On Cambodia issue
Debate raged, but paddle ball won
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Cambodia debate, one of the few extended discussions the House has conducted on U.S. Far Eastern policy in the last five years, went unemotionally enough through most of the afternoon.
But shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday, after the House had debated Cambodia for more than four hours, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S-C., with the backing of Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., persuaded a majority of the House to cut off debate at 5 p.m. on a series of Cambodia-related amendments to a defense bill.
The move left the 65 members who wanted to talk further, most of them doves, with 45 seconds each, rather than the five minutes
normally permitted.
Rep. Donald Riegle, 32, a Michigan Republican and a critic of administration policy, was furious. He grasped the horizontally suspended microphone at the Republican committee table, looked up to the gallery that was filled with students from the nearby University of Maryland and declared:
The Lighter Side
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Although Rep. Donald E. Lukens was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Ohio this week, all is not lost.
I personally will see to it that Lukens is nominated for the 1970 Humanitarian of the Year Award, and I am confident he will win. With bipartisan support.
Lukens stamped himself as a great humanitarian during the campaign by introducing a new political fundraising gimmick—the non-dinner.
His campaign headquarters printed tickets for a $50-a-place reception and dinner to raise money for more television time. But then, in a move to reduce campaign expenses, the dinner was cancelled.
Contributors to Lukens' campaign thus were mercifully freed from an evening of political oratory, an act of compassion that is all too rare in the world today.
Regrettably, from his standpoint, much of the impact that the non-dinner might have had on the campaign was blunted by poor timing.
Had prospective ticket buyers been told well in advance that the dinner would not be held, I'm sure vast sums of money would have rolled in.
I might even have bought a ticket myself. I can't vote in Ohio, but I know a good thing when I see it. And $50 is a small price to pay for missing several hours of campaign rhetoric.
Although Lukens himself did not benefit greatly from his humanitarian innovation, other politicians undoubtedly will hear about it and use it to good advantage during the rest of this election year.
I predict that fund-raising non-dinners will be featured in political campaigns from sea to oil-stained sea. Particularly by candidates who are trying to win the support of the great silent majority.
Another political innovator, James E. Folsom, a gubernatorial candidate in Alabama, also "also-ran" this week. But this was a far more radical innovation and probably will never become popular.
When he announced his candidacy last fall, Folsom said he was seeking the office because he was in debt and needed a job. To my knowledge, this was the first time a politician had ever admitted a selfish interest in public service.
Folsom finished far behind and I doubt that even a fund-raising non-dinner would have helped him much. The world simply isn't ready for honesty.
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Smith will not be rehired
Gilbert Smith, resigned Lawrence public safety director, will not be rehired by the city despite petition efforts to get him reinstated. Smith said he was in the process of looking for another job and had no comment on the petitions.
Charles Di Capo, new Lawrence Jaycee president, said City manager Buford Watson received a petition Wednesday with more than 500 signatures calling for the restatement of Gilbert Smith as public safety director. Smith resigned from the post in a surprise move April 24.
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Di Capo said the petitions were presented to the Jaycee board by interested citizens who asked if the 12 board members would sponsor them. Di Capo said the board sponsorship was not taken by a vote of the general Jaycee membership.
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gym playing paddle ball."
With that, fellow Republicans jumped angrily to their feet, shouting, "No, no . . . point of order," demanding that Riegle observe rules prohibiting members from addressing the galleries. But he continued.
"For eight years we have fought an undeclared war." Riegle shouted in denouncing the decision to terminate debate.
What was more important, he asked, than discussing the war?
"Where are many of those who voted to cut off debate now?" he asked. Then, alluding to a popular pastime of representatives, he answered his question. "They're .down in the House
Pesticide takes heavy fish toll in small stream
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI) Thousands of fish have been killed by pesticide poisoning in a small stream in Lincoln County, Mo., the state Department of Conservation reported Thursday.
Joel Vance, department information officer, said that up to 50,000 fish have died in a three-mile section of Crooked Creek, south of Troy. The creek is a tributary of the Cuvire River, which flows into the Mississippi.
Fish taken from the creek or from the Cuivre River south of Moscow Mills, Mo., should not be eaten, Vance said, since they may contain residues harmful to human beings. Stockmen in the area are advised to keep cattle away from the affected streams.
The galleries broke into applause. Some members, most of them from the Democratic side, joined in. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., who was presiding, gaveled the chamber to order.
O'Neill, D-Mass., who had just made an impassioned plea in behalf of "frustrated" students opposing the war.
A large quantity of the pesticide, possibly 200 gallons, apparently was dumped into the creek, Vance said. An analysis of the poison revealed it was a mixture of 10 per cent chlordane and 5 per cent malathion in a solution of xylene, which itself is a toxin.
The conservation department is investigating the source of the poisoning, Vance said.
But a moment later Rivers stirred up the chamber again when he answered Rep. Thomas
A sowling Rep. Durward Hall, R-Mo., jumped to his feet. At his insistence Rostenkowski instructed those in the galleries that House rules prohibited applause. The students complied.
Rivers suggested that students might be frustrated "because their families hadn't spent enough time talking about something called patriotism."
To cries of "throw 'em out," Rostenkowski's gavel silenced the hissing.
Hissing spread through the chamber. It was uncertain whether it came from the galleries, the floor or both.
UPI assigns three men new executive positions
NEW YORK (UPI)—New assignments for three United Press International executives were announced Thursday by UPI President Mims Thomason.
Dale M. Johns, now Central Division manager in Chicago, will transfer to New York headquarters and become business manager, North American Department. He will report to Frank Tremaine, vice-president and general manager of that department.
H. Calvin Thornton, Northeastern Division manager in Boston, will move to Chicago to succeed Johns as Central Division manager.
Robert E. Page, based in London as sales manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, will return to the United States and go to Boston as Northeastern Division manager, replacing Thornton.
Feminist attorney to speak Tuesday
Florence Kennedy, a New York attorney who is active in the feminist and abortion reform movement, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the East Lawrence Community Center, at 10th and Delaware Streets.
Hers will be the first in a series of lectures and discussions related to black history, literature and problems.
Miss Kennedy is also the director of MediaWorkshop, an organization attempting to eliminate violence on television.
All three appointments are effective June 1.
Johns, 56, has been Central Division manager in Chicago since 1962. He was born in Iowa Falls, Iowa, and was graduated from the University of Nebraska. He joined UPI in 1941 in Minneapolis after previous news experience on the Lincoln, Neb., State Journal.
Thornton, 44, is a native of Washington, D.C., and was graduated from the University of Chicago. He has been Northeastern Division manager in Boston since 1962. He joined UPI in 1948 in Milwaukee.
Page, 34, went to London in 1968 after previous experience as a general sales executive at UPT's New York Headquarters. He joined UPI in Des Moines in 1960, later became night editor in Detroit and bureau manager at Grand Rapids, Mich.
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