THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.66
Monday December 5,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Hijacked Malaysian jet crashes after explosion
JOHORE BAHARU, Malaysia (AP)—A hijacked Malaysian Airlines jet with 100 passengers aboard exploded and then crushed last night in southern Malaysia, the airline reported.
It was believed to be the first crash of a hijacked airliner, said rescue said.
Sources at the airport at Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, said the pilot radioed before the explosion that his plane had been seized by terrorists of the Japanese Red Army. Airline officials said that an unabashed twin-boom Boeing 737, but that they did not know whether the hijackers were Red Army members.
They reported that the seven-member crew and all but 20 of the 93 passengers were Malaysians, including Agriculture Minister Mohd Faizalal Maimunis of the foreigners were not known.
An airline spokesman said the hijackers seized control of the plane 10 minutes after it left the Malaysian resort island of Penang on a flight to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
The plane touched down briefly at Kuala
Peng, before it landed for Singapore
at the hitchers' demand. he said.
THE PLANE crashed near Kampong Tajung Kutang, a small village about 13 miles west of this southern Malaysian town, according to the spokesman.
Police reported that an 18-year-old boy in
the village had told them he saw the jet
that would go into a dive and explode in flames.
Two Malaysian military helicopters hovered over the wreckage with spotlights to assist in an all-night search for survivors by police, soldiers and civilian volunteers.
The Japanese Red Army is a small, ultra-left organization that has been involved in at least a half-dozen major terrorist incidents since 1970.
Police in Japan estimate that the group has only 20 to 30 regular members and an unknown number of sympathetic volunteers in Japan who operate mostly outside of the country.
Fire inspections almost finished
Campus fire inspections, which Friday uncovered minor deficiencies at Oliver residence hall, will be completed this week after a hearing. McCollum and his bishop residence hills.
Last week, a team of five state fire inspectors from the state fire marshal's office inspected six residence halls, all eight scholarship halls and Stouffer Place
apartments. Although four of the inspectors left Lawrence Friday, Clark Brubaker, deputy state fire marshal from Lawrence, said yesterday he would finish the inspections of two remaining residence halls early this week.
One of the two remaining halls, Mc-
cook Hall, has been demolished and the cause of the fire has not been determined.
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Iraq blocks Arab summit meeting
TRIPOL, Libya—The Iraq delegation walked out of a militant Arab summit conference early today and blocked formation of a final agreement. Iraq and Syria disagree over the tactics that should be used in opposing Iraq, but Palmieri and Palmieri agreed to unite in rejection of the negotiations. See story page two.
Miller
Coal strike to start tonight; officials resume bargaining
WASHINGTON-United Mines Workers President Arnold Miller returned to the bargaining table yesterday for the first time since face-to-face talks for a new coal contract resumed Friday. However, Waterloo Coal companies are seeking an end to wildfire strikes that have plagued the industry in recent years. See story page two.
Officials discuss entry of refugees
WASHINGTON-State Department officials have begun talks with Rep. Joshua Silberg, D-Pa., head of a house immigration subcommittee, Sen. Edward Koehler, D-Miss., and congressional staff members for immediate funding of 5,000 Vietnamese refugees into the United States. See story page two.
Floods destroy millions of salmon
SEATTLE—Millions of valuable salmon were destroyed in floods that killed five persons and caused several million dollars worth of damage in Washington state. The salmon population already had been diminished by drought and a 1975 flood.
Locally...
Hospital costs are rising and legislation is being introduced to stop further increases. But Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan., Friday told a group of regional health care officials that current proposals are only a start. Instead of throwing money at problems, Pearson said, state, local, private and federal sources must develop new and more effective ways to deal with hospital bills. See story page three.
Pearson
Brubaker Friday completed a two-day inspection of Olver. He said yesterday that except for minor deficiencies, such as the absence of Olver was in compliance with the state code.
EARLIER LAST week, inspectors found major deficiencies of the state fire prevention code in Lewis residence hall and Watkins and Miller scholarship halls.
Inspectors also found that Ellsworth, Templin and Joseph R. Pearson residence halla, Grace Pearson and Pearson residence halla, Grace Pearson and Boufer Place committed with the state code.
Reports of the inspections completed last week and recommendations for corrections in each building were submitted Friday to Floyd Dibbern, state fire marshal. Dibbern will review the reports and decide what changes or corrections are necessary.
Except for minor faults, inspectors said, Gertrude Sellars Sellards-Corbin-birth residence hall and Douthart, Sellards, Gertrude Sellarsen scholarship halls meet the slate code.
Dibbern still is reviewing reports from inspections of KU educational buildings made during the war to determine whether a vaccination according to Bill Shelton, coordinator of the five inspectors
Precautions end in theft of machines
A local businessman, Paul Gray, learned that a business is sometimes more costly than a cure.
During the Thanksgiving holidays, one of the electronic game machines owned by Gray was damaged by thieves, who stole an undetermined amount of money from it. To prevent a recurrence during the Christmas break, Gray last week gathered all of the items that were stolen from various residence halls and put them in a rented panel truck for safekeeping.
According to a report, the machines had been pressed because the money had been stolen from the machine.
The truck was stolen from a downtown
building and said. Police are investigating
the incident.
Thursday night, thieves stole the truck
Thursday night, tuesdays sunset. A Douglas County sheriff's deputy climbed into the conference Friday behind an abandoned house a mile from Lawrence, police said.
Hard game
KU goalie Brad Raicher takes a moment to regain his composure after a disappointing 5- loss to Iowa State. KU came back the next evening to whip Iowa State's junior vardise 5-
At some universities, hockey draws overflow crowds and serves as the school's major varsity sport. But at the University of Kansas, hockey fans are few and varied, and the team remains at the club level.
Even if Jayhawk hockey fans wanted to see a game, they might reconsider because the games are played in Overland Park at the Iceland South rink.
Dollar woes pester hockey club
The University of Kansas currently has no risk for hockey. According to Tom Wilkerson, director of recreation services at the University, the chances of obtaining a rink are slim.
Wilkerson has been considering proposing that the University build a dual-use building for tennis and ice hockey. But he said that it would cost about $300,000 and that it would be priced to determine when the money could be raised.
"I COULD SEE it for the future."
Wikerson said, "We've been looking into it, and something like this might be the university's community as well as the University."
He said that the public could be allowed to skate for a fee to help pay for the building.
Wilkerson said the lack of a practice rink was a bit disadvantage for the club.
one team has got all the talent, all they need is time and a place to work with it." Wilkerson said.
The team now practises once a week at the Iceland South rink, but the practice lasts only an hour. The team has limited work, and one hour at the rink costs $109.
To defray the cost, the club shares the ice with a men's league team, cutting the bill in half. The team's financial burden was lifted slightly when the Student Senate allocated the team $2,600 this year.
Of the $2,600, Wilkerson said, $2,000 was used to pay for ice rental costs, $300 for referees and $300 of equipment.
DESPITE THE disadvantages, the club owns a 1-1 record, after splitting two games this weekend with the Iowa State junior varsity team.
Jamie The Jayhawks lost to Iowa State Friday night 9-5, but came back on Saturday to trip the Cyclones 5-3.
Goalea Bill Raicher fended off 80 Cyclone shots in the first game, and Kevin Morgan scored four goals for the Jawhaws in Saturday's game.
"They were obviously the better team," Orlin Wagner, KU center, said, "but we had a lot of spunk and caught up to everybody. Everybody was sore after the second game, including IU State. Since play, everyday that was a good sign."
as does Colorado, and Nebraus is close to making hockey a varsity sport. Kansas State has no hockey program, and Washington Eight schools remain at the club level.
Iowa State has a varsity hockey team.
WAGNER SAID that KU had a disadvantage because of a rule that the team, being only a club, must allow all members to play. Wagner said that because fewer team members showed up, Jawahra and Jayhaws had a better chance to win.
The club has scheduled just five games, but Wagner said the schedule continually was being worked on, and at times there were games could be scheduled this season.
See HOCKEY page two
Co-captain
Stan Markovich, Kansas City, Kaua, sophorm, takes a short breath during the State game. Substitutions are frequent because of the fast pace of ice hockey.
KU wheatlands unaffected bv possible farm strike
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
KU owns 34,000 acres of wheatland in southwest Kansas. Part of this land, 24,000 acres, was donated to the University by Elizabeth Watkins in 1939. The university accumulated from small bequests to the University.
Kansas wheat producers are threatening to strike next week to protest low wheat prices, but the University of Kansas will not be among the wheat producers going on strike, Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday.
Although KU is not an agricultural institution, agriculturally especially wheat—has a direct impact on our food supply.
This farmland and the use of revenues from it are controlled by the Endowment Association. The Endowment Association puts the wheat money in a general fund used for student scholarships and loans.
SEYMOUR SAID that because the Endowment Association employed southwest Kansas farmers to manage the farmland and did not itself farm the land, she would not have a direct bearing on the University.
the Endowment Association committee that has operations, has never discussed the possibility of staggering fees.
throughout the country for the past few months, is scheduled to begin Dec. 14.
Striking farmers have threatened to not plant any new crops or sell any of the grain they already have harvested. Farmers on strike also would not buy any farm equipment, unless it was essential for repairs.
The farm strike, which has been brewing
The goal of the farm strike is for the government to provide farmers with 100-per-cent parity. This means that the strikers are calling for an increase in the wheat price from $2.40 to $500. a bushel.
ONE-HUNDRED-PER-cent parity, according to Drainie Daicoff, professor of economics at KU, would mean averaging the increases in prices of all products and bringing farm prices up to par with them. The farmer would get about the same prices for these as the non-farmers receive for their products.
To call statewide attention to the strike, thousands of Kansas farmers are driving their tractors to Topeka for a rally Saturday in front of the state capitol building.
Seymour said the KU farmland was operated on a sharecropt basis. The farmer is under contract with the University and plants and harvests the wheat independently. After the wheat has been harvested, the farmer takes two-thirds of there the total yield, the farmer takes two-thirds for his payment and KU receives the remaining third.
UNLIKE FARMERS who can hold onto their wheat indefinitely, the Endowment Association sets up a schedule of when to sell its wheat each year.
Seymour said that usually the Endowment Association sold a third of the KU wheat immediately after it had been harvested in late June or early July.
Chester Reed, who lives near Kalvesta in Finney County, has farmed 320 acres of KU wheatland in 1958. Reed is one of the several farmers in the area who farms land for KU.
Another third usually is sold in November, and the final third is sold in March.
Reed said he was a supporter of the strike and was
Farm strike goals seen as confusing
Bv HENRY LOCKARD
Staff Writer
The farmers' strike that is planned to start next week probably will need to be long and painful if the farmers are to reach their goals, according to a study by the economics professor at Kansas State University.
Schruben said last week that it was confusing to try to understand what the farmers' goals were.
"We farmers who are striking have decided we didn't want to be among that 23 per cent." Reed said.
HE SAID that his continued farming of the KU land and not being unable to trouble with his neighbors had stifled the strife.
Reports published in papers around the country have stated that 100-per-cent parity on farm products is the farmers' goal. But Schuben said that parity was not a good definition of what farmers wanted.
going on strike with his own farmland, but he had no control over the KU land he farmed.
"When the farmer says 'parity' he's not asking for much; check his/her today, we assume, is it a woman?"
"The definition of parity is cost of production. If all
Walter George, a dairy farmer, said he did not approve the training he needed to support it because it needed that money. He added that needed that happened.
the farmers want is cost of production, they're still not going to be making any money."
SCHRUBEN SAID the farmers needed to define their goal, recognize that you as a united one and get together, recognize your role in this process.
Several telephone calls to farmers near Lawrence last week indicated that strong support of the strike has been received.
"Farmers are working men just like anyone else and they're going to have to do what other work happens."
However, Ronald Olsen, professor of economics at the University of Kansas, said last week that for farmers to do what united workers did would be almost impossible.
OLEEN SAID that because farmers were both owners and workers in an extremely competitive industry, it would be difficult for a formal organization to emerge.
He said he thought there would be an incentive to cheat if a substantial number did go on strike. The farmer who did not go on strike would benefit from the effects created by those who did, he said.
A. L. Roy Fredrick, professor of agricultural economics at K-State, said last week that another tactic used by other workers that the farmers probably never accomplish was the formation of bunker lines.
Fredrick served last year on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agricultural Economics. He said that the farmers lacked the formal structure necessary to form a picket line and that the strike leaders had
See STRIKE page six