The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, October 19, 1982
Vol. 93, No.42 USPS 650-640
Although President Reagan's sell of wheat to Russia was an attempt to alleviate financial burdens on the American farmer, Douglas County farmers are still distressed. When the price of wheat plummeted to $3 a bushel this summer, many farmers stocked their silos instead of selling.
Farmers say wheat deal no shock, not adequate
Bv MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Staff Reporter
An upcoming election — more than a real concern for farmers — probably motivated President Reagan to offer an additional 15 million tons of grain for sale to Russia, the president of the area Agricultural Soil Conservation Services said yesterday.
C. P. Tau, a Baldwin wheat and corn farmer and president of the service, said the offer would be available to all those in need.
"Everybody knew we had this crop and a large carry-over a year ago," he said. "This should be done on time."
If the Russians decided to buy a lot of grain, the price (or wheat would go up, he said. But prices would not go up much and the offer is still only an offer.
"The Russians are shrewd buyers," he said.
SOME FARMERS were able to store a portion of their wheat, so that if the Russians do decide to buy, those farmers will benefit from the higher prices, he said. But he said not many Douglas County farmers were able to stockpile their wheat.
"If they buy, they're going to do it during harvest when the price is low."
An exceptionally large harvest across the nation forced wheat prices down from about $3.75 a bushel to about $3 a bushel during 2018, according to some Doubous County farmers took, he said.
"This is the poorest wheat crop for this location I can remember. We didn't have one-quarter the crop we usually do," he said. "I sold it all — you need the money."
RICHARD SEXTON, KU research economist, said Reagan's announcement was not much of a fa
See WHEAT page 5
Kay, Slattery exchange barbs on tax hike campaign stands
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Republican Morris Kay yesterday accused his opponent of supporting a 10 percent tax increase, saying it would drain millions of dollars from the Kansas economy.
But an aide to Democrat Jim Slattery, Kay's opponent in the 2nd District congress race, called the Republican's accusation a "total misrepresentation of the truth."
Speaking at the KU Law Forum in Green Hall, Kay said a tax increase would be costly to the state and would be a roadblock to economic recovery.
"MR. SLATTERY wants to increase the tax rate next year by 10 percent," Kay told about 30 students and faculty. "That would be taking 86% out of our economy in the 2nd District alone."
"To the state of Kansas in a twoyear timespan, it would mean a loss of half a billion dollars that would be coming out of our economy and going to Washington. D.C."
KAY, A VOCAL supporter of President Reagan's three-year, 25 percent tax cut, said a tax increase would push the economy back into a deep recession.
But Kay Fernandez, Slatterty's press secretary, said Slatterty did not support a tax increase but instead advocated postponing next year's 10 percent tax cut.
"That is a total misrepresentation of the truth." Fernandez said about Kav's accusation.
"Jim supports a one-year delay in the 10 percent tax cut to alleviate the tremendous deficits we are facing. Jim's position is that the deficits are controlled, we will prolong the recession."
"The fact of the matter is that Mr. Slattery doesn't understand the law." Clarke said.
SLATTERY HAS SAID the government must trim defense spending and alter the formula for entitlement program benefit increases. He also stresses that interest rates must be kept down for an extended time period before the tax cut should be carried out.
"Mr. Slattery calls it several things, a repeal, a delay, a redirection, but it would mean that more money would be coming out of the pockets of people in the 2nd District.
“It’s just another case of trying to mislead the people.”
See KAY page 5
Bill proposed on future of ASK
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
A controversial bill proposing KU students vote on whether the University should continue financing the Associated Students of Kansas and transfer it to a Student Right's Committee tomorrow.
The student lobbying group, whose effectiveness has been hotly debated by KU senators for the past several years, represents six Regents and nine members from University during state legislative sessions.
ASK assesses dues from member institutions according to the number of students enrolled. KU students pay an automatic 40 cents to ASK through payment of an activity fee at enroll-
KU, the largest contributing member, paid $14.562 in dues last year.
"The issue is not whether the Senate supports ASK, but whether the students think it is doing an effective job for them," Buskirk said. "The Senate does not use the referendum enough. It's a direct means for the student to take action and be involved."
But David Adkins, student body president, said he would not support a student referendum on a bill.
"I think Paul may be using this to indiscriminately disguise some real motivation," Adkins
said. "If they do present this referendum, we must provide the student with enough information so he could vote responsibly. I don't know if it will be. We debate the debates and forums to adequately do that."
RATHER THAN a mandate from the students, Adkins said the referendum could become a "knee-jerk" reaction that would abolish a valuable organization.
If the Rights Committee passes the proposal, the entire Senate may vote to suspend the rules
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and consider the issue Wednesday night at its regular meeting.
The bill is not officially on the meeting's agenda.
Buskirk proposes putting the referendum on the November ballot for Senate elections. If the student body supports the referendum, KU will win. Otherwise, the institution continues participating in the lobbying organization.
Kansas State University considered pulling out of ASK two years ago because several senators did not think the organization represented its students' positions on issues.
ALTOHUGHE HE HAD not yet examined the proposed legislation, Mark Tallman, ASK executive director, said he did not view Buskirk's proposal as a threat, and he said he would possibly support the idea of students deciding if KU should finance the organization.
any major reaction, but I do think if we switch to this major, you should not do well in a computer.
"This sort of approach is not unlike a funding device used in other states," Tallman said. "Some people in ASK have suggested going this route, I just heard about this today so I can't give
Buskirk said he was motivated to present the bill after a student opinion survey last year, and because the Senate had not taken any decisive action, he reviewed its structure and effectiveness last year.
IN A UNIVERSITY student opinion survey in April, Buskirk said, students were asked to respond to the question: "Do you know the function of the Associated Students of Kansas?"
Bukiskir had 24.6 percent said yes, 38.3 percent said no, and 35.6 percent were not aware that
When questioned about the survey, John Keightley, ASK campus director, said that students were often not aware of organizations on campus that benefited them.
He said about 800 students were polled, and that KU students responded in a similar manner to his question.
Buskirk, who said that he and Adkins did not communicate very much, also said he was concerned that a committee Adkins was to follow up the new ASK had not brought forth any information.
ADKINS, questioned later, said that he had vetoed the idea of a committee in favor of a questionnaire about ASK that he directed to each state legislator. He said the compiled results, along with an "imaginthe" evaluation of ASK by the Senate to the Senate at its last meeting in the spring.
Judge will decide on suit to stop poll
After the presentation, Adkins said that the student senators voted to retain ASK.
BY MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Staff Reporter
Lawrence cannot impose a nuclear freeze on the world, therefore it cannot authorize a nuclear freeze opinion poll on Nov. 2, the counsel for a man opposing the poll said yesterday.
"We're not opposed to a nuclear freeze or an opinion poll of it, as long as it is done without the city of Lawrence behind it." Dean Burkhead, a dissenting Perry Maken, 938 Kentucky, said.
Burkhead is representing Makin in his suit for an inunction against the noll.
The poll's interference in the voting process is
HE SAID THAT CHARITY could only address local issues over which it would have the power to change them.
a more vital subject than meddling in foreign policy, he said. Another table at all voting locations would only add to the confusion of election day.
"Could not the city have selected another time or, if the same time, another place for the poll to be conducted?" Burkhead said in a public hearing.
"THEE'S NO assurance that a nuclear freeze would mean there would be no nuclear war," he said. "These things may be a plot to destroy United States' position in the S.A.I.T. false."
Burkhead said the poll would gain a misleading aura of respectability by being in an official
But Fred Six, counsel for the Lawrence Coulson for Peace and Justice, the organization which is running the memorial.
nuclear freeze was very much a local issue because of the possibility of Lawrence being hit in a nuclear war and the residents' concern about that.
Six said, "More than half of Douglas County, including Eudora and Lawrence, has been designated as a high risk area in the event of a fire. The only way to freeze is not a local issue is mind-boggling."
MILTON ALLEN, counsel representing the city of Lawrence, agreed that a nuclear freeze was an issue of great local concern. He also said he would avoid reason for bringing the case before the court.
Alen said. "Before they can bring forth an injunction they have to show some sufficient damage different from the public body. I don't believe their charges have done that."
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and cooler with a 30 percent chance of showers, so avoid showering. Call the service. The high will be in the low 60% with northwest winds at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the upper 50s.
It will be partly cloudy tonight with a low in the low 30s.
Canine catch
Robert Rose, 1328 Rhode Island St., took his dog, Penny, for an afternoon walk through South Park while enjoying the warm autumn weather yesterday.
Close friends recall 'remarkable' Mrs. Truman
'Independence tomboy' preserved privacy, dignity
KANSAS CITY, Mo—Bess Wallace Truman, widow of Harry S. Truman, the 31st president of the United States, zealously guarded the privacy of her personal life in her final years at the 17-room mansion where she grew up in Independence, Mo.
By United Press International
After the death of he husband on Dec. 26, 1972,
Mrs. Truman rarely left her home at 219 N.
Delaware Street, a spacious frame house a few
blocks from the Truman Library that friends
said she always liked "a lot better than
Pennsylvania Avenue."
THE OLDEST LIVING former first lady maintained a quiet existence with the aid of a housekeeping staff of two women, a handyman and a Secret Service detail that kept a watchful eye on her whereabouts. She followed her own unceremonious routine for the remainder of her life.
Mrs. Troman, 97, died yesterday upon arrival at Research Medical Center. The cause of death was cancer.
A recurring case of arthritis and other ailments necessitated first that she use a cane, and later a wheelchair; finally, they severely impaired its ability to the beauty shop and the Truman Library.
Her father, known as "the handsome man in town," was David Wilcoch Wallace, son of the town's mayor. The family home was referred to as the "Gates Mansion," built during the height of the Gates mill and lumber enterprises. The house was also as the summer White House for the first family.
Mrs. Truman was both a Wallace and Gates, two prominent names in the post-Civil War era in America.
THE ONLY DAUGHTER in a family of four children, Mrs. Truman was born Feb. 13, 1885. She was 18 when her father died and her sister was born. Children to children to live with Beau' grandmother Wallace.
After a year at home helping her mother raise her younger brothers, Bess was sent as a day student to a fashionable finishing school in Kannas City.
Harry Truman was food of saying that his
romance with Bess began at Sunday school when he was 6 years old and she was a year younger. The woman he married at age 34 was still "the best girl I fell in love with when I was 6 years old."
Truman often called the former Independence tombby the "basketball fan of the family" or "the tennis fan of the family."
The couple had one child, Margaret, who married a former New York Times editor.
TRUMAN ALLUDED to his wife as "the boss" and she was reputed to be the only person who could tell off her husband without fear of retaliation.
In her late 70s while Truman was president, Mrs. Truman still took care of much of her own housework, but limited her personal activities to caring for children and information included reading, especially mystery novels.
She took the responsibility of unherding out guests, even important visitors, when her baby was in charge.
Mrs. Truman overlooked a personal aversion
See BESS page 5.
Reagan, ex-presidents mourn Bess
WASHINGTON — President Reagan led a nation yesterday in mourning former first lady Bess Truman, whom he described as a model of "the basic decency of America."
By United Press International
"Bess Truman lived a long, full life serving her husband, her family and her country with dignity," Reagan said in a statement from the White House.
In Mrs. Truman's home-town of Independence,
Aides said they knew of no plans for the Regina to attend Mr. Tewman's funeral.
ON LEARNING of the death, Mrs. Reagan said: "My heart goes out to Margaret Truman. Having lost my own father, I no longer know that I was a victim." It's a terrible shock and a special kind of grief.
"She was a devoted wife, a loving mother and a gracious, unassuming first lady," he said. "Bess Truman embodies the basic decemple of Nancy, Nancy and I convey our deepest sympathy to her family and to all who will miss this fine lady's goodness."
Mo., Mayor Barbara Potts procured the use, "a time of mourning." Flags were lowered to half-staff on all buildings in Kansas City and Independence. Gov. Christopher S. Bond issued a similar request for state buildings across Missouri.
In Plains, Ga. former President Jimmy
arter said and his wife was "personally
proud to have served."
"The loss is a great one to this nation and we will miss the quiet dignity with which she devoted herself to her country, to her husband and to her family." Carter said.
"Koslynn and I especially admire Mrs. Truman, and we have been influenced by her sense of duty and selflessness throughout the most difficult days of days. Mrs. Truman has served with bravery and with courage, and we will long honor the memory or our beloved first lady from Missoula."
FORMER REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Alf Landon, contacted at his home in Topeka, said Mrs. Truman had gained the See TRUMAN page 5.