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84th Year, No. 57
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, November 15, 1973
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Fuel Shortage Gives Amtrak Shot in Arm
By LARRY FISH
hansen Staff Reporter
After years of fighting a losing battle, the passenger can maneuver its way back through the explosion.
In the face of a severe gasoline shortage and a 10-per-cent reduction in domestic airline flights, Amtrak, the federally-subsidized corporation that runs most U.S. intercity passenger trains, is faced with a demand for new trains than it can demand.
"We DON'T have that much equipment," Shupp said, "so its hard for us to change the tooling."
Gov. Robert Docking wrote a letter to Amtrak president Roger Lewis last week after President Nixon's energy message, which he told included a train from Kansas City to Denver.
Shupp said that it was difficult to tell what effect the gasoline shortage had already had upon Amtrak because most people didn't give reasons when taking a train. He did note that of two Amtrak's Chicago-Westland trains, one fell during the summer for the first time.
That route has been without passenger service since Amtrak began operation in 1926.
Docking's letter said that such a train would result in a saving of energy, and would serve the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Fort Hays State College, and several Kansas communities now without a passenger train. Docking's office said yesterday that no reply to his suggestion had been received.
"For the first time, Nixon has said something favorable about Amrut, "Shup said. "I think people and Congress and the railroads are realizing we need trains."
Dennis Shupp, Amtrak sales manager in Kansas City, M., indicated yesterday that it might be difficult for Amtrak to expand its operations to meet the gasoline crisis requirements.
Shupp said that there had been a noticeable change in the attitude of Congress and the President toward Amtrak since the advent of the fuel crisis.
SHUPP SAID that the current appropriation of $107 million and $40 million in previously impounded funds meant that Amtrak would be able to begin experimental routes in addition to improving existing services. He said that most train stations could now run from East instead of the Midwest because of the East's more profitable travel markets.
The fuel shortage apparently will have no effect on the locomotives themselves, Shupp said, because diesel fuel seems to be plentiful.
WITH THE ENERGY CRISIS~TRAINS ARE ROLLING AGAIN, AND PEOPLE ARE USING THE RAILROADS...BUT I SURE NEVER FIGURED ANYTHING LIKE THIS!"
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate sent the White House a sweeping mandatory fuel allocation bill yesterday and then, in a surprise move, adjourned for the day without considering emergency energy legislation.
Fuel Bill Sent to Nixon
"The Republicans weren't ready," Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., Senate Interior chairman, said in explaining the unexpected postponement of debate on a bill that would give President Nixon most of the power he needs to deal with the energy crisis.
The move to adjourn came directly after Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., offered an amendment to limit busing of school children to conserve energy.
Jackson said he would move to table the amendment, adding that it was "not an act of insurrection."
"Every day we lose, we lose roughly one million barrels of oil." Jackson said, referring to the energy conservation measures contained in the bill.
The allocation bill, which the Senate approved, 83 to 3, would control the rate of oil taxes.
"It lays the groundwork" for the rationing and conservation measures called into place by the United Nations.
The allocation bill goes far beyond the administration's programs of allocating propane, heating oil, jet fuel and certain distillates but not crude oil or gasoline.
In a related move, Sen. John V. Tunney, D-Calfi, called for passage of a $23-million supplemental appropriation to remedy what he called a "bureaucratic disaster" in the administration's handling of the current allocation programs.
nation's current consumption of roughly 10 million barrels of oil a day by 25 per cent. Such plans would include rationing and other energy-saving steps such as reduced speed limits, lowered thermostats and shorter school and business hours.
The bill sponsored by Jackson also would seek to increase available fuel supplies by tapping petroleum reserves and manufacturing gas-burning power plants to convert to coal.
The measure is expected to gain easy passage although it is opposed by some senators from oil- and gas-producing states who argue that the only way to increase fuel supplies is to allow producers to charge higher prices.
The emergency bill now scheduled for debate this morning would direct the government to take action.
KU Budget Request Cut
Paul J. Fannin, R-Ariz., ranking Republican on the Interior committee.
Firing of Cox Illegal Federal Judge Rules
By BETH RETONDE Kansan Staff Reporter
The state budget division has cut in half a recommended 10-percent increase in salaries for the University of Kansas and Michigan State, but agents considered its most urgent request.
James Bibb, the state budget director, has cut next year's proposed University budget by $1.4 million in salaries and operating expenditures.
The next step in the budget process will come Monday in Topeka when William Duenbaker, chairman of the Board of Regents, and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will try to justify the Regents' budget increases to the budget director.
Dunbarmer will talk to the budget
morning morning and Dykes,
Monday afternoon.
Some items cut by Bibb then can be restored in the budget LaTei Gov. Robert Docking will present to the Kansas Legislature in January.
Union; the Office of the Dean of Men, 280 Broad Hall, and the Office of the Dean of Wien, 282 Wien.
HEARINGS for the proposed budgets of all state agencies began the first of this month. The hearings allow the state to defend their original budget requests.
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and elect an editor and a business manager Nov. 28. The editor-elect and business manager-elect they will have until Dec. 5 to hire news and business staffs for approval by the Kansan Board.
Kansan Applications Available
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said the items cut in the proposed budget were crucial to the University.
"The 10-per-cent faculty salary increase was top priority," he said. "Five per cent will barely, if at all, keep up with the cost of living."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was illegal, Gerhard A. Gessell, a U.S. district court judge, rulen yesterday.
The Board of Regents had requested an increase of $3.1 million for the University's salaries and operating expenditures budget to $4.5 million, and recommended an increase of $1.7 million.
The University was requesting $2 million more for salaries. Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols said 6 per cent of the increase was meant to cover increases in faculty and staff salaries, and the amount needed was to 'catch up' with faculty salaries at comparable state universities.
National Direct Student Loan program to cover additional federal funding, an increase of $400,000 v. be used from left-over funds and $130,000 for tuition fee waivers.
THE BUGETD division cut out all proposed increases in faculty and operating expenditures that were based on estimated increases in enrollment next year as well as all requests for additional money to improve programs at the University.
The decision led to immediate calls that Ox return to his office, but Ox indicated it was not possible.
The capital expenditures funds requested by the University for next year and cut by the budget division included $75,000 for laboratory equipment in Haworth Hall; $75,000 to replace brick utility tunnels; $30,000 for a computer facility; $120,000 for the law building; $5,763,974 for a visual arts department; $95,000 to expand and repair parking lots.
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the University Daily Kansan for the spring semester will be accepted until 5 p.m. Nov 26 in 105 Flint Hall.
The budget division also cut additional funding requests for this year's budget by $1.4 million and requests for capital expenditures next year of $6.2 million.
These programs included a coordinated computer plan, women's intercollegiate athletics, supportive educational services, library books and journals. The University had requested an additional $250,000 for the budget director recommended no increases.
The supplemented funding requests for this year's budget included $60,700 for additional fuel oil to fill a recently acquired warehouse, and $25,000 for Nichols Hall, a $17,000 increase in the
"For me to make any legal claims under Judge Geell's decision would only divert attention from getting the job done." Cox said.
The application forms are available in the office of the School of Journalism, 105 Flint; the Student Senate Office, 105B Kansas
A congressman who sought the ruling from Gessell said the decision made the possibility of impeaching President Nixon substantially more likely.
One was fired at Nixon's order by Acting Atty, Gen. Robert H. Bork in an action that led to the departure of two top Justice Department officials and a preliminary move in the House of Representatives to impeach Nixon.
TEXAS LAWYER Leon Jaworski was later appointed the new special prosecutor.
special prosecutor named under new legislation, and the present very capable judge.
"The important thing is that we do not use incutations by vigorously pressed by browns, or any
The White House referred all comment on Gesell's decision to the Justice Department.
"We once took in the justice department
over." "The president rather than presidential control," Gessell
Gesell, responding to a suit by three Democratic congressmen, had earlier rejected requests for injunctions which would have permitted Cox's return.
GESELL BASED his ruling on the regulations that established Cox's office, and that he had violated regulations protecting his successor. Gesell said that for Jaworski's sake, it was particularly desirable to enunciate the rule that law if attempts were made to discharge him.
But although Gessell upheld the members of Congress on their suit, he criticized any attempt to guarantee the independence of the prosecutor by creating a new one subject to appointment and supervision of the courts.
Record Industry Hit by Oil Pinch
Kansan Staff Reporter
By VINCENNE SMYTH
It's been a record year for shortages, and may be the next one; a shortage of PSOE.
The record industry is beginning to feel the pinch of the petroleum shortage because of its heavy dependence on polyvinyl chloride, a byproduct of petroleum.
PVC is the catalytic material in vinyl that makes it pliable and able to be stamped by pressing machines. During the cooling process the vinyl hardens but retains the grooves and ridges produced during the pressing.
Nationally, some companies have begun to reduce production, postpone new releases and experiment with other materials in efforts to alleviate the impact of the short-
According to John Kiefer, owner of Kiel's Records and Stereo, by the petroleum
shortage continues, retail stores will encounter a record shortage soon.
"TO OFFSET the shortage, manufacturers are shifting to the dynaflex process. Dynaflex is a thinner vinyl that cuts just slightly off the amount of vinyl used," says Kiefer.
"The disadvantage of the dynflex process is that records are no longer completely flat. They are very thin, and in them there are no gaps, but they are better than no record at all."
Kiefer says record manufacturers are considering raising the retail price of records to $6.98 because of the petroleum shortage. The increase, he says, would reduce the prices in raw materials which are used by the processors of petroleum by-products.
"The considered increase in cost of recorded products will undoubtedly reduce the number of records sold. The very small retailer is disappearing." Kiefer says.
John Carlos, manager of The Sound, says the increase noticed the increasing amount of warm air.
"Compared to 15 or 20 years ago," he says, "the difference in warp is very oblique."
If quality decreases enough, I suppose it would have an effect on sales. People may tend to put more emphasis on other outlets of enjoyment."
"Customers' reaction when they can't get a record is one of unawareness. They don't look at it as a shortage, but with the attitude of 'I'll go somewhere else.' Until somebody actually can't get something, they don't realize that there's a shortage."
He says that beginning Dec. 1, there will be a sudden increase in the boulder price of a pound of wheat.
at down, owner of Audio House, a consumer recording business that doesn't stock commercial records, says that Audio House has not yet fed the petroleum shortage.
Egyptian and Israeli negotiators agreed to start exchanging the prisoners of war.
lack of availability of new releases at the beginning of the year.
Israel says it holds about 7,000 Arab prisoners, of which 6,000 are Egyptian and the remaining 100 art army Gypsies, Moroccan, Iraqis and Jordanians.
The Red Cross announced the agreement yesterday in Tel Avi and ended a stalemate that had threatened to break down the shaky U.S.-sponsored agreement.
The Israeli state radio announced that the prisoner exchange would be accompanied by a transfer of checkpoints on the strategic Gairo-Suez road.
Watergate prosecutor said White House volunteered additional tapes and other files.
The disclosure came in a memorandum filed in federal court in the case of Egil Krogh Jr.
Krogh had asked that he be given access to presidential tape recordings and other files for his defense against charges he made false statements
"The special prosecutor or a senior member of his staff designated by him will have access to all of the information by defendant's Krogh's will and may be involved in the special prosecutor's work."
Krogh had asked for a White House tape recording made of his July 24, 1974 meeting with President Nikon and John D. Ehrhardt at which he explained that the tape was intended to be used as a tool
"It's a substantial increase. Worse is that the supply flow just may stop," he says. We feel fortunate that we are one of our customers who have access to all of my head I feel allocation could happen."
Gulf Oil executive said Nixon committee
set quotas for donations to his campaign.
He and Orin E. Atkins, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ashland Oil Co., testified that their corporations each illegally donated $100,000 in cash, which was raised discreetly from corporate sources overseas.
Claude C. Wild Jr., Gulf's chief Washington lobbyist, told the Senate watergate committee that President Nixon's re-election campaign set a $10 million fund to help him win.
Energy planners might send proposals
rationing gasoline to Nixon in a month.
A key official the planners intended to submit proposals within two or three weeks for immediate rationing of home heating oil.
The administration has been developing a gasoline rationing plan using ration coupons managed, through about 6,000 local boards.
Gasoline ration levels haven't been determined, but government officials so far have been thinking in terms of 10 to 15 gallons a week for each motorist, a range that may change drastically once all the calculations are finished
Britain dimmed its street-lighting and cut
public building heat in emergency moves.
The government ordered the ban on lighting and a 10-per-cent cut in heating in all public buildings and state-owned industries after declaring a
The action was taken to give the administration necessary powers to deal with a refusal by coal miners and workers in the electric-generating industry.
European gold markets were confused
Gold prices dropped sharply after the U.S. and six European governments resked the right to sell gold on the open market.
after nations asserted right to sell.
"On new products the availability just isn't there," he said. "What we really fear is
KEEFER'S store is currently expanding its orders in anticipation of a shortage. Orders for new releases, he says, aren't being shipped in their entirety.
An end to a two-tier marketing system for gold had been announced in Washington by Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve System.
Huntington by Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve System. Since March 1987, trading in gold had been separated into official dealings with a fixed price between governments only and a free market for industrial buyers and speculators.
Kansas Staff Photo by MATT TOTTEN
Fuel Crisis May Make Smaller Record Stacks
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