KANSAN
79th Year, No.107
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 10, 1969
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Mamie is beneficiary
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower named his widow, Mamie the principal beneficiary of his will.
All the former president's official decorations, flags, memorabilia and papers were left to the Eisenhower Center in his boyhood home town of Abilene, Kan. The remainder of the estate was left in trust for the primary benefit of Mrs. Eisenhower.
Alexander quits OEO
WASHINGTON - Clifford L. Alexander Jr., complaining of a "crippling lack of administration support," resigned yesterday as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission less than two weeks after the Senate Republican leader Everett Dirkson, R-Ill., threatened to get him fired.
Tobacco to be taxed
TOPEKA - The Senate yesterday passed by a 27-10 margin a bill which would impose a 35 per cent excise tax on all tobacco products except cigarettes.
The bill is one of a series which are designed to raise about $15 million to finance a recent increase in the salaries of most state employees.
Nixon moves Head Start
WASHINGTON President Nixon announced yesterday he would take the popular preschool Head Start program away from the Office of Economic Opportunity and place it in a new office in the department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Russians send more ships
NAPLES, Italy - Seven Soviet warships steamed through the strait of Gibraltar from the Atlantic Ocean into the Mediterranean yesterday, the U.S. Navy said.
They said it was the first time the Russians had reinforced in strength their Mediterranean fleet from the Atlantic.
There has been no change in the readiness position of the U.S. 6th Fleet. Routine surveillance and training exercises continue.
Westmoreland supports US investment in ABM
MANHATTAN (UPI) — Gen. William Westmoreland believes Communist China will have an intercontinental ballistic missile in 18 months, he told a Kansas State University audience yesterday.
Westmoreland said he feels the United States should "make an investment now" in anti-ballastic missiles "so we will have the capacity as the threat goes."
He said he also was sure "the system will work and will have no negative impact on the arms limitation talks because the ABM is designed to protect a second-strike capability rather than cities."
Westmoreland's talk, heard by about 4,500 students was interrupted by a brief scuffle over a Viet Cong flag.
The banner, hung on a balcony, was guarded by four bearded young men. Another young man leaped into the group, united one of the strings holding the flag and was working on the second before one of the group grabbed the flag and prevented it from falling. The four then weighted the flag with their bodies. However they folded it and left after a second group of students formed nearby and appeared to be discussing the situation.
A large number of state highway patrolmen were in he auditorium and there were no major incidents.
At the main entrance four persons wrapped, like mummies, in white gauze handed out leaflets which read, in part: "I am a corpse. I am the man who died. I am the GI sent to kill by liars. I am the baby burned by napalm, the woman whose house was put to the torch."
Westmoreland received a standing ovation after his address. When it ended Dr. James McCain, president of the university, apologized publicly for the earlier interruption but said "you know now, general, where the overwhelming majority stand."
The Army Chief of Staff and former commander in Vietnam said the Army can prevent a guerilla army from achieving its military objectives, but it cacannot resolve the political problems from which an insurgency is derived.
Speaking only about 50 miles from he hometown and burial place of the late President Eisenhower, Westmoreland said the Vietnam war has demonstrated a need for a far-seeing leadership of the type provided by Eisenhower, both in the Army and as president.
Following his address, Westmoreland flew by helicopter to Abilene to visit the Eisenhower library and museum and the chapel where the former president was buried a week ago.
Action expected on work bill today
TOPEKA (UPI) - Atty. Gen.
Kent Frizzell late yesterday
re-affirmed his opinion that the
proposed right to work bill is
constitutional.
Frizzell had been asked for his opinion by Gov. Robert B. Docking. Frizzell said the bill would be constitutional and would not apply to "federal enclave" in the state, such as the sunflower ordinance plant in Johnson County.
The bill has been passed by the house and senate and is in the governor's office waiting further action. Docking has scheduled a press conference for 9:30 a.m.
today and is expected to announce his action on the measure.
Frizzell said, "on March 18, 1969, we, the attorney general's office, issued an opinion stating our belief that house bill No. 1179 is constitutional. We now reaffirm that opinion."
Frizzell said the only questionable part of the bill was a section which gave Kansas the right to regulate businesses which were involved in interstate commerce.
After citing several court cases, Frizzel said "It is apparent that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided there is an area, affecting
interstate commerce, in which the state courts still may exercise jurisdiction under their own state labor laws."
Frizzell was not so certain whether the law would cover "federal enclaves" in the state, such as the Sunflower Ordinance.
The bill prohibits any employer from denying employment to any person because of membership or non-membership in any labor organization. The bill, which takes its language out of the Kansas Constitution, also provides a criminal penalty for violation of the prohibition.
Fraternity offers house for high school tutoring
Phi Delta Theta fraternity will turn its house over to disadvantaged high school graduates during the summers, said Richard Wellman, Alden sophomore and Phi Delt's Interfraternity Council (IFC) representative.
Wellman said the fraternity house would be used in a tutorial program for eastern Kansas high school graduates who wish to go to KU. The program would help these disadvantaged youths to adjust to a college learning atmosphere, he said.
"We're showing in this way that KU's Greeks have social consciences.
"Plans for the program grew out of talks between the Black
Student Union (BSU) and the Independent Student Party (ISP) representatives," he said.
Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson junior and ISP presidential candidate, said several KU teaching assistants and members of Kansas City community action groups have volunteered to donate their time to the project.
The program, he said, will be financed by the BSU, KU's black fraternities, the Ballard Community Center, Kansas City community groups, and the KU Student Senate.
The students, who will be drawn from disadvantaged areas in eastern Kansas' black communities, Mexican-American areas, and Indian reservations,
"will support themselves through jobs which, we hope, will be supplied by the University," he said.
Awbrey said the program "should be in operation by the summer of 1970."
Weather
Sunny and mild with light northerly winds is the U.S. Weather Bureau's forecast for the Lawrence area today. High today near 70. Low tonight 40 to 45. Sunny and warmer tomorrow. Precipitation probabilities near zero through tomorrow.
Model United Nations to run through Saturday
About 200 high school and college students registered last night for the ninth annual session of the Model United Nations at KU. sponsored by the KU-Y.
After registration the delegates, representing six blocs, met to decide upon the policies they would uphold concerning such issues as the Arab-Israeli crisis, and the question of Chinese representation in the UN, nuclear disarmament and arms control, the problem of southern Rhodesia, world population control and Korean aggression.
Groups represented in the bloc discussions were Communists countries, Nato, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Arabia and the neutral countries.
A report of each bloc's policies were scheduled to be given this morning from 9:30 to 11:00 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Tomorrow's schedule includes a session of the General Assembly from 8:30 to noon and from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Ballroom. A diplomatic reception is scheduled tonight from 8 to midnight in the Big Eight Room at the Eldridge Hotel.
Saturday the Model UN will have a concluding session of the General Assembly from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in the Ballroom.
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