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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 86 No.161
Tuesday, July 13, 1976
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KBI results show arson
Arson caused last Wednesday's fire at the Yuk Up and Yu Down taverns, according to police.
However, Larry Stemmerman, arson investigator for the Lawrence Fire Department, said not enough progress had been made in the fire investigation to make an official statement about the cause of the blaze.
Dibbern said yesterday that 1 results from KBI laboratory tests on the contents of a five-gallon gas can gas found at the scene of the fire, in addition to existing evidence, was to establish arson as the cause of the blaze and as evidence the gas can had contained diesel fuel.
Stemmerman said evidence had strongly hinted to areas around town and that he had conducted searches in the area.
"Our opinion of what caused the fire hasn't changed because of the KBI reports," he said. "I didn't need a laboratory test to tell me what was in that can."
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Ambassador William M. Scranton yesterday called Britain to rescue raid into Uganda "a commitment that has said heifum if ever been surpassed."
Scranton calls Israeli rescue smart, needed
Referring to the pro-Palestinian hijackers who had seized an Air France jet and its passengers, Scranton demanded that the U.N. Security Council "do everything within its power to insure against a breach of the brutal, callous and senseless international crime of hijacking—the crime which gave rise to the Israeli action."
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Scranton spoke to the council after Britain and the United States introduced a draft resolution that would condemn hijacking. It also would direct the inquiries into the seek further means of "assuring the security reliability of international civil aviation."
Early mornina pickets
Nalaimogel members of the council submitted a resolution that would "condemn Israel's flagrant violation of fugitarian law and that Israel pay compensation to Uzanda.
THE CONFLICTING resolutions set the stage for a confrontation between Western states and the Third World and Communist members.
At seven yesterday morning, off-duty firemen Mike Lindeman, left, and Tom Teague began to picket the construction
Council sources said that would likely end with the defeat of both resolutions.
site of Lawrence Memorial Hospital as part of a general work slowdown against the City of Lawrence.
Rep. Jordan steals show
NEW YORK (AP)—Democrats joined in a unity chorus last night and began their 73th national convention, warming up with enthusiasm, divinifying, despair in America.
Robert Strauss, Democratic National Chairman, pronounced the party "organized, vibrant, forward-looking and bell-ent on victory."
Barbara Jordan, black congresswoman
KU fall housing shortage threatens close quarters
By CORA MARQUIS
It may become necessary to put three people into some rooms this fall if the availability of housing at the University of Kansas continues to worsen, William M. Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday.
Those residence halls affected would be McColm, Hashinger and Oliver. Approximately 250 end rooms will have been furnished to McColm and McEilenin, associate dean of men, said.
The plan to put three people in some rooms will be used only if all available spaces, including ironing and sewing rooms, are full. Those people who contend for a room last will then be regrouped in the triple-occupancy rooms, Balfour said.
BALFOUR SAID that expected attrition later in the samaritne would reduce the need for external training.
THERE are always students who contract for rooms who never show up, quit school or decide to commute and find other housing arrangements, Balfour said. That matter will be to know exactly how many will actually stay in rooms they have contracted for, he said.
McEhenie said that approximately 800 more contracts for residence hall rooms had been returned than were returned at this time last year.
"We send a housing contract to every newly admitted student but we don't know how many more will be returned," McElhene said.
BECAUSE THE triple-occupancy rooms will be temporary, the same rates will be charged as for double-room occupancy, and because of their dependence on the residence hall, McKeehill
John Myers, director of admissions, said that the increased number of returned contracts might be an indication of student awareness of housing problems this year.
"I have the impression that students are applying earlier this year because the word has got out at KU and K-State in the last quarter, so I am a being a housing crunch," Meyers said.
also be filling. Several fraternities are pledging many people this summer, and other housing in the community may be tight, he said.
McElhenie said other housing units might
BALFOUR SAID he felt obligated to help students find housing.
"Certainly, I feel that we have to tell people like we have been doing at orientation, that there is an expected housing shortage. We also have an obligation to those people who contracted early. We want to house as many as possible without turning on the rights of others," Balfour said.
Balfour said he also wanted to help foreign students who arrived at KU just before the fall session. He said many times he had heard that students didn't understand the housing problems that had been mounting all summer. Balfour said his obligation to those students was deeper because they didn't have as much time for their shortage as American students did.
"We must restore our belief in ourselves," she said. "We are a generous people, so why can't we be generous with each other?"
from Texas, brought down the opening night curtain.
Glen drew a half-dozen rounds of apllae as he urged a revival of confidence and trust in American government and said a Democratic president could produce it.
Sen. John Glenn of Ohio shared the key-net platform, declaring this is "the time to erase divisiveness and despair—to build a nation of justice, a nation of equality, a nation of opportunity in which we can be proud patriots."
MeElhennie said that because the University actively sought out potential students, the University had some contacts whose students that chose to come to KU.
HOWEVER, MECHLENIE added that there was only a certain amount that they could afford.
The applause erupted again when she said "There is something different and special about this opening light. I am a keynote speaker."
Balfour said that in the mid 1960s there was a similar housing shortage. Those students who were housed in triple occupancy rooms often didn't want to break up when space became available and they could have moved to double rooms, he said.
Jordan's speech, however, drew a more enthusiastic response. During her speech, the crowd was in order, attentive and frequently cheering.
No consideration is being given now to building a new residence hall to eliminate the dormitories.
When she stepped to the microphone she received an ovation that lasted for nearly two minutes.
"The predictions of the last 10 years show that high school senior class enrollments are toting out. I think we can expect lower students in the future," McElenhie said. "McElenhie said."
"We are combing the halls to make sure we are using every available living space," he said.
The role was, she said, "one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need be fulfilled."
The eight residence halls at KU will house about 4,460 students.
She said many Americans feared the future's uncertainty, distrusted their
leaders and believed their voices were no longer heard. But, she said, those ills can be cured with a new sense of national commitment to the Democratic party heading the way.
When her speech ended, there was another long ovation, which didn't end until she had returned for a curtain call amid chants of "We want Barbara."
Although Carter's hour at the convention was two nights away, the convention was his as he auditioned vice presidential candidates at his hotel headquarters.
Then, Strass gavelled adjournment of the opening session.
His list of vice presidential finalists was down to six names, all of them senators. He selected a man who made choice that might be the most important of his life. He also said that in his polls, two of those names, Glenn of Ohio and Muskul of Missouri, could be the vote appealer of his ticket.
There were echoes of the Carter campaign in Glenn's keynote speech as he spoke of a government so big and complex as to leave Americans feeling noowerless.
"The are doubts in a nation that is the envy of the world," he said. "There are fears in a nation that has provided a good life for more people than any nation in history. And there is lagging confidence in a nation deserving of our pride."
Police, firemen picket expand work protests
Bv DAVE WARD
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MIKE DURHAM
Staff Writers
Members of the International Firefighters Association local and the Lawrence Patrol Officers Association (LPOA) said yesterday they would continue their work protests until the city and the firemen came to terms.
Firmen and policemen picketed city hall and city construction sites yesterday morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the sewage plant on Eighth Street and the garage at 11th and Haskell. Building units held the honor the picked lines and work halted.
Though the dispute with the city concerns only the firemen, the police have pledged their support. The firemen are requesting a 2.5 per cent pay increase for next year above what the city set forth in its "final offer" last week.
THE "JOB ACTION" by the firemen is a work slowdown, designed to expand everyday. Yesterday, the firemen refused to launch a truck after it returned from a fire call.
"The truck was eventually cleaned, but the job was done by non-union personnel," Wesley Hale, vice-president of the firefighters association, said.
Starting today, the firemen will no longer clean the station houses, and tomorrow all begin to work on putting the station scheduled to halt. Firemen said that if the dispute continued to Friday, they would no longer be able to do that.
The police job action is the opposition of a slowdown; the strict enforcement of all city laws, to stop it.
violations and 55 parking tickets yesterday, which police said, was a strabble increase from the previous week.
MICKEY ALLEN, assistant city manager, said she will two complete the increased ticket fee.
"The people that called complained that the tickets they received were frivolous and could have to agree," he said. "I'd say that the way we did it was a good way to take their case to the city attorney."
Michael Hall, vice-chairman of the patrol officers association, said that the "speed-up" was designed to show solidarity with the fighters and to reassure the town-speakers.
"They're paying for law enforcement and they're going to get it," Hall said. "We're doing the job as we have been, just a little better, that's all."
"THE MEN have a very strong feeling of responsibility to the citizen. They wouldn't be killed without it."
The possibility of a large-scale increase in the number of officers calling in sick is considered only a joke down at police headquarters, Hall said. The chance of an officer flipping "dead flu," the term coined to describe an masse sick calls, doesn't exist, Hall said.
While policemen are cautious of the manner in which they show their support of the firemen, their conviction to stick with their efforts remains unshaken, Hall said.
"For a policeman, breaking his word is a "for emotional action," he said.
"IF YOU lie to a match (an informant) it must be all over town in no time and your credit will be ruined."
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Proposal offers time off extra pay scale to firemen
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City Manager Buford Watson was to give the city's reaction to the latest firefighter's proposal today as talks aimed at ending the labor dispute continue.
The alternative called for the addition of another step at the top of the pay schedule for firemen, paying 2.5 per cent more than the highest sten now.
Arnold' Berman, attorney for the International Firefighters Association Local 1586, presented an alternative yesterday to the proposal per cent pay increase they have sought.
Another provision of the alternative was to give an extra day off out of every 12 working days, which would have the effect of reducing the work week from 56 to about 50 hours, Alvin Samuels, president of the firefighters, said last night.
Watson said yesterday that he would determine what the latest proposal would cost the city and react to it at today's meetings, scheduled for 10 a.m.
IN 'ADDITION, the firemen requested that the city average their pay, distributed every two weeks, so that all their checks were counted. Now the city now checks were for 96 to 140 hours of work.
Yesterday's meeting included several severa- l exchanges, and the issue of pay for labor was discussed.
The city's policy, as outlined by Watson, is to pay policemen five per cent more than firemen at the top of the scale. Watson has said that his men's proposals would erode this policy.
SAMUELE SAID that parity was a "phony issue" because, though the firemen's and policemen's checks might be too weak for a 6-hour week and the police worked 40.
Watson also accused Berman and Samuels of not "selling" the city's final offer, made Friday, to the association's membership.
Berman answered, "We didn't urge them one way or another."
Background
The current work protest by Lawrence firefighters and policemen centers on a dispute over the fireman's rate of pay beginning Jan. 1, 1977. Both sides have agreed to a six per cent cost of living increase; the firemen are asking for an
additional 2.5 per cent salary increase.
The firefighters association rejected the city's final offer last Friday and started a work slowdown yesterday. The police, the fire department, the city, an engaged in their own work sympathy with the firemen.
Truck overturns
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association at about 6:25 last night.
Hall died last night at the KU Medical Center from head injuries.
Pollice alvin A. Hall, Eudora, an ambulance after his pickup truck jacked and turned over on K-10 near the
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Crash kills Eudora man
A 55-year old Eudora man was killed after his pickup overturned at 8:25 p.m. yesterday on K-10 near the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association.
Alvin A. Hall, 1111 Pine, Eudora, died at 11:45 p.m. yesterday during surgery at the hospital. He had suffered extensive head injury when he was pinned beneath the truck.
Witnesses said a 12-foot trailer hooked to the truck's stall-fishalled as he headed east on K-10 and that the truck jackknifed and sideways before landing in the ditch.
Police said the vehicle was out of control for about 170 vards before it overturned
Tom DeSanty, who works at the Co-op and witnessed the accident, said he saw Hall's truckweave back and forth and then heard its brake screech before it flown over.
The truck ended up facing west in the ditch, with its canopy attachment thrown aside and its traller behind it. Ambulance workers had to break the windshield of the truck to remove Hall from the wreckage. He was shot by police during the attack and then to the Med Center for surgery.
Firemen were called to the scene but left after setting a compressed gas can upright in the trailer's fuel holder. Police said no vehicles were involved in the accident.