THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Tuesday September 13,1977
Vol.88,No.11
Lawrence, Kansas
'Otto' booth confidential, convenient
By KEVINKIOUS
Staff Writer
Otto works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Otto never sleeps and never gets tired. Otto can give you money for those things. Otto can also buy plastic card. Otto is a打磨 machine.
Eventually, every banking institution in Lawrence will have computerized tellers. bank officials say.
recently.
Clayton Kucza, vice president of
Lawrence National, said Otto had been
well received by customers.
Lawrence National Bank has had Otto for about a month. And, Douglas County State Bank plans to put "Dug in" service at two locations today, R. A. Edwards, bank vice president, said recently.
Patty Rundquist, 1708 Louisiana St., said she liked the Otto teller at Dillon Plaza, 1724 and Massachusetts streets, and went down to them almost going downtown to the main bank.
To use the machine, a card is inserted in a slot and the computer reads information on a magnetic strip on the card.
"THE FIRST TIME I used it, I felt kind of insecure but now I find it kind of interesting. I could hear it counting," she said.
After the card is placed in the computer, a television screen on the machine displays a greeting.
Linda Paul, Kansas City, Kan., junior,
stopped by the Otto booth at Dillon Plaza
on Saturday to make a deposit in her
account.
The machine will give out money from checking or savings accounts in multiples of $5 up to $375.
"But great and powerful wizard . . . can't I at least get BUSFARE to Kansas?" Staff Illustration by David Miller
"Welcome, Linda Paul." Otto flashed on the screen after Paul inserted her card.
See OTTO page five
Rains close roads here, cause deaths in KC
From Staff and Wire Reports
Heavy rains pelt northeast Kansas and the Kansas City area last night, causing flash flooding and resulting in at least four deaths in metrocalifornia Kansas City.
At least two inches of rain fell by early morning in Lawrence and resulted in the closings of several area roads. Yesterday evening, Douglas County was listed as one of 19 northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri counties as facing possible flash flooding.
Shortly after 1 a.m., the railroad underpass of U.S. 24-400 highways in North Lawrence was closed because of high water. The bridge that was closed to streets also was closed because of flooding.
AT WEAVER BOTTOMS near Eudora families living in mobile homes were evacuated and reportedly spent the night at the Eudora City Hall. The intersection of U.S. 59 and U.S. 56 highways, about 10 miles south of Lawrence, was covered by one to
two feet of water and was closed early this morning.
East of Lawrence, near the Leeward-Howard Douglas county line, U.S. 24-40 was closed by one and one-half feet of water. At least two feet of water on the road caused the closing of U.S. 24 from Midland Corners, about two miles north of Lawrence, to Biltown Junction in southern Jefferson County.
In Kansas City, as trains continued into the morning, hundreds of people were the objects of rescue operations. Small boats were called to several locations around the city, where they were dispatched to aid in efforts to evacuate mobile home patients and those at the Country Club Plaza. In the Plaza area, houses and apartments were fast filling with water.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROS
Committee votes to oust Nunley
Blindfolded Roger Cubertson, Concordia senior, trusted Paul Jackson, Stuttgart, West Germany, senator, not to steer him wrong yesterday as they went on a trust walk for their improvisation class. The walk was designed to be a test of trust and for improvement of perception.
The identities of the victims had not been released by early today.
three others were found floating near cars stranded in the south part of the city.
The two, Juan Jose Rodriguez Iriarte and Ignacio Blanco Iriarte, both Caracas, Venezuela, seniors, were arrested in Lawrence last week by Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials after allegedly transporting the cocaine in a travel bag from Kansas City International Airport (KCI).
By LEON UNRUH
"It looks like a disaster area," one witness said, saying like a hurricane or fire but has been shut down.
Staff Writer
One man was killed near Independence, Mo., when his car was washed away by flood waters.
HE SAID in the proposal that he would vote with the majority of the students on the board. For example, if the three other students voted yes, 2-1, he would cast a yea vote. If the vote was tied, 1-1, he would abstain.
The Student Senate sports committee voted last night to remove Bert Nurely, its chairman, from his position on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board and replace him with one of the committee co-chairman.
The committee voted 15-4 with one
the abstention to accept Barney McCoy, Lawrence
senior, as co-chairman. McCoy will take
Nunley's position at the next UKU会议
as a voting member, but all committee
members and Nunley are on hand.
Nunley's term expires July 30, 1978.
Two University of Kansas students will be arranged today in United States Magistrate Court in Topeka on charges of importation of and possession with intent to distribute cocaine valued at $190,000. Bruce Miller, assistant U. attorney, said yesterday.
Customs officials confiscated 815 grams of cocaine found under a false bottom in the bag, Miller said. He estimated its street value at $190,000.
The bag had arrived at KCI from the airport, and before it was claimed, DEA officials said.
SOME STUDENT representatives, including two others on KUAC, had questioned Nunley's ability to avoid potential conflict of interest and avoided $200 a month by the athletic department.
Nunley, who was on the KUAC board because of his committee chairmanship, also is employed by the KU athletic department as an administrative intern.
HUNDREDS OF area residents climbed onto rooftops and telephone poles to escape the flood waters, and looting was reported in shops on the Plaza. High waters swept away many cars and flooded restaurants and stores in that area.
Therefore, the student body would have had to count on a majority vote among the student representatives before Nunley could cast a vote.
When Nunley dropped his KUAC vote, the student body was left with only three votes. He made a propposal last night, however, and he did not receive his vote and allowed him to remain, also.
He works in the various department offces on projects including ticket sales, bus terminals, and hospitality.
On Sept. 2, he resigned his voting rights as a KUAC member, choosing to remain to discuss KUAC business. He said the group would have more effect on KUAC policy than did voting.
Trust me
The KUAC, composed of faculty, administration, students and alumni, determines policy on KUAC personnel, renovations and ticket prices.
Miller said the students would be charged with importation of the 815 grams and with possession of 2.8 grams at the time of the arrest.
Much of the night's heated arguments centered on two of Nunley's earlier statements: that the four student representatives did not have much say on the 21-member board and that he was not in conflict of interest.
His argument that he was not in conflict of interest—already unpopular with some committee members—encountered further opposition during the co-chairman electi-
Before stepping down temporarily at the start of the meeting as the committee discussed the possible conflict, Nunley had appointed McCoy interim chairman. Duckers and McCoy later were nominated for co-chairmen.
"I THINK I am capable of disseminating of what is in the students' interest and what
will happen."
Ed Duckers, Salina junior, said Nunley's proposal was "somewhat ridiculous" because he would be representing the other student representatives instead of the sports committee, whose wishes he was supposed to express.
Before either candidate left the room before balloting, Nunley spoke in favor of W. Hutton's decision.
Arraignment in drug case set for today
Nunley also said he was not in conflict with the Senate rules but instead with a possible "student moral ethic" by holding both the sports committee and KUAC positions. Nunley had said earlier that he would have could be proved to him that he was in conflict.
"I IT DOESn't matter how many number games you play," Duckers said.
ou Grubaugh, an at-large KUAC member who was a former sports committee chairman, said, "If you have that opinion, the hell are you on the board, anyway?"
Nunley answered, "That's fine if you say our votes amount to a hill of beans. I'm not."
She said the KUAC had been swayed once by student votes, even though they were in the minority, why did she not get the KU-Missouri football game to Kansas City, Mo., each fail. Because the students voted against it, she said, the KUAC rejected its earlier approval
McCoy, he said, was enthusiastic for athletes and was not a senator.
"I DON'T WANT us restrained by the Senate structure when presenting student view." *I don't want to be restrained by the Senate structure when presenting student view.*
He said Duckers, however, was an assistant and would be dangerous to the athletic prowess of them.
believe it's dangerous to have someone
See NUNLEY page seven
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
From the Associated Press, United Press International
News Capsules
S.W. Bell ordered to pay $3 million
SAN ANTONIO - Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. should pay damages totaling $3 million for standing two
or compelling one to commit suicide during an internal investigation, a state court jury decided yesterday.
vestigation, a state civil-polyglottal law. The juror exonerated codendant American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Southwestern Bell's parent firm, of any damages.
Bell attorneys began studying the jury verdict for errors and said they would appeal the decision if 16th District Judge Peter Michael Curry rendered a judgment based on the jury verdict. See story page two.
Israeli. Arab leftists battle
BEIRUT—Heavy fighting raged along Lebanon's southeast border yesterday between Israel and Arab leftists, including Palestinian guerrillas. The United States worked to defuse the situation by acting as an in-
The fighting involved tank, artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire, according to a Lebanese correspondent on the scene.
The correspondent said Israel planets overflight zones repeatedly as long-range Israeli artillery provided fire support for Christian rightists batting Pakistanian guerrillas and Lebanese leftists in the area. See *stage page*
Kent State case reopened
KENT, Ohio—The seven-year-old Kent State shootings case was officially reopened yesterday by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a as new trial was ordered in a $46 million court case against the victim on October 23. Rhodes and others.
In a separate decision, the court refused to block construction of a gymnasium on the campus near the site of the shootings. Angry protesters have demanded that the museum be closed and that the historical monument commemorating the shootings. See story page two.
Locally...
A University of Kansas administrator says students have been getting a bum rap in reports about their rate of default on federally insured student loans. The highest default rates, he says, are among student colleges, schools, and former students at colleges and universities having been victim of guilt by association. See story page three.
Pulitzer-winning poet dies
NEW YORK--Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell,
he herder for his darkness apparently of a heart attack, a
gift to her daughter.
Lowell, born in Boston, won the Pulpitzer Prize for poetry in 1947 and also had been awarded the poetry prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guineese Poetry Award and the Elysee Prize. He was in a tax on the way to the apartment of his former wife.
Aides take blame for Lance
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter's top aides are taking the blame for having not alerted Carter to Bert Lance's financial problems soon after he was nominated as federal budget director.
Although Lance had been nominated as budget director and was up for Senate confirmation, none of the aides thought Carter needed to know of the situation, Press Secretary Jody Powell said yesterday.
It also was disclosed yesterday that federal examiners looked into Lance's banking performance in 1975 and earlier took a dim view of his administrative abilities in the past, saying he might be better suited for public works work.
WASHINGTON—The Senate yesterday rallied behind a proposal to outlaw the production of fuel-inefficient automobiles after 1979, as it approved an energy conservation bill on a 52-voice vote.
Gas guzzlers threatened
The Senate also affirmed the recommendation of its energy committee to require all 1980 model cars to achieve at least 18 miles a gallon, a minimum that would increase to 21 miles a gallon by 1985.
In separate action, the energy committee narrowly rejected a plan for the gradual deregulation of natural gas.
Congress gets welfare plan
WASHINGTON—The Carter administration sent Congress a legislative proposal yesterday for the first extensive revision of the welfare system since the 1970s, including a package of jobs and supplemental income for the poor.
House hearings on the proposed Better Jobs and Income Act age scheduled to begin next Monday.
According to HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the plan would replace the existing federal welfare reform programs with a single program intended to assure jobs, training and income supplements for low income citizens able to work and support for low income citizens who are not able to work.
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