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Lawrence High School faculty present . . .
The Lawrence High School faculty is presenting the play "Bye Bye Birdie" to help raise money for the school's library. Faculty members shown here are from left Don Binns and Ralph Hazel.
LHS faculty give play
The second performance of "Bye Bye Birdie," Charles Strouse and Lee Adam's musical comedy, will be presented tonight at Lawrence High School by its faculty.
Bruce Levitt, LHS teacher of English and director of the production, said the plan for a faculty play to raise money for the school was begun last year. This
Susan Atkins will repudiate her confession
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Susan Atkins, the member of the "Manson Family" who turned informer in the Sharon Tate murder case, will probably repudiate her confession, a lawyer seeking to represent her said Tuesday.
Miss Atkins, 21, asked the court Tuesday for permission to fire the lawyer who originally advised her to tell her story to the grand jury and hire Dave Shinn, who has advised Charles Manson, the leader of the hippie commune.
Shinn said he was "pretty sure" Miss Atkins would deny her earlier testimony which led to the indictments of her and five other persons for the Tate-La-Biance murders. "She should deny everything," he said.
Superior Court Judge William B. Keene set a hearing on the motion for this afternoon.
The 21-year-old Miss Atkins visited Manson in county jail last week and listened to his views on how the defense should be conducted. She indicated then she was having second thoughts about repeating her accusations before a jury.
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Her attorney, Richard Caballero, said he and Manson had sharp differences over the tactics Miss Atkins should use in her defense and if she could not follow his recommendations he would have to withdraw as her lawyer.
year, he said, the faculty hoped to raise nearly $1,000 either to buy books and sculpture for the library or to finance the construction of an outdoor classroom.
The production, which was adapted from Michael Stewart's novel, concerns Conrad Birdie, a popular rock and roll star, who is drafted into the Army. His manager, Albert Peterson, panics at the thought of losing Conrad until his secretary and girlfriend Rosie Alverez comes up with a scheme which involves the writings of a song, "One Last Kiss," which Conrad will sing on the Ed Sullivan Show and then kiss one of his fans goodbye. Complications develop between Kimm MacAfee, the girl chosen to receive Conrad's last kiss, and her steady boyfriend Hugo Peabody.
Stipends offered for social workers
The United Fund and Community Planning Council of Wichita and Sedgwick County is offering this financial assistance to students who have an AB degree or expect to earn an AB degree in 1970, a School of Social Work spokesman said.
Graduate scholarships and stipends for the field of social work for students qualified to enter the KU Graduate School of Social Welfare are available now.
A scholarship entitles a student assistance during the time he is in training. However, any student granted a scholarship must also accept social work employment in Wichita or Sedgwick County for a period of 12 months with a pay of $2,500.
Students accepted for a stipend will receive assistance during the nine months of a block field work assignment in a Wichita social agency. A stipend agreement does not commit a student to accept employment after receiving a MSW degree.
Identification to get easier
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen.
John L. McClelland, D-Arr., said
Tuesday the Nixon Administration outdid him in proposing more latitude for policemen seeking fingerprints and other identification checks before they filed any charges.
Students wishing to make application may write to Carol Weaverling, Community Planning Council, 520 Insurance Building, Wichita, Kansas 67202.
"Frankly, I'm a little surprised," McClellan told Assistant Attorney General Will Wilson, who was testifying before the Senate criminal laws subcommittee.
Wilson urged acceptance of the administration's version of the measure. "The pretrial burden on law enforcement officers during the past four or five years has so rapidly increased" as a result of Supreme Court rulings, he said, that new laws are needed to help police.
McClellan, chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee and a proponent of tougher criminal laws, agreed and said he made a bill he has proposed more restrictive only to keep the courts from killing it.
"Courts in the past few years have . . . found every technicality they can and invoked it in behalf of the defendant . . . they've gone out of their way," McClellan said.
"It's reassuring to know that the Justice Department today, in my opinion, is really trying to do something about law enforcement," McCllenl said. "I haven't always felt that way."
Both the McClellan bill and
Prof translates history
the administration's version would let police fingerprint a suspect, with a judge's permission, even if officers lacked enough evidence to charge him with a crime. The same rule would apply for blood samples, hair samples and other means of identification.
The first English translation of a Russian historian's work on the rise of modern Russia will be published by the University Press of Kansas in April.
It is "The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crises and Social Struggles in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Muscovy" by S. F. Platonov.
But under McClellan's bill, a judge or magistrate would have to witness such fingerprinting and police would first have to determine that the suspect's prints were not already in police files somewhere. Neither provision is in the administration version.
Hilltopper Applications and Nominations
- Due March 20 Turn in at the information Desk in the Student Union.
- Selection will be based mainly on one criteria-whether the student has made an impact on KU: whether he left this school changed. This will include a far wider range of candidates than before. Keep that in mind.
- NOMINATIONS should be signed by 3 students. The nomination should include a list of activities and/or accomplishments of the nominee, his address, his phone number, school, major, and GPA.
- SELF-NOMINATIONS OR APPLICATIONS should include letters of recommendations by 2 students or 1 student and 1 faculty member, a list of activities and/or accomplishments, his address, his phone number, school, major, and GPA.
- All candidates must be classified as SENIORS.
- Selection will be made by a committee of 3 faculty members and 6 students.