Group slates demands
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Simons said he and Thomas Rehorn, director of the Wesley Foundation, sent a telegram to Robert L. Brock, president of Inn Operations Inc, listing five demands:
- The rehiring of the employee who was fired and two other employees who resigned since.
Giving back pay to the women for the time they were not employed at the Holiday Inn.
Human relations training for Inn Operations, Inc. employees.
- A meeting between Brock and Simons at 10 a.m. yesterday at the Wesley Foundation, 1314 Oread.
- Immediate dismissal of Anderson.
Brock did not attend the meeting
yesterday because he said he was out of town or a planned business trip.
"I wouldn't go, anyway," he said.
The group voted to meet at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at the Wesley Foundation to prepare for a possible demonstration that night, if 'its demands were not met.
Simons then asked for a vote on whether or not to send representatives to the meeting this morning in Topeka.
The group elected to send Simons, Rehorn, Steele and Courtney Jones, Lawrence resident, to the meeting, and selected a committee to plan strategy for the next demonstration.
Members of the committee are: Dick Baker, 3041 W. 7th; Herman Lujan, associate professor of political science; Larry Yackle, Paola law student; Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo.,
graduate student; Jo Durand, Bartlesville, Okla., senior; Ron Mann, Hollywood, Calif., graduate student; Jinny Sloan, field secretary for the National University Christian Movement, and the four representatives to the meeting in Topeka today.
Homer Floyd, state director of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, said the meeting today was to hear from Harvey Feldman, executive vice president of Inn Operations, Inc., concerning that organization's side of the story.
Peace talks stymied
other side to put aside hopes of improving its situation militarily, and improving its position through propaganda, in favor of getting down to the serious business of negotiating."
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After the meeting at the Wesley Foundation, Lujan said, "The political science department has decided not to house people who are invited for interviews at the Holiday Inn, for their own comfort and convenience, until the matter is resolved. The recruiting committee, of which I am chairman, decided on this temporary policy."
essentially are demands for an immediate unilateral surrender."
The talks became stalemated during the second session when the United States and South Vietnam proposed the conference begin by negotiating a de-escalation of the war.
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong rejected this, and demanded the United States unilaterally and unconditionally withdraw its troops from South Vietnam.
Elaborating on this point, the spokesman said the U.S. negotiating team, headed by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, found it "very discouraging each Thursday to face another formulation from both delegations on the other side of what
Israeli officials are visiting in Germany
MUNICH - The first Israeli parliamentary delegation to visit West Germany arrived yesterday, beginning a 12-day tour of the country that will include talks with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and other government officials in Bonn. The seven-man delegation was headed by Chairman David Hacohen of the Knesset (parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee.
Teens try age18 vote
WICHTITA (UPI) — Plans for a drive to obtain 10,000 signatures on petitions to lower the voting age in Kansas were announced yesterday by Carol Bell, state secretary of Kansas Teen-Age Republicans.
Miss Bell said two sets of petitions, one for persons of voting age and another for those under 21, will be circulated for completion before the legislature meets next year.
The petitions will support a ban introduced in the House by Reps. Jerry Harper, R-Wichita, and James P. Buchele, D-Cedar Vale,
Iowa House may ban sunflower as a noxious weed
TOPEKA (UPI) — Gov. Robert B. Docking has rushed to the defense of the state flower—the sunflower—which may be banned by Iowa as a noxious weed.
The Iowa House of Representatives voted Friday to place the plant on the secondary noxious weed list in Iowa.
"Kansans are friendly and tolerant people, but this slap at our official state flower is difficult to ignore," Docking said.
City may apply to government for federal funds
An application asking for federal funds to assist in the redevelopment of downtown Lawrence will be presented to the Lawrence City Commission today.
City staff members, architects and consultants hired by the city will present the application to the commission during its regular meeting at 2 p.m. in the City Hall Commission Room.
If the commission approves the application, it will be submitted to the Ft. Worth, Tex., offices of Housing and Urban Development for federal consideration. City officials said a preliminary project in the downtown area could be underway this summer.
Washburn begins its Black week
TOPEKA - Black Culture Week at Washburn University kicked off its activities yesterday with a prayer luncheon featuring Fred Johnson, Kansas City director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, who spoke on black organizations.
Invited to the luncheon were the president of the university, members of the Board of Regents, Governor Docking, Senator Pearson, much of the Washburn administration and many state legislators.
This was the beginning of a week designed to familiarize all students with African art, music and culture. Speaking at 10:30 this morning was Lerrone Bennett Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine.
Posters of local and nationwide black organizations were on display in the Memorial Union.
The U.S. three-cent "nickel" piece was introduced in 1865, one year before the five-cent "nickel." Both coins were made of an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
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