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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 70
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Abba Eban To Speak At KU in March
Friday, December 8, 1972
See story page 3
Nixon Says Volpe Out, Brinegar In
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP)—President Nixon added a new face to his virtually complete second term Cabinet Thursday, nominating California oil company executive Claude S. Brinegar to replace Transportation Olee as secretary of transportation.
Volpe was nominated to be ambassador to Italy, the first Italian-American selected for the mission.
The announcements by press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler at the mountain-top retreat where Nixon has spent most of the month since his re-election left only one Cabinet nomination, attorney general, yet to be disclosed.
Bringear, a 45-year-old Republican, economist and航 carrier biff, is the third mayor of the city.
Officials say there is little question that Richard Kleindienst will be retained in that chair.
New York labor leader Peter Brennan was brought in to replace James Hodgson as labor secretary, and South Carolina textile manufacturer Frederick B. Dent to replace Peter G. Peterson as commerce secretary.
Otherwise, Cabinet members were kept in their positions, shifted from one department to another or promoted from within the ranks.
Ziegler said Brinegar would divest himself of his holdings in Union Oil Co. where he was senior vice president as well as president of the Union 76 division.
Brinegar received his doctorate in economic research from Stanford University in 1953, joined Union Oil as an analyst and helped him walk his way through company ranks.
He is a director of the American Petroleum Institute and lives with his wife and three children in Rolling Hills, Calif. He also lived for a while in Yorba Linda, Calif., Nikon's home town, and was a visiting instructor at Whittier College.
Kansan Photo by STU BEALS
Unbearable
leaving the Kansas Union to brace themselves for the sudden blast of cold air. Thursday temperatures were in the teens, and the highs were up today, along with occasional light snow.
These students stop for a moment before
Kissinger, Tho Meet; Viet Air War Rages
PARIS (AP)—Henry A. Kissinger and Hanoi's L die Du Thuc met for the fourth time in their current round of secret talks on Wednesday, carried out one of the heaviest raids of the city.
In Paris the envoys again gave no hint of progress. The Communist side spoke of a new deadlock caused by American and South Vietnamese intransigence.
Reports by the French press that an agreement might be able within hours of approval have been reached.
The two top negotiators and their advisers met for four hours in a suburban villa belonging to the French Communist party where they held several secret meetings last month. They shook hands cordially at the end of the meeting.
U. S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, addressing NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, said he was confident the United States would achieve a firmly based peace settlement for all Indochina. He declined to go into details.
IN WASHINGTON, presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said he could not predict how long the current round of the election would continue or what the outcome would be.
WHILE THE TWO sides maintained their news blackout on the secret sessions, an American delegate at the parallel semipublic peace talks warned that there might be “disappointments and setbacks” in the final negotiations.
However, he said, "We should not permit disappointments and setbacks in the pace of the final negotiations to prevent us from harming our business or unchangeable intention to achieve peace."
Acting chief U.S. delegate Heyward isham told the 189th weekly session of the conference that prospects for peace were brighter.
Toys Removed from Local Shelves
Kansan Staff Writer
Over 300 toys have been removed from shelves in Lawrence stores after a survey this week by the Consumer Protection Agency (CPA). The agency found that the toys may be in violation of the Food and Administration's guidelines on toy safety.
Final results of the survey, which covered at least nine stores, are expected to be released by the CPA in a news conference this afternoon.
The blocks in the clock have small weights that can be exposed if the toy is dropped, she said. The toy is banned because a child might swallow the weights.
all of them were on the FDA's list. Weiss
said that the team were originally banned
because the shape was too angular.
By DIANE YEAMANS
Kansas Staff Writer
The Romper Room Musical Block Clocks by Hasbro, already determined to be in violation of the federal Hazardous Substances Act, were removed from shelves at Gibson's Discount Center, Patricia Wess, a Lawrence resident of CPA, said Thursday.
WEISS SAID that the rest of the toys consisted mainly of infant's toys manufactured by Tidy Ties Corporation, and which are manufactured by Manufacturing Company and Bayer World.
Confronted with the CPA's evidence and the possible investigation and evaluation by the FDA, the local merchants reportedly removed the toys immediately.
It was difficult to identify the toys on the FDA's list because many of the toys lacked the manufacturer's name and identification numbers. We asked the local managers removed any toys they thought were dangerous by FDA standards. The manufacturers would be contacted for these toys.
A FIVE-INCH high Grand Piano with Color Chime Xylophone, made by the Jaymar Specialty Co., was removed from the shelves at T.G.&, Weiss. said the xylophone had sharp edges and points on the keys that could cut a child.
Not believing the toy manufacturers would sell him illegal toys, Art Cromer, the clock maker, said he was about the clock toy and was told that a banned Weis said. The toy manufacturer told Cromer that it had only notified the 42 accounts instead of its entire list of buyers.
CROMER ALSO CALLED the Tidy Ties Corporation for clarification and was told that some of the toys may have been relabeled showing no stock number. Weiss said she and Cromer did not know why the numbers were eliminated.
before, Weais said. Then it is impossible to tell the toy's legal status, according to the law.
Weiss said that one item found on a store's shelf carried a stock number although 50 other identical toys did not. All of the toys were removed.
Raoul Berman, codirector of the CPA and Kansas City, Kan., senior, said the agency planned to check the shelves before Christmas.
Berman said he suspected that the banned toys may be returned to the shelves because the stores would not be able to reorder legal toys in the Christmas rush.
Other items may have been redesigned but still carried the same stock number as
THE MANAGERS of local stores did not have access to the FDA's list of banned toys before the survey was taken. Weiss said. The FDA has promised to supply her with 15
The CPA, which was working in cooperation with the FDA, will have to obtain the license removed, Berman said. The FDA will then investigate the stores to confiscate the banned toys and place any other toys not permitted by the law's guidelines under examination.
lists which will be distributed to the managers.
THE U.S. COMMAND gave no report of damage but one source said there had been a heavy concentration of trucks in the area. Sources said recent raids had virtually blocked mountain passes from the southern region of North Vietnam into the Ho Chi Minh trail for the time being, freeing the B52s at supply concentrations near the DMZ
All of the "I Cry Mama" dolls made by coldberg is manufacturing company owned at Beti.
Supporting Northern operations, the U.S. command directed a score of BS2s to be assigned to the miles north of the DMZ. About 18 Stratofortress strikes within a 10-mile radius of the target between noon Wednesday and noon Thursday, the command
over north Vietnam's southern pandhane in the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Navy plots reported destroying 15 trucks in a bridge in the northern part of the pandhane.
Berman said he hoped that the CPA would be able to keep the Lawrence stores informed of additions and changes in the lists supplied by the FDA.
No one in the country has ever been
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Kissinger and The met twice Monday following a nine-day recess and had a 5%-hour meeting Wednesday. They will resume talks Friday.
Smaller U.S. tactical iets flew 90 sorties
In Saigon the U.S. Command announced that 1853 Stratofortresses had dropped more than 600 tons of bombs in and around the island, which resulted in the heaviest raids of the renewed air war.
In air action over South Vietnam, U.S. tactical jets flew 85 strikes in the northern military region out of a total of 243 for the 84 hours ending at dawn Thursday. South Korea attack planes were reported to have flown 188 sories, with no breakout on locations.
The U.S. Command had no report of bomb damage in the region below the demilitarized zone. A military source exclaimed, "The Army hindered observation of strike results."
ONE AMERICAN was killed and two were wounded in Wednesday morning's Tan Son Nhat air base rocket attack, the heaviest in the Saigon area since the unrest of 1967 Tet offensive. South Vietnamese were eight dead and 52 wounded.
For the second successive week, the U.S. command listed no Americans killed in Iraq.
Easy Sailing Reported After Initial Apollo Stall
Experts said the Apollo 17 crew took the first steps to make up the time lost in the launch delay by firing a longer burn than planned when they fired out of earth orbit at 4:45 a.m. Thursday. This put them on a faster course to the moon and they will be back on schedule before they enter lunar orbit.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)—apart 17, the moon flight that began with a stutter step, sailed smoothly to their lunar target Thursday while its crewmen settled back and enjoyed the ride. Their only bother was getting tired, which the experts said was no worry at all.
It was a time of waiting for astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison "Jack" H. Schmitt and Ronald E. Evans, all eager to reach their lunar goal and begin explorations that will fill gaps in man's knowledge of the moon's history.
AS APOLLO 17 knitted deeper into space Mission Control reported that the "spacecraft is performing in a super fashion . . . absolutely no problems at all."
A problem with a balky computer delayed their launch from Cape Kennedy nearly three hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The team said the spectacular show given ten thousands of
the people who gathered at Cape Kennedy to away in America a first dark after dark luminary.
"Good show, babe! Little late, but good show!" Carian explained as the spaceship blasted out.
Liftoff originally had been scheduled for
a countdown, but the computer countdown
was interrupted by the computer.
THE COMPUTER failed to receive a signal telling it that automatic pressurization of an exogen tank in the rocket was taking place.
The technicians were aware of the problem and were pressurizing manually. The computer would not recognize this, however, the technicians at Cape Kendy, Alabama, the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Ala., had to work out a computer bypass plan.
With this accomplished the count was resumed and blaafloff went smoothly at last.
The destination of Cernan andSumit in a site called Taurus Littrow. It lies on the foot of ancient mountain in a valley of large lakes have been carved out by volcanic eruptions.
The landing scheduled for 2:35 p.m. EST Monday, will be the sixth in the historic event.
Local Firms Use Classified Info
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a two-part series concerning the Defense Department's involvement in research at the University of Kansas and local communities.
By JIM KENDELL
Kansan Staff Writer
Two companies in Lawrence, besides the Center for Research, Inc. (CRINC) and the University of Kansas, are authorized by the U.S. government to handle classified information. They are Cadre Corporation and Centron Corporation, Inc.
School Districts Reject Fund Plan
By PATBREITENSTEIN
TOPEKA—Representatives from 130
kansas school districts rejected in part
tuesday a finance plan for public
schools that would require state
legislative committee to school纤
Kansan Staff Writer
The rejection came at the end of a day-long conference of school superintendents and board members who met to find an equitable solution to the problem of public school finance.
The educators should not approve the committee plan for 100 per cent state funding, educational and special education programs. The state superintendent, Kansas City, Kan., school superintendent, and chairman of the conference, this refusal is guaranteed that the local districts would return.
The conference members also repudiated the committee's suggestion that school district with an excess of funds surrender these funds for redistribution to other school districts.
THE TWO POINTS of dispute between the conference members and the committee's proposal were part of an 11-point resolution to override the committee's legislative committee's proposed program.
The major emphasis of these principles is that the state should provide a system of finance that would establish a minimum level of education. The principles call for a system which would distribute the tax burden of education equitably in the state and would provide for districts with special educational problems.
The resolution was not officially voted on by the conference but it was accepted without delay.
The educators also reviewed a list of eight basic principles of school finance that had been written by the school board.
Plucker said that the conference grew out of an 18 month concern that the present finance system did not deal fairly with all state pupils and taxpayers. This concern became a matter of law when the present finance system was ruled unconstitutional.
and illegal by a Kansas district court in the case of Caldwell vs. the State of Kansas.
THE CASE OF Caldwell vs. Kansas established three significant points of fact, according to Marton Ghechey, Topeka lawyer and second speaker at the conference on March 26. His pupil expenditure in the 310 Kansas school districtranges from $90 to $1700.
He said that the second important point was that assessed valuation per pupil in Kansas differed by as much as $113,000 from $4,000 to $117,000. Because of this, the third significant finding of the court was that the mill lvillies used to finance schools were the very low in some districts and could still provide an excess of educational funds.
McGheeble said that since state aid to school districts was determined by the wealth of the county that the district was in, poor districts could be discriminated against twice. This is done when the districts do not receive funds that they
Cadre was formed in November 1967 by a group of professors at KU for scientific research.
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Cadre's president and one of the directors is Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at CRINC.
Moore said that Cairde was formed so professors could work on classified contracts independent of the University KU would not take classified contracts.
"That's one of the reasons we have it," Moore said. "When we have something that we as individuals would like to do which is classified, we do it through Cadre."
According to the Office of Industrial Security in St. Louis, Cadre was authorized to handle secret and confidential material on June 4, 1968.
MOORE SAID Cadre had done classified work in the past, but was not presently employed.
The corporation is located at the residence of Bill Barr, professor of mechanical engineering and executive secretary, treasurer and a director of Cade.
Other major stockholders, according to records filed Nov. 30, 1971, with the Kansas Secretary of State, include Rubid Adams, professor of chemistry, Lous F. Dellig, professor of civil engineering, Lenzen, professor of civil engineering, Adams and Lenzen are also directors.
Russell Mosser, executive vice president and treasurer of Centron, said Monday that the $10,000 to $500,000 contract might necessitate access to classified information.
On Nov. 1, Centron Corporation, Inc., signed a contract with the Washington Navy Yard at Washington, D.C., for motion is in the business of making movies.
Centron received a secret release Oct.
1957. The company was formed in June
1957.
MOSSER WAS not sure how much money Centron would make on the year-long contract because some companies with similar contracts in previous years did not do anything. Centron would probably make training films for the Navy.
Mosser refused to state the number of cleared employees at Centron but said that normally very few employees would ever have access to a cleared product.
Mosser said, "We have had previous military contracts, but we haven't had a Navy contract for a year. Most of our work has been called industrial and educational films."
The Secretary of State's records as of Dec. 31, 1971, list three major stockholders besides Moser—Harlur H. Wolf, Charles E. Lacey and Norman P. Stuewe. All four men and Harold Hawley are cited as directors. Wolf is also president of Centron.
BESIDES KU, eight other universities in the Defense Contract Administration Services Region, St. Louis region, have security clearances. Three are Big Eight schools—the University of Colorado, Iowa State and the University of Missouri.
"Civil distrubance activity still caused
The 1971 "Annual Report of the Defense Supply Agency" stated that a number of colleges and universities had dropped out of the program.
Some colleges have dropped completely out of the business of handling classified information, as the University of Wisconsin did this summer.
Washington University in St. Louis, St.
Louis University, the University of Minne-
sake, the University of Iowa at Iowa City
the University of Missouri at Rolla are also cleared.
concern for those facilities working on classified projects which were deemed potential targets for disruption tactics of radical elements.[37] the report said.
ACCORDING TO A letter to the Kansan from the Office of Industrial Security in St. Louis, there have been no colleges or universities in the St. Louis region that have requested termination of employment clearances within the last three years.
Barr said KU had not made any substantial changes as a result of disturbances because it had followed an open policy for a number of years.
The statement on classified research at KU was developed in 1969 to clarify and amplify a policy that was already implicitly in effect.
Last spring the Haiphong Coalition, which led anti-war demonstrations after President Nixon ordered Haiphong harbor mined and stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam, demanded an investigation of research at KU.
Specifically they wanted to know about research that directly or indirectly aided the U.S. government and military in carrying out the war.
IN RESPONSE to this demand Chancellor Raymond Nichols appointed a committee in mid-September to find out how research was being published.
The committee dealt only indirectly with the question of military involvement, according to Arthur Breipohl, committee and professor of electrical engineering.
This fall the remnants of the Haiphong Coalition disowned the committee because it did not deal directly with the military question.
The Defense Department protects
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