THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year. No.140
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, May 3, 1973
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Flood Areas In Kansas Offered Aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon Wednesday declared Kansas a major disaster area, clearing the way for emergency federal aid to repair damage from severe storms and flooding that began March 3.
More than half the counties in Kansas were reported to have suffered flood damage during March, a month when total rainfall exceeded all previously recorded rainfall amounts, the White House announcement said.
Federal disaster assistance will help repair or replace roads and bridges damaged by flood waters. In addition, low interest disaster loans will be made available by the Small Business Administration and the Farmers Home Administration.
Darrell M. Trent, acting director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and himself a resident of Pittsburg, Kan., named Francis X. Tobin, OEP regional director for the Kansas City area, as federal coordinating officer for recovery work.
OEP has the responsibility of coordinating federal disaster assistance operations and of administering the President's disaster relief fund.
Trent said it would be several days before he would designate the counties that will be eligible for federal assistance.
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Many students who will be traveling abroad this summer are now receiving immunizations. Annette Bee, nurse at Watkins Memorial Hospital, gives Dennis Boddy, Prairie Village senior, a smallpox vaccination. Students who plan to travel in
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Europe this summer are not required to have any immunizations, although small-pox, typhoid, tetanus and oral polio immunizations are recommended. Any student who travels in a country in which a smallpox epidemic has recently broken out must have a vaccine verification before he can get back into the United States.
Commencement Activities Varied
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By STAN WILSON
Kancon Staff Writer
Commencement weekend at the University of Kansas is more than just a group of seniors dressed in black robes across a platform and receiving a diploma.
The KU Alumni Association will be in charge of all proceedings with the exception of the awarding of diplomas. According to Steve Clark, assistant director of the school, approximately 2,000 students are expected to participate in the commencement ceremony.
"IFEEL THERE is a lot of interest in it," Clark said. "Four out of five graduating seniors participate in it, and that includes the number who graduated in December."
The most important event of the weekend will center on the post-graduates receiving masters degrees or doctorates. Their big moment comes on Sunday, May 20, when they take the traditional walk down the hill to receive their diploma covers. The actual diplomas are mailed out four to six weeks after the ceremony, provided graduateship is obtained. The program will pay all outstanding fees and have met all necessary graduation requirements.
DURING THE SUNDAY ceremony
Chancellor Raymond Nichols will speak
There will be a similar ceremony Monday or graduating seniors receive bachelors
briefly and Distinguished Service Citations will be presented to three alumni.
One of the alumni will be Ron Evans, the astronaut who sleeps through the joyahwak
The other two alumni receiving awards will be Dwane Wallace, who has headed Cessna Aircraft Co. since 1936, and William Foster, who is recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on marching bands.
Another highlight for graduates will be the senior-paternal luncheon on May 21. Chancellor Nichols will speak at the luncheon, and he will still available for interested seniors.
OTHER EVENTS WILL include the initiation of new members into Phi Beta Kappa, the chancellor's reception, and recounts given by the various schools.
The seniors of 1923 will be present for their 50th reunion, the seniors of 1933 will be here for their 40th and the seniors of 1948 will be here for their 25th anniversary.
The Gold Medal Club, which consists of all alumni wishing to return whose 50th reunion has already passed, and various alumni and alumni Association groups will also meet here.
Most of the alumium activity will take place on Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20. A
class session is also scheduled for Friday.
The weekend activities will begin at 6 p.m. May 18, and will continue until the end of the Air Force, Army and Navy commemorations, which begin at 11 a.m. May 22.
THE 1923 KU basketball team, which won a national championship, will also have a
Nixon Adds Agnew To Domestic Council
Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Wednesday that Agnew, whose role within the administration had seemingly been reduced as part of Nixon's second-term reorganization, had been designated vice chairman of the Domestic Council.
Domestic policy matters once handled by Ehrlichman now are being coordinated by Kenneth Cole Jr. the 35-year-old executive vice president of Nixon, Nixon heads. Cole, who joined the administration in 1969, has held his present post since last December.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon has added Vice President Syro Agnew to his domestic policy apparatus and has assigned staff veterans to temporarily fill vacancies created by Watergate-related resignations.
However, it was learned that the President outlined at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday a stop-gap plan for permitting a continuation of normal administration business pending a rebuilding of his top staff.
Transportation Discussed At Meeting in Lawrence
THE WHITE HOUSE spokesman said Nixon thought the action, taken by voice vote with only five senators present, might have made a difference in responsibility and integrity" of Ellot Richardson, the President's nominee for attorney general who already has taken over direction of federal inquiries to the interstate burglary and subsequent over-up.
ZIEGLER SAID that the President had made no decisions regarding the way his staff would operate in the absence of Ehrichman, Haldeman and Dean.
Stephen Bull, 31, another initial member of Nixon's White House staff, was said by an associate to be functioning now as a sort of traffic cop regulating the flow of papers and documents to and from the presidential office. Haldeman had performed those and other functions.
Zigler said this would give Agnew a broadened role in domestic policy reform.
Agnew was not to be regarded as assuming the assignment of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former assistant for domestic policy, Ziegler was. Ehrlichman, White and presidential counsel H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and presidential counsel Dean Dean III resigned Monday.
BULL, IT was learned, is in charge of the President's day-to-day schedule.
This came at a time when a potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, Texan John Connally, was switching from the Democratic to Republican Party.
Handling long-range scheduling for Nixon is David Parker, 33, a special assistant who joined the White House staff in January 1971.
The Senate wrangled inconclusively for 20 minutes over the matter Wednesday, and let stand the resolution sponsored principally by Sen. Charles Percy, R-UL.
Nixon Tightens Controls On Major U.S. Companies
At his Wednesday news briefing, Ziegler acknowledged that Nixon had expressed displeasure at the Cabinet meeting over a Tuesday Senate resolution urging him to seek Senate confirmation of a nominee from outside the executive branch to serve as a special prosecutor to take charge of the Watergate investigation.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon imposed tighter price controls on the nation's largest companies Wednesday in an attempt to restrain rising prices, which the government now says will increase by 4 per cent this year.
At the Cabinet meeting, Nixon said that, at least for the present, interdepartmental and personnel matters should be taken up with the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the executive office of the President.
Nixon said in a statement on the economy that prices probably would keep rising for some months although not at the rate of recent months.
The new controls require major companies with more than $250 million annual sales to notify the administration's Cost of Living Council 30 days in advance of plans to raise average prices more than 1.5 per cent above Jan. 10 levels.
The council can suspend the increase or take other action that it considers justified, the *president* said. If it approves the提前放水 effect at the end of the 30-day period.
Nixon's statement also said that the nation's largest firms would be asked for help to develop the project.
Zegler said all files from the White House offices of Haldenman, Ehrlichman and Dean Hammond will be released.
beginning of the Phase 3 anti-inflation program in January and that the council might order reduction of increases that had exceeded the standards.
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The Cost of Living Council will obtain reports on price changes made by the country's largest firms since the beginning of Phase 3 "so that it may order reduction of increases that have exceeded the standards."
Jane Eldridge of 511 Ohio St., a member of the League of Women Voters, said she hoped that any suggested transportation elements would not be limited to the aging.
If a major firm intends to raise its average prices more than 1.5 per cent above the Jan. 18, authorized level, it must notify of Living Council 30 days in advance.
Eldridge said that Lawrence would have to go to a more efficient means of transport. He was told by the airlines that
Fred Mills, manager of the city's job opportunities center, cited the problem of transporting people to jobs for which they might qualify.
The President announced four new steps under the Phase 3 anti-inflation program:
The CAB ruled last Dec. 7 that the special fares were illegal because they discriminated against other air travelers who were not part of family groups or were too old to qualify for youth discounts.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled Wednesday that the domestic airlines must maintain family and youth fares by June 1, 1974.
Mills went on to say that the problem lay in the circultous necessity for persons to acquire a vehicle to permit them to get a job in the first place.
- Firms not exceeding the 1.5 per cent limit still will be required to report their actions quarterly so that their conformity to price increase standards may be checked.
to get around. She referred to shrinking American energy resources as evidence of the problem's magnitude.
Leroy Mcdermott, University of Kansas graduate student from Welk, Okla., cited
—"Additional resources will be assigned to insure that these strengthened efforts are carried out fairly and effectively," Nixon said.
"I'm not an expert on transportation engineering. 'Mills said.' I meret know what he was saying."
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The discounts represented by such fares must be eliminated gradually. The first cutback will occur June 1—2. The second cutback will occur a second will take place next, pence 3.
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission Wednesday night addressed two fundamental transracial and transincome questions, transportation and employment.
Harris invited comments from an attentive audience.
CAB to Drop Special Fares
By C. C. CALDWELL Kansan Staff Writer
New Parking Priorities Proposed
Commissioner Doug Harris, head of the commission's transportation committee, said any successful city action would be accompanied effort by all Lawrence citizens.
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By ROBERT E. DUNCAN
The report, compiled by the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee on Traffic and Parking, provides detailed information faculty and staff parking assignments in N, O, and X zones while providing shuttle bus service. The bus, for faculty and staff, will be during morning, noon and night rush hour.
The creation of 50 new parking spaces behind Wescoe Hall and a new priority list for assigning parking spaces in the central campus have been recommended in a report on parking and traffic released Wednesday.
The study, begun in July 1972, notes that the opening of Wesco Hall next fall will put increased demands on central campus parking.
To ease this situation, the report suggests the construction of the 50 new parking spaces behind Wescoe on the service drive. Access to these spaces would be controlled by an entrance gate that could be activated with an I.D. card.
IN ESTABLISHING a new priority list for allocating spaces, the committee recommends that top priority be given to persons with disabilities or for using their cars during working hours.
Second priority should be based on medical factors, it says.
Faculty and staff members who use parking spaces simply for all-day storage of their automobiles should be assigned to the reservoir lots' N, O and X, the report says.
"In general," the report states, "it is recommended that no students be assigned parking spaces on the central campus area excent for medical reasons."
"Accompanying a decision of priority such as this would be the necessity for the University to provide a free shuttle service and for employees to work at the central campus," the report states.
MAX LUCAS, professor of architecture and urban design and chairman of the committee, said Wednesday that the committee had been charged with recommending alternatives for parking and campus traffic flow.
Chanceller-designate Archie Dykes probably will have to decide whether to implement the proposals of the committee, Lucas said.
parking situation anticipated with the opening of Wescos Hall.
These short-range recommendations, Lucas said, are intended to ease the tight
Long-range proposals contained in the report will require further study and analysis, he said. The long-range recommendations include:
—The closing of Jayhawk Boulevard between the Chi Omega Circle and Sunflower Road and between Sunflower Road and the area of Green and Fraser halls.
—The opening of Sunflower Road as a north-south route across campus.
- REMOVAL of all traffic control stations.
systems in view of recent technological advances.
"Concepts such as the automated train, monorail, and various bus and tube transport systems might be applied to the town of town square, a town of town or remote parking facilities and the
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Traffic Plan
Traffic would be routed around the central campus under long-range recommendations by the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee.
study and analysis, include the closing of Jayhawk Boulevard between the Chi Omega Circle and Sunflower Road and between the Chapel Street and the opening of Sunflower Road as a north-south route across campus. Short-range proposals include the addition of 50 campus spaces behind Wescott Hall, altered priorities for campus lighting, and an expansion from N, O and X parking zones (Map by Prynn Puckett)