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Congress approves marijuana bill
TOPEKA (UPI)—A measure easing the penalites for possession of marijuana cleared its last legislative hurdle Monday when the Kansas Senate agreed with House amendments.
The measure, which now goes to the governor, makes possession of marijuana a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Selling marijuana remains a felony.
The Senate also passed a bill to raise the minimum age for an unrestricted driver's license from 16 to 18, except for graduates of driver's education courses.
Another measure was also approved to repeal the present $2 per head bounty on coyotes.
A measure stiffening penalties for persons found guilty of promoting the sale of obscene material to both adults and minors was given tentative approval.
Persons found guilty of promoting obscurity to minors would be required, at the court's discretion, to post a surety bond up to $50,000 which would be forfeited if a second offense was committed within two years.
Violation would be punishable as a misdemeanor on the first offense, with fines of from $2,500 to $5,000 and/or jail sentences. Second or third convictions would be felonies, however.
Penalties for promotion of obscene materials to adults would also be increased, providing for fines of from $2,500 to $5,000, and/or jail sentences for second offenders within two years of their
first offense. But only third offenders would be charged as felons.
Student gets grant
Barbara Lehman, Atchison graduate student, has been awarded the George C. Marshall Scholarship to Denmark to study jewelry design and silversmithing.
The $3,000 award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation is given to 15 American students each year.
She is the third jewelry and silversmithing student from KU who has received a grant to study in Scandinavia in the last five years.
Astronauts quarantined after flight
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The space agency said Monday it will quarantine the Apollo 13 astronauts for three weeks after they leave the moon next month because of the possibility that life may exist in the hilly terrain they will explore.
The first two moon landing crews also were quarantined, but because no evidence of extra-terrestrial life was found some scientists thought there was no longer a need for such precautions.
However, mission director Chester Lee told at a news conference that the decision has been made to place Apollo 13 astronauts James E. Lovell, Thomas K. Mattingly and Fred W. Haise under similar quarantine restrictions.
Lee also said that if Apollo 13 is not launched April 11, the mission will be delayed until the next launch opportunity on May 10.
The astronauts are scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy April 11. Lovell and Haise will land on the moon's hilly Fra Mauro formation April 16 while Mattingly remains in lunar orbit.
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