Agnew condemns attack by whites
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Wednesday condemned an attack by whites on school buses carrying Negro children as "reprehensible and entirely senseless mob action."
"Speaking for myself and for the Cabinet committee which I chair, I want to make it clear that
this administration does not condone and will not tolerate violence resulting from the lawful desegregation of schools anywhere," Agnew said.
"Mass lawlessness, for whatever cause, is outrageous and unconscionable," he said.
Agnew promised that those responsible for the Tuesday racial
Douglas County helps K-State fund raising
This group of contributing alumni in Douglas County, which consisted of 98 persons of 180 in the county showed an increase in participation of 77 per cent, which was the highest increase of any other county in Kansas. Also, the 54.4 per cent was the highest per cent of K-State alumni in any given county to contribute. Hedrick estimated the Development Fund raised about $3,500 for the year 1969.
Kansas State University needs more supporters like those in the Douglas County Development Fund Campaign program. In the year 1969 the K-State Endowment Association received money grants from 54.4 per cent of the K-State alumni in Douglas County, said the '69 chairman for the Development Fund, George Hedrick.
Hedrick said some possible reasons for the sudden increase of participation in Douglas County.
DETROIT (UPI) — The Internal Revenue Service which perhaps wouldn't even accept pennies from heaven, Wednesday refused to accept the 73,489 Harold Ballew hauled to the collectors office in a trash can painted like an American flag.
Taxes paid in pennies not accepted
Ballew—his coppery gesture rejected—pulled a wad of bills from his pocket. The IRS accepted these as payment of back taxes and ended its half-hour seizure of Ballew's suburban Royal Oak gas station.
When the IRS people returned, Ballew said, they told him Giza had been sent to his station to take an inventory, shut off the gas pumps, padlock the doors and post signs.
Ballew, 23, planned the rain of pennies as a protest against what he said was the rude abruptness of tax collector Walter Giza. Giza had hold Ballew his service station would be padlocked if he didn't come up with $734.89 in back taxes, interest and penalties.
Ballew fished the bills out of his pocket. By then, interest had escalated the total to $739.80.
"They accepted that," he said. Someone got on the phone. By the time Ballew had completed the 15-minute ride back to his station, he found it in business again and Giza waiting with the appropriate forms.
"They accused themselves on the pretense of an employee situation."
To the IRS, anything more than 25 pennies together isn't legal tender. "Title 31, section 460 of the U.S. code," explained a spokesman.
Ballew was advised of that Tuesday. Nonetheless he took the garbage can and pennies to the IRS office in suburban Highland Park Wednesday. He and three friends transferred the pennies from the flag-can into cloth bank sacks and lugged their clinking burden inside.
Ballew plans to cash in the pennies.
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violence in Lamar, S.C., would be prosecuted.
from Lamar that there were "feelings of remorse among the townspeople and they are ashamed of their own conduct."
"This was the first year (1969) of an intensive campaign," he said. It was not so important to give a large sum of money, but the idea was that of the alumni's participation, he said.
Agnew, chairman of a new cabinet committee on school desegregation, called reporters to his office and issued his statement a few hours after the White House said that President Nixon deplored the incident.
Agnew said it was unbelievable that violence would be directed at "children who are innocent participants in the court-ordered desegregation of a Southern school district."
The question of whether the sudden rise of K-State football had anything to do with the boost in the per cent of participation, Hedrick said, "I do think the revival in K-State football has done a good deal to stimulate interest." But he added, "I don't think that most of the alumni were interested in just football."
lina to assist U.S. District Attorney Joseph Rogers in investigating the attack and determining who caused it "in order to determine what further action is appropriate."
As for the future of the school—now closed—and whether it will be reopened, Mardian said the Justice Department unquestionably would enforce any federal court order "and have no doubt about that."
Head survey post sought
The committee will include three members of the survey's professional staff, a representative from the United States Department of Geology, a member of the KU geology department, and a representative of the Mineral Industries Council, Heller said.
Francis Heller, dean of faculties at the University of Kansas, will head a six-member committee to find a replacement for Frank C. Foley, who is retiring as head of the State Geological Survey July 1.
"This administration is going to make certain that all children, regardless of color, have equal access to quality education," Agnew said. "I repeat, we will not tolerate violent or unlawful interference with that effort."
Agnew said the Justice Department had sent Senior Trial Attorney Frank Allen to South Caro-
Heller said he hopes to have the first meeting of the committee sometime next week but he didn't know when the committee would reach a decision.
"Nothing can justify the threat or infliction of modily harm on or mob action against children," he said. "The parents who took part in that violence yesterday must know this."
TOPEKA (UPI) — The Kansas House today tentatively approved a $2,000 a year pay increase for all district judges and State Supreme Court justices.
Pay increase possible highway commission state justices, judges
The base salary of the 61 District Court judges would be increased from $17,500 to $19,500 per year.
In response to brief questioning, Agnew said that if the Justice Department locates those responsible for the rioting and finds they have violated federal law, "they will be prosecuted."
All the increases would be effective in 1971.
Robert Mardian, general counsel of the Health, Education and Welfare Department who is working on Agnew's cabinet committee, said a federal attorney on the scene reported Wednesday