2 Tuesday, June 24, 1975 University Daily Kansan Aid sought for 2 counties TOPEKA-Gov. Robert F. Bennett asked the federal government yesterday to declare Thomas and Anaquita Counties disaster areas. The purpose is to clear the way for residents of those two storm-struck countries to obtain low-interest loans from the federal Small Business Administration to Colby, in Thomas County, was hit by flooding last week, and Cedar Valle, in Chaulette County, was hit by a windstorm with severe damage to mobile homes. Bennett said at his statehouse news conference that the state would be enabling the possibility of seeking a disaster designation for Goodland which would enable the state to provide match-credit grant money under the state's new Emergency Preparedness Act. Defense denies secret files WASHINGTON—Defense Department of ficials acknowledged they operated a lot of computers but said none of them were used to hold files on American citizens. One of the biggest Pentagon computer networks is called ARPANET and D. O. Cooks, a deputy assistant secretary of Defense, told a hearing of two Senate "But it simply does not fit the Orwellian mold attributed to it." "Let me emphasize that it is not a 'secret' network, that it is used for scientific research purposes, that it is biological or intelligence data on per- and per-scientific level, that it is in many ways Saigon businesses reopen BANGKOK - The national bank of South Vietnam and 384 factories and other businesses have resumed operations in Saigon in efforts to put cash back into the economy and enable people to buy food and other necessities, according to reports from Saigon and Hanoi. Saigon radio acknowledged that people have not been paid since North Viet Nam had stopped sending many people have gone hungry because of shortages in the rice distribution. By reopening banks and factories-with management committees led by Communists-the authorities hope to resolve this problem. WICHTA—Federal housing policies were blasted as a "cop out" here Monday by the president of the National Housing Conference. Leon Weiner told about 200 persons attending the annual conference of the Southwestern Regional Council of the National Association of Housing and Rewildement Agencies in Phoenix, AZ. The officials from seven states were told local housing and urban renewal officials are "depressed and traumatized at the lack of any housing and community support." "To have policy is also a policy—it's a cop-out," Weiner said. "The only policy really is pass the buck." Gas company earnings up KANSAS CITY - The Gas Service Co. Monday announced a 51 per cent increase in earnings per share for the 12-month period ending May 31. A company report indicated earnings per share of $2.03, compared with $1.34 for the same period a year ago. The company attributed the higher earnings to the pass-on of wholesale rate increases and the effect of retail rate hikes. A part of the increase was also attributed to refinements in accounting procedures affecting utility plant and operating expenses. The company also said cold weather during the past year was a factor in the higher earnings Gross revenue increased from $172.4 million the previous year to $205 million during the year ending May 31. Net income increased from $6.6 million to $8.3 million. On June 9 the Kansas Corporation Commission granted the company a rate increase amounting to 10 percent of net income. Kansas mav merge iucos TOPEKA—The Kansas Legislative Educational Committee reached a resolution to expand the area and regionalize junior colleges and area agricultural technical schools in Kansas. The chairman of the committee, Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, said the reason for the move to consolidation was to avoid a duplication of services and to save money. He said there were too many junior colleges in southeast Kansas and the idea was to consolidate those schools and possibly create multi-campus schools. Harder said that didn't mean that any of the financing schools would be used. The schools would also study the financing and governing of the consolidated schools. With a budget of more than $11 million, the city's population is one of the biggest in town. By LYNN PEARSON Covenant Staff Demonstrator The city's success, like that of any business, depends upon delivery of services or products that meet the consumer's needs. City government is big business The five elected city commissioners, with their policy making powers, ideally function as a city manager to meet the needs. However, efficient operation of the city's services, such as garbage pickup, water and sewer service and street maintenance, is left to City Manager-Buford Thomas. People often forget that the commission- manager form of government is a unitary government with the power resting in the city commission, Watson said last week. ANALYSIS "It's like a corporation," he said. "The city manager is the president of the company or the general manager. He is appointed by the city commission." If the commission is unhappy with the manager's performance, it doesn't have to wait until the next election to get rid of him. The managers will vote to a city manager, out of his job. Since the composition of the city commission changed two years, the city council will be flexible. Commissioner Carl Mibeck, elected to a two-year term in April, said the new commission was trying to be more responsive to the people of Lawrence. "We're different from the last commission." Mibeeck said. "You didn't see Buford Watson taking the garage site plan on our project." He was particularly important to us and he went along with it." The city maintenance garage site at 12th and Haskell was formally approved at last week's city commission meeting. Approval came after Watson had presented the plan to member of the Far East Lawrence improvement association and had obtained their support. Several of the commissioners, including Mayor Barkley Clark, said that the neighborhood commission would have directed Watson and his staff to look for new sites. Another difference between the two Commissioner Fred Pence said at last week's commission meeting that as long as a person wasn't hurting his neighbor, he wasn't hurting his business to inspect that person's house. "I've got this woman living with me who is my wife, and four kids, and if they don't think my house is safe, then they can choose a girl or nobody's business but mine and theirs." Mibuek wants to make the housing code more reasonable. He said that as long as a house met certain health and health standards it should be considered habitable by law. Each of the commissioners said the commission-manager form of government was the most efficient system for Lawrence. Last week, the commission gave Ling 30 days to appeal the housing inspector's orders on three properties. The commission is now looking into setting a hearing date on the demolition of two other properties owned by Ling. Commissioner Marcie Argersinger, also elected in April, said that past commissions had allowed substandard conditions in several properties owned by Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics at the University of Kansas, to exist for years. "I believe very strongly in the city manager-commission type of government," Clark said. "It's big business. We're talking about a city budget in excess of $11 million." In the areas of housing code and housing inspection, there is a divergence of opinions Pence said the commission should be a group of interested amateurs and that the city manager and his staff should supply expertise on city matters. Watson, who has worked for 92 councilmen in the last 17 years, said it was his duty to present both sides of an issue to the commission and to bring the commissioners up-to-date quickly on the problems of the city. "Ifeel free to speak on any subject before the commission votes on it." Watson said. "But after the vote has been taken, we're going to carry out that policy." The commission-manager form of government originated in the early 1900s. Stanton, Vn., was the first city to adopt it, and by the 1930s it had become the take the political spoils system out of city commissions is the new commission's updates to the dvl's minimum housing code. Former KU students to star in production Tom Res, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the play, said last week that he felt fortunate that all three were able to return for this production. Three former University of Kansas students who left KU to pursue acting careers in New York and Hollywood have returned to Lawrence for the summer. The students, Richard Kelton, Susan Niven and Sean G. Griffin, who studied theater at the 80s, will guest star in the "John Brown's Union" musical production of "John Brown's Body." Kelton, who said he arrived in Hollywood broke, said that an agent was necessary for an actor who wanted to audition for films or movies. The actress had arranged arrangements for such an audition, he said. "This commission insists on clamping down on Ling," she said. Francisco, "The Waltons" and "Kung Fu," and was a guest star in "Wild Men," a television series. He then accompanied in three feature films, including "M*CQ," with Wayne John. Griffin has appeared in regional theater and stock productions around the country and has just finished his third season at the Long lwh Theatre in New Haven, Conn. He has appeared in "The Secret Storm," "The Another World" and "Where the Heart Is." Kelton has appeared in "Gunsmoke", "Mission Impossible", "Streets of San Niven is resuming her career in Los Angeles after taking time out for her husband Kip, to get started in films. She gave up "Earthup" and "Force." "Earthup" and "Airport 75," Lavina McDonald, assistant secretary of state, said yesterday that she had asked the department to drop her role as a former American party group led by Kansas State University professor Ray Hall will be allowed to change its name to the Secretary of State to maintain its position on the ballot. The Kansas Attorney General will attempt today to decide which of two political factions of the American party is entitled to a position on voting ballots. "John Brown's Body" will be presented July 2, 3 and at the University Theatre. Now the Stallard group is fighting to keep Hall's group from claiming the party position on voting ballots. In the past, the American party has been recognized, along with Republican and Democratic parties, and will list its candidates on the Kansas ballot. Political party decision due today Hall's group voted June 14 to drop its affiliation with the national American party and change its name to the Conservative Party. The Republican secretary of state requesting the change. district court in Shawnee County ruled the party must dissuase its resign internally. The name change followed a dispute between Hall's group and a faction led by David L. Stallard, Derby, over the right to the American party name. Stallard's group originally split with the Hall group in May 1973. Hall was state party chairman. A If Hall's group is considered to be the same party with a new name, it will be allowed to list candidates. If Stallard's group is recognized as the American party with new leadership, it will be the one to list candidates. City Manager Buford Watson said last week construction had been postponed after a delay due to too much beyond what had been planned. Watson met with county commissioners Pete Whitengen and Arthur Hocke and state officials in McNeal last week to discuss the protect. The convention approved the Stallard group to represent the American party in Kansas. Thomas Hart Sr., 2015 Naismith, was made a national委席員会. A hydraulic study that hadn't yet been completed last fall shows that more construction will be necessary for flood prevention than engineers had planned. The additional construction includes levee work, channelization and a longer bridge. The issue was finally decided at the American party's national committee meeting on Sept. 15. the current estimate is $40-50 million. The new estimate includes costs for more construction than the first estimate, Watts said. High costs delay bypass It is unrealistic to expect politics to be totally removed from any government, but it is also unrealistic to probably the most difficult to corrup politically other forms of municipal government include the weak mayor-commission form, the commission form and the strong mayor-form. Roger Pine, RFD 4, leader of is anti-bypass residents who met with county commissioners last week, said the economic loss of the farmers would depend on the location chosen for the highway and the amount of right-of-way taken. The loser must obtain 26,000 signatures by A delay in the planning of the U.S. 59 bypass has temporarily eased the worries of farmers whose land might be taken for the construction of the byvass. The cost estimate for the project has grown by $15 million since the location hearted last November, according to Bill Carr, engineer for the Kansas Highway Commission. Hart, the new committeeman of Stallard's party, said the attorney general's opinion was requested because his group had challenged Hall's name change request with the secretary of state. He said he and the group would try to claim the ballot position. Watson said Richard S. Childs, one of the founders of the commission-manager group that helped spoils of office among the faithful as rewards for their vote-getting services and contributions, thus fortifying their power over the city treasury for generations. $ "We've put our worries off for now," Pine said. John Martin, assistant attorney general, said it appeared that the Conservative party had changed not only its name but also its affiliation. April, 1978, to be recognized as a party and candidates in the next presidential election. government and replace it with a system of professional administrators appointed by commission. He said he supported the party split two years ago because too many "registered voters" in his district had died. mining the affairs of the American party."1 The he would want his party to be open, to grow. Hall, of the Conservative party, said the Stallard faction had no right to organize and then demand the party records. He said his group disaffiliated from the American party because the party was becoming too centralized. Both Hart and Hall advocated decentralizing big government, reducing government spending and strong national defense. "When it comes time to vote," he said, "you have to stand up and be counted. You have to be able to defend your vote and live with it. The buck, as Harry Trumann used to "I feel almost heartbroken about the situation in Lawrence," Hall said, referring to Lawrence residents who led the party split. Watson said that Childs told him recently that the "moral battle for common honesty and deceyn on the municipal level has been largely won." About 2,000 cities have adopted the commission-manager form of government, with about 160 additional municipalities joining each year. Last fall's estimate was $25-35 million and Pence, who is in the third year of a four- year sentence, said the "damn hard job" laws commissioned. From The Associated Press American League BASEBALL STANDINGS Oakland 43 26 832 RANSA CITY 38 16 841 Tampa 34 17 904 California 34 17 478 Minnesota 34 17 478 Chicago 34 17 131a W W L Fet. GB Boston 38 27 36 15% New York 39 28 36 15% Baltimore 30 35 442 11% Detroit 30 35 442 11% Cleveland 30 35 442 11% Cleveland 11. Boston 3. Tampa Bay 12. Milwaukee 6. Detroit 4. Texas 1. California 2. ilima games Only games scheduled National League W L Pet. 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"I don't know how much support you have in advance." Arngersinger said the nonpartisan election or commissioners allowed the candidates to vote. "You've got to think in terms of 45,000 people," Pence said. "Not just 30 blazed individuals. 30 people should not make you make a decision for 45,000." Argersinger said being a new commissioner was difficult at times, especially in knowing how to predict commission support for specific issues. Correction McCall's 12 issues $4.95 Modern Photography 12 issues $3.98 Modern Screen 15 issues $5.98 New Photos 15 issues $6.95 New Times 12 issues $6.00 Outdoor Life 12 issues $3.27 Parent's Magazine 12 issues $4.88 Popular Photography 12 issues $3.99 Popular Science 12 issues $4.99 Technology Today 12 issues $6.00 Redbook 12 issues $5.97 Rudder 11 issues $3.98 Skling 17 issues $3.49 Stereo Review 13 issues $3.97 Tennis 13 issues $3.77 Weight Watchers 13 issues $5.95 Young Miss 10 issues $4.98 say, end here—in the hands of five commissioners." Carol Boone, director of the Consumer Protection Association (CPA), said last week that the CPA saved $872 for clients during the past school year. Of that amount, $1,200 was saved for clients who filed landlord-complaint fees. The Kansan also reported that the Consumer Advocate, an hour-long television show sponsored by the CPA, appeared at 6:30 Wednesday night on Channel 6. It is a half-hour show that appears on Channel 6 at 6:30 Monday nights. A question that is hard to resolve is whether a commissioner should vote as his conscience dictates or as his constituents dictate. The Kansan reported last week that the Kansan helped for its clients during the past school year. The CPA will change its name to the Consumer Affairs Association on July 1. PRIMARILY LEATHER Lawrence, Ks. 812 Mass. 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