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Thursday, February 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Military Spying Encouraged, Yeoman Says
Yveyanne Charles E. Radford testified yesterday in Washington that for a year he secretly obtained volumes of sensitive diplomatic information from the U.S. Department of State.
Testifying before a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Radford said he was carefully trained by two admirals to obtain
Rafford said he acted at all times at the request of his military superiors, who cautioned him to keep accret the funneling of White House files to the
Maryland Suing Simon, 20 Oil Companies
The state of Maryland filed suit against federal energy chief William E. Simon and 20 major oil companies yesterday in an effort to increase an interest rate on gasoline.
The action came as authorities in 20 states, including Maryland, worked to decide where to use a one-time gasoline allocation given by the agency.
In Annapolis, Md., Gov. Marvin Mandel said the suit filed in U.S. District Court by the state sought an injunction against Simon, a regional energy official and 20 oil companies to force them to revise the amount of gasoline required from him by law. The judge told defendants until 11 p.m. Friday to show why the injunction should not be issued.
By HALRITTER
Kansas State Reporter
Trustees Reject Good Health Pact
The board of trustees of Lawrence Memorial Hospital unanimously rejected yesterday a contract proposed by Good Health Care Management, Inc., to serve as project managers for the building of a new hospital in Lawrence.
Three trustees voted to reject Good Health's proposed contract. Trustee Dolph C. Simons Jr. abstained and trustee Gene Burnett was out of town.
Lenz's main objection to the contract was that it did not allow the board to negotiate separate contracts for the consultant and architect or provide that the consultant would be offered a flat fee based on projected construction costs at the time the contract was signed.
The board's vote came after hospital administrator Don Lenz read a memorandum containing 11 reasons for not approving the contract. The memorandum was written after Lenz had studied the contract and decided its implications in a number of hospital administrators and Kansas Hospital Association representatives."
The proposed contract would have allowed good Health to select an architectural firm and to pay it 4 per cent of construction costs out of the 8.5 per cent of total costs incurred in such projects received as its fee. Good Health also wanted its payment to be based on final con-
Officers of Campus Veterans, a student-sponsored organization aimed at helping the veteran on campus, said the veterans had been given additional problems and obtaining tutorial assistance.
Also in the memorandum, Lenz said to $7\frac{1}{2}$ per cent was a more acceptable range for total project fees, according to the memorandum. The hospital administrators he had talked to
described it as an "immediate sense of identity, and said veterans often found it a blessing."
HALBETT SAID FETERANS attending KU could pay for their semester tuition in three installments. Veterans can pay one-third at enrollment and pay the rest in two later installments. The dates for the two weeks in semester, he said, are March 1 and April 1.
Questions from veterans, according to Stephen Halbett, secretary-treasurer of the organization, usually concern the arrival of benefit checks on time.
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In addition to providing information for veterans, the organization has worked to obtain for them tutorial assistance. Veterans are entitled under the GI Bill, which requires completion of a test of $80 a month. Halbert said Campus Veterans had contacted department heads for lists of tutors and had divided the lists into veterans and non-veterans.
struction costs rather than projected construction costs.
Board president Warren Rhodes had supported Lenz's 7 to 7/3 per cent figure earlier in the meeting when he presented proposals from two other consulting firms, which listed project fees of 7 per cent and seven and five-eighths per cent.
"We try to get vets to tutor vets," Halbett said.
Campus Veterans Fight . . .
Dole has introduced a bill in the senate that will come before the Veteran's Affairs Committee in March. Dole's bill would provide:
BOTH HALBETT AND JOE LEVOTA,
president of Campus Veterans, said they had had favorable responses from Kansas legislators regarding bills now before the U.S. House and Senate. The bills would increase education benefits to veterans.
-a tuition payment to veterans for costs
allow $400 a year, applicable for total
tuition
LeVota said Sens. Bob Dole and James Pearson and Reps. Kate Seibelius, Garner Shriver and Larry Winn had written Campus Veterans to express their support for any measures that would increase benefits for veterans.
— an increase of 13.6 per cent in benefits
or vocational in vocational rehabilitation and
other services.
In addition to the tutorial service, he said, Campus Veterans sponsors intramural sports.
Among Lenz's other objections was that the one-half per cent for administrative fees, included in Good Health's 8.5 per cent fee, should be removed and handled by the owner.
- an extension from 36 months to 45 months for benefit eligibility.
Lenz also said the consultant was expected to "advise and assist the hospital in obtaining certificate of need, making presentations before area and regional planning organizations and in public hearings or legal proceedings," yet those responsibilities were excluded under the proposed contract.
Dr. John Simons, president of Good Health, agreed with some of Lenz's criticisms and disputed others. Simons said Good Health would assume some of the responsibilities Lenz had said the contract neglected to include.
—an extension from eight years to 10 years after discharge during which a veterinar can complete his education with the help of the GI Bill.
ANOTHER BILL, INTRODUCED by Sen. Vance Hankie, D-Ind., would increase the benefit rate for veterans attending school to 30% from the current increase from $220 a month to $720 and for students with one dependent from $261 to $321 a month. The bill would also increase the limit on tutorial benefits from $50 to $60 and the maximum for tutorial assistance from nine to 12 months.
LeVota said a bill had been introduced in the house that would increase benefits by 13.6 per cent. All three bills will probably be passed by Parliament, joint house and senate committee, he said.
Legislation introduced this session in the Kansas Legislature to make tuition loans less expensive for veterans was defeated in committee, LeVota said.
The bill would have provided for 5 per cent interest on tuition loans to veterans, he said, and would have permitted a 10 per cent reduction of the loan debt for each year the veteran remained in Kansas after graduation.
Trustee Ben Barteles said his negative response to a new contract was based on the results of a report made earlier in the meeting, which he called "shocking."
town the board needs to get together and talk over a lot of things," said Rhodes.
The report, by the Arthur Andersen & Co-accounting firm, told the effect that building a new hospital would have on room rates.
According to the report, even if prices are increased $7\%$ per cent each year through 1983, which is currently the maximum annual increase allowed under federal Phase IV regulations, the hospital will have deficits of more than $3.9 million by 1982.
The cost report estimates were based on the issuance of $13,969,000 worth of 7 per cent tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds, which would be paid off in monthly installments of $83,000 over a 36-year period.
"That's fine but the contract doesn't say in paper what you're saying verbally." Lenz said. "It would be very foolish for this board to sign a contract in that case."
With an increase in costs of 75 per cent a year, hospital room rates would increase from $34 to $78 in 1983, and the average cost would increase from $216 to $260. The increase from $62 a day to $183 by 1983.
Because of the projected deficit, Barteledes said he thought the board had some things to consider before it would be ready to look at a new contract.
Lenz said patient would increase in those contained in the report regardless of the actual number of patients.
After the board voted, Simons asked whether the board wanted him to prepare a new contract. Trustee Bob Billings said yes and added he thought the differences that existed could be worked out. Two other 'rustees disagreed.
In other action that concerned a new hospital, the board voted unanimously to build a hospital next to the existing hospital, to attach it to the 1969 wing of Lawrence Memorial and to demolish the rest of the hospital.
"I feel that when we can get five people in
The KU CONCERT SERIES presents . . .
The Awaji Puppet Theatre of Japan
PERFORMANCE
8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 24
University Theatre
DEMONSTRATION 8:00 p.m.
Monday, February 25
University Theatre
The AWAJI PUPPET THEATRE is a unique Japanese art form which evolved among the rural classes of medieval Japan. An "intangible national treasure," it is being preserved by the people of Awaji Island. The Awaji puppets are larger in size than the well-known bunraku puppets from Osaka and each pupet is worked by three puppeteers. Accompaniment is provided by a narrator who chants the story and takes on the roles of all the puppets, as well as by a shamisen (a stringed, banjo-like instrument). The AWAJI PUPPET THEATRE will provide a truly theatrical experience.
For those interested in learning more about the Puppet Theatre a free demonstration will be held by the artists Monday evening at 8:00 p.m., in the University Theatre.
TICKETS CAN BE OBTAINED FOR THE SUNDAY PERFORMANCE AT MURPHY BOX OFFICE (while they last)
TICKETS FREE WITH KU STUDENT ID
PUBLIC TICKETS . . . $3.00-$3.50-$4.00