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Thursday, April 3, 1980
University Daily Kansan
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN- Capsules From the Kansas's Wire Services
Carter levies import oil tax
WASHINGTON—President Carter signed a proclamation yesterday imposing a $4.62 fee on each bag of crude oil. The action is on earmark for delivery to all U.S. refineries with 10 boxes or more.
Carter termed the levy a "gasoline conservation fee." He said that although the tax was on imported crude oil, government regulations would shift the burden.
The plan came under attack last week in Congress when a House Commerce subcommittee voted 17-4 to block the fee by denying the Energy Department the funding.
The hike in gasoline prices is expected to show up at the service stations May 15.
But Carter had authority to impose the import fee without congressional approval. White House press secretary Jody Powell said last week that the measure would be the nation's first such amendment.
Carter proposed the tax as an anti-inflation tool, contending that imported oil was the major contributor to the country's inflation rate.
Fed changes rules for lenders
WASHINGTON - Lenders must warn customers in advance of any change in credit-account terms, such as an increase in interest rates or a boost in interest rates.
If customers stopped using an account, they would be able to pay off their outstanding debts on the original terms, the board decided.
But if a borrower continued to charge on an account, he would have to agree to pay the entire balance in accordance with the new terms.
The reserve board said it thought the 30-day notice period would "prevent unfair surprise to consumers," help creditors plan better and "contribute to the goal of restraining the growth of consumer credit," which is now at record levels.
The board's decision yesterday covered a wide variety of changes in credit account terms, including increases in finance charges, imposition of additional credit fees, a rise in minimum payments, a lowering of borrowing limits on credit cards and revisions in the way monthly bills are calculated.
Many retailers, however, would not be able to raise interest rates significantly because they already were bumping against state usury ceilings,
The changes would not affect a lender's right to increase collections, close existing accounts or stop opening new ones.
Cattle held for DES testing
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Federal officials have asked farmers in several states to withhold more than 50,000 head of cattle from market while checks are made to see whether the animals are implanted with DES, a cancer-causing growth stimulant.
The alert came after Agriculture Department meat inspectors found traces of DES, dethyristibethyrolin in cattle slaughtered on the Farmland Food and Waste Authority farm.
John Westherrhoff, Farmall Foods president, said Farmall was asking seedist operators to certify that cattle had not been implanted with or fed DES
James A. Adamson, FDA, spokesman in Kansas City, said the FDA alert came after it was learned that Walteo Incorporated, a Porterville, Calif. pharmacy, had been involved in a fraudulent prescription.
DES is implanted in pellet form in the ears of cattle or fed to the animals to stimulate growth. FDA investigates found the drug causes cancer in
Adamson said no DES had been discovered in livestock other than cattle
Copters to feed Kansas cattle
TOPEAK—Helicopters have been sent to snowbound northwest Kansas to begin a Kansas Army National Guard project of dropping feet for stranded vehicles.
The guard is scheduled to begin dropping the feed today, permitting Gov. John Carterlin directed Fry to send two additional helicopters to five counties that the governor declared disaster areas Tuesday. The five snowbound counties are Wallace, Thomas, Cheyenne, Rawlins and Sherman.
Fry said the state would not purchase the hay and feed for the cattle, but would only transport it. Snow was more than a foot deep in some areas yesterday and Fry said the blowing snow would slow down the two helicopters dispatched yesterday.
Fry said the number of animals that had died because of the storms could not be determined until the snow had melted. He said there was no reports of a fire in the area.
Dozens injured in train wreck
LAKEVIEW, N.C.—An Amtrak train carryring about 300 persons through the foggy North Carolina countryside rolled past a stop signal and smashed head-on to a freight train yesterday, sending dozens of passengers to hospitals for treatment, officials said.
Engineers on both Amtrak's Silver Star, en route from Florida to New York, and the southbound Seaboard Coast Line freight train jumped from their engines just before the collision, but they were unable to warn passengers before the crash, railroad spokesman said.
Rescue officials said 102 persons were taken to Moore Memorial Hospital at Pinehurst for treatment of injuries, mostly minor bruises and burns.
Spokesmen for the Amtrik and SCL said that the Silver Star's crew should have been warned that another train was approaching, but that either the train or the crew had ignored warnings.
Owen Pride, public relations director for SCL in Jacksonville, Fla., said the freight train was going slowly as it prepared to over a toiling of the 18-ton cargo.
The SCL crew aboard the Silver Star applied emergency brakes after the engineer saw a red stop signal—the last warning—but the train was unable to stop.
Dole blasts windfall profits tax
WASHINGTON - Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., predicted yesterday that the windfall profits tax signed by President Carter would hurt domestic oil production and demand in the United States.
Dole also said he intended to introduce legislation to exempt small royalty owners who would be unfairly held by the windfall profits tax.
"Most of these royalty owners are small farmers and many are retired persons who depend on modest royalty payments to supplement their Social Security," Dole said. "This tax applies the same heavy tax rates to small royalty owners as it applies to the giant multinational oil companies."
"The windfall bill will reduce, rather than increase, domestic oil production," said Dole, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. "The tax will lessen the economic incentive and the capital available to undertake new oil exploration."
Dole also said that the tax would not be paid by the oil companies, but that it would be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher gasoline ores.
Dole estimated the windfall tax would reduce domestic production by 1.5 million barrels a day.
Dole said the tax only would apply to oil production in the United States and does not extract a dump of tax from the sizable profits the multinational oil company generates.
Weather...
Skies will be cloudy today with a 20 percent chance of rain and a high of 50 nor-
 according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be north-east.
Tonight the skies will be partly cloudy and the low will be in the 30s.
Tomorrow the high will be in the 50s.
KANSAS CITY, TEN. (UP1) - Before the first vote was cast in the state's first presidential primary, analysts predicted the actual winners—President Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan. The winner did not predict the more than 43 percent turnout.
Kansas turnout surprises experts
What was predictable but not overtly mentioned were accusations that flew as soon as the votes were counted.
Former CIA Director George Bush—who received 35,412 votes, or 12.5 percent—was trying to buy the election. And Kansas Republican Rep. Keith Sebelius—with no stake in the election—yesterday accused of making promises to Kansas farmers.
BUT THE NUMBER of votes that resulted, despite harsh weather in the northwest corner, was the most starting: Republicans in the basically conservative state cast 382,744 votes among 12 GOP candidates. In addition, about 192,004 votes for seven candidates.
That was a total of 474,818 out of the 1.1 million registered voters, which was about 100,000 more than predicted by Secretary of
The voting committed 23 of the 73 Demo-rally delegates to Carter on the first ballot at the New York convention, and gave only 14 to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Democritus in the remaining five Democrats received the 15 percent needed to commit a delegate.
State Jack Brier. It set a record for primary elections in Kansas.
On the Republican side, Reagan easily grabbed on 20 of 32 delegates, carrying all 19 votes. He was able to secure a knowledge ignorance about party in a farm state. Anderson won five delegates. Bush four. Three delegates will be sent to the convention to vote for whom they choose—but they have all been but sewn up by Reagan's delegate nominations at county caucuses.
SEBELIUS, SPEAKING IN WASHINGTON,
said Carter's re-election organization and
U.S. Department of Agriculture led to farm
prices in the region; prices to pre-employment levels. He called for a probe of the reports that Carter's campaigners and UDSA employee made
call and wanted to know how this was going to be accomplished, especially since the wheat market is off 80 cents from what it was prior to the Carter embargo. "Sebelius said, 'It is my understanding the Carter embargo has caused calling farmers and suggesting they get in touch with USDA Secretary Bob Bergland.' A special assistant then returned the calls and stressed President Carter's promise to buy a grain market up one way or another."
"I visited with a farmer who received a
REAGAN CASHED in on his ties with the Kansas Republican faithful and relied on a secretary-county organization, receiving $78,000. He also voted for $78,000. He vote. He spent $30,000 in Kansas while Anderson paid in $75,000, garrerin 12 Anderson and Bash spent $30,000 for his 12 percent.
Anderson's besting of Bush in all but six Kansas counties, despite a sick of campaigning, prompted Bush allies to allege that he had not acted on the question. Anderson aides called the charge rutilous, saying their candidates merely avoided questions and other candidates took their elsewhere.
Religious party leads Iran voting
The president, who did not visit Kansas.
By The Associated Press
A clergy-dominated party that takes a hard line toward the release of the 50 American hostages captured nearly three years ago in Iran, the Iranian President Abbasian Bassam Sadr in the first round of Iranian parliamentary elections, it was announced yesterday in Tehran.
The Islamic Republican Party won 49 of 101 scats, the president's supporters 18, and several minor parties a share of the vote. The party was in a second round of voting expected in about a month. Ayatollah Rubailh Khomeini, the country's revolutionary leader, has said the parliament would reject any election for Parliament, is not expected to meet until June.
"It is not important to us what opinion President Carter has expressed. What is important is whether or not he takes the
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Eric Greitens said the getting confected signals about what the Iranian government wants in order to assume control of the hostages until the end of the war.
The White House considers the transfer of the hostages from the hands of the militants to be a crucial step in a process officials need to lead to the release of the Americans.
measures we have specified," Bam-Sadr said in a statement distributed by Pars, the official Iranian news agency. "If he does, the Revolutionary Council will undertake the measures until the Majlis (parliament) gives its opinion on the Matter. Otherwise, it will not."
Bani-Sadr told a rally Tuesday that the ruling Revolutionary Council had agreed to take control of the hostages from the militants holding them at the U.S. Embassy and to govern a government promised to abstain from a hostile acts and propaganda against Iran.
President Carter called the statement a positive development, but he refused to comment on the terms.
The heart of the question seemed to be what Bani-Sadr wanted Carter to say and whether the president was willing to say it.
The Revolutionary Council was expected to meet today to discuss the possible hostage transfer.
A spokesman for the militants denied reports that they had agreed to turn the hostages over to the government. In a telephone interview, the spokesman said, "I didn't ask anything about this subject yet," he said they might have a statement today.
In other developments yesterday:
In Dublin, Irish statesman Sean Mac Bride said an international trial, of the
deposed shah, under United Nations auspices, might provide a way out of the hostage impasse, which is in its 125th day.
MacBride, who just returned from a four-day trip to Iran at the government's invitation, said that he discussed his proposal with Mr. Obama in January and president said it should be studied further. He said that he also offered this "intermediate solution" to U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance during talks earlier this week. He noted that he interested in considering the ideas.
- Tehran radio quoted a Foreign Ministry statement as saying that Iranian army personnel arrested an Iraqi spy working in the military section of the Iran Embassy diplomatic cover. It said the Foreign Ministry had ordered them to leave the country.
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fell back on prominent officials who helped him carry the Democratic vote in the 1978 election. The results were not surprising, but it was a 4.8 percent for Kennedy and a 4.8 percent for California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., of Wisconsin, prompted him to drop out of the race late Turner.
AMONG THE: 12 Republicans, Illinois Congressman Philip Crane, Crane State University, Texas Gov. John Comlynn and Sen. Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee each netted 1 percent of the vote. They received no delegates to the Democratic convention; the vote: Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Donald Badgett of New York, William E. Moseley of New York, W. Weager and Alvin G. Carras of Kansas.
Unsuccessful Democrats on the ballot, besides Brown, were former Mississippi Gov. Browder, Bob Maddox of Florida, Gary Rollins, New Jersey and Frank Abbott of Louisiana
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Included on the program are "EntrActe", by *Rene Cale*; "UnChienAndauol", by *Salvador Dali* and *LuisBurnet*, "Meshes of the Afternoon", by *Carl'sCredit"; by *StanBrahkage*, by *Wavelength*. By *Mickle Snow*.
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