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84th Year, No. 66
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Tuesday, December 4, 1973
White House decided to give documents on the milk fund case to a federal judge.
The documents include a tape recording of a key meeting between President Nixon and top administration officials, Irwin Goldblum, the Justice Department attorney in the case, said the turnover could come as early as today.
But he added that the White House would continue to assert that the materials were protected by executive privilege and would ask U.S. District Court for review.
Nixon was entitled to sizeable refunds
from the treasury for over-withholdings.
from the treasury for overstations.
Independent calculations showed that the U.S. Treasury in each of the past three years over-withheld taxes from the President's $200,000 annual salary.
The computations indicated the refunds could have been more than $45,000 each year. But it was not learned whether Nixon took the refunds as a lump sum check or in the form of U.S. savings bonds or applied them to possible future taxes.
The calculations were based on the Internal Revenue Service's standard withholding figures and on a breakdown of Nixon's tax payments disclosed in the Bankruptcy Code.
South Vietnam imposed fuel saving laws after the Viet Cong blew up fuel reserves.
Military sources estimated up to half the country's fuel reserves burned. Flames still litencky on the sky at nightfall and black clouds from explosions were seen.
The government announced in the wake of the attack that gasoline would be rationed. Gas stations, ordered closed just after the attack to prevent panic buying, were to reopen today. But sales were banned on Saturdays and Sundays.
Judge John J. Sirica began listening to Waterate tapes in solitude of jury room.
The White House has asked that all or part of three tapes be withdrawn from 'just-in- order' to protect the confidentiality of advice given to the President.
in other developments, California's charges against Eglit Krogh Jr. in the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsborg's psychiatrist were dismissed by a judge.
Congress sent President Nixon a bill to confirm that the U.S. District Court in Washington has jurisdiction to enforce subpoenaes or other orders issued by the Senate Waterpapar committee. Sirica had turned down the committee request for assistance against the White House on grounds the court had no such jurisdiction.
Decision on Rationing Urged
WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon's new choice as the nation's energy czar, William E. Simon, said yesterday he would press for a decision on gasoline rationing "in the very near future, and I emphasize very."
Simon was interviewed shortly after the White House formally announced the resignation of Nixon's top energy adviser, John A. Love.
The White House remained silent, however, about Love's deputy, Charles J. Dibona, who, according to informed sources, had also submitted his resignation.
At the same time, the White House said the President would issue a statement today to emphasize his commitment.
These plans presumably are the expected announcement of the creation of a new Federal Energy Administration which would take over programs now in the In
Meamwhile, Silvio O. Conte, R.Mass, said Simon was considering several energy proposals, including an "excess use tax" on natural gas and electricity consumption to curtail the use of these energies in the same extent that fuel oil is being cut back.
Simon is deputy secretary of the treasury and is to retain that poet while heading the
Conte also said Simon was thinking about taking over control over the price of petroleum products from the Cost of Living Council.
He said speculation that the reorganization reflected a victory by Treasury Secretary George Shultz over Love was "sheer nonsense."
terior Department and in the White House Energy Policy Office.
Shultz has favored a gasoline tax. Love
Simon also said the shift wouldn't in fact place energy policy-making under Treasury Secretary Shultz, although Simon would remain his deputy.
Simon said that once he was officially appointed to the new post he would become chairman of the cabinet-level Energy Action group formerly headed by Love.
The White House said Nixon accepted with deep regret 'Love's resignation and disbanded his campaign.'
He said the federal energy agency would be independent, but that "energy and the environment are crucial."
Electricity Use Down in November
reportedly thinks rationing will be necessary.
With Love's departure, the major responsibility for both policy development and program management in the energy crisis now falls to Simon.
By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Reporter
Raymond DeForge, a spokesman for Green Mountain Power in Vermont, said power consumption in November was 5.5 per cent below that of the same month in 1972. The company had anticipated an increase of 7 to 8 per cent.
DeForge said milder weather in November had helped reduce electricity consumption, but added that the higher temperatures alone did not account for the decline. He said the reductions had come in spite of the business. He estimated that some customers had reduced usage by as much as 10 per cent.
On Nov. 8 President Nixon urged Americans to reduce their energy consumption because of the fuel crisis and a shortage of gas, as the summation followed. Reasons for the decrease were difficult to determine because of such variables as weather and population growth, but an Associated Press survey indicated some efforts to conserve
If the bill passes the senate, the $5 a student allocation to the athletic department from student activity fees could be funded by the next two numbers, Paxton said.
Senate to Consider Bill on Use Of Recreation Funds by Athletics
Consumption of electricity in the United States declined during November, but some utility spokesman said it was hard to tell how much of the cutback was the result of energy-saving efforts and how much was caused by warmer weather.
Buckley said he disagreed with the intentions of Paxson's bill.
The $180,000 was collected from student activity fees before 1966. The money was earmarked in 1968 for student recreational uses.
"What this bill does, in effect, is give the senate control over more than half of the bills."
By JILL WILLIS Kansas Staff Reporter
There has been some question over the control of the $180,000 fund. Paxson said.
"This bill gives the Student Senate approximately $15,000 can use in one of two ways," he said. "Students can expand existing programs, or reduce the student activity fee
A bill recommending that the University of Karasaa Athletic Association receive a $180,000 recreational fund now but will no student activity fee monies next year will be submitted to the Student Senate tomorrow, in Baxter Springs junior, said yesterday.
Buckley's bill says the money should be given to the athletic department with the $50,000 raised for Tartan surface to cover the entire floor and automated bleachers on all four sides of the center court and that it not exceed 60 per person. Buckley said he disagreed with the in-
"I think if they (the senators) do this, there will be several possible results," Buckley said. "The Tartan floor in the field house won't be built. It is my speculation
related, and for me to remain in the mainstream of economic issues is essential.
by as much as $& per student for the next two semesters."
The bill has been signed by 10 senators, including Paxson and John Beisner, Salina junior, who announced his candidacy for student body president yesterday.
"We have come up with an additional $180,000—money collected between the 1950's and 1966. Very few students now at the University paid their own money for this fund. I think we should make this into a model for our institution, using the facility for several years to come."
But Parson questioned how many students would benefit by putting a new fitness center in the school.
Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, will introduce another bill tomorrow. Buckley's bill recommends that the chancellor allocate the $180,000 to the athletic association to be used as partial recreational facilities in Allen Field House.
that football and basketball tickets would rise to a level between $10 and $15.
"We can benefit the students by returning cash right back into their hands," he said.
LOVE ISSUED A STATEMENT that said the energy crisis was needed to deal with the energy crisis.
"I certainly agree with the establishment of the new Federal Energy Administration, and will be fully staffed and given sufficient authority to respond effectively and manage an energy crisis that is potentially more serious than a challenge this nation may face."
Love said he stood ready to help in any way possible.
The Edison Electric Institute, an association of investor-owned utilities which compiles nationwide statistics, said electricity usage declined during November, but noted that their figures did not match the national population, weather and other variables.
Don Landes of Kansas City Power & Light said there had been a reduction of 1 to 2 per cent in power usage because of energy efficiency in the company, which serves one million persons in 23 counties of Kansas and Missouri, had taken the warmer weather into account in
The Delmara Power and Light Co. of Dover, Del., said that there had been a definite decrease in the demand for electronics following Nixon's initial energy message.
Metted she the decrease resulted in a savings of about 18.7 kilowatt hours, or the equivalent of 1.4 million gallons of oil. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., serving 300,000 customers in more than half the state, said there was a noticeable drop in consumption during November, because of the weather and conservation efforts.
William M. Metten, a spokesman for the company, said that demand was down 6 per cent in the 14 days following Nixon's message. He said the figures were compared with what had been adjusted to take wind and population factors into account.
A spokesman for East Ohio Gas Co. said less gas had been used in November than had been expected, but he also noted the higher temperatures.
THE SUDDEN SHIFT of power over energy policy to the Treasury Department, may indicate that the 14 other members of a cabinet-level energy group were out-voted by Treasury Secretary George Shultz, one administration source said yesterday.
Informed sources said Love, Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton and Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar strongly advocated the preparation and publication of proposed gasoline regulations.
The move, revealed over the weekend, will take major energy programs away from the Interior Department and could mean that gasoline is from preparations for gasoline rationing.
Sources said Shultz, who favored imposing a high gasoline tax, despite advice from the President's domestic counselor, MELvin R. Laird, that such a tax proposal wouldn't get through Congress, cast the blame on rationing in an energy meeting Friday.
Simon said in an interview, "I don't rule out rationing. I don't rule out anything."
But informed sources said the disagreement over rationing was at the heart of the decision to reassign energy responsibility.
Geneva Talks Threatened
By the Associated Press
Egypt yesterday issued an apparent warning that it might boycott the proposed peace conference in Geneva unless talks to reinforce the Mideast cease-fire got underway.
Egyptian speesman Ahmed Ansi told a Cairo news conference that indirect diplomatic contacts were under way between Egypt and Israel to foster resumption of military-level cease-fire talks at the Israeli-Suez Canal. Suez-Cairo road called Kilometer 101.
"We can expect a result perhaps in the immediate future," Ann said. "We cannot define our stand regarding the peace and security outcome of these contacts is known."
The conference, tentatively scheduled for Geneva on Dec. 18, would probably collapse if Egypt were to boycott it. Egypt and Syria had joined the militants in the October war with Israel.
Athis said U.S. Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger would discuss "first the impasse
and second the peace conference" during
a meeting at the White House, unofficially scheduled for Dec. 13.
Egypt broke off the cease-fire talks last Thursday, claiming Israel was using them only to stall on Egyptian demands for troop withdrawals along the Suez Canal.
Arab diplomats in Beirut and London reported that Kissinger also would visit Syria as part of a second Middle East tour. The two countries will work for the Geneva peace conference.
Syria hasn't publicly announced its willingness to attend, but diplomats in Beirut said Syrian President Hafez al-Assad is putting together a delegation in private.
the oustermans said a Kissinger visit to Damascus would be particularly significant because the United States has had no formal diplomatic relations with Syria since 1967 and because the Syrians were believed to have turned Kissinger down during his first trip.
Diplomatic sources in Washington said Kissinger would visit five nations, including Saudi Arabia, where he probably will have a meeting with Arab leaders. A squeeze on countries that support Israel.
Meenwhile, Syrian tanks, cannons and missiles dued with Israeli artillery at two spots along the Golan cease-fire line for the second straight day yesterday.
Syrian guns blasted in Israeli half-track and bulldozer and killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers, a Syrian military spokesman in Damascus claimed.
An Israeli military communique claimed the exchanges, which were at Mazarat Belt Jon in the northern sector and at Umt Biton in the southern sector, only wounded four Israeli soldiers.
The simultaneous clashes lasted about three hours, the Israeli command said. Similar artillery battles Sunday lasted over two hours, according to a brother of provoking the fighting on both days.
Israel's semiofficial radio also claimed nearly all Israeli war prisoners held by Egypt had been tortured or bodily harmed during captivity.
The Israeli radio said officers were bearing testimony on the alleged atrocities from returned war prisoners, and Israel planned to make a report to the International Red Cross and other world organizations.
KU to Have New Computer System
By RICK GRABILL
Debt Ceiling Raised; Campaign Rider Axed
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon last night signed a bill raising the government's debt ceiling after Senate sponsors of a plan for public financing of presidential and congressional elections dropped their final amendment from the legislation.
Aides said Nixon signed the measure soon after it reached the White House. The President made no immediate comment, but the aides hailed the dropping of the campaign-finance section. "We wanted a clean bill," one said.
The Senate vote was 40 to 36.
The vote broke an impasse that included Sunday session of the Senate, the first in more than 100 years.
The Senate vote was 48 to 36.
Supporters of the use of tax funds to finance election campaigns who defied the twotwelve
The University of Kansas is in the first of a three-phase, long-range implementation plan that will eventually result in the university's computer system for the University in 1975.
The passage of the debt ceiling bill averted what might have been a serious blow to economic growth.
majority needed to break an opposition fillbuster.
The permanent ceiling is $400 billion and the debt limit dropped to that level last Friday midnight as Congress reached the impasse on capitation financing.
The Treasury had said earlier in the day it faced bankruptcy by tomorrow unless a viable debt limit was restored. Veterans might have been rendered invalid, checks might have been rendered invalid.
The bill, already approved by the House,
has been approved by a joint session of the
$42 million, unexpenditious, June 30.
The bill was approved after the Senate debated for a second time on efforts to cut off all coal-fired power.
According to Paul J. Wolfe, director of the University Computation Center, the conversion is being made to keep up with technology in the computer field and to the whole community, the students, faculty and administrative personnel.
Because the present computer contract with Honeywell Information Systems will expire in 1976, Wolfe said, Chancellor Richard Sternberg of the Computer Resources Task Force (CRTF) in October of 1972. CRTF was to implement a three-phase program designed to support the University's long-term computer needs. The three phases of that program are:
The main source of feedback in the study was a questionnaire addressed primarily to all department chairmen, deans of the schools, and other heads of University divisions. The questionnaire was divided into four sections.
scheduled to be sent to Dykes later this month.
- Phase I, scheduled to end in December, dealing with the analysis of the future computing demands of the University, vendor (computer manufacturer) capabilities and management alternative. It will conclude with a decision from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes on the various alternatives.
Wulfe said yesterday that the CRTF's analysis, which wasn't complete yet, was
—Phase II, the preparation of detailed specifications of the University's computing needs, which will be presented to the various vendors, and the selection of a vendor through competitive bidding. The phase will last until late 1974.
Phase III, lasting 18 to 24 months, involving the conversion from the present state of the system.
an extensive study of projected demands on the University's computer system.
"The University provided us with six full-time people over the summer," said Terry, "so we were able to dig pretty deeply into this thing."
For Phase 1 of the implementation plan,
'Our demand projections show an increase in courses and the number of students who need computation as part of their curriculum.'
The final report of the CSSG is based on
the CRTF appointed two major subcommittees, the Computer Systems Study Group (CSSG) and a financial advisory committee. The mission of the CRTF is to submit a report to the chancellor based on the findings of the two subcommittees.
James K. Terry, chairman of the CSSG, said that his group had submitted its report and that the financial committee was in the process of submitting its own. Terry said he expected a final decision about the new system in terms of all the priorities of the University.
Section II was designed to determine the computer services most needed over the next 10 years to support departmental objectives. Questions in this section asked how many faculty members with computer skills would be necessary, how many
The aim of section I was to determine the importance of computing in each academic and administrative unit. The chairman of each department was asked questions about computer departments, the department, the ways in which he would like to use the computer in the future, the distribution of computer expenditures in terms of its cost, and in terms of results for the department.
students would be involved in computer work and how much computer access would be needed for research by graduate students and faculty.
Section III of the questionnaire dealt with preferences or needs for specific types of computing equipment and section IV was to determine the programming and programmer support people needed over the next five to 10 years.
Woife said feedback from the questionnaires that that computer use would be very high. "I wouldn't be able to
"We divide current users into three categories," Wolfe said, "light, moderate, or heavy users. The demand study shows that the most productive users move in the future. The moderate user of today will move into the heavy user category, the light user into the moderate and people who have never used the computer will start using it for various purposes."
The demand study shows that the biggest increase in computer use will be by freshmen and sophomores. In this division, light users are predicted to increase 833 per cent during 1975-78, moderate users will be up during 1976-78, and heavy users will increase 246 per cent.
Terry attribued the drastic increases to the growth of computers, know more about computers in the future.
"Our demand projections show an increase in courses and the number of
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