THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.122
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, May 1, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
U.S. mountaineers killed
KATMANDU, Nepal - Five American mountainers and two of their native guides were reported killed today at the base of 26,975-foot Mt. Dhaulagiri.
The Nepalese Foreign Office said it had received a distress call from the 10-man climbing team asking for a helicopter rescue. Bad weather kept the 'copter from carrying out its mission.
No details of the accident were available.
Chichester-Clark elected
BELFAST James Chichester-Clark, a moderate on the issue of equal rights for Northern Ireland's Roman Catholics, today was elected premier. He defeated hardliner Brian Faulkner by one vote.
Chichester-Clark won the governing Unionist party's runoff 17 to 16 to replace his cousin, Terence M. O'Neill, as premier of this country torn by religious strife.
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Officials say arsonist 'probably' set Yuk fire
Fire department officials said yesterday the fire which destroyed the Mr. Yuk-Up club last week was probably started by an arsonist.
Deputy Fire Marshall Lloyd Davies said, "We have exhausted all reasonable possibilities of accidental or natural causes for this type of fire."
The fire, which caused an estimated $240,000 damage to the Yuk-Up and Yuk-Down also caused extensive damage to the adjacent Duckwall's Store in the Hillcrest Shopping Center, 9th & Iowa Streets.
The fire which started near the front door of the Yuk-Up spread through an area described by club owner Richard Wright as, "as fireproof as we could make it."
The fire was first detected at 12:58 a.m., April 23 by a member of the "Sound Sircus" a rock band which was practicing in the Yuk-Down.
Wright said yesterday the clean-up effort is coming along quickly. He expects to have the
Yuk-Down open for business as soon as the water damage in the downstairs area can be cleaned up and the building safely sealed off from further leakage upstairs.
Wright said the exact date the club will re-open, "depends on a million things." He said he will make no major changes in the club during repairs.
C. K. Kean, district manager of Duckwall's, the store damaged in
the blaze, said he expects the store to be reopened for regular business in approximately six weeks.
The store is holding a smoke sale beginning Thursday to clear water and smoke damaged merchandise from the store, he said.
Fire officials expect results of laboratory tests on material from the fire which was sent to he Kansas Bureau of Investigation returned within a week.
Lending bill signed
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) — Gov.
Robert B. Docking late yesterday
signed last-minute amendments to the so-called "truth-in-lending" law and the state mandatory meat inspection act.
The governor said he still was not satisfied with changes in the "truth-in-lending" law, and he would ask the 1970 legislature to work it over again.
amendments to both measures April 26, the last day of the session.
The legislature made last minute
April 20th the last day of the season
The changes in the meat inspection measure were minor technical changes, but the amendments to the "truth-in-lending" measure came after a critical opinion by Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell.
The purpose of the measure is to bring the state into conformity with federal standards.
Pompidou receives Gaullist support from Republican Independent party
PARIS (UPI) - The key Republican Independents, led by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, swung their support behind Gaullist candidate Georges Pompidou yesterday, making him the man to beat in the election to find a
Students hold Presidio march
Approximately 500 students gathered in front of Flint Hall at 10:20 this morning to begin an on-campus march, ending at Wescoe Hole, to protest the Army's unjust treatment of the Presidio 27.
The marchers reenacted the Presidio "mutiny," a sit-down protest by 27 military prisoners held in the San Francisco Presidio stockade who demonstrated against the shotgun slaying of a fellow inmate by a prison guard.
The campus demonstration ran smoothly. Marchers remained organized throughout the rally designed to gain support for their 1:30 p.m. Saturday march in Kansas City, Mo.
Dave Awbrey, newly-elected student body president and Hutchinson junior, appeared at the rally to endorse the group's action.
"KU students are no longer interested only in parties, but also in presidential campaigns. They are no longer interested in going out and drinking, but in going into ghettos and programs like the New Jersey Project," Awbrey said.
successor to Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
The 61-member National Assembly group of the party voted unanimous endorsement of Pompidou, meaning that all Gaullist factions and allied groups now had rallied under the banner of the 57-year-old ex-premier less than three days after the fall of De Gaule from power.
The decision of the independent group, which usually supports the Gaulist in parliament, was significant because it was made with the full assent of Giscard d'Estaing. Giscard's decision to oppose De Gaulle in the referendum was considered partly responsible for the general's defeat and resignation Sunday.
The Republican Independents
acted after Pompidou, while vowing to remain faithful to De Gaulle's basic political principles, told their group he would be open to fresh ideas on many issues, including Britain's attempts to join the Common Market, repeatedly vetoed by De Gaulle.
In other developments on the French scene stemming from the dramatic resignation of De Gaulle:
A left-wing split widened as a Socialist party spokesman announced Alain Savary, an independent left-wing politician, would vie with Gaston Defferre, the self-announced Socialist candidate, for the support of the non-Communist left-wing.
The caretaker French government banned all public demonstrations in Paris on May Day.
Philadelphia policeman testifies in Wichita case
A Philadelphia, Pa., police officer testified yesterday in the trial of nine Negro men charged with extortion that an organization called the Black Guard existed in this city.
The prosecution maintains seven of the defendants belong to the militant group and were called to Wichita to discipline two Model Cities officials.
When questioned by Sedgwick County Attorney Keith Sanborn, the police officer, Lt. George Fenel, testified he knew of no branches of the organization west of Chicago.
Fenel said the only thing that might link the guard to Kansas was the name of a Kansas City man found among papers taken from Max Stanford, leader of the Guard in Pennsylvania.
He said he had found nothing among 200 to 300 pounds of Guard material that had a listing of a Kansas chapter of the organization.
The defense attorney, Chester Lewis, objected to the testimony, arguing it was highly prejudicial since the state had never proved the defendants were members of the Black Guard.
Photo by Ron Bishop
Law queen finalists
Eight of the ten law queen finalists paused before the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green yesterday. The queen will be named at Law-day activities Saturday. The girls are (front row, from left): Carol Odehnal, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore; Pam Hoviland, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Kathy Henry, El Dorado sophomore; Carol Boney, Storm Lake, Iowa, sophomore; (back row, from left) Ruby Betty, Hazelton junior; Barbara Freeman, Pratt junior; Martha Noland, Kansas City sophomore, and Janie Thayer, Hutchinson junior.