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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 4, 1974
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
SenEx Makes Recommendation On Exigency
84th Year, No.119
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Kansan Photo by CURT DIEBEL
Four campus preachers traded their sermons for music yesterday. From their music stand in front of Flint Hall they serenaded passersby.
For Christ's Sake
Nixon to Pay Taxes Bill Could Reach $465,000
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internation- Revenue Service has ruled that President Nixon owes additional taxes for his years in the White House and the President has agreed to pay them, according to a White House announcement yesterday.
The announcement said Nixon might have to pay as much as $465.000
A few hours after the staff of a joint congressional committee recommended that Nixon押 $476,431 in back taxes, the White House said IRS put the chief executive's tax liability at $432,787.13 plus interest.
Although Nixon could have contested the IRS finding, administration officials said the President gave orders that the full amount plus interest be paid. This, they estimated, might bring his total payment to $465,000.
A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL said Nixon's payment of the back tax bill would wipe out much of his personal wealth. The President's net worth as of May 31, 1973, was $88,522, according to figures made public by the White House in December.
The IRS announced it was auditing Nixon's taxes, while the joint committee had them under study at the request of the President.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A tape-recorded voice identified as that of Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress who was dragged screening from her apartment two months ago, renowned her family as a hero and a leader in the terrorist kidnappers as a revolutionary.
Hearst Message Renounces Family
"I have changed—grown. I’ve become conscious and can never go back to the life we led before," said the voice identified by his brother, Jake. "I was a daughter, who had been held on a ransom
demand for millions of dollars of free food for the poor.
The sudden declaration, one day after a sign that her release by the mysterious Symbionese Liberation Army was imminent, left heart's parents stunned
"PERSONALLY, I don't believe it," newspaper Executive Randall Hearst said after hearing the tape. "We've had her 20 years, they've had her 60 days, and I don't believe she's going to change her philosophy that quickly or that radically."
"If it is her choice to become a member of an organization like this, we still love her,"
Hearst's wife, Catherine, agreed, telling newsmen outside the family's home near here: "I know my daughter very well. I know my girl. She would never join any organization like that without being coerced."
The couple, whose life for the past eight weeks had shifted from desperation to of-funded employment, could
Tornadoes Lash Midwest, South
By the Associated Press
Tornadoes struck nine states in the Midwest and South last night, then swirled into Canada. More than 170 people were killed.
Hundreds of injuries also were reported to the twisters ravaged parts of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Canada's Ontario Province. Damage was estimated in the millions.
Half the town of Xenia, Ohio, a community of 25,000 was destroyed, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
EIGHT PERSONS were killed and more than 20 injured in Windsor, Ontario, where a tornado ripped off the roof of the local curling rink.
The National Weather Service had been issuing tornado warnings for hours before the twisters set down, in but many areas such messages are considered routine. In most cases, entire communities were caught unaware by the storms.
On the tape, which also carried death threats by the SLA against three so-called "enemies of the people," Hearst said she was speaking her own mind.
"You wouldn't believe what this town looks like. We are b-gging for all kinds of medical assistance, manpower and other services," said a police broadcast in Xenia.
"THERE HAVE BEEN bodies in fields and
everything else; people with injuries," said
Linda Shapiro.
from the newsmen gathered in front of their home.
Some states issued immediate alerts of their national Guard forces.
Her freedom, therefore, became no longer a matter of negotiation, according to an SLA leader who also spoke on the issue and she could leave at any time she wished.
The tornadoes struck cities of all sizes, familiar urban areas such as Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, and small cities in other states. American universities are only names on a road map.
Authorities counted 173 deaths and gave this breakdown. Kentucky, 56; Indiana, 35; Ohio, 29; Illinois, 2; Alabama, 19; Tennessee, 28; Florida, 20; North Carolina, 4; and Windsor, Ontario, 8.
Tales of horror filtered in from other areas in the storm belt, which was for the area where it was located.
National Guard in the wake of yesterday's storms that tore through the central and eastern U.S.
The Indiana tornadoes were the worst since the Palm Sunday twisters that killed 140 people in that state nearly nine years ago.
The twister that struck Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, claimed at least five lives and threatened the city's water supply. The Louisville Water Co. said supplies dropped dangerously low and people stopped using water until pressure built up.
As the tornado raked the eight states, a moderate earthquake hit portions of the midwest. However, there were no reports of damage from the quake, centered in Springfield, III.
GOV. OTIS R. BOWEN mobilized the
THE MESSAGE BEGAN with Hearst saying, she had never been forced to say anything on any tape "nor have I been told that I was wrong," hypnotized or in any question."
She called the $2-million People in Need food giveaway funded by her father and the LSA elements she had been sham." Then, to her parents, she said, "You were playing games—stalling for time—time which the FBI was using in their at-ten attacks." And the SLA elements which guarded me.
The SLA voice indicated as well that the abduction of Patricia Hearst would be the target.
A major item at issue had been Nikon's tax deductions for the donation of his vice presidential papers, appraised at $75,000, to the government. He had deducted $45,000 from both the committee and the IHS agreed that he was not entitled to the deductions.
"In the no prisoners of the ruling class or its executive agents will be taken prisoner," he said. "The court of the people this date issues the following order: All corporate enemies of the people will be shot on sight at any time and at any place."
The White House said Nixon received word Tuesday of the Internal Revenue Service decision and Nixon thought his lawyers could have made a very strong case against major conclusions of the staff report.
"HOWEVER, at the time the President voluntarily volunteered the committee to conduct its examination of his tax returns, he stated that he would abide by the committee's judgment, "the statement said. In "Howeever," the committee declares that the proper amount to be paid must be determined by the Internal Revenue Service, he has today instructed payment of the $432,787.13 set forth by the Internal Revenue Service, plus interest."
Nixon's disclosed cash assets totaled $432,874 as of last May 31.
The White House did not say how he would.navy the tax bill. The statement also said,
pay the tax bill. The statement also said: "It should be noted that the report by the Internal Revenue Service rebuts any suggestion of fraud on the part of the President. The committee's staff report includes facts which would support any such charge.
A White House official said the Internal Service had told the internal service that $140 million were for it and did not have to be paid because the statute of limitations for that year had expired.
"ANY ERRORS which may have been made in the preparation of the President's returns were made by those to whom he delegated the responsibility for preparing his returns and were made without his knowledge and without his approval."
The report also said Nixon should
But the official said Nixon would pay the ...
reimburse the government for $92,298 in improvements made to his homes at San Clemente and at Key Biscayne, Fla., by the General Services Administration. The items involved were primarily of a personal nature, it said.
The IRS also ruled that Nixon owed capital gains taxes on sale of land at San Clemente, on the sale of his New York apartment and on a Florida land transaction which he had said represented a joint investment with his daughter, Tricia Oxx. She had earlier reported for tax purposes the share of the gain on that transaction.
IN ADDITION, Nixon's claims of business deductions for official use of those documents are
The committee staff and the IRS also agreed that Nixon should pay taxes on the military planes. The committee staff said Nixon should pay taxes on $2,000-a-mon
The President made public his financial status and tax returns in December. He held a news conference at the university mitte to look into the two major items in dispute: the donated papers and the San Francisco airport hotel.
On each of those points, the IRS and the congressional staff findings agreed.
THE CONTROVERSY arose after it was unassured that Nixon had paid taxes totaling $30 million.
The panel accepted the responsibility but insisted on looking into all of the items in inventory.
The staff emphasized in submitting its report that the document 'is not a demand letter'.
The major item that the report found against Nixon involved his deductions for his vice president papers valued at $756,000 to the National Archives. So far he has taken $482,018 in charitable deductions on these.
The staff found numerous reasons to declare these deductions not allowable.
SUA Alters Decision On Erotic Film Show
"The Eroic Film Celebration," sponsored by Student Union Activities Films, won't be shown May 7. Jim Mille, Hinside, will host the AMA Films board member, said yesterday.
Milo said it was his decision to cancel the film, not a decision by the SUA board.
The film celebration was originally scheduled to be Jan. 18 and 19 as part of SUA's film program. The two showings of the film were on both two state senators, Chuck Wilson D-
Captain Too Strict, Guardmen Say
By CRAIG STOCK
Kanan Staff Reporter
The Lawrence unit of the Kansas National Guard is understaffed and several present and former guardmen said recently that the shortage will remain a major reason for the shortage of manpower.
"If they're ever going to get anybody in the guard they're going to have to change things," said Mike Miller, who left the National Guard about a year ago. Miller of 1302 E. 21st St. said the local company's captain, Capt Frank Kortwol, was too
The Lawrence unit is 25 men short of its authorized strength of 131 despite a recent recruiting drive, according to Gt. Wayney, the executive supply technician for the company.
Korte said that he could understand the displeasure of the men but that his command policies were intended to improve the company's efficiency and readiness for combat.
"MEN ARE LEAVING faster than we can replace them," Guthrie said.
strict and unfair in his command of the men in the unit.
The Lawrence unit, which serves as the combat support company for the 2nd Battalion, is one of only a few National guard units in Kansas with a shortage of officers, according to Col. Michael Sarras, a recruited officer for the guard in Topka.
The recent recruiting drive was very successful in most of the state, he said. It allowed him to work with the staff.
The recruitment drive wasn't successful recently for the Lawrence unit, Gubilee state.
Miller blamed Korte for the Lawrence company's difficulties in recruiting.
nearack Wale was leaving and I was going to join up again, but Korte was still there so I said "to hell with it," Miller said. Miller was in the National Guard for eight years and was wounded in combat while on duty with the guard in Vietnam. He left the guard abaq a year ago, but he is now back home regularly to attend the two-week summer camp with the guard and because of problems with Korte, he said.
Jetmore, and Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, saw the film and complained to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes that it was pernographic and probably violated anti-obscence laws.
As a result of a student petition and a proposal by Milo to reinstate the film, the movie was cancelled.
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"When I first took the proposal of rescheduling the film to the SUA board I did so under the assumption that no legal problems would occur," Miilo said. "However, it has recently been related to me (by a spokesman from a group of lawyers) who stated that social problems, politically motivated, most assuredly be involved."
Milo said another reason he canceled the showing of the film was that he wouldn't be here if a court case arose. Milano said he was in college and may next year to attend a film school there.
Millo said he canceled the film himself rather than leaving the decision to another body because, as chairman of the film committee under which the film was booked, it was his job to order or cancel films as he saw fit.
Millo said the politics involved in the cancellation scared him and reminded him of Watergate. He said elements of the cancellation were covered up, and administrators accused others of lying because they had their jobs to protect.
KU Courses for Nontraditional Students Abundant
Kansas Staff Reporter
By DENNIS ELLSWORTH
Unless greater efforts are made to reach non-traditional students, the University may face cuts in funding and faculty. Ronald McGregor, professor of sociology at the University, said in a recent series of interviews
MegGroer said projections showed that enrollment on the Lawrence campus could fall to 12,000 to 14,000 students by the late 1980s. Enrollment on the campus this semester is about 17,000 students.
McGregor said the goals of Outreach were to educate nontraditional students, to maintain the level of activity on campus and to retain or increase the number of faculty members.
"Since legislative funding is based on the number of full-time students enrolled, we must replace traditional students with nontraditional students," he said.
He said Easy Access enrollment, Outreach efforts in the Kansas City area and night and weekend
classes on the Lawrence campus, helped to preserve seven or eight faculty positions in the year
THE TASK FORCE has recommended that a director of Outreach, who would coordinate the various Outreach activities, be chosen from the academic community, McGreater said.
William M. Lacas, associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said the school had offered credit and noncredit courses for the last four years in Kansas City, Kan.
Lucas said the school assisted in operating the Community Design Center in Kansas City, Kan., and planned to expand its offerings in the Easy Access program.
Usually two or three courses are offered, but only one course was offered this year. Lucas said.
"To have off-campus programs, there must be additional funding," Lacas said.
Almost every department of the University offers courses for the nontraditional student or has some faculty.
FUNDING FOR THE SCHOOL of Business has been increased, but on recommendation of the
school the administration has decided to use the funds to strengthen operations on campus, John
Four new faculty positions will be used to reduce undergraduate class size, to offer courses that the school hasn't been able to staff in the past and to aid students in their academic school enrollment on campus, he said.
Tolleson said the additions were, in part, "catch up." He said the school faculty had increased only 10 to 15 per cent since 1968, while enrollment in the school had increased about 30 per cent.
Executive development programs and seminars for businessmen are two examples of school programs that don't offer credit but seem to be consistent with the idea of outreach, he said.
Ronald K. Calgain, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the college is offering a master's degree in
He said there was a large program in Leavenworth for soldiers. The program is funded by the government.
"We must find a method of financing the start-up of these proramus," Calgaud said.
SEVERAL COURSES are offered in Johnson and
Nymouth counties, monthly for teachers, but open to
any student.
He said the museum has a statutory obligation to serve all of Kansas, was is yet funded only on the basis of public interest.
Calgard said the funding of the Natural History Museum was an example of the problems with the museum's management.
Calgair said cuts in the college budget such as the recent ones totaling about $300,000 couldn't be met.
WALKER SAID the division had argued that the quality of courses offered off campus should be measured.
More than 50,000 people participate each year in the 429 programs coordinated by the Division of Continuing Education, T. Howard Walker, dean of the division, said.
"Self-supporting education is a very dangerous idea," he said.
KU students pay about 30 per cent of their educational costs with their tuition payments, and older people enrolled in bona fide off-campus courses pay the full cost of their education, Walker said.
Walker said the program of continuing education classes at regional centers in Wichita, Colby, Garden City and Leavenworth was an example of out-of-state programs that were continuing education programs didn't offer credit.
Seminars for municipal officials and conferences for businessmen are two examples of programs that bring about 22,000 people to the KU campus each year, he said.
The Extramural Independent Study Center, the Continuing Education Library and the Institute of Public Affairs are other programs of continuing education that reach out into the state. Walker said.
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