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The Kentucky Kernel

Vol. LXV No. 76
Monday, November 26, 1973

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

 

Nixon rations
heating oil;
requests
Sunday

closings

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON —— President Nixon
Sunday night announced the rationing of
home heating oil starting Jan. 1 and asked
for a voluntary halt to Sunday sales of
gasoline beginning Dec. 1, pending
authorization of a mandatory ban.

Nixon said gasoline will be brought
under a mandatory allocation program
cutting deliveries to wholesale and retail
dealers 15 per cent.

And he said petroleum production must
be adjusted, reducing gasoline output and
increasing production of heating oil.

THE PRESIDENT said in a television
and radio address to the nation, “We have
now developed final plans for allocating

reduced quantities of heating oil this
winter.”

“These plans, to be published Tuesday,
will call for an average reduction of 10 per
cent of heating oil for industrial use, 15 per
cent for home use, and 25 per cent for
commercial use.”

Nixon did not spell it out but his top
energy adviser, John A. Love told
newsmen at a White House briefing that
dealers would be legally required to im-
pose those percentage reductions upon the
home heating oil delivered to their
customers.

NIXON SAID householders must lower
their thermostats by six degrees and

“those who fail to adopt such a cutback
risk running outof fuel before the winter is
overf'

Once Congress gives him the authority,
Nixon said, “gas stations will be required
to close” on weekends between 9 pm.
Saturdays and midnight Sunday night.

Meanwhile, he asked all service stations
to stop selling gasoline between those
hours beginning Dec. 1 on a voluntary
basis.

NIXON ALSO announced “a phased
reduction of an additional 15 per cent in the
consumption of jet fuel for airplane
passenger flights, bringing the total
reduction to approximately 25 per cent.”

And he said he would establish, when
Congress permits, nationwide speed limits
of 50 miles per hour for automobiles and 55
miles per hour for long distance buses and
trucks.

Upon receiving authorization, he said, “I
shall order the curtailment of ornamental
outdoor lighting for homes and elimination
of all commercial lighting except that
which identifies places of business.

”IN THE MEANTIME." he said, “we
are already planning to curtail such
lighting at the White House this Christmas,
and I am asking thatall ofyou act now on a
voluntary basis to reduce or eliminate
unnecessary lighting."

The President said additional actions
will be necessary.

He said a petroleum shortage of 17 per
cent was expected and the steps an-
nounced Sunday would relieve about 10 per
cent of that shortage.

 

News In Brlet

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0 Guerrilla hijack

0 Astronauts get ready
0 Highway l5 clash

e tsrael may attend

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e Today's weather...

0 NICOSIA. Cyprus—Members of an
obscure Palestinian guerrilla group
hijacked a Dutch jumbo jet, forced it to
land here early Monday and demanded the
release of seven comrades jailed after
terrorist attacks in Nicosia last spring.

The KLM jet, which carried 271
passengers and a crew of 17, was snatched
Sunday night over Iraq after taking off
from Beirut on a flight from Amsterdam
to the Far East.

It stopped in Damascus, Syria, for fuel.
Airport sources there said the airport
commander tried unsuccessfully to
negotiate for release of the passengers.

0 SPACE CENTER, Houston—Skylab 3
astronauts repaired and tested equipment
Sunday to get ready for their first full week
of scientific study of the earth, the sun and
the comet Kohoutek.

9 I‘IINOM PENG—Government troops
on insurgent-controlled Highway 15
clashed with Khmer Rouge forces near the
provincial capital of Prey Veng Sunday,
killing 31 rebels, the military command
said.

Government losses were put at one
killed and six wounded.

Highway 15 runs north-south from the
Mekong Rivertown and navy base at Neak
Luong 15 miles to isolated Prey Veng.

0 TEL AVlV—Premier Golda Meir's
government announced Sunday that Israel
is willing in principle to attend a history—
making conference opening Dec. 18
aimed at working out a long-term peace
settlement with the Arabs.

An Egyptian official in Algiers, where
Arab leaders were gathering for summit
talks, said the timing of the Israeli ac-
ceptance was an obvious attempt to sow
discord among the Arabs and prevent
them from fashioning a unified strategy.

0 CINCINNATI. Ohio—Cincinnati faced
another day without daily newspapers
when negotiations between the publishers
and striking teamsters recessed Sunday at
7 pm.

Earl P. Mitchell, business agent for
Local 100, said “I feel confident we will
reach a settlement tomorrow."

0 WASHINGTON—The Watergate tapes
issue returns to federal court Monday,
when President Nixon's lawyers begin
their explanation of how 18 minutes of a
key recording were obliterated by an
audible tone.

The latest controversy arose Wednesday
when Nixon‘s lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt,
revealed before US. District Judge John
J. Sirica that 18 minutes of a tape recorded
three days after the Watergate break-in
were blanked by the noise.

The recording was of a conversation
between the President and former chief of
staff H.R. Haldeman, Buzhardt said.

...by degrees

Warm temperatures may still be with
us, but winter may slowly be coming by
degrees. There is a 50 per cent chance of
rain today with a high expected in the
upper 50s. Rain chances will decrease to 30
per cent with the coming of night and the
temperature should be near 40. The
outlook for Tuesday is mild.

 

  

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Conserve fuel

Richard Nixon‘s energy ”jawboning" session with the
American public Sunday night. his second in three weeks,
produced none of the drastic surprises many had an—
ticipated. Actually, this speech was similar to the first. He
urged implementation of voluntary cutbacks lest he enforce
mandatory steps when Congress gives him authority
through the Emergency Energy Action measures.

Several of Nixon‘s proposals-curtailment of ornamental
lights during the Christmas season; a ban on unnecessary
advertising lights; a voluntary cutback of fuel oil (to
coincide with a 10 per cent reduction by dealers); and
reduced highway speeds-can easily be followed by
members of the University community.

Many lights have been removed from hallways and of-
fices by the University; in the past two weeks students,
faculty and staff have become more conscientious about
turning off lights when leaving rooms.

Although some Christmas traditionalists may find it hard
to live without tree lights ( as evidenced by several windows
in the complex dorms) the majority of University personnel
can be counted on to cut back on fuel consumption. '

Presently the University is well stocked with fuel. Ac-
cording to 3 Nov. 13 memorandum circulated by Lawrence
Forgy, vice president for business affairs and University
treasurer, “the University is in relatively good shape,
considering the national situation.”

Cutrbacks will pay off in more ways than one. The crisis
can breed conservation habits in a people who too long have
disregarded environmental meanings. Since less fuel is
being used, air pollution should drop proportionately. The
University, using less fuel, may save money in energy
appropriation, or can at least keep pace with rising prices.

 

 

 

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Thonks,butu

I would like to thank you for the
coverage you gave to our recently com-
pleted day care study. However, there was
one part in the release that you left out. We
got a lot of help from many organizations,
faculty members, the local press, 25
people who tested or interviewed for us,
people who helped with the data analysis
and KRF. In addition, two of my good
friends worked just as hard if not harder
than I did on this project—Bill Fuchs and
Sarah Moffatt.

Thanks again for your coverage.

Dick Winett

Environmentalist?

Last week we were suprised to see that
Nellie Meadows was presenting an en-
vironmental awareness slide show on the
Red River Gorge, since we know for a fact
that she is pro-dam. After attending the

presentation we were convinced that Ms.
Meadows is hardly environmentally aware
of anything. We are sure that after the
slide show everyone immediately rushed
out and purchased their “Woodsy Owl”
button and their very own copy of Wild-
flowers of Kentucky, to prove they were an
environmentalist. Also we can hardly
classify the pictures of the Clay City flood
of 1962 as shots of the Red River Gorge. We
have a question for Ms. Meadows. How
does one learn to paint pictures of the
Gorge she wants to dam up, make a small
fortune selling the prints, and still have the
nerve to call herself an environmentalist?
The issue of the Red River Dam is one of
immediate economic benefit versus the
maintenance of a priceless heritage for
future generations. We urge you to write to
Gov. Ford before the Red River Gorge
becomes another Corps of Engineers’
disaster.
Leighanna Bronn
Agriculture—frosh

Iris Skidmore
Psychology—fresh

 

 

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WASHINGTON—Ma Bell is unbundling.
That doesn‘t mean she's taking her clothes
off. It‘s you who’s being stripped.

Unbundling is the term used to mean the
process whereby telephone subscribers
are now being forced to pay for individual
services which once were included in the
basic phone bill. Thus many Californians
are finding that the phone company will no
longer pay the postage if they forget to put
an 8-cent stamp on their bills. In Cincinnati
people will soon have to pay for calling
Information, or Directory Assistance, as
they now euphemistically phrase it. You
get three free calls a month and then it’s 20
cents on your bill each time you ask In-
formation for a number.

One of the reasons for unbundling phone
charges is that AT&T can sneak rate in-
creases through without appearing to raise
the basic cost of phone service. Those
announcements of general rate increases
are terrible P.R.

ANOTHER REASON that AT&T may be
doing it is to pass on to the home sub-
scriber the costs incurred by the company
in competing with companies that are now
selling and leasing non-Bell phones and
switchboards to business. In other words,
AT&T can cut the prices it’s charging for
switchboards and then try to make up the
difference by charging you and me more.

The Telephone Interconnection In.
dustry, as the non-Bell equipment
manufacturers and sales organizations
are called, is a very new industry. That it

exists at all is due to a 1968 decision by the
Federal Communications Commission
allowing people to put non-telephone
company equipment on Bell’s line.

But why would anybody want to do that?
Except maybe to have a faddish French
cradle phone or something of the sort. Isn’t
Bell equipment the cheapest and best in
the world? That’s what they seem to have
been telling us with their deluge of ad-
vertising from the nation’s largest
monopoly.

THE ANSWER to those questions is no.
Many offices, factories and hotels, that is,
places that use lots of phones, are finding
that non-Bell equipment is both cheaper
and can do more. Non-Bell equipment
offers options like phones you can answer
with out picking up a receiver, or phones
that can be instructed to reroute incoming
calls to your home, or a restaurant or a
friend’s house. If you’re not at your office
desk they have a phone now that only
emits the standard busy signal, but
automatically takes your number down,
and calls you back when the person you're
calling is off the line; there are other
phones that can do anything an ordinary
button phone can do and much more
without any buttons at all.

The basic reason for this is that the Bell
System is running on an obsolete and very
costly technology. Manley R. Irwin, a
professor at the Whittemore School of
Business and Economics, the University of

New Hampshire, has capsuled the
situation nicely:

“Today more than 50 per cent of the
central telephone offices in the United
States employ step-by-step machines——
invented in the 1880’s—and 40 per cent of
the United State’s offices are served by
crossbar switches—invented in the 1920’s. .
Fifty years of use and development have
carried the electromechanical crossbar
and relay switches to the limit of the
capability. However, the almost universal
adherence to these technologies that are 50
and 100 years old is severely restricting
capability and greatly increasing the cost
of telecommunication system expansion.”

SINCE, AS Irwin points out, 45 per cent
of the cost of an average local call and 54
per cent of the cost of an average long-
distance call is the cost of switching, the
consuming public is paying a horrifying
price for Ma Bell’s quaint dependence on
her grandfather’s engineering skills. To
show you how costs could have been cut in
this field, Irwin shows that IBM, by
throwing out the old vacuum tube and
introducing modern solid state circuitry,
has been able in 20 years to cut the cost of
100,000 computer multiplications from
$1.20 to one-tenth of one cent today. Or
again and for the same reasons the cost of
those little hand-held calculators has
dropped from $200 to 360 just in the last
three years. The phone company might
have done the same by us, but it hasn't.

Yet this kind of technology was born in
Bell’s own lab. That’s where the transistor
was perfected but not used. It took the
Japanese to come along and say, “Ah, so,
we build rittle ladios with them.” Now
they’re building big switchboards and
America is in the shameful position of
having to import quality phone systems
from abroad. And they tell us it’s because
American workers are lazy that we have
an unfavorable balance of trade.

Bell’s failure to do right by its
stockholders, its customers and the
country is directly traceable to being a fat,
inefficient monopoly only slightly smaller
than the Federal Government. It makes its
own equipment and thensells it to itself so
that it has no more incentive for cost ef-
fectiveness than the Pentagon. Pass the
higher prices on to the customer who must
pay just as surely as he must pay his in-
come tax.

EVEN NOW THAT there is a modicum
of competition in this industry, the Bell
response is not to compete but to have the
government outlaw the free market.

Let us close with a quote from John D.
deButts, AT&T‘s board chairman: “The
time has come, then, for a moratorium on
further experiments in economics— a
moratorium sufficient to permit a
systematic evaluation—not merely of the
question of whether competition might be
feasible, but of the more basic question of
the leng-term impact of its further ex-
tension on the public at large. . .”

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If the ‘Mandate of Heaven' has been lost...

By JAMES A. MICHENER

PIPERSVILLE, Pa.—I was wrong.
Last June I wrote an essay on
Watergate in which I spoke of Presi—
dent Nixon with the sympathy and
restraint owed by any citizen of a de-
mocracy to the President. I reached
three conclusions: (1) He seemed not
to have committed any one specific
criminal act for which he could be
impeached. (2) It would be against his
character for him to resign. (3) We
would therefore have him with us as
our President for another forty-two
months, a chastened but not a crippled
leader.

When I predicted conciliatory be-
havior on Mr. Nixon’s part, I was
expecting him to react as the Republi-
can Fiorello LaGuardia did when
caught in a preposterous mistake:
“When I make an error, I make a
beaut.” 0r like the Democrat Harry
Truman who said of the Presidency,
“This is where the buck stops.”

Instead of such forthright behavior,
which all Americans must have ex-
pected, Mr. Nixon gave up only the
most evasive explanation. By his con-
descending treatment of the electorate,
he has sacrificed any claim he might
have had upon us, and his massive
majority of November, 1972, has
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B; JACOB K. JAVI'I‘S

WASHINGTON—The spreading po-
litical scandals we call Watergate have
shaken most of the American people
out of whatever complacency they
might have had about our institutions
and our sense of national well-being:
but one group in particular has been
affected—the professional politicians.

When I grew up on New York's
Lower East Side, the furthest thing
from my mind was any idea that I
would spend more than half of my
working years as a public servant.
There were too many other things to
pay attention to, like helping my jan-
itor father put bread on the table and
keep the roof over our heads.

The Lower East Side was no place
for a philosopher although it spawned
a wide range of men and women
whose lives took them, intellectually
and geographically, far from the slums
of our childhood. In those days, if it
was a ghetto, we didn’t think of it

As one who works with tape, .1 find
no difficulty in believing that Mr. Nix-
on's conversation with John Mitchell
was not recorded, and it seems quite
reasonable for him to claim that his
vital talk with John Dean was inad-
vertently missed. We should accept
this inherently reasonable explanation.

But when, knowing that he never
heard these crucial tapes, he appears
before the American people and as-
sures them that the evidence supports
him and rebuts Dean, and when H. R.
Haldeman rebuts Dean, with neither
having heard the Dean tape, the be-
havior is so duplicitous it demon-
strates a compulsive avoidance of the
simple truth.

Divine-right kings, contemptuous of
their subjects, used to behave in this
manner. Presidents of a democracy,
responsible for keeping their fellow
citizens informed on vital matters, do
not.

Only two paths seem available to
the nation now. The senior Republican
Senators—Goldwater, Scott, Hruska,
Aiken, Brooke, for example—can troop
into the White House like the stern
Egyptian judges who pass sentence
on Rhadames in Aida and inform Mr.
Nixon that he is not only imperiling
the nation but also destroying the
Republican party. They can insist that
he resign.

In order to speed this day, the Sen-
ate and House should immediately
confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President.
One could logically wish that Repre-
sentative Ford's voting record showed
at least some concern for the poor,
the striving, the hopeful plans for the
future, but he is acceptable.

As soon as Ford is confirmed, the
Republican Senators should insist that
Mr. Nixon resign.

If he refuses, or if the great figures
of the Republican party are unequal
to the task before them, there is an
alternative which should be seriously
considered, starting right now.

A group of some seventy or eighty
leading American citizens from all
corners of our national life, covering
all political colors, should convene and
draft a statement of national con-
science.

They should compose a document
to be given the widest prominence
here and abroad, and it should state
that whereas Richard Nixon is legally
entitled to rule this country for thirty-
eight more months, the people of the
United States want it to be known
that he is serving out his term merely
as a figurehead, performing only those
rituals which must be performed, while
the moral, spiritual and intellectual
guidance of this nation resides in its
great institutions.

When I wrote in June, I did so
prayerfully, hoping that Mr. Nixon
would rise to’ the cruel realities which
confronted him. I was deceived. Mr.
Nixon never intended conciliation. He
does not know how to bind a nation
together, and it is folly to continue
hoping that he will learn. He must
be neutralized.

The ancient Chinese, who kept an
empire viable longer than most, relied
upon a curious but effective tactic
whenever an emperor brought their
massive nation close to catastrophe
without having done any one single
act of malfeasance.

Those upon whom the safety of the
empire rested went to the emperor
and told him, “Sir, you have lost the
mandate of Heaven.” And then he was
eased out, by any means at hand,
for the continuance of society de-
manded it.

Richard Nixon has lost the man-
date of heaven. The nation knows this.
In the smallest town the citizens
know. And I suspect that Mr. Nixon
himself knows.

James A. Michnener is the
author of many novels and
works of nonfiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

that way. We had the feeling, if not
the knowledge, that the gates were
open and that there was a way out;
that nothing hemmed us in except the
limitations of our own abilities, our
own good fortune.

And, as we grew older, we continued.
to believe. We matured. We smoothed
the rough edges. We lost some of our
youthful idealism. The glow wore off.
But we increased our experience of
the world. We did our jobs, and, in
the background, there was still that
certainty about some of the basic
principles under which we lived. In
twenty-seven years of public life I
have never been uncertain about those
principles. But Watergate has given
me pause.

Suddenly we question whether we
really live under the rule of law and
not of men.

Suddenly we question whether the
old proverb is true that God is stead-
fastly kind to drunkards, blind men
and the United States of America.

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I have found my own answers to
these questions, and they're consider-
ably more satisfying than I would
have thought possible before the
Special Prosecutor's removal and the
Attorney General's resignation. But
my judgment isn't altogether happy
from a politician's viewpoint.

I don't think most politicians were
nearly as aware of the public’s deep

resentment of Watergate as they
should have been.

My office received over 24,000
telegrams, after the Cox removal,
demanding action and a restoration of
the rule of law. I've never seen any-
thing like this outpouring of grief and
wrath.

I think we've turned the corner.
That storm of telegrams renewed our
sense of the roots of power and
responsibility. Even if the rascality so
far uncovered is only the beginning.
even if we find that we, all of us,
have lived through the most sordid
chapter in American history. we still

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have a right to believe. The people
of this country, in the end, will insist
on making the decisions.

If those decisions are to be imple-
mented, the first requirement is a
special prosecutor beyond the author-
ity and the reach of the President.
The House of Representatives must
continue its inquiry on impeachment
proceedings and all questions bearing
on the President's responsibility must
be resolved quickly. To that end I urge
that the Senate Watergate committee
make public all findings relevant to
that question as soon as the evidence
is gathered and weighed; so too would
public proceedings take place to the
same effect in Judge Sirica's court.
The people govern and they have
unmistakably expressed their will that
the truth be made known, that the law
be upheld and that justice be done.

Jacob K. Javits is the senior
Republican Senator from

New York.

  

    
        
       
         
       
      
        
   
 
     
   
    
     
        
   
      
          
       
  
  
   
   
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
    
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
   
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
  
    

  

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in government officials

By MARGARET GENTRY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON —- Government
corruption skims millions from
the public treasury and nourished
the growth of street crime, says a
federal crime commission in a
summons for citizen action.

“Without deliberate,
courageous citizen participation,
the criminal justice system will
be unable to deal with the serious
crimes committed by those who
hold positions of public trust,”
said the National Advisory
Commission on Criminal Justice
Standards and Goals.

IN ITS sixth and final report,
the commission said the
government battle against crime
is doomed without citizen par-
ticipation in efforts ranging from
youth recreation to enlightened
scrutiny of politicians.

Much of the report was drafted
before the Watergate scandal
developed. It is the result of a
two-year study financed by a
$1.75-million grant from the
federal Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration.

The report said “most people
in public service are honest and
dedicated," but acknowledged
surveys showing that the public
believes government corruption
is widespread.

OFFICIAL WRONDGOING
“results in a staggering cost to
the American taxpayer, and the
existence of corruption breeds
further crime by providing for
the citizen a model of official
lawlessness that undermines any
acceptable rule of law,” the
report stated.

”The direct costs are in-
calculable, but they are believed
to be astronomical," the com-
mission continued.

As remedies, the commission
proposed these steps:

—STATES SHOULD adopt an
ethics code and create an ethics
board of private citizens. The
board should have subpoena

powers and should be required to
conduct public hearings when
there is evidence of official

wrongdoing.
—Public officials should be
required to disclose their

financial and professional in-
terests.

—-States should adopt cam-
paign finance laws “at least as
stringent” as the 1971 Federal
Election Campaign Act, which
requires regular public reports of
campaign committees and all
funds received and spent by the
committees and candidates.

—S'I‘ATES SHOULD set
ceilings on campaign spending
and should ban political con-
tributions by individuals who
regularly do business with the
state.

m
awarding contracts, government
units should establish central
purchasing agencies staffed with
well-paid professionals.

-To discourage bribery

—Government units should
tighten the regulations covering
zoning, licensing and tax
assessment to leave less room for
a public official’s individual
discretion. ,

THE COMMISSION identified
organized crime as a prime

element in government
corruption.
”Various scholars have

estimated that 15 per cent of the
money for state and local
political campaigns is derived
from the underworl .”

Committee selects
research director

A UNIVERSITY committee
has ended its search for a new
director of the Tobacco and
Health Research Institute and
will submit its recommendation
to the Board of Trustees for
consideration at the Dec. 11
meeting.

Although none of the search
committee members—five
faculty members and two non-
University members—would
comment on the matter, one
Tobacco Research board
member confirmed the com-
mittee's work had concluded and
a recommendation would be
forthcoming.

He added that the person to be
presented to the Trustees as the
search committee’s recom-
mendation currently serves in an
advisory capacity to the institute.

THE COMMITTEE was ap-
pointed by UK President Otis A.
Singletary after the resignation
of Dr. Robert Griffith last
December. The committee’s
suggestions will be forwarded to

both the Trustees and the in-
stitute’s board. No date has been
set for the institute’s action on the
recommendation.

No members of the search
committee would comment on
the committee’s recom-
mendations or work and referred
allquestions to Dr. Al Morris, UK
vice president for administration
and acting director of the in-
stitute. Morris would not com-
ment on the selection.

The committee has narrowed
its search to three or four persons
and a committee of about four
persons “is currently negotiat-
ting with three candidates for the
position,” Thomas Harris,
commissioner of the state
department of natural resources
and environmental protection.
said. Harris is chairman of the
Tobacco Research board.

THE SELECTION is now in the
“final process“ and a recom-
mendation should come before
the institute’s board in early
December, Harris noted.

 

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Donations grow -

GET INVOLVED

University Year For Action
More Flexible Than You Think

Opportunities for students in:

Bodies for research
aid science, education

By TERESA ZIMMERER
Kernel Staff Writer

Nearly everyone has heard sordid tales of grave robbers,
delivering their ill-gotten wares to an anxious doctor in the
middle of the night.

Today, however, “People from all strata of society and of
all age groups bequeath their bodies for research,” said Dr.
Harold F. Parks, chairman of the department of anatomy in
the UK Medical Center.

PARKS SAID INDIVIDUALS are encouraged to donate
either their whole bodies or only certain organs “for the
purpose of advancing medical science and education.
Donations are made by healthy persons as well as those who
are dying.”

UK’s anatomy department has about 500 bequests on file.
The number has been gradually growing for the past 10
years.

To bequeath one’s body to the Medical Center, it is
necessary to sign an agreement form. When co-signed by
two witnesses, it legally wills the person’s body to the
University.

THE DONOR HAS the option of having his ashes buried in
University burial grounds or having special arrangements
made with his family. A donation can be cancelled at any
time.

A member of the family may bequeath someone’s body,
but it must be certified that he is next of kin.

By law, records must be kept saying what was done to each
cadaver, and the site of burial must also be recorded.

THE MEDICAL CENTER uses from 36 to 40 bodies each
year for use in joint medical anatomy classes. 'All cadavers
used for dissection are thoroughly embalmed and stored in a
cold room for several month, to guard against the spread of
disease, said Parks.

“It is constantly rumored that medical schools buy bodies
from people. This is not true,” Parks emphasized, “for it is
legally impossible to buy and sell human bodies.”

In the past several decades, unclaimed bodies were the
main source of cadavers for scientific research. “Since in-
digence has decreased due to Social Secuurity, etc.,” said
Parks, “medical schools now re