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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Tuesday, July 2. 1974
84th Year, No.154
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Signs posted around campus have made dogs a common sight outside buildings. This is part of an effort to encourage pet adoption.
for its master outside of Flint Hall yesterday.
Inquiry Stays Closed Committee to Hear Witnesses in Private
The vote was 23 to 15 with all 21 Democrats and two Republicans favoring Clinton.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to remain in closed session to hear testimony from witnesses in its impeachment inquiry.
The first committee member to argue to open the witness phase was Rep. Robert McClory, R-III, who initially had supported closed hearings.
"This is a time for me to indicate the people's right to know is being enacted."
The motion to hear the witnesses behind closed doors was offered by Rep. Jerome R. Walde, D-Calif., who initially had adjourned the proceedings and insisted inquiry proceedings open to the public.
Testimony from witnesses is scheduled to begin today.
Many Republicans who were switching
Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D.N.J., a strong advocate of closed sessions, said the House rules required that any testimony be presented in person or degrade" any individual must be taken.
Presidential counselor Dean Burch called the committee's decision "deplorable," saying the panel "has preserved an unblemished record of locking out the American people from its impeachment inquiry."
*Elemental due process for the President
  the loser, and so in the public's right to
  choose a representative.*
White House Optimistic on Summit
Shortly before the session Rodino had offered a concession to Republicans by announcing he would support calling all six U.S. senators on the Senate floor, President Nixon's chief defense lawyer.
their earlier positions in order toguess open hearings said they were doing so because of leaks from the earlier closed sessions.
The committee met in a growing atmosphere of partisanship surrounding the
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler passed this word to reporters shortly after President Nixon returned from the Crimea with a stonover in Minsk.
MOSCOW (AP) -The White House signaled "good progress" last night in summit talks aimed at curbing underground nuclear weapons tests.
Among five listed as certain to be called were John W. Dean, III, former White House counsel, and Frederick C. LaRue, former Assistant aide, two of the six S.t. Clawnt wanted.
Instead, the Democrats, with a 21 to 17 majority on the committee, pushed a second
KU Library Book Set Retrieved in New York
By BRUCE JANSSEN Kansan Staff Reporter
A second list of five were to be interviewed and called if the staff thought it was appropriate.
week to beat back a Republican move to commit the panel to calling all six.
On June 14, Soviet party chief Leonid Breznev said: "We are ready, right now, to start building a nuclear reactor on the limitation of underground nuclear tests up to their full termination according to the rules."
the Nixons flew off to Minsk, Brezhev, Kissinger and Gromyko took a plane to Moscow, conferring during the flight.
Rodino had rallied the Democrats last
The White House spokesman said that more work remained to be done in negotiating some limit on underground gas, but his optimism was unmistakable.
Ziegler said the progress on underground testing emerged from a five-hour session between Secretary of State Henry A. Bush and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromykie.
Ziegler would say nothing about wideregulating arms control negotiations, in-
sacrifices of the Soviet people during World War II.
Books worth at least $500 that had been stolen from the University of Kansas libraries were recovered following the discovery of a New York City bookseller last week.
John Glinka, acting director of KU libraries, said that a 16 volume set, *Natural History of British Insects* by Naturalist William, was recovered by New York police.
On Sunday the White House had indicated that arms limitation talks were stalented.
cluding attempts to limit multi-warhead missiles, they are still discussions to be made place.
Glinka set the set cost the University $384 when purchased three years ago. According to information furnished by the Security and Parking Department, the approximate value of the set in New York was $500.
Nixon and Kissinger met at the Kremlin late last night to discuss Kissinger's long talks during the day with Gromyko and other officials.
In addition to volumes from KU, books were recovered belonging to the libraries of the University of Washington, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley, the Seattle Museum of Science and Industry, the University of Arizona, many photographs belonging to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., were also recovered.
Sgt. Richard Houseman, New York City police detective, said yesterday that Victor Phillip, the bookseller, would be taken before the grand jury today on charges related to his discovery of more than 500 books apparently stolen from libraries across the country.
President and Mrs. Nixon stopped in Minsk en route from Crimea to Moscow for a lunchon and appearances at two memorials symbolizing heroism and
According to Houseman, Phillips' operation was discovered when one of his book shipments went astray and was opened by a laundromat owner in Seattle. Houseman said that after they were informed about the incident, postal authorities watched Phillips' mail. The arrest was made after Phillips received another shipment from Seattle.
Houseman ruled out the possibility that Philips had been working alone. The size of the books indicates Philips probably had inside connections, according to Houseman.
Positive identification of the KU materials will be made next week while officials of the KU libraries will be in New York attending a library convention.
Baseball Best Sport, Prof Says
Love of Game Helped Him Invent Ball Park Substitute
By MIKE FITZGERALD
Kansan Sports Reporter
"It is 'the' game," he said recently.
"There are no substitutes for baseball."
Sidman, a professor of history at the University of Kansas, started playing baseball when he was young and continued to play through high school.
Just by talking to Charles Sidman, inventor of the baseball game at the Ball Park, Ninth and Iowa St. in the Hillcress Shopping Center, one can tell his love for the game of baseball goes far beyond that of even the best fan.
But when it came time to make a decision between going to college or trying out for a minor league team, he chose to give up baseball.
"It wasn't a hard decision at the time," he said. "I just liked academic life too much." IT WAS IN 1957, when Sidman was a student in Germany, that the idea came to him of making a game of the sport of baseball.
He worked on the game for several years before bringing it to the United States in
1960. By then the game was in playable form and soon became popular with many of them.
One of his friends was Charles Reynolds, professor of chemistry at KU. After an unsuccessful attempt at selling the game to a large game company in 1966, Sidman and Reynolds decided to open an establishment where the game could be played.
It took two years to further refine the game and open the establishment. In 1988, the company introduced a new menu.
Each player who has played in a World Series from 1928 to 1973 has a card with his statistics for any single season. A random number between one and 50 is electronically generated, and by looking at the individual batter's card, the resulting play is set in motion.
The game at the Ball Park today is played exactly like real baseball except there are no bases.
The statistics are very thorough. For any pitcher, a card will indicate how often the
ball will be hit to any field position. For any bait, the card will indicate whether he is in or out of the field.
THE STATISTICAL CARDS are so thorough it took the two men nearly 10 years to make cards for every batter since 1920. All of the cards were hand written.
For Sidman and Reynolds, the Ball Park is a combination of fun and profit. Sidman said it could have been more profitable if he hadn't sold it, but this way they did what they wanted.
The Ball Park, then, seems to be a labor of love for Sidman and Reynolds. It is love of baseball, the sport they describe as being more intellectual than any other sport
Reynolds said it provided more fun than profit.
"We haven't made a dime on it," he said. "With all the stockholders we had to get started and just one little business, there's not a lot of money."
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"I think it's the whole atmosphere of baseball." Sidman said, "Football and
Walter Lister and John Paschall Play Ball Park Baseball
Bootlegging Is Problem for Record, Tape Industry
By LARRY GREWACH
Kansan Staff Reporter
The unauthorized duplication of tapes—bottlegging or pirating—is costing the record industry some $200 a year and is hurting the sales of legitimate merchandise, two local record store owners said recently.
John Kiefer, owner of Kief's, 711 W. 28rd St., said that national sales of bootleg tapes was more than a billion dollars last year. He said that more than 40 per cent of all tapes sold were bootled.
"I affects me in that someone can buy the tape instead of going the album," said Paul Dahlstrom, owner of Better Days, 728 Main Street.
THE BOOTLEGGING of tapes is a violation of the federal copyright law. It provides for a prison term of one year, a fine not to exceed $1,000 or both to any person who "willingly and for profit" manufactures or retails a tape illegally.
But according to Del Brinkman, professor of journalism, the copyright law before its revision don't cover the bootlegging of tapes. The revision adopted in 1971 prohibits the duplication of a song released after Feb. 15, 1972.
Pirated tapes are generally sold at a lower price than legitimate tapes, which sell generally for $0.98. Dahlstrom of Bainbridge Island pirated tapes sold for less because bootleggers didn't make the initial investment and because certain royalties were sidelesteed.
"THESE COMPANIES invest a lot in the artists and the bootleggers are capitalizing on money spent on artists without investment."
Kiefer said bootleg tapes were of worse quality than retail tapes because the bottleusers used the cheapest kind of tape.
"In the end, the consumer is the loser. They buy bootleg toys at a cheaper price, but they run the risk of damaging their sterilized feet."
But it's often difficult to identify a bootedged tape, according to Kiefer. The labels on many of them perfectly resemble the ones used in CDs.
Both Kiefer and Dave Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney, said bootlegging was virtually non-existent in Lawrence. Kiefer agreed with Glen Kelley, assistant U.S. attorney for Kansas, that bootlegging were concentrated basically in Kansas City, Mo.
One reason for the lack of bootlegging in Lawrence is that businesses are concerned with providing quality tapes, according to Jan Kessinger, department manager of Gibson Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St.
"UNIVERSITY STUDENTS would just as soon get name labels instead of pirated tapes," Kessinger said.
Until the revised copyright law went into effect, Kessinger taught students to bind tape loops. The store bought the tapes from Denver Southside.
Midland Music Co., a division of Denver Sounds, has an office in Lawrence and a plant outside town, although neither are located in the city.
However, the director of Midland Music Co., Jim Foster, said the company's unlisted number was necessary. He said the office was "overrun" with people wanting to buy discount tapes. The location is kept secret for fear of burglary of equipment.
Foster said Midland distributed discount tapes to supermarkets in Kansas and Missouri. Four of the large supermarkets in Lawrence carry discount tapes with the Midland Music Co. label.
Foster said Midland paid the royalties required by the federal copyright law at two cents per tune on each tape recorded.
He said Midland used music that was recorded before Feb. 15, 1972, or music that wasn't copyrighted. He said that although it was not required by law, he had offered to pay royalties to the recording companies, but they had refused payment.
"WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS to manufacture anything illegal." Foster said. He said Denver Sounds wasn't and had made no mistake.
"None of the recording companies will deal with independent duplicators. The big ones want to keep the profit to themselves."
Foster agreed that the record companies spend thousands of dollars in production and sale of a record. But he said in many cases their investment money was paid back in royalties from the artist.
Foster said the quality of his duplicate tapes was the same as that of the recording companies' tapes. He said Midland used an audio recorder and a digital tape recorder.
The major record companies can ask a high price for tapes, he said, because "they control almost all forms of the en-
tire industry."
"THERE ARE SO MANY FALLIACES in the record business. One of these is the difference in the cost to physically manufacture a tape and the price when it gets in the public's hands," Foster said.
In contrast company-owned record clubs offered tapes at under $4 to members. This seems unfair to local businesses, he
"Where's their fairness to the merchants?" he asked
Foster, Kiefer and Dahlstrom said they would like to see a tougher copyright law. A bill sponsored by Sens. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., and William Broek, R-Tenn., provides for increased penalties for unauthorized use of the S.B.3672) is pending before the Senate Judicial Committee.
"They need tougher penalties and better enforcement," Dahlstrom said. "It's most definitely a problem."