Tuesday, October 15. 1974
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KU, Lawrence squeezed by prices
By ROBERT A. GAUIN
Increases in the prices of petroleum and paper products have added to the difficulty of purchasing within budgetary limits, according to area purchasers.
"There's no doubt prices are going out
of control with the budget. Gene Puckett,
director of the project, said."
ANTIFREEZE AND ALL paper office supplies have risen rapidly in the last year, Puckett said. The price of antifreeze, used in University automobiles and air conditioning units, has risen over 400 per cent in the last year from $1.70 to $4.95 a gallon.
state contract for estimated amounts at specific billed prices, Puckett said.
Before 1974, antifreeze had always been available from sellers through an open-end
This year, the state was unable to receive a firm bid. The University had to find a supplier and seek approval through the state for direct purchase. The lack of competing bids caused the University to purchase antifreeze directly, Puckett said.
KU's budget isn't a toilet to handle increases and has been anything but inflated, Puckett said. The University is even unable to fund the equipment for upgrading and improving, he said.
Mimeography and light-diplacing paper, envelopes, legal pads and pens have all increased in price, Puckett said. Other increasing items include animal bedding,
"ONE THING HING HONG DOWN—
calculate the Offhand I can't
think of."
flashlight batteries and piano tuning
Delivery items are also being extended,
same Time spans send to receipt to
the customer.
"We're finding it much more difficult to find the items we need." Puckett said.
Environmental control is one reason paper prices have increased, John Crown, vice-president in charge of sales at Lawrence Paper Company, said
"It's one of those necessary things," Crown said. "We're all for environmental control and we're going to have to pay for it."
CREATING WOOD FROM PULP causes
University Daily Kansan
Prosecution claims conspiracy . . .
sad said was obtained from Nixon's friend, the late Donald Rumsfeld, in paying the original Watergate burglar.
IN HIS OPENING statement to the jury, Ben-Venise said defendant and former Atty Gen. John N. Mitchell dispatched an officer to pick up $50,000 in cash from Rebozo.
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For more than a year, the prosecutor told the jury, the defendants legally tried to write off the original Watergate burglaries as men "off on a lark of their own."
He said they had failed because too many
The prosecutor said the money was passed up by Nixon reelection committee officer Jeffrey H. Halff. Half went to the original seven Watergate defendants and half went to an unnamed gubernatorial candidate, he said. It wasn't Hubozo knew how the money was to be used.
'For the country as a whole, paper is one inch where we're sitting like the Araba with us.'
water pollutants that must be cleared up, he said. Jumps in timber, land and paper mill costs have raised capital costs to nearly three times their 1970 level.
BEN-VENISTE TOLD the jury, "The word conspiracy is not a difficult one—an agreement among two or more persons to violate the laws."
cover up the facts and obstruct the investigation by the most powerful men in the government of the United States in a conspiracy to participate in even the President himself."
of those running the cover-up had known about the plan for illegal wiretapping and cyberattacks.
Paper products help to balance the country's balance of payments, Crown said. Trees, technology and political stability add to its economical advantage.
He said the prosecution would prove that the defendants and 19 unindicted coconspirators, including former President Nixon, spent $400,000 and attempted to thwart the FBI to keep the investigation away from themselves.
"We will prove to you in the course of this trial," Ben-Venise said, "that attempts of legitimate law enforcement agencies of the United States to ascertain the facts which led to this Watergate break-in, including those who authorized and paid for the illegal burglary and bugging of Democratic national offices, were met by an effort to
Ben-Veniste cautioned the jury about the hundreds of hours of White House tape recordings to be admitted as evidence. Saying many of the tapes are hard to hear, the prosecutor also warned, "The language used is sometimes vulgar and coarse."
Besides Mitchell, former White House chief of staff Halldeman and former White House domestic affairs chief Ehrlichman, the other defendants in the case are two 1972 re-election committee officials, Kenneth W. Parkinson and Robert C. Mardian.
HE SAID THE JURY should accept that men in high office use obscenities and not allow that to distract them from the substance of the conversations.
"We're the world's largest producer of paper," he said. "Long term, we have an export industry favorable to our economy. We're using a resource which is replacable. It's a renewable resource and not one when the well runs dry, it's through."
"LABOR AND MATERIAL" have caused us to pass on costs, be it mats and bolts or nothing we buy. We are absorbing the otherbuy's inflation and passing on our own costs.
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County also anticipate further infiltration of troubles.
The price of petroleum derivatives have increased, according to Stew Brown, City Purchasing Agent. Ice melting material has increased over 80 per cent in the last year.
"It (inflation) can hurt," Brown said. "We can sit down and say X department supplies in figure 35 cents a gallon (for gasoline). Now we have blowed 46 cents and have blown the budget."
"YOU CANNOT EXCEED the budget without authorization of the State Board of Tax Appeals. I have a feeling there will be a need to take the State Board. because of gasoline."
Douglas County anticipated a rising inflationary trend and budgeted accordingly. Lauren Douglas County Clerk's Office, said, purchased were made last year because of project shortages in 1973, she said. The department chased antifreeze for $1.40 a gallon in 1973.
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Recently, MECHA, the campus Chicano organization, and CIA (Committee on Indian Affairs) formulated a series of requests to the administration.
Pending the selection of the MECHA and CIA negotiating committee, Shankel invited Antonio Mesa, chairman of MECHA, and Mila Powias, vice chairman of CIA, to
Among the demands were special financial aid packages for needy undergraduate students from American Indian students, equal representation on all University selection committees and Chicago and American universities in University administrative positions.
meet with administration members and discuss all 18 requests.
"We're willing to meet with them when we are willing to meet with us in a way that it both makes you and yesterdays
Elaine Esparza, spokesman for MECHA and Edgar Hear of birds, chairman of CIA, were reluctant to disclose the procedures in the investigation below in electing the negotiating committee.
"We met yesterday (Sunday) and we've decided that as of now we won't make any statements to the press." Heap of Birds or her of our groups will make any statements.
"CLA is working with us in every action it, so nobody will be left out," she said. "Of course they will be considered in any actions we take."
Esparza, of MECHA, said the interests on both organizations would be carefully in the process of selecting the spokeswoman will negotiate with the administration.
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