Four workmen brave Wednesday's cold winds atop Learned Hall. The construction will add two stories and a new five-story win
By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.114 Thursday, March 27,1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANU gets award for documentaries
A national award for local documentaries has been given to KANU three days after the station's second annual Campaign for Excellence collected $14,000 from listeners.
"We have seen right after our Campaign for Excellence that we are nationally recognized by the country," the director, said Thursday. "We have a great deal of prestige as a public radio station. We also have the best quality programming that there is."
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave a special citation for the best locally produced documentary to producer Mark J. Klugman for a nine-hour study, "Charles Manson," in 1974. The award also produced the 1974 Peabody Award winning program, "The American Past."
"I feel proud to be part of a station that stimulates this sort of work," Klugman said. "We are pleased with the fact that national interest see KANU as topnotch."
Records, syndicated tape series and taped orchestra concerts are three ways in which the $14,000 pledged by listeners last year will be used to promote promotion and development director, said,
"We want to do what people want to hear," Easley said. "The Campaign for Excellence has raised the station's awareness of who's listening, what they want to hear and when they want to hear it.
We want to fulfill our listeners requests."
The Campaign for Excellence was a week-long funding drive by the station. It asked its listeners for money to maintain its reputation of high standards in public broadcasting. Last year, more than 7,000 was raised through the funding drive.
"We couldn't cover all the costs of programming with our operating budget. We had to do it by hand."
we attempted to raise awareness of what we're doing here at KANU."
More than 700 listeners pledged money, Easley said.
"We heard from listeners who were unemployed and could send one dollar and those who could send $100." Easley said. "I wonder if the people in our area people who don't even live around here."
One businessman driving across Kansas in his car pledged $10 in exchange for a rare album issued by the station, Easley had never heard KANU before, he said.
"We heard from people who really liked one particular kind of program," Easley said. The jazz listeners are very adamant about the music, but the most popular shows we're doing now."
KANU devotes nearly 30 hours of air time a week to jazz.
Easley said KANU was justified in asking its listeners for money.
"We feel at this point it is necessary," Easley said. "We're not going to apologize when our partners just once a year. The money we get from the support. It's a signal not only to the staff but to the University of our need. We don't have to ask for money because we want to continue."
National exposure is the way of showing the importance of excellence for Excelling is just that. Easily
KANU also won the 1971 Armstrong award for Excellence in Programming and Award of Peabody Award. KANU radiates 10,000 powerful radio station in the United States.
"The whole staff here works so beautifully together," Easley said. "It's really graftying to receive the support we've gotten."
Congress passes tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congress passed Wednesday night and sent to President Ford a $24 billion antitrustcession tax cut that would make tax reductions for virtually all Americans.
Although Ford had expressed objections to several provisions of the far-reaching bill, congressional leaders predicted he would sign it rather than delay even further the economic stimulus Ford says is needed to end the recession.
The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 45 to 16.
Before passing the legislation 287 to 125, the House rejected a Republican motion to send the package back to conference, which would have provided an opportunity to argue for eliminating sections that Ford considered objectionable.
Republican leaders said beforehand that the vote on this recmit motion was important because it could determine whether the bill would be vetoed by the President. In 1979 to 214, but the margin was far short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto.
The compromise legislation, approved earlier Wednesday by a Senate-House conference committee, is designed to stimulate the economy by putting extra money into the pockets of most Americans within weeks.
A major provision of the bill provides for rebates of 1974 income taxes averaging 10 per cent of taxes paid, up to a maximum rate of $200. The bill also calls for a $30 tax credit on 1975 income for every taxpayer and for each member of his family.
These reductions would mean a reduction at least $230 in 1978 and 1979 dress for women. In the United States, it cost $459.
Earlier, GOP congressional leaders wired with Ford shortly after the conferences finished their work, said Ford didn't indicate whether he would vote the bill.
However, several of the Republicans said they would vote against the bill and at least two of them—Sens. Paul Fannin of Arizona and Rep. Robert Scalia—and they would support a presidential veto.
White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford had expressed dismay during the meeting with GOP leaders over astronomical spending proposals moving to a tax on gasoline. "Ford has 'to weigh the tax cut bill against these oncoming spending proposals."
Nessen said Ford wouldn't decide whether to veto the bill for several days. Democratic leaders soffed at the idea of a veto.
A spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service said the tax agency is set to begin sending out rebate checks within 45 days after the bill is signed by President Ford and expects to have paid all the rebates within six weeks after that.
The $24-$8 billion measure approved by the conferences agrees with Ford's request for $16 billion.
The Senate approved tax cuts of $30.7 billion and added $3.6 billion in increased spending, most of it in special Social Security and rail retirement payments.
The House approved a $19.8-billion tax cut.
Legislators discuss faculty salary
Local state legislators expressed differing opinions Wednesday about the possibility that the proposed faculty salary increase may be reduced.
State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, and State Rep. Lloyd Burzi, R-Lawrence, said Wednesday that they doubted whether any effort to reduce the salary increase would be worth it. Mr. Glover, D-Lawrence, said several rural legislators might support the reduction.
Both Gov. Robert F. Bennett and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said Tuesday that there would probably be a strong movement from the public to pay per cent pay increase to about 8 per cent.
The controversy centers on Senate Bill 480, which will be debated today in the
House Committee on Education. The bill would set the formula, including the amount of state funding, for the financing of the budgets of local school district boards.
Glover said that some legislators, especially Democrats from rural areas, thought that state aid to elementary and secondary schools should be at the same rate as state funding in education. Those legislators don't think that Senate Bill 480 provides as large an increase for the school districts as the 10 per cent increase in college and university faculty salaries.
York said Wednesday that he wounded a KU Medical Center Friday for a job interview. York said there was a good possibility of his working at the Med Center.
York awaits job, TV interviews
"It depends on what the job is." York
says. "If it's really low-paying...some job I can't"
get it done.
A job interview and an NBC news interview await Jim York, the former Army deserter who last Thursday lost his job with the city parks department.
York said NBC had called Wednesday morning to arrange an interview with him for today. He said he didn't know what they were planning to do with the interview.
"Those legislators whose areas would be hurt by the proposal are also the ones who aren't as interested in higher education," Glover said. "If these same people are upset, then they may feel like reducing the salary increase."
Junior Elder, Kansas Selective Service
医院, has said that two former officials,
Joseph T. Ford and Paul P. Gannaway,
nesty program, was ineligible for jobs in private enterprise and in certain federally funded programs. Elder said he had been appointed to that he apply for a job at the Med Center.
B. E. Smith, personnel director of the Med Center, said Elder had contacted his office about the possibility of York's working at the Med Center.
"If we were in compliance with the amnesty program, and if he was qualified for a job, we'd move ahead with hiring him." Smith said.
York was released by the city because
He was hired by the city in February, but Wes Santea, a local insurance agent and an officer in the Marine Reserve Officers Association against York's employment by the city.
men in the President's amnesty program are intelligible for job which there are no other candidates for.
Santee asked the Lawrence City Commission on March 11 meeting to discharge York, New York, from refused. Santee then appealed to Department of Labor officials in Washington; and the commission refused.
Glover said that many people thought the critical period of debate about the increase had ended March 20 when the House Ways and Means Committee announced its intent to endorse the salary increase and send it to the full House for consideration.
York was declared ineligible for his job by federal labor officials, on March 20.
The city then asked for York's resignation, which it received March 20.
"But if the opponents are strong enough to get together," he said, "there's the possibility that we're not really out of the woods yet at all."
Booth said discussion among legislators of a possible reduction in the salary increase was mostly partisan and didn't pose a serious threat to the increase.
"I tend to discount it," he said. "We're committed to higher education. They're just fun."
Buzzi said he had heard some discussion of a possible move to reduce the salary in return.
"I've heard all of rumblings," he said,
"but it's just a partisans situation, not a
The only thing that might jeopardize the increase would be too much continued "harangaging about teacher's rights" and collective bargaining, Booth said.
Booth said that both groups would ultimately be satisfied through some course.
"I think there's the feeling in the legislature that now that we're giving so much money to higher education," he said, referring to the business of educating the students."
serious obstacle to the increase. The chances for passing the requester increase.
"I feel that if things go along as they are elementary and higher and higher educational, the education educates."
Lewis scuffle trial continued to April 9
By BILL GRAY
After five and one-half hours of testimony, the trial of five women charged with battery in connection with a Feb. 24 attack on a woman who was continued Wednesday until April 9.
Kansan Staff Reporter
Richard Jones, Topeka attorney, who represented three of the defendants in the case, said a woman who wasn't presently a defendant or complainant in the case would probably file misdemeanor battery charges against one of the complainants.
On trial in Douglas County Court we five Lewis residents charged with misdemeanor battery in connection with a scuffle in the basement of Lewis.
A charge of misdemeanor battery against Jackie Ledbetter, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, was dismissed by Doug assistant Douglas County attorney.
Ledbetter's attorney, Hertzel Whyte.
Kansas City, Kan., said the charge against his client was dropped because she was mistakenly identified by the complainant as being involved in the incident.
Walker said he couldn't comment on the dismissal of the charge against Ledbetter,
The complainants in the case, Debra Lee and Jeannie Denise Wastell, both Topika freshman, testified that the defendants were not charged with assault, accosted them in the basement of Lewis.
Seven persons, including Ledbetter, were originally defendants in the trial. One of the defendants, D'Anne Trombs, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, already had her trial because her lawyer was ill and unable to pay court costs, assistant Douglas County attorney, said.
The remaining five defendants were:
Helen Pilot, Kansas City, Kan, freshman;
Denise Brown, Overland Park sophomore;
Taunya Loney, Wichita freshman; Mary
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Finding doctors for rural communities difficult
(Editor's note): This is the second in a series of stories examining the shortage of rural doctors in Korea.
By BARB HANN Kansan Staff Reporter
by national standards, Kansas has a physician shortage. The KU Medical Center can educate physicians, give leadership and suggest solutions to problems. However, it is up to the communities to update themselves to attract doctors, several educators and administrators at the Med Center said Tuesday.
He said the money the government had poured into medical research at that time enabled the United States to attain the high level of medical knowledge it had today.
Jack Walker, chairman of the department of family practice at the Med Center, said the problems caused by the doctor shortage had started in World War II.
*Research leads to new knowledge and
innovations in defense technology
penaled after World War II. The federal government
pumped money into gaining new knowledge. The medical profession specialized and subspecialized, and as this happened, medical students went into specialties. Fewer went in general practice."
"But we weren't being listened to." Walker said, "really, in the mid '90s, several things happened that I couldn't believe about."
manpower into the 21 or 22 medical specialists. One group, the American Academy of Family Medicine, was a member, was aware of the problems that the Shortage of general practitioners would cause.
Walker said those things that had caused a turmoil in opinion about the possibility of a doctor having to be stabbed.
—In 1965, by action of the federal government, Medicare and Medicaid were created. Walker said it took only a year for the government to get feedback from those who were supposed to get medical care benefits but couldn't because of the shortage of doctors.
Walker said that in the 1960s few people realized the shortage that would result from channeling technology.
By the late 60s, Walker said, the government by allocating money to train general practicemen.
"The American public seemed to become aware of the problem, perhaps a nostalgic yearning for the past."
"The public was confused," Walker said. "One family would have a pediatrician, an obstetrician-gynecologist, a dermatologist and so on in place of a general practitioner, and this was expensive, in terms of time and money. My wife wanted a single doctor for at least 80 per cent of its health problems, not a lot of specialists."
Three powerful political organizations in the United States—the American Medical Association (AMA); the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAPF) and the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)-appointed a committee to study the problem.
The study concluded that there was a detrimental need for more general preconditions Walker said. "There is no reason to believe that we are doing it wrong."
effect any changes in supplying the country wun general practitioners.
In 1958, after many years of resistance, general practice became a certified and recognized specialty.
He said this had done much for the prestige of family, or general, practice. Seven years ago, there were no students in training for general practice; there are 3,000 training in the United States now.
Although interest in studying family practice is growing among students, there isn't room at room
"Family practice has gone from nothing to a 'Cinderella' specialty today," Walker said. "Everyone is for family practice. Opinion has swung clear around."
There are three training programs for family practice in Kansas. Two are in Wichita and one is at the Med Center. Walker, who heads the program at the Med Center, said there were 15 students in the program at the Med Center. There will be 20 more students starting in July and 24 more the following July.
the Med Center for all those who want to go into family practice, Walker said.
David Waxman, a dean of students at the Med Center, said, "we have an expanding faculty in family practice. 'We now have eight new residents and are expanding the program as fast as possible.'
"But we can take only 200 students each year, and doctors of all kinds are needed in Kannah, not a lot."
Walker said that even if there were enough doctors being produced, the problems of even distribution throughout the state and retention of doctors in small communities still remained.
"The KU Med Center has taken the position to train doctors, to provide top quality education not only to medical students but also to residents."
The problem of distribution applies to many states other than Kansas, where communities are without doctors or have doctors who are getting too old to practice medicine. Walker said.
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