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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Tuesday November 29,1977
Vol. 88. No. 62
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Winning smiles
We were plenty of reasons for Jayhawk fans to smile last night the opening game of the season, and by the time players lined up we were ready.
beaming. KU trounced Central Missouri State 121-65, setting a school record for most points scored in a game. See page story
Official denies infiltration by FBI of leftist groups
According to the Capitol Hill News Service, Hoover's memo stated: "The lack of information on the virus"
By BRIAN SETTLE
Although the memos show the Kansas City office was not an eager COINTELPRO participant at first, it allegedly changed its role before receiving a critical letter from Hopper.
Staff Writer
Although the FB1 released documents last week admonishing to "dirty trick" infiltration of University of Kansas leftist groups in the United States, the Bureau of Investigation, denies the reports.
"To my knowledge, there was none of the alleged dirty tricks and infiltration efforts by the FBI in any of the Kansas educational institutions." Abbott said.
The Kansas City office handles affairs for western Missouri and all of Kansas.
The released memos were among 52,648 pages of the FBI's "COINTELPRO" file. That is a code name for a domestic counterintelligence program. The memos were between Edgar Hoover, former FBI director at Chicago and Mr. field office in the Kansas City. Ms. field office
The director, William Abbott, said yesterday that he would have been made aware of any such infiltration. Abbott was a colonel in the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Letters supposedly were sent to parents of students involved in radical activities, to organize such groups or activities of another and to various publications, including campus
"We worked very closely with the FBI during this period," Abbott said. "I am quite sure I would have been notified if the FBI did not report to UD participating in any type of infiltration."
Albion said the Kansas City office of the FBI notified the Kansas Highway Patrol, the state trooper agency.
Albott said the FBI and the KBI had worked closely with each other concerning information about individuals who crossed into our air action at KU and other Kansas schools.
AFTER RECEIVING Hoover's letter, the Kansas City office reported that it was using informants in New Left campus organizations and was writing anonymous letters in an attempt to drive a wedge between opposing groups.
"We shared all intelligence activity, but I assure you I would not have condoned any of them."
negative approach to this program (COINTELPRO) by your division. It is to be noted that the best time to attempt to neutralize the New Left is when it is weak and disorganized. Counterintelligence action taken can be decisive and may even result in complete withdrawals of the New Left from these educational institutions."
"People are trying to make something big out of something that happened eight or nine years ago," he said. "It was there right before the earthquake, and make accusations of infiltration and scandalous work, they should read the whole report, not just parts of it. You can read the Bible and see the words go hang over you, so it was meant to be taken that way."
He said he thought the conflict between his statements and the released documents was caused by people's reading things into the reports that were not there.
ALBOTT CRITICIZED the media's coverage of the release of the documents.
Plans in the works for creation of Senate transportation board
Ken Peterson, managing editor of the Kansan in spring 1970, said Sunday he was unaware of any FBI activity that would have disrupted the Kansan.
Several former students involved in army service during war said they felt compelled to register for FRIJN.
David Awbrey, 1969-70 student body president, said yesterday that he had received threatening letters at various times throughout his term but had no evidence that the letters were the work of the FBI.
"We were all suspicious of our phones being tapped and watched by the FBI," Awbrey said. "But we never were given any actual evidence.
By ALLEN HOLDER
At 3 p.m. yesterday, Oroke said he hadn't noticed the whistle wasn't blowing.
"We were a lot more aware of the KBI See FBI page seven
After receiving recommendations from an Omaha consulting firm, plans for a
"We turned it off to conserve energy
while classes weren't in session." Oroke
said. "I guess scemeen just flat forgot to
turn it back on."
Whistle blares, but only after it's switched on
There's a simple explanation for why the whistle did not blow until 3:00 yesterday afternoon: Somebody forgot to turn it on.
Rodger Orok, director of Facilities Operations, said yesterday that the steam whistle had been turned off during Thanksgiving vacation.
"But," he said, "it just amounts to flipping a switch and turning it back on." At 3:20 p.m., the whistle was as usual. One short blast signaled its return.
Student Senate transportation board are being made, Steve McMurry, Senate Transportation Committee chairman, said yesterday.
McMurry said he was preparing legislation for the Senate that would establish a transportation board to deal with the congestion of transportation at the University of Kansas.
McMurry receive a report last week from Henningson, Durham and Richardson, the Omaha staff that made the suggestions in KU on Wetlands, the KU hius service.
McMurray received the firm's report last week and now is working on legislation to expand the company.
THE LEGISLATION, in addition to establishing the transportation board, would create a paid director's position to manage the board's operations.
McMurray said that the board's director, along with its members, probably would be
selected by the student body president, but this change could be changed before was presented.
Board membership would consist of students and ex office faculty and staff members.
He said that his legislation would not make changes in the present transport system; those would be made after the board was established, he said.
The board would consider such things as route changes, length of contract with the company providing bus service and ways to expand the service. McMurray said.
MECURY SAID he hoped the board would consider the firm's recommendation that KU purchase three 21-passenger vehicles for handicapped students.
However, if transportation was provided for handicapped persons, it would have to be done as a cooperative effort between the administration and Senate, he said.
Spring Kansan jobs open
Applications for staff positions on the spring Kansan are available in 105 Flint Hall, the Student Senate office in the Kansas and the offices of the deans of men and women.
open. Applications should be returned to 105 Flint by p.s.m. Friday.
Both news and business staff positions are
Applicants will be interviewed by the spring editor and business manager early next week. Sign-up sheets for interviews are posted outside 111 and 112 Flint.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
From the Associated Press, United Press International
News Capsules
Bennett seeks re-election
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert B. Bennett swung through a reelection in 1978 instead of bidding for a U.S. Senate re-election in 1982.
He said he wanted to continue his battle against the federal bureaucracy because he could fight "more effectively as one of its victims than I could as one of its authors." See story page two.
Rhodesian forces kill 1.200
SALISURBY, Rhodesia—The Rhodianese government said yesterday that its ground and air forces defeated two black nationalist bases in Mozambique, killing at least 1,200 and destroyed large quantities of arms and ammunition.
The fighting came in a five-day attack, which began last Monday. It coincides with Prime Minister Ian Smith's movement toward a political settlement within Rhodesia, which oddly turn the government over to moderate black leaders.
Locally . . .
Although the Kansas University Endowment Association will not release details of the loan it granted last week to finance renovations at Memorial Stadium, members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation say they are satisfied with details of the loan. The renovations should be completed by Sept. 1. See story page six.
McClellan
Arkansas senator dies at age of 81
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - John L. McGillan, D-Aark, whose pursuit of organized crime in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in sending Team Becko James Hafia and Dave Becko prison, died Sunday night. He was 81.
McClellan's death came only one week after he formally announced he
would retire at the end of his present term in the Senate, where he was second named in senatory. Only Sean James would retire from that position.
Israelis will go to Cairo
JERUSALEM-I Israel formally agreed yesterday to attend Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's preliminary peace conference in Cairo. But no other countries agreed, and Mr. Obama responded separately called anti-Sadat Arab murders in their capitals.
The conflicting invitations threw the Mideast into confusion; Jordan said it would send representatives to both Libya's and Iraq's meetings and Lebanon announced it and several. Neither countries pledged for Arabs to resume.
In Washington, a State Department spokesman said there was little chance of meeting President Carter's goal of reducing the debt.
Proposed halt in gas hookups prompts complaints
ByHENRY LOCKARD
Staff Writer
A moratorium on new natural gas hookups announced this month by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to begin Jan. 1. I will severely affect Lawrence, Ned Cushing, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, told the FERC in a letter last week.
Construction business in Lawrence has been healthy recently. Records in the Lawrence Building Inspection Department show that 346 new homes have been built or begun since last January. That number is 15 more than were built in 1976 and an increase of more than 200 from 1975.
Cushing protested the curtailment, citing the importance of natural gas to a healthy construction industry.
The moratorium on gas hookups was called because of an expected harsh winter coinciding with limited supplies of natural gas, a spokesman for the FERC said this week.
Statistics for multiple-family complexes are similar.
William Salome, vice president and general manager of Kansas Public Service Gas Co., Inc. (KPSG), the local gas supplier, said last week that 95 per cent of the new homes built in Lawrence used natural gas. He said there were 529 new gas hookups in 1976 and 41 as of November 1, this year.
GLENN WEST, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Lawrence was not alone in its opposition to the curtailment. He said several chambers in other cities served by Cities Service Gas Co. also had expressed opposition to the curtailment.
that supplies several retailers in the Midwest, including KPSG.
West said that there were more than 1,000 people in Lawrence employed in contract construction, which consists of all phases of building construction, that the curtailment could put several of them out of jobs.
Cities Service is the wholesaler in Oklahoma City
"The curtailment primarily affects the housing aspect of the contract construction business," he said. "Less homes will be built because KPSG won't have the capability to expand."
KPSG is different from most gas services because it is privately owned and serves only Lawrence. Except for pipeline specifications, KPSG is regulated by the city instead of the Kansas Corporation Commission, which has total jurisdiction over most gas companies in Kansas, West said.
Because of that freedom, the only action required of KPSG is notifying city officials of the ban, Salome said. But for those gas companies regulated by the state, the curtailment is a more complicated matter.
SUCH AN arrangement frees KPSG from being required to file its customer service policy with the corporation commission, Ward Salisbury, chief engineer for the commission, said last week.
Salisbury said that the curtailment was retroactive-decision making" and that it threw the burden on lawyers.
Salisbury said that the FERC had plan.ed in October to hold an initial hearing Dc. 6 on a possible ban on natural gas hookups to new buildings. A final hearing was scheduled for sometime in April.
He said the FERC then "backdoored" by announcing the ban effective Jan. 1.
Hopkins said that wholesaler originally were given a file an index of requirement with the FRCRK file.
DANIEL HOPKINS, assistant general council for Cities Service, said Cities Service had filed to change the date the moratorium went into effect from Jan. 1, 1978, to Jan. 1, 1979.
"It's a confusing situation because we're dealing with two sets of regulations," he said. "The
wholesalers are juridicalized to the FERC, but the retailers are juridicalized to the corporation com-
An index of requirement reflects the volume of gas demanded by each retailing customer, he said.
Hopkins said that wholesalers would have to recategorize their customers and that in doing so, some
commercial customers would not qualify for the same volume of gas in 1787 as they did this year.
He said that he thought the effects would not be felt for at least a year, but that if the moratorium were mandated this Jan. 1, new customer hookups after the week would be added at the retail distributor's risk.
A distributor would be fined if he made new hookups and used more than his limit of gas.
Steven Harris, director of the Kansas Energy Office, said in Topeka last week it was unavoidable that new gas connections to residences would be the security of existing natural gas customers.
Sailsherry said that he did not know what would happen on Jan. 1, but that by tomorrow he should be able to do it.
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HE SAID that there were many good reasons for allowing new customer hookups, but that it was important to recognize that new residence hookups would have to stop.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce disagreed with Harris.
Cities Service "has aggressively sought and found adequate long-term gas reserves to meet the future of residential," commercial and small industrial customers." Cushina's letter stated.
More hearings are scheduled for today.
KU prof testifies at gas company hearing
KANASST CITY, Mo.-(AP) A federal order restricts Cities Service Gia Co. from adding new residential or small business customers would cost an estimated 10,000 jobs and mean a $2.2 billion loss to communities in five states, witnesses, including a United States economist, estimated in federal art museum.
In addition, the federal restrictions would increase the cost of an average new home between $1,100 and $1,300.
Darwin Daicoff, KU professor of economics, testified that the hardest-hit cities in the five states—Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—were Kansas, Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita and St. Joseph, Mo.
HE SAID surveys indicated 74 per cent of the population in service. Service in 502 community was in the four cities.
The estimates came in a federal court hearing seeking a permanent injunction against a June order from the old Federal Power Commission. The order would curtail any new gas hookups after Jan. 1, by any company that violated the Service. Several companies have announced they would not make new hookups after the first of the year.
THE HEARING today was on a suit by Melvin M. Chingan, executive vice president of the R. L. Sweet Lumber Co. of Kansas City and the lumber company itself.
Daicoff said that based on current standards the order forcing builders to convert from gas to electricity would exclude 19,100 families in the five-state area who might otherwise qualify to buy a home in the $33,000 range. He estimated the cost of the conversion to electricity at $31,300 a home.
DONALD H. ONG, a homebuilder for the past 25 years, testified that conversion to electric utilities would cost at least $4,000 on medium-priced homes—the $55,000 range.
He said his company planned to virtually shut down new construction after the first of the year until the end of 2017.
"We won't build any speculative houses and we don't want any buyers to until we know where we站."
CLINGAN, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, said 98 per cent of his company's business is done with homebuilders. If the order is permitted to go into effect, lumber companies face a tremendous drop in business and many companies who are not well financed may face bankruptcy, he testified.