THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.30
November 18.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Debate over atomic plant now raging
Staff Writer
Some people think that the proposed Wolf Creek Generating Station, a nuclear power plant that might be built near Burlington, is one of the best things that could happen to Kansas. But others think it would be disastrous.
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
The 1,150 megawatt plant, a project of Kansas Gas and Electric Company (KG&E) of Wichita and Kansas City Power and Light Company (KCPL) of Kansas City, Mo., will provide chiefly to Wichita and metropolitan Kansas City. It would begin operation in 1982.
Proponents say the plant is a good idea. They call it "progressive," "essential" and "meeting Kansas" electrical needs. They believe the plant will be economical, safe and clean.
HOWEVER, OPONENTS SAY the plant must not be built, because it would be an economical disaster, an environmental mistake and a threat to human life. They call it "immoral," "ill-advised" and "criminal."
The gulf that separates the opposing views is wide. In its midst is the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, which must license the plant before it can operate.
Last week, the three-member board testimony from both sides at a public hearing in Burlington, which is 60 miles south of Topeka. On Jan. 28, it will begin in Kansas City, Mo., at which witnesses were presented and cross-examined by both sides.
Dancing spree
A decision on the license is expected three to six months after the hearings.
William Griffin, an assistant Kansas attorney general, testified on behalf of the state in what he in what he said was "an unfortunate mistake" in controversial issues that surround the plant."
THE BOARDE MUST DISCERN whether the plant will be financially feasible, whether it will meet safety requirements or whether it will tolerate standard standards. Griffin said Friday.
Craig Paul, a open-air dancering practice in front of Flint Hall yesterday.
He hopes to prove to the licensing board that the plant will fail on all three counts.
But Don Landes, KCPL vice president of communications, said he thought this would be a good idea.
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there's an overwhelming amount of
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Sense of using $2 bills uncertain
Bv FLORESTINE PURNELL.
Staff Writer
A few bankers express concern about the return of the $2 bill, but the Kansas Union Bookstore, check cash personnel and agents don't foresee any problems with it.
The $2 bill will be officially issued April 13, 1976, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, whose portrait will be on the bill. Federal Reserve Bank officials said yesterday that they are available to local banks before then so they could begin distribution on that date.
DON WHITE, ASSISTANT vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank's money department said this district would receive 13 million of the 400 million bills that would be printed. Local banks would order as many bills as they needed, he said.
There has been speculation that the revived bill will meet the same fate that the half dollar coin did when many people found it to be too insignificant to vend machines White said. People just didn't use them. She said there were definite benefits in using the bills. The most important is that it would save the federal tax on millions a year in printing costs, he said.
"The only problem is that there is no cash drawer in the country with a place where you can put your equipment has high hopes for the bill. I just wish they'd discontinue the $1 bill because there is the money."
JOE KELLY, vice president of the Douglas County State Bank, said his tellers would have to handle the money as they would other currency, but that it would take some getting used to, especially for consumers.
Verna Horton, manager of customer services at the First National Bank of Lawrence, said banks would have to force the use of $2 bills. She also mentioned the possibility of problems like the ones faced by the $0 cent piece.
"But it depends on what the treasury department wants to do with it," he said. "At first there will be people getting them as souvenirs."
Douglas County Bank will order as many of the bills as demand for them dictates Kelby.
but he said he didn't anticipate a big problem.
"THERE ARE FOUR DRAWERS in the
drawers," he said, "the 28 will have
their own."
"My only hesitation is that we'll stay with the $1 bills during buy-back. The store is used to it and I think the students are used to getting the new $1 bills."
Gene Saunders, a check-cashing cashier at the Union, said he didn't even have problems with halves, so the extra bill wouldn't be a problem.
"Merchants just don't buy rolls of halves and use them," she said.
"We'll have to make sure the cashiers are
informed in taking them in," he said.
Despite the problems the $2 bill may bring, Art Cromer, store manager at Gibson's Discount Center, 25th and Iowa County, said he is looking forward to seeing the bills.
Mike Beahen, assistant manager of the bookkeeper, said cashiers would have to get their own phone numbers.
"THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN done long ago. It cuts down the change in the register drawers, the number of $1 bills and, if it cuts down the weight in your pocket,"
There will be enough space in drawers, Cromer said, and the bills will make it faster for cashiers to count their money at night.
Planning group to submit proposals for new library
By SHERI BALDWIN
A report outlining two proposals for the construction of a new library will be submitted to the administration Monday by the Planning Committee Library Facility Planning Committee.
Eob Malinowski, assistant library director at the University of Chicago planning committee, said yesterday that he hoped budget planning for either library proposal be in instruction in University libraries by 1974.
plementary request approval from the
agents to be considered with those
requests.
BECAUSE FISCAL 1977 REQUESTS have already been submitted to the state, and have been processed.
Christianism said she thought that the construction of a new library was too imprecise and would be more effective.
"I've heard that things have gone to the Regents in December and January before," Malinowsky said. "The Regents can push things through."
Janet Shristianan, member of the committee to Obviously gets to go to a meeting as possible.
Bennett recommends attorney for Regents
**'WE'RE** **TALKING** **ABOUT**
**$WE'RE** **TALKING** **ABOUT**
one of the biggest building projects
By LEW FERGUSON Associated Press Writer
“If it subsequently should appear that the regents institutions need expert help, then he could be transferred from the board to the regents (sic) on a part-time basis.”
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert F. Bennett has suggested that the Board of Regiments might "quitly" hire its own attorney who could double as a "babor expert" to deal with the problems on the part of college faculty who have been organizing bargaining units.
"As I understand your discussion, at this time you are thinking about the possibility of a fulltime attorney in this office who would primarily serve this office and all of us with cases with the exception of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
"I have the feeling that a fulltime attorney in this office might be of great assistance to us and to the campuses. I suppose the second person could be of
“YOU ALSO REFER to a person exp in labor law who would serve as a part-time faculty member and who would be available to all of the campuses as it might be required.
" . . . My current thought is to recommend an attorney's position for the Board of Regents but to make no specific recommendations for a labor expert." Bennett told Max Bickford, regents' executive officer, in a memorandum dated Nov. 4.
The Regents and the six state colleges and universities begin budget hearings today before Bennett and Budget Director James Bibb.
"ACTUALLY, WE MIGHT also consider the possibility of initially utilizing him as attorney for the board on a part-time basis and as a professor on a part-time basis
"I think that if you and the board were to agree, you might be recruited and squash his compensation out of the budget when and if he is located," Bennett said in the same
On Oct. 29, Bickford replied to an Oct. 22 letter from Bennett:
she said. "The possibility of running to get something, this year would be very difficult."
One library proposal is the complete abandonment of Watson Library and the construction of a $3 million to $40 million library on the main campus, all branch libraries on the main campus.
Priest tells of Biafran tribe's suffering
By LIZ NAKAHARA
Branch libraries are libraries scattered throughout the campus whose books are acquired by students.
Staff Writer
HE SAID THE IBO, protagonists in the Nigerian civil war, was a tribe of about nine million people that mostly inhabited the northeast. They had one half of Nigeria's total population.
Patrick Walsh, a Catholic priest from Ireland who teaches English in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, said yesterday that he had seen Nigeria during the throes of its civil war that decimated the Ibo tribe of Eastern Nigeria.
Walsh is in Lawrence to recover from recent surgery, to visit a relative by email and to visit the faculty of St. John's Church, and to thank the people of Lawrence for their financial contributions to Holy Ghost Fathers, a Catholic group which sponsors Walsh's educational endeavors.
WALSH SAID THE BRITISH WERE "shrewd colonialists." He said they didn't tamper with Nigeria's social structure, but they divided Nigeria into four states—Northern, Western, Midwestern and Eastern Nigeria.
The British sensed the Nigerians' desire for independence and quietly left the country in 1914 before an upheaval occurred, he said.
He said he first went to Nigeria, a former British colony, in 1939. He said that until he left in 1971, he taught English in a country that was mostly English- speaking.
He said that a Briton was the governor-general of the country, and that heads of the provinces, districts and local councils were British administrators.
"I the Ibo are a proud, progressive and dynamic people." Walsh said.
Their property gone, the Ibo, according to Walsh, were mostly unemployed and received no compensation from the government. The Ibo drafted a constitution and decided to secede from the Federation, he said.
He said that in January, 1965, a military coup, dominated by Ibo officers, overthrew the civilian government, which they considered corrupt.
He said an Ibo officer ruled Nigeria until a second coup in 1967 overthrew the military regime. He said after the Ibo leader was assassinated and two million were massacred, the Ibo fled to Eastern Nigeria, their homeland.
Walsh said the Red Cross and church organizations in Canada, Europe and
Walsh said Okjuwk, a military commander, became leader of the Boa state of Blafra. He said the midwestern state also had its own army but its army mutinied and was executed.
Relief aid to Bifraf was received, according to Walsh, at Harbor, at Washington Square and the Federation. After the airport fell, a highway was extended and used as a runway for the relief effort.
WHEN WAR BETWEEN the Federation and Biafra continued, the Federation blocked the eastern state to force the Ibo to surrender. Walsh said.
America sent relief to Biafra. He he participated in sending relief from a small country in the southeast.
"FEEDING CHILDREN WAS the first priority," he said. Walsh said Blafra resisted for two and one-half years before it became clear that 1971, because of widespread starvation.
"The midwestern state fell to the Federation within a few weeks," he said.
'The Ibo had no outlet to the outside world.' he said.
According to Walsh, Gen. Gowan, head of the Federation, was an honest man who had a conciliatory attitude towards Biafra. But Gowan was ousted while attending a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, he said.
WALSH SAID THAT AFTER Bifras surrendered, the Federation divided and created a new military regime new governed Nigeria and that he didn't leave a civilian government for sometime because 'the Army enjoys many privileges that it will not readily give
He said he would return to Sierra Leone in January. He is the principal of a high school in which he taught English, and he must return before the second semester starts.
Walsh said agriculture and science were important subjects to African students. He said farming methods weren't as productive as they could be. He said Sierra Leone was importing rice when it should be exporting rice, which is the staple crop.
Walsh said that he would spend his remaining years in Africa and that he
"In Africa," he said, "there are no facilities for retirement."
considerable value if we continue to be involved in the negotiation process with
"A person works as long as he possibly can."
"If this does not occur, then we might be better off with our present contract ... Certainly, he has led us by the hand gently up to this point, and I would say the score is now: Regents 1, Faculty Union at Pittsburg 0."
The Associated Press yesterday obtained copies of a series of confidential exchanges between Bennett and Bickford regarding the Regents' request for its own attorney,
UP TO NOW, THE Regents have hired outside counsel to do some of their legal work, and relied upon the attorney's guidance in discussions and assistance in major legal matters.
The second proposal is a $2 million to $5 million remodeling of Watson and the construction of a $2 million to $2 million library, so that materials in the two libraries could be equally divided by subject matter. The committee plans for Watson to house the sciences at the new library for the new library to house the sciences, business, engineering and architecture.
But Bennett apparently plans to approve the Regents' request for their own attorney. In fact, the exchange of letters and memos start October 22, suggests Bennett feels the
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SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY
the law library and the art museum library
with the library of law
Several proposals for the building site have been considered, but Maliwinsky said that a site west of the Military Science compound had received the most consideration.
According to Jim Ranz, library dean and associate director of the military Science area would beIdea the library proposal, because the new library had buildings where men were used materials the library provided.
SCOTT SIEBELS, MEMBER of the committee, said that the construction trend of the University was generally shifting to the Military Science area, because of the construction of Wescock Hall, the new law building and the proposed visual arts center.
Malinowsky said that the proposals would be important items for the administration to
"This should be number one priority at this particular point," he said.
Malinowsky said that after he gave the library proposals to Del Shankel, executive
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Restina missionary Staff Photo by GB
Father Patrick Walsh, missionary from Sierra Leone, is staying with Father Michael Morton, pastor of St. John's Church of Lawrence, in Saint Louis, who is from France and born in New York City.