Bill calls for equal desegregation
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
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Filibuster may delay vote
WASHINGTON—A Southern filibuster may delay the Senate's consideration of two important civil rights matters—the voting rights extension and the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell.
During a meeting of the Senate constitutional rights subcommittee Wednesday, Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., the chairman, said he would have "detailed comment" when the voting rights bill reaches the floor next week.
Welfare plan gains support
WASHINGTON—President Nixon's welfare breakthroughs-minimum annual incomes for working families-showed new strength in Congress today. Sources expected approval soon by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Experts said the basic welfare reform of family allowances may win tentative approval as early as the end of this week.
Income plan passes test
WASHINGTON—President Nixon's proposal to give the nation's poor families cash income maintenance payments has proved practical in a three-year experiment in New Jersey, according to Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
He said the $5 million cash experiment involving 364 sub-poverty families in New Jersey showed the proposed welfare reform changes "are in fact practical." He said there was no evidence the people receiving the payments wanted to stop working, but instead used the funds to buy needed family items.
Vietnamization attacked
WASHINGTON—Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., today charged the Nixon administration with turning South Vietnamese forces into "a mercenary army fighting its own people for an unrepresentative government."
McCarthy, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, renewed his call for a temporary coalition government in Saigon to arrange a cease fire and an orderly withdrawal of foreign forces.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate voted Wednesday to force school desegregation in the North the same as in the South, giving Dixie its biggest victory since the start of the civil rights drive in the 1950's.
Rejecting two Northern counterproposals including one endorsed by the Nixon administration, the Senate passed Sen. John Stennis' amendment to eliminate the distinction between school segregation resulting from Southern laws and that caused by housing patterns, as in many Northern cities.
The vote was 56 to 36.
Stennis, D-Miss., said the amendment would make the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) stop working from "a presumption of innocence outside the South and a presumption of guilt in the South."
He referred to HEW rulings on whether school districts should be denied federal school money on grounds of racial discrimination.
Stennis and his Southern allies said the amendment-if passed by the House and signed by President Nixon—would force HEW to either crack down on the North's de facto segregation or ease up on Southern enforcement.
The Stennis amendment calls for enforcement of school desegregation laws "uniformily in all regions of the United States in dealing with conditions of segregation by race, whether de jure or de facto, in the schools of the local educational agencies or any state without regard to the origin of such segregation."
The Senate first rejected, 48 to 46. Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott's substitute proposal. It would have ordered equal desegregation enforcement North and South, but would not have equated de facto and de jure segregation.
Under present law, federal courts and HEW have cracked down only on school districts which at least formerly practiced de jure segregation, either directly by law or through gerrymandering of school zones.
The Nixon Administration endorsed Scott's proposal on grounds it would not challenge de facto school segregation, North or South, unless the courts first ruled against such racial separation.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., then tried to delete from Stennis' amendment the final words:
Stennis said this would deprive his proposal of its "butting edge," and Javits' bid was defeated 50 to 41.
"Without regard to the origin or cause of such segregation."
Even if his amendment becomes law, Stennis said, "We're going to have continuation of integration in the South." But he said under recent Supreme Court orders requiring immediate integration, "we're suffering terribly."
The bespectacled Mississippiian turned to Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., and said: "If you have to do that in your area of the country, you will see how it feels to
you, and to us, and you will help us evolve a sound policy."
He made it clear the "sound policy" he sought was a slower pace of integration. "This thing now is destroying the schools!" Stennis said.
Sens. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., and Javits said Stennis' amendment was really designed only to slow Southern integration. Present federal law prohibits federally enforced busing of students to overcome "racial imbalance," and Mondale said HEW could not alter Northern de facto segregation without busing students to distant neighborhoods.
Frizzell blasts
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Rep. Pete Loux, D-Wichita and House minority leader, spoke on the two bills under consideration dealing with marijuana. One bill would change the penalties for possession of marijuana from a felony to a misdemeanor. The other bill would establish a steering committee to work in conjunction with a federal agency in an attempt to eradicate marijuana from a yet to be determined county.
One student asked Loux, if medical science were to give marijuana a clean bill of health tomorrow, would it be legalized.
Loux said, "While it may not be legalized, the penalty would probably be changed from a felony to a misdemeanor."
Smith added that drug legislation was inconsistent right now; possession of LSD is only a misdemeanor while possession of marijuana is a felony.
Frizzell said, "Often we form a set opinion—marjijuana is bad—then we start legislating. The basic question, is it harmful, is ignored."
In open questioning, the issue of lowering the voting age was discussed. One of the legislators pointed out that the legislature cannot pass a bill to lower the voting age. They would have to adopt a resolution to put the question on the ballot and then it would have to be passed in a referendum by the people.
Frizzell was against lowering the voting age. "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote is not a valid argument," he said.
Frizzell said he didn't think the
majority of 18-year-olds were mature enough to vote. They can be swayed too easily by campaign oratory, he said.
Rep. Jim Davis, D-Kansas City, explained the fair housing bill passed by the legislature this session which will go into effect July 1.
Davis said the bill was an example of the state not living up to its responsibility. It acted only after the federal government acted in this area.
Speaker of the House, Calvin Strowig, R-Abilene, gave a short resume of what the legislature has been doing in the area of environmental control.
He said Kansas has several laws on the books but the problem now is with staffing the various departments.
Sen. Tom Van Sickle, R-Fort Scott and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means committee, discussed the problems of financing education, especially with regard to funding building projects.
At the close of the forum, Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and Student Senate president, invited the legislators to "come upstairs to the Student Senate meeting and explain to the students why the legislature isn't going to give us the humanities building."
The forum adjourned to the Student Senate.
Weather
Fair and warmer with northwest winds 10 to 20 miles per hour today. Partly cloudy and not so cold tonight.
Three arrested for part in march
Three arrests have been made in connection with damage done to the Douglas County Court House during a march to protest the action against the "Chicago 10" Tuesday.
Charged with petty larceny are, David McDowell Neff, 19, 1225 Oread, John Robert Sachse 22, Lawrence resident, and Robert E. Schall 22, also known as James Robert Morrison, 1837 Kentucky. Neff is also charged with defacing a public building.
The Douglas County Sheriff's office said five warrants for arrest had been issued but two have not yet been served.
Schall has been released on bond but the other two men are still being held.
The county Attorney's office said the courthouse door, the side of a wall, and a window were also damaged. Warning flags were taken from Southwestern Bell Telephone repairmen in the area.
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