KANSAN
79th Year, No. 99
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 20, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Laos province 'colonized'
SAIGON - A top American official said yesterday North Vietnam has taken over the province of Sam Neua in northern Laos and appears to be "colonizing" the area with an eye toward expanded influence after a Vietnam War settlement.
Ft. Hays goes 'dry'
FT. HAYS — A dry campus appeals to students at Ft. Hays State College. They defeated yesterday a proposal that beer be allowed on campus by a vote of 375-315.
Less than 13 per cent of the students voted, a college spokesman said.
Navy trails Russians
WASHINGTON Congressional investigators reported yesterday the U.S. Navy had deteriorated into an aging collection of worn out ships, and Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said the Pentagon lacked the money to modernize it.
In a 67-page report replete with photographs of corroding metal and wiring, the House armed services subcommittee on seapower said U.S. warships were older and smaller than those in the Soviet navy and in many cases unfit for battle.
Black Panthers prowl
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Members of the Black Panthers organization announced they would field 30 men in six autos to patrol the streets in an attempt to keep the city's policemen under surveillance.
Bill W. Whitfield, 27-year-old Panther information minister, said the patrolling would begin Friday and the Panthers in the cars would not be carrying weapons.
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Regents pass Code
By MARTHA MANGLESDORF Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA — The State Board of Regents approved the KU Senate Code at 10:53 a.m.
The Board of Regents met this morning in Topeka to consider, among other items on their agenda, the new code. Passage today by the Regents marks the final hurdle in nearly 10 months of work on the Code.
The Code, which was amended and passed by a faculty senate committee, and passed by the student body in a record vote participation referendum, Feb. 20, met the same majority approval here today by the eight-member Board.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe recommended to the Board that the charter of the governmental bodies of the University of Kansas be approved as submitted. Wescoe explained to the regents that the document before them represented a restructuring of the faculty senate and student government structures.
"It has been carefully worked over by the ASC committee guided by Ambrose E. Saricks," Wescoe said. "It calls for dissolving the All-Student Council and creating a student senate which is a much more deliberative body."
Wescoe said it made a formal arrangement of what has been a somewhat informal experiment (Continued to page 16)
Bitter debate is expected today in Senate over property tax bill
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) - A bitter floor fight was expected today in the Kansas Senate on the controversial property tax ceiling bill.
Sen. Frank S. Hodge, R-Hutchinson, chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee and the senate majority leader, said he expected to bring the bill up today. The bill was passed out of the committee yesterday, and hustled by Hodge through the legislative steps. He said he wanted to bring the matter to a head.
The fight will revolve around the philosophy of imposing the property tax lid.
Bennett opposes
the taxes are passed, the imposition of a property tax lid.
Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Prairie Village, will carry the bill as passed by the committee. It calls for mandatory, county-wide elections on income and sales taxes. Then, if
Hodge said he will try to amend the bill o impose a mandatory, statewide property tax lid first, with local option sales and income tax elections following.
Hodge has said he is irrevocably opposed to the altered bill. He said he would rather not have a lid at all than accept the runaway committee's complicated, sophisticated, lid without a lid.
The high chamber ran through 19 bills during debate yesterday, tentatively approving all of them. Six other bills were passed and sent to the senate.
Clean air compact
One of the bills passed would place Kansas in the Missouri-Kansas air quality compact to clean up the air in the Metropolitan Kansas City area. The bill must also be passed by the Missouri Legislature, where
it currently is in a senate committee.
The bill would establish a commission composed of delegations from the Federal Government, Missouri and Kansas. The commission would study pollution problems.
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies and much cooler temperatures for the Lawrence area today. Fair tonight and tomorrow. Colder tonight. High today mid 50s. Low tonight upper 20s or lower 30s. Precipitation probability near zero today and tomorrow.
Spring along Jayhawk Boulevard
Photo by Joe Bullard