THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.13
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 12. 1970
Royals lose;
KC four out
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Carlin asks Carter to stop rail strike
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin told members of President Carter's cabinet and staff yesterday in a meeting in Washington that he will support the government to end the Rock Island Railroad strike, according to Don Smith, Carlin's assistant press
Meanwhile, officials of the striking Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks union refused to negotiate yesterday with Rock Island, which is the exclusive carrier for 1,700 airlifters in the United States.
Carlin was in Washington for a quarterly executive meeting of the National Governors' Association. While he visited the governor's office, transportation, Bill Hoppo, assistant secretary of labor, and Gene Eidenberg, associate domestic affairs
Smith said Carlin told the officials that the strike was seriously affected, Kansas because untransported grain was taken up important storage space needed for the uproar corn, soybean and milo harvest.
Carlin sent a telegraph to Carter Aug. 30, urging the president to take immediate action on the railroad
“CARLIN SAID HE thought there would be some action forthcoming,” Smith said, “but he couldn’t.”
Members of the BRAC union went on strike Aug. 28, because their demands for nearly $41 million in loan guarantees have been rejected.
Rock Island officials said they could not make the payments because the railroad had bankrupt in
RAILROAD OFFICIALS were to begin negotiating yesterday in Washington with the National Mediation Board.
However, Fred Kroll, president of the BRAC union, left a brief meeting with Rock Island at the headquarters of the mediation board yesterday, refusing to negotiate contract demands.
A spokesman for the railway clerks said Kroll would have to "reflect" to negotiate, no change in its position against "temporary" activity, and announced that if workers wanted to come back to work, they would have to work under rules set by the company.
"It doesn't look like any movement at all." the
spokesman said. "The meeting has been recessed without any further date. The status quo prevails."
Monday, Rock Island employees expanded their picketing to include the Terminal Railway Co., in Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the railroads had helped in efforts to break the two-week-old walkout.
But U.S. District Judge William Collinson in Kansas City, Mo., issued a temporary restraining order yesterday prohibiting the strikers from poketing the workers, which is a key switching center for several other railroads.
A spokesman at the terminal said yesterday that no strikers were at the railway station.
IN TOPEKA the strike spread Monday to the Santa Fe Railroad, but lasted only a day. Gil Stew, Fetra speaksman, said the union stopped picketing after Santa Fe agreed not to assist Rock Island in the movement of
Also in Topeka Monday, members of the interim agriculture committee sent a letter to Carter urging him to take immediate action, including invoking the Taft-Hartley act to enforce strikers' hard to work.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, chairman of the committee, said the letter to the president had been signed by the committee members individually because the group did not have the authority to adopt a resolution
The letter read, "The system of railroads is one of the major means of transporting grain in the state of Kansas."
"THE SERVICES provided by railroads in transporting grain have been curtailed as a result of stricting
The letter said the strike meant that much grain would remain in local storage.
"In addition, the harvest of fall crops will begin soon, increasing the storage problems for the grains of Kansas."
Borg, the letter also were sent to Carlin, Borg
copper, secretary of agriculture, and the Kansas
Census Department.
Those who signed the letter were Vogel, State Reps. George Works, R-Humboldt; Dean Hinsaw, R-Humboldt; Patrick Dempsey, Poison, R-Vermilion; LaFoy Frank Fry, D-Lake River; R.Brassman D-Mound Valley; and State Sen. John Croft, R-Cedar Point; Neil Arasmith, R-Daniel Basson, G-Dangood, and Leroy Hayden, D-Satanta.
Fancy footwork
Bill Gordon of Lawrence demonstrates a freestyle fribisbee technique that helped
him win the Kansas State Frisbee Championship last week in Wichita, Gordon and his wife are members of the KU Frisbee Club. See story page seven
Clark livens up meeting with his own plant sale
Lawrence Mayor Barkley Clark added a bit of humor to last night's city commission meeting by selling plants outside the meeting room. Clark said he would provide a special discount for former mayors, referring to Fred Pence, owner of Pence's and former Lawrence mayor, who complained about a plant sale on the KU camp.
Plant sale
By ANN LANGENFELD Staff Reporter
The scene, which had the capacity audience laughing and applauding, was inspired by a recent controversy over a KU campus last week held on the KU campus last week.
Dressed in a butcher's apron and carrying plants. Mayor Barkley Clark and Mr. Dillon room last night and said, "I am here to sell plants. The proceeds will be used to pay for new plants."
The plant sale, sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, promoted Fred Pence, a local merchant, to speak at an event licensing procedures at the meeting.
Pence, owner, of Pence's Garden Center, 914 W. 23rd and 15th New York streets; said last week that the group lost local merchants unair competition.
He said he had talked with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and was satisfied that the matter would be handled adequately on campus.
Both Pence and the commissioners agreed that the plant sale was only a small part of a larger issue. The committee had already discussed related issues brought up by Pence.
He also questioned whether a roller skate salesman operating out of a truck near campus last week was licensed. He said the company required any regulations governing games.
Pence asked, for example, whether sales such as those held out of the backs of trucks on street corners were always licensed.
City ordinances do not govern University activities because the University is located on state property.
City Manager Buford Watson said that the roller skate salesman and a salesman who recently sold seafood from a truck on 22rd Street both had transient
He said the idea of sales for a good cause had "grown like a cancer."
Commissioners agreed that they did not want nonprofit organizations to be included in the regulations drawn up by the city staff.
Commissioner Ed Carter said the regulations should be reasonable.
"I'm sure they can't be nailed down like a recipe. We cann't regulate every little sale that comes along. That would
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Ruling implements equal funding
a nonnaming ruling by the U.S. Office of
Patent Management to stem the plea-
mentation of equal per capita funding for
men's and women's sports could cost the KU
athletic department more than it appears
The ruling was issued yesterday in Houston by a commission that had been holding hearings on Title IX guidelines all summer.
"There is no way we could comply with such a request right now," Bob Marcum, KU athletics director said yesterday. "We wouldn't have any choice but to cut some sports programs unless other source sports programs men's football and basketball appear."
The Title 1X guidelines require equa-
tion of funding for all institutions
institution receiving federal funds. Because
athletes are a part of the University, which
receive federal funds, they are subject to
funding.
THE RULING means that in order to figure out how much money must be spent on each female athlete, an athletic department must spend $250 million all men's sports and divide that figure by the total number of male athletes to derive the average expenditure per athlete. According to the ruling, the department then must spend that much on each female athlete.
Marcum said he had originally figured it
However, he said if football and basketball were added as the new ruling said they must be it, would it cost at least $1.1 million.
would cost KU an extra $400,000 to achieve comparable expenditures for men and women in nonrevenue sports.
"I don't know of a university in the Big Eight that can comply with this ruling," Marcum said. "Right now, I don't even know if the ruling is enforceable."
Currently the athletic department has a total budget of $1.3 million and $480,000 going to women's sports. The football program has a budget of $1.2 million and receives about $1.5 million in revenue, which are the largest revenue-reproducing sport.
Dykes leads campus tour
By JEFFS JERVEN
Staff Writer
Top KU administrators spent most of summer leading a parade of Kansas teachers to rally behind their buildings to try to win support for the University's proposal on renovations on campus.
The administrators, led by Chancellor R. Dykes, took members and staff of the college to campus for a tour on a tour of the campus, including stops at Robben Gymnasium and Maliet, and at the Science Center.
Before the tour, Richard Von Ende executive secretary of the University briefed the legislators on the five capital projects that had been approved by the Board of Regents.
In the approved proposals are a $8,275,000 renovation of Snow Hall, which houses most of the biology department at the university; an $874,500 project in Fint Hill, home of the William Allen White School of Journalism; an $120,000 renovation in the southwest portion of campus and a
$120,000 project to replace steam lines that
connect the University's scholarship halls
STATE REP. August Bogna Jr., R-Lenox, chairman of the building committee and a consulting engineer, said the committee would consider building proposals at KU and other state-funded universities and make other recommendation to
State Rep Phil Martin, D-Learned, said it would be impossible to grant funds to all building projects proposed by Kansas universities.
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Textbook problems at bookstore bring complaints from professors
BY AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
A number of RU instructors are upset with the Kansas Union Bookstore's handing of textbook orders this fall and at least one student is attempting to do something about it.
Ted Wilson, chairman of the department of history, said yesterday that he would send a letter today outlining the department's plan to Betty Brock bookstore managers.
The bookstore's failure to notify instructors when books for their classes were going to arrive late or not at all was among the complaints to be included in the letter,
He said that on May 31 he ordered a book, titled "World War II: Critical Issues," that he had written and used in his course the past few years. On Aug. 14, he received a
memo from the bookstore staff saying the book had never been published.
BROCK SAID that she had received notice July 16 from the publisher of Wibson's book *The History of America*, which did not know why the memo was issued to Wilson and she found no record of it in Wibson.
“A number of problems have been brought to my attention.” Wilson said. “In general, it seems they’re either losing orders or some people are getting incorrect information.”
Nanette Roubideau, teaching assistant in history, said the bookstore failed to notify her when it ordered a different edition of the book she had requested. When the substituted books arrived, she said, they were not labeled as books for her course, History
However, according to bookstore files.
SHE ADDED THAT the book might have been ordered for another class by another instructor and all copies might have been stacked in one place. Although the books were printed in another store, with Rouhoudou's other texts, they might have been available in the store. Brock said.
Brock said, Roubideux never specified an edition number and in such a case, it was bookstore policy to order the most recent edition.
Another instructor, Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies, said he did not learn that his books had not been ordered before he went on to tag when he聘ed the bookstores in Los Angeles.
Miller said he had the receipt from his book order placed a week before the April 15 ordering deadline.
bookstore had no record of this order,
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