University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 16, 1973
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Kansan Photo by BARBARA KELLY
Rep, Bill Roy, D-Kan., Discusses Budget Problems
. . . Students talk to Roy after his Thursday night speech . .
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
Money Cuts Favored To Deter Impounding
Rep. Bill Roy, D-Kan., told an audience of 100 persons here Thursday that he would favor cutting the operational funds for the executive branch if Congress could find no other way to stop President Nixon from impounding appropriated funds.
Roy said that the impoundment of congressional funds had historical precedent, but that Nixon's recent action was the first time a president had acted "in bad faith" by ignoring the intentions and wishes of Congress.
Roy spoke in the Kansas Union Ballroom in an address sponsored by the University of Kansas.
"If the Congress of the United States doesn't do anything," he said, "the President will become a constitutional monarch."
The constitutional crisis is heightened, he said, by the fact that Nixon is also discarding many social programs which the candidates had initiated without consulting with it.
Roy said that he thought the spearhead of the congressional attack on Nixon's budgetary amputations and impoundments at the handing of these social programs.
The two financing proposals have been the subject of recent controversy in the Kansas Legislature. Because of a federal court ruling, the legislature must institute a new public school finance plan to replace the present county property tax system.
"The CONGRESS has to force the Presidency hand, as these programs are built."
According to Roy, the fact that Congress has been guilty of over-appropriations doesn't justify Nixon's monetary hand-slapping through executive impoundment.
A sharp exchange between Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, and Kenneth Fisher, assistant superintendent of business and facilities for Lawrence public schools, Thursday pointed out differences in two plans for funding education in the state.
By PAT BREITENSTEIN Kansan Staff Writer
During Thursday morning's "Eggs and Issues" meeting of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Fisher applied two plans for financing public schools to the Lawrence school district. One plan, which was formulated by a Special Senate Education Committee, attached the other was Gov. Robert Dockinger's counter-proposal.
Funding Controversy Stirs Debate
Father's application of the two proposals answered that the Governor's plan would be more effective.
than the plan supported by Harder. However, the committee's proposal would provide greater property tax relief for Lawrence taxavers.
Under the committee's plan, the present Lawrence general education fund and social security fund of $7.53 million would be increased by $97,000 to about $8.24 million. However, the budget would be effectively increased by about $180,000.
The size of the effective increase would be due to the state's assumption of a greater share of the transportation costs and management programs. Formerly these costs were figured in the general fund. Under the new proposal, they will be handled in a separate fund category so money prevail over those used for other general fund obligations.
In what he termed a non-partisan address, Harder defended the committee's proposal and pointed out what he said were advantages to the governor's proposal.
According to Fisher, the committee's proposal would reduce the property tax for Lawrence residents by about 14 mills. The proposed increase would be increased by about 1.5 per cent.
would increase by about $220,000. The governor's proposal would reduce Lawrence property tax by only 4 mills but it would add no income tax.
Harder said that the committee's proposal would guarantee full funding of the project.
He said that the proposal would equalize educational opportunities through its system of district wealth measurement. The committee's proposal would use a system based on both property value and income. The amount of state aid given to a district is determined by that district's wealth.
"The committee plan meets the problems of school finance head on," said Harder. "The governor's program works backwards, a budget, then applying it to education."
And, Roy noted that Nixon was not faultless in his spending policies.
Much of the cause of congressional ineptitude in handling the nation's business, Roy said, is inadequate staff and research resources. For example, one ten-man team was fitted in the House of Representatives has only one attorney to do research for it.
"This President has been the biggest wonder in the history of the United States," he added.
"The Pentagon spends more money each year making out it's budget requests than is spent on the whole congressional committee system," he said.
Under the governor's plan, total state a i i
Roy focused part of his speech on the monetary crisis caused by the second devaluation of the dollar in less than two years.
HE LISTED the U.S. balance of trade deficit, increasing capital outlays to foreign countries in the form of industrial export taxes and foreign aid, as the causes for the current devaluation.
The result of devaluation will be an increase in the price of foreign imported goods and in a decrease in the American dollar, which is attributed to the rest of the world, he predicted.
Roy said the devaluation would ease the trade deficit, but he warned against continued overseas spending and any "dive for over-protectionism." Such a protectionism result in international trade wars which are increasingly harmful to U.S. agriculture, he said.
In a question and answer period following the speech, Roy said that he was preparing to campaign against Sen. Bob Dole so that would have a fair chance if he decided to run.
HE SAID THAT he wouldn't run against either Gov. Robert Docking orAtty. Gen. Vern Miller in the Democratic primary for two reasons. First, he said, such competition would splinter the Democratic party and assure the re-election of Dole.
Also, he said, "I don't think I can beat Bob Docking or Vern Miller."
In reply to another question, Roy charged that White House advisers knew about the impending fuel crisis this winter, but didn't know when it would be of pressure from the oil and gas industries.
After the speech the freshman class held an informal reception for Roy in the Cementery.
Prof Gets Fellowship
H. Lewis McKinney, associate professor of history at KU, has been awarded a 12-month fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. McKinney will start work in September on a biography of Alfred Russel Wallace, an English naturalist.
Red Tape Hampers Passport Processing
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Writer
Students who plan to travel abroad this summer should apply for passports now, according to Lucille Allison, clerk of the Douglas County District Court.
Processing passport applications takes more than six weeks, even longer if the applications must be resubmitted, Allison said.
Photographs cause the biggest problems, she said. Many students' applications were rejected last year because of unacceptable pictures.
"Most of the students applied so late that when their applications were rejected they could hardly get new applications processed in time for their trims." Allison said.
Photos may be in black and white or color, but they must be printed on a special unthinned胶纸. Applicants must be fluent in English, and have corresponding to U.S. Passport office regulations.
The office also requires that photos be clear, front views of the applicants' full faces against light backgrounds. Two photos for each application are required. They must be between $ 2 \frac{1}{2} \times 2 \frac{1}{2} $ and $ 3 \times 3 $ inches in size.
Home store and Polaroid picture just won't do," Allison said. "They fade too badly. Students should really see a camera photographer who understands the regulations."
STUDENT UNION Activities (SUA) at the University of Kansas has sponsored passport photo services for the past three years.
The KU Photo and Graphic Arts Bureau will take the photographs for SUA this year. Students involved in SUA tours should inquire at the SUA office. Photos will be taken Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of February starting Tuesday.
"THE PICTURES SUA send down here last spring were full of shadows and didn't have a light backdrop," Allison said. "I hated to turn them down, but finally the passport agency told me to send them to the police office in their office and they would refuse them."
She said a student should send $2, his name and his date and place of birth to the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the capital of the state in which he was born. The bureau would send him a certified copy of his birth certificate.
THE STUDENT then should take the photos and the copy of the birth certificate to the clerk of the district court or to any other official who must complete a wage application.
Another problem with processing passport applications is the requirement of a certified copy of the applicant's birth certificate, she said.
A fee of $10 for the passport and $2 for the application will be assessed.
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