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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 64
Monday, December 7, 1970
Ethel Kennedy Heckled
See Page 3
Figures Say KU Vital to Lawrence Economy
Lawrence, Kan.— Home of KU
By GALEN BLAND and PAT MORRISSEY
Kansan Writers
... community and University support each other
The University is the biggest business in Lawrence. Without KU, some people from the Hill believe, Lawrence would be a ghost town. And without KU, many people think, KU would not be a university.
They both may be right. Regardless, the University is the biggest business in Asia.
"Without the University, Lawrence would be in economic trouble." Hill Moyers wrote in a 1940 book.
THE FIGURES back up his statement. The total effective buying income of Lawrence is about $137 million, nearly 30 per cent of this directly from KU employees and others.
This does not include several intangibles. The swarms of football fans that clog the streets and fill the stadium and the motels in spring bring large sums to the Lawrence coffers.
"The main contribution by KU to Lawrence is economic, but it also gives benefits from athletic events. It is hard to measure how much these events add to the economy." Keith L. Nitchel
vice chancellor in charge of business affairs
said in a recent interview.
Bill Gault, manager of the Lawrence
Chapter of Commerce, agreed with this
view.
money that comes into Lawrence, causes different trends in business.
IT'S HARD to measure some of the ways IT benefits the community," he said. "Some companies do market research where they will locate, and a large university is an attractive asset.
THIS TRENDT he said, is seen in the many franchise hamburger stands on 32rd Street
"Naturally, when more than a third of the people in a community are from the University and most of them are 18-22 years old, businesses will develop that cater to their wants and needs," Ronald R. Olsen, professor of economics, said.
This is the first in a series on Lawrence in the '70s, a series that the Kansan hopes will help to clear some of the clouds of misunderstanding that separate KU from the city. The articles will continue through this week.
"Also, some companies in Lawrence are directly related to the University; the Center for Environmental Science at the Kansas State Geological Survey and Alba Pharmaceutical Corp. are all directly tied to
and by the various night clubs around town.
"The retailers," Gaud said, "depend especially on KU students. Most of the 23rd class get them the business from the University."
KU also affects the employment market of a lancew. It employs about 3,000 full-time
and by the various night clubs around to
KU, besides increasing the amount of
people. The top 70 business in Lawrence, as compiled by the Chamber of Commerce, employ about 7,500 people. Another fact in the employment market situation is that the KU handbook states, one in four KU students are employed in part-time work.
And then are those who contend that it is a two-way street. Dolph Simons Jr., president and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, is one.
"It is dangerous to think only in terms or dollars and cents," he said. "Lawrence not only provides the University with a good plant but also helped KU to obtain its original property."
"IT'S THE BEST industry a town could have. Unlike Leeds or Boeing, the University, barring a catastrophe, will stay open," Saeed said.
No doubt there are people in Lawrence who think they would be better off without the University, mostly because of the recent success of the group of people in Lawrence, however, know that without KU, Lawrence would be losing its greatest major industry and cultural center. The community and the University are facing great challenges. They feed and profit from their association.
Blast Rocks Refinery; Saboteurs Sought
Tuesday: Town-Gown Relations
LINDEN, N.J. (UPI)—The FBI sought saboturers, possibly leftist revolutionaries, Sunday in the wake of a flier explosion that caused millions of dollars worth of damage at the Humble Oil Refinery and touched off looting in two cities.
The blast last Saturday night injured 36 of the 200 employees on duty at the gantry refinery, a fireball 1,000 feet into the air, and rockets that hit the roofs of the metropolitan area for a radius of 40 miles. Looting of stores ensured in Linden and Elizabeth, resulting in the arrest of about 20.
London police said they received a phone call at 8:21 p.m. Saturday from an officer in the city's fire department, I'm going to tell you once. Get it right the first time. Esso was lucky last week. This time it's going to burn, baby. Burn. That's it." Humble officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey (ESSO)
Radio cars were dispatched to the huge bayway refinery opposite Station #15, where nearly 90 percent searched in vain for bombs. Some security men were still searching when the blast began.
The fireball engulfed a half dozen storage tanks and set off underground fires that roared like balfuraces for several hours. at 2:46 a.m., shortly after the fires had been extinguished, a group of static WINS in New York received an anonymous call from a man claiming to be a
Two Bombs Discovered On Daisy Hill
At 1:30 p.m. Saturday the Traffic and Security Department received a call from Lawrence Police informing them that a bomb had been found in Nunaker Hall.
Numerake Hall is the building under construction just north of Lewis Hall.
Alvin E. Stine, construction worker, found the bomb while he was recovering tool he used to kill it.
Two bombs were found. Each was comprised of six stacks of dynamite held together by club and rubber bands with caps and fuses. The bombs and cigars had been used to ignite the fuses.
A spokesman for the Traffic and Security Department said that the Federal Bureau of investigation has been notified and that the case is now under investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the state fire marshal.
The second bomb was found on the east side of the building under a stairway. It did not go off because the matches had failed to ignite the fuse.
The building and surrounding area were
*earched*, but little evidence was found.
Members of the Traffic and Security department and the Law enforcement department to the secrecy
The first bomb was found leaping against the outside wall of the southeast corner of the building. It had failed to go off because it collapsed before it could ignite the matches and fuse.
Chuck Williams another construction
touch in the emergency Police Department
to inform them of the incident.
member of the "United Socialist Revolutionary Front."
The caller claimed his group has been called for three blasts and threatened other people, who are released. "He named black revolutionary分子 Black Panther party chairman Bobby Seale."
Linden Mayor John Gregorio later disclosed that "five or six" persons reported police that they had seen a light plane or airbomb over the refinery just prior to the blast.
Gregorio the FBI joined local and state police in the case without being asked. Asked to describe the incident, the plant last week, as suggested by the man who warned of Saturday's explosion, the mayor discharged that youth was arrested there on a charging charge last week and later released.
Gregorio identified the suspect as Mark Bormark, 15, of Mountainside, N.J., and J. J. Cox, of Santee, Fla., who shot his wife.
BSU Meets at Strong, Strikes To Protest Jackson Dismissal
By DAN EVANS
Kansan Staff Writer
Members of the Black Student Union met in Strong Hall this morning and announced that black students at the University would strike on February 15 toackson,Jackson, first year law student from Topeka
Several black faculty members met with Chancellor E. Laurence Chamler Jr., shortly after 9 o'clock. According to Ron Washington, second year law student from Chicago and president of the BSU, the faculty members will stay in Chamlers' office until the Board of Trustees handle the question and explain why Jackson was fired. However, late this morning that the black faculty members in his office had not told him that they intended to stay there.
Washington said black KU students wunice puke buildings and strike until the regents are satisfied.
The call for a strike came after an innumerable faculty group began circulating a statement expressing support for Jackson. The group is also circulating a petition that requests a cancellation of the University Senate because of circumstances surrounding the Jackson case.
The statement of support for Jackson had received the endorsement of 23 KU faculty members by Sunday night. The petition for a special Senate meeting, Fonder said, requires that all members before the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) can act upon such a request.
Frank Zilm, St. Louis senior and chairman of the Senate, said last night that if the president is turned in to Senxit with 50 signatures, a senator with 25 calls be called within 10 days. He said that ac-
Aide Authorizes Penthouse Search After Hughes Suspected Kidnaped
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)—One of Howard Hughes' chief aides said Sunday he had authorized a shiffr* to search of the file of the former, because of fears Hughes had been kidnapped.
said a rally would be held at 1:30 p.m. at Strong to gain strike support.
Student Shot Near Watson
Robert Maheu, head of Hughes' Nevada operations for the past four years, said that he was relieved to reason to suspect "foul play" in Hughes' mysterious departure on Nov. 25 from this gambling resort. Maheu has been engaged in dealing with Hughes Tool Co. officials since Hughes left.
"My first concern is for Mr. Hughes, then comes concern for the 8,000 persons working for him is this state," Maheu's statement said.
Mhaue said he had given a party of deputies permission to enter Huguenh's ninth floor suite at the Desert Inn Hotel at midnight Saturday. A key must be used to take the deputy's penthouse, which is being redecorated, and to the only starway is bolted from the inside.
The black youth had reportedly just painted the word "Strike" on the entrance stairway wall of the library when he was approached by a security guard. In a scuffle that followed, a shot was fired.
William Balfour, vice-chancellor for student affairs, said that Snyder was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he is located on a neck wound, but is in good condition.
A spokesman for Sheriff Ralph Lamb said
depatients conducted the search because they
were too ill to return.
It was also reported that a 32 caliber shell casing was found on the scene by investigating officers. KU Traffic and Security would not verify this.
A KU student was shot this morning by unidentified black youth in front of Watson Library according to a preliminary statement from the Office of the Chancellor.
"committed" but that "the results were negative."
He said a group of Hughes men had taken over the ninth floor of the hotel, had partitioned off the whole floor and surrounded the exits and entrances with security men. There were no immigration records of Hughes' entry to the island, but officials said if Hughes
A government official in Nassau said it was "pretty certain Hughes is occupying a suite at the Britania Beach Hotel on Paradise Island."
had arrived in a private plane, only the crew might have been checked.
Since Hughes' departure on Nov. 25 for a "business trip" his aides have been embroiled in a bitter power struggle over affairs of the $100 million Nevada empire.
Gov. Paul Laxalt has indicated rigors might have to make a personal appearance to clear up the dispute. Late Sunday Laxalt said he and gaming officials were trying to arrange a meeting with both sides in the dispute to try to settle the matter.
cording to the Senate Code, the petition should be turned in to a person specified by SenXn. He said SenXn had not specified anyone but that Russell Bradt, chairman of SenXn, would probably be the proper person to receive the petition.
ZLIM SAID SenEx would meet Tuesday afternoon. Although SenEx would not have to have the petition by Tuesday, ZLim said, action could be taken more easily if it did. He said the Senate Code did not rule out Senate meetings during final examinations.
Jackson was fired in July, when he reportedly posted a notice of firing the day after Donald Rick Dowdell was killed. Jackson was an assistant to the dean of men and an instructor in criminal justice.
The Kansas Board of Regents on July 26 ordered Chalmers Chalmers to fire Jackson. In October, Jackson initiated a suit against the regents and Chalmers, asking that either Jack or the legislature reimbarked his work with KU or that the law that the regents will fire Jackson be declared unconstitutional.
Two weeks ago the Black Student Union (BSU) held a rally in support of Jackson. At the rally, Ron Washington, second year law student from Chicago and president of the BSU, met that gave the regents until last Wednesday, Dec. 2, to explain why Jackson had been fired.
THE STATEMENT said that if the reps did not answer, action would be taken to see that the rest of the KU faculty and staff were informed. The reps did not answer and Washington did not say what action the BSU would take. Chalmers said last night that he expected the DSU to make a statement today regarding the BSU's stance on the information indicated that the statement
would tell what action the BSU would take in the future to help Jackson. No action, Chalmer's said, would probably be taken by the BSU today.
Before the rally, the BSU had circulated a petition expressing support for Jackson. The petition was signed by about 3,000 people and said it was then given to the regents.
The petition from the informal faculty group said: "In light of the present crisis surrounding the case of Gary Jackson, the undergradured University Senate Members and staff are calling for an emergency meeting of the University Senate before the end of the current semester."
"WE THINK it is more than coincidental that this tiring took place during a period of social crisis, when recriminations against the University and the black community of Boston happened. But what concerns us here is that we chose this moment for an unprecedented incursion into the university's internal affairs. The regents are empowered to pass final judgment upon all administrative as faculty appointments, but their role in UCU history remains unclear, press and complete personnel actions all within the confines of a single closed meeting.
The statement, entitled "In the Case of Gary Jackson," said: "We, the undersigned KU faculty and staff, with to raise a specific case against the University of Iowa Jackson, former assistant to the Dean of Mee"
THE FOLLOWING people either signed the statement or expressed their endorsement of it: James Seaver, professor of history; Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Walter Crockett, professor of Law; Margaret Peterson. **NEW PETITION HERE**
See PETITION page 8
Fee Cut Would Raise Season Ticket Price
The climax of a nearly long-lengte debate on the student night activity fee should come in a special Student Senate meeting scheduled for Wednesday night in the Kansas Union.
An enactment on appropriations which would, if passed as it now stands, eliminate a requirement for the Executive Committee to meet agenda drawn up at a Student Senate Executive Committee meeting held last year.
Currently, the activity fee is $12 a student a semester. If the enactment is passed the fee will be reduced to 65.00 a student a semester.
This would be accomplished by reducing the Athletic Association allocation from $6 a student a semester to 56 cents a student a semester.
If this reduction is enacted, it will mean that students will have to purchase their tickets for football and basketball games at an increased cost. According to the testimony of Charles Oldfather, professor of law, in a Student Senate Auditing and Finance Committee hearing, students would be charged the same rate the faculty is now charging for a regular game football season, this amount to $145 for a season football ticket and $15.50 for a season basketball ticket. A $3 reduction is allowed if both season tickets are purchased
A student who now buys both tickets pays a total of $1.50, divided as follows: $a at semester total $12 in activity fee subsidies $4.00 for the season basketball ticket and $5.00 for the new proposal is enacted, the total cost will be $3.50 an increase of $6. Under the proposed enactment you game pay the $a semester fee. The proposed enactment would alleviate this situation.
Wade Stinson, director of the Athletic Association, said that roughly 11,000-12,000 students bought football season tickets this fall.
"We've been up and down the Pike with the Senate on this issue," said Stinson. "It's in their hands now."
Stinson said his only concern was to acquire adequate revenue for athletic events operations, and that if the Senate moved to cut the allocation, the necessary increase in ticket prices would have to be levied. He outlined the same plan for this increase as did Oldfather.
Kansan Photo by HAL WHALEN
Athletic Director Wade Stinson Discusses Ticket Prices proposed activity fee cut would mean ticket price hike