Students, Faculty Help Plan KU's'76 Fiscal Budget
MIKE MEESKE Kansan Staff Reporters
and MIRE MEMORIES
Kansan Staff Reporters
Editor's Note: This is the second of two stories on the University of Kansas budget for the 1976 fiscal year.
The 1976 fiscal year budget request for the University of Kansas is the first to include organized faculty-student participation during the planning stages. The faculty-student task forces were "exceptionally valuable." Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said Tuesday.
"First of all, I am committed to faculty and student involvement in the budget process." Shankar told "Secondly, there was a large amount of work that we seemed the most effective way to get it done."
THE FIVE TASK FORCES were new and imaginative programs, unclassified salaries, roles, and responsibilities.
wages and special project proposals. The committees had nine or 10 members, including one
The new and imaginative programs committee studied credit and noncredit outreach programs and methods of upgrading on-campus offerings, said William Conboy, professor of speech and language at the committee. The committee submitted a final proposal priority list to Shankel with its report.
CONBoy SAID task forces were being used increasingly in business and government as a means to obtain fresh ideas. Conboy said fresh ideas came infrequently from regular channels.
"We recommended a 10 per cent increase in our peer group, but we still are very far behind our peer group."
Unclassified employees include faculty, librarians and other groups not in the civil service system.
Gilcard said that although the special task force system was functional, established systems should
The supply and equipment needs task force was concerned with equipment problems on the Lawrence campus, said Ernest Angino, professor of geology and member of the committee.
"My own bias runs toward the use of established governmental systems whenever possible," said commissioner Shea. "We have an enormous number of committees on the board, and I think they should be used when possible."
"I THINK it should be understood that we only had 45 days to do this," said Angino. "A really comprehensive treatment would be impossible in that time span."
Angino said that for the last 10 years the state provided 33 per cent of the funds for equipment purchases and maintenance. Federal funds, usually through grants, provided the remainder.
"Federal funds" and I'm sure you've heard this lament many times, are drying up," said Angio. "We've got to do something."
"We are grossly underuphanded," said Anguo. Also, having equipment is one thing. Having a gun is not the same thing.
THE 1976 BUDGET REQUEST includes a $500,000 request for scientific equipment and maintenance. This is a priority request, according to Shankel.
Higher priority for equipment purchase and maintenance funds, means for replacement of equipment and a permanent committee to predict future needs were among the committee's recommendations.
The classified needs and wages committee headed by Charles Krider, assistant professor o
business, reviewed classification procedures,
training and professional development. Krider said
the committee studied cost of living changes since
1970, salary data that were provided by Lawrence
and at state wage survey. Krider refused to make
public his committee's recommendations to
Shanker.
THE SPECIAL PROJECTS TASK FORCE studied building improvements. A problem arise, Warnsley said, because capital project deadline run on a different time track than other projects. "At the time we were given the charge, most of the deadlines for this sort of thing had already
Gary Warnelse, associate professor of political science and head of the special projects task force, said. "This was an impossible task, really. The task was really not able to do what was asked of it."
and our project. At the time we were given the choice to die for this sort of thing he already planned.
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Wheat to Be Withheld County Agent Predicts
KU Endowment For Fiscal 1974 Hits New High
Douglas County farmers might take a hint from King Midas, who turned his estate into gold, by boarding their golden harvest of wheat.
BY MARIAN HORVAT
Dorsey Staff Reporter
"I would hope they'd hang on to it at least until Aug. 1," Earl Van Meter, Douglas County agricultural extension agent, said yesterday. "Based on average wheat prices in this area, if the total crop is sold. This would indicate a low market price on the price curve."
"After August, monthly sales are 7 or 8 per cent of the total crop. Following the rule of supply and demand, you can expect the prices to go up."
Van Meter said there should be more than enough storage silo for the wheat this season.
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He said he expected an average yield of 45-40 bushels an acre from the 18,000 acres planted on the farm.
"It's going to be in an isolated area in Kansas that can't handle the wheat this year."
Van Meter said he didn't expect the state crop to be as big as predicted. State officials have estimated that Kansas, the nation's leading wheat state, would produce 300 million bushels of wheat, 100 million less than anticipated.
There's already been some slowing up of combining because of the extra moisture in the air.
Harvesting began last week and should continue into the middle of next week if it is not done.
Prices are running at about $3.60 a busier, Van Matter said, compared to the 1972 price, when the bus was $2.40.
"Wheat is not a major crop of Douglas County," he said. "In fact, we have only about 70,000 acres of tillable land in all of Douglas County."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill yesterday to provide up to $3 billion in federal aid to farmers who are caught by falling livestock prices.
Aid to Cattlemen Advanced
The House Agriculture Committee continued its耳鸣的 on the plight of livestock producers. Rep. John J. Rhodes, R-Ariz., said the producers are "losing their hearts," and urged the House panel to increase the feasibility of emergency loans to producers.
The legislation approved by the Senate committee would provide federal guarantees of 90 per cent on the emergency loans, which would be limited to $1 million a year. The government repaid in seven years. The loans would be made at prevailing interest rates.
The bill provides that livestock, dairy, poultry and egg producers would be eligible for the loans but that none of the money could be used for expanding operations.
The Agriculture Department opposed the bill, saying it would set a bad precedent.
In other economic developments;
—Wheat buyers and growers in the grain-growing Midwest reported that many farmers were withholding the wheat crop because they would not sell it until prices went up. Officials said the action could result in a loss of $1 billion or to pay for foodstuffs that depend on grazing.
Government statistics showed that the already depressed housing industry was likely to suffer more hardships before it needed more construction of new housing units in May was 38 per cent below construction in 1972 and that permits for new construction were at a seven-year low. Permits forecast continued to be held by officials said they meant that the housing
industry was not likely to recover from its present slump this year.
President Nixon officially abolished the cost of Living Council as the final phasing out of price and wage controls begun in 1971. The House passed a bill that completely the phasing out of the controls.
—The Commerce Department said the
United States registered a $744 million deficit in its basic balance of trade for 1973, but petroleum surplus as reported previously. The demand for petroleum were revised downward mainly because of an adjustment of how petroleum companies sold petroleum between domestic and foreign operations.
The House Agriculture Committee will consider various credit relief measures for cattlemen at hearings next week. Some sort of emergency loan relief is the proposal most often advanced by witnesses before the House panel. Restoration of import quotas on meat also has been suggested.
Locals Beef About Cattle Controls
By MIKE HOLLAND
Kansan Staff Reporter
The rising cost of living and lowered beef demand are among reasons for the financial problems of cattle owners, according to a new study by the University of Texas at Austin.
Profits are harder for cattle breeders to make because of using costs and government controls. Earl Van Mehler, Douglas University
Van Meter said government interference in the beef market had worsened the plight of the cattle owner.
"We should return to the basic law of supply and demand" he said. "The situation would still be bad, but at least the farmers would benefit."
VAN METER SAID today's overproduction of beef might have an adverse effect on the consumer in the future.
"Banks and other money-lending institutions might become reluctant to support livestock owners," he said. "Because of this and the low demand for beef, cattle today will be sold but not because there will be a shortage beef and the consumer will be affected."
Van Meter said that cattlemans' profits hadn't increased over the past year and that prices set by restaurant owners and retailers hadn't changed.
Bob Munsch, meat manager at Dillon's, disagreed.
"We've reduced prices numerous times during the year," he said. "The reason for this is a cheaper cost of beef to us than before. This week, there will be an eight to 10 cent reduction in the cost of beef."
Munsch said prices might rise again later.
Munsch said selling leaner cattle and grass-fed cattle to the
packing plants would be detrimental to everyone except the cattle owners.
"You still must pay for the bone structure of the cow." Munsch said. "The heavier the cattle, the better the beef for the consumer. All cattle are grain-fed because grass-fed beef is too lean and cannot be sold."
Government intervention and low demand for beef are the major causes of the beef crisis, according to Eldon Harwood, a spokesman for the farm association.
"THE MAJOR PROBLEM is underconsumption," he said.
An unskilled laborer with $160 per week salary will hesitate to eat beef because the price is too high. "The demand for beef is extremely concerned." Everyone was tickled to death when the costs rose.
He said, however, that now it was the cottager's turn to suffer and that imposing import quotas would create more
Wesley Wulkhebe, a local cattle breeder, said numerous factors had to be considered in centralizing the problem.
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"The price of machinery and gasoline has sharply increased since spring," he said. "The transportation costs have risen since the truckers' strike. Also, inflation has come along to complicate matters."
Wullkhuhe said the increase in the price of grain was another contributing factor.
"Cattle prices have gone down at the same time feed prices have remained stable. This means the cattle-owner must pay for the difference out of his profit. The only way a cattleman can increase land is through increased productivity. It's an endless circle."
Rodino Says Gap In Tape Manual
WASHINGTON (AP) - Peter W. Rodino Jr., Dem., N.J., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said yesterday that a demonstration for the committee showed Mr. Rodino's commitment tolegate rule “can't possibly” have been caused by anything but hand operation.
Rodino said a staff side made the demonstration on a Uber 5000 tape recorder. It was the same kind that produced the gap and buzz on the tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation between President Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Halerman.
"He showed us how you can't possibly except by manual operation produce this result."
John Doar, special impachment counsel,
said the committee did not have an FBI report on who might have erased the tape and said there was no assurance that report would be completed and delivered before the impachment inquiry concluded.
A report by a panel of experts also concluded that the buzz could not have been produced by a faulty tape recorder rather than hand operation, but the President's lawyer, James D. St. Clair said the conclusion could not be that absolute.
After the morning session, two committee members said the panel had an affidavit with evidence that President Nixon decided to ban the use of Cox about 10 days before he actually voted.
The conversation came shortly after Agnew resigned Oct. 10, the member said.
A Republican committee member
saddled nearby confirmed that the commi-
ttee was over.
A Democrat who declined to be named said the affidavit from former Atty. Gen. Richardson quoted Nixon as saying that he had considered 'now we knew had resigned'—'now we can fire Cano.'
After evidence was presented on Cox's
firing, the impeachment inquiry turned to the Watergate tape containing an 18-minute demonstration but Karen order was set up for a be no re-enactment of how president Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, said that he had accidentally erased some of the tape.
After the Cox presentation, most members indicated the facts did not make it clear whether the firing could be considered part of the cover-up.
Rep. George E. Danielson, D-Calif., said
I'm more convinced than ever that it was an aggravated continuation of the cover-
But most members who would comment said the staff gave them a summary of publicly known facts about the firing and the manman would have to make his own judgment.
Cox had subpoenaed nine Watergate tapes and Nixon said he fired him for refusing to accept the President's offer to turn over summaries instead.
The Cox firing led directly to filing of
Senate Approves Bill To Raise Veteran Aid
WASHINGTON (AP—The Senate unanimously passed a bill yesterday to increase education benefits for Vietnam era veterans by 18.2 per cent, give them up to $720 a year in tuition costs and provide $2,000-per-year in loans.
The measure will have to be reconciled with a measure passed by the House that provides a 13.6 per cent cost-of-living but not the tuition grants and loans.
The cost of the Senate bill for the fiscal year starting July 1 is estimated at $1.9 billion. The House bill would cost $614.1 million.
Many veterans's groups have complained that veterans could not use the GI bill or had
No problem is expected in the Senate- House conference in reconciling the 18.2 per cent and 13.3 per cent figures, although the administration favors 8 per cent. Most members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee vigorously oppose the grants and loans.
to shop for inexpensive colleges because there was no tuition grant such as World
On-the-job training rates also would be boasted 18.2 per cent.
The Senate bill would raise the monthly payment for single veterans from $220 to $250. The House bill would provide for a $250 monthly payment. Under the Senate bill a $290 monthly payment will receive $298 instead of the present $261. Under the House bill he would receive $297.
The Senate bill would give a married veteran with one child $352 instead of the present $298 and the House proposal of $339. The rate for other children would be raised from $18 each to $21 compared with $20 in the House bill.
Both bills would let veterans use their benefits up to 10 years after leaving service instead of the current eight years. The new laws allow veterans and 79,000 Vietnam era veterans.
eight imposement resolutions in the House
the following week and to the Judiciary
of the United States.
The firing was listed under the Watergate cover-up category among the inquiry's original 55 allegations against the President to be investigated.
Members said the staff also presented
moments on the two of the nine Watergate tapes
that turned out to be missing but little
beyond the facts already publicly known.
At the White House, presidential speech writer Patrick Buchan charged that leaks from the committee were "taking on the character of a systematic campaign to reintroduce the reputation of the President," the secretary of state, and some individual under indictment."
Buchanan said the news media should find and expose the "nameless, faceless person" behind the attacks.
President Nixon's lawyer, James D. St. Clair, said the fact that there had been no leaks of secret evidence supporting the President's innocence showed that information was selectively leaked to hurt the President.
St. Clair said he believed Chairman Rodino "is doing his best to stop it." In other Watergate-related developments:
—Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield-D-Mont., said he was "disturbed by the proposed delay and procrastination" in the impeachment inquiry and leaks from the committee. He said leaks had led to rumors and innocuences that could be left to the courts and the committee.
"At a Senate committee hearing, Asst. Atty. Gene, Henry E). Petersen defended the original Watergate inquiry. He said at that time the there was not enough evidence to inducements against any persons other that the seven original break-in defendants.