Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
High point
the tev. Jesse Jackson spoke before about 600 people in Topeka last night at Mount Carmel Canton圣 Church. Jackson discussed current national and world affairs.
Dollar buys only half of what it did in 1967
WASHINGTON (AP) - A dollar will buy only half as much as it did 11 years ago, the government said yesterday as it released figures showing a new surge in food prices.
Alfred Kahn, President Carter's chief influx adviser, called the new figures
In its weekly report on inflation, in its Department of Labor and increases in beef, poultry and pork prices, the U.S. push consumer prices up 0.8 percent for the second straight month—at a rate of 0.9 percent.
KAHN, CHARMAN of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, also said the October price increases showed that inflation was now running near 10 percent a year, nearly 2 percent higher than any administration official had yet admitted.
Prices have risen 9.9 percent in the past year, and most economists have predicted the 178% inflation rate will end up between 8.5 percent and 9 percent.
Kansan heads are announced
Barry Massy yesterday was chosen as editor and Karen Wenderott was chosen as business manager for the spring 1979 University Daily Kansas.
Massey, Humboldt senior, is now editorial editor of the Kansan. Wendertot, Alma senior, is now Kansan associate business manager.
Massey and Wenderott were chosen by the Kansan Board, which publishes the Kansan.
Massey has worked for the Kansan since fall 1976. He also has worked for the Kansas City Times, the Rochester (N.Y.) Times-Union and the Chanute Tribune.
Wendover has been on the Kansan staff two semesters and has worked for the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Applications for news-edited and business staff positions on the spring Kansan will be available later this week.
Jackson says race dividing U.S.
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
TOPEKA-The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson provest last night that he indeed is a country preacher who has high status among the white people.
"IT'S NOT very comforting," Adren Cooper, Commerce Department analyst, said of the price report. "It shows we have a high rate of inflation and it's persistent."
Jackson told about 500 people at the Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church that blacks were unfairly
Housing costs rose 1 percent, about average for the year, and medical care costs climbed 1.1 percent. Economists were particularly worried about a 1.4 percent increase in gasoline prices, the third increase in a row.
The Labor Department report showed the average worker's purchasing power, after taxes, declined 0.1 percent in October—the sixth decline this year.
The new figures prompted George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, to repeat his call for mandatory wage and price controls to replace Carter's voluntary anti-affiliation
PORK PRICES were up 7.3 percent, beef
1.1 percent and chicken and turkey 2.6
percent.
"We are projected as being less intelligent than we are," he said. "We are projected as being more violent than we are. We are projected as working less hard than we actually work." We are projected as having less universal than we are—confining us to a race box.
"The average worker's wages . . . just cannot keep up with the price跌 in essentials, equipment and threads not based on legislative authority will not cure inflation. The need for a statutory, across-the-board controls program becomes daily more important."
Grocery store food costs rose 0.9 percent after showing little or no increase since summer. The department said the jump was due primarily to higher meat prices, which rose 2.1 percent after declining in the preceding three months.
Thousands of salaried workers also will get increases unrelated to the UAW contract. Ford said about 70,000 of its salaried workers would put $455 checks in March.
THE INCREASE in the Consumer Price Index triggered an automatic 19-cent-hour wage increase for about 820,000 hourly workers for Ford Motor Co. General Motors (GM) and Chrysler Automobiles allowance is part of the United Auto Workers' contract with the Big Three.
Barry Bosworth, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, indicated that the administration was considering some changes in its anti-inflation standards, partly because too many companies were trying to take advantage of loopholes.
"We MUST measure people by their effort," he said. "Don't say 'black Jesse' because Jesus is already black."
HE TOLD financial executives from 70 corporate unions set of standards published Dec. 20.
'We don't call Carter 'white Carter.' We don't call Wallace 'white Wallace.' So don't call me 'black preacher.' We will be saved not by the black or white of the matter, but by the rightness or wrongness of the matter.'
Jackson, wearing an "excel" button on his lapel, told the attentive crowd that media judgments of people should not be ignored.
Jackson and race still was dividing the nation, 24 years after the brown vs. Topeka Board of Education殴击, killing nine students.
"We're giving people too many merits in this nation accuse of their race. We give people demitra, in spite of the truth."
"Race has divided the community. Race has made some people feel superior over some individuals. Race has made us build schools where we don't need them. Race has made us walk across legal court battles against separating our children.
"We must resist this race cancer before it ups us up. Have split the Christian church and put cataract over others."
Jackson said the U.S. people had turned into "mass media addicts."
"If you become addicted to being entertained, you become detained. You must develop your mind and your senses."
Inflation, too, is neither a black or white, Jackson said. The United States is spending too much money on
"We know why there is inflation. You don't have to go to the London School of Economics. We are spending $117
"Since you reap what you sow, you have your assassinations. We are doing what we're programmed to do."
"We are spending too much money on the weapons of
warm. Somebody said a long time ago 'don't study war more.' The heard that a long time ago. the president is using a two-edged sword, smiling, smoking a peace pipe with gun powder in it."
Jackson said many people had asked him how blacks could follow the Rise Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Power movement.
"how can you explain that many black people followed a white man to death?" he said. "If you will answer my first question, how many black men have you seen following a black man to death?
"What Jim Jones did was terrible, but not original. Blacks follow whites because we still believe that white ice was real."
"there's a difference between faith and fanaticism. Faith is not rational, but it's not irrational. It's supernatural. Religion, because it's powerful, may be used not for good things. But religion is valid."
"Our churches did not give us Kool-aid. They did not give us vanilla."
Jackson, who was not paid for his appearance, left the crowd with positive words and they responded with apology.
"Don't give up. Hold on. Don't give up. Hold on. It's coming in the morning."
The University of Kansas -Lawrence, Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 89, No. 64
Wednesday, November 29, 1978
KJHK to seek wattage increase
By MARY ERNST
Staff Renorter
KJHK-FM may be able to reach all of the KU campus if its application for increased transmission wattage is approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
Margaret Berlin, chairman of the Student Senate Communications Committee, told Student Executive Committee members last night that JKHK, a radio station operated by students, was considering its power from 10 watts to 1,000 watts.
Berlin said she had talked to Steve Pegg, operations manager for JKHK, recently and Pegg had told her that JKHK would begin looking into increasing wattage.
Barb Beaellow, program manager for KJHK, said KJHK had not yet applied for increased wattage because an engineering study on whether 1,000 watts would interfere with KANI-FM, the other station owned by the University of Kansas, had not been completed. If there were interference, she said, KJHK might apply for 100 watts.
THE ENGINEERING search should have begun during the summer, after we got Student Senate money to conduct it," Baelow said, "but the FCC came out in the beginning of the summer and said they might rule on this duopoly question."
Duopoly is the control of two radio stations by the same owner, such as KU.
Bailow said the FCC was expected to rule this month on whether two stations could be owned by the same university, but KJKH would not be made until February or March.
If the ruling goes against KU, KJIK would be the most likely of the two stations to be dropped, Baellow said, because KANU operates at 10,000 watts.
Steve Dooey, station manager of KJKH, said that before a station could apply for increased wattage, it had to show financial capability to support the wattage.
"IT'S NOT A question of money," he said,
"It is a question of whether the FCC will allow
money to be charged."
Doocy said he was optimistic that the FCC would allow universities to own two stations.
"There are only four universities that would be affected by the ruling," he said. "So I think they'll rule that we're covered by the grandfather clause."
The grandfather clause would allow any
"By the time the frequency study is completed," Doocy said, "the FCC will have decided if they're going to grandfather Shipowners so they can operate independently. So we ahead with the study."
station operating under the old law to continue broadcasting.
Baellow said if JKHK did not increase to at least 100 watts by 1980, it would be affected by another FCC ruling that would reduce the station to secondary status.
That rulling will allow any station that wants to come on the dial at more watts to bump 10-watt stations down on the dial," he said. "So we'll have to go to more wattage
STUDEX MEMBERS also set the agenda for tonight's full Senate meeting at 8:30 p.m.
The Senate will consider two resolutions and five bills, including a bill submitted by Mike Harper, student body president. That bill would allocate almost $3,000 to provide a transportation service for handicapped students.
Harper said the service would not be able to begin Dec. 1 as planned, but would begin by the second day of the spring semester. In the meantime, he said, handicapped students could go to class because of the weather could call the Student Assistance Center for rides.
Other bills to be considered are the creation of a Senate Transportation Board and changes in the revenue code, which fund the funding for Senate organizations.
Staff Reporter
Bv TAMMY TIERNEY
Turnover said to hurt officiating
Although he admitted that the quality of officiating at intramural activities was not the best, Tom Wilkerson, University director of Recreation Services, said the reason was the high turnover rate among officials.
"Probably 80 percent of our officials are newcomers," he said. "When you count that type of turnover, you can't expect the top like officiating we know you'd like to see."
Wilkerson and Richard Marches, intramural director, spoke to about 35 students at a Recreation Services Forum, the University's Student Committee. The two men described the recreational services offered by the University and answered questions about
WILKERSON SAID he had considered using a graded pay scale to keep officials in the program, but if he did, he would have to start them at less than minimum wage.
"We want to make the job more attractive
to get the officials to come back and take your abuse," he said. "But for $2.65 an hour, no one wants the burden of abuse some of our officials have to take."
Wilkerson said officials were required to go through a brief training period, and a longer, more intensive training period would mean a delay in the start of activities. Also, he said, the University cannot pay officials for the time they spend in training.
"I don't think it would be worth it to cut playing time to lengthen the training
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Dying town
Emerson Kemp and his wife Nellie have run the Idan post office for the past 32 years, during which time the town has gone from a bustling community of 225 to a ghost town.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
suburb of Clay Center. Kemp is retiring in December and the post office is going with him—and with them will go the town. For story and more pictures see Weekday, page six.