Puerto Rican independence rally draws 45 picketers to penitentiary
By BONNIE DUNHAM
Staff Reporter
LEAENWORTH Advocating independence for Puerto Rico and the release of Puerto Rican prisoners, about 45 people, including 20 from Lawrence, marched in front of the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary yesterday.
Leavenworth was chosen for the demonstration because two Puerto Ricans have been incarcerated there since the 1960s, said Lance Hill, Kansas City, Mo., coordinator of the Coalition in support of Puerto Rican Independence.
"Puerto Rico is a country at war with the United States. It is ironic that we celebrate Independence Day, which was accomplished through violent acts. Our history is considered quite legitimate and we have the right to use the same tacies." Hail said.
Rhonda Neugebauer, a KU student who said she spoke for the Latin American Students' Committee, said her group support 50 percent of all Puerto Rican political prisoners.
One Puerto Rican, Oscar Colasso, was imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary to serve two years.
an attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman in Washington D.C., in 1950.
The second Puerto Rican, Irving Flores, was sentenced for an attack on the House of Representatives in 1849 when five members of Congress were wounded.
Hill told the marchers that the prisoners inside the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary had seen and heard the demonstration and chants at a similar protest three years ago, of the coalition had visited the prison later as part of a cultural program, he said.
"WE KNOW THAT your chants and
beings are being heard inside," Hill told the group.
The group included persons from Chile, Nicaragua, Iran, Peru and Costa Rica, as well as from the United States, according to the source. There was no Puerto Rican at the march, he said.
Charles L. Stansifer, professor of Latin American studies, said he was surprised by the low numbers in his field.
“But there is a lot of resentment in Latin America about the Puerto Rican situation,” said Stansfer, who was not at the demonstration. “It is the last vestage of colonialism in the Caribbean area and so it is sort of symbolic."
PUERTO RICO was ceded to the United States in 1898 by Spain after the United States occupied the island. It is now a commonwealth and a self-governing part of the United States. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and are an important national elections in the United States.
Stanisier said that the Puerto Rican issue made the United States a "whipping boy" and that he did not believe the United States wanted to dominate the country.
"At the moment I think the U.S. government would be happy to give Puerto Rico her independence if she asked, but they are not asking for it," Stansifer said.
HOWEVER, HILL CALLED polls, which show many Puerto Rican favor continued in the states.
The U.S. controls the education. The culture, politics and economics are dominated by the U.S. but the Puerto Rican country cannot care because without fear of reprisals," Hill said.
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Staff photo by KEVIN KIND
With the Leavenworth Federal Pentitentiary in the background, the honda Neugebauser, Lawrence senior, leads a group of 45 protesters yesterday in calling for Puerto Rican independence and the release of Puerto Rican prisoners.
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He said he thought Carter's measure would have little effect in Kansas.
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People all over Lawrence were watching the JaeyCes' fireworks display last night. They also watched watching from Memorial Stadium and the nearby hillside, many others observed the event.
Joe Fishbite, state fuel allocation officer, said fuel suppliers could refuse to comply with a governor's declaration of an energy shortage.
Carlin not expected to shift gas to cities
The governor expected an official explanation of Carter's action soon. Hoech said.
"Even if Gov. Carlin were to state that an area needed assistance, the refiners don't know where to find it."
Gov. John Carlin's new power to shift up to 5 percent of the state's fuel from rural to urban areas will probably not be used in the future, as the dominance of agriculture in Kansas.
Bill Hooh, Carlin's press secretary, said Tuesday Carlin's office had not received a formal description of the allocation power incident Carter gave to governors Monday.
"As we perceive it now this will not have applications in Kansas." Hoch said. "It'sJAspherical."
"I DON'T THINK this is anything different than when a governor declares an area a disaster area," he said. "In that case, he's dealing with government offices, whereas with energy, he would deal with the refineries."
planation of Carter's action soon, Hoch said. But Lyle Goltz, a conservation specialist for the Kansas Energy Office, said that Kansas energy officials received a telephone explanation of the measure from the U.S. Department of Energy Tuesday.
GOLTZ SAID his office expected a written brief Monday. He said he did not anticipate any problems that would require Carlin to shift fuel.
Carter's action resolved the question of whether or not the shifting power could be taken away from the suppliers. But suppliers could still shift the fuel, even after a governor declared an energy shortage in an area, Goltz said.
Previously, the ability to shift energy supplies had rested with the suppliers, Goltz争
By JEFF KIOUS Staff Reporter
Asbestos suspected at KU
Exposed insulation found at the Low Temperature Laboratory on West Campus may contain asbestos, according to an assessment by the director of facilities planning, said Tuesday that he would ask the state for funds to conduct a investigation to determine if asbestos existed.
The insulation was found on the laboratory's floor Tuesday. The building's architectural drawings indicate that the insulation is packed with asbestos insulation one inch thick.
Architectural specifications, which are different from architectural drawings, show that five other campus buildings may contain asbestos, a potential carcinogen.
The specifications show what materials have been recommended by an architect, but architectural drawings show what materials probably were used in the actual construction.
™95 PERCENT sure that the drawings for the Low Temperature Laboratory are correct and that the insulation material is appropriate. It is chitectural services, said yesterday. It
could have been changed during construction."
A sample of the insulation from the Laboratory was taken to a Kansas Power and Light Co. official to be analyzed, but the results are not yet available.
Whipple said an "or equal clause" in state architectural requirements provided that specifications could be substituted for if the state architect approved the substitution.
THE FIVE OTHER buildings that may contain asbestos are:
- Kansas Union—Prairie Room ventilation system.
- Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall—pipe coverings insulated with asbestos.
- Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall—an interior concrete ceiling of the pedestrian tunnel was given an asbestos filtered spray on insulation.
- Nunemaker Center—acoustic mineral fiber was sprayed with asbestos fiber.
- McColum Hall - perforated cement-asbestos lay-in ceiling tiles were used.
Wiechert said an audit would be done on all KU buildings to determine if asbestos may be present. After the investigation was completed, the University would make corrections in the areas where asbestos was found.
MEL GRAY, DIRECTOR of environmental health with the state Department of Health, said his office would respond if it was as soon as an investigator was available.
“Usually, the asbestos surface can be treated with a sealer that will prevent it from causing any harm. We don't recommend using sealers or asbestos unless it has been damaged or torn.”
Exposure to damaged asbestos, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, has been associated with lung cancer and was initially associated with a chronic and debilitating lung disease called asbestosis. In all asbestos-related diseases there is a period of many years between the exposure and the appearance of the disease.
THE POTENTIAL for increased cancer risk may exist at much lower amounts and shorter exposures than those for asbestosis. The small size of asbestos fibers, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, allows exposure to dust, causing a continuous source of exposure.
The EPA will act on a complaint saying a building contains asbestos, according to Wolfgang Brandler, inspection officer for the EPA in Kansas City, Mo.
Brandner, who recently inspected the Lawrence school district for asbestos, said last week that the only way his office would be able to inspect it would be at the request of a KU official.
ONE KU OFFICIAL, Roger Oroke,
director of facilities operations, said he would act on anyone's request for inspection on campus.
Oroke said if he needed assistance on an inspection, he would submit a request to the inspector.
Oreke also said he had not seen any asbestos during normal operations, but he would investigate the asbestos found in the Low Temperature Laboratory.
In addition to the specifications for asbestos in the five buildings, asbestos is called for in specifications for the vinyl floor tile used in most KU buildings.
Whipple said, "If it is in the specifications, it is likely it was used in construction."
BUT THE ASBESTOBS in the floor tile should not separate from the other ingredients of the tile unless it is sanded, said Steve Smith, sales representative for Armstrong provided in Overland Park. Armstrong provided the only of the vinyl asbestos tile used at KU.
Judiciary dismisses speech case
By TONY FITTS
Staff Reporter
Ron Kuby said Tuesday that he would appeal a decision of the University Judiciary which dismissed charges he made against him. The judge said that he did not think it would do any good.
Kuby charged Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Patraten Wade Riden and Del Sgt. Thomas; and John McCullough, Mike Hill, KU police chief; and Mike Thomas, director of University police, with violations of the Code of Student Rights, responsibilities and Conduct for arresting students at the U.S. high school banner "KU out of South Africa."
THE CHARGES WERE dismissed by the University Judiciary Day by motion of the University. Arguments for and against the motion were heard June 27. Kuby will have ten days from Monday to file an appeal.
"Sure, I'll appeal," Kuyd said, "but I don't expect any change. I knew what
"It is a rigged courtroom—a sham court, not making the appeal to prove that it meaningless."
In a written opinion accompanying the order granting the motion, J. Hammond McNish, chairman of the Judiciary, cited his own experience that seriously regulations in support of his decision.
Schenk v. U.S., a 1919 Supreme Court decision which Kuby had cited in his argument, did apply to the case, McNish said in the opinion, but not as Kuby had cited
The Schenk case did not apply, McNish said, except "for the observation by the court that even freedom of speech is not absolute but is subject to reasonable constraints. This principle supports the findings herein."
THE OPINION discussed some of the constraints the University and the Kansas Board of Regents had placed on speech at the University. One regulation is a "Regents policy on the use of campus facilities for political activity," which prohibits political advertisements in enclosed areas of the campus during nonpolitical events.
Kuby had argued that his banner was not "political advertising," as defined by the Regents. McNish disputed this in the opinion.
"The clear meaning of 'political advertising' includes advertising of all types on every conceivable political issue and is manifestly not confined to expressions of, or on behalf of, candidates for public office," the opinion said.
Kuby had said he talked to a former Regent who had written the regulation and who said he had intended for the provision to only to statements relating to elections.
MCNISH SAID IN the opinion that this conversation was not admissible as evidence, and "If the Regents wished to so limit the effect of this provision they only need have done so by appropriate language in their resolution."
McNish also commented on Article 17 of the Code of Student Rights, which deals with peaceful protest by picketing. Saying that the article allowed picking outside auditoriums and other places set aside for public meetings, McNish emphasized this implied that picking was not permitted inside those areas.
The character of the message conveyed by the banner, McNish said, does not determine whether it will be allowed in a particular situation. It may potentially disruptive and the agents of the University are not always able to decide which banners are disruptive in the particular situation, the University's policy of allowing them in certain situations is justified, McNish said.
Lawrence begins fuel conservation program
By JIM BLOOM and ROBIN ROBERTS
NtH Renartase
The stereotype of policemen walking their beats is coming back to Lawrence, but not this time.
The city implemented a 13-point fuel conservation program this week and all city agencies will be required to do so.
"The city is not exempt from the problems everyone else is having with gas and diesel fuel," Mike Wilden, assistant to mayor for transportation, said "We all have to get behind the program."
Wildger said the city had been using more than 100,000 gallons of gas and diesel fuel each year and wanted to cut that amount substantially. The city buys its gas tax-free from Polk Oil Co., 846 Pennsylvania St., but the company does not sell the fuel to the city.
at a discount. The city does buy fuel in bulk at the same rates other volume buyers pay. A spokesman from Polk Oil would not say how much the bulk fuel rate was.
Wilden said that of all the city departments, the police used the most gasoline and the public works and sanitation departments used the most diesel fuel.
Darrel Stephens, assistant police chief,
said the police department had re-em-
ployed 1,450 students in the program in May. The program helped
reduce the department's mileage by 20 percent and consumption was down 1,450
gallons from April. No figures are yet
One step police are taking to reduce gas consumption is putting officers on bicycle and foot patrols in downtown areas during the daytime.
Stephens said the officers were carrying radios and were in contact with other of-
"We have been cutting back from eight or nine patrol units to as little as four or five when we know the load is not going to be as heavy," Stephens said.
Wildgen said the city had pledged to find instances in which smaller cars and trucks, or even mopeds, could be used instead of larger vehicles.
Police have also been ordered to refrain from using their air conditioners and to turn off their cars when possible. The departing bus will be followed by vehicles on patrol during non-pace hours.
Drivers of all city vehicles have been instructed not to leave their vehicles idling on the road.
City officials and they would monitor the pain and would discipline employees who were doing poorly.
- Setting all thermostats at 78 to 80 degrees in summer and 68 to 70 in winter
- Limiting coffee breaks and lunch hours to team employees to jobs rather than driveways or parking lots.
- Purchasing fuel tanks for a pick-up truck bed to refuel heavy equipment at job sites, rather than driving the machines back to the fuel depot.
- Replacing tube radios with transistor radios to keep employees from siling equipment
- Eliminating unnecessary use of machines for driving between homes and work.
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