The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, April 25,1983 Vol. 93, No. 141 USPS 650-640
Highway bill on Carlin's desk
By JEFF TAYLOR and DIANE LUBER Staff Reporters
Gas prices at the pump will likely go up at least 2 cents a gallon July 1, but drivers should find smoother Kansan roads if Gov. John Cardin signs the compartmental plan that would prevent傻逝 yesterday.
Conflicts between the governor and the Legislature have postponed badly needed highway repairs for four years. But the governor is expected to go along with the plan, which includes a scaled-down version of his highway repair proposal.
replain proposed.
"It was time to compromise," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence. "Everybody had compromised."
Republicans, who had originally proposed a 3-cent-a-gallon increase in gas prices, settled for a 2-cent increase on July 1 followed by an additional 1-cent increase Jan. 1.
They also agreed to include a $5 million transfer from the general fund and a $40 million transfer from the freeway fund to the highway fund in the next fiscal year as part of the plan.
CARLIN HAD originally proposed transferring all revenues from the sales tax on
vehicles from the general fund to the highway fund over the next three or four years. He had also proposed transferring $110 million from the freeway fund to the highway fund over that time.
Charlton said the state had to come up with a highway finance program this year or Kansans would not benefit from the federal 5-cent-a-gallon increase in gas prices that went into effect last month. The federal government will use those revenues to provide matching funds to states to repair interstate highways and bridges.
bridges.
"The people of Kansas would have been paying 5 cents for nothing unless the state came up with the funds to match the federal funds." Charlton said. "It's too bad we have to pay 2 or 3 cents more to get it."
The total state gas tax will be 10 cents a gallon on July 1 and 11 cents a gallon on Jan. 1. The plan also includes a way to increase or decrease the tax by 1 cent annually beginning in fiscal year 1986, based on the average price of gas around the nation.
THE PLAN IS expected to provide $80 million for highway repair in the fiscal year beginning July 1 — $35 million from the gas tax increase, $3 million from the sales tax transfer and $40 million from the freeway transfer.
The sales tax transfer will increase by $$
million annually. The freeway transfer will be $40 million in FY 1984, $20 million in FY 1985 and $5 million in FY 1986.
State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains and vice president of the Senate, called for bipartisan support of the plan in the Senate.
support on the plan. Mr. Cummings
REPUBLICANS ARE being forced to carry
the bill, he said, and are being made to look like
tax villains.
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Senai, Majority Leader Bob Talkington,
Reno, said, "Some of the people on this side don't feel like they should always be required to always vote for tax increases."
always vote for tax increases. But Charlton said that Democrats, not Republicans, had to carry the political burden of passing all the other tax increases this session — the severance tax, the cigarette and liquor taxes and the increase in individual income taxes.
"The Republicans went across the state pedaling a gas tax increase and now they come back here and want the Democrats to help them pass it," Charlton said.
State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, said he opposed the plan because of the general fund transfer.
The general fund is used to finance education, social services and Regens institutions, he said.
TO PUT THE powerful highway lobby in
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The Soviet delegation placed a wreath at the Campanile in commemoration of the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Squabble over text prices inevitable, managers say
Bv SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
In slightly more than a week, starting the first day of finals, students will line up once again at the campus textbook stores to sell back their used books, and inevitably some will leave with less money than they think their books are worth.
worried.
At the end of last semester, the two campus bookstores paid out more than $175,000 to buy back KU students' used textbooks.
“It’s the biggest rocket going.” Gevin Hill, Leniessa (freshman, said), “when I can pay $18 for a textbook and the class is canceled for the next semester and I can only sell it back for $1.95.”
AS THE COST OF NEW textbooks increases, students find it more and more difficult to understand why the books are so valuable and how the stores determine the amount they pay for the books.
steve Jewett, textbook coordinator for the Union bookstore, said students could become disgruntled and downright nasty when they discovered that their textbooks would not be bought back or were worth less than the students had thought.
is though.
"The buy-back service is just that - a
service," he said. "There are some bookstores on smaller campuses and junior college stores that don't even offer it. We are taking books off their hands that they may never use again."
Although many students complain about the prices, the managers of the two local two-fold
Scott Foster, manager of the Jayhawk Bookstore, said the competition between the two stores during the buy-back period was intense as both stores attempted to get their share of the
BOTH THE BOUTION BOOKSTORE and the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, offer students 50 percent of the purchase price for the following semester: the followingsemester the store managers said.
stores said that many variables influenced the price of a used text.
used book market.
Jewett said used textbooks were sought by students because of the increasing prices of new texts.
Book wholesalers determine which books will be bought. The wholesales ultimately recycle the books among universities across the country.
The Union bookstore uses Missouri Book Services, based in Columbia, Md., as its wholesaler and the Jayhawk store use Nebraska Book Sales Co. in Lincoln, Neb.
brasher book sales of
RICHARD HOWARD, AREA MANAGER for the Missouri company, said that his company was able to pay up to 33 percent of the cost of the book to students if it was not going to be used on campus the following semester.
campus the following locations:
The Missouri Book Services company com
piles a "profile" for each textbook based on the number of campuses that use the book, the number of books that are ordered and how often the book is re-ordered.
This ranking determines the amount that the company will buy it back for, he said.
company you don't expect many people to understand the customer behind it" Howard said.
economics behind it," Howard said. Boyd McDougall, district manager of the Nebraska Book Sales Co. said his company served a network of 300 universities and had two warehouses to store the millions of books it buys and sells.
and Ses.
"We are a glorified junk dealer," he said. "But we don't buy back everything. We don't take the books that are out of date and are really worthless. It's like, well, who wants to buy yesterday's newspaper?"
JEWETT SAID, "THEY COME in with their own people and set up, run the operation and transport the books."
The company compiles a list of textbooks that will be in demand across the country and they will buy those books as well as the ones that the Union bookstore has been notified will be used the next semester, he said.
The buy-back for the Jayhawk Bookstore is
BOOKS.section 5.
Pioneer 10 craft nears Pluto orbit
By United Press International
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Pioneer 10, an American spaceship launched 11 years ago, will pass the orbit of the planet Pluto today, hurtling at 30,000 mph toward the unknown space beyond the solar system.
The remarkable space robot, the first man-made object to go that far, may well keep going for millions more years. Should it reach another galaxy and be found by other intelligent beings, it carries a plaque designed by Carl Sagan to identify humans on Earth as its source.
Sagan to identify hundreds of Scientists at Ames Research Center calculate that Pioneer 10 will be almost 2.8 billion miles beyond the sun when it passes Pluto's orbit on its way toward Neptune and then, in June, out of the solar system.
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SINGER IN LAUNCH ON MARCH 2, 1972.
Pioneer 10 has traversed the asteroid belt,
survived Jupiter's radiation belts and
continuously functioned almost without flaw on its journey, said Richard Fimmel. Pioneer 10 project manager.
Pluto is normally the solar system's outermost planet. But because its orbit is egg-shaped, it sometimes comes nearer the sun than Neptune. The planet is on that leg of its orbit now and so Pioneer 10 will pass Pluto's orbit before it gets to Neptune's orbit.
spokesman Peter Werner.
The stunning accomplishments of Pioneer 10 surprised even National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists, who planned it primarily for a trip to the space around Jupiter. It visited that planet nine years ago.
into deep space. "There is no wind, no moisture, no pollution, nothing to mess things up. It's very unlikely the ship will ever collide with a star. The only limiting factor is the gradual aging of its components," he said.
Pioneer will pass five billion miles from Pluto itself, too far for photographs, said Ames spokesman Peter Waller.
IV. SUCCESS.
COLLD HAVE COLLIDED with a baseball-sized particle in the asteroid belt or could have been damaged by the intense radiation around Jupiter," Fimmel said. "Any of hundreds of things could have ended the mission. But it just keeps going."
Diligence pays off for frog-hunting explorers
mission. But it just keeps going on.
Because it has lasted this long, Fimmel said,
there is no reason to believe it won't keep flying
into into deep space for millions of years.
computer, NASA SENSITIVES BELIEVE they can keep in touch with the spaceships for another 10 or 15 years. It will continue to send reports on what it "sees." The radio signals are sent by an eight-watt transmitter — a power equivalent to a Christmas tree light.
By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
The dozen hearty explorers trudged through swampy ditches in search of their elusive game.
They were combing the land for slippery amphibians — as many as they could find.
At the Natural History Museum's "Friday Frog Frolic," a group of children and a few adults braved Friday's wet weather to go to various sites around Lawrence on a nighttime hunt for frog, salamanders and toads.
ERIC RUNDQUIST, WHO LEADS some of the museum's programs, and David Hillis, a Baltimore graduate student, taught the group, who were mostly eight to 15-year-olds — and most males — how to identify different species by their calls and their appearance.
Some of the children repeated the imitations.
And a bus carried the group to rural areas, Rundquist and Hills described various kinds of dogs.
while others asked whether they could keep the animals they captured.
"If I could find one of these, I could freak out my peer mother," one participant said.
my poor mother that he had been fish-hunting,
but also frog-hunting.
Although the weather was still a little chilly for the frogs to be calling much, the group was able to find as many as five different species of
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frogs, along with some other amphibious
creatures.
cars.
But since the bus slowly drove along the country roads, Hills was able to stop the bus, get out and catch a few.
THE ANIMALS SEEMINGLY DID not want to surface as the flashlight-wielding stalkers waded through the wet grass, listening for calls.
"One of the most effective means for herpetologists to gather ambilis is to drive up and down roads slowly," he said.
As he held the tiny animals in his hand, he explained their characteristics, such as the spadefoot frog's unique feet, and let the group touch them.
When he brought a toad around, one young boy was wary at the prospect of warts, but others explained that that was simply an old wives' tale.
are the
"Hey, no feminist jokes," another boy said.
HILLIS ALSO SHOWED THEM other
species of frogs and a salamander.
He said that many times herpetologists — people who study reptiles and amphibians — traveled several hundred miles and found only a few species, or several of one kind of species. He said that to find five different species in such a short time and limited area was unusual.
Despite the inclement weather and silent frogs, the various species found made the trip a success, Rundquist said.
Shultz goes to Cairo to end deadlock
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz left for the Middle East yesterday on an open-ended mission intended to break the deadlock in negotiations on Lebanon and to get President Reagan's Middle East peace plan back on track.
back on deck.
Shultz left Andrews Air Force Base, Md., for Cairo after receiving last-minute orders from Reagan by telephone. He carried personal messages from Reagan to leaders he would see on the trip, which could last three weeks.
HIS FIRST EMPHASIS WILL be on breaking a four-month deadlock in negotiations on the withdrawal of Israel, Syrian, and Palestine Liberation Organization forces from Lebanon, which have been mediated by special U.S. envoys Philip Habib and Morris Draper.
Rhegan said in a Saturday radio address that he was dispatching Shultz to "add his personal efforts" in bringing about a total withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon.
By United Press International
"Following that, of course, to follow on, if we have the opportunity to get the conditions for Syria and PLO and other withdrawals as well."
Shultz said, "Our emphasis will be . . . on the Israeli-Lebanon negotiations in trying to get that settled, or as close to settlement as possible.
The deadlock on withdrawal has stymied progress on Reagan's Sept. 1. Middle East peace initiative which calls for Israel withdrawn from occupied Arab territory and establishment of a Palestinian homeland in association with Jordan.
IN WHAT WAS CONSIDERED a big blow to the plan two weeks ago, King Hussein of Jordan balked at entering talks with Israel as the representative of the Palestinians.
representative of the Iraqis. But Shultz said Arab leaders might be taking a second look at Baghdad's peace plan. He said sheies in Arab capitals indicated the leaders have second thoughts and asking themselves, "Are we really going to pass this up?"
Shultz said his objectives were finding "secure arrangements for Israel," removing foreign troops from Lebanon and finding "some manner of recognizing the legitimate needs and aspirations of the Palestinian people."
rations of the Palestine.
In Cairo, Shultz will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Cairo also will be the site of a conference between Shultz, Habib and Draper and U.S. ambassadors to other key Arab countries.
THE MEETINGS IN CAIRO could last several days. Afterward, Shultz will travel to Israel to meet Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking
concessions leading to a withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon.
Israel yesterday welcomed Stuart's mission but said it should not affect Lebanese-Israeli agreements already reached in negotiations on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon.
"we have reached several agreements with the Lebanese by now," Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor told reporters. "But I do believe anyone expects us to go back on what we have already agreed."
Meridor was referring to comments made Friday by Lebanese President Amin Gemayel in which Gemayel rejected "any Israeli military presence" on Lebanese territory.
Senior Israeli officials last week said agreement in principle had been reached with Beirut on joint Israeli-Lebanese security patrols in south Lebanon after an Israeli withdrawal.
THE ISRAELI OFFICIALS ALSO said agreement in principle had been reached on integrating the militia of renegade Lebanese army Ma'u. Saad Haddad, who is backed by Israel, into the Lebanese army, though Haddad's role was still in dispute.
One U.S. source close to the negotiations confirmed "there's been some backsliding" on Lebanon's part in the talks to arrange the withdrawal of Israel, Syrian and Palestinian forces.
Banquet honors Soviet athletes before departure
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
About 300 Lawrence residents and KU students last night commemorated a period of Soviet-U.S. unity that began Tuesday when the 19 Soviets stepped off a plane at Kansas City International Airport.
They laughed and chatted over music of a jazz trio at a $20-a-plate prime rib banquet at the Holiday Inn Holldome to honor the athletes who competed in the Kansas Relays.
compete in the Kansas State
A smiling child walked up to Ted Kennedy Jr.
and asked for an autograph. Bright camera
flashes followed.
flashes followed At tables around the room, adults and children filed intermittently up to the visiting Soviet athletes to get more autographs and to offer a farewell handshake. More camera flashes followed.
BUT THE MOOD of the dinner, sponsored by Athletes United for Peace, quickly turned emotional when speakers stepped to the lectern to proclaim the week a success and toast to peace and unity.
"I am the original madman of this event," he said.
Mark Scott, executive director of AUP, spoke to the audience in English and in Russian.
An ovation followed.
"When I first proposed the idea of Soviet athletes competing in the Kansas Relays, Coach (Bob) Timmons thought about it, shook his head and sadly concluded, 'Mark's crazy,' " Scott said.
"But as the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be on a collision course that would end in one final war, I didn't think my idea was crazy at all. In fact, I thought is was painfully sane.
same.
"Maybe others involved in great issues of war and peace will find encouragement in the success of our modest attempt to promote good will between the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union."
AND THEN the champagne flowed
AND WHEN we each pass,
"So this is my toast to everyone assembled here this evening and in the heart of America," Scott said. "I'd like to propose a toast to hope."
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, the coach of the Soviet delegation, said, "Pace for all people, I can say, is what we really need. I would like to propose a toast for peace."
Kennedy, a member of the AUP national advisory board, said, "The great lesson I think that you can apply to life is that if you can do something well, all the other problems in your life don't seem to matter so much.
he don't seem typical of what we've experienced here tonight. We've come here and communicated so well, had lengthy discussions and competed against each other. All other problems don't seem to matter so much.
"I'd like to give a toast to all of you here in this room who've come to help us on the board of Athletes United for Peace carry on what we're trying so hard to do."
Weather
Today will be sunny, windy and warmer with a high of 75. Winds will be from the south at 20 to 30 mph.
Tnight will be partly cloudy with a low of 39.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 80.