Friday, September 1, 1978
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Carter seeks support for natural gas bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter reached out to governors and businessmen yesterday seeking support for the tax cuts, which control prices on new natural gas by 1085.
Carter met in the morning with 11 governors, most of whom agreed with him that the bill satisfies few people but is the best one Congress is likely to produce.
The president, who cut short a western vacation to lobby for the gas bill and the rest of his embattled energy program, then invited the governors to stay for lunch.
Later, the president was scheduled to speak about 100 executives of small-and-middle companies.
Phill Spector, the White House aide in charge of the afternoon session, said the group included representatives of utilities, manufacturers, retailers and farm groups. All had been invited from lists of interested materials supplied by members of the Senate.
THE GAS BILL is scheduled for Senate debate. Sent 11. A fillibuster is threatened.
The administration, exudes confidence about the eventual outcome, but concedes it cannot now count enough Senate votes for passage.
University Dally Kansas
Carter asked the governors to press their senators and congressmen for enactment of the bill. He said the natural gas compromise is "not perfect."
Carter described the compromise as *fairly well balanced and desperately needed*.
But, the president argued, its rejection by Congress would devastate the dollar, swell the huge national trade deficit and increase inflation.
The compromise bill would create about 26 different categories of natural gas subject to different price regulations. The Energy Department estimates consumers will pay more for natural gas under this bill during the next seven years. The American Gas Association says it would increase household gas bills around 8.1 percent a year. Some congressional critics of the bill argue that its pricagement would be much higher.
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Gas bill support low AP survey indicates
WASHINGTON (AP)—Less than one-third of the Senate indicates support for the natural gas compromise President Carter claims is vital to the success of his energy program, an Associate Press survey showed yesterday.
The survey revealed also that opponents of the compromise appear to have the upper hand, but the lead is only a slight one. A witness at the meeting clearly holds the key to the bill's fate.
According to the survey, 18 senators say they already back the measure and another 14 indicate they are leaning toward support. Another 12 potential votes in the administration camp.
TWENTY-SEVEN senators say they'll definitely vote against the plan, while another eight indicate they're leaning against it—a potential "no" to tally of 35 votes.
The "yes" votes grew by one yesterday as Sen. Milton Young, R-N.D., listed earlier as an opponent of the plan, announced through an email that he intends to support the measure.
Many lawmakers took material on the compromise home with them to study over the current recess. How to vote presents a dilemma for many of them because traditional alliances in the Senate don't apply on this bill.
The other 33 senators list themselves as undecided.
For instance, the gas and oil industry is deeply divided on the plan as are both parties.
The controversy has also given rise to an unusual coalition in which some of the most liberal and most conservative members of state are working together to defeat the bill.
Declining dollar deflates students studying abroad
By CORIE BROWN
University of Kansas students who traveled in Europe this summer said they felt the drop in the value of the dollar as they earned more, buy less and less as the summer went on.
Staff Reporter
"made you want to cry." Debbie Copenhaver, Wichita senior, said. "I lost well over $500 by the time I got back to the states."
Even though the dollar has declined in Europe to its lowest value in U.S. history, the KU Study Abroad program has managed to cushion some of the shock.
Anita Herzfeld, director of the KU study Abroad program said, "we pay the bare minimum and have one of the cheapest programs in the country."
Student fees for the foreign study program have not risen, according to Herzfeld, because of lower airline rates and the financial support of the administration and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
*At least 60 percent of the students could not go without the financial aid from the university.*
Although last year's students in the Study
Abroad program were told they would be paying the same base price as in 1976-77, some programs charged the students (for differences in currency exchange rates after they were in Europe. Herzfeld said this was unavoidable because of the program's delayed fee payments and the market fluctuations between payment dates
KU has tried to avoid the gradually increasing devaluation rates by allowing the whole sum to be paid at once and changing it later. So when the student first reaches his destination.
Herzfeld said she was mostly concerned about the KU students in Japan, where the dollar has suffered its greatest devaluation. The situation was further complicated by a first exchange with Japan and KU officials in certain what problems would occur.
Herfzeld said she hoped students would not let the decline in the dollar discourage them from becoming involved with Study Abroad.
"The moderate person will be able to stretch his money and cover the difference in the exchange rate," Herzfeld said. "Most students available than are students."
KU begins exchange with Japan
Seven University of Kansas students were expected to step into a different atmosphere yesterday when they arrived at the Tokyo airport during evening rush hour.
Officials from the University of Tsukuba were expected to usher them to a neighboring small town, an hour's train ride from the crowds of Tokyo.
The KU students are participating in the first exchange program between KU and a university.
Chae Jin Chu, chairman of the East Asian Languages and cultures departments, said yesterday the students from KU probably attended at home at the University of Tsukuba.
Lee said that, unlike most Japanese universities, *ukubai* in a small city in Japan.
"We feel this environment will be conducive to gaining knowledge about Japan and its culture."
ANITA HERZFELD, chairman of KU's study abroad program, said the Japanese exchange was special because it was open exclusively to KU students. All other exchange programs are open to students from other universities.
More camera equipment thefts reported
The classes, divided into three 12-week semesters, begin Sept. 1 and end June 30.
"This is such a beneficial exchange that we want as many KU students as possible to attend."
The American students may take classes worth up to 30 KU credit hours. They also are provided with three hours of tutoring and academic advising each week.
They will live in campus residence halls and participate in social functions planted by Teachers.
and $25 in coins were taken from her
unpartment between Aug. 9 and Aug. 27.
Camerra thefts continue to haunt the University of Kansas as the first week of class begins.
Hertzfeld said the Japanese students would not begin school at KU until next year. The Japanese students will pay instate tuition at KU.
Nearly $2,550 of camera equipment was reported missing from professors' offices early this week, and last night more than 400 of the equipment was stolen from two KU women.
The report filed at police headquarters
the glass sliding door off its
track here her body.
Items reported stolen on campus Wednesday were a charge card, a watch valued at $70 and a billfold whose contents were valued at $50.
Lawrence police said yesterday that $716 of camera equipment was taken from Carol Kincaid, Tulsa senior, 2436 Ousdah, between 7 and 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Kincaid was not available for comment,
Reported missing were a 35mm camera, a
beather carrying case, a tripod and 11 rolls of
paper.
but Mike Reed, a Lawrence police corporal, said the officers who responded to the call said the thief apparently jarred the door to gain entrance to her apartment.
Also reported missing Wednesday was a 35mm camera valued at $310 owned by Veda Foster, who listed her address as 510 Fireside Dr.
Details of the charge card theft were sketchy. The watch and billfold were stolen from a local shop.
Tsukuba is funded by the Japanese government and has a single tuition rate for students.
She told police her camera, a $200 coat
To help compensate for the tuition differences between KU and Tsukaka, the Japanese Ministry of Education is offering a tuition fee of $10,000 for exchange next year, Herzfeld said.
The scholarship includes fee waiver,
the fee for all allowances (total)
213,000 euro or $900 aid.
No other charge.
"The scholarship is generous and could be quite beneficial," Herfeld said.
Information about KU exchange programs will be available at an open meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
All proceeds for Lawrence Boys Club.
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Student Night—Free Admission with ID; plus one Free Draw
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WED:
Loose Ladder Night—Ladies Admitted Free from 7:30-9:00.
First Draw on the House.
TUES:
$1-$1 Night—$1 Admission, $1 Pitchers
THURS: Nickel Night—5' Pitchers 'II 11:30.
FRI:
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Area balloon bid fails
A Lawrence group's bid to buy the world's largest hot air balloon was turned down yesterday by the British brewing company that owns it.
Group members, headed by Casey Graddy, part-time disc jockey for KLWNM in Lawrence, said they were disappointed about the rejection. The balloon was priced at $1.88, or one British pound, the price set by the Brewery of London.
The brewery said it had sold the mammoth craft to Major Chris Davies and Don Cameron, the two Britons who recently failed in their attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon. Cameron owns the company that built the balloon for the brewery four years ago.
Grandly said he wanted to know the reasons for selling the balloon to the two Brothers.
'I'm not angry,' Graddy said. 'I'm just curious why they would award the balloon to someone who has never been on a rollercoaster.'
GRADDY HAD planned to establish a non-profit corporation to rent the balloon to a museum.
promotions. He said all profits would have gone to charity.
the owerry originally had said it was intended to sell the 500,000-cubic-foot balloon to the party who would make the best use of it. Graddy said. He questions whether the use of the balloon by the two British balloonists was as good as his proposed charitable use of the craft.
Graddy said he had made numerous attempts to contact the public relations agency, handling the balloon's sale, but not been able to talk with Jamie Bryant, the public relations executive in charge of the project.
Alan P. Miller, owner of the Fire Fly Balloon Port in Lawrence and one of the three proposed directors of Graddy's non-profit organization, said the decision was predictable.
SUA PICTURE LENDING LIBRARY RENTAL
Miller was referring to the absence of written notification by the British firm
"We bid in good faith and with what even they thought was a good reason. I just think they should have provided some written justification for their actions."
Wednesday, September 6
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. in the Union Gallery
Pictures rent for $1-$10 for the semester.
Come Along!
SWIM PARTY AND BARBECUE
Sunday, Sept. 3
4:00 to 7:00
(Meet at the Church by 4:00 for a ride to walking directions to the near-by private pool)
Volleyball Tennis
Swimming Cost Meal
Worship Celebrations
Every Sunday 9:45 and 11:00 a.m.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
15th and Iowa
Sorority Open Rush
Informational Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Wed., Sept. 6
Big 8 Room, Union
For all eligible women, including transfer
women & KU non-freshmen.
For more information Panhellenic Office
864-4643
FORCE A great way of life.