The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

2 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES Tudy March 21 1972 House Gives To 7 Amendments Glimpses proved would: Set up a mechanism for the General Assembly to give priority attention to bills vetoed by the governor Enable a governor who has served two terms to seek office after being out of office for four years At present no governor who serves two terms can ever again seek re-election to that office The proposal would apply also to the state treasurer Extend to counties as well as cities the authority to issue bonds for industrial development It also reduces the nuro- ber of votes required for passage of such bonds from four-sevenths to a majority Allow the issuance of a permanent fishing license to Missourians over 65 years of age for a fee erf $5 Hearnes proposed construction in Kansas City would total $311 million including $214 million at the University of Missouri Kansas City Also advanced on a voice vote was a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the General Assembly to set up an industrial development authority with power to lend money or to guarantee loans for industrial development The loans could be made to private persons corporations or associations or to political subdivisions of the state The House defeated an attempt to add private schools to the list of groups Which could receive the loans The vote on who handled the measure in the House commented: think the paramount thing is getting authorization from the He said Hearnes had recommended a plan for spending the money and it would be up to the General Assembly to determine how the bonds should be retired may not necessarily be a need for a tax increase to retire the bonds but for all practical purposes I think there would Cantrell said The proposal was advanced for final passage on a voice vote after little debate If finally passed by the House and Senate the proposal would be submitted to voters in November Under the plan outlined by By Michael Fancher A Member of The Star's Staff Jefferson Seven proposed constitutional amendments including a 260-million-dollar bond issue for construction of state buildings were tentatively approved in the Missouri House yesterday The bond proposal recommended by Gov Warren Hearnes would give the General Assembly authority to issue the bonds for improvements to existing structures and construction of new buildings It makes no provision for specifically how the money would be spent or how the bonds would be paid for Rep (Lucky) Cantrell that proposal was 56 to 90 The state could set the salaries of firemen in all charter cities including Kansas City under another proposed constitutional amendment tentatively approved 78 to 57 At present charter cities have the power to determine salaries of all their employees except for policemen in Kansas City and St Louis Rep Eugene Mazzuca (D-St Louis) said the purpose of the amendment is to provide equal pay to firemen and policemen in charter cities Such action would require additional legislation after voter approval of the constitutional amendment Other proposed constitutional amendments tentatively ap- Her Bra Not a Hughes Project New York Jane Russell actress says Howard Hughes did not design that now famous brassiere she wore in the ffinrthat made her a star hired me for without ever seeing me in person or talking to Miss Russell said in the April issue of Ladies Home Journal Hughes the elusive billionaire who made his fortune by manufactufacturing mining bits was also a pioneer aviator and film producer Miss Russell said she as well get something and that Hughes designed the metal bra I wore in that picture" Debate Sidelines Disclosure Ward Pkwy store open tonight JACCARD'S INTRODUCES THE FRANKLIN MINT FIRST ANNUAL LIMITED EDITION MOTHER'S DAY PLATE AN ORIGINAL PORTRAYAL OF IRENE SPENCER'S MOTHER AND CHILD' within 30 days after the election At present the report must be filed only once within 30 days after an election The present law requires a candidate to file a statement of money spent during a campaign The House adopted an amendment to require disclosure of campaign sources in-eluding names of persons firms corporations and associations making contributions The vote was 121 to 21 Rep Robert Snyder (R-St Louis County) said the amendment show where the money comes from and to whom the candidate might be indebted if he were Rabbitt said he voted against the change because it would work undue hardship on the candidate who receives mainly date forfeit his office if persons living outside Missouri acted in his behalf The amendment was a slap at the Missouri attorney general John Danforth who had campaign assistants from out of state during his unsuccessful bid for election to the US Senate in 1970 The proposal was adopted 121 to 16 Rabbitt then took the floor and said Speaker I think my corrupt practices act has been He laid the measure back on the House calendar ending debate think the House was serious about passing the Rabbitt said feel that some of those amendments were not offered in good faith You can make a bill so good that nobody can vote for Gralike later said he offered the limitation agreement because see why anybody should skirt away from that unless his election is hinged on it I know mine Stokes May Join NBC News Team New York Times News Service New Carl Stokes former mayor of Cleveland may join the National Broadcasting Company as coanchorman of 6 PM evening newcasts This was confirmed yesterday by Reuven Frank president of NBC news who said the network was holding discussions with Stokes and was that he would shortly join NBC in the hands of the lawyers right now" Frank said hopeful be able to announce his appointment in the next few Sen Eastland Seeks Sixth Term Washington Sen James Eastland (D-Miss) 67 announced yesterday he will seek election to a sixth Senate term this year East-land chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 16 years emphasized his seniority in his statement He said he was second ranking in seniority among Senate Democrats next to the President pro tern Allen Ellender (D-La 81 who also is seeking re-election this year He said that by the middle of this year he will have served as chairman of judiciary longer than anyone in the history of the Senate This post gives him power" he said Says Irish Strife Not Religious Service of the Washington Star The Catholic archbishop of Ireland has dismissed the notion that the conflict in Northern Ireland is a religious one After all not fighting about theology Thev're not waving Bibles and rosaries at one said William Cardinal Conway is a conflict of social and political dimensions The religion part is merely because of an accident of The cardinal interviewed in the home of Patrick Cardinal archbishop of Washington where he has been a guest said the Protestant majority not genuinely committed to the reform measures they have WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY ON THIS FIRST EDITION SERIES: sterling silver 8" diameter (quantities limited) $125 00 KANSAS CITY reeucri ieteeb Metre 1829 ORDER BY MAIL OR TELEPHONE VICTOR 2-9523 DOWNTOWN 1017 WALNUT PLAZA 225 W47TH WARD PARKWAY CENTER IN WOOLF BROS 7 By Michael Fancher A Member of The Star' Staff Jefferson City Legislation for disclosure of campaign contributions was sidetracked and likely 4cilled yesterday after it was heavily amended on the floor of the Missouri House Rep Richard Rabbitt (D-St Louis) sponsor of the measure stopped debate on the bill charging that the amendments were intended to kill his proposal think there is any sense in bringing it up the House majority leader said after the debate The original bill required a candidate for public office to approve by affidavit any advertising in his behalf It also required campaign committees to file complete records of contributions and expenditures five days before the election and Tears for New Life Continued From Page 1 said papers ready Come get baby" Two days later Ripperger who owns a drug store in Topeka left on his first trip to India to see the orphanage and to bring home his new daughter girls greeted me as he said wife is cnown to them as I ell you it was a sad thing trying to leave when got 18 ittle girls hanging onto you begging you to Ripperger said the orphanage was a simple 2-room building that is being improved were lucky the adoption went he said official who helped me out advised me not to recommend this sort of thing to others since so small contributions Rep Donald Gralike (D-St Louis County) offered an amendment to prohibit a candidate from accepting a contribution of more than $50 from any individual Rep A Robert Pierce (R-Cape Girardeau) offered an amendment to proposal to extend the limitation to cover committees acting in the behalf measure also prohibits acceptance of a contribution larger than $50 from any association partnership corporation or labor union The House adopted amendment 131 to 10 and then adopted amendment 120 to 18 Rep Harold Volkmer (D-Han-nibal) then proposed an amendment to provide that a candi- Override Veto Continued From Page 1 tional amendments on the general election ballot and five so-called non-controversial cleanup amendments on the ballot in the August primary elections The three amendments to be voted upon in November would provide nonpartisan selection of district court judges in the same manner as Kansas Supreme Court justices are select- ed 4-year terms for elected state officials instead of 2-year terms and that only the governor lieutenant governor attorney general and secretary of state be elected and permit Kansas to join an interstate compact on prisons to permit transfer of inmates among states The five on the August primary ballot are ones recommended by the Kansas Commission on Constitutional Revision after a 2-year study to remove outmoded provisions in the 111-year-old Kansas Constitution such as a provision against dueling Penal Bill OK From The Star's Tooeka Bureau The Penal Reform Bill setting up a major revision of the Kansas penal system with stress on rehabilitation rather than custodial care was signed last night by Gov Robert 7 Says FBI Has Memo iZs aster goes the blazer way with knits Begin at Easter and sport the Polyester double knit blazer through Summer Easy care and wrinkle resistant Great for travel in solid coldrs SIZES 6 THRU 12 $2250 SIZES 13 THRU 20 $3500 Continued From Page 1 days after the memo was first made public by Anderson Sen Hugh Scott the Senate Republican leader from Pennsylvania said yesterday he could not vouch for the accuracy of the affidavit by Mrs Beard even though he released it to news media in Washington last Friday PRAIRIE VILLAGE THE COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA INDIAN SPRINGS pretty shy Ripperger said of Marya Anne first she even look at me I guess kind of scared by all these new faces and by traveling been in the air for almost 50 hours straight she knows some he told his wife once said love and love Connie By this time Marya Anne had decided that her adopted hugs all that scary Her wide brown eyes were timidly but curiously staring out at her new surroundings How do the Rippergers both 45 years old feel about starting a new family after already bringing up two children of their own? Mrs Ripperger said just going to be her husband added been waiting for her We expectfed her at Christmas but saved her presents and the Christmas tree and be celebrating Christmas again when we get her He said a subcommittee of the judiciary committee should go to Denver to settle the question of the memo Until then he said no more witnesses should be heard by the committee California Suit Los Angeles The California secretary of state Edmund Brown Jr filed suit in US District Court today against the International Telephone Telegraph Corporation under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act suit asked for an injunction ordering the Republican National Committee to return $100000 contributed for its convention by Sheraton Hotel division He said the Federal Corrupt Practices Act prohibits a corporation from contributing to a presidential campaign or to a convention The $100000 check from Sheraton was given to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau in August 1971 The civic committee is raising $600000 to help meet expenses of the Republican convention Sen Bob Dole Republican tThe of strawberry inational chairman says corpo- Hili youth music entertainment t-- in (star Magazine Sunday March rae contributions to the San Di-26 adv ego civic committee are legal Sesame Street Moves to Poland New York Sesame Street the television series aimed at giving preschool children some basic learning skills soon will open 3-month test runs in Poland and Yugoslavia a Television Workshop spokesman said yesterday Michael Dann vice-president of the Workshop said that the program will be the first Amrican television educational series ever shown in a Communist country He said that television officials in three other Eastern European Romania Hungary and had watched samples of Sesame Street and were considering test programing of the series Settle on Site for Chess Match Amsterdam Chess officials decided yesterday the world title match between champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and his US Challenger Bobby Fischer will begin June 22 in Belgrade Yugoslavia With the title goes $138500 in prize money 72Vi per cent to the winner and the rest to the loser a spokesman for the International Chess Federation said After 12 games the match switches to Rey-kajavik Iceland where the title contest will be continued on Aug 6 The details were worked out at a meeting of representatives of the Yugoslav Icelandic Soviet and American chess federations Gift for Rare Film Restoration Washington The American Film Institute announced yesterday receipt of a $10000 grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation to finance making new prints of old or rare films generous gift will allow us to realize many exciting Michael Webb the film programing manager said of the money will be spent on restoring American Mrs Nixon to Visit Atlanta Washington Mrs Richard Nixon will visit a computer project Friday in Atlanta to see how blind students get Braille study materials The wife is making the stop at the Atlanta public school vision center while in that city to attend a national Republican conference The Braille computer a project launched with the help of federal funds translates printed material into Braille for blind students at the rate of 200 characters a second The White House said Mrs Nixon will get bound Braille copies of the printing of remarks MRS NIXON made by President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai at a banquet in China Winter Goes Up in Smoke Sault Ste Marie Mich As about 50 persons looked on a paper snowman was burned in effigy in the middle of a tennis court on the Lake Superior State College campus yesterday to mark the end of winter Attacks British Abortion Law London Queen gynecologist attacked disputed abortion law yesterday and suggested it might be encouraging sexual permissiveness among young women Sir John Peel claimed most of the 120000 abortions a year since 1968 were for social or economic reasons rather than to save the women mental or physical the original terms of the law Peel also is president of the British Medical Association He stressed in a speech to the Royal College of Nurses Conference that the rapid rise in from 6000 a year before 1968 to 120000 apparently indicated a great social need is being met But noted that although one of major social goals is to reduce the number of illegitimate babies in 1970 there were only 5000 fewer illegitimate births In the same year unmarried women had abortions PHARMACY Bilk mm GOOD MARCH 21-27 FAST DEPENDABLE Prescription Service! 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