Price Drops For Goods From Farm
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prices of raw farm products fell 6 per cent from mid-March to mid-April, continuing a decline that began six weeks ago, the Agriculture Department said.
Compared with a year earlier, however, the department's index of prices that farmers receive averaged 17 per cent higher. There was a drop from Oct. 15 to this year of 1.5 per cent. Otherwise the index had been at least February and March, when it fell 4 per cent.
For consumers, the drop may have little meaning, at least for a few weeks.
The effect of the price drop at the supermarket depends on the pricing decisions of the middlemen who process and sell the raw products. However, the prices that farmers themselves paid for groceries fell heavily 3 per cent less than a month earlier.
Meat-animal prices, which reflect a year-round farm enterprise distinct from crops, have become a more sensitive indicator of consumer prices when farm prices change.
For the month ending April 15, the meat-animal price index fell 6 per cent, following an 8 per cent decline the month before. Meat prices dropped to 32 per cent of a family's food spending.
Health Fee Boost Topic of Hearing
By MALLORY BURNETT Kansas Staff Reporter
The proposed increase in student health fees was questioned at a public hearing last night conducted by a student senate health subcommittee.
The proposal is to raise the current health fee of $30 a semester for students enrolled in more than six hours to $38.50.
Students enrolled in six hours or less pay $3.45 per each hour, and if the proposal is passed, they would pay $4.40 per each hour.
Jim Strobl, business manager for Wattles
Hospital, said that a reserve fund on which he
had to pay the student health fees had been
depleted. Strobl said that if health fees were
raised to $33.50, the reserve fund would gain
about $18,500, giving it a balance of about
But, Strobli said, that figure doesn't even equal one month's operating income.
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The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year. No. 137
Wednesday, May 1, 1974
Sober Celebration
Kansas Staff Photo By DAVE CRENSHAW
Don Baldwin, campus minister, (left) directed a funeral procession down Jayhawk Boulevard yesterday, part of the Day of Humiliation celebration. See story page 2.
Tape Transcripts Released
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nikon's edited Watergate transcripts were issued yesterday as he sought to prove his innocence with a journal recounting his conversations about possible payoffs, his testimony and a strategy for bundling the emerging scandal.
As Nixon and his lawyers had said in advance, the transcripts are often ambiguous, answering some questions but not all. The intent of the President and his men.
With the transcript went a 50-page brief prepared by Nixon's impachment lawyer, Michael Hewitt.
quotations together with the White House account of what the President said and did during the crucial phase of the Watergate cover-up attempt.
throughout the period of the watergate affair, the raw material of these recorded confidential conversations establishes that the President had no prior knowledge of the break-in and that he had no knowledge of the bombing on christmas day, 21, 1973, "the St. Clair paper concluded.
One of the quotes included in the St. Clair brief as evidence of Nixon's determination to clear up Watergate came from An April 15, 1972, conversation with Asst. Ast., Gen.
Henry Petersen about the refusal of conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to cooperate with Mr. Fitzgerald.
"I want him to be sure to understand that as far as the President is concerned, everybody in this case is to talk and to tell the truth. You are to tell everybody, and you may ask them to call me on that with anybody. You just say those are your orders," the brief said.
Another, from an April 14 conversation with former aider John D. Ehrlichman, read a letter to the press.
Nixon: "We have to prick the boil and take the heat. Now that's what we re doing
here. We're going to prick this boil and take the heat. I—am I overtaking?"
Ehrlichman: "No, I think that's right. The idea is this will prick the boil. It may not. The history of this thing has to be, though, that you did not tuck this under the rug yesterday or today and hope it would go away."
Watergate Big Issue at KU
By SALLY GILLILAND
The brief quoted the transcript of a Nixon conversation with counsel John Dean III on Feb. 28, 1973, in which Nixon said, "Of course I forgot when I heard about this forced entry and banging. I thought 'what is this? What is the matter with these people, are they wrong?'".
By SALLY GILLIANE
Kansas Staff Reporter
"It will have a substantial place in
it," he said. "Earl A. Neelring,
professor of policy science."
Eight of 10 people interviewed yesterday in a random survey of more than 100 students and faculty members said Watergate would profoundly affect American history and surpass any other political incident.
One student said that he thought it would cause people to think before they voted and that the incident would place a great deal of pressure on the next president.
Most students and faculty members said
Ticket Issue Hinges on Senate Univ
Kansas Staff Reporter
By HAL RITTER
When the Student Senate considers a motion calling for the resignation of Athletic Director Clyde Walker at its meeting tonight, an issue much bigger than the current spat between Walker and a few senators will be at stake.
Approval of the resolution won't mean Walker will be leaving town, and the senators know it. What approval would mean is that the senate sincerely believes that Walker and the KU Athletic Board are out of line in raising the prices of season tickets at the stadium, which costs to $15 and $13 and that the senators intend to fight the increases with determination.
The student ticket issue is one that has existed for years at KU. Mostly it's been an innocuous issue smoldering beneath the surface of campus affairs. But occasionally it's erupted into a full-blow controversy, mostly because the issue is closely linked to students' experiences. The athletic department over how big a chunk of the activity fee goes to athletics.
What might be called the modern history of the issue dates back almost nine years.
Students defined an impeachable offense as treason, violation of any law by which the nation was governed or an act that wasn't in the best interest of the American people.
When KU students returned to classes in the fall of 1965 they paid $1.50 for football season tickets and they knew that later in college they would get a season basketball ticket free.
But they also knew there was a good
chance their football seats would be somewhere in the horseshoe part of Memorial Stadium. The enrollment boom of the 1960s was in full swing in 1965, and more and more students were being pushed into the end zone each year as more tickets
Because good seats were becoming scarcer each year, the Athletic Seating
Board announced in October 1965 plans to build an addition to the east side of the stadium and to finance it by raising the funds for sports for both football and basketball games.
On Nov. 30, 1965, the old All Student Council (the foremer of today's senate) approved a resolution supporting the inclusion of football tickets and $4 for basketball.
With an annual income from student ticket sales guaranteed, the athletic department was able to borrow $35,000 to associate to pay for the stadium expansion.
President Nixon had committed an impeachable affair and many said he had been too insensitive.
According to the terms of the loan, the athletic department agreed that repayment of the loan in 1981 would "present an occasion for reconsideration of the desire of and need for continuation of programs for football and basketball season tickets."
overriding concern of the ASC at the time it approved the seating board's expansion
A former KU student who was active in student government in the late 1960s said last week that a return to the low ticket prices after the loan was repaid was an
After the ticket increases were approved prices remained unchanged until June 1972 when tickets for both sports were increased $1.50 to $6.50 and $5.50. A month earlier the Student Senate had reduced the portion of the activity fee to $450,000 from $162,000 to $156,000. The athletic department responded with the ticket price increase.
All of the extra money generated by the department's last week to go directly to the department's bank.
The increase wasn't contested by the senate, probably because Wade Stinson, who was then athletic director, didn't announce the increases until the first week in
The increase announced two weeks ago by Walker is identical to that made two years ago by Stinson except in one respect--it's bigger. Early this month, the senate reduced the athletic department's request for activity fee funds from $13,200 to $10,000, and the department responded with the second increase in student ticket prices in two years.
Two of a Kind
Kansas Staff Photo by DAVE CREWENHAM
Not only are Marsha Swanson (left) and Pat McKelvyn (right) both Overland Park junior, they are also roommates and each broke a leg in the same automobile accident.
In the spring of 1971, the athletic department's activity fee request was reduced to $180,000 to $150,000 by the student senate, but the athletic department didn't find it necessary to raise student ticket prices then.
The athletic department will argue that the senate broke faith in 1972 by cutting the department's request $6,000, but that argument carries little weight.
Also, based on this year's student ticket sales of about 9,700 football tickets and about 6,200 basketball tickets (Doug Messer, assistant athletic director, said yesterday that records of ticket sales for the year were $23,650 and $1.50 increase passed two years ago raised an extra $23,650, but the department's request was cut only $6,000.
This year the athletic department's activity fee request was cut by about $64,000, but if 10,000 football tickets and 6,500 basketball tickets are sold to students next year, the price increases will bring in $133,750 more from ticket sales than this year, which would mean a net gain of almost $70,000.
In light of inflation and additional expenses as KU sports become more “big time” each year, it appears that those who think tickets will drop to $1.50 for football and again be paid for basketball when the season is finished is paid off in a few years are guilty of wishful thinking.
One student said President Nixon should be impeached only if he had committed a crime.
If ticket prices remain at the new levels, all students will pay the athletic department fee for the season. Students year and students who buy season tickets will pay more for those tickets.
Few will argue with a trend toward a
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"An impeachable offense is any illegal act, abuse of power or a specific violation of the Constitution or the spirit of the Conventions," Pritchard, professor of economics, said.
Pritchard said Nixon had used the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and, indirectly, the Central Intelligence Agency to encourage and intimidate" the American people.
Although only half of those interviewed thought Nixon would be impached, the majority said they thought he definitely should be impached.
The White House brief said the tape of a Sept. 15, 1972, meeting between Nixon and counsel Dean didn't support Dean's calls for war. The tape of the cover-up of Waltergate involvement.
Most said they thought Nixon wouldn't see NIXON Back Page
It quoted Nixon as saying: "Oh well, this is a can of worms as you know, a lot of stuff that went on. And the people who worked this work are awfully embarrassed."
"But the way you have handled all this seems to me has been very skillful in putting your fingers in the leaks that have sprung here and sprung there."
St. Clair said Nixon was speaking of "the politics of the matter, such as civil suits, counter suits, Democratic efforts to exploit Watergate as a political issue and the like," and not in the context of a plot to obstruct justice.
But the transcripts in full also have Nixon speculating about payoffs, noting that the money could be raised and in intraceable cash, and theorizing that witnesses before a grand jury could avoid perjury because they could say they couldn't recall.
The transcript does not include a clear Nixon rejection of payoffs, and at one point includes an exchange about the payoff for Watergate conspirator E. Darnault Hunt.
It begins with Dean's suggestion that the Watergate defendants other than Hunt are
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Sirica Won't Disqualify Himself from Trial
U. S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica demanded yesterday a request that he disguised himself from presence in the Watergate cover-up trial.
The disqualification request was made April 10 by four defendants—former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and former White House aides John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson and Gordon Strachan. The trial is scheduled to start Sept. 9.
Sirica, who presided over the original Watergate trial of seven men charged with burglary and bugging of Democratic party headquarters, had assigned the cover-up trial to himself before retiring as chief judge of the district court here.
The defendants said Sirica had "generally displayed what can only be called a prosecutorial interest." They also said "Judge Sirica possesses, consciously or unconsciously, a deepseated and unshakable personal bias in favor of the prosecution."
Kissinger Lands in Egypt, Seeks Sadat's Aid
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew into the Egyptian port city of Alexandria last night to enlist the prestige and support of President Anwar Sadat in his drive to disentangle Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights.
A senior American official said on the flight from Aligiers that Kissinger's hopes "were slightly raised" following talks with President Houari Boudjemeine and before that with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromykov.
But the official said the Middle East peace mission would be "protracted" and there wouldn't be an agreement unless both Syria and Israel made
Tax Reform Bill Passes House Committee
An oil tax reform bill, expected to like the petroleum industry's taxes by between $13 billion and $4 billion over eight years, was approved by the House Budget Committee on Wednesday.
Oil-state representatives headed the opposition to the bill which would phase out an existing tax break for the petroleum industry and would impose a new windfall profits tax. However, the new tax is linked to a so-called plowback feature, giving energy-hunting oilmen a way to escape paying
It may be the week after next before the bill reaches the House for action because the measure first must be cleared by the Rules Committee.