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Fred Staples, KU printing service employee, uses his linotype printing machine advantageously. Staples heats his casserole for lunch on the hot box.
Oil slick heads for coast
VENICE, La. (UPI)—High seas and winds up to 50 miles an hour broke apart a protective line of barges Wednesday and sent what could become history's largest oil slick heading toward the Louisiana coast.
The line of barges had effectively contained 75 per cent of the chocolate-colored oil slick which appeared when a month-long oil platform fire was put out Tuesday.
But an Interior Department spokesman said the winds and 10-foot seas "in effect have wiped out the large booms and all the oil which was being contained is now flowing freely."
Even when the barges had contained most of the oil, a slick 12 miles long and a mile wide spread across the Gulf of Mexico. No one would estimate how big the uncontained slick would become
New lawyer okayed
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The girl who testified Charles Manson sent her and a hippie band to kill Sharon Tate got a new lawyer Wednesday after a hearing in which Manson chewed his long hair, muttered irrationally and threw his glasses across the counsel table.
The cult leader, who appeared cheerful and even flippant at earlier court proceedings, was pale, morose, and seemed unable to comprehend questions put to him by the judge.
until officials could visit the scene after daybreak Thursday.
According to estimates by the Chevroon Oil Co., the Louisiana pollution could do as much damage in a week as was done in a month by last year's Santa Barbara, Calif., oil slick.
Superior Court Judge William B. Keene eventually granted the request of Susan Atkins, 21, that
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Korean-American attorney Daye Shinn, 52, replace Richard Caballero as her lawyer.
Shinn said Tuesday Miss Atkins would repudiate her grand jury testimony which led to the indictments of six persons for the murders. However, the young woman refused Wednesday to comment specifically on that statement by her new attorney.
The island homes of migrating waterfowl and rich offshore seafood beds which lie off the Louisiana coast were endangered by the spreading oil slick.
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Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel will fly to Louisiana Thursday to inspect and investigate the slick growing by the minute with gooey gushes from eight renegade wells on Chevron Oil Company's "Charlie" platform.
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In its messy path is Breton Island, part of a national wildlife refuge that is the home of as many as 12,000 teal and pintail ducks and uncounted gulls and shore birds.
The U.S. Weather Bureau hoisted small craft warnings off the Louisiana coast. Winds lashed the sea and prevented skim and vacuum boats from sucking up the brownish-yellow crude oil.
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President Nixon's message to congress on educational reform last week stresses the urgent need for far more research into why poor children do not do better in school.
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The president asked Congress to establish a national institute of education to pursue research and development, much as the national institutes of health seek scientific knowledge related to medicine. This is a positive approach since educational research long has been starved for funds.
The national expenditure for education at all levels is $65 billion, second only to defense. But the Pentagon has spent lavishly
Campus Crusade head for Florida
Campus Crusade for Christ has launched a fund-raising drive to enable 40 University of Kansas Christians to spend semester break at Daytona Beach, Florida, Evie Thurley, Campus Crusade staff member, said Monday.
The students will spend March 22-26 on the beaches sharing their faith in Jesus Christ with the thousands of students who flock to Florida beaches each Easter.
Miss Thurlby said Campus Crusade members are raising the money from local businessmen and residents to charter a bus to take the students to Daytona.
"We need $1500 in order to pay for the bus," she said, "and all other expenses will be paid for by the students themselves."
The KU Campus Crusaders will join about 1,200 other Christian students from all over the United States who will also be in Daytona to share their faith and experiences with other students.
The trip to Daytona is called "Operation Sunshine," Miss Thurlby said. Campus Crusade will sponsor special speakers in the mornings. During the afternoons, the students will be out on the beach to talk with other students.
"The New Folk singers will be there to tell about Christ through music and coffee houses will be open for the students at night." she said.
for research while education has been miserly.
The President's position is based largely on the conclusions of the Coleman Report, a 1966 study by Dr. James S. Coleman of John Hopkins University which attributed school achievement more to social environment than to educational input. The report disputed the notion that there was a relationship between expensive programs and achievement.
Nixon, trying to keep federal spending in check, said that the commitment of vast new sums of money to education should wait until more is learned about what will work in improving the learning of poor children, the critical problem of urban schools.
The President praised the efforts of U.S. Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. for focusing the nation's attention on reading deficiencies. But virtually no money has been committed to what Allen wants to make a priority program, as was reaching the moon in less than 10 years.
Reading is fundamental to all education. There is much more known about how to teach Johnny to read than has ever been implemented in most urban schools. In fact, big city schools are so strapped for money that quality education is something to dream about.
The reality is simply finding enough money to keep the doors open and meet staff payrolls. Lavish new spending may not be warranted now. But neither is a cop out on urban schools.
Alaskan tremors shake up Kodiaks
KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) — An earthquake, described as "fairly big," Wednesday shook Kodiak Island adjacent to the Aleutian chain.
A spokesman for the U.S. geodetic survey station at Palma, Alaska, said there were no reports of damage, but the quake had a potential to cause some.
The National Earthquake Information Center said epicenter of the quake, which was strongly felt on the island, was 60 miles southwest of the town of Kodiak. The island is sparsely populated, having only 2,600 residents. The quake was recorded at 5:38 p.m. EST, the spokesman said.
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