Police disperse blacks at LHS
Photo by Steve Fritz
Confrontation occurs again
Police formed a line when nearly 100 black students attempted to enter Lawrence High School Thursday morning. The blacks dispersed and moved to Veterans Park across the street from the school. Thursdays incident was the third disturbance in three days at the high school.
Trouble began Thursday morning at Lawrence High School when nearly 100 black students, some of them armed with tire tools, were dispersed by police who threatened to use tear gas.
Police said the group attempted to enter the high school from a corner of the school grounds. The blacks then retreated to Veterans Park, across the street from the high school, and broke up.
Meanwhile a bomb hoax evacuated students from Central Junior High School. Some students were taken home by their parents and classes resumed after no evidence of a bomb was found.
Superintendent of Lawrence schools, Carl Knox said all staff and faculty members would be on duty Friday but students should stay home.
A meeting in the afternoon between the student council and black representatives was held in another attempt to view differences. Andy Benton, student council president said, "The atmosphere of the meeting was electric. The discussion was heated and the blacks walked out in disgust with the council."
Highway Patrol, police and sheriff's deputies were called in for security measures at the blacks once again, dispersed to Veteran's Park.
Later in the afternoon, a list of demands were printed for distribution to all students at Lawrence High School. The blacks demanded fair elections of cheerleaders and queens, including a separate black queen and attendants.
They also demanded three teachers and three (Continued on page 20)
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Senators attack baseball
WASHINGTON—Sens. Warren Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson, both D-Wash., have introduced legislation to abolish organized baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
The legislation was an outgrowth of the American League's moving of the Seattle franchise to Milwaukee. No similar exemption from antitrust laws is enjoyed by other professional sports such as football, hockey or basketball.
Bomb defused in K.C.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-A live bomb, the 10th planted in the Kansas City area in the last eight days, was safely disarmed early today after hundreds of apartment residents in a four-block section of the fashionable Country Club Plaza were evacuated.
The bomb, set to go off at midnight, had failed to detonate but its clock still was ticking hours later at a police laboratory.
Soviet pilots, jets enter war
LONDON—The Soviet Union has introduced both Soviet pilots and the latest Supersonic MIG23 jets into the Middle East struggle, authoritative diplomatic reports reaching London said today.
Output down,prices up
The reports said the Soviets began introducing the MIG23s, probably the most sophisticated aircraft in use in the area, into Egypt at the same time they began delivering SAM3 missiles to the government of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
WASHINGTON—The nation's economy slipped during the first three months of this year into the worst slump since the 1960 recession. But the most troublesome inflation since the Korean War continued unabated.
The Commerce Department said Thursday the nation's total output of goods and services declined at an annual rate of 1.5 per cent in the first quarter of the year but prices increased at a rate of 5 per cent.
New slide routs rescuers
PLATEU d'ASSY, France-A new avalanche roared down Roc des Fiz peak today, routing rescue workers digging for bodies of victim's of Thursday's disaster that killed 72 persons in a children's tuberculosis sanatorium.
80th Year, No.116
The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Friday, April 17, 1970
Emergency landing scheduled today
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The crew of America's crippled Apollo 13 spaceship was given final instructions for an emergency landing today, and flight director Jerry Griffin said, "From here on it's men and equipment performing. I think we'll make it."
Officials said the spacecraft, carrying James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, was coming in at slightly too steep an angle, and would require another course correction about five hours before reentry.
The pilots aimed for a spot in the Pacific Ocean about 620 miles
southeast of Pago Pago in the American Samoas. They are due to plop down at 1:08 p.m. (EST) today.
If they come in on target, and if there is a last minute break in the weather, the world may be able to watch via color television.
A cloud blanket and possible thundershowers were forecast for the recovery area. The late Thursday night prediction was an abrupt change from earlier forecasts, when officials said the weather would be "very good."
The steepest allowable angle for a safe re-entry was 5.9 degrees. Apollo 13 was on a course
headed in at 6.05 degrees, but Griffin said it would be better if the spacecraft re-entered at between 6.25 and 6.75 degrees, and thus an additional course correction was planned.
The proper re-entry angle is needed to keep the heat shield on the command ship from overheating and consuming the spaceship in flames.
The friction of the space craft moving through the atmosphere heats gases in front of the heat shield to 5,000 degrees.
Griffin said if there was no additional course correction, "The entry would be a little bit hotter
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Stamp price hike sought
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon announced government and union agreement Thursday on overhaul of the postal system to make it self-supporting by 1978 and asked Congress to help finance it by raising the cost of a first class postage stamp to 8 cents.
Tied to the compromise reorganization plan for an independent postal authority was the 8 per cent pay increase for postal workers that the administration had promised in return for its acceptance. The raise would be in addition to the 6 per cent pay boost for postal and most other federal workers that Nixon signed Wednesday, retroactive to the first of the year.
The postal overhaul plan, long
generally opposed by the unions, resulted from three weeks of negotiations between Postmaster General Winton M. Blount and officials of seven postal unions following illegal protest walkouts by letter carriers late last month.
Because it would permit the 750,000 postal employees to bargain for better wages, hours and working conditions, AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "one of the most significant events in the history of collective bargaining."
If Congress goes along with the agreement, which was viewed as likely now that it has the backing of organized labor, letter carriers would start at $7,070 a year and
reach a maximum wage of $9,584 in eight years.
They now receive starting pay of $6,176 a year, which reaches a ton of $8,442 after 21 years.
The administration dropped the idea of creating a government-owned and chartered corporation for private operation of the postal system, first advanced by the Johnson administration and reaffirmed last May by Nixon.
Instead, it proposed creating an independent, "United States Postal Service" within the executive branch which could set postal rates subject to congressional veto, set pay scales for employees and operate the service free of partisan political pressures.