Photo by Ron Bishor
Fire at the J. R. Edmonds' residence
The fire was quickly extinguished after a fire-bomb was thrown through the attic window at the residence of J. R. Edmonds, 1546 Rhode Island.
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(Continued from page 17 the fire watch would continue to curtail arson at KU.
He said he thought last night was considerably more tense than the night before. There were, he said, 33 arrests which varied from persons with fire-starting devices to students who were protesting the curfew.
The total damage estimate, Chalmers said, of the Kansas Union fire was around $2 million. He said perhaps $500,000 was saved by the work of students and staff at the Union on the night of the fire.
Chalmers was asked by a faculty member what the University's policy was on bomb threats. He replied to this that when an anonymous bomb threat was made a security team would be sent to check for the bomb. Evacuation, he said, was to be avoided. He added that no serious bomber, that he knew of, had ever phoned an anonymous threat.
Both arson and curfew, Chalmers said, are opposed to the purpose of the University. Most KU citizens were taking the situation seriously. In closing he said he appreciated the cooperation of the students and faculty
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and that he hoped the curfew would be short.
The meeting began with a report by Charles Oldfather, chairman of the Senate Executive committee. The report was mainly concerned with a rules and regulations amendment passed by the University Council instead of the Senate because the Senate could not field a quorum to act on the motion.
The amendment called for students to be included on the academic policy committees of the departments of the University. The number of students, the report said, should be 20 per cent of the number of faculty members in the department.
Oldfather said the Senate Executive Committee had sent a letter to the Board of Regents which was not released to the press. This letter, he said, expressed concern with the actions on promotions. He said the committee was concerned for freedom of speech and academic freedom.
The University Senate then adopted two amendments to its code. One was to ensure that all work done by the University Senate and Council must conform to the code. The other provided for the number necessary to make a quorum.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — Already feted by President Nixon, the heroes of Apollo 13 were called today before a Senate committee so friendly it already has authorized money for future moon flights.
Although members of the Senate Aeronautical Space Sciences Committee planned to ask the astronauts about the aborted flight, spokesmen made it clear the hearing was not an investigation and signalled no slowdown of the manned space craft programs.
Pilot charged with opium transporting
flights, including a start on purchasing long-lead time hardware for Apollo 20: $100 million for an unmanned space laboratory, due for launch about 1972, fo which astronauts would be ferried for stays of 30 to 56 days; and $75 million for work on "long-duration" missions to deep space.
SAIGON (UPI) — An Air Force major who was a pilot for Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker pleaded innocent Wednesday at a court martial to charges he transported almost half a ton of opium into South Vietnam from Thailand.
Navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr.
and John L. Swigert J., Apollo
To reinforce the point, the committee Wednesday approved NASA's 1971 budget, including the entire $956.5 million requested for the Apollo program.
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, D.N.M., Senate committee chairman, already has warned against letting Apollo 13's troubles prompt a slowdown in the space program.
Apollo 13's fate won't hurt program
Maj. Delbert W. Fleener, 41, Indianapolis, Ind., 19 years in the Air Force, also is charged with using an Air Force plane to move opium and illegally possessing American dollars in South Vietnam. He faces a maximum sentence of 38 years in prison and dismissal from the service if convicted.
--they reach 20. But because birth dates and available registrants are not evenly distributed among the country's 4,100 draft boards.
The committee, however, cut NASA's total 1971 budget to $3.3 billion, down $540 million from the current year and $17 million less than the administration requested.
Although a key congressional figure, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was out of town and unavailable for comment, Nixon's proposal appeared to have enough Republican and liberal Democratic support to indicate chances for approval were good.
The President's message was the result of draft and volunteer army studies by the Pentagon, the White House, the Selective Service System and a special commission headed by former Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr.
Witnesses testifying at the opening day of Fleener's trial said one of the aircraft used to transport the opium was a C123 nicknamed the "White Whale," which once was assigned as the personal plane of Gen. William Westmoreland, former U.S. commander in Vietnam.
13 astronauts, were to be joined at the hearing by Thomas O. Paine, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Rocco Petrone; Apollo program director; and Glynn S. Lunney, Apollo flight director. Fred W. Haise Jr., the third Apollo 13 voyager, was unable to attend.
At present, an annual drawing of birth dates determines the sequence under which eligible 19-year-olds are to be called after
The House approved 229 to 105 Thursday a $3.6 billion space program authorization that was about $300 million more than President Nixon asked.
The House bill would authorize $1.087 billion for Apollo moon
"Anyone would have to have moon rocks in his head to believe there's any austerity in this program," said Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, who was badly beaten on an attempt to trim off $1.5 billion. "We've been had here this afternoon."
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dent deferments except for youths holding them as of April 22, or last Wednesday. Those students would be covered as before. Students who enter acquire deferments after April 22—such as those planning to enter college next fall—and are ultimately selected for the draft would be permitted to complete the semester before they are inducted. Students enrolled in ROTC programs could postpone their active military service until after graduation.
Through a combination of a congressional and presidential action, Nixon will try to resolve some of the confusion and inequalities in his lottery plan.
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