THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.112
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 17, 1969
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Card burners aren't I-A
NEW YORK - A federal judge has ruled a local draft board cannot reclassify a registrant 1A for burning his draft card or other violations of the Selective Service System's delinquency regulations.
Judge John F. Dooling Jr. made the ruling in the trial of Noel Stanley Eisdorfer, 29, of Queens.
Dooling said such reclassification violated the registrant's "due process" guarantee.
Harvard dean has stroke
A Harvard University dean who has been in the forefront of officials dealing with a student strike suffered a mild stroke yesterday. The strike continued, with most of Harvard's 4,800 undergraduates staying away from classes.
Franklin L. Ford, 48 Harvard's dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital suffering from what was described as a mild stroke.
Aid for flooded areas
WASHINGTON (UPI) The federal government came to the aid of five flood-wracked states in the Midwest as the upper Mississippi River and smaller prairie streams hurled record or near-record crests at protective dikes.
Small Business Administrator Hilary Sandoval Jr. officially declared parts of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin disaster area. Home owners, businesses, churches and charitable institutions whose property is damaged by floods thus become eligible for federal loans.
Washburn, Topeka balk at Reconstruction sale
TOPEKA - Two peddlers of the Reconstruction Press will attempt to sell their newspaper on the Washburn University campus and in downtown Topeka today in spite of prohibitions from university officials and city attorney William Glenn.
Dennis Duermeier, who is not a Washburn student, and Daniel Duncan, Washburn student, faced a sales setback Tuesday when they attempted to merchandise their wares on the campus, Duermeier said yesterday.
Gerald Barker, vice president for development, university and alumni relations, stopped the pair and told them Reconstruction could not be sold on the Washburn campus without the permission of the vice president for student affairs, Lloyd L. Dodson, Duermeier said.
Since Dodson was out of town, they contacted his assistant, John E. Triggs. Duermeier said Triggs
told them he could give them permission, but he would not.
"He gave no reason, but he gave me the impression that he felt it was his duty to protect the students from Reconstruction," Duermeier said.
Triggs said last night permission would have to be granted by Dodson.
Duermeier and Duncan then stationed themselves on Kansas Avenue in downtown Topeka, where they were shortly approached by an unidentified city commissioner.
He asked them what they were selling and whether they had a permit to peddle. Since they did not have a permit, they asked him where they could procure one.
On his direction, they attempted to obtain this permit from the city clerk's office, where the city treasurer, Dorothy Marker, said no permits were available and no one
could sell anything on the city streets.
"She said the paper was lewd," Duermeier said.
The next stop was at city attorney William Glenn's office. He told them they were officially peddlers, and needed a peddler license, which comes for $3 a day, $15 a week, $40 a month, or $100 a year, Duermeier said.
Yesterday Duermeier and Duncan returned to he city attorney's office, where they were shown several city ordinances in an attempt to determine whether they could sell Reconstruction.
"They found nothing to keep us from selling the paper," Duermeier said.
Glenn was not available for comment yesterday.
Reconstruction Press has been sold on the KU campus since its inception without reprisals from the administration, faculty, or city officials.
Budget increased
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) — Tentative figures released late Wednesday showed the 1969 legislature raised Gov. Robert B. Docking's budget by nearly $30 million to $741 million.
The omnibus appropriation bill of $29.8 million was approved by the legislature late yesterday as it wound up.
Rep. Shelby Smith, R-Wichita,
was more successful, however. He
amended in $42,966 for the
training of penal guards, game
protectors, and probation and parole
officers at the police training
academy.
The appropriation bill, one of the last measures considered in the legislature, funds programs and
items not considered in the governə's recommended budget.
Tentative figures showed the legislature increased the governor's recommended budget of $711.3 million for fiscal 1970 to $741 million.
The omnibus bill met with floor argument and amendment which held up its adoption in the house.
Defense Department reports concern for lives of crew of U.S. Navy plane
'WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two pieces of shrapnel-scarred fuselage, a flare and a parachute were plucked from the Sea of Japan yesterday during a Soviet-American search for the U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane that apparently was shot down by North Korean jets.
The Defense Department reported "concern for the lives of the 31 crew members of the EC121 has been deepened. There is no world of any survivors."
President Nixon conferred privately with his leading military, diplomatic and intelligence advisers yesterday. He was expected to report to the nation on the major international incident at a previously arranged White House
Debate tonight
Presidential and vice presidential candidates representing the three major campus political parties will discuss campaign issues at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The public debate is sponsored by the University Daily Kansan.
news conference starting at 10:30 a.m. CST Friday.
It was not know what the President planned to do about the loss of the $2,750,000 plane and its crew over what the Pentagon insisted was international air space.
Thirty-six hours after the aircraft was last heard from, about 10 p.m. CST Monday, the Pentagon announced that "all evidence now available" led authorities to believe it was shot down about midnight that night by North Korean planes, possibly Russian-built MIGs.
It stressed it had evidence confirming that the EC121, loaded with sophisticated electronic monitoring gear, was "far outside" any air space claimed by the Communists during its mission.
The Pentagon offered no explanation why the unarmed plane, a military version of the triple-tailed Super Constellation, was not given a fighter escort during its intended eight-hour, 30-minute flight.
One possible objection to the fighter escort would be the provocative nature it might suggest to the North Koreans, especially at a time of increasing tensions along the 38th parallel
Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.
Another consideration doubtless was the enormous expense and complexity of fueling the swifter jet escorts to keep them aloft with the 300-mile-per-hour EC121, which can fly 20 hours without refueling.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers told an editors' convention here that Nixon would "discuss the matter" at his Friday news conference.
Meanwhile, some members of Congress demanded the United States take some kind of retaliatory action against North Korea for its downing of the plane in international air space.
Rep. William L. Dickinson, R-Ala., recalled President Nixon's campaign promise that he would not tolerate abuse from "a fourth rate naval power."
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, calling for top-level control of reconnaissance activity, said he believed the EC121 shot down over the Sea of Japan with the apparent loss of 31 American lives was carrying out an intelligence mission without Nixon's knowledge.
Photo by Bob Messman
A mile of rods
Engineering students complete preparation of a space frame truss, the archway entrance to this year's Engineering Exposition. The truss is constructed of almost a mile of welded iron rods. Standing in front of Learned Hall, it will be the scene of the exposition's opening ceremonies tomorrow noon.