University Daily Kansan Monday, March 25.1963
State Lawmakers Windup Session
TOPEKA — (UFI) — Kansas legislators were in the home stretch today, with leaders applying the whip in a race toward adjournment about April 1.
Following tradition and the easy way out, the 1933 Legislature has saved the most controversial for last.
The only major piece of legislation passed thusfar in the session has been the legislative pay raise to $25 per day salary and expenses, plus $50 a month while not in session.
STILL TO BE resolved is the knotty Wichita University problem, which may be a last-minute conference committee decision.
The House will resume debate and amendment of the Wichita bill — which now bears little resemblance to the original bill — tomorrow.
The House has already adopted the compromise ways and means committee amendments to the Wichita bill, but the same day it accepted another contradictory amendment.
On the section-by-section reading and debate, the House has completed seven of the 16 sections in the bill. At least one full day's work — and maybe more — remain to be done on the bill.
FRIDAY AND Saturday the House crammed over 70 separate bills through final passage and left only senate matters and a few scattered House resolutions and concurrent resolutions unfinished. The calendar will be struck of any remaining House bills today.
The senate cleaned up its business
and struck its calendar of all pending senate bills on Friday.
Among the measures which got caught in the squeeze was Atty, Gen, William Ferguson's anti-gembling law which would have given law enforcement officers more control concerning the operation of pinball machines and other coin-operated devices.
A HOUSE BILL to cut the membership of the House back to 105 members for its present 125 has been sent to the senate and a senate apportionment committee is writing a bill to reaportion the senate.
Democrats and representatives of large metropolitan areas have complained about the House realignment and some predict they won't like Sen. Paul Wunsche's reappointment of the senate any better.
More Spoiled Tuna Found In California
BERKELEY, Calif. — (UPI) — A can of spoiled tuna found on a Saratoga, Calif., grocery shelf last week definitely contained deadly botulism toxin, the California Department of Public Health reported today.
The tuna, packed by Washington Packing Corp. of San Francisco, carried the same code on its can as that blamed for the deaths of two Detroit women last week.
State Health Director Malcolm M. Merrill said tests on other cans of tuna bearing the same code have proved negative so far.
The can of tuna, swollen and obviously spoiled, was found on the Saratoga grocery shelf Thursday. Merrill said laboratory tests showed that it contained the poisonous botulism Type E.
Merrill said tests will continue on other cans of tuna prepared by Washington Packing until health officials are satisfied they have learned what caused the development of the toxin and how extensively it was circulated. The operations of the company also are being closely checked, he said.
Meantime, the company's canned tuna is being removed from store shelves.
The botulism was the first discovered in commercially packed food in California since enactment of the state's Cannery Inspection Law in 1925, Merrill said.
The Saratoga tuna was marketed under the "Tastewell" brand distributed to independent stores by Washington Packing. The tuna blamed for the deaths of the Detroit women, Mrs. Colette Brown
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The College Bowl Committee is also trying to initiate a Big Eight College Bowl Tournament, to be held on the KU campus, May 12.
"We hope we can have this tournament," said Frank Thompson, Iola junior and chairman of the College Bowl Committee. "So far, we have not heard anything from the other schools."
If the tournament is held, the team which wins the championship round Sunday will compete for the Big Eight title.
John D. Rockefeller IV will speak twice to a statewide Peace Corps conference May 3 and 4 at the University of Kansas.
Peace Corps Names Conference Speaker
Rockefeller, a Peace Corps representative, will speak May 4 on the significance of the Corps program. He also will lead a summary session at the end of the conference on the future of the Peace Corps.
Kansas college and high school students have been invited to attend the conference designed to acquaint them with the functions and philosophies of the Peace Corps. Others expected to attend are Peace Corps liaison officers and parents of volunteers.
An address on KU and the Peace Corps by Dean George R. Waggoner of the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will open the conference.
Controversey Develops Over Alleged On Site Inspections
GENEVA — (UPI) — The Soviet Union charged today that the United States had agreed to accept "two or three" on-site inspections of under a nuclear test ban treaty and then reneged on its alleged promise.
U. S. ambassador Charles C. Stelle promptly denied the Russian allegation which was made before the 17-nation disarmament conference here by Soviet negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin.
Stelle, in what was described as a "tough speech," bluntly told the Russians there is "no room for any Soviet misunderstanding of our position."
"What are the Russians trying to do?" he asked. "They are engaged in a desperate attempt to have some shred of something to bring to these
negotiations, and they keep repeating these tired, stale and unwarranted allegations."
The conference currently is stymied over the Russians refusal to permit more than three on-site inspections and the U.S. refusal to inspection less than seven.
Tsarakin repeated Soviet charges that former U.S. negotiator Arthur H. Dean accepted a maximum of three inspections a year during talks in New York last autumn with Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vassili Kuznetsov.
President Kennedy, Dean himself and chief American disarmament negotiator William C. Foster all have denied the charges since then.
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