Ford's deflation plan draws mixed local reaction
By LYNN PEARSON
City Reporter
President Gerald Ford's anti-inflation proposals didn't cause much excitement in Lawrence yesterday.
Interviews with local state legislators, two University of Kansas economics professors and a local banker produced reactions ranging from measured optimism to mild disapproval.
In brief, Ford's plan proposes a one-year 5 per cent tax surcharge on corporations and on families who make over $15,000 a year. In addition, he sought 10 per cent investment tax credit to stimulate the purchase of new equipment and other monetary outlays by corporations and businesses.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-43rd district, said the 5 per cent tax surcharge was a poor way to cut inflation.
"The government should cut its expenditures a little," he said.
"However, the tax laws do revise revising. There are too many loopholes. I don't think Americans would mind paying taxes if everybody were paying their share."
Warren Rhodes, president of the Lawrence First National Bank, said the 5 per cent charge would save the bank three thousand dollars, but the 10 per cent investment could save the bank a considerable amount of money.
The investment credit means that when a corporation or business purchase new equipment, it can deduct 10 per cent of the purchase price from its taxable income.
"We will be opening up a branch bank and will have to buy new equipment," he said.
State Sen. Ardnoth Broom, R-Laurence, said the 10 percent tax credit would be a real economic benefit.
"There are many people who would like to upgrade their businesses, and become more efficient."
Booth said the tax credit might cause businessmen to put more of their money into new equipment which in turn could provide jobs for additional workers.
According to Booth, housing is the second most pressing problem in Kansas next to inflation.
However, Ford's offer of $3 billion to make home appliances available through federal agencies didn’t work.
"Almost every time the federal government plans to build housing, they go out on the edge of town and build a hundred new homes." Booth said. "They never have money available to fix up houses or buy heart in the cities and towns. We abandon buildings because we can get money to build much easier."
Vaulel said the $3 billion housing program would be good if the money got to the people. "I think it's going to work," he said, up government.
mental programs, more than half of the funds were used in administrative costs before being made available to the people for whom the program was designed.
A proposal that caused some reaction in Lawrence was one calling for maximum production of rice, peanuts and cotton, and promising an equal allocation of fuel and fertilizer for the farmer.
"The only product we have to compete with on the world market is food." Booth said, "Japan can produce some products cheaper than we can. West can produce them at a lower cost, but no one can produce food as cheap as the U.S."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.33 Thursday, October 10,1974
By Kaman Photographer JIM THOMAS
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
opinion of both the fraternity and the Jayhawks. To give an added brightness to the evening, fireworks were hidden inside
Firing a Wildcat
A sufficed Wildek, hanging from a hangman's noose, was set alire last night by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for their high achievement.
Indians, Chicanos demand better status
By BETTY HAEGELIN and RAFAEL SANTOS
Reporters
American Indian and Chicano students demanded that their status at the University of Kansas be improved in a book recently recently by Chancellor R. Arch. Dykes.
In the letter dated Oct. 5, MECHA, the campus Chicago organization, and the Committee on Indian Affairs (CIA), warned that if a satisfactory response to the recommendation wasn't received by tomorrow, they would file a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Human Services, fact that the administration was neglecting its duty and abusing its power by not responding as so requested."
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday the Chancellor had replied and offered MECHA and CIA a mandate for the administration and discuss their greetings.
"I believe the chancellor's response will give the groups an opportunity to discuss
these recommendations," Shankel said. "a copy of the letter was also sent to SenEx for comment."
The proposals cover a wide range of issues and needs. The proposals are as follows
—Fultime Chicano and American Indian recruiters in the admissions office.
—SPECIAL FINANCIAL aids packages for both undergraduate and graduate Chicago and American Indian students who have received a chance to come to the University of Kansas."
-Chicano and American Indian academic counselors and fulltime counselors in the Dean of Women's office, the Office of Aids, and the Office of Financial Aid.
At least two members for the Kansas State Board of Regents representing Kansas
—An American Indian studies department and a Chicano studies department, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses by instructors from these ethnic groups.
Student lists still issued without authority
Reporter
By MONA DUCKWORTH
Students' names still are being given to off-campus businesses by the Office of Admissions and Records.
EQUAL REPRESENTATION on all University selection committees, and Chicago and American Indian represent at an University administrative positions.
John Myers, director of admissions, said last week no such lists were being issued without authorization. But a Kansan reporter, posing as the representative of an off-campus employment service, obtained the names of over 2,000 seniors yesterday
--Making funds available from SUA for Chicago and American Indian speakers.
from a secretary in the office without authorization.
- The option for students to take at least one course in Chicano and American Indian History, which would fulfill six hours of the humanities distribution requirements.
Hiring of more Chicano and American Indian faculty members, and a directive that all social science courses in the University should include information as to the manner in which these courses relate to Chicano and American Indian minorities.
The issuance of the list yesterday was a clear violation of University policy, GI Dyck, deam of admissions and records, said Mr. Dyck, the student body it wouldn't happen again.
—Waving out-of-state tuition fees for Chicago and Indian students.
"I kind of appalled that that happened," Dyck said when told that a reporter had obtained the lists. They're not supposed to give out any information, and whoever it was had no business giving it out. It won't happen again."
-Active recruitment by the University of Chicago and American Indian students for both undergraduate and graduate programs.
Kansas grain marketers confused by Ford decision
Reporter
By ROBERT GAVIN
Confusion and mixed feelings among Kansas grain marketers greet President Gerald R. Ford's decision to halt shipments of wheat to the Soviet Union.
"We don't know what the hell's going to happen tomorrow, that's the long and short of it," said Gunnard Johnson, president of Lincoln, Lincoln, Inc., a Kansas City grain dealer.
Ford's move to stop the export of 125 million bushels of wheat and corn has caused disturbing comments from Midwest farmers.
ALTHOUGH MANY OF these recommendations are beyond the jurisdiction of the chancellor, representatives of the groups included these to let the ad-hoc committee of their long-range goals are, according to Elaine Esparza, spokesman for MECHA.
He thought the decision to halt excessive shipments abroad to insure food supplies at home was "a good deal." The United States gave Russia much so food at low prices in recent years that it won't be done again, he said.
"They're mad and are holding their grain off the market," said William Johnston of the company.
"I can't see right now that there's going to be a loss," said Kenneth Boughton, director of the marketing division of the State Board of Agriculture in Toekee.
"The farmer hasn't lost anything yet because he hasn't sold anything yet,"但
Johannah said so much mixed feeling between grounded and unaffected that was unable to identify the sense of the mood.
One of the companies, he said, knew he was a senior in the School of Business. He said he was convinced the company got the information through University channels.
There has been no loss of revenue because no sales have been made.
However, insurance companies, too, apparently are receiving lists from the
Much wheat remains in storage, Broughton said, and hasn't been marketed enough.
The recommendation said such lists should be available only to University offices and recognized student organizations "provided that the lists are not used for commercial gain, including the solicitation of funds."
Consequently, the market is a bullish market.
Steve Noll, Fairway senior, said he had been called by two insurance companies to review his credit.
The policy Dyck was referring to was a recommendation by StudEx, the executive committee of the Student Senate, that was directed to vote against Bajour, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The representative also had Paxson's address, his telephone number and his class standing, Paxson said. He moved to a new address at the beginning of the semester, he said, and hadn't told anyone except his family the new address.
Broken trade terms by the Russians appeared to cause a temporary halt to the grain deal, Bill Wohlford, campaign cooperator for Kansas Sen. Ben Bob Dole said.
Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs graduate student, said yesterday an insurance representative had told him that he and his boss went to the admissions and records office and got 200 names and when they ran out, they went back for more.
Wohlford he thought the United States averted a move by the Soviets to embarrass the United States at the forthcoming World Food Conference in Rome.
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Although the letter states that the recommendations should be implemented immediately, Esparza said this term was too vague to emphasize the urgency of their problems.
"We've been pushing for some of these things for years and been getting the run-around," Esparza said. "Our organization now is going to be working to see that they are fulfilled, because if MECHA doesn't do it, no one will."
"WE HAVE TO USE those terms if we are going to get anywhere," Esparza said. "We have to go in and demand action imminent if we expect a response in any reasonable time." He said the clear just how urgent these needs are to Chicago and American Indian students."
"I find it hard to believe they're going
to teach students the subject and finding
potential themselves."
"I got the impression that the administration bowed to student pressure because it was an improper use of names," Smith said.
Those lists, he said, contained only the names and addresses of students. Smith said that selling mailing lists had been a KU policy for many years until about a year ago. He said Balfour had told him to stop selling the lists.
Balfour said he had adopted the recommendation from StudEx, but he considered it primarily a statement devised to keep mailing lists of new freshmen out of the statement. The statement also applies to students previously enrolled at KU, he said.
The table set up by YSA was closed by Security and Parking officers at about 1 p.m. yesterday. A Security and Parking officer at the scene said because the table had no knowledge of the table the group had no right to sell the material.
Fred Dewey, Toledo, Ohio, senior, said a life insurance agent called him last week. The agent knew his birthday and class standing.
A member of YSA said that permission had been obtained from a Union employee to set up a display, but that until the group got permission from the University Events Committee, it wasn't allowed to sell literature.
Socialist group gets permission to sell its literature on campus
The First Amendment right to freedom of speech was invoked yesterday by the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) to get permission to publish literature in front of the Kansas Union.
VSA, according to one of its pamplets, is a St. Louis-based group that aims to help
"My birthdate is not in the directory so I don't know where he found it," he said. "The most logical place he could have gotten it would be KU."
The group went before the University Events Committee yesterday afternoon after registering as a student organization. It received permission to sell its literature and was not available in the Union bookstore, said Emily Taylor, chairman of the committee.
Mark Baugher, a representative of YSA, said this was the first major problem the group had encountered while visiting major campuses in Kansas. Missouri and Illinois.
make a socialist revolution that would abolish capitalism and establish a socialist society in its place. The group includes high school students and working youth, the pamphlet states.
"You can usually tell the sophistication of a campus by how receptive they are to letting people put up displays and get out ideas," Baugner said.
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As recently as the summer of 1793, lists of students have been sold to magazines, banks and loan companies. William Salkin, director of the KU printing service, said.
Near asked about the University
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Asked to leave
A member of the Young Socialist Alliance yesterday was asked to remove his table of socialist literature from in front of the Assembly.
By BARBARA O'BRIE!
officers said the request was made to the group had't obtained permission from the University Events Committee to