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Bailp ?Hniber5e 23 No. 113 Provo, Utah Wednesday, March 24, 1971 To face state approval Congress ok’s youth vote WASHINGTON (UPI) - A proposed age or the U.S. Constitution would have to THE AMENDMENT was rushed constitutional through amendment lowering the be amended. Because only Alaska, Georgia Congress so states and localities would not minimum voting age to 18 years in all and Kentucky have adopted the have to provide for costly and confusing elections—federal, state and local-won 18-year-old voting age and a number of dual voting systems-one for federal final congressional approval offices Tuesday and states could not make the change without and another for state and local offices. was sent to the states for ratification. amending their own constitutions. Sponsors of the legislation said The amendment passed it would the House, 400 Congress decided to do it all with one cost New York City alone $5 million extra to 19, easily meeting the requirement for a measure. to operate a dual election system. two-thirds majority on proposals to amend the Constitution. The Senate passed the measure last month, 94 to 0, and no presidential action is required. Before it can become the 26th amendment to the Constitution, the measure must be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures. Its supporters hope the required three-fourths of the 50 states will ratify the amendment in time for the 1972 elections. Woodruff J. Deem WITHIN LESS than a half-hour after >odmff Deem, Democratic Leader Hale Boggs, serving as the presiding officer in the House, announced the result the Minnesota lifomia D.A. Legislature-both House and Senate- had ^ approved the amendment. A few minutes later Delaware’s Legislature had approved it, too. mks at Forum There was some opposition in debate to passage of a constitutional amendment that gorous proponent of law and order would remove state powers to -set ponent of pornography. Woodruff J. minimum voting ages for state and local district attorney of Ventura balloting. The voting age for federal y, Calif., will speak at Forum elections~for president, the Senate and the bly tomorrow, at 10 a.m. in the House—was set at 18 by Congress last year. Fieldhouse. rict Attorney since 1962, he has REP. EMANUEL CELLER, (D-N.Y.), llected three times to the four-year chairman of the House Judiciary 'ithout opposition. He has a staff of Committee, said the amendment was sure ers and is district attorney over to pass. “Any effort to stop it would be as |0 people living in Ventura County. useless as a telescope to a blind eye. Youth [;mber of the California, Hawaii, and will be served,” he said. of Columbia Bar Associations, he is The amendment would not have been i resident of the California District needed had the 1970 Voting Rights Act Junior Prom goes Latin this i;y Association. He is presently vice stood up in court. That law set the voting year with Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66. iian of the Mail order ticket forms will appear Ventura Subregional age of 18 for all elections, but the Supreme Brasil in the Universe tomorrow for the April 8 concert to i ry group of the California Council Court said Congress could establish voting be held in the Smith Fieldhouse. Tickets linal Justice. will also go on sale for the April 9 Junior ^ ages by statute only for federal elections. Prom banquet and dance. With a k )eem was reared in Ogden, where he ‘66 unique blend of rock, Latin and bossa nova, Brasil ‘66 has snared top ratings for I d Weber College before going to THAT MEANT that either the state “Look of Love,” “Mas Que Nada” and “Day ital College in Southern California. legislatures Tripper”. I would have to lower the voting I 'ked on the Capitol police force in ngton, D.C., while attending town University Law School. Dr. Walter H. Judd Asian expert leetures today Dr. Walter H. Judd, former member of Week, Dr. Judd comes to campus with a all over the United States warning against the House Committee on Foreign Affairs wide background in Asian affairs. the building up of the Japanese military and noted daily radio commentator on machine by selling them essential war world events, will speak today He went to South China as a medical at 7:30 p.m. materials. in the J.S. Auditorium. missionary for the Congregational Church in 1925. Surviving bandits and After Pearl Harbor Dr. Jiidd was elected Some 600 million to the House Americans heard Dr. Communists, Dr. Judd finally fell victim to of Representatives in 1942 Judd, where GOP leader, give the keynote address Malaria and was forced to return to the he served for 26 years, 16 of them at the Republican National Convention in U.S. on the House Committee on Foreign Chicago in 1960. Affairs. He received a fellowship in surgery in Honorary degrees have been conferred Now a contributing editor of the 1932 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, upon Dr. Judd by 25 universities and Reader's Digest, Dr. Judd continues to Minnesota. In 1934 he returned to Asia, colleges. In a Congressional poll in 1962, speak to interested groups around the this time to North China. he was voted by his colleagues in the House nation, particularly on college and one of its five most influential members. university campuses. Japanese armies captured his areas and The New York Times has said, “Among his he was under their control for five months. greatest assets is a reputation for absolute i Dr. Walter H. Judd Speaking in conjunction with East-West Follc'ving this, he spent two years speaking integrity.” « ' Wednesday, March 24, Page 2 Daily Universe In Passing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Busy rumor mill CODE CONFLICT 3. The idea that a "green second mankind. However, a condescent s lieutenant" does not make command and critical attitude toward those v oAj ranks of decisions is totally incorrect. I have choose to join the the time the Daily Universe carried the article aimouncing Editor: Between major decisions made militarily, does not appear to letter is occasioned by the seen many such the student body at the This that the First Presidency would meet with In fact the the total love of all mankind "letter to the editor" printed in the by second lieutenants. actual time of the Devotional, the BYU would best exemplify the quali Devotional on March 9 and the Monday, March 15, Daily Universe, military offers the college graduate understanding and interpei campus was besieged with rumor-spreading of the first order. In the concerning a student's opinion of the more administrative opportunity in such decisions than most corporate acceptance needed in such jobs. class period immediately before the Devotional two Sociology dress code and the treatmentthe students whose appearance the writer positions at the junior level. During the professors asked 115 students to write down what rumors they had Your inference to the problem d time I was a second lieutenant, as was considered to be in conflict with that "Constitution hanging by a thr^ in the Universe. KjS; heard since the announcement the case with many of my peers, I had code. most timely. Could it be thatw j.; descriptive analysis of what the students reported. larger operating budget to spend in Below is a short It seems strange that such a long, a than the ROTC and the rffl r decisions" and the results (700 words plus) vindicative harrangue "command program of the country causing thh Rumor Content Frequency then be printed of my decisions were more far-reaching would be written and you infer, it is fostered more 1. (a) President Wilkinson to retire 31 in a newspaper on a campus where the than many of the departmental (b) President Wilkinson to resign insurgent propaganda designed true principles of love and Christian managers if! companies and deans in (c) President Wilkinson to be replaced weaken the confidence of people in fostered. a colleges. The idea of the "green" (or other synonymous terms) fellowship should be Such government, in the need for a championed second lieutenant is not well founded 2. (a) Announcement to be made of a new spirit of intemperance as defense, and so forth? Could it be fcrg practice, and one is classified president for the University (not by that letter serves more to promote in actual the twisting of the My Lai situ^ proven administrative named specifically) disunion, dissension, and a disregard such only by his the PX problems, and so forth, (b) Rumored that a specific person would love than rather than for the principles of Christian incompetence, have their counterparts in many be the new president of the letter categorically. anything else. The spirit segments of society, and which bi Since the opportunities for Boyd K. Packer seemed in no way comensurate with 4. means typify the majority of Thomas S. Monson for oneself, one's service other than the military are, in the "respect military people is a tool to do Ezra Taft Benson the Creator of us all," many cases, quite rewarding both fellowmen and what you talk against? Marion D. Hanks which the gospel should nourish and financially and otherwise, selection of Howard W. Hunter I and opport* which should be the true basis of good a military tour in the officer corps is, respect your right Ben E. Lewis, BYU Executive Vice express opinion concernini pi grooming, (see the New Era Feb., in many cases, a gesture of to your President of benefits military.