Demonstrators protest in San Francisco
Pompidou and wife visit Cape Kennedy
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — French President Georges Pompidou visited Cape Kennedy Thursday and made a make-believe landing on a make-believe moon before flying across the continent to see San Francisco.
The French president began his coast-to-coast tour after concluding his talks with President Nixon in Washington.
His first stop was Cape Kennedy, and after a three-hour tour he said he hoped that "this will be for the sake of all mankind, and one day we Europeans may also go to the moon—with a roundtrip ticket."
Speaking at the base of the Apollo 13 rocket which was undergoing a practice countdown on its oceanside launch pad for its April 11 launch, Pompidou said he was impressed "by the scope . . . of this entire achievement" and by "how modest, simple, and unassuming are all the people who share this endeavor."
"It is a magnificent result of the science, technology, industry and of the human virtues of the American people." he said.
Pompidou, accompanied by his wife and astronaut John W. Young, simulated the lunar landing in an Apollo spacecraft trainer. A miniature Eiffel Tower had been placed on the mockup of the lunar landscape for the occasion.
After leaving the simulator, the president and his wife looked at a full-scale model of the Apollo lunar module, and Young showed the president a television camera like the ones astronauts use on the lunar surface, a model of the nuclear generator and other moon experiments.
From there the party went to the moon rocket assembly building and Pompidou inspected the base of the Apollo 14 rocket, being prepared for launch to the moon next fall.
At the end of the Cape Kennedy visit, the Pompidous flew to San Francisco where demonstrators outside his hotel protested the sale of French jets to Libya
Carrying lighted candles and singing both the "Marseillaise" and the Israeli national anthem, the crowd of 500 gathered four hours before Pompidou's arrival and left before he got there.
Starting a combination statevisit and sightseeing tour following his talks in Washington with President Nixon, Pompidou toured American spaceflight facilities at Cape Kennedy Thursday and then flew to San Francisco.
Today he will visit one of the world's largest atom-smashers in nearby Stanford, speak to the Commonwealth Club of California, and, with his chic wife, act as host at a glittering reception in a replica of the French
Black heritage week prompts drama at LHS
Douglas Turner Ward's play "Day of Absence" was presented Thursday evening at Lawrence High School as part of the Black Heritage Week observances.
Mrs. Roosevelt Calbert, guidance counselor at LHS, said the comedy-satire concerned race relations in the South. One morning the white people awoke to find the blacks had mysteriously disappeared. The police no longer had anyone to beat, the Ku Klux Klan no longer had anyone to terrorize, the housewives no longer had maids to order around and no nannies to tend the babies, the mayor no longer had bell boys to run his errands.
television screen. Finally the blacks returned as mysteriously as they had left, Mrs. Calbert said, and a new understanding and respect is born in the whites for them.
In its panic, the white community tried to persuade the blacks to return by flashing pictures of brooms and mops on the
Palace of the Legion of Honor.
The play, a minstrel in reverse, was portrayed by all black students in white face.
Several KU students helped with the production including Horace Bond, Lawrence doctoral candidate in drama; Linda Jones, Netawaka senior; Veda Monday, Kansas City senior; and Frances Robinson, Kansas City junior.
The Sumner High School concert band concluded the week's activities today by performing in dual assemblies. Sumner is a predominantly black high school in Kansas City.
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The rally in Union Square outside the St. Francis Hotel, where Pompidou and his wife had an elegant eight-room suite, drew about 500 persons, a moderate crowd in San Francisco, where rallies by radicals and militants has drawn thousands in the past and often ended in violence.
But the Jewish Community
rally to protest French plans to sell Mirage jet fighters to Libya, kept the demonstration peaceful. It was purposely held before Pompidou's arrival in order to avoid any confrontation.
The crowd sang both the "Marseillaise" and the Israel anthem, "Hatikvah," and lighted candles at the end of 90 minutes of speeches to symbolize light and
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Time, exemption requests heard on pollution control
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI) Contractors asked for special exemptions and a municipal leader pleaded for more time as the state Air Conservation Commission heard testimony Thursday on three proposed statewide air pollution control regulations.
The regulations would require reporting of waste burning, and place tighter restrictions on open burning and upon incinerators. Staff members of the commission pointed out there was nothing in the proposed regulations to prohibit residents from burning trash and leaves at their homes.
Greed called factor in Medicare troubles
Florissant Mayor James J. Eagan, president of the Missouri Municipal League, told four of the seven commission members present for the hearing that adoption of the restrictive measures would cause chaos in cities because they could not meet the requirements within the two years given. Eagan suggested it would take municipalities between two and five years to provide sanitary landfills or install the proper incinerators, and financial help must be received from the state or many communities could not do the job at all.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Undersecretary John G. Veneman of Health, Education and Welfare told investigating senators Thursday that simple greed is a major factor in driving the Medicare program toward bankruptcy.
HEW was accused of lacking the courage to institute a reform proposal opposed by the American Medical Association. The reform involves government-set maximum fees to doctors and hospitals for services to persons over 65 covered by Medicare.
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"These regulations can cause a chaotic situation that would add to instead of solve the problems of the cities," Eagan said.
Garms said the open burning restrictions would make it almost impossible in some areas to clear land for highways, and could run the cost up significantly. Herzog said the 60 days notice required before certain asphalt, concrete or rock crushing operations could be started would impose an undue hardship on highway builders.
The assistant counsel for the State Highway Commission, John Gladden, asked that highway contractors be exempted from certain provisions which he said would cause undue difficulty in getting roads repaired or built.
Norman Roberts, who operates a fee fishing lake near St. Joseph, said an automobile salvage yard in Andrew County, about one-half mile from the St. Joseph city limits, had caused considerable death and illness because of the pollution of the area. Roberts presented,a petition containing the names of more than 40 area residents.
A St. Joseph area resident, however, asked for immediate relief in his area.
"We ask that action be taken within 30 days." Roberts pleaded. "Sixty days will be too late for some of us."
No decision on the regulations was expected for several weeks. Additional written testimony will be accepted for seven days.
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