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84th Year, No.166
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
National League Beats American In All-Star Game
Wednesday, July 24.1974
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Republican for Impeaching
WASHINGTON (AP)—Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan of Maryland, a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he would vote to impeach President Nixon.
"I have come to the conclusion that Richard M. Nixon has, beyond a reasonable doubt, committed impeachable offences which, in my judgment, are of sufficient magnitude that he should be removed from office." Hogan said.
"The evidence convinces me that my president has lied repeatedly," he added. Hogan, 45, who is running for governor of Maryland, made his announcement the day before committee debate was scheduled on proposed articles of impeachment.
Asked why he was declaring his position in advance, he replied the debate would be a
"By tomorrow every person on the
committee, so far as I’m concerned, will have made up his mind. "Hogan said."
Hogan predicted that at least five of the 17 Republicans on the committee would vote for impachment. He said if the full house studied the evidence as carefully as he had, it also would vote to impeach President Nixon.
Presidential counselor Dean Burch, after consulting with White House staff chief Alexander M. Haig Jr. in San Clemente, summoned newsmen to denounce Hozan.
Burch charged that Hogan's "ambition to be governor of Maryland . . . weighed heavily" on him and that he acted "from what he views as his political interest."
Burch acknowledged that Hogan's announcement damaged White House hopes of blocking committee approval of an impeachment resolution but said, "I do not suggest it will result in any landslide or rush to judgment."
Hogan had his decision was made within the last few days. He said, "The real body blow was when the President released his tapes, and I read in his own words things that shocked me."
In his statement, he said, "Those who oppose impeachment say it would weaken the presidency. In my view, if we do not impeach the President after all that he has done, we would be weakening the presidency even more."
Hogan generally was not listed among those committee Republicans most likely to support him.
Nearly all of the 21 Democrats are regarded as virtually certain to support impeachment, whereas 11 Republicans usually are listed as hard-line voters against impeachment. Hogan is the first member to formally announce his vote.
The debate will probably open with a resolution by the committee recommending to the House that Nixon should be impeached.
The committee announced that the impeachment debate, to be aired on nationwide radio and television, would begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday in New York and debating procedural questions yesterday.
Then would come the first phase of the debate, each of the 38 committee members having 15 minutes to talk. The resolution may be tabulated without a vote, and then the committee will turn to debate on individual articles of impeachment.
Cyprus' Rebel Government Falls
Makarios Says He Expects to Return in a Few Weeks
Bv The Associated Press
The military-backed Greek regime fell in the aftermath of bloody tumuli on Cyprus, and former Premier Constantine Caramanlis was called home from exile and sworn in early today to head a new civilian government.
although others have indicated how they would vote.
The Democrats reportedly were working on three proposed articles of impeachment based upon the presentation made last week in the Senate, and counsel to the impeachment inquiry.
Greek Ambassador Constantine P. Panayotos, who requested the Security Council session, said had Turkish forces had expanded their hold on Cyprus. He warned that unless halted, their advance "could lead to a general conflagration."
In Cyprus, the head of the rebel government stepped down yesterday and was replaced by an ally of ousted President Basil Kofi Annan, expected to return to office in a few weeks.
These developments came in quick succession before the Cyprus conference was held. The Greek government and Greece. The conference was to open today in Geneva, but the British Foreign Office said there would be a delay because Greek officials had requested time to organize a delegation.
Caramianis, who had called the overthrow of Makarios a national disaster, was invited by Greece's military president to return from an 11-year self-imposed exile in
U. N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM said he was 'deeply concerned about violations of the cease-fire' in Syria and that the Council unanimously called on all parties on Cyprus to comply with the cease-fire. There were numerous reports yesterday of violations.
Paris to head a civilian government of national union.
Caramilan almost immediately boarded a plane loaned to him by the French government for the four-hour trip to Athens. The bank for thousands of people at Albenga airport.
He was sworn in as the new Greek premier less than three hours after his arrival.
Glauco Clerides, speaker of the Cypriot House of Representatives during Makarios' old regime, was named Cypriot president. The next meeting of the delegates was the next in line for the presidency.
Makarios said he was gratified that Nikos Sampson had quit as president of the Cypriot rebel government and that Greece would get a new civilian regime.
Makarios said at a news conference in New York that he expected to regain "in the next few weeks" the post he lost in a coup led by Greek officers July 15. The archbishop said he was firmly convinced that Clerides was acting in his behalf.
On CYPRUS, there were new outbreaks of fighting, according to the United Nations and the British Defense Ministry. But the action, which at first was described as an attack on Syria, led to incidents that did not seem to endanger the cease-fire that went into effect Monday.
The announcement in Greece by the office of President Phaedon Gizikis that the governors of Premier Adamantias Androutopoulos had stepped down brought jubilation in the streets of Athens. People hugged and kissed, automobile horns were
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil company profits continued to rise sharply in the second quarter of 1974, largely as a result of higher demand for oil, and several companies reported yesterday.
Oil Company Profits Rise In 1974's Second Quarter
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, the nation's sixth largest oil company, said after-tax profits for the three months ending June 30 in 2017 were down a period in 1973, on a 2.6 per cent gain in sales.
Shell Oil Co., seventh biggest company, said its earnings for the quarter rose 39 per cent whereas Cities Service Co., 41th in size, reported a 76 per cent gain. Tencent Inc., a company with a net loss of operations, reported that its second quarter net more than doubled over the 1973 period.
On Monday, Gulf Oil Corp., the nation's fourth largest oil company in terms of sales, said its June quarter profits were up 28 per cent from the previous year. A 2.5 a share, based on sales of $4.82 billion.
For the quarter, Amoco reported earnings of $20 million or $3.99 a share, as compared with $121.3 million, or $1.74 a share, for the same period last year.
Indiana Standard Chairman John E. Swearingen said that almost 60 per cent, or nearly $151 million, of Amoco's gain in earnings for the first half resulted from foreign petroleum operations and worldwide chemical sales.
"These earnings results came during a unique period in which extraordinary conditions prevailed in the petroleum industry and in the economy generally, conditions so different as to preclude any meaningful comparison with earnings in previous years," said Shell President Harry Bridges.
Shell's earnings equaled $12.5 million, or $1.85 a share, in the latest quarter, up from $89.5 million, or $1.33 a share, in the June 1973 quarter.
hanked and crowds shouted, "Unity ano democracy!"
The military took control of Greece in a coup on April 21, 1967.
The changeover in governments in Greece and Cyprus came as guns still were being used.
THE THREE ARTICLES would charge the President with obstructing justice in the state investigation, with contempt of Congress and subpoenaes and with abuse of power for his alleged role in surveillance activities and attempts to make the Internal Revenge Act more effective.
U. N. headquarters in New York first reported that U.N. troops had taken over the Nicosia airport because of a "new and more brutal" breach of the cease-fire" in the area.
Prime Minister Ecevi, in the first official totaling of any casualties, said Turkish forces had 57 men killed, 184 wounded and 242 missing.
An American Navy vessel brought 384 U.S. citizens and 82 other foreigners to Lebanon from Cyprus. Most of them were tourists.
A majority of the committee is required to recommend impeachment.
Other developments yesterday were:
The Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau said President Nixon rejected suggestions from his staff that he destroy any White House tapes that might prove politically and historically embarrassing. The story quoted a memorandum to Nixon July 25, 1973, from presidential speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan, who said: "I advise the President be provided with a device to prevent himself and himself separate the wheat from the chaff—from his own recollection—and have the latter burned."
The story quoted a ranking official as saying Nixon rejected the advice, saying, "It would be wrong—ethically, politically, legally."
Kansas Staff Photo by DEBRIE GUMP
Sandy Bed of Kaw Uncovered by Drought
City Suffering Effects of Drought
Bv MARIAN HORVAT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Lawrs are turning brown; leaves on trees are drooping; flower and vegetable garden plants are sagging; farmers are worrying about their corn and alfalfa. It is hot, and there are no indications of a cooling, healing rain.
It hasn't been this hot since 1954, national weather reports say. Temperatures reached a peak Sunday at 108 degrees, the seventh day in a row that temperatures reached or bettered 100 degrees.
And 21 days have passed since Lawrence had rain. Yesterday, city manager Buford Watson announced that the city was in a crisis situation as a result of the lack of rain. He said the problem was further compounded by a high-level city water pump that broke early yesterday afternoon.
Watson has requested that water usage be restricted only to human consumption purposes for the next 48 hours, with no further restriction.
down for several days; lawn watering and extra baths have been discouraged until the city water supply has been
When the power went out in one of the two transformers that aid in pumping water to the city water plant, officials declared the situation drastic. Lines were pumping up water from a local well and tanks on Mount Ouchre have been dry since 9 p.m. Monday.
Although the pump was repaired several hours after the breakdown, officials said the crisis would remain until the pump is replaced.
F. C. Sanders, city fire chief, said the water shortage would definitely affect fire-fighting if it continued for any length of time.
"We're going around telling people not to water their lawns," Some of them are still doing it.
"We were doing fine until the pump broke. Now, about the only advice I can give is not have a fire."
John Kasberger, assistant fire chief, said he wasn't too worried about any fires being set by an arsonist.
"It seems as if that only happens when they decide to tear down a building up on the hill," he said.
The University has not been spared from the water conservation orders. At 2 a.m., the buildings and grounds department received a phone call from the city requesting them to refrain from using its sprinkling systems.
Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said some of the new trees and plants would certainly suffer if the weather changes.
"We have to water the hill," he said. "There's about 15 or
itches of dirt, and underneath is solid rock around her.
It's a good place for the plants."
The city parks and recreation department faces the same dilemma, said Fred DeVictor, assistant director.
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Impeachment Committee Debate on TV The House Judiciary Committee scheduled the opening session of its official debate of the impeachment of President Nixon for tonight at 6:30. The proceeding will be livevised on ABC-TV and on various Public Broadcasting System stations.
30 Americans in Beirut After Cyprus Rescue Nearly 400 Americans showered and relaxed in the luxury hotels of Beirut after being rescued from war-torn Cyprus by U.S. helicopters and fought to Lebanon by a frigate of the American Fifth Fleet. They were still on Cyprus.
Committee Questions Kissinger on Wiretaps
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was questioned for three hours by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his role in national security wiretapping in 1969-71.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., said he thought the committee's final report would satisfy the public that "Dr. Kissinger's credibility remains untainted."
Key Figure in Milk Fund Affair Pleads Guilty
David L. Parr, a key figure in the milk fund affair, pleaded guilty to conspiring to donate corporate money illegally to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Rep.
Wilbur D. Mills and other Democrats and Republicans.
Parr had been second-in-command of the nation's largest dairy cooperative, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., until January 1972.
Lawrence Commissioners Don't Fit the Stereotype
City government, to many persons, means cigar-smoking politicians making decisions behind closed doors. Later, they are supposed to step out to make statements to television commentators and insistent reporters.
Things become more and more curious when you realize that neither the commissioners nor anyone in the audience wears Bond Street suits or carries initial briefcases.
But, on a visit to a Lawrence City Commission meeting, it is likely that you would be greeted by the mayor, who, although he does smoke a cigar, seems as unlike a "politician" as anyone could.
There are no flashing cameras or platitudinous speeches—just Lawrence citizens there to let the commissioners, who in most cases are also their friends, know how they feel about thins.
"Hi, George. Hello, Buford," said Ralph Hubbell.
when he stepped up to the microphone to address city commissioners and the city staff recently.
"I've lived in this neighborhood since 1621, he said. My mother lived there before that. It's our home and been our home for 50 years or more. We have a pretty nice place. We want to keep it that way."
People such as Hubbell, a retired police officer who has lived in Lawrence most of his life, come to the community meetings for practical reasons. They want to know about their neighborhoods, or they want sidewalks and traffic lights for children at school crossings, or they simply express an opinion about some issue that will affect them.
Not an eloquent speech by most standards, but an effective one, as far as the commissioners were
Attendance at weekly commission meetings is
unpredictable. Most weeks the fourth floor meeting room of the First National Bank building will be occupied by a bank executive.
Then the audience begins to arrive—a lone representative of the Women's League of Voters, four or five members of a neighborhood association, several persons who have come to request funds for day care centers. They wander in and find a seat among the five or six rows of chairs.
But some weeks the room is full to capacity, 30 to 40 people standing around the walls.
At one time or another, the audience may include engineering consultants, lawyers, or an 83-year-old man who is back for the fourth time. He is trying to explain to his team how he helps their minds about rezoning a piece of his land.
No matter who is in the audience, the attitudes of the commissioners seem about the same each time.
another cup of coffee and listen as long as there is someone who has something to say.
To most of the people Jack Hose Mayer is "jack" and City Manager Bob Watson is "bufford." If you want to be in the middle,
But that is not to say interest in city business is restricted to natives of Lawrence. Bruce Ericson, a newcomer to Lawrence and a local sign painter, recently waited through three hours of city business to tell commissioners his ideas for Lawrence's sign ordinance.
"We've tried to make it known that if people come to these meetings, they'll not be allowed but also have to leave."
There are basically two groups of people who come to the commission meetings—those who come consistently because they represent a group that is not being consulted or is seeking advice because a particular issue is going to affect them.
Listening does not mean, however, that the commission can always comply with a request.
"We try to be open-minded about all opinions"
tried, but in the end we have to decide on the
choice.
The commission has tried two ways of keeping the public informed of its business. First, in 1971 the commission began to publish its weekly agenda in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. Then it began to inform people by letter of matters that would be of interest to them.
"we try to send the letters early enough so that people can get in on the decision making process at a time when things still can be changed," Rose said. City commission meetings may not have the ear of the entire city, as town meetings did in small communities across the country. But there are still reasons to believe it is important to listen and to let city officials know their opinions about community matters.