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Monday, October 25,1976
University Daily Kansan
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Federal faucet faulty
The prices of food, clothing and shelter, the essential triad, are almost unbearable high. So what else is new?
By now, most of us just grunt at each new price hike and try to make sense of lopsided budgets as best as we can. We'd like to boycott, but we know we can't live without the triad, regardless of how much it costs us.
BUT WATER always has been thought of as one vital substance we still can get fairly cheaply. A few dollars a month for sewer and water charges don't break us. We take advantage of our supposed good fortune hundreds of times daily, never giving thought to just how much water we have, where it comes from, how it's purified or how it's disposed of.
proably few people care that, to maintain adequate supplies of pure water, the city has had to build a new secondary sewage plant on East Eighth street and soon will build a second water plant on Dragstrip Road. It's no big deal, as long as the customers' monthly bills don't jump significantly.
UNFORTUNATELY, it now looks as if Lawrence residents can put water on that list of costly essentials and circle it in the. The city must come up with $8.9 million to pay for the new water plant as well as unexpected costs incurred in building the sewage plant. The average charge by more than 50 per cent and the average water charge by about 25 per cent in the next few months.
The unwelcome predictions were made last week by members of a Kansas City, Mo., engineering firm, who appeared at a city commission study session to recommend ways to pay for the new water plant.
According to the engineers, the
average customer's total monthly water and sewer charges will rise from about $11 to about $14.70.
THESE WHO knew the city was planning to build the expensive plant probably expected the federal government to pick up at least a portion of the tab. But Buford Watson, city manager, has explained that government funds are given for only small projects and for projects in towns with considerably higher unemployment rates than that of Lawrence. The city will have to pay its own expenses, either by general-obligation bonds or revenue bonds.
Both would be accompanied by the bike in monthly charges.
It's curious that the federal government would, in effect, punish a town for maintaining a low unemployment rate. Certainly, whether or not people are employed, the monthly increases are going to be hardships for some people.
IT'S EVEN MORE curious that the government puts stipulations on the size of projects it will help finance. The size of a project has nothing to do with whether if some project is necessary, regardless of its excuse, it should be built.
The idiosyncrasies of the federal funding ideology have been debated at length in editorials on everything from why it costs so much to keep a congressman on Capitol Hill to why we should have more natural parks. They apparently isn't going to prompt an increase in conscientiousity finding.
The only thing that is going to increase is the amount of money we put out monthly to maintain a standard of living we've long been accustomed to.
By Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
This year's presidential
The great game of politics often flexes its muscles in what appears to be an exercise in futility. This is the "protest vote" or the "throwaway conviction or grumpy disenchment to a candidate with no hopes of winning.
Though nuts, others offer spice
election offers abundant opportunity for ideological pole vaults and broad jumps. At least seven minor party candidates have qualified in 18 states or more. One of them, Eugene McCarthy, may yet have a significant impact on the outcome. Another, Lester Maddox, could have nuisance
Walker wants KU-MU game at Arrowhead
By Carl Young Contributing Writer
Clyde Walker wants the Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers to have their annual football game in Arrowhead Stadium, not in Lawrence or in Columbia. Mo.
Wouldn't that be nice. Instead of driving all the way to Columbia to see the game this year, we could hop on 170 and east head and get off at the Blue Bell stadium. We would have a lot of time on the road—at least this year.
BUT NEXT year, when the game is supposed to take place in Philadelphia, Ms. O'Donnell will be in Independence, Mo. I suppose the athletic corporation thinks that the fans who drive in from western, southern and northern Kansas wouldn't be able to get through.
The idea of having the KU-MU game in Arrowhead has some advantages. Laws lure more reasonable in Missouri than in Kansas, and a high percentage advantage if the game were played in cold weather.
ANOTHER advantage would be that Kansas City alumni wouldn't have to go very far to see the game. I suppose Walker thinks that what would be needed to win would be picked up by pleased Kansas City ones.
A Missouri-Kansas football game in Arrowhead Stadium also might draw fans who have no connection with either school. It looks as if it's going to be a few years before the Chiefs are going to fill the stadium regularly, and some Chiefs fans would like to see a good game every now and then.
THE IDEA of a college football team playing home games in places other than home isn't new, Tennessee plays home games in Memphis and Knoxville, for example.
The Arrowhead game has another advantage. It would make a great commercial. I can hear it
"the quarterback is back to pass," he has a man open. "its long enough now." **BLOWN** the quarterback is back to pass, and yells for him.
press box. Play music. "We're coming back, KU,
come along."
STUDENTS also would get to see a nonconference game at home to take the place of Missouri, may be. I can see the fans pouring out of the gymnasium for Forest, Wichita State and Baker University.
Of course KUAC has been keeping students in mind all along. Besides getting a nonconference game to take MU's place, students would get a chance to play against the home game in Artohead for $5, maybe.
It would also be nice to see how the Rock Chalk chant sounds in a professional stadium. The novelty of it probably would make up for the loss of the ability on by playing the game in Missouri, every year.
OH, AND parking. Students wouldn't have to pay Lawrenceences $2 to park near the stadium anymore. It would cost them just $1.50 to park near a sign that says "A-72" in the sport's complex lot, although some of this advantage might be lost if you walk to the football games here.
Another nice thing about the Arrowhead game would be that no students, faculty, or alumni would have to worry about making a decision on whether they wanted the game in Kansas City.
value—though it is hard to say for whom—in a few of the Southern states. The five others are interesting all the same.
Walker and KUAC were going to take that little worry upon themselves, but some of the student members of KUAC ratted on Walker. Publicity may have killed the idea.
NOW PEOPLE are going to add to the worry of whether it's right for the Jawhawks to play in Kansas City, Mo. to the troubles of whom to vote in November.
Thanks for trying to take the decision upon yourself, Clyde. I'm sure that if you'd gone ahead with your plans and just announced that the game would be played in Kansas City, no one would have cared.
Both parties eve House control
BY LEW FERGUSON Associated Press Writer
Kansas Republicans snicker at such suggestions, but Democrats remain hopeful that they can gain control in the state. They are not as confident in the Nov. 2 general election.
—It has been 64 years since Democrats won a majority in either Kansas house. The Democrats have won the Senate in 1912, the year Woodrow Wilson captured the state for the Democrats over Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Dogs in 1920, and the House in 1914 and of the Senate in 1916.
TO UNDERSTAND the significance of that goal, consider these facts:
FOUR YEARS ago, the Democrats increased their Senate membership from eight seats to 14, and two years ago boosted their House membership from 44 seats to 53. Those gains stripped the Senate of their previous two-thirds majorities.
—In 1944, the Democrats slumped to their lowest ebb as the state's minority party, electing just one state senator and five House members. The other 97 percent of the 165-seat legislature was Republican for the 1945 session.
Now, Democrats see control of the Kansas House as a realistic possibility. They also believe they have a chance of increasing their Senate membership
Republicans watching the legislative races disagree, but concede that further support for a vote may be possible. They believe they may have a net gain in the house, but see the Senate remaining basically the same—although the Democrats seat swapping between the two parties.
"We will have a minimum of 58 seats in the house after this election, a minimum gain of five seats. And we have a chance to gain as many as a dozen."
"THINK we have a realistic chance to win a majority in the House," Gordon Garrett, legislative director of the State Committee State Committee, said recently.
from 14 seats to 18, perhaps even to 21 if
everything goes their way.
"We also assume we're going to lose some of our 33 seats," he said. "But if we can keep our losses under four, I think we are in good shape."
Of the 18 seats House Republican incumbents chose not to defend, Garrett said. Democrats should claim seven to nine.
GARBETT predicted that Democrats won at least 10 seats previously before him.
MIKE Friessen, legislative director for the Republican State Committee, disagreed sharply with some of the Democratic analysis.
"We're going to win a bunch of seats
That means the GOP plans to pad its House majority from the present 72-53 margin to at least 74-51 and probably considerably more.
Frieden said he believed the GOP even had a good chance of beating House Minority Leader John Carlin of Smolano. Mr. Grett replied, "That's an oopendream."
back") Friesen said. "I think we're looking at a net gain of two seats in the House even if we give all the marginal gains." He didn't they aren't going to win all of them."
FRIESEN also predicted that Republicans could gain three Senate seats if everything went right, for a 29-11 majority as many as five seats for a 21-13 edge.
"We don't think he has. If that kid gets 45 per cent against Carlin, it'll surprise me very much. People are not going to vote for somebody they don't know."
"THAT'S ASSUMING Rathburn has gotten his mess across," Garrett
Friesen said Randy Ratbun, a Washburn University law student from Ellsworth, had a chance of beating Carlin because Carlin was perceived by voters in his central Kansas district as having interests and played too much politic."
Republicans. But Garrett said only about 30 percent of them close and winables by Republicans.
Garrett also said Democrats bidding for the seats vacated by Marian Reynolds of Cimarron, Paul Feltian of Dallas and John McCarthy of Dallas also were involved in "dead beds."
Friesen listed about 20 House Democrats he thought could be beaten by
Friesen said Republicans in close races included Fred Harris of Chanute, Ken Althaus of Atchison, holder of Kern County jail and maquia of Junction City and John Sites of Manhattan.
HE also said that seats vacated by House Speaker Duane McGill of Winfield, Speaker Pro Tem Jim MAG of Dodge City and Ted Templar of Arkansas City were "marginal" for the Republicans. Garrett said Democrats also had "at least a 50-60 share" in the district, by Republicans. Ben Sellers and Bok Stark of Salina and John Masovero of Arma and Randall Palmer of Pittsburg.
Friessen said the "most likely" outcome of the Senate race would be a gain of one seat for the Republicans, making it a more attractive option in restoring the GOP's two-thirds majority.
HE ALSO said Democrats could have sleepers running against GOP Sen. Neil Arasmith of Phillipsburg, Wint Winter of Iowa and Teresa Topeka and Arden, Booth of Lawrence.
READING from left to right, one finds Gus Hall for the Communists, Lyndon H. LaRouche for the Labor Party, and Peter Camejo for the Socialist Workers. In this spectrum, McCarthy stands respectfully, while the murder of Tom Anderson for the American Party, Maddux for the American Independence Party and Roger MacBride for the Libertarians.
It may be unfair to MacBride to position him on the far right, for the Libertarians are in a class by themselves. Let me come back to MacBride in a moment.
Of Conrade Hall, little need be said; the Communists have a nice totalitarian purity 98–92 year-old Marxist economist; he dreams of “an absolutely transformed socialist world,” and for starters would put a private public and some private debt.
liberal, turned by Jimmy Carter, I would throw my vote to McCarthy. If were a coach in discontent with Gerald Ford, I would make my pitch to MacBride. Because futility.
CAMEJO is a young firebrand who would "completely eliminate" the Army, Navy and Marines, whose fellow purpose is to reduce federal spending drastically. Maddox is out in right field somewhere, twirling around while riding his bicycle backwards.
(c) 1976 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
James J. Kilpatrick
holds small attraction, I recommend neither course. But for sheer exhilaration appeal—for a whoop and a holler—and the old six-boom-bah—the Liber fills those folks have something omin.
THEY are nuts, of course. Off their rockers. But the nuttiness has a nice, fresh flavor. On some issues, such as gun control, the Libertarians are to the far right of the far right; if I read MacBride correctly, beware of them with guns, clear down to the ownership of bazokas, hand grenades and sawed-off shotguns. On some issues, such as victimless crime, the Liberarians wind up in the bulpen out beyond left field. MacBride would do away with laws having to give birth to pornography, gambling and the sale or possession of narcotics.
Somehow this all makes sense. At least it makes sense in theory. MacRidge has written a small paperback book, "A New Dawn for America," in which he plumps boldly for pure
capitalism, pure liberty and,
alas, pure baloney. Something close to anarchy is the gentleman's cup of tea.
HE DENOUNCES the public monopoly; in education, he would let every family do its own thing. He would turn mail delivery over to the private sector. He would end every foreign entanglement and allow U.S. citizens (the few that would remain under his administration) to安bvbody else's war.
IN THE Liberarian view, taxes are robbery. Bureaucrats constitute a worse plague than those who abolish minimum wages, the Federal Reserve Board and compulsory school attendance. Liberty! His old-fashioned stance in the word throughout the land.
MacBride believes this stuff.
He is a 100 per cent free trader.
No tariffs. No import quotas. If such a policy wavers have no impact on your business, depend on textiles, steel, shoes or beef production, sorry about that. Such displeased workers couldn't go on welfare, for there are many churches and private charities would take up the slack.
The political process benefits from loomies left and right. Beneath their own gaudy gonfalons, they charge with paper lances. But they provoke thought, and it would be an even drearier campaign without them.
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Swim laps not taken
with the depressing news that recreation swimming is allowed only between the unfortunate 3:0 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on weekdays.
I may have this all wrong, but I've always thought that one of the main reasons why KU唑 out buckets of money to its students is to promote the joy and importance of physical fitness.
I can't imagine more discourages hours in which to encourage physical fitness. A normal lust for a good swim sure gets cut away by the interruption of prime study hours and the vision of going home on cold winter nights with wet hair.
Great! I agree most enthusiastically with that concept. So, a couple of weeks ago, I hauled out my swim suit and goggles, rehung my Mark Spitz poster and daddied up to swim a few laps at the pool. There, I was sadly confronted
I'm not proposing that we disband the swimming teams or classes. But it sure would be nice, and more consistent with their own teachings, if the Physical Education people figured out a way to slide those students on the water and give us stubby little academic majors a daylight hour or two to splash around in.
Charles Forrest Jones Los Angeles junior
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