AMA Defends Planned Boycott
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — (UPI) The chief spokesman for the American Medical Association today defended the threatened boycott against President Kennedy's Medicare program by a group of New Jersey doctors.
"The fundamental motivation for action of these physicians has been completely overlooked in the battle
AMA Asks for Investigation
CHICAGO — (UPI) The executive vice president of the American Medical Association (AMA) called today for a federal investigation of Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff's tactics in promoting medical care for the aged.
F. J. L. Blasingame said Ribicoff and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare had apparently committed a criminal act in publishing a booklet backing proposed health care for the aged through the Social Security system.
He sent a telegram to Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy urging him to
"make a thorough investigation into
this matter and to institute proper
measures if federal laws have been
broken."
Blasingame said the welfare department "has used tax funds, collected from everyone, to propagandize for a bill which many people and many groups have vigorously opposed."
for headlines," Dr. Edward R. Annis of Miami, Fla., Chairman of the AMA's speakers bureau, said in an address here.
At the same time, a group of elderly citizens of New Jersey joined the Kennedy administration in denouncing the doctors' resolutions
Stolen Musket Is Returned
An 18th century musket, stolen last month from the KU Natural History Museum, has been returned—slightly damaged because of the thief's ignorance.
The gun, a 1790 Bond trade musket, is one of only two known to be in existence and is of great scientific value in identifying gun parts from archeological sites.
AN ANONYMOUS CALL earlier this week to Sgt. Charles Hanna of the KU police revealed that the gun was hidden in some bushes near Bailey Annex. Carlyle S. Smith, professor of anthropology who kept the gun in his office, was out of town this week and did not know of the gun's return until Tuesday.
The thief apparently tried to pry the barrel from the stock, but was unfamiliar with the gun's construction. The under-barrel pin guide was pulled loose and the wood splintered in several places.
Prof. Smith said, "That kind of damage was done through ignorance. The thief wasn't trying to do malicious damage. He just didn't know how to take the gun apart."
"I DON'T BELIEVE the person who took it thought it was anything but a curio. When he took the musket, he didn't realize it had any scientific value."
Prof. Smith said he could repair the musket in a short time by gluing the broken wooden parts and adjusting the metal parts.
The incident is the third such theft from the University since December when a 17th century bronze toad was pried away from its mounting in Weaver Court next to the Art Museum. Less than two months later a small statue of the god Zeus, a piece of first or second century B.C. sculpture, was stolen from an office in the Art Museum. Both were returned within a few days after the thefts.
pledging not to treat patients whose hospital bills would be paid under the King-Anderson bill, which ties medacal care for the aged to the social security system.
IN REMARKS PREPARED for delivery at the 11th annual pharmaceutical conference at Rutgers University here. Annis, who discussed the AMA viewpoint on Medicare with President Kennedy last week, said:
"At no time was any threat made or intended to deny care to those in need of it. In fact, it was to defend the principles of quality medicine which prompted this action."
Dr. J. Bruce Henricksen, chief surgeon at Point Pleasant Hospital in Point Pleasant, N.J., has from the start argued that he would continue to treat charity patients at no charge.
But he has asserted that he would treat no patient whose hospital bill was to be paid under the King-Anderson bill, if it becomes law. He said he hoped his movement would stall the bill in congress.
ANNIS SAID THAT Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff's content that the Henricksen group of 250 doctors were trying to "black-mail" the congress was "false and misleading."
"The Secretary knows better and if he was genuinely interested in the health of our people he would cease his persistent distortion of fact and falsification of the record," Annis said.
President Kennedy and his Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg, both defended the King-Anderson bill in statements Tuesday.
The chief executive's manner was calm contrasted to the seaching denunciation of the proposed boycott by Goldberg in an address before the United Auto Workers.
GOLDBERG CALLED the action by some 250 New Jersey doctors a "disgrace to the country." He said physicians have sworn an oath to serve anyone who requires medical attention and have no right to violate that law.
"They cannot say that when there is a national law on medical care—and there will be such a law—they will defy that law," he said.
Goldberg echoed the President's confidence that Congress would pass the administration bill before the end of the year.
The President, in a remark obviously aimed at the boycott move started by Dr. J. Bruce Henriksen of Point Pleasant Hospital, said he was confident "the great majority, in fact all doctors, will treat those who may be covered by this national program."
HENRIKSEN CIRCULATED a petition among his colleagues to boycott the Medicare plan if it is passed by Congress. He since has claimed the support of 250 doctors in New Jersey as well as physicians in at least six other states.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, May 9, 1962
59th Year, No.135
Sale to Continue Despite Question on Seating Plan
Bv Bill Sheldon
Applications for football reserve seats will continue to be accepted although the plan under which the program is operating may be illegal.
The illegality of the plan arises because of two changes instituted this spring by Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and new student body president. Under the ASC constitution, he does not have the power to make the changes.
- The maximum size of a bloo is 25 seats. The seating bill passed last year does not specify the size of a bloo.
- The first-come first-served system specified in the seating bill is not being used this year. The
The changes are:
selection of seats is being made by a random drawing.
Dickson has said he realized that his action was not right and tried to get the council to approve the changes at an ASC picnic last night. However, a quorum was not presntg.
HE SAID HE PLANS to have a resolution of intent passed at the final ASC meeting next Tuesday. A special council meeting would be called during the first week of classes to make the revised plan legal.
Applications for tickets began being accepted yesterday and the schedule calls for students to receive tickets for the remainder of the week.
Earl Falkenstien, athletic business
Senate Halts Move Against Filibuster
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The Senate today decisively rejected a bipartisan move to curb a Southern talkathon against the administration's voting rights bill but the leadership immediately launched a new effort to gag debate.
In rapid succession, the Senate voted down one cloture move and then refused overwhelmingly to kill the voting rights measure itself
At the present time, Prof. Jones is studying and translating primarily the Sumerian texts which are concerned with economics, especially the delivery of grain, animals and oil, in the southern division of ancient Babylonia.
Tom B. Jones, professor of ancient history at the University of Minnesota is studying the tablets in Watson Library.
The library obtained the clay tablets in 1915 from Edgar J. Banks, an archaeologist, who discovered them while making an expedition to the Near East.
Clay Tablets May Yield Old Secrets
AT THIS POINT, SENATE LEADERS filed another cloture petition in a renewed effort to halt the two-week-old Southern talkathon.
Prof. Jones expects that the tablets, which are written in the Sumerian and Neo-Babylonian languages, will help him to reconstruct the nature of these ancient civilizations.
The second petition was filed Southerners objected to an agreement which would have brought a final vote on the bill in another nine hours.
After the 54 to 43 vote against cloture — gag rule — the Senate voted 64 to 33 to defeat Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield's motion to table his measure, which would outlaw unfair literacy tests in Federal elections.
The climax of the series of votes meant that the Senate will vote finally either Friday or Monday, with the leadership indicating a preference for Monday.
The complete collection includes the six tablets written in the Sumerian language, four written in Neo-Babylonian and one other which Prof. Jones has not studied.
Before filing his second cloture petition, Mansfield tried to get unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill to nine hours — starting today. But Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., leader of the Southern bloc objected.
Six Sumerian clay tablets which have been in Watson Library since 1915—untranslated—may soon lose their ancient secrets.
MANSFIELD AND SENATE GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., co-sponsor of the legislation, opposed their own tabling motion but offered it to get a clearer vote on the merits of the issue.
Russell, bringing some titters or laughter from the Republican side, explained that he felt the opponents of the bill had made such "splendid progress" in educating the country he felt the debate should go on.
Senate leaders had settled on the tabling strategy as a test of opinion on the bill itself because such moves can not be debated.
MANSFIELD AND DIRKSEN had said previously that they would make the tabling motion only if the cloture move polled a majority of Senators present.
But Mansfield announced at almost the last minute that the battle plan had been changed and that he would seek a test on the bill itself regardless of the outcome of the cloture move.
The two-week-old controversy centers on a bill to outlaw unfair state literacy tests and make a sixth grade education proof of literacy for voting in Federal elections.
Before the vote. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., told the Senate there should be no mistake — "the vote on cloture in reality is a vote for or against the merits of the literacy bill." Keating also said he would press for a change in the Senate's filibuster rules at the very first opportunity regardless of the outcome.
HE SAID THE PRESENT TWO-thirds vote needed to invoke cloture ran counter to all precepts of Democratic government and that civil rights advocates for too long a time had been "stymied by antiquated Senate rules."
Southern Democratic Sens. Herman E. Talmadge, Ga., and Spessard L. Holland, Fla., complained that the press had not fully carried the South's story.
"This bill," Holland declared, "clearly violates not only the wording but the intent and meaning of the constitution."
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-NY., a leading proponent of the bill, contended that its "constitutionality has been clearly demonstrated." Javits said literacy tests are used to deprive Negroes of the 15th amendment's voting guarantees.
manager, said that although there is some question as to the legality of the new program there will be no change in the accepting of reserved seat applications.
Dickson said that proper steps were not taken to legalize the changes because he "did not have time."
"I DID NOT KNOW the changes were illegal," he said today. "If they are, that is the Student Council's problem; we're just carrying out their plan. Any changes will have to be made by the students."
Dickson was chairman of the seating committee on the old council and was in charge of running the plan.
He said since he was campaigning for the presidency he did not have the time to introduce legislation to the council to approve the changes.
Weather
Severe thunderstorms were forecast today for portions of extreme southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas and western Missouri.
Forecasters at Kansas City said, "Thunderstorms are expected to increase in number and intensity this afternoon in eastern Nebraska and western Missouri with a few of those becoming severe in an area along and 60 miles either side of a line from Beatrice, Neb., to Springfield, Mo., during the period 3 to 9 p.m. today.
"Large hail and damaging surface winds may be expected in the most intense of these thunderstorms."
Council OKs Intern' Plan
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Legislative Council today reluctantly approved a move that will put four Democratic political science graduate students to work in the next session of the Republican-controlled legislature.
The committee which passed out the budget for approval and most of those speaking either for or against the intern program expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of choice they had in choosing the interns.
The Council, after a morning of hot debate, approved a $10,000 grant to provide legislative internships for graduate students from Wichita University, the University of Kansas and St. Louis University.
A motion which would have deleted the names of James W. Guenther of Wichita University, John Robert Snider of the University of Kansas and Robert Daniel Roache and Donald P. Sprengel, both of St. Louis University, from the program was defeated on a roll call vote of 17-8.
Opponents based their fight on the fact that out of some 15 applicants for the five available internships, the University of Kansas political science department selected only one native Kansan, no Republican and no one representing the other two eligible professions—journalism and law.
They said the two St. Louis University students were natives of Chicago. Guenther actually hails from Bozeman, Mont., and Snider had worked in Kansas Democratic headquarters.
It was not the first time the Legislature battled over the intern program. Last year two nominees for the program were rejected when it was learned that both were Democratic in their politics and that under a plan proposed by a University of Kansas professor they would work hand in hand with the Speaker of the House and the Lieutenant Governor, both of whom are Republicans.