Blackmun selected from list of six
Minnesota judge latest court nominee
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon Tuesday nominated Harry A. Blackmun, a federal appeals judge from Minnesota, for the Supreme Court seat he has twice been unable to fill with Southern nominees.
White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the President "has a great respect for
Judge Blackmun's legal ability and his judicial skill and his judicial temperament.
"He considers Judge Blackmun a strict constructionist," Ziegler said.
Ziegler said Blackmun was selected from a list of six candidates, all judges. The President met Friday for about 45 minutes
with Blackmun and Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
Ziegler said Blackmun had been under consideration earlier when Nixon selected Judges Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the resignation of former Justice Abe Fortas.
One of the Indians who led the invasion of Alcatraz prison will speak at the University of Kansas Thursday night.
Adam Nordwall, a Chippewa Indian, will speak on "The Causation Factor of the Alcatraz Invasion" at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union ballroom.
Leader of Alcatraz invasion to speak on Indian plight
mun has been viewed as a moderate on civil rights and rather tough on criminal cases involving law and order.
Nordwall was born at the Redlake Indian reservation in Minnesota. He attended Haskell Institute from 1945 until 1950. He also attended Pipestone Boarding School in Minnesota.
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His active involvement in the plight of his people has given him the opportunity to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee and subcommittees. He has also made numerous appearances on television and radio.
Nordwall is presently the chairman of the United Bay Area Council of American Indian Affairs, Inc. and he also chairs the United Council Scholarship Fund.
On a leave of absence from a teaching position at San Quentin prison, where he was spokesman for the American Indian Cultural Group, he lectured at California State College at Haward.
dent Hubert H. Humphrey.
The Senate rejected the earlier nominations.
"The President made his final decision regarding Judge Blackmun at about 10 a.m. following a review by phone with the Attorney General of relevant data," Ziegler said.
Blackmun, a native of Nashville, Ill., grew up in St. Paul, Minn., and has been a friend since boyhood of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and was best man at Burger's wedding in 1933.
He helped put himself through Harvard as an undergraduate and then through Harvard law school by tutoring in mathematics, as well as working as a milk truck driver and janitor. Later in his career he taught at the University of Minnesota law school.
Blackmun, a Republican and a Methodist, was named as a federal judge by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959 with the endorsement of former Vice-Presi-
As a member of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with headquarters in St. Paul, Black-
Paul Ehrlich to speak at KU on dangers of overpopulation
Paul Ehrlich, a University of Kansas graduate who has been involved in research aimed at saving the environment by population control, will speak at 8 p.m. April 28 in Allen Field House.
The talk had originally been scheduled for Hoch Auditorium, but the anticipation of a crowd from 4,000 to 6,000 forced a change in plans, said Donald Crook, Wichita senior who is in charge of arrangements.
In 1959, Ehrlich was a research associate in entomology at KU. Presently, he is a professor of biology and director of graduate study for the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.
There is a catastrophe, Ehrlich believes, in the near future if the world's rising birth rate continues on a collision course with its food supply. To avoid the calamity of such a disaster, Ehrlich would offer a subsidy of $500 a year to every woman of child-bearing age who does not give birth, eliminate income tax exemptions for children and impose "luxury" taxes on diapers, baby bottles and baby foods.
His research conducted at Stanford with support from a $500,000 Ford Foundation grant sought to learn more about the physiological and psychological stresses that overcrowding imposes on people. Ehrlich himself, after becoming the father of one child, underwent a sterilization operation.
His book, The Population Bomb is a standard text on ecology. He has written over 70 other scientific papers on the subject.
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