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Monday, August 30,1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Ford proposes larger parks
President Ford concluded his nine-day working vacation yesterday with a proposal to double the size of the nation's parks, recreation acres and wildlife
In a speech at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Ford proposed a 10-year, $1.5 billion program to double the acreage of the nation's parks, recreation areas and wildlife refuges. Ford called the program a bicentenial gift to future generations of Americans.
He then returned home and put the final touches on a speech he will deliver in Washington tomorrow to the general board of the AFL-CIO.
Meanwhile, in Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter told his Bible class that Christian faith "gives us a chance to magnify our presence."
Time magazine reported recently that Ford has cut Carter's lead in the presidential race.
Ford now commands 40 per cent of the vote, against 38 per cent just before the Democratic convention, according to Timer, and Carter's support has slipped one percent since then.
Taiwan weapons indicated
WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence reports show that Taiwan has been secretly reprocessing spent uranium fuel in an operation that could produce atomic weapons.
The official, who declined to be identified, called the development "undesirable" but said, "I don't think you can conclude that they're making a bomb."
But, he said "there is a risk that their reprocessing would get them closer to making a bomb."
In Taipei, a nationalist Chinese spokesman denied that Taiwan has been engaged in secret reprocessing. He said his government's policy is to use nuclear waste as fuel.
Jet sabotage ruled out
U. S. Air Force teams that flew to Greenland and England to investigate the crashes of two Air Force C41J transports aren't investigating sabotage, a report said.
A total of 39 persons, mostly American military men, died in the crashes.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman announced the investigators' preliminary conclusions, saying, "Although both airplanes were from the same base and the accidents happened within hours of each other, it appears to be completely different circumstances in which they crashed, and sabotage is not."
The investigators haven't pinpointed the causes of the crashes, the spokesman said. They are looking for onboard flight records to "see what kind of consequence" could have occurred.
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Med Center...
team of five surveyors from the Kansas State Department of Health and Environment and an observer from the Bureau of Health Insurance to the Med Center.
Lowell Wiese, Kansas director of health,
released the committee's interim report.
The report said, "Dr. Wiese lauded the
committee's hard work and their maintenance of high standards."
Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said he was pleased with the report, particularly because the HEW investigation had been thorough.
"THE OBYIVIOUS REASON is that they found us in complete compliance in all areas," Kugel said. "At the same time, the team was so thorough were so satisfied."
"IT'S BEEN MY experience that whenever you have a public hearing like this it provides a forum for dissenters and a platform to argue. There's a tendency to get carried away."
But Kugel said the HEW findings showed that administrators were aware of the problems and were in the process of solving them.
Kugel said Med Center administrators were aware some problems exist at the hospital. He said extensive construction going on around the hospital made it difficult to fit new equipment into the building clean. Some operating room equipment is old and should be replaced, he said.
Rep. Denny Burgess, R-Wamego and chairman of the legislative committee that heard the charges, said the HEW findings echoed his earlier claims that the employee's complaints had been exaggerated and over-emphasized.
"I THINK IT JUST BEATS out what I said all along—that the news media made a mistake," she wrote.
He said his committee heard negative comments from only five of those who reported. But he said the negative comments were carried in news stories in Kansas City newspapers and, subsequently, in wire service stories.
Four of the five persons who criticized the Med Center were employees, Burgess said. The fifth was a Leavenworth woman whose son had been, nonassisted.
"She (the Leavenworth woman) was
being very honest about the way she sees things." Burges said. "Some of the other people were being very hypocritical. If those things they said were really on, they shouldn't have been working at the Med Center.
The Levenworth woman, Vernell
Searles, termed the Hew findings
in 1840.
"they have to be totally blind, and you can quote me on that," she said.
Sierales had her son was hospitalized at the Med Center for four months for treatment of Hodgkin's disease. She said she spent 12 to 14 hours a day at the hospital, and she charged charges she made before the legislators that the hospital is understaffed and dirty.
"I think it's entirely too much a teaching institution and there's not enough care for patients," she said. "I think they're tremendously understaffed."
RUSSELL MILLS, associate vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the HEW team didn't interview Searles but talked to employees who had complained to Hewlett-Packard and said the employees' complaints to HEW were the ones made to the legislative committee.
The employees who voiced criticisms of the Med Center couldn't be reached for comment. Two have unlisted phone numbers, and the others were unavailable.
New post proposed to help accounting
Problems in the University of Kansas' accounting system cited last week by a state auditor would be corrected by a state budgeting committee, Chancellor Archie Dykes said Saturday.
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
Dykes said the proposed university director of Institutional Research and Information Systems would be responsible for starting an integrated accounting system, conducting audits, Brown, legislative post audit, or use such a system in a report, released Friday.
THE NEW POSITION came under fire at a SenEx meeting Thursday. SenEx members questioned the need for the post, and they argued that at a salary of at least $20,000 annually.
An integrated accounting system would bring together accounting records scattered from different sites.
Dykes met Friday with Eldon Fields, professor of political science and SenEx chairman, and Bill Blessing, Kansas City University, to explain the reasons for the position.
In addition to creating the accounting system, the director will collect data
required by outside agencies, be responsible for institutional research and gather information for eventual formula funding of KU programs. Dykes was
FORMULA FUNDING is a system of funding academic programs by their actual cost rather than by the number of students they attract. The system is becoming more prevalent among Kansas state schools, Dykes said.
Some SenEx members complained at the meeting last week that the directorship had been created without their being consulted. Dykes said the group wasn't consulted because the position wouldn't be funded from the Lawrence campus budget.
"Consequently we simply did not think about following regular search patterns."
The position was created this summer to coincide with the beginning of the fiscal year, Dykes said, and the search for candidates has been narrowed to four.
Dykes said the finalists, who have computer science backgrounds and are from both in and out of state, will be brought to the campus soon for interviews.
Dykes he didn't know when the position would be filled.
CORRECTION
TO: All organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
FROM: Tom Mitchell, Student Senate Business Mgr.
More training sessions will be held this fall.
Funded from the Student Senate activity fee
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