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Wednesday, June 16, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Oil bill out of committee
WASHINGTON—A hill to force the breakup of the nation's 18 largest oil companies squeezed through the Senate Judiciary Committee by an 8-7 vote yesterday.
University, Sens. Robert Byd, D-W.Va., Hugh Scott, R-Pa., and Charles Mathias,
The bill will require the companies to divest themselves of all but one phase of their operations—production, transportation or refining and marketing.
their operations' requirements.
Supporters continued at the committee meeting that the forced fragmentation of the plants would increase competition and reduce prices.
But opponents argued the effect would be to impair efficiency, add to costs, raise prices, reduce production and increase dependence on foreign oil.
*Mathas put a substitute proposal before the committee that wouldn't have required the breakup of the oil companies but would have imposed on them what they considered appropriate.*
Rombs called for extortion plot
WASHINGTON—Thirteen terrorist letter bombs have been mailed to corporate offices and the home of one business executive in an extortion scheme demanding millions of dollars from 200 U.S. corporations, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said yesterday.
Kiley said the 200 corporations having receiving extortion letters last fall. The letter bombs appear to be part of a continuing crime, he declared.
None of the recipients of the extortion letters have complied with the demands, he said. Kelley refused to identify the recipients.
"We do not know as of yet just what is the genesis of this," Kelley said. "It could be a single person, or it could be an organization." He refused to say how the extortion letters were signed or whether they appeared to be the work of any sort of political group.
He described the extortion scheme as a terrorist attempt to frighten people. He called the extortion letters "threatening communications."
But, Kelley said, "Whether or not there's any revolutionary connotation is something I cannot discuss."
Bland platform passed
WASHINGTON—The Democratic party's Platform Committee last night overwhelmingly approved a campaign platform that gave Jimmy Carter essentially what he asked for—a noncontroversial document likely to rally the party behind him.
The platform, still subject to final approval at the party's national convention in New York in July, calls for establishment of national health insurance, minimum-income guarantees for poor Americans, a plan for a return to full employment and a strong U.S. defense posture.
It was clear that delegates on both the left and right spectrum of the party had compromised to draw up a platform they hoped would appeal to all Democrats, or not.
However, the platform says little about how the program it recommends would be paid for, or even how much they would cost. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dakoski, who was instrumental in its preparation, put an overall价钱 on the program, except for答应 national health insurance, where he declined to make an estimate.
Watson renovation plans wait for facts and figures
The remodeling plans for Watson Library have a long way to go before they are reality, according to the Libraries Facilities Planning Committee.
The committee met yesterday to discuss the reorganization of services and resources.
Nancy Bengel, chairman of the committee, said the committee was waiting for enrollment projections from Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, in order to determine how much space should be dedicated for study areas and service facilities.
IN DETERMINING how much working and office space is needed the committee is trying to calculate how much the library staff will enlarge in the next 25 years, she
The committee's final report will go to the University Library Planning Committee, who will submit a report to Chancellor Archie Dykes in November. In April, the Board of Regents will receive the report and discuss money appropriations.
The 13-member committee is trying to allow for any unforeseen restrictions.
"THIS IS not something we can do with curt actions," John Glinka, associate dean of libraries, said. "We have to be general in our approach." We sure we try and account for everything."
The easiest planning, committee members said, is estimating how much space should be allowed for stacks, study space, conference rooms and stair areas.
Two of the main planning problems are the growing rate of incoming books and the innovability of the stacks in the east and west wings.
THE LIBRARY gets 30,000 to 35,000 new books each year and one floor of the largest stacks area holds about 55,000 books, Bengel said. About 60,000 books be the library for the future science library but this only allows for a two-year expansion, she said.
The committee had hoped the stacks could be remodeled to allow for study and office areas. But columns in the stacks can't be removed because they support the floors above them and are built into concrete, Glinda said.
The center stack's floors are glass,
600 bankers at clinic
The clinic is sponsored by KU and the Bank Management Commission of the Kansas Bankers Association.
Top management is the theme for over 600 Kansas bankers attending the 37th annual Bank Management Clinic which began Monday at the University of Kansas.
Individual privacy rights will be discussed at 3 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium. Terrence H. Klasky, the assistant federal administrative counsel of the federal government, assoca-tion will discuss a recent Supreme Court decision, U.S. v. Miller, in which the Court refused to acknowledge any confidential relationship between consumers and their banks. The Court uplifted the law that banks could be held to have no access to government agencies to turn over financial data on its depositors, sometimes without the depositor's knowledge.
The Kansas Bankers Association (KBA) is a trade association that serves commercial and business interest of banks in the state. It is a branch of director of public relations for KBA, said.
--framed in concrete and steel, which can be removed. Tentative plans are being made to design possible offices and study areas in the center column.
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SEVERAL MEMBERS of the committee toured the east sub-basement and the ramp room to inspect the areas for possible problems. They also visited the public and are used to store books.
The two levels of the east sub-basement are used to store books, boxes of law documents, old library furniture and shelving components.
The committee hopes to have this area cleaned and furnished with steel shelves to store the tools.
THE PROPOSED remodeling is predicted to start in 1979, "and that' s if everything keep on schedule." Glinka said. The science library will begin about 1811.
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