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84th Year. No.141
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, May 7, 1974
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Old Watkins Now Named Twente Hall
A sacrificial bottle of Cold Duck marked the dedication yesterday of Esther Twente Hall, the new home of the School of Social Welfare.
The dedication was part of Social Work Day, an annual assemblage of School of Social Welfare graduates and social welfare professionals from the immediate area.
Twente Hall, formerly Wattkins Hospital, is named after the late Ester Twente, long time social work instructor. Speaking at the dedication of the school, Dr. Twente said Tweden had been "one of the builders of the University." He said she was largely responsible for the establishment in 1946 of the department of social work, and was the director of the present School of Social Welfare.
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols said Twente's efforts during the depression and World War II were instrumental in overcoming many of the economic hardships confronting the University of Kansas at that time.
Asege College, professor of social welfare, was a close friend of Twente. George said Twente helped develop many of the patterns of social work now being followed across the country. She said Twente had always put her students and the University first, not just her faculty, marking her retirement after 26 years at the University.
Kansan Staff Photo by ALAN MCCOY
Bon Voyage
Bradford T. Sheafar, associate dean of the school and a former student of Twente's, broke a bottle of Cold Duck near the entrance of the building to conclude the
Twente Hall is "ideally suited" to the needs of the school, according to Sheafer. It features, he said, much needed office space and two seminar rooms. Sheafer said that
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Bradford W. Shenifer, associate dean of the School of Social Welfare, christens Twente and Bertil Schoene, associate dean of
the dedication ceremonies for the building. Hall is the old Warkins Hospital building.
Brandt Resigns Chancellor's Post
BONN, West Germany (AP)–Willy Brandt, plagued by a series of provincial election setbacks and a damaging spy scandal, was sentenced to two years as chancellor of West Germany.
Brandt's dramatic move followed behind-the-scenes negotiations all day yesterday among Brandt, his coalition partners and the opposition parties, informants said.
In an official announcement, the federal press office said Bradd asked President Gustav Heinemann in a letter to name Vice Chancellor Walter Scheel to head a caretaker government until the parliament can choose a new chancellor.
Scheel is also foreign minister and leader of the Free Democrats, principal partner in the coalition government with Brandt's Social Democrats.
Brandt's popularity has declined from its peak in 1971 when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Ostpolitik, or efforts at accommodation with the Communist bloc.
Lately, an increasing number of West Germans have viewed Osteopath with displeasure. The spy scandal involving Dr. Hirschberg and the chancellor, aggravated the situation.
In recent months, Brandt's Social
Democrats suffered a series of state election setbacks.
The spy case, described by an opposition legislator as West Germany's worst in a long series of post-World War II spy affairs, broke April 24 when Guillaume was arrested and charged with spying for the East Germans.
Although Brandt denied before parliament that Guillaume had had access to any state secrets, Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher at the time alleged that it was "particularly painful" and particularly dangerous espionage."
Court Action on Tapes Postponed
Judge Saves Delay Granted to Aid Possible 'Accommodation'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Court action on 64 presidential tapes subpoenaed by special Watergate prosecutor Leen Jaworski was postponed yesterday, indicating an accommodation may be in the works to avoid a court fight with the White House.
Meanwhile, the Senate Watergate Committee yesterday called transcripts of presidential conversations released by the White House to prove a complete nor accurate" and told the U.S. Court of Appeals it still needed the actual tapes of five crucial conversations it submitted.
U. D. District Court Judge John J. Sirica granted a five-day postponement of a bearing on a White House motion to quash a subpoena from Jaworski for the 64 tapes.
"The continuance was granted for the
The judge's announcement indicated there was a possibility an agreement could be worked out to avoid a fight similar to the one last summer in which the White House went to the U.S. Court of Appeals to avoid yielding other subpoenaed tapes.
White House counsel James D. St. Clair said he had asked for the extra five days "to permit the special prosecutor and myself to speak to him we can come to some accommodation."
purpose of facilitating discussions leading to possible compliance with the subpoena.
Twenty of the 64 conversations subpoenaed made public last week in the transcribed text.
But whereas those transcripts covered mainly presidential conversations that took
place in February, March and April last year, the Jaworski subpoena asked for tapes of Nixon's talks with his aides as early as June 20, 1972, and as late as June 4, 1973.
The Senate Watergate Committee told the Court of Appeals that the incomplete versions of the five crucial conversations it wanted vindicated its assertion that the tapes were needed "to inform the public of corruption in the executive branch."
The court had asked the committee to tape after the release of the transcripts.
The committee said the answer was "unequivocally and emphatically in the affirmative" and that it was essential that it be heard by an accurate account of the conversations.
Beisner Says Ticket Price Should Be Lowered to $12
If the University of Kansas Athletic Association wants students to attend football and basketball games next year it should set student season ticket prices at $12, John Beisner, Salina junior and student body president, said yesterday.
Beisner spoke in response to an open letter to students written by Athletic Director Clyde Walker. The letter is printed below.
The senate passed a resolution last week asking that student season tickets for both football and basketball be available.
The Athletic Board, the governing body of the athletic association, has set next year's student season ticket prices at $15 for football and $13 for basketball. This year tickets cost students $6.50 for football and $5.50 for basketball.
At the prices of $13 and $13, and if projected sales of student tickets are correct, the athletic association would get $2400 for each student next year than it did this year.
Walker said yesterday that ticket prices should have increased steadily throughout the past 10 years. So the increase in money that the athletic association will get from students next year should be considered as spread out over 10 years, he said.
That would amount to an increase of about $1 in ticket prices for each of the past three weeks.
Rich Laucher, Evanston, III, senior, said the increase couldn't be considered as spread throughout 10 years because it all took place one year and falling on one set of students.
Lauter suggested that ticket prices be increased for next year and increased over a period of 2 years.
"It would have made a lot more sense and have been a lot more palatable to increase the prices over a period of years," Lauter said.
Walker said the Athletic Board in recent meetings had considered raising ticket prices throughout a period of years. The consensus of the board, Walker said, was to make KU's prices comparable to prices at other Rue 8 schools in one year.
Charles Oldfather, a member of the Athletic Board, said there was no sense in putting him on the bench.
Walker's letter notes that students at
Kansas State University pay $21 for football tickets, and $15 for basketball tickets.
Beisner pointed out that KState has seven home football games next year and that KU has five. Thus students at KState pay $3 a game, as do students at KU.
Beiser said that on a per game basis in the Big 8 football prices at KU were second only to football prices at the University of Missouri. KU's basketball prices per game are second only to those at K-State, Beiser said.
Lauer said he agreed with Walker that the athletic program brought pride and national exposure to KU. He also agreed that athletics were an integral part of the University.
any credit for the success of this year's teams. That credit belongs to Walker's teams.
Walker's letter notes that students must pay $50,000 from ticket prices to retire a debt for expansion to the student section of Memorial Stadium.
"If Mr. Walker wants to demonstrate his good faith he can come on and state right now that in 1979 ticket prices will decrease $5 (for football) and $4 (for basketball) when the indebtedness is paid off," Lauter said.
Walker will participate in an open forum to answer any questions students might have at 3:30 today in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
"I hope students will take the opportunity to discuss this with him," Lauter said.
Walker's Open Letter
Recent allegations against me personally and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation have prompted me to make the following comments:
Nobody realizes more than I, that in order for our athletic program to be successful, we must have the complete support of our students, faculty, and alumni. I have made a sincere effort to demonstrate my desire to meet with any group, at any time, to discuss any phase of our athletic program. I have met with student and faculty groups on campus and have had many meetings with alumni accustomed to and will continue to make myself available for these groups in the future.
I happen to believe that a good, well-rounded athletic program is very vital to the success that any university enjoys. I also realize that the basic function of a university is to provide an education for its students, and that we are only one segment of the extracurricular activities that surround this campus.
Contrary to many beliefs, athletes go deeper than the individual participants. We are making an effort to provide entertainment for our students, faculty, alumni and friends. Through good athletics, we can provide a source of pride within our university, our community and our campus campuses. We also participate in athletic contests, who otherwise might not come. Through these opportunities, some of these people become quite involved in other facets of the University.
This past year, we have been most fortunate to be able to provide the type of program that we can all be proud of—a program that not only has been good for athletics, but for the University of Kansas, the city of Lawrence, and the state of Kansas. The exposure through the news media and national television appearances would be impossible for us to purchase, given the class manner being required by land, beach, cheering squail, and support of conducted themselves in representing this University has been well received throughout the country. I personally, am proud to be a part of the University of Kansas and its athletic program.
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Kalmbach Savs Ehrlichman Involved in Milk Co-op Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Herbert L. Kalmbach has testified about a midnight meeting at which he said a top dairy cooperative of official was told that milk prices would be increased and that the White House wanted confirmation of a $2 million campaign pledge, according to informed sources.
Meanwhile, CBS-TV News said yesterday that documents in file in federal court indicated that late President Lyndon B. Johnson, almost four years after leaving the White House, reminded Texas dairy producers of a $250,000 "commitment" to him.
Kalmbach, a former campaign fund-riser for President Nixon, said in the secret testimony that the session took place on March 24, 1971, in his suite at the Madison Hotel, the sources said.
Milk price supports were increased the following dav.
CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr said officials of the Associated Milk Products, Inc. AMPL, suggested the commitment was in return for higher milk prices to raise price supports and lower import quotas.
Mehren as saying Johnson later insisted on continuing the lease to supplement his retirement income. Mehren said Johnson also told him "dairy customers have to see the store, give $250,000, but hadn't done so." CBS reported.
Mehren said the plane lease was extended by talising the minutes of the AMPI board to show that
CBS quoted AMPI General Manager George
CBS新闻 Mehren as saying: "It became plain to me that AMPI was in no position to charge the immediate past president of the United States with beiru party to a fraudulent transaction."
The White House has said that Nikon's milk price order wasn't influenced by the promise of campaign contributions from the cooperative, an organization of dairy farmers.
The alleged meeting, which took place after a Republican fund-raising dinner attended by dozens of dairy cooperative officials, was attended by members of the Southern Federation and S. Nelson, according to the Kalimbach testimony.
Chotter had quit three weeks earlier as President Nixon's special counsel and had just been elected president.
receiving a retainer of $75,000 a year from the nation's largest dairy cooperative, Associated Milk Producers Inc. Nelson was the chief executive officer of the cooperative.
According to the sources, Kalmbach swore that Chotiner told Nelson that John D. Ehrlichman, who was Nixon's chief domestic adviser, wanted Nelson to reaffirm the milk producers' promise of $2 million in light of a milk price increase that the President had just ordered. Kalmbach said Nelson agreed, the sources said. The next day the ministers signed an agreement of the amount of the payment of 27 cents per hundredweight, which added hundreds of millions of dollars to the income of dairy farmers.
Kalibmah's testimony was given about six weeks ago to two investigators for the Senate Watergate committee, Alan Weitz and David Dorsen, according to the sources.
They said this testimony, along with other unspecified evidence, provided the basis for a letter that lawyers for the House held on April 19. That letter, which was intended to state facts showing the im
It is said, among other things, that on March 24, 1971, "Mr. Chotner stated to several dairyman that Mr. Ehrlichman expected the dairy industry to suffer from a shortage of milk as a forthcoming increase in milk price supports."
peachment investigators' need for 45 presidential tape recordings about the milk-fund affair, was made public Friday.
The White House has said that President Nixon was aware of the dairyer's $2 million promise because his wife Alexie Colson had told him about it in 1970. Colson has been identified as the main contact in the White House for Nelson and other dairy cooperative officials.
The House impeachment lawyers said that
It said Nixon gave the order to raise press March 16, when he entered the White House that included Ehrlichman.
The White House has denied that Nixon's decision to raise prices was influenced by the promise of money. He was influenced by "traditional political considerations," including pressure from Democrats in Congress who wanted a price increase, the White House said.
Ehrlichman then called Colson, Colson called Chotner, and Chotner told dairyman that Ehrlichman wanted them to reconfirm their "commitment" of money.
After this time, several references to a "commitment show up in material already discovered" are recorded.
On June 16, 1971, Marion E. Harrison, a dairy lawyer who shared law offices with Chotinee, sent a letter to Nelson complaining about delays in getting contributions going.
"The fact that all this took so long and is yet incomplete frustrates me, believe me, even more than it frustrates you," Harrison wrote. "Sometimes it is difficult to honor a commitment."
Months later, after unfavorable publicity about milk cooperative donations, a top official of the milk producers, George L. Meiren, allegedly wanted to talk to Kalmbach to say dairymen "we were not welcoming on their commitment," according to a report attributed to Bob A. Lally, a former co-op librist.
Chooten died last Jan. 30 of injuries suffered in an auto accident.
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