University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, June 27, 1973
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Nixon's Estates Get Frills; Taxpayers Foot Bills
By RONALD KESSLER
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON—A government breakdown of $1.3 million spent to improve President Nixon's properties in California and Florida shows that large sums of federal money have been used for what officials say is a waste, and for furniture for the President's den.
The official accounting lists $4,834 spent by the government for furnishings in Nikon's den in San Clemente, $3,200 for tiling a roof, $989 for replacement of a "hazardous" wrought iron railling, $1,600 for window alterations, $1,105 for cleaning the beach, $1,500 for pruning "hazardous" dead branches, and $1,500 for repairing a wall.
Among the government expenditures for furnishings to the President's den are #472
for a leather top desk, $171 for a chair, $504 for a sofa, $201 for a chair, $141 for a swivel chair, $288 for two chairs, $444 for two more chairs, and $508 for decorative
PERMANENT improvements made to the properties include $1,853 for a flagpole in San Clemente, $476 to paint the flag pole, $288 for an exhaust fan in San Clemente, $314 for a wall ladder in Key Biscayne, $475 for a swimming pool cleaner in Key Biscayne, $475 for a water faucet in Service agents in Key Biscayne, and $826 for storm shutters in Key Biscayne.
These items are in addition to such previously reported expenditures for the San Clemente house as $13,500 for new heaters, $3,800 for a connection to the city sewer system, $184,174 for interior and exterior electrical work, $2,400 for septic
tank repairs, $42,500 for a wall, $10,612 for
roadways and parking lots, $2,800 for a
swimming pool heater, $11,561 for a red-
wood fence, and $22,000 for guard houses.
THE BREAKDOWN showed that the taxpayers have a big investment in the plants, trees, lawns, and landscaping of the President's San Clemente property. In the past four years, the government has spent $500 million on California estate, nearly $10,000 for weed removal, more than $8,600 for plants, and $5,600 for moving trees.
Altogether, $763,367 has been spent on permanent improvements to the San Clemente home and $797,907 to the Key House. These includes two houses owned by the President.
The figures do not include $600,000 spent to operate and maintain the Key Biscarcave
"MAYBE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT GETS THROUGH IMPROVING PROPERTY AT KEY BISCYNNE AND SAN CLEMENTE..."
KU Prof Studies Mars' Climate
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A correlation between the climatic changes on Mars and climatic changes on Earth, if established, can be of great importance to the world's agriculture and science. Edward Zeller, professor of geology, physics and astronomy, said Friday.
He has also been notified that he will receive within the next two months an email from his company.
These photographs, according to Zeller, provide evidence that Mars was once warmer than it is now. Stream water that collected in the Martian ice container in the Martian polar caps
The Earth is now recovering from a glacial period and has been going through a warm period similar to the period on Mars that produced the streams, said Zeller. He said that there was evidence that the Earth was beginning to cool off again.
An example of this given by Zeller is that of wheat and milo, which are both grown in Kansas. He said that wheat could withstand cold weather better than milo.
perature of the ocean cooled seven to nine degrees Fahrenheit, Kansas could ox-
ganize it.
Weather information gathered from the solar observatories could help farmers throughout the world decide what crops to plant. This knowledge could forestall major disaster in the light of the earth's cooling trend, he said.
Thus, climatic change would have a profound impact upon international politics. Russia, unable to feed her own population, has become an economic frontier. She would have to become a major
If a correlation of climatic changes on Earth and Mars can be found, scientists would be in favor of closer observation of the planet's atmosphere with the use of orbiting solar observatories.
Zeller said that it would take a minimum of 100 years for catastrophic climatic changes to occur in the world. He estimated that the ice age many experts believe to be coming would not occur for another 1,000 years.
importer of food and thus be at the mercy of food-producing nations.
compound or an as yet undetermined sum spent to operate the Western White House. The figures also do not include any expenditures made by government agencies other than the General Services Administration.
Zeller said climatic conditions did not have to change a great deal to be of importance to the farmers and nations of the world. He said that if the surface tem-
FOR EXAMPLE, some $340,000 was spent by the army corps of engineers to install a helipad at the Key Biscayne location.
The White House Friday referred all questions on the improvements to the GSA and Secret Service. The GSA said all but two questions were answered. San Clemente house were contacted by Secret Service for security purposes. The Secret Service confirmed that it had asked for many of the improvements but said time would be required to confirm each one.
The GSA breakdown shows that large sums have been spent on items normally considered to be related to the protection of communications breakdown.
These payments include $42,934 for a security lighting system at Key Biscayne doors and windows at Key Biscayne, $4,786 for removing a low wall and planting high hedges at Key Biscayne, and $7,631 for placing a glass at the SCLerente swimming pool.
OTHER ITEMS for repairs and improvements that home owners routinely make were defended by the Secret Service and the Secretary for the protection of the President
GSA's a audit of expenditures labeled *1,500* for pruning trees as well for "eliminating" overgrowth on the trees in some *8,300* for landscaping, including removal of dry weeds, was listed as being to "eliminate fire hazards," and replacement of a wrought iron heating炉 for *900*, was listed as being to "eliminate fire hazards."
Arthur F. Sampson, administrator of
Arthur F. Sampson, $1,600 spent for window
alterations at the University.
"The windows were of wood sash and they had dry rot in the walls and frames," he told the Washington Post. "They were just falling apart."
Carl H. Davis, the San Clemene building inspector who approved the building permit for the windows, said the windows were "not house" they just wouldn't close properly."
JOHN W. WARNER, assistant to the director of the Secret Service, said the existing heaters in the San Clemente home were "unsafe" because reasons because they are "unsafe."
Davis said the windows were replaced with aluminum sashes.
"If you had bought the house, you'd have it done it," he said. Sampson, the GSA administrator, defended the connection to the city sewer system as being necessary for the Republican Party Leader Leonard L. I) Brehzhen, for government guests, for functions."
Davis, the San Clemente building inspector who approved the permit for the new heaters, said the old equipment was corroded, antiquated and "inoperative."
HE SAID the government paid for only $3,800 of the $9,000 cost of the new line because the remaining share of the pipe was for the personal use of the President and his
The job of supervising the 10-to-14-year-old entails more than calling a plumber or soothing a homeisek 10-year-old. For Jackie Raymond, residence supervisor of McKenzie, in summer, the job demanded a lot of skills that she said she didn't even know she had.
Raymond, who teaches English and journalism at McPheron High School,
Chesapeake, VA.
McColllum Hall was the campus home of the 345 non-local junior high school students at KU for a 10-day section of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The students, who were from throughout the United States, ended their workshop Friday.
Supervisory Job Many-Faceted, Exacting
ONE SECRET SERVICE official, who asked not to be quoted by name, laughed repeatedly when many of the expenditures to be for national security were read off.
Davis, who also approved the permit for the sewer line, said the septic tank that came with the San Clemente house when the President bought it in 1989 represented a major threat to the city. It was the last septic tank in the city and should have been eliminated long ago.
Warner, the Secret Service official, said the line was for the use of Secret Service agents as well as for the personal use of the President.
Girls could cause problems too, Raymond said. She said that late one evening she heard that a girl had locked her door with the chain lock and could not get it unlocked. The girl's roommate was waiting outside to get inside to go to bed. Screwdriver in hand, he demolished the role of a carpenter and after almost an hour got the door unlocked.
He said Secret Service agents had their own offices that were separate from the President's residence and generally lived in institutions in the downtown section of the city.
family.
"Frankly, I have a feeling GSA is trying to squirt their way out by blaming these things on me."
Davis said the sewer line serviced the President's residence, the pool, and a guest house where the President's daughters and their husbands staved.
IN ADDITION, he said, it would have been illegal to build the swimming pool that was installed by the president on the property a connection to the city sewer system.
The sewer connection "had to be done to comply with the law," he said.
Thus might read an advertisement for a residence supervisor in one of the KU residence halls, especially when the student supervision of 345 junior high school students.
Her job might also include appearing one of the counselors directly in charge of the residence hall's campers, as it did one day when a counselor angrily stormed into the office with two young boys. The problem, it turns out, was that he had swept into the counselor's room locked through his things and, when he returned, were reading his Playboy magazines.
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Raymond, who received her masters' degree in journalism from KU last year, said that she took the job because for the last five summers she had either taught or attended school and she thought she needed a real job that a job as residence supervisor would allow time to work on some things she had not had time to do during the school year.
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In her job she has met situations that would try the patience of even the most patient person. In a typical day Raymond might have to rescue a load of youngsters in an alley where someone had pushed all of the buttons at once), fix a backed-up bathroom stool, console a homekiess young girl, soothe a loveick young boy, chase girls off of the boys floors and boys off of the girls floors, and carry a number of other unrefreshed circumstances.
Passes will go on sale in the fall for $14 a semester and will enable the holder to ride the buses at will throughout the semester. The $14 fee was based on a quantitative demand study conducted by a KU marketing class.
The summer student governance also approved several bus route changes. The major change is to route several buses directly to apartment complexes in the West Hills area and southwestern Lawrence, without stoping at Daisy Hill.
New new buses are being added, according to Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and Student Services committee chairman. Allen ternounced the goal of "better utilization" of existing resources.
The Student Senate Executive Committee (Stud Ex) voted Tuesday night to offer students a season ticket for bus service starting in the fall.
SAMPSON, the GSA chief, said GSA "has" to provide office furniture for government officials "anywhere, as long as it's reasonable."
He said the furniture was still owned by GSA, but since Presidents are given government offices by law after they retire, President Nixon would "keep it until he dies." After that, Sampson said, the furniture would revert to the government.
StudEx Approves Season Bus Ticket
The stacks are untouched since the day she unpacked them.
InterX is "not interested in the food area right now," the spokesman said. "We are involved primarily in pharmaceutical drug research, which cannot be discussed because of the threat endangering our "patent position."
Sampson acknowledged that there was no specific Congressional Act authorizing GSA President to leave the Presidents while in office. But he said a government official such as a senator could take furniture to his home, so long as he did not authorize the government furniture than was authorized.
William M. Cochrane, staff director of the Senate Rules Committee, which develops rules for senators, said, "The GSA never gives any furniture to senators (for their homes). It would take a formal resolution (by the Senate) to design it. It would be illegal to keep it," he said.
Aliza Corporation, a California operation formerly based in Lawrence, is conducting an investigation in the development of non-absorbable food products which include sugar and other chemicals.
InterX Corporation, a pharmaceutical concern, purchased ALZA's facilities on Campus West. According to a spokesman the InterX "spun off" the ALZA operation.
Overweight Remedy Studied
Non-absorbable additives would decrease the threat of cancer and other diseases, as well as removing extra pounds gained by overconsumption, according to a spokeswoman at Dyrupal, a subsidiary of ALZA that is conducting the additive research.
"They have been successful already in the "area of food dye research, and I think that it is a likely area to begin with," he said. "A more ambitious undertaking has been the area of food flavoring and coloring." The success of the latter seems less likely.
Taguchi he thought a great many groups in the United States would be interested.
the assistant to the director of the Secret Service, said he found authorization by his agency for many of the expenditures. He said he hadn't yet had time to check them.
are overweight. Not to have the detrimental aspects of those properties may be of substantial value to society as a whole," he said.
Both the Secret Service and GSA agreed that the personal furniture and the flagpole at the San Clemente residence had not been used for security purposes. Services were not for security purposes.
Alen then questioned the summer busing contract that calls for a 15 cent bus rate for buses and a $2.00 per mile fee.
"To have agents which improve food properties without jeopardizing the consumers' health."
A slimmer torso may yet be a reality for the overweight.
Takera Higuchi, professor of pharmacology and a one time consultant for ALZA, died Dynapo's food additive and dye products highly desirable in regard to public safety.
Mert Buckley, Wichita junior and student body president, said the contract was so negotiated because KU students, through their activity fees, subsidized the bus service at an amount of nearly $15,000 a semester last year.
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Buckley said that the feeling during the summer bus contract negotiations was that students had already paid for the bus service and should therefore receive a reduced rate.
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Debate then turned to whether the 25 cent rate for non-students was counter pay.
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Alien voiced the opinion that the higher rate discouraged faculty and other non-graduate students.
StudEx voted to maintain the two-fare system through the summer, but by a 4-3 vote decided to charge all riders 15 cents a ride or $14 at a semester starting in the fall.
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enforcement of discriminatory rates was difficult.
The committee unanimously tabled a proposal of a student lobby representing all
Another action passed by StudEx removed the body student t贾婶's right to vote in the student senate. Proponents of removal argue that it would remove political pressure from the office.
Rich Lauter, Evanston, III, junior, said, "I believe this issue has turned into a battle because of personality conflicts on the part of us. We biggest we give full attention to this issue.
Rick McKernan, Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, said, "If one person turns down the 25 cent ride and two more take it, we're making money."
"We're talking about cash," Allen said. "Hate to hurt the revenues that we need and can't afford."
Allen said that ridership decreased because the 25 cent fare but could not purchase it.
Rob Hein, a Washburn Law Student, spoke to the committee about the lobby and asked their approval. StudEx opposed the lobby because they felt it should deal more directly with the community. There were several questions not answered in regard to funding and representation.
It was unknown how much revenue was beinl lost because of the fare system.
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