Harrison court appearance tomorrow
Lewis to contest charges
By RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center in Lawrence, will appear in Sedgwick County District Court at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with eight other men to contest charges of assault, kidnapping, armed robbery and extortion.
Harrison's wife will appear in Douglas District County Court March 7 to contest charges of felonious assault.
Both Harrison and his wife were arrested Oct. 29,1968 in Lawrence.
Sedgwick County Attorney Keith Sanborn charged that Harrison and eight other men conspired to extort employment from R. W. Blake and Frank Carpenter, officials of the Wichita Model Cities program.
Sanborn also charges the nine kidnapped Blake and Carpenter, took them to a Wichita motel and threatened to "do them bodily harm" unless they arranged for employment in the program for Al Cole, an employee of Cessna in Wichita.
The third charge is that the defendants robbed
Andrew Guiterrez, a Kansas City community service official, of $622 in checks.
Mrs. Harrison is charged with assaulting two police officers while they were attempting to search her house for evidence connected with the Wichita case.
Chester Lewis, attorney for Harrison and his eight co-defendants, is also attorney for Mrs. Harrison.
Lewis will contest charges in the Wichita case on grounds that no crime was committed by the nine men.
Lewis will argue that Carpenter and Blake went voluntarily to the motel where a party was in progress, and all persons there were friendly to each other.
Lewis further contends that Cole had a better-paying job at Cessna than he could have had in the Model Cities program, and he consequently did not want the job.
In answer to the third charge, Lewis will argue that Guiterrez owed the men $622 for consultory and advisory services rendered to the Model Cities program.
In refuting the charge against Mrs. Harrison, (Continued to page 12)
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Leonard Harrison
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts considerable cloudiness with scattered drizzle and light rain for the Lawrence area today. Cooler temperatures are expected. Highs today in the lower 40s. Lows tonight upper 20s.
79th Year, No.84
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 27, 1969
Apollo may be delayed
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — The three Apollo 9 astronauts nursed a common cold today that appeared likely to delay until next week their 10-day earth orbital spaceflight scheduled to start tomorrow.
It hinged on how James McDivitt, David Scott and Russell Schweickart felt when they got up.
A decision on whether to proceed, or wait until next Monday or Wednesday, was expected at midday.
The astronauts came down with sore throats and stuffed noses yesterday, and Charles A. Berry, chief astronaut physician, gave them pills and the classic advice to drink a lot of water and get plenty of rest.
George E. Mueller, associate space agency administrator in charge of manned spaceflight, said yesterday the launch decision would be "quite conservative."
He said: "We'd like to launch them when they are well. If there's any question, I'd rather wait."
Mueller said one other problem remained unresolved early today. It involved a slight vibration in the second stage of the Saturn 5 rocket that was detected in an analysis of the flight of the first manned moon rocket in December.
He said the problem was minor, but added, "I don't think we'd like to fly if we didn't understand its source."
Mueller said tests yesterday
Rock Chalk begins tonight
This year's annual presentation of Rock Chalk Revue, sponsored by KU-Y begins at 8 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
Drew Anderson, Plainville senior, is producer of "All the World's a Stage," the theme of the 1969 revue.
Fraternities and sororities presenting skis are: Beta-Theta Pi
and Delta Delta Delta; Sigma Chi and Pi Beta Phi; Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Gamma Delta; Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Alpha Theta.
Trophies will be awarded in several categories including best actor, best actress, best song and best overall skit.
The revue will also be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
showed that the astronauts had a virus, but no secondary infection. He said McDivitt first felt bad Tuesday night and Scott and Schweickart showed the same symptoms yesterday.
Apollo 8's flight in lunar orbit at Christmas proved the Apollo command ship can perform its tasks. But the command ship will only carry astronauts within 69 miles of the lunar surface.
The purpose of Apollo 9 is to fill in a "missing link" in the plan to land American astronauts on the moon later this year, officials said.
A second spaceship is needed for the highly specialized job of flying from that point down to the moon's gray surface and returning to the command craft with two lunar explorers. The "missing link" was a demonstration of this craft's operation with men aboard.
Apollo 9 is designed to forge that link, giving the moon lander its first manned test in earth orbit. Everything else in the 10-day mission, officials said, is vastly secondary to that goal.
The moon lander has flown once before in earth orbit with a robot, rather than an astronaut, at the controls. But, a space agency spokesman said, "The real test of a new spacecraft type comes when it (4) outlined to name 12).
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Blood flows slowly
The climb to reach the goal of 200 pints daily is all uphill. Tuesday only 82 pints were given and yesterday only 87 pints.The blood drive will continue today between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Viet villages abandoned
SAIGON (UPI) - Communist troops early today quietly abandoned the rubble of two villages they had captured and successfully defended for almost 24 hours against massive Allied infantry and tank assaults.
South Vietnamese troops at dawn reoccupied Don Lach and Ho Nai outside the giant U.S. air base at Bien Hao near Saigon.
Ike continues recovery
Nixon names GOP head
"There has been no change in the general's cardiac status," said Col. John L. Bradley, the hospital executive officer, at a midmorning briefing.
WASHINGTON - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 78, continued his recovery from intestinal surgery today. "His vital signs have remained stable," Walter Reed Army Medical Center reported.
WASHINGTON - President Nixon ended a political tug of war yesterday by selecting Rep. Rogers C. B. Morton of Maryland, his floor manager at the Miami Beach convention, as the new Republican national chairman.
Clay to speak at KSU
MANHATTAN - Muhammed Ali Cassius Clay, the former heavyweight boxing champion turned Muslim minister will speak at Kansas State University March 6.
The KSU Religious Council Council is sponsoring Ali's appearance. He will speak on "The Black Muslims."
Shaw defense continues
NEW ORLEANS — Two defense witnesses testified yesterday that only fear of reprisals by Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison kept Garrison's star witness from going back on his story that he saw Clay L. Shaw plotting to kill President John F. Kennedy.