UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Minister suggests vote
TOPEKA-A McLouth minister yesterday threatened to introduce a resolution to bring prohibition to public ballot if a liquor by the drink vote is put before the legislature.
Slick threatens sands
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—A change in winds threatened to wash a massive reddish-brown oil slick across the white sands of this resort's beaches yesterday while oil companies ended their brief moratorium on offshore drilling.
The slick, fed at the rate of nearly 1,000 gallons an hour from an offshore oil well in the Santa Barbara channel, was pushed to within two miles of the beaches here by the onshore winds.
JERUSALEM—Arab students stoned Israeli jeeps and police fired warning shots in the air yesterday during anti-Israeli protests that spread from the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip to the Arab nationalist hotbed of Nablus in occupied Jordan.
Protests erupt in Gaza
NAHA, Okinawa-Students wearing helmets and hurling Molotov cocktails tried to storm the gates of the U.S. Air Force base yesterday to protest stationing B52 bombers there.
The Paris press meanwhile reported that a French firm had sold 700 armored half-tracks to Saudi Arabia, but that many of the vehicles may end up in the hands of the Egyptian army.
Okinawans storm base
Okinawan riot police used clubs to break up the charge by an estimated 1,200 students. Twelve students were injured.
Gun crimes bill proposed
WASHINGTON—Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, calling gun crimes a "national disgrace," yesterday introduced a bill requiring additional prison terms for persons convicted of using a firearm during commission of a crime
The measure would provide one to 10 years in prison for the first offender and 25 years for subsequent offenses. These mandatory terms would be in addition to punishment meted out for the crime itself.
AID director chosen
WASHINGTON—President Nixon has chosen John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State University, to direct the often criticized U.S. foreign aid program as administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID).
Chicago U. still rebelling
CHICAGO—University of Chicago rebels, camping out in their school's administration building for the sixth day, yesterday took their case to uncommitted students with teach-ins and a "suppressed studies session."
Counterfeit cash seized
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Federal agents confiscated more than $1.5 million in counterfeit money yesterday and arrested three persons in two raids. The agents declared the seizure "major."
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A sophomore coed fainted yesterday on the third floor of Strong Hall and passing students and professors did nothing to help her.
No aid for sick coed
Two students who did stop to help, Cindy Vertin, Wathena sophomore, and Mark Roeyer, Prairie Village sophomore, were appalled by the lack of response.
"It's insane," Roeyer said. "There are 17,000 students in the university—this could happen every
day. Who do you call in an emergency?"
Roeyer said the coed was unconscious when he arrived on the scene. He asked if the hospital had been called and no one knew. Roeyer found a telephone and made the call himself.
Miss Vertin, who had been with the coed, left her friend for a few minutes and returned to discover she had fainted and was vomiting. A crowd gathered but no one was helping her, Miss Vertin said.
Roeyer called Watkins Hospital and was told that it does not provide ambulance service.
"Someone must take the initiative to call an ambulance," said an unidentified nurse at the hospital.
Roeyer contacted the Dean of Women's office which sent for an ambulance.
Miss Vertin said she did not know whether the passers-by were afraid or did not know what to do.
79th Year, No.68 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, February 5, 1969
ASC defeats gun bill
By RICHARD LOUV
Kansan Staff Writer
A resolution—firearms no longer be carried by campus police was defeated last night in the All-Student Council (ASC).
Submitted by Joe Goering, Moundridge senior and student body vice-president, the resolution said "it is not necessary to seriously injure or kill a person to maintain peace. . . ." Serious accidents on several campuses have resulted from unnecessary use of firearms.
Speaking before the council in favor of campus police were R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of operations, and E. P. Moomau, campus police chief. Moomau equated campus law enforcement with enforcement in Lawrence and other urban areas.
Bill Hanson, Shawnee Mission graduate student, challenged
"We have the same responsibility and risk the same type of dangers as any law enforcement agency in the country. Many crimes on this campus have been prevented by policemen carrying guns. I feel very strongly that our officers should be armed in order to protect the public and themselves," Moomau said.
Moomau also explained the interaction of the Douglas County sheriff and the Lawrence police with the duties of the campus police force.
"They help us, and we help them in emergency situations. If we go into Lawrence, we're going to need guns, and the Lawrence police can't be expected to take their guns off when they come to the campus," Moomau said.
Moomau, calling his statements assumptions and platitudes.
"I challenge the need for guns in the city itself," said Hanson, "but especially at a quiet midwestern campus, not a Berkeley or Columbia. What kind of man responds to the critical edge of a firearm? Maybe not now, but sometime we may end up with some Chicago cops."
Police seize two men in 'senseless' slaying
a risk involved, especially in the form of the policeman who is an exception.
"Several years ago I was in the student union of Berkeley, and from the window I saw a student shot by a policeman on the other side of the street because the boy called him a pig. That can happen here," said Hanson.
R. Keith Lawton presented the administration's view.
"Police officers run no faster than any one of us. They are mortal persons and need a critical (Continued to Page 17)
The identities of the two men "both over 18" were not released "pending the expected early arrest of the other two men in the murder," detective Vernon Wilson said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) - Police arrested two men late last night in connection with the "senseless" murder of Michael T. Altschul, an 18-year-old college freshman, described by friends "as the nicest guy in the world."
Altschul was gunned down at
"We know who we are looking for," Wilson said. "It's just a matter of finding their hideout."
"A lot of gaps in this senseless killing will soon come to light," Wilson added.
Responding to a statement by Moomau that there have been few, if any, occasions in the last few years where a campus policeman has drawn his gun, Hanson said as long as guns were present there was
Altschul then turned to face his assailants as if to beg mercy and was shot once in the chest from a distance of six feet. Witnesses said the killers then kicked Altschul twice before walking calmly to a parked motor car and drove slowly away.
point-blank range at a midtown intersection Sunday night while motorists, who had refused Altschul help, looked on in horror.
He had fled from the assailants and tried to gain entry in a motor car stopped at an intersection but was refused help.
The youth managed to get up and stagger into the street where a passing truck driver stopped and rushed Altschul to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Photo by Halina Pawl
While the snow melts—
Taking advantage of warm weather after a long, snowy enrollment week, Stephen Winters, Quincy, Ill., sophomore, glances over his new text books.