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Friday, September 21, 1973
University Daily Kansan
African Visitors Sample KU Life
By MICHELE LONSDORFER
Twenty African journalism students have discovered that life in the United States is
Students from Cameroon Speak with Interpreter
After a six-day stay in Lawrence, their immersion was favorable.
The students, from Cameron, Gabon, Upper Volta, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Mali and Dahomey, are completing their journalism studies by spending a year abroad. Their program, sponsored by the Canadian Association for International Development, includes a ake-a workshop on journalistic writing; two in the United States, supervised by the State Department; and a nine-month stay in Paris.
After a quick tour of the KU campus Tuesday, the students said they thought the highlight was their visit to the Dyce Natural History Museum. It was their first opportunity to view so much of American wildlife.
THEY TOURED the Capitol Building in
Topeka yesterday, and talked with Marvin
Hurder, special assistant to Gov. Docking.
Special thanks to them for very generous
Several students said they were surprised
to discover that the opposition between American political parties is almost an easy game of give and take. They hadn't expected a Democratic governor to be able to work with a Republican senate without dramatic conflicts.
Little Support Shown Tax Increase
In spite of the fact that few of the students speak English, and most expected to encounter racial hostility, none of them reported any such difficulties.
Jean-Francois Mebenga said he had no problems even when he went to a Lawrence night club alone one night and invited an American girl to dance. Other students said they went to several taverns and also received friendly treatment.
The proposed tax would increase the current sales tax in Baldwin, Eudora and Lecompont from three to three and one-half per cent.
By KAREN HILKER
Kerman Staff Reperier
Under the proposed plan, if the tax were approved this year, Lawrence sales tax revenues would be frozen at the $608,145 figure collected in 1972, according to Roy Johnson, research associate for the state legislative research department.
A proposed one-half per cent county-wide sales tax increase received little support last night at a special meeting conducted by Douglas County commissioners.
Sales tax revenues collected beyond $608,145 would be divided through the rest of the county on a percentage basis. Douglas County would receive 85.5 per cent of the sales tax revenues; Baldwin, 6.4 per cent of 85.5 per cent; and Lecompont, 1.4 per cent.
THE PROPOSED PLAN would extend the three and one-half per cent sales tax currently effective in Lawrence to the entire county.
Walter Cragan, commission chairman, said this week that if the response was favorable, the county commission would hold a special election as soon as possible. A crowd of several hundred would indicate strong support for the increased tax, he
However, only 14 county residents attended the meeting.
"The percentage formula was a compromise," Johnson said. "An original version would have given even more to the county government."
IF THE ELECTION is delayed and the tax isn't made effective until 1974, the Lawrence share of the tax revenue will increase by $0,000, according to Cragan. The tax divisions would be made on the 1973 sales tax revenues, Johnson said.
If county sales tax revenues were above one million dollars, Lawrence would be given 62 per cent of the funds; Douglas County, 32.5 per cent; Baldwin, 2.4 per cent; Eudora 2.5 per cent and Lecompton .6 per cent, Johnson said.
Virgin Reeves, mayor of Badwin, argued that the percentages should parallel those in a similar way.
Sales tax revenues collected in Baldwin during 1972 were $136,740, and tax revenues in Eudora were $78,960. Robert Revenew, a member of the commission, excise tax bureau, told the commission.
Reeves said he couldn't generate any interest in the tax increase among citizens from Baldwin. If taxes are increased, the money will be spent, clearly how the money will be spent, he said.
"There is no restriction in law on how cities should use this revenue," Johnson
Most of the students said they would leave Lawrence with two regrets: not having had enough of the program and not knowing of a heavy official program and not knowing enough English to communicate with all the people.
THE ONE-HALF per cent sales tax currently effective in Lawrence pays for additional fire and police protection in the city, Cruzan said.
Douglas County is the first county to express an interest in the possibility of such a project.
"I'm almost worth a gamble," said Mrs. Charles Oldfather, R. R. 5.
CHARLES OUATIER, R. I. G.
If the sales tax revenue reached one
Russell Hoffer, Leptonom city councilman, said the citizens of Leptonom county were satisfied with the program.
million dollars, the county would receive almost $400,000, she said.
Hoffer said that the tax was county-wide, residents of Lecrompton could receive the tax.
AS IT STANDS now, Hoffer said, many Lecompton residents shop in Lawrence and pay the extra half-cent sales tax but never receive the benefits.
After the meeting, Cragan refused to state definitely that the election wouldn't be
A decision on the election will probably be made Monday. County Commissioner I. J. Wagoner, chairman of the Democratic Party, said:
Gasoline Price Increase To Be Authorized Soon
WASHINGTON (AP)—Gas retailers will be allowed to raise prices soon, probably by Oct. 2, John Dunlop, director of the Cost of Living Council, said yesterday.
The Cost of Living Council announced last week that gasoline dealers would have until Tuesday to submit information on their prices and profit margins and that the council would "act promptly to make appropriate upward adjustments in the ceiling prices."
The students will leave for New York tomorrow.
Dunlap told the subcommittee that the council also would consider permanent changes in Phase 4 profit-margin regulations applying to gasoline dealers.
Pressed by Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, Dunlap told a subcommittee committee yesterday that "I would hope it would require no longer than a week" beyond Tuesday for the council to act. That would be Oct. 2.
ALLOWING GASOLINE dealers an unlimited pass-through on costs, though, would create "a situation considerably adverse to American consumers," he said.
Dunlap said the action probably would recall in hikes of one or two cents per gallon.
Dunlap testified before a joint economic subcommittee on consumer economics.
winter. It heard renewed calls yesterday for the Nixon administration to impose mandatory allocation of oil before winter weather begins.
Service stations continued to close in protest in scattered parts of the nation yesterday, but gasoline was available to motorists.
The subcommittee is studying the petroleum-products shortage expected this
In Massachusetts, dealers in the springfield area decided to end their acquisition.
The Automobile Legal Association said a check made during the shutdown indicated that 30 per cent of Massachusetts stations were closed.
The shudown had been only partially successful and a court order was issued that forbade station owners banding together to close.
in the Washington, D.C., area, some station owners were planning a protest against the proposed expansion of a station in suburban Landover, MD, said: "About 60 per cent of the dealers will close Monday and we are hoping for 100 per cent of installations in the Washington metropolitan area.
First Assembly
13th & Massachusetts 7:30 p.m.
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Jewish Land Left Fallow; Israelis Eat Arab Crops
Tel Aviv (AFP)—Israel Jews of strict religious observance, who are barred from eating home-grown crops this year, are eating vegetables from the Arab countries instead.
This is a "sabbatical year" under Mosaic Law, which provides that one every seven years Jewish land must be left to rest. As a result of this law, bibikata and sabbata are producing no vegetables.
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