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Thursday, February 3, 1977
University Daily Kansar
News Digest
From our wire services
Economic plan criticized
WASHINGTON—President Carter's $31.2 billion economic stimulus package got a cool reception on Capitol Hill yesterday amid criticism that it doesn't create enough jobs and doesn't take into account the effects of a cold winter.
enough jobs and don't take responsibility. The House Ways and Means Committee began hearings yesterday with Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Bert Lance, budget director, on tax aspects of Carter's plan- $11.4 billion in tax rebates and special Social Security payments, a $4 billion permanent tax cut for low and moderate income people, and tax incentives for business.
The Republican Conference, which includes all the Senate's 38 GOP members, yesterday imposed an economic recovery package calling for $28.2 billion in stimulus spread over this fiscal year and next, compared with Carter's $11.2 billion for the same two years. The GOP plan calls for permanent individual tax cuts rather than Carter's temporary rebates and for business incentives rather than his public works and public service job programs.
$125 million for K.C. Star
KANAS CITY, Mo. - Stockholders of The Kansas City Star Co. have approved a proposed $125 million purchase offer from Capital Cities Communications, Inc., it was announced yesterday.
was announced yesterday. When the sale is completed it will be the largest amount ever paid for a company operating a single newspaper property. The Star publishes morning, evening and Sunday editions. The Kansas City Times is the morning edition.
Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities, said the purchase was approved yesterday when the number of shares tendered under the offer topped 75 per cent. The newspaper also confirmed the approval. The purchase is to be completed no later than Feb. 19, Murphy said.
Emergency gas act upsets Kansas suppliers
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Kansas natural gas suppliers yesterday expressed concern about the implementation of President Jimmy Carter's reallocation program
Carter signed the Emergency Natural Resources Act that night. Congress approved the bill nearly a year later.
The act calls for gas to be diverted from better-supplied states such as Kansas to eastern states. Official dealing with this issue will be made by higher prices in Kansas could occur.
"We don't want gas moved out of Kansas if it will hurt our industries and homes and help other industries in the Northeast," Robert Rober, chairman of the Kansas Energy Advisory Council, said from his office here.
"Iam not wild about protecting industries in the Northeast that have not taken the precautions for contracting for alternate supplies of energy that our industries did."
Harry Ford, a spokesman for Cities
transporta 55 per cent of kansas' natural
resources.
"The supplies we have for Kansas are pretty much down to the bare bones," Ford said from his company's main office in Oklahoma City. "We cannot imagine that the President or Congress could take our gas meant for homes and small businesses to send to the high-priority users in the East."
Kansas' natural gas suppliers say that, despite their curtailment in the state, they
"There's no such thing as excess gas in the country right now," Robel said.
still don't have enough gas to meet the needs of all Kannas industries.
And Ford warned, "We are not out of the woods by any means."
Most large Kansas industries and commercial firms in the past few weeks have been forced to switch to more costly natural fuels such as fuel oil, propane and coal.
The affected industries include most Kansas Power and Light subsidiaries, some refineries, a large aircraft manufacturer in Wichita, and the Corporate Farm Chemical Corporation and the FMC Corporation in association with the Chemical Division, both in Lawrence.
Curtailments and switches to alternate fuels, however, haven't forced many job layoffs in Kansas, in contrast to the 2 million people unemployed in the East.
But gas cuts and the resulting switch to alternate ignition to hurt Kaisars who continue the coming fire.
Robel said, "Our fuel are up to three times as costly. You are not going to be seeing Kansas industries shutting down-at that rate." And he支付 for it on higher prices.
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"WE'D APPECIATE the cooperation of all the students and faculty in conserving energy, like using good judgment on lighting, heating and any kind of electric.
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Ford agreed: "I don't see any alternative. If the energy for industry costs more, then their product is going to eventually cost more."
William Salome, vice president and general manager for Kansas Public Service Gas, said KU restored natural gas supplies because of eased line pressures.
"The warmer weather and less line pressure are the main reasons for KU's getting natural gas. Our problems come because of the huge amounts of gas that are needed for our customers." Salome said.
Kansas Public Service Gas gets most of its energy from natural gas, a regional distributor of natural gas.
"Warmer weather also affects how much natural gas we can give out. The right conditions, along with our quotas from City Service, will determine how much natural gas supplies we'll be able to give out in the future."
"WE WERE fortunate to have some natural gas in storage," Salome said. "Many gas companies on the east coast have used up to 50 per cent of their supplies in storage, which is probably too much for this time of year.
Student Union Activities and
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JOFFREY II
"The best small classic ballet in the country."
Clive Barnes, N.Y. Times
8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 10
Hoch Auditorium
$4.00 general admission
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Interstate gas—sold between states—eells at a federally controlled price of either $25 or $30 per gallon, depending on when it was discovered. Intrstate gas—sold in the state that produces
Kansas is the fifth leading producer in the nation of natural gas, Louisiana. It is one of the world's largest producers of oil.
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