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Thursday, September 29,1977
University Daily Kansan
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Events
TODAY: KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF MASTENANCE ENGINEERS will meet all day, begin at 9 a.m. in the Kansas Union's Council Room. GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. on the Drill Deck of the Military Science Building for polakas and folk dances for the Octoberfest. The military science building, featuring English 989 will be at 4 p.m. where Mike Johnson, associate professor of Cinematography and where Carothers, assistant professor of English, will offer presentations of "Gravity's Rainbow."
TONIGHT: COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Union's Council Room: A lecture, "DEVELOPING CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS," will be given at 6:30 p.m. in Joseph P. Rearman Hall and Hashinger Hall. SUA BRIEG will begin at 6:15 p.m. in Eight Room. An AFricAN STUDIES FILM, *The Radical Experiment and Tropical Association* will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Strong Hall Auditorium. KU BALLOONING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Pariors. JANUSS LUCKING CO-Director, will show an award-winning film, *The Beer!*, at 7:30 p.m. in 3420 Wescoe. Admission is free to all books include "Why is the House Dissolving?" and "Black Apples," at 8 p.m. in the Union's Council Room.
Announcements
John B. Bremner, professor of journalism since 1969, has been designated KU's second Oscar S. Stauffer Distinguished Professor of Journalism. The Stauffer Chair was established by Stauffer, chairman of the board of Stauffer Communications, for a term of four years. Bremner succeeds Calder M. Pickett, who was chosen as the first Stauffer Distinguished Professor of Journalism in 1973.
Metzenbaum and Abourezk want prices kept under federal control and at current levels.
The administration proposal called for extending controls to currently unregulated intrastate gas but raising the price ceiling from the current $1.46 per thousand cubic feet to $1.75.
Compromise natural gas plan awaits action
WASHINGTON *UPI1*—After the 100th roll call in nine days, the "people's filibuster" stopped long enough for the people involved in it to get some sleep.
A compromise natural gas pricing plan announced by Democratic leader Robert Byrd after 60 hours of almost continuous power and a blocking action by still-wary members today.
The Jackson compromise would extend controls to intratube gas, but set the ceiling on new gas at $2.03, letting it rise gradually with inflation. Bryd's proposal is essentially the same as Pearson proposal redefining, 'new gas' to more of it available at the $2.03 level.
Senators welcomed their night's sleep—at least two got a head start by dozing off in their chairs during last night's debate—but there was no assurance the proposed bill would win approval or end the filibuster-by-amendment that started in earnest on Monday.
Sen. James Aborekue, D-S.D., who along with Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, is leading the fillburst, said, "I don't think we should if the compromise would end and the stalling."
administration wants, urged colleagues to defeat the compromise.
Metztenbaum said he and Abourezk were not party to the agreement—worked out primarily by Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., during a long day of bagging with colleagues from gas-producing states—but we wouldn't necessarily stand in its way."
In a test of sentiment last week, the Senate vote 52-46 against killing a move for immediate deregulation of newly discovered onshore gas.
Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan, a sponsor of deregulate new gas prices immediately or at least keep them regulated at a higher price than the Carter
Backers of the agreement apparently thought the necessary four votes would switch from the deregulation side, faced with a threatened presidential veto of the bill, to the Jackson compromise, which keeps federal controls on new gas prices, but at a higher level than the filibusterers want.
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