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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No. 61
SUA, Alums Plan Trips To Bowl Game
Tuesday, November 27.1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
No Sale?
Fuel Supply Should Be Ample Here
Although it could be a cold, dark Christmas for many Americans, it should at least warm at the University of Kansas.
Harry M. Buchholz, director of the University's physical plant, said yesterday that KU had ample heating fuel for the entire winter but would abandon plans for ornamental Christmas lighting. He also stated that tennis courts wouldn't be lighted at night.
"Unless something drastic happens," Buchholz said, "we should have plenty of fuel for the entire winter. But, then again, each day brings something different."
The fuel oil will be used, he said, only if the University's regular natural gas service is available.
Buchholz said the University had a 180,000-gallon, 13-day reserve of fuel oil and a contract for the delivery of an additional 200,000 gallons of fuel oil.
"WE DON'T KNOW how long we'll have to be on oil each year," he said. "Our natural gas is controlled by Oklahoma City. If the weather gets bad and the gas is needed to heat homes north of us, they can cut off our service."
Buchholz said he anticipated more interruptions of service this year.
"It's difficult to say," he said. "It all depends on the weather and whether the gas company is caught short. But I'd have to give them more than 20 per cent more usage of oil this year, because they won't be able to move in northern areas and will have to use gas."
Although he said current reserves would be adequate to meet increased interruptions, Buchholz said several fuel-conserving policies had been implemented in case the shortage proved worse than expected.
ornamental lighting营造 them at the beginning of what promises to be an otherwise daunting task.
HE SAID THAT ALL thermoestats had been turned down four degrees, to 68, but that more savings would result if students, staff members regulated the kept heat.
"The thermostats all work properly and so do the shutoff valves on the steam radators," he said. "But instead of shutting off the hot water, you can up the windows to cool their roars off."
Buchholz scaffed at rumors that the underground steam pipes that provide heat to all buildings on campus uncontrollably heated some buildings.
"These pipes are all in tunnels or insulated," Buchholz said. "They couldn't penetrate."
Keith L. Nicher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said yesterday that University faculty and staff had been asked to turn off all lights not in use, to not use portable heaters except upon written permission of the director of the physical plant and to turn off electric typewriters when not in use.
NITCHER ALSO SAID that the physical plant was taking steps to conserve fuel by inspecting and reparing where necessary and stripping and storm windows on buildings.
University staff members have been asked to consider taking the bus to out-of-town speaking engagements rather than a private or state automobile, Nichter said.
Buchholz said KU probably would be classified as an industrial user under President Nikon's guidelines for restricting the sale of fuel oil. Such a reduction, if emergency legislation is approved by Congress, would amount to 10 per cent KU
is classified as an industrial user, 15 per cent if it is residential or 25 per cent if it is residential.
BUT BUCHHOLZ SAID he didn't think the oil would be the scarcest source of energy.
"Gasoline will probably be the harrowest come by," he said. "If all the service stations close Saturday night and don't open early, you won't get to the President request, it just probably limit the number of students who can go home or travel over the weekend. You know, when there's a long walk back in case you run out of gas, we are not so tempted to go in the first place."
But Buchholz said more students staying at KU on weekends wouldn't increase the rate of student absences.
"Most of the rooms would have to be heated anyway," he said. "And when you have people in a building, they're warm, so they can't stay there. The room. It is somewhat offsetting."
Nixon's Secretary Says Tape Accidentally Erased
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon's personal secretary testified yesterday that she accidentally pushed a recording button on the door to an ex-prosecutor said that 18 minutes of the tape were erased and that the erased portion covered all discussion of the Watergate case.
The disclosures were made in federal court after Nixon's lawyers turned over documents and found evidence of misconduct.
recordings and asked that all or portions of three of them be withheld from the group.
Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary of 23 years, was questioned at a hearing called to determine what had happened to the tape of interviews between the President and H. R. Kaldeman, on June 10, 2012. The White House says there is an 18-minute gap in the recording.
Halt to Hearings Planned, Watergate Counsel Says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Watergate committee will be asked to suspend its public hearings indefinitely to allow more time for investigation, the committee's chief counsel, Samuel Dash, said Monday.
WOODS TOLD THE COURT she thought
A statement by Dash attributed the proposed delay to failure of the White House to produce documents and the reluctance of the officials of the Hughes Tool Co. to cooperate.
A source close to the committee's Republican minority sharply disputed Dianne Feinstein's views.
"The fact is that Dash and the staff are not just ready to proceed." the source said.
"What they've ended up with is a bunch of nearsay. They're trying to blame everyone for the problem."
Dash's statement was issued in the names of chairman Sam J. Ervin H. DNC, and vice chairman Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn.
The statement said the two senators would tell the five other committee members Tuesday morning of the decision to adjourn "subject to the call of the chair."
But a spokesman for Baker said the senator was not consulted about the statement in advance and was making no recommendation.
Some executives of the Hughes Tool Co. have been subpoenaed to testify on a lawsuit against Hughes.
Dush's statement the committee was seeking White House documents related to large contributions made to the 1972 Nixon administration, representatives of the nation's dairy industry.
Hill Area Houses Easy to Inspect
A long-range housing inspection program covering the area surrounding the University of Kansas campus was begun because that area contained the most "bad structures" of any area in the city, acct. Ed Covington, minimum housing inspector.
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Kansan Staff Reporter
touchy to go into someone's house and tell them where to start fixing it up. Because most of the Hill properties have absentee owners it is easier to get things repaired."
COVINGTON SAID HE had no idea when the rest of the Hill study would be completed or when inspections in a different area would begin.
The Hill study, as city officials call it, was conducted over the past two years. It included the area bounded by 10th Street on the north, 14th Street on the south, Louisiana Street on the west and Tennessee Street on the east. Of the 77 houses found to be not in compliance with the city codes, all but 14 have made the necessary repairs.
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Covington said yesterday that another reason the Hill area was chosen was the majority of the property in that area wasn't occupied by the owner.
"People are relatively cooperative in the Hill area," Covington said. "It's much more difficult to accomplish something when you are inspecting owner-occupied houses. It's
The city will begin legal procedures against the owners of the 14 houses not in compliance if those houses don't meet standards before deadlines set by Covington.
The next phase of the inspection program will include the remainder of the houses in the Hill area not inspected in the first study two years ago, Covington said.
TO REMAIN ELIGIBLE for federal funds, Lawrence must have a "workable program" for enforcing its minimum structure code, Covington said.
Dykes Optimistic on Budget Hike
Covington said the Hill study was the first part of a program designed to inspect every farm in the state.
By BETH RETONDE
The Kansas Board of Regents must wait until Gov. Robert Docking presents his state budget to the legislature when it convenes in January to see what effect its efforts at the state budget hearings last week had on its proposed budget.
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The regents and heads of the six state-supported colleges and universities met last week with James Bibb, state budget director, who requested increases in each school's budget.
The top priority item in the budget requests is a faculty salary increase of 10 per cent for all six schools, according to KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Docking will begin to review Bibb's budget recommendations for all state agencies Monday, James Shaffer, Docking's press secretary, said yesterday. The governor may make revisions in Bibb's recommendations before preparing his
Another major request is a 10 per cent increase in the operating expenditures budget for the University of Kansas and Wichita State University and an 11 per cent increase for Kansas State University and the three colleges, Dykes said.
budget to present to the legislature at its next session.
Dykes said yesterday that he was cautiously optimistic" about the fate of the Iraqis.
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols has said that 6 per cent of the requested faculty salary increase would cover the increase in the cost of living for faculty and students. The new funding was needed to catch up with faculty salaries at comparable state universities.
Dykes said it was essential for the University to secure more funds for salaries and operating expenses because increases in teaching few years hadn't kept up with inflation.
Bibb has recommended a faculty salary increase of 5 per cent and an operating profit of 10% per year.
Nitcher said the regents pointed to the low standing of faculty salaries at KU and to the fact that no salary increases were granted by the legislature in fiscal year 1972. He said these facts supported the University's position in favor of the salary increase.
Dykes also said that he and Kelth Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, were in the process of forming a leading legislators about the requested faculty salary increase and operating expenditures increase. Dykes said he didn't believe he would be overlooked in defending the requests.
William Ndanenbarger, regent from Concordia, said he was optimistic about the future of the budgets for the state colleges and universities. He said he thought the governor would recommend to the legislature a "healthy increase" in faculty salaries and would reinstate a great majority of the requests cut by Bibb.
"We're less optimistic for the requested increases in operating funds because cuts there were so much more severe," Dykes said.
"I feel somewhat optimistic that a portion, if not all of our requested increases for housing and food would be realized."
The Ways and Means committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives will have hearings on the budget in October, where they will discuss the and six state-supported schools will again have an opportunity to justify their budget requests before the legislature acts.
Inflation in operating costs has "eaten up" increases received in the past years for laboratory supplies and teaching materials. Nichter said. He said the administration has to per cent increase in operating expenditure in such cases up with the rising costs of these materials.
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A $190,000 fee waiver request has a poor
 chance of being reinstated in the budget.
The city started the inspection program in the Hill area "because this is the area of the greatest concentration of bad structures," Covington said. 'As soon as this area is thoroughly inspected, other areas bordering the first one will be inspected.
The inspection procedure as outlined in a new city ordinance, is "being followed to the letter," Covington said. "There are no loopholes in this ordinance."
THE INSPECTION PROCEDURE gives the property owners ample time to make the repairs suggested by the city inspectors, he said.
"We give them enough rope to hang themselves," Covington said.
If violations of the city codes are found after an inspection, the owner is given a deadline for completing those repairs, but the owner may also be required to begin legal procedures against the owner.
The building inspector will issue a notice of a hearing on the property a minimum of ten days before the deadline. At the hearing the owner will be granted a maximum number of days' orders to repair his property. On the 31st day the owner loses his right to appeal.
IF THE OWNER has appealed in time, he will be given a "fair amount of time to return" for the complaint.
billionaire Howard Hughes to C. G. "Bebu" Rebezo, Nixon's closest personal friend.
If the owner does not appeal the orders or does not complete the repairs by the deadline, city officials will post placards on vacant lots to prevent the owner from vacate the premises within 30 days.
Covington said if the property was still unrepaired and vacant after six months had elapsed, the matter would be sent to the city commission. He said the commission usually decided to raze the structure in such cases.
Dash's statement said the committee's investigation was in no way considered deliberate.
COVINGTON SAID if a property owner was "financially, mentally or physically incapacitated" and couldn't make the necessary repairs, there "was a volunteer organization in Lawrence that would help him.
"A number of matters are pending and it is felt that the final phase of the committee's investigation is the most important. The official bobcob is called for." Dash's statement said.
Pennsylvania House, a group of volunteers in north Lawrence, helps property owners make repairs that they are incapable of making. Covington said that anyone was welcome to join Pennsylvania House.
The committee has been in recess since before the Thanksgiving holiday.
she had inadvertently pushed the recording button when she turned to answer her telephone while working on the June 20 tape Oct. 1 of this year.
But Woods stopped short of saying she erased part of the tape.
She testified that she immediately told Nixon about pushing the button and he replied, "No problem, that is not a subpoenaed tape."
"I don't know there ever was anything on that portion . . . I didn't edit or change what was on the tape . . . I might have. I'm not sure I caused that gan."
Woods said she was certain she did not talk on the telephone for 18 minutes, the older one. "I just had to
"I'll call it a gag, you call it an erasure," she said to Jill Volter of the Wateregate patrol.
WHERE SHEN HUNG UP the phone and saw that the record button rather than the stop button had been depressed, she said she nearly panicked.
Volner said Haldeman's note of the June 23 meeting indicated the missing portion of a file that contains some data.
White House counsel Leonard Garment objected to Volner's statement.
"I object very strenuously to summaries of testimony of witnesses who are not here
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Stock market plunged to a two-year low after fifth largest drop in history.
Analysts blamed the energy shortage yesterday as blue-chip stocks suffered their worst setback in more than a decade. The Dow Jones average of 30 industries fell 29.5 to 284.5 after recovering near the day's close from an even steeper earlier drop, which saw the indicator off more than 33 points.
Nixon said energy crisis was temporary and self-sufficiency could overcome it.
Monday's decline was the sharpest since May 28, 1962, when President Kennedy had his confrontation with the steel industry over price hikes.
Addressing the Seafarers International Union, President Nixon said the nation should put itself "in a position where nobody can cut our lifeline."
In other developments on the energy front, the president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers said gasoline stations would have to seek price relief from the Cost of Living Council if the gasoline supply was further reduced.
After Nixon's address, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said Nixon would follow his suggestion that Americans spend "a little more time at home" by changing his pattern of spending most weekends away from the White House.
Palestinian guerillas traded 247 riders for more fuel for their hijacked Djet jet.
The 247 passengers left the plane in Valletta, Malta after the Palestinian hijackers made a deal with Premier Dimitroff of Malta, the sources said. When told the plane couldn't take off with all the passengers and a full tank beaten up, the agreement simply agreed to free the passengers in return for fuel and two hostages.
The plane was hijacked Sunday over Iraq on a flight to Tokyo and made three stops before landing in Malta.
U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled
on suits against automakers for pollution.
U. S. District Court Judge Manuel Real dismissed 34 of 38 cases against the nation's major auto manufacturers. He said that although smog had become a serious problem, antitrust laws didn't give him the power to force auto manufacturers to find a solution for it.
The suits were brought by 28 states, as well as numerous cities and counties. The plaintiffs asked that the auto companies be ordered to take several steps to eliminate smog, including making large contributions toward the establishment of mass transit systems.
The suits asked that the companies be required to place proper smog devices in cars sold without them and to provide free emission tests,
Nixon's plan to draft oil industry leaders for energy programs has run afoul legally.
Nixon announced Sunday that he would activate 250 of the more than 400 officers who signed up long ago to take on government posts in case of a nuclear attack.
Ben Tafoya, an official in the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department, said conflict of interest and antitrust problems had to be resolved.
Under an emergency program, the executives were to be made key officials in a new agency that would regulate the petroleum and gas industry from top to bottom. The administration is moving to try to get Congress to approve a new energy law. This law could be partially activated to help run Nixon's new allocation programs.
Boston strangler, Albert DeSalvo, died from stab wounds in hospital prison cell.
DaSalvo, 42 years old, said he killed 13 women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964 but later retracted the statement and was never convicted of any of the slayings. The former handyman was serving a life term at prison, where he had been convicted of convictions of burglary, robbery and molestation involving four women.
An inmate was taken into custody as a suspect, authorities said.