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University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1984
Agriculture official defends payment-in-kind program
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By United Press International
TOPEKA — A Kansas legislator says the 1984 farm program is a failure, but an assistant U.S. secretary of agriculture says it will pay for the average wheat producer to participate.
State State Rep. Bill Fuller, R-Miltonville, said, "As the program now stands, it's a failure for the Kansas wheat farmer."
However, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture William Lesher yesterday urged farmers not to turn to the program. Sign-up for it begins Monday.
"For the average wheat producer, it will pay. We need 50 percent participation at least." Lesher said.
THE 1984 PROGRAM sets a $50,000 limit on payment-in-kind benefits. In order to sign up for PIK, a wheat farmer first must reduce planting in acres by 30 percent of the base planted the previous two years. The advantage of the 30 percent reduction is that the farmer is eligible for price support loans and deficiency payments. He then is eligible to cut planting another 10 percent to 20 percent for PIK.
Asked by legislators if the 1984 program would be “sweetened.” Lesher said the chances were less than half.
Lesher drew criticism from some
state legislators when he said the 1983 payment-in-kind program had provided "a year or two breathing space to decide what direction we want to take on farm policy."
HE SPOKE THURSDAY to a joint meeting of the state House and Senate agriculture committees.
"I think 1984 is a crisis year for agriculture," State Rep. Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, said. "Evidently the feeling in the Agriculture department is we've got time on our work and we're coming outermers out here are in real trouble."
She admitted some individuals were in "tough shape," but said the overall agriculture sector of the country was better than the previous year.
"There are always going to be people who go out of business and others who come in." Lesher said.
Lesher defended the 1983 PIK program as the right plan for the time. He said it saved the government $3 billion in deficiency payments, $3 billion is storage and interest costs and $3 billion in disaster payments while costing $9 billion in stored crops.
PIK SAVED RURAL communities and put money in farmers' pockets while increasing prices and measurably reducing stocks, except Ideser said, although he admitted that it is only a "short-term fix".
With additions to Haworth Hall and the Learned Hall Interim Engineering Library near completion, the University of Kansas is planning to renovate Snow Hall and expand the Botanical Research Laboratory on West Campus.
Expansion, remodeling planned for buildings
By the Kansan Staff
Last December's bitter weather slowed work on the Haworth and Learned projects, but workers at the sites said yesterday that they expected the projects to be completed on time.
"Sure, the cold weather slows our work down," said Ron Bradshaw of R.D. Anderson Construction, the company doing the work at Haworth.
However, Bradshaw said, the holdups will not affect the expected completion date of January 1885 for the addition to Haworth Hall.
THE ADDITION WILL cost $11 million.
Anderson Construction has been working on the 120,000 square foot addition to Haworth since last January.
The Interim Engineering Library should be open to students next month, a spokesman at Learned Hall said.
The engineering library is now in the basement of the Frank R. Burge Union. David Kraft, dean of the School of Architecture, said the new library because of a need for
The majority of the funds came from alumni, industrial donors, and other concerned individuals, he said.
more space to accommodate a growing number of engineering students.
The library is called "Interim" because the university intends to build a large science and technology library, which will include engineering, near the Military Science building. The Interim Library was designed to eventually be converted into office or classroom space.
Thanks to a donation of $300,000 from the Bridwell Foundation, the herbarium at the Botanical Research Laboratory on West Campus is expected to expand this spring, said Allen Wiechert, university director of facilities and planning.
THE EXPANSION IS possible, he said, because a large portion of the biology department will be moving to Haworth Hall.
For Snow Hall, the KU Regents Center has proposed renovating the old wing, which will be used for office and library space for the math department. But the math department will still have rooms in strong Hall, said Charles Himmelberg, professor of mathematics and chairman of the department.
The herbarium provides specimens for research and instruction.
Dee Anderson/KANSAN
Joseph Williams of Huxtable & Associates Inc. assists in lifting machinery onto the addition being built on Haworth Hall. Construction was progressing steadily yesterday. Once completed, Haworth will be the largest building on campus.
Air Force cautions Boeing officials about threat of bombs from terrorists
By United Press International
WICHTA - The U.S. Air Force is researching terrorist groups and the potential for attacks on the nation's top 22 defense contractors, including Boeing Military Airplane Co. here, officials said yesterday.
A terrorist group called the "United Freedom Front," which has claimed responsibility for half a dozen bombings in the northeastern United States, claims to have targeted a number of defense contractors, the Air Force said.
"We're just sensitizing them (contractors) to the fact that there appears to be an increased threat, particularly from this one group," said Air Force spokesman Capt. Johnny Whitaker in Washington.
The Air Force contract management
division, headquartered at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, N.M., recently compiled information on terrorists. Whitaker said.
The Air Force distributed summarized versions of the research to the nation's top 22 defense contractors, Whitaker said.
"THE MESSAGES ARE informational in nature. They're not anything to say, 'Hey, Boeing, or hey Martin-Marietta, we think you need to increase your security because of the threat from terrorists.'" Whitaker said yesterday.
"They are more like, 'Here's what we know, now you take whatever action you deem appropriate.'"
of the Air Force warning. One option includes the possibility of closing off streets near the plant to prevent suicide bombing missions using a vehicle.
Boeing spokesman Allen Hobbs said that the company was reviewing options to strengthen security because
Boeing employs about 15,000 people in Wichita.
"Your report is certainly doing the community a disservice by calling attention to this subject and bringing to the possibility of a copycat." Hobbs said.
Hobbs expressed dissatisfaction with media attention to the Air Force wake-up call.
THE OPTION OF closing streets was discussed before the company received the information from the Air Force. Hobbs said. No specific threats have been made against Boeing, he said, and the company has not yet implemented security precautions.
Renovation of gallery delays Wilcox display
By JAN SHARON Staff Reporter
Restoration of the Wilcox collection of classical statues and antiques is almost complete, but the collection might not be displayed for two or three years, the assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs said yesterday.
Al Johnson , the assistant vice chancellor, said that the collection of phaser casts of Greek and Roman gods and emperors could not go on display in gallery in Lippincott Hall was renovated. The project is expected to cost $50,000.
The University is not planning to request any money from the Kansas
Board of Regents to complete the renovation, said William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor.
FINANCING FOR THE renovation must come from within the budget the University already has for fiscal 1984, he said.
The administration is hoping to squeeze about $10,000 from its budget, Johnson said, so it can begin the project, which involves demolition work on room 103 in Lippincott where the collection is to go on display.
"The University is still committed to the project, but it's very difficult to say when it will actually occur." Johnson said.
The gallery's opening date depends on the amount of money the University
The University is now storing the collection in a warehouse in East Lawrence until the renovation can be completed. It will aid the bardo, associate professor of classics.
can put toward the project and when the money will be available. Johnson
The collection was on display in old Fraser Hall from 1888 until Fraser was demolished in 1965. Then workers moved the collection to the tinshed on West Campus where it stayed until the fall of 1982.
ORIGINALLY THE UNIVERSITY had planned to display the collection in Wescoe Hall, until building plans for that building were scaled down and room was not available.
Committee to define election rul
A special elections committee today will begin to debate the procedure for a new student body presidential election.
Lisa Ashner, student body president, this week appointed the committee to set the date for the new election, determine the filing and campaign periods and make revisions of the elections rules.
By the Kansan Staff
The committee will present its
recommendations to the Senate for a vote on Feb. 8.
Senators will have the opportunity to make suggestions to the temporary committee about the election next week at a special organizational Senate meeting, said Jim Cramer, student body vice president.
Cramer said that he had called the meeting to acquaint new senators with Senate procedures and the election situation.
ASHNER SAID THAT THE COM-
munication would need some time to sift
through the problems and to determine necessary revisions of the election rules.
Meanwhile, the Senate will continue to carry out its normal duties, said Ashner.
She said that senators would be encouraged to propose legislation and that committees would begin meeting. The senators will also confirm appointments of committee chairmen.
On Jan. 5, Chancellor Gene A. Budig ordered a new presidential election
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