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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1967
House Committee Makes Record Cut
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee today cut a record of $1.1 billion from President Kennedy's $4.7 billion foreign aid money bill but refused to go along with an even deeper cut in military aid funds.
The committee also included a provision which would ban the use of the funds to aid Yugoslavia and Poland.
REP. OTTO E. Passman, D-La.
chairman of a foreign aid subcommittee and a traditional critic of the program, personally blocked his own subcommittee's recommendation for a $1.4 billion cut in the administration's request.
The subcommittee, to Passman's surprise, yesterday adopted a one-third cut in President Kennedy's request for $1.5 billion in military aid funds this year.
When the full committee met today, Passman successfully moved to boost the subcommittee's $1 billion recommendation to $1.3 billion.
The over-all cut, however, still was the heaviest imposed by the appropriations committee in the 15-year history of the aid program.
ADMINISTRATION officials warned only last week that a cut of
as much as $1 billion would have "grave" implications.
The provision to prohibit aid to any country with a government based on communist "theory" is a reversal of earlier House action. It could block arms aid to Yugoslavia and shipment of surplus farm commodities to Poland.
Only a few months ago, the House agreed to let the President continue aid to these countries when he deemed it in the national interest.
IN OTHER Congressional action;
- Senate Republicans launched a drive to restrict the broad tariffcutting powers sought by the President in his top priority trade expansion act. Democratic leaders, however, were confident they could ward off the protectionist amendments and complete action on the bill late tomorrow.
- **Sen. George A. Smaters, D-Fla., said the United States should let Cuban refugees lead the fight when the "day comes for putting troops on Cuba." Smaters made the statement in formally introducing two resolutions for dealing with the Cuban crisis. His resolutions are intended to follow up proposals to give President Kennedy support on whatever action he takes on the situation. The House Foreign Affairs Committee met behind closed doors on the leadership resolution.
Kennedy Forces Are Gearing For Farm Surplus Measure
WASHINGTON — (UPI) Administration forces confidently girded today for a partisan fight to salvage one of the proposals for curbing farm surpluses advanced by President Kennedy last January.
They hoped to ram through Congress this week a far-ranging farm bill that was hammered into final shape yesterday by a Democratic-controlled conference committee. The first vote will come in the House.
Republican leaders denounced the measure, Rep. Charles B. Hoeven, of Iowa, GOP farm leader in the House, said its enactment would deliver "a staggering blow to midwest agriculture."
THE MEASURE would launch, in 1964, a new two-price program for controlling wheat surpluses.
The bill also would revamp and continue for one more year a program designed to induce growers of corn and other feed grains to hold down production. This is aimed at reducing the government's multi-billion dollar price support stockpile of grains.
There would be one price for wheat used as food or for export. A lower price would be set for surplus wheat used for livestock feed. The amount of surplus would be controlled through tighter planting restrictions.
The compromise bill would improve the administration's chances of obtaining other controls it wants from Congress next year.
Lawrence Assigned As Signal Advisor
Captain David L. Lawrence, assistant instructor of military science last year, has been assigned as Signal Advisor of Field Army Team 2, ARMISH-MAAG, at Tehran, Iran.
ARMISH-MAAG, the U.S. military mission with the Iranian Army and the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran, has the mission of assisting and advising Iranians in developing and maintaining an effective fighting force.
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IT WOULD REVISE and continue for 1963 crops a program of cash rewards to induce growers of corn, barley and grain sorghums to voluntarily hold plantings to government-recommended levels.
Direct price support payments would be used to insure a differential between the returns received by growers who cooperate and those who don't.
The government has achieved this differential under the current program by selling corn. The sales have depressed open market price about 20 cents below the $1.20 a bushel support price in order to achieve this differential.
UNDER THE NEW 1963-crop program the corn support price will be cut to $1.02, but growers who cooperate will get an 18-cent a bushel payment on their production to make up the difference.
The bill would also schedule a sharp and permanent drop in price supports for corn and other feed grains, starting in 1964. It would lower price props for corn to about 80 cents a bushel, starting with the 1964 crop. Similar reductions would be made in supports for barley and grain sorghums.
Books for People is a special P-t-P committee established here last year to provide textbooks for international students. The committee's first drive last semester netted over three tons of books. Those books that could not be used or traded here were sent to Asia as part of the KU-Y World University Service.
Book Committee Application Open
People-to-People is accepting applications for six positions on the Books for People committee.
The Books for People committee holds openings for chairman, vicechairman, publicity chief and for three committee members. Applications should be turned in at the People-to-People office in 113 of the Kansas Union by Friday. Application blanks can also be picked up in the P-t-P office. Interviews for the committee will be held Sunday.
BERLIN — (UPI) — Twenty-nine men, women and children tunnelled under the Communist border wall last Saturday and reached West Berlin with the full knowledge of the city government, a West Berlin spokesman announced today.
Record Number Escape to West
The West Berlin spokesman said West Berlin youths helped to plan and carry out the escape through the more than 50-yard tunnel from East Berlin into the French sector of West Berlin.
It was the largest mass escape since the East German regime began building the concrete and barbed wire wall Aug. 13, 1961.
He told a news conference the tunnel, which was the largest ever constructed under the wall, was not discovered after the mass escape.
"We knew the tunnel was being built. Building a tunnel is no crime," he said.
It was reported the tunnel was to have been used by another large group of Eastern refugees but heavy rains during the weekend filled it with water and made it unusable.
The spokesman called the news conference because the tunnel was no longer an escape route.
The largest previous group to flee the communist regime via tunnel was 28.
Prof. Delwig is Invited To Saline Conference
Louis F. Dellwig, associate professor of geology, has been invited to participate in an international conference on saline deposits.
Technical sessions will be Nov. 12-15 in Houston, Tex. Field sessions will start Nov. 3 at Moab, Utah, moving through sites in New Mexico and Texas back to Houston.
Fourteen distinguished foreign scientists have been invited to the conference, sponsored by the earth sciences division of the National Academy of Sciences—national research council.
WASHINGTON - (UPI) A group of Kansas business, industrial, education and labor leaders were given a rundown today on how their state might become a more active participant in the nation's space program.
NASA Urges Kansas Participation In Space
W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, is among those attending the conference. He left yesterday afternoon and will return this evening.
THEY RECEIVED briefings the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on just what the agency is doing and plans to do in the areas of production and research.
EY RECEIVED briefings from several top level officials of
The conference at NASA headquarters was arranged by Sen. Lester B. Pearson, R-Kans., in cooperation with other members of the Kansas delegation in Congress.
Pearson told the group that the primary objective of the conference was threefold:
- To develop a more complete understanding of the NASA program.
- To stimulate Kansas leaders to make plans to "proceed with those arrangements necessary to assure the mobilization of those essential factors."
- To produce "a fuller appreciation of the kinds of resources which are critical to an industry, a university, a state or a region to make participation in this program feasible."
PEARSON CALLED the NASA program "one of the greatest and most massive scientific explorations ever undertaken."
Pearson said it is necessary for the nation to be willing "to reach out for the unknown, the new, the untried," like putting a man on the moon.
But he said the purpose of today's conference was not to concentrate on space objectives or the specific hardware to attain those objectives instead, he said, attention should be focused on "the capabilities necessary for participation in this bold new exploration and the use of the knowledge which is derived from it."
A GENERALIZED account of NASA's basic program was given the group by NASA administrator James E. Webb. Information on grants and contracts was outlined by Homer E. Newell, director of the office of space sciences. John T. Holloway, chief of university programs for NASA, spoke on the agency's interest in university research programs.
The Kansas leaders were told in a resume prepared by the congressional delegation that Kansas "is no longer a farm state."
The fact sheet noted that no Kansas firm now holds a NASA prime production contract and that the state should wait no longer to get in on growing space industry activities.
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Auditions for "Paint Your Wagon," second of the famous Lerner and Loewe musicals, will be held from 7 to 10 tonight in the chorus room at Murphy hall.
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The auditions will continue there from 3:30 to 7 p.m. tomorrow.
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Wagon' Auditions To Begin Tonight
Dancing auditions for "Paint Your Wagon" will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Rehearsal Room, immediately below the stage of the University Theatre.
North across Kaw River to the first street (Elm St.). Turn Right on Elm, follow Elm to end of road (Ninth St.). Turn Right one block.
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The play has speaking roles for 25 men and four women and dancing roles for seven women and one man.
Phi Kappa Sigma pledged eighteen men during Rush Week, Sept. 4-6. This list was in last Thursday's Kansan, but placed under Phi Gamma Delta. The pledges are:
Special auditions for "The Boy Friend," last year's University Players show, may be arranged with Sidney Berger, assistant instructor of speech and drama. The show is scheduled for a USO tour to the Far East next summer.
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Readings will also be held at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow in Murphy Hall for "The Fantasticks." "The Egg," "The Cherry Orchard," "The Trial" and the Children's Theatre play, "Alice in Wonderland."
Wayne Edward Resnik, Whitewater; Charles Edward Knox, Topeka; Michael Emerson Waller, Cambridge, Md.; Raymond Edward Quakeenbush, Wichita; Roger Arthur Rasmussen, Wichita; David Allan Sagerser, Overland Park; Robert Neil Carlson, Topeka; Dennis Allen Platt, Wellington; Michael Andrew Jordan, Tulsa, Okla; Wade Orlando Douglas Jr., Topeka; Richard Cameron Ogle, Topeka; Keneth Alexander McGee Jr., Prairie Village; John J. Keene, Pratt; Robert Anthony Lange, Shawnee Mission; Gary Lawson Lafayette, Calif; Lynn Farmer Lindsay, Lawrence; Eric Wayne Hoffman, Belleville; William Drue Thomas, Kansas City, Mo.
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