Forecast: Partly sunny and warmer, High upper 30s, low 20s.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No. 67
Religion On Campus Discussed
Wednesday, December 5, 1973
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Storm Leaves Thousands In Kansas Without Power
TOPEKA (AP)-A winter storm raored out of Kansas yesterday, leaving in its wake the worst damage in history to telephone and power service.
Thousands of persons were left without electricity and long distance telephone connections.
Ballour Jeffrey, president of Kansas Power and Light Co. (KP&L), said it was the most damaging storm ever to the transmission system of that utility, which operates primarily in central and northeastern Kansas.
He said damage to KP&L facilities could reach 750.000
IT WAS TOO EARLY to come up with a
phone, the telephone company
agreement is.
A spokesman for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. said it was the worst storm damage the company had ever suffered in Kansas
He said 115 Kansas communities were isolated from long distance service. Of these, 23 were served by Southwestern Bell, the others by independent companies.
The Weather Service said it was a combination of wind and freezing rain that caused the damage to trees and utility lines. Limbs up to 15 inches thick were broken.
In northern Kansas, 800 crossars in 700 miles broke under ice and wind, southwestern Bell said. In southern Kansas, 950 holes were reported down.
The number of Southwestern Bell
lines that break was placed between
9000 and 8,000.
THE TELEPHONE COMPANY said it had 270 repair and construction people at work restoring service in the damaged areas. Forty additional work crews were on their way from Oklahoma and Missouri to help.
KP&l. said crews were restoring power, with help from Empire District Electric Co. in southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri in the Gas and Electric Co. in southern Kansas.
Unofficial reports of snowfall ranged up
to eight inches in the WaKeeney-Hill City area.
Official Weather Service reports ranged up to seven inches at Loretta, about 25 miles south of New York.
Dodge City, Ness City and Cedar Bluff Dam reported four inches. Other places in West Central Kansas listed two to three inches of snow.
High winds reduced visibility and caused drifting, with a result that Interstate 70 was closed to traffic for three hours between Oakley and Havs.
Other roads were closed temporarily as a result of fallen tree limbs and utility poles.
Late yesterday, the Highway Commission reported Kansas 99 north of Emporia was
open only to one-way traffic because of high water.
The Weather Service said many stations in eastern Kansas reported one to two inches of rain. Clinton had 2.60 inches and a gauge in Topeka led 2.56 inches.
The Weather Service said winds reached velocities as high as 45 miles an hour, causing blizzard conditions in the snow areas.
The chill factor dropped to five to 15 degrees below zero in many areas.
Central and north central Kansas appeared the worst hit, but there was damage in other sections, particularly the southwest
Southwestern Bell reported a microwave tower carrying long distance and other
Snow, Ice Disrupt Power; More Predicted for Week
See STORM Page 2
The snow and ice storm that crossed Kansas yesterday left glazed streets and disrupted power and telephone service here.
And if you liked the two inches of wet snow that fell yesterday, just keep waiting. Ted Stimac, Kansas City, Kan., senior and adjunct professor, said we say we pay get more by the weekend.
Electricity to the western and southern parts of campus and nearby areas was out until 2014, when it was upgraded after high winds and the wet snow downed a feeder line to the KANU radio transmitter west of Iowa Street on 15th Street, according to a Kansas Power and Light report.
Power was reported out in the Daisy Hill residence hills, along West Campus Road and part of Jayhawk Boulevard and in Heyt Hall, Allen Field House and Malott Hall.
Haldeman knew about the tape erasure one week before Judge Sirica.
That's what Lawrence Higby, H. R. Haldeman's former aide, said yesterday in court, repeating what Haldeman had told him either Nov. 14 or Nov. 15. Higby also said that seven months after Haldeman resigned as the CEO of the company, he had his former assistant which documents could be removed from his files.
Another witness at a hearing called to determine the facts about an 18-minute gap, White House aide Gen. John Bennett, that when he was asked to retrieve nine tapes from Woods Nov. 19, he checked her fingerprint and found it matches a record, Bennett said the record button was fixed so that it would not push down.
William Simon, new energy czar, said
gasoline rationing would be a last resort.
use the Nixon administration was considering takes and price increases in addition to rationing to cut gasoline consumption by 30 per cent. Mr. Schwarz's appointment as head of a new federal energy office, Simon said a decision on whether to ration gasoline must be made by the end of the month.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company received more than 30 calls reporting no
Calling absenteeism "a thorn in the side of Congress," Rep. Clarence M. R-Ohio, introduced the constitutional amendment that would provide such assistance.
Proposed Constitutional amendment would evict congressmen who miss 40% of votes.
Three Chicago Seven conspirators and
He said the Cost of Living Council would announce price increases in fuel oil today.
There's nothing new about the proposal. Four similar bills are languishing before the House Judiciary Committee and their chances of survival—like the recent "Roe v. Wade" case that raised doubts about the right to abortion.
The three and defense lawyer William Kunstler were convicted for their behavior during a stormy trial before Judge Julius Hoffman four years ago. Convicted with Kunstler were David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. They face a maximum sentence of six months in prison.
Stimach said last night that the storm had been generated by a low pressure center that had moved from the pantheade of Texas northward into Kansas.
Lawyers for the defendants said they would appeal the decision.
Other areas without electricity included the medical building at Hillcrest Shopping Center, Iowa Street from 9th to 15th streets and Indiana Street from 11th to 15th streets.
Three Chicago Seven conspirators and Kunstler were convicted of contempt.
U. S. urged international law to discourage nations from dividing oceans for own use.
The United States told the opening session of the third United Nations conference on the law of the sea that time was running out. Chief U.S. delegate John Stevenson warned that if the conference didn't set up international authority by 1975 to license the prospecting and mining of the seas, the United States would reconsider requests for American firms to delay exploiting sediments mineral until a licensing system was ready.
Warm air from the Gulf Coast and temperatures hovering near freezing produced more precipitation than in the northern tip of the storm's core, the part that produced the heaviest precipitation, he
"I expect the snow to stay," he said. "The ground is freezing and there will probably be more snow."
He said that the snow had been expected, but that he had been surprised by the 2.67
"The chancellor's statement has been delivered to the printing service for distribution to all members of the University Senate and will be released to the media late Wednesday afternoon," von Ende said.
Stimach predicted that a storm cell now over the West Coast might move this way, according to scientists.
"It's going to stay cold, and if there any precipitation, most likely it will be snow,"
A number of cars skidded into ditches yesterday, according to Douglas County officials. County road crews plowed and buried the county roads at dangerous spots yesterday.
The rain and snow added to the 1973 moisture total. Through November, Lawrence had received almost 55 inches of the normal 11-month amount at 33.20 inches.
The National Weather Service said that chances of flooding here were minimal. They estimated that most creeks and rivers would remain below flood stage.
First Snow
Students became reacquainted with wet feet and wind-driven snow yesterday as they walked down the street.
campus received 2.5 inches of rain and snow
Monday night and yesterday morning.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes' final statement on tenure, which was originally supposed to be released last Friday, will be ready for distribution late today, Richard Von Ende, executive secretary, said last night.
Dykes to Issue Tenure Report For Last Time
Release of the statement will mark the culmination of a tenure study initiated last year by Chancellor emeritus Raymond J. Sweeney and his committee members to study and report on the problems of tenure. These committee reports were sent to the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) which issued a report on tenure recommendations to Dykes this semester.
The report made recommendations which the chancellor could implement immediately. It also made recommendations which had to be studied further or acted upon by the Kansas Board of Regents or the state legislature.
Dykes basically agreed with the recommendations that could be implemented immediately. However, he asked for a clarification of SenEx's proposal for a checkbook procedure and the importance of peer evaluation of a tenure candidate.
Release of the final tenure statement had been promised for last Friday. Dykes said Sunday, however, that the statements wouldn't be ready until Monday.
Monday night, von Ende said the statement would be released Tuesday.
Yesterday afternoon von Ende said the statement would be released last night. He later said that the statement couldn't be said because the chancellor wanted to insert a letter.
Still later yesterday evening, von Ende said he would deliver the statement to the Kansan late last night. He finally said, that it wouldn't be released until late today.
Nixon Worth $1 Million
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's net worth has tripled since he took office in 1960 and now stands at about $1 million, his wife told Republican congressional leaders.
Rep. John Anderson, R-111, said yesterday that the lawyers reported at a White House meeting Monday night that the President's net worth was in "the neighborhood of $300,000" on Jan 1, 1969, and by last May 31 had risen to about $808,000.
Neither of the figures agrees with
Kansas Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Storm Damage
Kansas Power and Light workmen repaired storm-damaged power lines in front of a residential building.
scene repeated many times throughout Kansas in the wake of the season's first severe storm.
previous public statements by Nixon aides on the President's net worth. One White House official said this was because of differences in accounting procedures.
Anderson and others attending the two-hour White House meeting said the lawyers presented a complex cash flow chart and other documents to illustrate Nixon's income and expenditures and show how he obtained the increase in net worth.
Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., said the consensus of those at the session was that "the President had not done anything that was illegal, or irregular, or unethical."
"They made it sound pretty convincing," Anderson said.
But Tower said there were strong suggestions that the President release his complete tax returns to back up the financial statements and other documents.
Anderson and Tower reported that Nixon's lawyers said they were willing to let him attend the hearing.
The material is scheduled for release this week and will include a full audit of Nixon's finances from Jan. 1, 1969, to May 31, 1973, Anderson said.
This audit was done by the New York accounting firm of Cooper's & Lybrant. A portion with Nixon's California and Florida real estate purchases was released
The dates cited for the net worth figures See NIXON Page 2
South Vietnamese Town Taken by N. Viet Forces
SAGION (AP)—North Vietnamese troops backed by 20 tanks captured a South Vietnamese town, the first taken by Hanoi in October, after the Saipan command said early today.
In Cambodia, antigovernment infiltrators attacked sentry positions on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. It was the first attack on the median capital's suburbs in two months.
controversial half-million-dollar tax
residential papers to the National Archive
Tower said the lawyers, Kenneth Gemmell of Philadelphia and H. Chapman Rose of Cleveland, said they were so confident of this and other tax claims by the President that they would invite a court test of the validity of his returns.
Gemmel and Rose, both long-time friends of the President, volunteered several weeks to help prepare material for their allegations about Nixon's personal finances.
The North Vietnamese overwhelmed Saigon government defenders in their fourth assault yesterday on Kien Duc, near an eastern border, the Saigon command said.
The command said its forces took with
There was no immediate report on casualties in fighting there.
The South Vietnamese government continued raids that have lifted the air war to the highest level since the cease-fire began.
There was hand-to-hand fighting at Kien Duc. An unspecified number of North Vietnamese swept about 1,000 defenders from the town.
The town was one of about a dozen points military sources said the North Vietnamese attacked along an 32-mile corridor from Dak song southward to Kien Duc.
them a large number of the town's estimated 5.000 inhabitants and refuges.
Saigon government forces knocked out five tanks and killed 75 North Vietnamese soldiers in the fighting along the 32-mile front, the Saigon command said.
Initial government reports said four Saigon government soldiers were killed and 18 wounded, not including the casualties at Kien Duc.
In Cambodia, field reports said antigovernment rebels began moving in five small canoes through a swampy area climbing on the southern rim of Phnom Penh.
The infiltrators advanced to a market and opened fire with automatic weapons and small rockets on government sentries. At least 21 people were wounded, the field reports said.
Hundreds of South Vietnamese warplanes raided North Vietnamese and Viet Cong positions Monday and yesterday in what the military command said were punitive strikes for Viet Cong attacks on Saigon's fuel reserves.
The intensified fighting was seen by government military spokesman as a prelude to a general offensive South Vietnamese assault, which have been forecasting for early next year.