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83rd Year, No. 115
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, March 29, 1973
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Handicapped Funding Bid Said Futile
by JIM FREEMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Attempts by the University Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped to gain federal assistance were termed "sickeningly futile and frustrating" by Williams, chairman of the committee and education assistant in geology. Tuesday night.
"The pipeline of federal funds is channelled through the vocational rehabilitation branch of the Department of Social Welfare in Topeka," said Williams. "After visiting with officials in the vocational rehabilitation department, we are very disheartened. We didn't even get our foot in the door."
The committee has been applying for state and federal funds to make the improvements that their survey will recommend.
According to Williams, officials in the Department of Social Welfare said that correcting architectural barriers to the building at University of Kansas was KU's problem.
"The people who control the funds seem willing to give funds for tuition but are not willing to fund projects that would give students access to the school of their choice in Kansas. Emporia State has fine facilities for the handicapped, but if you want to be a pharmacist you can't go to Emporia," said Williams.
On an optimistic note, Williams said that the committee had received tremendous enthusiasm from various city businesses and the city commission.
State legislative appropriations and direct contact with federal representatives will continue to be pursued according to Williams.
Chuck Fisher, city commissioner, said that an ordinance was expected to be passed that would remove all architectural barriers from all future sidewalks.
Kensen Photo by HARBARA KELLY
Reaching
Cheryl Groesser, assistant instructor in English places a call from the phone
outside the Forum Room of the Union which has been lowered to make dialing easier for handicapped persons. Lowering the phone was one of the ways recently implemented to aid the handicapped on campus.
United States Ends Vietnam Intervention
SAIGON (AP)—The U.S. Command officially ends more than a decade of military intervention in Vietnam today, folding its colors and sending its last 2,500 men homeward or to other bases in Southeast Asia.
Sixty-seven prisoners of war, the last regular group of U.S. war prisoners, will be leaving Hanoi jails today for Clark Air Base in Philinones.
They will lift 81 others at Clark Air Base for the trip home this weekend.
One more U.S. prisoner, identified only as Wheme, from Virginia and captive since 1969, will be released, the Viet Cong announced Wednesday.
He will be the 588th American war prisoner turned over by the North Vietnamese, Vie Cong and Pathet Lao since the Vietnam War began leading to Communist count, he is the
The United States failed in eleventh-hour secret negotiations with Hanoi to keep alive the war effort.
BSU Appeals Verdict In Discrimination Suit
BY GEORGE STEWART Konson Staff Writer
The suit, filed on Feb. 14, charged that the Student Senate had violated the BSU's 14th Amendment rights by revoking $3,000 of the university's indefinitely another $2,250 of the allegation.
Counsel for the Black Student Union (BSU) filed Wednesday a petition of appeal and a brief in the BSU's discrimination suit against the Student Senate. The appeal and brief were filed in the Appellate Division of the University Judiciary.
Named in the suit were Roger Martin, senate treasurer and Lawrence third-year law student, David Dillon, Hutchinson senior, and Kathy Allen, Topeka junior. Dillon and Allen were student body vice-president when the suit was filed.
Robert Casad, professor of law and chairman of the Appellate Division of the University Judiciary, said a meeting with representatives of both groups would be necessary to determine what action would be taken on the appeal.
The University Judiciary dismissed March 9 all charges against the senate and stated that the senate had acted within its rights when it knocked and froze the funds.
Casad said that it had to be determined whether counsel for the Student Senate would file a brief in the case. If a brief is filed for the senate, a schedule for the meeting is established and a decision will be made or not the hearings are to be public.
The meeting between Casad and representatives is the two parties is scheduled today.
If no brief is submitted by counsel for the
state, the Applicant Division will rule
on a motion to dismiss.
Senate counsel Frederick Stewart, Lawrence third-year law student, said a brief would be filed for the senate. He also would seek a public hearing on the appeal.
Gary Jackson, Lawrence third-year law student and one of three representatives for the BSU, said the BSU was seeking a reversal of the dismissal ruling made by the Hearing Division of the University Judiciary.
and prolong the American military presence, the North Vietnamese reported.
U. S. sources said Washington had promised to press for an extension of the commission in return for a guarantee that Canada would remain as a member of the International Commission of Control and Supervision.
Only hours before the negotiations collapsed, Canada announced a decision to stay on the supervisory commission for an additional 60 days and urged "greater cooperation" among the four member countries, Indonesia, Hungary, Poland and Canada.
The Canadians had coupled their willingness to serve on the peacockkeeping force with a proviso that they would back them, the cease-fire proved impossible to enforce.
Jackson said that the BSU brief contended that Jess McNish, adjunct professor of business and chairman of the University Judiciary, made certain errors in granting the Senate's motion for dismissal of the suit. The BSU content it has property rights over the funds that were withdrawn by the senate.
The last American troops were leaving Vietnam virtually around the-clock. Planes took off from Saigon's Tan Nui Nhat Air Base from midnight on. The last flight was scheduled to leave by dusk today, ending the role of the U.S. Command that once had half a million American soldiers under its orders.
Some troops simply transferred to U.S. bases in Thailand, where the United States will continue to maintain a strong air arm to South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese.
The Pentagon lists 48,000 American troops in Thailand and 20,000 on Guam. The United States has 600 bombers and fighter-bombers at bases in Thailand and Guam. Another 30,000 American servicemen are board 7th Ferry ships off Vietnam.
At its peak in April 1969, American troop strength in Vietnam grew to 434,003 men. In June 1969, President Nixon began phased withdrawals, gradually turned the war over to the South Vietnamese and called it Vietnamization.
KU Funds Safe in Topeka Logjam
By the time Americans stopped par-
cipating in the fighting, nearly 46,600 had died.
By ERIC METER
Kansan Staff Writer
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University and legislative officials have expressed differing views about how the controversy over the corporate income tax should be handled, affect funding for the University of Kansas.
Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Prairie Village and president of the Kansas Senate, said Wednesday that legislative approval of university appropriations "couldn't be safer."
The 825-man North Vietnamnese and U.S. delegations to the four-party Joint Military Commission are to pull out Friday and Saturday.
However, Gov. Robert Docking has said he would not sign any appropriations bills unless the legislature passes the disallowance bill.
Bennett interpreted Docking's statement to include only appropriations for special programs, such as state welfare, homestead tax relief and school finance. He said no regular appropriations would be affected.
"Higher education has never been a part of our negotiations and discussions with the governor," he said. "It would be very difficult for the governor to veto his own higher education budget. I cannot forsee him taking this posture."
Ways and Means Committee until information about available revenue was received.
If the BSU appeal is granted by the Appellate Division, the case will return to the BSU.
"The bill (KU's appropriations) will come before the senate as soon as it comes out of committee, sometime in the first part of next week," he said. "The reason it has committed to take some committees almost all of the session to study such extensive requests."
Bennett squelched reports that the KU budget was being held in the Kansas Senate
Under terms of the agreement, the 60-day life of the commission expired at midnight Wednesday, but it was extended another day to close out its business. It now becomes a two-party Joint Military Commission made up of the two opposing South Vietnamese parties, the zsaigon government and the Viet Cong.
Bennett said the Kansas Senate would not consider Docking's proposed disallowance bill until after the governor acts on bills to provide relief for the state, a million in broad-based property tax relief.
If only a few of the Republican-dominated legislature's programs are approved, Bennett said, the senate would consider passing a milder corporate tax increase bill that was released Wednesday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
"Only after we see which of the programs he approves will we act on this tax increase," Bennett said. "Even if the programs are all approved, the tax will not be a fiscal necessity. We'll just approve it as an accommodation to him."
The milder tax would increase the surcharge on corporate income taxes to raise more revenue.
Bennett said Senate Republicans have been reluctant to approve the disallowance bill because it allegedly would retard development and is not needed fiscally.
would forbid corporations from deducting federal income tax payments from gross income when figuring state income taxes, would yield $25 million.
Bennett said Docking would engage in a "useless gesture" if he vetoed the appropriations bill, when called a special minister. He also required allocations or to provide additional revenue.
He said the milder surcharge bill represents the more expensive thought we might have fair or better prices.
"This would be a grave mistake on his
Bennett not and "and I am absolutely
certain
John Conard, director of University Relations and former speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, was not as optimistic as Bennett.
A small team of 14 U.S. experts also will remain behind to search for the more than 1,000 Americans still listed as missing in North and South Vietnam.
Conard said Tuesday that failure of the Senate Senate to pass the bill disallowed bill votes.
FBI Says U.S. Crime Declined 3% in 1972
The figures, released by the FBI's acting director, L. Patrick Gray III, were reported in the preliminary year-end statistics in the bureau. The report is a collection of statistics supplied voluntarily by local, county and state law enforcement agencies.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Serious crime in the United States declined 3 per cent in 1972, the first such decrease in 17 years, the FBIUniform Crime Reports issued Wednesday.
"This is a day that we have been looking forward to for many years," said Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst. "It is an important milestone in the fight to reduce crime and is directly attributable to the strong efforts of law enforcement officers throughout the nation to turn back the wave of crime that rolled up in the 1960s."
However, the report said, suburban area crime increased 2 per cent and forcible rape
Ninety-four major cities reported decreases in the number of serious crimes in 1972 compared with 53 cities in 1971, 22 cities in 1970 and 17 cities in 1969.
Property crime decreased 3 per cent compared with a 6 per cent increase in 1971. Auto theft declined 7 per cent, larceny 54 per cent, and burglary was down 2 per cent.
Nationally, he said, reports of serious crime declined 8 per cent in the final quarter of the year, after registering a 1 per cent decline throughout the first nine months of 1972.
Cities over 100,000 population reported an average decrease of 7 per cent in the volume of crime index offenses. Crime in suburban areas increased 2 per cent compared with an 11 per cent increase in 1971.
Conard said that if the bill was approved, KS appropriations would receive swift swiftness.
Docking probably would not use the item cow, Conard said, because most line items are so large and represent such vast programs that they could not be completely docked. Cow would not allow Docking to decrease attachments, only to completely delete them.
The report said violent crime in 1972 increased by 1 per cent compared with a 9 per cent increase.
Crime in rural areas went up 4 per cent compared with 6 per cent increase in the urban area.
Another alternative, Conard said, would be for the governor to allow the appropriations to become law and then use them to oversee legislative legislation's alleged fiscal irresponsibility.
Conard said Docking could veto the appropriations outright, as he has threatened, or could use his line-item veto power to delete individual programs.
"The reason the governor wants the (disallowance) bill," Conard said, "is that without it there would be a 'financial problem in fiscal year 1975, two years from now. Everyone agrees on this point. The governor is considering your year before dealing with that problem."
"On the other hand," he said, "if the bill is not approved it would present somewhat of a challenge."
A fourth alternative would be for the legislature to voluntarily reduce all funding, he said.
"Traditionally, the largest appropriations, such as welfare and the higher education budget, are held back to the end of the year," the report says. "Better bets see what the funding situation is."
"There is no prejudice against these
budgets. It's only that they are the largest and, because of that, the easiest to cut back
However, Conard said that he thought the leadership of the legislature was making every effort to pass the disallowance bill and to appease Docking. He said the bill's chances were a toss up, with a slight preference toward passage because "it may be politically essential if this session is ever to adjourn."
Ecologists and Developers Clash
By C. C. CALDWELL Kansan Staff Writer
Environmentalists, businessmen and city-county planners packed into a 8½-hour confrontation Wednesday night over a quarry and an 80-percent reening request.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission was caught between the two other elements, facing numerous examples of what Commission Chairman Barkey Clark termed in one case a "classic dilemma": the conflicting interests of land protection and the right of land owners to decide on the use of their property.
K-Mart representatives were on hand in strength to argue for a request for commercial rezoning of an 80-acre residential area in the south of the city. K-Mart's proposed site would cover 11.41 acres within the area.
The head of the S.S. Kresge Company's delegation cited the Lawrence as K-Mart's "home city" in the Midwest and stressed that he would make its proposed store a "showroom."
The environmentalists, speaking through a letter submitted by the Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council's staff, insisted that a denial be mended denial of the rezoning request.
The K-Mart representatives presented and explained a traffic analysis study for their proposed store within the large area, located in the intersection of 31st and lown streets.
Ruppert's letter said that neighborhood planning should precede piecemeal rezoning, that the need for additional development must be clearly demonstrated, that the impact on other shopping areas (including the downtown area) should be studied and that a comprehensive plan for the area should precede rezoning so that the possibility of a new development is taken.
K-Mart said that its selection of this site was based on the needs uniquely satisfied by the site in question: size, location, depth of the site and traffic access.
Clark said that the planners were especially concerned because of the size of the buildings.
The commissioners concentrated particularly upon questions of traffic access posed by K-Mart's plans and the company's commissioned traffic study.
commission's approach to the issues by saying that it wasn't possible to separate site planning and traffic considerations from rezoning requests.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon pulled the government's fragmented drug enforcement efforts together Wednesday into a new federal agency.
Nixon Forms One Agency For Antidrug Enforcement
He told Congress he was creating the Drug Enforcement Administration within the Justice Department because "the federal government is fighting the war on drug abuse under a distinct handicap, for its efforts are those of a losely confederated alliance facing a resourceful, elusive, worldwide enemy."
In his message to Congress, Nixon said his administration's anti-drug law enforcement programs had made a good beginning.
Nixon's reorganization plan would go into effect on July 1 unless uveted by Congress. Administration officials said they didn't want the president to control Hill objections to the President's move.
"The enforcement work could benefit significantly . . . from consolidation of our anti-drug forces under a single unified command," he said.
The Nixon plan would abolish the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, transferring its duties to the new Drug Enforcement Administration. The new agency also would take over all duties of the Office Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, the Office of National Drug Intelligence and the Customs Bureau's drug investigations functions.
The White House said Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst, with Nikon's approval, has designated Myles Ambrose as acting director of the new agency. Ambrose now is a special assistant attorney general and Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement.
The commission, headed by former Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond Shafer, recently recommended that all of the activities be placed under one agency.
Applications Due For Committees
The deadline for submitting applications for Student Senate committee membership is 5 p.m. today. Contact the senate office at application forms in the senate office.
Thirty students had applied for membership on the six senate standing committees and subcommittees by 3 p.m. Wednesday.
All students are eligible for membership on these committees. Selection will be based on the written application and on a personal interview with the Senate Committee Board.
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