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Wednesday, February 14, 1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Kansan's Wire Services
Dollar a gallon gas predicted
WASHINGTON — Americans will be paying a dollar for a gallon of gasoline in three or four years. Secretary James Schlesinger said yesterday.
— 10 years ago, Earnhardt cut his fuel taxes by a third. This year, the price of gas to the consumer could increase seven cents a gallon this year, the price of oil to the consumer could increase seven cents a gallon
before embark on their journey.
Schlesinger's comments followed President Carter's call Monday for Americans to make a conservation effort to help see the nation through the cutoff of Iranian oil supplies without mandatory measures to save country.
Subscriber said his predictions were based on oil price increases planned by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the greater portion of the world's crude.
New tax lid bill gets support
TOPEKA-Kansas House members yesterday tentatively agreed to throw out the state's existing property tax lid and substitute a new lid with fewer
The bill is designed to ease the burden on Kansas taxpayers by freezing the amount of property taxes levied by cities and counties.
Loans, from both parties lend their support to the property tax infid, bolstering its chances for final passage during a roll call vote today. If the loan is approved, it will become a permanent lien on the property.
amount of property?
Another supporter of the bill. Gov. John Carlin, said he was pleased the House
refuse to loophole in the tax ceiling.
The tld would be placed on the aggregate amount of property taxes that can be collected, adjusting the total upward only when improvements or additions were made to the tax rolls. This means that Kansas cities and counties could collect a percentage of the added above the amounts collected in 1977, 1978 or 1979 without a popular vote.
School desearqation examined
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said yesterday that more federal enforcement and less congressional obstruction were necessary to keep schools open.
The commission said it found that 46 percent of the nation's minority pupils attended schools, "in at least moderately segregated districts."
The findings were released in a 90-page report examining school deprivations efforts in A4 communities during the past 2½ years.
Commission chairman Arthur S. Fleming, said that public support continued to exist for school desegregation, and charged that Congress had significantly weakened the school desegregation effort, "by attaching antibusing riders to the Labor-HEW appropriations bills."
The commission also recommended an increased enforcement effort by the Carter administration, especially in the termination of federal funds to school
Plaintiffs get court cost split
TOPEKA- The Kansas Supreme Court ruled yesterday that successful plaintiffs and their insurance companies must share the cost of attorney fees in cases.
The decision will permit many successful plaintiffs to keep more of their monetary recovery for damages because they will no longer be forced to bear the costs.
Panel endorses coed prison
10:17:EKA - A plan to transfer an estimated 15 female prisoners from the Correctional Institution for Women at Lansing to an all-male prison near Topeka was endorsed yesterday by a Kansas Senate Ways and Means subcommittee.
Gov. John Carlin has also supported the plan and included $20,000 in his recommended budget for two additional correction officers who will be needed
About 15 female prisoners serving sentences at the women's prison would be transferred to the Kansas Correctional Vocational Training Center near Waco, Texas.
The women would live in a dorsitory at the center. The dorsitory would be strictly for women prisoners, but the vocational programs offered at
Redistricting bill sent to Carlin
FOPEKA-A-The Kansas Senate's plan to reapportion its senatorial districts completed the first three constitutional hurdles yesterday when senators approved a new constitution.
The bill, which redraws the 40 senate districts to reflect population shifts in recent years, has been sent to Gov. John Carlin.
It has been sent sent to you, so can it be to be approved by the Kansas Supreme Court. The governor said he probably would send the bill on to the
As it went to Carlin, the new Senate map had a population deviation spread of 6.4 percent from the median population of 58,982.
The most underpopulated area is Senate District 39 in extreme southwestern Kansas, represented by Stuart Sen. Leroy Heyden, D-Sitanta, which is 3.4 miles northwest of Seligman.
The most overpopulated area is Senate District 12 in southeastern Kansas, which is 8.1 percent above the median. The district is represented by State Sen. James Cain.
Committee considers road bill
TOPPEKA - The Kansas Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee yesterday appeared close to recommending a bill authorizing $100,000 for a new bridge across the Missouri River.
The proposed 55-mile road would generally parallel state Highway 96 near Leon in Butterley County to just north of Fredonia in Wilson County.
State Sen. Frank Games, D-Augusta, who sponsor the副 senat, said, "In the people of southeast Kansas are ever going to get anything, this has got to be it." He said that he did not want the test to subsidize the proposal and that if the study did not show the turnip was feasible, it should not be built.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, who sponsored the bill, said, "If the people of southeast Kansas are ever going to get anything, this has got to be it."
Panel eues shorter campaign
roPEKA-Kamans tired of long political campaigns may find a little hope in the appointment yesterday of a subcommittee to study the possibility of creating a new party in the country.
"I think the people get tired of the campaigns," Ott said. "There are some problems in trying to make this bill work. I'm appointing the subcommittee to handle it."
She said one problem involved a September scheduling of the primary that would not be affected too greatly by the Labor Day holiday, which is the first
State Rep. Belva Ott, R-Wichita, chairman of the Kansas House Elections Committee, named a five-member group to see if ways could be found to resolve problems in a proposal to change the date of the Kansas primary election from the first Tuesday in August to the first Tuesday in September.
Setting the record straight
The Kansan incorrectly reported in yesterday's paper that today was the deadline for dropping a course in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences without any record of the course on a student's transcript. The deadline was yesterday.
Now through March 6, a student who drops a course in the college will receive a W on his transcript, indicating that he dropped the course.
Weather...
It will be mostly sunny with a high around 40 today, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low near 20.
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