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84th Year, No. 51
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, November 7, 1973
AURH OKs Changes In Contracts
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Fugitive financier Vesco was arrested in Nassau on warrant seeking extradition.
Robert Vesco was picked up yesterday in the offices of his Nassau bank on a U.S. arrest warrant based on a July 20 fraud indictment, which accuses Vesco of falsifying records of a firm he headed to cover up the embezzlement of some of the firm's funds.
Vesso is also a codefendant with former U.S. Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and ex-Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans in a conspiracy case in which the two former cabinet officers are accused of obstructing government actions to President Nixon's re-election campaign. The money was later returned.
Nixon's personal secretary will be called to testify about her review of some tapes.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Sir John Sirica, presiding over a fact-finding hearing into two Watergate-related recordings the White House said never were made, asked that Rose Mary Woods, the secretary, be called as a witness.
A White House lawyer said he assumed Woods will be permitted to testify. Neither the White House nor Woods made any comment.
The request came after presidential aide Stephen Bull testified that Woods reviewed some of the tapes sought in the subpoenas, frequently typing at the same time. Buff refused to say whether a transcript was being made. Bull typed out tapes and tapped and typed Sept. 29 and has continued her review periodically.
Affidavits detailing some efforts to disrupt Nixon's re-election campaign were introduced
Sen. Howard Baker Jr., R-Tenn, introduced a sheet of 40 affidavits into the record of the Senate Watergate committee hearings. The affidavits include details of tactics such as bombings, violent demonstrations, arson and riots.
One affidavit reported a break-in at Nixon's doctor's office in Long Beach, Calif., in which Nixon's records apparently were examined.
In a renewed effort to meet with Nixon, committee chairman Sam Ervin, D.N.C., said that members would be willing to meet with Nixon at the White House. "The president wants us to work together," he said.
Fighting cracked Middle East cease-fire as Kissinger arrived to meet with Sadat.
The cracks were reported along the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights area. Informed men said there was Egyptian and Israeli military intervention on the Suez Canal.
Arab leaders worked out arrangements for a summit conference in Algeria late next week as envoys from Washington and Moscow toured the Mideast. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Cairo after stops in morocco and in Tunis. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyli Mosso was also traveling in search for a peace settlement. He called in Damascus with Syrian leaders amid reports that his next stop would be Baghdad.
Election of governors in Virginia and New Jersey were off-year attractions.
Election of governors in Virginia
Democrat Brendan Bryne swept to a landslide victory in New Jersey, and won the Republican Gov. Gwen swept out a narrow victory over LT. Gov. Ryan Jr., whom he met at the convention.
In New York City, veteran Democratic Comptroller Abraham Beame defeated three opponents to capture the mayorally held for eight years by John Lindsay, who didn't seek re-election. In Cleveland, Republican Mayor Ralph Perk won easily.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is preparing to time fuel controls in order to help improve emergency response.
Fuel Crisis Nixon's Topic
President Nixon, advised by a key aide that voluntary measures wouldn't be enough to meet a mounting energy problem, plans to outline new conservation proposals, in a television radio address tonight. Nixon spent one hour and 45 minutes yesterday afternoon with his Cabinet discussing energy shortages aggravated by a cut-off of imports of Arab oil. And he was to meet with the French president, who called Congress on the same subject this morning.
The White House said Nixon planned a series of suggestions and actions to be accomplished both administratively and through legislation.
GERALD WARREN, deputy press secretary, would not say exactly what steps the President planned to announce. It was learned that among possible actions under active consideration were a 50-mile-per-hour national speed limit, year-round parking restrictions and certain restrictions on the hours of operation of nonessential industry.
The Arab nations' effort to separate archemy Israel from her friends by cutting off their oil, threats to leave the United States short of 14 to 20 per cent of its petroleum needs within a few months, government officials warn.
The loss may force the government to ration fuels, to order businesses to close their plants and to buy equipment from companies also may be ordered to increase production, and power plants told to convert from oil to coal. Clean-air programs may be temporarily scrapped to permit burning of carbon dioxide.
SUCH MEASURES already have been proposed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. Parallel proposals are in preparation by the Nixon administration.
John A. Love, Nikon's energy policy adviser, has told the President that in the long run, he did not think voluntary curbs on emissions would be enough to meet the problem.
During a Florida weekend and again yesterday, Nixon was studying option papers in a search for ways to curtail usage of gasoline, heating and other fuels and yet have the least impact on the daily lives of Americans.
Warren said White House officials, but not necessarily Nixon, would be holding a series of meetings on energy matters this week with elected state and local officials and representatives of business, labor and consumer groups.
AS LATE AS mid-October, when the United States had only its own petroleum bottlenecks to worry about, the administration was clinging to voluntary fuel-saving as a reasonable hope for getting through the winter.
"It's an entirely different situation now," said Duke R. Ligon, director of the Interior Department's Office of Oil and Gas. "The severity may certainly be increased."
"Before," he said, "we were talking about distributing any fuels that might be needed."
End of 'Feedback' Funds Pending
Due to a possible overestimation of the Student Senate budget, senate funding for the printing of "Feedback" will probably be eliminated, Pete Katanzar, Teopenai and member of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, said last night.
"Our projected figures for income received from the student activity fee for the fall and spring semesters are right on the nose. However, our projection for the summer income might be too optimistic," he said.
Kanatzar said the senate estimated last spring that $17,500 would be raised from taxes.
Mr. Ireland, 69 years old, died Sunday,
apparently of a heart attack.
"Last summer we only received $13,000,
though. If this coming summer is like last
summer, we could be off as much as
$4,500," he said.
If the senate budget has been overestimated by $5,500, the difference will have to be made up from the $11,000 contingency fund, he said.
Because of this financial uncertainty, the Finance and Auditing Committee doesn't think it should make any large financial commitments to any organizations, he said.
Funeral services for H. A. Ireland,
professor of geology, will be at 3 p.m.
today at Rumsey Funeral Home.
Kunzat said there was possibly another
$1,000 that the senate had overestimated in
the Senate.
Although the senate was planning to give $3,000 to the Curriculum Instruction Survey (CIS), the program that prints "Feed-ing" would have it, it would only be able to give $2,750 now.
"I am going to make a motion tomorrow to the senate meeting to give CIS $7,750."
Mr. Ireland began teaching at KU in 1948. He was an internationally known authority on the use of acid residues of carbonate.
"I will present my motion at the senate meeting and I know it will be passed. Our problem with CIS was we were being asked to fund $5,000 which we didn't have. I won't in favor of spending a penny more for anybody," he said.
Kanatzar said Nancy Harper, director of CIS, would go to the budget hearings this spring to ask for money from next year's budget to print the fall edition of "Feedback."
money to print 'feedback' for next fall," he said.
Kanatzar said his plan would leave about $3,000 in the contingency fund for emergencies other than CIS and the overestimation of the senate budget.
"This means that at the very worst, we could be $5,500 off on the general budget," he said.
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"I don't expect that to happen, but you have to be prepared."
TOPEKA (AP)—Gov. Robert Docking will ask the state Finance Council to immediate authorization to $25 million for emergency fuel allocation planning.
Docking received the council's approval last week to launch a crash program for state cooperation with the Department of New mandatory fuel allocation program.
The Finance Council, consisting of the governor, lieutenant governor and four legislative leaders, conducts state business when the legislature is not in session.
The council approved a $50,000 emergency appropriation to conduct a study of the state's fuel needs this winter so priorities could be recommended.
Of the $25,219, $16,000 will go for a year's salary for a new position of fuels coordinator.
Docking said he would submit to a council meeting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday his proposal to allocate $2,219 from the state emergency fund to the state budget of Economic Development to establish a state mandate fuel allocation office.
Before the Arab oil cut-off, Lignon and other experts predicted the nation would fall short of its home heating oil needs by at least 100,000 barrels a day, or possibly as much as 800,000 barrels a day depending on weather, refinery breakdowns and weather.
"Now, we're talking about having to cut on fuel consumption under the细则."
The ARAB cutoff, however, dwarfs the original shortage estimate, threatening the United States with a loss of two million to 2.5 million barrels of petroleum each day.
The shortage already has hit Europe. Belgium and the Netherlands have banned Sunday driving to counter reductions of motorists. The countries are contemplating other measures.
Europe's shortage is indirectly hitting the United States through the fuel requirements of China, which is also a major source of the EU.
By mid-November, Lignon said, the effects will begin to be felt.
CONGRESS IS already processing legislation to require complete allocation.
The total possible shortage is between 2.4 million and 3.6 million barrels of the daily U.S. consumption of about 17 million barrels, a loss of 14 to 21 per cent or more.
Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton says if things get bad enough for U.S. friends abroad, this nation may have to share its shortage, presumably by foregoing some available foreign oil so others can import it.
It all adds up to this: A predicted shortage of 100,000 to 800,000 barrels a day, a military claim on domestic oil up to some 340,000 a day, the expected loss of 2 million to 2.5 million barrels of oil and the further loss of an unknown amount of foreign oil to aid Europe and Japan.
"The most critical problem," Morton writes, "is electric generators on the East Coast."
Tankers of U.S. petroleum have sailed to Europe and Canada, where they can expire in the fleet from Italian liner Carnegie.
The administration announced last week that the Pentagon, which normally buys about half of its petroleum贮藏, has been given first priority to purchase U.S.
EUROPE'S North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, and their home nations, depend even more heavily on Arab oil. And so does Japan.
domestic petroleum, breaking civilian supply contracts if necessary.
If that runs out, the result may be electrical browns.
Haworth Contains Fire Hazards, Lawrence Fireman Tells City
By LYN WALLIN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Fire hazards exist in Haworth Hall on the University of Kansas campus, John Kasherberg, assistant chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, speaks at a Lawrence City Commission meeting.
ALLEN WIECHERT, assistant director of the KU Office of Facilities, Planning and Operations, said last night that he wasn't familiar with the situation.
There is presently a Lawrence Arts
Council, but it is not accounted for in the
city plan.
He said that the state fire marshal inspected every building on campus annually, and reported that hazards were corrected at that time.
Kasberger told the commission that he was asked to insure Haworth Hall by a judge, and he said that because University buildings were state property they weren't under the jurisdiction of the city of Lawrence and that the city inspected these buildings only if
"Many accidents are caused every year by storing these liquids in glass containers," he said. "It is an extremely dangerous situation."
Kasperberg also said that flammable liquids were stored in glass containers.
Kashergier said he found two potentially hazardous situations during his inspection Monday. He said that the fire extinguishers in the building were the wrong type and was told that the correct type had been ordered but hadn't arrived.
The purpose of the commission would be "to promote, encourage and coordinate the artistic activity of the commission to the city commission and through coordinating those groups and organizations that identify themselves as primarily concerned with the development of arts."
In other action, the commission directed the city staff to prepare a resolution to address the issue.
THE ARTS COMMISSION would consist of the mayor, the chairman of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission or his appointee and the
chairman of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board or his appointee.
The mayor would also appoint nine members to the commission who are "competent to determine the value of arsenic in the water events which affect the city of Lawrence."
The resolution will be considered for approval Nov. 27.
An ordinance proposing amendments to the present dog control ordinance passed first reading yesterday, after minor changes were made. The proposed ordinance has been referred to a subcommittee to study its legalities.
George Melvin and Eugene Rilking,
Attorneys, protested the ordained
premedial authority.
"This new one is just making the old one worse," said Melnin.
Further action on the ordinance has been deferred until Allen and Barkley Clark, city commissioner, discuss it with Melvin and Riling.
Milton Allen, city attorney, said he had never been asked for a legal opinion on the case.
The Commission also;
"MY HONEST OPINION is that this ordinance won't hold water." Rilke said.
-Approved three rezoning proposals.
—Approved initial rehabilitation for the
Boston Suite to be located at 3000 W. 6th St.
Bayonne, NJ 07012.
*Awarded a $4,022.50 contract to the U.S.
Study Co. of Kansas City for copper tubing
for hydraulic pump applications.*
—Approved new rates for the sanitary landfill.
- Approved the transfer of $50,000 from the tax fund to the special gas tax fund for stockholders.
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Kanaan Staff Reporter
By LYN WALLIN
Ed Covington, minimum housing inspector, said that of 77 houses found out of compliance with city codes, all but 14 those had the necessary repairs ordered by the city.
14 Local Houses Named In Unsafe Housing Report
Covington presented the commission with a list of the 14 houses and a report of needed repairs. He said that specific dates by which the work must be completed were given to the attorney, who will be told in he said, the attorney's office will take legal action against the owners.
Fourteen houses near the University of Kansas campus do not comply with Lawrence's minimum structure codes, the City Commission was told yesterday.
Eight of the 14 houses still not in compliance are owned by Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Caltech. A staff member has passed the deadline set for their repairs.
Traffic Court Plans Appeal Changes
Kanaan Staff Reporter
By JILL WILLIS
Plans are being made to make current traffic appeals procedures more just, Bill Perry, Kansas City second-year law student and a graduate of Kansas Traffic Court, said yesterday.
Members of the Parking and Traffic Board, student senators and several traffic courtJustices met last night to discuss revisions in the present appeals procedure.
Perry also said the court would prepare an affidavit as soon as possible for students who didn't have the money to pay the appeals bond.
"We will attempt to either expand the court system or have more hearings per year."
Mike Sternlieb, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., second-year law student and traffic court justice, suggested that students who can't afford to pay the appeals bond file a notarized financial statement with the Parking and Traffic Board.
"THE STATEMENT should include the rent the student pays, whether he owns real estate and the year of his car, among other things," Sternelbäck said. "This would be reviewed confidently by Berry (Perry), his financial status could not be appealed."
Perry said he didn't think he would have sufficient evidence to decide if a student had committed a crime.
"I think we will have to take the financial affidavits on their face value and the hope that
this system isn't abused," he said. "We should instigate this procedure immediately. If we end up with 1,000 appeals at the end of this semester, we'll have to
PERRY SAID THAT AS chief justice of the traffic court he read all papers filed.
"If the appeal appears to have absolutely
Joe Speelman, Dodge City third-year law student and student senator, questioned the court's justification of denying appeals without a hearing.
"I know a student who paid $5 for an appeal, signed the court docket, and received a card approximately two weeks later saying his appeal had been denied. He never got a hearing. This, to me, is a problem," Speelman said.
One problem mentioned repeatedly by the senators was the financial inability of some students to pay the bond required to file an anheal.
"I agree this is in violation of the senate code, but this is the only way the traffic court has been able to keep up with the current state," he said to arrange this in a better way, "he said.
Speelman said the appeals board was
no merit, I have on occasion denied the appeal before the hearing came up." Perry said. "I have my name and phone number to prove it." Mr. Reed wanted to find why his case was dropped.
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Perry said he thought either the court should be expanded or that hearings should be delayed.
Ling was given deadlines of Oct. 8 to improve his property at 1301 Ohio St. and Oct. 23 for a house at 1228 Ohio St., the report said. Both of these files were forwarded to the city attorney's office for further legal action, Covington said.
According to the report, Ling had “made no effort to begin to comply with any or all rules.”
Ling said he had no comment when asked last night about these properties.
The latest deadline for property owners in
Campbell area to comply with the city
codes is May 20.
If the repairs are not made in time, city officials will post placards on the houses warning that they may be dangerous, Covington said. The city attorney's office will then seek a court order to "enjoin his company and then vacate the property."
There are two categories of repairs to be made, according to the housing inspector: "immediate action priority" and "secondary action priority."
"Everything on this report under immediate action priority has been determined to be dangerous and should be Dennis Kallan, assistant city manager."
The only properties with items listed in the report to receive immediate action prior to receipt are:
This recent action by the city to enforce its minimum structures codes is a result of a report received from federal officials. The report advised the city to take remedial steps before it became ineligible for some federal funding.
The federal report was sent from the regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Kansas City, Kan. It said that the city had "failed to demonstrate adequate progress in co-ordinating housing code compliance program."
The report was intended to help Lawrence prepare for reconsideration to receive clear guidance from the Board.