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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No. 63
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KU Campus To Have Parking Meters
Thursday, November 29, 1973
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Rogers Morton opened federal lands for commercial production of oil shale.
Interior Secretary Morton announced yesterday the leasing of six tracts of federal land, two each in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, for the commercial development of oil from shale rock. Morton also said that about 250 employees will be recruited to be "special government employees" early in December.
He also asked the Justice Department to finish the legal steps necessary for issuing federal permits to build the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.
Arab leaders decided to use all means, including oil. to win Israeli confrontation.
Arab kings and presidents said there would never be peace in the Middle East until two basic conditions were met: "Israel withdrawal from all occupied Arab territory, especially Jerusalem, and restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people."
Israel has consistently rejected the demands listed in a statement ending a three-day summit, which was meant to tighten Arab ranks for a peace agreement.
Iraq and Libya boycotted the summit because they oppose peace with Israel. Jordan only envoy to envoys to a face-to-face flash (with Palestinian independence)
Kansas Turnpike gas stations will stay open for the time being, a spokesman said.
But turnpike service stations in at least four states—Maine, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida—will follow President Nixon's request for a voluntary ban on Sunday sales of gasoline. The Emergency Allocation Act now requires in Congress would empower Nixon to make such closings mandatory.
The Senate passed a bill to make Saxbe constitutionally eligible for attorney general
President Nixon has held up submission of Sen. William Saxbe's nomination awaiting passage of the legislation, which next goes to the House. The legislation would remove the Constitutional barrier that says no party can hold a governor or senator accountable for being appointed to an office for which the salary was increased during that time.
The bill the Senate passed would reduce the salary of the attorney general to the original $35,000 from $60,000.
Three Arab hijackers released 11 hostages
and walked with police to uncertain fate.
Authorities in Dubai, a small sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf, said the three, who commanded a Dutch jumbo jet around the eastern Mediterranean for 68 hours, were in custody. Their hopscotch search for refuge covered 7,000 air miles and underscored the Arab world's new hostility to hijackers. They were denounced by Palestinian guerrilla leaders, even though their mission was to strike a blow against Israel and hall-Dutch support of the Jewish state.
New Gaps Found in Tapes Tampering Denied by White House Lawyer
WASHINGTON (AP) - J., Fred Buzhardt, White House lawyer, said yesterday that technicians had told him there were other conversationless spots on subpoenaed White House Watergate tapes, that the spots represented no new eruptions in the tapes.
The spots were discovered by technicians using an oscilloscope while making copies of the images.
Last week he disclosed to U.S. District Judge J. Aitken that a siren at his 18-minute胃痛 was the cause of death.
He testified yesterday after Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary for 23 years, completed three days on the stand without shedding further light on how the 18 minutes of conversation vanished from the tape.
Tape- recording machines could be kept running by the rumbling of a nearby truck or a ticking clock and the instruments on the machine would show no voice. he said.
Buzhardt said also that it was three months after he received a memorandum from the president regarding the subpoena of presidential tapes before he read it carefully enough to determine that the subpoena included the tape of the June 20 presidential conversation with H. R. Wilson.
Buzhardt said he hadn't thought the prosecutor's subpoena covered the case. He couldn't be when he read again the prosecutor's memorandum filed with the court in mid-2015.
He said the spots weren't surprising because White House tape machines once used to record Nixon's conversations were sound, not necessarily by conversation op-
LEONARD GARMENT, who represented the White House while Buzhardt testified, said Buzhardt's reply to questions about the spots might be misconstrued by newsmen to mean there were additional gaps on the subboenae tapes.
"No, I don't," he said. "There are times in which I'm running but there is no rightful place."
memorandum listed each of the meeting minutes but it lasted a different completion time for the conversation than the subpoena had, Buzhardt said. The subpoena said the meeting had ended at noon but the memorandum said it had ended at 12:45 pm.
Buzhardt was asked whether he knew of any new 'erasure, mutilation, alteration, obiteration, gap, miss conversation or an devotion' on any of the tastes.
The memorandum listed each of the meetings for which tapes were suboenaed.
HALDEMAN LEFT Nixon's office at 12:45 p.m. Earlier, Nixon met with John D. Ehrlichman, then domestic affairs adviser. The subpoena sought that conversation.
Bushard will testify again today, which is the 12th day of a hearing about two Watergate tapes the White House says are responsible and the 18-minute gap in the third tape.
Woods said of the gap, "I have tried to explain it in every way. I can."
Woods said she was interrupted by a telephone call Oct. 1, while transcribing the tape of a June 20, 1972, presidential conversation. She accidentally pushed a tape
machine record button down, she said, which would have resulted in erasing the data.
"Everybody keeps saying I kept my foot on the pedal," she said. "I don't know. If I had done that, I must emphasize, I wasn't on the telephone for 18½ minutes."
She said she talked from 4 to 5 minutes at the very most. That left at least 13
The 18-minute gap in the tape, which was heard in court Tuesday as a loud hum, bridged the end of a presidential conference and the beginning of one with Haldenm.
The Watergate prosecutor contended the conversation was crucial because it had occurred three days after the June 17, 1972 break-in at Democratic party Headquarters and would show how much the two men had known about any illegal activity and what efforts, if any, they had made to conceal the truth from Nixon.
In a related development, the White House said Nixon would release complete information in series form that would answer "all questions . . . and misconceptions" about the President's personal finances.
Cessna to Lav Off 2,400
WICHTHA (AP) - Cessna Aircraft Co, said yesterday it would lay off 2,400 workers by tomorrow night because the货 shortage caused a cutback in production schedules.
The Cessna announcement came while cow. Robert Docking was in Wichita for a crash.
Docking criticized the decision by the administration to drastically cut fuel
Docking said the state faced a serious situation that affected employment, commerce and well-being of Kansas as a result of the announced fuel cuts. He joined in signing a resolution to Congress and asked the department that noted that business aviation was the main transportation industry to receive a 20 to 40 per cent reduction in fuel allocation.
"It is totally unfair to arbitrarily take the job of an aircraft worker and give preference to other transportation employees," the statement said.
Bill Morris, a Cessna spokesman, said layoffs would be made according to seniority. He said it was not known whether there would be future cutbacks in production schedules or further reductions in personnel.
The other two major Wichita aircraft companies, Beech Aircraft Corp. and Gates Learjet, have not started layoffs or made changes in production schedules.
President尼克森, in his Sunday night speech, said fuel for high-priority aviation operations, such as air-taxi services and industrial usages, would be curtailed 20 per cent and fuel for business flying, including an operate jet usage, would be cut 40 per cent.
He said fuel for personal pleasure and instruction would be held to half of previous
Meeting with Docking yesterday were Mayor Donald Trump, Earl Bush, Senator Bernie Sanders and commissioner Jack P. De Baer, Wichita Chamber of Commerce president, other city and state officials.
DoeBee with Wicha could lose more than 20,000 jobs if the President's recom-
mendation for a budget was rejected.
Profs Foresee Life Style Changes
He said the cut could cost 100,000 jobs nationwide in the aerospace industry and manufacturing.
Gene Dickinson, a Chamber of Commerce representative, said a delegation of state officials would go to Washington next Monday to argue for a fairer aviation fuel allocation. Dickinson said he was optimistic that such an effort would be successful.
Sen. Bole Dole, R-Kan., said late yesterday afternoon that he had been assured that President Nixon now had under active consideration a proposal to the original announcement with respect outcocks on fuels for general aviation.
Dole said that since meeting with general aviation officials including representatives from Beech and Cessna Aircraft companies, he had discussed "gross inequities in the policies with administration officials and had urged immediate reconsideration."
The Kansas senator said he had received verification late yesterday that the President was reviewing a plan to restore a nuclear power plant, and he fuel policies regarding general aviation.
Reconsideration of an announced cutback in fuel allocations for the general aviation industry has also been urged by Rep. Garner Shriver, R-Kan.
yesterday, Shriver said it was "highly unfair to suit one out line of our transportation system with what amounts to a fuel restriction of 42.5 per cent."
Kansan Staff Reporter
"Our state of Kansas is responsible for the manufacture of more than half of the general aviation aircraft and avionics in the world," Sriver wrote.
than fossil fuel. He mentioned the possibility of electrical mass transit systems and cars that run on natural gas.
"Already, notice of future layoffs and cancelled contracts have been issued by general aviation companies in Kansas and throughout the industry."
In a letter to the President's cabinet committee on energy policy released here
The shortage of energy in the United States eventually will make fundamental changes in life-style necessary for all of us. Professor Willer, associate professor of sociology.
By MARY LOFTUS
Willer was one of three University of Kansas professors interviewed for commission.
Wise Fuel Plan Seen as Block To a Recession
WASHINGTON (AP)—A high-level government assessment of the fuel shortage's economic impact concludes that a 3.7 percent year with proper fuel-location policies
Nixon administration economists see the unemployment rate going up from its present 4.5 per cent but falling short of the 6 percent rate forecast widely by private economists.
"We live in a society that is totally wasteful of fuel." Willer said. "It's totally wasteful that people live so far away from work that they have to drive there."
The 1974 picture on inflation is cloudier. The economic slowdown expected next year will help moderate some price increases, but fuel prices will probably advance sharply, the government economists believe.
As a consequence, Willer predicted, gas rationing will be put into effect as soon as it can feasibly be set up—possibly as soon as March of next year. In the short run, he said, rationing would prove to be a "hassle" for people.
"I hope there is no increased tax on gas,
said Hanson, "because that's inequitable
With the stock market in a tailspin, the administration will try to calm some of the uncertainty at a news conference tomorrow scheduled by Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The uncertainty has been fuelled by fears that the company will slide into a recession next year with the jobless rate going to 6 per cent.
Only if the consumer bears the heaviest burden of the shortage can a recession be avoided, the economists concluded. A decline in economic production is possible if fuel for industry is cut back any more, they say.
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He said there was a possibility that our society would become less suburban-that people would have to live closer to their jobs.
Willer foresees more serious consequences for the long run.
Television is relatively cheap to operate,
TeleWider; and families don't grow closer
to home.
"IT'S IRRATIONAL because it is predicated on limitations on the common man. Luxury use of gas will be the first thing to go. Rich people can still fly, but can I take my cheapie vacation to Colorado? Probably not."
Willer said that only 10 per cent of the American people had ever been on a plane and that less than 50 per cent could afford vacations. In view of the shortage of fuel, he said, even fewer people will be able to take vacations in the future.
Willer said President Nixon's policy on the energy shortage was irrational
"It's part of the feeling of freedom to be able to get into the car and go—but that will be stopped. Frustration will pile up, and it will have an outlet, nobody knows."
"There will be less geographic mobility, and that will make people unhappy," he said.
Willer said almost no money was being spent by the administration to research public transportation systems or to encourage manufacturers to build smaller cars.
"In Europe," he said, "people are used to living with a scarcity of gas. New cars are taxed relative to their size—the bigger the car, the higher the tax."
But as long as no similar plan is adopted in the United States, he said, and as long as big cars are being manufactured, people will continue to buy them.
WILDER SAID the proposed 50 mile per hour speed limit was only a partial solution to the problem.
"It's irrational to big carats at 50 m.p.b., he said. 'Why not run small cars at 30 m.p.b.'
WILLER SAID the present social system wasn't conductive to artist outlets for the剧院.
Willer said one mass transit possibility was the magnetic flight system, which powers trains up to 400 miles per hour with high efficiency and low energy use.
Wilier also said mass transit systems should be investigated.
another short-inage-ended change in life after Willer, may be a decline in individual.
He said a row of townhouses with only two external walls could be heated much more
F. Allan Hanson, associate professor of anthropology, agreed that better rapid transit systems would be a partial solution to the fuel problem.
Willer said he remembered a time when people shivered through the winter. Its possible, that he will return to that season, so take steps to make sure it doesn't happen.
There also should be federal housing insulation regulations, said Willer.
"Maybe this will force people to begin to think they can get along without cars," said Hanson, who rides a bicycle to and from work every day.
Hanson said the decision that surface travel in the United States would be by car was made during the Eisenhower administration, when the interstate highway system, was begun.
"I think that was a mistake," he said. "I would like to see the same amount of money go into rail travel which is equally efficient and uses less enerv."
Hanson said the United States would have to change over to some kind of fuel other
"A well-insulated house costs maybe 5 per cent more to build and 30 or 40 per cent less."
Use of Old Fund Refused Senate
By JOHN PIKE and JILL WILLIES Kaman Staff Reporters
The Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) passed a petition last night asking Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to override the vote to allow the senate to allocate the money.
The Student Senate won't be allowed to allocate a recreational activities fund consisting of student activity fees collected in the 1980s and '60s, Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols and Charles H. Oldfather, university attorney, said yesterday.
The fund, which totals about $180,000, has been earmarked by the administration for $54,000. Mr. Buckley Allen Field House. Earlier this month, Mert Buckley, Wichita state and student body president, said that the money would be used to upgrade its security and urge its use in the field house project.
Nichols said yesterday, however, that Oldfather had ruled that the funds were never under the jurisdiction of the senate. Although the senate was empowered in 1909 to allocate activity fee funds, Oldffather ruled that the allocation power wasn't retroactive and didn't include the period in which the funds were collected.
The StudEx petition passed by a vote of 5 to 1 and called on Dykes to "administer expenditures of any student activity fees collected and unspend prior to 1967 in the same manner as all funds currently levied and collected as student activity funds ..."
‘Mr. Oldfather has determined that that university money and I think he's right,' Nightingale said.
The petition was signed by Buckley, Richard S. Lauer, Evanston, III, senior.
and Richard W. Paxson, Baxter Springs senior.
Richard B. McKernan, Salina senior and chairman of the senate Finance and Budget Committee against the petition. He said that the senate had enough to do without worrying about allocating the money and that the question was simply one of who received credit for the tax cuts.
"We're both aiming for the same goal," McKernan said. "What difference does it make who gets the credit for funding the plan?"
Buckley said that the senate's legal position in the matter was doubtful but that he thought the petition was necessary as a matter of principle.
"I believe we don't have a legal leg to stand on," he said. "My intent in signing the petition is an appeal to the chancellor and his personal judgment that the senate should have the right to spend those fees. It's just a matter of principle."
Buckley and Nancy E. Archer, Anamasa,
iowa, senior and student body vice
president.
Buckley said yesterday, before Nichols's announcement, he had received $100,000 although he favored it at $180,000 on the field house expansion, he thought the money should be allocated by the senate to the other projects.
"It's (the field house) our best long-term
Buckley said he favored using the money for the field house because he thought that it was the best use, other than improvement of Robinson Gymnasium, for recreational funds. Buckley said he didn't want student sports teams in the gymnasium's Phase II expansion plans.
investment for right now," he said. "I also push up expansion of Robinson gym."
"If we put the floor in Allen Field House it would give us a stronger bid for Phase II of Robinson gymnasium," Buckley said. "If we put the floor in Washoe, we afraid we'll get into another Wescoe."
Buckley said partial student funding of improvements for the field house might be insufficient, he said, needing for the gymnasium. He said, however, that student contributions to the gymnasium project would only invite the state to students continue to fund new building projects.
The origin and history of the recreational activities fund has been obscure since Athletic Director Clyde Walker made the announcement in April that an athletic board meeting in late October.
According to Nichols, the money was collected as student fees during an almost overnight week when he said that some of the money had been allocated to University organizations each year and that the existing fund had been allocated fee money that had never been
The fund continued to grow, Nichols said, until 1966 when it它totaled $250,000. In 1968 a decision was made by Nichols, Keith L. Nitcher, now vice掌柜 for business affairs, and then Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to set the money aside for future use for student recreational projects. Nichols said the three decisions that have been made as trustees for the money rather than give it to student government to allocate.
The only use of the money came when
former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. allocated $75,000 from the fund for the construction of tennis courts north of the O Zone parking lot. The courts were completed this year at a cost of about $70,000 and the remaining allocation was returned to the recreational fund to leave the current amount of $180,000.
In 1972 the Student Senate under then student body president David Miller, approved the inclusion on the 1972 spring election ballot of a referendum which would allow the university to borrow up to $80,000 from the KU Endowment Association in the name of the student body. The money would have been used to augment expenditures planned by the University Foundation. Allen Field House with the installation of an artificial floor and other items.
Under the referendum plan the debt would have been added to the student debt from the East Memorial Stadium Credit and Loan Agreement. It would have been paid off by simply extending the period of the agreement and continuing to retire the indebtedness through student season athletic ticket sales.
In the election the referendum passed, but the Ion was never taken out because the Athletic Association didn't raise enough funds to place the field house improvement program.
In a written statement to the senate dated Jan. 24, 1972, Miller said that "funding of this proposal" is not possible through the University. "Now, however, it is clear that the $180,000 was available for such use at that time but that those who knew of the
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