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University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 7, 1979
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Kansan's Wire Services
Two inmates killed in rioting
SOLEAD, Calif. — Two inmates were killed and 17 injured in a race riot that officials said was planned by blacks at Sacred P驴ression.
"It appears to have been a preplanned assault by blacks on whites and Chicanos," Phil Graham, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.
Blacks apparently started the fight in "retaliation for an assault by whites on blacks Aug. 19." Gutfeld said.
Aug. 19 was the date a lockdown, during which all prisoners were kept in their cells, was instituted in that section of the prison. The lockdown was lifted
A Monterey County coroner's deputy was dispatched to the prison, a facility about 10 miles south of San Francisco, but identities of the dead and injured
Kansas faces possible gas cuts
WASHINGTON — Kansas would have to cut gasoline consumption 15 percent from its 1974 first quarter level to stay within the voluntary 1800 limit proposed by Congress.
The department said the limits took into account the past effects of weather, growth rates and existing conservation efforts. As a result, the targets vary
Each state was assigned a maximum gasoline consumption limit for the first quarter of 1980 and in most states that limit is lower than gasoline consumption limits.
Under the proposal, Alaska and Colorado need not cut gasoline consumption because their limits are higher than actual consumption in 1979.
Bill Hec, Gov. John Cartin's press secretary, said that at first glance it appeared that Kansans were being asked to carry a disproportionate share of the ballot.
Hoch said state officials had been told that no other state had a higher fuel reduction goal than Kansas.
Other states and the percentages they would have to reduce gasoline use in the first three months of 1880 from comparable levels in 1979 are 8.4 percent, 6.5 percent, and 4.4 percent, respectively.
Federal energy officials reportedly want to talk with their state counterparts in Kansas about the validity of state figures used to set the 15 percent target.
Meat leads food price increases
WASHINGTON—Led by sharply higher prices for poultry and beef, wholesale food prices increased by 2.6 percent in November, the biggest monthly increase in five years and a clear warning that consumers face higher grocery bills in weeks ahead.
Overall, wholesale prices increased 1.3 percent during the month and were up at an annual rate of 12.8 percent for the year, the Labor Department said.
The increase makes it nearly certain that 1979 will be the worst year for inflation at the wholesale level since 1974, when prices rose 18.3 percent.
Energy prices rose by 2.5 percent in November, the smallest amount since February, but were still 62.7 percent higher than a year earlier.
House limits abortion funding
WASHINGTON—The House on a 217-169 roll call voted yesterday an amendment limiting the use of federal funds for abortions.
The amendment is attached to a bill expanding Medicaid funds to additional poor children and prohibits federal funding of abortions unless the life of the child
A "yes" vote was in favor of the amendment. A "no" vote against it.
Rep Jimmie, Voting "no" were 137 Democrat, including Kansas Rep Dan Gickman, and 32 Republicans, including Kansas Rep Bob Whittaker. (Courtesy of the KANSAS POST)
Dole's N.H. campaign staff quits
CONCORD, N.H.-The core of Sen. Robert Dole's campaign staff in New Hampshire has quit, dealing a blow to the Kansas senator's presidential campaign.
Sen. Raymond Conley Dole's state director, director yesterday that and seven other Dole staffers, including Gordon Hartlett, director of field
The resignations came just 11 weeks before New Hampshire's critical Republican primary, in which Dole is rated one of the longer shots.
Conley said it was Dole's national operation that led to the rift.
"They figured they knew how to run New Hampshire better than we did," he said. "We couldn't get through to them. We didn't seem to be able to comprehend."
However, Dole's state chairman, Carroll Jones, said the resignations were not an earthquake that would destroy the Kansas senator's chances to win.
Church affirms women's rights
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.—The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints yesterday issued a statement reaffirming the equality of women in church rituals.
The statement, issued by church president Wallace B. Smith, was an apparent attempt to make it clear that the church did not agree with the communication this week of Santa Johnson, a woman member of the Mormon church who supports the Equal Rights Amendment.
A spokeswoman for the RLDS, which split in the 1890s with the original Mermans over the issue of polygamy, said the church wanted to dispel any idea that the LDS was a monastic order.
The statement issued quoted from a resolution passed by the church's world conference in 1972:
"The present age is witnessing a worldwide struggle in which women are seeking the same equality that the church cherishes in scriptures and resolutions. Therefore, be it resolved that the church reconfirm its belief in the principle of equality as applying also to women."
The statement quoted Chairman John S. Reed as saying the planned expenditures included $771 million for improvements on Santa Fe Railway, $727 million for other transportation operations, $147 million for the company's assets, and $311 million for forest products and $460 million for real estate and construction.
Santa Fe plans spending boost
TOPERA-Santa Fe Industries Inc. said in a statement yesterday that it planned to make capital expenditures of $16 million in 1890. That compares with the previous year's expenditure of $14 million.
Main items in the railway program include 140 new diesel locomotives, 2,075 new freight locomotives, 85 rebuilt locomotives, 686 rebuilt carriages, modifications to 217 cars, 448 miles of new and reconditioned welded rail, improvements to track and yard facilities and a continuing program of bridge replacement.
Ma Bell to invest more in state
The telephone company spend $216 million on telephone improvements in Kansas this year and is planning to spend $271 million in 1980, E. Hayes, the director of the Telephone Company in Kansas.
TOPEKA - Southwestern Bell plans to invest more than $1 billion in Kansas by 1984 for land, buildings and equipment.
Southeastern Bell serves 740,000 customers in Kansas with 1.6 million telephones, handling 1 million long-distance and 7 million local calls each day.
Weather
Weather ...
The KU Weather Service predictors cooler temperatures and partly cloudy skies for today. Highs will be in the upper 40s and low 50s and the wind will be from the north, at 10 to 18 mph. It will be partly cloudy and cooler tonight, also, with temperature sinks taking to near 20 and winds switching to the east at least
The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 40s on Saturday, and a warming trend Sunday through Tuesday, with cooler conditions expected.
Hearing...
to get a sworn statement from him in the next few weeks, as soon as his condition improved.
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Lawrence Fire Chief James McWain testified at the hearing yesterday about his involvement in rescue operations at the wreck site.
He the pre-dawn darkness and poor radio reception caused by antenna problems and the low-lying area of the derailment hindered rescue efforts.
McMWAIN SAID several of the cars in the train were on their sides, and so firemen had to climb on top to release the persons trapped inside.
there was no easy way to get the windows out," he said.
Mebain said firemen had to use axes and sledgehammers to remove the plastic outer windows, and then two firemen had to hold a ladder that the jumped on the inner window to break it.
"Once we got on top of the cars we found
He said one of the cars had windows of safety glass that firemen had difficulty breaking.
Melwain said firemen had a harder time rescuing people because of the varied styles of windows in the cars.
"Finally they did break it and they had to pull it out piece by piece," he said.
"I DON'T THINK the tools that we had available to use were adequate," he said.
McSain said firemen searched the train because he had been informed people because he had been informed more people inside. He did not learn the correct number of people on the train until they were on the train.
He said he thought the windows should be modified to be emergency exits, similar to the windows in airplanes.
Ralph Dolinger, Amtrak manager of equipment design, testified that the cars were not involved in any emergency exits. New cars he said, have emergency exits, as did older cars.
HE SAID EMERGENCY exit windows
contained a "zip strip" that rescues or people trapped inside cars can pull. When the strip is pulled, the windows fall out and allow the trapped persons to exit.
He said about 50 percent of about 1,700 cars in the Amtrak旅客 fleet had been equipped with emergency exits and the rest should be equipped in less than two years.
The hearing received shortly before noon. The chairman, Patricia Goldman, called for anyone with further information to submit it to the NTSB within 60 days.
Goldman said the purpose of the hearing was to determine the probable cause of the accident and to formulate recom- ments to prevent similar accidents in the future.
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