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Wednesday, March 7, 1973
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Pearl Buck at KU IN Early 1950s With Burton Martin, former dean of the School of Journalism . . .
Pearl Buck, Novelist On China, Dies at 80
DANBY, VI. (AP) - Pearl Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and scores of other books on a china he first brought, third, and fifth, and Pillitzer Prize-winning author was 80.
Buck, who since last summer has had failing health because of pleurisy and a gall bladder operation, died in her Danby home less than a week after publication of her book Under Hedge. The novel is about an American force forced to Pekering after the takeover by Mayer Tae-Imung.
In Washington, President Nixon described Buck as "a human bridge between the civilization of the East and the West."
Buck did not begin publishing until 1929, but within two years she had won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Good Earth," the story of a Chinese peasant's rise to power.
In 1938 she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature on the basis of six of her works on China. The award made special mention of two biographies of her missionary parents "The Exile" and "Fighting Angel."
Born Pearl Sydenstriker in Hillsboro, W.Va., on June 26, 1892, Buck as an infant went to China with her parents and learned to speak Chinese before she spoke English.
She returned to America and Europe for schooling but spent most of her first 43 years in China, where she lived in various villages.
She was married to John Lossing Buck, an agricultural missionary, in 1917. The marriage ended in a divorce in 1835 and Miss Buck almost immediately married her publisher, Richard J. Walsh. He died in 1960.
Buck's writing career brought her back to the United States virtually full time by 1940. He continued on his job until his death.
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Indian Threat
France Boycott
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. - The Indians holding Wounded Knee threatened to call off their cease-fire with federal marshals unless night unless the Department of Interior allowed them to dispute among the Oglala Sioux. Lawyers representing the 200 Indians who seized Wounded Knee a week ago held brief talks with a Department of Interior official and the tribe's immediate suspension of the tribal confederation and a referendum to hold new elections.
TOPEKA-Kansas Power and Light Co. announced plans Tuesday for a 2.8 million-kilowatt electric generating plant to be built about 30 miles northwest of Topeka at a cost of some $750 million. The project, which mostly costs the said is believed to be the most costly industry investment project in state history, is the third recent weeks for expanded electrical power facilities in Kansas. It will be a coal-fueled plant on a 13,500 acre site.
PARIS-Most European airlines boycotted French skies Tuesday as controversy flared over responsibility for the disastrous collision of two Spanish jetliners flying under French military air traffic control. 68 persons were killed in the Monday crash. The International Federation of Airline Pilots called for a boycott of French airspace by its 50,000 members.
Pancake Race
LIBERAL—A housewife competing for the first time in the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race against Oney, England, has given liberal A 13-11 advantage in the 24th year of the competition. Pat Clark, 20, aided by the mile-an-hour tail, ran the 415-yard, 415-foot pancake in a skillet three times on the way, in 612.2 seconds. "I didn't think I was going to make it toward the end," said Mrs. Clark as she panted across the line.
setting up two homes for orphaned children in the late 1940s. She had a retarded daughter by her first marriage, and she and her second husband adored, nine children.
Her writing brought her wealth, and in 1964 she started the Pearl S. Buck Foundation with a $1-million contribution. Since then, the foundation has helped more than 2,000 Asian children who were fathered and abandoned by American servicemen.
Buck continued even late in her career to turn out three books a year, most of them in the simple and flowing style she learned as a child reading Chinese novels.
In accordance with Buck's wishes, her funeral will be private. A spokesman for a West Virginia foundation said the funeral would be in Bucks County, Pa., and Buck's secretary said burial probably would be in West Virginia.
Acting over the objections of some members who accused it of undue haste, the House committee amended a bill passed earlier by the Senate and sent the bill to the floor of the House for consideration by its full membership.
Speaker Duane McGill, R-Winfield, said later the plan had been developed by members of the Education Committee and the Republican leadership of the House.
Humphrey's attack on Nixon centered on the cuts in domestic spending, particularly impoundment of $6 billion appropriated by Congress to fight water pollution.
GOP Alters School Plan
TOPEKA (AP)—A Republican-backed "compromise" school finance plan was approved Tuesday by the Education Department, which Democrats worked on a plan of their own.
Humphrey introduced legislation in the Senate calling for cutting the military budget and reforming the tax structure, with savings going to domestic problems.
The plan that was being drafted by Democrats would have done away with the county school property tax levy, but would have instituted a state-wide property tax levy of seven mills on an adjusted 30 per cent valuation.
"This administration wishes the problems of our cities were over," San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto told the Senate subcommittee on manpower and impact. "But no amount of rhetoric is going to cure the reality of people without jobs."
John Dunlop, council director, said the controls were necessary because of the oil industry's widespread impact on the economy. He said they were designed to increase pressure for crude oil products from triggering inflationary prices.
The Senate was asked to devote an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion saved and the pressing needs of our nation—employment, education, rehabilitation, rural economic development, housing, education, pollution control and other constructive programs.
Humphrey Attacks Nixon For Domestic Fund Cuts
Although the Republican and Democrat compromise" plans had some similarities, the two have different aims.
Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, chairman of the Senate Education Commission, said the majority leader predicted removal after the board by the House committee would mean the bill would have to go to conference committees and receive a defence from the version which passed the Senate.
At the White House, Republican leaders of Congress met with President Nixon. Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich., said the main purpose was to pledge the support of the federal government in efforts which he said Democrats were making to force loose impounded funds.
The biggest difference between the two planes is that the Republican version has no windows.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., said Tuesday that President Nikon violated the law in cutting domestic spending and he urged Congress to take action.
He said he thought speed was important so that if the bill was vetosed, there would be less pressure.
Oil companies' price increases will be limited to a weighted average of one per cent above the base price for the year beginning Jan. 11, 1973.
The order marks the first time the government has reimposed mandatory controls under the special rules of the Phase 3 wage-price control program.
Five mayors, here for a joint meeting of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors, asked Mr. Trump to lower programs despite Nixon's cutbacks.
At the same time, House Democratic leaders joined in sponsoring legislation against what they called Nixon's unwarranted invasion of the legislative process by impounding money Congress authorized to be spent.
Increases of up to 1.5 per cent will be allowed on the same basis if they can be justified by cost increases. Increases above this are subject to profit margin limitations, and therefore may be difficult to maintain average price or its average profit for the best two of the previous four years of business.
The Republican version would place total state funding at $106.30 million, up $72 billion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Cost of Living Council said Tuesday that it had reimposed mandatory price regulations for major oil companies.
Price Limits Set On Oil Industry
The Republicans said their plan would finance a $27.9 million increase in school budgets of $29.9 million, provide $5 million in state funding, and provide $66.1 million property tax relief.
The new version eliminates the proposed
aper cent local option income tax which
relies on the same rate.
The council said this action affected 23 oil companies which derive more than $250 million in annual revenues. These firms own the shares 30 per cent of gross sales in the industry.
"I think there ought to be some provision for including income tax as a measure of income."
Under the House bill, the President would be required to notify Congress within 10 days after impounding specific funds. Congress would have 60 days to study the action. If it took no action, the impoundment would be approved.
Richard Ryan, of the Legislative Research Department, said this would actually be $10 to $11 million if the bill was enacted because it would be based on 1973 income. The figure used by the House was based on 1972 returns for 1971 income.
The new plan would earnmark 10 per cent of the individual income tax of each school district for school purposes, making statewide total of $8.3 million.
Rep. Ref Hoy, R-Fairway, objected to the rush to get the new version approved and sent to the House floor in one afternoon. The governor attributed the new plan and determine its effects.
He objected also that there had been no urban representation on the group that they were involved in.
Rep. John Bower, R-McLouth, said the measure still could be polished in the city.
Democrats had been preparing their plan on the theory that Republicans would push through the school finance bill in the form in which it passed the Senate only to have it meet a veto by Democratic Gov. Robert Docking.
"We won't try to block Senate Bill 92, the school finance bill passed by the Senate." Rep. Richard Loux, D-Wichita, House minority leader, said Tuesday. "The teachers and they obviously have gotten hit on SB 92. So we'll let them run its course."
McGill said the new plan was prepared because it became obvious the value that the team had offered to the company.
Loux said the Democrats wanted people to know there was an alternative which members of both parties could support, but if they did not believe and yet doesn't include a tax increase.
The Republican plan approved Tuesday by the House committee also would have no
The Democratic proposal would have these major provisions:
—Would require $18.1 million new state money to finance the schools, which is $11.8 million more than Docking's original plan, than the Republican plan needs to fund it.
- Would be a "power equalizer" to equalize per-pupil financial support among the state's 311 school districts by giving $42,000 in 50 districts and less state and to 142 districts.
—Would retain Docking's "grandfather" clause to keep the state aid from being reduced all at once to the districts which would lose state aid. Those districts which lee aid would get 90 per cent of what they receive, and those who get 80 per cent the second year, and so on until they were reduced to their true formula level within 10 years.
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—Would retain Docking's proposal for a statewide property tax to replace the present 10-mill county school levy, but at a 7-mill rate rather than the 8-mill rate proposed by Docking, but still at 30 per cent assessed valuation.
The 7-mill statewide property tax would raise about $85 million of the money needed to fund the compromise plan. It would be much easier if the levy reduced a half mill each year.
The compromise contains no income tax provision such as the optional 50 per cent surtax on individual income taxes contained in the State plan, which already has passed the Senate.
Loux said the compromise plan could be fully funded from available general revenue fund balances, not county federal revenue sharing.
In atonement for crimes committed against over 25,000 innocent children in Kansas . . .
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... Rachael in Ruma bewailing her children for they were not
Matt. 2:18
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