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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 48
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, November 2.1973
Nixon Found Tape Missing
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Reporter
Lawyer Says President Had First Suspicion
WASHINGTON -The person who first suspected that a critical Watergate conversation was missing from a White House tape was President Nixon himself, presidential lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt said yesterday.
It was disclosed earlier in court that presidential aide Stephen V. Bull had checked out in mid-July a recording made on the same day of the conversation-April 18, 1973. It was also in mid-Tuesday that Stephen V. Bull received several recordings from Bull.
The court hearing was called to determine the circumstances of a White House claim that a tape of Nixon's April 15 conversation with ousted White House counsel John W. Dean III and an earlier tape never existed.
Franklin Stoves Are Hot Again
By VINCENNE SMYTH
By VIKKHAN STAFF REPORTER
Kanmani Staff Reporter
The Franklin fireplace stove, invented in 1742 by Benjamin Franklin, has become one of this year's hottest selling items as a result of the nation's energy crisis.
The wood-burning, cast iron stove stands about three feet tall and weights up to 300 pounds. The arrangement of flues in the open-front stove allows it to use fuel more efficiently than a fireplace because the metal radiates heat into a room, while a
fireplace loses much of its heat up the chimney
More than a century after its debut on the market, the Franklin is still produced by foundries much as it was in the 1870s.
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Because of increased demands for the store, and antiquated methods of producing it, the manufacturers can't fill their orders' orders.
IT'S DIFICULT for Lawrence residents to obtain a Franklin. Three local stores
ween the President and John Dean in the Executive Office Building office or April 15.
Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel suggested yesterday after meeting with President Nixon that Egypt and Israel negotiate a new cease-fire line.
Golda Meir suggested Egypt and Israel more forces on Suez for cease-fire line.
The proposal, made at a news conference, could provide a way of freeing an estimated 20,000 Egyptian soldiers trapped by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip to escape "straightout" and large numbers of people moved" without jeopardizing the cease-fire or harming the political positions of either Egypt or Israel.
A grand jury returned an indictment against 22 in Equity Funding fraud case.
Equity Funding Corp. of America, a financial conglomerate, collapsed into bankruptcy last April.
The indictment said the company padded its books with phantom insurance policies sold to re-insurors, then compounded the fraud with other abusers.
The indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiring between January 1965 and April 1737 to commit federal law violations.
Among those whose indictment was disclosed today were Stanley Goldblum, age 46, former president and chairman of the board of Equity Funding; Fred Levin, age 40, and Samuel B. Lowell, age 34, both former executive vice presidents.
Ford said House Judiciary Committee
Ford, sounded out on a broad range of subjects, said he thought "it might have been much more helpful" if Nixon had disclosed earlier that no tapes existed of two key conversations connected with the Watergate investigation.
He also said no president had an unlimited right to invoke executive privilege but must weigh any such claim against the right to the public to exercise that power.
"I don't believe there are grounds—but that's a personal judgment," Vice President-designate Gerald R. Ford told a Senate committee examining his file.
Should pursue impeachment investigations.
Nixon named Sen. William B. Saxbe, RIO, to be attorney general and approved the selection of Leon Jaworski, Houston to the new special Watergate prosecutor.
Nixon flew to the Florida White House on short notice and left press pool behind.
Nixon, who has been sharply critical of some of the news media, left Washington on such show policies that a small group of reporters that he has been allowed to speak to have
It apparently was the first time in Nixon's presidency that he departed on such short notice that the "Air Force travel tool" was left behind.
Asked why the pool was left behind, White House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said, "The President decided to go, 'and there was not what it took.'"
Another plane was assigned to take the White House press corps, as well as the pool members, to Florida 2% hours after the President's departure.
Canada, U.S.'s top source of foreign oil,
Energy Minister Donald MacDonald told the House of Commons the tax would increase from 40 cents a barrel to $1.90 a barrel. The 40 cents a barrel
The United States imports about 70 million barrels of oil and petroleum products each month from Canada. Macdonald said the export tax increase was to ensure that Canadian oil was sold at a "just and reasonable" price on the U.S. market.
stock wood-burning stoves. Sears Roebuck and Cox. *Matsui's Hardware*. and Jones *Hammond's Hardware*.
All three stores have noticed an increasing demand for Frankins in the last two years. Bob Grothaus, a clerk at Sears, said sales had increased this week for the three types of wood-burning stoves stored by Sears.
Saxbe, if confirmed, would replace Elliot L. Richardson, who resigned 20. in the 1980s to become a professor.
Sales of the Franklin, Grothus said, have risen the most. Sears also pot-bellied
Don Malott, manager of Malott's Hardware, said his store didn't have any Franklings in stock at the moment, although he does have other types of stoves.
HE CAN ORDER more Franklings, he said, but delivery is unpredictable.
"I don't know how long the wait would be before delivery," Maiott said. "Even last year Franklinls ordered at this time of year weren't delivered before January."
Buzhardt attempted to show with three witnesses that there were many conversations on April 15—an extra-busy Sunday and a red-letter day in the boiling Watergate crisis—the that tape ran out on Monday and the recording device in the President's office.
Haydn Jones, manager of Jones Farm Supply & Rent-All, said his supply of "Air-Tight" wood-burning stoves was "practically nil."
"I've ordered three different times for the stove, and I can't get a one," said Jones. He said he had no idea when the supply would please, but that he would "just keep in mind"
Buzhardt thus changed the story slightly from Wednesday when he disclosed that two of the nine subposed recordings were taken at a switching device had malfunctioned.
Jones said there was almost no interest in stoves two years ago, but that now it was more accessible.
MALOTT PREDICATED that by the time winter sets in this year the demand for stoves "will just about have doubled" from what it was two years ago.
MALOTT SAID THE increase in demands for the Franklin stove and for wood-burning stoves in general was more noticeable last year compared to the year before.
"It's like going from zero to 100 per cent. Everybody's wanting one."
None of the three stores stock coal-burning stoves.
Along with the increased demand for wood-burning stoves, the price for a cord of wood has risen proportionately. Malott说 that last year a card of wood on a stack of 10 or more cards would cost $2 deep and 8 feet long cost about $40 to $45. This year a card will cost about $65, he said.
"THE PRESIDENT was reviewing the tapes himself," Buzhardt told a reporter after court, placing the time within the last one of the first one that didn't find it (the Dean Tane).
"He called me in and said 'you check it.'" A detailed search was instituted and, Buzhard said, "we were pretty sure they were not there. Yesterday morning I determined finally that they were not there."
Zamwait said he didn't know whether or not a tape recording of conversation bet-
The last conversation on the tape was between the President and former Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst in the afternoon, Buzhardt said. The conversation with Dean was from 9:17 to 10:12 p.m. that day.
ZUMWALT SAID his notes show Bull checked out three tapes on July 10, including two reels of the Sept. 15, 1972, conversations Halderman he listened to. On the following day, Zumwalt said, Bull checked out more tapes, including the April 15 recording.
Bull, took them home, kept them for two days and returned them.
Raymond C. Zumwalt, a Secret Service technician, testified that the computer printout showed no one entered the room where the recorders were kept on either April 14 or 15.
THE TAPE 15 is considered vital by the Watergate special prosecution staff because Dean testified that his April 15 conversation with Nixon included the President's whispered remark that he was probably foolish in earlier discussing an offer of executive clementy for Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
Bull, a special assistant to the President, is one of three witnesses scheduled to be at the meeting.
U. S. District Court Judge J. John S. Ural called yesterday's hearing to make the case against the governor.
There was no explanation for a Roman numeral one that appeared on the tape box—a notation that Zumwalt said sometimes indicated the first of two reels.
Haldeman told the Watergate committee that he had listened, sometime between July 9 and 11, to a recording of an earlier meeting between Nikon and Dean. He said he also received several other tapes but didn't listen to them. He said he got them from
University Will Help LA&S, CIS Funding
By SUZI SMITH Kanaan Staff Reporter
The University has decided to fund $14,000 of the $19,000 needed by the Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAAS) 48 and 98 courses and the Curriculum and Instruction Survey for next fall. The student body presides, told the Student Senate Executive Committee last night.
Evan Ellen, Salina senior and StudEx chairman, made the same announcement at a meeting of the Finance and Auditing Committee (F&A) already in progress, and asked the committee to recommend that the committee fund, $8,000, from the contingency fund.
Mike Steinmetz, Shawnee Mission graduate student and body treasurer, said that the contingency fund totaled $11,049.79, but that the senate's projected income of $209,980 hadn't been reached until next fall; time equivalence enrollment figures.
Olson said the University's income this semester had been about four per cent
Ellen Reimers, St. Louis senior and F&A member, said that if there was a similar shortage in senate activity fee funds, the senate could already be out of money.
If everyone who was allocated money
would all their money, we will end up in the
banks.
The senate is authorized to give up to 40 per cent of the contingency fund to the two
Figures introduced by Ed Rolfs, Junction
City sophomore, indicated that the senate would have about $7,700 less income than the median.
Steinmetz said the contingency fund was almost $30,000 less than expected because no one had thought to adjust projected and actual income figures for 1973.
The committee decided to postpone a vote on recommendation until Steinmetz could meet with Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor of the university, and projected and actual income for the semester.
Body Identified By Authorities
A man pronounced dead-on arrival yesterday afternoon in Watkins Memorial Hospital has been identified as Randy Webster, age 19, of 10th Indiana St.
Webster isn't enrolled at KU, according to University Relations and Development.
He was found shortly after noon in his apartment by his landlord and taken to
The Lawrence Police Department said there was no evidence of foul play. An autopsy was being performed last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Police said they had been looking for Webster because they had a warrant charging him with sale of heroin. They said there were drugs he died from an overdose of these.
Appeal Procedure Called Illegal
The Student Senate has scheduled a public hearing to investigate alleged violations of state and national laws by Security and Parking appeals procedures, according to Rick McLaughlin, Dallas junior and chairman of the senate's student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee.
The hearing will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Governor's room of the Kansas Union. McLaughlin said Wednesday that the traffic appeals procedures were in direct view of the judge, who became a person was forced to pay his fine before he was allowed to file an appeal.
"According to the law" he said, "the person who is determined by a person's financial status."
McLaughlin said he knew of a case in which a person was denied the right to appeal his tickets because he didn't have the money to pay the appeal bond.
"Last year there weren't many appeals," he said. "However, this year there have been quite a few and this is the first year that he had to post a fine before they can appeal.
"Instead of considering the merit of each case, they (the University Traffic Appeals
Board) are acting on the number of appeals requested. We can't have people making policy that depends on the particular circumstances of each particular year."
At the public hearing, McLaughlin said, he hopes to get suggestions from the appeals board and from faculty and students complaints about the present procedure.
Joe Speelman, Dodge City third-year law student and student senator, said that unless the appeals procedure was changed, the Court would be against the Security and Parking Board.
Cancer Victim's Fight Inspired Many
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kanaan Staff Reporter
Barby Bauer was an attractive, determined, 24-year-old Blonde who wanted to pursue a teaching career and she was outstanding. She maintained a 4.0 grade point average both in high school and at the University of Kansas. As she wanted very much to live
She died after a five-year battle with
tumor. She had cancer and predicted
would last only a few months.
Barby Bauer died last week.
"The greatest tribute to Barby is the way she filled her life," Boev Goenner, Kingman senior, said last week. Goenner is president of the New York chapter of SOSU, security of which Barby was a member.
Barby learned of her illness less than a year after she graduated from Wichita Southeast High School in 1987. She entered the music department at Westlake plans to major in vocal music and drama.
"She did so much in such a short time," Goenner said.
"WHEN SHE CAME for Christmas in 1967, she didn't look well and said she was tired," said Vernon Nicholson, her high school vocal music instructor for three years. "When she came home for Easter, she came to a doctor and learned she had cancer."
An operation revealed a malignant tumor of the colon.
"The doctors only gave her half a year, but she didn't know that," said her father, Robert Bauer. "Somewhere along the line she realized that it was terminal, but she wouldn't accept it. She said she could lick it."
In high school she participated in dramatic and musical productions. She was chosen outstanding senior girl. She also worked with the Wichita Community Theatre and was a counselor and sailing coach at a girls' summer camp in Minnesota.
BY THE TIME she entered the University of Kansas in the fall of 1968, she had had two
She wrote on her admissions form that she planned to become a teacher of theater
"I hope to find challenge and enjoyment in my studies at KU," she wrote. "I am really looking forward to the theater and voice programs."
She wrote that she was hopeful about her illness.
"I KNEW HER for several years before I
"I am undergoing x-ray treatment and
I am probably will be in good shape in a few
months."
She began auditioning for dramatic plays and had roles in nine University Theatre productions in five years. Last spring she played the second female lead in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" and won a University Theatre drama award.
Barby was a member of the chamber choir for five years.
"She had very little patience for those she didn't do their work. She was in agony,
knew of her illness," said Tom Rea, associate professor of speech and drama and assistant director of the University Hospital where she worked about it. She was convinced it would heal.
Barry's voice teacher the last four years was Kienneth Smith, chairman of the voice department.
"I was her adviser her first year here," Smith said. "I knew of her problem, but she was not as much concerner about that as her desire for education and training she wanted."
"She was tremendously loyal to the chair," said James Falston, chair director. "I would have gone with the choir on four tours. I can remember many times when she would practically collapse when she got on the floor and feet and ready to sing at the next concert."
Barbv Bauer
BARRY HAD THE best performance record of any student in the voice department from 1969 to 1973, Smith said. She continued to perform solos and in recitals as well.
She received the sword of honor award from the Sigma Alpha lota music fraternity.
Lambia music honorary fraternity and of Mortar Board.
She also joined Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She wanted to live in the sorority house but was too ill, according to Ann Oliver, Paola senior and sorority member.
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