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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No. 36
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, October 16, 1973
Profs Scoff At Theory Of Black Hole
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Gasoline retailers may raise prices, the Cost of Living Council announced.
The increases will range up to 1.5 cents a gallon and go into effect immediately.
The council also confirmed it was all but abandoning its system of rigid gasoline price ceilings, which had caused some gasoline retailers to close in August.
The council said that effective Nov. 11 planned to allow gasoline retailers to increase prices automatically to reflect higher wholesale costs.
Gerald Ford said his concern was
to 'solve the problems of the future.'
Ford, nominated by President Nixon to replace Spro Agnew in the nation's No. 2 elected office, was in Portland, Ore., to address a druggist's
"My whole attitude is that ever day a day that we can start anew in seeking a solution to whatever the problem may be in the next 24 hours."
Three of Thailand's military leaders
left the country after 2 days of riots.
Radio Thailand announced that the leaders—former Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, Deputy Premier and Field Marshal Prapahus Charashtian, and Col. Narong Kittikachorn—fled Bangkok and flew to an undisclosed destination in a move to restore peace.
Justice Douglas said the late LBJ thought that LBJ's phone was tapped.
Supreme Court Justice Wintamus, in an attack on what he called the "dirty business" of wirewapping, said that the late President confided that the Supreme Court would not be allowed to certain that the Supreme Court's conference room was bugged. The most deliberate deficiencies of the justices on pending cases take place in the room.
Douglas' assertion came in a dissent to a court action in a wiretap-related case.
in a runoff mayoralty election.
Race is the biggest issue in Atlanta in a runoff mayoralty election
Incumbent Jewish Mayor Sam Massell is being challenged today by popular black Vice Mayor Maxvard Jackson.
Ironically, Massell, who rode to victory four years ago as a liberal with overwhelming black support, is the candidate accused of injecting racism
Massell has sought to tie Jackson with Hosea Williams, a black activist candidate in a runoff for president of City Council. Massell's aides speak of the "Jackson-Williams team," which he claims "scares Atlantans to death."
In turn, Jackson has accused Massell of attempting to polarize the city's almost equal numbers of black and white voters.
The Israeli military command announced the first official lists of war casualties.
The command said 658 soldiers died in the first eight days of the war and about 2,000 were wounded.
Israeli leaders had warned their people to brace for heavy casualties. But few expected the number of dead and wounded to be so high.
A grim-faced Moshe Dayan, Israel's defense minister, told a nationwide television audience: "We will continue to fight with heavy heart. We must keep fighting."
U.S. Sends Arms to Israel Action Follows Russian Pledge to Arabs
By the Associated Press
The State Department announced in Washington yesterday that the United States had begun to resupply Israel with military equipment, citing what it called a massive Soviet airlift to replenish Arab arsenals.
The Soviet Union pledged a determination to assist in every way the Arab battle to liberate lands captured by Israel in 1967, Tass reported.
The official Soviet news agency said the promise was made during talks between Soviet Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev and President Houari Bombiede of Algeria on "Israel's imperialist aggression."
The announcement of open U.S. arms delivers to Israel could fuel more anti-American sentiment in the Arab world, where US forces have targeted U.S. arms being sent to the Jewish state.
EGYPT CLAIMED its tanks dug in along new lines in the Sinai yesterday and Israel reported routing an Iraqi tank column on the side of the Euphrates. East War raged through its 10th day.
The Tel Aviv command said Israel warplanes bombed and stranded targets near the city of Beirut, where the skies over both fronts. But Cairo said it shot down nine Israeli planes attacking Egyptian air bases and staged a dawn command raid in the desert behind Israel's
The United Arab Emirates, which include two Persian Gulf oil countries, told Nixon that the United States have their deep concern over the arms shipments. Similar sentiments have been voiced in stronger language by Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Libya and by Libya since the conflict began Oct. 6.
PRESIDENT NIXON said at a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House that U.S. policy was directed at the right of every nation in the Middle East to maintain its independence and security. He did not comment on the arms deliveries.
portuguese sources in Lisbon said U.S. military cargo planes and Phantom jets were passing rapidly through an American base in the Azores, heading east.
There has been much talk in Arab capitals of an oil cutoff, such as the three-month run in 1967. Oil-producing Arab countries in Kuwait to discuss oil's role in the war.
The Israeli push into Syria was reportedly slowed by heavy Syrian tank and artillery fire about 21 miles from Damascus, near the border of Syria. The correspondent John Vinocur said from the front that Syria's Soviet-built cannons were blasting Israeli positions all along the 19
BUT THE U.S. government released figures in Washington purporting to show that the United States could get along at a higher rate if the Arab countries cut off oil.
Heights cease-fire lines.
But the Israeli command claimed later in Tel Alav that the Israeli tanks crashed through Iraqi armor on the central Syrian front and advanced into more Arab-baid territory.
"DOZENS OF TANKS were destroyed and the remnants of the enemy units scattered and retreated," the communique said.
Israeli tank crews in the column battling up the road to Damascus told Vincor they destroyed about 25 Arab tanks in duels that lasted most of the day.
"Tank battles are still raging in the northern sector of the front," a Syrian official said.
Syria charged that Israeli air strikes included bombing of civilian targets at
Agnew Praises Nixon, Wants Court Reform
WASHINGTON (AP) - Spiro Agnew bade farewell to public life last night with praise for Vice President-designate Gerald Ford. "We are grateful," he said, as a result of "my nightmare come true."
Agnew, who resigned Wednesday and not contest a charge of federal income tax evasion, vowed that his final moments on the floor would not be spent in "a paroxysm of bitterness."
And, although the words were emotional,
his nationally televised farewell address
was delivered in calm, unimpassioned
tones.
AGNEW REPEATED his denial of bribery and extortion accusations, and noted that his tax conviction stemmed from a plea of no contest, not a guilty plea. He was fired $10,000 and sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation.
Agnew departed with words of praise for President Nixon, who had personally approved major decisions made by government prosecutors in the bargain that led to his resignation and conviction on the one tax charge.
nomination" in choosing Ford to succeed him as vice president.
The nomination of Ford, now House Republican leader, has been sent to a receptive Democratic Congress, which is expected to confirm the choice.
"He'll make an excellent vice president and he is clearly qualified to undertake the highest office should the occasion require," Agnew said.
AGNEW SAID Nixon made "a wise
Agnew complained that leaked accounts of the federal criminal investigation into his activities as governor of Maryland and as vice president had prejudiced his civil rights and had put him in an impossible situation.
AGNWE SAID he hoped the trauma of his case would "form the crucible out of which a new system of campaign financing is forged," to avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing by public officials in raising political funds.
Agnew urged an overhaul of political laws, to provide public financing for every candidate for office. He also urged reform of the system of justice, and urged the use of immunity to gain testimony against people accused of wrongdoing.
Latakia and Tartus, Mediterranean ports with major oil installations.
The Tel Aviv command san iran jas were bombing fuel deposits. It said the Israeli warplanes also attacked the Syrian tanks defending the road to Damascus and pounded Egyptian missile batteries and air base S3 and 36 miles from Cairo.
AIR RAID SIRENS howled over the Egyptian capital for the fourth time since the conflict broke out. Residents reported hearing faint explosions but no damage was seen and the all-clear sounded 55 minutes later.
The Syrian Embassy in Athens released a statement claiming that Syrians have captured American pilots from planes shot down during air raids on Syrian towns.
"Among the planes shot down by the Syrian air defense were also American Phantoms, bearing no markings of the Israeli air force, plotted by American pilots who have been captured by our forces," it said without identifying the milots.
U. S. officials in Washington have denied any U.S. involvement in the war. Israel has equipped its air force with many U.S.-built Phantom jets.
THE SYRIAN COMMUNIQUES made no mention of active participation in the war with Iraq, and the United States Hussein and King Faisal announced over the weekend that Jordanian and Sandi contingents were joining the Iraqis and the Syrians reported backing the hardened Syrians.
But neither monarch said how many soldiers had been dispatched and there were no reports of hostilities along Jordan's border to the eastern edge of Israel-held land.
Israel claimed again it was shelling the suburbs of Damascus with its U.S. built 175mm howitzers, which have a 20-mile range. But residents of the Syrian capital reported by telephone to Beirut that they had seen or heard no shelling.
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By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Maintenance, Service Employes To Vote on Union Representation
Maintenance and service employees at KU, including building and grounds and food service workers, will vote tomorrow (Wed.) whether to be represented by the City Council of Public Employees (KAFE), by public Service Employees Local 132, or by her.
The election will be the final step in the unionization process that began in 1972
Mertes Says Education in Key Era
Editor's note—This is one of a series of profiles of the 10 semi-finalists for the 1973 HOPE award. The field will be narrowed to five finalists. Nov. 4 at a recognition banquet. Final voting will be Nov. 6 and 7, and the award will be presented Nov. 10 during halftime of the KU-Colorado football game.
A spirit of enthusiasm unequalled anywhere exists among faculty members in the sciences at the University of Kansas, a professor, professor of medicinal chemistry.
But KU is in danger of losing some of its key faculty members to industry, Mertes says, unless Kansans reorder their priorities with regard to education.
By MARY LOFTUS Kansan Staff Reporter
"The worst thing would be for education to fall to the unenthusiastic. Unless you have good teachers to stimulate young minds, we need knowledge that we have today will be lost."
MERTES IS a semi-finalist this year for the HOPE award, given annually by the senior class to an outstanding faculty member.
"We have entered an era critical to higher education," he says, "and unless there is a more favorable response made within the new years, the result will be mediocre teachers."
Mertes says he will remain on the KU tacuity if he continues to have the op. at least until he is released.
Mertes says the future of pharmacy is dependent on the pharmacist being an expert in all aspects of drug action. "Drugs are becoming increasingly sophisticated
His teaching is divided equally between graduate and undergraduate pharmacy students, he says. Medicinal chemistry gives them an understanding of the chemical relations that account for drug action.
"But that knowledge will only be useful for ten years." Therefore, he says, "We're also teaching them to educate themselves. Only they can do it." We now operate effectively 30 years from now.
Mertes says he teaches pharmacy students about the drugs currently in use.
Mertes says his students are taught theories that provide the basis for understanding new developments in pharmacy.
Mertes devotes about one-fourth of his 60-hour week to cancer research. "It fulfills the need to maintain my own enthusiasm," he says, "and I enjoy it."
and too complex for the physician to be expected to understand them all." The M.D. can't be expert in diagnosis and in drugs, he savs.
"IN 20 YEARS, when researchers find causes for cancer, the practicing pharmacist will need to be more aggressive."
He foresees an approaching state of individual therapy. Health care teams made up of doctors, pharmacists, and other health care individuals will pool their knowledge, he says, to provide the best medical treatment on an individual basis.
Mertes has been nominated for the HOPE award before, but he says he isn't entirely sure why his students consider him a good teacher. "It's not because my jokes are good," he says. "This is not the Bob Hope award."
"TIM FUTURISTIC," says Mertes. "Maybe that a product of getting older."
A fellow faculty member says he has noticed that Mertes has a special rapport
with students. "They recognize in him a sympathetic person interested in their progress." Availability is another key to success as a teacher, the faculty member says.
Mertes urges students to talk to him if they are having trouble with one of his classes, or even if they have no particular problem. "When they're hungry for knowledge," he says, "it's our job to feed them."
Availability is a quality often mentioned by Mertles 'students. "He's one of the more willing to discuss the material," says one of our students, "and it is possible without any science teacher I've bed."
benefits, must be approved by the state finance council and the legislature. On nonfinancial items, Reers say, KAPE is just as competent as Local No. 1132.
MERTES SAYS he dermands a lot of his students. His students say he is helpful and respectful.
when the employees decided to form a bargaining unit. The unit was approved by the Kansas Public Employees Relations Committee and was originally scheduled for March of 1973.
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Lloyd Rose, business manager for Local No. 1132, says he won't comment on the advantages of representation by his union, because he doesn't believe in "publicly running another organization down." Every organization has its good points, he says.
The election was postponed, however, when charges were leveled against the University by one of the unions seeking to represent KU employs.
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Prof. Mertes Devotes One-Fourth of His Work to Cancer Research
Gary Reser, executive director of KAPE, says his group can better represent the maintenance and service employees than Local No. 1132 because KAPE already represents the maintenance and service employees in facility and thus has experience in the area.
HE SAYS THAT KAPE, with about 4,000 members, is larger than Local No. 1132 and thus can bring more clout to the legislature in matters of law, such as wages and fringe agreement, such as wages and fringe
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, says the KU administration is observing a policy of strict enforcement against students tomorrow. The University isn't pushing for one organization or the other to win, he says.
AFTER THE employees choose their union, Nitcher says, the University will be in a position to recommend a memorandum
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Faculty Pay Disparity Discussed by Regents
KANSAS CITY, Kan—A plan to increase faculty salaries, operating funds and building programs at the six state supported colleges and universities was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents last night at an area legislative dinner here.
Jackson said the regents requested a 10
The board of regents assigns number one priority in its legislative budget requests to additional faculty salary support, Jackson said.
"Faculties are the key to quality," Jackson said. "No institution is better than the people who staff it, who teach in it and who with others their knowledge and services."
Regent Elmer Jackson of Kansas City, Kan., said the regents were concerned with the widening disparity between the pay scale of the faculties of Kansas-supported universities and colleges and those of other schools.
The requested increase included a 10 per cent merit salary increase for faculty members of the University of Kansas and Wichita State University. An 11 per cent increase was requested for faculty members at Fort Hays State College, Kansas Teachers College at Emporia and Kansas State University.
per cent increase in funds for laboratory expenses and other operating expenses. The regents requested $31 million, he said, to be used with federal funds to improve the physical plants of the universities and colleges.
Jackson said that KU was $2,354 behind in the average salary per faculty member compared to other institutions in the Association of American Universities. Per capita income in Kansas has increased 46 per cent since 1967, Jackson said. During that time, faculty salaries increased 27.6 per cent, he said.
About 10.8 per cent of all state universities and college building need minor remodeling, Jackson said. 9.5 per cent need modeling and 11 per cent need to be replaced.
Chancelor Archie R. Dykes, who was at the dinner, said the regents' request, if approved, would give her a 10 per cent increase in funding, while a 10 per cent increase in operating funds.
Dykes said he thought many KU faculty members were waiting to see whether the legislature would approve the relegents' request to stay at the University, whether or not to stay at the University.
"This is a very critical year for higher education," Dykes said. "If increased funds aren't forthcoming, real deterioration will begin to set in."