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Manhattan Me line rcury 65th YEAR 20 Cents MANHATTAN, KANSAS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1975 42 Pages Five Sections Bud I "if', i i i if I I i i J1- A 1 H- r- 1 v. i- v. KU stuns OU The Just Mercury News Service NORMAN, the pandemonium of the Kansas locker room, Bud Moore attempted to place the feat of his Jayhawks in the proper context. Eternity seemed proper enough. "This isn't just the greatest victory of my career or of our players' careers," Moore said of KU's remarkable 23-3 knockout of Oklahoma on Owen Field.

"It's got to be the greatest victory in football." That kind of hyperbole takes in a few seasons, of course, and A.A. Stagg, Fielding Yost and Knute Rockne might have debated the point had they been able to cozy up to Moore, the rookie coach out from under Bear Bryant's wing who has guided the Hawks to bowl contention in his first season. But they viewed the game from a higher level, and anyway Moore might have been right. In 12-0 loss the a ren 't too By DAVE WRIGHT Mercury Sports Editor For the third time this season a nationally ranked team came into KSU Stadium Saturday, and for the third time this season, that nationally ranked left glad to escape with a victory after running head on into a ferocious Kansas State defense. This time the opponent was third-ranked Nebraska.

The Cornhuskers limped off with a 12-0 victory, but some of their pompous red pride was left splattered all over the KSU Stadium AstroTurf. And the thousands of red-shirted Big Red fans in the sellout crowd of 41,300 weren't crowing quite as loud as they usually do as they slinked off to the parking lot after the game. That's right. That's the same Nebraska team that had scored 93 points in its last two games and ranked third in the nation in scoring ask NO ROUT HERE Third-ranked Nebraska came to KSU Stadium with a 12-0 victory. Typical of the day's activities was this play where Saturday looking for a cakewalk, but Kansas State's aroused defense Wildcat safety Jim Lembrigbt (17) puts a ishoulder in Husker I-back smeared the Cornhuskers' faces in the cake ancj NU was glad to escape Monte Anthony (49).

(Mercury staff color photo by Fred Wrightman) Weather Communist government girds At midnight Saturday the unofficial downtown temperature reading was 1T Th 1 1 theradtagwas JSew Fortuguese upheaval seen LOCAL AREA Considerable C7 No. 235 by some airborne troops of planting the explosives that destroyed a leftist radio station Friday on the orders of the country's military ruling body. The full alert was the second emergency measure of its kind in two weeks. Two weeks ago, the Continental Security Command (CQP-CON), which ordered the alert, said there was danger ot counterrevolutionary action by right-wing forces. This time, COPCON gave no explanation for the alert.

The Communist party central committee said in a statement that "it is evident that a counterrevolutionary coup d'etat is in ad-See back page this section money would be available until late Friday afternoon. Kitchen explained that Manhattan originally had applied for the matching two-thirds federal grant in May, but barely missed a similar- time barrier and was excluded. However by Friday FAA officials apparently had located some extra cash, either unused or returned from the May applications, and Contacted City Manager Les Rieger, informing him of the availability. The 11 a.m. cutoff Saturday was See back page this section with Kansans from every walk of life, while Kren's camera captured slide and black-and-white presentations of the visual experience.

Also produced are 20-minute multimedia presentations, the first to beheld at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Manhattan Public Library, which will outline survey findings. The slide-lectures will be made available to civic, church and other groups. In January a 10-part radio series of edited reports from the interviews See back page this section or the defense dependence to Angola, its last African possession.

The independence of the immensely rich African country, and the fighting there between Soviet-backed and Western-oriented liberation movements for control, is tightly interwoven into the struggle for power here between leftists, moderate socialists and the right wing. The alert, which went into effect at 8 a.m., came only a few hours after unknown men in cars hurled army hand grenades at five Lisbon police stations, causing damage but no serious injuries. The stations house security units that are being accused It certainly ranked as the stunning upset of the year and most likely the decade when the all-powerful Sooners crumbled. The crusading KU defense forced mistake after mistake, then the Hawks turned the wishbone of Nolan Cromwell and Laverne Smith Frankenstein-like on its perfectors, and the result was the stunning end of Oklahoma's 28-game winning streak, 36-game undefeated string, and most probably the Sooners' conference and national championship aspirations as well. "I hardly know where I am," shouted Moore, a feeling which may have been shared, though for differing reasons, by OU's Barry Switzer, who until Saturday had never lost as a collegiate head coach.

Switzer's succinct comment was a plaintive "It ain't much fun," an assessment which any other coach Continued on page B4 Wildcats sha by coming into the game. Even though the battered and beaten Wildcat offense couldn't generate anything to put any points on the scoreboard they have now gone 18 straight quarters without a touchdownthe K-State partisans thoroughly enjoyed the way the gutty Cat, defenders turned back the vaunted Husker offensive machine time and time again. And if it's true that the sign of a good athlete is one who can get up for the "big ones," then K-State must have some fine athletes on defense. The No. 2, No.

3 and No. 4 teams in the nation Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have managed a total of only four touchdowns against the Cat defenders. The Huskers did roll up 372 yards worth of offense, but after a touchdown drive on the first possession of Continued on page Bl, The post office is as important to a small town as it is to a larger one and in some cases performs more of a variety of funtcions. For many it is the life line' that keeps the citizens in touch with the world and often brings goods impossible to get in other ways. although the perception of individual towns as to services performed "above and beyond the call of duty" varies by size, most agree the extra tasks increase as the size of the establishment and work load decrease.

In other words, a post office may be small, but it is never dull. As Director Arch Briggs of Consumer Services in the Management Sectional Center Post Office in Topeka noted, "It probably has to do with how heavy time is hanging for them." Several postal officials in small Continued on page A6 cloudiness with a slight chance of rain LISBON, Portugal (AP) today. High today in the upper 40s to Portugal's armed forces went on low 50s. Decreasing cloudiness nationwide alert Saturday following tonight with low in the upper 20s to an outbreak of terrorist attacks and low 30s. Partly cloudy Monday with accusation by the Communist high in the upper 40s to low 50s.

Winds party that "a counter-revolutionary northeasterly to northerly 10 to 25 coup d'etat is in advanced mph today. preparation." KANSAS-Considerable cloudiness a. Lisbon radio station reported a and cooler today with a chance of rain grenade was found on the desk of east and south. High 40s northwest to Adm. Antonio Rosa Coutinho, leftist the 50s southeast.

Decreasing member of the ruling Revolutionary cloudiness from the west today with Cowu but malfunctioned and did low 20s northwest to the mid 30s not explode, southeast. Partly cloudy Monday with The aiert( which confines troops to high upper 40s to low 50s. barracks for an indefinite period, was During the 36-hour period ending at expected to extend at least through 7 p.m. Saturday: Tuesday when Portugal grants in-Maximum temperature ..73 Minimum temperature 45 1 Lll Lit. -J 1 I I ....00 srber i airport planning grant Lef's Ziear if kity snares energies toward counterproductive as well as useful schemes.

It is called by itself a Kansan, but what does that define? Is it the badge of a conservative or liberal, Catholic or Protestant, farmer or industrialist, bigot or humanitarian? With the assistance of a $12,000 grant from the Kansas Committee for the Humanities, two representatives of the Manhattan University For Man have completed a five-month study which seeks answers to those puzzles. Jani Sherrard and George Kren will CHIN MUSIC St. George postmaster Jim Miller carries on a coft-versation with patron Charles Moorman, who is availing himself of some of the official services, but like others in small communities, Moorman looks to the postoff ice as a tie that binds small towns together. (Mercury staff photo) MA hM Municipal Airport was to be included in a federal appropriations bill You'll find awaiting President Ford's signature Iina Monday as a result of quick action by AO inaex az Federal AviaQon Administration UDituanes and City commission. Theatres Editorials The cash will be combined with TV Log A5 about $6,500 in budgeted municipal Sports B1-B8 funds to underwrite a $19,614 update NYT Puzzle C2 to an airport plan which will be Books conducted by a Salina consulting Comics D6 firm.

Women's News E2-E5 A resolution accepting the federal Classified Ads grant and committing the city's share UFM researchers did Small towns covet those post offices to it was okayed by commissioners at a. hurry-up special session Saturday morning, barely 90 minutes under the 11 a.m. deadline set by the FAA for responding to the offer. Brent Kitchen, airport manager, said the funds will be used to fund a contract with Bucher-Willis Consultants updating the city's master airport plan, which was last updated in 1969. "The FAA suggests updating every five years," Kitchen noted.

The race to beat the federal time deadline was a tight one because commissioners were not informed the present their findings through several media, including a series which begins today in The Mercury. "Is there really such a thing as the 'Kansas Ms. Sherrard asks in today's leadoff installment, sounding a theme which carries through the series. "If so, where does it come from, is it changing and why?" The five-parl series is only one of the fruits of the exercise during which Ms. Sherrard tape recorded and condensed more than 100 interviews What's a Kansan? Ask the man who is one By UTEVA POWERS Mercury Area Editor Suggest a game of "post office" in any of the towns in The Mercury reading area these days and you'll get a response, not a kiss.

That's because the future of many of the small-town postal centers currently represents one of the hottest topics of conversation and concernamong residents of the communities. Indicate some support for closing small post offices and you may have a fight on your hands. Especially if folks don't know the General Accounting Office hearings about closing some of the third and fourth-class offices are over and that no recommendations were made. "Looks like we're safe for awhile," State Rep. Denny Burgess of Wamego said.

By BILL FELBER Mercury News Editor From Ft. Scott to St. Francis, jt dominates the prairie landscape, the most important, if not most abundant, species of life in the state. From its labors are sprung the grain harvests; its intellect coordinates and carries out the construction of intricate villages, communities and metropolises which in scope dwarf the most marvelous of nature's creations. And like its brethern elsewhere, it channels its.