Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence Depot Looks Desolate
...Amtrak passenger sales have declined...
Amtrak's Success Questionable
By.JEANNETTEHARTMAN
The desolation of Lawrence's Amtrak train station on a Monday afternoon bears little resemblance to the rosy changes that Amtrak, the National Railroad Passengers Corp., has promised for the railroads.
In fact on first glance, the entire system shows a disparity between the plans and the reality. On the eve of Antrak's establishment in May 1971, there were 368 daily noncommuter trains running. Today there are only 214
Although $170 million have been spent in government subsidies, the only profit-making passenger trains currently operating are the 14 Metroliners running through the Washington D.C., New York City and Boston corridor. The project has until 1975 to start making a profit.
"My opinion is that we could run our trains full every day and never make a profit," said Gleen Moyer, Amtrak.
But Antirak and its future deserve a second glance. The success of the project could make the difference between having a railway passenger service in the United States or having a bus service in the airport services at the Union station in Kansas City, Mo.
Railroads have been declining ever since the 1930s. According to a 1971 New York Times article by Robert Lindsay, trains in 1910 carried more than 55 per cent of the travelers; in 1970 they carried less than two per cent.
According to one brochure, Amtrak was formed "to offer the public greater freedom of choice in convenient modes of travel and to act as an alternative to other major transportation mediums."
To take advantage of this 'convenient mode of travel' in Lawrence, however, there are two alternatives: the 5:50 a.m. Chicago-bound Texas Chief or the 11:46 p.m. Houston-bound Texas Chief.
AMTRAK IS A quasitationalized, profit organization based on the merger of the passenger services of 13 railroads. Although Amtrak is a national project, it employs only 700 persons. It owns the railroad cars, but the 13 railroads are owned by right-of-ways, the signaling systems, the switching systems, and employ the engineers, brakemen and other personnel.
Last year Amtrak lost $135 million, which was $1 million less than was expected. This year Amtrak is expected to lose $12 million, said Thompson quoting the Topeka Daily Capital. In spite of these losses, Amtrak has nationwide demands for more track, better equipment and better scheduling.
Moyer said Amtrak was having difficulties adding new track and expanding services. From Kansas, there are no direct connections to major cities in Colorado, Nebraska or Iowa. Although Amtrail trains connect Kansas City, Empty, Emporia, Newton, Wichita, Dodge City and points in other states in direct connections with Denver, Lincoln or Des Moines.
Thompson said, "Probably in the future this will be at least considered. At the present time we don't have
ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY of adding new track.
High station and labor costs are the reasons behind Moyer's opinion that if we train rain can to capacity, Armstrong will have to move.
In order to create a more direct and effective relationship with passengers, all ticket cards, red caps and backpacks are cleaned.
IN PRICE, AMTRAK is comparable with Greybrow Bus. A one-way ticket to Chicago costs $20.50 (compared with $14.95 by bus), to St. Louis it costs $11 (compared with $8.63 by bus). The Houston cost is $31 (compared with $23.35 by bus).
In spite of Amtrak's million-dollar losses, in Kansas City in June, the Kansas City Amtrak station showed an 11.2 per cent, or $17,000, increase in revenue over last year. In September, the total number of passengers passed on to the train at Kansas City on the train to Houston was 1,524 of the train with 2,200 on the same train in October.
Thompson said, "I really don't know if Amtrak will make a profit in 1971 if it will ever. I can wei do it connoise."
At the present, Amtrak's trend depends on many things—whether it can add more track and trains, which will increase its more frequent scheduling and, most of all, whether it can take a crew away from highways and airways to a proft by 1975.
83rd Year. No. 63
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Wednesday, November 29, 1972
Nixon Shifts 2 Men In Cabinet Shake-Up
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP)—President Nikon launched his sweeping second-term Cabinet shakeup by naming adam- andrew as president and admendon to be the next secretary of Defense.
To succeed Richardson as the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Nixon said he would nominate Caspar Wei-
nberg, a member of the Office of Management and Rudget.
Completing a triple-header announcement, the President named millionaire industries Roy Ash, president of Weingauer in the Cabinette OMR post.
The selections of Richardson and Weinberger are subject to confirmation by the Senate when it returns in January. Ash does not need Senate confirmation.
Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, disclosing the personnel changes to the White House.
There had been advance speculation that Richardson might be picked to succeed Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, who is set to assume the position to resign at the end of Nixon's first term.
"THESE THREE announcements come at a time when an intensive review is being undertaken of the entire government structure, and they are part of the fresh perspective and new vitality to the second four years of his administration."
However, there had been equally persistent rumors that Richardson might become secretary of State, to head the department in which he served as undersecretary during the early part of the Nixon tenure.
Richardson, 52, has been HEW chief since 1970.
LONG ACTIVE in Republican politics in Massachusetts, the erudite Richardson was lieutenant governor and attorney general of that state in the 1960s.
Weinberger, 55, joined the Nixon team in 1970 as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission after serving as director of counsel for Nixon's native state of California.
Like Richardson, a Harvard graduate, Weinberger became deputy director of OMB when the agency was created on July 1, 1970, and moved up to the top job last May when George Shultz became secretary of the Treasury.
WEENBERGER will be expected by
their efficiencies within *WELL*, "guided suit*
Ziegler said Richardson also would have a mandate to try to slim down the Defense budget.
Ash, perhaps the least known of the trio of appointees, co-founded Litton Industries of Beverly Hills, Calif., in 1953 and has been its president since 1961.
Responding to inquiries, Ziegler said Ash will resign as Litton president Dec. 9, and would divest himself of his considerable stockholdings in the company.
During the first two years of the Nixon administration, Ash served as chairman of Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization, a part-time job.
ON A RAINY day here, Nixon spent much of his time discussing his reorganization plans.
time out for a telephone conference with
the Vietnam peace negotiator Henk A. Le
tchenberg.
With Nixon at various times during the day were James Lynn, undersecretary of Commerce; aides Charles Colson and John Whittaker; Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, the Republican, national Committee; and House Republican leader Gerald Ford of Michigan.
Ziegler promised that more personnel shifts would be announced here Wednesday and said Nixon probably would make a helicopter trip to the White House in the afternoon to meet with Nguyen Phu Duc, special representative of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, to discuss the Paris peace talks.
Regents Discuss Expansion of KU Medical Center
Kansas Stiff Photo by T. DEAN CAPLE
... Action was deferred until December . . .
Regents Defer Med Center Expansion
By GARY ISAACSON
Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA-The Kansas Board of Regents Tuesday deferred until December action on plans for the expansion of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The preliminary plans for the project were given to the Regents building committee last month for consideration. The committee gave a favorable report on the project on Tuesday, but on request of William O. Ricker, the director for health affairs, no action was taken.
Higher Phone Rates Tighten Budget Vise
By ANN McFERREN Kansan Staff Writer
ALTHOUGH THE costs for the remainder of the 1972-73 school year will increase by almost $7,000, Wilsen said, because of residence hall contracts made with the students, fees cannot be raised this school year.
- Extension lines, residential: remain
  $1.00; business: previously $1.05, now $1.75
The phone rate increase, which went into effect Saturday, will add to the large financial deficit at KU, said Keith Nichter, vice-chancellor of business affairs.
A six-percent increase in telephone rates will result in an added strain for individual University officials departments and cause an increase in fees, two University officials said Tuesday.
J. J. Wilson, director of the dorsitory paresis, said the total cost increase in the hospital phone bill would probably be included in higher residence hall fees next fall.
Rural eight-party lines, residential:
previously $7.25; now $8.25; business:
previously $19.25; now $20.25
"We will have to cut back on our spending somewhere else to allow for the phone rate increase," said Wilson. "But we will
"Consequently, we will have to look to each department to absorb the increase into its budget," Nitcher said. "Because of a cut in incoming fees, we have already cut the budget using like equipment and supplies. It will hurt our sales department to deal with this increase."
—City two-party lines, residential;
previously #4. 40 now #7. 75.
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved a phone rate increase for Southwest Telephone Co. last week. The increase is expected to annually company's gross revenue by $6,999,000 annually.
Tom Greenson, assistant to the vice-chancellor of business affairs, said the increase would raise the monthly rate on each office phone by 33 cents from $5.50 to $6.84 per month. The monthly rate on external calls will increase by 23 cents from $7.75 to about $4.00.
probably include the cost increase in higher dorm rates next school year."
The expansion will include a basic science building and a clinical building on the Kirkcaldy campus.
Wilson said the estimated cost increase for the 1973-74 school year for the nine residence halls was $10,000. He did not say any individual contracts would be increased.
According to Ed Carter, district manager of the Bellevue Telephone Co., the old and new models are designed.
—City one-party lines, residential;
previously $13,15; now $12,40
business;
previously $13,15; now $12,40
Only six of the regents were present at the meeting, Henry Bubb and Elmer Jackson did not attend. The regent position vacated by the death of T. J. Griffith has not yet been filled.
THE REGENTS also deferred discussion of a construction supervisor for the expansion. Rieke said that he had discussed the matter with the state architect, and that an oral report had been made defining the issues under which construction could occur.
"We have made such progress in funding the project that we thought we would wait until December and then present the final plan." Riake said. "If we presented the plan in its entirety there would be no questions as to how we would fund the project."
"We decided to wait on that, because the final report is ready, we will know conditions under which we can work," Rieke said.
The Regents also approved a $5,200 project which would provide for six parking spaces between Pearson and Stephenson Park. The plans also include existing parking area north of Sellards hall.
THE AGREEMENT states that the New York firm will serve as the lead firm for furrowing land and proposes a million bond issue which will be the project, Weigand, Curtman, Brainer, Harris and Kaufman will be the Kansas firm and Kaufman will be $5,000 plus normal operating expenses.
The Regents approved a joint agreement between Mitchell, Petty and Shetterly of New York, and Weighnand, Curfman, and Kaufman of Wichita to fund the project.
program produce five degrees a year. Schools whose programs do not meet this standard would be put on probation, and programs that do not meet this standard would be recommended for discontinuance, according to the report.
STEART praised COCAO and the Council of Presidents and called the report a 'thoughtful' one.
Biekie said that he hoped the final plan would be ready for the Regents'
Stewart said that the report would be released to the public next Monday.
"It is unique in its do-it-yourself approach," he said. "It is a self-study by our own institutions and I hope that people will read it and accept it as a positive report."
In other action during its monthly meeting, the regents passed a motion by Robert Heiman, Goodland, of the Regents' academic committee asking that the recommendations of the Council of Chief Academic Officers (COCAO) report be carried as guidelines by the Regents for improving higher education in the state.
Regent Chairman Jess Stewart, Wamego, said that the report was not board policy at the present time. He said that the academic committee would have to study the report in more detail and report back to the board for implementation of the recommendations.
The COCAO report has been the subject of some controversy because of its recommendations of production criteria for state supported programs. The report recommends that a doctorate program produce two degrees a year and that a masters
Festival Books B.B. King
By KATHY TUSSING Kansan Staff Writer
Blues singer B. B. King, comedian-writer David Steinberg and folk-jazz artist Jimme Spheeris will headline the 1973 SUA Festival of the Arts, April 2-7.
Other featured artists for the Festival will be the Eloe Pomare Dance Company, the National Touring Company's production of "Happy Birthday, Wanda Waze," author John Lahr and electronic musical instrument designer Robert Moog.
"The Festival of the Arts began seven years ago as a jazz festival and has evolved to a week-long over-view of the arts," Job Ramseyer, Prairie Village junior, said. "I told Tuesday, 'Happily, with each year, it will keep growing and changing.'"
"My goal for the festival is to see every night as big as the next—but each one different, exploring a different art form," he said. "I have tried to move this year's festival."
B. B. King's performance has been
B. B. King's performance has been
April 4, the final day of
the Fest.
King, whose real name is Riley E. King, became known in Memphis as "the Beele Street Blues Boy," which was shortened to B. B.
Steinberg will headline the April 1 show in a double bill with Jimmie Sheeris.
KING HAS been in the entertainment world for 24 years. In 1948, he moved to Memphis from his Mississippi home and got a job as a dac locker on a radio station.
"We wanted to bring a comedian because, although the festival has had comedy groups perform in the past, we have never had a solo comedian," Ramaseyer said. "David Steinberg is one of the best in the business."
Steinberg received his masters degree in English Literature from the University of
Steinberg was host last summer of a comedy-variety show on television. He had also been a guest host on both the David and Jane series, and has written material for television.
Chicago in 1694. Previous he obtained a
bachelor's degree from Harvard University, in Jersualem.
Literature born Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
After gaining his masters degree, Steinberg joined Chicago's famed Second City company. He wrote and performed his own plays our four years before performing on his own.
THE FESTIVAL will begin in April 2 with the production of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." The play was produced off-Broadway in 1970.
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Neerman, Dirks Named Editor, Business Manager
Carol Dirks, Larned senior, was selected as the spring semester business manager for the Kanan.
Joece Neerman, Kansas City, Kan,
senior, was named Tuesday as editor of
the University Daily Kansan for spring
semester 1973.
Neerman, who is presently associate editor, and Dirks, currently classified advertising manager, were selected by the Kansas Board following Tuesday afternoon interviews with all candidates.
Deadline for submitting applications for the remaining staff positions is noon, Tuesday. Applications may be obtained in the offices of the dean of men and dew of women, the Student Senate office and 105 Flint Hall.
Applications should be returned to Dana Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism, in 105 Flint.
Neerman said interviews for news staff positions would begin Tuesday afternoon.