Proposed House Committee Changes First Since '46
By JIM KENDELL
By
Benjamin Washington Corresponden
WASHINGTON—The legislative duties of three Kansas Congressmen will be substantially changed next year if the House agrees to reorganize itself along lines proposed by its Select Committee on Com-
the committee, headed by chairman Richard Bolting, D-Mo. will complete work on its proposal today and expects to bring it to the House by mid-April, according to a committee staff member.
The Bolling committee began work on reorganization in Feb. 1973. It is the first major House reorganization effort since 1946.
The number of committees would be reduced from 21 to 20, and each member of the House would be required to only one of 15 major committees.
Three committees—Internal Security, Post Office and Civil
Service and Merchant Marine and Fisheries—would be eliminated. A new Energy and Environment Committee would be created from the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. The Education and Labor Committees were sawn in several other committees would take on new duties.
Rep. Larry Winn Jr., who represents the third district in Kansas that includes Lawrence, currently serves on two major committees, Science and Astronomics and Foreign Affairs.
Under the reorganization plan, the Science and Astronautics Committee would become the Science and Technology Committee and would take a greater role in research and development. The Foreign Affairs committee would review foreign trade.
affected by the reorganization plan is Joe Skubitz, who represents southeastern Kansas.
Winn would have to drop out of one of these committees.
The Kansas congressman most
Skubitz is opposed to the plan, which could strip him of much of his power. He thinks that it won't pass the House without substantial revision, according to his administrative assistant, Mike Marden.
He is currently the second ranking Republican on the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and would become the ranking Republican after the retirement of Craig Hosner of California in January. That combination, however, would be renamed the Energy and Environment Committee.
Skubla sits on two major committees whose names and duties would be changed, and three of his colleagues would be transferred to other committees.
Skubitz would lose membership on the National Parks and Recreation Subcommittee on which he is the
ranking, Republican member. His other committee, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, would be renamed Commerce and Health, and his subcommittee would go to another committee.
Skubatz has urged that jurisdiction over national parks and recreation be kept with the new Energy and Environment Committee instead of the National Committee served to the agriculture and resources committee, according to Marden.
Skubitz thinks that the present jurisdiction is more pertinent than the new plan and he doesn't want to have to worry about a member of the committee. Meredith said.
"If people have elected him for six terms, why shouldn't he retain his seniority that has built up over the years?" Marden said.
Skubitz also opposes limiting a member to one major committee assignment. Skubitz points out that
senators often handle three or four committee assignments.
Keith G. Sebelius, who represents Western Kansas, would also have to choose between two major committees. He serves on the Agricultural and the Interior and Insular Affairs committees.
The Agricultural Committee would become the Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee after reorganization. Interior and Insular Affairs would become part of the Agency and Environment committee.
Sebelius' three agriculture subcommittees would be preserved and one of his Interior subcommittees would be preserved and Natural Resources committee. Another of his Interior subcommittees also would be transferred, moving one intact.
Committee, especially since the Department of Agriculture spent $278 million in his district in 1972.
Mel Thompson. Sebelius legislative assistant, said Monday that Sebelius had contacted the Bolling Committee and was in favor of some realignment of the committee to more directly to jump on a reform bandwagon.
Neither Garner E. Shriver from Wichita nor William R. Roy from Topeka would be as seriously affected by the congression as the other three congressmen.
Roy, a physician, said Wednesday that the reorganization would give Health and Commerce more
authority over health care, which was desirable. Yet it would also narrow the scope of the committee by stripping it of its transportation, energy and environment assignation, which he said was undesirable.
But Roy supports the principle of House reorganization.
"It's about time," he said. "It's been 26 years since the last reorganization."
Shriver, who ranks eighth—relatively high on—the Appropriations Committee, would be almost unaffected by the change.
Conservatives in the Kansas delegation would lose more influence than moderate Bill Roy, since three members of the House have one major committee assignment.
In the relatively anonymous world of the House, members depend heavily on their committee assignments as vehicles of power.
Mostly cloudy, chance of showers. High 60s, low 40s.
84th Year, No.106
Friday, March 8, 1974
Hello Up There
afternoon sunshine. She drew occasional glances from fellow students who didn't know her name.
Brenda Adams, right, Lawrence sophomore, was breaking but never gravely getting you in.
Coal Production In Kansas Is Dropping
States to Get More Gasoline Kansas' Allocation 10% Over February's
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Bv the Associated Press
Federal energy chief William E. Simon tapped gasoline stocks yesterday to increase distribution in March to reduce supply costs and lower requirements for states with low supplies.
Simon announced yesterday in Washington increases in March averaging over 40 percent for the last year, an increase of about one per cent over February—but the increases were concentrated most heavily in states with poor supplies, and improvements there should be.
Kansas is to receive 118.6 million gallons of gasoline for the month of March which represents an increase of more than 10 per million barrels in its allocation, Sen. Bob said Thursday.
In a statement released through his Topkea re-election campaign headquarters, Dole said that the March allocation was $14 million for aid allotment for the same month in 1972.
"THEIS REPRESENTS good news for Kansas, especially when fuel demand is mounting as we get into the heavy use for agriculture." Dole said.
"In effect, this allocation assigns to Kansas all of our fuel which refiners have purchased."
Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported that gasoline production decreased about two per cent over the year, matching a decrease in retinyl inputs.
Dole said he had requested a special harvest allocation for Kansas to meet the anticipated heavy demand by farmers, and the ability to supply Kansas farmers the fuel they require.
The APL an oil industry organization, put the blame for the decreased refinery operations on scheduled shutdowns for repairs and on the lack of crude oil.
Both production and imports of crude oil shipped downward last week, the API reported, although imports of refined oil increased by a substantial 377,000 barrels a day.
In the last week of February, Simon ordered emergency ships of gasoline from company inventories into 28 states and used them to provide local shortages and fuel gas station lines.
The API figures indicated a 4.84-million barrel increase in the gasoline stocks to a total of 228.5 million barrels, about five per cent higher than a year ago.
By ordering special allocations to increase the March distribution, Simon appeared to be dipping into gasoline stocks for another 6.76 million barrels.
Simon told the National Governors' Conference, at which he announced the March allocations, that further emergency allocations could be made if new problems arise, but that he didn't think they would be necessary.
Gov. Robert Docking, who is attending the conference, asked the Federal Energy Office Wednesday to increase Kansas' subsidy from reserve 4 per cent to 5 per cent.
The reserve holds back a percentage of a state's monthly allocation. The state
allocation officer is then responsible for diverting the reserved gasoline to areas without gasoline.
Docking said he would like to see more information given to agricultural fuel use and that a formula for fuel allocation should also reflect the rise in agricultural acreage.
Simon also told the governors he was considering the idea of lifting the voluntary recreation industry and vacation industry. But his deputy, John C. Sawhill, later told newsman that Simon meant Sunday sales might be resumed after the Arab oil embargo against Iraq.
figures released by Simon at the conference indicated that the states would have
Ehrlichman, Five Others Indicted For Ellsberg Break-In Conspiracy
WASHINGTON (AP)—Former Presidential aide John D. Ehrlichman, already charged with conspiring in the Watergate cover-up, was indicted again Wednesday and is likely sending White House agents to rite a psychiatrist's office and living about it later.
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The federal grand jury charged Ehrlichman, along with former White House aide Charles W. Colson and four men tied to the Watergate burglary, with conspiring to violate the rights of Dr. Lewis J. Fielding of Los Angeles.
Streakers Out for Fun, Profs Say
By JILL WILLIS
Kansas Staff Reporter
While streakers dart around the University of Kansas campus, state legislators and University administrators are trying to figure out what is behind this latest campus sport.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Otawa, said yesterday that streaking was "a method of telling everyone that he was going to win."
State Sen. Norman Gaur, R-Kansas City, Kan., claimed he was the founding father of the 'ad hoc committee of senate streakers.' Gaar said the streaking senators had had a meeting recently.
I see the streaks on the campus wouldn't have a negative effect on the University budget, which is now very strong.
He said the Kansas Senate had formed its own streaking club.
"We need to up the budget to provide for more ski
masks and tennis shoes." he said.
Winter said time trials for senate streakers would begin at 3.Friday morning.
"It was once around the rotunda with all secretaries invited," he said.
Wilson said he didn't know whether streaking on campus would affect the KU budget, but he said it was possible that the demonstrations would have an adverse effect.
Winter said, however, that he thought it would be "pretty silly" if his children, a freshman and a sophomore, had to be on the same team.
State Sen. Chuck Wilson, D-Detroit, said he thought it were people who were "out to catch a pencil."
Wilson attributed the streaking fad to national uncertainty and a loss of confidence in governmental institutions.
'The amount of uncertainty is so great there's no telling what people are liable to do.' he said.
Del Shankel, Lawrence executive vice chancellor said he thought most of the streaters were kids having
a good time. Streaking falls in the category of
doing and doing other strange things that people do,
like breaking a window.
William Balfour, vice candleholder for student affairs, said he thought most streakers were students having fun, but some of the participants were streaking for other reasons.
John Wright, professor of psychology and human development, said the point of streaking was to do something outrageous with the safety of anonymity. Many women wear ski masks, false pants, and hats, be said.
"If it were still winter," he said, "we wouldn't be having this type of thing."
"It's like the usual national fad. The attitude is if one school can do it, we can do it better."
Franklin Shontz, professor of psychology, said he hadn't spent a lot of time psychoanalyze streakers because he thought streaking was just "great fun" and a healthy trend.
"These people aren't perverts or exhibitionists. They're just young people having a good time," he said.
Wright said streaking had nothing to do with psychological patterns.
University psychology professors seemed to agree that streaking was just a way of having a good time.
"Streaking is something all of us would like to do."
Shortz said "Everyone has the dream of standing up for what they believe in."
Streakers attract crowds because people enjoy watching others act out their fantasies, he said.
He said the streakers were making others look foolish for being so prudish about nudity.
"It makes things come out in the open," he said.
"It's good to test society's taboos, Shonts said, and it works."
It's good to test society's doobies, sandziz sand, and it usually young people who do the testing.
"We admire and envy the streakers. They can do things we can't do," he said.
Sara Kiesler, associate professor of psychology and
speech and drama, said fads like streaking were popular because people liked to shock others.
The fad may reflect changing norms about what is normal and what is weird, she said.
Charles Neuringer, professor of psychology, said different people had different reasons for streaking.
"Some people who streak are doing it for exhibitionism, others who streak are doing it for the
Neuringer described streaking as a fad similar to that of stuffing people into telephone booths.
"Next year it will be something else," he said.
The Associated Press reported continued streaking on campuses of other colleges in Missouri and Kansas Thursday, and some high schools reported their first incidents of the spring craze.
At Shawnee Mission North High School in Merriam a youth run across the top row of the school's gymnastium bleachers during a student-faculty basketball game.
The youth, wearing only a sack over his head, was cheered by about 1,000 students attending the game.
Two stewkers ran around a circle drive at Milburn Junior High School in Overland Park. After their dash, the stewker was hit by a car.
Three male students streaked through the main court at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a female spinster spinned the stage during a performance at Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg.
In El Dardo two males wearing nothing but cowboy boots streaked from the gym on the campus of Butler County Community College to the student union and back
In Wichita a dozen people from South High School were taken to KENY and streaked through the station and parking lot.
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The felony indictment said the intent of the September 1971 break-in was "to search for confidential information concerning Daniel Ellsberg."
The White House special investigations unit, nackoned the Flumbers, had been investigating Mr. Reagan's behavior.
At the time, Ellsberg was under indictment for unauthorized possession of classified materials and was held responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers, a study of the development of the Vietnam war.
Erichlerman, who resigned as President Nixon's top domestic adviser last April 30, had denied knowing in advance about the threat that he said but said national security could instify it.
The conspiracy charge, carrying a maximum 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, named Ehrhulman, Colson, G. Gordon and Fuentes, called DeLippe De Lajo and Equino R. Martinez.
Additionally, Ehrlichman alone was charged in one count of lying to the FBI and three of lying to the grand jury. Each was charged with a five-year prison crime and a $10,000 fine.
If convicted on all counts in the Watergate coverup and Ellsberg case indictments, Ehrlichman would be liable for a 55-year prison term. He also is scheduled for trial in
Los Angeles April 15 on conspiracy, barcary and perjury charges.
Deputy District Atty. Stephen Trott, the prosecutor in the state case, said he would fly to Washington with Dist. Atty. Joseph Koch, the regional water officer, prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
Barker and Martinez pleaded guilty to breaking into the Watergate office building quarters of the Democratic National Committee.
California statutes say that a person once tried elsewhere for specific activities should not be tried for the same activities again in the state.
G. Gordon Lickson, the stoic mastermind of the Watergate break-in and a team leader in the Ellsberg foray, was charged also in a separate indemnity天涯 with two counts of refusing to testify or produce evidence called before a House committee last July.
"We've done a lot of groundwork," he said, but now we have to get together and find ways to work it.
Yesterday's indictment was returned by a grand jury impinged in August 1972, a time when the original Watergate grand jury had its hands full with investigations.
February Prices Increase Less than last 4 Months
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices jumped sharply in February but at a less explosive rate than during the previous four months, the government said yesterday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said wholesale prices leaped by 1.2 per cent last month, far below the 3.1 per cent rise in August, extremely high by ordinary standards.
just consumers will be noting the higher prices at the retail level in the weeks ahead, but we are noticing that
The February increase shoved wholesale prices 20.3 per cent higher than a year ago.
The report provided mixed news for consumers. If the smaller rise turns into a trend in later months, it will mean that inflation is finally abating.
About 70 percent of last month's jump was caused by price increases for fuel,
mainly gasoline and residual fuels, metals,
farm products and processed foods and
The bureau's report showed that the wholesale price index rose to 132.7 of the 1967 average. This means that it costs consumers $478 more to buy the wholesale goods that $100 bought in 1967.
Wholesale prices of industrial commodities advanced 1.3 per cent, farm products and processed foods and fees adjusted to the price and consumer finished goods 1.2 per cent.
For consumers, the report means that prices of eggs and beef may soften in the weeks ahead. Egg prices at the farm level are currently at the center and livestock prices fell 1.1 per cent.
At the same time, wholesale prices of processed meats, poultry and fish went up in the last months.