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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 96
Hillbilly Hippie
Wednesday, February 24, 1971
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Nixon Asks For Support Of Governors
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon addressed a closed session of the nation's governors Tuesday in what was described as a personal appeal for their support of his for federal state revenue sharing and to reorganize the top levels of federal government.
Less than five hours before he hosted them at a White House dinner, Nixon went to the hotel where the nation's governors conference was held, an annual winter meeting for a private session.
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller told reporters later that Nixon was "100 per cent revenue sharing." He's going all out—the same way on reorganization."
The White House later said Nixon, during a-minute session with the governors, requested revenue sharing plan against some proposals. The president federal takeover of all welfare programs.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew also appealed to the governors to support revenue-sharing, claiming it would deliver a solution in the fiscal crisis promptly.
Nixon's appearance came as support developed—mostly among Democrats convinced that Congress will reject revenue sharing—for a federal takeover of state and welfare programs. The governors intervened, however, is on record as favoring both.
Treasury Secretary John D. company pleaded for support of Nixon's proposed consolidation of eight cabinet level departments into four.
Gov. William T. Cahill of New Jersey speculated that Nixon wanted a private meeting for fear that a public appearance might seem politically inspired, and that he wanted to talk to a smaller group which "could observe his sinicity of purpose."
Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis of Maine reported that Nixon said during his private speech that a federal welfare takeover would be only a "stop gap" which would not provide "as good and lasting benefits for the nation" as revenue sharing.
Gov. Tom McCall of Oregon said Nixon thought the administration could not get Congress to approve revenue sharing and his efforts to avoid the federalization without the backing of the governors.
White House Press Secretary Ronan Zeigler said Nickixon told the governors his proposals were well conceived, that he is not going to be a president, and keep pushing for their passage in Congress.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—After two hours of bitter debate, Senate Democrats Tuesday adopted an unprecedented resolution urging the U.S. military to force Indonesia from the end of 1972.
The 31-8 vote marked the first time that senate Democrats, as a group, have taken a seat in Congress.
The resolution has no legal orr is the party position binding on any senator.
But it does pledge Senate Democrats in the cond Congress to work "to end the indictment of Indochina areas across the withdrawal of India's arms and the release of all prisoners in a time certain."
Senate Demos Urge Pullout
"The purpose is constructive," Senate Democratic leader Mike Manisell said. "It is a place where people can be heard."
the Hawks' 61-48 victory last night were unwisely added insult to injury in hostile territory. Kevin McQuigg, Greensburg freshman, hoisted atop the shoulders of fellow teammates, apparently thought the effort was worth the hazard.
Victory
It could be argued that KU fans who eat the nets from the Ahearn Field House goals after
Nebraska a Disaster Area; Cattle Stranded in Kansas
By United Press International
National Guardsmen employed a truck-to-snowmobile relay Tuesday to carry food to a Nebraska town virtually cut off from the restroom by snowdrifts and floodwaters. Thousands of unseasoned cattle were reported in "dire need" of food in drift-bounded central Kansas.
President Nixon declared a major disaster in Nebraska, hit a double blow by severe flooding and a blizzard that bowled north-eastward across the Midwest Tuesday.
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin and George Lincoln, director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, flew to Jackson, Miss., to evaluate readiness and consider needs for distribution of food-supplies.
The White House also dispatched and贴告 to the South, where a two-day round of tornadoes left at least 62 persons dead and an estimated 150 more dead in Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina.
travelers stranded by the storm, including members of the Oklahoma State University basketball team, had been rescued.
In the Central Plains and the Midwest,
the students sought to clear away towering deltas
from their fields.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI)—Gov. Robert B Dockley late Sunday requested Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Herdin to designate five areas because of the recent blizzard.
The counties in the worst shape, according to the committee, are Clark, Kiowa, Commanche, Barber and Harper.
The request was made at the urging of the Kansas Disaster Committee which surveyed the area Tuesday.
Docking's office received requests for assistance because of the thousands of head of starving cattle marrowed because of the football. Feeding operations are impossible
Approval of the areas would make available federal low-interest loans to assist ranchers in the event of livestock losses.
Nixon Attempting to Halt Inflationary Wage Pacts
Construction Industry Cited
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Declaring an emergency in the construction industry where "wages and prices are skocking," President Nixon Tuesday suspended international government pay cuts in its $8 billion worth of construction projects.
At the same time, in a major shift in policy, Nikon asked Congress through Treasury Secretary John B. Cormally for continued authority to impose wage and price controls to be had publicly spurned when Congress granted it against his wishes last year.
Although the President ruled out proposals for a temporary wage-price "freeze" in the construction industry at this time, Commah hitched out to "we might do it later" if necessary.
Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson also refused to rule out the possibility of a wage price freeze if Nixon's action Tuesday fails to halt the inflation spiral that caused wage increases and trades to more than 8 percent, the 6.1 per cent compensation average for other industries last year.
The President's decision followed more than a month of truittess, high-level administration efforts to win voluntary agreement with construction management and union leaders on some formula for restraining rising costs.
Nixon suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, passed by Congress in 1931 in the depths of the depression to require that the government pay the prevailing wage scale in any given area—generally determined to be union rates—on federal construction projects.
The law contains a provision authorizing the President to suspend the act in times of emergency, which Nixon declared Tuesday in a proclamation. The act was suspended only 20 days during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term and Russell Johnson "induced" administrative problems."
The suspension means that cheaper, nonunion contractors will be able to bid for government construction projects, which present account for $25 billion of the total $90 billion worth of construction under way this year.
The Davis-Bacon Act's requirement "only gives federal enforcement and enrolment to severe inflationary pressures," Nixon said in a statement, "by
City Approves Auxiliary Police
Governmental Trial Commission approved on Tuesday to establish police force proposal presented by City Manager John C. Deering. The proposal suggested that a committee be appointed to devise a plan for the organization and training of a unit that would deal with cases of civil disorders, floods and火灾s.
Watson said the committee would stipulate when and under what conditions the auxiliary force would be allowed to carry firearms. The commission would also determine the final approval of the city commission.
After the plan is completed, the force will be organized and the police chief will assume responsibility.
Watson emphasized that the force could in my way take the place of professionally trained lawyers.
forcing the government to match the highest wages paid on private projects."
He noted that while construction wages rose by 18.3 per cent in the past year, unemployment was 11.2 per cent—also twice the rate of unemployment in the industry has hurt the worker most, he said.
"His rate of pay goes up, but often his overall income does not, since his opportunities to work have gone down," Nixon said. "As a result, he is included in demand an ever more severe wage which can have the effect, in turn, of further reducing available employment."
President Edward J. Carlock of the Street Metal Workers Union said Nicken's move was "an obvious attempt to destroy union wages and conditions on government work" by giving nonunion builders a bigger break in landing construction contracts. He said the
nation's 3.5 million construction workers would be "angry as hell."
William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors, said Nixon's action was "disappointing, inadequate and unacceptable," he may have long-range benefits, Dunn said, but his demand wages which "already are running to 50 per cent a year over the existing rates."
Contracts already signed for federal construction would not be affected by Nixon's order on any new ones. The first to be affected was the Waukee Federal office building at Gallup, N.M
That contract had been scheduled to be awarded Wednesday, but a spokesman for the General Services Administration, which oversees federal buildings, said the bid opening could be extended so the new order could be taken into account.
Laos Fighting Continues; 60 U.S. Copters Downed
SAIGON (UPL)- North Vietnam forces, backed by barrages of heavy weapons fire, isolated around the South Vietnamese base in Laos Tuesday. The South Vietnamese commander said Communists also had cut off some of his forward armored units.
Fifty American warplanes rained targets inside North Vietnam over the weekend and South Vietnam said its troops had cut a North Vietnamese jet pipeline along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The strikes against the North were heaviest since last Nov. 22 when 290 American combatants were killed in Iraq.
U. S. military sources at Khe Samb said that at least 60 American helicopters have been destroyed or severely damaged in Laos, and 50 U.S. Command has admitted that 15 helicopters have been shot down over Laos with 14 Americans killed, 16 wounded and 11 missing.
About a dozen helicopters were lost or damaged in South Vietnam.
Fire was so heavy at the besieged paratroop base 15 miles inside Laes that American helicopters could not land and had to air-drop supplies. A military source said "mother Landing Zone Ranger type fight" could be in the making.
At Landing Zone Ranger, five miles inside
Laos, a 45-man South Vietnamese Ranger,
liftitation suffered 323 casualties and had to
be overrun by the Communists.
The paratroopers in Tuesday's action were holding a perimeter on Hill 31, about 15 miles
Military sources said the Communists were shelling the hill with rockets, mortars and 75mm recoilless rifles mounted on Soviet-built trucks.
North Vietnamese troops around the hill also were reported to have at least seven 57mm anti aircraft guns preventing all but one helicopter from landing. The chopper that got through was a medical evacuation helicopter.
In Washington, the Nixon administration said the Laos operation is "proceeding on schedule" and denied the South Vietnamese had been stalled due to heavy resistance.
14. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam, commander of
South Vietnamese forces in Laos, told UPI correspondent Kenneth J. Bradickat at Kha Sah, that the most serious problem is supplying his units in Laos.
He said the North Vietnamese had cut Highway 9 behind some of his forward armored units, which Lam said were 15 to 18 miles inside Laos.
Bill Introduced To Hike Fees Of Non-Kansans
Kansan Staff Writer
By KATHY DONNELLY Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA-A A group of 11 state representatives has introduced a bill in the Kansas Legislature that would increase out-of-state taxes, and the other five state colleges and universities.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said House Bill 1417 was introduced into the House of Representatives early last week.
"There is a hill in the legislature which would raise out-of-state fees at KU, K-State and Wichita State to $1,500 a year and fees at St. Mary's state colleges to $1,000 a year," said Bickford.
If the hike in fees is approved, this action would up the cost payable currently by a non-Komen patient.
Bickford said the Board of Regents had not been contacted about the bill but he thought the regens would testify against the proposed fee increases.
"Just last year the legislature passed a statute that gives the Board of Regents the right to set fees," Bickford said. He said he did not think the legislature would pass the bill after giving the right to set fee costs to the regents.
Bickford said some legislators had expressed the opinion that out-of-state students at the universities and state colleges in Kansas should pay the full cost of their education.
Candidates Debate Issues
mausan stan writer
By JEFF KENNEDY
All seven of the candidates were present to answer questions from Dan Evans, Overland Park junior, and Ted liff, Overland Park senior, both members of the Kansan staff, which sponsored the debate. No questions were taken from the audience.
The first question Tuesday night dealt with the Student Senate. The candidates were asked if they thought the Senate was worthwhile, if it could do anything in its present form and, if it could not, what changes should be made.
Candidates for student body president debated two issues of this year's election campaign Tuesday night, but less than 50 students gathered to hear them.
The Karans will sponsor another debate at 7 p.m. tonight in the Oliver Hall dining room. Questions will be taken from the audience and the candidates will question each other.
Walker Hendrix, Park Jr. junior, was first to answer the question. He said that organizations and functions must be built which would benefit the entire student body. He asked students to wear clothing, gas and book cooperatives. He said this had been done with success at the
University of Wisconsin. Hendrix also said the Senate should deal with the problem of a new college campus.
Brad Smoot, Sterling junior, termed the Senate a "tragedy" because it took power from the students and pretended to be representative. He said the Senate must set up work groups to deal with problems instead of talking about them. The Senate must "find people who give a damn about a particular concern and let them work." Smoot said.
Lewis Wall, Roeland Park junior, said the Senate should act as a forum by setting up a communications network. He stressed that the Senate must improve its contact with extra-University organizations such as the state Legislature and the Board of Regents.
Tom Slaughter, Salina senior, said the problems with the Senate were not so much with the organization, but with the people in it. He said there was a lack of understanding of the capabilities of the Senate. He said that it must be aware of its limitations and to deal with problems it actually could have an impact on.
Gretchen Miller, Wichita senator, said the Senate was necessarily unrepresentative because of the way its members were elected. She is interested in holding meetings in which
Bob Myers, Lawrence senior, who is waging a write-in campaign, answered the question by calling for more organization of interested students. He said he was a competent organizer who could develop programs where student leaders could become aware of student viewpoints and then organize a solution.
students who are interested in an issue
because that issue and then implement the
challenge.
Dave Miller, Eudora senior, expressed the need for reorganization of the Senate. He explained the changes he has proposed in the organization of the Senate, saying it would improve the quality of the work done by the senate and the need to improve communication between the Senate and the student body which could be achieved by his proposals.
The second question was concerned with the reasons for the lack of interest in student elections. Each candidate expressed a different opinion on the causes of apathy.
Dave Miller said students have lost their interest in student government. He said the Senate must begin to produce before students will take an active interest in an election.
Kansan Photo by GARY FRENCH
Candidates Answer Questions in the Big Eight Room
... asked the worth of the Student Senate