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Friday, September 28, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
Conaressmen to see missiles
WASHINGTON—Rep. Robert Whitaker, R-Kan, and Dan Glickman, D-kan, announced yesterday they would tour the controversial TII missile test site.
Whitaker the Air Force had agreed to let the congressman展位 the command post and maintenance facilities at McConnell Air Force Base in Colorado.
Announcement of the tour followed a meeting in Washington between the congressmen and Air Force officials. The meeting revealed that 10 of the 18 congressmen attended the trip.
Wittaker said he hoped the tour would answer three major questions about the missile system: Are the missiles safe for the crewmen working at the site and for residents living close to the complex? Is the Air Force being honest with them? Are they being safe from the missiles, and Is the missile system an integral part of our defense system?
Rock Island takeover near
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—After a seven-and-a-half-hour closed meeting yesterday, directors of the Kansas City Terminal Railway Co. said they had devised a plan to reduce emissions from trains on the system.
"Our first priorities will be getting the commuter trains in Chicago and the grain traffic moving again," said Vernon E. Gee, chair of the KCT board of
The 32-day strike had seriously threatened grain shipments in the Rock Island's 13-state service region.
Coe said only a few workers would be called back to work at first because freight traffic on the 2,000-mile line has been sharply reduced.
A management team from three unexpected railroads will work out details of how to save money by raising funds from the federal and how many federal dollars will be needed to resume Rock Island's rail service.
The Interstate Commerce Commission Wednesday ordered the Terminal Railway, a switching system owned by the 12 railways that serve this area, to close.
ICC Chairman Daniel O'Neal estimated the federal bill for the 60-day period would come to $40 million.
Before Wednesday's service order, the ICC had never directed another railroad to operate a strikebound major carrier.
House passes education bill
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday approved and sent to President Carter a bill that creates a new Department of Education.
The House voted 215-201 to create the 13th Cabinet agency. During his 1976 campaign, Carter had promised to place the government's education programs at the center of policy debates.
The Senate passed the measure Monday.
The measure will reduce the size of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and will rename the agency the Department of Health and Human
More than 150 federal programs will be transferred to the new agency, including programs from the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Housing and
The new department is the second created during Carter's term. The Energy Department was the first, established in 1977.
The new department will have a budget exceeding $14 million and will have about 18,000 employees.
Ozark returns to mediation
ST. LOUIS- Negotiations are ending at a 14-day strike by Ozark Airlines flight attendants are set to resume Monday before a federal mediator at an
Spokesman Bill Mishk of the Association of Flight Attendants said the talks would resume at 10 a.m.
About 560 flight attendants went on strike in April 2014 after contract talks broke down. The walkout forced Ozark to cancel its 195 flights to 67 cities in 21 states.
Picketing continued yesterday here and in Chicago, where the flight attendants are based.
Prior to the strike, the flight attendants had been working on an extension of a contract that expired Aug. 1, 1978.
Wages, insurance and retirement benefits are the primary issues in the dispute. Starting pay for a flight attendant under the old contract was $64 a week. The new contract paid
About 1,700 mechanics, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, ratified a new contract with Ozark, which called for a 30 percent pay increase over a three-year period, earlier this month.
House approves 1980 budget
WASHINGTON - In a 212-206 roll call vote yesterday, the House approved a $543.8 billion budget for the federal government's 1980 fiscal year, which begins
In the vote, all 154 Republicans voted against the budget along with 52 Democrats, while 212 Democrats voted for the budget.
Although the House approved the budget, it apparently did not in time to resolve differences with the Senate over defense spending before the start of the war.
The Senate version of the budget calls for $446.3 billion in spending and differs from the House budget by calling for sharp increases in defense and cuts in
House leaders said yesterday that House and Senate negotiators would not meet to reconcile the differences until after a week-long House recess that
Although that means the 1980 fiscal year will begin without a firm budget velling in place, this is not expected to affect the day-to-day operation of the firm.
Senate moves to block raise
WASHINGTON—The Senate approved without dissent yesterday an amendment that could stop any pay raise for Congress from going into effect.
The amendment was suggested by Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla., and became another factor in the complicated bargaining procedure between House and Senate on Thursday.
After three unsuccessful attempts, the House voted Tuesday to give members of Congress, bureaucrats and federal judges making at least $74,000 a year a 5.5 percent increase in funding.
If accepted by both chambers the amendment apparently would mean that a pay raise voted by the current Congress could not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1981—after all House members and one-third of the Senate had been through the 1980 elections.
New Lansing director resigns
If implemented, the raise would mean that current congressional salaries would rise from $57,500 to $69,700 a year on Oct. 1.
TOPEKA—Gary Rayl, new director of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, has resigned his post for personal reasons, State Correction Depart-
Rail resigned Tuesday, one week after his appointment and transfer from director of the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchison became ef-
Howard Klink, administrative assistant to the state corrections secretary, said Ray had worked part time at the penitentiary the past week while making
Klink said Ray) never officially took over full responsibilities from acting director Robert Akins, who now will continue in that position.
Weather ...
Today and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy with highs in the low h80, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from 5 to 15 mph.
The forecast for Sunday through Tuesday is dry and mild days and cool nights. Temperatures are predicted in the high 78 to low 80s.
Major changes in Amtrak effected
WASHINGTON - House yesterday passed and sent to President Carter legislation that cuts the Amtrak passenger system but provides a long-term commitment to purchase new equipment for modernization of the remaining trains.
From the Kansas Wire Services
In another major change in the Amtrak law, the bill increases the current 50-60 federal matching program for state-supported trains to an 80 percent federal rate. The new operation of a new train, 65 percent the second year and back to 50 percent in later years.
The bill also orders Amtrak to institute a cut rate fare system for the elderly and handicapped, but does not specify exactly how much fares must be cut.
Five long-distance passenger trains—about 28 percent of Amtrak's route miles—will begin their last runs Sunday as a result of the legislation.
The bill passed by voice vote.
However, a number of trains President Obama signed to the constitution have been saved by the legislation that Congress began drafting this summer when the gasoline crisis was sending motorists back to trains on roads.
At least two new trains will be started, one from Los Angeles to Ogden, Utah, through Las Vegas, and the other from Chicago to Indianapolis.
The bill provides $102.7 million in fiscal 1980 and $8.4 million in fiscal 1981, much of it for operating subsidies, plus $329 million for new equipment and capital improvements.
Amtrak President Alan Boyd said the $701 million in capital funds cumulative over the three years would enable Amtrak to drive 28,000 miles on new low level passenger car for the eastern routes where tight clearances will not allow trains of the new double-deck Superliners.
The five trains to begin their last runs on Sunday are:
The National Limited from New York to Kansas City.
The North Coast Hiawatha from Chicago to Seattle.
- The Floridian from Chicago to Miami and St. Petersburg.
—The Lone Star from Chicago to Houston.
—The Hilttopper from Boston to Catlettsburg, Ky.
In Kanaas, a federal judge ruled that the state attorney general by Robert Stephen, state attorney general, for a temporary restraining order to keep Antrak from cutting off the Lone Star road.
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There is also the chance that the line will lateriterate if passenger service is discontinued for any length of time, Green aid.
Judge Frank Theis of the U.S. District Court in Wichita said after a full-day hearing that he needed to review material related to his case and deciding whether to issue a temporary
"If we cut off this service, within 30 days we're talking about a phenomenal amount of money to start the service again," said McKenna, assistant attorney general for Kansas.
restraining order. He said he would make a ruling Friday.
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Stephan said Amtrak violated federal law by not holding required public hearings in Kansas.
Green said the Department of Transportation did not hold hearings in Kansas because the preliminary report on Amtrak did not include eliminating the Lone Star.
Similar cases against Amtrak are pending in Texas and California. Thes heard arguments on a motion to consolidate all the courts into one in California, but he took no action on the motion.
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