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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 5
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Job Market Uncertain
Friday, August 31, 1973
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Winn and Attorney Byron Springer at Chamber of Commerce Breakfast
Rep. Winn Defends 93rd Congress; Criticizes Press 'Trial' of Agnew
By JEFFREY STINSON Kansan Staff Reporter
If Vice President Agnew were forced to resign, Congressman Larry Winn said yesterday morning, he would expect Nixon to sign an executive order of State William P. Roarks to the office.
The third district Republican representative from Overland Park commented on allegations against the Vice President in a question and answer session following an address to the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
"I, like most people in both parties, was
surprised at the charges against Agnew,
Wim said. "They could be true, I don't
"I know nothing about the Vice President's problems except what I hear, but I would not be surprised by anything coming out of Baltimore politics. It is shine."
Winn criticized what he termed the trying of the Vice President in the press.
READING FROM a prepared text, he disinfected Nixon's chapelry that the present government holds.
The 93rd Congress has a lot of work left
to be done, but it has a somewhat better record than its predecessors," he said.
Militant striking railway workers stormed Canada's Parliament opposing back-to-work bill.
He listed the $2 billion anti-crime bill, the urban mass transit bill, the farm bill and other non-appropriation bills as some of the things this Congress had done.
Parliament had been scheduled to debate a back-to-work bill today aimed at setting the week-old national rail strike.
"The President and some people in Congress don't want to give us any credit for anything. I can't agree with its critics whether they be press or presidents."
workers who broke through the guards fell on a Royal Canadian Mounted policeman and threw him to the floor of Parliament Hill's Center Block. Labor Minister John Munro later introduced emergency legislation in the House that allowed police officers to rail services or retroactive wage hikes for the $6,000 striking workers.
Three major steel companies were indicted by a federal grand jury on antitrust charges.
The Justice Department announced the indictments, involving a $40 million business of selling reinforcing bars in Texas, yesterday. United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Armco Steel Corp. plus 14 smaller companies were named as defendants.
Some of the bills that Congress still needs to act upon are those concerning the trans-Alaskan pipeline, election reform, land usage and legal services for the poor. Winn
The three big steel firms were accused of conspiring to restrain trade and monopolize the Texas market for the restraining bars by fixing prices, as well as employing unfair labor practices.
Sixteen steel company officials also were named in the indictments and in a criminal information filed by the Justice Department in Dallas.
Gasoline price freeze was extended another
A Cost of Living Council spokesman said the extension, the third since Aug. 12 when the freeze began, was to give gasoline retailers time to put new retail price ceilings into effect.
Despite near-record demands for power throughout the area, utility systems in other states were able to cope with demands, although there were issues.
The ceilings had originally been scheduled to start tomorrow, when dealers would have posted price stickers on gasoline oums.
Sweltering heat forced a five per cent voltage cutback in New York for the third day.
The temperature in New York City hit 98 degrees—equaling the record for the day set in 1953—but Baltimore was cooler at 95 than the 101 degrees set in 1927.
A New York State Power Pool spokesman said the voltage cuts, public acceptance of appeals to use less electricity and cutbacks by commercial power customers.
Midget submarine searched for sister sub with two trapped Britons in Atlantic depths.
Piaces II, the rescue submarine that was rushed to the spot where its stainless sixtier vessel, Pisces III, lay 1,735 feet deep on the ocean floor, made contact with the surface.
Rescuers have until about 4 a.m. EDT tomorrow to haul the 20-foot-long submarine and its two crew members. Roger Mallallen, age 35, and Roger Woods, age 37, will be in attendance.
The rescue sub was launched from its mother ship, the Vickers Voyage, after 9 p.m. EDT yesterday about 150 miles south of Cork, Ireland. The plane landed at Cork Airport.
During the question and answer session, Winn said be thought the President's legislative program had been diverted by the Republican Party that had also pressed Congress into action.
"CONGRESS WANTS some of the power back that the White House has assumed."
Some of the people who want congressional power restored are the same ones who have been giving it away since Roosevelt, said Winn.
Speaking of the Nixon tapes, Winn said he thought the President would call a special session of the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether they should be released.
"I'm not so sure that the Supreme Court is Nioux's court as a lot of people say," he
The President could avoid problems of appeals and being found in contempt of the law.
CONGRESS HAS been unaware of an energy crisis for the last four to six years, but it now has eight or nine committee investigating all phases of the crisis, he
Congress forced the bill which gave the President the right to put controls on the economy. Winn said he was in favor of the government getting rid of those controls.
Nixon Seeks Appeal Over Sirica Ruling
Winn discussed other topics during the question and answer session.
By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.-President Nixon directed his lawyers yesterday to appeal a federal judge's order to produce the secret Watergate tape recordings.
The President's decision on this next step in the historic legal battle came 24 hours after U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica ordered Nixon to produce for his private inspection the tapes demanded by special Wateratee prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Nixon announced Wednesday he would refuse to obey the order. After summoning his top White House lawyers to California, he disclosed yesterday that he would seek review by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington.
"Appropriate papers for obtaining review are being prepared" and will be filled before a stay granted by Sirica expires next Thursday, the White House statement said.
are being prepared" and will be filled before a stay granted by Sirica expires next Thursday, the White House statement said. PRESIDENTIAL spokesmen refused to say whether Nixon, in his meetings with special White House counsel J. Fred Chiles and the New York City Chief Allen Wright, had discussed the possibility of not appealing Sirica's ruling.
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren also turned aside questions on what legal approach the appeal will take. But the White House lawyers are certain to repeat that he is not a lawyer who allows him to retain confidential material sought in a criminal investigation.
Whatever the appeals court decides, it is almost certain that the case will be carried to the Supreme Court. This could take up to a year and would not come until sometime in the fall.
THE WHITE HOUSE also has rejected a subpoena delivered by the Senate committee, prompting the panel to file a senate suit to force disclosure.
The dispute began last month, when a former White House ate and told the Senate Watergate committee that Nixon routinely organized conversations in his Oval Office and elsewhere;
Acting on behalf of the Watergate grand jury, prosecutor Cox subpoenaed tapes of eight meetings and one telephone call between Nixon and his advisers at the time, John Dean III, H. R. Halderman and John Ehrlichman.
Both Cox and the committee content the tapes are vital to resolve contradictions in the legal system.
allegedly involved in the Watergate cover-up.
Indications were that White House lawyers gave some consideration to seeking a further stay of Sirica's ruling in hopes of consolidating the suit with the one brought by the Senate panel. But the President was satisfied, in the immediate review of Sirica's ruling.
In legal arguments so far, Nikon's lawyers have contended that a president's confidential records are privileged from disclosure, and that the president is the only one who can decide whether the information should be released.
On this key point, Sirica ruled otherwise, holding that the court has the ultimate authority to decide whether such material is protected by executive privilege.
Sirica said he would examine the tape recordings in private and decide whether all or parts of them should be turned over to the grand jury.
NEXON'S DECISION to appeal puts the constitutional issue in the hands of the nine judges. It may be that Nexon's decision
District of Columbia. Most cases involving major government officials and agencies go through the court because of its location in Washington.
The court's normal procedure is to assign cases at random to panels composed of three of the nine judges. On occasion, however, the full court hears a case.
Legal experts have questioned whether
Sirica's order can be appealed in its present
form.
Sirica's order specifically suggested an appeal, but lawyers said the fact that a defendant is not a defendant is payable does not necessarily make it so. It would be up to the Court of Appeals to decide whether to grant the appeal.
Under normal legal procedure, Nixon's lawyers would first file with the District Court a notice of intent to appeal Sirica's order.
Presumably that institution notification is all
might be require by the deafness
in law to be required.
Sirica has promised an indefinite stay of his order "perding the completion of such work."
Fuel Needs Pondered By Kansas Schools
TOPEKA (AP)—A state purchasing agent told the Governor's Advisory Committee on Energy and Natural Resources yesterday that state universities and colleges will spend this year of guessing whether a hard winter is ahead in ordering their fuel supplies.
The council was created by Gov. Robert
driving last spring to study the energy
crisis in Florida.
If they order large quantities and there is a mild winter, the agencies will end up with no place to store the fuel, said Dale E. Rowe, an operations manager and tractors in the state Purchasing Division.
Fosee said the state's basic problem is not having storage capacity "in the right place." He said the Purchase Division is making more tankers to be able to transport fuel oil
from storage to trouble spots when they arise.
"The storage capacity at the majority of the state agencies is not sufficient to start the heating season with enough gallonage to carry through any prolonged cutoff, and certainly not the entire season," Foose told the council.
Fosse said problems began last year as early as Sept. 12 when Larned State Hospital had a problem because of utility company breakdown. Hutchinson Industrial Reformatory, Pittsburgh College and County officials' difficulties getting enough fuel, be said.
The reformatory, he said, burned more oil last winter by Dec. 12 than in any entire previous year. Pittsburgh State burned 33,000 gallons of oil in the fall and in a year was 6,000 gallons, K-state Burned
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KU, Cable TV Sign Pact
By JEFF HILL
Kansan Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes signed an agreement yesterday with Sunflower Cablevision that will give any University-related department or organization access to Sunflower's own channel and may offer a satellite service of Kansas with a TV station of its own.
KU's Division of Continuing Education has been principally responsible for negotiating the agreement.
"This agreement represents University access to a new form of technology and opens up a new range of possibilities," Dwkes said.
Dykes said he thought cablevision would bring KU closer to the Lawrence community and provide the community with televised classes, speeches and events.
The Division of Continuing Education has agreed to act as a liaison between University organizations seeking program time and Sunflower Cablevision.
Persons desiring air time on Sunflower's
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channel six must contact Continuing Education, which will also provide production and technical assistance on request, according to Cyntha Lingle, coordinator of Instructional Television of the Division of Continuing Education.
"Because any University television production intended for distribution on Sunflower must come through ITV, it eliminates the need for Sunflower to deal with so many University departments," Lingle said.
Final censorship and selection of programs, however will remain the most relevant.
"ItTV intends to use cablevision for both instructional support (closed circuit) and community and public service broadcasting. Other organizations should contact ITV about requests for air time," Lingle said.
Broadcasting will be possible from 11 buildings on campus, in addition to ITV's studio at 7th and New Hampshire streets. They are Strong Hall, Bailey Hall, Flint Hall, Murphy Hall, Hoch Auditorium, Robinson Gymnasium, Memorial Stadium, the Kansas Union and the Student Health Center.
"Under the agreement, Continuing Education is providing all necessary equipment to complete the interface (connection by computer) with Sunflower. We haven't received all the equipment and only partly operational," Lingle said.
"ITV is presently capable of videotape broadcasting only," she said. "We expect to do live broadcasting in about the fall of 1974, although possibly soon."
"The date is contingent on construction of a cable linking the ITV studio with Sunflower's studio across the street. Construction should begin within a few momen-
Upon completion of the cable, Sunflower and TTV will attempt to provide KU with a station strictly intended for University programming, Lingle said.
"ITV will provide some programming for Sunflower this fall, mostly videotapes of noted speakers appearing on campus," she said.