Tuesday. February 20, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Safe Bedding Costs More
Compliance with a federal standard for mattress safety, which becomes effective June 7, may prove to be costly. Kansas City bedding manufacturers said Monday. The cost increases, they said, may be passed on to the consumer.
the standard, drafted by the Commerce Department June 7, 1972, and to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, requires that bedding manufacturers administer a mattress and fabric to all mattresses styles and fabrics to determine whether the mattress is fire resistant.
Two Kansas City manufacturers, Englander Co., Inc., and the Simmons Co., agreed that compliance with the new test would be very effective in preventing mattress fires but said that a mattress testing procedure could be very expensive.
WARREN KIBBIE, general manager of the Englander Co., Inc., in Kansas City, Mo., said that according to the Commerce Department, the average production cost increase for each mattress might be about $10.
“Of course we’ll pass the cost onto the consumer,” Kibble said, “but this is not an unreasonable charge for protection from mattress fires.”
In its estimate, the Commerce Department included the cost of building new offices.
testing, Kibbie said. The cost increase also would include the expense of developing new fire retardant materials, the cost of the destroyed mattresses and the cost of the destroyed cigarettes and percale sheets, he said.
IN THE FIRST part of the test, according to the Wall Street Journal, nine lighted cigarettes are placed six inches apart on the upper half of a bare mattress. The mattress passes this part of the test only if all the cigarettes are leaving less than two inches long.
In the second part of the test, nine more lighted cigarettes are placed on a white, 100 per cent combed cotton percale sheet. The cigarettes are covered by a second sheet. If they are lit from the sheet the burn out without leaving a long char, the mattress passes the test.
The number of mattresses destroyed in the testing is a major expense, Kibbie said. Three prototype mattresses must be tested and at least one mattress out of each lot, or one every three months, whichever comes first, he said.
THE MATTRESSES are not marketable after testing, he said. The Englander plant in Kansas City produces 40,000 mattresses a year. The company said the mattresses would have to be tested each year.
Al Gentile, manager of the Simmons Co.
in Kansas City, Kan., said other factors than boost production costs were the possibility of mattress recall and an increased need for new mattresses. The company definitely be passed on to the consumer.
Gentle said that the Kansas City plant produced 13,000 pieces of either box springs or mattresses each day. Nationwide, Simmons has bedding sales of $120 million.
Gentle said that if a randomly tested mattress failed the test, the entire lot would probably have to be recalled and the inventory was that that would require more bookkeeping.
Kissinger is scheduled to return to
washington at 2:30 p.m., Lawrence time,
lunch.
"IF THE TESTER doesn't smoke cigarettes we might even have to buy a cigarette machine to light the cigarettes," Gentile laughed.
The manufacturers must also anticipate possible recall costs for transportation and materials loss and include this in the cost increase, he said.
Kissinger Ends Tour After Talks in Japan
Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, who joined Prime Minister Kakui Tanaka for an hour and 40 minutes of talks with Kissinger, said the U.S. adviser had given Tanaka this talk with Mao. But Ohira he had been asked not to make any disclosure.
Both Englander and Simmons said they had made major alterations in some of their mattress styles in order to comply with the standard.
TOKYO (AP)—Henry Kissinger reported to Japan's leaders Monday on his talks in Hanoi and Peking, dined at a gaisha house and met in Rome, dined at report back to President Nikon.
Ohira told newsmen only that the talks
Much interest centered on the talks President Nixon's national security adviser Richard Tse-tung. Nothing was made public here on the subject, but Herbert Klein, White House director of communications, indicated an email that Nixon returned to the United States.
address close to the "American destination" advance in Chinese-American relations.
covered a wide spectrum of subjects, including Vietnam reconstruction, the international monetary situation and China's relations with the United States and Japan.
Speculation concerns the possibility that President Nixon might withdraw the 8,000 American troops now on台湾, the Chinese island which is headquarters for the Nationalist Chinese government recognized by the United States. These are among the top priorities of U.S. rule in Vietnam and, since the cease-fire, are no longer essential.
Kibbie said that Englander had completed prototype testing and would probably be in complete compliance with the standard by March 1.
There also is talk of the United States being allowed to open a trade office in Chicago.
Gentile said that Simmons had some styles that already complied with the standard. These styles were available to the consumer, be said.
"It was a very useful meeting," Ohira said, "as it gave us valuable insights" into how Japan might proceed with its Asian diplomacy.
THE NATIONAL Association of Bedding Manufacturers, of which three Kansas City firms are members, is petitioning the National Association of Standards to delay the date for compliance to re-evaluate the test, Gentile said. Many manufacturers have complained that the standard was too costly and would drive bedding manufacturers out of business.
Two local bedding distributors approved of the new Commerce Department standard. Leland Glammer, a Miller Furniture salesman, said the regulation was a good thing, especially timely because of recent local bedding fires.
He said that distributors had no other choice than to raise retail prices, however. He expected that the increase would only be moderate, and the lower priced models would be affected.
Miller Furniture has already received some fire resistant mattresses, he said.
Ron Chambers, manager of Montgomery Wards furniture and carpet department, said that Wards would try to absorb the price increase instead of passing it to the consumer unless the increase was too steep. A shipment of mattresses in compliance with the standard is expected in April or May, he said.
AURH to Ask Refund Of Hall Book Money
The Association of University Residence Hall (AURH) will request a refund from the Office of the Dean of Women for money lost in an accidental fire or other library, library two AURH officers said Monday.
The AURH refund request will be made in the form of a resolution at the Resident's Assembly meeting at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at McColm Hall.
The request was made by Alex Thomas, AURH president and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia minister of education.
The resolution request a refund from the dean of women's office for all funds not used to purchase books, magazines and library materials directly for hall libraries.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, in a reply to an inquiry by AURH about expenditures from a library fund said last week that a central library had been created in 220 Strong and that many of the expenditures questioned by AURH had been made to provide books and periodicals for the library.
'Incompletes'...
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didn't, Sheafer said, although he did not know whether that was due to incomplete or withdrawals from courses.
Other schools reported from one to five students not graduating because they took an incomplete. The School of Pharmacy was the only one with a perfect record.
The University Senate's Code is generally followed, most of the schools said, although the professors teaching the courses usually give the final approval to incomplete.
The code states that incomplete must be made up in the next semester the student is enrolled and the course is offered. An execl course must be completed by the student with the professor's approval.
Generally, the schools receive the list of incompletes from the registrar's office and use it to update student records. At this time, a grade is changed to the grade the professor awards upon completion of the course. A grade required by the University Senate's Code.
However, Rhetta Noever, secretary in charge of student records, said the School of Business changed the grade of a course a student doesn't complete to a withdrawal unless the professor turns in an "F" for the grade.
Don L. Schle, associate professor of the School of Fine Arts, said the school usually allows two months leeway for the student to complete a course.
PragUE—A three-jet Soviet airliner burst into flames and broke apart while attempting to land at Prague International Airport Monday. Sources from the West at the airport reproted 77 of the 99 persons in the plane, according to passengers and 8 of 12 crew members, informants said. About half the survivors needed only first-aid treatment.
Labor Talks
MIAMI BEACH—President Nixon met with 35 members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council and about 30 union presidents in a 40-minute closed meeting Thursday, where he sat in on the meeting, that Nixon emphasized his plans to reverse the U.S. foreign trade deficit. AFL-CIO President George Meany said that although he still supported raising taxes, there was room for possible compromises with White House legislation.
Judge Guilty
ST. LOUIS—Preparations were made Monday for reopening 166 public schools after an end to a 28-day strike, the first by schoolteachers in this city's history. Instructed to report for classes today were 103,000 pupils, most of them idle since Jan. 1994. School officials and teachers of the St. Louis Teachers Association affiliate, and Local 420 of the American Federation of Teachers voted Sunday to return to the classrooms.
CHICAGO-Federal Judge Otter Kerner was convicted Monday of accepting a bribe from racemack interests while he was governor of Illinois. He is the first judge of a U.S. Court of Appeals to be indicted and convicted of a criminal charge. He and his wife, Jane Fulton, the lawyer, were convicted of conspiracy, fraud, bribery and income tax evasion. Kerner also was convicted or perjury and making false statements to a federal agent.
Schools Open
TOPEKA-Attorney General Vern Miller said Monday one of three airlines has agreed to his request that they not serve liquor or on planes while they are on the ground or in the skies over Kansas, rather did not disclose which airline had owned the planes. International, Continental Airlines and Trans World Airlines. Miller said he had received a telegram of agreement from the one airline Monday morning.
Airline Not High
News Briefs By the Associated Press Plane Burns
On March 14 and 15,new Student Senators,Officers of the Classes of 1973,1974 and 1975 and a new President and Vice-President of the Student will be elected.
1973 SPRING ELECTION INFORMATION
Candidates for CLASS OF-ICERS must file a declaration of intention to seek such office with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by Wednesday, February 21. Each declaration must be supported by the signatures of at least 50 members of the appropriate class and must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.
A candidate for the STUDENT SENATE must file a declaration of intention to seek such office as a representative from his respective school with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by Wednesday, February 21. This declaration must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.
Thomas said Monday that Taylor had used student fundings designated for use in improving residence hall libraries to conduct research and was known as the Women's Resource center.
The money for the funds in question comes from an account administered by the office of the Dean of Women from a five per cent rebate of vending machine funds in the five residence halls under the jurisdiction of Emily Taylor, dean of women.
All Declarations must be received by 5 p.m. on the deadline date.
For Further Information: Call 864-3710
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10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Hamburger and 12 oz. BUD — 50c
All Declarations may be picked up in the Student Senate Office, 105-B Union, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
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To become a candidate:
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Business .3
Education .12
Engineering .5
Fine Arts .5
Graduate .18
Journalism .3
Law .2
Pharmacy .2
Social Welfare .2
LAS .18
Centennial ... 4
North ... 4
Nunemaker ... 4
Oliver ... 5
Pearson ... 4
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