The University Daily
Lawrence, Kansas University of Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 3, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 8
Catherine Baird, Summit, Mo., listens intently as President Carter clarifies a point during his campaign kick-off appearance at Truman High School in Independence, Mo.
Photos bv BEN BIGLER
Truman memory marks Carter visit
From Staff and Wire Reports
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — All the banners were in place and the local dignitaries, stage left, in their seats. The high school band, off camera, was poining out "Hail to the Chief" as President Jimmy Carter, also stage left, approached the podium.
The stage was set, and with cameras rolling. Carter held a town meeting in the Trumman High School gymnasium here yesterday. The hourlong meeting, promoted as a free-flowing basketball-and-answer session with average Americans, was as well-orchestrated as the band.
The questions, from people picked in advance, ranged from defense spending, SALT II, and the Midwest peace talks to energy programs, the economy and his opponent, Ronald Reagan.
THE PRESIDENT'S morning started with a 9:30 trip to the Independence home of former President Harry S. Truman and a visit with Truman's widow, Bess.
After the town hall meeting, Carter went on a tour of the Truman Memorial Library and Museum and he laid six roses on the former room and she lay out a flower in Kansas City. Me. shortly after noon.
The town hall was smothered by the local media. One newspaper sent over a dozen newspapers and photographers to the meeting, and local television carried the event live in the Kansas City area.
Carter took advantage of the exposure and padded up to the crowd of about 1,500 in the gymnasium.
Flanked by huge posters of himself and Harry Truman, Carter conquered up the spirit of Thomas Jefferson.
"President Truman had to make a lot of hard decisions," Carter said. "Not all of them were proper."
He then quoted Truman by saying, "any President who makes decisions that affect the well being of our country on the basis of public opinion polls is not worthy to hold the office."
TRUMAN SET A good example, Carter said, one that he had tried to follow. Carter also said he hoped to duplicate Truman's comeback in the election of 1948, when public opinion poll showed the incumbent Truman far behind his opponent, Thomas E. Deewey.
"He won the election," Carter said. "and I can't deny that one's one reason I wanted to talk to Mrs. Truman this morning ... to find out some of his secrets."
His numerous flashbacks to Truman were rewarded by outbursts of applause. He also used the session to launch attacks on Reagan for his proposed defense spending, and said that they would result in an uncontrolled nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
Reagan is different from me in almost every basic element of commitment and experience.
"I believe in peace, I believe in arms control, I believe in controlling nuclear weapons, I believe in the rights of working people of this country. I believe in looking forward and not backward."
DEFENSE HAS been a major issue during Carter's campaign, now officially in its third day.
Carter said his goals for a second term, would be a continuance of the peace process in the Mideast and a modernization and re-tooling of the steel and auto industries. He said he would continue oil conservation, increase production and work on welfare system reform.
He also said he saw the need for a comprehensive health program and an increase in enrollment.
"My goal is for every able-bodied man who wants a job to have a job," he said. "We have increased the number of jobs, yet at the same rate. Our rate has increased in the number of people seeking jobs."
Carter proposed the creation of permanent jobs, but not government jobs. His target areas were in the steel and automotive industries, he said.
Carter said the slump experienced recently by the auto industry is directly related to the transition to smaller cars, made necessary by the energy crunch and high gasoline prices.
"I have no doubt that we'll see a quick rebuilding of the American automobile industry and a quick transfer by the American consumers towards investments toward American produced cars," he said.
FOLLOWING THE official question-and-answer period, Carter responded emotionally when asked about Reagan's recent comment on the President and the Ku Klux Klan. Carter was then appointed of resorting to the use of slurs and innocuous against a whole region of the country.
Reagan's remark Monday noted that Carter had chosen to open his campaign in Tuscumbia, Ala., "the city that gave birth to, and is the parent body of, the Klu Klux Klan."
Carter said Reagan's remark was "based on a false premise, and is not doing the South or our nation."
Carter called the remark unnecessary, inaccurate and something that all Southernwomen had.
Bus route permit switch arouses anger in Wood Creek residents
ONE YOUNG BOY asked the president
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"As an American and a Southerner, I resent it," he said.
The questions at the town meeting were directed at Carter by a 16 of the 24 people who were selected by a Carter aide before the meeting. Those selected were taken outside the meeting room and briefed before returning to ask their questions.
Staff Reporter
By DIANE SWANSON
KU buses do not stop at the Wood Creek Apartments, 255 N. Michigan St., this fall and some Wood Creek residents are unset.
Robin Kahn, Prairie Village graduate student and Wood Creek resident, said yesterday that she had contracted to live there because it was on a bus route. But she did not know the route had been discontinued until she went to buy a bus pass at enrollment.
The Student Senate Transportation Board cut
service to Wood Creek this fall after the Senate Parking and Traffic Board renewed a permit for Jayhawk West Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, to supply its residents with bus service. The initial permit for private service was given to Jayhawk West last spring.
THE TRANSPORTATION board renamed the Frontier Ridge route the Trailridge route, extending service only to Trailridge Apartments and cut off service to Wood Creek. The board owns the Trailridge route to Ninth and Massachusetts streets and Pine Tree Townhouses, 149 Pinene Dr.
Because of the nine-block north and three-block west walk to catch the Trailridge route bus, Kahn said that several Wood Creek resi-ness homes are in car pool but confronted class schedule conflicts.
Kahn said she was planning to draw up a petition to be signed by local residents within two or three weeks to present to the Student Senate that there were enough students to support a bus service.
She said she resorted to buying a campus parking permit that cost $30, the same as a bus pass.
"It's really annoying to be without a bus
especially when Jayhawk West is willing to provide the service," Kahn said.
RITA KNOLLMAN, Jayhawk West assistant manager, said yesterday that 30 people had canceled their job at the company.
"We just have to tell them we're sorry but we can't," she said.
An agreement was made with the transportation board and the parking and traffic place when the permit was granted, she said, that it allowed the bus on the car to Jayhawk West residents only.
Knollman said she had talked with a lawyer to discuss ways to serve Wood Creek.
Knollman's lawyer, Winton Winter Jr., said that although they had informally discussed solutions, "no definite formal action can be taken," he added, however, that informal talks would continue.
Steve McMurry, transportation board chairman, said he saw no reason why Jayhawk West could not include area residents on its route.
He said he would like Jayhawk West to work out a way to provide additional service in the area because they already were operating the bus.
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Simpson stumps at KU
By DAN TORCHIA
Staff Writer
Struggling to defeat an incumbent opponent who has more financial and public support, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Simpson is among the first candidates to gather student support for his campaign.
Simpson, who beat five candidates in the Democratic primary for the right to challenge Sen. Bob Dole in the general election, toured Flint and Green halls.
Marvin Rau, Simpson's press secretary, said that Kurtman would visit at college campuses in Kansas.
"We hope to get good support from the campuses," Rau said. "The people there want to change things. They are tired of the way things have been handled."
SIMPSON SAID he was confident of his chances, despite Dole's momentum in the race.
"I have to make people know why I am running," he said. "I have to show that I am an athlete."
Simpson, a former state senator from Salina, won the Aug. 5 primary by three percentage points, gathering 35 percent of the vote. Although none of his challengers were considered serious challengers for the nomination, his closest rival, Madhurak Overland Park, gathered 33 percent of the vote.
Simpson said the close margin of victory did not surprise him.
"With six people in the race, I knew it would be tough. And I was vigorous campaigning, and a couple did."
Simpson is concentrating on Dole's record as a senator, saying that Dole's interests lie beyond the Senate.
HOWEVER, a poll published Monday showed that most voters preferred Dole. The poll, conducted by the Central Research Corp. of Topeka, indicated that 61 percent of the voters sampled preferred Dole, compared with 39 percent for Simpson.
Simpson denied statements made by Dole, who said that Simpson could not criticize Dole's support by oil and gas companies because Simpson also had ties to them. Simpson, however, said that his ties to the oil and gas companies were not as strong as Dole's.
"People are suspicious of Senator Dole," he
many. "Many people have said they were
embarrassed."
"I expected a wide difference," he said. "That is the way it is when a person challenges an inference."
"My record shows I gave very little support to oil and gas companies, even though I have an interest in the oil," he said. "I am not a champion of the oil companies as he is."
He also disputed Dole's statement that Simpson did not have much credibility with voters. Dole referred to Simpson's switch of parties when he was a state senator.
SIMPSON SERVED from 1971-79 as the Republican state stateman from the 24th District. In May 1979 he resigned his seat and joined the Democratic Party.
"My victory in the primary shows the Democratic Party has accepted me," he said. "I think it is well understood that I left the Republican Party because its philosophy is
John Simpson
contrary to my views. It was a creditable position to take."
He said he especially disagreed with the 1980 Republican platform. He said he supported a responsible energy policy and a defense policy that would be adequate, but would not start another arms race.
HE IS ALSO opposed to draft registration, he said, because it doesn't enhance military defense.
"The money would be better spent on pay increases for personnel," Simpson said.
Simpson said he planned to spend $400,000
$500,000 in the general election. In the 1974
election, Mr. Simpson asked for
"It is a difficult campaign but a winnable one," Simpson said. "I believe that people want someone to win."
Board of Regents chairman wants banner policy changed
By RAY FORMANEK Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents' banner policy, which has been challenged at KU twice in the past three months, was criticized yesterday by Bernard Franklin, board chairman.
Franklin, from Kansas City, Kan., said the policy, which prohibits "political advertisements" from being displayed at enclosed events, was "unclear" and in need of revision.
Ultimately, the Regents will decide the fate of the banner policy. The board will examine the policy.
Franklin said any change in the banner policy would reflect the views of Acting Chancellor Del Rosso.
The policy has been criticized as being vague and its enforcement has led to many disputes.
KU police arrested 12 protesters during Commencement May 19 after they had displayed banners, in violation of the policy, advocating first amendment rights and the divestiture of the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in South Africa.
THE TWELVE WERE charged with criminal trespassing or disorderly conduct or both. The charges were dropped Friday by Lawrence City Prosecutor Ck Knutson when university officials allowed four members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition to display a replica of the Commencement banner without taking any action against them.
Franklin said the possible revision of the policy was a result of a recommendation by KU's
It will be partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper 60s, according to the National Weather Service.
There is a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms teaks.
Tomorrow should be partly cloudy with chances of precipitation ending by mid-morning. High tomorrow will be in the south at 10 to 15 mph.