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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1973
Page
1
Economic leaders show mixed reaction to President Nixon's wage and price controls plan. AFL-CIO chief George Meany says his group is prepared to cooperate while economists fear renewed inflation and business leaders call it a step in the right direction.
Business leaders and union heads react to Nixon's plan allowing voluntary restraint but keeping price oversight in health, construction and food. Leonard Woodcock supports voluntary limits, while Albert Fitzgerald warns of profiteers. General Motors' Richard Gerstenberg backs gradual easing and early return to market discipline. J D Kenna calls for cooperative framing of wage and price controls. Bank of America's Walter Hoadley lauds the selective approach.
Nichols says the plan calls for a per student increase of 10 to 15 dollars to support the educational program. The budget proposes 3.6 million for a new mechanical engineering space, 849 thousand across six campuses for special repairs, and 215 thousand for a labor relations office. Docking cut the safety engineer and trimmed Medical Center spending, while Wichita and Kansas City expansion funding could shrink bond issuance from 64 million to about 20 million. The governor’s support for the base budget is praised.
The Kansas University Museum of Art received a $5,000 anonymous gift to fund the installation and catalogues for the American quilt exhibition Feb 4 25 and an American watercolor and drawing show this summer. Director Charles Eldredge thanked patrons and noted private support aids exhibition preparation.
The plan would redirect state revenue to districts based on need, with $114 million total from sources including eight mill state levy replacing county levies. It would not reduce district levies for certain education funds and would alter the supplemental state aid formula, potentially boosting some districts while leaving county residents without relief.
Citizens at a Clinton project seminar urged more recreation trails and better access. Col. William Needham of the Army Corps noted funding limits while county officials sought federal support for Clinton Parkway and improved intersection capacity at 23rd and Iowa.
A wealthy banker in New Orleans established a fund for families of three officers killed in the Downtown Howard Johnsons sniping. Louis Sirgo Deputy Police Supt. and Patrolmen Phillip Coleman Paul A Persigo received 5000 dollars from Louis Roussel to be shared among the families. Funeral services were held earlier in the week with officers from other cities attending.
Firefighters logged several small blazes with mixed causes Thursday night. An estimated $100 damage occurred under a mobile home on 623 Mo attributed to heat tape. A car backseat cigarette sparked a 15 dollar fire in Ottawa in the 1100 block of East 23rd. A blanket burned at 7:37 p m in an apartment at 444 Locust causing about $5 damage. A man thawing a frozen sewer line started a porch fire at 12:35 p m. the fire was extinguished by the resident, Tom Rutherford, before responders arrived with no damage reported from the unknown instrument.
A witness told the New Orleans Times Picayune he saw a second sniper with Essex on the eighth floor of the Howard Johnsons downtown hotel where six people were slain. Mayor Landrieu said police believe at least two snipers operated there as investigators interview 400 officers and firemen about the siege and fires.
In Los Angeles a jury of 10 women and two men, including a Vietnam veteran, was chosen to hear Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the Pentagon Papers trial. This marks the second jury selection in the case.
Kansas University asks the Kansas Board of Regents to raise dorm rent for next year. Chancellor Raymond Nichols approved a plan by KU housing to increase single rooms by 50 dollars and add 15 dollars to doubles at Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Halls. The regents will review the request at their Wichita meeting.
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