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IAi (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) £I)C tutus as (Tiltt To Subscribe Cell Circulation Ml -MOO New Editorial and Business Oftlees 421-1 JO0 For Classified Ads Call 221-5500 10c KANSAS CITY SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 1973-54 PAGES VOL 106 NO 91 MAIN EDITION 1 or Convention Center Clears by 68 Votes opposition in my opinion has fired its best shot at us in this past he said W0llj like t0 po nose-to-mg nose Wlt hem one more time iare assured The two assured i conditions are completion of The $30-million bond proposi-1 land acquisition in the convention for the convention center carried by 68 votes more than the required two-thirds majori tion center site and city fnanc for the convention center The third condition is an ord- inance under the state redevel-j There have been some indica-opment law giving the Central ions of financial support for a Redevelopment Corporation new campaign he said powers of condemnation ana tax abatements The first stage of the hotel 750 rooms and a 1000-car garage is to be finished in 1976 the completion date for the center An addition of 250 rooms is to be finished in 1980 In the bond election Tuesday three other propositions were approved and 10 lost Mayor will ask for supporters to contact me in the week between Christmas and New Wheeler said He thanked the council members for their support of the bond package of you can take credit for the 68 votes we won the convention center The council adopted a resolution urging the General Assem- Wheeler repeated yesterday his bly to set a vote of the people determination to submit the 10on amending the Missouri Con-to a new vote as soon as possi-j stitution to eliminate the two-ble thirds requirement hr general have heard a Croat indica-1 obligation bonds and the he said persons in sevenths requirement for reve-the community are anxious to ntie bonds run the 10 issues by the public certainly justifica-as quickly as tion and need for a change in The 10 propositions can carry lour state constitution" Richard if the city sustains the momen- Berkley the councilman who turn built up in the campaign i sponsored the resolution said he said using the campaign or- The actions of the voters indi- ty ing lot 4520 Kenwood Brandon son of Mr and Mrs Charles A Romine 4545 Kenwood used a piece of linoleum for a sled (Staff photo by David Winger) ''s Friends A fellow needs companionship even if it's only for a short slide down a hill on a homemade sled Brandon Romine 9 took his dogs Tiget and Marta along for an afternoon of sliding down the hill at the Rockhill Tennis Club park ganization that was created The cost would not be nearly as great he said since the campaign would not have to start from scratch cate this he said favored all 14 propositions but because of the restriction of the state constitution only four passed" he said Energy Bill Fails in House Huge Trade Zone Expansions Here ty according to a final but un certified count yesterday 23 persons changed their minds on the convention center it would have been a because of the two-thirds requirement Mayor Charles Wheeler Jr said in announcing the outcome at the city council meeting yesterday The total vote was 47699 with 31822 voting yes and 15877 voting no Jerome Jette administrative assistant to the mayor reported He and Carrol Kennett associate city counselor wen to the Board of Election Commissioners building when the voting machines were opened and the votes were copied The official vote is to be certified today but the figures are to be the same as those reported yesterday Jette said The announcement at the start of the council legislative session was greeted with cheers from about 30 city employees assembled to be honored for their parts in the United Way drive In the excitement of the occasion the figure first was given as a 25-vote margin and later was corrected to 68 The percentage 66714 was unchanged South of the river the proposition carried 26803 to 12632 Previously certified totals from Clay and Platte counties indicated it fell short of a two-thirds majority in those counties The council introduced a resolution yesterday authorizing the finance director to request bids on $30 million in convention center bonds The action has been approved by the Bond Advisory Trustees John Urie finance director has said he expects to sell the bonds Jan 15 A call for bids has been authorized by the Public Building Authority which consists of the mayor the council Urie: John Taylor city manager and Myron Calkins public works director The bid opening is Jan 30 A contract is expected to be awarded at the end of February and construction is to start in March The building authority was set up under an earlier plan to finance the center The plan was struck down in the courts and it is expected that the city council will take over the role Another step toward construction of the center took place yesterday when the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority acquired the site of the i Downtowner Motor Inn on the I north half of the center site cense at the eight Holiday Inns Broadway to Central 12th to House a 2-stage 11 per cent increase in benefits for the 30 million Social Security beneficiaries The bizarre energy vote capped a long day of parliamentary maneuvering by Republicans and legislators from oil-producing states intent on blocking a provision designed to recapture excess oil profits A filibuster by Sen Russell Long (D-La) and Sen Paul Fannin (R-Ariz) forced the Senate to drop the windfall profits provision and pass a stripped-down bill giving the President emergency energy powers up until April 1 The Senate compromise was rushed to the House where Democrats initially sought to preserve the windfall profits restrictions But two efforts to gain approval of a new compromise failed and reluctantly House handlers allowed the vote on the Senate version But members led by Edward Derwinski (R-Ill) successfully urged rejection of the Sen- BULLETIN Washington (AP) The House early today agreed to return later in the day apparently to make another attempt at passing energy legislation Washington (Saturday) The House earljuhis morning killed compromise emergency energy legislation that would have given President Richard Nixon a free hand to order gasoline rationing The House defeat of the stopgap measures already approved by the Senate left in doubt whether Congress would pass any energy legislation before going home for the winter holidays The final House vote on the energy bill was marked by the irony of a computer failure that caused a breakdown in the electronic voting machine Earlier yesterday both houses no one had had sufficient time to study the bill and that the President already has enough power to deal with the crisis Sponsors of the Social Security bill said they were confident Nixon would sign it although he reportedly was unhappy with some aspects of the legislation The bill would carry $23 billion in additional 1974 benefits The increase would take effect in two steps: 7 per cent in the March check due April 3 and 4 per cent starting with the June check payable July 3 Key senators decided on the energy compromise after a bipartisan group of senators from oil-producing states backed by a White House veto threat blocked action on the massive energy measure on which Congress has been working for a month While senators spoke to a nearly empty chamber the real work went on in the offices of Mike Mansfield Senate Democratic leader and of Vice-President Gerald Ford of fice is headquarters for White House officials The two groups worked on a measure that could clear both houses and give President Nixon authority to take further steps to meet fuel shortages during the month-long recess The compromise retains virtually every provision in the massive bill but puts an April 1 deadline on the measure meaning Congress would have to pass new legislation beyond that date when it returns Jan 21 The compromise was presented in the Senate after Mansfield said there was a charade in a debate and the role being played by White House representatives is a pretty sorry per-See ENERGY on Next Page INDEX Youth News 18A 19A Deaths 2B 2C Movies 4C 5C Want Ads 6C-14C Editorial Comment 16C Sports 1D-5D Financial News 6D 7D By Steve Weber Associate Financial Editor The first foreign trade zone site in Kansas was granted yesterday and in the same action additional space was given to one of the existing Missouri zones making it larger Jhan all zones in the US combined Notification of the approvals was given by John DaPonte executive secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board Washington Space amounting to 405000 square feet was granted Inland Storage Distribution Center (formerly Inland Underground Facilities) a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods Company Chicago The site is at 6500 Inland Drive Kansas City Kansas Great Midwest existing site at 7800 Birmingham Road was increased by 25 million square feet giving the facility a total of 2815000 square feet This is larger than the combined space of all US zones The Great Midwest site was officially dedicated Dec 6 Both it and the Inland site are in underground locations Adding the space of the Great Midwest and Inland sites together with that of Belger Cartage Company the other existing site the greater Kansas City Foreign-Trade Zone now has 347000 square feet under its authority Officially the ttwo Missouri sites are considered as an entity to be the 15th US zone while the Kansas site is the 17th zone DaPonte explained This will be the first time a single authority has operated zones in two separate states is just one part of the two efforts to improve the international investment cli-See TRADE on Page 7A approved and sent to the White ate compromise arguing that Upcoming Sports Schedule Kansan on Enemies List Tells of IRS Audit matter all the way to the US Supreme Court before I will pay Robert Brock one the of the largest stockholders in Brock was on the list 0562 Holiday Inns in the nation and a names made public yestlrday prominent Kansas Democrat by the Joint Committee on In- either Representative Roy or Governor Docking might be the Democratic candidate for the US Senate against Senator Dole in his attempt to get reelected in Brock said he had been asked if he did not believe there also might be some connection between the fact he was on the list and the fact that the IRS revoked the Class A nonprofit status of private clubs A subsidiary corporation of The National Football League play-offs leading up to the Super Bowl Jan 13 begin this weekend with two games today and two tomorrow The Tangerine Bowl tonight North-South Shrine All-Star classic Christmas Day and Kings basketball round out the upcoming sports schedule Sports on the air: SATURDAY National Conference semifinals Washington at Minnesota noon Channels 5 add 13 American Conference semifinals Pittsburgh at Oakland 3 pm channels 4 and 27 Miami of Ohio and the University of Florida in the Tangerine Bowl 7 pm Channel 41 Basketball Kansas City Kings vs Buffalo 7:30 KMBZ SUNDAY American Conference semifinals Cincinnati al Miami noon Channels 4 and 27 National Conference semifinals Los Angeles at Dallas 3 pm Channels 5 and 13 Basketball Kansas City Kings vs Golden State 730 pm KMBZ real estate development company in St Louis also showed up on the list Brock said last night he had never met President Nixon and that he did not think he was placed on the list by Nixon think I owe it all to one Kansan I know well Sen Bob Dole who was the Republican national chairman at the Brock said think I owe it all to Senator Dole because I was the campaign manager for Rep 14th Demolition on the south half is nearly complete The all-but-official tally on the convention center issue was greeted with pleasure by Lewis Kitchen president of the Central Redevelopment Corporation which plans to build a $50-million Hyatt-Regency Hotel north of the center site The group of Kansas City investors has a contingent contract with the Hyatt Corporation Kitchen said two of the three conditions for the Hyatt project after the IRS revoked their nonprofit status Under Kansas law Class A private club licenses are tied to the IRS exemption and the Class A designation permits members to buy shares in the club liquor pools rather than having to bring in their own bottles as they do in Class clubs have consistently told them that I did not think that in the instance of the private clubs that there was any connection between the two Brock said action was begun who wound up On the White House enemies list said last night he believes the Internal Revenue Service may have audited those on the list because of what happened to him in 1972 still have an appeal pending with the IRS because of an assessment made against me under what I considered to be somewhat spurious circumstances after an audit of my Brock said have told the IRS that I intend to take the ternal Revenue taxation a congressional investigative group The investigators said the list was turned over by John Dean III then White House counsel to IRS officials for audit as political enemies of President Richard Nixon Committee officials said the audits were never made Also on the list from Kansas was Dr Raymond Cerf 72 a retired University of Kansas professor One Missourian Jerome Berger president of a Bill Roy our Democratic mem- Topeka Inn Management Inc ber of Congress in this district operates in eight Holiday Inns and the campaign manager in in Kansas TUESDAY North-South All-Star game 7 pm Channel 41 the second district for Gov The Kansas Alcoholic Bever-1 some time ago Robert Docking 'age Control agency revoked is rather interesting how- have been reports that Brock's Class A private club li-1 See AMONG on Page 12A At Christmas time the deals with giving and receiving in Star Magazine Sunday Dec 23 Adv Cattle Mutilations Baffle Kansas Farmers Officials MB 1IH mm fjj By Richard Ralls A Member ot the Staff Concordia Kan A dead ear had been sliced or chewed to the skull A bull was found with a pound of meat removed from a front quarter Another had no tongue or nose and again was missing an ear Ordinarily such occurrences in cattle herds would be shrugged off as the work of predators cleansing the prairie of all but the skeleton of diseased animals But recent cattle deaths near here have fallen into an eerie pattern Of the many breeds feeding on the Kansas grasslands almost all the deaths have been black cows mostly Angus They have died within a few miles of US 81 in a dozen counties in north-central Kansas Even more bizarre many bore knife marks on the carcasses including the apparent butchering of the sex organs from both bulls and heifers What has appeared to be the mutilation of more than 40 cattle has dumbfounded investigating posses highway patrol troopers and Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents Although they and local farmers scatter blame among possible sex deviates hippies or members of a religious cult they shake their heads admitting: just know who is behind Disease and death are not uncommon among cattle in the winter months especially in calves But even farmers who have witnessed many winters have been shaken by the strange mutilia-tions in their pastures While sheriffs and farmers are baffled by the situation some state officials have blamed disease for many at the cattle deaths Subsequent feeding by predators has removed the sotter parts of the carcasses such as the nose and ear they said Yet they have not been able to account for the knife wounds which were identified in autopsies Claire Robinson president of the Kansas Livestock Association said the number of cattle deaths involved would not be ab- See DEATHS on Next Page i -fsaBy sp ajflK Puzzling Deaths as Deputy Sam Budreau watches him State Sen Ross Doyen Concordia examines an Angus heifer found Thursday morning on his farm It bore markings similar to those on cattle found dead recently (Staff photos by William Batson) Law officers and farmers have been stunned by deaths and apparent mutilations of more than 40 cattle in north-central Kansas Undersheriff McGuire of Cloud County points to an area along US 81 where the deaths have occurred I r-.