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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.104
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Original Solution Of Fuel Crisis Explored
Tuesday, March 6, 1973
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'Oz' Vision Epitomizes Home State
By DAVID HEALY
Kansan Staff Writer
Kansas is "Midway U.S.A.",
the Sunflower state, first in wheat, second in sorghum, fourth in cattle, first in helium, first in small aircraft production and the home of John Brown, Carrie Nation and supercon Vern Miller.
For many Americans, Kansas is an entirely flat farm land inhabited by cowboys and best known as the place Dorothy wants to get back to.
"I guess they figured there couldn't be a university in Kansas." she said.
Shari Spencer, Freemont, Calif., sophomore, said that her friends in California perceived Kansas to be the place where Dorothy lived and that they still thought there were cowboys and Indians here.
She said that none of her friends had beard of the University of Kansas.
Speaking about a party they threw for her before she came to KU, Spencer said,
"The last thing they did was to make a circle around me and tell me to click my heels three times and say, 'There's no place like home.'"
Two Los Angeles freshmen, Margie and Debbie Johnson, said they received a similar reaction when they told their friends they were coming to KU. They
said their friends asked them to say hello to Dorothy.
Margie said someone asked whether Indians still roamed the plains and that another person asked whether Kansas was a state.
"Constantly they make comments about the hicks, all your cowboy boyfriends." she said.
Debbie told about comparing dormitories with a friend at San Diego State.
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Two Planes Collide Over France; 67 Die
PARIS (AP)—Two Spanish jetliners flying over western France during an air controllers' strike collided in clear weather Monday. One crashed, killing all 67 persons aboard and the other made a safe emergency landing.
Most of the victims were believed to have been Britons.
The collision between the Iberia Airlines DC9 and the Coronado 900 of the Spatxant charter company was attributed by the French Defense Ministry to pilot error or misinterpretation. The ministry has been in brief states since the strike began two weeks ago.
The French Airline Pilots Association, which earlier had called the military control system dangerous, ordered its members Monday night to refuse to fly in French air space until civilian personnel return to the towers.
British Oversea Airways Corp. has not lown over France since the air controllers' switch.
Later, two British airlines, British European Airways and British Caledonian, announced in London that they had canceled all flights from France. The Airline Pilots Association said it had directed all its members not to fly into or over France. Both airlines said their bans
Scandinavian Airlines System said it was rerouting its flights around French air
Candidates Do Some Soothsaying
How much of an impact the student vote will have on the City Commission primary today one seems to know, but estimates by candidates range from negligible to
County Clerk Delbert Mathia said Monday that it would be impossible to calculate either how many students were registered or how many were likely to vote, since no records were kept that would identify a voter as a student.
Lawrence Mayor John Emick, who is running for re-election to the commission, said Monday, "I'te bought all alo that there would be quite an input from students in the election. So I've put ads in the Kanada. I'm going to take care of it." He had several students working for me.
Several of the candidates, however, are concerned about the student vote and have appealed particularly to University of Kansas students in recent weeks to vote for them.
"The students I've talked to have told me that they're hopeful 25 per cent of the students registered to vote will vote," Emick said.
Barkley Clark, an associate dean at the KU School of Law who is running for a commission post for the first time, said he received 4,500 students were registered to vote.
"That's just a seat-of-the-pants guess," Clark said. "My guess that is about 1,000 students will vote, although I'd like to see 2,000. Anything above 1,000 would please me and anything below that would disappoint me.
"The students comprise a large and important segment of the Lawrence
population, and they realize from the last election that they can have a big effect.
"Since only between 8,000 and 10,000 people will probably vote, 1,000 students voting would be about 12 per cent, a good amount."
"Certainly KU students have the voice. I wish to hell they would use it. They have the power bloc in the city. Maybe students can't take a selfie, but they damn well can on a local level."
"From keeping our ear to the ground, though, we haven't noticed much student interest. I find that a lot of them haven't heard about them or have of them have no intention of voting at all."
wages and its right to strike, said it learned of the crown's withdrawn distress," and a speech was made.
William Spencer, president of Competition Sports Cars Inc. and another candidate concerned about the student vote, he did not think many students would vote.
Spencer said he expected a higher-than-average overall turnout for the election.
"I think the students could have a big impact, but I don't think they will," Spencer said. "There are about 8,000 University-associated votes. We're hoping at 5,500 of them will vote and that we'll get two-thirds of that amount, or about 3,600 votes. If we get that many, we should be pretty high in the voting.
"There are two reasons for that," he said. "First, this is a hot primary. Second, there's a lot more registered voters for the 18-year-old vote than we did time we didn't have the 18-year-old vote.
"I don't think we will get more than 1,000 to 2,000 student votes. Personally, I have to choose between you and me."
"An intoxication campaign has been on since the beginning of our action to attempt to make people believe that air traffic was going on normally. We have warned the powers that be several times of the risks being run," a union spokesman said.
students before the general than I've done,
assuming I get through the primary.
that about one quarter to one third of the people in fraternities and sororities are registered. It was about the same story at one of the religious groups I went to.
"I don't know about dormitories, though. The students are going to make a difference," he said. "I have acknowledged that students won't vote for any of the Support Your Local Police unit."
The collision occurred about 10 miles southwest of Nantes. The DC9, Flight 404 from Minorca to London with 67 persons on board, apparently exploded and then tumbled into the countryside. There were no survivors.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Secretariat said the collision was the first in France involving large, commercial airliners and that the weather had been excellent.
space, but would continue regularly scheduled flights to France.
"We've tried to set up times to appear before groups, but our efforts have been pretty much stopped with Rock Chalk, election events and other things going on."
The Spantax plane, en route to London from Madrid with 99 persons aboard, landed training smoke at the French air force base on the island of Corsica. The landing tip was dammed but no one was hurt.
Candidate Robert Haralick, a professor in KU's electrical engineering department, agreed with Spencer that about 1,000 students would yote.
County Clerk Mathia said he expected to have the results of the election tabulated by the county clerk.
A United States official, carrying a British passport, was among those on board the ship.
"It should be about that," Haralick said.
"I've gone around door-to-door and found
The striking controllers' union, which left control towers Feb. 20 in a dispute over
The U.S. Pilots Association said there was "a very high risk situation" in France and asked its members to avoid flying in or through French air space.
Peacekeeping Efforts Face POW Impasse
SAIGON (AP)—An impasse in the exchange of Vietnamese war prisoners threatens to delay the peacekeeping efforts in Vietnam and could lead to a mass dissension before it expires in less than a month.
A spokesman for the U.S. delegation said there was no immediate indication that future release of American prisoners would be affected by a threatened boycott Monday of the military commission by the Communist delegations.
The U.S. spokesman said the North Vietnamese foreign minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh, had assured Secretary of State William P. Rogers in Paris last week that all American prisoners would be released by the specified deadline, March 28.
He said there needn't be formal meetings of the commission to arrange for the release of the 286 American prisoners still in Communist hands. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong have released 299 American prisoners, and matches, and there are two more scheduled.
Earlier, the senior U.S. representative,
Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward, told the
military commission that the repatriation of prisoners should be completed by March
The military commission—the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong—was set up to bring the Jan. 28 cease-fire into effect.
The Communist side maintained that the release of a prisoner would release to releasing a fourth of the prisoners' side.
But on Monday, the Communist delegations walked out of a meeting and threatened to boycott future meetings until Sajonaps the number of prisoners it will release in the second phase of prisoner incarceration, which is already a week behind schedule.
The walkout by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations pushed back on the agenda a proposal by the United States for a renewed joint appeal to field commanders to stop fighting, and discussion of surface-to-air missile batteries the United States and South Vietnamese say the North Vietnamese installed after the cease-fire.
Voting to End at 7 p.m. In City Races Today
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Murky Past Plagues the Whomper
All Student Senate candidates are asked to pick up candidate questionnaires from the University Daily Kansan, 112 Flint Hall, today. The candidates would be returned to the campus desk of the Kansan by 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Candidates for school board are Robert L. Ammel, 1715 Brook St.; Anna Bergle, 1518 Cadet Ave.; William F. Bradley, RR 2; Gary Conrad, 2442 Ridge Court; Timothy O. 823 Alabama St. Helen Gilles, 1014 Iowa and Larry Hatfield, 1020 Lawrence Ave.
The questionnaire will enable the Kansan to publicize the stands of all candidates on certain issues. Responses to the questions will be printed in table form in the Kansan early next week.
One of seven candidates for the Lawrence Board of Education will be eliminated. Three of the six remaining will be elected in the general election April 3.
Polling places for today's City Commission and school board primary election will remain open until 7 p.m. Results probably will be tabulated by 10:30 p.m., Delbert Mathia, Douglas County clerk, said Monday.
KU Senate Questionnaires
Commission candidates are Barkley Clark, 1511 Crescent Road; Robert Elder, 2636 Arkansas St., John Emick, 1200 W. 8th St.; Robert Harcalle, 3414 Tam O'Shanter Drive; Harry Kroeger Jr., 352 E. 12th St.; William Lemesay, 900 Arkansas St.; Gene Miller, 305 Arrowhead Drive; William Lemesay, 494 Fermont St.; William E. 15th St., 454 Minnesota St.; J. R. Pullman, 721 Tennessee St; Tola Ross, 2206 Orchard Lane; Anna Laura Rusk, 2010 Ohio St.; and William Spencer, 3503 W. 9th Court.
commission race will be eliminated, narrowing the field to six for the general election April 3. Voters are asked to vote for the nominee, a number of posts open on the commission.
Kansan Staff Writer
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
Eight of the fourteen candidates in the
One result of the past mismanagement was that Whomper employed received no wages between November and the middle of February. According to Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and vice president of the Student Senate, the employees could not be paid because Bill O'Neill, Walton, Mio, Mo, and Robert Cockrum, Senator, used the wrong fund to pay salaries. It took until February to untangle the bookkeeping mess. Allen said.
Past mismanagement and logistical problems, such as shipping glass, have put the Whomper at the University of Kansas in financial straits.
Directors of the Reclamation Center say, however, that the mistakes have been straightened out and that the future of the Whomper is looking brighter.
She said that O'Neill had paid the employees out of the Student's "local account," a fund started with money left from the old All-Student Council, even though there was a line item in the senate record. She was not given salaries. In addition, Allen said, O'Neill did not keep the books up-to-date and ran the local account about $600 into the red.
AFTER THE MISTAKE was discovered, it was necessary to transfer the employees to the state payroll. New forms had to be filled out, Allen said, and the fact that some employees were slow in completing the checks to be delayed an additional month.
Twigg furnishes U-Haul trucks to the Whomper and charges only for gasoline. Twigg said a $50 gas bill was not paid for about four months.
The Whimper also was alo in paying a local businessman, Harold Twiggy, owner of the Dudley Inn.
Bob Littrell, Lawrence third-year law student and Whompr treasurer since December, said the reason Twigg was not paid that was O'Nell previously had paid for gasoline on the local account instead of using the $750 allocated for supplies.
A second reason for the delay, Litter was that the treasurer's office required him to sell his Twigg took about two months to furnish an itemized bill. Litter said that it was an inconvenience for the treasurer to itemize bills and send them to a favor by furnishing the U-Halls, he was
now being paid from the petty cash fund, which requires no itemization.
AN EMPLOYEE of the Whopper told the Kansan that under a former director a good job was being done.
Allen said, "It's true that we have some missing funds. There were bills for parts that never came. There are missing supplies and bills for things, such as a carburetor, that didn't belong to the Whomper."
Most of the irregularities in bookkeeping and funds occurred between September 1971 and April 1972 when Gary Jacobs was director of the Whomper, Allen said. However, Allen said, it is impossible to track Jacobs' irregularities lost while Jacobs was director because there also were some irregularities while Bill Ebert was director the summer before.
Allen said that the loss of the Reclamation Center's truck was an example of mismanagement that could not definitely be blamed on either Jacobs or Ebert.
IN THE SUMMER of 1971, Allen said, Ebert took out a personal loan of about $600 from Clifford McDonald, owner of McDonald's fast food truck. She said Ebert's intent was that the loan would be paid for by other beverage companies which would see the benefit of the Whomper's truck. Ebert paid McDonald's loan and Ebert never has received the rest of the loan.
To make matters worse, Allen said, the truck "leden" it lemon. It broke down once and the Reckitt and Kitchen repair bill. The truck was used again for a time and then simply disappeared, she said.
Allen said the truck was found at a Ford
dealer with a repair bill amounting to the total cost of the truck. The Whomper did not have a title to the truck, so the title had to be traced. The tracer revealed that the truck had been stolen at one time in its history, she said.
Jacobs made a mistake in not securing a title for the truck, Littrell said.
A plan to seel Whorner T-shirts, financed by a loan from the KU Endowment Association, also went awry. Very few shirts were sold, and when the $1,902 loan came due June 1, 1972, only $134 had been paid.
"IT'S SAD when you think of all the money given by the senate to the Reclamation Center and when you think of where the center could be, and then you see
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Kansan Photo by BILL JONES
Center Lacks Enough Barrels for Storage of Glass, Metal
... No glass has been shipped since last spring ...