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Wednesdav. March 19. 1980
University Daily Kansan
VERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
Guardsmen replace firefighters
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Missouri Gov. Joseph P. Teadele yesterday ordered 220 Missouri National Guardmen to aid police officers in restoring fire units.
But before the divisions could report to the city, a huge blaze destroyed two buildings on the history square. The fire blazed was quelled by police officers in the city, a striking firefighters' unit.
The fire which began about 8 p.m. in a five-story warehouse, spread to another building. The fire was brought under control at 11/2 hours later.
Earlier today, before Teasdale arrived here for a special meeting with Mayor Richard Berkley and others, city officials had tried to tell a peering crowd of union firefighters that more than 160 members of the afternoon shift had been fired and that more would be dismissed if they failed to report for duty.
The 160 firefighters who failed to show up for the regularly scheduled 3 p.m. shift were immediately suspended for 15 days. City personnel director, Tom Lewinsohn said they would be automatically terminated at the end of the suspension.
The firefighters abandoned their posts at 6 p.m. Monday to protest the city's refusal to reinstate 42 union members dismissed in a walkout last week.
Earlier yesterday, city prosecutor R. John Gibson threatened union firefighters with prosecution "to the full extent of the law" for their illegal actions.
Gilbane gave Jackson County Circuit Judge Lawrence Smith the names of 150 firefighters he said were in contempt of court because of alleged violations of law.
Gibson said that he would return with a list of another 700 names if investigators failed to report at the regularly scheduled shift changes, but that he would be able to provide that information.
The judge said he would determine at 9:30 a.m. today whether action should be taken against the union members.
Banks raise prime rate to 19%
NEW YORK-Chase Manhattan Bank and several other large institutions raised the rate they charge on loans to top-ranked companies to a record 19 percent yesterday as the administration's credit-tightening package bit into business borrowing.
The increase in the prime lending rate was the fifth of the month and left the rate at many banks 4 percentage points above its level of mid-February, when it dropped to 3.95 percent.
The prime rate is not tied to rates on consumer loans or home mortgages. But those rates have been moved up as well recently, the result of the Fed's attention to economic conditions.
The mortgage-rate spiral has had a severe effect on the construction industry, with the Commerce Department reporting yesterday that single-family homes are the most vulnerable to a crisis.
Chase, the nation's third-largest bank, said its decision to raise the prime rate "is consistent with the philosophy and programs outlined by the president and the Federal Reserve Board to exercise discipline and restraint in lending and to control the growth of credit markets in our society."
KCP&L's rates to increase
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—An interim electric rate increase of $25 million requested by Kansas City Power & Light Co. was approved yesterday by the Missouri Public Service Commission, which said it recognized the utility's "need to survive financially."
KCP&L said itim interim increase “will help stem the company's investing financial condition” until its request for a permanent increase of $384.6 million is met.
The utility had sought an interim increase of $3.1 million, and the commission staff last week paraded the recommendation to $2.9 million. The agency said it reduced that recommendation further because of austerity measures prescribe and a reduction in prices to the company. These measures included a hiring price and a reduction in premiums.
The commission said the interim increase, scheduled to take effect March 28,
would raise residential bills about 9 percent.
The utility serves about 232,000 customers in Missouri and 107,000 in Kansas in the Kansas City metroplana area.
Bill would send grain to poor
WASHINGTON—Sen. Mark Hattfield, R-Ore., yesterday introduced legislation that would买国防 1 million tons of wheat once destined for the Soviet Union.
"This bill will serve to attack the growing menace of starvation and reemphasize to the developing world the strong humanitarian impulse of the American people," he said. "This will contrast importantly and dramatically with the past for the brutal Soviet invasion and continued occupation of Afghanistan."
Hattfield said the wheat would be held in the United States and distributed to poor Third World nations in times of emergency.
This action ensures that grain purchased by the United States will be sent during times of crisis solely to persons who otherwise could not afford to buy it.
The wheat would come from the 17 million tons the United States denied the Soviet union in response to their Dec. 27, 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.
February income rise slight
*SHINGTON—The Carter administration announced yesterday that
*i- Americans' personal income increased in February by only $6.9 billion, or 0.3
In its announcement, the Council on Wage and Price Stability said it was seeking special price information from 150 oil companies and 100 other businesses, including those in air transportation, paper, cement, hotels, food processing, retailing and machinery.
Consumer spending also decreased sharply during the month, an indication that consumers may be reaching the limit of their purchasing power in the face of rising prices.
A spokesman, Mike Gibb, said there had been "disturbing price increase" in these industries as reflected in the government's index of wholesale prices. The special price reports will help the council determine whether the increases have been in violation of the administration's voluntary price guideline.
Iranian election inauiru ordered
If it dominates the new Parliament, the clergy-led Islamic Republican Party might obstruct President Abishannan Bani-Sadr's efforts to have the U.S. Embassy hostages freed soon. It was unclear whether the inquiry would further delay convening of the Parliament.
Iran's Revolutionary Council ordered an investigation yesterday of allegations of fraud in national parliamentary elections, most of it attributed to the government.
Since election day there have been persistent complaints of fraud. Some of the latest complaints came from men close to Khomeini—parliamentary, candidate Ayatollah Ali Tehran, who claimed balloting was rigged in many cases. In June, he denied that he demanded an immediate intervention into the tactics of the Islamic party.
Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomimi declared amnesty for several thousand political prisoners and jailers the most zealous of his revolutionary followers.
After a meeting last night of Iain's ruler Revolutionary Council, Foreign Minister Suleigh Ghuzabzadeh submitted to five to seven member states a request for assistance of the charges.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy, windy and warm today with a high near 70 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be southerly at
It will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms tonight. The low in the low to mid 40s.
CHICAGO (AP)—Ronald Reagan captured Illinois last night and gained all but unstoppable command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. President Carter won the Democratic nomination, but he also suggested Sen. Edward Kendall's challenge.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms and a high near 16.
Carter, Reagan win as expected
Reagan easily defeated Rep. John Anderson, the liberal congressman from Rockford, II, and left former U.N. Ambassador George Bush a distant third.
In the slow, separate count of the contests for nominating delegates, Carter had a margin of more than 2-4 over Kennedy in the election. Obama was well ahead among Republicans.
He said that Reagan could not win a presidential election and that Republicans knew it.
"It's a great boost to move into the in-
stitute," Illinois," Reagan said in New Haven, Cov-
n, where he was campaigning for next
New York and Connecticut
primaries.
ANDERSON AND Bush both insisted they would not quit.
Anderson declared, "We have just begun to fight."
The Illinois defeat cost Kennedy the very state he once said would be his arena for a comeback against Carter.
Bush's poor showing in the GOP election put in doubt his ability to mount a meaningful challenge to Reagan. Like Kennedy, Bush had once said the contest would be a water-shed. Like Kennedy, he said defeat not would force him from the
Kennedy, in New York, soberly acknowledged defeat and said, "My campaign now goes to New York, and New York has won." The direction of the Democratic party . . ."
Carter 629,003, or 65 percent.
WITH 78 PERCENT of the precincts counted. it was:
With three-quarters of the Republican vote counted:
Reagan 384,286,or 48 percent
While that preferential vote ranked the candidates, the competition that counted was in separate balloting for national convention delegates. That count was proceeding slowly. Democrats were electing 179 delegates, Republicans 92.
Rep. Philip Crane of Illinois had 2 percent
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. hao 3 percent.
Bush 85,723, or 11 percent.
With 29 percent of the precincts counted in Democratic delegate competition, Carter led for 152, Kennedy for 18.
had 313 nominating votes, Kennedy 168. It will take 1,668 to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Entering yesterday's balloting. Carter
Reagan entered Illinois with 167 delegates. Bush was second, with 45. It will take 989 to win the GOP nomination.
IN GOP DELEGATE balloting, Reagan led for 40 nominating votes, Anderson, 1; Bush 2; and Crane, 1.
Anderson was banking heavily on independents and sometimes Democracy to crush Republican support. He ran ahead in suburban Chicago. But the conservative Reagan was the leader of the Republican party.
Bush, in Madison, Wis., said he received about what he had expected.
"Politics is a bit of a roller coaster," he said.
His campaign director, James Baker,
said Bush still had plenty of money and good
EVEN BEFORE the polls closed, White
Carr had said that he committed a delegate
lead that Kennedy would win to a
handlade every Tuesday to overtake the
Kennedy failed to challenge the president even among the state's huge Catholic and Jewish populations. Catholic himself. The Massachusetts attorney student similarly among low-income white people.
Kennedy trailed far behind Carter in Chicago, where Mayer Jane Byeh tried to convince her colleagues that she would urge him not to withdraw from the campaign, adding that she still hoped to win.
State asked to investigate travel service
state organizations. He said Bush would focus on Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Renorter
The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association has made a formal request to the Kansas attorney general's office to investigate a travel service operating in
Phyllis Griefskee, education publicist for the association, said yesterday that she had sent her request and a complaint from a client who had been accused of service. bvased in Rosewood, Calif., last week
Dana Bradbury, an investigator for the attorney general's office, said yesterday that she had not yet received the request.
"Even if I had received the request, I couldn't give out information about the investigation if there was one," Bradbury said.
Almost two weeks ago, the association
advised consumers not to do business with the company, but some apparently are still dealing with the company.
Bill Reynolds, customer services manager for the Lawrence office post, said that approximately 50 c.o.d. packages from the travel service had arrived at the post office during the past two weeks and that at all 10 persons had picked up and paid for them.
THE PACKAGES are business-sized envelopes costing $57.20 each.
Griekspoor said she was concerned because it was unclear what the $57.20 was paid for.
Consumer affairs has received 15 calls from consumers about the company in the past two weeks, she says. The company said the company has been through letters and phone calls, according
to the people who have contacted the association.
The letters said that readers, within three days, would receive packages containing information about the trips.
"The lack of information in the letter and the company's reluctance to give information to a consumer group made us very suscious." Griekkroo said.
THE CALIFORNIA Better Business Bureau wrote to Grieksen telling her that it had requested information from the company, and received none, she said.
So far, no one who has actually given their money to the company has registered complaints with the association.
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