State residence hall tax proposed
TOPEKA (UPI) — A proposed real estate tax on collegiate residence halls and student unions would cost students and their parents an additional $3 to $4 million a year, according to Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents.
Bickford told members of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee that application of real estate taxes to now exempt campus residence halls and student unions would require increases of from 7 to $19 in student fees, and from $92 to $183 in annual dormitory rentals.
Some campus residence halls have suffered from occupancy problems in recent years because of increased construction of private student dwellings and an increase in enrollment at two-year junior colleges.
Residence hall housing is utilized mostly by lower classmen.
Except for the campuses at Pittsburg and Emporia, he said, residence hall construction in the state came to a standstill two years ago.
Bickford told the legislators freshmen enrollment has not increased substantially since 1968 because of increased enrollment at junior colleges.
Enrollment at the junior level, though, has increased, he said, because of the greater number of transfers of students from the two-year junior colleges.
"This tax would put our whole dormitory situation in serious trouble," he said.
In other action, the House defeated two attempts Monday to trim a measure to appropriate
Most of the two-hour session was devoted to debating the proposed amendments, although 16 new bills were introduced and 10 measures were passed and sent to the Senate.
LBJ held 'high hopes' for Paris peace talks
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Former President Lyndon B. Johnson tells of his high hopes for the Paris peace talks and subsequent disappointment in Vietnam negotiations in a forthcoming television show to be broadcast Friday evening over CBS Network.
$813,793 from general state revenues for six state agencies.
A transcript of the hourlong show disclosed Monday that Johnson told CBS news correspondent Walter Cronkite in the taped interview that he "had hoped for a great deal more than has been achieved" in the peace talks.
The broadcast of Feb. 6, "LBJ: The Decision to Halt the Bombing," is the second in a series of
The appropriation bill sparking the debate would include funds for the Kansas Commission on Interstate Cooperation and the Crieppled Children's Commission.
WASHINGTON （UPI）—The Senate took up a $3.1 billion program of subsidies for mass transit development Monday and quickly voted to make sure the money would not all go to a few big cities.
Mass transit subsidies to small states
Both present law and the bill actually limit any state's share to 12.5 per cent.
By a vote of 49 to 26, the Senate adopted an amendment by Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., designed to limit any state's portion to 14 per cent. Most senators from smaller states lined up with Proxmire despite pleas that larger cities need the transit help most.
The bill, backed by the Nixon administration, would commit $1.86 billion during the next five years, and the $1.24 billion balance for use later. In its report, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee said the federal government should plan to pump $10 billion into mass transit during the next 12 years.
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conversations between Johnson and Cronkite.
Expressing his disappointment the ex-president said:
"Now we haven't made any progress there, and my hopes have faded away, and my dreams have not been realized. I DEEFLY REGRET IT, BUT I was constantly trying, just as I tried on many other causes that have failed."
Rep. Paul Dugan, D-Wichita, proposed an amendment to cut the crippled children commission appropriation out of the measure. The general fund appropriation for the agency was $498,398.
In the broadcast, Johnson discusses the bombing halt decision and other controversial issues involving Vietnam during his administration.
The Kansas Relays Student Committee, which is responsible for business aspects of the annual track event, is now accepting applications from interested freshmen. This is a particularly unique committee because many universities hire professional office staffs to handle similar duties.
Members of the 20-man committee are retained from year to year on a merit basis and four or five freshmen will be selected this year, said John Mauk, Conway Springs senior and co-chairman of the committee. Mauk said the three qualifications for applicants are high academic standards, sufficient time and an interest in track. Experience in assisting with athletic events is considered important.
Help sought for Relays
Written applications should be submitted to the committee by Feb. 7, and should include detailed information concerning the applicant's high school and college activities, his fall semester grades and his schedule for the spring semester. The committee will schedule an interview for each applicant and will notify him by telephone or postcard.
Dugan supports a bill in the House to shift the crippled children program to the State Department of Health, where he believes the children will benefit more. He said Attorney General Kent Frizzell has held the appropriation to the commission is not authorized under present laws.
Applications should be addressed to the Kansas Relays Student Committee, Track Office, Room 10, Allen Field House.
The House extended the deadline for introduction of committee bills until today.
Among new bills introduced was one to increase benefits under the state workmen's compensation law. The maximum for medical compensation would be increased from $8,500 to $10,500, the maximum to dependents upon death of an insured employee would be raised from $16,500 to $18,500, and the maximum for a permanent disability from $49 per week to $56 per week.
The 125-member chamber passed a bill to remove the qualification that members of the city councils in second class cities be property owners in the city. It was sent to the Senate.
Other legislation introduced would;
The House also defeated a proposed amendment by Rep. Jack Turner, R-Wichita, to trim $14.-000 out of the bill for the expenses of members of the Interstate Cooperation Commission.
"It creates an economic credibility gap to appropriate money for something we have no authority to do," he said.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Clyde Hill, R-Yates Center, said the appropriation could be cut from the bill later in the Senate if the health department were given the program.
Dugan's amendment failed on a voice vote.
—Create a licensing program for dog dealers and laboratories using dogs in experiments.
-Repeal the $2 per head bounty on coyotes.
—Strengthen the state law prohibiting job discrimination because of sex.
—Permit renters to withhold payment of their rent if their dwelling is unfit for human habitation in the estimation of county health authorities.
—Allow non-residents to vote in watershed district elections if they own property in the district.
In other action, legislation is expected to be introduced in the
Kansas House of Representatives to establish a pilot project in one county to experiment with controlling wild growling marijuana
Gov. Robert B. Docking has asked the 1970 session to enact legislation to control the state's wild marijuana which last summer attracted harvesters from around the nation. There were an estimated 68,000 acres growing in Kansas last year.
Docking is expected to support the legislation which was endorsed by a conference he called Jan. 6 to study the problem.
The chairman of the House Agriculture and Livestock Committee. Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, said his committee intends to introduce the measure today.
The bill is expected to carry out the recommendations of the governor's conference which proposed creation of a five-member board to administer the experimental project in one Kansas county to be selected by the board.
Representatives of Docking's office said earlier federal funds might be available for the project if it is approved by the legislature.
Nigerian explanation sought
Col. Eugene Dewey, who once visited Biafra before its collapse, was put on a Frankfurt-bound plane Sunday only a few hours after being escorted from his Lagos hotel room by Nigerian guards.
LAGOS, Nigeria (UPI) — The U.S. Embassy Monday pressed for an official explanation of the abrupt expulsion of a member of President Nixon's special relief team in Nigeria.
Nigeria said at the time only that Dewey's "presence in Nigeria at this time is inappropriate." However, the American Embassy said Monday it had asked and was expecting further clarification from the Nigerian government.
Dewey had visited Biafra before its fall and again about two weeks ago traveled to the Ibo heartland at the same time as the
first group of journalists to visit the area since its collapse.
It was Dewey who smuggled a note out from some of the journalists to the American Embassy complaining they were being held at Port Harcourt, Dewey, an expert in logistics with the U.S. Army, was a member of Nixon's special team for Nigerian relief.
In a similar development, the Irish Embassy announced that it had made "in the strongest possible terms" representations on behalf of a group of Irish priests who are being held in Port Harcourt.
Witnesses who recently returned from the area said most of the 75-80 priests and nuns who worked in Biafra until its collapse three weeks ago have been detained in the port city.
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