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Wednesdav. December 6, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Capsules From staff and wire reports
Gas prices expected to rise
NEW YORK—Motorists will be paying a cents more for a gallon of gasoline within the city, because of the current tight supply of the fuel, industry officials reported yesterday.
Dan Landberg, publisher of the Landberg Letter, an influential industry newsletter, predicted a 2 or 3-cent increase in most markets before the end of the week. He said the increase would take place on a national level and especially would be seen in rural areas.
The increase is expected to last as long as the supply is tight. The oil companies estimate that the tight supply will last about a month, but some experts say it will be longer. The oil companies and the Energy Department say there is no shortage.
21 crash survivors rescued
WALDEN, Colo. Searchers on snowmobiles rescued 21 persons yesterday, including an infant, who survived the crash landing of a twin-engine commuter plane on a mountainside and spent the night in a near-blizzard. Authorities said one person died in the accident.
The survivors were taken from the crash site 10,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies on Sno-Cats through a foot of fresh snow. Some rode inside, and others wrapped in down sleeping bags were strapped to the outside of the tractor-like tracked vehicles.
Fiveteen minutes after the Rocky Mountain Airways flight had taken off from Steamboat Springs, the pilot radioed that he was having trouble with ice and snow.
According to Leo Mack, one of the first rescuers at the crash site, the plane's wings had been sheared off and the plane had come to rest beneath a power line.
The nigh voltage transmission line was knocked out, and rescue parties worked their way along the line until they found the plane.
Soaring beef prices predicted
WASHINGTON - Consumers, already hit high by high beef prices this year, will pay an average of 14 percent more for beef in 1979, the Agriculture Department said.
Pork prices in 1979 are expected to average 2 to 5 percent above this year's levels, government economists said.
Overall, food prices next year are expected to rise 6 to 10 percent. The average increase in food prices this year has been 10 percent.
rigger prices will be the result of lower supplies. Officials predict there will be 4 to 6 percent less beef, about half as much veal and nearly the same quantity of lamb and mutton. The declines will not be offset by an anticipated 4 to 6 percent increase in pork production.
Farmers' and ranchers' prices for food are not subject to President Carter's voluntary price guidelines. Officials said raw food prices were exempted because they were affected by weather and other considerations beyond man's control.
Webster to fire 2 FBI agents
WASHINGTON—FBI Director William H. Webster said yesterday that he would fire two FBI agents for their part in conducting alleged illegal surveillance of the radical Weather Underground in the early 1970s, but would take no action against 59 other arens.
In addition to firing two agents, Webster said, he will demote one agent and suspend another for 30 days. All four had supervisory responsibility, Webster
He also said he would reprimand two street agents who also conducted unauthorized surveillance of the Weather Underground.
These announcements were part of the results of an investigation of 88 agents and supervisors accused of involvement in break-ins, wiretaps and mail
The remaining three FBI agents involved in the investigation have retired and cannot be subject to disciplinary action.
Post office expects 1979 gains
HOUSTON—The Postal Service lost $37.4 million in 1978 but hopes to break into the black with a $180 million surplus next year before recording another loss of about $27.5 million.
Bolger said the $797.4 million was less than the originally projected $1.2 billion deficit for the year ending Sept. 30, 1978, and 45 percent less than last quarter.
Bolger held a news conference after the Postal Service Board of Governers approved an immediate 15-month experiment with a new computer-originated mail service and tentatively accepted plans for an expanded overnight delivery service.
The first plan promises two-day delivery of computer-originated mail, much of it expected to be billing, by transmitting from computer to computer at a rapid rate with the documents entering the local mail stream at the receiving end.
Both proposals must be approved by the Postal Rate Commission and are expected to stir opposition from private competitors.
Blue Cross to seek increas
TOPEKA-A The state's largest health care insurer, Kansas Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is expected to file a new rate increase request with Insurance Com-
Blue Cross-Blue Shield's senior vice president, Wayne Johnston, said Monday that the new rate request was expected to be substantially lower than the $2.3 billion for the last year.
Johnston said the company had considered filing a lawsuit against Bell on the basis of its original request, but decided that the aid would consume too much energy.
British request wool protection.
Belgian request cotton, stating British Cross-Block Shield had failed to provide sufficient justification and supporting material for the increases.
The original request would have affected about 376,000 policy holders.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—A commission investigating the government slush-fund scandal released a report yesterday that is certain to plunge the country's economy.
The affair has reached such dimensions that it is referred to as Inagate, after Washington's Watergate scandal, which forced former President Nixon to
The panel, headed by Judge Rudolf Erasmus, found that at least **40 million** in government money was involved in embezzlement, manipulation and cover-
Anti-inflation steps called fair
Erasmus' report absolved Prime Minister Pietter W. Botha, and his predecessor John Vorster, who stepped down in September, of any wrongdoing by the government.
"It isn't so complicated, but it's comprehensive. It is fair, and it will work if we give it a chance." Struass said in response to criticism of the voluntary wage law, which he said would be more difficult to implement.
TOPKEA - Robert Strauss, President Carter's chief inflation officer who is not Carl Paulm in form of trade negotiation and yesterday that the administration has ordered a $1 billion tariff.
Strauss made his remarks before the 60th annual meeting of the Kansas Farm Bureau.
Sirauss said a key element of the anti-inflation program would be the monitoring of food prices at the farm level and at the retail level. He said a drop in food prices could have an effect on the economy.
Weather...
It will be cloudy and cold today with periods of light snow. Temperatures will be the mid 20s with wind from the north at 15 to 20 miles on how snow is likely.
Wheelchair cagers roll nationally
By BILL RIGGINS
Saturday seemed like a bad night for basketball. The roads were raicy, and one of the
Staff Reporter
When the teams came out on the court to warm up, there were few fans in the bleachers at Piper High School in Wyandotte County.
But the basketball was as hot as the weather was cold.
It was a different game for basketball. The teams, the Topeka Chairmen, ranked fifth nationally, and the Kansas City Pioneers, shared the spot with disabled, shoed and pass from wheelchairs.
Wheelchair basketball, started by the veterans Administration in 1650, is now each year one of the four teams in a fourteam league is now the 130-tem National Wheelchair Basketball League.
The exceptions are that the players may stay in the lane under the basket for five seconds instead of three and they must dribble the basketball at least once for every time they push the wheels of the ball. Which whitcairs are considered part of the players.
THE RULES ARE, with two exceptions,
drawn from the National Collegiate Athletic
The games are fast and the officials must be well-versed in the special rules.
Shortly before the Chairman-Pioneers game, a worried-looking official walked to the scoring table and glanced quickly at the NWBA rulebook.
He said he had been officiating wheelchair basketball for about three years.
"ITS ONE OF THE hardest things in the world to officiate. I tell you something," she says, and then know the rules and if you make a mistake, they get pissed off. Those chairs don't feel right.
As the players began off the court to shed their wrappings, he dropped the rule on the way.
The Chairmen started Rod Armstrong and Ted Decker, who are known as the "missile twins" because of their speed on the court, Joe Greze, who organized the team's years ago, Royce Miller, the coach and player of the team, and Chuck Gamball.
His would be a busy night.
When the game began, the Chairman ran a zone defense, which effectively stopped the Pioneers from getting the ball inside. Their offense consisted mostly of getting the ball to Miller, which usually meant two points for the Chairmen.
MEMBERS OF this team say Miller is one of the best players in the country. He's been named to all-star teams for four years and has earned most points (100 scored in a single game).
Miller said part of the Chairman's trouble was that they were looking past Saturday night's game. In two weeks, they play Chicago, ranked third in the country.
The Chairman's shooting was off in the first half and at halftime the score was close.
"Yes, we knew before we came down here we could heat them because they're going to get hot. And when they come halftime, 'Sure they'll get in a foul trouble, but we've got to play Chicago and they're gonna win.'"
"Defensively, we're doing all right. Oftensively, it is just a matter of time until we get there."
Miller was right.
"I have trouble with sways like it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game."
PROBABLY THE biggest factor in the Chairman's success is that Miller and Greer will be able to make a difference.
They offer good players a job in Topeka,
awrence or Kansas City and give them the
chance to play.
Gay pastor says Bible is misinterpreted
He said other churches often ignored their own gay population or used the Bible
humanoxisulx "Glyer said." "There are only 14 passages in the entire Bible and there are others."
"If Metropolitan Community Church were to cease to exist, there would be nobody who would say to gay people, 'God loves you and you're okay.'"
His second explanation was that certain passages had been translated incorrectly because translators were heterosexual and only in terms of their own experience.
There is only one Christian; Church for homosexuals in Kansas City, Mo., so it has to deal with a wide spectrum of denominations, the Rev. James Glyer said last night in a speech sponsored by Gay Services of Kansas.
HE SAID tradition had often interpreted the passages incorrectly and a closer look would show their real meaning. For example, he said, many people thought the passages were from Gommarir condemned homosexuality, when it really condemned homosexual rape.
Glyer is the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church, 40th and Harrison streets, an ecumenical church, which he claims incorporates elements of the Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Pencecostal and other Christian denominations.
His third explanation was the Bible passages that say homosexuality is not a virtue.
"The Bible doesn't say a great deal about
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Glyver said homosexuals needed their own church.
"The Bible also says it's not natural for a woman to have her hair cut or to speak in English," she added. "The Bible doesn't say it."
the Chairmen are supported by donations. All gate receipt money goes to
was written, those things were not natural.
It doesn't apply today."
"We also have a very good reputation in Toopeka," he said.
GLYER SAID the Metropolitan Community Church did all the things any other Christian church did, including funerals, social gatherings, singing and marriage.
Greece said the donation between $200 and $1,100 each year to the Special Olympics
"We're also oriented toward disabled children," Greze said. "We tell them they can grow up to be athletes. They don't have to be spectators."
GREZE, WHO played college basketball for St. Mary's of the Plains in Dodge City, lost the use of both legs in 1965, when a hit in a construction site broke his back.
"The doctors said I wouldn't walk again, but I faked them out," he said.
"After I got hurt, I just picked up a basketball and started shooting," Greze said. "Then when I moved to Topeka, I organized the team."
Although Miller can walk without the assistance of a cane, several years ago his father was paralyzed.
Miller became a player-coach one day when he told his team, which at that time had never won a game, that "if I played, we'd win."
His first game then was against Emporia. It also was the Chairman's first victory.
"But that was just fate," he said. "I didn't make that much difference."
"We're capable of sympathizing with people about their handicap but we don't like to do it." Miller said. "We approach it like, 'Well big dam deal.'"
Miller said he frequently visited people who had recently been disabled to try to understand what was going on.
"Basketball gives you that respect you need."
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