Can we talk?
What would an election year be without a little healthy give-and-take? At a debate here yesterday, Jim Van Slyke, at podium, the Republican challenger to Democratic Rep.
Jim Slattery, lashed out at Slattery's voting record; Slattery returned the favor by accusing Van Slyke of a lack of knowledge about the legislative process. See page 3.
Sunny High. 60. Low. 35 Details on page 3
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 40 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, October 19, 1984
Horace Masden, who has been repairing watches for 60. Masden's Watch Shop and Bible Supplies, 818 Massachusetts years, looks for a link to repair a customer's watchband. St. will celebrate its 35th anniversary Nov. 11.
Lawrence man living life of time
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
Little boys of the 1920s tinkered with train sets or battled it out with tin soldiers.
Horace Mason played with thirpees. Masden, 67, began fixing clocks and watches when he was 7 years old growing up on a farm in South Dakota.
"There was no one to fix the farmers' watches," he said Wednesday in his Lawrence watch repair shop as he examined customer "fires." He built the watch on his glasses.
"THEY WOULD WEAR them in their dirty overalls and not take too good of care of them," he said. "I would clean them up
with white gasoline and let them dry in the sun."
In those days, the farmers would pay Masden by giving him their old watches they no longer used. Masden would fix the worn watches and sell them for about 50 cents each. By saving his pennies, he was able to buy his first set of watch repair tools for about $55 from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, he said.
By the time he was 12, he had his own charge account at Swartchild, a watch and jewel-makers supply house in Chicago. The supply house set up an account for Masden because he was mailing in too much cash.
But times have changed. Swarthild's is now Marshall Swarthild's, Maiden's fees
have gone up and his tools are more expensive.
MASDEN IS STILL, cleaning, fixing and tinkering with clockes and watches. Nov. 11 marks his $3d year of business at MIT, where he books Bible Supplies. 816 Massachusetts St
"This is my hobby as well as my work. Másden said. He spends it to 18 hours a day."
"I'm not always working on something for a customer," he said. "Sometimes I'm doing something that I want to do for myself or my friends."
After serving in World War II as a medical equipment maintenance man,
See WATCH, p. 5, col. 1
CIA manual prompts investigation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday ordered an investigation of a CIA booklet that instructs Nicaraguan rebels in the art of guerrilla warfare, but House Speaker Thomas O'Neill is not mollified and says agency Director William Casey should
Shortly after Reagan said he had told the CIA to determine if there was "the possibility
A senior White House official said an initial investigation had been conducted by the intelligence agency.
of improper conduct," O Neill, D Mass,
the in-house probe "is going to be a whitewash
THE OFFICIAL SAID the man suspected of being the author was described as 'a'
fourteen-year-old boy from New York City.
"They suspect it was the work of a low-level contract employee for the CIA who is conducting an investigation."
Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., asked the General Accounting Office, Congress investigative arm, to find out who spent tax dollars in the scheme and whether the use of the money was illegal.
He also said the version of the 44-page pamphlet circulated to reporters was not the final version, which he said was toned down.
O'Neill said that the primer, produced in 1983 but just now surfacing, violated a
See PRIMER, p. 5, col. 1
Kassebaum defends higher drinking age
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Legislation forcing states to raise the legal drinking age to 21 wasn't the perfect solution to the problem of drunken driving, but it was the best one possible. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum said last night.
Kassabea told 200 people in Woodruff Auditorium that she did not favor the trend of federal intervention in state government, but that this issue left her no choice.
"Federal regulations concerning state laws do not make me feel comfortable," she said. "But, I supported the 21 drinking age when it came through because I felt I had to.
"I know your feelings, but drunk driving is a terrible problem for all of us."
IN JULY, PRESIDENT Reagan signed a bill that would withhold federal highway funds from states that didn't raise their drinking age to 21 by Sept. 30, 1996.
Advertising for Kassebaum's speech said she would talk about the drinking age, but she said she had planned to talk on nuclear arms control. After a 20-minute lecture on arms control, she answered questions from arms control, most of which dealt with the drinking age.
The speech was sponsored by the Student Union Activities Forums Board.
Kassembaum said she realized that raising the drinking age was not a perfect solution for her. "There are too many people who don't drink."
THE KEY TO making the new legislation work is strict enforcement, Kassebaum said.
"It's not really the age that matters." she said. "I know that. As imperfect as it may be, that was the bill coming through that I thought could pass."
"I know this won't solve the problem of younger people getting liquor if they want it," she said. "The key to this is in information." The statement's sentence, and very strict laws,
Kassebaum said the bill that passed contained incentives for states to crack down on child pornography.
The proposal contains provisions for
states to receive more money if they adopt stricter sentencing laws," she said.
Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, did a good job fighting the legislation in Washington, D.C., Kassebaum said.
"I am very proud of ASK students who learned up there," she said. "They were very well-educated."
"I KNOW IT'S hard to understand when you are 18. You can be drafted into the Army, vote and pay taxes and they tell you. Sorry, you're in for 21 to drink." But, it was really the only way.
Kassebaum said she thought the legislation would hurt some Kansas businesses.
"It will take a toll," she said. "I know it is going to hurt in Lawrence and Manhattan."
Speaking on arms control, Kassebaum said she thought the issue would be an important part of Sunday's debate between President Obama and former Vice President Walter Mondale.
"It will definitely be a key issue Sunday," she said. "But, if an arms agreement is achievable, President Reagan is the one who could possibly do it.
"He has asserted almost hostility towards the Soviet Union — definitely determination. But he has also let them know he is willing to find an agreement."
SHE SAID THE public would welcome an agreement reached by Reagan because he wouldn't make too many concessions to the Soviets.
Speaking about the Star Wars defense systems, anti ballistic missiles weapons based in space, Kassaeum said the United States continue research to stay ahead of the Soviets.
"It is clearly a concern for the Soviets and a bargaining tool for us," she said "but these are defensive weapons instead of ones. That presents a whole new concept."
"The theory of defensive weapons is that you can eliminate your offensive weapons. I don't know if either side is willing to do that vet."
Elimination of programs may help Emporia State
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
WICHITA — Officials at Emporia State University won't know for at least another month whether the school's liberal arts and sciences graduate programs will be discontinued, a Board of Regents committee decided yesterday.
A Regents plan to help Emporia State absorb a permanent $1.1 million budget cut called for the phasing out of all graduate degree programs except those in education, psychology, business and library science. The plan, devised by a Regents subcommittee during the summer, also suggested establishing one branch of a Center for Science and Technology.
STANLEY KOPIK, REGENTS executive director, said cutting out a few specific programs at Emporia State would be better than reducing all programs. By concentrating on providing fewer areas of studies, he said, the school could become a prominent regional center for undergraduate liberal arts studies and teacher education.
A Center for Excellence in Teaching also was one of several recommendations made last month by a team of three education
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 3
West Campus laboratories dedicated to Higuchi
BY DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
The banquet was part of a three-day international symposium dedicated to Hughu. Helegts distinguished professor of pharma with creating the discipline of pharma-
A group of research buildings on West Campus has been designated the Takeru Ibuchi Biomedical Research Area, it was held a night at a banquet in Ibuchi's honor.
counct chemistry The symposium, which ends today, is being held at the Holiday Inn Holdme. 200 McDonald Drive.
See related story p. 6
The announcement of the research area was made by Olin Petefish, chairman of the Kansas University Endowment Association Board of Trustees.
The research area encompasses the Smissman, McCollium and pharmaceutical chemistry laboratories, all of which the University operates, he said. In addition, it has a team of scientists in a company that Hughu helped establish as a complement to the research programs.
A COMMISSIONED PAINTING of the complex and a new scholarship in honor of fugiuchi and his wife, Aya, were also announced.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, announced that Robert Sudlow, professor of art, had agreed to provide a classroom at Campus complex and the Wakarusa Valley.
Peterfish told an audience of about 360 people that the designation of the research area was an appropriate honor because he had done so much for the University of Kansas.
After the banquet, Petfish said the decision to name the site for Higuchi reflected his tremendous scholarly and financial contributions to the University.
A scholarship fund started by three former students of Higuchi was announced by Marcus Chao, one of the students and now an engineering group manager for General
THE PAINTING HAS been commissioned by faculty members and friends of the School to decorate the Library.
Chao said Ralph Heasley, Jim Luch and he had collected $6,250 to provide scholarships to the department of chemistry, where he studied
The scholarship has no formal name yet, but, said its purpose is to honor both *Temple* and *River*.
The banquet program included testimonies to the warmth and hospitality of the Higuchis
as well as the professional contributions of Takeru Higuchi.
He said the Higuichi Endowment Research Achievement Awards, given by the Higuichis in four academic areas each year, were the largest of such grants in the Midwest. The
CHANCELOR GENE A. Budig said that Higuichi had made contributions in a wide range of roles: teacher scientist, research investigator, educator, benefactor and sponsor of research.
Higuchi's imaginative research planning, he said, has affected planning in many areas.
"You have followed the trails that he has blazed and built upon the foundations he has built."
HIGHLIGHTS OF HIGUCHI'S career were recounted by three speakers.
Joseph Robinson, professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, read a statement about the years Hughi spent on the faculty there. He was at Wisconsin from 1947 to 1967. The statement was written by August Lemberger, dean of Wisconsin's School of Pharmacy, who could not attend the symposium because of an illness in his
Alex Zaffaron, president and chief executive officer of Alza Corp.of Palo Alto, Calif.
See BANQUET. $ ^{*} $ p. 5, col. 3
Steven Purcell/KANSAN
Takera Higuchi. Regents distinguished professor of pharmacy and chemistry, and his wife, Aya. Enjoy a joke during a speech at a banquet honoring the professor. Last night's banquet was part of a three-day international symposium dedicated to Higuchi, who is credited with creating the discipline of pharmaceutical chemistry