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Vol. LXV No. 111
Thursday, February 14, 1974

University of Kentucky

an independent student newspaper Lexington Ky 40506

 

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Independent truckers pay

$3,000 a year in taxes

By BRUCE SLUSHER
Kernel Staff Writer

KENTl'CKY INTERSTATE truck
licenses cost $800a year. Federal highway
usage tax is $210 a year. Add road taxes
and permits from other states and the
result is approximately $3,000 a year in
payments for road usage by independent
truckers.

Independent truckers have reasons for
striking. Increased gas prices, lowered
speed limits and limited gas supplies
created by large freight companies buying
gas at interstate truck stops have in-
creased costs and lowered profits for in-
dependents.

Tony Curtsinger. local independent
livestock trucking company owner and
seventh district urban council
representative, has been out on strike
since Jan. 31. He said he was starting his
operation back Monday, Feb. 11.

HAROLD BUSSELL. owner of Bussell
Trucking Inc., said he went along with the
strike for seven or eight days. The strike
did effect him because he wasn't doing any
hauling and he and his employees had
payments to make and bills to pay.

“I own all my trucks and I haul mainly
cattle and some produce. We haul in-
terstate east. west. north and south."
Russell said.

“I can pass additional price of fuel onto
the customer because I‘m not a regulated
carrier." said Curtsinger. “We can set our
own rates because we haul an exempt
commodity. The regulated carrier can‘t do
this. A rate increase by the regulated
carrier has to be approved by the In-
terstate.

ALVIN HAYNES, owner of Alvin
Haynes Trucking Co., said, “The only
thing I‘m peeved about is the increased
cost of fuel.“

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Haynes hauls tobacco in Lexington and
surrounding communities. He is not an
interstate trucker.

“We can't completely pass the increase
onto the company we haul for because I'm
on contract. If I had been hauling out of
state I would have honored the strike,"
Haynes said.

TROUBLE GETTING fuel and when the
truckers do find it they are limited as to

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how much they can buy has to effect the
cost of the product. Things of this nature
cost both the independent trucker and the
person he is hauling for time and money.
Curtsinger told of an incident as an
example, “One of my trucks loaded out
west and was coming back to Ohio and he
had trouble getting fuel. The truck had to

get off the main road to find fuel."
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Education
committee votes

on residents

priority

By LINDA (‘ARNES

Kernel Staff Writer

FRANKFURT — The state house
Education Committee voted Wednesday
not to recommend a bill that would give
Kentucky residents priority over out-of-
state students in admission to graduate
and professional degree programs at state
colleges and universities.

Albert Robinson (D-Pittsburg). sponsor
of HB 335, said the main purpose of the bill
was to let Kentuckians have the first
benefit of Kentucky tax dollars.

“Presently we have average Ken-
tuckia ns competing with outof—staters and
some of our residents have to go out of
state to school even though they pay taxes
in this state." Robinson said.

SPEAKING in opposition to the bill in
the committee meeting, David K. Karem
(D-Louisvillel said he thought passage of
the bill might be a dangerous precedent.

“What you‘re wanting to do is stop all
outef—staters from coming to our graduate

school and that leads to dangerous in-
breeding.“ Karem said.

The proposed bill would create a new
section to Kentucky Revised Statute 164
and would require boards of trustees of
state institutions to allocate enrollment
positions to qualified legal residents of
Kentucky prior to assignment of
nonresidents. The bill gives preference to
Kentucky residents even if they have
fewer qualifications.

A STAFF MEMBER of the Council on
Public Higher Education, Harry Snyder,
questioned Robinson concerning what
constitutes a legal resident of the state. He
cited several court cases that are now
attempting to resolve who is classified as a
resident.

Snyder added the bill, along with
another bill concerning higher education,

HB 435. was not needed. He said Kentucky
residents are already given preference in
entrance to graduate and professional
programs.

HB 435 would authorize the Council to
enter into reciprocal tuition programs with
neighboring states.

SNYDER SAID the bill is not necessary
because the Council currently has that
authority.

If the reciprocal tuition bill were passed;
Snyder said, it could become a real ad-
ministrative problem because institutions
would have to compute several hundred
different tuition rates.

He said Kentucky is currently working
on localized reciprocity programs with
surrounding states.

Although the bill was not passed. it can
be presented again at a future committee
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News In Brlef

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
' Hearst kidnapping

O ERA efforts

00min report
'Over the hump

0 Ban on coaffstocks

0 Today's weather...

0 BERKELEY, (,‘alif. — Newspaper
magnate Randolph A. Hearst said Wed-
nesday he could not possibly meet the
demand of his daughter's kidnapers for a
multimillion dollar food giveway.

But he sought to assure his daughter and
her abductors by vowing to do “everything
in my power" to set up some kind of food
distribution program. To 19-year-old
Patricia Hearst, he said: “Hang in there,
honey!"

Owl'tSlllNGTnN — President Nixon
proposed to (‘ongress a $19.3-billion
revenue sharing program designed to
improve the nation's public transportation
system.

Ile proposed a program to revitalize the
nation‘s rail system through a $2-billion
program of government guarantees for
private loans made to the railroads.

His plan would provide $2.3 billion to
large cities and slightly over $1.1 billion to
smaller towns and rural areas for the
fiscal year starting .luly l, with increases
through 1977

OFRANKFURT — The Kentucky
(‘ommission on Women urged ‘v’edncsday
that the General Assembly “not waste
their valuable time and the taxpayers'
money on a futile effort“ to rescind the
Equal Rights Amendment.

(‘hairperson Marie Abrams said the
Supreme Court and Congress have already
held that states cannot withdraw their
ratification of a constitutional amend-
ment.

Kentucky in 1972 became the 19th state to
approve the amendment, which bars
discrimination on the basis of sex. Since
then 14 additional states have ratified it.
and only five more are needed to make it a
part of the (‘onstitution

0 WASHINGTON — U.S. grain ex~
porters apparently did not make a
financial killing as a result of inside in-
formation by selling wheat to Russia at
subsidized prices in 1972. the General
Accounting ()ffice reported Wednesday.

The report, however. recommended that
Agriculture Department subsidy
regulations be tightened “to preclude the
possibility of large profits or losses."

QIMNINDN. Ky. — Vice President
(lerald Ford said Wednesday night
America is nearly over the bump in the
food and fuel shortages and the net result
will benefit the Republican party.

Ford told a news conference that the
Watergate incident isn‘t at all the major
issue in next fall's election.

“The more important issues are peace
and prosperity,“ he said. predicting that
lhenation‘s “economic problems will be of
short duration."

CLUNDUN — Britain's striking coal
miners decreed a complete ban on
replenishing dwindling coal stocks at the
country‘s power stations. and other unions
said they would go along and refuse to
transport the fuel.

The current reserves at the generator
plants will be used up by late March.

...rain threat

A 40 per cent chance of rain threatens
the weatnei ‘ picture today. The tem-
perature will reach the mid 505 today and
drop near 30 tonight. Friday will be cooler
with cloudy skies.

 

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Unnecessary regulation

Frequently a student or student organization will
discover a University rule that unnecessarily
restricts student rights. Recetly one of these rules
surfaced.

A regulation limiting the solicitation or sale of
merchanidse in areas other than the first floor of the
Student Center was cited by Dean of Students Jack
Hall when the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)
requested permission to sell its national newspaper
outside of the Student Center.

Although we oppose unlimited privileges for
solicitation or sale of merchandise on campus, we see
no reason why recognized student organizations
should be prohibited from setting up display booths in
several different campus locations.

Mark Manning, YSA president, said his next step
will be an attempt to gain support from the Student
Senate and other campus organizations to have this
measure withdrawn from University Governing
Regulations. We endorse the idea and hope other
student groups will follow suit.

Raising a stink

In recent years, concern for the environment has
brought students to a new awareness of the world

around us. _
Yesterday, however, we witnessed a happening for

which no environmental impact statement is needed.
For, when UK’s physical plant division begins to
fertilize campus flora, everyone downwind knows
exactly what affect that effort has upon our en-
vironment. Fertilizer has a way of transcending the
need for statements.

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Letters to the Kernel

Students find drop-add confusing

Each semester many students.
new ones in particular, find
themselves going through the
hectic process of drop-add. I
think that the confusion and time
spent in the process could be
reduced if suitable instructions
were to be mailed out before the
drop-add session. The newcomer
to our campus is somewhat
stunned by the various drop-add
aspects that are taken for
granted by veteran students.

One problem occurs in the
reading of the instruction sheet
given out at the session. The term
“approved dropoadd slip" is
bewildering. The questions

“What is a drop~add slip?“ and
“How does one get it approved?"
immediately come to mind.
Another problem the student
faces is just what to do after
reaching the concourse where the
departmental representatives
are located. Although the in-
structions provided are logical to
those familiar with the
procedure. they leave something
to be desired in terms of
clarification for the new student.
He still must ask around for the
meaning of such terms as
"course closed", “class tickets”,
and "waiting lists". These things
take time to find out.

New students could be asked to
indicate what parts of the session
they found confusing. These
items could then be taken into
account in planning the next
(iropaadd session. If instructions
are mailed out before the drop-
add session. students would have
a chance to become familar with
the procedures. This would help
to save time spent in asking
general questions and to ease an
already hectic process.

Ja ck l.. Webb

Engineering — sophomore

Energy crisis: Affect on the black community

 

Bv VERNON E. JORDAN JR.

THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

About the only certainty in the en-
ergy crisis situation is that black peo-
ple will bear a disproportionate burden
of the sacrifices and penalties. We will
suffer this latest crisis disproportion-
ately because we are disproportionate—
ly poor, because we are concentrated
in the most vulnerable sectors of the
labor force and because there is little
concern or planning for lessening the
impact of the energy shortage on poor
people and black people.

Such planning as exists—and it
seems confined to press releases-—
appears to have as its main concerns
the establishment of higher prices for
oil and gas and the easing of discom-
forts of middle-class Americans.

The primary negative impact of the
crisis on black people is most likely to
be on the job front. Estimates of un-
employment in 1974 start at 6 per cent
and climb upward, thus making even
optimists pessimists.

But black unemployment has al-
ways been double the white rate. A na-
tionwide unemployment rate of about
6 per cent is likely to mean a black
rate of 15 per cent or more. And the
impact is even greater, for we talk
about the officral unemployment rate,
which excludes discouraged job-seek-
ers, involuntary part~time employes.
and the vast army of the underem-
ployed—those working but for less
than a living wage.

This “hidden" unemployment is al-
ready astronomical. In some black
neighborhoods it includes a majority
of the population. An induced reces—
sion will make those figures still

worse, long before the official unem-l

ployment rates disclose the true nature
of the job crisis, since layoffs are pre-
ceded by hiring freezes and dismissals
of part-time workers.

So the energy crisis is likely to in-
crease black joblessness, and at the
same time it will result in inflationary
higher prices that will pinch already
strained family budgets. Dollar-a-gal-
lon gas and dollar-a-loaf bread may
be in the offing, as some economists
have predicted, or they may not, as
President Nixon has confidently stated.
But both gas and bread prices have
climbed, and the higher prices of fuel
and its derivatives will mean higher
prices for industrial and agricultural
goods in the coming months.

Again, this is something blacks will
suffer disproportionately since our me-
dian family income is little more than
half that for whites, and is even less
than what the Government itself de-
fines as a decent living standard. And
since a greater proportion of black
families than white are dependent for
their meager family incomes on more
than one wage earner, the constriction
of the marginal job markets that will
shrink employment of women and
tccn-agers will have a major impact
on black family income in an infla-
tionary period.

Higher gas prices hit low-income
groups hardest. White commuters still
get to center-city offices on time, but
factory jobs are generally in fringe
locations that make black workers de-
pendent on their automobiles. The in-
difference with which skyrocketing gas

prices is met by Washington is not
matched by workers whOSe already
too-small paychecks will be further re-
duced at the gas pump.

Beyond the immediate economic im-
pact is the more insidious use ef’fhe
energy shortage as the all- purpose
alibi to justify further erosion of black
rights. Although school busing for de-
segregation uses up something like
one-one-hundred-thousandth of all gas
used in the country, some Congress-
men want to end school busing as an
energy-saving measure!

Landlords and city officials will be
using this “God-given” alibi to avoid
supplying ade uate heat to the older,
less heat-efficnent buildings, primarily
occupied by the poor and minorities.

But despite the tremendous impact
the energy crisis is likely to have on
black people and poor people, the
high-level committees dealing with the
crisis are lily-white. Not only are
blacks effectively excluded from the
decision—making process in an area
that affects them deeply, but Federal
agencies primarily concerned with em-
ployment, health and housing and pov-
erty have no role in them either.

If the President expects black people
to accept his rosy optimism about the
energy crisis, he will have to move
swiftly to assure us that its impact
will be fairly distributed and, espe-
cially, that the precious job gains made
by blacks in recent years will not be
swept aside.

Top priority ought to go to creation
of a national full-employment policy
that will assure everyone able to work

a job at a decent wage. That idea has
been gaining ground even among con~
servatives, and the predicted recession
makes it an urgent priority. Price con-
trols, a leaky sieve, ought to be tight-
ened to prevent the use of the energy
alibi to increase profits. Representa-
tives of blacks, minorities and the poor
should have a voice in energy deci-
sions at the national level, while local
groups should coalesce on the local
level to monitor energy use and en-
forcement.

It is clear that the energy crisis will
work a terrible hardship on black peo«
ple and poor people. About the only
consolation we have is the knowledge,
earned through years of adversity and
hardship, that we will survive and
endure.

Life has always been difficult for
us. While some people smilingly lower
their thermostats and put on sweaters,
masses of poor black people this win-
ter are doing what they have done
every winter-huddling in their over-
coats as far from the cardboard-pa-
pered broken window as they can get
and waiting for a brighter, better day.

But it need not be so. When we con-
sider the stark indifference to the
plight of poor people evidenced by this
Administration, we see that the real
energy crisis of our times has less to
do with gasoline than with the moral
energy needed to reshape our nation
along more humane lines.

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Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is executive
director of the National l'rban
League.

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The bucket rider

A short story by Franz Kafka

THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Coal all spent; the bucket empty; the shovel useless;
the stove breathing out cold; the room freezing; the
trees outside the window rigid, covered with rime; the
sky a silver shield against anyone who looks for help
from it. I must have coal; 1 cannot freeze to death;
behind me is the pitiless stove, before me the pitiless
sky, so I must ride out between them and on my journey
seek aid from the coal dealer. But he has already grown
deaf to ordinary appeals; I must prove irrefutably to him
that I have not a single grain of coal left, and that he
means to me the very sun in the firmament. I must
approach like a beggar, who, with the death rattle
already in his throat, insists on dying on the doorstep,
and to whom the cook accordingly decides to give the
dregs of the coffeepot; just so must the coal dealer,
filled with rage, but acknowledging the command “Thou
shalt not kill,” fling a shovelful of coal into my bucket.

My mode of arrival must decide the matter; so I ride
off on the bucket. Seated on the bucket, my hands on
the handle, the simplest kind of bridle, I propel myself
with difficulty down the stairs; but once downstairs
my bucket ascends, superbly, superbly; camels humbly
squatting on the ground do not rise with more dignity,
shaking themselves under the sticks of their drivers.
Through the hard-frozen streets we go at a regular
canter; often I am upraised as high as the first story
of a house; never do I sink as low as the house doors.
And at last I float at an extraordinary height above the
vaulted cellar of the dealer, whom I see far below
crouching over his table, where he is writing; he has
opened the door to let out the excessive heat.

”Coal dealer!" I cry in a voice burned hollow by the
frost and muffled in the cloud made by my breath,
“please, coal dealer, give me a little coal. My bucket
is so light that I can ride on it. Be kind. When I can
I’ll pay you.”

The dealer puts his hand to his ear. “Do I hear right?"
he throws the question over his shoulder to his wife.
“Do I hear right? A customer."

“I hear nothing,” says his wife, breathing in and out
peacefully while she knits on, her back pleasantly
warmed by the heat.

“Oh yes, you must hear," I cry. “It's me; an old
customer; faithful and true; only without means at the
moment.”

“Wife," says the dealer, “it’s someone, it must be:
my ears can't have deceived me so much as that; it must
be an old, a very old customer, that can move me so
deeply.”

“What ails you, man?" says his wife, ceasing from her
work for a moment and pressing her knitting to her

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
  

bosom. “It's nobody, the street is empty, all our cus-
tomers are provided for; we could close down the shop
for several days and take a rest."

“But I’m sitting up here on the bucket,” I cry, and
numb, frozen tears dim my eyes, “please look up here,
just once; you'll see me directly; I beg you, just a shovel-
ful; and if you give me more it’ll make me so happy that
I won't know what to do. All the other customers are
provided for. Oh, if I could only hear the coal clattering
into the bucket!"

“I'm coming,” says the coal dealer, and on his short
legs he makes to climb the steps of the cellar, but his
wife is already beside him, holds him back by the arm
and says: “You stay here; seeing you persist in your
fancies I'll go myself. Think of the bad fit of coughing
you had during the night. But for a piece of business,
even if it’s one you've only fancied in your head, you're
prepared to forget your wife and child and sacrifice your
lungs, I'll go."

“Then be sure to tell him all the kinds of coal we
have in stock! I'll shout out the prices after you."

“Right," says his wife, climbing up to the street.
Naturally she sees me at once. “Frau Coal Dealer," I
cry. “my humblest greetings; just one shovelful of coal;
here in my bucket; I’ll carry it home myself. One shovel-
ful of the worst you have. I’ll pay you in full for it, of
course, but not just now, not just now." What a knell-like
sound the words “not just now" have, and how bewil-
deringly they mingle with the evening chimes that fall
from the church steeple nearby!

“Well, what does he want?” shouts the dealer. “Noth-
ing," his wife shouts back, “there’s nothing here; I see
nothing, I hear nothing; only six striking, and now we
must shut up the shop. The cold is terrible; tomorrow
we'll likely have lots to do again.”

She sees nothing and hears nothing; but all the same
she loosens her apron strings and waves her apron to
waft me away. She succeeds, unluckily. My bucket has
all the virtues of a good steed except powers of resist-
ance, which it has not; it is too light; a woman's apron
can make it fly through the air.

“You bad woman!" I shout back, while she, turning
into the shop, half-contemptuous, half-reassured, flour-
ishes her fist in the air. “You bad woman! I begged you
for a shovelful of the worst coal and you would not
give it me." And with that I ascend into the regions of
the ice mountains and am lost forever.

CCopyright l97l Schocken Books, from "Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories "
Translated frrm the German by Willa and Edwin Muir.

short story in the winter of 1916-17 in Prague.

 

 

  

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