THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Forecast: Partly cloudy and mild. High 60s, low 40s.
84th Year, No. 115
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Local Prices For Food Fairly Stable
Friday, March 29, 1974
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Congress Approves Bill To Raise Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress sent a bill raising the minimum wage from $1.60 am hour to $2.30 am hour and bringing seven states to the same level of coverage to President Nixon, yesterday.
If signed, it would be the first minimum wage increase in eight years. The raises would begin in steps on May 1 and be completed by 1978.
Nixon is expected to sign the bill, although he vetoed a similar one last year. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R/N.Y., told the Senate Committee that the House said that the bill would be surned.
At the White House, deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren said, "the President feels that this bill is a step in the right direction." But Warren said that Nixon wouldn't make a final decision until he was by the Office of Management and Budget.
Both chambers of Congress overwhelmingly approved a compromise version of the legislation within two hours and agreed in a hard effort to捏握 the minimum wage.
The increases would mean pay hike for an estimated 4.5 million workers. A total of 1,200 new jobs will be created.
The biggest groups brought under minimum wage coverage for the first time would be one million domestic and five million federal, state and local employees. Additional retail store employees, service workers and farm workers would also be covered.
The minimum wage increases would be phased on this schedule:
Workers who had coverage before 1966,
an estimated 36 million, would have a $2
minimum May 1, $2.10 Jan. 1, 1975, and $2.30
Jan. 1. 1976.
Those brought under coverage by the 1966
act and the present bill, would have a minimum of 90 Mileage Jan. 1, 1975.
Farm workers, who now have a $1.30 minimum would receive raises to $1.60 May 1, $1.80 Jan. 1, 1975; $2 Jan. 1, 1976; $2.20 Jan. 1, 1977; and $2 Jan. 1, 1978.
Domestic employees who worked more than eight hours a week, for one or more employer, or who worked as much as 50 hours in a calendar quarter, would be covered as part of the group entitled to $1.90 an hour. May 1.
One of the most controversial aspects of the bill concerning overtime for police and firefighters is that they must
Beginning Jan. 1, 1975, such employees would be eligible for overtime. For the first year, overtime would be paid for hours worked in excess of 240 in a 28-day period. Beginning a year later the standard would be 262 hours and for the following year, 216 hours.
thereafter the Secretary of Labor would set standards. Police and fire forces with fewer than five employees would be exempt. Another compromise permits full-time students to be employed for not more than 20 hours at $8 per cent of the regular wage minimum.
The Senate passed the compromise bill 71 to 19, the House 345 to 50.
Some Progress Seen By Kissinger In Talks
LONDON (AP)—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger headed for home yesterday declaring that he and Soviet leaders had made "some progress" toward solving the complex problem of limiting strategic nuclear weapons.
"But it is still too early to form a definitive judgment as to whether a breakthrough has been achieved," Kissinger told a news conference.
The secretary spoke after a round of intensive exchanges with leaders of the British government on American-European and American-British relations.
Earlier, a senior American official reported that Soviet proposals submitted to the United States in response to the war
on the limitation of strategic weapons fell short of American requirements.
He said the "conceptual breakthrough" that Kissinger was looking for evidently had to do with how he handled it.
Kissinger told newsman that he and the Soviet leaders had found it difficult to establish standards of comparison on which to base "the qualitative and quantitative changes" that would have to be involved in a new agreement limiting nuclear arms.
But he said that the degree of comparison was one of the issues that would have to be determined in follow-up talks in Washington and in Geneva.
The senior U.S. official had said earlier that President Nixon still plans to go ahead with a summit meeting with Leond J. Leontikos, a universityist party leader, in Moscow next June.
Torrential floods whipped by gala force winds covered one-fifth of Brazil yesterday, chasing an estimated 100,000 persons from their homes and
Floods in Brazil Force 100,000 to Evacuate
The hardest hit area was the agricultural state of Catarina, where the port city of Tubarao was underwater. Tubarao is 353 miles southwest of Rio de Janeiro.
Kleindienst's Testimony False. Paper Says
Former Atty. Gen Richard G. Kleindienst has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with his 1972 congressional campaign.
The Post said Kleindienst had begun plea bargaining and in return expected to receive no prison sentence and not to be barred from practicing law.
According to the Post story, Kleindienst's lawyer has informed the Watergate special prosecutor's office that Kleindienst is willing to plead guilty to making false and misleading statements about the ITT case during Senate hearings on his confirmation as attorney general.
Several radio operators estimated 5,000 persons were either dead, missing or injured. But staff members of Gov. Colombo Sailed said no complete information is available.
The Pentagon has acknowledged it conducts aerial war games over southeast Asia and continues to trust "hostile fire" pay to 'U.S. troops' in Syria, the military said.
Pentagon Acknowledges War Game Report
The Heart Corp. is setting up a trusteeship that would give $4 million for food tree once Patricia Heart is released unharmed, Randolph Heart said.
Hughes told the Senate he feared the missions, some of them conducted with bomb-loaded planes, could involve the risk of renewed U.S. combat
But the official said, “What they gave us is not acceptable.” He added that Kissinger’s 30 hours of talks with Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders in the Kremlin produced “movement,” but that he wouldn't yet describe it as a breakthrough.
Details of the present American-Soviet
relationship with newsmen
Dying to Washington with Killen
In a letter to Hughes, a Pentagon spokesman said Air Force planes conducted training flights in Southeast Asia but “don't employ large numbers of
In an apparent shift in strategy, the two countries seem to be concentrating on additions to the 1972 U.S.-Soviet nuclear treaty instead of working toward a permanent ban on offensive weapons. The most likely addition to the category of temporary controls is missiles carrying multiple warheads.
Five Tapes House Seeks Don't Exist
Writing an open letter to Miss Hearst, who was kidnapped 32 days ago, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little said the college sophomore wasn't responsible for the "dishonest actions" of her family and "we feel confident the SLA will release you unharmed."
Hearst to Give $4 Million if Daughter Freed
White House spokesman Gerald L. Warren said yesterday that it was a matter of court record that tapes sought by the committee, of conversations which occurred after a recorder ran out of tape, do not exist.
Meanwhile, two alleged members of the Symbionite Liberation Army (SLA) said in a letter from their jail cell yesterday that they thought it was a hoax.
Asked about a published report that tapes don't exist of some 42 conversations sought by the White House, whether to recommend impeachment President Nixon, Warren said the White House had no public announcement of the fact since court records already in circulation.
A 1968 meme forecasting a decade of worldwide oil surpluses didn't figure in company planning or result in curtailment of oil production in the Middle East, said G. L. Parkhurst, a retired Standard Oil Co. executive yesterday. But the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on multinational corporations.
Logs of the President's day showed there were five conversations lost because of the unattended recorder, which was on the White House's voice-actuated taping system in Nixon's Executive Office Building suite.
Oil Executives Testify at Senate Committee
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five of the conversations sought by the House impeachment inquiry apparently were never heard, the unattended White House lounge system
The conversations were with H. R.
Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John W.
Dean III, Kleindienst and assistant Atty.
Gen. Henry E. Petersen.
In related testimony, a former Exxon Corp. executive said that American oil companies went into business in Iran at the request of the U.S. government.
ticing for the annual spring swim shows by the KU Syaching Team. The seasons are April 5th and 6th in Robinson Naturatum. The Myths of Magic, "Myths of Magic," is $8.00 each. Magics are $10.00.
Arabesque
Linda Soest, Wichita senior, and Tom Compton, Wichita sophomore, are prac-
Stans Admitted Lying, Former Official Testifies
The official, G. Bradford Cook, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), also testified that Stans, former Secretary of Commerce, meddled in an SEC fraud case against Vesco.
NEW YORK (AP)—Maurice H. Stans
once said that he beled to the grand jury
investigating the activities of financier
government official testified yesterday.
Cook testified at the trial of Stans and former Alti. Gen. John N. Mitchell, who are accused of killing a justice in justice and perjury in connection with a secret $200,000 cash contribution from a bank.
Cook testified that Stans had urged the SEC's fraud inquiry into Vesco's activities be limited because there was "no need to cause embarrassment."
Cook also said he had discussed the Vesco case with Mitchell during a meeting on Dec. 13. Mr. Mitchell has been a good supporter.
8 Groups to Split 85.6% of Funds
By JACK McNEELY
Kansas Staff Reporter
The Student Senate is getting ready to give away about $400,000, but the majority
Of the 68 student groups that have applied for funding from the student activity fee for fiscal 1975, eight are guaranteed 85.6 percent of the total allocation, according to fairness provided by Mike Steinmetz, a freshman student and student senate treasurer.
The other 60 groups will scrape for what's
let down. They must split 14.4 per cent
of the group.
Legislation passed by the senate last semester guarantees funding to those eight groups.
Intercollegiate athletics will get the largest portion of the $39,347.740 that the senate will allocate—39.9 per cent ($157,380).
Women's Sports has requested $78,535.19,
which is 49.9 per cent of the money
guaranteed to intercollegiate athletics. Last
year Women's Sports was given 6 per cent
of the money guaranteed to intercollegiate
athletics.
The $157,300 will be divided between the university of Kansas Athletic Association and the University of Oklahoma.
Clyde Walker, athletic director, has asked that the entire amount be given to the athletics department.
The women have increased their request to establish a women's intercollegiate sports program at KU, Karyn Visser, Emma Bentley, and the Women of Sports. said yesterday.
About 22 per cent of the women's request is for items that won't have to be replaced next year, such as equipment and uniforms; Visser said.
The rest of the money is for travel expenses and coaches' salaries, she said.
Walker couldn't be reached for comment on the athletic association's request.
Neil Shortlidge, Chicago first year law student and member of the board of directors of the athletic association, said he had not been impressed with Spoart's, but there was a need to consider how
much damage would be done to the men's intercollegiate sports program at KU if the team were unable to play.
Shortlidge said the activity fee allocation to men's sports was a subsidy of student season ticket prices to men's athletic events.
He said that if the women's request was granted, the athletic board would have to give him permission.
Current student prices to athletic events are lower at KU than at most other schools,
"If raising ticket prices is what we need to get some support for the women's program, I think it would be a good idea."
The price of student season tickets to both football and basketball games will be increased at least $5 if the board chooses to make up the lost revenue that way. Short
The athletic board is open-minded enough to realize that women should develop the
Visser said women hadn't been given a chance to develop their sports program. She said women's sports would be as exciting as men's and would bring money into the University once a program had been established.
The Kanana is guaranteed the next highest potential total allocation -10.7
(%), 45.8 (%), 40.9%
best intercollegiate athletic program they can, Shortlidge said.
Edward Bassett, dean of the School of
Journalism, had requested that $13,000
Bassett said students paid less than two cents for each issue of the Kansan.
Last semester the Kansan had a deficit of about $17,000. Bassett said, and it won't be enough for him.
The Kanan needs more than it is courteous is going to continue its operational
The Kansan is receiving less money from
"Because the activity fee is limited, the senators have to look at some of the basic facts."
students now than it did 10 years ago, Bassett said.
Men's and Women's Intramurals also needs more money than it is guaranteed, Robert Lockwood, instructor of physical education, faculty adviser to Intramurals said.
The intramurals program is guaranteed
1 per team ($6,250.20) of the total allot
amount.
Lockwood had asked for about twice that amount.
He said that if his request wasn't granted, the intramurals program next year would have funds for only one winter sport and one spring sport. Men's and women's basketball programs would be cut, he said, and there would be no officials.
Lockwood said entry fees for all in-
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President Granted Veto Power Over Student Senate Legislation
The University Senate yesterday gave the student body president to power over legislation passed by the Student Senate.
The veto power was authorized by the University Senate by an amendment to the Senate Code and will be in effect Monday. The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday.
The University Senate is composed of the chancellor, the vice
uncertificates and members of the joint Student Senates. The
uncertificate is given to the last 1,000 students.
The code change requires that all legislation passed by the Student Senate be given to the student body president within one week of passage. The student body president must indicate approval in writing or, within 10 days, give the chairman of the Student Executive Committee a written statement of disapproval that includes reasons for the disapproval.
StudEx is required to place the issue before the Student Senate at next meeting. A two-thirds affirmative vote of senate members [28] is required.
The code change also provides that the student body president must act on proposed legislation within 10 days or it is
The new procedures replace the current Senate practice of approving legislation by majority vote only.
In other business, the University Senate approved changes to the Senate Code that delay the date members of the University Council and the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) take office.
Members of the Faculty Senate and Student Senate who are elected to the council will take office on the day after University graduation.
However, the code change also requires that the new council members meet once in April to organize, to elect a presiding officer and assistant and to act on the nomination by SenEx of a person to serve as SenEx chairman.
Francis H. Heller, professor of political science and law, said that the date change was required because it was difficult to conduct business at the end of the year if new members took office in April
Committees are preparing year-end reports in April, he said, and it is disruptive to change council and SenEx members at that time.
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