THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
New Jail Designs Being Sought For City-County
Thursday, April 12, 1973
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Israeli Allies Are Hunted By Guerrillas
BEIRAT (AP)—Palestinian guerrillas launched a manhunt Wednesday for foreigners said to be involved in Israel's commando raid here as anti-American and antigovernment demonstrations swept Lebanon.
Reliable informants and the Palestinian command had captured one Frenchman and was searching for an American. Earlier, Yasir Arafat, chief of a Palestinian group, Al Fatah, accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of helping the Israeli commands.
The United States has denied this accusation.
The Lebanese government said six rental cars used by the Israeli landing party in Syria had been stolen from holders of British, German and Belgian passports. It said they had not left the country through airlines or border posts "so it is presumed they left with the Israeli forces."
He did not elaborate on the alleged evidence.
But Arafat announced, "There is evidence that some elements are still in Beirut. They did not leave with the attackers behind, probably to plan other attacks."
Witnesses at a Beirut apartment complex, where three Fatah leaders were slain by the police, said they were seeing a blonde woman giving orders to the commandos. Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar denied the presence of a woman in the room and said nothing about accommodation foreign accusers.
Demonstrations erupted in the capital and two other Lebanese cities. Beirut police fired machine guns over the heads of Arab men during protests over a main shopping and sidewalk cafe center.
Kanson Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR.
Victims
Robert Malmischow, assistant director of libraries and KU chairman of the cancer center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Kanan Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR
displays buttons being sold as part of a
mationwide fund-raising project. The
buttons can be purchased for 50
cents in Mallinsky's office at Watson
Library. See story on page 3.
Farmer Investment High
3y JERRY TOTTEN Kansan Staff Writer
Bruce Berns decided in 1797 not to return to school at the University of Kansas. He bought 930 acres of farmland northwest of Lawrence for $300,000 on a long-term contract and went into the cattle-raising business.
Berns, 26, by now has invested more than $400,000 in his farming operation. His gross receipts in 1971 were $70,900. His expenses totaled $65,923, leaving him a net profit of $5,058 for a return of approximately 1/4 per cent.
According to the Kansas Livestock Association, the average return on a farm is 1.5%.
"When you compare farms to urban businesses, income isn't on a par with investment," Berns says. "Maybe it's dumb to invest so much money in a business that's so poor, but I happen to like it. A farm is expensive and it has value; have a gut feeling for the land to stay in."
Last year was one of the best years ever for farmers. The nation's 9.5 million farm population had a record total net income of $12.2 billion, at 18 per cent increase over the year before. For a while, the farmer never had it so good.
But rising food prices spurred consumer protests, such as the recent meat boycott. The farmer has been singled out as the first to suffer from the rising prices, and he doesn't like it.
"the boy cott doesn't bother me," Berns says. "That's the logical course of action. If you think the price of something is too high, then don't buy it.
"What I don't like is Nixon's price ceiling on meat products. He has buttered the
incentive in the meat business, and when there is a short supply of something, there is an incentive to buy it.
Although Nixon's price ceiling was not imposed at the level of the farmer, any decrease in retail prices will be passed down the line to the farmers. Berns says.
"At the beginning is the operator who raises cows and calves. When the calves weigh about 400 pounds, he sells them to a backgrounder, who grows the calves another 300 to 400 pounds. Then the calf is sold to a breeder who finishes the animal by adding a juicy meat grain concentrate which sweets the meat and gives it quality."
Berris said the feeder put about 400 pounds on the animal, then it went to the packer, who cut away 40 per cent of the animals. The packer then goes to another wholesaler, which sends it to the supermarket, he says. Between every step in the process, Berris said, there are auction commissions and trucking fees to be paid. But the lower price is to eliminate some step.
"I know the rise in food prices has hurt some people," he said, "but the American people are fed better and cheaper than anyone else in the world."
According to statistics published in the Kansas Stockman, the official publication of the Kansas Livestock Association, the average American family spends 16 per
cent of its disposable income for food, the lowest percentage for any industrial nation in the world. Canadians spend 20 per cent, Germans 23 per cent, Japanese 33 per cent and Eastern Europeans (in Communist nations) 36 to 44 per cent.
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Haig Back Today, May Urge Attacks
WASHINGTON (AP)—An attack on Communist-held areas of Cambodia by South Vietnamese forces is one of the alternatives. Gen. Alexander Hag is expected to offer for presidential consideration when he returns from Indochina today.
Administration sources say such use of South Vietnamese units is not necessarily what Haig, Army deputy chief of staff, recommend. But they say it is certainly a possibility if President Nixon decides some strong, dramatic action is necessary.
In Saigon, Cambodia's president, Lon Noi, was reported by South Vietnamese sources Wednesday to have asked Hag for the help of South Vietnamese troops and warplanes in defending the capital of Phnom Penh.
President Nixon's special emissary Haig, flew back to Phnom Penh for a second visit Wednesday night after a meeting in Saigon with Premier Tran Thien Khiem.
Hag, the former chief deputy to national security adviser Henry Kissinger, has been on a fact-finding trip to Indonesia to assess the cease-fire and the situation in Cambodia.
Haig's four-nation tour also has taken him to Thailand and Laos for what is described as an assessment of the military, political and economic situation in Indochina following the Jan. 27 Paris peace agreement.
The White House Wednesday said no time has been set for a Haiti-Nixon meeting, but officials said it would be soon. However, the meeting was not necessary be during a National Security Council meeting set for Thursday morning at the presidential mountain retreat at Camping World.
A final decision on any plea for help in Cambodia is not likely before the return to Saigon of President Nguyen Van Thieu from his visit to the United States and five European and Asian nations. He is expected to return Saturday.
But Thieu already has given ample indication that he will not stand idly by while Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge in North Vietnam and Viet Cong allies.
Then noted by the terms of the Paris peace agreement North Vietnamese and Cambodian forces have to end.
Housing Committee Plans KU Rental Guide
By DWIGHT DEAY
Kansan Staff Writer
Rich Lauter, Evanston, III., junior and temporary chairman of the committee, said that a fairly comprehensive booklet should be available within several weeks.
The 10-page apartment guide was originally a project of the Consumer Protection Association, which later appa-
tured with the Committee for assistance, Lauter said.
The guide will provide such facts as apartment location, size, number of rooms
The Student Senate Housing Committee Wednesday night discussed plans for a KU apartment guide and a suitable model lease for all off-campus housing.
The unpleasantness sometimes associated with selecting an apartment and the uncertainty of what type of contract a student has to pay for school at the University of Kansas students in the future.
unconditionally from Cambodia. But they still have an estimated 23,000 troops in the country, both assisting the home-grown Khmer Rouge and helping their own base areas and supply routes.
There have been reports that President Nixon is considering some strong action to back up his previous warnings that he will not tolerate continued North Vietnamese attacks and Vietnam cease-fire and understandings reached with Hanoi concerning Cambodia.
Before the subcommittee can begin its study, Chancellor Nichols must approve a bill authorizing the study that was passed in February 1972 and again in March this year.
The Commutist strategy is believed by American officials to be one of protecting the North Vietnamese logistical system on the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border (the Red Sea) and against the Phnom Penh to force the collapse of the American-supported Lon Nol government.
American concern over the North Vietnamese infiltration rate was underlined by concerns that it might have been a result of
The Housing Committee also discussed a special joint subcommittee from the Housing Committee and the Student Rights and Privileges Committee that would study the Code of Student Rights, Responsibility, Conduct in reference to University housing.
In the weeks since the signing of the Jan. 27 cease-fire, Pentagon spokesman Jerry Friedheim said, the northern provinces of South Vietnam have become a military, if not a political, extension of the Hanoi government.
Lauter said the basis for the guide was a research project conducted by a marketing agency.
Freibaidm declined to speculate on whether the North Vietnamese plan to use their newly infiltrated forces in actual attack on Saigon would win a political contest with the Saigon government.
The bill will be presented to Nichols today. If the chancellor approves the bill, the governing councils of each residence will vote to approve it over the residents' student activity fee.
U. S. sources say they doubt the possibility of a large-scale battle for the city because, they explain, the Cambodian Communists do not have the capacity for such a major effort, neither do they want the headache of trying to occupy and administer a capital.
Senate Hearings End; F&A To Plan Budget
Hanou's strength in the South is back to the level of the 1972 period before the invasion of Iraq.
In a fresh appraisal of North Vietnamese capabilities, Friedheim said that since the cease-fire, the North Vietnamese have sent about 30,000 troops into South Vietnam or those who have thus joined their strength in South Vietnam to between 140,000 and 170,000 men, he said.
By DWIGHT DEAY
Kansan Staff Writer
Most of the troops and new weaponry are in the crucial Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces near the demilitarized zone and areas northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, Friedheim said. Those are the areas from which previous big attacks by the North Vietnamese have come in previous years.
No less than $1 a student would be allotted from student house payments under the bill.
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee completed its hearings Wednesday night and is now faced with the task of selecting the members of requests into a budget of about $170,000.
Work on the budget will begin tonight and should be completed by Monday, according to Rick McKernan, Salma junior and chairman of the committee. Finance and Auditing will present the budget to the senate next Wednesday night.
The last and largest funding request of the night was made by Mert Buckley, Wichita junior and student body president, on behalf of the Student Senate.
"We hope to make the book a more representative study of all types of housing," Carter said. "The new book will include studies on low rent housing, local houses and some type of apartment rating systems that are currently readily to middle and upper class housing."
The guide is only a temporary version of a far more detailed book the committee expects to produce by next fall, Lauer said. A subcommittee was established Wednesday night to begin research immediately on the proposed book.
Geraniums have been purchased for commencement exercises this year. Bitch
Bilch said that small budding plants such as tulips were at one time maintained in a greenhouse next to the Building and Grounds complex, but that it was torn down to provide space for the large cooling tower behind Flint Hall.
The cold weather may also delay turning on the water in the fountains. Bitch said,
The second aid to KU students discussed at the meeting concerned the efforts of the Consumer Protection Association to reach out to employees at Lawrence Apartment Owners Association.
He said that iris and peonies had been planted on the terraces on campus but were not grown there.
Freezes, Lack of Funds Cut Back Spring Color
Building and Grounds has submitted a modest request for funds to the state to buy small budding plants from local growers, but Biltch said they had received no reply. He said it had cost about $400 to plant the flowers each year.
The late freezes have already taken their toll on the flowering crab trees and magnolias. Blitch said the redbud and pear trees would probably withstand the cold weather because their blooms were not out very far.
The University of Kansas campus may not be as colorful this spring, according to Harold Blitch, supervisor of grounds and landscaping.
Biltch expressed concern for the plants now in bloom. He said that any plant already in bloom would probably lose its photosynthesis and make weather Lawrence has experienced.
Bilch said recently that late freezes and lack of funds for buying and maintaining the flowers on the campus would alter the normal planting procedures this year.
Buckley left to the committee the option of whether the Emporium Bookstore, the Curriculum and Instruction Survey and the Curriculum should be independent of the genius.
The senate's request of $38,787 contained two line item reductions from last year.
"Since I am in favor of reducing the salaries of all organizations funded by the senate, I thought it appropriate that the Senate Senate set the example," Buckley said.
Buckley said that next year's election committee would employ a large ballot that would alleviate the long and expensive computer process.
Supportive Educational Services (SES) requested $15,300 aid to its program, which provides guidance, tutoring and instructional programs to urban scholars.
Once an agreement is reached between the Consumer Protection Association and Jack Brand, legal counsel for the owners association, the lease will be presented to the Student Senate for ratification. Lauer said.
said. They will be planted in the flower bed
Hoch Audium later after the ceremony.
Lauter said the of agreement was to provide KU the student in a lease that was not required.
The $3,290 requested for student body elections represents a significant reduction because of the abandonment of the computer system for next year's election.
The other notable reduction was in salaries of Student Senate personnel.
Bitch said that new tulip bulbs were planted in the bed every fall, but the lack of flowers was a concern.
Bill Russell, Omaha senior, and Bill Hensley, Wichita senior, lost to Geogetown University in the semifinal rounds Wednesday to place third, according to debate coach Donn Parson, associate professor of speech and language.
In the final round Georgetown University lost to Northwestern to take second place.
Captola Taylor, acting director of SES, said her organization added a summer
program that was geared to underprivileged urban students who might not otherwise succeed academically at the University of Kansas.
Joel Goldman, Shawnee Mission mission, and Bill Webster, Carriage, Mo., sophomore, won five rounds and lost three in the preliminaries on Tuesday but did not qualify for the final eliminations, Parson said.
Parson said Russell was the third-ranked speaker and the ninth-ranked speaker in the preliminary rounds Monday and Tuesday.
The mean grade average of participating students, Taylor said, was significantly higher than that of students of urban backgrounds who did not receive aid from SES.
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A KU debate team placed third Wednesday among 62 teams competing at the 27th National Debate Tournament in Annapolis, Md. Northwestern University won the national championship.
KU Debaters Place Third
Proverbs
Milton Boothe, left, was one of over 60 representatives of Gideon International on campus Wednesday who greeted students and
Kansan Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR.
offered them free Bibles. Boehe said the organization had planned to distribute 10,000 Bibles by noon Wednesday. The project of distributing Bibles on university campuses has just recently started, with 400 per cent of the people offered Bibles accepted them. Boehe said.