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84th Year, No. 54
Bowl-Bound KU Nips Buffs, 17-15
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, November 12, 1973
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Morton Predicts Gasoline Rationing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton predicted yesterday that a gasoline rationing plan would be in effect within the first quarter of next year.
The odds, he said, are "better than 50-50 that we will have gasoline rationing."
He also said such a system could be in use for up to two years.
"I think the first couple of months of the first quarter of next year would be when we know we're going to don't think we can implement it much before the first of the year, although pressures might get great enough where we'd have to go with it before the first of the year."
But he said he didn't foresee rationing of fuel oil.
Morton appeared on ABC's "Issues and Answers."
Asked how long a gasoline rationing plan might be in effect, he said: "I think we'd be talking about six months or even longer. If it becomes too much it will have to go for a year or two years."
HE SAID the Nixon administration had been preparing gasoline rationing plans for
A decision is close on how many gallons a motorist may be allotted, he said, and the system will probably be based on a coupon plan.
Meanwhile, officials in every state are moving to counter this winter's energy
Four days after President Nixon outlined a series of steps designed to ease the fuel shortage, an Associated Press survey of officials in each of the 50 states indicated that thousands were ordered or were about to follow at least some of the President's recommendations.
Among other things, Nixon suggested that speed limits be lowered to 50 miles an hour, that thermostats be lowered six to 10 degrees Celsius for necessary outdoor hunting be extinguished.
SEVERAL NORTHERN states, accustomed to chilly winters, already had acted along those lines. Many others have found themselves preparing legislation or forming advisory councils to help tighten their energy belts.
According to the AP survey, 31 states have directed government employees to
drive at reduced speeds, usually 60 miles an hour, and have驾驭 private motorists to
Seven states have imposed lower speed limits on their roadways, and governors of a number of others say they expect similar regulations to act first to make the reduction nationwide.
A total of 34 states have deliberately cooled down their office buildings, most to 65 to 88 degrees, and 25 states have ordered cooling units. Some of the STATES reduce lighting, some
altered nighttime cleanup schedules, some simply removed light bulbs and some shut off floodlights that had illuminated capitol domes and memorials.
In the Washington, D.C., area, the General Services Administration removed 750,000 fluorescent light bulbs—about 22 percent in 87 buildings, a pattern followed at most federal buildings in other cities. The lights at the Washington Monument and the Mount Rushmore Memorials are doused after 9 p.m., although the Capitol remained lit after 12.
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Nonconventional Energy Sources Suggested by Three KU Profs
By ROY CLEVENGER Kanaan Staff Reporter
The shortage of conventional energy sources is causing scientists to turn to new or previously inefficient forms of fuel, three University of Kansas professors said last
Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said the energy of the sun could become a major power source in 10 years if the United States launched a crash program of
Bricker said research on solar energy involved three possible solutions to the problem.
One method would be to develop a chemical that would store heat by dehydration or drying. Bricker said such a chemical could be placed in sunlight during the summer and absorb enough energy to heat a house all winter. The heat would be
released by adding water to the dried chemical.
"The trouble with this is the volume that would be necessary," he said. "You'd have to put it in the attic to get it close enough to the window, and need steel girders to help it all, the whole."
Another tool for using solar energy is the solid state solar cell constructed of pure
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silicon or cadmium sulfide, like those aboard Skvbl. Bricker said.
"This is a practical method, but the solar cells are terribly expensive. I don't think they could ever be made really cheap enough for wide use."
He said a chemical solar cell that could generate electricity might be a cheaper alternative to the solid state cells. These cells use only the sunlight and generate power by transfer of electrons.
Nixon will meet with all Congressmen in group sessions to discuss Watergate.
The meetings reflect an increase in Nixon's contacts with Republicans on Capitol Hill about Watergate.
The White House acknowledged yesterday that President Nixon will meet with every Republican Congressman in a series of six sessions this week. A spokesman said that Nixon would eventually meet with Democratic congressional leaders, although no schedule has been set.
Congress is expected to work quickly on fuel crisis legislation, including pipeline
Committees scheduled hearings on various proposals by President Nixon to deal with the immediate problem.
The House is to vote today on the compromise version of legislation to clear the way for the Alaska pipeline. If the House approves the measure, it will be approved.
Legislation to return the nation to Daylight Saving Time will be considered today by the Senate Committee and tomorrow by the House Committee.
Kissinger and Chou met amid guessing
that Chou might visit the United States.
The visit between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Premier Chou En-lai caused speculation that their discussions would lead to some clear answer.
No details were disclosed of the their 3½-hour session in the Great Hall of the People, in Peking, the second since Kissinger arrived in Peking Saturday (June 10).
King Faisal has linked the flow of oil to a permanent settlement of the Middle East conflict. U.S. diplomats in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, say it might take years rather than months to satisfy the king's demands on Israel with economic aid and to enable the permanent solution of the Palestine question, including the stasis of despair.
Faisal of Saudi Arabia may never open
"We're not talking about one cold winter but many cold winters to come," warned newly appointed U.S. Ambassador James Akins, a leading American oil expert who formerly headed the office of fuels and energy in the State Department.
oil resources to level wanted by others.
"Every member of Congress thinks the system should be reformed," said James Dwight Jr., administrator of HEW's Social and Rebhabilitation Service. "but lots of them for different reasons. That's why you can never come up with a way to do it."
In addition to a diffusive Congress, Dwight said, waning presidential interest and state welfare crackdowns prompted by new federal regulations were a major factor.
by HEW is unlikely to become law.
New welfare revision nearing completion HEW
Justice Department is working to protect computerized crime files from outsiders.
Under pressure from Congress, department officials say they expect to complete within a month a legislative proposal and twin sets of regulations that would place new federal rules on
Congress and the courts may also enter the dispute because the department may fail to go far enough in resolving who should have access to the criminal history records in the computerized National Crime Information Center.
A plant that would store solar energy could be developed to aid in capturing solar energy.
"If this plant were burned, heat would be released," he said. "The problem here is that this is only about 10 per cent efficient, and you are going to have 70 to 80 per cent of the available energy."
Bricker said widespread use of solar energy was probably decades away.
Energy would be released by heating these materials to a plasma or hot ionized gas at temperatures of about 100 million degrees Fahrenheit. Enoch said.
Garbage might be a usable source of energy. Bricker said. Solid wastes could be dried and burned or processed into a burnable gas.
"No material can hold anything this hot, but it could be contained by magnetic fields. The key is to work out the configurations of the necessary magnetic field." he said.
"If you're going to pipe the fuel from place to place, you'd have to convert it into a fluid, so that it could be burned," he said. "We could also be burned directly in a power plant."
Jacob Enoch, associate professor of physics and astronomy, said that controlled thermonuclear fusion, the energy used in nuclear reactors, can provide an unlimited source of power.
Fuels could be made from two abundant isotopes, deuterium and tritium, he said.
"The supply of deuterium in the oceans is unlimited, and tritium can be made in large quantities."
The problem, Enoch explained, is to contain the material at high enough temperature and density for long enough periods. Some experimental devices can fulfil two of the qualifications, but not all three.
Enoch and Thomas Armstrong, associate professor of physics and astronomy, are working on the theoretical models and mathematical calculations associated with the development of the necessary magnetic fields.
The energy of thermonuclear fusion also
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An Alternative Energy Source?
Egypt,Israel Sign Truce
Formal Accord the First Since 1949
An Israeli and an Egyptian general met amid the rubble of war yesterday and signed a U.S.-inspired truce aimed at bringing peace to their troubled lands.
The truce strengthened the fragile ceasefire on the Suez Canal and opened the way for an international conference designed to foster permanent peace in the Middle East,
The milestone pact signed on a desalate stretch of the Suez-Cairo highway marked the first such formal Arab-Iraki accord between Israel and Egypt, at the end of the first Middle East war.
the site of four wars since the birth of Israel in 1948.
The Israeli and Egyptian representatives met after the signing ceremony to sip Israeli grapefruit juice and to begin what were expected to be tough negotiations on how the accord should be carried out on the crucial battle lines left by the October war.
MAJ. GEN. AHARON YARIV, assistant Israeli chief of staff and adviser to Premier Golda Meir, signed the agreement for Israel. The signer for Egypt was Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul G哈姆 Gamiayam, second-ranking officer in the Egyptian army.
THE ACCORD SAID Israel and Egypt agreed:
To observe the cease-fire issued by the U. Security Council Oct. 22 and renewed U. Security Council Oct. 23.
—To start discussions on the cease-fire lines of Oct. 22 in the framework of agreement on disengagement and separation of forces under U.N auxiliances.
—To get daily supplies of water, food and medicine to the town of Suez and execute warfare with them.
McBride Receives 1973 HOPE Award
—To avoid any impediment to the movement of nonmilitary supplies to the east bank of the Suez Canal, where Israel says the Egyptian 3rd Army is encircled. Israeli officials said they had stopped Cairo-Suez road by U.N. points. Israeli officers would check supply movements.
By LYN WALLIN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Edward J. McBride, professor of mechanical engineering, received the 1973 HOPE Award at half-time ceremonies of the KK-Colorado football game Saturday.
"I cannot think of anything more flat-
ter than that could have been offered to me," he
said.
McBride's reaction to his selection was one of surprise and pleasure.
- To exchange all prisoners of war "was soon as the U.N. checkpoints are assembled"
Syria, the other major combatant in the October war, snubbed the new truce deal, put together by the diplomacy of U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger during his tour of five Arab capitals last week.
The HOPE Award (Honor to the Outstanding Progressive Educator), is presented annually by the KU senior class to a faculty member who demonstrates "willingness to help students, success in challenging and stimulating students and excellence in the general field of education."
A $30 check was presented to McBride by Tom Busch, Surgeon-Mission senior and senior class vice president, and Roger Brown, Chairman of the HOPE Award committee, chairman of the HOPE Award committee.
The HOPE Award was founded by the 1959 graduating class, which gave a $2,000 endowment for the award to the University as its senior class gift. The annual interest from the endowment makes up the cash award given to the winner.
MrBride graduated from Villauno University in 1934 with a degree in electrical engineering. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Harvard University in 1949.
McBride is currently working on a private research project to study alleviation of waste from certain power plants. He began the project during a sabbatical in 1966.
He spent 16 years working in private industry before coming to KU,
McBride is also the faculty adviser for the Mechanical Engineering Club. He was chairman of his department from 1952 to 1962.
McBride was nominated for the HOPE Award last year and in 1962. He also was named a Hillteacher in the Jayhawker yearbook last year.
The other four finalists for the award were: Jess McNish, adjunct professor of business; David Quadagno, associate professor of physiology and cell biology; Charles Sidman, professor of history; and Joining, associate professor of journalism.
Edward J. McBride
Destruction of Boardwalk Marks End of Graffiti Era
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By BETH RETONDE Kansas Staff Reporter
The Jayhawk Boulevard boardwalk, a community billboard and a place on which to paint graffiti for the past two years, was torn down last weekend, signaling the near completion of the outside work on Wescoe Hall.
Keith Lawton, director of facilities, planning and operations, said the board-walk had been the first thing constructed in the Wescoe Hall building project, which began in 1971. Its purpose was to protect people from the construction work.
Part of the boardwalk was torn down last summer. Lawton said he had hoped that the entire boardwalk could have been torn down sooner but fall rains had delayed the pouring of concrete for sidewalks on the north side of Wescoe.
The sidewalks are now complete, and there is no need for the boardwalk, he said.
The north entrance to Wescoe is still closed to the public, Lawton said, and it may not open until after Thanksgiving. It lies on the south side of the building is continuing.
Lawton also said that guest parking in front of Storm Hall would probably be
Even before then, people had started decorating the inside and outside with personal messages, suggestive phrases and reflections on life in general. It soon became
The boardwalk was the scene of an art competition the first fall after it was built. Students were invited to paint sections of the inside walls.
a convenient place to post campaign signs and notices of public meetings.
Last spring the west end of the boardwalk was struck by a car and had to be rebuilt. This fall several trees were cut down near the boardwalk and a large branch fell across its middle section, and repairs again had to be made.
Lawton said he hoped the removal of the boardwalk would help relieve some of the stress on the area.
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