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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1967
Page
6
Washington AP reports Defense Department lists Army Spec. 4 Olis RA of Hays Kansas as killed in action in Vietnam, following previous mising status.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that a section of the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Act barring Communist group members from defense plants is unconstitutional. Chief Justice Warren said the law infringes first amendment rights by guilt by association. Dissenters White Harlan and Brennan offered alternative views on national security versus liberty.
The Armour & Co. packing plant in Emporia Kansas, closed without notice Sept. 29, sold to Town Beef Packers of Denison Iowa for 1.25 million. The plant built in 1963 at a 2 million cost, employed 90 workers, and its closing followed unsatisfactory beef profit performance. Armour also closed the West Point Nebraska plant on Sept. 29 and announced next February shutdowns of plants in Omaha, Lubbock, and Denver.
Rodger E. Funk Sr. 62 of Delphos died when his car skidded on ice, crashed through a guard rail, and plunged down an embankment at the Mill Creek bridge near Paxico Kansas. His wife suffered a broken arm.
Kansas University zoology professor Charles A Leone is named dean of Bowling Green University Graduate School in Ohio, effective July 1 1968. Leone directs about 20 postdocs and 20 research staff, oversaw 25 major projects, and built Snow Hall facilities named in his honor.
Earl M. Cozad Jr. aged 49 who made medical history by partial recovery after the left half of his cerebrum was removed two years earlier died Monday. Doctors indicated he may have died from a recurrence of the brain cancer that required the surgery on December 7, 1965.
Lance Elliott Montauk of Portland reported for his draft physical wearing hip boots. Red and green paint spilled from his boots while a black painted insult to the Army appeared on his back. He was taken to the federal courthouse and a hearing set on a charge of willful injury to government property.
In Blackstone Illinois an 18 year old girl Susan Webb was killed when a 22 year old Leo Legner driving to her home struck her while she walked along a road on the town's southern edge. Legner told police he could not stop in time.
Ernest C. Friesen, KU graduate and former assistant U S attorney general for administration, is appointed to head the federal courts administrative office. Chief Justice Warren announced the 39 year old Kansan will succeed Warren Olney III who resigned Oct 31. Friesen, praised for outstanding ability, will oversee budgets and bookkeeping for the federal courts and staff work for the U S judicial conference.
Mrs. Loren Weiss of Sun Prairie sat on a Circuit Court jury in Madison for six defendants charged with disorderly conduct stemming from a UW antiwar demonstration in October. She said nothing she read would influence her, but she acknowledged the defendants could influence her because her husband is a barber.
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