THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 25 Friday, September 28, 1978
Nuke protesters to train Sunday
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Lawrence, Kansas
From the Kansan's Wire Services
VATICAN CITY. In John Paul II, the 28th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, died of a heart attack in his sleep during the night, the Vatican announced. He was 65 and had regained only 34 days
The Vatican said the pontiff died about 11 p.m. yesterday. His death was discovered when his household staff came to wake him about 5:30 a.m. (11:30 p.m. D C T).
John Paul succeeded Pope Paul VI, who died Aug. 6 at the age of 80.
John Paul had a history of frail health. A relative of the pontiff said recently that his parents summoned a priest to baptize him when he was born Oct. 17, 1912, fearing he might not live through the day.
John Paul also had rheumatism. Shortly before being chosen as pope, he had spent several weeks in a seaside chosen in Venice sunbathing to alleviate the pain.
pain:
DURING HIS brief reign, the pontiff transformed
the normally sedate papal audences into informal gatherings, people with personal ascendents and family members who cannot attend.
Just two days ago, presiding over the weekly Vatican general audience, he called up a fifth grade student and interviewed him in front of the 10,000 people packing the hall.
"Do you always want to be in the fifth grade?" he asked the boy.
"Yes," the youth replied. "So I don't have to change teachers."
mangle lettered.
Anecdote had emerged as trademarks of John Palmer himself to the public.
BY CONSTRAST, his predecessor, Paul VI, was needed for his formal and intellectual approach to his general audiences, resorting to humor on rare occaions.
Born Albani Laciani, the pontiff was the product of one of the thousands of villages that the dottit Italian province
He had spent most of his life in Italy's northeast, where he was born in the Alpine valley village of Forno di Canale. His father, a socialist, was for many years a member of the Communist Party and was strong, "tough and devout," as he once said.
He was ordained a priest on July 7, 1935, and graduated from Rome's Gregorian University. After graduation he went back to his native village to work as a teacher in the countryside where he also taught religion in a vocational school.
FOR THE next 10 years he was deputy director in the Belluno Seminary. In 1948, he became one of the top aides of the bishop of Belluno and was put in charge of teaching religion.
He concentrated on making his teaching as simple as possible so that illiterate mountain people could understand it. He recounted his experiences in a book "Calciphia in Crumbles," now in its seventh edition.
He had been vicar general in Belluno for four years,
when Pope John XXIII named him bishop of Vittorio Veneto, a diocese south of Belluno, in 1858.
In Vittorio Veneto, the bishop was immediately confronted by a financial scandal involving two priests who had piled up debts and overdrawn checking accounts.
LUCIANI SUMMONED all 400 priests in the diocese and spoke to them about the need for the church to be poor. Then he paid the two priests' debts out of diocem income.
During the 1982-85 Vatican Council, Lucian said it was difficult for him to change his frame of mind from pre-council church attitudes to the more liberal teachings.
John Paul was elected in the shortest conclave in history last month. When the traditional white smoke curled from a Vainican chimney—the signal that a pope had been elected—observers still were unsure
and Vatican Radio said, "There is still uncertainty about the color of the smoke."
It was more than an hour later before the 50,000 people in St. Peter's Square were assured that a new
ONE OBSERVER said foreigners in the conclave made it possible for the new pope to be elected swiftly. The observer said the 65 non-Italians in the conclave did not want a bureaucrat from the Curia but a man like Pope John XXIII, who had the warmth of a good pastor.
The name the new pope chose was unprecedented. Luciani was the first pope to choose a double name; and none had chosen a first-of-its-kind name in a millennium.
The double name seemed to indicate that the pope wanted to bring the attributes of his predecessors together—the reformer, John XXIII, and the moderator, Paul VI.
Vote delayed on including KU in ASK
Although final approval of the University of Kansas' provisional membership in Associated Students of Kansas, a state lobbying group, was expected last night member of the advisory committee at Fort Hays University to table the proposal until next week.
The student senates at Fort Hays State and Kansas State University were scheduled to vote on KU's proposed membership last night. The two schools were the last of four proposals to decide which school should proposal. The K-State Senate passed the proposal, 32-0.
Mike Harper, KU student body president, who flew to Hays yesterday to be present during the voting, said he was surprised that the vote was postponed.
non Allen, executive director of Concerned Students for Higher Education, the KU lobbying group, attended the K-State senate meeting.
KU's provisional membership is subject to the approval of the student senates of all ASK member schools and the legislative assembly of ASK. A dissenting vote by one student senate would block KU's membership.
Wichita State University, Pittsburgh State University, Emporia State University, Washuba University and KU had approved the membership.
Company sells 'free' volumes
By PHILIP GARCIA Staff Reporter
"Salesmen from Promotional Systems of Kansas City, Mo. are not saying that they are trying to sell encyclopedia volumes." Kroeger said.
Students should be aware of door-to-door salesmen who supposedly are conducting a promotion to sell "free" sets of encyclopedias that cost more than $500, Judy Kroger, director of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said.
In addition, she said, the encyclopedias are being offered for free, but only if supplemental volumes are bought at a cost of a complete set of encyclopedias.
A SPOKESMAN from the Kansas attorney general's office said such a sales practice was deceptive.
The spokesman said an investigation of the sales by Promotional Systems would need to be done before specific violations occurred. Consumer Protection Act could be cited.
Kroeger said a 14-volume encyclopedia set, a four-volume encyclopedia set and 16 program classics, consisting of works such as the "Canterbury Tales" and "The Iliad," were being offered for free.
However, to receive these volumes free, quarterly supplements must be purchased.
Bob Moody, 1417 E. 15th St., said he signed a contract for the offer Tuesday night but canceled the agreement Wednesday.
Company officials were not available for comment.
"The salesman hit me at a bad time; it was 9 p.m., " Moody said. "It seemed like a smooth deal, but I got to thinking about it and I didn't like it."
MOODY SAID the salesman told him he was conducting a "brand identification analysts" survey for
Promotional Systems, a Kansas City Mo., company.
"I asked him if this was marketing research and he said 'yeah,' but I don't know he thinks what the hell marketing research is." Moody said.
After asking a few personal information questions, the salesman read off a list of products, such as soap and detergent. The salesperson associated with the product, Moody said.
"HE WANTED to place the encyclopedias, along with a walnut case, in our home, free, for promotional contests. But when I sound good money but then the candle came."
Then, Moody said the salesman began to talk about how Promotional Systems had just given away sets of encyclopedias to a game show, has placed an ad in Newswear in its offer and was now seeking additional sales per week.
someone.
"All of a sudden," Moody said, "he offered this deal where we could work for him.
"The supplementals are to update the information in the encyclopedia," Moody said he was told.
37-month plan for the supplements is on a 37-month plan at $15.90 a month with an annual rate of 18 percent. Also, if the supplement was requested annually for postage.
o get the 14-volume “New Standard Encyclopedia” set, the four-volume medical encyclopedia set and the 16 “Program Classics”, four quarterly supplemental volumes to the encyclopedia had to be purchased.
TO PROMOTE the offer, Moody said, he was required to write letters to the company, after three months, after three years. He then had to purchase, telling of the deal he received.
"We were not to mention the program classics, the medical encyclopedias or supplements. Only the original offer for encyclopedia," Moody said.
Frustrated farmers
Don Brettishaw, RL, k1 was one of the fifteen or so farmers in line at the Locust Street elevator in north Lawrence who had to wait more than two hours to unload grain.
Yesterday was the first day there were any problems, said Breithaupt, attributing the slowdown to the railroad strike.
Strike pinches area farmers
By PHILIP GARCIA and SAM VAN LEEUWFN Staff Renorters
Area farmers, feeling the pinch of a nationwide railroad strike, waited more than two hours last night to unload their grain at the Farmers Co-op north elevator and mill, 325 Locust St.
Ron Rice, who manages a farm 10 miles north of Lawrence, said "We can't get any railroad cars to ship out grain at the south mill so we gotta bring our grain over to the north side of the river."
The co-op's south elevator at 20th and Moodie streets was filled to capacity at about noon, forcing farmers to wait in line until midnight.
Lines began forming at about 4:30 p.m. and were expected to continue until at least 10 p.m. elevator workers said. The average time needed to weigh and unload a grain truck is about 20 minutes.
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The three-day-old strike by the Railway Employees union
has brought a halt to grain shipments and caused grain elevators to be filled to capacity.
RAILROAD CLERKS nationwide decided to strike in support of the striking clerks of the Norfolk and Western Railway, who have been idle since July 10.
"The delay is no loss today, but if we don't get to it, on later it hails, or rains, or dries up, the crop can go wrong."
Robert McCready, assistant agent for the Santa Fe Police Department, which assists the co-vip, said the railroad ran out of cars early on Friday.
"We will get more cars in but I really don't know when," McCready said.
take three to five days before operations would return to office officials that said once the strike ended it would take three to five days before operations would return to office officials.
normal:
Jim Penny, north mill supervisor, said at 7:30 last night
BUT, PENNY refused to comment on how many bushels the north grain elevators could hold.
On the trip may be brief or a shift. "Eudora may be closed so this elevator might be the only one open in the Lawrence area," Penny said. "We'll stay open until all the farmers are taken care of."
that there was room in the elevators for about 60,000 more bushels of grain.
Mike Beckoff, a worker at the Mike Hempill farm northwest of Lawrence, said that if grain shipments were not made, elevators would remain at capacity and farmers would run into trouble.
"We'll have to start dumping on Massachusetts Street," Beckford said. "The railroad always picks the prime time for them."
Beckoff said a quick end to the clerk strike would alleviate problems for most farmers.
There are a lot of traps people out there and those with
picket signs better watch out or they might get shot or run
Cleaning firm sees improvements
Rv.JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
The hallways of KU's buildings are less cluttered this week with empty cups, paper and other trash than last week, but the company in charge of KU's housecleaners, American Management Services, said Wednesday that there still was a long way to go in the overall housecleaning project.
project
American Management's district manager, Michael McAler, said he saw improvements after inspecting about 40 of the 88 buildings KU custodians, under the supervision of his company, clean.
or the campus company, a three-day inspection of the campus buildings, taking to housecleaners and people who work in them.
He said there had been improvements in the service provided in some buildings, such as Fraser, Strong and Murphy halls, but Wescosell Hall still appeared to require the most work.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS agreed yesterday that housekeeping staff were asked to comment on requests that were satisfied with the program.
Russell Millis, University director of support services, said he had examined several of KU's buildings recently and noted improvements.
Mills agreed with McAlera's statement that Wescoe was the worst area and needed the most work. McAlera said that more trash containers and increased cleaning would help the problem, but encouraged professors and others to call American Management's office with complaints or suggestions. The number is 864-4281.
"If they have a problem they should call right away," he said. "We're more than happy to do the job. If they come to us, we'll just help."
MANY PERSONS have contacted American Management recently and complained about the lack of cleanliness in KU buildings, Mills said. American Management was hired by the University last summer to supervise housecleaning in campus buildings. Before the job was handled by the University's Facilities Operations
department. Mills said he had been in constant contact with Ron Hizer.
KU's American Management director, the administration and people who work in the buildings to evaluate the service.
When asked if he was satisfied with American Management's work, Mills said he would not comment.
"I'm not going to officially react to that," he said. "There has been a lot of communication between us and we show them particular areas that need work."
Earlier in the year the administration said that termination of the two-year contract with American Management was being considered, but Mills said no action had been taken or was planned in the near future.
"ALL PARTIES have known it was in the contract that we could terminate the contract at any time, but nothing is being done right now," Mills said.
As he walked through Wesco Wednesday, Maeleer said,
"It's taken awhile to get to know this place. We're going to experiment with some things here, but housekeeping is a big part of it. I will accomplish it on our own. Everybody's go to pitch it."