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Wednesday, August 30, 1978
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press Internationa
Professor to mediate postal talks
WASHINGTON - A Harvard University professor with extensive experience in labor-management meditation was chosen yesterday to mediate the dispute over a proposed tax on corporate overheads.
Wayne L. Horvitz, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, announces his selection of James J. Healy, 62, of Harvard's school of business administration.
Healy will meet with representatives of the unions and postal management for 15 days to try to work out an agreement. If they cannot agree on a set date, he may continue to work with the union.
The selection of Healy came under an agreement announced Monday that postponed a threatened national postal strike for 15 days while a new effort to
Pope to simplify first public Mass
VATICAN CITY—Pope John Paul I, ention on showing he will lead the world's Roman Catholics as a pastor and not a monarch, will walk to the much-simplified Mass that will consecrate his pontificate Sunday and may forgo the traditional crowning.
"It is not known yet whether there will be the crowning or not." Rev. James Reach the Vatican's English-language press spokesman, said.
The Vatican and the pope's first public Mass would not be termed the Coronation Mass. The second, past, and he will not be carried on a pedestal by the shoulder of up to 19 people.
But Monsignor Oranzo Coccheti of the office for pontifical ceremonies said he doubted that a tara, the beehive-shaped triple crown used for papal weddings, was still in existence.
Instead of "Coronation Mass," the Vatican refers to Sunday's rite as a solemn Mass; "starting the pope's ministry of supreme pastor."
It was announced yesterday that Vice President Walter Mondale, his wife, Joan, and the son William will represent Carter at the ceremonies.
Soviet schools go back to basics
MOSCOW- When more than 90 million Soviet youngsters go back to school, Friday, they will find that their government and the Communist Party have changed very little.
worried by a growing glut of college applicants and a worsening labor shortage that is expected to become critical in the next decade, the Soviet government has ordered secondary schools to put more emphasis on vocational education.
Officials said overcoming the possible labor shortage is a task of enormous political and economic importance.
In a decree issued before the end of the last school year, the government called for doubling the time devoted to labor education, revising textbooks, stepping up on the job training, improving vocational counseling and slashing unnecessary material form books and study programs.
Nelms says he slept during killing
EL DORADO- Jimmie K. Nelms, charged with the shooting death of Conry O'Brien, a highway patrolman, told a Butler County jury yesterday that he was asleep in the back seat of a car when his two companions allegedly killed the trooper.
O'Brien was shot to death May 24 on the Kansas Turnpike near Matfield
Green acres after stopping a car.
Final arguments were scheduled for this morning and the case may go to the jury this afternoon.
Neilus, 31, told the jury he was awakened by a shot, looked out of the back window and saw Walker Myrick and Stanford Swain, his companions, standing
"I opened the car door and丁到 where they were standing," Nelms said. "I saw them playing there with them. I said, 'We got away from here' and I ran back to the car."
Nelms and Myrick, both of Tuilape, Okla., are charged with two counts of murder. Swain pleaded guilty to lesser charges and has been the state's star witness.
Somoza vows to remain in office
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Embattled President Anastasio Somoza vowed yesterday to remain in office as a growing nationwide protest strike over U.S. government uprising.
"To resign would be to betray the aspiration of Nicaraguan who want to live in a free society." Soroma said in his presidential office.
In the continuing anti-Somoa violence, five government soldiers were reported killed by a bomb explosion in Managua and fighting was reported elsewhere in the Central American nation. Journalists returning from Somoa's third largest city, said government troops were under virtual siege there.
Bennett blames federal regulations
BOSTON--Gov. Robert F. Bennett yesterday blamed a morsas of federal regulations for higher administrative costs and called for state and local officials to work together.
"One level of government should not mandate requirements on another level of government without fully funding the cost of those requirements." Bennett
in his statement to fellow governors, Bennett cladded the federal bureaucracy as "Disneyland East" and called for a balanced national federal budget.
"As radical as it may sound," Bennett said, "the federal government should directly proceed to balance its budget. For once our nation should carefully balance the needs of our people against the resources required to support those needs."
To solve inflation, overspending and overtaxation woes, Bennett suggested the federal budget be balanced by reducing funding of services that are duplicated, have high administrative costs or do not have their priorities controlled by elected officials.
He also suggested relieving the local property tax burden by eliminating major public expenditures, such as education financing, from the property tax.
Governors adopt farm resolutions
TOPEKA—Three agricultural resolutions prepared by Gov. Robert F. Koehler, the state's top federal Governor's Association, the office of the Kansas chief executive reported.
Two of the resolutions urge the states to enact uniform laws for reporting of foreign ownership of farm land and deplore the action of President Carter in raising beef import quotas. A third resolution asks the federal Environmental Protection Agency to develop emergency during emergencies such as the grasshopper outbreak this year in the Midwest.
The beef import resolution said the Carter decision dealt a severe blow to the cattle industry, while doing little to lower food prices for consumers.
Extra water added to missile silo
the decision to add the extra water, which makes a total of 90,000 gallons poured into the complex, was made after test samples taken yesterday showed a solution of 8 percent nitric acid. The acid was formed by a reaction of the water with the nitrogen tetroxide that leaked last Thursday.
ROCK—Air Force workers yesterday added 10,000 more gallons of water to an underground Titan II missile silo to reduce the concentration of rocket propellant that leaked last week. The accident killed one serviceman and forced the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents.
Lt. Paula Burris of the McConnell Air Force Base public information office said the Air Force wanted to lower the acidity below the 8 percent level before
"We added an additional 10,000 gallons of water: to try to get it down to a 5 percent ultric acid solution." Burts said. "It didn't result in any detectable change."
**Q4:** When was the last time that water was used in a food product?
She said the next step would be to go over plans for the disposal of the liquid solution.
All though three plans have been discussed, Burris said, she did not know what higher officials were going to decide.
Weather
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicts partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 80s today. Tonight's lows will be in the low 60s.
Weather...
Light northeast winds will accompany the dry weather, a spokesman for the weather service said.
TOPEKA (AP)—Kansas Democrats yesterday adopted a party platform for the fall general election campaign, ignoring controversial subjects and expressing pride in the party's legislative record on tax reform.
The 37-page document says guernatobilia candidate John Carlin and other Democratic candidates this year will follow in the tradition of former Gov. Robert B. Docking on fiscal responsibility and tax revamping.
Tax issues top Democratic list
CH IDHES incumbent Republican Gov. Robert F. Bennett as a johnny-coroneely-late
in supporting tax issues, and claims a variety of things done by the Legislature to improve state government had to be brought throughAGS; Bernett's active onsiteism.
The Democratic platform has as its cornerstone a declaration that the party will continue to work for reimposition of a property tax lid without loopholes.
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GOP stand general
THE ORIGINAL tax lid, first proposed by a Republican former state sen. Frank Koehler, passed under Docking as his major political proposal in 1970 and was enacted that year. Exemptions
TOPEKA (AP)—the administration of Gov. Robert F. Bennett was praised yesterday in an unusually brief platform in Kansas Republicans for their 1978 campaign.
"Kansas should have a bill that provides for capital punishment," Stephan told fellow party members. "Or at the very least it should have a provision that would make it possible to do away with a parole from a life sentence."
The platform ran less than three pages, a sharp contrast to the 37-page effort of Krupp.
ROBERT STEPHAN, who will seek to take the attorney general's office away from Democrat Curt Schneider, addressed the question to the president before adoption of the cannamo document.
As a result, the GOP platform dealt in generalities with relatively few specifics.
Stephan also urged that the age for classification as a juvenile be reduced from 12 to 18 years. He noted the views of victims should be recognized in plea bargaining and sentencing of criminal offenders; and that a new state facility should be established to the incarceration of non-violent offenders.
Notably absent in the light of a plea by the petition nominated in attorney general was the testimony of Mr.
THE REPUBLICAN platform calls for:
- Economic and efficient operation of government, including support of Bennett's tax program and "a constitutional, uniform law that prohibits id is not a sham and a hoax or a tax sieve."
- Government encouragement of a free and stable economy, including support of initiatives 'which have brought Kansas jobs and the highest employment rate in the nation'; continued pursuit of new businesses and expansion of existing ones; programs to permit farmers to grow and maintain their land at a fair, reasonable price; and support of Bennett's road rebuilding and long-range transportation programs.
- A commitment to the safety and wellbeing of Kansas people, including an active program to reduce drug abuse; to improve availability of health care with emphasis on preventive medicine; and to "support and maintain one of the nation's finest elementary, secondary and higher educational systems."
- Government to work with citizens to enhance the quality of life, including availability of cultural arts, assisting the handicapped, concern for the needs of senior citizens and expanded opportunity for youth.
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The Democrats' platform also calls for:
- Greater sharing of state tax revenues with local units of government "within the state's financial resources in order to reduce the property tax burden of local units."
- Creation of "a real spending lid for state government," which it says would prohibit the state from spending any more money that it receives in revenues in any one year.
- Improving the system of appraising property for tax purposes to ensure fair.
- Elimination of the state's 3 percent sales tax from food.
- Providing for tax relief or refunds when state tax collections exceed what is needed
to operate existing programs and maintain a "prudent" reserve.
THE PLATFORM does not address the issues of death penalty, abortion or miscarriage.
Attorney general Curt Schneider, the party's top incumbent state officeholder, has urged reinstatement of capital punishment since he took office in 1978, but did not push for inclusion of a death penalty because the interest of party harmony, an aide said.
Bill Roy, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, told the platform committee that he supported a modest tax reduction for American taxpayers of $15 billion to $20 billion now, but that greater relief must await a stronger economy.
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