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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KU Computers Are Almost Too Popular
Tuesday, January 29, 1974
84th Year. No.78
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Kansas Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Quick Sauna
What appears to be a low-hanging cloud is actually steam leak from underground pipes near Battenfeld Scholarship Hall. See Story
Legislators Act on Consumer Bills
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of five interviews with area legislators about the most important issues to be dealt with by the 1974 Kansas Legislature.
By NANCY SMITH
Kansas Staff Reporter
Kansas is ahead of most states in the field of consumer protection, according to State Statista.
Paul Hess
Senate Bill Asks Repeal Of DST Law
By JIM LUTHER Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation was introduced in the Senate yesterday to repeal daylight saving time during the winter months.
"It's time to recognize that we may well have made a mistake in "inappropriate winter daylight saving time, Sen. Dick Clark, D-Lowa, said in a speech.
He and several other senators said daylight saving time jeopardized children by forcing them to go to school in early-morning darkness.
Congress voted in December to extend daylight savings time on a yearly basis for two years. Proponents said it would not only save fuel by postponing dusk by an hour but would serve as a constant reminder of the need to conserve fuel.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield called for immediate repeal of winter daylight saving time and said it had failed as an energy-conservation measure.
Clark quoted Federal Power Commission estimates that about 0.2 per cent of this month's fuel savings could be attributed to daylight saving time.
Such a saving isn't worth the risk to children, Clark said.
Suggestions have been made that the problems caused to school children by winter daylight saving time could be solved by starting classes one hour later.
Interim Committee on Consumer Protection of the Kansas Legislature.
The Uniform Consumer Credit Code and the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, which were passed during the last legislative session, put Kansas in the top half-dozen states in the country in consumer protection, Hess, a University of Kansas law student, says. Both acts went into effect Jan. 1.
The Kansas Consumer Protection Act concerns prosecution of businesses that engage in deceptive practices, and the Uniform Consumer Credit Code deals with interest rates in deferred-payment transactions.
Hess' special committee met from May through December and put together five more consumer protection bills for the state to consider during the current session.
One of the bills is the residential landlord-tenant act, now in the Senate Judiciary Committee. If the legislature passes this bill, it will compilament its compilament for the committee. Hess says.
An automobile repairs bill, House Bill 1616, is now in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. Hess says he expects it to be reported out early next week.
Hess says that the bill will allow consumers to ask for estimates of repair costs or to request a price higher than 10 per cent higher or lower than the final cost. If the estimate is more than 10 per cent off, the consumer can take the difference or $100, whichever is greater.
Return of old auto parts upon request is the provision of the second section of the bill. Hess says, and the third section prohibits mechanics from being paid by commission on the number of parts replaced.
The bill makes mandatory the posting of sections one and two in a conspicuous place,
"This section really begins to get at the root of the problem." Hess says,
The rental housing standards bill is another piece of container protection for the renters.
Local Dillon stores kicked off the campaign last week but customer response hasn't gained momentum, Bruce Openiander, grocery department manager of Dillon's, 1740 Massachusetts St., said yesterday.
It's another shortage, folks. And this time you're all invited to "B.Y.O.B."—Bring
B.Y.O.B., Store Tells Shoppers
The stores will give three-cent refunds to customers for each large grocery sack that they bring in and that is actually used to sack their orders.
*B.Y.O.B." is the Dillon Store Co.'s new advertising slogan for a campaign to reuse content from other sites.
By BUNNY MILLER
Kansas Staff Reporter
Oppenlander said that although Dillon's had plenty of groceryacks now, they aren't buying them.
"But each week more and more customers are bringing in their own sacks,"
"We don't have any problem getting sacks now, but everybody anticipates problems with everything," said a spokesman for Rusty's Hillcrest, 904 Iowa
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requires local boards of health to enforce housing codes and makes provisions for the state to get into the enforcement business if local boards aren't successful. Hess says.
Officially known as House Bill 1615, the rental housing standards bill is also in the House Federal and State Affairs Commission to it to be reported out early, next week.
Hess says hearing will probably be held next week on the unfair and deceptive practices in insurance bill, which Hess' committee wrote. Numbered Senate Bill 630, the legislation is in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He says the bill is aimed at run-down housing in the state's urban areas and at low-income communities.
The unfair and deceptive practices in insurance bill allows consumers to go to court and sue if they think they have been defrauded by an insurance company.
Consumers must complain to Fletcher Bell, Kansas insurance commissioner, under the present system. Bell then decides that the attorney general should prosecute
The last of the committee's consumer protection proposals is an attempt to "codify rules of the ballgame in collecting debts," Hess says.
The fair debt collection practices act, Senate Bill 619, is a listing of fair and unfair practices for debt collectors, says Hess, and is designed to cut out harassing techniques.
Israelis Pull Back; End Siege of Suez
By DAVID LANCHASHIRE Associated Press Reporter
SUEZ (AP)-Israeli soldiers sang and wavedaily from armored personnel carriers yesterday as they evacuated about a third of the Egyptian territory they
Ex-Aide Wants Nixon to Testify, Plans Supoena
LOS ANGELES (AP) - John D. Ehrlich, indicted top former aide to President Nixon, plans to seek a subpoena today compelling Nixon to appear at a court hearing here Feb. 26, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The newspaper said in today's editions that Ehrlichman's lawyers would seek the subpoena from Judge Gordon Ringer in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The Times reported that Douglas Dalton, one of Ehrlichman's lawyers, confirmed he had sought Nixon's voluntary appearance in court but was turned down by James St. Clair, head of the White House legal team dealing with Waterate-related matters.
captured in the last Middle East war.
Erlichman and co-defendants G. Gordon Laddy and D. Richard. Young Jr. are accused of conspiracy and burglary in connection with the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
The Times said Ehrlichman and the others wanted the President's testimony to bolster their assertion they were acting as law-enforcement officers in that incident.
AS THE EGYPTIANS regained the some 30 square miles of land, the Israeli military mortors and the civilian forces fired morturs on Israel position in the straight day of clashes on the Golan Heights far to the north. The spokesman in Tel Aviv claimed the Israelis held their fire and said
The Israeli army radio said Egyptian soldiers fired rockets and machine guns into the air to mark theirublation as they advanced about six hours after the Israelis left.
The pullout lifted the 97 day siege of Suez City, with its 15,000 civilians, and freed supply lines to some 20,000 troops of the French army. It closed the closing hours of October's fighting.
After 72 hours of hectic packing, the Israelis completed their pullback from the southern sector of their bridgehead west of the Suez Canal by noon, formally turning the area over to the United Nations Emergency Force.
They remained in control of about 700 square miles of Egyptian territory west of the canal, captured in October, plus the Sinai peninsula, captured in the 1950s.
THE EGYPTIANS TOOK over the evacuated land after six hours of U.N. control under an Israeli-Egyptian agreement negotiated by Secretary of State Hosni Moussa at a U.N. checkpoint at Kilometer 101, about 60 miles from Cairn on the Caro-Suzeb road.
According to the disengagement, agreesmen, the landlords are to evacuate all houses and buildings.
canal by Feb. 21 and move to a new line at 12 miles east of the canal on March 5. Between the Israelis on this line and the coast of the canal will be a U.N. buffer force.
At the negotiating site yesterday, Israeli troops pulled down the blue and white flag emblazoned with the Star of David. The simple ceremony, held an hour after sunrise, was observed by Swedish U.N. troops and Egyptian soldiers.
OTHER FLAG-LOWERING ceremonies
were held at Adabaya, a port 12 miles south of this gateway city at the southern end of the Suez Canal, and at Jebel Ataka, where the lowlands stretching to caire.
"We're going home," the Israelis sang in Hebrew—to the tune of "this land is your land, this land is my land"—as they rolled in tanks and armored half-tracks out of Suez City toward the canal bridges to cross onto the eastern bank.
Many of the vehicles were painted "Goodbye Africa." Soldiers inside flashed the V-for-victory signal to correspondents watching the withdrawal.
"IT IS A TERRIBLE shame that we are leaving," a 29-year-old immigrant from London, Pvt. Morris Singer, from his home in Pensacola and pursued her husbands, Pvt.we hope we didn't fight for nothing."
But most troops celebrated the withdrawal as if it were a gala affair. One private rolling of Adabiya on a half-horse carried his unit's mascot, a white goose.
"He is an Israeli soldier now," the trooper said.
Bennett Says Teaching Emphasis Key to Greater University Support
Kansan Staff Reporter
By BETH RETONDE
Attention to teaching has been replaced with an emphasis on research and writing, he said.
A renewed emphasis on teaching would return higher education to its historic mission and restore public confidence and support, State Sen. Robert Bennett, ROverland Park and president of the Kansas Senate, said in a speech her last night.
Bennett's speech, "A Sacred Cow Sparecet," was presented to the Phi Kappa Delta fraternity.
He said that in recent years, the historic role of higher education, that of educating
"The general commitment to this historic mission of instruction has been allowed to atrophy as attention has been turned to the more glamorous of endeavor, such as research."
He said that allbuthew he wasn't totally against research in colleges and universities.
young people, had received less attention than it deserved.
U.S. Oil Price Lid Sought
Federal and private research grants are tempting to universities, but research should be a secondary, not a principal, function of the university, Bennett said.
Larger classes and less student contact with professors have resulted from this.
WASHINGTON (AP)—John Sawill, deputy director of the Federal Energy Office, told Congress yesterday the price of $9 to a barrel held within the range of $9 to $8 a barrel.
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
Associated Press Brewer
He didn't indicate how this could be done
9 File for Senate As Deadline Nears
Only nine students had filed by 3 p.m. yesterday for the 88 Student Senate seats up for election Feb. 13 and 14. The filing deadline is 5 p.m. tomorrow.
No one had filed for seats from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 18 seats; Centenial College, four seats; Pearson College, four seats; the School of Architecture and Urban Design, two seats; the School of Business, four seats; the School of Education, eight seats; the School of Journalism, eight seats; the School of Journalism, three seats; the Law School, two seats; and the School of Social Welfare, two seats.
One person has filed in each of the following: the Graduate School, which has 18 seats; Nuneraker College, three seats; and the Pharmacy, two seats; and the School of Pharmacy, two seats.
No candidates had filed for class officers or Graduate School area representatives.
Three persons have filed for four seats
north College and two have filed for
four seats.
Students wishing to run for Student Senate or class officers must file a declaration of candidacy giving proof of their school and submit a $5 filing fee to the Student Senate office by the deadline tomorrow.
but said some price increases probably are necessary to create incentives to explore for new markets.
Some method must be found of capping the price he said, or the price of domestic oil will continue to creep toward that set by the Arab oil nations.
Current domestic oil prices range from $2.25 for a barrel of oil under price controls to $3.75 per barrel in the U.S.
Sawhill said his office is acting to correct one example of price unfairness caused by varying prices of foreign and domestic petroleum.
He noted that in some areas, chiefly New England, independent suppliers have been forced to rely on more expensive foreign imported oil while the major companies have been able to sell cheaper domestic heating oil.
Thus, be said, some homeowners pay 50 per cent more for fuel than their neighbors.
Reading a statement prepared for federal energy, chief William Simon, Sawhill said the energy office is proposing a rule to assure all dealers a fair share of the No. 2 heating oil available. This would include the cheaper and more expensive varieties.
"The result would be that no supplier would have a greater percentage of inexpensive product than any other supplier," he said.
Sawill had that while spot shortages of gasoline are occurring in several areas of the country, a general shortage large enough to trigger rationing had occurred. He noted that Holland, facing a 15 per cent shortage of gasoline in his program, he said he believed the United States also could handle a 15 per cent shortage without rationing.
Sawhill and Simon appeared before a unit of the Government Operations Committee.
Simon told the committee that if rationing becomes necessary later this year, adequate advance notice will be given to the public.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing began printing rationing coupons last Friday. The operation will continue around April 20. The business are printed for possible use, by March 17.
Meanwhile, the emergency energy legislation that would give President Nixon authority to order such rationing appeared in trouble. A coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans mounted a strong effort to halt the fall back to conference with the House.
A final Senate vote had been scheduled for today.
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who is expected to offer a motion to recommit the measure to conference, is said to support the principle of taxing windfall oil industry profits but claims the provision in the energy bill is unworkable.
As attention to education's primary purpose has diminished, so has public support of higher education, Bennett said. In order to regain public confidence and the taxpayers' support, educators must increase their education to make it more meaningful.
"Since education is by far the principal claimant on the taxpayers' dollars in this state, it is here that the crisis for immediate improvement is here that immediate reform must occur."
Part of this reform, he said, would be a return by professors to the classroom, smaller classes for the students, less preoccupation with research and less duplication of academic programs in the state.
The return to teaching in higher education can't be accomplished, be said, unless adequate compensation is made available by the state legislature.
"We in the political arena cannot expect you in the academic halls to accept the challenges which you confront without giving you funds sufficient to retain and attract professional personnel that can teach, that are willing to teach and that are essential to the instructional process as an essential part of a college education," he said.
He said Gov. Robert Docking's proposed 6.5 per cent increase in faculty salaries, a decrease from the reqents' proposed 10 per cent increase, for a reorganization of higher education.
"It is my sincere belief that it would be a political paradox to mandate reorganization on the one hand to butt inhibition against the fully responding to current salary needs."
'In my view, the request of the Board of Regents as it relates to faculty salaries is a challenge.'
Kanaen Staff Photo by ALAN McCOY
Sen. Bennett Talks with Crowd After His Speech