Staters elect governors
Cindy Avery, a 16-year-old Norton girl, sheds a few happy tears as she is informed she has been elected governor of the 33rd annual Sunflower Girls' State
Newly elected Boys State governor Richard Felton, 17, from Junction City, raises his hand in victory.
Both Felton and Miss Avery were Federalist candidates for the office of governor.
They will preside over meetings of Girls' and Boys State and will be honored at the annual governor's Ball Friday evening.
(See story, page nine)
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
80th Year, No. 2
Friday, June 12, 1970
Old Glory celebrates birthday
By United Press International
Sunday is Flag Day—the anniversary of the day the Stars and Stripes became the official flag of the United States.
On June 14, 1777—nearly a year after the Declaration of Independence — the Continental Congress resolved that "the flag of the United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white on a blue field representing a new constellation."
The 13 stars were for the 13 original states. Of the 50 stars the flag now contains, the last was added officially on July 4 1960, by executive order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower dated Aug. 21, 1959, the day Hawaii became the 50th state of the union.
In popular lore, the first American flag was sewn by Elizabeth 'Betsy' Ross at her upholstery shop on Arch Street in Philadelphia. According to the story, George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross, acting as a committee of Congress, went to the shop carrying a rough drawing of the proposed flag and asked if she could make one. When the finished banner was taken before Congress it was officially adopted.
Almost 150 years passed before any formal action was taken relating to civilian display and handling of the flag. Then in 1923 the National Americanism Committee of the American Legion held a conference in Washington, D.C., at which a group of patriotic organizations formulated a "flag code" that, while it lacked federal authority, was generally accepted.
Not until World War II was a federal flag code accepted. On June 22, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint congressional resolution codify-
Second cabinet shuffle gives Shultz high card
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon announced his second cabinet shuffle in five days Wednesday, switching Labor Secretary George P. Shultz to head up a new executive management and budget agency.
The President announced Saturday he was shifting Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch to the White House where he will serve as a top assistant to Nixon.
ing rules for flag display. This is known as Public Law 623.
As director of the Office of Executive Management and Budget, Shultz will take over what could become the second most powerful post in the federal government.
Nixon named Labor Uudersecretary James D. Hodgson to succeed Shultz in the cabinet post
Robert P. Mayo, who has headed the Budget Bureau since Nixon took office, was named a White House counselor to the President.
to newsmen in the White House Rose Garden, Nixon said Caspar W. Weinberger, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, would become Shultz' chief deputy with primary responsibility for the budget.
In his announcement of the
Shultz change-made personally
The old Budget Bureau will be expanded into the new management and budget office when a reorganization plan proposed by Nixon earlier this year takes effect.
Nixon called Shultz "a distinguished economist" and "one of the best administrators in the government."
Under the code, the flag should be flown on virtually all holidays, weather permitting, half staff until noon on Memorial Day, and on Flag Day.
- The flag is never to be flown with the union stars down except as a signal of distress.
- the American flag is to be to the right.
- The flag may never be used as a drapery of any sort or used as a design on cushions, handkerchiefs, etc., or "as any portion of a costume or athletic uniform."
Most rules for how the flag should be flown or displayed are
- The flag may not be draped over any vehicle.
- No other flag may be flown above the Stars and Stripes; If flags are flown on the same level,
obvious courtesy. But there are also a long list of rules governing improper display or use of the flag. Among them:
Nixon revamps welfare program
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon today resubmitted to Congress a new welfare program revamped to meet the objections of conservatives. He proposed replacing Medicaid with a national health insurance program for the poor.
Nixon also recommended tying the food stamp program with welfare under the Department of Health Education and Welfare to overcome complaints in Congress that the original plan would penalize welfare families if they improved their earnings by working.
Nixon's original plan, unveiled 10 months ago, cleared the House but was sent back to the administration for major changes by a Senate committee. The initial program featured a family assistance plan which drew criticism chiefly from Republicans in and out of Congress.
The chief change proposed by Nixon was for a pre-paid insurance program under which poor families with children would pay some premiums that would buy insurance covering their hospital and doctor bills.
They contended the Nixon proposal would put one of every eight Americans on welfare and cost the federal government $10 billion more than it now spends on welfare. The administration estimated the cost at $4.4 billion.
Under Medicald, such bills are
submitted item by item to the government, a procedure which critics claim gives doctors and hospitals no incentive for holding down their bills.
Medicaid is a federal state program for paying medical expenses of the poor with the recipients
making no contribution.
"Medicaid is plagued by serious faults." Nixon said in a statement. "Costs are mounting beyond reason. Services vary considerably from state to state. Benefits are only remotely related to family resources."
Summer students' fees must be paid June 27
Registrar William L. Kelly sait today that fee statements have been mailed to all summer session students. The fee payments are due by Wednesday, June 17 and must be paid in full at the Business Office in the basement of Carruth-O'Leary Hall to complete registration.
Kelly said that the fee statements now in the mail will be the only statements sent to summer session students. If a student has not received a statement he should come to the Office of the Registrar, 122 Strong Hall. Kelly added that many statements are returned to his office because of incorrect addresses and that in these cases it is up to the student to contact his office to complete registration.
If fee payments reach the Business Office in Carruth-0'Leary
Hall after June 17, but before June 26, the enrollment will be considered complete but the student will be charged a $10 late payment fee.
Enrollment will be cancelled for students who have not paid their fees or their late payment charge by June 26. Enrollments thus cancelled may be reinstated only upon payment of all fees and charges.
"These rules and regulations seem harsh." Kelly said, "but collection of fees helps to keep the doors of the University open for business. These rules also make a lot of students think that the Registrar's office contains a bunch of old fogies—but we're not. We're always glad to talk with students concerning any problems they might have. Drop in and try us."