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Wednesday. March 10 1976

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Councilmen may oppose
Blue-White ticket sales

8) CH ARLES L. SMITH
KeI nel Staff “r‘iteI

A resolution introduced at Tuesday‘s
Urban County Council work sesssion
would, it passed. put the council on record
as opposing Blue—White Fund ticket
distribution for basketball games at the
Lexington t‘ivic Center (LCC).

The resolution. introduced by Eight
District Councilman William E. Lyons. a
UK political science professor, would
request the University to develop an
alternative means of ticket distribution.

According to a story in the February
2ch Sunday Herald-Leader, the Blue-
White Fund will be used to distribute
between 3,000 and 4.000 seats at the new
Rupp Arena.

The plan calls for seating to be based on
the size of contributions, similar to a
seating arrangement for football seats at
Commonwealth Stadium.

A letter mailed to Blue-White Football
Fund contributors suggested contribution
breakdowns of $25. $50. $100, and $250 per
seat, the article said.

Contributions would have to be made
annually to keep priority seats.

in introducing his resolution Lyons said
UKs plan to award priority seating to
those contributing between $25 and $1000
“flies in the face of the intent and purpose
for whichthe tax payers of this community
agreed to underwrite the bond issue to
finance the Lexington Civic Center."

He said the commitment to a larger
sports a rena was made “in a large part, to
accommodate the expanded public iri-
terest in attending UK basketball games.”

The resolution states the Urban County
Council 1) “opposes the action by the
University of Kentucky to condone an
annual public auctioning of seats in the
Lexington Civic Center to those who are

able and willing to contribute to the Blue-
\\hite Fund; and 2) Iespectfully requests
the University of Kentucky develop an
alternatit e policy for assigning seats for
UK basketball games at the new civic
center that is consistent with the intent and
purpose behind the financial committment
mode by the taxpayers of this community
to provide a larger and more adequate
facility for the UK basketball program."

Lyons said. “1 have trouble (with the
fact) that people who can afford $1,000
for a couple of tgood) seats. will get them
entirely for that reason.“

Lyons was not the only councilman to
express opposition to UK‘s seating plans.

Vice-Ma yor Scotty Baesler, who
seconded Lyon‘s resolution. said he had
heard of UK‘s plans to use the Blue-White
Fund to distribute tickets and said he
opposed them

Baasler a guard on the 195963 UK
basketball teams. said. “It bothers me
that it tseating) is going to be very
selective. It looks like people will have to
pay a premium to see the UK games and 1
don‘t think that‘s right".

Darrell K. Jackson, 61h district coun-
cilman, also expressed strong opposition
to UK‘s ticket distribution plans. He said.
“The civic center is a community project
for the benefit of all, and supported by
taxpayers. but (under the Blue-White
plan) only a select few, many of whom are
out-of-towners, will get priority use of the
facility and the seating."

Councilman William Hoskins said UK
considers basketball games at the civic
center “an activity of the University.”
Therefore, UK believes it can distribute
tickets any way it pleases, he said.

Hoskins said he was stating UK's
position and not necessarily his own.

continued on page 4

Scheduled for hearings—
Consumer protection proposals pleose Stephens

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel ‘Staff Writer

Kentucky Attorney General Robert
Stephens said Tuesday he is “pleased”

with Gov. Julian Carroll’s consumer.

protection legislative proposals.

“Gov. Carroll has presented an excellent
consumer protection package and his
efforts to get the bills through the General
Assembly indicate he has the interest of
the consumer in mind," Stephens said.

Carroll announced a 12—point consumer
protection package on Jan. 23. and as of
Tuesday afternoon at least seven of the
bills were scheduled for General Assembly
committee hearings.

Stephens said the ideas for Carroll’s
consumer bills had originated in the
Govemor’s Consumer Advisory Council
(CAC). which Stephens chairs as a non-
voting member.

One of the consumer protection
proposals. Senate Bill 220, if passed, would
radically alter what has been an accepted
business practice. Currently, retail

merchants may sell credit sales contracts
to banks or loan companies, with the banks
or loan companies assuming no respon-
sibility for the consumers’ warranty
claims.

SB 220 would require banks or loan
companies, which buy retail credit sales
contracts, to honor any guarantees
originally made to the purchaser by the
retail seller.

Gary Inhr, public information director
for the Leg‘slative Research Commission
in Frankfort, said SB 220 was passed by
the senate on March 1 and was scheduled
for a hearing by the House Banking and
Insurance Committee Tuesday. ' '

Another of Carroll' 5 consumer
proposals, the new car lemon bill, House
Bill 771, would require auto dealers to
replace a new car, or provide a purchase
price refund to the consumer, should the
car require lengthy repairs while still
covered by the warranty.

HB 771. the first of its kind in the
country, is'currently in a house committee
and may be reported out of committee

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Lexington, Kentucky

Under cover

An unidentified person walks toward the Commerce building yesterday protected by
his umbrella from the snow that accompanied the return of winter.

later this wedr, Luhr said.

in addition, private citizens would be
included on all state occupation and
professional licensing boards if the house
passes Senate Bill 346. That bill passed the
senate by a 30-2 vote Monday, Luhr said.

While the state currently has a generic
drug law, which authorizes pharmacists to
substitute less expensive generic drugs for

higher-priced brand-name drugs, Senate
Bill 64 would require pharmacists to in-
form customers of the availability of the
substitutes

-SB 64 passed the Senate Feb. 4 by a vote
of 306 and is now in the House Health and
Welfare Committee, Luhr said.

Stephens said the generic drug bill was
not originally proposed by Gov. Carroll.

Other consumer-oriented bills sponsored
by Carroll and currently in various
leg'slative stages include:

-—HB 188, which would require mobile
homes to be inspected before they can be
resold;

-HB 371, involving the licesing' of
hearing aid sabsmen; and,

—a general fair trade rescission bill, HR
644, that would repeal fair trade laws with
the exception of those applying to milk and
liquor sales.

Luhr said that a recent Federal Trade
Commission regulation had necessitated
the repeal of fair trade laws which had
established fixed prices for some goods
and services, thereby protecting small
businessmen who were in competition with
larger companies.

’ On Monday Hank Lindsey, one of Gov.
Carroll’s executive aides, said he was
“confident” the governor’s proposals
would be passed by the General Assembly.

There was. however, at least one CAC
proposal that did fail to clear the
legislature. “I’d have liked to have seen
additional legislation in the area of con-
sumer education for Kentucky public
schools," Stephens said.

Earlier in the 1976 Legislative session a
proposal that would have established a
consumer education curriculum was
defeated when public school ad-
ministrators rejected it.

 

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The University’s
ace in the hole

Eighth District Urban County
Councilman William Lyons, who
also as U K political science profes-
sor, rightfully introduced to the
council a resolution to stop UK
from distributing civic center tic-
kets for UK_. basketball games
through the Blue-White Fund.

If the University is allowed to
distribute the seats through the
fund, essentially the best seats will
go the the highest bidders. Of
course, that's the way it’s always
been done, with few objections. But
now the University has stepped out
of its league and decided to play
games in a building run not by UK,
but by the city.

And it’s hard for many of the
council members to justify such a
ticket distribution system in an
arena paid for by taxpayers.

Of course, UK has an ace in the
hole. The University has not yet
signed the final agreement to play

in the civic center because of some
minor disagreement about prac-
tice dates. And without ticket
receipts from UK games the
wonderful‘civic center will turn
into an albatross hanging around
Lexington’s neck.

Councilman Lyons’ resolution,
introduced at Tuesday’s council
work session, can best be descri-
bed as a good try. The resolution
will get a first reading at Thrus-
day’s council session, but unfor-
tunately there’s probably no way
council members can withstand
the political pressure the Univer-
sity is capable of turning on.

The University is not about to
lose any mone in this deal. The
welfare of the average buyer
—be he student or civilian—has
never been taken into considera-
tion by the University or the UK
Athletic Association. It’s unlikely
this case will be an exception.

 

 

Bicycles

Editor:

There will always be bicycles, and
there will always be bicycles stolen.
Apparently, even improved locks and
increased law enforcement are unable
to control these thefts. Facing these
facts, we might as well repeal all laws
restricting the theft of bikes altogether.

Thus, in essence, runs the argument
that Marvin Todd proposes in his
commentary on sex' and abortion.
Obviously, this does not quite get to the
heart of the matter. Neither do I find his
conclusion very convincing that where
mother’s and fetus’s rights collide, we
should simply assume that her ”rights
to liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
are to be ranked higher than the baby's
right to be born (to presume that the
adopted baby would most likely not
appreciate his-her wretched existence
anyway is a pretty chauvinistic
argument).

The "pursuit of happiness" argument
is very ambiguous. As wonderful as it
sounds, it becomes wretched itself
when used ’to disquality another’s
ex istence; certainly, there are so many

ielters

' old folks. blacks, poor, alcoholics that

 

look pretty unhappy to me.
Therefore, .....

l share Todd’s concern about illegal
abortion. At the same time, the ideaof a
million annual dead fetuses many of
them undistinguishable from
premature babies is to me repulsive
and unacceptable. This legalized
cheapening of life is conter—productive
to all noble ideas of a happy, fair and
just society that people’s liberationists
should have at their hearts.

So what can we do? Fortunately, the
means of birth control are not quiet as
hopeless asthearticle paints them. And
we should altogther become more
accepting and supportive of unmarried ‘
pregnant women and not replace the
old punishment of shame by the new
one of ”covering up and doing away
with." Finally, also us middle class
happy whites might want to listen to
what Jesse Jackson is saying to the
black community: that 'with rights
come responsibilities. In other words:
we (and that includes the "inad-
vertent“ fathers) have a choice,
”before" and “after”—the developing
fetus that strives to live does not.

K. Michael Fuhr

Allied health graduate student

 

 

The Concorde

endangers ’

my ionosphere?-

 

By Victor Gold

New York Tunes NewsService
WASHINGTON—Kepone may kill me
and pesticides are upsetting my
balance of nature. Sugarcoated cereal
flakes will be the ruination of my
children, but if Captain Crunch doesn‘t
corrupt the younger generation, those
other plastic-wrapped supermarket
products will. The Concorde, a malign
alliance with the aerosol-spray can, is
endangering my ionosphere. This will
probably lead to cancer, unless the
additives in my morning rasher of
bacon do me in first.

Then, of course, there is alcohol,
which, the television public~service
announcements remind me, could turn
into alcoholism if I don’t go slow on
those refills. Better watch than
congenial drinking at cocktail parties,
where m y wife gambles recklessly with
our fa rnily’s future by wearing lipstick
containing Red dye No. 2.

As for the tobacco fumes circulation
about the room, I need only read the
warning on the nearest package to
know that my cigarette-addicted
friends have a death wish. May God, or
in His absence the surgeon general,
have mercy on their carcinogenic souls.

 

Not simply hard times, Mr. Terkel.
Fearsome times. An age fit for
crawling into caves to escape it all—
were it not for the nuclear wastes
therein, which, according to Ralph
Nader, may get us anyway. Tell me:
Isn’t there anything we moderns can
ingestabout which Somebody Up There
(the Surgeon General, the Food and
Drug Administration, Consumers
Union) has heard an encouraging
scientific word lately?

Well, asa matter offact, there is. Out
of that grim bank of red and amber
warning lig hts there flickers one green
signal of optim ism. A tentative Go from
a great many Governemnt and in-
dependent consumer agencies
regarding a product that, at the time of
this writing, cannont be found plastic-
wrapped in any supermarket:

Marijuana.

Good old wholesome, nutritious pot,
the breakfast of Presidents (or one at
least, if we can believe The National
Enquirer). Although our industrial
exploiters in their paneled capitalistic
offices may be despoiling modern life
and health, it develops that the old anti-
Establisment Devil’s Weed, for all.its
bad press over the years, isn't so
terrible after all.

...start tokin’t

.. ... ..> I.(9fi-In,e ~

Accentuate the positive. For pot, if‘
nothing else. True, no one in a
responsible position has gone so far as
to counsel young Americans that a joint
a day will keep the doctor away. But
give the pot optimists time.

Indeed, hardly a month elapses
during which gloomy predictions of an
industrially manafactured Got-
terdammerung are not juxtaposed in
news reports with the latest medical-
consumer study concerning the
relatively benign effectof marijuana on
the human body. Relative to what? Not
using at all ? No, our medical-consumer
experts reserve that sort of value
judgments for truly dangerous
products—like cranberries.

Take, for example, the recent
statement by no less a Somebody than
Dr. Robert L. DuPont, the Ford Ad-
ministration's leading spokesman on
drug problexs. DuPont, at this point in
history, felt impelled to cheer elders
with news that while more young
Americans than ever seem to be
smoking pot, things could be worse.

Happy news: Marijuana, says the
doctor, might actually be less hamful to
users over a stretch of years than
cigartte smoking or alcohol imbibing.

Nothing certain about the medical

' initiatititiiiffui“
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findings, understand, but definitely
withing the realm of possibility.

To me, at least, the message was
clear. Engrave it on the high school
portal: The Director of the National
lnstitueof Drug Abuse Has Determined
That Pot Smoking May Not Be
dangerous to Your Health.

Certainly. I am no scientist, but that
much I know. Then why, in the name of
sacingthe species, are we being urged.
to outlaw aerosols by many, if not most,
of the very antiEstablishment activist
who also want to decriminalize pot?

To the point, let R.J. Reynolds and
Ligget 8. Myers desist from
manufacturing those hazardous
cigarettes and convert, outright, to
mass marijuana processing, for sale on
supermarket shelves. Legalize pot. Put
it on the Big Board. Within six months,
I predict, the ionophobes will be joining
us Middle American paranoids in
demanding its ban. Or, at least, in a
campaign to make Somebody Up There
flash red, not green,lights regarding its
effect on society and human health.

 

Victor Gold, 3 Washington journalist,
asked about his most flamboyant ad-
diction, said, "I am very heavy on
barbecue."

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

parades
By Daniel Bosler

We left Lexington for Mardi Gras
with Arlo Guthrie’s ”City of New
Orleans" ringing in our ears. Rides
came quiddy and our spirits rose with
the good luck. Spending one cold hellish
night in Montgomery, Ala., we were
picked up by a bus full of New Yorkers
heading for the Mardi Gras. The
situation was like a modern day
"Canterbury Tales" but with a
pilgrimage of a different sort.

Arriving in New Orleans on a hot
breezy Sunday afternoon, the city
seemed adrift with the parades and, of
course, the never ending alcohol con-
sumption.

New Orleans is by far the most
beautiful large city l've ever visited.
The fountains, parks, flowered bushes
and trees covered with Spanish moss
made for a storybook setting. Wan-
dering through the French Quarters for
the 'fi rst time was like going to a four-
square blod< carnival in the surroun-
dings of elegantly styled shops, pubs
and apartments. The apartments
overlooked the streets with their
balconies and beautiful black cast-iron
railings. At night, the apartment
owners and friends would exchange
beads, chants, cheers and obscene
iestures with the mass of Iushes

 

 

 

Canal street hosts
conflnuous

swaying below them. Occasionally, a
lone female would perform a strip
tease upon a balcony to the wild
iubiilation of the crowd wheeling
around in the streets below.

Canal Street, which is the widest
street in the United States and divides
new from old New Orleans, was the
scene of continuous parades. The
parades at night were brilliantly lit
from individual floats which would stop
periodically to satisfy the hordes with
the traditional bead necklaces and
Bacchus coins. The ensuing battle for
tokens resembled a scramble for a foul
ball at the World Series..." you are a
first timer to Mardi Gras this is great
fun though.

Surprisingly enough, the bars and
liquor stores at Mardi Gras were
relatively inexpensive. Surethere were
bars wanting $2 a beer but other places

 

just as nice sold mixed drinks for $1.40
each. A package liquor store on
BOurbon Street sold Jack Daniels Black
Whiskey for $8.75 a quart. Just think,
thats what you probasbly pay a quart
for the “gasoline" you’re drinking now.

The last day of Mardi Gras—of Fat
Tuesday as it is known—involves some
of the heaviest drinking and activities
of the pre-Lenten festival. Costumes
were the attire for the day of which
many were outrageously sophisticated
or extremely avant garde.

One unabashed guy strolled non-
chalantly through the streets with his
nose transformed into a phallus while
people around him jokingly shouted
lewd comments. His girl friend was
having an epileptic seizure of laughter.
Everyone wears something outlandish
even if it’s simply a iock strap as some
guys adorned or a dab of glitter on the

tits as some females dressed.
Tuesday, for the most part, is a slow

retrogression of mankind in New
Orleans. Wild brazen hussies tried to
persuade males intothe strip joints like
theancient mermaids luring the sailors
to their doom. By midnight you may
find yourself talk ing to somebody on the
street who can only shake his head or
foam at the mouth to communicate.
This is the kind of insanity that helps a
person keep their sanity.

The beauty, atmosphere and
bizarreness of New Orleans and Mardi
Gras has built a collage of memorable
experiences for me. My feelings may
change after a second Mardi Gras but
the first time was a gas, though leaving
me torn and frayed.

 

Daniel Bosler is a iournalism fresh-
man.

 

 

Las Vegas needs

You have to experience Las Vegas to
believe it. I know, I ended up there several
years ago in the twisted company of a very
strange fellow named Ben. He had offered
me a ride outside a cowboy-hat store near
Sisters, Ore., and became, for a time, my
mysterious traveling companion. Ben told
me he was a law school dropout, and told
me he was 23, tho’ I swear he seemed more
like 73....At any rate, he was driving a
swell orange pickup truck with a water-
tight camper top, so I threw in with him,

splitting gas money. And several days-

later, for reasons I never really un-
derstood, we were bombing hell-for
leather across the great Nevada wastes,
heading for Vegas...

 

Matters were complicated, however,
about 10 miles from the city limits when
Ben sudenly pulled the truck over to the
side ofthe road and produceda small piece
of stained paper from his wallet. He
gobbled it quickly. I immediately feared
the worst.

“Is that...?"

”Yep,” he said, smiling malevolently.
“Pure-'as-raimwater blotter acid.
Righteous stuff. Gonna do Vegas right.
Now you drive.”

I groaned and slid over behind the wheel. .

Things looked to become difficult. I
grabbed another Coors out of the sack and
held it out the truck window, trying to
operate that mysterious, 'tabless Coors
opening mechanism...which may well
protect theenvironment but tends to cause
a hell of a fizzy explosion by the time you
finallyget the damn thing punched in...and
had iust finished the iob when I looked up
again and noticed a Nevada state trooper
tooling slowly past us. The cop was staring
at me. I immedicately ierked the beer
inside, visions of nasty few days in some
primative backwater iail roiling through
my guts. I’d had some experience with
that sort of thing recently, and wasn’t at
all pleased with the prospect of more...
But the fear was groundless. The cop
seemed to shrug, and drove on. I collapsed
back into the seat. Jesus! Opening a beer
along the highway in full view of the
Authorities, stone-drunk, the floorboard of
the truck awash with case-upon-case of
empties, my friend with a head full of LSD
and probably more where that came
from—shit, they could have locked us up

and kept us in lieu of bail forever. It was

my first taste of the fine Nevada
hospitality—the desert-bred law of the

jungle that says survival—in this state at
least—is for the fittest. They don‘t give a
flying fuck what you do as long as you
don’t kill anybody, and even that would
probably be overlooked if you could come
up with a Good Reason....

OK. I'm getting sidetracked here. To
make a long story short we ended up down
on the Strip, l to satisfy my primitive
gambler’s instincts, Ben to feed his acid-
inflamed nerve receptors with something
truly outrageous. And we got both. Words
can't describe the assault on sensibility
that is Vegas. Indeed. My brain was so
overloaded that the evening breaks down
into only fragmentary memories, with
long hazy gaps tied together only by strong
flashes of black jack hands, roulette
wheels, free drinks, and Ben shouting over
and over again in an acid frenzy ”Who
owns this place!”

Luckily, though, I managed to hold onto
my notebook that night and get down some
impressions. The writing is wired and
feverish, but it captures the mood per-
fectly. Here’s a chunk of it:

"Vegas is...the American Dream run
amok. All this money, the competition, one
man against The System....all the usual
syndromes: Bigger is better, show off the
wealth. Neon nauseas of All~American
Dread, automotive cancer. Cancer Gulch.
Stale Vegas casino air at 5 am. the
psychic equivalent of industrial smog.
Brains blitered on the Speed rush of high

to be experienced

living...losers die the iunkie death. But the
rush is undeniable. Every base whim at
your fingertips, women, easy money,
hobnob with the famous, desperate
glamour, all the booze you can handle on
the house, champagne fountains...Some
atavistic sub-stratum of consciousness
I...Ben on acid. Don'tknow how hetakes it,
howling now that he wants to arm-wrestle
The Kingpin for the soul of the city. Tho' of
course there is no soul...Even the hookers
are pretty here, in a fake sortof way. That
one lookedJust like Caroline Kennedy...l'lll
take the $200 I iust won at blackiack and
parlay that into a fortune at the roulette
wheel. Stay away from those wretched slot
machines ....... “

There’s a lot more, but it get’s steadily
more incomprehensible. Unless you’ve
been therefThen it makes perfect sense.

At any rate, when I came to the next
morning—afternoon, really—l was
floating on my back on an air mattress in
some strange suburban swimming pool.
Buaards were circling overhead. Ben was
in a chaise lounge, gobbling another piece
of paper. And I decided it was time to
flee .....

 

Scott Payton graduoted from UK in 1973.
He is a former contributor to Rolling stone
magazine and a retired boxing promoter
who currently lists his occupation as
”speculator." His column, "Ten Years
On," appears weekly in the Kernel.

 

 

 

  

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“HITESBL'RG. Ky. (APl-An explosion trapped 15 miners in a
Southeast Kentucky coal mine Tuesday afternoon, but it wasn't
known if the men were alive or dead.

Rescue workers were reported

deep in the Scotia Coal Co. mine,

10 miles north of here, where the explosion occurred. About 150
men had been working in the mine. ,All the others made it out

safely.

The eprsion occurred about 1:15 pm. five miles in from the

mouth of the mine, officials said.

by methane, but that could not

First reports said it was caused
be confirmed.

Seven hours after the blast, none of the missing miners had been

found. according to a spokesman

for the US. Mining Enforcement

and Safety Administration (MESA).

At least 10 different rescuecrews were working in or at the mine,
MESA officials said. In addition, a C-l30 Air Force cargo plane full
of rescue and recovery equipment flew into Bristol, 'I‘enn., and

the equipment'was reported on
north.

its way‘to Whitesburg, 40 miles

Lost CIA documents
found by Pike’s staff

WASHINGTON (AP)—Chairman Otis G. Pike said Tuesday his
House'intelligence committee staff has accounted for 200 of 232
documents the CIA describes as lost. He accused the CIA and State
Department of conducting “a media event” to discredit the com-

mittee.

Pike, a New York Democrat, told the House his staff went to CIA
headquarters Monday afternoon and accounted for the 200
documents before quitting for the night because it was closing time.

He said he woukl not send the staff back to the CIA. “That’s all
we're going to do,” Pike declared.

He accused the State Department of leaking to the media last

week the contents of a letter to

the chairman from CIA counsel

Mitchell Rogovin contending that the documents could not be ac-

counted for.

Cleanup burley auction
set today for tobacco belt

LEXINGTON (AH—The last of an estimated 630 million pounds
-of burley tobacco from the 1975 crop goes on sale here today in the
final cleanup in the eight-state burley belt.

A total of 679.7 million pounds has sold this season for $717.7
million, but the Council for Burley Tobacco sets a 630 million figure
on the crop by deducting a percentage for resales.

Beltwide, growers averaged $105.60 per hundred pounds, down

$8.26 from last year.
The price averages were lower

this year in all grades, mostly $3

to $9 per hundredweight. However, tips and nondescript offerings
were dealt losses ranging up to $29 per hundred.

Urban Council may oppose
UK ticket allocation

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Jackson replied that the tax-
payes were left out of the ticket
distribution process.

“This council is in aposition to
serve the entire community with
this facility, including UK
basketball games,” he said.

Lyons said he had “no idea”
whether his resolution would
affect UK‘s plans. He did say
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board, instead of the Urban
County Council, so UK would not
be obligated by any actions the
council might take.

“My responsibility as an
elected official is to the taxpayers
of this community. I was
wearing the hat of an elected
official representative of this
community,” he said.

The resolution will receive first
reading at Thursday Urban
County Council meeting.

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New continuing education classes to begin March 22

Continuing education classes in
imaginative writing, vocati ‘el
guidance. mathematics and re-
entering the world of work will be
offered beginning March 22 by
the Office of Continuing
Education for Women and the
Extension Class Program.

The courses are designed for
women who want to keep
academically alert without
working toward a degree and also
for those who are interested in
returning to school after a break
in their formal training. Each
class costs $20.00 and lasts six
weeks.

Registration for classes can be
made by telephoning 258-275., or
by contacting Sharon Childs,
director of the UK Office of
Continuing Education for
Women, Room 6, Alumni Gym.
The deadline for registration is
March 19.

“Discovering a New You:
Vocational Testing and
Guidance" will meet from 7 to
8:45 pm. on Tuesdays. Dr.
Louise Dutt of the UK Counseling
and Testing Center, will use
vocational tests to help students
realize their particular
educa tional needs in relationship
to their goals. '

“Imaginative Writing,” to be
held from 11 am. to 12:45 pm. on
Thursdays, will be taught by
English faculty member Jean
Casale.

Childs said poetry will be
emphasized, but other forms of

writing will be treated according
to interest and demand. Em-
phasis also will be placed on the
completion of quality pieces with
an end toward publication.

The “math refresher" course-

will include a review of
geometry, algebra and foun-
iations for statistics. Problem~
solving techniques for scoring
well on college entrance and
“ederal examinations also will be
discussed.

The math course will be from 1
to 3 pm. on Wednesdays and will
be taught by Dr. John Kerlin of

» the mathematics department.

“The World of Work: Re-
Entry.“ is scheduled from 10 to
11:45 am. on Wednesdays with
Dean Moss of the UK College of
Home Economics as instructor.

Accounting frat
aids students
with tax returns

The significance of April 15 is
twofold. In the first place, it is the
last day to file a 1975 federal
income tax return. Secondly,
April 15 is the last day to receive
free help in preparing that return
from Beta Alpha Psi professional
accounting fraternity members.

This “public service" benefits
both parties concerned. The
individual gets assistance in
wading through the maze of tax
forms and the accounting

New magazine seeks unique editor.

Kentuckian Magazine, a quarterly publication.
seeks a qualified editor to oversee. ope