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University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1983
City considers proclamation backing ERA
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission is no stranger to controversy.
The latest issue is whether the commission should issue a proclamation supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, which is now before
Commissioner Tom Gleason said it was a duty. Commissioner Barkley Clark said it was a legislative issue. Commissioner Nancy Shontz said half the city was composed of women. Mayor Marci Francisco said it was not inappropriate. And Commissioner Don Binns said it was politics.
GLEASON FIRST brought up the matter last week, and the commission again discussed the issue Tuesday night. Gleason will write a proclamation supporting the amendment, to be discussed next week.
"We ought to be taking every opportunity as elected officials to encourage re-submission and make sure that the Rights Amendment," Gleason said.
Clark said. "This could get carried out of control."
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He said he supported the ERA but did not think it was the commission's job to comment on legislative issues.
"You end up forcing each commissioner to take a stand on issues that are not really important."
I don't concern the law. Binns said he thought it was ridiculous for a local governmental body to send a proclamation to Congress.
"I'm sure the issue was brought up to discredit me," Binsn said. "They don't care."
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BINNS SAID he supported equal pay
for equal work, but was not completely
in favor of the ERA.
Francisco said that she did not think that it was inappropriate for Gleason to bring up the issue, but that the EKA would explain how the EKA would relate to the city.
Shontz said she did not think the ERA had as much relevance to the city as other issues, such as natural gas rates, but said Half of the city is composed
She said she would support the preclamation.
Lacy Smith, president of the Lawrence chapter of the National Organization of Women, which is temporarily inactive, said she thought the commission should issue the proclamation.
soft shout. "I think it would make people more aware," she said. "It is obviously a symbolic gesture."
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Mum's the word on whether the Richard M. Nixon presidential library will be near the University of Kansas.
An attorney representing Nixon declined comment yesterday on both a possible site of the library and the date of the decision on the location.
Meanwhile, area cities that have expressed interest in the library are waiting for further word from Nixon's attorney.
Volunteers in Shawnee, one such city, are running a pledge drive to raise money for construction of the library.
THE NIXON library would be the third presidential library near KU. The Dwight D. Eisenhower complex, containing a library and a museum, is located on campus of Michigan. In the location of the Harry S Truman library and museum complex.
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Stan Mortenson, a Washington, D.C. attorney who represents Nixon in the presidential library matter, said federal law required a presidential library to be built with private funds. The completed building, however, reverts to the National Archives, part of the General Services Administration.
Mortenson said several locations were being considered for the library.
"They're an assorted variety of interested clades and their children," he said. "They are them."
HOWEVER, MORTENSON said, his policy was not to comment on "internal matters" such as what cities and institutions were being considered, who would decide on the library would be separate from the museum and whether the Watergate tapes would be stored at the library or the museum.
Keith Wilson Jr., city manager for Independence, Mo., a city once interested in the library, admired other cities that wanted the Nixon library to swiftly become a priority again and delay construction of the library, he said.
Thomas Soeerta, mayor of Shawnee,
said his impression was that a decision
on the library site might come this
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Wilson said the Nixon presidential materials included more than 40 million documents, the largest collection by a U.S. president of foreign gifts and numerous tapes about various events, such as the re-opening of relations with China and the Watergate scandal.
Competition for the library has prompted various efforts in the interested cities, such as the pledge drive in Shawnee. OFFICIALS FOR the cities said they want the library or the boost in the local from
construction work and permanent jobs for library employees, the increase in tourist trade and the historical value of such a library.
In addition, he said, citing figures from the Truman library and museum, the library would attract almost 300,000 tourists each year and have an annual payroll of about $2.5 million.
"It's a gold mine for historical researchers," he said.
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"It looks somewhat favorable," he said.
Soeetaert said officials from Shawnee had talked with Mortenson, Nixon's lawyer, over the past six to seven months.
SOETAERT SAID Mortenson had listed several criteria for the city to have the library site, such as financial commitment and proximity to a metropolitan area and large highways.
Gary Montague, Shawnee city manager, said, "We have not been told that we would get it or not get it, but we have received some encouragement."
SOETAFT SAID Shawne officials had asked the KU administration last year for a statement of support. He said a KU official, whom he did not recall, had written a vague letter saying that KU faculty and students would probably use the Nixon library if it were near Lawrence.
A local landowner has promised the city 10 acres for the library, Montague said, and other offers of land have been made.
Montague said that the city was asked to come up with $2 million for construction, but that the pledge drive, which last fall, had raised only 90,000 so far.
Frances Horowitz, KU dean of graduate studies, said she had contacted several faculty members and asked them to send individual letters. However, she said, she has heard nothing else about the letters or the Nixon
Leavenworth City Manager Andy Anderson said a special committee appointed by the city commission had recommended several months ago an attempt to obtain the Nixon library.
hitup to one other and "No one else seems to want it." Anderson said. "His papers need to be stored somewhere."
The impetus for Leavenworth's interest came from city officials interested in tourism, he said.
Ray Wyatt, vice president of the Abilene First National Bank, said some members of the chamber of commerce last year discussed trying to attract the Nixon library to Abilene, where it would have a natural tie-in to the Eisenhower complex. Nixon was vice president under Eisenhower.
representatives and that no pledge drive would be started until city officials received more definite information.
The group invited Mortenson last fall to visit Abilene, but the only response so far has been an affirmation of the message, he said.
Wilson said he first paid attention to the Nixon library about a year ago, when Duke University withdrew from negotiations to locate the library near the university, in Durham, N.C. Nixon attended the university's law school.
ANDERSON SAID that the city had
board of, no deadline from the Nixon
elections in April, and the city council lost interest when other cities were looking into the matter.
"We're just kind of in a holding pattern right now," Wyatt said.
"It's a free country, and you get opposition to anything," he said. "It is not surprising to me that the issue became politicized."
WILSON, CITY manager for Independence, said his interest in locating the Nixon library in independence had come from cities to consider bavine the library.
Negotiations had previously been conducted with representatives from Whittier, Calif., Nixon's boyhood home, and the University of California at Los Angeles, Wilson said.
Francis Heller, KU professor of law and political science, said he thought that Duke had wanted the library, in which researchers could work with documents from the administration; but not the museum, which would contain foreign gifts and other memorabilia from Nixon's career.
THE GERALD R. Ford presidential library is the only presidential library that does not have the museum in the same city. The library is on the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The museum is in Grand Brands. Mich.
Wilson said the negotiations with Duke broke down when the question of whether a new campus would be built.
WILSON SAID that the Independence City Council was enthusiastic at first when he suggested trying to get the Nixon library, and that he met with Mortenson in March. However, the matter became politiced during city
Rapids, MN. Wilson said his impression from negotiations with Mortenson was that the planners of the Nixon library wanted the library and museum to be in one complex.
Heller, who is a member of the board of directors for the Truman Library Institute, a private support agency for the Truman library, said that the complex altered many tourists and a steady flow of researchers.
Although some recently proposed legislation in Congress has called for limits on presidential libraries and museums, Heller said, the only legislation that has passed so far is a limit on expansion of existing libraries.
PRESIDENTIAL libraries are needed to store administration papers, he said. The National Archives currently stores the Nixon papers in rented facilities in Virginia.
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IRS asks waiters' taxes be refunded
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service yesterday asked restaurant owners to refund withheld taxes to waiters and waitresses if mistakes were made in applying a new rule requiring tip income reporting.
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The IRS has been flooded with objections to the rule, which became effective Jan. 1, from employers and employees who say it is confusing, disruptive and unfair.
If a waiver or waitress is more honest in reporting tips because of the new possibility of a tax audit, the employer can increase Social Security and other payroll withholding taxes, the IRS said. *II*. *TI*. employee reports, more
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But, IRS spokesmen said, waiters and waitresses pay no more taxes on total income than anyone else under the new rule, and many of the complaints delivered to IRS headquarters are true. Until now, however, restaurant employees, as a category, have paid less than the average payroll by all workers.
income in tips than in weekly wages, the withholding taxes may wipe out the paycheck.
But the total income of the waiter or waitress is a combination of the tips and the paycheck and is no more taxed than the income of anyone else, the spokesman said.
Some employers, however, are applying withholding taxes to their employees' paychecks as if waiters and waitresses were reported a percent of the volume of their sales in trips, even if the employee is reporting less.
Plan would admit evidence obtained in illegal searches
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Stephan wants a law enacted that would allow items obtained during an illegal search and seizure to be admitted as evidence in court. He
TOPEKA - Evidence seized by police during illegal searches could be admissible in court if the Kansas Legislature concurs with a plan by Attorney General Robert Stephan
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