Aaron's 715th Breaks Babe Ruth's Home Run Record
ATLANTA (AP) - Hyeron Aaron, undaunted by the swirl of controversy surrounding his quest for baseball immortality, became the game's all-time player when he snapped the 710th of his illustrious career.
The 40-year-old Atlanta Braves superstar left behind the ghost of the legendary Babe Ruth when he connected for the historic clutch in the fourth game left hander A Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A SELLOUT CROWD of $2,870 rose for a standing ovation and Aaron's Atlanta teammates poured out of the dugout and out of the left field bulpen to greet the 40-year-old superstar.
After Aaron touched home plate, teammates lifted him and carried him a few steps before he broke away and traced to a special box adjacent to the Atlanta dugout where he embraced his wife, Billye, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Aaron of Mobile, Ala.
He stayed with his family about two minutes and returned to the field and held aloft the historic ball.
THE BALL CARRIED about 400 feet and did not get into the seat. It was brought back to Aaron by a helicopter.
The Braves, with the help of Aaron's momentous corner—of only four hits—and six Dodger pitches, lost to the Rays.
After Aaron's two-run homer and two walks by Downing—to Dusty Baker and Dave Johnson—Mike Vance was able to put in a double. Then Vie Correll reached first on an error, filling the bases, and pinch hitter Frank Tepedino walked, forcing in the run that put the Braves ahead 4-3. Ralph Garfun's sacrifice fly drove in the fourth run of the game.
Ruth played for 22 seasons, got into 2,503 games and had 8,390 at-bats.
The soft-spoken Aaron's record home run came in his third game of his 21st season. It came on his 98th birthday.
Moments later, black Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, representing Commissioner Boykin Bum, presented Aaron with a $2,000 diamond-studded wrist watch. At the end of the evening, figures 715 were imprinted on the watch.
"Just thank God, it's all over," Aaron told the cheering crowd.
IRVIN WAS BOOED LOUDLY by the crowd. The displeasure was aimed at Kuhin, who had ordered the Braves to play Aaron in Cincinnati Sunday against the club's wishes.
As soon as the ball left the park, huge block numerals "715" were flashed on the center field message board--about 25 feet to the right of where the home run landed.
Then the message board flashed "Hank."
Downing, a 32-year-old veteran of 15 major league seasons, returned to the Dolger dugout during the on-field ceremonies for Aaron after the historic bore run.
IT WAS only Aaron's third home run for Downing,
is beginning his fourth year in the National
League. The others came last season. No. 876 in Los Angeles on April 15 and No. 893 in Atlanta on May 28.
The stage had been set in dramatic fashion with a special 30-minute premise show honoring Aaron. He received a two-minute standing ovation during the performance, crowned "Hope this thing gets over with tonight."
Aaron's homer gave the Braves a 33 tie with Los Angeles in the fourth inning. It came after Darrell Evans had scored on an error by Dodger shortstop Bill Russell.
AARON THEN HIT his game run at 9:07 p.m.
EDT, and the game was stopped for 11 minutes.
Downing then walked the next two batters, and was removed from the game by Dodge Manager Walt Alston. The 5-foot-10, 182-pound pitcher then hit a single from the dugout toUGHT the amplitude of the Atlanta crowd.
Auron thus ended in a hurry the controversy that swirled around him ever since the Braves beat the Rangers in 2013.
COMMISSIONER KUHN suggested that Atlanta use AURON as it had last year, playing roughly two of the three.
use him until last night's home opener.
The Braves started him in the season opper last Thursday, but manager Eddie Matthews announced he would play no more in Cincinnati because "Atlanta fans deserve 715."
Kahn stepped into the controversy again. He ordered Matthews to play Aaron in Sunday's series.
Aaron played, but went hitless in three trips,
striking out twice.
Atlanta officials had expected Kulu to attend the special tribute to Aaron here, but the commissioner did not.
"I had no commitment to be there," Kuhn said in Cleveland.
"I was invited both to Atlanta and Cleveland, and I decided to accept the invitation here since I was in Cincinnati and fortune to participate on the day Aaron hit his 741th home run."
Kanzan Photo by BOB GILLUM
Two young Lawrence residents seem puzzled over the results of some street-marking practice. The market street is located Centennial Park in northwest Lawrence.
Forecast: Partly cloudy with chance of showers. High in 70s, low in 40s.
84th Year, No.122
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, April 9, 1974
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Greeks Decide To Sit Out 1974 Jamboree
Confusion Street
Political Use of IRS Alleged
WASHINGTON (AP)—The White House made a total effort, dating from the first days of the Nixon administration, to use the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies to control its political and economic powers. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker said yesterday.
Weicker, R-Conn., made public a flood of memos which he said showed the systematic abuse of the IRS, starting with the creation in 1989 of a secret task force to collect tax information on so-called activist groups.
Using another set of documents given to the Senate Watergate Committee, Weicker detailed what he said were 54 separate undercover investigations conducted for the White House by retired New York City detective Anthony T. Ulasweek.
They included three separate and unsuccessful attempts to link Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, to "wild parties" in California, Hawaii and Arizona.
Testifying before a joint session of three Senate subcommittees investigating the extent of covert government intelligence operations, Weicker also produced documents indicating that The White House had a strong interest in the tax problems encountered by presidential friends, evangelist Billy Graham and actor John
Wayne has sent a telegram to Weicker saying he never asked for or received
which White House aides John W. Dean III and John Cauldfield discussed his tax diff-
Weicker advised Wayne in a telegram to take his complaints to the White House and sent the letter to his wife.
Weicker produced what be said was an IRS memo that showed that Ronald Reagan, now California's Republican mayor, earned $13,000 in taxes for 1962 through 1965.
The memo showed that Wayne had been assessed $273,331 in 1966 alone. Other years for which deficiency figures were given showed much smaller totals.
SUA Expands Recreation
Indoor. Outdoor Chairmen Selected
By SKIP ROWLEY
Kanaan Staff Reporter
Recreation programs provided by Student Union Activities (SUA) have been expanded and improved to reflect the increasing importance of recreation in students' lives, according to Rick Linn, executive director and SUA recreation chairman.
The expansion has been so marked, Lindeman said recently that next year there will be two SUA chairmen for recreation—one in the public and one in door recreation. In addition, small concerts, which were the responsibility of the chairmen, will be under the special events chairman.
Mike Glish, Merriam senior, will be outdoor recreation chairman next year and Woody Grutzmacher, Onaga sophomore, will be indoor recreation chairman.
"Recreation has been a low priority area in SUA until this year," Lindman said, "but this year it has moved to a position of finance. SUA is putting a push on recreation."
SUA has taken over the sponsorship of
several clubs that had been funded by the Student Senate, but had lost that funding, Lindman said. The SUA recreation budget has trulied in the last year, he said.
"Recreation is going to be a large part of our daily lives," Lindeman said. "In three years Clinton Reservoir will be open and that's going to be KU's playground."
LINDEMAN SAID SUA planned to build recreation facilities at Clinton.
Ghish said this was the first year for SUA equipment rentals and the response was excellent.
would be the key to further expansion. Glish said the Backpacking Club would set up a display of camping equipment on campus Thursday. The equipment is part of $1700 worth of camping equipment the club purchased in March to set up Wilderness
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Lowell Weicker
Israeli Jet Downed; Pilots Captured
Wecker said the IRS memo on the formation of the special intelligence task force discussed various means by which the tax laws could be used to attack what it described variously as activist, ideological, radical, militant, or subversive groups.
The memo, signed by D.O. Virdin, added: "We do not want the news media to be alerted to what we are attempting to do or how we are operating because disclosure of such information might embarrass the administration . . .."
An Israeli fighter-bomber went down in flames over the embattled Golan Heights front yesterday, and the two pilots hailed out and were captured in Lebanon. It was the first Israel warplane lost over the front since the October war.
By the Associated Press
Tark and artillery duels raged from dawn to dusk along the length of the 40-mile Golan Heights cease-fire line for the 28th consecutive day. No casualties were reported.
Syria said the Israeli bomber, an F4 Phantom, was brought over mt. MHernon by Syria's air defense system, apparently meaning a missile. But Israel denied this, saying the plane burst into flames because of "a technical hit."
Lebanon said the plane crashed in the Arkoub region near the village of Chabba, on Monday.
border and about 40 miles south of Beirut. A Lebanese spokesman said the two pilots were safe. He said they were picked up near Tripoli but the pilot didn't say where they were being held.
Israeli spokesmen admitted using warplanes Saturday for the first time since the October war. Spokesmen said air strikes were ordered after the Syrians attacked an Israeli position on 9,000-foot Mt. Herman, on the northern tip of the Heights.
In Damascus, informed sources said Syrian delegates would leave for Washington within the next 48 hours for talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on disengagement with Israel on the Heights.
They said the Syrian team would be headed by Brug. Gim, Hiknakek, Chehtai,
and other members of the US team.
include a few military and Foreign Ministry experts.
in Jerusalem, Premier Golia Meir讲
the day consulting with her Labor party on
whether to remove Defense Minister Moshe
Khan. The cabinet could bring down the government.
But Meir was unable to pull her bickering party together. She postponed a key meeting of the leadership set for last night and left the crisis unresolved.
The crisis focused on the report of a government-appointed commission that is investigating Israel's lack of preparations for a war against Hamas, blamed the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. David Elazar, and his intelligence director—who both resigned—but cleared Dayan's name.
However, many members of Dayan's own party called for Dayan to share the blame.
KU Computer System Is Examined
By TOM GAUME
Kanaan Staff Reminder
The Computer Resources Task Force (CRTF) has completed a report on the first phase of a study to determine the best type of computer system for the Kansas. However, opposition to the report is mounting.
The CRTF report calls for a change to a bifurcated (two-computer) system instead of upgrading the present computer. The new computer is only 15 per cent, upgrading and bifurcation is only 15 per cent, Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said yesterday. The present idea is to have one computer for administrative purposes and one for academic purposes.
Preliminary proposals from all computer companies have been requested and the response has been good, well received.
ALTHOUGH THE SPECIFICATIONS for the computers haven't been written yet, fear of a changeover to a bifurcated system and to different companies has stirred some discontent among the Professional Programmers Group (PPG), an organization of about 50 computer, programmers on campus.
Alex Barket, computer programmer and president of PPG said, instead of spending money for years into the future "we need support for the present system. They have been asking me to think about plan to spend more money," he said. "That project is
two years away and we need support now."
"I will be scheduling a special meeting of the PPG to poll the members on their opinion of the CHTF report,"
Bob Rudine, research assistant for administrative information systems, said about 24 man-years of accumulated data would be lost if the University changes over from Honeywell to another company, for example, and that the system would have grades and other vital information, wouldn't transfer to a new system if it were not then Honeywell, Rudine said. If the University changes to IBM, it will have to buy a special computer package, which adapts the old data to the new computer. It wouldn't be possible estimate University's situation but the cost would be bigh he said.
*'EVEN WITH THE PACKAGE, there is no guarantee will work properly, packages don't perform as well as in the real world.*
Packages made by companies are usually general and very seldom are they made to fit the specific needs of the university concerned. They have to be modified to fit specific needs," he said.
Wolfe said the CRTF decision was reached completely independently of any consideration of computer companies and no decision about which company to use would be made until after the design phase has been completed. To talk about other companies now is a little premature, he said.
LEE HUBBELL, Lawrence graduate student and member of the ad hoc committee of computer resources, said "We are now operating, it would appear, at less than 1988 in (with about $1.2 million annually) and that to operate just one outdated machine. When you tell me it costs $50,000 a month, machines that provide me with a nightly chuckle."
"I think it would cost us more on the order of $2 million (annually) to adequately support two computers and a server."
There is a struggle among computer users to use the computer between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays and they (the CRTF) think they can solve the problem with two computers. Hubbell said.
The responses from the majority of major U.S. vendors indicated a bifurcated system would result in a grossly overpowered computer capacity for the University needs, and they have said it would be
"THE PROBLEM isn't having one, two or 10 computers." Hubbell said. "The program is adequately supporting the computers you have. I don't think the University is prepared to support two computers."
Despite the fact that no company has been chosen yet, Rudine said. "We feel they are going to be just as biased in choosing the new company as they were in making the option to change to a bifurcated system." The CRTF ignored PPG's recommendation to keep and upgrade the one computer system, Rudine said.