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\‘ol. LXVII No. 42
Thursday. October 2

 

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Administration requests no smoking in class

By “ALTER IIIXSON
Assistant Managing Editor

Student use of one of the state 5 major products —
tobacco may be restricted because of complaints
from students and parents.

In a memorandum released jointly by Jack (‘.
Blanton. vice president for business affairs and Dr.
PS. Sabharwal. l'niversity ombudsman. faculty and
students were requested not to smoke cigarettes in
classes in respect of non-smokers particularly those
with respiratory ailments.

The memo. released last week. does not represent a
step toward prohibition of smoking in class. both ad—
minisu‘ators said Instead. faculty and students are
asked to “please not smoke."

“We can‘t make a rule. we can only make a request
because students have the right to smoke." Sabharwal
said.

(‘iting the biblical phrase "love thy neighbor.
Sabharwal said the rights of smokers should not in—
tringeon those of others. "I have the right to drink milk
but not to put it in the "mouth of my neighbor." he ex-
plained.

The no smoking request is the result of “over 20"
complaints received by Blanton and Sabharwal from
students and parents. Although there presently is no
plan to prohibit smoking. Blanton said: “If the memo
has no effect and we continue to receive complaints.
we‘ll think about doing something different."

 

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Dr. Wayne Davis. zoology professor and member of
Action on Smoking and Health , a group which sup-
ports the rights of non-smokers said “smoking
stinks." Ile said smoking is not allowed in his classes
but “students can get up and walk out anytime.“ Davis
said he secures two classrooms for exams in order to
allow smokers a separate facility.

 

There is no state law prohibiting smoking in state
colleges and universities except in areas specifically
marked. said Capt. William G. Mullins. legal officer
for the state police. He said smoking regulations are
”up to the University‘s discretion.“

The University has a legal right. he said. to enforce
no~smoking regulations in specifically marked
buildings. “The University has pretty much control,"
he said.

Although Kentucky is not among them. Mullins said
several states do have laws prohibiting smoking in
public places.

Several colleges and universities have an iron-clad
regulation against public smoking. At Indiana
University. for example. smoking is permitted only in
lounge areas and in a few “

Several colleges and universities have an iron-clad
regulation against public smoking. At Indiana
l'niversity. for example. smoking is permitted only in
lounge areas and in a few “smoker—equipped“
auditoriums. according to Associate Dean of Students.
Virginia Rogers,

Because of numerous complaints. she said IU of-
ficials started “an ongoing campaign to get through to
students and faculty." Rogers said the most vigorous
complaints surfaced when faculty members didn’t
comply with the regulation.

(‘ontinued on page 5

Clapp subs
for Singletary

when needed

By GINNY EDWARDS
Managing Editor

The newlyappointed vice president for
administration considers himself a
“substitute teacher" for President ()tis A.
Singletary.

“I have to keep the activities of this
office moving when President Singletary
isnotavailable.” said Dr. Donald B. (‘lapp
m a recent interview.

(‘lapp. who was appointed to his vice
presidential position on Sept. 17 by the
Board of Trustees. said he must help
operate the president‘s office by doing any
necessary staff work and making these
findings available to Singletary.

“These are general responsibilities of
this office relative to functions of the
president's office.“ he said.

In addition. maintaining liaisons with
external agencies is one general
responsibility of the vice president for
administration‘s office. Clapp said. “A
good example of this is our relation with
the (‘ouncil on Public Higher Education."

At the September Trustees‘ meeting.
Singletary said Clapp's responsibilities
would be basically administrative. The
budget office and management in-

 

formational service will report to Clapp.
and he will act as a liaison between
Singletary and the UK Athletic
Association. he said.

(‘lapp‘s office is responsible for com—
piling and reporting the University budget
requests and plans. “The budget director
must put together and draw up a plan
which is meaningful and useful to people
inside and outside the University.“ (‘lapp
said.

This biennial budget request which will
be presented at the October Trustees'
meeting for approval. is an itemized
report of expected University ex-
penditures for the next two fiscal years,
(‘lapp said.

“From the “Biennial Budget Request“
an annual operating budget. which is a
detailed financial plan for a given year.
will be drawn up. The Annual Operating
Budget is based on assumptions made in
the biennial request.“

Clappalso said the University is working
on the financial five—year plan. “The five-
year plan is an attempt to look ahead for

several years. The University can then
anticipate things far enough in advance so
they can prepare for them." he said.

“For example." (‘lapp said. “if the
University wanted to increase its student
enrollment next year. it would be too late
Ioprovide additional funds. But. if in three
or four years we wanted to start planning
for increased enrollment. we have time to
build new facilities and bring in new
fa culty . “

(‘lapp also said the five‘year plan will be
utilized for drawing up subsequent bien-
nial budget requests.

Another major responsibility of (‘lapp‘s
office is the Management Information and
Analysis Unit. “This division collects
information we need to have to make
better decisions within the University.
After the information is collected. this unit
then analyzes it.

“This is a basic support function to the
president‘s office. cabinet, budget plan-
ning office and academic planning." he
said.

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In with the ‘ln Crowd'

Jazz musician. Ramsey Lewis performs keyboard magic Wed-
nesday night as his group and Return to Forever entertained an
audience of about 2,000 in Memorial Coliseum. Co-sponsored by
the Student Center Board and the Minority Student Affairs office.

the concert included the best of jazz.

  

 

 

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editorials

LettasandSpectrumartictosstuildbeadwessedtotheEfitwial Page Editw,
RouniuJournalism Building. Theystmldbetvped, - ‘ .
Lettusstlxudmtexceedmmand Spectruma'ticlesmm.

Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Bruce Winges
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

Jack Koeneman
Associate Editor

 

 

Smoking becomes
a taboo at UK

Everyone remembers sneaking
smokes in high school bathrooms
— flushing the cigarettes easily
flushed the rules.

The probability anyone will pay
any more attention to a newly
issued University request that
students “please not smoke while
classes or exams are in progress in
consideration for those who obiect
to smoking, especially students
with respiratory problems" than
they paid to high school principals
seems highly unlikely.

And since the University issued
the same request about two years
ago, it seems likely the admin
istration’s point is not to take
positive action, but to improve
appearances.

Although such a request is not
unreasonable — in fact should be a
matter of simple courtesy — since
it's been proven ineffective it
would seem to be to the advantage
of those truly interested in improv—
ing the situation to suggest a
solution more likely to be heeded.
Dividing up classrooms into
smoking and non-smoking sections
or asking smokers to sit by the
windows may be more practical
solutions.

What is somewhat distasteful
about the directive is one of the
reasons given for its formulation.
UK Ombudsman Dr. P.S. Sabhar—
wal, who iointly issued the request
with newly-appointed Vice Presi-
dent for Business Affairs Jack C.
Blanton, reportedly said both stu-
dents with respiratory problems
and parents complained about
smoking in classes and exams.

In loco parentis is apparently
alive and breathing at the Univer-
sity of Kentucky. We all know it
took a long time to establish coed
dorms (the first one was formed
only two years ago) because the
community disapproved. but sure-
ly by the time students get to
college they can smoke in peace.

But if treatment of a photograph
appearing in this week's Com-
muni-K is any indication, students
smoking is officially wrong. Uni‘
versity in-house publication fea-
tured a front-page photo of about 40
students, labeled ”UK Freshmen,”
sitting in a classroom. Before the
picture was published, however,
one lone cigarette in the hand of a
spunky co-ed was air-brushed out.
Either Communi-K publishers feel
women shouldn’t smoke in public
or smoking is a no-no at UK.

 

 

 

 

Restrictions

An open letter to bicyclists:

Yes, I know that your bike is a cheap,
fun form of transportation —— I have one
myself. But if you don't get a little more
sensible, we’ll both end up constrained
by a lot of restrictive regulations
caused by your behavior.

First, I find it very disturbing when
I'm pumping along, inches from the
curb, with a truck only one foot from
my left shoulder; and you come zipping
merrily on thr. wrong side of the road.
Are you going to go between me and the
truck or me and the curb? I would
gladly wreck onto the sidewalk to keep
you from splatting all over the truck
like an errant mosquito during a
summer drive, but I’m not about to ride
into a bunch of little kids to save your
neck. A bicycle moving at 30 mph can
easily kill a pedestrian. I also wish you
would remember that fact when you
ride down a crowded sidewalk. Go slow,
OK? '

Some of you are a lot faster up hills
than I am and that’s OK, I don’t mind
being passed. But please don’t do it
when I’m squeezed between arbus and
the curb.

Handbrakesdon’t work too well when
it's raining, and sometimes people in
cars will pull out in front of me when it’s
wet — it’s hard to get stopped in time,
but many drivers don't realize I have a
stopping problem in the rain. However,
you, fellow biker, should know better

Letters

 

since you’re busy coping with the same
problem yourself. Don’t you ever
think?

There's been a lot of talk recently
about restricting bicycles much more.
Please don’t destroy my freedom.

tarry Rice
A&S senior

Football crowds

Editor:

I really would like to read an editorial
about the way the public misuses our
trautiful campus when they invade it
curing home football games. It’s so
dsturbing to see broken beer bottles.
paper, Kentucky Fried Chicken boxes
did other garbage scattered through-
cut our home.

Interview the men who have to clean
the sports center and Commonwealth
Stadium parking lots. Also ask ques
tions of the men who have to replant
gass torn away by automobiles that
are parked in all imaginable places.
(By the way, can’t something be done to
leep those people out!) It’s really a
same that adults don't have more
respect for such a beautiful campus.

Whether it does any good or not, I’d
like to see your article get into the local

papers.

Gary Tucker
8&5 iunior

 

 

Subjective Zionists
brought failure

 

lotion

Roach pointed out in his article (Kernel,
Sept.II) that Zionists were for years a
small fanatical minority among Jews.
Their efforts to get the support of the
masses of Jews behind their scheme for a
national home in Palestine since the time
of Herzl has led them to take a
capitualationist attitude toward anti-
semitism. Kastner, of course, was a
conscious collaborator. More important
were subjective attitudes rooted in Zionist
ideology which led Zionist leaders to fail to
take the necessary actions to bring world
attention to the plight of the Jews. The
chief of the "rescue department of the
Jewish Agency” during the War made the
following statement to the Zionist
executive council in 1943: ”When they
asked me, couldn’t you give money out of
United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue
of Jews in Europe I said ’no' and I say
again, No! In my opinion one should resist
the wave which pushes the Zionist ac-
tivities to secondary importance.“

Speaking atthe Sixth Annual Conference
of the American Council for Judaism,
Morris L. Ernst revealed the extent to
which President Roosevelt's plan for the
resettlement of Jewish refugees in the US.
and elsewhere provoked opposition from
Zionists.Ernst said when he brought up the
plan he was ”thrown out of parlours of
friends of mine” who warned him:
"Morris this is treason-you’re un-
dermining the Zionist movement.”

Roach‘s article has been interpreted to
mean that all Zionist leaders were con-
scious Nazi collaborators. Kastner's trial
proves thata t leastone was and there may
have been others. However, the more
fundamental point is that Zionism is a
reactionary ideology which leads its ad-
vocates to pursue policies which do not
effectively fightantisemitism and are not
in the interest of the maiority of Jews.
Many outstanding Jews-Moshe Menuhin,
Albert Einstein, Rabbi Elmer Berger-- and
others have expressed opposition to
Zionism as a political movement simply
because it is against their own true in-
terests as Jews.

No doubt Baer, Germain, Gold and Well
would brand all of these distinguished
Jews as vituperators, antisemites and hate
mongers.

The assistance of the lrgun gang in
terrorizing 700,000 Arabs into leaving
Israel was gladly accepted by the Zionist
leadership in Palestine in 1947-48, as was
the money which Hecht solicited from
American underworld figures. Here again
we must have serious doubts about a
political movement that produces such
outstanding political leaders as Kastner
and Begin and accepts aid from Hecht and
his gangland associates.

It is said that Hecht's book was
"discredited by its reviewer." What
reviewers? Why? Have Goldman et.al.
ever read the review of the book by
Leonard Sussman. former executive
director of the American Council for
Judaism? Sussman agrees with Hecht’s
charges of complicity.

Mr. Goldman and his friends (Kernel,

lronion Student
Assoc

Sept. :9, "Vituperation deserve response)
like all of other Israeli partisans who have
written fail to deal with the real question
that has been raised-especially by Maher
Abu-Khafer (Kernel, Sept l8, SCB should
invite PLF speaker") in his article. That is
that Israeli crimes against the Palestinian
people and the struggle of the Palestinians
for a restoration of their national rights
and for a democratic secular state in
Palestine. Even if the conduct of all of the
Zionist leaders until I948 had been entirely
different this could in no way excuse
crimes which the Zionists have committed
against the Palestinians since that time.
Crimes which equal those perpetated by
the Nazis against the Jews. By focusing on
the question of what happened during
World War II people have simply ignored
the real issue. This year Israel will receive
over $2 billion from the U.S. in arms in-
cluding missiles capable of carrying
nuclear weapons (which Israel is believed
to possess). This figure is four times the
total amount of all aid to Israel from the
U.S. government between I948 and 1972.
Israel's present leaders will not hesitate to
use these arms against the rising national
liberation struggle of the Palestinians. On
Sept, 29 Moshe Dayan considered a hawk
even within Israeli political circles, .‘ Ill be
speaking at UK to gain support for his
countries military policy. That is the real
issue that we should all be dealing with!

How can the Palestinian people regain
their national and human rights? How can
peace be brought to the Middle East? The
program of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) comes to grips with
these problems. Unfortunately the
American Public. as well as Jewish people
everywhere, have been prevented from
learning what the Palestinian Revolution
hopes to acheive.

We believe that the solution of the PLO,
not more arms for Israel or Israeli-
Egyptian accords, is éhe only basis for a
just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
The program of the PLO and of its
member organizations has three ob-
iectives:

The first is the return of 2 million
Palestinians who are now refugees to their
homeland. Restitution must be made to the
refugees for the crimes that have been
perpetrated against them and their
political rights and property must be fully
restored.

The second objective is thatth: state of
Israel which is a colonial set £§tate and
a theocrataic state based on Zionist
ideology must be replaced with a
democratic secular state. This will not be a
Jewish, Moslem or Christian state. It will
be a state where all nationalities and
religions can live together side by side on
the basis of complete equality. People of
all religions or nationalities would be
allowed to migrate and settle in such a
state.

The third feature of the program is that
a democratic state in Palestine must be an
independent state which is not dominated,
maintained or used as a tool of either of the
two superpowers or any foreign govern-
ment.

 

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(Scott Payton has vanished. He has not been seen
since 3 am. the morning after the Ali~Frazier fight,
when he Was wandering down a dark backstreet in
Manila and, word has it, climbed into a black
Cadillac limousine with four very ominous-looking
underworld types who wanted to ”talk business“
with him. His friends are not unduly concerned-
such disappearances are common enough. Once, in
Las Vegas, he left a poker game to get a ”breath of
air" and didn’t return for 180 days. When he finally

resurfaced he was stumbling down the Strip,"
wearing a battered sombrero and mumbling
distractedly about "pliers and teeth, hundreds of 3 ;._
them"... though further questioning along these (W *-

lines proved fruitless...

Atany rate, his friends know how much he hates "

to. miss a deadline, and so were able to piece
together the following column from scribbled notes
found on his bathroom wall. The writing is not good,

but it may bear some relevance to whatever

dilemma Mr. Payton finds himself in.)

 

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Old Dostoevsky. l send you greetings here in the
foul meshed pits of Our karma. You know the
feeling. l just dropped $300 on those accursed
football games today.
_ Tell me, Fyodor, what would you do: double up on
the pro games tomorrow to try to get even? Bet on a
couple of sure things, real conservative bets, small
ones, and try to get even slowly? Or would you just
wash yoiir hands of the whole rotten business, pay
off your bookieand give up this awful compulsion
forever?

Shit. I know what you/d do. you old bastard. You
wouldn’t double up, you’d triple up. You had it bad,

 

Being even is the
gambler’s plateau

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double up. V

Sunday. Far gone in a gambler’s hell. Rimbaud
called it right: A Season in Hell. He meant a football
season, I’m sure. i get the spreads and place my
bets through an early morning hangover blear.
Christ! six hundred bucks on the line and this is
only Sunday. Depressed about the whole thing and
wanting to quit. indeed. The familiar blood sweat is
upon me.

But watch! Cincinnati cranks Cleveland, and l
start to feel theold adrenalin leaking back out of my
gizzard. Minnesota comes through. in rapid suc
cession I get the scores: i win five games! Hot as a
pistol and smokin’. I’m on a gambler’s plateau. l’m
even.

Early Monday. Today‘s the day. I can feel it in my
bones. l’m redhot. A positive stategy emerges. Put

‘ fortune and get out

 

a brand‘new color TV to follow the action on. Yes.
Good old Monday Night Football. (Monday Night
Football is a uniquely American invention,
dreamed up several years ago to serve one simple
surpose: to give the poor bastards who took a
beating over the weekend a chance to get even.
Make no mistake about it. A huge majority of pro
football addicts are also betting on the games-why

. the hell else would anyone sit up past midnight on a

lazy Monday night, staring at a bunch of lunatics
shoving each other all over a recycled cow pasture

’ when the score is already 3977? Right. To see if New

England can beat the spread. And to find out if steak
or hamburger will be on the menu this week. I don’t
even like profootballn lsure as shit wouldn’t watch it
if it weren‘t for the overwhelming monetary con
cern.)

Monday, later. i won! Sweet Jesus. Some

i‘. stranger is just going to hand me $500 tomorrow.

For doing nothing, really, except scream and moan
and sweat and hurl beer cans at the TV through the
three hours of the game. i love football. What a
sweil sport. What a great life. I’ll order my new TV
in the morning. Get serious about all of this. Study
the stats. Make reasonable bets. Snatch a quick
And retire to a shack in the
niOuntains and write a novel about gambling that
ends happily, unlike any of the others...Just a few
more fat weekends.

(The scribbling on the wall ends here Payton flew
to Manila where he fell in with a bad crowd and,
rumor has it on Press Row, made several ill
advised bets on the exact round Muhammad Ali
would knock Out Joe Frazier. And couldn’t pay off
when his editor at Collier’s refused to accept the
staggering sum as a legitimate business expense.

There’s a moral in here somewhere, but we’ll wait
for Mr. Payton’s return to go digging for it. Surely
he can explain it better than we can.)

 

Scott Payton graduated from UK in 1973. He is a
former contributor to Rolling Stone magazine and is
now working as a free lance boxing promoter in
Frankfort. His column, ”Ten Years On,” appears
weekly in the Kernel.

Dyodor. But I’m still in control of this messl’ll just

a huge bet down on the game tonight...\.Vin...And buy

 

 

 

 

 

. Naivete

fills bus
v defense

 

 

By Jon Murgino

 

Recently, there appeared an article
in the Kernel which was in defense of
the UK bus cutback (Kernel, ”A
defense of the UK bus cutback.” Sept.
22). I am truly amazed at the apparent
naivete and incredible simple-
mindedness ofthe writer. Mr. Leverenz
sets out to reveal ”the utter absurdity"
of the complaints of the Shawneetown
residents regarding the revised bus
route, and in doing so only displays his
incompetence at presenting and sup-
porting the facts.

His first point concerns the absence
of proper notification to the
Shawneetown community. The housing
brochure, distributed by the graduate
housing office in Cooperstown, clearly
states that bus service w0uld be the
same this year as last year. t can un-
derstand a last minute decision to
change the bus route after this
statement had been printed. However,
a supplemental note would have been in
order to correct this bit of misin-
formation. As a resident of
Shawneetown myself, I had no idea of
the change in the bus route until it
failed to appear along its old route at
the beginning of this semester.

Mr. Leverenz goes on to say that we
should have listened to rumors of a

route change that were circulating last
year. (i did not hear any rumors, per~
sonally.) As he puts it,”. .we all know
that rumors are based in fact.” it is
folly to believe rumors which are many
times either blown completely out of
proportion or entirely unfounded. lf
rumors are Leverenz’s only source of
information , then he has got to be one of
the most uninformed persons on
campus.

In his next point, Leverenz discusses
travel distance necessary to catch an
unsafe bus. He points out that
Shawneetown residents should not
mind the walk over to the stadium as it
is good exercise and ”a healthy en-
deavor.” l am all for exercise and
physical fitness and i think that a lot
more people could use it. But I do not
consider a walk of nearly a half mile in
a cold rain, and possibly a ten minute
wait for the bus in that rain, a healthy
endeavor.

Regarding the overcrowding on the
buses, it is stated by Leverenz that
since no one has been hurt, yet, we need
not worry about how safe a bus loaded
to three times its intended capacity is. I
do not even suppose that Mr. Leverenz
even considered the plausible oc-
curence of a truck or another bus ac-
cidently hitting one of these crowded
transports. If a fire or some other
catastrophe occurred, most of the
occupants in all likelihood would be
unable to doanything at all to help their

plight because of a lack of room to even
move about. Surely, we cannot afford to
wait until some horrible tragedy does
occur, before the situation is rectified.

Finally, in his third point, the
question of a link between
Shawneetown Drive and Road D is
raised. Mr. Leverenz is of the opinion
that it would be a waste of money to
tear up the existing walkway and to
construct sucha link. He also says that
the probable limited use of such a link
does not warrant its construction. My
question is, why was not a travel way
for cars put in instead of the 175 foot
walkway now there. Not only could the
buses use it, but i am sure that the
residents of Shawneetown would as
well. Surely Leverenz must have seen
the innumerable cars that were cutting
through the existing walkway before it
was blocked off by University officials
last May.

While I am sure that there were
sufficientreasons for the curtailment of
bus service through Shawneetown,
Leverenz has failed in his article to
present even one. i would be more than
happy to hear any substantial
arguments supporting the present
situation. As it stands now, though, I
feel that the Shawneetown community
is being given the short end of the stick
in this matter, and that this iniquity
should be righted immediately.

 

Jon Murgino is a forestry senior.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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I—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Thursday. October 2. I975

 

  

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at the track.

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Lt)l'lS\‘ll.l.l-I (AP) — An antibusing boycott received mixed
response in Jefferson County Wednesday but a large number of
students were absent from classes and many more walked out
during the day.

The businessshutdown was almost total in the area of the largest ‘

and most recent anti-busing demonstrations. while just a few
blocks away. stores were open and business was near normal.

Most service stations were closed in the area of southern Jef-l

t'erson County where demonstrators have been most persistent.‘

Some businessmen said they were forced to close by a group of '

antibusing protestors who roamed busy Preston Highway.’ The
group reportedly numbered between 75 and 100 persons and at one
location blocked a driveway in front ofa gasoline station forcing it
to close.

While merchants in the two shopping centers said their business '
had been off 20per centor more since busing began. a few reported

brisk trade in view of protests

”the close of gasoline stations prevented many buses from being“

fueled and other drivers simply did not report to work

Some students who did not go to classes took part in demon-
strations at sc hools and others rode around In cars.

They were honking horns. waving signs and shouting

epithets,” Assistant Principal AB. Sanderfur of Ballard High '

School said of those who came to his school in eastern Jefferson
(‘ounty where no serious incidents had been reported previously.

“There was no problem between our students." Sanderfur said
He said some 300 students. about half of them black and half of
them white. left classes to demonstrate.

Ford vetoes controversial.
tobacco price support bill

t).\l.\lf.\. .\'eh. (.\I’) President Ford announced here Wed-
nesday a pocket veto of a controversial tobacco price support bill
thatwould have raised tobacco price supports by about 10 per cent.

Ford returned the legislation to the House, where it originated.
without his signature. He did not submit a veto message as such.

In a letter to the House. however. Ford said his disapproval
stemmed from an estimate that the measure would add $157 million
to federal spending “at a time when we are attempting to reduce
Inflationary pressures in the economy by holding down the size of
federal deficits."

Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford‘s 38th veto was decided
before he left Washington Tuesday but was not .‘Innounced so aides
could prepare a message to the House expressing his disapproval.

In the message. Ford argued that the legislation would prove an
obstacle to successful competition by the I'.S. tobacco industry in
International III.II‘kets

“In the face of slackening world demand for t' S tobacco." he
wrote. "higher prices would make our product less competitive.
thus endangering the $1 billion net trade surplus we now enjoy in
this commodity.”

Youths try drugs at earlier age,
contribute to abuse problem

“ASIIINH'I‘UN (AP) Youths experimenting at an earlier age y. ’_
are contributing to an alarming upswing in the nation's drug abuse ’

problem. the government reported Wednesday.

Dr. Robert 1.. [)uPont. director of the National Institute on Drug
Abuse. told reporters he was quite alarmed about the growing use
of marijuana among young people.

The Institute released four new surveys costing $2.2 million that
Indicated:

Marijuana use among 12-18-year~olds almost doubled between
1972 and 1974.

Fifty-five per cent of the three million high school seniors in the
class of 1975 experimented with illegal drugs. and two—thirds
thought marijuana use should be legal or only a minor violation,

About 300.000 of the 19 million young men aged 20 to 30 years
used heroin within the last year. another one to two million used
other illegal drugs and seven million smoked marijuana.

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Official outlines qualifications
for jobs in State Department

By JAMIE LUCKE
Kernel Staff Writer

In the midst of the Cuban
Missile crisis an American
diplomat conferred with the king
of an exotic African nation. The
State Department had instructed
its Foreign Service officers
tFSO) to consolidate American
strength abmad.

Julius Walker. an FSO, said he
showed the king of Burundi a
map. pointing out how close Cuba
is to the American mainland.

“You do have a problem," the
king said, then he pledged his
support to the United States.

Walker used this incident to
illustrate situations an FSO
might encounter. He was here
Monday explaining Foreign
Service career opportunities to
students and professors.

About 200 new FSO‘s will be
hired by the State