on the kitchen table. "It's contents were pretty wild," Cram said.
The father was found on the living room floor, the mother in bed, the daughter on the floor of another bedroom and the boy on what appeared to be his bed. "There was a lot of blood everywhere," Cram said.
A fifth member of the family, Paul, 17, was a sailor in boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training center in Chicago.
Allard was a foreman at the Weyerhauser Paper Co. and his superiors told police he took Thursday off and did not show up for work after that, leading investigators to conclude the killings took place last week.
Senate refuses amendment to education bill
TOPEKA—(UPI)—An attempt to amend a minor education bill in the senate to require the teaching of "Negro culture in the United States and in the state of Kansas" in high school history courses was abandoned late Tuesday when senators agreed the matter should be handled by a senate resolution to the state school superintendent.
Most senators speaking against the amendment agreed that the history of all minority groups should be taught, but they objected to the policy of legislating school curriculums.
The amendment, offered by Sen. Curtis McClinton, D-Wichita, was withdrawn after chairman Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, of the Education Committee suggested that the committee consider such a resolution.
McClinton did not join in debate on the amendment because he had been chosen to preside over the senate for the debate portion of the two-hour session.
Marriage licenses invalid; couples are 'living in sin'
MAPLE SHADE, N.J.—(UPI) Township officials said Tuesday that all marriage licenses issued in this tiny community during the last seven years were invalid—all 671 of them.
This Valentine's Eve message resulted from a legal snag which the Township Committee tried to correct secretly since January, one official said, but found it was no use.
Former Mayor George Senior did not take the worthless marriage licenses lightly. "Thousands of people are living in sin," he said. "And they are unaware they are not married."
Township Solicitor Howard Yocum assured the 671 couples that they would not have to get married again. He said the licenses will be pulled from the files and taken to court for validation "without any trouble."
Yocum explained the invalid licenses this way: State laws say that the municipal registrar -who
fills out the licenses—must be appointed by the Township Committee. But the registrar, Mrs. Verona Macquaid, was appointed seven years ago by the Board of Health.
Yocum said the five members of the Township Committee also hold the five Board of Health seats, and they reasoned that when they appointed Mrs. Macquaid they were following the law.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Senate Education Committee late Tuesday approved a bill authorizing local school boards to pay the legal fees of board members or employees involved in court action arising from performance of their duties.
The bill would apply to teachers and other school employees or officials who are sued because of their jobs.
The committee defeated two attempts to amend the bill so that legal defense payments would apply only to board members or school administrators.
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1. President Eisenhower's Visit to Pakistan 12 min.
In the Pursuit of Excellence, the Iowa State Highway Commission will be interviewing on campus
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