University Daily Kansan. October 20, 1982
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Campaigning
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SCHULTER and Republican Doug Lamborn, who is facing Slate State Betty Jo Charlton, D-46 District, said the door-to-door effort gave exposure they needed in challenging incumbents.
The candidates have been hearing the same messages from people — concern about revenue shortfalls and higher personal taxes, support for better pay and fear of further budget cuts at the University.
"There are many concerned about the future quality of the University because of the budget cuts," Lamborn said. "There are also a lot of people who can't afford to pay their taxes. I've had to some who pay one-half of their paychecks in taxes and they are bitter about that."
CHARLTON, who has been active in local politics for several years, said people need to be more involved.
"I find many people with a great deal of social consciousness," she said. "I think there is a lot of political awareness in this community."
"I've met with many people who are unemployed or who are afraid they will lose their jobs. And many are also worried about their heating bills."
Despite the seriousness of the issues, the opportunity for lighter moments frequently arises while the candidates campaign through their neighborhoods.
But Branson remembered when she was on the other end of the chase — the time two dogs chased her while she was campaigning. She took her back to a clipboard, a clip board she takes with her into a weapon.
"I THINK candidates who go door-to-door get barked at more than anyone but the man." Charlton said. "And sometimes you ring the doorbell and the door is opened and the cat or dog gets out. Then you have to help them chase their pet down."
"I was a frightening experience, but the clip board did give me some protection," she said. "It made my jaw ache."
SCHULTE ESTIMATED that about 95 percent of the people he approached were friendly. But
"I went to one house where the door was partly open and I could hear a woman talking on the telephone," he said. "So I rang the doorbell and saw her come around the corner. Then she said
he said there were times when personal campaigning could be trying.
"She may have thought I was a salesman, so I just left my campaign card."
"I find people who come to the door with nothing but a bath towel around their waste." Branson said. "But it seems they usually want to so ahead and talk."
SINCE CANDIDATES do most of their door-to-door work in the evenings, the possibility of catching people at inopportune times always exists.
The candidates said they would continue their door-to-door efforts through election eve, though Charlton said she would take one night off before Nov. 2.
She said she would forego her walking campaign on Halloween night because she did not want to be involved.
Prof collapses during mid-term exam
A KU physics professor, Daniel S. Ling,
suddenly collapsed last night during a Physics
212 exam in a packed Wescoe Hall auditorium
and was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Ling collapsed about 15 minutes into the 7:30 p.m. exam in 1339 Wescock, said Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy and 211 Physics professor.
"He was just standing here proctoring the exam when he collapsed." Armstrong said, "The
meds did a marvelous job — they were here in a flash."
Ling, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, was placed on a heart monitor and given fluid intravenously. He was reported in publication last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
"He collapsed because his blood pressure was so low that not enough oxygen was reaching his brain through his blood. This condition is known as dyspnea." Douglas County emergency medical technician, Douglas County emergency medical technician.
Larson said that Ling was conscious after his collapse, but "as soon as we stood him up, his head fell."
Ling, who collapsed in the front of the room, was one of four instructors, including Armstrong, proctoring the exam. As emergency medical technicians administered to Ling, transporting him by stretcher to the ambulance, the instructors continued the test.
Students in four sections of Physics 212 were taking the one-hour mid-term examination.
Professor doubts reason for contract termination
By JENNIFER FINE
A KU assistant professor in the School of Fine Arts said yesterday that she had been notified her contract would not be renewed "due to budget cubicals."
Staff Reporter
"The actual reason is budgetary. It was decided that because of the integrity of the subject matter of my class, and because my student is so versatile, I was the one to be let go." she said.
The University Senate Executive Committee, responding to a letter from the Graduate Student Organization of KU's design department, will look into the case to determine whether budget cuts are the real cause of the termination of Vearie Dearing, assistant professor of design.
James Seaver, chairman of SenEx, said SenEx members would discuss the matter with University administrators this week to find out whether SenEx had any jurisdiction in the matter.
They also pointed out that only 24 to 48 hours passed between the announcement of the decision of non-reappointment and the onset of Tenure Review this October.
DEARING, whose review for tenure was to begin this week, said that because of budget cuts, the dean and associate dean of the School of Art had instructed her between her and another instructor in textile design.
The letter stated: "We feel that an inadequate assessment of the importance of this position would not be adequate."
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Dearing, who has been in the textile division of
the department for three years, added that the textile department was never consulted about the decision.
She said it was inappropriate that James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, made the decision. Moeser is a professor of music, and is currently in Europe.
JERRY MOORE, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, would not comment on the decision.
"The faculty went crazy and fought it strongly." she said.
Dearing said that she was originally informed last spring by Moeser that her contract would be canceled.
Dearing said that a special task force was appointed by the dean during the summer to deal with the budget. She said he asked the task force to cut, along with additional cuts in future phases.
Since then, she said, the department had tightened its budget.
Gasohol
Last week Moeser again told her that her one
last contract would not be renewed, and that she
would leave.
Although Dearing was to go before the University Committee on Tenure and Related Problems this fall, the University has not determined whether she will terminate her contract during the tenure year.
"THEY WANTED to make me ineligible for tenure," Dearing said.
Because of a 4 percent cut in this year's budget, the University has held back money designated for graduate student positions. The university will affect faculty members currently under contract.
From page one
guarantee program for ethanol plants has survived recent budget cuts and is financing several new ethanol plants to be built soon, including a million-gallon-a-year plant in Caleb, which was
Hallberg said nationwide ethanol sales in 1983 should be double the 1982 sales, and 1982 sales should be double the 1981 sales of two billion gallons.
"There is no question in my mind that alcohol will be the next liquid fuel in this country."
In addition, he said, the exemption of gasoline from the federal motor fuels tax of 4 cents a gallon is still in effect. The exemption ends in 1992.
EXEMPTIONS OF GASOHOL from state motor fuels taxes can affect where the fuel is stored.
"We have found that gasolob is a viable product when state and federal taxes make it competitive with regular unleaded gas," Wright said.
Pat Watrey, public affairs adviser for Amoco Oil Co. in Overland Park, said the company sold gasoline in 37 states, but unleaded gasoline in three—lowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The Iowa state motor fuels tax is 13 cents a gallon, she said, and the exemption for gasoloh is 7 cents, meaning purchasers of gasoloh pay a tax of only 6 cents a gallon. The Nebraska tax is 14 cents, with an exemption of 5 cents, and the South Dakota tax is 13 cents, with an exemption of 4 cents. In each state, gasoloh makes up 15 to 20 percent of amoco fuels sales, she said.
AMOCO DOES NOT consider the Kansas exemption, 2 cents from a tax of 8 cents, large enough to warrant selling gasolol in the state, she said. However, other companies, including
Phillips 66 and Derby, gas oilol in Lawrence and other Kansas cities.
Wright said Amoco considered other factors, such as storage space and pump availability, in selecting the equipment.
Not all states grant motor fuels tax exemptions for gasoline, Wright said. Missouri, with a tax rate of 29 cents per gallon,
Some states have special provisions in their exemptions. Kirby Stegman, revenue analyst for the Kansas Department of Revenue, said that state law called for the exemption, which took effect on July 1, 1979, to end if the amount of lost lust through the exemption reached $5 million.
LOST REVENUE totaled $2.9 million as of last July, he said, and probably will not reach $5 million because gasolol sales are declining in the state, and the exemption is being phased out. The exemption will drop to 1 cent next July and will end on July 1, 1984.
The state tax is collected at the distributor level, Stegman said, and the amount of tax is based on the amount of gasoloid mixed by the distributor.
In two Midwestern states, the sale of gasoline has increased recently, partially because of tax changes.
Tom Pearson, research analyst for the Iowa Development Commission, said sales of gasolol in Iowa averaged 40 million gallons a month, up from 12 to 15 million gallons a month last year. Pearson said Iowa percentage of gasolol about 40 percent, but the market was probably the highest in the country.
PEARSON SUGGESTED several reasons for the gasolon boom. New ethanol plants opened last year in the state, and the price of alcohol has fallen. In the process, transportation costs with the new plants. In
addition, the state motor fuels tax was increased, but the gasolotol exemption stayed the
Also, the state government and gasolol retailers have adopted a new marketing strategy for the fuel, gasolol received much publicity several years ago. Pearson said, but much of it was negative. Some people questioned whether gasolol would harm a car's engine.
TO FIGHT the negative image, he said, the state Corn Promotion Board this year financed a gasoline information center, bumper stickers, and so on. The name for gasol—super unleaded with ethanol.
A similar promotional campaign occurred in Nebraska in July, according to Sneller of the Nebraska Gasolol Committee, a state agency that oversees industrial Products Industrial Utilization Committee.
The month-long campaign promoted the new name for gasolid with 125 billionboards around the state and caps and banners at service stations. The committee, working with gasolid retailers, listed on a map all Nebraska service stations that sold gasolid
"I think the super unleaded promotion has been valuable." Sneller said.
In 1981, 32.6 million gallons of gasoline were sold in the state, he said, but 48 million gallons were sold through August 1982. Monthly sales this year grew from 3.9 million gallons in January to 7.6 million gallons in July and 9.8 million gallons in August, Sneller said. He said gasohol should account for 15 percent of the state fuels market by 1983.
IOWA AND NEBRASKA appear to be leaders in gas sales and hospitality and these states are likely to do business with Iowa.
Sneller said the committee, which received 90 percent of its funds from a motor tax law on
farmers, was formed in 1971 to promote, market and develop grain alcohol or ethanol.
The committee received a state trademark on the names "Gasahol" and "Gasohol" in the early 1970s when a Pennsylvania firm tried to sell bottles of "Gas-plus" in Nebraska. The committee later said, and the committee did not want the public to confuse "Gas-plus" with grain alcohol.
THE FEDERAL TRADE Commission did not give the committee a national trademark because it considered "gasohol" a generic or widely used term, he said.
Pearson said that gasohol was first sold in Iowa in a 90-day marketing test that began June 15, 1978, at five service stations. Thirty-five other stations joined the test before it ended. The 1979 fuel shortage "opened the door" for gasohol, he said.
Sneler said that as early as in 1907, the U.S. department of agriculture published materials on the use of nitroxene.
Modern-day gasolon also sells well in such states as California, Florida and Texas, Sneller
THE LEAST GASOHOL activity is in the northeastern United States, he said, because ethanol plants in the Midwest are too far away.
Pearson estimated that gasohol made up 2 percent of motor fuels sales nationally.
Gasol sold in Kansas, however, make up less than the national average. Lyle Goltz, chief energy analyst for the Kansas Energy Office in Topeka, said gasol sold in the state hit a peak of 4.7 million gallons or 5 percent of the fuels market in March 1880. But in June 1982, 532,000 gallons were sold, or less than 0.5 percent of the market.
Geltz said publicity about the harmful effects of gasolol contributed to the decrease in sales.
In a recent survey of 70 service stations in the state, he said, more stations have propane than
LYN POTTER, manager of Potter's Southside 66 Service, 23rd and Louisiana streets, said he had heard complaints about gasohol causing problems in some old cars. Particles left in the fuel system by regular gasoline tend to be cleaned out by gasohol and plug the fuel filler,
Potter said that most customers at his Phillips 66 station probably knew that his "premium unleashed" pump really contained methanol. He had to wait in the gallon. Regular unleaded is three cents lower.
An advantage of gasoahol, Potter said, is that alcohol content acts as an antifreeze regime.
HALBERG OF THE Renewable Fuels Association said other advantages of gasoline were that it increased the mileage of some cars and that it produced less emission than gasoline. Gasoline also has a higher octane rating than regular gasoline, he said, so a gasoline-powered van or truck may perform better than a vehicle with gasoline.
Despite these advantages, the future of gasolob remains in question.
Walas of KU said methanol might someday replace ethanol as the most common alcohol in gasohol, because it was cheaper to produce and be used more efficiently than enough grain for large-scale production of ethanol.
CARS FUELED by pure alcohol have been used in Brazil, he said, but are impractical for cold areas. Alcohol needs a high temperature to ignite.
Wright and Pearson said they did not know what would happen to gasoline when state motor vehicles began running.
AT STAKE: KU
The heart of Lawrence is higher education. And education is the lifeblood of this state.
So last term, Jessie Branson organized legislators from other state university districts to fight for an improved Regents budget.
And supported salary increases for university personnel.
And argued to waive fees for graduate teaching and research assistants.
And fought for an increase in funding for equipment and books.
Let Jessie Branson remain a strong voice for Lawrence and KU.
Jessie BRANSON REPRESENTATIVE 44th
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