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KANSAN
Special Section Details Trends In KU Funding
84th Year, No. 70
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, December 10, 1973
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Kanan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
New Runway Would Run Horizontally above Present Strip
Airport Bonds Near Vote
By LYN WALLIN
Kansan Staff Reporter
Lawrence voters will decide the fate of the a $1,930 airport expansion project at the p
At issue is whether the city should sell general obligation bonds totaling $64,000 to finance its share of the project. The remaining two-thirds of the cost would be handled by a federal trust fund created for airport development.
These federal funds aren't general tax revenue, but are derived from taxes on corporations.
The focal point of the project which was designed by Bucher and Willis, a Salina consulting firm, is a new 5,000-foot runway. The existing runway is 3,000 feet long.
The expansion also would include widening the existing 50-foot runway and taxiways, adding lights and constructing new buildings.
Frat Men Suspicious Of Pach's Motives
By JOHN BROOKS
Kansas Staff Reporter
Some fraternity men at the University of Kansas say they suspect the motives behind Pachacamac (Pach) and are disenchanted with its secrecy.
The Society of the Inner Circle of Pachacamac, a secret fraternal organization is alleged to have had influence in campus politics, formulation of University policies and the Interfraternity Council (IFC).
Gary Neyns, Paola seniority, and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said last week that the university's "leadership was very strong."
"If, in fact, this organization has the influence over campus politics and University policy that many say it has," he said. "This is not true; this organization can be of much merit."
"Any secretive group that has any type of control over the democratic student
government of this University cannot be representative of the student body or the faculty.
Mary Ufford, Prairie Village senior and member of Alpha Kappa Lama fraternity, said recently that his first impressions of Pach were unfavorable.
Although Ufford said his understanding of the activities of Pach was pasy, he said he believed that if it was a Greek organization it probably was doing some good.
HOWEVER, UFORD said the society and its activities shouldn't be secret.
He said that if the activities of Pach were favorable to the University and the Greek system they should come out into the open but that as a secret society Pach wasn't representative of anything but the society itself.
Pachies is damaging the image of fraternity at KU. Uffed said, especially in the college's first year.
Supporters of the airport expansion have said that these changes would improve the safety of the airport. They say that the new terminal will provide a safe place for landings when there is a crosswind.
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New buildings included in the expansion project are a terminal and a hangar. They were constructed under the new terminal would have 2,000 square feet of space and the hangar would be
Also included in the total project would be a parking area, an access road and an apron.
The KU aerospace engineering department has indicated an interest in using the existing buildings for research after new structures are completed. City officials have indicated interest in such an arrangement.
Hangars and terminals aren't eligible for federal funding under existing regulations; therefore, anticipated federal funds would finance only about 75 per cent of the planned improvements, and the city would have to provide the remaining 25 per cent.
The present expansion plans contain no bancars for private planes.
Most of the land required for this project, approximately 432 acres, is owned by the University of Kansas Endowment Association (KUEA).
To be eligible for the federal funding the property must be owned by the city. KUEA currently leases the 100 acres used by the airport to the city for one dollar annually.
KUEA has agreed to sell the land to the city at its market value.
Proponents of the expansion plans have listed a number of economic reasons for airport expansion. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce has screened a company
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Committee Will Rule On Nixon's Taxes
By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON-President Nixon is gambling more than a quarter-million dollars of his own money that a joint congressional committee will agree that he paid the proper amount of federal income taxes since taking office in 1968.
As he made a massive, unprecedented disclosure of his private finances during the weekend, the President asked the House Finance Committee to review Revenue Taxation to decide two questions:
—Did he act legally in claiming about $500,000 in deductions for donation of his vice presidential papers to the government—deductions which helped reduce his federal income taxes to less than $6,000 in the last three years?
Did he make a $17,000 gain in the 1970 sale of part of his San Clemente estate, as one set of personal auditors recently contended that he was asked as his tax advisers decided at the time?
IF THE congressional committee decides against Nixon on both counts, presidential aides said. Nixon will file amended returns and pay additional tax. That tax could amount to more than $250,000. With interest, the total could top $300,000.
Key elements disclosed in documents released by Nixon and by the examination of the President's 1980-1972 tax returns made available to newsmen indicate:
—He has become virtually a millionaire since taking office. An audit showed his net worth increased from $307,000 Jan. 1, 1969 to $88,000 May 31, 1973. His assets include an estate valued at more than $644,000. Most of his liabilities are real estate mortgages.
Because of major deductions for vice presidential interests, interest and property
taxes, he was able to reduce his federal income tax liability to $72,682 for 1990, $793 for 1991 and $804 for 1992.
—He also claimed tax deductions for all operating expenses of one of his Key Biscayne, Fla., homes and for 25 per cent of his San Camille operating expenses. And he pocketed as taxable income $80,000 of the annual expense in an expense allowance for official purposes.
During Nixon's vice presidency, a trust fund was set up for his daughter, Tricia, by
Elmer Bohst, then chairman of the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., while government regulation of the drug industry was being proposed.
—Tricia Nixon cashed in the trust fund's Warner-Lambert stock in 1967 and loaned her father $20,000 to invest in two Florida vacant lots costing $38,000. The lots were purchased by father and daughter are paying capital gains taxes on their shares of the profits.
HE AND HIS wife have decided to turn their San Clemente estate over to the government upon their deaths. Since the estate is valued at more than $500,000, lawyers said Nixon could qualify for an annuity if his estate was signed over soon. But presidential aides said it was unlikely that Nixon would claim any such deduction.
Nixon Under Scrutiny On California Taxes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —A Democratic member of the state Franchise Tax Board, William M. Bennett, said he would challenge President Nikon's tax law which the chief executive paid no California income tax for the period of his presidency.
Bennett said he would make the challenge tomorrow.
"I was amazed at the report," said Bennett, referring to the White House statement that for income tax purposes the state would instead be District of Columbia instead of California.
State law forbids officials from discussing
any aspect of an individual's income tax status, including whether he or she files a
Bennett raised the question of Nixon's state income tax liability a month ago, saying he wanted to know whether the State Controller Houston I. Flourowr, a Republican and chairman of the Franchise Tax Board, said earlier that Bennett's request probably would be taken up in connection because of the confidentiality factor.
Bernett said, "What I will be discussing is our law. There's nothing confidential about us," he added.
Nichols to Retire After 44 Years; Relaxation, Travel in His Plans
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols, the University's executive secretary for 43 years and chancellor for 10 months in 1972, will attend a University duties at the end of this month.
The former chancellor, who has been helping his successor, Archie R. Dykes, become acquainted with the operations of the University, will observe his 76th birthday Dec. 30. State law requires that he then must retire.
Nichols, a 1926 graduate of KU,
reminisced about his 50-year association with the University in a recent interview at his Lawrence home.
"I'd never been to KU until I arrived here on the train to enroll for the fall 1922
Nichols said tuition then was about $13 a semester. He said the only additional fee was $25.
"My total expenses, including tuition, books, room, board and travel excursions are $25,000."
"I wanted to go into newspaper work and I had a feeling KU was the best place to go," I said.
semester," the former chancellor, a native of Larned, said.
Arabs said oil production would be cut 5% but embargo would lift if Israel withdrew.
"I REMEMBER I lived in a boarding house at 932 Mississippi. At that time, that's all there was. There weren't any dormitories or classrooms, and the house wasn't very imaginative," he said.
Arab oil ministers issued this pledge in Kuwait and stipulated that the oil would resume flowing to the United States only at the beginning of a pullout from Libya.
Such an agreement must detail conditions for "withdrawal of Israel from all territories occupied since the June war of 1867, with foremost priority to the Jewish people," according to a document released by the UN.
Kissinger met with Holland and Portugal
The locations of the new regional offices and their full-time interim directors, most of whom have been officials of other federal agencies are:
Bosson, Larry Rogers; New York City, Green Bay; Philadelphia, A. L. Asalaia; Atlanta, Kent Duploy; Chicago, George Delegiante; Dallas, Delbert Fowler; Kansas City, Mo., James Newman; Denver, Dudley Faver; San Francisco, William Arntz; and Seattle, Jack Robertson.
William E. Simon announced the creation
of 10 regional energy administration offices.
of 10 regional energy administration offices. The locations of the new regional office and their full time interns
and set up an energy expert to help Dutch Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's meeting with the Dutch and Portuguese foreign ministers spotlighted deep divisions between the United States and its other European allies.
and set up an energy expert to help Dutch.
US. officials hinted that Kisinger might try to prod the Europeans to share their dwindling oil supplies and that the United States would arrange
He is sending William. H. Donaldson, undersecretary of state for energy problems, to the Hague Dec. 17 for what are called "contingency talks."
UAW reported that its national contract with General Motors had been ratified.
The union said the contract, a three-year agreement, concluded tatively on Nov. 19th, won approval in all reporting local bargaining units.
UAW President Leonard Woodsock said, "We believe that never before in the history of the union's negotiations with GM has every unit voted to ratify."
Defense contractors gave $5.4 million
to Nixon's campaign, Rep. Aspin said.
Nixon's campaign, The figure represents only the known contributions that Nixon's reelection campaign got from officials of the country's 100 biggest defense contractors, according to Ren. Les Aspin, D-Wis.
There might be more unreported contributions, Aspin said. He has asked the Senate Watergate committee to look into the possibility of still secret
As session draws to an end, Congress
scrambles to clear controversial legislation.
Foreign aid to Israel, the creation of an independent special Wateregate prosecutor, confirmation of a new attorney general and the resolution of a federal lawsuit against him.
The question of whether, and when, 30 million Social Security recipients will gain an 11 percent increase in benefits next year remains unanswered. The House and Senate have approved a two-step boost, but they acted on separate bills. A procedural tangle makes the failure of the two bills in the next two weeks highly uncertain. At the least, a delay in Social Security payments is in prospect.
After recapturing Kien Duc, S. Viets pulled out under pressure from N. Viets.
Sources said an undetermined number of North Vietnamese troops were holed up in a strong, reinforced bunker near the center of Kien Duc, a small town 90 miles northeast of Saigon, "and even 500-pound bombs can't knock it out."
The town fell to a North Vietnamese tank attack Tuesday. Acting on direct orders from President Nguyen Van Thieu to retake it, elements of the 23rd Division claimed they successfully counterattacked Friday and met only light resistance.
Nichols said he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity the second semester of his sophomore year in search of better food and housing.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism, Nichols worked for six months on his hometown newspaper, the Kansan Bulletin, for six months on the Kansas City Kansas,
Before graduating from KU, Nichols had been student body president and editor of both the University Daily Kansan and the Jawhaker yearbook.
He returned to KU for a master's degree, and in 1929 he was asked by Chancellor Ernest Lindley to become his executive secretary.
Nichols, the right-hand man for six chancellors, said the greatest crisis the University had faced was the Great Depression.
"I accepted the job and also became chairman of the budget committee. I took over the financial operations of the University." he said.
"I remember the day my wife and I were married, which was in the summer of 1931, he said. "A Topea newspaper said the University budget would have to be cut because people weren't paying their taxes. That was our wedding present."
"IN 1931 '32, the University had to return money to the state. The next year salaries were cut 10 per cent. The year after that they were cut 20 per cent. Enrollment dropped by seven per cent. Students were reduced 18-learn cents to help the students. Those were the hardest times."
"A new challenge came after the war with
"We had to make the conversion to military training," Nichols said. "We had to partition buildings, bathrooms and things such as that. For example, the third floor of Strong Hall and the entire west wing of the Army Museum, Navy, Lendy Hall was used by the Army.
The former chancellor said the World War II era was another challenge to the nation.
Raymond Nichols
theGI bulge. We had 3,000 students in 1946 and within a year he had 9,500. Veterans were coming to school under the GI Bill of Rights. Housing was a big problem. We had to house over a thousand students in Sunflower so we were so oversized we had to rent a church."
Recalling the controversial days of campus unrest under Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmer Jr., Nichols defended the former chancellor.
"MR. CHALMERS' philosophy was to be patient, I believe this was probably the correct approach," he said. "His handling of patients prevented any bloodson on the campus."
"It's impossible to dissipate a crowd of 200 students intent on doing something. He had a philosophy that many people didn't understand, but it was probably the most effective.
"I'm not sure I would have had his patience. I wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 1 wouldn't have 2."
When Chalmer suddenly resigned as chancellor in August 1972, Nichols was a popular figure. He won the Nobel Prize.
"I didn't welcome that call. I didn't think I could guide the situation. But I felt under the circumstances I had to say yes," he said.
Nichols said he was pleased with his 10 months as chancellor.
"We had fabulous cooperation from everyone—the students, the faculty, the staff," he said.
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