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Monday, February 2, 1976
University Daily Kansan
associated press digest
Picasso paintinas stolen
AVIGNON, France-Three hooded gunmet gunnen and bound three guards and made off with 119 unsigned Picasso paintings from an exhibit in the 14th century palace hall here, police reported yesterday. The thieves apparently had inside information and acted with split-second timing.
Art experts said the demand for unsigned Picassos made it impossible to estimate the full value of the paintings, which were loaded into a van in the palace courtyard Saturday night. They were part of an exhibition of 201 Picassos insured for $42.4 million, but police said the paintings were worth more than that.
"In the end they are probably worth nothing to the thieves because they are cataloged, photographed, inventoried and indexed, and the information has long been distributed worldwide," said Paul Puaux, director of the Avignon Art Festival who set up the show.
In sheer volume, the Picassos theft appeared to be one of the biggest art heists of all time. Police said the unidentified gunmen were probably professional art thieves, but in their haste to get away they left 17 other Picassos stacked near the foot of a stairway.
Carter leads Democrats
PORTLAND, Maine--Jimmy Carter led other Democratic presidential candidates Sunday in voting at lightly attended caucuses here. The caucuses are taking place on Tuesday, March 27.
Delegates favoring the former Georgia governor received more than 46 per cent of the 85 seats to the Democratic State Convention from Maine's largest city.
Uncommitted delegates accounted for nearly 34 per cent of the Portland seats. Former Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma got nearly 13 per cent; Sen. Birkhay of Indiana got three per cent; Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona got 2 per cent and Sen. Humbert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver each got 1 per cent.
CIA backs Angola forces
A British diplomatic correspondent reported yesterday that more than $20 million, mainly from the CIA, is to be spent on mercenaries in Angola.
Norman Kirkham, diplomatic correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, quoted diplomatic sources in Zaïre as saying that $200,000 of American money given to the Western-backed National Front (FNLA) in Angola has already been sent to London to recruit mercenaries.
Kirkham said at least 300 Britons were joining Western-backed forces in Angola. The CIA had allocated $49.2 million in arms, other supplies and cash so far to the FNLA and UNITA forces and that more authorized money was still in the pipeline, he said.
Marines may cut forces
WASHINGTON - The Marine Corps is out-of-step with the times and must become "a costly anachronism," a Brooklyn Institute study said yesterday.
The golden age of amphibious warfare is now in the domain of historians." Brookings analysts said.
They contended the Corps "must shift its principal focus from seabearn assault a more appropriate sort, such as garrisoning America's remaining outposts in Europe and central Europe.
All plans would result in a smaller Corpus to the present 198,000-mm force. The study said reduction of forces would make them unable to rank with tanks from the previous decade and desertion and other disciplinary pressures.
Higher teaching salaries supported in Topeka poll
TOPEKA (AP)—More than a third of a group of 200 Topeka area residents contacted in a recent poll said proposed pay hikes of 10 per cent for college and university faculty members were agreeable.
And additional 25 per cent said they were in favor of a pay raise of at least 6 per cent.
A majority of those polled said the number and size of malfunction suits and damage awards had become excessive in Kansas.
The poll was conducted by Central
Telephone Topeka, for radio station
WIBR in Topeka.
FIFTY ONE per cent of those surveyed said they thought the number of malpractice suits had become excessive; 24 per cent thought they had not and 25 per cent thought they had.
ninety eight per cent of those polled they thought the legal profession was responsible for the medical malpractice crisis; 17 per cent blamed it on the medical profession; 21 per cent said they thought it on patients, and 23 per cent were undecided.
CONCERNING PROPOSED pay hikes for college and university faculty members, 35 per cent of those polled said they would go along with a 10 per cent hike; 8 per cent supported a pay raise from 6 to 9 per cent; 16 per cent favored a raise of 5 per cent.
cent; 8 per cent were against any increase in faculty pay, 3 per cent believed the increase should be more than 10 per cent, and 30 per cent had no opinion.
ON THE QUESTION of whether the present carrier balance of state funds should be retained: 48 per cent said it should be retained, and 52 per cent said taxpayers, and 10 per cent had no opinion.
Poll...
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Other issues and citizens' opinions on
Agricultural land should be assessed on a u-value
strategy. Strongly stratified areas are strongly
disproportionately infested. Infeed rates are
0.25%.
- Motor vehicle personal property tax should be paid at
  per strung. Strung prices are 3.4 per
County officials should be elected for year tenure. Councly agree 3.1 per cent. Strongly disagree 4.4 per cent.
The legislature should create a Kansas Authority to work through local units of government and authority in the state. It should rehabilitate low and moderate income housing in urban and rural communities. Strongly agree $8.4 per cent of the budget.
Junior colleges should be put under the Board of Trustees. Junior colleges should have a gross earning of 27.9 per cent. Centrally disregarded 6.4 per cent. In lieu of these,
- **Ranas** should enact some kind of medical malpractice law.
- **Strongly dismay** 26 per cent, indulgent 14 per cent. All are correct.
Kansas shall increase the gasoline tax to improve streets and highways. Stronger agree. 25% per cent.
Western Golf Association (WGA) of Golf, Ill., has filed a protest against Kansas property taxes with the Kansas State Board of Tax Annoals.
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The association, which owns Evans Scholars House, 1942 Stewart, is requesting tax exemption for the house. University of Kansas students who receive Evans scholarships in honor of noted golfer Chick Evans live there.
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Golfers teed off about land taxes
Records at the Douglas County treasurer's office show that the amount of taxes under appeal are $14,286, 050, which is based on an assessed evaluation of $40,650.
THE RECORDS also show that the first half payment of the taxes was paid Dec. 16. The is first year that WGA has been in office and lastught last July from Theta Taa fraternity.
Edythe Norman, the state treasurer, said Friday that if the state board of appeals ruled in WGA's favor, she would be able to refund the first half payment.
"Since then, there have been several attempts to question the true quality of exemption," he said, "but they haven't been successful.
ALLIED SAID HE didn't consider Evans Scholars House a social organization because its residents received scholarships from a charitable foundation.
Allen said social fraternities and sororities were tax exempt in Kansas until the late 1980s, when they were put back on the tax roles because of a court ruling.
The Evans Scholars Foundation was established in 1831 when Evans won the National Open, a professional tournament. As an amateur, Evans couldn't accept the scholarship because he had no money to start a scholarship fund to encourage golf caddies to go to collage.
"It (Theta Tau) was a social fraternity and that does not" qualify it as a tax exemption.
MILTON P. ALLEN, a Lawrence attorney who is representing WGA in the protest, said WGA would claim the house as an educational exemption.
tained the tax status.
The former fraternity house has 34 men living in it this year.
He said that the reason taxes had been assessed to the house was that it had been lower than before.
The appeal date is set for Feb. 24 in Topeka.
Cook said some of the dribblers stopped in the Friday, where governor Robert F. Peggitt met them.
Boys' Club profits from TKE trek
"I think that from the standpoint that we are building this as an annual charity, we are not doing it with our money."
Fraternity members dribbed a basketball from Manhattan to Lawrence, starting Thursday and finishing Friday. Local businessmen made pledges on a money-per-mile basis, said Daryl Cook, TKE committee chairman.
"Some semis came kind of close, but nothing really spectacular happened." Cook
President Mark Anderson to Bob Lee, vice president and founder of the Lawrence Boy's Club, at halftime of the KU-KState basketball game Saturday.
Cook said that he wouldn't know the exact amount contributed until he collected the data.
A dummy check was given by TKE
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StuEx last night began a move to block efforts to auction off the center circle of the old basketball court turn out of Allen Field House two years ago.
Center "K" sale opposed
The petition, which was advanced to the Senate by StudEx., said the circle should remain at the University because of KU's rich basketball heritage.
The petition, introduced by Ed Rolfs,
student body president, and Bruce Woner,
StudEx chairman, suggested that the circle
should be formed to represent the Panama
Union or the proposed satellite union.
Rolfs said the University of Kansas athletic committee 'omitted the ones who belonged to the letter,' *K*.
It was reported that bus-pass sales were up with an expected total of 3,000 to be sold for the spring semester. According to the university's statistics, this semester, 700 more than the fall total.
A bill prohibiting senators elected this spring from acting on legislation until after the Feb. 19 Senate retreat, where they learn that the procedure, was placed on the agenda.
In other action, the committee placed several bills on the Senate's Thursday evening agenda. Two of the bills call for a full student body vote on the construction of a university union and a student vote on the KUAC bill. The KUAC bill cut the $147,000 subsidy last semester.
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U.S. MARINE CORPS OFFICER PROGRAMS
You are under no obligation in our program until acceptance of your commission as a 2nd Lieutenant upon graduation from college.
UNITED STATES
MARINE CORPS
Officer Selection Office
United States Court House
811 Grand Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64106
Underclassmen joining the Platoon Leader Class Program will receive a higher starting salary upon graduation—we count time in school as time in service.
If commissioned, the obligations are:
3 Years for Ground
4 Years for Flight Officer
5 Years for Pilot
3 Years for Lawyer
No on campus training—only 2 six week or 1 ten week training session during the summer at Quantico, Virginia prior to graduation.
Upon successfully completing 1 six week training session, we offer $100 a month financial assistance during the school year, up to $2700 for three years.
With completion of all training, aviation people are eligible to receive flight indoctrination training that will lead to a private pilot's license.
The Marine Officer Selection Team will be located in the Student Union Feb. 2, 3, and 4. If you have any questions concerning the Marine Officer programs, stop by our display between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on the above dates. If you happen to miss us when we are on campus, call us collect at
(816) 374-3031 or 374-3616