Seminar centers on crime
By JOHN GOODRICK Kansan Staff Writer
The Seventies will be the "Golden Age of Crime" said the Topeka Chief of Police Wednesday in a seminar on the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency.
"The pig will become one of the most beautiful creatures in the Seventies," Dana Hummer told nearly 70 persons in his speech, "Problems for the Police."
Area counselors, principals, judges, policemen, juvenile detention directors and persons who work with juvenile offenders attended the seminar in the Kansas Union and participated in the discussions with Hummer, a Wichita probate judge and a panel of high school students.
"The only man you'll see at 3 a.m. is the man in the blue suit," Hummer
said. Much of today's delinquency can be attributed to the widespread use of drugs, he added.
Despite the fact that marijuana might not be harmful in itself "96 per cent of hard drug users started out on marijuana," he said. Fifty per cent of crimes are under the influence of drugs or to get drugs. The hippies using drugs are "using a crutch to guard from the confrontation of life," Hummer added.
Seventy five per cent of the teachers in East St. Louis carry guns for discipline reasons. He said many schools across the nation need full time guards for protection. "We've come a long way," he said, "but the wrong way."
The solution, he said is to "strengthen the home and family life." "We must go back to honoring thy father and mother," Hummer said.
Young people today are brought up to believe there is no real, or right or wrong he said. Hummer recommended "discipline through love."
Society today is becoming permissive he said children are brought up to respect "neither their parents or their Bibles."
Hummer said there should be more told about the good students who do not riot and those who aren't delinquents. He said there is too much publicity about the bad students.
Honorable Clark V. Owens, Wichita probate judge, said a penal institution is a "breeding place and training grounds" that can make a juvenile offender a hardened criminal in his speech, "The count's view of the juvenile offender."
After three wayward offenses a child can be declared miscreant and sent to
a juvenile home. If he then runs away from the detention home a few times he can be sent to a penal institution, Owens said. A 14-year-old going into an institution can come out a "homosexual, or know how to carry out an armed robbery, or peel a safe," he said.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can a new one," he said.
Giving the juvenile his constitutional safeguards will cause more harm than good, Owens said. If you give the juvenile the right to bond, bail and trial by jury, then every juvenile offender will have to have his bond posted and bail payed on any offence he commits, instead of the usual releasing of the child to his parents until the case comes to court, he said.
"A high 80 per cent of the juveniles we get come from broken homes,"
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Neutralization plan offered
WASHINGTON—State Department officials today expressed interest in a French proposal for international negotiations to neutralize all of Indochina, but reserved judgment until they had more precise information.
A department spokesman declined formal comment on the French proposal, issued late Wednesday, that there be "negotiations between all interested parties" to try to neutralize Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
However, officials privately said they needed considerably more information before they could make any definite response or assessment.
Grape strike ends
LOS ANGELES—Two small growers of California table grapes signed a three-year labor contract with the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Wednesday which provided for a closed shop union and a wage increase of 6 per cent.
Army charges Medina
WASHINGTON—The Army Wednesday charged Capt. Ernest L. Medina with being responsible for all murders of South Vietnamese civilians that occurred during the alleged My Lai massacre. Medina has denied he ever ordered a massacre or that he ever knew that one occurred.
Agnew benched as starter
Assistant Senate Republican Leader Robert P. Griffin of Michigan quickly pointed out that Agnew and Washington's other senators—the ones who are older and heavier—had some business Monday, too, like the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell.
WASHINGTON—The starting pitcher for the official opening of the baseball season Monday is still in doubt. One thing sure—it won't be Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew.
New strike threatens
WASHINGTON—Postal union negotiators, faced with a new strike threat by New York letter carriers, today will discuss details of the government's double-barreled pay increase offer with AFL-CIO President George Meany before deciding whether to accept it.
Added urgency was injected into the negotiations Wednesday when letter carriers in New York, where the nation's first postal strike began March 18, voted a new strike authorization.
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80th Year, No. 105
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, April 2,1970
Students to vote on hospital needs
An increase in the activity fees for new medical facilities at KU will be one of the questions students will decide in the referendum vote Tuesday.
Full-time students now pay $20 a semester for health services.
The exact increase has not been set, said William Balfour, dean of student affairs. He estimated the increase at $10 a semester. The final amount hinges on whether a new facility is built or just an addition is made to Watkins Hospital.
There is no way to finance the student health services other than student fees, Balfour said. State
A committee is presently working out the hospital's needs which will include more waiting rooms, examination rooms and laboratories. More money will also be needed for doctors, nurses and medical technicians, Balfour said.
The ideal number of doctors, Balfour said, is one for every thousand students. Presently there is 1 for every 1700 students at KU.
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Astronauts set for lunar exploration
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — The countdown starts Sunday night for the launch of Apollo 13's three astronauts April 11 on a daring moon expedition. The trio will land in a moon valley littered with rocks that may date back to the birth of the solar system.
The launch crew was prepared to begin the long countdown at 10 p.m. (EST) and head toward a 2:13 p.m. (EST) blastoff Saturday for Navy Capt. James E. Lovell, 42, Lt. Cmdr. Thomas K. Mattingly II, 34, and civilian Fred W. Hise, 36.
It will be America's third moon landing mission, and the first to explore a hilly stretch of terrain selected for its scientific interest.
Apollo 13's landing site is called the Fra Mauro formation named after a 16th century Franciscan monk who was a noted geographer and mapmaker.
The touchdown target itself is in a relatively smooth valley nestled in the foothills of the rugged lunar highlands.
"If you had asked me on Apollo 11 to go into Fra Mauro, I would have had considerable doubts." Lovell said in an interview. "But I've seen what the system can do, and I've got all the confidence in the world."
Lovell, a three-time space veteran
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Photo by Ron Bishop
Buddha surveys the situation
The almighty Buddha looks serenely across the sinful wastelands of a local apartment complex, perhaps meditating on transcendental realization or perhaps on the foul weather that has besieged Lawrence.