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84th Year, No. 29
Friday, October 5, 1973
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Water Tank To Be Used To Store Oil
Conversion of an underground water tank into an oil tank will add an extra 10 day supply to reserves of emergency heating fuel for the University of Kansas campus, Harry Buchholz, director of the building and grounds physical plant, said yesterday.
Buchholz said conversion of the tank probably be completed sometime this winter. Design specifications for the conversion haven't been completed by the state contractor. The grounds crew will begin preparations for the conversion within a week, he said.
A proposal to spend $15,000 for the conversion was approved two weeks ago by the Commission.
KU presently has enough emergency oil to last about 13 days. Buchholz said,
KU buildings are heated by natural gas, Buchholz said, but emergency conversion to oil heating is required at least once every winter.
"We have about 280,000 gallons of oil on hand now and we figure we'll use all of this winter. The new tank will hold about 200,000 extra gallons," he said.
"We go on emergency heat every year. Our gas pipelines are fed from Oklahoma and the line continues to Nebraska. When it rains, we get up there, we get cut off," Buchholz said.
When a cuteff does occur, Buchholz said, heavy industries, such as Kansas Power and Nuclear Energy.
"We've been fairly lucky on our feed here. We're on a commercial rather than an industrial feed, so we get cut off at the moment and sometimes they have to cut us off to maintain the supply to hospitals and residential areas." The tank is still being used for water, he
"We have to drain it, dry it, scrape it and change the pipes. It's still used to feed the boilers. Years ago it was used for emergency water supply," Buehbolz said.
"We'll be doing some of the conversion ourselves, but we'll need outside help along the way."
Bicholsa said oil for the converted tank had already been ordered and he expected that it would be shipped.
Kansan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
The original New Orleans jazz sound was recreated last night in a Mardi Gras atmosphere by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Hoech Auditorium. For an encore, 73-year-old Willie Humphrey, center, led a snake dance of about 125 people around the hall to the jazz sound of "When the Saints Go March In." About 75 people jumped onto the stage for invitation to bring the concert to a raining finale. (See Page 5)
Wholesale Prices Fell Last Month
WASHINGTON (AP)—Farm, feed and processed food prices plunged a record 6 per cent in September to pace the biggest decline since 25 years, the government said yesterday.
Chairman Herbert Stein of the President's Council of Economic Advisers called the drop in wholesale prices "a big 1973 surge of inflation is behind us."
But AFL-CIO President George Meany, noting that wholesale prices were still 16.6 per cent higher than a year ago, said there was no evidence this was the start of a
He predicted that this "will prove to be only a momentary pause and prices will bounce up again" once the Cost of Living Council approved price increase requests.
The September drop in wholesale food prices is expected to begin showing up on January 27.
STEIN CAUTIONED, however, that consumers should not expect the decrease to be translated into an equal decline in retail food prices because retailers would try to recover costs frozen during the mid-summer price freeze.
Committees at Odds on Pretenure
Last in a Series
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
The length of the probationary period before tenure is granted and the establishment of area review committees have been established. The committee is short issued by the four tenure committees.
The University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx), in a statement issued Tuesday, disagreed with proposals by the committees on these subjects.
SeenEx opposed lengthening the present seven-year probationary period. The event was first proposed in 1984.
Decisions had recommended lengthening it to nine years.
sensEx also questioned the desirability of an additional review level, such as area committees, between the colleges and the Universities committee on Promotions and Promotion.
"The University of Kansas isn't a small liberal arts college where everybody holds the same standards for scholarship," she said. The professor of social welfare, said recently.
Both the Committee on Tenure Policy and the Committee on Structure and Decision Making had recommended the establishment of area committees.
Chambers, who is a member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities (FRPR), said criteria for awarding tenure should be fairly determined by the various schools and departments within the University.
"SINGLE criterion for competence that covers all the schools and all the departments in the University is really ridiculous," he said. "Because a person is a reputed scholar in astronomy is no longer able to make indements about a scaucer."
Currency a Sign of Old Times
DELBERT COUNTY
KansasStaff Reporter
Most of the support for area committees
has come from Chambers' School of Social
Sciences.
By DEBBY CONNOR
Most of his collection is now on display in Spencer Research Library.
Almost everyone likes to collect money, but Steve Whitfield, Lawrence graduate student, specializes in a certain kind. Whitfield, in pursuing his interest in economics and history, has acquired a sizable collection of early Kansas currency.
Whitfield came to the University of Kansas in 1970 to be an instructor in Army ROTC and to work on a masters degree in business administration. He is presently a full-time student working on a masters degree in civil engineering.
Wittfield said he had been interested in the economic history of the United States for a long time.
"When you are in the service, you get moved around a lot," Whitfield said. "Wherever I've been stationed, I've tried to dig into the local bank history."
WHITFIELD SAID he had been in Lawrence longer than he had been anywhere else while in the service and he went to Rome to delve deeper into Lawrence's history.
"Kansas has had a fascinating history of banking." he said.
Whitfield said that before the Civil War,
the United States government didn't issue paper money. In areas in which gold and silver coins were scarce, the local banks issued their own scrip. Much of this money was issued by legitimate banks and was backed by gold or by land mortgages.
Cities often issued scrip to pay off debts, and local merchants also issued their own paper money. A large amount of paper was issued by banks by that did not exist, he said.
"It is estimated that before the Civil War, about one third of the paper money circulating around the country was bogus currency," Whitfield said.
WHITFIELD'S COLLECTION includes examples of some of these kinds of paper made with wood pulp.
Whitfield has also studied the banking histories of towns surrounding the Lawrence area. He has notes that were issued from Lecompton, Leavenworth,
"I have a signed $1 bill from the Lawrence bank that is one of three known to be worth $1 million," I said, possible that these bills survived only because they were stolen by Quantrill's raiders in 1863. All the rest of the currency was destroyed when it was redeemed for cash.
Tenure decisions should be "localized to departmental and school peers and students being taught by the faculty member concerned." Chambers said.
Topeka, Athelison and Wyandotte (now Kansas City, Kan.)
"The idea," he said, "is that if tenure is to be granted on the basis of competence, then the only people who are in a position to make judgments of competence are people who are familiar with the faculty member's field or profession and students whom he teaches."
Chambers said that unless KU modified its tenure decision-making process, tenure would be lost.
He said he had often turned up interesting bits of history in his research.
"THERE WAS A MAN named Lucien ayer issued who notes under the name of the 'Merchant's Bank' in Leavenworth," Whitfield said. "He would back East and ename the notes to people who were emigrating to Kansas. The bank never existed."
"If we don't decentralize the administration of tenure decisions and
Wescoe Bike Racks Cited as Theft Risk
Kansas Photos by JIM ZIX
Bank Notes Bear Scenes of Lawrence's Past
By BILL WILLETS
Vegan Staff Reporter
Kansan Staff Reporter
Bicyclists who park their bikes in the newly constructed racks near Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union risk having their bicycle, or part of it, stolen, according to Al Hickman. Andover special student and officer of the Mount Oread Bicycle Club.
Hicklin said yesterday that the new reacks near Wescoe and the Union were unsafe because bicycles could only be partially secured in them.
Hicklin said the safest procedure for securing a bicycle was to run a cable or chain around a fixed object and then front and rear wheels on front and rear wheels and around the trame.
"THE NEW DEVICES over by Wescos." Hicklin said, "allow you to pull your bike forward into the rack or back it in. Most people carry a six foot chain. It will not extend through one of those devices, the frame and through both wheels."
Hicklin said the new devices allowed cyclists to lock one wheel and maybe the other.
"If you have a quick release wheel somebody can rip it off," he said. Quick-release wheels can be removed by moving one lever.
The same type of rack is used at the Union. Hicklin said.
THE PROBLEM, HE SAID, is that there are more bicycles on campus than fixed-road roads.
Hicklin said the railings and trees along Jayhawk Blouward had been used by a group of activists.
But the Department of Buildings and Grounds frowns on bicycles being chained to trees, he said, because mowers are forced to mow around the bicycles.
"One nice thing is that Wescoe doesn't have any shrubbery around the parking facilities," Hicklin said. "The bikes are clearly visible."
Hicklin said he thought most bicycles on KU were those that had been left unlocked.
Hucklin said another problem with the new rackets that were they too close together. It is impossible to park two rackets at once, because, because the bandlebars jet in the way.
The new racks may have slots for 200 bait stations but only 100 slots are being used at the same time.
diversify criteria, the whole tenure system is going to continue to be under attack," he said.
HICKLAN SLID THE RACHS should be from opposite directions could be parked
George Latham, manager of Gran Sport bicycle shop, 1226 W. 7th St., said the majority of the locking devices he sold were cables or chains, six feet in length, which allowed the bike to be locked through both wheels and the frame.
Prices of processed foods and feeds, the next step in the wholesale food chain, also fills per cent last month, reflecting price changes in animal feed, meat and processed poultry.
"People take their pick between a cable or chain of six foot length and, according to their preference, a combination or key lock," Latha said.
However, Tuesday's SenEx report to chance a sacrifice R. Dykes said localized injury in the right wrist led him to stop playing.
"I THINK collective bargaining is a legitimate option that will be more and more attractive to more and more faculty members if we can't somehow render the administration of tenure to be fair and equitable."
Many people buy a lightweight bike of 23-30 pounds, be said, and they don't like to buy it.
The major problem with buying a lock for a bicycle it that strong locking devices are designed to prevent.
There is a tendency, Latham said, to sacrifice security for a more convenient
Nevertheless, he said the wholesale price crop would "contribute to a leveling out of" the unemployment rate.
"This is why we focused on a lock that, in our observation, was the most popular. It is not a maximum security door, but someone not equipped with reasonably large tools."
The Labor Department's Wholesale Price Index showed that the over-all decline in wholesale prices last month was 1.8 per cent on an unadjusted basis, the most in any month since a 1.9 per cent drop in February 1948. Seasonally adjusted, the decline was 1.5 per cent, matching the February 1948, adjusted low.
When combined with the drop in farm product prices, the over-all decline in the demand for beef and feed also was 6 per cent on an unadjusted basis and 5.2 per cent adjusted. Both were the biggest declines since the beginning began keeping these statistics in 1947.
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Last month's drop in wholesale prices followed the biggest one-month rise in 27 years, a leap of 5.8 per cent during August, the month in which the administration lifted the freeze on food prices. During the freeze in July, prices fell 1.3 per cent.
CONSUMER FINISHED goods, those products nearest the retail end of the wholesale chain, fell seven-tenths of 1 per cent in August, a sharp 3.8 percent increase in August.
Prices of farm products fell 6 per cent last month—the sharp decline in 25 years—and followed a record 23.1 per cent increase in August.
The government said the decline was mainly the result of lower prices for livestock, corn, fresh and dried vegetables, cotton and milk prices increased, however.
Despite the big September drop, farm product prices were still 55.8 per cent higher than a year ago, with grains up 111.4 per cent, livestock up 43.1 per cent, live poultry 101.7 per cent, milk 29.2 per cent and eggs 66.7 per cent.
ACLU urged Congress to start action on impeachment of President Nixon.
It was the first time in the 53-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union that its board of directors had voted to seek a president's impeachment. The board based its resolution on six grounds in which Nixon bad, it said, affected civil liberties.
"Virtually every administration has violated civil liberties," said Aryeh Neer, ACLU executive director, but this administration has been more tolerant."
Sirica took under advisement a request by Watergate committee for Nixon tapes.
Samuel Dash, chief counsel for the Senate Watergate committee, and Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's attorney, completed arguments over access to tapes of five White House meetings before U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica.
"The President still is a citizen and has a citizen's responsibilities under the law" to turn over the tapes, Dash argued.
Wright argued that the committee had no authority to subpoena the tapes and that the court had no jurisdiction in the case.
G. Gordon Liddy asked for a new trial
on grounds Sirica violated his rights.
Liddy, a convicted Watergate conspirator, said in a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals that U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica "cast himself in the light of a witness, lending the dignity and authority of his office to the words he read to the jury."
The brief said that when Sirice read to a federal jury testimony and bench conferences that had taken place when the jury was absent, he violated Liddy's constitutional rights to cross examine accusers and against self incrimination.
Arrest or questioning of working newsman will require attorney general's approval.
John W. Hushen, the Justice Department's director of public information, said in a speech prepared for the Detroit chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism society, that Atty. Gen. Elliott L. Richardson will sign an order to effect next week.
that effect next week.
Accompanying the order will be similar restrictions barring officials from subpoenaing a reporter without obtaining approval from the attorney general.
Talks between Viet Cong and Saigon suspended after Viet Cong walked out.
Vic Cong State Minister Nguyen Van Hieu walked out of the 28th session in Paris without waiting for the other side to speak.
his team and was marked a protest against what he termed Salugon's continued and continuous violation of the cease-fire signed in Paris more than
Hein stressed that he was only walking out of the 28th session, and demanded that the stalled conference should continue Oct. 11 as if nothing