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KANSAN
84th Year, No.25
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, October 2, 1973
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No Bicycle Is Safe from Theft, as Bicycle Owners Are Well Aware
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Bicycle Thefts Increasing
By JEFREY HILL
Karman Staff Reporter
It's relatively easy to steal a bicycle. Most bike owners, however, probably would agree that it's not so easy to get one back once it's been stolen.
And, according to local law enforcement officers, it not going to get an easier in-
Lately the Lawrence and Topeka police departments and the University of Kansas department of Security and Parking have been increasing number of unsolved bike thefts.
Officials of the three departments yesterday expressed hope that the new department would improve.
"Investigation is extremely difficult in the lack of physical evidence," Ellison said.
Capt. Bob Ellison of KU Security and Parking said recovery of stolen bicycles and apprehension of the thieves were dif- frum unless a witness to the crime was found.
"WITNESSES ARE difficult to find because nothing is particularly out of the ordinary about someone riding a bicycle. Unless a suspect is apprehended in the commission of the crime, identification of a suspect is difficult."
Prosecution of suspects is also difficult, he said.
"Even if you catch someone with a stolen bicycle, there is no guarantee of getting it out," says Jeffrey. "A bicycle to someone else there is a possibility that the buyer isn't aware that the bicycle was stolen. You have to prove intent and knowledge of the crime, which is terribly difficult."
Security and Parking also has had difficulty investigating bike thefts because of the large number of bicycles stolen, and because other cases have higher priority.
"We investigate what cases we have on priority basis," Ellison said. "Personal information is collected."
TWENTY THREE BIKES have been reported stolen on campus since Aug. 28, 2013.
Sgt. Mike Garcia of the Lawrence Police
Department said that 265 bicycles had been reported stolen and 148 bicycles had been recovered.
Forty-six of the recovered bikes have been released to their owners, Garcia said. Of the 48 bikes that have gone unclaimed for months since their recovery, 43 have been sold.
"We're required by ordinance to hold recovered bikes for six months, after which time we sell them at police auctions to the highest bidder if they are unclaimed." he
The remaining 8 unclaimed bikes, he said, have not yet been held six months.
A detective is sometimes assigned to investigate bicycle thefts, but the Lawrence Police Department has no detectives assigned only to like thief cases, Garcia
"Solen bikes are usually either found on unmarked roads, or they find them in the yard," he said.
citizens who find them in the Topeka Detective D.D. Moremore of the Topeka City Department's library of stolen bicycles was nearly impossible if the victim didn't know the serial number of the bike.
"THE ONLY WAY we can find a bike is if we have the serial number and get the report quickly so we can canvas the neighborhood in which it was stolen." DeMoore writes, "We are not in another city, chances are the bike will be in another city by the time we can look for it."
Even when a stolen bike is found, the thief is rarely apprehended. DoeMar said.
"We haven't had many apprehensions," he said. "It's usually some kid who says he bought it from some other kid, I've heard that story so often I'm sick of it."
A person who has stolen a bike worth $200 will usually sell it for $75 to $125, according to Uber.
"We've had some cases where people drive around in vans and use bolt cutters to cut a half dozen bikes at a time." De Haas said. "That's pure profit if they sell them,"
Because recovery of stolen bikes is difficult, De Moore said the Topeka队 have concentrated on prevention of bike theft.
"WEHAVE a helvella case load. Between
100 and 200 bikes have been stolen in Topeka
and the other two in Nebraska."
"We finally got an ordinance passed which goes into effect in November," De Moore said. "It requires that every bicycle be registered through the fire department."
'scover about 20 per cent, so I haven't had too much luck.'
Lawrence also has an ordinance which requires payment of a fine by anyone riding an un-registered bike. But Ellison estimated that less than half of the bikes in Lawrence were registered. He said entitlement to registration would be because of the number of bicycles that would have to be checked for the registration number.
Storm Relief Planned Docking to Revisit Damaged Areas
TOPEKA (AP)—Gov. Robert Doeking was to return today to the six counties of north-central Kansas hit hardest by last week's tornaodes.
CLAY CENTER and Greenleaf were the hardest hit of the dozen communities which reported tornado damage last Tuesday night.
"I want to return to the area that was hit by tornadoes in order to determine the effect of our cleanup operations," Docking said yesterday. "I also want to visit the various outlets offering assistance to the family to make sure they are being cared for."
the governor was due to try to clay Center about 11 a.m. and then to tour the areas of Clay, Rice, Ottawa, McPherson, Washington and Saline counties by
An office was to open at 8 a.m. today in the city hall at Clay Center. A mobile office, expected to reach Greenleaf sometime today, will provide information and application forms for area residents on all roads into the city and state loans and services. Tobin said.
After his tour of the tornado-damaged counties, Docking was to go to Wichita to inspect the Arkansas River area between Wichita and Hutchinson at the request of Sedgwick County Commission chairman Earl Rush.
REPRESENTATIVES OF the governor's office attended a briefing yesterday given by Federal Disaster Assistance Administration officials to teams of federal agents assigned to set up disaster relief offices in Clar Center and Greenleaf today.
Francis Tobin, Kansas City regional office director for the disaster administration, has representatives of several agencies outline what services they could provide.
They include loans of up to $55,000 for dwellings and household goods at 5 per cent interest for 30 years from the Small Business Administration, 5 per cent long-term loans to farmers from the Farmers Home Administration, and unemployment benefits of $44,873 a week for those whose jobs were ended by destruction of businesses.
KU Officials Negative On Tuition Increase
Kansan Staff Reporter
By JEFFREY STINSON
A proposal that would more than double college tuition rates and increase financial aid to students drew negative reactions away from University of Kansas officials.
The recommendation was issued yesterday by the Committee for Economic Development, a private organization that provides foundations and individual contributions.
The committee's report said increased tuition rates and an expanded system of student aid would be one method of helping students afford financial support to public institutions.
"All increased tuition would do is slam the door in the face of many," Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday. "If tuition was increased, I'd expect a number of people here couldn't continue to go to college."
Agnew Case Nearing Time Limit
On Oct. 22, 1968, the Maryland State Board of Public Works held its last major session before Agnew left the office of governor. At that session, seven major
WASHINGTON (AP)—Federal prosecutors are racing the calendar to complete their investigation of Spiro Agnew before statutes of limitations run out on alleged crimes of which the vice president is accused.
THE STATUTES on conspiracy to commit bribery or extortion are five years; on conspiracy to commit tax evasion or fraud. six years.
Agnew is under investigation by a special federal grand jury in Baltimore for possible violation of bribery, extortion, tax and commerce laws while governor of Iowa.
Under federal law, prosecution for bribery and extortion must be initiated within five years of the commission of the crime. After five years, no legal action can be taken. The statutes of limitations on tax evasion and tax fraud are six years.
It is known that the prosecutors in Baltimore are moving as quickly as possible to present evidence to the grand jury.
Legal arguments may be made that the statutes on at least some of the alleged crimes expire in as little as three weeks, it was learned yesterday.
Crucial to that effort was the ruling last week by U.S. Dist. Court Judge Walter
Hoffman that the grand jury investigation may continue while Agnew's lawyers and the Justice Department battle in court over whether he should investigate a sitting vice president to investigate a sitting vice president.
Those contracts involved construction of approaches to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Baltimore Outer Harbor Tunnel, the two projects financed out of a $220 million bond issue.
SHOULD THE panel wish to indict Agnew for torture, bribery or conspiracy to commit either of those crimes in connection with the Oct. 22, 1968 awards, Agnew's lawyers reportedly are considering an argument that the accused argued after Oct. 22, 1973—five years after the meeting, sources close to the case reported.
engineering contracts were awarded totalling more than $5.6 million.
"This morning the attorney general assured the White House that Attt. Asty. Gen. Petersen was not the source of the statement reported on CBS," said Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald Warren.
All records involving these contracts have been subpoenaed by the Ballantine grand拍
Agnew also attacked Atten. Atty. Henry E. Petersen as the source of a controversial news leak about the interview with Mr. Clinton, said Atten, Genn. Elliot Richardson had assured President Nixon that Petersen was not the source of the CBS news report Sept. 22. That report quoted says as saying, "We've got the evidence; we've got it cold."
By that reasoning, however, the prosecutors should have until Oct. 22 of next year to pursue allegations of violation of tax laws, the sources said.
"the attorney general assured the White House that Assit. Atty. Gen. Petersen had told me he was going to vote."
IN THE MEANTINE, Agnew was to return here late yesterday afternoon from a weekend on the West Coast during which he made the strongest statement in his personal defense since he disclosed Aug. 6 that he was under investigation.
Dykes estimated that about 85 per cent of college age youths from families with an annual income of $15,000 or more would attend college regardless of their academic background.
Despite all the federal and state money given to higher education, Dykes said, family income is still the most important factor in determining who goes to college.
About 15 per cent of the college age youth from family that makes less than $15,000 annually.
15 is not my idea of higher education," William Balfour, vice chancellor of student affairs, said of the proposal. "I think most public school people are against it."
Balfour he was against the proposal because public higher education should be taught in schools.
Students coming from middle class families would be hurt because they usually aren't eligible for federal assistance, Bulford said.
The report recommended that middle and upper income families, as well as low and moderate income families have access to financial aid.
"We recommend that federal funding of undergraduate education be primarily through grants and loans to individual students, coupled with their ability to pay," the report states.
francis Heller, professor of political science and law, said the taxpayer would still be paying for higher education regardless of whether the money was given to the student or the college's administration.
"The recommendation is just changing the appearance in which the taxpayer is paying for higher education," Heller said. Heller said that for the program to work, it would have to be adopted on a widespread basis.
"The institution that tries it alone will almost certainly be head for disaster" he
"The money in Washington has been spent," Jeff Weinbink, assistant director of the student financial aid office, said. "We have to look to Toreka."
The money for scholarships and financial aid would have to come from the federal government.
Weinberg said present financial aid from the state to students was "next to nothing".
"The hope for money is on the state level, not on the federal level," he said.
Weinberg said he anticipated a tuition increase soon anyway.
Federal officials estimated damage in the six counties at $7 million, although some think that estimate is too conservative. That figure includes $5.1 million damage to homes and businesses and $1.78 million damage to public facilities.
Besides the six counties already declared disaster areas by President Nixon, Docking
has asked that another 21 counties be designated disaster areas because of
Tobin said some of those counties may be recommended today for the disaster designation that would make their residents eligible for the low-cost loans. But the recommendations are awaiting flood damage reports.
Mandatory Fuel Allocation To Be Ordered This Week
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon will soon sign an order imposing mandatory allocations of home heating fuel, an administration source said yesterday.
The action, which will control distribution at the wholesale level to make sure available fuel gets to the right places, could be delayed may be delayed a few days, the source said.
The imposition of mandatory allocations has been expected for the past 10 days although John A. Love, the president's top energy adviser, delayed the measure for 2017 and put on hold to achieve fair distribution through voluntary action by petroleum distributors.
Otherwise, they said, shortages may occur that could become serious.
But administration officials reached the conclusion this month that supplies of home heating oil would be adequate this winter because the actors occurred, including a mild winter.
Especially dependent on heating oil supplies are the New England states and the North Central region where severe winters require aquatic fuel supplies a seasonal necessity.
Love and others have emphasized that mandatory allocation could not increase available supplies but could only spread the risk of a shortage. This has given priority to the most essential uses.
Communist and South Vietnamese troops fought biggest battle since the cease-fire.
to violating federal election laws in 1972.
Donald Segretti entered plea of guilty
President Nguyen Van Thieu declared the Communists had taken "the initial step to give a new offensive."
The fighting took place 40 miles northwest of Saigon during the weekend, the Saigon command said yesterday.
Waves of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong infantry attacked two government strongpoints near the Cambodia-South Vietnam border in 24 hours of savage fighting, leaving more than 300 soldiers from both sides dead, wounded or missing, the command announced.
Segretta, a political saboteur financed by Nixon campaign funds, entered the pleas to compass of conspiracy and distributing campaign literature that exposed Nixon's illogic in his dealings with Russia.
The prosecutors agree to drop one count of a four-count indictment returned against Segretti by a federal grand jury in Tampa last August.
Until reorganization plans are drawn, ICC wants Penn Central Railroad to run.
The Interstate Commerce Commission asked a federal judge not to shut down the railroad until a reorganization plan could be drawn up for the commission.
Liquidation of the railroad, the ICC said in a report to U.D. District Court Judge J.P. Fullam, who have "a severe economic effect on the people of New York."
Judge Fullam currently is overseeing the reorganization of the Penn Central under federal bankruptcy statutes. He had asked the ICC to prepare by Oct. 1 a proposal that would keep the railroad running without eroding the assets of its creditors.
Golda Meir prepared to visit Vienna
to appeal closing of Jewish transit camp.
Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisley said he would explain to Meir the Austrian stand on emigrating Soviet Jews—"which she seems not to know exactly." But he gave no indication he would change his mind because of Meir's plans for the unusual appeal.
Meir, the 75-year-old Israeli leader, declared in a speech to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, that the Austrian decision represented "a great victory" for Palestinian terrorism and must be changed.
Country's second largest milk producer announced a price hike of 8 to 10 cents.
Mid-America Dairymen Inc., the per gallon price increase would assure an adequate milk supply for everybody
Jim Reeves, Mid-America vice president, said no further increase was anticipated through the winter.
"We are attempting to raise the dairy farmer to his former level of income in order to maintain an adequate supply of milk for the nation," Nees said.
Senate reversed itself on two votes
finally refusing a cut in a weapons bill.
Voting on the same issue twice, the Senate first accepted, 51 to 47, a $800 million reduction in a $23 billion weapons authorization bill, in place of a proposal for a $750 million cut. Then it turned down the $500 million cut, 51 to 47
The bill was then passed by a 91-6 to vote, sending the measure to a House Senate conference to adjust differences.
The measure also calls for a reduction of 110,000 in the number of U.S. troops overseas.