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Thursday, September 6, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Group Will Tour KP&L Citizens Challenge Need for New Plant
By KAREN HILKER Kansan Staff Reporter
A group of 75 Potawatomi County residents who have protested the construction of a Kansas Power and Light (KP&L) generating plant in their county is in lawrence today to tour local KP&L plants in Wichita, Perdue, vice president of area relations.
The group, which calls itself Concerned Citizens United (CUC), was invited here by the PAC, who has asked that it not be
John Murray, CU steering committee member and assistant dean of the graduate school at Kansas State University, said the group believes that the sulphur dioxide injection will be built 20 miles west of Topaka, will have an adverse effect on local agriculture.
Comprehensive studies should be conducted to determine the effect of sulphur dioxide on the stem grass in the area, Murray on the said. The grass is fed to cattle.
The new plant is scheduled for completion in 1978 and will be a source of energy for the
entire company and area, said A. W.
Steadium, roptical KP&L manager.
Murray said that figures released by KPRL officials indicated that the proposed plant would be the largest coal-burning electrical generating plant in the world. It will burn 1,600 tons of coal each hour, he said.
"What others these landowners is that it doesn't make sense to them that Kansas needs the largest coal-burning plant in the world," Murray said. "They're aware that more energy needs to be generated in coming years."
CCU attempted earlier to schedule an open meeting in St. Marys, four miles east of the proposed plant site, but KP&L officials refused the offer, Murray said.
"It is obvious this is their show," he said. CCU has retained an attorney and continued several state agencies to determine the nature of patients and residents in the area, Murray said.
The group found that KP&L has the right
of eminent domain and could force landowners to sell their land at a price negotiated in the courts, according to Murray.
"If there was good evidence by independent scientists that the plant was needed for the benefit of Kansas, if they do in fact need 13,800 acres and if everything else worked well for them, they wouldn't resistance the resistance they are finding from these people," Murray said.
In support of the new power plant, KP&I officials recently cited figures which show an increased demand for energy throughout Kansas. Figures for the Lawrence area indicate an 800 per cent increase per customer in energy consumption since 1940.
The increased energy demand in Lawrence is due to substantial industrialization and greater individual consumption, Stedham said.
The University of Kansas campus, with new and larger buildings, is using sub-
The University of Kansas campus, with new and larger buildings, is using sub-
The University of Kansas has recommended acceptance of low bids for an estimated $3.75 million addition to Learned Hall.
KU Forwards Bids for Work On Learned Hall
Keith Lawton, director of Facilities, Planning and Operations, said yesterday the bids had been forwarded to the state architect.
The architect, Lawton said, also will submit a list of recommendations. Based on the University's and the architect's preferences, the State Purchasing Office will make a final decision on the awarding of contracts.
The low bidders recommended by KU are B. A. Green Construction Co., Inc., Lawrence, with a bid of $1,486,210 for general construction; Peery Electric, Lamar, Colo., $288,750 for electrical work; Huxtable and Associates, Lawrence, Huxtable and Mechanical Engineer Co., Kauai; Mo., $31,144 for the elevator portion; Mo., $31,144 for the kennewae Scientific, Statesville, N.C., $144,890 for laboratory equipment.
Discrimination Complaint Filed Against Haskell
Members of Local 45 of the National Federation of federal Employees filed a formal grievance Tuesday with Haskell Supt. Wallace Galluzi stating that Haskell Indian Junior College discriminated in employee promotions.
James Luther, union president, termed the action a "class action grievance." It was filed on behalf of those Haskell employees that haven't had equal employment opportunity for career development and motivation to higher grade positions, he said.
Luther said that submission of the grievance to Gallucci was the "first hurdle" in bringing the matter before the Civil Rights Commission.
Similar action was taken by the union two weeks ago with the Department of Labor when a pre-complaint, charging promotion discrimination against the faculty of the department was filed as a preliminary step in getting the labor department to accept the charges.
Gallucci is required to respond to the complaint within five working days. The complainant is required to attend the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) office in Anadarko, Okla. Then, if no response is made after 10 days or if the response is unsatisfactory, the union can request the Bureau of Indian Affairs to visit.
The union has discussed the matter with Gallucci and the BIA, but no satisfactory solution.
The union charges that Haskell made staffing and promotion changes without consulting them. Haskell is charged with stealing ideas from employees for employers to perform at their potential.
Resse, appointed by the school's board of business, has been associate vice chancellor of the university.
The grievance will be reviewed by Galliuzzi and he will determine how it should be handled in accordance with the negotiated management contract.
The union said Haskell bypassed the normal hiring and promotion procedure, as required by the BIA, for teachers of vocational and technical fields because they did not advertise open permanent jobs before making appointments.
Embassy . . .
Hence will fill the post vacated when Archive R. Dykes left UT to become chairman.
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which the Palestinians had demanded in addition to free passage out.
KONNVILLE (AP)—Jack Reese has been named charlescot of the University of Texas at Austin.
The deal was arranged through tense hours of bargaining while heavily armed French riot police ringed the embassy building on the capital's western fringe.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes.
Police said the five terrorists were holding five Saudi Arabians, five French women, one Tunisian woman, one Egyptian, a Yugoslav, a Syrian and a Sudanese.
The terrorist the Palestinians wanted
treed was Abou Daoud, a life service-
ing minister.
Poll said he was thrown out, but a friend of the diplomat said later that the man told him he jumped when a terrorist shot him inside the window and pointed a gun at him.
The Palestinians threatened at various times to blow up the embassy, to put all the hostages in one room and kill them or to take them away at a time. Each threat carried a deadline.
A Saudi diplomat was thrown or jumped from a window at one point yesterday.
In Beirut, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an umbrella group for Palestinian guerrilla bands, denied involvement in the incident and called it "a terrorist attack," the leader, Yasir Arafat, said in Algeria that established groups were not involved.
He suffered only slight injuries.
Successor to Dykes Picked in Tennessee
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