Wednesdav. November 9. 1977
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KU shift to fuel oil hinges on cold spell
By DEBRIECHMAN
Staff Writer
Although temperatures this winter may not challenge last year's records, the Kansas Weather Service is predicting colder than normal temperatures that could again pose threats to KU's access to natural gas.
Last winter, KU's natural gas, which heats most classrooms on campus, was curtailed for about 40 days. During that time, fuel oil, which costs about three times a much as gas, was used to produce the steam needed to heat campus buildings.
Rodger Oroke, University director of Facilities and Operations, said yesterday that he would not be surprised if KU would have to rely on fuel oil sometime this winter.
If circumstances similar to last year, occur this winter, KU can expect to switch to a new campus.
KU would then have to heat by the more expensive fuel oil.
IF THERE IS a prolonged cold spell this winter and the demand for gas in increased, KU and other large industrial and commercial users will be among the first to be cut off. William Salome, manager of the Kansas Public Service Gas Co., said.
Max Lucas Jr., University director of Facilities Planning, said if natural gas was shut off to the University this winter, KU had enough fuel oil to keep the campus buildings warm for about 20 to 30 days, depending on the severity of temperatures.
"All indications are that we will not be faced with a severe energy problem." Lucas
Steve Harris, director of the Kansas Energy office, also does not foresee any problems in the availability of natural gas this winter.
HE SAID THAT there were seven billion more cubic feet of natural gas in underground storage fields this year than last year. However, if there is a cold trend, Harris said, more natural gas will be put into storage.
"No one is prepared for a severe winter in the part of the country had last year," Harsite said.
A gas system is not built to accommodate what could happen infrequently, he said.
Everything is based on a normal winter, which is a historical average of old pat- terns.
According to Martin Jones, associate University director of Business Affairs, if the supply of gas is cut off and fuel oil must be purchased, the company will pay $8,000 each day to warm campus buildings.
The state provides a majority of the money KU spends on utilities. Last year, KU spent $361 million on utilities.
**THIS YEAR**, **82,000** has been budgeted to pay fuel oil bills, but a request has been made to the budget division of the Kanaan Trust Fund and friends to bring the total fuel budget to **$100,000**.
The legislators can hardly down the hose on Ms. Osborne's said, "not unless they tell us to lock them up."
The fuel oil budget for the winter of 1979 is about $21,000 and probably will be raised each year as natural gas bills go up, he said.
In the last fiscal year, the cost of natural gas rose about 25 per cent.
Lucas, chairman of the Energy Study Task Force, which studies ways KU can conserve energy, said guidelines for conservation heat had been distributed on campus.
Lucas also said a contingency plan for energy conservation had not been altered. Adopted earlier this year, the plan would require an insurance if severe energy shortages existed.
Implementation of the three stage plan depends on three factors: A prolonged period of cold weather, a cut-off of the winter months and the inability to replenish fuel oil supplies.
Stage I requires that five buildings be closed Stage and heat to the rest of the building.
Stage II would close additional buildings, but classes and residence halls would stay out.
During Stage III, classes would cease, residence halls would close and only essential services of the University would be provided by the University department and the University switchboard.
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Caldwell said that Von Ende did not consider the bill University matter and would likely resist it.
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bill taken care of. He said he informed Rick Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, of the situation and that Von Ende assured him it would be paid.
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Caldwell said he did not know why Hoder had not written off the unpaid bill as a business loss on his tax return after he failed to earn the money from Roberts and the 1972 Senate.
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Last week he said that the Senate probably still had them. Caldwell, however, said the uniforms were not registered in the military and that they did not know where they were.
HODER SAID THAT he considered the nonpayment a matter of principle and that he thought the people responsible for placing the order should keep their half of the contract because he accepted the order in zood faith.
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Caldwell said there was possibly some negligence on the 1972 Senate's part. He said he questioned Roberts' credibility in the matter but said he had no reason to think that Roberts deliberately misled him during their conversation.
ONEIL SUGGESTED in his letter that Roberts, not the University, should pay the bill because the order was not properly filled out in the first place.
Although no one agrees on whose responsibility it is to pay the bill, everyone said that the money is ised Hoder and that he is ed because he accepted the order in good faith.
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Roberts said he did not think anything irregular had occurred in the ordering of the
The whereabouts of the uniforms are unknown. In a conversation with Caldwell a few weeks ago, Roberts said the uniforms are not even being used and their owners and possibly were not even been used.
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"The University of Kansas cannot assume responsibility whenever one of its A-forms is used, perhaps fraudulently, by a student or another who does not receive proper authorization," he wrote.
"That's the same story he's been giving the past five years. Hopefully he said he crested his reputation, but he's created the problems himself. You won't find many people that have sympathy for him."
Roberts said that he had not heard from Hoder since the Feb. 16, 1976 letter and that he was eager to get the matter settled. He said the incident was causing him trouble in the rugby world because of comments that he thought Hoder had made.
"I THOUGHT WE were doing it all within the bounds of the rules," he said.
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Hoder said that he had relied on Roberts' personal integrity. Because that failed, he said the University should pay him the $786 remaining after Roberts' good faith payment.
Hoder said that any trouble Roberts was having because the unpaid bill was due to his parents.
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Roberts said that he thought Hoder should get the money, but not from his pocket.
"I've spent a bill to a lot more than $0$ in legal fees and phone bills, not to mention the interest on the bill," he said. "My phone bill to that guy alone (Roberts) is over $50."
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ROBERTS SAID IF the Senate decided not to accept responsibility for the bill, he would not pay it. And if Hoder presses him with an answer, he will take it right back to the University.
Caldwell said he was not sure what the Senate would do about, the matter. Senates technically are not responsible for actions of previous senators, he said, but responsibility for the bill may be taken in light of Hoder's trust in filling the order.
He said he would hate to see a precedent set in paying such bills, but if the Senate
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Hoder said he would wait to hear of the Senate's actions before doing anything else about the bill. He refused to say what he could do if the Senate decided not to pay the bill.
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