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Wednesday, April 20, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Texas fire kills at least 8
GALVESTON, Tex. — Firemen duight eight charred bodies out of the smoldering debris of a 60-year hotel yesterday after it was destroyed by a fire, which police said may have been arson. More than 20 guests of Central Hotel were still unaccounted for.
The bodies of five children, including three babies, were among the first pulled out of the pile or rubble.
In addition to the dead and missing, 13 were injured. A spokesman for John Seale Hospital said four were admitted, with their conditions ranging from good to fair.
In addition to the dead and missing, 17 were injured as sparklers burned their facility. Hospital said four were admitted, with their conditions ranged from severe injuries to mild wounds in three locations, police said. The fire broke out in one room, in similar proximity to the police station, rapidly, sailed off the narrow entrance and burned the five-story brick building to the ground.
Postal Service in the black
WASHINGTON - Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar said yesterday the Postal Service had achieved or first the time a surplus for a full year and wouldn't need more.
The Postal Service has a surplus of about $5 million for the 12 months ending March 25, Bailar said. He said the surplus was $4.5 million for the first six months.
That compares with a $500 million deficit for the first six months of the previous fiscal year. Ruler, said
"For the first time since postal reorganization (in 1971), we have a firm hold on our costs," Ballar, said.
Winter auto deaths drop
CHICAGO- The bitter winter of 1977 may have been partly responsible for a seven per cent drop in sales for the first two months of the year, the Chicago-based company said yesterday.
"Traffic fatalities dropped dramatically," the council said. It noted "the devastating blast of cold from the North, which plunged temperatures to record-breaking lows and buried portions of the country under the heaviest blankets of snow." during January and February.
"We can't be sure that was because of the weather alone," said spokesman Vincent Tofany. "These figures are preliminary, and further study will be needed to show which types of accidents were involved, at what rates of speed, under what road conditions and other circumstances."
Legislature . . .
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First, the committee initially thought that Emporia State University was the school fostering the system proposal, but later found that KU had come up with the idea.
Neither Glover nor Lucas was openly optimistic that KU would receive the
SECOND, HE SAID, the Senate wasn't supported by the House in proposals to raise KU faculty salaries and other operating expenses, so when the Senate compromised with the lower houses' suggestions, more was available for the energy proposals.
reason that KU first thought of it, and we can get it amortized in such a short time." LUCAS SAID, "We feel that our research is sound and that the system has been proven at other institutions. I think that it actually be a sound investment on the part of the state."
Earlier this year, KU asked for an energy budget supplement for the current fiscal year, after high fuel oil prices depleted KU's funds. KU had to use fuel oil exclusively for several weeks in December 1976 and January and February 1977, when cheaper natural gas supplies were curtailed.
KU was on an interruptible-service contract, which allowed the gas company to cut service when the supplies available to the medical institutions were endangered.
NAZI HOLOCAUST
Edward Alexander, Professor of English at the University of Washington and recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship to prepare a book on "Literature of the Holocaust." will speak on "THE INCREDIBILITY OF THE HOLOCAUST." Dr. Alexander will examine the causes and the consequences, historical and immediate, of the Jews' inability to lend credence to the threat and actuality of the "final solution." His talk will touch on some of the older Yiddish writers, on Franz Kafka, on Elie Wiesel, on some of the Warsaw Ghetto diaries, and on Hannah Arendt.
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TOPEKA (AP)—The three state colleges in Kansas were elevated to university status yesterday under a bill signed into law by Gov. Robert Bennett.
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"All have graduate programs. Traditionally in America, 'college' has referred to a four-year liberal arts institution. Many colleges carried a more comprehensive connotation.
Name change bill elevates 3 colleges to university status
Heralded as a move to aid student recruitment and lend greater prestige to the degrees conferred by those colleges, the institutions will now be known as Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Pittsburgh State University.
"These institutions are universities, offering a variety of programs in several
Official names of the three state schools were Emporia Kansas State College, Fort Hays Kansas State College and Kansas State College of Pittsburg.
Bennett said, "These name changes were made to more accurately reflect the nature of the changes."
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter will ask Congress to approve substantial price increases for gasoline and other fuels, lawmakers briefed by the White House on the President's energy plan confirmed yesterday.
Carter to ask for fuel price increase
If the President's program is approved, it could add about seven cents to the cost of a gallon of gasoline shipped by 1981, said Rep. Thomas Ashley, D-Ohio, adding that this would be in addition to a possible standby gasoline supply. The president's population continues to increase.
ASHLEY, who will head a select House committee that will deal with Carter's energy program, was one of a number of people who joined the House energy adviser James Schlesinger.
Carter will spell out his proposals in an address to a joint House-Senate session tonight. On Monday night, he said in a nationally televised address that the United States faced a national catastrophe with conservation measures we adopted.
Carter addressed a group of congressional leaders at a meeting with the White House to participate.
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Carter will call for a standby gasoline tax of five cents a gallon per year, to be imposed beginning in 1979, to a maximum of ten dollars, according to legislators who attended the briefing.
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Congress have publicly confirmed its key elements.
ALTHOUGH DRAFTS of Carter's plan have been widely circulated during the past few years, Mr. Miller has no plans to alter it.
Tickets for the Greek Night at Royals Stadium are on sale at the Interfraternity Council Office at the Union. The Royals Game is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26 when the Royals will be playing the Texas Rangers. Houses are advised to bring one check in advance of the game to confirm security by Wednesday night. For more information, call David Jervis at 843-6046.
he said that he knew his plan was politically unpopular but warned that "the basic fabric of our society would be destroyed" if it wasn't approved.
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