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Thursday. April 22. 1971
University Daily Kansan
Railpax Ready to Roll
By MIKE LEWIS
Kansan Staff Writer
A program to sprovide a revaming of the nation's decaying passenger rail service with scheduled train on 10 days. On May 1 the National Railroad Passenger corporation (Railpax) will go into operation in hopes of pulling American railroads out of a general hobble.
According to the Railpax plan each railroad which joins will pay
Analysis
the corporation one half of the amount which it would expect to lose in passenger service this year.
Payment can be made in either cash or equipment, and payments will amount to $250 per vehicle that the railroad industry states that the railroad industry paid $200 million on passenger service in 1969, and the well-known Penn Railway Company paid nearly a cent of the nation's passenger service, reports an out of this
pocket loss of $67 million a year.
In return for its investment, a participating railroad will receive the investment in the corporation's common stock or a tax deduction for the amount of its payment.
THE RAILROADS will be paid to run trains under the corpse of a person responsible to provide them with the right-of-way. Besides setting the fares and the extent of passenger transport, railways are also responsible for setting higher standards of quality to lure travelers in airport and backotw into the detox.
Congress has allocated $1 million to get 10kplax started, but the funds can be borrowed by the corporation to improve roadbeds
The corporation itself will be run by 15 directors. Eight will be elected and six will be elected by the holders of the company's common stock (participating railroads), and five will be elected by the holders of preferred stock (the public).
Open House at Med College
Open house at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine, (KCCOM), will be held Saturday for all pre-medical students from the state of Kansas. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the KCCOM campus, 205 Independence Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. A program and luncheon will be included in the open house. The program will include information regarding the curriculum and the curriculum at KCCOM. A tour of the new teaching medical center will also be given. Information regarding registration can be obtained from Gordon Bunker, student doctor at the college.
Arab Representative to Speak
S. El-Waddy, a representative of the Arab State League, will speak on "The Resistance to the Shariah Law." The speech will include the issues, "Whose Consilience is Hurting," "The New Perspective," "A Time of War" and "We the People of the Third World." The lecture is sponsored by the Organization of Arab States.
Original Graphics on Sale
Etchings and lithographs are among the original graphics on sale starting today in the south lounge of the Kansas Union. The exhibition and sale was arranged by Student Union Activities with Roten Galleries at Baltimore. Works by Daumer, Chagall, Rouault, Baskin and others will be available for purchase in the gallery, according to an SUA apokemis. The display is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. and from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Friday.
Computer Lecture Scheduled
Thomas F. Platkowski, associate professor of the Thayer School o Engineering, Dartmouth College, will lecture at 4 p.m., April 29 in the Pine Room of the Kansas University His lecture is titled "How to help students learn about hardware and design by letting each build his own computer." The talk will be an illustrated description of a course on building hardware modules for computers. Platkowski's lecture is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room.
Rides to Seminar Offered
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The Free University class entitled Alternate Lifestyles will provide transportation to two seminars and a lecture today by Robert Rimmer, author of "The Harvard Experiment" and "You and I, Searching for Tomorrow." The seminars will be held at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, 6258 Trost Ave., Kansas City, MO. A fee will be charged to the talks should phone 842-9943. A $1 fee will be charged for the seminars and lecture.
Professor Kenneth Smith, chairman of the KU voice department, will be the featured solist at the informal program by the KU Collegium Musicum at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall. The program will also feature other collegium groups
IN ADDITION, $200 million will be made available to help finance the required Railax investment asked of participating railroads.
Of the two lines which run through Lawrence, only Santa Fe has a train. Pacific is expected to sign before the day 1 deadline. A railroad's schedule is to run Railaxi is to run passenger service on its own until 1975, and then it will disconnect.
The catch to Railax as far as the passenger is concerned is that in the case of a collision, will be discontinued on many routes which are present unprofitable to the drivers and are negatively affected by Railax are any indication, the only cities in Kansas with passenger rail service are Kansas City, Wichita, Ottawa, Newton and Hutchinson. This is a reduction of more than 60 cities from 75 to 48.
RAILPAX hopes to expand its passenger service once it gets started, but the financial challenges in running passenger trains are many.
In the last 10 years, the average railroad worker's hourly pay has risen 42 per cent. According to U.S. News and World Report magazine, the average railroad must haul a ton of freight 281 times, enough revenue to pay one worker for one hour of work.
THE DECEMBER, 1970 issue of Post magazine an important journal of effectiveness Rialpax can have with its limited financial resources
The article, entitled "Making it on the Cheap," states that the $4 million grant to start Railalpa will allow national highways in one day. The article compares the $4 million to the $1.5 billion spent by Japan in building the worlds fastest passenger train
In the article an official of the Illinois Central Railroad is quoted as saying, "We have good roads and we don't have the foots the bill. That's the only way we're ever again going to get good railroad service. Anyone who says you can get it through the train station, understand basic economics,"
Proponents maintain that the program is at least a step in the right direction, and that expansion will follow.
A similar problem was dealt with on U.S. Highway 50 and 100, where the Mission. A firing warning befor the crest of the hill was installed.
The state has approved mat-
ter and equipment bzard. The city has only to decide the exact specifications of the signals and match state
TKE members, who witness at least three accidents a week at
Millard Kaufman, Hollywood screenwriter and director and artist-in-residence at KU, said in a statement that he didn't go to movies.
By KATE MANSKE
screenwriter
"They're usually a big bore," he said. "I don't get much emotional response from them.
Hoover said that the primary reason for the delay of the installation of the traffic signals was the southbound traffic which comes over a hill several hundred yards before the intersection. He hoped that the district was too short to allow the driver proper time to react.
Movies Boring to Screenwriter
Kansan Photo by EDDIE WONG
Fraternity Petitions City For 19th and Iowa Signal
but I like writing them. They're a glossy, plastic distortion of reality."
Kaufman said that there were some good movies, but very few. "I guess that isn't really fair, because it is such a new field," he said.
According to City Engineer Leonard Hoover, the city has sent traffic histories of approximately 38 intersections in Lawrence to consultants in Topeka. The city appears to suspect that 1972. 1970. Prospective proposals were being considered as long as two years ago.
The corner, which adjoins the fraternity's property, has been called one of the bloodiest incidents in Lawrence by police officers.
The increasing accident rate at the corner of 19th and Iowa street in Chicago and Iowa Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity to work towards the installation of a fire alarm system.
Millard Kaufman
Kaufman said that censorship was derived from the culture.
"It mirrors the national attitude or even a subculture," he said. "We let children see all of these cases, but not two people."
This, according to Kaufman, is much less obscene than war. Kaufman said that children, especially in his generation, were trained to kill or murder, and that they had tremendous amounts from the films.
HE SAID THAT as long as there was a culture, there was no disapproval of censorship. It is a law of life, he said, and to ask if you approve of censorship is like asking if you approve of gravity.
Kaufman said that some of the films made when the industry was in its hey-day were just as obscene as the contemporary
this intersection, are currently insisting in turn that gain support from a petition urging action by the city. They are also sponsoring a petition drive for the new bridge.
Anyone who is interested in helping canvass the Lawrence area with petitions can call Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
When he speaks, you listen. You wonder about the freaky things you hear and the people he raps with.
films, although not sexually obscene.
"Some of them were just as contemplative, in terms of their lives," she said. "They still have a message. If you make a film of a girl's softball game on a submarine you're still going to culture, about the culture."
He said that part of the problem was the "bastardized film maker" Film makers do not have government subsidies in the industry. Film makers live in foreign countries. Therefore, if a producer puts a lot of money into making a film, he wants to get his work done before the film into what they think the people want to see. Kaufman fails to seize everyone and please nobody.
Kaufman said that very few people may be able to make a good film that will sell and the people will come to see. But usually they would not.
BEFORE KAUFMAN worked with films, he was a reporter for a New York newspaper. He didn't want to work in the East, but the only papers he wanted to work for were there. He said that at that time the films were so bad that he thought he should work with them.
ACCORDING TO KAUFMAN,
some of what the film makers
were doing now isn't freedom.
The director, he said, he
wouldn't want to stop them.
For a while he worked with animated films, and originated "Mr. Magoo." A company was making a film about the Marines, and needed someone with combat experience so he worked with him. Then in 2004 he film so the company made the film about the Army. The film
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DURING THE 15 months he has, been written four scripts. One, "In the Wild," free, "Free," is being flamed in Africa. Kaufman said he expected the
filming of another of his scripts would start shortly, probably in Spain.
Kaufman's first novel is almost finished. He said that if he could make his living as a novelist he would never write another film
script.
Kaufman was sent to KU by the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Sciences. He attended University until Thursday, after which he joined radio-elevision-film department.
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