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U.S. Vietnam to meet
WASHINGTON—The United States and Vietnam will open preliminary talks Friday in Paris on the possibility of beginning normal relations, American officials
The talks will be the first between the two countries since the Paris peace agreement was signed almost four years ago.
In a related development, Vietnamese officials said an application by Hanoi for admission to the United Nations will come up in the U.N. Security Council Friday.
The Paris talks are aimed at finding out whether there is any basis for substantive negotiations on normalizing relations.
The Ford administration has said it will vet the Vietnamese application if there is no substantial progress toward obtaining an accounting of the 800 Americans.
WASHINGTON—The original Smokey Bear, a symbol of forest fire prevention for 25 years, died yesterday of infirmities and old age at the National Zoo.
As provided by Congress, Smokey's remains were being shipped back to his original forest home in New Mexico. He will be buried at Sm. Yey Bear Historical State, Park near Capitan, N.M., within sight of Capitan Mountain, where he was found in 1950.
Smokey officially retired as the nation's forest fire prevention symbol in May 1975 and was replaced by another bear, now called Smokey.
But for 25 years after he was found as a badly burned cub after a fire in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest, the old Smoker was top bear for a generation of children and adults who came to recognize his familiar hat and bulky figure as the symbol of fire prevention.
Court lets gas costs rise
WASHINGTON—A federal judge rulings yesterday that natural gas producers can contract under new rules as long as they make payments to the capitals are later ruled.
The decision could mean increased costs of $15 to $18 a year on the average residential gas bill.
The Federal Energy Administration, meanwhile, reported that the nation in general should have enough fuel to make up for expected natural gas shortages. But it did not report on whether there would be any.
Proposals would broaden faculty reps in 2 groups
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By DEB MILLER
To broaden faculty representation on SenEx and the University Council, the University Committee on Organization and Administration has proposed two amendments to the Senate Code that, if approved, would change the composition of both groups.
Peg Byrne, chairman of the committee, said Monday that all SenEx faculty members except one were from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
TO RECTIFY THIS, the committee's proposed amendment states that Faculty should have a choice of formatting.
"This is the first time this has happened," Byrne said. "Usually we have SenEx members from a wide range of schools." He added, "Our executive committee of University Senate, comprises six faculty members elected from the University Council and three student members elected from the Council. Now, there is no stipulation in the Senate Code concerning which schools the faculty representatives must be from.
Club funding on agenda for Senate
Three pieces of legislation will be presented to the Student Senate at its 6:30 meeting tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Separate bills to provide supplemental funding for the International Club and the KU Ice Hockey Club will be considered for final approval by the Senate.
The International Club requested $6,741, and the KU Ice Hockey Club requested $1,081. Both budget requests have been approved by Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
A third item on the Senate's agenda is a resolution that would authorize the Senate Student Services Committee to collect students' fees and be being stored by various KU departments.
The resolution is a result of recent hearings conducted by the Services Committee concerning the problems of lost and found departments on campus and is designed to alleviate storage problems caused by unclaimed lost items.
schools, or two schools and the University's libraries, would be elected. Also, no more than three members from any one of the or from the libraries could be elected.
Byrne said the amendment was a precautionary measure to insure equal representation of faculty members in SENEx.
If a member chosen by the usual election doesn't fill the requirements made by the amendment, then the nominee with the lowest score fits the requirements would be elected.
THE OTHER amendment proposed by the committee concerns the composition of the
Byrne said that the committee had conducted a survey of schools and departments within the University, and found that the faculty in some schools wanted greater representation on the Council.
The Senate Code now states that the Council shall include at least one member of the Faculty Senate from each school of the University and from the libraries.
The proposed amendment states that the Council shall include at all times at least two members of the Faculty Senate from each of the University and two from the libraries.
The Council comprises 39 elected members from the Faculty Senate, 12 members elected from the Student Senate, 6 members elected and the student body president.
LAST WEEK, SemEx discussed the possibility of choosing the number of faculty representatives from each school to form a new faculty member group of faculty members from each school.
However, Byrne said, this plan wouldn't work because Council members are elected for the district.
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BUT, HE SAID, he thought SenEx and the council could be made more representative.
Another committee member, Rex Martin, professor of philosophy, said he thought there would be little opposition to the amendments.
Also, the number of faculty members in each school changes from year to year, Byrne said, making it difficult to predict many faculty members a school would have
The Council will consider the proposed amendments tomorrow and, if they are passed, they will go to the University Senate for possible final approval in December.
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TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday granted Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. less one-fourth of a $28-million rate increase that would allow the company to permit the company to raise fees on business residential and business phone services.
The bulk of the increase will come on special telephone services used mostly by business and industry-WATTS, PBX, key telephones, key telephones and answering services.
KCC Chairman G. T. Van贝ber told a news conference that allowing $7.5 million of the $28 million request would permit Bell to earn up to an 8.9 per cent return on its Kansas investment, and shouldn't require the firm to cut its service in the state.
Telephone rate increase request cut by 75%
HOWEVER, STANLEY Clow, vice president and general manager of Bell in Kansas, told another news conference that he was "completely stunned" by the decision, that Bell would have to reduce both present service and planned expansion, and that hinted the company might take its fight for higher rates to court.
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He said the company would have to weigh the prospect of winning in court against accepting the $5.7 million and having that much more revenue available immediately. Bell can't put the higher rates into effect during litigation.
"WE WOULD BE derelict in our responsibility to the people of Kansas if we did not also take new steps to obtain additional revenue. These steps might include a request for a rehearing, another meeting with the council or a combination of these measures."
"It can mean only one thing—a further cutback in expenses and a drastic review of our plans to invest new capital and hire additional people in the state," Clow said.
The chief executive officer of Bell in Kansas also said he thought "the politics of consumerism is certainly high in their hands," a statement from the firm's requests for greater revenue.
Southwestern Belt requested nearly $21 million in additional revenue in 1975 but cut it down to about $80 million.
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northwest corners of 23rd and Kasold streets. The land is zoned residential and would be rezoned commercial by the construction of a large shopping center.
COMMISSIONERS SAID they wanted more time and research before they decided on the change, which would probably affect Lawrence's downtown business district.
"This is a critical decision," Clark said. "This area is half again as big as the downtown area, and what are we going to do with the downtown?"
Four Seasons representatives said they couldn't predict what kind of shopping center would be built in the Kas阳 location, nor could they say when a center might be built. They said they wanted the zoning change because Kas阳 and 23rd streets were already a federal city, and the surrounding land was ideally suited to commercial uses.
Commissioners also approved a site plan for Breaker's Drive In Restaurant, east of Iowa Street and north of 26th Street, and accepted appraiser's reports for public comments. The office is for street paving and sidewalks, sanitary sewer and storm sewer improvements in the Pioneer Ridge, Alvamar and Deerfield Park districts of northwest
Burns claim 2nd victim of Oct. fire
The meeting, a five-hour marathon, concluded with the commissioners' postponing of a decision on a request to withdraw the Orchards area of Lawrence from the county. The Orchards area is east of Kasold Drive between West Bid Street and Harvard Road.
A young woman, whose baby daughter is in a Lawrence fire last month, died Monday.
died in a Lawrenire fire last month, died Monday of injury she received in the fire. Shirley Drouillard, a 22-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student from Cass Lake, Minn., died Monday night at the KU Medical Center. Her 10-month-old child was pronounced dead at the scene of the Oct. 30 fire in a two-story home at 2085 Haskell Ave.
Doulard had run back into the fire to rescue the child. Both were found upstairs unconscious. Authorities believe the fire came when a french-fry cooker overheated.
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CLOW SAID THE company estimated it was earning a rate of return on its Kansas investment of "right at 7 per cent," and predicted that the increase wouldn't permit Bell to realize the 8.9 per cent return projected by the KCC and would result in the rate dropping below 7 per cent within a year.
"That's not even in the realm of reasonable dispute or argument," Clow said. "It does put us in a severe financial position."
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The KCC staff figured Bell was earning an 8.44 per cent return, and the $7.57 million new revenue would push it to somewhere between 8.75 and 9.9 per cent.
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VAN BEEBER said the commission's position permitted Bell to count all the money it spent on expanding its service during the year, then it should figure the potential revenue from that expansion and actual revenue from the previous year.
Van Bebber said the commission's decision was based on "the rate of return we found to be appropriate for them, the rate we were appropriate and our staff adjustments."
The KCC staff figures the expenses the same, but computes the firm's revenue on the basis of what the service in use as of last month is of the year—would produce in revenue.
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