Navy and Marine students consider KU choice duty
The University of Kansas was considered choice duty by 70 Navy and Marine enlisted men involved in the Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program.
Through testing and screening, these men have been given a chance at a four-year college education with emphasis in engineering and science. The program includes a summer at Officer Candidate School and a commission as Naval ensign or Marine second lieutenant after graduation from college.
The program is usually limited to four years,, but outstanding graduates are invited by the Navy to continue their educations. KU currently has two Navy men working on doctorates.
About 70 per cent of the men are married and bring their families with them. They continue to receive the pay and allowances for their current grade in the service and may advance in pay grade while in school. They are required to remain in the service four years after graduation, repaying one year of service for each year of school.
After graduation, the men are given their choice of fleet assignments, including the nuclear Polaris submarines or flight training in the aviation programs.
While their husbands are in school, Navy wives in Lawrence have banded together to contribute to community projects. They sew for Navy relief work and are the prime movers behind the Lawrence "Meals on Wheels" program, which provides daily hot meals for shut-ins.
Wagering bill passes in Senate by tight vote; House may oppose
TOPEKA (UPI)—The Kansas House today received the parimutuel wagering bill passed by the Senate Tuesday by the tightest possible vote, 21-18.
The Senate passed the measure despite considerable opposition based on fear that criminal elements might be attracted to the state if the bill becomes law.
Sen. Jack Robinson, R-Wichita, who headed the subcommittee that drafted the measure, predicts House opposition may be less than many anticipate. He claims 50 House votes are assured, and 13 additional prospects are "sitting on the fence." It takes 63 votes for a bill to pass the 125-member House.
Robinson believes the bill may share the same fate as the successful liquor by the drink amendment during the 1969 session, which reversed the path many legislators anticipated when House opposition proved to be considerably less than in the Senate.
If the bill passes the House and the governor, who has not yet made his sentiment known,
Kansas will be the 32nd state to have legalized betting on horse and dog racing.
The possibility of outside criminal elements gaining control over racetrack operations would be barred, Robinson believes, by the requirements in the bill. Stockholders in any track would be required to live in the state at least one year before purchase, and racing commissioners would have to be residents for at least 10 years.
Annual state revenue from the tracks is estimated by Robinson at more than $4 million.
At present there are horse and dog races held in many of Kansas' 105 counties, but nine permit wagering. One of the most noted tracks in the state is in Reno county, whose Republican senator, Frank Hodge of Hutchinson, provided the decisive pivotal vote on the bill Tuesday.
One question still unanswered concerns whether pari-mutuel wagering would be legal under the Kansas Constitution, which prohibits lotteries.
Attorney General Kent Frizzell
has handed down an opinion stating the law would be unconstitutional. But the final decision on the measure's validity rests with the State Supreme Court.
A resolution was introduced earlier in the session to submit to voters next November a constitutional amendment question that would repeal the prohibition on lotteries.
The resolution, however, still is under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The pari-mutuel bill provides that each county would have an option on whether it wanted a track located within its boundary. It also would create a three-member Kansas racing commission to supervise the activity in the state.
'Era of negotiation' proposed by Nixon
In defense and economic assistance, Nixon said, "We will help where it makes a real difference and is considered in our interest."
The President's grand decision for U.S. foreign policy in the 1970's, contained in a 40,000-word, 119-page document, drew praise from Democrats as well as Republicans, although some questioned Nixon's assertion that "we have no intention of withdrawing from the world."
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon proposed an end to the cold war and a new "era of negotiation" with the Soviet Union Wednesday, starting with joint efforts to end the Vietnam War and avert a nuclear confrontation over the Middle East.
In the first Soviet reaction, the official news agency Tass said that despite a call for a new approach to the problems of peace, Nixon's basic theme was that "the United States continues to lay the accent on military force as
But he made clear that American combat troops were no longer to be sent rushing from one crisis to another around the globe. He specifically rejected future U.S. commitment of ground forces to Vietnam-style guerrilla wars, short of outside aggression, overt conventional attack or a clear threat to vital American interests.
Nixon expressed concern in a special foreign policy message to Congress over growing Soviet missile advances, and promised appropriate U.S. responses to meet the challenge.
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the basis of American foreign policy."
The Senate also passed by a slim margin a bill that would permit alcoholic beverages to be served at Cedar Crest, the governor's mansion in Topeka. A vote of 21-17 moved the bill out of the Senate, but it now must clear the House.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said he was pleased that Nixon stressed negotiations and partnerships rather than America's position of predominance in free world affairs.
Although mostly philosophical in tone, Nixon got specific when he appealed to the Russians to abandon dangerous power politics in the Middle East, which he said could draw both nuclear superpowers into the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also chided the Soviets, a major supplier of North Vietnam, for failing to persuade Hanoi to bargain seriously for a peace settlement.
Go to med school and see the world
Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the message "represents a complete change in philosophy of the United States, a change much for the better."
The message, drafted largely by Nixon's national security affairs adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, is the first of an annual series the President plans to make on foreign policy.
The World Health Organization has vacancies for two physicians and four paramedical personnel in its smallpox eradication program, reports the staff newsletter of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Positions are available in Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Congo and Zambia.
The Senate was expected to vote today on a proposed extension of the 3 per cent sales tax to gross receipts of many currently exempt items, such as prescription drugs, component parts of manufactured or produced items, food and drinks served at private clubs, dry cleaning and car washing.
Fees charged by organizations and clubs for participation in sports and games, as well as dues for recreation and entertainment would also be subject to the tax.
Med students shown to have few similarities
Medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City are predominantly from Kansas, but besides that fact, they have little to brand them as typical.
A survey of the first-year medical classes of 1968 and 1969 showed the 251 medical students came from 87 Kansas cities and towns, Wichita contributed 35, the largest number from any one city. Out-of-state students were rare. The 1968 freshman class had two students from Missouri and one each from Nebraska, Hawaii, and Wyoming. The 1969 class had only two non-residents, both from Kansas City, Mo.
Slightly less than 50 per cent of the students were married when they entered medical school. Seventeen of the students were women. Medicine was the most common occupation of fathers of medical students, but all imaginable occupations were represented.
A survey of undergraduate majors showed 25 majors represented. Most of the students majored in some area of science, but German, English, agriculture, religion, music and journalism majors were also included.
Don Shaw is now holding court at Raney's Downtown.
Yes, it's true. After 12 years at Raney's Hillcrest Store, the Crown Prince of Cheeseburgers is currently exchanging verbal barbs with the customers at Raney's Downtown, and it is reported that he has already contracted laryngitis in his attempt to speak to everybody. Don assured us, however, that he is so anxious to see all his old friends from Hillcrest Raney's he will gargle motor oil daily until his affliction disappears.
Will it work? Can "Dountless Don" recover in time to greet each and every customer at Raney's luncheon counter? Take a break from business, at lunch or breakfast or anytime until 4:00, and see if Don succeeds.
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