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Vol. LXVII No. 113
Monday, February 16,1976

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ENTUCKY

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Playmates in the park

An unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon brought the kids to
Woodland Park. Kernel photographer Bruce Orwin caught a
bewildered Mathew Oachs (left) taking his first trip down the sliding
board. ‘Tony Calvertand Amy Lynn Watts (center) spotted Orwin and
fled while Charles Burg (right) was teaching his sister, Laura, the

finer points of batting.

 

South Hill

Parking plan opponents picket
Second Natiohal Bank again

By DAN (‘RL’TCHER
Kernel Staff“ riter

For the second straight week. a group
of about 20 people circled in front of the
Coliseum Plaza branch of the Second
National Bank Friday holding
placards. passing out leaflets and
singing.

The purpose of the picketing. as
explained in the leaflets. was to protest
the Lexington Center parking plan.
which calls for the destruction of about
130 homes in the. Pleasant Green-South
Hill area across from the Center.

The link between Second National
Bank and the parking plan is Jake
Graves who is presidentof the bank and
chairman of the Lexington Center
Corporation iLCCi board. It was
largely at LCC's urging that the city
adopted the parking plan.

The pickets were sponsored by a
student organization called Friends of
South Hill tFOSll). Its president. Don
Leach. said the Coliseum Plaza branch
of the bank was chosen as a target
because “we‘re concentrating mainly
on campus interests. and this bank gets
most of its busmess from UK."

In addition to the picket. FOSH is
urging patrons of the bank to withdraw
ktheir accounts and send a letter to

Graves explaining why they are doing
so.

Leach said FOSH, through the
pickets and other activities. is at-
tempting to gain support from students
and faculty members. “Our purpose is
to inform people about what‘s going on
and also to show that we are taking
some action." he said.

So far. FOSH has organized the two
pickets and passed out leaflets at the
Joni Mitchell concert. Leach said the
group will have a table in the Student
t‘enter this week and also will start a
petition drive aimed at getting the
t'niversity to include an alternate
parking plan as part of its terms in
negotiating with LCC. (LCC and the
t‘niversity are currently negotiating a
contract concerning UK basketball
games to be played at the civic center.)

Graves, contacted at his home
Sunday night. appeared to be unim-
pressed by the pickets. “I think it's a
very minute minority that those people
are representing,” he said. ”I doubt if
15 people out of 30,000 (UK students and
employes) is too representative. I
assume if more people were interested
in this thing there would be more of

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Old Reds’ fans never die,
they just watch series replay

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

“I cried when they tore down Crosley
Field. That's how much of a Reds’ fan I
am ~—and I‘m from Cincinnati."

Following his improvised pledge of
allegiance to America‘s original
professional baseball club. the tran-
spla nted Rhinelanderand 100 other UK
students plopped into their Complex
Commons seats Friday night to savor
filmed highlights of the 1975 World
Series.

And who could argue with them for
attempting to rekindle their memories
of the fall classic between the Reds and
the Red Sox described by the film's
narrator, Joe Garagiola, as nothing
short of a “super series.“

Prior to the film‘s presentation.
Reds’ broadcast director Jim Winters
said that hewas “happy” to make UK a
part of the annual Reds‘ College
Caravan.

Then the lights dimmed and sud-
denly, it was autumn again. The devout
followers of the Big Red Machine gazed
upon Fenway Park’s “green monster,”
wondering if the visiting ‘Reds’
sometimes shaky pitching staff would

be intimidated by the left field wall and
its infamous reputation. That

overextended barrier had sentmany a
fearful hurler to an early shower...

After a few trying moments,
especially Sox’ pitcher Luis Tiant’s
superb performances on the hill and at
the pla te. and the effervescent smiles of
Treasury Secretary Bill Simon, who
gloated over the Red Sox’ opening
performance, the scene shifted.

Catcher Carlton Fisk’s throw sailed
into centerfield.

Sox' manager Darrell Johnson
vehemently argued with plate umpire
Larry Barnett. and the Riverfront
crowd crowed with delight as Reds’
pinch-hitter Ed Armbrister stood in-
nocently, arms folded.

It was the Reds, two games to one.

Sparky Anderson grinned smugly.
The fans in the stands rejoiced. and the
Reds’ UK enclave enjoyed every
moment of the extended replay.

Game four, and again Boston’s an-
cient Cuban hoisted his spare tire up the
summit, 60 feet, six inches from Carlton
Fisk’s awaiting mit.

While Papa Tiant, who had recently
been granted a visa by the Castro
regime, screamed amidst a hostile

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Inconsistent enforcement of
state Alcoholic Beverage Control
(ABC) regulations has created a
dangerous and confusing situation
for some Lexington minors.

Officials in Richmond —in ac-
cordance with the state regulations
——allow those who are 18, but
haven’t reached that magical age
of 21, enter the premises of an
esta blish ment that serves alcoholic
beverages if the establishment also
offers live entertainment or food.

The minors cannot drink or loiter.
Therefore, "Thursday night in

Richmond" is the only opportunity
for a lot of Lexington minors to get
out of the dinner -then-movles
routine. V

_ Bar owners do have the option of
limiting access to those who have
reached the age of the maiority
and, for the most part, Lexington
campusarea bars do impose such
limitations.

One Lexington bar owner con-
tacted by the Kernel (”ID game.
Liquor enforcement differs bet-
ween Lexington, Richmond,” Feb.
l3) said he felt the ABC was par-
ticularly rough on those bars that
admitted l8-year-olds. The bar
owner asked not to be identified.
The ABC can revoke an establish-
ment’s liquor license if it is not

 

ABC regUlations need
consistent enforcement

following regulations.

Lexington ABC Administrator
Stephen Driesler said his office
does devote more time to checking
local bars where minors are ad-
mitted, but thatthis practice is not
unusual.

”I think that those particular
bars in town that tend to be
frequented by younger people will
be checked more regularly. We
don’t single them outanymore than
any other bar with the same age
clientele," Driesler said.

it is understandable that the ABC
would check bars that cater to a
younger crowd more frequently.
But if ABC officials did not crack
down on those bars allowing 18-
year-olds to enter, why would
Lexington bar owners prohibit their
entrance? Allowing lséyear-olds on
the premises can only increase
business.

Since Richmond is so close to
Lexington the ABC is creating a
potentially dangerous situation by
enforcing the regulations in-
consistently. Some sort of stam-
ping system at the door would be a
relatively simple means to keep
those under age from partaking. if
it works in Richmond it can work in
Lexington.

Editorials do not represent the opinions ol‘the- university.

Bmoe Winges
Editor-in-Chie!

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

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Editorial page Editor
John Winn Miller
Associate Editor

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Questions

Editor:

In response to Robert Smithman’s
Feb. to commentary ("Right to Life
Only lnsures Right to Die"), I would
like to ask Smithman and his followers
a few questions.

What is your purpose here on earth?
To make money, to make love, or do
you have any idea what your purpose
is? I think that some of you must
believe in God. If so, have any of you
ever delved into the Bible to see exactly
why you are here? God put when to
give us a chancefor eteer life. Of
course, stipulations exist to receive the
blessing of eternal life. God said we
should worship Him and accept
blessings as well as hardships. And as
long as we’re discussing blessings and

 

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hardships, I believe thata human life is
a human life regardless if it is a
blessing or a hardship to you or
anybody else. Lives must be accepted
and not murdered by a scalpel. I would
like to know when Smithman and his
followers got the right to play God.

Of course, by now y0ur group is ready
to feed the public the SOS (same old
shit) about the embryo not really being
a life until after nine weeks and it is not
murder to abort in that time. Well if
you believe in the biological principles
of cellular life then you will agree that
single cell division is life. In other
words, onoe conception has taken place
and the embrionic cells begin to divide.
then that is life!

Glen O’Bryan
Civil engineering freshman

 

 

The father can’t imagine his son's world

 

By Julius Lester

‘ New York This News Service

AMHERST, Mass. —"Dad, when you
were a boy, were there any black kids in
your class at school?”

i looked at my eight-year-old son and
wanted to laugh. ”Malcolm,” lsaid gently.
trying to hide my smile, "there were
nothing but black kids in my class, the
class across the hall, the school, the neigh-
borhood. I never spoke to a white person
outside a store until I was 14."

His response was silence, for how could
he imagine such a world? I was 20 before l
lived among whites. He has never lived
elsewhere and I cannot imagine his world.

This difference between us creates
problems, as, for example, the afternoon
he expounded on why Babe Ruth was a
greater baseball player than Hank Aaron.
intellectually, i didn’t care. Emotionally.
however, I was enraged and before I
realized it, was arguing angrily with him.
He refused to relent until finally I said
coldly, ”Malcolm! Babe Ruth was a white
man, and I don’t know it for a fact, but I
doubt if he liked black people."

Afterward, l was ashamed. How dif-
ferent was I from any white bigot who
demanded that his son champion Babe
Ruth for no other reason than he was
white? i really had to wonder at the extent
of my absurdity when I looked at Malcolm.
his straight black hair and Caucasian
complexion, and knew that Babe Ruth
woulld'vethcxughthe was white, iust as I do
whenever I see him at a distance with a

 

group.

Yet, i persist, despite the evidence
before my eyes. Every father wants to
pass his life on to his children, particularly
the son, and that is different from im-
posing his life on them. That quality of
immortality the father seeks in his son is
not motivabd by an unfulfilled life as
much as the desire that who you are as a
man be understood and continued into the
next generation. The son redeems the
father, not by imitation but by
assimiliating in to his own life the good that

was within the father, whether it was
realized in the father or not.

i will nofbeso arrogant as toclaim that I
know what thegood may be within me (or
even be too hasty in assuming that it is
even present), but if it is, it cannot be
separated from the effect of race on
making me who i am. If my son does not
understand and experience that for
himself, l will be a stranger to him.

Yet i don’t want him to have a total
black identity. That would be artificial.
even if his mother were black. Because she
is not, to claim nothing buta black identity
for him would be to deny her and violate
his uniqueness. Yet, if he has no black
identity, he will deny me, and ultimately.

himself. .
One day last fall he told me, ”i have a

nickname at school.” I asked what it was.
"Milk Chocolab,” he announced. ”Oh,” I
responded, my left eyebrow rising. ”Why
do they call you that?" l continued, the
softness of my voice like a veneer over the
hardness of my anger. He didn’t know.
”Do other kids have nicknames?" He
listed some, all of which were based on the
child’s name ——Bob, Randy, Charlie, etc.
When I was finally satisfied that the
nickname was racially motivated. l talked
to him quietly, explaining how whites
always have used names as weapons
against blacks. ”Your friends are trying to
tell you that they know you are not like

i them

He denied this angrily and i did not
argue, admitting to him that I could be
wrong. He continued to protest, however?
long after I thoughtour conversation was

over., and I knew thathe was confused and~
hurt. I said nothing more, for they are his
friends and how he reconciles his love for
them and their racism is a problem i
cannot solve for him. i hurt for him, yet I
was pleased. I should’ve known that white
America could be depended on to give my
son a feeling of racial identity where I
couldn’t.

More important, however, was the fact
that for the first time I felt his life touch
mine, for the lives of blacks are like beads
strung on a necklace of pain, and we are
linked to each other by that pain, regar-
dless of whatever other differences may
exist betWeen us.

if he is to be my son truly, he must know
that pain, for it was the pain that shaped
the man who became his father. It is the
means by which to grow, if one learns how.
and I will teach my son to know the pain.
not as an experience by which to
dehumanize and hate whites, or as a
wound by which to pity himself. No, the
pain can educate his soul, and, oddly, if he
explores that black pain deeply enough, he
will touch the pain that everyone carries.

Then he will be threaded onto another
necklace, one that will unite him with
everyone, even the racist. When that
happens, then he can say Babe Ruth was
the greatest baseball player, and —who
knows? —I might even agree.

 

Julius Lester teaches in the department of
Afro-American studies at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst. His
autobiography, "All Is Well," will be
published this sprino.

 

 

 

 

  

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Publichas no voice in local development

 

By Phil Crewe

it became crystal clear to those who
attended the Jan. 29 special Lexington
Urban County Council meeting that the
public has had no input whatsoever into
the development of plans for the
Lexington Center. Three_ hundred
angry people heard the Lexington
Center Corporation (LCC) hesitatingly
admit that long before its plans were
publicly known, it had taken for
granted the demolition of the South Hill-
Pleasant Green community for a
surface parking lot.

This stakment is abhorrent in view of
the low-income housing crisis and the
existence of architecturally and
humanistically superior alternatives.
Furthermore, the LCC board has
delayed acting until recently toprovide
parking for the civic center, an ap-
parentattempt to make time an issue:
it is probable that only the‘surface
parking plan could be completed before
the proiected opening date later this
year. It is in this context of in.
competence, lack of public par-
ticipation and be. faith that UK ar-
chitecture Prof. Jon Friedman
suggesbd the council consider firing
the LCC board.

However, metro government’s chief
rationale for continuing with the sur-
face parking plan lies in the insistence
of the private developers of the hotel to
be built adiaoent to the center. Without
the hohl, the center wouldn't stand a
chance of breaking even and the
developers say that only surface
parking is acceptable (as opposed to a
parking structure). The developers
evidently do not want blacks and poor

 

whites living nearby. Incredibly, the
needless destruction of a community
during a housing crisis, a matter of
great public consequence, has become
the perogative of private capital!

But perhaps this isn’t so incredible
after all. The Scuth Hill issue makes it
easy to see through the ideological
myth that the ”public" and ”private"
sectors of our society are distinct and
separate entities. When Lexington
Mayor- Foster Pettit uses public tax
dollars to ”revitalize" downtown (and
prop up the civic center), Foster‘s
private holdings of downtown property
doublein value. Pettit’s familyis one of
20 families who own almost all of
downtown. If the public was allowed no
input in the creation of the civic center,
then it is eaSy to see why. The center
wasn’t primarily designed to serve the
public, but rather to increase the
property values of the downtown
propertied elib.

If the cenbr was designed to serve
the public interest, its construction
would not entail the unnecessary
destuction of a low-income community
in the midst of a housing crisis. Metro
government considered the fate of the
displaced people only as an at-
terthought. As proof, consider the
evolution of the relocation program.

. Initially, when the city began acquiring

property on Spring Street, there was no
relocation program at all. Then came
Pettit‘s meager one-year rent subsidy
plan, which was subsequently beefed-
up a little as the opposition mounted.
Pettit didn’t bother himself with what
the residents—many of whom are
elderly on fixed low incomes—were
supposed to do when this rent subsidy
ran out. He chose to ignore the

dependancythatthe infirm elderly have
developed upon their neighbors and the
resultant consequences of splitting up
the community.

Only in the emotional inferno of the
special council meeting—in the
presence of many enraged South Hill-
Pleasant Green residents who clearly
demonstrated their opposition to being
relocated—d id a plan finally emerge to
build low-income housing. The South
Hill-Pleasant Green residents did not
even team of the impending destruction
of their community until well after LCC
had taken its destruction for granted.

The South Hill issue and the attempt
by city government to resolve it by
catering to the whims of private in-
vestors (while disregarding human
consequences), constitutes a fine
example of one of the rootcauses of the
”crisis of political legitimacy” that is
developing in America today. Local,
state and national governments will
carry out the public .nferest only if
doing so does not heavily infringe on
elite economic privilege. There is less
and less true political participation as
more and more bureaucrats attempt to
ameliorate the contradictions betyveen
the private profit motive and its public
consequences. Our cities rot while
”efficient“ American capitalism in-
vests billions in the cultivation of
synthetic human desires.

But then comes the welfare state to
rescue the inhabitants of our inner
cities, stripping them of any dignity
that the privab sector left them.
Neither the public n'or private sectors
seem able to act consistently in Our
common inbrest. In the words of
David Schuman: ”In essence, we have
managed to make liberalism a double

Curse. We are continually getting
raped by the private. We get polluted
and paved and built around and torn
down in the name of free enterprise. On
the other hand, we fear government in
partbecause we have no control over it.
Both realms are uncontrolled by the
people...“ No wonder the people are
confused and cynical.

Yes, Prof. Rowland, leftist rhetoric
may alienate people like Pettit and the
LCC Board (”Council to hear new
parking plan," Kernel, Jan. 29). People
tend tofear that which challenges their
elite privilege or that which they don’t
understand. It the left is misun-
derstood, then it must accept partial
blame. Admittedly, the left (which is a
diverse group) has often been guilty of
oversimplificatlon. The challenge for
the left is to present a positive,
democratic, grassroots program .hat
can fill the void creabd by the moral
degeneracy of a system that places
human greed before human need. The
rise of technology and the very size of
our large private institutions have
invalidabd Adam‘ Smith’s principle
that the pursuit of individual private
interests will automatically serve the
public interest. We must begin to

.realize that the public interest is our

true private interest.

Our sociala nd private interest can be
served only by building a democratic
society based on a consciousness of
mutual suppo't and cooperation.
Consistent with this goal is stopping the
needless destruction of South Hill,
Pleasant Green.

 

Phil Crewe is a biology senior and a
member of the People, Not Profits,
Proiect.

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Tenneco tells of payments
to politicians, officials

WASHINGTON (AM—Tenneco Inc., a Houston-based in-
ternational cmglomerate, has disclosed that it made payments to
individuab in 24 foreign countries and to politicians and officials in
10 states. '

The firm reported the payments, some of which it said were
illegal, in a statement filed Saturday with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.

Tenneco officials said the statement was filed voluntarily
because of growing concern about‘such payments made‘by other
companies.

It said payments in the United. States were to political can-
didates, state utility board chairmen and local government of-
ficials from 1970 to 1975. .

Tar neoo also said it paid approximately $12 million over the five-
year period to overseas attorneys, advisers, comultants and agents
in connection with certain foreign operations in some 24 countries.

Soviet-backed troops take
strategic Angolan city

AP—Soviet-backed troops captured the strategic Angolan city of
Luso on Sunday after a lengthy siege, the Yugoslav news agency
Tanjug reported.

Capture of the city consolidates the hold of the Popular Front
MPLA on the Benguela railway line running from the Zaire border
to the Atlantic at Lobito, Tanjug said.

The news agency added, in a dispatch from the Angolan capital of
Luanda, that the MPLA expects to restore service on the railroad

soon.
MPLA forces, spearheaded by thousands of Cubans, captured the

rail route last week in their southward drive against collapsing
forces of the Westem-supplied NationalUnion UNITA and National
Front FNLA.

Stratten says he will move to cite
Schorr for contempt of Congress

WASHINGTON (AP)—Calling for action to protect the nation’s
secrets, Rep. Samuel S. Stratton says he will move to cite CBS
Correspondent Daniel Schorr for contempt of Congress for
releasing a secret House intelligence committee report.

Stratton, a former broadcast news commentator, said the he will
act Tuesday after Congress returns from a holiday recess.

“This is nota case of freedom of the press. It is one thing for Mr.
Schorr to comment on the committee report on his own news
program. That action is apparently protected by the latest
Supreme Court decisions,” Stratton, a New York Democrat, said. A

“It is quite another thing for him to pass along the complete text
of that report to someone else for publication in clear defiance of
the mandate of the House of Representatives.”

Schorr confirmed his role in the publication of the secret report in
the Village Voice and said that it was his duty as a newsman to
arrange the publication.

Transcript shows jurors familar

with Hearst case before selection

SAN FRANCISCO (APl—The jurors who will decide whether
Patricia Hearst was a willing revolutionary or a kidnap victim
forced to help rob a bank knew many details of the case before they
were empaneled, a transcript of the jury selection process shows.

The 87&page transcript of five days of secret questioning was
made available to the news media during the weekend at a pur-
chase price of $400.

it pa ints a portrait of seven women and five men so familiar with
the undergmmd travels of Miss Hearst and her Symbionese
Liberation Army companions between her Feb. 4, 1974. kidnapping
and her September 1975 arrest that most of them easily referred to
the defendant as “Patty.”

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 University archivists process
Cooper's personal documents

By MONA GORDON
Kernel Staff Writer

The processing of former Sen.
John Sherman Cooper‘s personal
letters, tapes, speeches and
scrapbooks is expected to be
complete by mid 1977, said
Charles L. Atcher, University
archivist.

“We have been working
diligently for the last three
years," he added, “and have
already processed 1.5 million
pieces."

The papers, which document
more than 40 years of Cooper’s
career, arrived at the University
in 1972 for safekeeping at M.I.
King Library.

Atcher said he thinks the
University will receive additional
Cooper family archives in the
future.

“We hope eventually to have
every scrap of paper related to
his life,” said Atcher who has
asked Cooper to contact the State
Department in Washington to see
if the University may have copies
of or access to Cooper papers
from his ambassadorship to
India.

Atcher also hopes to have
copies of Cooper’s correspon-
dence as the first ambassador to
East Germany. .

According to Charles C. Hay,
assistant archivist, one of the
University’s major functions is
as a research center. “We
acquire the basic raw material
for historical research—the
actual transcripts,” said Hay.
“This is original primary source

matter and it attracts scholars
throughout the nation."

Atcher said an interesting
aspect of the Cooper papers is the
way they relate to the rest of the
L'niversity archive collection.
The collection includes
documents from former Vice-
Pres. Alben Barkley, Chief
Justice Fred Vinson. Thruston B.
Morton. A.B. “Happy" Chandler
and Representatives John C.
Watts and Brent Spence.

The works taken as a whole are
a "major political collection
spanning the mth century," said
Atcher. “I think we have the
best-developed collection

representing Kentucky and all of

the major political figures of this
century.”

A unique aspect of the Cooper
papers is the film collection
which shows “various stages of
development in Cooper‘s career,
and just the physical change in
the man," said Atcher.

The collection also includes
tapes of Cooper‘s speeches.

“For generations to come, the
recorded voice of John Sherman
Cooper will be available to all,”
said Atcher.

In the future, Atcher hopes to
start an audio-visual archives
section in the basement of MI.
King Library. Film and tape are
the “new media of archival
collection,” he said.

According to Hay, responses
from all over the country to the
Cooper-Church amendment are
included in the collection along
with correspondence from many
major Republican leaders.

"lt‘s a useful source for
scholars of Republican politics,"
he said.

An important responsibility of
archivists '5 to preserve the
papers. Atcher said. The papers
are put in acid-free folders to
prevent deterioration and
yellowing and stored in dust-
proof archival boxes where they
are protected from light. They
are storeed in a humidity—
controlled environment and
should last indefinitely, said
Atcher.

If there are signs of
deterioration or a section of
papers is being used extensively,
they are microfilmed.

The technique used in ar-
chiving the Cooper papers is
aimed at protecting “the sanctity
of the collection," Atcher said.
“We do not destroy the physical
order of the collection and make
it something artificial

“We depend on the creative
organization from whence the
papers came,“ he said.

The papers are freed of any
staples or foreign objects and are
organized in alphabetical and
chronological order by the
sender’s last name, Hay said.
Arranged in series entitled
personal, speeches, legislative
and committees, the papers
follow the development of
Cooper‘s career.

The papers are stored in a
private area and can be easily
retrieved on call for scholars and
researchers.

Move to review legality of rescission
in General Assembly

stirs debate

By GINNY E DWARBS
Managing Editor
and
PEGGY CALDWELL
Assistant Managing Editor

FRANKFORT ~—Rep. Mary
Ann Tobin tD-Irvington) said
approximately 15 words in the
house chamber Friday and
provoked the liveliest session of
this General Assembly.

Within an hour and one-half,
the house speaker stepped down
from his chair, several
representatives walked out of the
meeting and at least 30 points of
order were called.

At 10:30 am. Tobin asked
House Speaker William Kenton
(D-Lexington) for suspension of
the rules to introduce a motion.
“I move that House Joint
Resolution (HJR) 7 be sent to the
Judiciary and Statutes Com~
mittee to review its legality."

HJR7, which was passed out of
the Elections and Constitutional
Amendments Committee Feb. 4,
would rescind the Kentucky's
1972 ratification of the Equal
Righm Amendment. The house
Rules Committee passed the
measure Feb. 10 and HJR 7 was
posted for passage by the House
Feb. 13.

But before the resolution was
readied in the orders of the day,
-~ TMMW,
and sat down to shouts of ob

jection, points of order
demands for a roll call vote.
Several representatives asked
whether a quorum was present.
Kenton ruled that a majority of
the house members were present
and then watched at least six
legislators leave the chamber in
an attempt to prevent a quorum.

and

“Would it be your position,“
House Majority Floor Leader
Bobby Richardson (D-Glasgow)
asked Kenton, “to have the
sergeant at arms bring all
members back into the cham-
ber'?"

Instead, Rep. Albert Robinson
(D- London) moved for a call of
the house —a roll call vote to
establish whether a quorum was
present. Kenton agreed. Rep.
Charles Wible (D-Owensboro)
challenged Robinson‘s motion
and Kenton‘s ruling citing a rule
which states that 15 legislators
must request a quorum count.

Kenton designated Richardson
to take the chair while the
challenge was being voted on.
The speaker watched the roll call
machine intently as the house
voted 30-23 to uphold him.

"‘The vote was 30-23, and
therefore there is a quorum,"
Wible said, still resisting the
speaker's desire to call the roll.
“Therefore; the motion by the

. ladurom. ELGCLinridge _i;r_g_bin>

is. in orda."

moan Pater,

Kenton said; “The motion by
the gentleman from Laurel
(Robinson) has ultimate
privilege...and a call of the house
can be taken at any time."

House Minority Floor Leader
Harold DeMarcus (ft-Stanford)
said, “If we have a call of the
house and a quorum is not
present according to the voting
machine, you i Kenton) must rule
we have a quorum because of
what you know in your own
mind,“ referring to the 53
members who had voted in the
challenge to Kenton.

Robinson withdrew his motion,
saying he recognized that a
quorum was present.

Kenton said, “We are now
considering the lady from
Breckinridge’s motion to send
HJR 7 to the Judiciary and
Statutes Committee.” But
Richardson moved that the house
adjourn until Tuesday. (A motion
to adjourn has privilege.)

The house voted 36-2