Kansas Staff Photo
Campus Lumberjack
A buildings and grounds man works to remove a diseased tree from in front of Flint Hall. The tree was one of five removed from the campus yesterday.
$2 Price Drop Leaves Basketball Ticket at $13
Season tickets for basketball will cost students $13 next season instead of $15, as was announced last week, the University of Kansas Athletic Board decided at a closed meeting yesterday. The board decided to football ticket prices at $15 for next season.
Season tickets last season cost $5.50 for football and $5.50 for basketball.
The athletic board, the governing body of the KU Athletic Association (KUAA), met in a special session called by its three student members to reconsider the ticket prices of $15 for both football and basketball that it had set last week.
KU Athletic Director Clyde Walker said the increase made ticket prices at KU comparable to ticket prices at other Big Eight schools.
"I'm frankly disappointed about the additional amount of money that the athletic corporation is going to be taking in from student sources," said John Beinser, Salina junior and a member of the athletic board.
BEISNER, at whose instigation the special meeting was called, produced figures to show that if ticket prices were raised to $15 for football and basketball, KUAA would be about $350 more in fiscal year 1974, the current fiscal year.
Because the board reduced basketball ticket prices to $13, KUAA will get about $76,850 more from students in fiscal year 1975 than it did in fiscal year 1974.
Beisner's figures were based on estimates of ticket sales for next season, estimates of turnover and average.
In 1966 an addition was made to the student section of Memorial Stadium. The addition was paid for with bonds. Until last spring about $75,000 a year was paid on the bonds. That $75,000 came from money KUAA got from students, either from ticket
sales or from KUAA's allocation from the student activity fee.
LAST SPRING the bonds were renegotiated so that about $50,000 was paid on them each year. That extended their maturation date from 1977 to 1979.
Because KUUA received about the same amount of money from students before renegotiation as after, the difference in the annual budget for KUUA's general operatingbudget. Beesner said.
Rich Lauer, Everston, III, senior, who has been active in student government for four years, said he had been to keep ticket prices down by giving KUDA more money for its general
Beister said the board had made "no specific response" to the figures concerning his business.
"The objection is that we pay more for the bonds and they turn around and raise ticket prices."
Walker said that the bonds had been renegotiated before he became athletic director and that he wasn't familiar with what had happened in the past.
A funeral procession, graffiti board and body painting may be seen on the University of Kansas campus April 30 and May 1, depending upon results of a meeting today between Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and a representative from the University Christian Movement (UCM).
By JAN SEYMOUR
Group Plans 'Day of Humiliation'
Kansas Staff Reporter
In conjunction with the national observance of a "Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer" on Tuesday, April 30, UCM is coordinating a series of events in Lawrence. UCM is a coalition of campus ministers.
A resolution calling for a Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Praver was passed by Congress last year.
"It passed real quick, and no one seemed to get much information." Kent Gee, UCM spokesman, said Sunday.
"The concept of humiliation is not so much in terms of masochism or in terms of shame, but in terms of a person recognizing responsibility that he has neglected." Gee said. Many of us have neglected our responsibility, because we don't understand the crimes that have been really coming to a strong American United States in the past 20 years wouldn't have happened."
"The resolution itself has some religious overtones and sounds really nebulus."
He said that because the resolution was so general, UCM decided to add something else to t—l—A Day of New Hope—to the resolution.
Dick Ort, UCM representative, will submit a proposed schedule of events to Shankel. The events will cover a 24 hour period, from noon Tuesday, April 30, until noon Wednesday, May 7.
The proposed activities will begin with a five minute period of silence at noon Tuesday. Later, then will be a funeral procession on Jayhawk Boulevard and a "toning and grooming" meditation session in front of Strong Hall. The procession will be planned details of the procession, but that there might be some flag inside the coffin to illustrate the shame of America.
The crises are the energy shortage, environmental crisis, continued involvement in war, the rising costs of living, the issue of amnesty, loss of presidential and political credibility and the gap between the rich and poor. Gee said.
Wednesday, May 1, the Day of New Hope, there will be a more positive atmosphere with celebrative events, such as a ceremony for Painting and Tribes throwing. Organizations, such as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, will be represented.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
84th Year. No.131
Tuesday, April 23. 1974
Profits Soar for 2 Oil Firms
Other major oil companies are expected to announce their first-quarter earnings this week. Some security analysts are predicating that the 100 per cent increases over 1973 levels.
Also announcing earnings yesterday was Ashland Oil, which said its profits for the first quarter were $18.4 million, 22 per cent above the $19.8 million reported last year. The first-quarter earnings were down 44 per cent of last year's profit in the final quarter of last year.
Gulf's chairman, B. R. Dorsey, said even higher profits may be required in the future to encourage exploration and development of new oil sources.
NEW YORK (AP)—Two major oil companies announced yesterday that their first-quarter profits were more than 75 per cent higher than a year ago.
WORLDWIDE REVENUES for Gulf rose to $4.52 billion for the quarter, as against 2.1 billion last year, a 115 per cent increase, the company said.
Both companies said oversales operations were responsible for much of the increase. Gulf Oil Corp., one of the country's top five oil firms in terms of sales, said its earnings for the first three months of this year exceeded $18 billion, the $165 million reported for the same period of 1973, and 26 per cent over the $230 million in the final quarter of last year.
STANDARD OIL OF INDIAA (Amoco),
which is ranked in the top 10, reported
earnings of $219 million for the first quarter,
up 81 per cent from both the $211.1 million in
the first quarter of 1973 and the $121 million
in the last three months of last year.
"In light of the tremendous task ahead of us, present profit levels must be maintained," Dorsay said. "Indeed, they may be insufficient to our capital needs."
Standard Oil reported gross revenue of $2.28 billion compared to $1.47 billion in the first quarter of 1973, an increase of 55 per cent.
Ashland's sales equaled $672.6 million,
compared to $439 million in the first three
months of 1973. The company ranks 15th in sales.
THE LATEST PROFIT FIGURES follow strong gains in the last quarter of 1973 and seem guaranteed to renew debate in the oil industry a windfall profits bill for the oil industry.
A few smaller companies have already declared their latest earnings, and the big firms, including Exxon Mobil, Mobil, Texaco, Midwestern Marinia and Shell Oil, are to report this week.
Energy officials had predicted that first-
quarter oil profits will be "embarrassingly high" or "whopers."
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., had said profits will be "atmost obscene."
"I'd go along with predictions that place earnings from 50 to 100 per cent above the first quarter of 1973," said Robert Hinkleck, a senior economist for E. F. Hutton & Co., a Wall Street firm.
"ON BALANCE this should be another fantastic quarter for the oil industry," said Alan Haltab, a securities analyst with the hedge fund Manhattan. "I'm looking for large earnings gains."
In 1973 the companies made most of their profit from international operations, but other analysts also see the domestic scene as the strongest moneymaker in 1974.
This is because of the rise in domestic crude oil prices, they say, Crude oil sold for $3.90 a barrel age but now costs $2.52 a barrel if it comes from an old well, and up to $1.0 a barrel if it's from a new one.
Under federal price control regulations, prices are restricted for the old crude—which accounts for 75 per cent of domestic crude. The amount a crude can rise in price according to demand.
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Sawhill Defends Oil Prices Higher Prices Increase Supplies, He Says
WASHINGTON (AP) - John C. Sawhill, the new federal energy chief, defended the nation's higher fuel prices and said yesterday it would be a "game-changer" for the industry.
Higher prices and substantial but reasonable profits are vital to our future well-being, he told the Senate Commerce Committee.
"Where price elicits new supply, it serves a useful economic function and benefits consumers with increased supply, which is usually the most cost-effective."
Sawhill, appointed last week to the nation's top energy post, predicted that the oil industry's financial statements for the first quarter of 1974 would show a continuing rise in profits, which increased dramatically in 1973.
HE ALSO PREDICTED, in comments made to reporters after testifying, that the price of gasoline would tilt more than a few
"Prices are now in the low 50s," he said. "I wouldn't expect them to go over 60 cents."
They already have reached that point in some areas of the nation. Sawhill criticized the proposed Consumer Energy Act which would, among other things, create a federal oil and gas corporation.
"It's been through the genius of our private enterprise system that we've been able to gain control over most of the reserves," he
Continuing the administration's arguments for eventual deregulation of the price of natural gas at the wellhead, Sawhill
said that such control caused uncertainty and reduced investment in domestic exploration and development.
SAWHILL SAID that in the late 1940s, 30 wildcat wells were needed to find a major field of oil.
"By 1972, 45 and 46 failed to produce a major field. Nine in 10 new field wildcat walls were unsuccessful," he said.
Low prices in an increasingly high-cost, high-risk industry would thus mean that reserves that were found and produced at lower prices would be depleted.
Sawhill listed his own suggestions to increase competition. In addition to deregulating the price of natural gas, these were excluding the major oil companies from joint lease ventures, and the refineries that did not purchase petroleum penetration of molar oil companies into the retail gasoline market.
JACK MOSKOWITZ, an assistant to the chairman of Common Cause, the citizen's lobby, said that without a federal oil and gas corporation the extent of government control would be to regulate "prices set by a handful of powerful corporations who exercise dominant control at every stage of production and marketing processes."
C. O. Petyon, president of Exxon International Co., denied allegations that the firm acted improperly in reducing both direct and indirect deliveries of petroleum products made from Saudi Arabian crude to America's armed forces.
Peyton told the Senate subcommittee on investigations that not to comply with the Saudi Arabian demand in October, 1973, for the release of the hostages was unacceptable.
Nixon 'Undecided' on House Subpoena Reply
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon was described yesterday as still undecided on how to respond to a House Judiciary hearing that taped of 42 presidential conversations.
As Nixon continued a series of meetings with aides and lawyers, administration officials reported internal White House debate on ways to cope with what one called "escalating requests on all fronts" for additional tapes.
"The question is do you ever satisfy them," said one official.
Nixon must respond by Thursday to the panel's subpoena, and Deputy Secretary Gerald L. Warren said, "The President told me no decisions have been made in terms of content or form of the reply. We'll have an answer this week."
The House committee is formally
Another White House official, who also said Nixon was undecided on how he would answer the subpoena, added "It will be a comprehensive response."
requesting more tapes than the 42 conversations it subpoenaed for its impachment inquiry, it was reported yesterday.
Three women formerly associated with the University of Kansas entered the KU Women's Hall of Fame last night at the annual Women's Recompition Night.
Irene Nunemaker, founder of the Nunemaker College and University of Kansas alumna, Hazel Anderson, former KU law librarian, and Frances Degen of the human development and family life program at KU were honored at the program.
Cindy Hird, Lawrence senior, and Judy Long, Salina senior, were chosen as the outstanding senior women at KU. Both students were made possible by the class of 1913.
The Hall of Fame originated in 1970, according to Lorna Grunz, assistant to the dean of women. The purpose was to honor outstanding women graduates or faculty and staff members whose achievements as models for women at the University.
with senior standing who have exhibited leadership and participation in many and diverse projects.
Janet Sharianistan, assistant professor of
Jenet Sharianistan, was honored as the outstanding
winner of the 2014 Sage Award.
Four awards were given in academics. Gwen Adams, Osage city senior, and Linda Ferrell, Valley Falls senior, received the undergraduate awards for their scholastic achievements. Shirley Kovar, Lawrence graduate student, and Kathleen O'Connell, Dayton, Ohio, graduate student, received the graduate awards.
Student awards were given in the areas of athletics, equal rights and human awareness, academics, student services and community services.
The award is given to women students
Sara McBride, Kansas City senior, and Mary Visser, Emporia senior, were chosen as outstanding women in athletics. Pam Troup, Fairborn, Ohio senior, was honored for her work in the field of equal rights and human awareness.
Barbara Pike, Wichita senior, was a member of the students in the nature of a Daffodil Fellowship.
Nancy Archer, Anamasia, Iowa, senior, and Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Ks. senior, were recognized for their contributions in student services.
Additional individual awards were given to Lynn Knox, St. Louis junior, and to the laureates.
The community services awards went to Lomax, Topkae junior, and Janet Witty.
Veda Gibson and Eileen Greenawalt were awarded outstanding staff contributors.
Outstanding women in the living groups were chosen by their peers and were recruited for research.
Members of CWENS, Mortar Board, Phi Beta Kappa, the Student Senate, and Watkins Berger Scholarship recipients were honored.
Women's Recognition night was sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women.
A White House spokesman disclosed that Nixon had met Sunday and yesterday with James D. St. Clair, his chief Watergate lawyer. This disclosure marked the first time the White House had acknowledged specific Nixon-St. Clair sessions.
Meanwhile, there were these other developments;
- Vice President Gerald R. Ford said in a New York speech that Nixon should cooperate fully with the House committee's suggestions in the next 48 or 78 hours, the White House will cooperate to the maximum in making available to the House committee . . . the relevant material the committee has requested." Ford told the committee on Thursday. - Rep. Peter W. Rodino, DN.J., chairman of the House committee indicated to
newsmen that the panel is formally requesting more tapes to determine whether President Nixon was involved in the bombing and possibly in the ITT and milk affairs.
—Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., made public a letter he received 10 days ago from special prosecutor Jaworski saying the White House "is now impounding" the Watergate grand juries by failing to produce tapes and documents. In the April announcement, Watergate assertions that the grand juries have all they need to complete their investigations.
Sources familiar with White House operations said the presidential staff still is working on what was described as "a" task that was not covered in describing the tapes of the subpenated conversations. In addition to the new Judiciary Committee request, Special Prosecutor
Jaworski has subpoenaed 64 tape recorded conversations for evidence in the Watergate cover-up trial scheduled to begin in September,
President Nixon
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP)—A Pan American 707 jetliner with 107 persons aboard crashed in mountainous terrain north of here and an Indonesian government minister said yesterday that some survivors had been caught.
The official, Communications Minister Emil Salim, didn't say how many survivors there were and gave no details. He said two search and rescue teams were sent to the crash site at Gragak not 40 miles from Dempasar, immediately after the crash last night.
An eyewitness said the plane came down in flames.
Some Americans were reported among the passengers, but the number wasn't determined.
A policeman in Dempasar said earlier that there were no survivors of the crash.
The Bail police officer, Ketut Djarum, was interpreted several times by an English-speaking telephone operator as saying there was a problem.
The operator on this Indonesian island city was relaying Diarum's remarks to a newsman in San Francisco.
an american employee in Ball, reached by telephone from Tokyo, said the cause of the crash had not been determined.
Djarmar said the plane went down at 3:05 a.m. EDT, yesterday near Singaporea, a city on the northern coast of the island of Bali.
**naujun**, a city on the northern coast of the island of Ball. The man who spokesman here said there were 96 passengers and a crew of 10 on his way.
in new York, a Pan Am spokesman said that the plane was en-
gaged in Kong to Bali when it went down. He said it was
pulled 37 miles before it crashed.
The Federal Aviation Administration in Honolulu said reports reaching there quoted eyewitnesses as saying the jetliner went down in flames between two mountains. The flight was No. 812, the FAA said.
Pan Am said a message was received from the aircraft when it was about three minutes from a landing, but no word came after.