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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 135
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Meetings With Haldeman Discontinued
Thursday, April 26,1973
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Kanaan Photo by JACKIE GIRSON
Great Dane to ward dff intruders, Scott Brown, Topea freshman, uses his dog Sergeant to do just that. If a cat were to stroll by, though, Brown could experience a rude awakening due to the leash attached to his wrist.
Taking a map in front of Flint Hall is no trouble at all if you have a
School Closings Possible
By MARGIE COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
Grant and Riverside elementary schools possibly will be closed next year because of declining enrollment in Lawrence School District. Services offered at schools that are not full.
The board of education and school administrators at meetings Tuesday and Wednesday nights told about 200 participants that this was one alternative.
William Bradley, board president, said that some decision had to be made to economize on expenditures to keep partially full schools operating.
Since 1968, Lawrence has lost 500 students, even though the population is growing. Ken Fisher, assistant superintendent of business and facilities, said the projection for the next 10 years was for a continued school population decline.
"To provide the best education and make our tax dollars go as far as possible, if we
don't evaluate this situation, then we aren't doing our best job." Fisher said.
Bradley said a decision would be made by the middle of July. The school budget has to be approved by teachers.
To continue running schools at their present level and increase teacher salaries, the district needs an affirmative answer to the question, "What district is asking for $222,000 to keep the transportation, vocational education and special education of the district at its present level?"
Bradley said the decision on the appeals would not necessarily mean a decision on the suit.
"It will make a difference in our budgeting," he said.
Fisher, chairman of the district's facilities committee, said the committee had studied Riveride and Pinkham streets to increase the cost of transporting students
would result, Fisher said, because the buses have to pass Wooddawn or Pinkney to get to the bus stop.
If Riverside's projected population was moved to Pinckney, Pinckney would have 353 students next year. Capacity at Pinckney is 365. Fisher said.
If Grant's student population was moved Woodland, Woodland would have 263, he had 186.
The board of education thinks that a standard size school is 359 students, Bradley said. This size offers flexibility because there are two teachers for each grade and the budget is large enough to offer more student expenditures, he said.
"We are hard pressed to justify 14 in a classroom," said Gary Freeman, Niverside High School.
The savings from eliminating duplication of personnel and utilities at Riverside and Grant would total $59,932. Fisher said. The personnel would not be fired but encouraged to continue with the district at other schools, Bradley said.
Voter Turnout Average In First Day of Election
Voter turnout for the first day of the runoff election for senior class president compared favorably with the turnout for the election March 14-15, according to John Ziegleimann, Shawnee Mission junior and chairman of the student elections committee.
The earlier election of the senior class president was declared invalid by the University Judiciary because the name of Martin was not his junior, who was spelled "Martin" on the ballot.
This election's ballot lists only Murfim and Pat Netsturm, Salina tatum, as candidates.
Juniors can vote today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at voting tables in the Kansas University campus.
Zigelmeyer said 313 votes were cast today which could be compared with a two-day total of 600 votes in the March election. This represents 14.2 per cent of the junior
"I'm pleased about today's turnout, but I
think I can speak for the whole committee in what I say that we're concerned and apprehensive about tomorrow." Ziegelmeyer said.
A sample poll of 50 voters taken Wednesday afternoon at the Union, Strong Hall and Summerfield Hall revealed that all of them would vote for Trump, none were changing their votes this time.
John Whittey, Prairie Village sophomore and a poll worker at the voting table at Kappa Kappa Gamma, said that the turnout there was average.
Paul Clark, Shawnee Mission junior and a member of the student elections committee.
Eighty per cent of the voters polled said they didn't think the candidates were rude.
"I'm glad about that," Ziegelmeyer said. That's the way I'd hoped it would be and I'm not going to worry.
The alternatives to the proposed move are maintaining the status quo, phasing the school out slowly and dividing several school conulations.
"I expected only half the number that voted," he said.
"We're not here to tell you what to do," Bradley said. "We have a problem and we need your help."
"Why close the best school in town?" asked Mrs. Danny Dillon, who lives in the Wooddawn school area but transfers her children to Grant.
Those attending the meetings were unanimously against the proposed changes.
Kathy Hagan, RT. 4, started a committee at Grant to oppose the change. The five-member committee has hired a lawyer, Ed Collipper, 3503 West 5th tern. Members of the committee have been the Heck kr. R: 3; Ruth Hughes, RT. 3; Don Palmer, RT. 4; and Roger Pine, RT. 4
"Realty that we're sure of is that this is a quality school," I said Stewart Newell, RI. 3, R.
"You'll have a hard time convincing this community that these are overriding considerations," said Arthur Shaw, Rt. 3. "This is a community affair that makes your words of doing it for the kids sound pious and empty."
"The school district and schools mean
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New Peace Talks Will Begin Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and North Vietnam have agreed to begin new direct negotiations in Paris Friday on ending Vietnam cease-fire agreement
Initial sessions will be held between William Sullivan, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and Nguyen Co Thach, a representative for foreign affairs in the Hanoi government.
Barring unforeseen developments, the sessions will be followed in mid-May with talks between Henry Kissinger, the national adviser to President Nixon, and North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho.
The Sullivan-Thach meetings were announced simultaneously Wednesday morning at the White House and the North Vietnamese Embassy in Paris.
Later, Charles Bray, a State Department spokesman, said the diplomatic move was initiated by the United States "as part of an effort to prevent a whole back into an effective force."
In a formal two weeks ago, North Vietnam accused the United States and South Vietnam of grave violations of the Jan. 27 agreement, including military thrusts at areas in the South under Viet Cong control.
The United States responded last weekend with a note charging Hanoi and its "agents" with several aircrease breeches, and 30,000 troops in the Philippines and 300,000 troops in South Vietnam.
Elsewhere in Indochina, the United States has accused Hanoi of illegally supporting insurgents against the governments of Cambodia and Laos, while North Vietnam has criticized U.S. bombing operations in the two countries.
Ronald Ziegler, White House press secretary, said the purpose of the Sultan Thach talks was "to prepare a review of the implementation of the Paris agreement and of appropriate measures to bring about the strict implementation of the agreement."
U. S. officials said that if Hanoi showed that it intended to observe all provisions of the agreement, the Navy would resume operations there and would nonsense waters and delegate Maurice Williams would be sent back to Paris to continue discussions with North Vietnam on the economic reconstruction of the country. Both minesweeping and reconstruction aid missions are being conducted.
In Paris, South Vietnam dimmed as Saigon and the Viet Cong presented
radically different proposals at the eighth session of their deadlocked talks.
Each side quickly rejected the key provisions of the other side's plan and acknowledged failure to meet the Friday deadline. The Senate also failed for settlement of the political stalemate.
For the first time since the talks opened
March 19, the two sides failed to set a date for
the meeting.
Representing the two sides are Saigon's deputy premier, Nguyen Lun Vien, and Minister of State Nguyen Van Hieu of the Viet Cong.
Throughout the first seven sessions of their political talks, Hieu and Vien remained deadlocked on their agenda. At Wednesday's eighth session, they by-passed the agenda dispute and simultaneously voted for South Vietnam's political future.
The 10-point plan presented by Vien and in the six-point plan presented by Hieu in answer to the question posed in Section 5.2.
position, although there were changes of emphasis in the two plans, indicating
The Saigon plan for the first time dropped the insistence that future elections must be held within the framework of the existing constitution. South Vietnamese spokesman Nguyen Trieu Dhan said the elections would take place on November 1, to change the constitution as it desired.
The Viet Cong plan for the first time unleashed that the Communist side might be willing to use force against Vietnam forces from South Vietnam—but only after all Communist conditions have been met and elections have been held since the successes of a national council of reconciliation.
Record River Crest Expected Saturday
But the Saigon plan maintained that North Vietnamese forces must withdraw before elections could be held. It proposed a precise timetable for a political settlement, but May 27 of democratic freedoms restricted "because of the state of war."1
By the Associated Press
Torrential spring rains have swollen the mighty Mississippi River to some of its highest levels in recorded history and have caused a number of soggy farmland and flooded homes.
Thousands of families from just below the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico have been forced to flee their homes, millions of acres of rich farmland are fit for nothing more than rice paddies and damage estimates grow by the millions of dollars each day.
The National Weather Service said the highest crest in some 200 years of record-keeping at St. Louis, 43.5 feet or, 13.5 feet during stage—was expected sometime Saturday.
The record crest had been predicted for Thursday, but a spokesman said breaks in upriver levees drained off some of the rushing water and delayed the crest.
Illinois Gov. Daniel Walker Wednesday estimated damage to his state at $50 million, and officials set a similar figure for the damage in Missouri.
City Plan to be Revised To Include Growth, Clinton
Kansan Staff Writer
By C. C. CALDWELL
"What I'm going to say is not final," McLanathan said in prefacing his remarks regarding the necessity, costs and funding of the planning.
The often-criticized Lawrence Comprehensive Plan of 1964 will be updated, and Douglas County will have a plan of its own. He will go to city-county planner Dick McLanathan.
He said that a "mini-plan" for Clinton was already under way and should be completed soon but that the Lawrence plan was still lacking in two principal areas.
Melanathan said that the new planning studies were made necessary by construction and side effects of Clinton Lake. He also noted that the existing Lawrence Comprehensive Plan.
McLanathan discussed the plans at the end of the regular monthly Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting Wednesday night.
The Lawrence plan failed to provide adequate planning projections for the student population; it was limited to two courses, one in presence, according to McLanathan.
The city's comprehensive plan also failed to provide adequately for the expansion of its infrastructure.
He said that the basic problem was one of unanticipated overall growth, which has already pushed Lawrence to boundaries projected for 1984.
McLanahan cited another unanticipated growth area in the outlying county, excluding Wheeling.
On the other end of the river system, Mississippi River Commission officials estimated damage to Louisiana and Mississippi to be over $100 million.
The current flood situation is the second onslaught of the Mississippi and its tributaries this spring, and officials say only the elaborate system of levees has helped to prevent from producing even greater disasters in property damage and loss of human life.
The vast灾场 of 1927 killed 214 persons. In eight east partors have died in the attack.
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The Mississippi River begins modestly enough in northern Minnesota and, as it joins its tributaries, force a massive valley flood from 31 states and cuts the country in half.
The normal volume of water flowing past St. Louis is an impressive 20,000 cubic feet a second, and the rate has risen to a phenomenal 1.1 million cubic feet a second. It will take weeks for the crest to ride down the Mississippi and weeks more for the drain off and allow life to return to normal hundreds of communities along the river.
A picture of conditions along the river, from north to south. is:
The American Red Cross said Wednesday that an estimated 10,000 families in 25 counties along the Mississippi and Missouri coast were "seriously affected" by the floods.
The high waters begin as far north as Rock Island, III. At Quince, III. Civil Defense officials predicted a Thursday crest of 29.5 feet, more than 12 feet above flood level. But a spokesman said the area was uncontrollable and guarding the area was expected to hold.
Illinois agriculture officials estimated about 600,000 acres of the state was under water and about half of it was "good crop land."
"It is impossible to make a crop loss estimate now," a spokesman said, "but the cost would be enormous."
He said June plantings were normal for corn and soybeans. More than 500 Illinois National Guardmts were mobilized to help guard operations and to guard against looting.
Preservation of Tallgrass Part of Park Controversy
By BILL CAMPBELL
Kansan Staff Writer
The controversy over the creation of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas centers on whether the National Park Service or the private land owners are most capable of preserving the area in its natural state.
A bill has been proposed in Congress to create a Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas. Tallgrass is considered an endangered park will attempt to preserve the species.
The proposed park would cover a triangular area not to exceed 60,000 acres situated south of Emporia, east of the Kansas turnpike and west of K-98. The tract would include portions of Chase, Lyons, Butler and Greenwood counties.
Marilyn Gross, 2436 Redbuck Lane, who was raised in the Flint Hills, said she thought the area cattlemen were most capable of caring for the land.
Charles Stough, Lawrence attorney and head of Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc., an organization that favors the establishment of a national park, said that he thought the cattleman had done a good job managing the land before now but they could give no assurances that the area would stay in its present state.
"The people who own the land know how to care for it," Gross said. "It's been preserved up until now. I think this is a good indication in the cattlemen's favor."
E. Raymond Hall, professor emeritus of systematics and ecology, and a member of Gov. Robert Docking's Park Advisory Committee said he didn't think the cattlemen were doing an adequate job of protecting the area.
often over-grazed by cattlemen who did not understand the characteristics of the herd.
Grasses fare better when they are not grazed to ground level, he said. Where some leaf blades are to late to mature, the root system store more food for the next year's growth.
Gross outlined five points in her objection to the proposed park. She said that the land was currently being used productively to raise cattle and that Kansas beef production would suffer if the area were made into a national park.
big blue bstemgrass, which grows three to eight feet tall, and the Indian grass, which grows six to eight feet tall.
Another objection was that a reduction in revenue due to the loss of property taxes on the land would create hardships for the area school districts.
Gross further stated that grazing cattle did not endanger the existence of the tallgrass. She also said she didn't think the park would be much of a tourist attraction.
In addition, Gross said she thought the idea of a park in the area was contradictory, as it would require the cluttering up of a natural area with park facilities.
"People in the area are up in arms about the idea of making a park to preserve what is already being preserved," Gross said. "The idea of roads being built to make fire breaks for a fire hazard caused by the existence of a park doesn't make sense."
In addition, there are over 1,490,000 acres of diverted feed-grain land the government is paying farmers not to use that could be used for the loss of grazing land in the park, he said.
The maximum area of 60,000 acres that would be required for the park comprises only one-third of one per cent of Kansas grazing land. Hall said.
In reply to the objection to loss of property tax revenues, Stough said that a study proposed by the Treasury found
While grazing cattle doesn't endanger the grasses, the park is designed to do more than merely preserve the tailgrass, Stough said.
"This will be a natural area," he said, "in the sense that all the natural wildlife that occupies the area will be reintroduced to make it as nearly as is humanly possible as it was when the Spanish explorers first visited it."
Pottawatomi county, Kan., in 1982, showed that property tax losses would be offset by the addition of tourist facilities which would increase the tax base.
Stouph said, however, that the park would have a "temporary impact that would probably require school districts and county governments to increase their tax levies."
Hall said that close grazing by livestock had reduced the population of many native species of birds and mammals. The prairie grassland is a very poor example, he said. They have virtually
disappeared from areas that have been closely grazed year after year.
Visitors would be permitted to enter the national park, Stough said. He said that there was an "infite number" of visitors and others who would visit the area.
Stough added that while there would probably be seasons unfavorable to visitors, all natural preserves experienced slow seasons.
In reference to Gross's objection that a park would civilize a natural area, Stough said that every natural park did bring civilization to a natural area to a certain extent. However, he said the civilizing factors would be kept at a minimum.
He said that no large buildings would be permitted in the park area. The number of roads constructed would be as few as six, and the buildings would be virtually one-way "park roadways."