Employes picket Med Center
May file injunction
By GLORIA VOBEJDA
Kansan Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY - Striking Public Service Employees Local 1132 are still picketing the KU Medical Center while threatened by a restraining order and injection action from the Kansas attorney general's office.
The strike caused the Medical Center to suspend all admissions at 9 a.m.yesterday including emergency room services.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Richard Seaton said last night they planned to file the injunction action early today asking the District Court of Wyandotte County to issue a restraining order until trial can take place, and a permanent injunction after the trial.
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Seaton said it was up to the court to grant or deny the request but the restraining order could be issued immediately, thus forcing workers to return to work.
"The restraining order," he said, "is to preserve the statusuo pending the outcome of a lawsuit."
The striking workers, who are seeking a 25 per cent wage increase, include food service, housekeeping, and laundry personnel and other maintenance and hospital attendant categories.
"The situation is quite difficult, but we are continuing to provide service as best as we can," Russell H. Miller, director of the Medical Center, said last night.
He said nurses, physicians and technicians were filling in but food service was very restricted and housekeeping services were non-existent.
"All available manpower has been activated to assist in taking care of the patients that are in the hospital," Miller said, "but service is limited and improvised."
While there has been no formal meeting between the workers and the administration, Miller said there had been contact with some of the workers.
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By United Press International
ABM decision soon
WASHINGTON - President Nixon returned yesterday from a restful Florida weekend, and was expected to announce Tuesday his decision on deployment of the controversial and costly anti-ballistic missile system (ABM).
The President landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at 4:25 p.m. CST after conferring with his national security affairs adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, on the ABM during the one hour, 55 minute flight from Florida.
Strike plagues France
PARIS - Workers spearheaded by the huge French Communist labor union began a 24-hour nationwide general strike Tuesday. Buses and trains stopped and street lighting flickered on and off in Paris as a prelude to full industrial paralysis later Tuesday.
France's three biggest unions were backing the strike as another showdown with President Charles de Gaulle and his economic austerity program after wage-benefit talks with government and management spokesmen broke down.
It was the first nationwide strike since those which paralyzed the nation last Mav and June.
Sirhan 'loses contact'
LOS ANGELES — Sirhan B. Sirhan displayed symptoms of mental illnesses or psychoses including loss of contact with reality and a feeling he was right and the rest of the world wrong, a psychologist testified yesterday
The 24-year-old Arab on trial for the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, showed symptoms of paranoia, hypomania, and schizophrenia, said Dr. Martin M. Schorr, a San Diego, Calif., clinical psychologist who tested Sirhan in his jail cell on two days last November.
SPACE CENTER, Houston - The Apollo 9 astronauts flung themselves "like an arrow through the sky" yesterday with a 25-second blast of their main engine to line up for Thursday's splashdown in an Atlantic now so angry they could see the whitecaps from the air.
Apollo ready for return
Liquor resolution passed
TOPEKA - The Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday unexpectedly recommended passage for a resolution to permit a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to allow liquor by the drink. The vote was 14-6.
The resolution was one of two passed last week by the Senate. The other would have proposed an amendment returning the state to total prohibition.
Debate will begin on nuclear arms treaty
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Warned of the "potential horrors of a world in which pigmy nuclear weapons powers abound," the Senate ended an eight-month stalemate yesterday and began debating the treaty to retard the spread of nuclear weapons.
Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged ratification but told the Senate the treaty might fall apart at the seams unless the United States and Russia move swiftly to control the arms race and stop deploying new offensive and defensive missile systems.
The treaty, product of nearly a quarter century of thought and negotiation, would bar the United
States, Russia and Britain from supplying nuclear weapons or their secrets to other countries.
Non-nuclear countries-81 have signed the treaty so far-would renounce their right to produce or acquire the bomb.
Senate leaders saw an outside chance of a ratification vote at the end of this week. A small band of opponents planned extensive debate but there was no sign they would muster enough support to block the pact, which requires a two-thirds majority for approval.
Fulbright brought the nonproliferation treaty to the floor eight months to the day after President Lyndon B. Johnson first submitted it. Ratification was
Wescoe declines China Board post
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe this morning issued a statement announcing he will decline the presidency of the China Medical Board of New York in order to become vice president for medical affairs of Sterling Drug, Inc.
Wescoe was elected to the China medical board in November. After the announcement Wescoe said, "I shall, however, continue as an active member of that board."
Speaking of his new job, Wescoe said, "My responsibilities will be to administer the medical and
technical affairs of the company. This position will permit me to renew my interests in medical and pharmacological research.
"It will, as well, permit me to continue and enlarge a close association with my profession in the world-wide sphere of operations of the company," the Chancellor said.
"This will be my second career. I look forward to it with enthusiasm," the Chancellor said. He gave no reason for the switch.
postponed because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and complications involving the change of administrators.
Iowa man is new dean of education
The appointment of Dale P. Scannell, director of the University Evaluation and Examination Service at the University of Iowa, as the new dean of the University of Kansas School of Education has been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today.
Scannell, 40, will assume the post August 1. Dean Kenneth E. Anderson, who has headed the school since 1953 and recently announced his return to full-time teaching and research, will continue as dean until then.
Scannell was a member of the KU faculty and administration from 1959 to 1967 as director of the Bureau of Educational Research and Service. From 1963 to 1967 he served as associate dean of the Graduate School. In 1967 he assumed his duties at the University of Iowa.
He was nominated for the position by a selection committee of faculty members and students in the School of Education. The committee had considered more extensive research (4).
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