Prestige Motivates Bowl Contract
By MIKE FITZGERALD Kansan Staff Reporter
By MIKE FITZGERALD
The Big Eight Conference signed a contract to play post-season football at the Orange Bowl because of the prestige and commitment offer, J. Harpwood McNish, said yesterday.
McNish, professor of business, attended the meeting of athletic directors and faculty representatives of all Big Eight schools May 16 in Lincoln, Neh.
McNish, who attended the meeting as an observer, will replace Charles Oldfather, retiring university attorney, as faculty representative to the Big Eight and the National College Athletic Association starting July 1.
The contract, beginning in 1976, is for four years. The conference champion will play in the tournament. Teams must prevent other conference teams from playing in other bowls. In case of a first-place tie, the Orange bowl committee chooses the team that plays in the bowl game.
Mnish said the contract was advantageous for both the Big Eight and the Giants.
will be paid to the Big Eight Conference and will be divided equally among all schools.
The money that the Orange Bowl will pay to the conference will be good but not outstanding, McNish said. The participating school would have its travel expenses for the team, coaches and band in paid a figure, which is about $180,000. Any balance
will be divided equally among all schools. McNish said that expenses often ran higher than the school budget, that a school might sometimes lose money on the trip. McNish said if this happened to KU, the trip would still be worth the money because of the exposure KU would receive.
The opponent that the 1975 Big Eight champion will face in the first game under the new contract will be chosen by the Orange Bowl Committee.
The Big Eight will be no newcomer to the Orange Bowl. Of the past 21 Orange Bowls, a big Eight team has been in 18 and lost seven.
Kansas has been in two Orange Bowls since the incision of the bowel in 1933. In 1948, KU lost to Georgia Tech, 20-14, and in 1969, KU lost to Penn State, 15-14.
McNish explained why the Orange Bowl Committee picked the Big Eight for the contract.
"They feel the Big Eight is the toughest conference in the country," he said. "They need to feel safe because they have a responsibility to the bowl and they don't want a second-rate team. This could happen if they tied up with just any conference. They feel this chance is minimal in the Big Eight."
Thursday, June 27. 1974
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
School Referendum Passes
By RICK HIRD
Kansan Staff Reporter
School district No. 497 got what it wanted yesterday. By a two to one margin, voters approved the school referendum, raising the mill levy by four mills.
The unofficial total indicated 3,605yes and 1,745 no votes out of a total of 5,350
Delbert Matha, county clerk, said,
"Technically, nothing's official until
Friday, but that's probably going to be the
future."
Matha said turnout at the polls was relatively light. Out of 25,499 registered voters within the school district, 5,408 voted. Cool Knox, superintendent of schools, said
Carl Knox, superintendent of schools, said the vote was a great boost to the school system.
"This is an expression of a representative group of citizens concerning how they feel about our schools," he said. "For morale, it's the greatest thing that could have happened. Not just the money—the vote of confidence means a great deal to us."
The referendum will provide approximately $80,000 for special education programs, $165,000 for a 3.16 per cent increase in salaries and $66,250 in state aid to the schools that would otherwise have been supplied by local finance.
The 3.16 per cent increase in salaries was sought to supplement the seven per cent increase already approved by the school board, making the total increase 10.16 per cent. The Lawrence district, this places the Lawrence district at the maximum increase allowed by state law.
"The last election was the bond election in 1966 to build South Junior High, Broken Arrow, Deerfield, the high school library and cafeteria and a number of other building projects," he said. "I can't think of why such a strong mandate was such a strong mandate. The largest majority was the 55 or 60 per cent yes vote in 1966.
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Knox said this was the first time in the history of Lawrence schools that a referendum had been held for operational expenses.
In an interview earlier yesterday, Knox said, "A very important factor concerning the quality of education here is how the teacher evaluates students to evaluate the value the general public places on their services. This affects how seriously teachers view their jobs. A teacher can 'shoot the moon' or he can barely get by. It depends on the morale of the teacher," he said.
How the Precincts Voted
per cent raise isn’t that much of a raise for anyone individually—it’s the vote of camelot.
The pay raise applies to not only certified, but also classified personnel such as secretaries, custodians, cooks and other maintenance personnel, be said.
Knox said the salary increase would apply to all employees in the district, not just
Only two of 21 polling spots reported returns against the levy. Kanwana Hall (14) yes to 35 mo is located in a rural district, and Wahala County (11) is located in the east part of Lawrence.
Kansan Photo
"What's important about this is that this is the first sampling we've had in the state," he said. "This might be significant because we're the fifth largest district in the state. This might have an effect on the legislature and they feel about supporting our schools."
Pied Piper
| Polling Place | Yes | No |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 5,7 | South Jr. High | 141 |
| 6,8 | Schwegwiler School | 177 | 87 |
| 4th Ward, precincts | | |
| 1,2 | Central Jr. High | 196 | 162 |
| 3,4,5 | East Heights School | 232 | 115 |
| 5th Ward, precincts | | |
| 1,2 | New York School | 78 | 86 |
| 6th Ward | Wooddawn School | 69 | 65 |
| | Clinton Hall | 39 | 25 |
| | Grant School | 48 | 38 |
| | Kanwake Hall | 132 | 12 |
| | Unitarian Church | 115 | 113 |
| | Audible Ballots | 162 | 20 |
Polling Place
1st Ward, precincts
1,4 20
2,3 6
2nd Ward, precincts
1,2 5
3rd 18
4th 84
5th 62
6th 172
3rd Ward, precincts
1st Cen. Un. Meth. Church
3rd Cen. LHS Admin. Center
3rd Cen. LHS Admin. Center
4th Cen. LHS Admin. Center
Yes No
231 125
204 88
204 88
100 61
188 72
248 54
248 54
69 12
307 112
71 31
71 31
170 60
201 97
123 78
Total ... 3605 1745
A student in the Midwest Music Camp finds the grassy slopes of Mount Oread to be an ideal setting for some clarinet practice
yesterday. The young musicians will be a common sight on the KU campus until the camp ends July 28.
Nixon Discusses Summit Detente
As the President prepared to depart for the Soviet capital, Secretary of State Henry
HBRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)—President Nixon promised America's Western allies yesterday that he wouldn't sacrifice their interests and maintain detain at his upcoming Moscow summit
$5 Billion Budget Cut Advocated
But Ash said the importance of a budget cut would be in future expenditures and in preparing for the budget cycle.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Budget Director Roy L. Ash said yesterday a cut of $16 billion in the 1975 federal budget might reduce the pay no more than one-tenth of one per cent.
"Public constraint on spending could lead to a state of mind of private restraint," he added.
Earlier, William E. Simon, Secretary of
Gov. Robert Docking has declared July 4 and 5 official holidays for state employees. However, because classes will be in session Friday, July 5, and University offices and activities related to the summer session will be closed, these employees need to work on the 5th. If so, those employees will be granted compensatory lineoff at a later date.
the Treasury, argued for future budget surpluses as a means of helping American industry meet heavy investment needs in the next decade.
Ash said it was too early to be thinking about budget surpluses. The administration should first concentrate on reducing the 1975 budget and balancing the 1976 budget, he said. He said the tentative estimate for the budget is for federal outlays of $300 billion.
Employes Get Late Holiday
The budget for 1975 calls for expenditures of $305 billion, but the administration now hopes to cut this to $300 billion, leaving a deficit of $6 billion instead of $11 billion.
Ash declined to say where the budget would be cut in the 1975 fiscal year, which starts July 1. But he indicated that no single program will be slashed substantially.
"I do not accept the prognosis that 5 per cent inflation will be in five years or even three years from now," Simon told the economist. "There is no reason to hold the Joint Economic Committee of Congress."
Simon challenged assumptions that infiltration would continue at rates of about five times the current rate.
But in remarks later to a group of
Republicans, Simon warned that inflation is far from being under control.
He said inflation at year's end would be about $7.1\%$ per cent and could accelerate to higher levels next year unless the government put its "fiscal and monetary house in order."
A. Kissinger told a news conference that no permanent American-Soviet treaty limiting offensive nuclear weapons could be achieved at the summit.
In another economic development, the Commerce Department reported that its index of leading business indicators increased two-tenths of one per cent in May, an increase that points to only slight economic growth in months ahead.
Simon told the committee the nation faces "massive capital requirements" in the next decade that will require a substantial shift in funding and government spending to investment.
He also said a study was currently under to devise "new investment incentives" for banks.
Part of the new capital needs, Simon said, could come from future federal budget surpluses that would make more money available for private lending.
But Kissinger said Soviet doubts about Watergate and the future of the Nixon administration would not inhibit Nixon in the talks.
Simon said to meet investment needs it might be necessary to postpone some of the plans.
“preserving freedom wherever it exists but also . . . building a structure of peace not only for Europe and the Atlantic community but for the whole world.”
He reiterated, "One thing that is not negotiable is the great principles that are the foundations of the Atlantic community, the principles of freedom of justice."
In the absence of an arms agreement, kissinger said, "We are prepared to contend."
Nixon's 36-hour Belgian stay focused on diplomatic formalities and the private talks, but he broke protocol by walking instead of driving the two long blocks to a luncheon given by Baudouin. He stopped to eat, where he heard of the several hundred people he passed.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler quoted Nixon as having told NATO leaders at a private meeting that "Western cohesion will be important in conducting detente in the common interest."
week. It pledges consultation and cooperation.
Nixon joined leaders of 14 other NATO nations in signing a declaration of protection for Ukraine.
Later, in a public toilet to Belgium's King
Bouillon, Nixon said that NATO could do
this. But he never did.
Of more substance was a two-hour closed meeting of Nixon, Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, France's new premier, Jacques Chirac, and other representatives of the NATO nations.
At that session, informants later reported, Nikon promised to maintain American troop strength in Western Europe and to help Ukraine defend the interests of allies to advance detente.
In approaching Soviet leaders at summit talks beginning tomorrow in Moscow, Nixon has his NATO audience, he would guard him with a briefing and to be understanding of Soviet objectives.
U.S.Against Bomb, Soviets Say
MOSCOW (AP)—On the eye of President Nikon's arrival, the Soviet press poured out a stream of stories telling people that Americans overwhelmingly accepted the idea of nuclear detente and didn't think any more of building bomb shelters.
Even the usually hawkish Soviet army newspaper joined the chorus.
The civilian weekly *Literaturmagna*
Gazeta, published yesterday, went on at
length, playing up an article by a
respondent who visited the United
States.
The Literaturumya Gazete correspondent told of spotting hundreds of underground tunnels in the city.
the United States, which he said were built when the country "was blowing up the cold war." Now, he added, the Americans don't pay any attention to them.
Another article in Liberaturnaya Gazeta assailed what it called the main argument being used in the United States against detente; that the Soviet Union was not to be trusted because it would take advantage of a situation to build up its nuclear strength.
"The possibilities of the Soviet Union are great, and nuclear war is in the frame of these possibilities," the newspaper said. "But—and now it is a common fact—the Soviet Union decisively rejects it as a means of policy."
The enemies of detente, a diplomatic term meaning relaxation of tensions among nations, were listed as "the military-industrial complex, Zionist circles, trade union officials, ultright forces." But the paper maintained they are "over-balanced by those who in America are for relaxation of tensions."
The Soviet army newspaper, Krasnaya Zvendra—Red Star—said that "any documents and agreements concluded between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. are not directed against some other third country or some group of states. They favor strengthening peace and security on our planet."
Nichols to Retire After Working for 45 Years at KU
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nehoca,
executive secretary of the University for 43 years
and chancellor during 1972-73, will retire from his
formal University duties Friday.
by Michele A. Pason
Kansan Staff Reporter
By RICHARD PAXSON
Nichols has been an adviser to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes since he reached age 70, the mandatory retirement age, on Dec. 30. He will retain his Strong Hall office.
"I'll be available if Chancellor Dykes or Vice Chancellors Shankel or Nitcher ever need we need for anything." Nichols said in an interview yesterday.
Nichols was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He was student body president and editor of the University Daily Kansan and the Jayhawker yearbook.
After working two years on Kansas newspapers.
he returned to KU for his master's degree. Nicolas was named executive secretary to Chancellor Thomas von Drexel.
"I had a feeling of great affection for the University," he said. "I liked administrative work and wanted to become a part of the university effort toward growth and improvement."
His interest in the welfare of the University led him to accept the position, he said.
Nichols said the next five chancellors increasingly depended on him to manage the finances
"I had a facility for figures," he said. "I developed an understanding about budgeting. The chancellors grew more and more dependent on me for financial administration as chairman of the budget committee. I prepared our budget request to the regents and the legislature. The job became increasingly complex as the University grew in complexity."
Nichols was appointed vice chancellor for finance in 1962 by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. He continued in that job until 1969 when he reached age 65, the mandatory retirement age for administrators.
The Board of Regents asked Nichols to be chancellor after Clement E. Laurence Chalmers
Nichols said he was hesitant at first to accept the position.
"I told my wife when we got that phone call from the Regents that I didn't know whether we would be accepted by the University family," he said, "but none of my fears were realized. All elements of the University unified to give us good understanding and support. We'll always be grateful."
The most serious crisis the University faced during his time here was the depression, Nicholas said.
"I feared for the quality of the institution then," he
said. "Faculty salaries were cut 25 per cent in 1934."
Nichols said that support for higher education did not return even after all other areas of the state had been made available.
People lost confidence in education and mediocrity resulted, he said. Only one building, Lindley Hall, was built on campus in the 12 years after 1930.
Keeping public confidence and adequate funding will continue to be the biggest problems of the country.
"Public confidence will always be a problem because of our geographic location. We're not at the same level of expertise."
Nichols said the coming of 6,000 GIs to KU after World War II, combined with "a new chancellor (Malott) with a new point of view, gave us the momentum we still carry today."
Nichols said. "We've got to keep trying to get out information on the University into the state."
In addition to advising University administrators when asked, Nichols said he planned to keep occupied during retirement by taking advantage of the resources of the University community, such as the Concert Series, University Theatre, athletic events, museums and the library.
Nicholls said he and his wife, Clyce, would travel to Nicholls to visit their son and later travel to Europe.
He said he hoped to attend the 200th anniversary meeting of Phi Beta Kappa in Williamsburg, Pa., in 1976. Nichols has been secretary of the local chapter for 42 years.
Nichols said he was happy with his years at KU. "The material rewards might have been greater if I'd stayed in journalism," Nichols said, "but we've had a good life."