THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
A LITTLE WARMER
No. 160
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, July 14, 1975
Clyde Walker profiled
See page 3.
Drug rider not restored
By TONI DIXON
Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance policies won't contain overall prescription drug coverage next year, StudEx decided at its meeting last night.
In recent weeks StudEx considered the inclusion of a drug rider that would cover all prescriptions, but would increase the overall cost of the policy. StudEx also discussed an option with Blue Cross-Blue Shield to reduce the cost policy and provide prescription coverage through $1 and $2 deductibles, but voted against that proposal.
Steve Segrebhee, StudEx member who negotiated the reduced rate option, said the deductible coverage would cost the average $150 per month. The policy with total prescription coverage
Under the $1 deductible option, the policy holder would pay the first $1 on each prescription every time it was filled. The balance of the prescription cost would be covered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy.
The $1 deductible rider would add $19.80
to the single student policy, $43.88 to
the parity policy and $54.84 to the family
policy.
A $2 deductible would add $12.84 for single student policies, $32.04 for two-party policies and $40.92 for family policies a year.
The average student buys six prescriptions a year, Segebrecht said. Considering the $1 or $2 deductibles and the cost of the policies, that option would come close to the original cost of the total drug coverage policy, he said.
"It does show a reduction in cost," it sobs. Sebrecht said it's "not you are an averaged student."
The Student Senate originally rejected the total drug coverage last April because of its high cost. After some debate, StudEx agreed that the additional $27.6 for single students, $55.32 for two-party and $86.84 for three-party prescription was too high.
The $1 and $2 options were rejected for the same reason
As the policy stands,the student will pay
the first $100 in prescription fees and 20 per cent of the next $900. Policy costs will be $84.44 a year for single families, $196.56 a year for married couples dependent and $301.24 a year for families.
The Blue Cross-Blue Shield policies will be available at fall enrollment.
In other action, StudEx continued its efforts to save the Hawklet by approving an alternative space proposal that will be delivered to the administration at a meeting today.
In the proposal, StudEx asked that the contents of Summerfield Annex B be moved to one of three unutilized areas in the Military Science building, and the computer system is moved there. Hawklet concessions area, be moved to Annex B, leaving the Hawklet as it is.
Bruce Woner, StudEx chairman, said he was concerned that the computer equipment he had been using would again be moved in two years to a computation center now being planned. He said there wouldn't be enough interest at this new facility in areas that the Hawklet now provides.
Space flight preparations smooth
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP)—Apollo commander Thomas P. Stafford sent a message of friendship to the Russian people yesterday and told his Soviet counterparts "we will see you in a couple of days" in space.
Launch preparations moved in an orderly fashion at two launch sites 9,850 miles apart on two continents for Tuesday's twin blastoffs.
Power flowed to the Apollo and Soyuz rockets, propellant tanks were filled with liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Most of the experiment equipment was in place.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
From the Soviet Union the report was the same.
"We are satisfied we are ready to carry out our part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission," said Chester M. Lee, the manager of a two and one-half hour readiness review.
Staffard talked with Soviet cosmauts Alexei Leenov and Valeri Kubasov by telephone Sunday morning, probably their first meeting. Next Thursday, 140 miles above the earth.
"All activities are being carried out acco-
ding to the time line of the prelaunch
flight."
Even as electrical power surged into the Apollo spacecraft, space officials were keeping a close watch on weather forecasts. The weather was cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms.
A Soviet announcement said preparations were going strictly according to schedule.
The launch control centers at Cape Canaveral and Balkonur will be in round-the-clock communications a day before the scheduled 8:20 a.m. EDT tilt off for Leovyn Cochran to join the crew. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Stayton, the three American astronauts.
President Ford and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin will watch the televised coverage in Washington of the Spacecraft, a White House spokesman said yesterday, Ford, Dobrynin, NASA head James Fletcher and members of the diplomatic corps will be at the State Department auditorium to watch the launch.
At the same time, in Russia, American forces are being sent to will be at the Soyuz launch site in Bukovnik.
After watching the televised Soyuz lift, Dobrynin and Fletcher will fly to Cape Cameralov, sea, see it, the Soviet official will be the first high-speed Soviet official to watch an American launch.
Sinales winner
Jean Mills returns a volley in the women's singles finals of the Lawrence Owen overseeing. Mills defeated Dawn Johnson 6-3, 6-4.
4. Bill Clarke defeated KU tennis coach Kirkland Gates 7-6, 6-3 in the men's finals.
Congress to discuss oil price cut
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congress will consider legislation this week to cut oil prices by more than $1. a barrel and also to bound authority for federal oil price controls.
President Gerald R. Ford has announced that he will propose a bill this week to remove price controls from domestic oil in a sudden increase in gasoline prices.
'Goat-gland doctor' part of folklore
By G. DAVID ROWLAND
Yet' deep in Kansan lore is the story of Dr. "Goat-gland" Brinkley, who was perhaps the greatest con artist of the 20th century.
Kansas, noted mainly for Dorothy, Toto, Alf Landon and more recently Vern Miller, has usually been thought of as a peaceful, respectable state where farmers work away at plowing the wheat fields and the state Senate refuses to allow liquor-by-the-drink.
Brinkley ran a radio station in Milford. He would prescribe drugs on the air and get kickbacks from local pharmacists if he didn't already own the pharmacy. He got his name from a famous operation in which he would take the intestines of a goat and transplant them into men who were worried about impotency.
Sherwood Parks, general manager of radio station KINA in Salina, has made a hobby of the famous "goat-gland doctor." His students attend a class at the University of Kansas.
"A typical show went something like this." he said:
"I've got a letter here from a Mrs. R. J. Conrad in Milford and she writes, 'What can I do about these incest backaches I've been having recently?' Well, Mrs. Conrad, I Conrad, you know! Brinkley's tonic number 11 three times a day. If this doesn't help you nothing will."
About this time Johnny Boy, a character on the show, would come running in and jump on the doctor's lap and they would talk about things Johnny Boy did during the day.
Brinkley supposedly graduated from Eclectic Medical University in Kansas City, Mo. However, some reports say he bought a diploma for $25 from a mail-order house.
After the planned interruption, Brinkley would resume his show by saying, "By the way you can pick up Dr. Brinkley's tonic at your local Dr. Brinkley's pharmacies."
After receiving his diploma, Brinkley moved to Milford, where he set up a radio station, KFKB (Kansas First, Kansas Best).
In the late 1920s, a Chicago magazine conducted a radio poll throughout the United States to determine which station was the most popular.
One of the largest stations of that time, WAFE of Kansas City, which was owned by the Kansas City Star, got 10,000 votes while the Milford assessed 235,000 votes.
After hearing the news, the Star began printing editors against the way Brinkley was using the public airways for medical diagnoses. Soon the Federal Radio Commission took away the doctors license for, "abusing the public airways."
Brinkley believed that by becoming governor of Kansas he could regain his license, so he started a massive write-in campaign.
In fact, when the votes were counted, Brinkley had won, but, according to Parks, 50,000 of the votes were disallowed for vote counting or dotting an 'I' or capitalizing a letter."
After being denied the votes and losing the election, Brinkley moved to Del Rio, Tex. He set up another radio station in Villa Acuna, Mexico.
Brinkley started paying the Mexican government $100,000 for the use of one of their international clear channels. In 1931 he began operating XER ("Sunshine station between the nations") at 50,000 watts and at later 100,000 watts.
His second problem required a little more finesse. With so much power being generated by the huge transformers Brinkley used, heat would emanate from the generator room and attract rattlesmakes.
Brinkley had two immediate problems. The first problem, financing the new station, proved to be only a minor obstacle. Brinkley offered a can of coffee and his price for $1.
"One guard said he killed four rattlers in the generator room one morning," said Park.
Brinkley died in 1942.
Authority for the present controls expires on Aug. 31. Under controls the price limit averages $5.25 a barrel on oil from U.S. wells that began production before mid-September, the price is expected to rise to the market level, now more than $12 a barrel.
Some officials have estimated that decontrol of oil prices over the next 18 to 24 months could increase consumer prices for petroleum products by at least six cents a
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., issued a statement yesterday saying that Ford "is trying to jam another huge oil price increase down our threats."
Ford said at a news conference in Chicago Saturday that his proposal would be a cost-cutting measure.
Jackson added: "Congress will not go with more huge windfall profits for the oil industry."
wouldn't cause a precipitous increase, but at the same time would offer encouragement for companies that were already aware of stress and improve domestic oil production.
Both Senate and House are expected to act this week on bills requiring the auto industry to more than double the fuel efficiency of new cars by 1985.
The Senate scheduled debate for today on bill that would limit federal oil contracts through Desert.
A Senate-House conference report concerning the roll-back of domestic oil prices to January levels will be ready for final approval. The report is virtually certain to be vetoed by Ford.
Under the system of price controls, the price of 60 per cent of American oil falls to $49.89 a barrel, Figure 3. The remainder sells at the world market price of more than $12 a barrel.
Parkway funds passed by House
By THERESE MENDENHALL
A bill containing a $10 million appropriation for the construction of highways such as the proposed Clinton Parkway was held Thursday at a vote of 392 to 13. Presentatives Thursday by a vote of 392 to 13.
After the bill was passed, Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., told the House that Clinton Parkway had been one of six similar projects to receive priority in the Federalal budget. The bill was according to a legislative assistant for Winn. The assistant said Friday that when the Department of Transportation prepared to implement the bill, the record of Winn's
statement would improve chances for Clinton Parkway to receive some of the $10
Winn said that if Clinton Parkway was
flooded, the road would be built by 1978,
fiscal 1980.
Winn's aide said the Senate would probably be ready to consider its version of the bill. But it differs from the House version, the differences will be settled in a conference committee. The aide said he expected the Senate to pass the bill and the President to approve it.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
The House passed the bill with no amendments.
Posse leaders
Posse Couliatus members Ted Oakes (left) and Warren Redding discuss, at Oakes' movement to have motorcycle helmet laws declared unconstitutional. Redding is the house, what they call the fallings of the American system. Oakes is a leader in the manager of a mobile home park.
Posse for Constitution against big government
Kansan Staff Reporter
By JACK FISCHER
Strict adherence to the Constitution to reduce government influence over private citizens is the main goal of the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus of Wyandotte County, Warren Redding, the group's spokesman, said last week.
Unlike another group, the Johnson County pose, which wants to arm itself and patrol the Kansas-Missouri border to aid in crime control), Redding's group wants to return the country to strict rule under the Constitution.
Redding said the posse believed that if a law wasn't stated in the Constitution then no government at any level had the right to enforce it. The posse, he said, thinks nothing about protecting calling every phase of American life and they intend to fight against this control.
"We're not the wild-eyed people that schools and government would have you"
He said the posse planned to arrest people who violated the Constitution.
Rebuilding they hoped to achieve their goals by demanding jury trials for what they believed to be violations of their civil rights in placingpose members in legal procedures.
Redding, who ran for Congress on the American Party ticket against Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., said the public schools were places of propaganda where children's awareness of the Constitution's workings was blurred.
"Illiterates are easier to control," Redding said.
"He has gotten himself into a whole lot of dislavear in the courts by defending himself and his family."
Eldon Hagan, former assistant prosecutor for Wyandotte County, against whom the posse has filed suit for a deprivation of constitutional rights, said that although he wasn't a constitutional judge, he thought the posse's rights had been violated.
Francis Heller, professor of law at the U.S. Court for the Peace and little respect for the peace's arguments.
Since the Constitution clearly says it is the supreme law, the existence of other laws is in doubt.
He said the Constitution gave Congress the power to pass laws, provided for a tax on incomes and allowed the Congress to define what constituted money.
Heller said the Supreme Court didn't have a jury because it established facts rather than rules.