Photo by Mike Radencich
Work continues on Malott addition
Perched atop the partially-completed addition to Malott Hall, two men continue construction work on the building. The addition is scheduled for completion this spring.
LAS VEGAS (UPI)—A mass exodus of gamblers and tourists from this desert resort town began Wednesday as the famed "Strip" was hit by its first major strike.
Las Vegas hit by walk-out
The Culinary and Bartenders Union began walking out of the hotels, starting with Howard Hughes' Desert Inn, shortly after 2 a.m. and token picket lines were set up at the resorts.
By midmorning the airports were jammed, traffic on the arteries leading out of town was heavy and vacationers were carrying their own baggage out of the swank hotels. Gambling trickled nearly to a halt.
Shows at all the affected hotels were cancelled and most resorts were refusing to take reservations. An estimated $1.5 million is paid out by the hotels each week for entertainment.
The 14,000-member union voted Tuesday night to reject management's last offer of a 25 per cent wage and fringe benefit package.
Some 6,000 other "Strip" employees were expected to refuse to cross picket lines, including the showgirls, musicians and security guards who watch the money.
Lee Shaw, attorney for the Nevada Resort Association, said all 16 member hotels locked out striking union members, because "we consider a picket line at one of the association's members the same as a picket line at all the hotels."
Only three of the major hotels—the Riviera, the Circus Circus and the Bonanza—were unaffected by the strike, because they do not belong to the resort association and previously agreed to union terms. They reported brisk
business.
Al Bramlet, president of the executive board of the union, blamed the stalemate in negotiations on the "big four" who he said wanted to break unions. He referred to the multiple ownerships of Howard Hughes, Kirk Kerkorian, Parvin Dohrmann Corp., and Del Webb.
Bramlet predicted the strike would "be a long one."
The unions asked for a 35 per cent wage increase over a three-year period.
English professor to write Gilbert and Sullivan articles
John Bush Jones, assistant professor of English at KU, has been commissioned by the Encyclopedia Americana to write three articles dealing with Gilbert and Sullivan for the 1971 revised edition.
Jones organized the Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company. He and his wife are now
preparing for the International Conference on Gilbert and Sullivan to be held at KU May 8 and 9, during which the Mount Oread Company will present "The Grand Duke."
Singapore became an independent nation Aug. 9, 1965.
Senate bill to clarify KU-WSU affiliation
The Kansas Senate sent to Gov. Robert Docking Monday Senate Bill 398 which makes it clear that Wichita State University is not a branch of the University of Kansas.
Sen. T. R. Van Sickle, R-Fort Scott, said Wednesday that the affiliation between KU and WSU was created when the debate took place over admission of Wichita State, then a municipal university, to the state system. At that time, it was decided that WSU would be an associate of KU.
Under the present law, the chancellor of KU and the Board of Regents share authority for selection of the WSU president. The universities are also associates in doctoral work.
Senate Bill 398 strikes sections
Nixon 'to ignore' blacks
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., charged Wednesday that the Nixon Administration has made a "cold calculated political decision" to ignore the needs of blacks as part of a strategy to win re-election in 1972.
The Senate's only Negro said that he and other Republicans are "deeply concerned about the lack of commitment to equal opportunities for all people."
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of the statutes which state that WSU is an associate of KU and that the president of WSU shall be appointed with the approval of the chancellor of KU.
Iraq agrees to end war with Kurds
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)—Iraq announced agreement with rebellious Kurdish tribesmen Wednesday and an end to their nine-year war.
President Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr, in a nationwide radio and television broadcast, declared the Kurds would be given "autonomy within the framework of the Iraqi Republic."
It was the first time the word "autonomy" has been used in any agreement with the Kurds. Self-rule for their northern ethnic region has been their basic demand since the 1.5 million Iraqi Kurds rebelled in March 191.
Bakr, in a 15-point declaration, listed other concessions which informed political sources described as "extremely generous" to the Kurds.
Earlier Wednesday the official Iraqi news agency (INA) announced that fighting between Kurds and government troops had stopped.
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