Manhattan Mercury, The (Newspaper) - April 28, 1972, Manhattan, Kansas Old or new State convening this debate overthrow of tradition in selection AP Kansas Republicans convening in state convention Saturday will be torn between a resolution adopted by Republicans of the huge 1st and repeated urging to balance their national convention delegation in proportion to the voting strength of various Tradition calls for the state con vention to elect the state vice national com and national com as delegates at large to the national The remaining at large spot filled by the state convention traditionally goes to a minority group represen and four years ago it was a state Republican vice But if the state convention follows tradition it cannot comply with a resolution adopted recently by the Republican district convention in the 57county 1st That resolution calls for the state convention to elect two of its delegates from first voters under age 25 and preferably under age if the convention follows can it follow the admonition administered at each of the district conventions to divide the national convention delegation evenly between men and women and give propor representation to young people and minority Going into the state 10 national convention delegates have been elected by district conventions and five other persons recommended for delegate at large positions subject to approval by the state Of the delegates actually elected so six are men and four are Those recommended as delegates at usually approved by the state convention without include four men and one Only one of this group is under age 30 and not one is a representative of a minority If tradition is followed on the election of the national corn and state chairman and vice the delegation would have 12 men and seven including one person under age Carlos an associate state vice is known to be seeking the minority Should he win the post it would mean a delegation of 13 men and seven including only one person under age 30 and no There is one black among the persons recommended for alternate delegate at large subject to approval by the state The alternate delegates elected and recommended by the district con contain a much larger youth representation but the ratio of men to women is the Six of the alternates elected by the districts are men four are Four of the alternates at large recommended by the districts are men one is a this group includes five persons under age The Republican gathering gets underway tonight with Roman the principal speaker at the convention The convention proper opens Saturday at Both events will be in Topeka municipal Here are the national convention delegates elected previously by district conventions Topeka Robert Junction City John Wichita Irene McPherson Ray Emporia Ron In dependence Dodge City Karen Salina Everett Kansas City See back page this section THe Manhattan 20 Pages Two Sections 10 Cents Mercury 62nd YEAR KANSAS APRIL 1972 71 Ancient city is chief target Enemy drives toward Hue SAIGON AP North Vietnamese apparently aiming at a conquest of the old imperial capital of smashed through South Viet nams northern defense They overran Dong sent government forces reeling toward Quang and were reported to have attacked Fire Base a key base 12 miles west of Parts of Hue were captured for a by enemy forces in the 1968 Advices from the field indicated that Fire Base Bastogne was more than half overrun by the North Vietnamese Late tonight details The manned by Saigons 1st has been hit by numerous shellings and ground attacks in the last three Bastogne has blocked the only access to Hue by road from the The new assault appeared to be an attempt by the North Vietnamese to open the called Route so tanks and heavy guns can move forward for attacks against Hue it Dong eastern anchor of the defense was overrun in the eight mile enemy That is the distance between Dong Ha and Quang first major objective of the northern The enemy is now at its find Theaters A4 Womens TV Classified Two bases southwest of Quang Tri were abandoned under heavy North Vietnamese shell amounting to rounds in the past two days of the renewed enemy The United States threw the bulk of its air and naval power into the battle in efforts to avert the fall of Quang 19 miles below the demilitarized AP correspondent Holger Jensen reported from Hue that planes and helicopter gunships bombed and rocketed North Vietnamese tanks on two sides of Quang At least 11 tanks were reported out and twoi aircraft were In a dramatic air to ground battle With the two crewmen of a Cobra gunship died after knocking out three About 150 air strikes were reported See back page this section PUTTING THEIR MONEY TO students at Marlatt school visited local banks Thurs learning about savings accounts and opening their Scotty Rutherford fills out an application form with help from First National Bank Teller Sonja Inset at Janice the class instructs Natalie Wilson right and Kerri Pitts in making a Mercury staff photo Children learn savings firsthand Regional planners say no to rerouting Weather The rerouting of Highway to interfere with proposed expansion of the Manhattan Municipal which Thursday appeared a cer today seemed left for In an unanimous the Pot Regional Planning Commission Thursday night issued an unfavorable report on the State Highway Com mission backed The County Manhattan Regional Planning only federally licensed regional commission in the approve all proposals for work involving federal The rerouting would be financed through 50 per cent federal monies and 50 per cent state By its the commission virtually assured that the states proposal would not receive approval for federal commission chairman Larry Lindblom Its very rare that an unfavorable report from the commission receives ap proval for federal Lindblom With its financial underpinnings the states rerouting plans appeared to be destined for seeking a design more compatible with the planning commissions And the planning commission has taken a stand solidly behind the city com which is backing a rerouting of the highway between the airport and rather than between the airport and The commissions report echoed the sentiments of the City and Riley County which voiced disapproval of the proposed plan at Wednesdays formal The regional commission was unanimous in its the report In the it was noted that See back page this section At 3 today the unofficial temperature was 63 Tuttle Creek Reservoir elevation was Outflow rate was 300 Sunset today is at Sunrise Saturday is at and Sunset is at LOCAL variable to cloudy and mild with westerly winds 10 to 20 mph this af and evening a few showers likely clearing and cool with light west to northwest winds tonight low mid 30s Saturday mostly sunny and high in Precipitation probabilities 20 per cent near zero per cent The maximum temperature for the 24hour period ending at 7 was 62 The minimum temperature for the same period was 43 Precipitation to 7 Deficit for Deficit for Students in Janice Smiths kindergarten class at Marlatt school learned about basic economics this week by participating in a project which also benefited their piggy As an economics the children were assigned to go home and do extra odd for which they were to receive a small After a they brought their earnings to some cases amounting to as much as several Thursday the class went to local where they their money in savings accounts which they At the same bank employees explained to them concepts of saving and The students were told that they had worked for their now their money would work for They also toured the banks and saw exactly what happens to their money once it is in an Some 43 students were involved in the project The project was an extension of recent classroom work on the history of barter and early trade i Demo County Commissioner Wash clocks Residents in the Manhattan area better be at least halfway awake before they go to sleep Saturday night or they might forget its spring forward time meaning that Sunday is when clocks are set ahead an Thats itll be the last Sunday in April and this area along with most of the rest of the nation goes on Daylight Savings Unless you remember to set clocks ahead an hour before bedding down Saturday night youre going to be late for church and all that other good stuff saved for the Michigan and the eastern portion of Indiana will remain on Standard The federal Uniform Time Act has left it to the legislatures in states with more than one time North Oregon and exempt all of any portion in a second zone from a time Hindman Wall is new athletic business chief Grace goes on line for new term Cletus one of two Democrats on the Riley County Board of County announced today he will seek a third fouryear The term of Ivan Sand of Riley also expires this year but he has not yet announced his He is the lone Republican on the The term of John Miller has two years to Grace represents the Third Com missioner It consists of territory entirely in of the Fifth Ward except the 10th Precinct and the Fourth and Sixth Precincts of the Third The owner of a Manhattan business accounting Grace is the third person to declare for a county office this year in a series that has been slow developing in comparison with other election The Ruth seeking the post of Clerk of the District Court being by Joe and County Cletus Wants Ms third term Clerk Wanda who is asking her third full Other county besides a RUey area who have not declared are County Larry Sheriff Wayne Andy County and Probate Judge Jerry County Treasurer Mary Lowman and Register of Deeds Roxie All are Republicans except An He is a He has a now serving as a social worker in East and a Robert Merrilee Memberships include the National See back page this section Hindman Putnam ad ministrative assistant to head football coach Vince Gibson the past five has been appointed Assistant Athletic Director and Business Manager of Athletics at Kansas State The appointment becomes effective July replaces Kim who has accepted an administrative position with the Civic Theatre in Terre As a member of the football staff at Wall served as a liaison between the football program and university He also handled scouting and recruting Wall is a graduate of Auburn where he won four letters in football and two in He was a starting end on the 1957 Auburn team that won the national His coaching career started in Florida where he was head football at Chamberlain High School in Tampa for five A native of Wall was Supervisor of Design Engineering for Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in West Palm for four years before joining Gibsons staff at Kansas Wall is married to the former Barbara Huggins of They have two Shan and Hindman Putnam Wall County moves on Mayer plat Riley County Commissioners today drafted a letter to the Oscar Mayer firm telling the pork processor they intend officially rezoning a tract east of Manhattan on for the firms use for one of its major We are taking this method of giving our goodfaith assurances to the Oscar Mayer people because they seem anxious to know about the zoning and legally we cant act on the County Planning Boards recom until about May said Ivan chairman of the Com He added that it is the unanimous opinion of the Commission to grant the rezoning sought by Mayer and recommended for approval last Tuesday night by the Sand explained that the law requires a 14day waiting period after planning board action before an of decision is reached to allow for any statutory There were none at the planning meeting Tuesday night and Sand said he has not heard of any organized The letter on behalf of Grace and John Miller was to be sent to Mayer officials Oscar Mayer already has been granted rezoning on a tract under option near which is the only other site it has under con sideration for its new Kansas The tract east of Manhattan on the south side of the Kaw River consists of about 780 acres but rezoning for industrial use was asked only on about 280 acres because that is the portion of the tract which the facility The remainder would be for environmental
