THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.120
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas.
Tuesday, April 29, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Ouake rocks California
LOS ANGELES - An earthquake, centered in the Salton Sea, rocked a large area of Southern California yesterday, swaying tall buildings in the Los Angeles area.
Pueblo trials unlikely
Seismologists at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena estimated the magnitude of the quake at between 5:25 and 6 on the Richter scale—severe enough to cause some damage in populated areas.
WASHINGTON — Although the skipper and crew of the Pueblo "appeared" to break the prohibitions in the armed forces' code of conduct, prosecution of them is unlikely, two top Navy officers have indicated.
After hearing testimony from Vice Adm. Charles K. Duncan, chief of naval personnel, and Rear Adm. Joseph B. McDevitt, Navy judge advocate general, Rep. Otis G. Pike concluded that prosecution of the sailors for the confessions they signed and broadcast would be ruled out.
D.C. home rule asked
WASHINGTON - President Nixon, asking for home rule in the nation's capital, urged Congress to approve a constitutional amendment giving the District of Columbia at least one representative in the House and perhaps two in the Senate.
District residents have for years been seeking home rule, only to be thwarted by members of Congress reluctant to surrender their authority over the city.
Welfare message near
WASHINGTON - HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch has said he expected the Nixon administration to present within a matter of weeks an outline for federal minimum welfare benefits.
--number of student season seas available at student prices came after nearly two years of work, with the continued demands and efforts of students channeled through the ASC, von Ende said.
Supreme Court to rule on punitive draft status
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to rule next term on the government's use of punitive draft reclassifications against defiant and disruptive war protesters.
At issue was the directive by Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hersey that local draft boards should consider reclassifying registrants if they participate in illegal activities that interfere with operation of the system.
The court announced that appeals by two youths involved in such cases will be heard in the next term, which starts in September. A written opinion will be handed down subsequently.
The appeals were brought on behalf of David Earl Gutknecht of Gaylord, Minn., and Timothy J. Breen of Bridgeport, Conn.
Gutknecht contended that his order to report for induction was illegally speeded up after he dropped his registration and classification cards at the feet of a U.S. marshal on Oct. 16, 1967, while participating in an antidraft demonstration in Minneapolis.
He was later convicted of failing to submit to induction and sentenced to four years in jail. His attorney cited the Hershey directive in the appeal, which was rejected by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 20.
The Justice department argued that Gutknecht might have been called up just as quickly under ordinary circumstances.
Breen, an undergraduate at Berkeley School of Music in Boston, turned over his draft registration card to a clergyman to show his dissent to the war and his local board reclassified him.
He then filed suit not only to block his induction but also claiming $20,000 in damages. Lower courts held Breen could not challenge the draft until he actually was inducted or until he was prosecuted as Gutknecht was.
Senate succeeds ASC tonight
B'ball seats up 1,000
The Athletic Seating Board has announced that the number of basketball season tickets available to students next season will be increased from 7,000 to 8,000. Student season tickets will remain $4.00.
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and All-Student Council (ASC) chairman made known the Board's decision as released to Dave Miller, Eudora sophomore and ASC representatives on the Athletic Seating Board.
The addition of 1,000 seats to the student section was possible partly as a result of a cutback from 500 to 250 in per game student tickets sold at 50 cents. However, the additional seating is 500 short of the original ASC request.
The agreement to increase the
Von Ende explained the ASC had hoped to affect some change in the student seating arrangements in time for this last season, but the attmempts were unsuccessful. The major roadblock was financial—the bulk of additional seats had to be annexed from those available to the general public, which sold for more than the student tickets. The decrease in net income, which supports some of the individual sports and athletic scholarships, had to be balanced.
The Board's decision will be reported at the final ASC meeting tonight, where it will require a
majority vote to carry. It has been placed on the agenda along with a report from the election committee on the recent student body election, its results and recommendations for future elections.
ASC old business will be culminated by the election of three representatives to the new Student Senate provided for under the new Senate Code.
With the completion of old business, the new student body president and vice-president will be sworn in by Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior and outgoing student body president.
Members of the Student Senate will be sworn in and any new business, primarily discussion on internal organization, will be heard.
High water line
Photo by Ron Bishop
The overflowing Wakarusa River inundates the property around the E. O. Riley farm south of Lawrence. See page 2 for stories and another picture on local and area floods.
Sen. Fulbright starts germ warfare probe
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled an unannounced, closed meeting tomorrow on U.S. stockpiles of germ warfare weapons, congressional sources have reported.
The meeting was seen as certain to figure in the fight over the administration's antiballistic missile (ABM) proposals, strongly opposed by Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark.
Sources said Fulbright had summoned Matthew Meselson, a professor of Biology at Harvard University who served on the U.S. disarmament commission, to meet with the committee. Also invited was Rep. Richard D. McCarthy, D-N.Y., who has demanded a congressional investigation of America's germ warfare defenses and weapons.
Shortly after McCarthy told a news conference last week that the Defense Department has a stockpile of germ warfare
weapons sufficient to kill millions of persons. Fulbright wrote the congressman: "I have suspected this stockpiling has been going on, but I knew very little about it."
Defense rests in Harrison case
WICHITA - The defense rested its case in the trial of nine black men accused in Sedgwick County District Court of extortion and robbery.
Chester Lewis, defense attorney, called his last witness, David Doty, yesterday. The El Dorado city manager and former official in the Wyandotte County Poverty Program testified on the reputation of Fred Johnson, one of the defendants.
Leonard Harrison, director of the Lawrence Ballard Community Center, also is a defendant.