THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 116
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 30, 1973
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Former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally Speaks at Chamber Banquet Connally says United States must adapt to changes in world economic balance of power.
Connally Appraises Trade
By DOYLE HUFFMAN
Kancon Staff Writer
We can't wait four years for the proposed Alaska pipeline, Texas Democrat John Connally told a cheering, largely unpaid crowd in the Kansas Union, Thursday night.
"Time is too short." he added.
To meet changes in the world economic balance of power, the United States needs to change its current trade agreements, reduce its foreign military commitments and change the antitrust laws now governing industry operating overseas, Connally said.
Connally, former secretary of the treasury and former Texas governor, said the energy crisis faced the United States was going to continue and its solution was going to require a trade-off between the need for ecology and the demand for energy.
Tracing the history of U.S. economic policy since World War II, Connally said that the United States had been the lone industrial power still on its feet after the war.
To help rebuild the war-torn world, the United States deliberately entered into a nuclear arms race.
this country at a comparative disadvantage, he said.
Although he defended the trade and aid agreements as necessary, Connally said it was time to recognize that the situation had changed.
He said 1900 was "about the turning point" at which Japan and Germany pushed back against the Allies.
The 60s was "a lost decade," Connally said, because the United States during that time never fully understood what world trade meant to it.
He said, disadvantages the United States permitted to be built into the system after completion were obvious.
He named Canada and Japan as the countries with which this country has the largest trade deficits. In the case of Japan, Connally said, agreements that the United States built into trade treaties had led to a $4.4 billion trade deficit.
trade policies that will allow this country to compete on an equal basis with the economic power blocks of China, the United States and European Common Market and Japan.
He said that the Japanese wouldn't let the United States warehouse, wholesale or retail the products U.S. industries have sent to Japan. Although the United States works through Japanese outlets, the Japanese set up in their own retail outlets here, he said.
It is now necessary to face the reality of the times. Connally said, and to develop
Discussing international economic affairs, Connally said, "Now that's a sad thing."
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Soaring Meat Prices Get Ax from Nixon
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon Thursday night clamped a ceiling on retail and wholesale prices of beef, pork and lamb-in effect freezing the near current levels in a move to soothe consumer unhappiness about saurine food costs.
He announced the major economic move in a prime-time broadcast address to the
"The ceiling will remain in effect as long as is necessary to do the job. Meat prices must not go higher. With the help of the butcher, they can and should go down," Nixon said.
Under orders Nixon gave his Cost of Living Council, meat prices, for an indefinite period, cannot exceed an index based on prices for the past 30 days.
The President's order does not apply to prices at the farm level—only to meat processors, meat wholesalers and meat retailers. By avoiding controls at the farm level, officials said, they hope to spur in production to help bring down prices.
Nixon announced his action in an address which also hailed the end of America's involvement in the long and costly Vietnam war, and for unity in the search for world peace.
Treasury Secretary George Shultz also disclosed that Nixon would seek immediate congressional action on legislation giving him authority to suspend import tariffs on products in short supply. Officials said these could include meat as well as lumber and other products undergoing rapid price increases.
He also sought public support for his budget, contending that spending increases sought by Congress would mean a 15 per cent tax hike or major price increases.
Under Nixon's orders, all retailers must,
by April 9, post ceiling-piece information at
their meat counters. The ceiling prices will be enforced by the nationwide network of Internal Revenue Service officers who worked on Nixon's Phase 1 freeze from August through November 1971.
Nixon told the nation that meat prices were the major weak spot in the fight against inflation. He said the over-all U.S. inflation rate was the lowest of any major industrial nation, but that these statistics "are no comfort at all to the housewife who sees meat prices soaring every time she goes to the market."
Actions already taken by the administration on imports and production will increase meat supplies and help bring down prices later this year, he said.
'But what we need is action that will stop
the rise in meat prices now," Nixon continued.
"That is why I have today ordered the cost of Living Council to impose a ceiling on energy bills."
While Nixon did not use the word "freeze" in his 20-minute address, his chief economic spokesman did in a news briefing immediately before the speech.
But Shultz said the preferred word was "ceiling" because the administration expected and hoped that as increased supplies became available, the prices would drop below their ceiling levels.
Shultz spoke of "the house-wife rebellion" in listing factors behind the President's move. Members of Congress and leaders of organized labor also are pressing for decisive action to curb meat prices which last month rose at the fastest rate on record.
Council Wants Change In Traffic Fine Policy
By PETE RONSSE
Kansas Staff Writer
The University Council voted Thursday to recommend to the chancellor that the graduated traffic fine system and warning tickets be eliminated.
The council further recommended an increase in University parking fees and elimination of the letter code parking system.
Under the present system, there is no fine for the first parking violation. Subsequent violations are subject to fines of $2, $4, $8 and $16 for the first four violations and $16 for any further four violations.
The council suggested that violations
should be classified by their degree of severity and fines should be adjusted accordingly. The number of violations will be determined if the recommendations are adopted.
The council endorsed a Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) report that suggested a $2.50 increase in annual fees for parking in all restricted zones. Parking in zones X and O would be increased from 15 cents to 20 cents.
A spokesman for SenEx said an increase in fees was necessary to maintain traffic security at its present level because security officers would receive mandatorv
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3rd Petition Filed Against Ridglea
By BOB MARCOTTE Kansan Staff Writer
Ridgilea Apartment owners have been charged with breach of contract in a petition filed Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society filed the petition, the third against Ridgale this week, on behalf of former University of North Carolina student, Connie Smith, 1138 New York Avenue.
Smith, a former Ridglea resident, alleged in the petition that Ridglea had not returned a $150 security deposit in accordance with a lease agreement Smith signed Aug. 17, 1972.
The petition says that the deposit was held by Ridgale as security against damages to physical premises that might have resulted from an unauthorized occupancy. According to the petition, the terms of the lease agreement were that the deposit would be refunded if there were no damages.
Smith said in the petition that she had vacated her apartment Oct. 31, 1972, after giving 30 days notice and discharging all allegations specified in the lease agreement.
ALTHOUGH THERE have been no claims for damages by Ridgley owners, and despite Smith's repeated demands, the deposit has not been returned, the petition still remains.
were Inteo Corp. of Albuquerque, n.a., allegedly under contract to operate Ridgeline at the time of Smith's residence and departure; David Kitzinger and Laverna Kitzinger, both of Albuquerque, with whom he was acquainted; and a summons has been sent to the Kit-
Final U.S. Troops Leaving Vietnam
TED LIVINGSTON, intern with Legal Aid, said an order of attachment for Ridgale has been requested from the office of the clerk of the district court. If granted, the order would freeze Ridgale under present conditions and served to Ridgale's resident manager.
The order of attachment is being sought, Livingston said, to insure that the owners will not dispose of Ridglea before a court-ordered court avoids the jurisdiction of the Kansas courts.
A summons has been sent to the Killen requesting that they answer the court order.
Should the property be disposed of and the judgment of the court be in Smith's favor, Smith would have to take the case to New York for the complaint satisfied, Livingston said.
AS THINGS now stand, Livingston said, Kansas courts have jurisdiction over the Ridgle owners since they are doing business in the state.
SAIGON (AP)—The last American combat troops pulled out of Vietnam Thursday, leaving a still-empaired nation that President Nguyen Van Thieu would continue to fight under all conditions to defend itself against communism.
If the case is dropped or the judgment is in the defendants' favor, Livingston said, the order of attachment automatically would be nullified.
ON MONDAY, the Douglas County attorney's office filed a criminal charge of assault on Mr. Ridgle and Intec Corp. The charge was based on the complaint of another former Ridgle resident who also said that his deposit had not been returned to him in accordance with law.
The U.S. troops departed after more than a decade of dogfighting which cost nearly 46,000 American lives and billions of United States as no other foreign war had come to pass.
At a 20-minute stand-down ceremony at Saigon's Tan Son Nit Air Base, departing commander Frederick Weyland claimed U.S. forces had accomplished their mission to prevent a Communist takeover by raw military force.
THE PETITION charged that the delay was "unreasonable" and therefore in violation of Article 51.
A summons in that case has been sent to Ralph Lavat, Ridley resident manager, ordering him to appear in court April 5, the county attorney's office said.
The petition asked that the court compel the defendants to pay Smith the amount of one deposit and the costs of the present legal action.
But as he spoke, North Vietnamese and Vet Cong shells, were blasting a bolt into the city.
The defendants named in the petition
Intone Corp., which was never authorized to do business in Kansas, is being summoned by the Kansas secretary of state to testify before the court that Dave Berkowitz. The secretary of
Ten Le Chan, 50 miles to the north, and the Saigon command charged 146 violations of the law.
The last GIs fled aboard a C14 transport aircraft at Tan Son Nbut under the watchful eyes of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong officers whose manner suggested they regarded the American departure as little short of a Communist victory.
SAIGON (AP)—The total Vietnam war casualties as reported by the allied commands:
Death Toll In Vietnam
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An innate U.S. colonel hurled a final epithet at his long-time enemies but the startled North Vietnamese went ahead anyway with the first mission of a souvenir gift to one of the last Jigs to leave.
American—45,043 killed in action.
300,540 wounded in action.
english instructor in action.
South Vietnamese - 166,439 killed in
Civilians—the U.S. Senate Sub-committee on Refugees estimates 415,000 wounded and 415,000 killed, 923,000 wounded from 1865 to 1972. Since the cease-fire went into action in Jan. 28, the Saigon command has reported 460 civilians killed, 1,343 wounded.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong- 937,626 killed
provisions of the Paris agreement that called for withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cambodia. Secretary Elliot Richardson said he couldn't say when U.S. bombing there would end.
The 7th Fleet was reported to have about 50 ships, including four carriers with a total of 206 strike planes within range of Vietnam. The Pentagon said there were 152 B2 bombers on Guam and more than 450 Air Force aircraft, including 50 B2 airbases in Thailand...
As he boarded the C141 bound for Yokuta Air Base, Japan, and then travis Air Force Base, Calif., Sgt. M.Abelke of Alexandra, Mim, got a gaudy strapple face mat adorned with a pagoda, hand made in North Vietnamese, and a spokesman in Saigon, Lt. Col. Buj Tin Tn.
They noted that about 48,000 American troops remain in nearby Thailand, 30,000 aboard 70 Fleet ships in Southeast Asian countries and 20,000 on the Pacific island of Guam.
Some 2,500 American troops were flown out of Saigon and the northern base of Da Nang during the day to complete the withdrawal provided for in the Paris peace agreement signed Jan. 27. Since the signing, 23,500 U.S. troops have left Vietnam.
The United States remains heavily involved in Cambodia, adjacent to Vietnam. The Department of Defense accuses the Communist side of falling down on
As the last combat troops flew home, U.S. officials made clear that the United States had been caught in a war of aggression.
Three Found Shot to Death Near Ottawa
Two Lawrence residents and one other person were found shot to death Thursday in Oakland.
The two victims from Lawrence were identified by Robert Pinet, Franklin County attorney, as Hazel L. Avery, 33, 620 Glynn C. Gary O. Longwell, 21, 1101 Michigan S.
Mrs. Avery, found kneeling on the floor in front of the car, had been shot once in the back.
The other victim was identified as Mrs. Avery's son, Steven T. Avery, 22 of Iola.
The men were found on the rear floor, one against each door. Mrs. Avery's son had been shot behind the right ear and Londfellow had been shot in the forehead.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has taken charge of the case. A pathologist's report due today was expected to provide further clues about how the death occurred.
The Franklin County Sheriff's office would make no comment on the progress of the project.
The victims had been reported missing since Tuesday evening by the Douglas County sheriff's office, Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson, said Thursday, that
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Kansas Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Two Lawrence Residents and Iola Man Found Shot To Death . . . Law enforcement officers investigate scene of deaths . . .