The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, September 25, 1981 Vol. 92, No.25 USPS 650-640
Reagan revises budget cutbacks
WASHINGTON—President Reagan last night outlined his latest plan to balance the budget by 1894. The plan includes a 12 percent spending cut for most federal programs, a tax crackdown and the demise of the departments of Energy and Education.
By United Press International
In a nationwide broadcast from the Oval Office, Reagan said he would ask Congress to cut the fiscal 1982 budget by $13 billion, in addition to the $35 billion reduction already approved. He said the new cut was necessary because of the deficit, now predicted to reach $43.1 billion.
The latest spending cut proposals were needed, administration officials said, because the deficit for fiscal 1982, which begins next year, would swell beyond their $4.25 billion goal.
Reagan abandoned his $42.5 billion deficit goal last night, but said he would now“hold to a firm, steady course”as he tried to pull the unemployment economic swamp we’ve been in for so long.”
THE ECONOMIC package the president offered last night was designed to save $16 billion-$13 billion in reduced spending and $3 billion through tougher application of tax laws and charges for the use of government waterways and airports.
Beagan also proposed cuts in defense
spending. But the cuts, which will total $3 billion in 1982 and $13 billion over the next three years, account for only 1 percent of the total budget.
The president called for the end of some tax loopholes, but refused to tamper with the personal income tax cut that will take effect Oct. 1. And he steered clear of his earlier proposal to delay Social Security cost-of-living payments in order to save money.
Sitting behind his broad desk, Reagan said he wanted to form a special panel that would "remove Social Security once and for all from politics."
DEMOCRATS REACTED sharply to the proposed committee, and to Reagan's call for budget cuts. Even leading Republican leaders have to harden the give to the president what he wanted.
Ted Stevens, the Senate Majority Whip,
said that it would be "very difficult" to cut
the additional 12 percent. He suggested Congress
to have to cut defense spending by nearly
$8 billion.
Rep. Richard Otterger, D-N.Y., called the department of Energy "irresponsible."
During last night's speech, Reagan defended his decision.
"We do not need the Energy Department to solve our basic energy problem, as long as we let the forces of the marketplace work without undue interference," he said.
JOE BARTOS/Kansan Staff
Latest cuts face a fight, profs say
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Americans received a "pep talk" from President Reagan last night when he appeared on television to rally support for his latest round of budget cuts.
"President Reagan was talking to two groups tonight," Allan Gillen, associate professor of political science, said last night. "One was the general public he gave a peep into, and another who was community who was waiting to see if he was willing to take the tough steps on the budget."
Both Cigler and Burdett Loomis, assas-
 professor of political science, said the president would have a tough fight in getting the proposals passed.
CIGLER SAID Reagan was given the benefit of the doubt after the first budget cut, but now some groups might mobilize against him.
"It will be warfare now that the reality of the best budget cut has set in." Moomis said.
"It is one thing to say you want to get a 12 inch acrosse board cut," it is another phrase. "It is one thing to say you want to get a 12 inch acrosse board cut."
Cigler said Reagan's speech was not an attempt to muster more support for his programs, but to win more confidence for his proposals.
See SPEECH page 5
Student Senate to consider proposed budget Committee hears final requests
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL ROBINSON
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing committee heard its last 11 funding requests last night.
Those 11 groups, the last of 40 who appeared at the committee's fall supplemental budget hearings, ranged from the martial to the civic to the medical.
The first organizations the committee heard was the Simulations Gaming Group. That group requested $380 from Senate to pay for, among other things, a board on which to conduct mock military battles.
ANOTHER ORGANIZATION, Students Concerned with Disabilities, asked for $499.50 to pay for workshops and seminars to publicize the concerns of the disabled.
After their presentation, some committee members were struck by the problems handled by the department.
"That's one thing that bothers me," said Tom Berger, graduate student senator. "They don't represent any religious or political philosophy and we don't even think about them."
The Pre-Med Club asked for money for films and programs on the medical profession and said they hoped to organize classes in subjects such as cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
But they were not sure they could come up with the money to rent mannequins for the classes.
The Student Occupational Therapy Association made the committee burst into laughter by estimating how many teeth and bones $220 could buy.
"I'd like to see how it's going to look on our inventory," said committee member Miki Gaku.
Other organizations the committee saw last night were Pre-Physical Therapy Club, KU-Y, the Coalition of Student Social Workers, the Association of Students Interested in Asia, the Nigerian Students Association and Armnesty International.
But the committee was up to serious business as one representative from the Undergraduate Administration visited campus.
WHEN QUESTIONED by Gordon about an article might reduce mailing costs, the representative said.
"That's a pretty particular question," he finally said.
"We're a pretty particular committee," Gordon replied.
Finance and Auditing also wrestled once again with the question of whether to fund different groups that represent people of the same nationality.
Formosan Club. But on Tuesday night, Formosan Club members said they never received any money, and didn't want to be linked with the CSA.
In this case, the groups were the KU Formosan Club and the Chinese Students Association. Loren Busy, chairman of the committee, said both represented students from Taiwan.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS decided that groups should be funded according to their individual merits and not the nationalities they represented.
The Senate gave the CSA $542 last spring, part of which was supposed to be shared with the
Busy said several other groups represented students from Taiwan.
"We really have no jurisdiction and I don't think we should get involved with who registered us or who did it."
"If they're a registered group, they have a right to come before us."
The committee said it might try to find better ways to cut expenses for all student organization.
He said that he was disappointed that committee attendance averaged about 11 members a night, but that the quality of the committee's made up for the lack of quantity in attendance.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL budget budget process is not finished yet. The committee's last deliberations on budget requests will not be final until next Monday and Tuesday.
In October, the committee will submit its recommendations to the full Senate for approval.
Ducking under Jack Edwards, umpire for the Oldtimers baseball game, takes shelter during the rain. See related story page 14.
But last night, after the 40th group had gue,
the committee members applauded themselves in
honor.
Local bakers supply 'hole' lot of doughnuts
Staff Reporter
BvSTEVE ROBRAHN
Some cities are up to their bellies in delis,
but baskets "hole," Lawrence is more into baskets.
Thousands of pastry-munchers keep Lawrence's bakers going around the clock. Somewhere in town a new batch of the sweet sticky goods are produced almost every hour.
Bakers begin work on a day's stock of pastries at Lawrence's grocery stores about the same time that Joe's Bakery, 616 W. Ninth St., is shutting down for the niect.
Doughnut shops do their baking in the morning and the grocery stores produce batches in the afternoon. Joe's starts at 6 p.m. and continues baking into the night.
"This town has been blessed with some very good bakeries," Lee Scott, owner of a pastry-mix plant at 30th Street and Haskell Street. "There's not a bad shop in Lawrence."
Scott's plant, which supplies one doughnut shop here, ships pre-mixed pastry ingredients to more than 80 franchise stores in the Midwest.
"I think Lawrence has a better variety and better quality of bakeries than a lot of places," he said. "I'd be proud to be a part of any of them."
Mix from Scott's plant goes into an automatic doughnut machine at Carol Lee Donuts, 1730 W. 23rd St., and hot glazed doughnuts pop out the other end.
"We never touch the doughnuts from the time the dough goes into the machine until after they've been automatically glazed and baked," Ms. Kinsler said, coowner of the local Carol Lee franchise.
Her shop does not serve too many students because of its daytime hours, she said, but it has a computer lab.
"A lot of places make theirs during the night and sell them during the day," Moore said. "But we bake during the day and sell during the day."
See BAKERIES page 5
Bell operators' ears ringing from celebrity credit rumors
Staff Reporter
By TERESA RIORDAN
Staff Reporter
Rumor has it that Burt Reynolds is letting anyone use his telephone credit card until October. Because he just won a million dollar prize, the Telephone Company, he won't miss the money.
Or was it Robert Redford who won the lawsuit?
Paul Newman, maybe?
The name changes but the rumor stays the same.
CALLERS SAID that Reynolds either announced the Indiana-based charge card number on the "Tonight Show" or printed it in the New York Times.
Lawrence telephone operators yesterday received a rash of calls from students who wanted to charge long-distance calls to a number they thought was Reynolds'.
The telephone company had received a few calls last week about the rumor, but after a deluge of calls yesterday afternoon, operators were instructed not to accept any more calls charged to that number, according to Pauli. Bell's residential service center in Lawrence.
The rumor supposedly got its start in an underground paper, Knight said, and the problem is cropping up around several college campuses
The number, which actually belongs to no one,
does have a correct code number, making it
part of the database.
KNIGHT WAS concerned that several students had already charged calls to the number without realizing that the rumor was false.
"People trying to use the number now say Gee, I know at least 10 people who have already done it," she said.
"These are innocent people who are still liable
to them because they use card number that
was leaked."
"The penalty could be $1,000 and up to five years in jail."
ONCE THE company reviews the billing for the month and discovers a possible fraud, the security department investigates and prosecutes. Knight said.
she said it was "too bad that Reynolds didn't really do that. It would have been, really worse."
Anyone with information about the rumor should call the company's business office at 843-276-1095.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. It is expected that dense fog during the morning.
The high will be in the low 80s.
Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy with lows in the low 80s and highs in the low 80s.