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Monday, August 28, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Wichita on list of polluted cities
DETROIT—Wichita has earned last place in a National Wildlife Federation study that the nation's 20 most polluted cities.
The federation listed cities with more than 25 days of bad air. Wichita made the jet with 35 days of "unhealthy" very unhealthy or hazardous" air.
Los Angeles led the list with 118 bad air days. Other cities were Denver with 177 bad air days; Albquergue, N.M., and Philadelphia, both 150; New York New Jersey metropolitan area, 149; Boston, 147; Houston, 141; St. Louis, 140; San Francisco, 127; Spokane, Wash., 128; Phoenix, Ariz., 118; Fairbanks, Alaska, and Washington, 90; Sacramento, Calif., 84; Louisville, Ky., 72; Detroit, Ohio, 60; Cincinnati, Ohio, 31; Omaha, NE, 40; Memphis, Tenn., 38.
Detroit, the nation's fifth largest city, was not included in the list.
Congressmen bring home 15 dead
HONOLULU- The remains of 15 U.S. servicemen killed in the Indochina war were returned to U.S. soil here yesterday as congressmen accompanying them reported strong overtures from the Vietnam government for normalizing relations with the United States.
A color guard and a line of high ranking military officers saluted each of the coffin-like cases in succession in a half-hour ceremony, silent except for the funeral procession.
The seven congressmen were given the remains during their six-day visit to Vietname in Laos and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
Rep. James T. Broyhl, R-N.C., said, "One of the recurring trades in our discussions with the Vietnamese leaders was their hope that normal trade relations can be established with the United States and that our trade embargo would be lifted."
He said the Vietnamese placed no preconditions on diplomatic relations with the United States.
Happy days here again—29c gas
The massive price cut at the Indian Hills Standard Station lasted only two hours before the gas sold from the self-service pumps returned to the pre-sale
WICHITA-Motorists who waited in long lines Saturday to take advantage of a service station's gasoline price war appeared pleased with the news.
"I'm having a blast," said Stuart Oliver, the station's smiling 25-year-old owner, despite a loss of about 30 cents on each gallon sold. "It’s worth it to see him."
Oliver cut the price of his gas from 61 to 37 cents at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. A self-service car wash a few blocks away then presented a challenge, dropping its price to 36 cents. Oliver retaliated with another cut, as did the car wash. The crops stabilized at 29 cents a gallon at Olver's station and 30 cents at the car wash.
Oliver said Standard had set maximum limits on profits but no minimum profits can owners make on gas sales, so both he and the car wash did brisk rides.
Soviets urge leftist Arab summit
BEIRUT, Lebanon—The Soviet Union is prodding its allies in the Arab world to hold a summit conference of their own to counter the Middle East peace conference scheduled for next week at Camp David, Md., a Beirut newspaper reported.
The Paris-based supplement to the independent newspaper An Nahar quoted unnamed East European diplomatic sources as saying the Kremlin was proposing that a leftist Arab summit be held after the Camp David meeting of an Amarwar leader, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carcer.
An Nahar said the proposed Arab summit would include Syria, Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Cause of Boyer's death sought
PHOENIX, Ariz.—An autopsy performed yesterday on the body of Charles Boyer, the French-born actor who died Saturday in Scottsdale, Ariz., showed signs of a previous heart disease, Thomas Jarvis, Maricopa County coroner, said yesterday.
Jarvis, who performed the autopsy on the actor, who was known for his 1930s and '40s film roles as a romantic lover, said blood samples would be sent to a toxicology laboratory for examination today, which would have been Boyer's 79th birthday.
"This is to determine whether he might have overdosed on a drug." Jarvis said. "There is not evidence of that but we'll double-check."
Doctors had suspected a heart attack caused Boyer's death.
Boyer's wife, the former Patricia Patterson, died Thursday at age 68. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that she died of cancer. She was buried in a lavender cemetery.
Graveside funeral services for Boyer, who had no survivors, will be held this week at Inglewood Mortuary in Inglewood.
Lethal leak halted after evacuation
WICHTIA-Seven families were evacuated for about four hours yesterday while Air Force specialists removed 3,000 gallons of lethal alcohol propellant in the backpacks of two civilians.
The operation was completed without incident and the complex returned to a stable state, according to lt L4. Paula Burris, information officer at McCormick.
Specialists wearing protective suits removed the oxidizer from the second stage of the unarmed 103-foot missile.
The leak, which killed one airman Thursday, occurred in the larger, lower stage of the missile. About 200 persons in Rock and the surrounding area, 30
Col. John Hampton, commander of the 381st Strategic Missile Wing at McConnell, said Saturday the next step of the process—pouring ammonia hydroxide into the silo to neutralize the acid—would have to wait until atmospheric conditions were ideal.
The wind would have to be minimal and the atmospheric conditions such that the temperature would decrease with altitude, so the ammonia gas produced by the reaction would not be concentrated.
Corps unearths Indian burial site
FORT THOMPSON, S.D. —Spleen proteins from Indian officials, a five-year-old burial site for several hundred Indians, victims of a massacre, are being studied at the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Norfolk.
"The corps is doing something wrong, not because they're digging them up, but because they want to haul them off the reservation and not give them a proper burial," Robert Philbrick, tribal chairman on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, said.
Philbrick said he planned to protest and discuss alternatives this week with the secretary of the Army and the Corps of Engineers in Washington.
Archeologists on the site could not comment on their findings because of a stipulation in their contract with the corp required them not to talk to the archaeologist.
"We feel it is a sacred place," Philbrick said. "The corps promised to preserve all Indian burying grounds and shrines when they took our land to
Archaeologists have unearthed about 200 skeletons in the mass grave, which is on the side of a river. River An on land condemned by the corps when the Big Bend Dawn was built. It looks like it might be a tomb.
"The tribe has no objections to digging up those bodies," he said. "But we do object to their burying them outside the reservation."
Weather . . .
The weather will remain hot today, with an expected high in the upper 80 to mid-90°F. There is a current chance of rain today and tonight. Highs tomorrow are predicted to be in the upper 100°F range.
Setting the record straight
Hours for Sister Katie Cate were inadvertently omitted from the Kansas Back-
room. They were included in the guide. The café is open from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday.
Social Security to begin collecting overpayments
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—The Social Security Administration will try to collect $125 million from more than 61,000 Americans suspected of receiving too much money in recent years under a federal program for the blind, aged and disabled, according to a copyright report in the Kansas City Star.
The Star, in its Sunday edition, said an initial list of 2,867 persons, many of whom were overpaid more than $5,000 under the Supplemental Security Income program, went out to Social Security district offices in the Baltimore headquarters last month.
Another list of 58,000, who officials believe received at least $1,000 each in excess benefits, will go out to offices this week, the newspaper says.
collect money from persons who may be the least able to repay.
THE STAR said that Social Security officials acknowledged that all the money probably would not be collected, and that they would have to take on ministerial in the position of trying to
Social Security officials said only those who received the overpayments because of misinformation supplied by the recipients themselves, and those who could afford the repayments eventually would get a bill from the government.
The newspaper quotes Patricia J. Livers, director of Social Security's Bureau of Supplemental Security Income, as saying the suspected overpayments occurred between 1974 and 1976. It adds that none of those persons is still receiving benefits.
SHE SAID the benefits to those persons stopped because their health, economic or residential situations changed and made them no longer eligible for the money—a maximum of $177 a month for individuals or $260 a month for couples.
Livers estimated it would take at least nine months to determine which of the former recipients would be required to repay the money.
She said the overpayment total for the persons on the initial list of 2,867 nationwide was about $13 million. A breakdown on the other 58,000 cases was not available.
The supplemental income program was started in January 1974 to provide a minimum income to the needy aged, blind and disabled.
LIVERS AND other Social Security officials described the early days of the program, with other errors being compounded with programming errors, attempts to reconcile the standards and eligibility requirements, both accidental and intentional.
The administration estimated $1.4 billion was overpaid during the first two years of the program before officials could set up a program to reward achievements and changes in the status of claimants.
By the end of last year, more than 4.2 million Americans received payments. Total federal and state benefits stood at $6.2 billion.
Israel stands by old peace plan
JERUSALEM (AP)—Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday he would enter talks with the presidents of Egypt and the United States next week with good will and an open mind but with no changes in his peace plan, already rejected by Egypt.
Begin, talking to reporters after his Cabinet wound up its debate on policy for the Camp David summit, said he was standing by his plan that calls for limited Palestine and Israel's unified West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip with an Israeli military presence.
"We don't have to have new options. This is the basis for negotiations." Began said of the proposed deal.
BUT HE said a team of Cabinet deputies, after studying all proposals made since the
peace initiative was launched with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem in November, had made several recommendations.
Begin declined to detail those recommendations, but said the Cabinet had ordered that the building be closed.
meeting with good will and an open mind to discuss any proposal brought before the talks."
Sadat requests delay in summit
President Carter invited Sadat and Begin to Camp David last month to try to revitalize their on-again, off-again peace talks.
The Israeli leader said he would enter the
CAIRO, Egyp (AP)—A Cairo newspaper said yesterday President Anwar Sadat of Egypt has requested a one-day delay in the Sept. 5 start of the Mideast summit at Camp David. But the White House says Sadat is arriving as scheduled the evening of Sept. 5.
President Carter invited Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the presidential retreat in the Maryland town to try to revitalize Mideast peace efforts.
CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) — Gov. Meldrum Thomas said yesterday that giving the District of Columbia full representation in Congress is the worst constitutional amendments in history.
D.C. amendment called 'worst'
Thomson said full representation for the district would drive up welfare costs and reduce expenditure.
"The people of the District of Columbia draw far more in welfare dollars than we in Florida do," she wrote.
The semiofficial day Al Ahram said Sadat, a devout Moslem, asked for the delay so he could spend the first day of the Id El Firt feast in Egypt. The three-day Id El Firt festival caps the Moslim holy month of Ramadan.
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White House spokeswoman Bar Patario the Associated Press Sunday that "as of this morning" Sadat and Begin were scheduled to arrive the evening of Sept. 5. The Secretary would inform whether they would start to work immediately or begin formal talks the following day.
they be able to siphon out of the federal treasury if they have their own congressional delegation?" Thomson asked. asked.
HE SAID THE population of New Hampshire and the District of Columbia were about the same but said D.C. spends four times as much on food stamps.
The proposal must be ratified by three-fourths of the states by 1895.
Powell told reporters the president wanted the extra time to work on several matters, especially legislation deregulating airlines' prices and measures on defense spending.
Carter had been scheduled to return to Washington Friday, ending a scheduled two-week vacation in Idaho and Wyoming. Congress, which adjourned last week, is not returning from its Labor Day recess until Sept. 6.
Nixon hopes for long life
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—Former President Richard Nikon says he wants to live into the 21st century, and he is planning to become president of the free world and Western civilization.
POWELL SAID returning to Washington early would give the president a chance to lay the groundwork for his legislative role in Camp David for the Middle East summit.
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP)—President Jimmy Carter is cutting short his vacation in the Wyoming Rockies and returning to Washington Wednesday to work on crucial domestic matters, Press Secretary Jody Powell said yesterday.
Nixon disclosed his hope for long life in an interview with the San Jose Mercury-News team.
"I want to live in the next century," he said. "I'll only be 67 years old. I have a fairly long lifetime on my mother's side. My great-grandmother lived to be 96."
NIXON SAID he hoped to give the free
wave a sense of the future with his next
book.
Carter vacation to be shortened by a few days
The communists look forward for a century, but we Americans have no sense of history. We think in terms of about five years," Nixon said. "So what I want to do is take the readers onto the mountain and look down the road to the end of the century."
Powell said Carter will leave Jackson on Wednesday morning by helicopter for Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he will board Air Force One for the flight to Washington.
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