2 Wednesday, April 2, 1975 University Dally Kansan Lon Nol departs PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Amid farewell tears and exploding shellfire, President Lon Nol departed Tuesday into virtual exile in an eleventh-hour effort to clear the way for talks with the Communist-backed Khmer Rouge rebels. Nol Lon first to Thailand for a brief meeting with Thai officials and then on to Indonesia. From there, he is to fly to Hawaii for medical work. Some Cambodian politicians think the departure of Lon Nol will make it possible to hold talks with the Khmer Rouge, who have refused to accept their demands. However, others believe it is too late, and that the Khmer Rouge will not choose to negotiate. Mother renounces quru NEW DELHI, India—The mother of Guru Maharaj J., the 17-year-old Indian religious leader now living in the United States with his American wife, renounced her son Tuesday and accused him of being a playboy instead of a holy man. In a signed statement, Shri Matiaj said that she was removing her son as spiritual leader of the Divine Light Mission and that she no longer had any contact with him. Sri Mhatra said her son, under the instigation of certain bad elements in the United States Divine Light Mission, had continuously disrespected his parents. A representative of the guru's mother said she thought many of the guru's devotees, which number eight million in India, would still remain faithful to the Divine Light teachings, although they wouldn't recognize him as their leader. Ex-official paid TOPEKA-Richard D. Dewey was paid Tuesday, despite recent questions about his right to a paycheck. Dewey, who had withdrawn March 3 as a nominee for director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, had continued to function on that position until July 2015. Gov. Robert F. Bennett instructed W. Keith Weltmer, secretary of the Department of Administration, to release Dewey's paycheck, which had withheld at the request of Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Coronaldia. Bennett's paycheck was withheld from Sen. Gurt Schneider and Schneider recommended that Dewey be paid. Schneider criticized TOPKEA- Two legislators said Tuesday that they didn't believe Atty. Cory had made an objection to allocation of obligations regarding the state's highway construction program. Rses. Reporter H. Miller, R-Wellington, and Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park, issued a statement at a news conference saying, "To put the message in plain view," he added. The legislators renewed their request for a full legislative committee investigation into state road-building procedures and practices after the fire. Miller said it appeared to be a subject that the legislature should invest in. It was not clear from firms involved in the triple investment Schenker's investigation. Schneider said only one contractor had contributed a modest amount to his campaign, but this didn't influence the investigation. Connally bribery trial begins in Washington Connally is accused by the Watergate prosecution force of accepting two $5,000 The 58-year-old Connally, once regarded as a possible presidential contender by both the Democratic and Republican parties, sat in a room full of his supporters and Judge Hart began choosing a jury. WASHINGTON (AP) — The case of "United States vs. John B. Connally" began Tuesday in the courtroom of Chief U.S. District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. it is only the second time in American history that a national officer has gone on trial for bribery. Frank M. Torkerheimer, chief prosecutor, and Connally's lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, began questioning the 12 jurors and six alternates will be chosen. Agency reports fuel overpricing WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators have uncovered another half-million dollars in overcharges for fuel oil sold to electric utilities, a federal official said Tuesday. The amount of overcharging has now reached more than $1.2 million in only four of the 200 cases under investigation. Federal Energy Administration (FEA) investigators suspect a total of $19.7 million may have been overcharged on utility fuel. Electric utility rates are regulated, but the utilities may raise these rates to pass along increased fuel costs. Fuel overcharges thus may turn up quickly as increases on the electric bills of homeowners, businessmen and industries. John Carter, head of the utility fuel investigation division of the FEA, revealed that two fuel suppliers have signed agreements to repay customers for over-purchases. The FEA has been working with the U.S. Customs Service on the utility fuel investigations, trying to find out, among other things, whether relatively low-priced O.I. or imported oil may have been misrepresented as high-priced foreign oil. Carter said the investigations had beer expanded to 72 utilities companies. bribes from Assisted Milk Producers from Madison, WI. Mr. Richard M. Naimi's secretary of the treasury. Connally declined any comment as he entered the courthouse for the trial, which is expected to last three weeks. If convicted on the two counts of accepting an illegal bribe, Connally could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison and be fined $20,000. "This is a criminal case," said chief prosecutor Frank M. Tuckerheim. "We are about to begin trial on two cases in which Ms. Fink and Mr. Loehner alliededly received two $5,000 payments." The charges allege that Connally took the $10,000 from Jake Jacobsen, a representative of American Milk Producers who allegedly paid Connally for his help in developing the milk products that supports in 1971. That act gained milk producers an estimated $300 million. Jacobsen has pleaded guilty to giving Cinnamon the bribes, and said he paid them on two separate occasions in Connally's Treasury Department office. The payments allegedly were made on May 14, 1971 and Sept. 24, 1971, well after the milk price support rise was announced by the Agriculture Department on March 25, 1971. Connally was never connected with the Watergate break-in or coverup itself. The Watergate investigations of political contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign. By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON-Virtually unopposed in their steamroller advance, Communist tanks and troops rumbled over the coastal cities of Qui Nhon and Nha Trang Tuesday, routed 28 French soldiers within 100 miles of Saigon and sent more refugees freeing for their lives. Cities fall, fears rise in Vietnam North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces now control 15 of the 44 South Vietnamese provinces, or roughly two-thirds of the country, and outnumber Saigon troops to one. In Washington, the Pentagon announced that about 700 Marines had been sent to protect U.S. Navy ships evacuating civilian refugees. It said the four riffle companies of Marines wouldn't leave the ships but would be used "for individual ship security and shipboard evacuation control." The Pentagon also said "modest quantities" of military equipment from National Guard units in the United States were being deployed to Iraq as an emergency resupply of Vietnamese forces. Pentagon sources initially reported that Reardon wins upset victory for KC mayor John E. "Jack" Reardon won an upset victory for mayor in Kansas City, Kan., and Bill McCormick was re-elected mayor of Kansas in Tuesday elections around Kansas. By The Associated Press Reardon unsteated incumbent mayor Richard Walsh. With 60 of about 190 precincts reporting, Reardon had collected 11,671 votes to 5,864 for Walsh, who conceded defeat about 8 p.m. Walsh was elected to his first term in 1971. McCormick defeated challenger Ken Buellet by an unofficial vote of 20,920 to 9,647. Buellet is a Topeka realtor and former basketball coach. Wichita mayor Garry Porter was defeated in his bid for re-election to the city commission. The two other incumbents were successful. In final unofficial figures, Wichita voters returned incumbents Glen "Jack" Shannon and James Donnell and added a third incumbent to the state legislator A. F. "Tony" Casado. Porter was to end his term as mayor this year under Wichita's rotating system. He drew 17,672 votes to place fourth in the race for the three city commission seats. He was top vote-gateholder with 22,788, followed by Cascade with 21,341 and Donnell with 18,000. Wichita voters also overwhelmingly approved a new tax on visitors staying in city motels and hotels, with the revenue to be used for tourism promotion. Also re-elected in Topeka were finance commissioner Ken Elder, water commissioner Jack Alexander and street commissioner Charles Campbell. The only upstay in Topena's elections was with attorney Harry Felker, who defeated incumbent park Commissioner Gary Taylor 18.13 to 12.268. In Olathe, Bruce Craig and Wayne Babb won re-election to the city commission and Ken Brown was elected to his first term as Nam Trang, located 200 miles northeast of Saigon, and Qui Nhan, South Vietnam's three-largest city, fell without any real casualty in recent official officials and soldiers abandoned them. items being sent included 11 recollection rifles, 14 105mm howitzers, radios, telephones and other communications equipment. Hundreds of refugees and civilians mobbed the Nha Trang airport trying to get out of the city safely. There was hysteria at the Air Vietnam terminal where hundreds of people waited for flights that never came. The American captain of an evacuation hurried onto children to the ground and helped women and children aboard. At Nha Trang, the South Vietnamese Attorney Department reported to have moved headquarters of the US Embassy in Hanoi. The epidemic of fear and panic moved in advance of the North Vietnamese columns, and government officials were reported to be abandoning Phan Rang and Phan Thiet, about 100 miles east of Saigon, apparently two provincial capitals without a shot. Shops and hotels were closed and shuttered, and the U.S. consulate evacuated its staff and burned its records. The latest losses left the Saigon government in control of only about one-third of the country's land mass and only one of the four largest cities—Saigon itself. In the capital, there were new calls for President Nguyen Van Thieu to quit, and scores of persons were reported making plans to buy their way out of the country. Some Western airlines said their bookings of Saigon had nearly doubled as the United States began airlifting emergency war material into the country. Ron Nessen said the United States was involved in diplomatic attempts, so far fultile, to help alleviate the crisis in Vietnam. Meanwhile presidential press secretary Speaking to reporters at the desert White House in Palm Springs, Calif., Nessen was asked if the Ford administration sought a $100 million loan to aid coalition government in South Vietnam. He replied that the American effort was aimed at persuading the North Vietnamese to live up to the 1973 Paris peace accords, and the eventual signing of U.S. troop involvement in Vietnam. Nessen later called a news conference to clarify that he didn't mean to imply that the United States had undertaken a new initiative. Instead, he said, it was only continuing to work through normal diplomatic channels to have other countries influence North Vietnam to honor the Paris accords. Penny is back in full circulation The penny shortage that struck the nation last spring apparently is over. The Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo., sent out a notice Friday to all the banks in district that the penny system was abandoned with the next order of pennies. According to the Federal Reserve Bank, there is now a sufficient supply of pennies. A Federal Bank official said Tuesday the reason for the insufficient supply was that too many people were hoarding pennies in the bank, hoping that the price of copper would rise. The official at the Reserve Bank declined to give his name. The end to the penny shortage isn't just a local phenomenon, but is nationwide, the source said. The nationwide penny shortage lasted from last May until this month. Before the allocation system went into effect the University State Bank was receiving about $2,000 a month in pennies, Beth Mueler, assistant cashier and head seller, said after the allocation system was set up. The amount she received about $150 each month in pennies, she said. DURING THIS PERIOD banks were on an allotment system, the source said. Each bank would receive a percentage of the usual number of nenies allocated. The Kansas Union wasn't affected by the shortage, Gene Saunders, cashier of the Kansas Union business office, said, because the Union receives all of its pennies from students and faculty members. The Union students also bought pennies from local banks, he said. The government would try to supply each bank with two thirds of its usual supply, the Federal Reserve source said. This goal was achieved according to Lawrence bank spokesman. THE UNION ALSO bought pennies by selling car pennies for a dollar's worth of money. Sanders said. The University State Bank had a penny matinee movie, Meuller said. Tickets had to be paid for with pennies. The bank also paid $90 in 90 pennies a customer brought in, she said. "The customers were extremely helpful," Meuler said. "Not only business people but others would bring pennies in to get them back into circulation." The Douglas County State Bank conducted a slightly different campaign. For every 40 pennies brought in the customer a $1 fee was collected. Douglas County Bank officer, said, The APARTMENT HUNTING EARNED OR UNEARNED We Offer 200 Units in 4 Complexes Conveniently Located - Call - • 1 & 2 Bathroom Apts • Off Street Parking • undisclosed 842-4461 • Poors • Club Rooms • Fully Carpeted • undisclosed ' CRESCENT HEIGHTS | OAKS | ACORN | GASLIGHT 1815 W 24 11-3 a.m. MTWR Instr. Prof. Bart Ewder Prof. Rock Yursocks INTRO. TO BOOGIE 11-3 a.m. MTWR Time HISTORY OF BUMP 11-3 a.m. MTWR Prof. Getdownintoit ROCK & ROLL THERAPY 11-3 a.m. MTWR ATTENTION: Late Enrollment Classes bank distributed almost 4,000 silver dollars, according to Kelly. asking customers to cash in their pennies. Englebrock said Lawrence National Bank received an amount of pennies it received before the shortage. Its commercial customers were rationed pennies during the shortage to keep them available who would receive some pennies, she said. Flamingo Club Private Club Members Only THE LAWRENCE NATIONAL Bank and Trust Company was the only Lawrence Bank that didn't offer an incentive program for its customers to cash in pennies. Sharon Englebrecht, a Lawrence National cashier, said the bank set up posters in the building SPECIAL GUEST STAR WALTER HEATH Thursday, April 3 at 8 p.m. Allen Field House—University of Kansas Tickets: $5.00 and $6.00 On sale at the Student Union Activities office, Caper's Corners in Kansas City and Kiefs in Lawrence A Marcia Day and Marc Lemkin Presentation Look for Seals & Crofts' new album "I'll Play for You" on Warner Bros. Records and Tapes TUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES Committee Chairperson Interviews SUA Board members will hold interviews for 1975-76 committee positions April 7 thru 11. If you are interested please sign up in the SUA Office for an interview time by Friday, April 4. If you have any questions please contact the SUA Office. 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