Detailed file released on Blackmun
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Justice Department made public Thursday a detailed dossier on Supreme Court nominee Harry A. Blackmun showing his net worth at $125,000 and his participation in three cases involving companies in which he owned stock.
Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst said he was releasing the information at Blackmun's request "in the light of the extended debate over confirmation" of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., the first man President Nixon nominated to fill the current court vacancy. Haynsworth was rejected by the Senate late last year after critics charged him with conflict of interest.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPI) — Judge Harry A. Blackmun last month ordered the school district of El Dorado, Ark., to desegregate its schools and "eliminate the last vestiges of racial identification."
Blackmun order provides insight into nomination
The order to "desegregate with great speed" includes six detailed paragraphs which exclude certain concepts of achieving desegregation from being within the scope of the decision.
These exclusions — all beginning with the words "we do not"—provide an insight into the manner in which President Nixon's latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court has made his decisions on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
Blackmun ruled that desegregation must come within reasonable time. He did not believe that the court should spell out the method of achieving this.
Motor Co. stock, acquired in 1957 at a price of $2,500 before he went on the bench, and 22 shares of American Telephone and Telegraph stock purchased for $1,350 in 1963 and 1964.
and civil liberties since 1959 when he took his seat on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
In a letter to Sen. James O.
Eastland, chairman of the Judici-
ty.
ary Committee that will begin hearings April 29 on the nomination, Kleindienst said Blackmun reported holding $75,000 worth of stocks, bonds and bank assets plus $50,000 equity in his Rochester, Minn., home.
"We do not direct that this specific step or any other specific step be taken to resolve the problem," Blackmun said.
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the opinions chosen by the Justice Department was a major civil rights case in which the Supreme Court overruled Blackmun on the scope of a century-old open housing law, a key capital punishment case now pending before the high court in which Blackmun refused to set aside the death penalty for a Negro convicted of ransing a white woman
Kleindienst, in the letter delivered Wednesday to Eastland, D-Miss., also provided a brief summary of selected opinions Blackmun had written in the fields of criminal law, civil rights
Kleindienst advised Eastland that Blackmun had ruled in two cases involving Ford and one concerning AT&T. One ruling reinstated a jury verdict in the amount of $24,500 against Ford, another reversed a jury award of $12,500 against the automaker and the third upheld a lower court's dismissal of a $35,000 complaint against an AT&T affiliate, the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Critic cites film success discusses rating system
Bosley Crowther, for more than 25 years the film critic of the New York Times, visited KU Wednesday and discussed with film students his views on film-making in America.
Crowther was in Lawrence to arrange for the Midwest premier of "Rivereun," a new film by John Korty, a young American film-maker. He is currently employed by Columbia pictures in an advisory capacity.
Crowther visited an American film history class taught by Richard McCann, professor of journalism, where he told students the future emphasis will be low-budget, independently created films. He cited the recent success of such inexpensive films as "Easy Rider" and the flops of such expensive blockbusters as "Paint Your Wagon" as the cause of the trend.
"I don't think this means an immediate end to such expensive
LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) $ \rangle $ Ever wonder what the value of the nickel is today?
Purchasing power project demonstrates nickel's value
True enough, the nickel is like the old gray mare—ain't what it used to be. But, as teacher Tanner hoped, the students were able to use their imagination and come up with several values of the small coin.
In these days of rising living cost almost everyone has begun to worry about the purchase power of a dollar. It caused a Texas Tech University journalism professor to wonder just what the nickel would buy. He assigned a feature writing class the project of investing a nickel to purchase something—then to write about it.
But the deputy attorney general said Blackmun's financial interests were so small that the Justice Department could find no fault in his actions.
A nickel can get earmuffs, chopsticks, napkin rings, spoons, bubble gum, old phonograph records, nails, a cigar and a live turtle. Possibly the most valuable things from a nickel today are happiness and experience.
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One student used a nickel to purchase an ice cream cone for a little, ragged boy. She turned in a slip, "One Ice Cream Cone—One Happy Boy."
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Another offered a nickel for a thought, and learned that no longer could you get a person's thoughts for a penny—today they are a nickel.
Another reported a lecture from a merchant about inflation and the dollar being worth only 67 cents. But at a foreign students' dinner, she picked up a pair of chopsticks for only five cents.
films as "2001," he said. "As long as expensive films make money they'll be in production. But backers think twice before investing in costly production."
Crowther said he was more insulted than worried about the current film rating system. "Midnight Cowboy," he said, won the Best Picture award even though it was rated "K."
But the winning purchase and the "A" for the day went to the student who invested.
From the inflation-dominated world of the 1970's came one coed with a live turtle and a box of food, rented for one day. It turned into' the larger investment, as the renting merchant hoped it would, when she decided not to part with the pet and went ahead and purchased it.
"It was simply one of the year's best pictures. That fact couldn't be ignored. I do think the GMRX system does offend the intelligence of some people," he said. "Parents who care what films their children see don't really need it because they are intelligent enough to know about the films without any rating."
Crowther said his work in New York was as a journalistic critic, one who sees a film and writes an objective report. This kind of criticism he said, writes primarily to inform the public whether a reasonably intelligent person would enjoy a film.
A second kind of critic, Crowther said, writes more personally and without a deadline, and is able to judge a film on a more artistic level and place it in historical perspective.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House passed Thursday President Nixon's $4.4 billion welfare program of cash for the working poor, job registration for welfare adults and higher payments to the aged, blind and crippled.
Welfare program passed by House
Nixon hailed the House passage and urged the Senate "to act with the same responsiveness" because "the poor and the helpless—and the taxpayers—need welfare reform now."
Supporters praised the key feature—annual payments for up to 13 million people in poor working families—as a breakthrough to end the poverty-welfare cycle. Critics, however, condemned annual stipends as a "guaranteed annual income" which could destroy the will to work.
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