The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 14, 1982 Vol.93, No.39 USPS 650-640
No magic short cuts for economy, Reagan saves
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said last night in a nationally televised address that there was no short-cut cure for unemployment — which he said was still on the rise — but his program was the best bet to "undo the damage to our economy" in the last 20 years.
"You may even make it worse," he warned,
conceding he has no "magic short cut."
"Unless you get at the root causes of the problem — which is exactly what our economic program is doing — you may be able to temporarily relieve the symptoms, but you'll never cure the disease." Reagan said, speaking from the Oval Office.
WHILE CITING a series of "guideposts on the road to recovery" that have come into sight, Reagan acknowledged that the jobless rate was near 10 percent, and the unemployment rate percent, the highest level since the Depression.
"Unemployment, always a lagging indicator in times of recession, has not yet stopped its increase."
The 23-minute speech, presented to a national television and radio audience, was a focal point of controversy, with Democrats maintaining it was a plainly political ploy aimed at boosting Republican hopes in the Nov. 2 elections and charging networks were unfair to carry it free of
But Reagan, who used sophisticated video graphics to illustrate his points, said he was speaking to help people "desperately trying to make sense out of all the statistics, slogans and political jargon filling the airwaves in this election year."
AFTER CITING ECONOMIC figures — lower interest rates, the stock market, the value of the dollar and an increase in oil prices.
— Reagan said, “The dark cloud of unemployment hangs over the lives of 11 million of our workers.”
"Getting Americans back to work is an urgent priority for all of us," he said.
Rejecting the "quick fixes" of the past, however, Reagan said, "Remember, you can't solve unemployment without solving the things that caused it — the out-of-control government spending, the skyrocketing inflation and interest rates that led to unemployment in the first place.
"And make no mistake, America is recovery-
bound and the world knows it."
"I wish there were a quicker, easier way — some magic short cut — but unemployment is always one of the last things to turn around as an economy heads into recovery." Reagan said.
A SOLID RECOVERY will come by "slowly but surely working our way back to prosperity." We can do it, my fellow Americans, by staying the course." he said.
Reagan read a letter from a woman he identified as "Judith, who lives in Selma, Alabama," who pleaded for word from Washington that someone was working for her.
"Judith, I hear you." he said.
Reagan said his administration had made important progress on four out of five problems the nation faced in 1980: high taxes, runaway drug prices, inflation, high interest rates and unemployment.
"Now I do not pretend for a moment that in 21 months we have been able to undo all the damage to our economy that has built up over more than 20 years." he said.
"But what I can report to you tonight . . . is that, at long last, your government has a program in place that faces our problems and has already started solving them."
REAGAN SAID he had a special reason for wanting the unemployment problem solved. He recalled how, "one bleak night in the '30s," his father was laid off on Christmas Eve.
Hours before his speech, Reagan signed the Job Training Participation Act which would limit the number of students.
The address was timed squarely between the
network's evening news programs and the start of the second game of the World Series, guaranteeing a large audience, although ABC decided not to carry Reagan's speech because it might be viewed as political since fall elections are less than three weeks away.
NBC, CBS and CNN telecast it live and CBS provided Democrat's a half-hour in which to respond, starting at 10:30 p.m., well after the prime viewing slot allotted to Reagan.
WHITE HOUSE Deputy Press Secretary Peter Roussel said there were 554 phone calls to the White House in the first 45 minutes after the House had 400 positive, 145 negative and 10 "general."
Senator stumps district to back GOP
An ABC News-Washington Post Poll released hours before Reagan's address found approval of his handling of his job had increased in the last two weeks, but a large majority of registered voters remain unconvinced the nation is better off than when he took office.
See REAGAN page 5
Dole visits Lawrence to promote Kay
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Kansas Sen. Robert Dole painted a promising economic picture as he stumped for Republican congressional candidate Morris Kay during a visit to Lawrence yesterday.
Speaking in front of a large Morris Kay for Congress sign, Dole called Kay the type of man President Reagan needed to carry out his economic programs.
Dole, who charmed the crowd of about 50 with a steady dose of one-liners, said Reagan would become a lame duck president without help from people like Kay.
Kay has drawn Reagan and other Republican leaders to the 2nd District and has aligned with Trump's policies.
DURING HIS OPENING statements Dole targeted himself for a barb that filled the room with laughter. The senator said he received more phone calls from the White House than any other member of Congress. He said the calls were from his wife, Elizabeth, who has an
administrative post in the Reagan administration, telling him to go ahead and prepare dinner
Dole then turned to the economy and pointed to falling interest rates, stable inflation rates and a bullish Wall Street market to show that skepticism about the economy was melting.
Dale referred to Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Board chairman, to show that a new administration is needed.
WALL STREET has rocked with activity this week, with the Dow Jones Industries closing at 129.46 a day.
Four major banks, including Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, lowered their prime interest rates to 12 percent Tuesday. The last rate increased rates were at 12 percent was Sept. 12, 1890.
"He said just two days ago in a business conference that the reason we're having this activity is because of confidence in the market place and confidence that we're on the road to recovery," Dole said. "We're a long way from full bloom, but at least it's starting to happen."
Dole said a further drop in interest rates would give the economy even more momentum.
give the economy even more momentum.
Kay, a Lawrence resident, has also said that dropping interest rates was a sign of economic recovery.
DOLE, WHO spent all day yesterday touring the 2nd district with Kai, belied Democratic candidate Jim Slattery for his opposition to next year's proposed tax cut. That cut is the third phase of President Reagan's three-year tax cut measure.
By knocking the tax cut, Dole said, Slattery is defying members of the House Democratic leadership, including House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.
"I don't understand Mr. Slattery wanting to repeal the third year of the tax cut for the working people of this district," Dole said. "I believe that the answer is that the one that really helps the working people."
"That's a $40 billion tax cut for the working people of this country. That's a promise the president made, and a promise the president will keep."
See DOLE page 5
Kansas Sen. Robert Dole stressed a point about gun control while talking to John Barrett, Clearwater law student, after speaking at Republican headquarters yesterday morning. Dole was campaigning for Republican congressional candidate Morris Kav.
Science classes begin to feel pinch of cuts
Staff Reporter
By STEVE CUSICK
Although budget cuts came this summer, the biology and chemistry departments at the University of Kansas won't really feel the pinch until next semester, professors in the departments said yesterday.
The two departments rely heavily on supplies for laboratory work, the professors said, but they may start running out of supplies next semester because of budget cuts. The budgets for supplies and expenses were cut in both departments.
Rose, business manager for the chemistry department.
"We anticipate that the situation will get worse and worse as the year goes on," said Jack
"I'm sure we'll run out of some items," he said, adding that the department may find itself short on chemicals, glassware and other lab supplies before next semester ends.
ROSE SAID the chemistry department supply budget was cut by 41 percent, a $75,106 decrease in expenses.
Gunther Schlager, chairman of the division of biological sciences, said the biology budget for supplies and expenses had been cut 40 percent, or about a $60.00 cut from the budget of $151.000.
prospect of running out of chemicals and lab specimens, such as frogs and fish.
This semester, the biology department is using a stock of supplies from its inventories to make up for the cut, Schlager said.
But, he said, by spring the inventory items will be gone and the biology department will face the
SCHLAGER SAID he didn't know how the department would handle the possible shortages, especially if new cuts were made before next semester.
"If we're going to have another cut, we're going to be in serious trouble," he said.
The biology department will decide in the middle of November what steps to take for next semester. Gov. John Carlin is expected to announce whether state agencies will face further cuts.
Rose also said he did not know how the chemistry department would deal with the
"we're not real sure what the impact is going to be.
"We have the same number of students we had, but we have less money than we had. We can only reduce quantities to a certain level and then longer have a high enough quantity to work with."
OFFICIAL IN THE chemistry department have discussed the possibility of having students double up on experiments next semester, be said.
Although there may be shortages, he said,
"That's a last resort," he said. "You don't get the hands on' experience when you're doing an experiment."
But such a move would mean a drop in quality, he said.
Both professors said the supply shortages would make labwork less fruitful for students.
More than a hundred pumpkins, both painted and unpainted, adorn John West's vegetable booth at 600 N. Second St. With Halloween around the corner pumpkins are a hot item.
Gruesome grins to give pumpkin growers glee
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Staff Reporter
A festival of decay.
Long dead souls rise to haunt, only to be appeased by archaic rituals, yet always to rejoice.
ancient druids sacrificed infantiles, crops and criminals to Sarnitha. Celtic god of death, so that they could be returned.
The macabre legends surrounding Halloween, those before the Christian influence turned the night into All Saints Eve, tell of an ancient festival of cold, darkness and decay.
IRISHMAN WHISFERED of Jack, who upon dying found himself unable to get into heaven because he had been a miser, but unable to get into hell because he had played, jokes on the devil. Jack was condemned to walk the earth and be added only by a lantern made out of a potato.
Alone with a flickering candle, the only aid Jack has had in his 11 centuries of wandering through Celtic lore came when Irish immigrants to America changed his lantern from a potato to a bread.
Fruit is seldom considered a frightening thing, but as Halloween approaches even brave souls are apt to flinch at the sight of an especially terrifying object of Jack's lanten, now called the jack-o'-lantern.
PUMPKINS NOW appear in American households in forms ranging from glowing ghouls to steaming pies, and with a good pumpkin harvest and relatively cheap in Lawrence this fall.
John West, who grew about two acres of pumpskins this year and sells them from a streetside booth at 600 N. Second St., said his crop was fairly bountiful.
"We've already sold about one ton, and we've
got three or four tons still in the patch," he said.
"We sell our big ones for 11 cents a pound and our little ones for 12 cents a pound."
PUMPKIN SIZES vary. West said, but an average pumpkin probably weighs between 18 and 23 pounds. Large pumpkins can weigh as much as 50 pounds, he said, but a 10-pound one would be smaller.
Pumpkins grow on a vine and are harvested in the late summer and fall, he said.
West said pumpkins usually were grown using all organic methods. Pumpkins are planted on hills fertilized with either cow manure or liquid fish, he said.
He said most of his pumpkins were just set out on display after being harvested, but occasionally his children would paint the weirdly shaped ones.
WEIRD SHAPES or not, Diane Helmuth,
Douglas County extension agent in home
economics, said painting a pumpkin instead of
carving it would make a pumpkin stay fresh
"A good pumpkin should last about a month at room temperature," she said. "If you paint your jack-o'-lantern instead of carving it you can make a nake out of it after Halloween."
Helmuth said a pumpkin usually was cut into
sources and then boiled, baked or steamed.
Pumpkins are a nutritional fruit, she said, being strong in vitamin A with a smattering of fat.
She said pumpkin seeds made a good snack if baked with salt.
"There's not as much waste with a small pumpkin," she said. "Although there's not much difference in quality between a big and a little one."
Staff Reporter
By DARRELL PRESTON
KU students don sweaters, jackets as cool winds hit
KU students unpacked their jackets and sweaters this week as fall's first cool winds pushed southward, gripping some parts of the country with snow and freezing temperatures.
Freezing temperatures dipped as far south as New Mexico yesterday, leaving Gallup, N.M., frosted at 25 degrees, while the New Mexico temperatures were just 10 degrees. Kimball received as much as 15 inches of snow.
Although Lawrence is not preparing for snow,
there is a chance of frost, according to some
frozen data.
Joe Eagleman, professor of geography, said yesterday the Lawrence area could get frost if the temperature dipped to 38 degrees, because at the temperature, ground temperature could be 32 degrees.
TONIGHT'S FORECAST calls for temperatures in the upper 30s to lower 40s. A spokesman for National Weather Service in Topeka said yesterday northeast Kansas was quickly approaching the time of year when frosts were possible.
Earl VanMeter, Douglas County extension agent, said tomato plants, other annual plants and house plants would not be hardy enough to survive a frost.
"People should bring their plants in or cover them up with cloth, a paper box or plastic."
Hank North, owner of Clinton Parkway Nursery, said care should be taken when covering plants with plastic.
"THEY MAY FREEZE faster covered with plastic than not covered," he said. "Where plastic touches the foliage, it will freeze quickly."
North said people should not put off bringing their plants inside.
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer, with a high in the mid- to upper 80s. Winds will be west to southwest at 5 to 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
the National Weather Service.
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the upper 30s.
Friday will be mostly clear with a high in the lower to mid-70s.