DREARY
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.107
Lawrence. Kansas
Tuesday March 7,1978
Good calls few for ambulances
By CAROL HUNTER
Staff Writer
The phone rings. 8:42 p.m. Saturday.
She has been a car accident in the 400 block of 13th Street.
"This could be a good call," Jeree McEhanley, a dogges County安ounty Sheriff.
McEhlaney and Roger Lee, his supervisor, run down the stairs to an ambulance.
They leave base, 1839 Massachusetts St.
Lights and sirens are on.
A car in front slows their way.
Sinn, McMahon the driver, says,
"It's a bit difficult. And as
McMahon stomps the accelerator and
"There's a certain thrill with an emergency call," Lee said later. "They call and say, We have a two- or three-car accident, and we have their extrication needed." That's "exciting."
They turn off the sirens a few blocks five minutes after the call, its bitterly cold.
TWO MEN ARE LYING on the asphalt.
They are half-wahead underneath a pick-up
Last night proved to be a hectic one for Jere McEhainey and Roger Lee, County Ambulance Service employees. At approximately 7:45 p.m., McEhainey and Lee cared for the victims of a two-car auto accident at the intersection of 23rd Street and
Naimish Drive. Lee, an emergency medical intensive care technician with 1,500 hours of training, says he does his work because he loves it. McEhanyne, an emergency medical technician, has logged 100 hours of training.
truck. They were changing a tire, the two said later, when a car hit them and then kept
Rescue team
Lee and McEilanney try to calm the victims.
"How you do?" Lee asks. He attends the younger of the two, who appears most seriously injured. Lee, an emergency medical intensive care technician, has had several wounds in his arm and medical care technician, attends the other. McEllahan has trained 100 hours.
Acrowdgathers
"I just turned them off," Lee said later.
"There must have been 30 people around."
The questions begin. How does your chest
feel? Does it hurt when you breathe? Do
you have a tightness?
McEhlaney puts an air splint, an inflatable plastic bag, on the older man's right leg. The technicians put both men on stretches and lift them into the ambulance.
THERE ARE more questions. Have you ever seen a doctor? Are you allergic to any medications? Are you having blurred vision? Do you wear contacts?
They take each victim's blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
They reach the hospital 15 minutes after arriving at the scene of the accident.
There are more forms to complete. The ambulance beds must be changed. The
McEhannay talks to one victim's family.
"He's doing all right," he said. "He's really cold from lying there on that abasult."
But there also is discouraging news. McElaney explains to the family how the service is to be paid. A base rate of $30 to $35 plus 75 cents to $1.15 mile from pickup point to hospital is charged, dependent upon the type of call.
KANAS'S MANDATORY no-fault insurance pays for ambulance service in case of a car accident, according to Ted McFarlane, director of the ambulance service.
"If I had my rathers," he said, "we would not charge for our emergency service. I really believe that emergency ambulance staff should be charged by the public as a whole and shouldn't be charged to the patient we're serving. But, I disagree with the county commission."
the county provides two-thirds of the AMBULANCES page three
See AMBULANCES page three
Carter intervenes in coal strike
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act yesterday in an effort to force striking coal miners to stay on the job, but he would not afford to wait for a strike settlement.
Mine owners hoped imposition of the Taft-Hartley Act would work. United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller had said earlier he did not like the announcement but would go along with it. Initial reaction from the miners was mixed.
Carter made the announcement after the striking miners voted overwhelmingly in weekend balloting against a proposed three-seat government that would have settled the protracted strike.
CARTER ASSERTED that negotiations between the striking UMW union and the coal industry were at an impasse. He said he was directing Attorney General Griffin Bell to make preparations for seeking an 80-day order under terms of the Taft-Harley Act.
Officials said they hoped to make a formal request for a back-to-work order by Thurs.
The strike by about 160,000 UMW
members, which enters its fourth month today, has forced power curtailments and resultant job layoffs in the Midwest and is threatening to inflict further harm on the economy.
CARTER ANNOUNCED the creation of a three-member board of inquiry, as required under the Taft-Hurley Act, and the panel established a public hearing on the strike tomorrow.
Administration officials said the plan was to seek a Taft-Hartley injunction phrased in a manner that would place local unions, as well as the international UMW, in jeopardy of facing potentially heavy fines for civil or criminal contempt if they defied an injuc-
UNDER A Taft-Hartley injunction, strikers are required only to return to work under the terms of their expired contract. But Carter said he would seek to permit any company to offer the wages contained in the rejected contract.
The proposal called for an immediate $1-
OFFICIALS IN MARYLAND, Virginia and West Virginia were considering imposing an immediate 30 percent cutback on industrial customers of two utilities.
As Carter sought to force striking coal miners back to work, the Midwest and Appalachia braced yesterday for drastic new mining efforts. Thousands of thousands out of jobs by the end of the week.
an-hour increase for miners now makes
$7.80 an hour.
In Ohio, a major utility requires the Columbus area asked state officials to allow a 50 mile radius of access.
The Indiana order has put 4,700 workers on indefinite layoff and 15,000 more on shortened work schedules in areas served by three utilities.
Two stay on AURH debate panel
And Indiana officials decided not to lift 25 percent backups already in effect for the first time.
SO FAR, the Labor Department has said that layoffs led to power cutbacks have been limited to 22,000 nationwide. But on Sunday, when it became clear that the UMW would reject a tentative settlement, administration officials predicted that one
Two panelists in tonight's Association of University Residence Hall election debates will remain on the panel despite a request to have them removed.
Staff Writer
Kim Wetzel, elections committee chairman, said yesterday that the four Republican candidates present at Sunday's meeting had decided unanimously to retain Jess Paul, AUHR president, and Jill Allen, past member of the panel of questioners for the debate.
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Phil Kaufman, presidential candidate, and Domna Carlisle, his running mate, filed a request asking that Paul and Allen be removed because of close personal relationship with other candidates. The request said those relationships might cause unfair bias.
Kaufman said that he was not happy with the committee's decision, but that he and Carlslehner had agreed before they submitted the report and would accept whatever the committee decided.
The committee will meet with the panelists before the debate and review their questions. Any questions the committee to contain bias will be removed, she said.
Kaufman said, however, that he was surprised that Paul, a member of the elections committee, did not abstained from a court decision that involved his removal from the panel.
The five panelists for the debate are:
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student
affairs. John McGee, resident director at
the College of Arts and Sciences at AURU
vice president; Paul; and Allen.
Wetzel said that the election committee's vote was unanimous and that it therefore would not have changed the outcome of the vote if Paul had abstained.
WETZEL SAID the committee decided that although there could be bias, the subject of the questions, which were to be eliminated would eliminate most of the possibility of bias.
Candidates for president and vice president respectively are: Larry Britton, Wichita junior, and Peggy McCarten, Memphis senior. And Carlisle, Memphis senior, and Carlisle, Paola sophomore; Dimitri Siscoes, Athens, Greece, junior and Sophia Dahdah, Salmah, Kuwait freshman; and Jay Smith, Greensburg brumman and Mark Fouts, Detroit freshman.
and Thursday. Polls will be open from 5 to 6 in the cafeteria of each residence hall.
THE DEBATE will be at b in Tempel Hall
cafeteria and elections will be tomorrow
Correction
It was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan that today is the last day to drop classes in the College of Liberal Arts because the deadline has been extended to Friday.
HOWEVER, the Energy Department said it would delay mandatory allocation because fuel already was being shared by other suppliers to regulatory approach would be of limited value.
The Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947 over a veto by former President Harry S. Truman and has been used by presidents on 34 other occasions. Truman himself used it seven times in 1948 when a series of industrial strikes threatened the economy.
It also was incorrectly reported that the deadline for all other schools had passed. The deadline for the School of Law is April 26.
million people could be out of work by the end of March and 3.5 million by late April.
Panel discusses student pavrolls
Carter also announced that the Department of Energy would use its allocation powers to minimize effects of fuel shortages in coal-dependent areas.
By NANCY DRESSLER Staff Writer
State legislators are considering a new way of allocating wage funds to state universities for student employees that have been employed at the University of Kansas.
Staff Writer
Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee members yesterday questioned whether the state or the individual will pay for much of the much student employees should be paid.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and committee vice chairman, said a budget proposal allowing more students to be admitted in the approach the committee was considering.
"We should figure how much we'll appropriate for part time employees and give it to KU (or any school) and let the administration decide." Hess said.
No action was taken yesterday on the budget items, but a committee vote is expected this week.
Committee members disputed a past Rengens' policy of paying the federal minimum wage to students employed by state schools under work study programs.
FEDERAL MINIMUM wage is now
January 1,
1970, will range to $2.90 an hour.
Minimum wage is set at $1.50.
The Regents have requested an allocation of $232,000 for fiscal 1978 and $715,000 for fiscal 1979 to the six universities to护 the federal waiver to students.
However, Gov. Robert F. Bennett has recommended a $229,000 allocation for 1978 and a $221,000 allocation for 1979 for student salaries.
The request for 1978 is to bring student employees who are not getting minimum wage up to $2.65 an hour, Martin Rein in charge of the analyst, told the committee yesterday.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and chairman of the committee, questioned whether the state should allocate money so students were paid the minimum wage or leave it up to each school to decide how much to pay student employees.
Rein said schools already had started paying the higher wage in January in anticipation of getting the supplemental allocation for 1978.
Students would have to receive at least the state minimum wage of $16 an hour.
A portion of the 1979 request would continue students at the minimum wage of $2.65 plus allocate additional funds to allow for the next wage increase, he said.
HOWEVER, IF A requested supplemental allocation for 1978 is not approved by the Legislature, state universities, including KU, probably would cut back work hours of student employees to compensate for the increased federal
"It's a question of whether we help more students get through school or whether we help fewer students to have a better life," Winter said.
STUDENT EMPLOYEES at KU under work study programs now are paid the federal minimum wage, Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said.
Rogers said KU's student employees probably would either be cut back in hours or in number if the appropriation for fiscal 2015 is not passed.
"We should allow the chancellor or university president to make the deter- ment of a staff member be employed part time at minimum wage or whether he should hire 500 students at less than the minimum," Hess said in a telephone interview after the committee
Hess said it was a question of how many
Hess said that past policy had been to give increased funding each year to keep up with the rising minimum wage.
"The discrepancy is that there are a few who are making a bit more than the minimum of $2.65. The governor doesn't count those making over the minimum now in his recommended increase for 1979." Hess said.
BENNETT'S recommendations are less than the Regents' request because some students are now getting more than minimum wage, Hess said.
"Maybe it would be better to hire more students at less pay. We are asking should we keep doing what we have done in the past or just pick an amount (of money) and leave it up to the university," Hess said.
dollars the state could afford for work study.
The University has requested about $57,000 for 1978 and $155,000 for 1979 to comply with the higher wage.
GRADUATE STUDENTS would not pay any tuition and would receive a stipend for serving as research or teaching assistants with the provisions of the proposed fee waiver.
Hess also questioned whether a proposed graduate fee waiver was necessary for all six Regents' schools.
Rein said the ability of universities to waive the fees would make them more competitive in attracting graduate students.
"Are we actually going to end up getting better teaching assistants that are working directly with undergraduates? We get complaints from students that teaching assistants leave something to be desired." Hess said.
ness said the question was whether the fee waver really would attract good assistants to the state's smaller universities in Hays, Emporia and Pittsburg.
If we really want to help KU compete, maybe we ought to help them. Hess said. "But every time we do something, we have to deal with it all over the board." All three of the air way on the board."
WINTER ALSO expressed doubts about the success of the fee waiver.
Hess said KU and Kansas State University were the schools who should be looked at carefully in regard to the fee waiver.
"I'm not sure we've been shown anything that is going to reduce those horror stories." "Winter said."
In other business, the Senate gave tentative approval yesterday to a bill that would make it clear which of the governors to report when he or she the public may see them.
"I'm sure we've all heard horror stories of freshman and sophomore classes where the graduate teaching assistant is not responsible to the class.
Also advanced to a final vote today in the Senate was a resolution asking Congress to impose an emergency moratorium.
See EMPLOYEES page five
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Publisher in critical condition
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.-Hustler magazine owner Larry Flynt was in critical condition last night after being shot in the stomach at a courthouse where he is on trial for allegedly distributing obscene materials. One of his attorneys also was wounded by the gunman who speed off in a car after the shootings.
See story page two.
Carter steps into air dispute
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter yesterday asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to drop its proposed suspension of a British airline's U.S. landing rights, pending two weeks of negotiations with Britain over aviation policy disputes. Carter said he would reconsider unilateral retaliation against the British airline and urged it to take a more international's pro-cut rate-fare between Dallas and London.
The British refusal to approve Braniff's fares violates the new aviation agreement—"Bermuda II"—which was signed last year. Under the U.S. interpretation of the air agreement, Britain is supposed to accept U.S. airline fares approved by the CAB just as the U.S. accepts British airline fares approved by authorities in London.
Tito
Sunny skies will prevail Wednesday with a high in the upper 40s.
Weather
There is a chance of light snow today, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures will reach the mid 30s. Skies will remain cloudy this afternoon but will clear tonight. The low 'weight' will be in the lower 20s.
Yugoslav arrives for Carter session
WASHINGTON - President Tito of Yugoslavia arrived in Washington last night for a three-day official visit. He is the first Communist leader to be received by President Jimmy Carter. Sources indicate that on such global issues as detente, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa in their discussions. See story page two.
Indians denied jurisdiction
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that American Indian tribes had no legal power to prosecute non-Indians for crimes committed on tribal lands. The decision was a serious setback to proponents of state rights and Indian self-government. Written by Justice William Rehnquist, the decision said the many tribes did not have criminal jurisdiction over non-tribal members, even if they lived on tribal lands unless Congress specifically authorized such jurisdiction.
Locally...
This year's Rock Chalk Revue deviated from those of past years by concentrating on takeoffs from lively show tunes and a generous supply of well-coordinated choreography, according to Kanser reviewer Jerry Jones. Five of the six top awards for the show were won by Hashinger Hall and its presentation "Where Curtains are Few." See review page five.