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Monday, October 1, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Prairie Park Meeting Draws 200
By MARGIE COOK Kannan Staff Reporter
By MARGIE COOK
ELMDALE - A - Save the Tallgrass Prairie conference here this weekend drew 200 people to see the land and discuss what is going on in the proposed Tallgrass Prairie National Park.
The conference was at Camp Wood in the Flint Hills near the area being considered for a park. Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc., the Kansas State Group of Sierra Club and the Kansas Council of Audubon Chapters sponsored the meeting.
Brower spoke about his efforts to obtain additions to California's park system.
David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth, said Saturday night that allocating land for the National Park Service was the best legislation for something worth preserving, such as the tallgrass prairie. "Grouse spoke about his efforts to obtain
"Don't wait for perfection," he said, "or you'll have nothing."
DICK CURRY, special assistant to Rogers Morton, Secretary of the Interior, said the department was interested in preserving the tallgrain prairie.
"Although 3 million acres of land are turned into shopping centers and suburbs each year," he said, "the park that is made from the last remaining 60,000 acres of unbroken tallgrass prairie will be born of controversy."
Curry said that it was important to resolve differences before beginning the legislative procedure necessary to get a park, and that it was imperative to show the interior secretary's advisory board a representative example of what the park would look like. The park that had been created without the recommendation of the local legislature.
State Sens. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, and Jim Simpson, R-Salina, members of the state Environmental Protection Committee, said yesterday that their committee couldn't reach a decision on the bill because it believed the state opinion was divided.
CURRY SAID he didn't think the park would be a great playground like Yellowstone or Yosemite national parks. Mr. Hamilton of Mercedes-Benz Corporation had bought 6,000 acres of Flint Hills ground a year ago on the recommendation of Chase Manhattan Bank. He said the association was assured it one knew the purchase until it had been completed.
Steineger answered questions from local landowners. He said the park might be a long-term project, and the landowners could stay on their land for their lifetimes.
Eminent domain, or the right of a government to take property for public use, is a major issue, according to area landowners.
Andy Richie, a Flint Hills landowner, said a park should be made to preserve nature and that he would like to be dank think the Flint Hills were in that category. He said that whether the land was endangered or not was the overriding question, he said, whether the land had stayed the same.
RICHARD POUGH, president of four conservation organizations and author of several Audubon bird books, said he was surprised the prairie was in clear and present danger.
Pough spoke in place of Stewart Udall, former secretary of Interior. Udall was unable to attend the conference because of family responsibilities.
Pough said the park had been studied for almost 50 years, and the amount of tallgrass
prairie had dwindled during that time. He said the first thing for proponents of the park to do was to talk to landowners. He said there were two groups; those there wouldn't have been as much opposition.
Pough said it was important to acquire the land and convince people that the land could be in danger even though the danger was not yet present.
REP. LARRY WINN, R-Kan., said the heated arguments about the park yesterday reminded him of those in the House of Finance who argued that the bill in July to allocate funds for the park. He said the bill had been simple and short, and the introduction was only a very small part of a bill's obstacles in Congress. Another bill was in the process of passing years ago never got out of committee.
Winn said a broad base of support was needed before park legislation would be enacted.
cattlemen or conurers, but preserve for them the buffalo and the cattle that feed them.
Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography, quoted Sen. John James Ingalls of Kansas who wrote in 1872 that bluegrass was the herald of civilization and that tallgrass, buffalo and Indians were a trinity of villains.
KOLLMORGEN said Ingalls' point of view indicated that a tallgrass park should be dedicated to our misconceptions and as a monument to our wrongdoings.
The National Parks Advisory Board, an advisory board to the National Park Service, was to have begun meetings today in Washington. The proposal for a tallgrass park in Kansas was to have been the first item considered by the advisory board.
E. Raymond Hall, professor emeritus of systematics and ecology at KU and a former advisory board member, was to have attended the meeting.
U.S. Mail to Advertise
Mr. Zip and the Post Office Now Mean Business
By ROBERT RENO
NEW YORK—Now that Congress has decreed that it should function as a corporate enterprise instead of a government agency, the U.S. Postal Service plans to offer its employees the opportunity to newspapers and magazines and on TV to tell the public what a nice corporation is. It has even hired a public relations expert to polish its image. And its image could use
There has been some recent criticism that at least $831,945 of its public relations money is going on a no-bid basis to an old buddy of the Postmaster General.
The need for a public relations campaign is considered curious, too, because the U.S. Postal Service already has a free and accessible online resource for relations medium capable of reaching almost every man, woman and child in America, something no television network, newspaper, magazine, billboard or print media can do. It's called direct mail advertising.
BUT THE POSTAL service has taken its new corporate image to heart and is indeed looking more and more like a corporation every day. One of the first things the new
service one was to move to new offices in Washington that included a $45,000 kitchen for the board of governors, which meets only once a month.
The postmaster general himself wasn't so extravagant. His own personal kitchen in the apartment was a four-bedroom suite.
But the postal service wasn't chartered to be a restaurant, and it is spending a lot more money on a lot of other things that corporations tend to do.
It is even spending $43,000 on a project just to let its employees and the public know that it is now a government corporation, not an independent agency. Bureaucracies. It is spending thousands on management conferences and has produced a film called "80 Billion Raindrops," which is designed to make sure that schoolchildren understand the post service.
REP. CHARLES THONE (R-Neb.), who is a strong believer in the contention that Benjamin Franklin founded the Post Office primarily to carry the mails, is furious about all this. Considering the current state of the mails, he claims, some of the postal service's advertising may even constitute a consumer fraud.
You might ask, if the postal service wants everybody to understand it, why doesn't it
just send us all a letter? Thousands of corporations chose this method of advertising and public relations in preference to television or magazines even though, unlike the postal service, they have to pay the postage.
Not only does the postal service have the free use of the mails but it has a dealer network that would dwarf General Motors' more than 41,000 post offices. All of them have walls and windows where the postal service can display free any ad requests. The mails are also owned by the Service also owns 99,858 vehicles on which to display its messages to the public.
THONE CLAIMS that the postal service plans to spend $10,900,000 this year on advertising. James Schorr, director of advertising for the postal service, says that Thone's figures are rubbish and that the fiure will be closer to $2,800,000.
These figures do not include money that the service is spending on promotional and public relations programs, such as the company's annual marketing contracts that went to Burnford & Co., a New York firm. The company is headed by Charles Burnford, who used to do work for postmaster general Elmer T. Klassen was an executive of a can company.
Mini-Series: TV's Growing Idea
By LAWRENCE LAURENT
The Washington Post
The mini-series is one of the better ideas in the world of television and may be the next big trend.
With mini-series, three or four different shows are lumped under some sort of umbrella title such as "Sunday Mystery Movie" or "The Bold Ones" or "Wednesday Mystery Movie." Each mini-series consists of one or more programs together they make up 24 original programs. The re- runs, plus pre-emptions for specials, fill out the entire year.
Credit for the current trend belongs to "Name of the Game" that began in 1968. The 24 programs each year were shared among Gene Barry, Robert Stack and Tony Franciscia. (Barry had more than his share, but not all of them, and the actor, suffered tenderment problems.)
THE NOTION now extends elsewhere,
CBS is rotating "Hawkins" and "Shaft"
with the "Tuesday Night Movie." ABC has
another series, "The Corybore," and "Cybor",
"starring Lee Majors in the place
normally reserved for the Saturday night
"Suspense Movie." Another mini-series
starring James Francis as "Doc Elliot"
and "The Owen Marshall," counselor at Law."
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I found both performers and enthusiasts alike.
about the mini-series. The performers argued that in economically depressed film business the short series spreads the work around it, rich but many make amusing live-able.
The short series doesn't tie down an actor for a full season, leaving him free for any motion picture, theatrical or date dates that might arise.
THE executives, living an even more belter-skelet life than usual following a long writer's strike, find that several miniseries can be filmed simultaneously. This means that network schedules can be met more easily, and that the agony that begins with a script and ends with final editing lasts a much shorter period.
One thing the short series do not carry is a guarantee of success. Last year, for example, the "Wednesday Mystery Movie" consisted of "Banacee," "Madigan" and "Cool Million." Only "Banacke" is back for a second year, and that series has an entirely new trio of programs with which to rotate.
New on Wednesday nights on NBC "The Snoop Sisters," "Faraday and Company" and "Tenafly." The sisters are played by Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick, Dan Dauley is Faraday and James McEachin is Tenafly.
ALL FOUR shows have neither great
"The SNOP Sisters" are fey, gentle souls who can not resist poking their inquisitive peacock feathers.
mystery nor great drama in common. All will be relatively light entertainment, but each by the standard requirement of the cameras these days, has the requisite gummack.
After two such premisses "Tenafly" comes almost as a relief. The gimmick here is a reversal, or to put it more directly, a private eye who is different because he has the kinds of problems that afflict most working people.
The device in "Faraday and Company" is that Dan Dailey is a man out of time. He's been unjustly imprisoned for 28 years and lost to a land he couldn't even imagine.
Burnaford & Co. will presumably do things that the postal service's own public relations office, with a staff of 68 and a budget of $2,300,000, can't.
But Thone, a conservative whose main objection to the postal service is that it costs too much, repeatedly claims that the service has no business dealing in such things as stamp albums and money orders. He also claims that when the postal service says zip code spells the mail address, he thinks it's wrong.
Surveys show, he says, that letters with no zip code get where they're going as fast as zip-coded letters. A spokesman for the postal service even admits this.
SCHORR DEFENDS the service's advertising program and says it has only three purposes: to increase revenues, to decrease costs, to help people make better use of the mails.
But the point he is, he says, that if everybody started leaving off zip codes the postal service would fail apart. Most people now understand why they didn't everybody would suffer, he says.
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Record Harvest Foreseen For Russian Grain Crop
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Soviet Union appears headed for a record grain harvest this year, although excessive rain in some areas has prevented harvest. The Agriculture Department said yesterday.
"Based on information on crop prospects, weather conditions and harvest progress through Sept. 10, the Soviet Union's gross grain crop is estimated at a record 185 tons, almost equal to the planned level of 19.4 million tons," the department said.
The report, published in the weekly issue of "Foreign Agriculture," said the Soviet crop—including wheat, rye, oats, barley and corn—and would exceed last year's reduced
harvest of 168 million tons and the previous record of 166.8 million in 1970.
Heavy rains have caused some losses and reduction of quality in the European area of the Soviet Union. Also, the report said, excessive rain in the Siberia-Kazakhstan regions occurred while "significant amounts of unharvested grain" remained in fields.
Despite the 1972 grain-crop decline, Soviet marketing of livestock and dairy products were up during fiscal 1973. "Foreign investors were interested in U.SSR Central Statistical Administration."
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