Monday, October 2. 1978
Kassebaum tax disclosure urged
TOPEKA (AP)—Democrats will pro-
publican senatorial candidate Nancy
Landon Kassebaum until election day to
fully disclose her 1977 income taxes,
former state party chairman Norbert
Dreese said Saturday night.
"It's going to be a confrontation all the way down to election day, unless she tells the people the information they have a right to know," Dreiling said at a fundraising dinner for her Democratic opponent, Bill Roy.
Kassbaum has revealed her and her husband's adjusted gross incomes and taxes paid for the past two years but has decided to make public their income tax returns.
"SHE HASN'T answered enough."
Dreiling said. "She can say everything was done legally, but if someone with over $2 million in assets pays only $5,000 in
income taxes . . . then the public has a right to know why. It's that simple.
"The young lady might just as well get used to answering questions. You have a right to know what the philosophy of an individual is; you have a right to know what a person's investments are; you have a right to vote on a certain kind of tax reform."
HE DELIVERED his first speech of the campaign before the partisan audience, outlining what he said would be the Roy Buckley speech in the final five weeks of the campaign.
Dreiling, who directed former Gov. Robert Docking's four election victories in 1966-72, is co-chairman of Roy's U.S. Senate campaign.
Drelling said Kassambu is trying to win the election by voicing platitudes without being confronted with extremism.
reading the name of her father, Alf M.
Landon.
Dreiling said that Roy definitely trailed Kassebaum until her tax disclosure position, saying, "Now she's given us a hole a mile wide."
He said Kassebaum would not be able to behind a claim of privacy for her husband.
"The time has come for confrontation.
The waders had better get ready to leave the lake."
"IVE GOT news for the little lady," the Hays attorney said. "The voters' right to know has just clashed with her husband's right to privacy.
Docking was billed as the main speaker for the dinner attended by about 300 persons, but Dreiling almost the whole show.
Mideast talks to continue
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)-Egyptian government sources confirmed yesterday that Egyptian, American and Israeli negotiators will meet in Washington, D.C., Oct. 12 to begin talks leading to the signing of an Egyptian-Israel peace treaty.
The sources, who refused to be identified, said the location was changed from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia to Washington so paralleled by American officials would be more available.
The talks are the next step outlined by the Camp David agreements signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this month. The accord will end 30 years of Middle warfare.
THE EGYPTIAN sources said the talks would be held in a place flying the U.N. flag as stipulated by the agreements. The Egyptian delegation will include War Minister Gen. Mohamed Abdel G哈曼 Gamassay, acting under the jointuros G. Ghalil and others, the sources said.
There was no official comment on the date and location of the peace talks. Sadai is not one to be surprised by these events.
The negotiators will try to work out a timetable for a two-phased Israeli troop withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. They also will seek ways to replace the Israeli Navy in the Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza strip with a local Palestinian administration.
IN JERUSALEM, almost 100 West Bank
leaders gathered in an unusual political meeting yesterday and issued a statement asking their Palestinian followers to boycott elections for an administrative council and thereby undermine the Camp David agreements.
In Israel, Begin was quoted as saying his country would not tolerate declaration of an independent Palestinian state by such a council. Begin, who was admitted to a hospital Friday after complaining of feeling weak, went home yesterday.
In the Gulf of Agaba, near Israel's southeastern corner, an Israeli gunbast sank a Palestinian guerrilla boat whose crew was killed in a port of Eilat with rockets, the military said.
Order sets gas priorities
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—A federal order affecting oil gas curtailments may take Missouri and Kansas institutions by surprise this winter, according to a copyright story in yesterday's Kansas City Star.
More than 180 institutions—half of them nursing homes, hospitals, schools, government buildings and apartment complexes—have been stripped of the protection they once had against gas curtailments, the story said.
The order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affects Cities Service Gas Co., which supplies much of the gas used in Kansas and Missouri. It lowered the priorities for receiving natural gas for transportation, the capability of switching to other fuels.
Among those institutions whose use of gas could be curtailed are Pittsburgh State University, Washburn University, Wichita College, and the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
The story did not mention the University of Kansas or the University of Kansas
ONE PROBLEM that must be confronted is how institutions which have their gas supplies curtailed can use alternative fuels, and most must have not had to rely on heavily.
The main supplier for the Kansas City area, Gas Service Co., was counting on state energy offices to make the states set aside fuel oil reserves available to institutions hit hard by gas shortages. The company discovered last week that the set-aside program no longer exists for fuel oil.
The company had notified institutions affected by the changed priorities in June. But many ignored the notice or didn't understand, a survey by the newspaper showed.
A spokesman for one gas company, Missouri Public Service, said the three affected institutions it served hadn't been notified of the priority change.
THE EFFECT OF THE downgraded priorities would leave some of the institutions without gas in January and February if the winter is 10 percent colder than normal. Last winter was 16 percent colder in the area served by Cities Service.
The institutions that would be completely without gas in those two months include 24 major hospitals and nursing homes and seven schools and colleges.
The reordering of priorities is based on a ruling from FERC's predecessor, the Federal Power Commission. The ruling says any large gas user that can use another
fuel should be forced to do so to protect industries that can't switch.
Before the ruling, a sharp distinction between industrial and other gas customers had kept hospital, schools, nursing homes, public buildings, military bases and apartment buildings on a higher priority during gas shortages.
Additional land OK'd for site honoring James
University Dally Kansan
KEARNEY, Mo. (UPI)—Clay County authorities said additional acreage of a farm near here, where outlaw Jesse James was born and spent his childhood, has been approved for the National Register of Historic Places.
The farm house and about nine acres were approved for the historic register earlier. Twenty-eight acres were recently added to the register, an action a Clay County court official said will enable additional federal land be used for development of the farm area.
Kansas and Missouri industrialists and grain elevator employees affected by a fourday rail strike plan to resume operations on a full-time basis today and to try to begin catching up on business delayed during the walkout.
Trains rolling after strike
At the General Motors Fairlax plant in Kansas City, Kan., workers on the morning and evening jobs who were sent home about four hours early because of a shortage of parts last week, are expected to work at Ford, spokesman Harold Armstrong said Saturday.
By United Press International
Company officials could not estimate how
THE FOUR-DAY rail strike across the country by members of the Brotherhood of Rail. Airline business at auto plants and grain crippled business at Friday night agreed to heed a federal order to stop picking and to return to work.
long it would take to recover the loss in production. The plant produces an average yield of 460 lb. per acre.
At Kansas City's Union Station, Amtrak
passenger train began running Saturda
passenger train
In Topeka, Santa Fe spokesman Gil Sweet
The settlement was welcome news to grain elevator operators in Kansas, many of whom had either allowed operations or caused an inability to move the grain by rail.
said he was unsure how long it would take to compensate for an estimated daily revenue
In Wichita, Bob Summers of Garvey Elevators said the company had shut down Friday because shipping was at a standstill. He said the elevator was paying about $555 in daily interest on 750,000 bushels of grain waiting to be shipped to the Gulf for export.
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Edgar Bergen, who for more than six decades was Amaranta's favorite ventilator, playing with the Gripstick in 1983, named Charlie McCarthy, is dead at age 75.
Burgel died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack Saturday, less than two weeks after announcing his planned retirement. He was flown to Los Angeles yesterday.
A memorial service was scheduled for tomorrow morning at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, family spokesman Robert Crum was to be followed by a private interment.
BERGEN, who disclosed $^1$ heart condition in a recent interview, announced on Sept. 21, that he would retire from show business. His sidekick was puzzled.
Bergen said then he would donate Charlie to the Smithsonian Institution, "where he would be a naturalist."
"How can you retire?" Charlie asked,
when you "won't worked" since you met me.
Bergen planned to do shows in Las Vegas with singer Andy Williams as part of his
final road trip. However, there had been doubt he would appear in Cincinnati and Cleveland as scheduled because of his health, according to a family spokesman.
"I don't know what made me say that," Williams said later. "It was the first time I heard him."
WILLIAMS, who finished the show Saturday, said he told the audience "Bergen was one of the real giants of show business and it was privileged to see him in his last performance."
Bergen's act consisted of a trio of dumies: top-hatched, monocled Charles McCarthy, dull-witted Mortimer Snerd and spry spinister Eiffie Klinker.
Bergen and McCarthy specialized in 'insult harm', a style which influenced Rita Hayworth.
for example, Bergen: "I've taken a lot from you!"
McCarthy: "Yes, and you have kept every penny."
Rickles said, "He and his sidekick, Charlie McCarthy, were my earliest inspirations. It was Bergen, through Charlie, who had been a close friend to him, comedy that so many of us employ today."
Bergen was born in Chicago on Feb. 16, 1903, the son of Swedish parents, John and Nellie Bergen, who ran a retail dairy business.
Post's Ben Bradlee to talk at KU tonight
Benjamin C. Bradley, executive editor of the Washington Post, will be on campus today and will speak tonight at 8 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Bradley's speech, "Power and the Press," will focus on the role of journalism today. He will talk with journalism students and faculty and will visit the offices of The Times.
Following his speech, he will meet with the public in the Union's Big Eight Room at a reception sponsored by the Society of Professional Journals, Sigma Delta Chi.
His visit is being sponsored by KU's Student Union Activities in cooperation with the William Allen White School of Journalism. Admission to his speech is $1.
Bradlee became executive editor of the Washington Post in 1968.
The Washington Post
SUA Forums to host Ben Bradlee Editor of the Washington Post
October 2
Kansas Union Ballroom
8:00 p.m.
Admission $1.00
Advanced ticket sales at SUA office
Presented in cooperation with William Allen White School of Journalism
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