Photo by Wm. Ray Sellers
Drilling for oil?
The familiar sound of drilling can be heard along Jayhawk Boulevard daily as workmen prepare to lay telephone lines to KU residence halls. Trouble in drilling through the bedrock is delaying workmen.
Education professor named Kansas planning director
Kenneth E. Anderson, professor of education and former dean of the School of Education, has been appointed director of the Kansas Master Planning Commission.
Anderson was dean of education at KU for 16 years. He resigned last summer to develop courses on higher education.
The commission is an 11-member group created by the 1970 legislature to study Kansas schools and to create a plan to form a more orderly system. It will study all forms of education within the state.
6 KANSAN May 6
1970
The commission's first assignment will be to study the roles and functions of junior colleges and area vocational-technical schools.
The commission will work 18 months on their report which will be given to the 1972 legislature.
Women caucus for equality
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Women of all shapes, sizes and age, attired in mini-skirts and midi-frocks, filled the Senate caucus room Tuesday seeking equality under the law with men.
Not a male showed up in the audience at a hearing by the constitutional rights subcommittee 47 years after flappers in the 1920s first asked elimination of all legal distinctions between men and women in America.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee, noted that the Constitution had been
amended only 25 times since its adoption. "You must stimulate national concern and prick the national conference if we are to succeed," he said.
For the first time in the history of the competition, a University of Kansas medical student, Lawrence J. Hanna of Kansas City, has won the William Osler Medal in the History of Medicine.
KUMC grad wins award
Hanna, who graduated last June and is interning at William Beaumont Hospital in El Paso, Tex., received the award at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Birmingham, Ala., earlier this month.
The Osler Medal is given by the American Association for the History of Medicine in a national competition among students for the best paper on a topic in medical history. Hanna's paper, "Selected Themes in the Development of the Soviet Health Service," was written under the auspices of the KU history of medicine department to satisfy the M.D. thesis requirement.
Hanna earned his bachelor's degree at Kansas State Teacher's College in 1964.
The only other Kansas student to place in the Osler contest was George Sheldon, now of Boston, and formerly of Salina, who won honorable mention in 1961.
Sen. Hiram Fong, of Hawaii, ranking Republican on the subcommittee, said his state was the most advanced in affording equality of the sexes. But he said for the country as a whole, the issue was "most critical."
Equal rights for women have been debated in Congress since 1923. But the last time an amendment got out of committee onto the Senate floor was 1956, when it died.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., was leadoff witness. He said that if there ever was any justification for legal discrimination against women that time had passed.
"As times change, justification for this amendment—economic, social and political—also have changed," McCarthy said.
Four witnesses—all women members of Congress—failed to show up on schedule. They were
Thant calls for meeting to settle Asian turmoil
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) Secretary General Thant called today for a conference of all the interested parties to settle the Southeast Asia situation which he said was even more dangerous than the "one that ravaged Indochina before 1954."
Thant expressed regret that all parties interested in the Southeast Asia conflict did not accept a French recommendation of last April 1 to settle the problems of Indochina by negotiation.
Thant said there was a broad consensus among all powers that the Geneva agreements of 1954 and 1962 could be used as a basis for a new conference.
Reps. Martha Griffiths, D-Mich.; Florence Dwyer, R-N.J.; Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., and Margaret Heckler, R-Mass.
The operating section of the amendment is short. It says: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress and the several states shall have the power, within their respective jurisdictions, to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
End of strike called remote
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — The St. Louis Teamsters strike, now in its 35th day, was marked by violence again Tuesday. A settlement appeared more remote than at any previous time during the strike.
Three truck drivers lay in hospital beds with gunshot wounds after being ambushed on Interstate 70 near Highland, Ill. Two trucking companies were fire-bombed, and one was the target of gunfire.
Mayor Alfonso Cervantes was silent after his initial attempts to settle the strike failed. He ordered both sides to his office for a meeting Monday night, but neither side budged.
The Teamsters started the walkout April 1 because they were dissatisfied with the $1.10-an-hour wage increase over three years as provided in a new national contract. However, the big stumbling block at present is the litigation initiated by the trucking companies.
The companies are suing Teamsters Local 600 for damages in lost business. The union says it will not negotiate while the suit is pending.