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Wednesday, October 9, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DIGEST
Coal mining methods cut reclamation cost.
From Page One
Reclamation of damaged land present costs about $400 ancre, Hardy said. About $800,000 has been spent in Kansas annually since 1969 for strip mining reclamation.
Almost two-thirds of the country's coal- and all the coal with the lowest sulphur content - is found in the states west of the Mississippi River, Hardy said.
Low-sulfur coal causes less pollution
Environmental Protection Agency requires
smoke produced by the burning of high-salubur coal.
Hardy said high-sulphur coal was found in the eastern part of the United States and was minded because it was closer to the plants where it was burned.
He said the eastern coal was harder and produced more BTUs.
One-fifth to one-third of the best coal
BTUs are British Thermal Units, the amount of energy required to heat one avoiddupois pound by one degree Fabrenheit.
deposits lie within 100 feet of the surface and are perfect for the new rining methods. Hardy said. He said most of these beds were in midwestern states.
Until the Arab oil embargo last fall, the oil companies had little incentive in either taxes or competition to improve their mining methods, Hardy said. The companies now make greater profits, receive government research money more easily and are trying to improve their mining methods.
From the Associated Press
Ford testimony on pardon delayed
WASHINGTON—President Gerald R. Ford's historic appearance before a House judiciary subcommittee was postponed yesterday until a week from Thursday "to afford ample time for selection and sequestration of the Watergate jury."
Chairman William Hungate, D-Mo., announced that his subcommittee had made that decision with the concurrence of the committee. The committee appear before the subcommittee Oct. 17.
At the hearing, Ford will discuss his position of former President Richard M. Nixon.
"I weqained at the courthouse if they had a jury as of today." Hughate said.
He declined to identify to whom he had talked.
Hungate said Leon Jaworski, special
WASHINGTON—The Senate passed 60 to 16 last night a sweeping, Watergate-stimulated bill to curb campaign contempt and sponsor spending in presidential races with public funds.
Bill sets ceiling From the Associated Press
The bill would place a $20 million spending lid on the general election campaigns of presidential candidates, and a $10 million on campaigns to win a party's presidential nomination.
Under the system a taxpayer may earn $1 of his federal income taxes for campaign financing by checking a box on his federal returns.
The public financing of presidential campaigns and party nominating conventions would be funded by a voluntary system established in 1971.
Boston busing
BOSTON—Mayer Kevin H. White yesterday requested that U.S. marshals be stationed in South Boston to keep racial violence over school integration from spreading.
U. S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Guaile scheduled a hearing today on the case.
"Nobody wants to put it off," Dennis said.
"But nobody wants to gum it up if that's what the special prosecutor feels it would do."
question Ford if that would risk pretrial publicity.
Egypt is arming
Ford has promised to tell whether he knew of any specific pending charges against Nixon, whether negotiations for the pardon began before Nixon resigned and what he knew about Nixon's mental and physical health.
CAIRO-Backed by ever-growing Arab oil wealth, Egypt is shopping abroad for pearl warpets, including entire assembly lines of the Mirage aircraft, Western sources here say.
The reports were not officially confirmed
At the same time, Egypt is trying to negotiate with Soviet bloc countries to buy army kits for producing spare parts locally but keep equipment in working order, the sources said.
Quake hits isles
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—An earthquake rocked the eastern Caribbean area yesterday, badly damaging historic churches and other buildings on the islands of Antigua and St. Kitts in the Leeward chain.
From the Associated Press
The quake, which sent tremors far north as Puerto Rico, caused extensive damage to the government treasury building and St. James's in Basseterre, the capital, it was reported.
There were no immediate reports of death or serious injury.
--prosecutor, had expressed concern that Ford's testimony might be construed as prejudicial to the trial of Nixon's former aides and campaign officials.
Rebels bargain
From the Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic-Siesta coast guerrillas holding the Venezuelan naval and several hostages including American diplomat Hutchison, have accepted a presidential offer of safe conduct out of the country, U.S. Ambassador Robert Hurwich announced last late night.
From the Associated Press
The hostages have been held near the consulate for the past 12 days.
The offer assures safe conduct to rebel chieftain Radames Mendars-Vargas and the other five guerrillas to any country of their choosing.
The jury selection continued at a slow, careful pace, and prospects were slim that a jury could be sequestered by Thursday if the judge said the jury could be empaired by Friday.
Subcommittee Democrats and most Republicans, including Kep, David Dennis, and Bob Pruitt.
The new methods aren't completely new ideas but now are being proposed as serious alternatives because of government and pressure against strip mining, Hardy said.
He said companies were trying to use strip mining and other methods to keep miners from working underground, where they face such risks as black lung disease. Strip mining requires only one-third the manpower of underground mining.
Hardy said emission controls now imposed on the burning of high-sulphur coal were counterproductive, and underground mining might cease within a decade.
- Coal mining operations in the future will be concentrated west of the Mississippi River, although East coast underground mining will continue, Hardy said.
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Hardy said the use of coal was growing also because of the demands of Project Independence, the plan to produce energy self-sufficiency in the United States by 1980. Annual output of coal by then will have to be doubled to 1.2 billion tons.
Hardy said one alternative to the two new methods proposed by the survey would be a hydraulic system in which water would be pumped into coal beds to force out the coal.
He said the hydraulic system wouldn't pollute the ground if the residue pumps was clean.
The project in which the new methods
were developed was funded by the Ozarks Regional Commission and coordinated by the Kansas Institute for Mineral Resource Research.
The institute was established to combine activities of the geology department at the University and the Kansas Geological Survey.
True peace of mind can only be achieved when the mind is totally at peace.
Peace of mind comes from a constant meditation.
DEVOTEES OF GURU MAHARAJ JI Will Speak
7:30 p.m. Tonight Kansas Union Parlor A