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The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

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1 Friday March 31 1972 It THE KANSAS CITY STAR Tax Issue Flares Highlights Sidelights US I A Apology to Fulbright Easter neckwear wm WWm WmMm The candidates have stepped-up criticism of one records in the last days of the Wisconsin campaign Only Humphrey moved away from criticizing his rivals charging at a farm-labor rally in West Bend a Milwaukee suburb that President Nixon and Secretary Earl Butz of the Agriculture Department given us recession and high unemployment and most of the most critical farm price situation since the Great Muskie challenged claim that he was from the on the Vietnam War and other issues McGovern brushed aside an appeal by Rep Paul Mc-Closkey (R-Calif) for GOP crossovers to aid Mayor John Lindsay of New York He noted the two both lifelong Re- Milwaukee (AP) Gov George Wallace of Alabama contending he talked tax reform long before his opponents in Wisconsin Democratic primary says a big vote for him going to make them shuffle around down in Washington and come up to solve this in 1972 raised the issue Wallace told 600 cheering supporters at a rally last night all the rest of them are running all over themselves wanting to reduce your taxes They ought to reduce them because they put them on Sen Hubert Humphrey Sen George McGovern and Sen Edmund Muskie rated the top Democratic contenders here along with Wallace have put considerable stress on the tax issue in a state with one of the highest per-person tax loads Avery special way to say "Happy Easter" We have a great spring collection of fresh new colors and patterns from which to make your selection Each bears the famous CM monogram and coronet From 1 000 Washington The head of the United States Information Agency has apologized tor calling Sen foreign policy views stupid the Arkansas Democrat says But a showing of a US propaganda film on New York City television apparently is scheduled despite efforts to block it Fulbright said he had asked the Justice Department to move against the showing of the USIA film on Czechoslovakia scheduled on 12 New York channels this weekend as part of Sen James television show Meanwhile Frank Shakespeare USIA director has apologized for the remarks made by Bruce Herschensohn USIA motion picture director in an interview with Buckley in which Herschensohn called foreign poLcy views naive and Fulbright said i-V McCloskey has abandoned his race against Nixon In Milwaukee McGovern told 1000 cheering supporters confident going to win and going to win all the in voting Lindsay who switched to the I Democratic party last August 1 received endorsement (for Wisconsin only) on grounds he alone was free of the of backing the Tonkin Gulf resolution which President Lyndon Johnson used as the basis for major US involvement in the Vietnam War Responding to questions Lindsay said recall the Gulf of Tonkin resolution when I was in the But House Foreign Affairs Committee rec-j ords showed Lindsay voted for it in 1964 Sen Henry Jackson of Washington criticized Muskie's 72-billion-dollar school aid plan to ease state reliance on property taxes by saying need man-sized programs that do the job not slap-dash election-year Leo Fahey elections supervisor in the secretary of state's office at Madison predicted a turnout Tuesday of 15 million more than 250000 above the i 1968 vote with especially heavy turnouts expected in university communities where 18-year-olds can vote for the first time FULBRIGHT Jack Henry COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA AND mitcalp south Dentist Hits Nerve Ilte nt Read and Use Sunday Star Want Ads Gunfire Erupts From Dental Chair Los Angeles A 28-year-old man who was about to have a tooth pulled is accused of drawing a pistol and firing tour shots at his dentist The man says the dentist hit a nerve A court-appointed lawyer says Tommie Watts Jr acted under the influence of pain-and Novocain The dentist Dr Reb Scott told a Van Nuys Superior Court the incident occurred Dec 1 when Watts went to office to have a painfully inflamed tooth extracted Scott said he injected Novocain and waited for it to take effect After 15 minutes the tooth was still sensitive so he administered more Novocain the dentist said When he probed the tooth again the dentist said Watts Began to curse him and Scott told him to leave the office and go find another dentist Instead the dentist testified Watts drew a 22-caliber pistol and fired four times at the fleeing dentist Police arrested Watts a few minutes later Watts pleaded innocent Kansas Remap Is Thrown Out Get set for April's showersi LONDON FOG'S 11 "FLITE-AIRE" ANY WEATHER COATS New stripes in ciales CLOTH SHIRTS SEPARATES GUILD II FROM THE CROWD Guild It's short-sleeve Ciales stripes have pocket stripes and shirt stripes that meet so exactly the pocket disappears from the face of the shirt The Essex collar is hand-matched too So everything comes out Guild II perfect The Dobby candy stripes are blue burgundy or brown with subtle diamond inset In durable press polyestercotton In Spring's un-certain weather who needs a weather report when have London great looking "Flite-Aire" Styled in wash wear 65 polyester35 combed cotton Tailored impeccably it's the coat you can wear rain or sun and know you look good In ivory color 5500 Other London 45 00 to 6500 1250 Men's Furnishings 1 st floor Downtown also Plaza and Metcalf South reapportionment proposal for consideration after vetoes The court then developed its own districts with assistance from the Kansas Legislative Research Department The court also changed the district of Sen Tom Van Sickle (R-Fort Scott) to permit Rep Robert Talkington (R-Iola) who has expressed an interest in running for the Senate to run against the senator This change had been proposed in the House but was dropped 7 Die I Sea Tokyo (AP) Stormy weather along the coast of Japan was blamed today for 31 shipwrecks that killed seven sailors and left 59 missing Government officials said no foreign ships were involved in the wrecks yesterday and today The storms hit an area in the Japanese archipelago from Kyushu to Hokkaido All 26 crew members of the 349-ton fishing boat No 8 Kyowa Maru were missing and feared rlead at sea about 31 miles off the eastern tip of Hokkaido The ship has not been heard from since she sent a distress signal before dawn- Continued From Page 1 feet the outcome of the 1972 elections because Mrs Elwill Shanahan secretary of state is required by Kansas statute to move this weekend to call the elections for senators Last week the judges were in-formed that Mrs Shanahan must notify all local election officials this weekend of the senatorial district boundaries so they can begin arrangements for the August primary and November general elections This was one reason why the court hurried its opinion In the reapportionment act adopted after Governor Docking vetoed the first measure and his veto was sustained by the Legislature the Senate created so-called zone districts This would allow two senators in Johnson County to run at-large inside each of two zones and two senators in Sedgwick County to run at-large in each of two zones In the same act the senators provided for candidates in Wyandotte and Shawnee counties to run from individual districts In 1968 the three judges also declared a similar senatorial re apportionment act unconstitutional In that opinion the judges held there was too great a variance in population among the districts in violation of the 14th amendment to the Constitution under the one-man one-vote rule When the court began the hearings last week the legislature had failed to enact any Old School Educationally Mod Norfolk Va Assassinations of the and will be taught at a Norfolk high school next fall under an innovative approach to education Maury High School has the oldest built in and the newest ideas in secondary education in the city Courses such as in which such classics as "Romeo and will be studied in conjunction with modern spinoffs such as Side will be offered In the course on political assassinations pupils will study the deaths of President John Kennedy his brother Robert and Martin Luther King Jr The Maury plan financed by a $232000 federal grant is designed to individualize instruction and increase student interest by broadening course offerings There will be 124 new courses Tornado Delays Apollo 16 Test Cape Kennedy Fla A severe thunderstorm that sent a tornado across the northern edge of this Space Center today forced the Apollo 16 astronauts to delay climbing aboard their spaceship for the final major test before their April 16 launching to the moon The tornado damaged two fish camps on leased land about 10 miles from the Apollo launch pad but did no damage to launch facilities Astronauts John Young Charles Duke Jr and Thomas Mattingly were to have climbed into their spaceship atop a Saturn 5 rocket shortly after 9jjjm to participate in a practice countdown The test began this afternoon when the weather cleared Contract Cutoff Subject of Suit New York Truman Capote author has filed suit for $101250 against Paramount Pictures for alleged breach of contract Capote claims that under a contract with the movie company signed last Sept 21 he was to deliver a screen version of Scott Fitzgerald's Great to Paramount by Jan 15 He said he received $33750 on signing the contract and was to receive $16875 later The suit said Capote had finished and delivered 90 per cent of the script before he fell ill Jan 6 He was confined to bed until Jan 18 the suit says but the remainder of the script was sent to Paramount Jan 24 The author said he was informed by Paramount after he recovered from his illness that it was terminating the contract because of breach of deadline He said Paramount told him another author was hired to finish the script Sociological Surprise Long Beach Calif A sociology student who for a research project worked as a waitress in a bar showing pornographic films says the atmosphere was a church filled with reverence were supposed to keep the jukebox playing all the Mrs Barbara Ponse a sociology student at California State College at Los Angeles told the Southwestern Anthropological Association when it stopped you suddenly realized the place was just like a church complete silence And the clientele were very reverent to what they were watching there was a quality of awe in their attitude to the Hearings Set on Economic Controls Washington Sen William Proxmire (D-Wis) said today the wage and price control system has been thrown into a shambles by the walkout of labor leaders Proxmire said he will hold intensive hearings to learn what the administration plans to do Proxmire said his joint economic committee will open four days of hearings April 14 Witnesses he said will include George Meany AFL-CIO president one of those who left the PROXMIRE Pay Board- 'Sacrifice' Made In Adultery Case Jacksonville Fla Two women who accused Navy Chaplain Andrew Jensen of adultery had nothing to gain but stood to hurt their families and social standing the prosecution said today in final arguments at court-martial (Mary Ann) decision to come forward only can be based on a desire for the truth She only brought taint on herself and her the prosecutor Ralph Levy told the 6-officer court is too high a price to pay for anything but the Jensen is being tried on charges of conduct unbecoming offi an officer i A Vr i Court Upholds Convictions Of 13 in Chicago Protest i HI Vj tit mmi I allliili I ft i in if? in i iiiiuk JW mmli i if fa ill Springfield 111 Disorderly conduct convictions of 13 persons including Murray Kempton political commentator arising from 1968 Democratic National Convention week demonstrations were upheld yesterday by the Illinois Supreme Court In upholding the convictions the high court rejected a defense argument that constitutional rights were violated when Chicago police stopped them from demonstrating near the Internationa! Amphitheatre site of the convention The demonstration led by Dick Gregory a comedian and civil rights activist took place Aug 29 1968 and was halted south of the downtown district Among those convicted were Kempton who was a delegate one other delegate and Patricia Saltonstall of Washington a Eugene McCarthy worker and cousin of former Sen Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass) The court imposed fines ranging from $200 to $400 100 Attend Conference Alpha Delta Sigma chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity began its 23rd annual regional conference today at the Hotel President with about 100 members attending Dr Daniel McDaniels 1953 Twelfth Kansas City Kansas is general chairman Registration began this morning The session will close Sunday i Rl fV'i IS I I f-M Chess Match Stalemate 1 1 rt i Levy said that Lora Gudbran-fion who joined Mrs Curran in testifying against Jensen also had no motive to bring false charges husband was at the pinnacle of his career He was recommended for promotion to captain Her teen-age daughter was exposed to this and she wairt leader in chapel and ecol entire The 43-year-old Jensen an American Baptist minister denied the adultery accusations by Mrs Curran 24 and Mrs Gudbranson 38 A two-thirds majority of the jurors is enough to convict and the maximum penalty is two years in prison and a Belgrade The Belgrade organizers of the Spassky-Fischer world chess match announced today they are dropping plans to hold the match as scheduled The contest between Boris Spassky world champion of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer American challenger was set to start June 22 The second half of the 24-game match was to be played in Reykjavik Iceland under a compromise agreement reached in Amsterdam by the International Chess Federation and the two players A Belgrade newspaper reported that Fischer had rejected a settlement reached in Amsterdam for the share of the match The agreement reportedly would have given the winner 72 per cent of the $138000 purse with the rest going to the loser 1 MB Shop Saturday: Downtown Brookside Plaza 9:30 to 5:30 Metcalf South 1 0 to 6 Men's Coots 2nd floor Downtown also Plaza and Metcalf South.

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