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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 18
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Food Survey Indicates Current Prices
Thursday, September 20,1973
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Kanwan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Russell Means, AIM Leader, Addresses Representatives of the Local Media
AIM to Back Potawatomis
By DEBBY CONNOR
Kansan Staff Reporter
The American Indian Movement (AIM) plans to support the Prairie Band Potawatomi Indians in their fight against being reorganized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), AIM leader Russell Means said yesterday.
Means, speaking at a news conference yesterday afternoon at the Kansas Union, made the comment after listening to a statement prepared by Lester Jessepe, chairman of the Prairie Indians. The Manusia read the statement in Missua, former chairman of the tribe.
The statement protested a meeting called by the BIA to elect a committee to draft a constitution for the tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act. The statement said the proposed agreement was an attempt by the BIA to abolish the tribe's existing system.
THE MEETING is planned for Sept. 29 at the National Guard Armvort in Hiroshima.
"The AIM leadership will return to Kansas Sept. 28 to observe the meeting in Holton," Means said. "We will meet with the Potawatomie. We will return to Kansas Sept. 28 to observe the federal court's and the whole United States government's deprivation of Indian rights."
"We went into Wounded Knee to express liberate ourselves from the tyranny of the United States government and we'll put Patawatani with the same goal in raid."
Means, who also spoke last night in the Union ballroom, was in Lawrence as part of a lecture tour to raise funds for legal defense of Indians involved in the Wounded Knee occupation. The program was sponsored by SUA Forums.
Means said AIM also planned to "expose" the BIA administration of Haskell Indian
Junior College for its "racist, tyrannical treatment of young Indian people."
MEANS SAID he had spoken with several students at Haskell about their grievances and hoped AIM could stop what he considered misreatment of Indian youths there.
"I am referring to the arbitrary and demeaning policy of kicking out students because they do not conform to rules no college in this country has," he said. "And the treatment of men and women as third grade pupils—psychologically, administratively, even socially—is unacceptable in this day and age."
Means said that the Indian movement was entering into talks with other countries and attempting to move the Indian people into the international community.
"National efforts do have to be made because it does bring the attention of policymakers and regulators."
hapely through negotiations with these foreign governments we can receive some equitable trade and assistance, whatever is necessary to survive as a free nation.
"I said it before Wounded Knee, I said it during Wounded Knee and after Wounded Knee, my goal as a leader of the American Indians is to be a free Indian country in the United States."
Means said communication by AIM had been established with Japan, Sweden, Australia, Libya and the People's Republic of China.
Referring to the shooting three weeks ago of AIM leader Claire Bellecourt, Means said she was "sorry" for her actions.
"The way the press handled it, it cut off our funding of our research." Moore said.
Means said he believed Wounded Knee had been an important turning point in the Indian movement because Indian people were fighting for their rights across the country.
A Nixon spokesman denied the White House was pressuring Agnew to resign.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald Warren yesterday labeled as false news reports that said or hinted "a disposition by the White House or the people in the White House to force the resignation of the vice president, or that the White House is exerting pressure on the vice president to resign" or that the White House had been the source of stories that Agnew was thinking about resiming.
Earlier in the day, Vic Gold, former press secretary to Agnew, charged that top White House aides Melen Laird and Alexander Haig Jr. were encouraging rumors and reports about Agnew's legal troubles so that stories about Agnew would overshadow the Watergate scandal.
Chrysler and the UAW agreed on a contract covering 10,500 white-collar workers.
The agreement brings all 127,500 UAW members at Chrysler under ternative new agreements. Ratification votes on the new contract for white-
The UAW's powerful Chrysler Council met yesterday in Detroit to approve the contract agreed upon earlier this week for 117,000 assembly line workers. After approving the contract, the council sent it to the rank and file union members for ratification.
Colson declined to testify before Senate committee after immunity was refused.
Committee members said they hadn't abandoned hope that Colson would eventually testify. Colson has been informed by Archibald Cox that he is under investigation in connection with the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Former special presidential counsel Charles Colson invoked the Fifth Amendment after the panel refused to grant him immunity from his testimony.
Sen. Pearson spent more in 1972 than any candidate, accompanied with an apportative seat.
Four incumbent Republican senators who were up for re-election raised more than a third of the funds received by all 33 GOP Senate candidates. Sen. John Tower of Texas, Robert Griffin of Michigan, Charles Percy of Kentucky, and Jeffrey Reid of the million of the $18.3 million raised by all Republican senatorial candidates.
That was reported by Common Cause on the basis of its detailed analysis of campaign finances in the 1972 campaign.
House upheld Nixon's veto of a bill
increasing minimum wage to $2.20.
The 259-164 vote was 23 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto. This gave Nixon a six-for-six batting average in vetoes.
After the vote, AFL-CIO President George Meany said the defeat of the bill "is in reality a victory for exploitation and greed."
Allen Leaves KU Politics For Emporium, Whomper
Kathy Allen, Topeka senior, resigned yesterday from the Student Senate; University Senate Executive Committee and other University bodies to devote more time to the Emporium Bookstore and the Whomper.
In a letter read to the Student Senate last night, Allen stated she also would resign from the Student Senate Executive Committee and University Council and would no longer be chairman of the senate's Student Services Committee.
"Absolving these responsibilities will allow me more time to work with two services—the Emporium and the Reclamation Center," the letter said.
Allen, also a former student body vice president, said she would continue to work with the Emporium because it was a service to students.
She has been criticized lately for alleged mismanagement of the bookstore, of which
"There are numerous changes and much research which will have to take place in the near future to create an Emporium that is the best it could be." The letter continued.
Allen has been a student senator for three
Means Rates Spiritual Power Major AIM Aid
years and was a member of the chancellor search committee that found Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. She will retain her position as director of the Whomper.
Nixon Proposes Housing Revision
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nikon, arguing that present programs have made Uncle Sam "the biggest slumlord in history," proposed to Congress yesterday that experimental payments of cash housing allowances be made to the needy.
By DEBBY CONNOR Kanaan Staff Reporter
"Our spirituality was missing," Means said, referring to the early days of AIM. "We consulted our holy men to ask advice and direction. The spirituality of the American Indian must dictate every facet of our lives."
The spiritual power of the American Indian is responsible for the recent blossoming of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Russell Means, AIM leader, said yesterday in a speech at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
At the same time, Nixon announced administrative actions aimed at providing up to $5.5 billion in additional mortgage funds during the current tilt-money pinch.
About 800 people were on hand last night to bear Measu trace the history of AIM from its inception in 1968 in a cupcake in a occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D. last spring.
In a special message, Nixon said payment of housing allowances—with first priority going to the needy elderly—eventually would remove the federal government from the housing business and offer the best possible deal on all of our families at an acceptable cost."
Means said advances AIM had made for Indians were evidence of the spiritual
See SPIRITUAL POWER page 7
Rather than ask Congress now for a major new housing subsidy program, Nixon in effect called for a new study of cash allowances so final decisions on their wisdom could be made late next year or early in 1975.
JAMES T. LYNN, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that if the allowance program was adopted as an alternative to present public housing programs, the annual cost could reach $8 billion to $11 billion.
The allowance payments, Nixon said, "would be carefully scaled to make up the difference between what a family could afford on its own for housing and the cost of
To deal with the credit pinch, Nixon said, the Government National Mortgage Association will provide money for FHA-insured mortgages at interest rates somewhat below the market level. He said he would finance up to $3 billion in home loans.
THE PRESIDENT also said the Federal Home Loan Bank Board would make up to $2.5 billion in loan commitments to en-
rollment loans lending by savings and loan institutions.
Nixon also recommended that the maximum loans permitted under FHA and VA mortgages be raised and that interest rates on such loans be permitted to rise to 12 percent. He also urged that states eliminate any existing ceilings on mortgage interest rates.
In his message, Nixon said he would go ahead with existing commitments to build public housing but declared, "I would expect to use this approach sparingly."
At the Capitol, Sen. William Proxime, D-Wis., chairman of an appropriations subcommittee on housing, said Congress and the public would be reluctant to support "such a costly and potentially ineffective program."
safe and sanitary housing in that geographic area."
He did lift a lian. 5 suspension of one program under which new and existing computers are used.
Beef Plentiful Here; Some Prices Lower
By BILL WILLETS Kansan Staff Reporter
The lifting of the beef price freeze has resulted in more meat available to Lawrence consumers, a Kansan survey indicates.
The survey, conducted yesterday, also indicates that some disparity exists between men and women.
"Our prizes haven't changed, with a few minor exceptions," Paul Marmet, a representative of Falley's Gibson Discount club, said. "None of our priors, cups have changed."
Marmet said meat had been plentiful since the price freeze was lifted.
Jerry Young, meat manager of Dillon Stores Co., 1740 Massachusetts St., said beef prices there had been lowered by 10 per cent.
Young said the reduction wasn't tem-
Kanan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Observers
the Kansas Union. Wahwausuck was one of six potawatomi Indians who stayed at Wounded Knee during its occupation by AIM members earlier this year.
James Kegg and Josette Wahwakus from the Potawatomi Indian Reservation at Mayetta listen to American Indian leaders in a discussion Wednesday afternoon's press conference at
porary and the meat wasn't inferior in quality.
"beef) we is cheaper to us now (since the tree) and we are passing it along to the team."
A spokesman for Lehr's Wholesale Meat and Frozen Foods, 546 Mississippi St., said the price of beef had increased. Beef is much easier to obtain now, she said.
"Sides of ice are more expensive now," he said, "but before the freeze we couldn't buy them."
"We have hit consumer resistance," he said. "Many people purchased ahead of time."
THE BIG DIFFERENCE, she said, is that Leah's is now able to buy its beef from packers. Before the freeze was lifted, it was buying beef live from farmers, she said.
She said that prices from the packer were to 20 per cent higher than before the fringe.
According to Marmart, *Falley* is paying for meat but also, is absorbing the loss from the heat.
In the face of competition, Marmet said, it is almost impossible to raise prices.
is almost impossible to raise prices.
Leland Pritchard, professor of
economics, agreed that competition had
kept prices down.
Pritchard said the situation was analogous to soybean prices. Those prices, like prices of beef, didn't rise sharply when controls were removed, he said.
"THIS SUMMER many people bought beef in anticipation of higher prices." Pritchard said. "A lot of things converged. When prices went up, it drove a lot of people out of the market and they got out of the habit of eating beef."
Pritchard said it was logical that beef was more plentiful.
"Why would any market buy beef while the price freeze was still on?" he asked.
A combination of three factors have contributed to keep prices stable, Pritchard said. They are a surplus of beef in consumer's freezers, an increase in the volume of beef on the market and reduced consumption by consumers.
Pritchard said there had been an unjustified increase in beef prices before the freeze because of speculation in common markets over reaction of packers and wholesalers.
"This doesn't mean we'll get back 1970 prices," Pritchard said. "There can be a temporary upward movement then a drop, and after year the trend will continue upward."
PRITCHARD SAID he thought food prices would increase more rapidly in the future than prices of nonagricultural products.
"I would surmise that the demand for food will outstrip production," he said. "If consumers in the United States want to keep the same standard of living in the area of food, they will have to spend much larger portions of their income."
Pritchard said he didn't think the consumer would be willing to do this. Alter-tery was a best-fit expire house or learning to be satisfied with smaller quantities of beef.