THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Friday September 23,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.88.No.19
Waiting for Dad
anistet the instruments the band has left behind to practice marching for Band Day Saturday. See related picture, story page 12.
Becky and Bobby Foster, children of Robert Foster, KU band director, play football
By STEVE PARSONS Staff Writer
Police, city settle contract dispute
After a lengthy dispute with the Lawrence City Commission, the Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA) voted last night to give up their demands for more money in 1978 and accept their contract with the city.
Reavis said there were enough voting members at the meeting and enough previously submitted absentee votes to elect a senator. They also said night's on-duty officers to get their vote.
After a short closed meeting last month of about 20 LPOA members, David Reavis, chairman of the group, announced the decision to accept the salary agreement with LPOA. The LPOA represents 43 of the 55 Lawrence police officers below the rank of lieutenant.
IN A VOTE earlier this month the LPOA overwhelmingly turned down almost the same agreement with the city. The only changes made in the agreement since the first vote have been rewordings of parts of the agreement.
He said the officers were tired of all the confrontation, and the officers with the city arrested them. The city was rushed by police.
"There was not so much a change of heart, Revis said, but "just a get it over with."
He said the agreement was good enough for this year but would have to be improved in the future. The p per cent salary increase and the decrease of dissatisfaction of the agreement, he said.
the city commission granted a 6 per cent salary raise for all city employees, but the
Reavis said the police would never again settle for a raise below the cost of living rate increase, which he said was 7.3 per cent for 1978.
Avin Samuels, chairman of Local 1966 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said last night after hearing of the police decision that he would sign the firemen's agreement as soon as he got a final copy of it.
He said, however, he was very happy with the programs 1920 included in the agreement.
LAWRENCE FIREMEN had earlier voted to accept a similar agreement with the city but were waiting for the police to accent theirs before signing it.
"It's all over," he said, but he would not comment on the police vote.
THE LONGENTITY agreement would give officers with over six years of service a January bonus each year of $33 times the number of years they served on the force. The range would be $198 for six years to $660 for 20 or more years of service.
The skill-incentive program would reward officers with a 2.5 per cent salary increase for special skills they might exercise on the job. The program also requires officers with a maximum accumulation of two skills.
Carter begins search for Lance successor
police had unsuccessfully demanded a 10 per cent hike.
From Wire Reports
Lance, the first of Carter's cabinet-rank officers to quit, left for a long weekend at home in Georgia. Meanwhile, Carter's advisers started eyeing prospective successors and the chairman of a Senate committee pledged to scrutinize Carter's choice more closely before granting approval of him.
WASHINGTON-President Carter, the weight of the Bert Lance affair lifted from his shoulders, began a hunt yesterday for a successor who will be certain to fare tougher scrutiny than Lance did before him. As the government's budget director,
Reavis said although the agreement was accepted by the membership, there was still a slight modification that had to be worked out between him and Buford Waltown, city
In Atlanta, chairman John Stembler of the National Bank of Georgia, said Lance could have the job of bank chairman tomorrow if he wanted to be hired. He applied the Carter administration.
IN AN INTERVIEW with station WSB in
Atlanta, Lance said he and his wife LaBelle wanted to be among friends and get some help. He ruled out taking a public job and made no decision on any other jobs.
"We'll take that as we've been taking thines—one day at a time," he said.
At his home town of Calhoun, Gal, Lance came back to the cheers of friends, police and neighbors.
IT ALSO WAS reported today in the Atlanta Constitution that Carter sadly
A crowd estimated at 1,200 had been waiting two hours in swerving heat to greet Lance when he finally was whisked by his bandmates. The Gordon County Airport into Calboun, population 6,000. Along the sidewalks spectators waved signs criticizing the news media and Senate investigators who entered Lance's personal financial affairs.
occited three weeks ago that Lance would have to resign but that he kept reviewing the decision in hopes that his old friend could pull through. The newspaper also said Lance nearly decided to resign but the press was talked out of it by his wife. It said Carter conveyed his thinking to Lance but never suggested that he resign.
the Constitution said Carter was swayed by three developments that day;
In a copyrighted report by editor Hal Gulliver, a long-time friend of Carter's, the newspaper said Carter reached his decision "with tears in his eyes" Sept. 2 but kept it secret that Lawrence could defend himself before the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
He would not say what the modification was, but said it was not a money item. The city refused to charge him for repeated efforts by police this month to change salary figures.
- Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd's advice to Carter that Lance quit.
- The White House discovery that committee chairman Abraham Rubioff was about to publicly call for Lance's resignation.
troller's report on Lance's past banking policies "devastating."
- Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal's two-hour briefing to White House aides, who found the second comp-
Carter was reported to have been in good spirits yesterday after expressing deep
The Constitution said Carter sent his executive aide, Harrison Jordon, to Lance's home at Sea Island to investigate the budget chief it was decided he should quit. But Carter still pledged to keep an open mind if Lance and Harrison were to hint in the appointment could be salvaged.
Meanwhile, although speculation on who
nance's successor will be did not center on
the question of whether she should be
regreta Wednesday about Lance's departure.
- James T. McIntyre Jr., director of Georgia's budget office in 1972 when Carter was governor. He is now deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
- Robert Strauss, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now the U.S. ambassador for trade in Canada, insisted, however, that he would not take the job.
- Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office.
ale Champion, former California See CARTER page 12
Flood recovery slow but ongoing
Staff Writer
By DAVE TOPLIKAR
Now, things are slowly returning to normal.
Two weeks ago, a once-in-five centuries flood swept through the Kansas City area, wrecking businesses, destroying property and taking lives.
The flood, which left 25 persons dead and over a thousand homeless, caused millions of dollars in damage to areas of Kansas City. Area police now have stopped actively searching for bodies. No definite damage estimate has been made.
The hardest hit area was the Country Club Plaza, flooded when nearby Burberrys opened.
Lee Fowler, a spokesman for the J. C.
Nichols Co., which owns and manages the
Nichols City Water Company.
more than 150 shops on the Plaza were now open.
He said he expected all but two of the 60 shops that are currently closed to be open by next week.
FOWLER SAID he couldn't estimate the extent of the damage done to individual stores, but he said some of the smaller stores suffered a lot. He said the Plaza itself surprisingly had lost no art objects and little landscaping.
All the merchants, he said, want to stay. Fowler said most of the stores would have to stay.
"This is one good effect of the flood, however, given that you can better handle by Thanksgiving," he said.
The 48th annual Plaza Art Show is still scheduled for today, tomorrow and Sunday at the Plaza in Washington Square.
Senate ditches gas controls
WASHINGTON (AP)—In an important new setback to President Jimmy Carter's energy program, the Senate voted 82-48 last week to support a supported plan to deregulate natural gas.
Some administration allies prepared to mount a buildup to keep the deeply divided Senate from approving the rival industry-backed measure, while others talked about the possibility of seeking a compromise with deregulation forces.
The crucial test vote was a clear defeat for Carter's proposal to continue federal price controls on gas and marked the latest blow of blows to his energy plan from the Senate.
It came despite a major, last-minute lobbying by the carer and other top officials.
Under Carter's plan, federal price controls would be retained but the $1.45 per thousand-cubic-foot lid would be raised to $1.75. The administration bill, approved by the House in June, would control to the now unregulated markets within gas-producing states.
Republicans joined with oil-state Democrats in defeating the administration-backed effort to kill the deregulation measure.
FAMILIES in the Kansas City area hit hardest by have been applying to lifts. [Lift center]
McAda said people were coming in daily to fill out applications for relief money. So far, the centers have received 3986 applications.
Bill McAda of the Federal Disaster Team said 1600 families temporarily had made arrangements to transport their property.
SPONSORED BY Sens. James Pearson,
R-Kan., and Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex,
the
Instead it will be on the 400 and 500 blocks of Nichols Road, around Sewall Square, Harzfeld's and Jack Henry's, where there was less damage done, he said.
McAda said they would weed through the applications to see who they could help. He listed a number of programs the applicants could use.
the 200 and 300 blocks of Nichols Road as it was last year.
proposal would substitute for Carter's plan
for the duplication of newly
produced onshore oil.
Even before the vote, Carter was reported ready to accept a last-resort compromise measure like one proposed by the Democratic Party, for gradually removing price controls from gas.
The effect of Thursday's vote is to keep alive the industry deregulation proposal, which is similar to legislation passed by the Senate in 1920 but rejected by the House.
*Price limits would be slowly removed
    since gas over a five-year period
under the proprion.
- The Department of Housing and Urban
Development houses homes and apartments
that can be rented.
- AN INDIVIDUAL and family grant program will provide grants up to $5,000 in repairs to homes, automobiles and funeral expenses of those who are not qualified for the grant.
REAVIS SAID he was not sure whether
SEE POLICE page 12
- A minimal repair program is being set
  up to help good victims make
  damage homes liveable.
ALTHOUGH THE Senate is still free to accept the President's plan, this was viewed by some as a bad signal.
MEda said it would take four to six weeks of processing the applications before checks are performed.
Five counties in Missouri and 10 in northeastern Kansas have been declared "Red River Park" states.
- The Small Business Administration will provide loans for home and small business
Douglas County was not among those counties requesting federal disaster relief, Travis Brann of the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Center said.
Bram said Douglas County received only two to four inches of rainfall the day of the flood in Kansas City. He said some basements and a few streets were flooded in the county but there was no widespread damage done throughout the area.
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Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Unresolved issues stall SALT
WASHINGTON — Even though the 1972 U.S.-Soviet strategic arms accord will expire Oct. 3, the United States will continue to observe the treaty during new negotiations if Russia will do likewise, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday.
Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko admitted after five hours of negotiations that the new SALT agreement on which they were working still had many unresolved issues. The two nations are currently trying to treat it to promise a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons through 1985. See story page two.
Farmers gather to face Bergland
Bergland said earlier he would listen to the farmers, who came from Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas, but it was unlikely their demands would be met. See story page two.
PUEBLO, Colo. - Hundreds of farmers in caravans of farm machinery gathered here yesterday to meet Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland and threatened to strike unless Congress provided break-even market prices for their crops.
Manhattan law limits cohabitation
MANHATTAN — Unmarried couples cannot live together in municipally run residential complexes, the city commission decreed this week.
The city's housing policy has been revised to say that two or more persons must be related by blood, marriage or adoption to be eligible for housing.
"If people want to play house, that's their business, but I will not subsidize them with tax money," said Commissioner Bob Smith.
Utility hikes subject to legislation
TOPEKA - An interim committee decided yesterday to draft 1978 legislation to prohibit utility companies from financing plant construction costs through rate increases.
rate increases.
The committee also discussed ways of structuring utility rates to encourage energy conservation, such as penalizing energy-wasters or pricing electricity by the time of day it is used.
Locally ...
While other universities in the Big Eight are experiencing increases in football ticket sales, the University of Kansas' student ticket sales are down by more than 17 per cent this year. Although prices of student tickets increased this year at KU, officials of the athletic department point to an increase in students' other fees and the late date of the first home game as possible explanations for sagging sales. See story page eight.
By JON PLATT and BRIAN SETTLE Stoff Writers
Plan to halt fuel oil spills not complete
Despite a controversy caused by a 5,000-gallon oil spill last May, University of Kansas officials have told to devise a spray system to prevent an environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The violation of federal pollution prevention regulations was discovered in May when an oil spill from an underground fuel oil storage tank leaked 5,000 gallons of oil into Lawrence's storm drainage system on the Kansas River, a tributary of the Kansas River.
Russell Mills, KU director of support services, said Wednesday that details of the new plan still were incomplete. A committee approved a $10 million EFA approval in two or three weeks, he said.
Rodger Oroke, KU director of physical plants and the person partially responsible for designing the plan, said, "I'll be the first to admit that the plan should be finished by now. We would have had to accident another spill would occur and we still had no prevention plan."
ORKE AND Holly Miley, supervisor of the power plant that used the oil, are responsible for designing the plan. Miley is on vacation this week.
Oroks said the plan's completion would be a top priority item next week.
Harold Bilch, grounds and landscaping supervisor at the time of the spill, said the ruptured tank contained about 50,000 gallons. He said the tank was old enough other storage tanks on campus and the leak quickly was caused by rust and metal failure.
The apil prevention plan is required by
storage tanks holding more than 42,000 gallons.
When the leak was discovered, the oil remaining in the tank was transferred to KU$^4$ power plant. It was burned in place of the natural gas the plant normally uses.
Oroké said there were no plans for repairing the ruptured tank.
"TIM SOMEWHAT uncertain at this time what to do with that tank," he said.
KU was fired $1,000 by the EPA May 28 for failing to have a spill prevention plan. The EPA also recommended a civil suit be filed by the U.S. Coast Guard for the spill. The EPA further recommended filing a criminal suit against the University for failing to notify the EPA immediately about the oil spill.
KU was cleared of any civil suit by the Coast Guard and no criminal action was filed, although the University did pay the fee to the EPA within the allowed簿dervion.
Dennis Schenck, spokesman for the second district office of the Coast Guard in St. Louis, said because KU was a state institution, it did not come under the "owner-
See OIL page 12
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