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Vol. LXV No. 153
Monday, April 22, 1973

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

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Powell (‘ounty farm owner H.B. Farmer whose Stilt-acre farm would be ﬂooded by the proposed Red
River Dam project is shown at left protesting the dam in Frankfort Saturday. Above. the crowd.
estimated at 1.000 persons. are marching to the Capitol and the governor‘s mansion to present
petitions with more than 17,000 signatures protesting the dam to Governor Wendell Ford. (Kernel

Staff photo)

Dam "protest draws LOGO-member cross section

ByRON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

Seventy-two year old H.B. Farmer and
his wife Tressie, 68, crawled out of bed at 4
am. Saturday in preparation for a trip to
the state Capital and the day-long rally in
opposition to the proposed Red River dam
and reservoir.

After several hours of chores on their
Powell County farm, the Farmers drove to
their son‘s house, about a mile down the
road.

AROUND 9:30, 15 cars carrying 60
Powell County residents, including the
Farmers, left Stanton for the 90-mile trip
to Frankfort. There, they joined another
1.000 persons representing a cross-section
of Kentucky—young, old, men, women,

college students, educated, uneducated,
lawyers, bankers, farmers and just in-

News In Brlet

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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terested Kentuckians—in voicing their
opposition to the $30-40 million project.

Once in Frankfort, the Farmers pulled
out two neatly painted red, white and black
wooden signs and muddled through the
crowd which had gathered at the baseball
field adjacent to Frankfort High School.

H.B., with his brown felt wide—brimmed
hat riding on his forehead, and his dark
brown suspendered pants needing an
occasional tug, walked through the people,
explaining why he opposed the project.

“WE LIVE eight miles from the gorge
and all 563 acres of my farm would be
flooded by this," he said. “Most of the
people who live up and down the river are
opposed to it."

He explained that most of the members
of the group he came down with are
members of the Save Our Red River

0 WASHINGTON — Rep-elect Bob
Traxler, the first Democrat to win
Michigan’s Eighth District seat in more
than four decades, said Sunday he would
take no stand on impeacing President
Nixon until the House Judiciary Com-
mittee has completed its findings.

Traxler‘s narrow victory last week over
Republican James Sparling, for whom
Nixon personally campaigned, was seen
by many as a referendum on the
presidency itself —- with the result adding
much impetus to the impeachment drive.

0 MOSCOW — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
was met with silence, laughter and open
hostility at Moscow State University
Sunday, then was hustled out of the
auditorium on the pretext he wasn’t
feeling well.

Kennedy had asked the audience of
Soviet university students and other
spectators whether they thought Soviet

(SORR) organization and would be
relocated if the dam were built..

One side ofFarmer‘s sign read: “Are we
going to have to fight again? for freedom
from bureaurotic tyrancy by the COE‘s
(Corps of Engineers) damming onslaught
of our fertile valleys of America. H.B.
Farmer."

“ ‘Cancel' Red River Dam and save
God‘s wonderland, the Gorge, our
heritage, homes land, and our very lives
indeed, in the land of Eden. H..B. Far-
mer," the opposite side of the sign
proclaimed in inch-high capital letters.

TRESSIE. ON the other hand, positioned
herself with other Stanton women on a
stone wall which encircled half of the
baseball field, which held the crowd for a
little over an hour while organizers of the
rally gathered names on petitions and

military spending should be increased or
decreased. His question was greeted first
with silence, then with an explosion of
laughter.

There is no public discussion in the
Soviet Union of defense expenditure, and it
apparently struck the audience as bizarre
and funny that Kennedy would ask their
opinion.

0 WASHINGTON -— The Senate
Watergate Committee’s investigation of a
$100,000 campaign contribution by Howard
Hughes is focusing as much on the Internal
Revenue Service as on the money itself, an
informed source says.

Committee investigators have un-
covered what they consider to be
questionable procedures in the IRS‘s own
probe of the billionaire‘s contribution. The
money was given to President Nixon’s
close friend Charles G. “Bebe“ Rebozo in
two installments in 1969 and 1970.

postcards which were later presented to a
representative of Gov. Wendell Ford later.

Clad in a light-blue sweater, dark blue
dress and black sneakers, the white-haired
woman related her opposition to the dam.
“I‘ve lived in that area all of my 68 years,
and its all going to be flooded by this dam.
People all up and down the Red River are
against it. No, I don‘t thing the economic
benefits are great. We want it left in its
natural beauty.“

“ ‘Red River' is a paradise of natural
riches, save it today, tomorrow may be too
late," Tressie‘s sign stated.

PETITIONS AND postcards were being
collected by members of the UK En-
vironmental Action Society and SORR
while a few politicians tried to win votes by
explaining their opposition. There were

Continued on page 3

O LEXINGTON —-— Homeowners‘ in-
surance rates in Kentucky can be expected
to increase within the next two to three
years because of heavy losses from the
April 3 tornadoes.

Insurance commissioner Harold
McGuffey predicted the rise, but said
Sunday he does not have any estimate of
the extent.

McGuffey said the insured home,
business and property loss in Kentucky
already exceeds $92 million and that many
lesser claims still are “pouring in“ to
insurance agents.

...spring showers

Warm rain should be falling today as the
high should be in the mid 605 and there is a
70 per cent chance of showers or thun-
dershowers. The low tonight should be in
the upper 40s with a 60 per cent chance of
rain. The outlook for Tuesday is clearing
and mild

odito rials represent the opinions of the editors. not the university

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Good luck

President Otis A. Singletary’s announcement
Thursday approving a Women’s Intercollegiate
Athletic Program was welcome music to the ears of
UK female sports enthusiasists.

As new women ‘5 Athletic Director Sue Feamster
said. UK took five or six steps forward in the area of
women‘s athletics instead of one with the formation of
the department.

It‘s been obvious for some time that a women’s
program would become reality. The women’s
basketball team has been making headlines for the
past two years. Just this past weekend, the newly
formed female track team placed second in the
Kentucky Intercollegiate contest.

Although the department seemed to grow over-
night, it has been carefully planned.

Besides a director, the department will also have its
own secretary and trainer.

At least four varsity-level teams will be funded
initially. The department will expand when interest
and resources for other events develops.

No scholarships will be offered the first two years.
This will allow the program to “get going on the
varsity level” with several teams, Feamster said.
Although women including LuAnn Ditto, Sally Bushell
and others deserve scholarships, we agree with the
department ‘5 list of priorities giving primary concern
to the well-founded establishment of the program.

The department will be allowed to control its own
purse strings with funds coming from several
possible sources, including the Alumni Association,
the men‘s Athletic Association, reserve funds from
the University ‘5 general budget and self generated
funds from women's contests. We agree with
Singletary that pulling all funds from one source
would not be fair to established programs that might
suffer under a percentage cut.

Feamster and the participants of the women’s
programs at UK have worked long and hard for this
department. She has proved herself a capable ad-
ministrator as director of women’s club sports and
intramural programs and we wish her good luck with
her new assignment.

Letters policy

Kernel editors remind members of the University
community of their opportuntunities for response on
the editorial and oppositeeditorial pages.

Letters to the Kernel may concern any topics as
long as they are not libelous. Letters not exceeding
250 words are more easily read than those longer.

Viewpoint articles may be commentaries on any
subject from inside or outside the University. Sub-
missions to either category should include signature,
year classification, address and phone number. Also,
please make sure copy is typewritten and triple-
spaced.

Nine more editions

The Kernel has only nine more editions before the
semester ends. Students wishing to submit Letters to
the Kernel or commentary articles to the Viewpoint
page should do so before April 29. Letters or articles
submitted after tis date may run the chance of not

being printed.

Letters to the Kernel

Why take a trip with Dave?

Dear Mr. Straub:

May we ask what your reason
was for going to Cincinnati with
Mr. Dave Cronen? According to
your article (Play ball! April 16),
it seems all you two did was start
trouble with everyone you talked
to that day. We can only hope that
those people you hassled did not
associate you with the University
of Kentucky. They would surely
have had a terrible impression of
UK. This is only our first com-
plaint.

Our second complaint concerns
your sports column in general. As
interested sports fans, we resent
a major part of the Kernel's
sports space being used to voice
your prejudice for one team (the
New York Mets) out of 24 major
league teams! We also resent
having to withstand your asinine
idea of sports reporting while we
look through the pages searching
for some decent information
about major league baseball.
Why can't you simply report
sports happenings in an un-
biased, more intelligent way?

By the way Mr. Straub, Pete
Rose plays LEFT FIELD! We
assume that‘s why you feel so
relaxed yelling Obscenities at
Mr. Rose from your RIGHT
FIELD box seat.

And we get our jibe in with,
“How'd it feel losing to Oakland
last October?"

Mark Howard
Bus. Adm.-junior

Michael Wells
Psychology-junior

Removed

Dear Friends,

As you may or may not have
heard, I was removed from my
position of announcer on After
Midnight last week. (Due to
technicaldifficulties .. .. .. . )

I just wanted to drop a line to
express my deepest appreciation
to everyone who participated in
any respect to my program. I had
an absolutely great time com-
municating with and serving
Lexington's Rock community
which has certainly got to be one
of the most learned in the land

and I hope you had half the fun I

did in listening to the most human
thing going today -— Rock n Roll.
I have faith that despite the
tyranny of the conservative
bureaucracy you will continue to
boogie for decades to come and
I‘ll be right there with you.
Nick Martin
Journalism-freshman

At home

And we search our souls and
hunt witches when we can’t
recruit basketball players!

Ask yourselves, you plain old
non-athlete, non-sought-after
student types out there, do you
like the circumscribed,
capricious hours Seaton Center
keeps? Or how about all four of
those rubber-floored handball
courts and those squash courts
with no ceilings? And don‘t those
cold showers with no soap feel
good? It’s no wonder Coach Curci
can recruit football players by
showing them the new stadium
and then telling them that Seaton
Center is just the rec room of a
proposed new football dorm.

Or, like the people who were
told Seaton was closing at two
o’clock last Saturday afternoon
said, “Recruiting starts at home,
dammit!"

Douglas Shadle
College of Medicine

Concur

I heartily concur with Gary
Whatever happened to Zam
Rawlings article concerning the
pano, the brute who took to “La
UK Basketball Fortunes, A Black
Strada"? A couple of “bidonate”
coach has been a long and ob-
vious
(swindles), among the deaf and
need here at Kentucky.

The dumb and he made his for-
tune.

However, as long as we are here,
He enjoyed, “La Dolce
Discussing Prospective
Assistants
Vita”, playing
Cabiria.

I would like to nominate a
while Giulietta, the inspiring,

with

“8’2”

deserving person whom I feel
would be a muse fit to be a
mother,

waited a definite asset to the
home

roundball program.
Larry Mahaffey

(‘omputer Science-frad student

Encourages
Student Government en-
courages all student to par-

ticipate in the Lambda Chi Alpha
Bike-a-ihon. The Bikea-thon is a
fund-raising project of the
American Cancer Society. It will
be held April 28 from 9 a.m. to 6
pm. and the riders will meet at
Commonwealth Stadium.
Sponsor sheets are available at
the front desk of each dorm and
in the Student Government officie
(SC. 202). This is a cause in
which all students can become
involved.

Bob ('lement
Student Government
vice president

Announcement

We would like to announce the
candidacy of Bill Worthington, a
union coal miner with a lot of
experience in community and
political affairs, for the
Democratic nomination for US.
Representative from Kentucky's
Fifth Congressional District.

If Bill winsthe primary in May,
he will face incumbent Tim Lee
Carter —— whose voting record on
working people’s issues is ex-
tremely poor — in November.

We have enclosed campaign
literature and would appreciate if
your paper would urge students
to register by April 28th for the
Democratic primary and to vote
on May 28th. We are also asking
for your enda‘sement of Bill's
candidacy.

Judy Woodruff
Campaign aide
l 4506-5723-5595

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Silent maiority

Tressie Farmer was one of the
60 persons who travelled from
Stanton to Frankfort Saturday
to join nearly 1,000 others in
registering their opposition to
the proposed Red River dam.
(Kernel staff photo)

Kentuckians voice apposition
to Red River dam preposal

Continued from page I

children, dogs, the bare-footed,
the shirtless, the bearded, the
short~haired, the braless, the
long-haired, the dressed-up, the
young, the old—all with one
common objective— convince
the higher-ups that the Red River
dam should not be built.

At 12:45 p.m., with most of the
crowd growing restless from
boredom, leaders of the rally
began the three-fourth of a mile
trek to the Capital for the rally.
Participants carrying signs
admonishing the US. Corps of
Engineers, Gov. Ford and
proponents of the dam, and of-
fering an occasional chant,
started up Second Street,
blocking two lanes of traffic and
attracting stares from Frankfort
residents standing in the door-
ways of the Municipal Building
and Kroger‘s.

THE ENTOL'RAGE made a
right on Capital Avenue and
trooped up the half-mile hill to the
Captial. with some of the elderly,
children and dogs bringing up the
rear.

At the top of the hill, they
gathered on the front lawn of the
governor‘s mansion but were
asked by the state police to move
across the street to the Capitol.
The group sat down on the lawn to
the left of the Capitol steps,
facing a podium with the gold
seal of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky engraved in its center.

Since Ford was in his
hometown of ()wensboro
dedicating a “home for the
spastic," his administrative aide
Gene Peter welcomed the crowd,

PETER READ a statement
from Ford explaining his non-
committal position and accepted
the 17,500 signature petitions
which had been gathered from
across the state.

Peter began by detailing the
history of the dam project which
was okayed by Congress in 1962,
but was faced numerous delays
because of intense opposition.

“Naturally, and foremost, the
environmental protection of the
area must be considered along
with reasons for the dam—-tlood
control, cost, social disruptions

and recreation," Peter said
reading Ford's statement.

“IN MAKING THE ultimate
decision of what is best for the
Commonwealth and the citizens,
every element of comment must
be weighed,” he said, assuring
the crowd the petitions would be
given to Ford as soon as he
returned to Frankfort. He said
copies of the petitions would also

be sent to Kentucky’s
Congressional delegation and the
Corps of Engineers in
Washington.

Peter's speech was interrupted
occasionally by shouts from the
audience. He would stop the
speech and say, “I am glad you
have the opportunity to be here
today to express your views.” He
repeated this three times.

Peter complimented the
audience on their “orderly
manner of conduct" and con-
cluded by saying Ford feels it
inappropriate to take a position
on the dam at this timeuntil more
information on the state-wide
feeling can be obtained.

STATE SENATOR Mike
Moloney, D-Lexington, received
a standing ovation when he said
the Corps should “take their dam
and go somewhere else." He said
there are more feasible alter-
natives which would accomplish
the objectives sought by the
Corps.

“Very few facts have been
stated, although there has been a
lot of rhetoric," Moloney said, the
noted several Corps contentions
which have been disproved by
other federal agency figures.

Another state senator, Tom
Ward, D-Versailles, a minister
and teacher at Midway Junior
College, also admonished the
rationale for a dam.

“WHAT KIND of mentality is it
that can see beauty only in ski
boats? I have come here today to
stand up for the beauty of the
untraveled wilderness without
having it spoiled by some honky-
tonky looking lake,“ Ward said.

“We don't need a new at-
traction costing $40 million to
bring 900,000 people to the area
each year when there are already
over one million going there each

year," he said, referring to the
Corps contention that the dam
construction would increase the
inﬂux of visitors to the area to a
one million level within four
years after the dam is built.

Nellie Skidmore, representing
SORR, said it is “a shame that a
few self-centered people are
willing to destroy houses, far-
mlands and natural resources
because they have financial 'gains
in mind.

“WITH SUCH a great show of
opposition here today, I cannot
see how any of our political
leaders can be in favor of this
dam and hope to win votes of the
people in future political races,"
she said. ' '

Dr. Robert Kuehne, a UK
biology professor and long-time
dam opponent, received thun-
derous applause when he held up
a blank artist’s easel, depicting
the “Carl Perkins Memorial
Reservoir" the way he wants to
see it when it is finished. Rep.
Perkins is a Democrat from
Kentucky‘s Seventh
Congressional District. The dam
would be located in his district.

“I can‘t see how government
and elected officials can let the
bureacracy (Corps) make this
decision. I don't think they un-
derstand how widespread the
opposition is," Lexington Urban
Councilwoman Pam Miller said.

MILLER (‘RITICIZED the
water supply need of the project,
and said Lexington does not need
an emergency water supply
which would only be good for 30
years at most at the cost to the
Red River gorge.

The dam would inundate 1,546
acres of land and 15 miles of
stream in the gorge area if it
were built. The Corps has
maintained that the final decision
on the dam is up to Congress and
the Kentucky politicians,
especially Ford.

Ford and the state‘s elected
delegation in Washington have
refused to take positions on the
controversial project.

if the final environmental
impact statement is approved by
a federal agency next month. the
project will have final approval
and construction could begin as
early as fall 1975.

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