PUBLIC NOTICE 25¢ VOL, 1 NO. 3 LAWRENCE, KANSAS MARCH 1976 | THE RISE & FALT. OF FRASER Hart _\ &P.N. STAFFERS MISIT 23rd; LIVE TO TELL TALE! | tr 5 Bo THIS IS YOUR PAPER, ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC NOTICE ARE ENCOURAGED. wRiTE BOX 114 Marnie Argersinger Fred Pence Donald Binns Cindy Bodle Carl Mibeck EN SF Se: p \2%> io 7 SP KVR Me“ RES > ROY’ '& ee RAISING A =e LINK. SANITATION CHAPS RAP For the past several months there has been a steady war of words and nerves going on at City Hall. On one side, various public employee groups (including, initially, groups from the Fire, Police and Sanitation Departments of the City of Lawrence) have been steadily pushing for recognition of their groups as bargaining agents. This recognition was denied them by a vote of the City Commission. Even after this failure to gain recognition, however, the groups have continued to push --specifically, they asked the City Commission to investigate charges they made concerning what they felt were instances of mismanagement. As a result of this, the Commission formed an investigating comm - ittee. Two of the members of the committee were City Commissioners, Marnie Argersinger and Donald Binns, two of the members were employee group representatives, Dennis Smith (Sanitation) and Alvin Samuels (Fire) and two of the members were citizens, Homer "Butch" Henderson and Murial Paul. The investigation led to an extraordinary conclusion. Unable to agree about the type of report that should be written, Binns, Argersinger and Henderson submitted one report, while Smith Samuels and Paul were working on another. Intense controversy has resulted from this split. Suspicion and mistrust by each side for the other has beea the net effect. In this issue of Public Notice we interview two workers in the Sanitation Department, a truck driver and a loader, Dennis Smith and Phil Bohlander. They represent, of course, the employees’ side of the struggle --Public Notice would be happy to interview, or receive written response from, anyone who would like to provide rebuttal to what is said here. For our talk with these two men, turn to page 2. And while you are reading--try a little tenderness. They're as human as us. Write Public Notice Box 114 Or What’s Left of It The Hill THE TWENTY z EAST LAWRENCE is a good place v- THIRD STREET to live. Homes can be bought or rent- eae 5 EP LJ ed at reasonable prices. Neighbors PAGE 9 are friendly --they are black and white, SEE 1d and youn: oor and not so poor. Goods sod ce are within easy a aeete INSIDE} walking distance. Unfortunately, these TWO | qualities are not recognized by the rest of the community. East Lawrence will suffer for it..,.SEE PAGE 10. PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 2 “7 K U ——— Do You Remember ? % — Persons of color were not. yet admitted to all places of business on Massachusetts Street. Students want- ed football, then a family car. Ike was there, Nixon too and Joe McCarthy. Communists under every bed, in the woodwork. From a clearly objective viewpoint (the bedrock of Am- erican journalism) it’s all very cold andugly. The KU Jayhawk now sets directly in front of Strong Hall (go look at it ). Emblazoned upon its pedestal: |956 jumps out at the passer-by, set in granite, memorial- izing a mentality which this nation may never live down. It's all very funny now, ina way. Maybe a little for- eign--maybe not. The "70s, among other things, has become the decade of nostalgia. Things are get- ting so damned lousy that lots of folks are trying to relive those grand and glorious days of the ‘50s. (Ig- nore the bomb--it‘ll never happen.) In general our society has learned a lot in these 20 years, People are a lot smarter anyway. We know we can't trust anyone with lots of power or money (or both.) We know we must work with nature, harmon- izing with it, instead of fighting it. In 1956, the stone bird, the granite Jayhawk, bestow- ed its symbol upon the University. Recently whisked away from its obscure hiding place beneath the north wing of the Kansas Union, it was dropped as a leaden ball in the heart of the University community. The loud "thud" frighted us into complacency, apathy. Its utter coldness robbed our hearts of the natural | : | ase essay on the de-beautification of the K.U. Old Blake Hall 1895-1963 nt of the Physics building looks like a speckled chicken. The Regents should think twice before accepting uncon- ditionally the sorry looking structure with its chubby, freckled face, its one eye with a cross above it, and its monstrous hat." ---University Review, 1895 "The sandstone fro _—— ee ee ee ms ee ww eso ee we ce ees ee ee ee ee ee CAMPUS, KU, INDIAN SUMMER APPROACHING -- Buildings and Grounds workers came with orders, a sickle and a riding mower to the Prairie Acre. It took le ss than an hour to turn chaotic wildlife into a trim, neat acre of ordered landscape. While on Mount Oread, have you ever stopped to look upon the sole piece of virgin land owned by the Univer sity of Kansas in Lawrence ? Virgin land: unaltered, undisturbed, natural. It's a few steps south of Blake Hall; political science. It's surrounded by a little rock fence, defining a single acre of ground. warmth within. The modern University, complex giant, has turned upon the spirit of its creators. The founders of the great medieval universities would turn in their graves. Look around you at the neatly-trimmed rows of shrubs and the yards and yards of concrete. Stop and look at the pride of the University, the new buildings on campus; nothing less than monuments to architectural depravity. Stop to consider the role of the University and your concept of that role. Stop to consider the nature of the men and women who operate the institu- tion--often quite invisible. The KU campus looks worse today than at any time in the last 25 years. Its trees have died. Many of its beautiful native limestone buildings have been de- molished, The whole flavor of the school has changed ? campus, Ou Memoriam The University Review damned Old Blake as a monster in 1895. In 1963, after the ‘building had been standing idle for ll years, it was reduced to rubble, Any guesses about what the University Review- ers would say about New Blake, or Ne Fraser’ ? s Rae. Beneath a tree lies a plaque of dedication: THE PRAIRE ACRE Whereon is set this block of Oread limestone to mark and preserve Nature's sweet fashion of making her garden. 1932 KU's Praire Acre reeks of irony. It's the perfect sym- bol of man's flight from nature--towards a future shrouded by heartless sterility. Nature is not sterile. ..it is beauty in its purest, most unassuming form. Nature is virginal. It is self-regen- erating, self-sustaining. Now look again; my virgin acre, rock fence that guards her: She's been breached and broken. A little hole in the rock fence allows for the passage of a University lawn mower. In the spring and summer, you know when the land greens and grows, my little acre thirsts, she longs for new life. But now the freedom is robbed, betrayed by her very protectors. New values now, not mine, not yours--not human. The hillside grows wild...it's unsightly. Crack the whip-- alter nature--conquer it. dy Cared? - from an enrollment of 8,500 in 1956, to 14,500 in 1966, to over 20,000 in 1976. Bigger, bigger, bigger; but not better. Now the bird is there to remind us of the past, the *50s. Once again, students, by thar own admission, are more interested in their own lives, getting a job, a house and a two-car garage--a piece of the Ameri- can Dream. "Go to college, get ahead." The American Dream, buried in the ‘60s, has been dug up for the ‘70s. We can't afford it now. The crush of people and shortages of resources demand ‘that we band together and work for a common good. The University should be a force of change, positive change. But instead, the University of Kansas has become a reactionary institution, The same problems of centralized power that exist in big business and government--too big, too bureaucratic, hierarchical inaccessible and unresponsive --exist in the University of Kansas. It's a concentration of power and wealth up on Mount Oread. If you don't believe it, look around, Where are the people who became so smart, who learned to distrust power and wealth and embrace nature ? They have become part of power and big money which is raping nature today, Just look at the campus it- self. Look at the stone bird, the granite Jayhawk, dropped like a leadened ball into the heart of the University community. Who put it there anyway ? Maybe it's military madness, Maybeit's just plain insensitivity. Maybe its just 1976. Rrrrip!! Blake Hall, 1963 "Only the University has permanence. She will be here tomorrow and to- morrow and tomorrow, but we will be gone,"' --Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe, 1968 Chancellor Archie Dykes commands the Hill and he should lovingly preserve the beauty. I am ashamed of the University. I pity Dykes, for his heart is surely cold. He has no place next to nature, no right to guar- dianship of our Hill... I swear I would carry the stone to patch the little rock fence myself. ..saying "No more of this. We'll do much better now.’ But to what end, if not other voices be heard? Open your hearts and your minds to the world around you, near you. Guard it, Unaltered, undisguised--it might not be here much longer, Chancellor Archie Dykes' home overlooks an obscure spot called the Praire Acre. PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 3 HELPING TO BUILD A GREATER KU February 24, 1965--Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe an- nounced today that he had personally inspected Fraser Hall and that the building was beyond repair. The structure will be closed at the end of the spring seme- ster, he said, and will be razed as soon as possible after that. No one protested the plans to destroy old Fraser, known as the "Athens on the Kaw"', the buiding once deemed the finest and most progressive in all America" when built in 1872. .Fraser was a condemned building. Its found- ation rested on wooden supports, clay and shale; all of which had been badly shaken during the construction of new Blake Hall and the additions to Watson library. At least that was the argument given by state architect, James C. Canole and KU administrators. It was a sad day when Chancellor Wescoe announced the impending destruction. Old Fraser was a greatly ad- mired building with a rich history. The second chan- cellor of the University of Kansas, Gen. John Fraser, traveled the country for months studying the designs of buildings at other universities so that Lawrence could have the most beautiful structure in the land. The original three-story, 54-rcom building was built for $1€2,U00 and it housed all of the classes and offices of the university. Woodrow Wilson, Rutherford B. Hays, Ulysses S. Grant Gen. Sherman, Henry Ward Beecher and Franklin Roos- €velt are among the famous people to address students in Fraser's fine auditorium. Movies were shown there also and at a reasonable price even into the 1960's... 35 cents bought an admission ticket in 1963. Thousands lulled in the seats of the auditorium to enjoy the melod- ic sounds of Fraser's pipe organ. [he loft also had quite a reputation for being the campus necking por- lor and for some time it was closed during the evening hours to prevent such activity. March 29, 1965--Details and a picture of new Fraser appeared in the University Daily Kansan today. Respon- se from professors, students and citizens both in Law~- rence and across the country, insued quickly. March 30. 1965--"'Critics Castigate New Fraser Hall Design, '' read the headline in the Kansan. It was just the beginning of four months of controversy, protests, petitions, funeral processions, moratoriums and dis- cussion. People had accepted the destruction of old Fraser, but the proposed replacement was abhorable, In the end, Chancellor Wescoe, Vice Chancellor of Op- erations Kieth Lawton and the state architect, Canole, had the final say. New Fraser stands today in 1976 as a symbol cf irrational, administrative action in comp- lete disregard of the desires of the people. The story of concerned citizens’ efforts to stop the construction of a building that was aesthetically a disaster and a per- version of the history linked to the man for which the building was named, It's a classic example of progress in the name of progress; mindless, irreversible, bur- eaucratic, de cision making thoroughly removed from genuinely human values, The comments that follow appeared in the University Daily Kansan during the ef- forts to stop construction of new Fraser. They are tes- timonial to the destruction of beauty that has taken place in American society. ..destruction that continues today in Lawrence, Kansas. Robert Fuenther, associate professor of architecture, was just one of many in the School of Architecture to protest plans for new Fraser in 1965. "It would be naive to evaluate that thing,'he said. ‘it becomes a monument to bureaucracy. Take the roof off of it and it looks like one of those hotels in a Monopoly game," “4 HALL NEW FRASER: MONOPOLY ANYONE ? ? Architecture students at Kansas State University ex- pressed their sympathy by sending a handmade wreath of red leaves with a painted black ribbon in recogni - tion of new Fraser. About 70 architecture students demonstrated in front of Fraser and placed a black K-State wreath in front of the building. They asked for a delay in the construction and endorsement of a plan for architects to design a master campus build- ing plan. Chancellor Wescoe offered this comment at the demon stration, 'For people that presume to be part of a profession, I find this to be very unprofessional. "' oe cane 2 Eh! NEW FRASER: FROM THE LUNCH- BOX SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Other comments that appeared in the Kansan expressed dismay and anger with the plans for new Fraser: "My congratulations to R.T. Griest (one of the archi- tects) of Topeka! He has managed to combine in one building, all the worst features of modern architect- ure and has capped it with a red roof, Granted that KU students have been somewhat unruly lately, but I hardly think it necessary to provide future buildings with guard towers suitable for searchlights and machine guns. As Chancellor Wescoe stated, the new Fraser and Blake will provide for many visitors the physical image of the university. With this as an image, how can KU hope to be considered a great institution ? Unless, of course, those guard towers indicate planned transformation into a penal institution," The designs for new Fraser arrived in the East and brought this comment from Gerald S, Berstein in Philadelphia, the former curator of the Art Museum and instructor in Art History at KU. "In their mimicry, the towers only serve to insult the imaginative men who conceived and built original Fraser Hall. Those of you who do care and are yet unwilling to pressure for a more meaningful design will live with this structure. Worse, you will force your children to live with it. To construct the new Fraser as designed is to show not only our lack of understanding of our times, but also our lack of the initiative to care." To all of this, Chancellor Wescoe responded on May 5 Saying in essence that new Fraser must and would be built as planned. "We've planned it for two years and we cannot abandon the plans and hope to meet our space requirements. We can't go back to the beginning. "’ And so, we the survivors of the turbulent '69s remain and so does new Fraser, picturesquely Incated on the highest point on beautiful Mount Oread. aes Lasting Reminders SENATOR ROBERT DOLE VISITS --'I thought Drake University was the most beautiful campus, " Mary Elizabeth Dole, the new wife of Sen. Dole, exclaimed at a Kansas Day reception in the Kansas Union, "but you all have a very beautiful campus. This is my first visit'to your campus, but I hope to return in the spring when it’s in full bloom," ate ethan haan ii iota See ect WEST SIDE STORY --I ramble down the wooded slope north of the Aerospace Building on the West Campus of the University of Kansas, The soft, wet earth } clings to my tennis shoes, I dodge low hanging bran- | ches and thorny bushes. No tranquility to be found in 4 this wilderness. Iowa street traffic rumbles to the q east. Vroom! Vrooom! Two motorcycles kick clods { of mud as they are driven up and down the piles of : } dirt which will soon be used to bury the ever -growing } trash pile. ! I long for isolation. Ravens fly above my head. A | squirrel scampers through the underbrush, The illu- sion of nature evaporates, At the bottom of the slope { I gaze up at the university grave yard, Three kids are crawling up the side of the KU trash pile. Stag- { nate pools of water full of soggy cardboard boxes, em- { pty tape reels, broken bottles and paper prevent me from climbing up the mountain of debris. Here lie the discards from an institute of higher learning, I finally find a place to cross the only creek on the cam- pus. Somethings smells rotten, "Hey, c'mere!" A boy of about 10 kicks an empty box, once the home of an IBM Selectric typewriter, down toward the woods. In funny, awkward steps his two buddies trudge through the rubbish to see what their friend has discovered, I walk around the trash pile and up on the black earth- en grave which hides the university's garbage archive, But, I had come to see the buildings, Sac eat a a ta To the north, great piles of broken, yellowing lime- stone lie in naked disarray. In search of old Fraser, Blake and Robinson I walk around and around the stones, I didn't know these old stones personally. Others vis- it the buildings with personal recollections of the cam- pus thatis no more. ButI bring only memories of library photographs, yellowing newspaper clippings and a film of the fine old structures. Buildings and grounds workers come here to sort the stones. Fine arts students pick at the remains. i Grand buildings become rubble, become garbage, be- 4 come sculptures, I climb to the top of one of the limestone mounds. Old Fraser, maybe? To the east on Daisy Hill, Mc- Collum, Ellsworth, Templin, Hashinger and Lewis stand like computer cards on edge. Hundreds of square, key-punch windows stare blankly toward the west. Once a favorite spot to sit in Daisies and Dai- sies and Daisies to view the campus below, is now $ bustling with shiny automobiles, asphalt and park- } ing slots. ' oe tar Blake Hall was wrecked in the spring of 1963. Two years later Fraser Hall went. They did it with a huge steel ball and many people came to watch. But they say that the people loved old Fraser. They proteste¢ the plans for new Fraser and the historic event was recorded in area newspapers and on film, I guess tragedy attracts many. os CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 baat me = > ic expertly painted sign with red letters-- readable from half a block away--on the side of the yellow moving van said: HANK'S MOVING SERVI CE IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT BE FRANK CALL HANK DAY OR NIGHT 266-5250 The flags on top of Fraser Hall about two miles away to the west were flapping in the mild summer breeze as the Griver closed the rear doors and padlocked them. There was no traffic on the street or pedes- trians on the sidewalk. A shutter, on the front of one of the many deserted haises, banged against a wall, The grass on lawns, long uncared for, had turned brown. Occasionally a homeless cat or dog would wander, undisturbed, in and around the hous- es. The moving van had just been loaded with furn- iture, kitchen appliances, old newspapers, memor- abilia, cooking utensils, books, magazines, silver - ware, clothing and other miscellaneous household it- ems taken from the large white weather -beaten house. It was the last house to be vacated to make way for the new roadway. Behind the van, looking for a news story, was a reporter ina car with a TV station sign on the side. Behind the TV station car was a police car and two policemen sent there in case of trouble. Hank, the husky, heavily-tanned, partially bald, for- ty-year-old van owner and operator dusted his hands off by clapping them together with a sliding motion. He was tired as he slowly walked over and plopped down on the running board, and waited for the owner of the house, and old man, who had asked if he could have a ride to his new house. Hank glanced at his watch. The time was 2:45. It had taken him and his slender, dark-haired. bearded, 25-year -old helper, named Mark, five hours and forty-five minutes to load the contents of the house into the van. Mark sat down on the curb in front of Hank. Hank wiped his sweaty brow with a red, bargain-store handkerchief, lit a cigarette, looked at Mark and said, "Glad that's over. Sure wish I hadda beer now. Sonuvabitch, it's hot!" "Yeah, a beer would be great. Want me to go geta six-pack ?"’ Mark asked. "No, that's alright. We can pick some up on the way." Hank continued to sit on the running board and smoke. His cigarette burned to a stub. He took out another one and lit it with the butt before throwing it aside. He took a deep drag and silently looked at the ground with his elbows resting on his knees, as if he was in deep thought. Mark sat on the curb, with his eyes closed, catching his breath. Hank was barely winded. He was an "old hand” at moving furniture. Occasion- ally he would flick the ashes off of his cigarette. Hank looked up and began to inspect the recently em- ptied one-story house, It was old but solid. The peeling white paint gave it a weather-beaten look. The ends of some branches of an oak tree brushed against the eave on the south side. There were several shin- gles that needed replacing along with a few window and door screens. "Hell, it ain't bad," thought Hank. 'If it had a little work and money put into it, it would be a damn good house. Some of these newer ones don't last nearly as long." Hank looked at Mark and asked, "When the old man asked if he could ride with us, how long did he say he ‘d take ?"' "Ten or fifteen minutes, he said, "' Hank glanced at his watch and muttered, 'Sure hope the old geezer hurries up, we gotta go!"" He looked sideways at the police car and the TV station car, knowing why they were there. Then his voice took on an edge and became a little louder, "You know...it's shit like this that I hate. I don’t like it but I gotta make a living too. Goddamn politicians!" To emphasize his point, Hank kicked contemptously at a rock on the pavement. Mark nodded his head in a- greement, shrugged his shoulders and sighed, "Yeah, I know." (ea? ) = g Gxes FA ASS In the basement of the house the former owner, a wi- dower, was taking a last look at what had been his home. He was thin, old, grey-haired and slightly stooped. He stopped at a corner, leaned on his cane with his . left hand and adjusted his glasses. In front of him, lying on the floor, he saw one of his dead wife's dres- ses that he had overlooked. He got down on his knees and picked it up. The doctor had warned him not to bend over. He examined the dress carefully. His wife had worn it before she had become pregnant, in. 1927, with their third son. There were a few moth ‘holes in it. He poked a finger through one of them as he began to reminisce. A grin covered his face and "Well, I'll be darned! Don't that beat all! ...Sonuva- gun!...This is the one that Martha was wearing that Saturday morning when the kids were out playing." He looked toward the wall where the old couch had been and continued to talk to himself. "Yeah. She protested and slapped my hands at first and never would admit it but I always knew she enjoyed it. " The ole man decided to take the dress along. Hold- ing it in his right hand and using his cane with his left hand, he stood up. The effort winded him so he rested for a couple of minutes. Then he looked up at the floor joists. They were thick and heavy. He could see that they were as solid as they were the day he put them in --back in ‘23, He looked over at a crayoned tick- tack-toe game on the wall about four feet from the con- crete floor. "One of the grandkids must have done it, he thought. Martha never would've let it stay there if she'd seen it." "Wonder which one it was?'"'he muttered, 'Wish they were here now."' Tears came into his eyes and he walked over and began slowly climbing the stairs. To do this the old man had to put his cane and left foot on the step then raise his right foot to the same step and repeat the process until he got to the top of the stairs. Then he leaned against the side of the door frame for five minutes and rested before walking into his former kitchen. He looked at the sink and remem- bered the time that Sharon, his youngest daughter, had chased Billy through the kitchen and knocked the pan of chocolate pudding off the drain board, "Damn was Martha mad, ‘'he said to himself as he re- membered how she had paddled and sent them to bed without any supper. 'Damn was she mad," he added. A square pile of dust lay where the refrigerator that he had bought in 1956 had been. Martha never would’ ve allowed that, he thought. She was the damndest cleaner I ever saw, and the prettiest, he remember- ed affectionately. The old man walked through the open doorway into the dining room. He took his package of chewing tobacco out of his pocket and put some into his mouth. The door knob was still missing. It had fallen off about a year after Martha died sixteen years before and he had never felt the need to replace it. Ina large circle were scratches made by seven chairs. He rubbed the tip of his cane across the scratches. Then he walked into his two sons former bedroom. Over by the window was where their bunkbed had been, He smiled as he remembered all the times that he had had to break up fights at night and then come back in ten minutes and tell them to stop laughing and go to sleep. The old man relieved himself in the bathroom between his two sons‘ and three daughters’ bedrooms. He didn't flush the commode because the water had been turned off the day before. ''What the hell does it mat- tex now, “he thought. 'Tommorow they'll be tearing it down!’ But his mood soon changed and he chuckl- ed as he remembered the many times that his sons had become impatient and angry because his daught- ers had spent toc much time primping. Next he walked into Martha's and his bedroom. In the corner was where the baby crib iad been. All five of his children had slept in it. At the end of the crib, by the other wall, had been their double bed which Martha had made up every day unless she had been sick, The old man walked on into the living room~. the memories of their late-night laughter, talks and lovemaking, too painful to continue recall- ing. In the living room between where the rocking chair had been and the wall was where Jimmy had bled on the PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 4 carpet when he cut his foot. Martha had put iodine on the cut and bandaged it and never once complained as she washed the carpet. The old man looked over where their living room couch had sat near the window and remembered all the times after he had retired that Martha had fussed at him for "having just one more glass of wine." He saia aloud, "If only she was here now, I'd let her do all the fussing she wanted," Tears came again to his eyes. He looked at the front door and his eyes lit up. I won- der if it’s still there, he thought. After he had built the house, Martha had put a new 1923 penny on top of the door jamb. Every time she had dusted--which was often--she had replaced it. He locked around for something to climb on to see if it was still there. There wasn't anything suitable in the bare room. Leaning against the wall was a broom that the movers had overlooked, The old man put Martha's dress on the front door knob and raked the broom straws across the top of the door jamb. A penny clattered to the floor. He got down on his knees, arthritis paining him, picked up the penny and examined it before putting it in his pocket. Using his cane with his left hand, he stood up and rested while he looked around the room. Looking at the bare walls caused him to become an- ery. "Goddamnit, "he thought, 'I paid taxes on this place for fifty years. These young whippersnappers that are kicking me out now weren't even born when I built this house. There weren't any paved streets, sewers or electricity then. Whenever they raised the taxes, I always paid. Never once didI complain," The old man’s face became flushed and his eyes bla- zed. He began to talk to himself again. "Always was loyal to my country and did my duty. Goddamnit, I slogged through the mud in France and went without food and water for three days in the Argonne Forest, And this is what I get in return. '' He waved his arm with a sweeping motion. He needed to spit out some tobacco juice, 'Theyil be tearing it down tomorrow, ''he thought. So he spat on the floor and kicked the screen door open and walked out on the porch, He Saw the moving van, the police car, the TV station car and the state-owned car. About a block away was a bulldozer that would tear his home down the next day to make way for the bypass. The old man began to gasp for breath and there was a pounding in his chest. Quickly he took a glycerin pill, After he had calmed down, he walked down the stairs, still carrying Martha's dress, The old man looked at the police car and snorted, "Wonder if they thought I'd give 'em any trouble," as he chuckled softly to himself. At the bottom of the stairs, the your.~ TV reporter was waiting on the sidewalk with a tape recorder slung over his shoulder and a microphone in his hand, "Excuse me, sir, ''he said to the old man. "You are the last person to leave this neighborhood, Would you like to say anything?" he asked thrusting the mi- crophone in the old man‘s face, The old man looked the reporter in the eye, became angry again and began to express himself, but stop- ped. Instead he reached into his pocket, took out the old penny, grasped the reporter's hand, pressed the coin into his palm and shuffled=- without looking back at the astonished reporter --over to where Mark and Hank were waiting beside the van. They helped him into the cab, got in themselves, and drove away. 1923 Penny by Hobert Parker, Jr. eee eal PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 5 K Oe ee RAISING TALKING WITH THOSE 1%¢###1! 2'1**! UNION GUYS AN INTERVIEW WITH D. SMITH AND PHIL BOHLANDER, SANITATION WORKERS INTERVIEWER: When did the divisions between you, Alvin and Murial on one side, and Don, Marnie and Butch on the other, begin ? Was the division there from the beginning, or what ? D. SMITH: It was probably about half-way from my point of view. «. because a lot of heavy allegations were made early in the investigation... "Purdy (sanitation superinten- dent) has to go, he's gonna have to be fired; Arnold Wiley (street department superintendent) he's just a com- plete failure, you know; if we can't get it straightened out, Buford Watson (city manager) will have to be fired, " But, then when we started getting down to the pcint where we were gonna have to start writing a report and making some heavy recommendations then they started Saying, "Uh, well, maybe we can put them on a six- month probation or maybe we can give Watson a cer- tain length of time to get these things changed, "' I: Was that the initial disagreement ? D: Yeah, the whole way it was handled. Because their whole theory was that we weren't there to investigate man- agement, we were there as a grievance committee. The investigation started in November and last May everybody in the city and the Commissioners and the Mayor and Buford knew we had safety problems. We started talking about safety in May--they should have started making corrections in June. They didn't have to have a special investigating committee to report that we need a safety program I: So why didn't they investigate management ? D: Because they were scared. They're afraid to go against Buford, you know. . . I don't think they have any power. I: The commissioners ? D: Yeah, I don't think they have the power everybody puts onthem. Buford runs the whole show. BOHLANDER: The reason we wanted an investiga - tion of management was to show the City and Com- mission that all the things we had been Saying since May were true. Those twenty-four charges of mismanagement A STINK! were charges that had been made continually since May and all we wanted to say was, "Al- right, you're not going to give us recognition, but at least check out the stuff we've been say- ing and find out if what we've been saying is true. '' And what I think happened was that some of the people on the Commission turned it into a grievance hearing and that wasn't our intent. D: Yeah, but how can you have a manager on a committee that is investigating management ? That's like having Nixon on the Watergate thing, on a board that decides if he gets fired or not. I: So do you think that the heart of the problem with the investigating committee was the fact that there were two city commissioners on it? B: No, I don't think that's true. I: Do you think Don Binns yells too much? D: I don't think that’s true. D: I think Don is a ball. He bounces both ways. I think that deep down in his heart, since he's worked hard all of his life, he sees that work- ing men have to have rights. But at the same time I don't know what his plans are for his life, his political ambitions, or what his goals are. But how can you see the needs of somebody and then turn around and cut their throats, you know? We never asked for any money in eight months, We finally got into a money fight because of the changeover from the in- centive system, I: What did you think of the presence of the Rever - end on the side of the Commissioners ? D: He shocked me, And I told him that to his face. I said, "Butch, you really disappoint me, '' But you know, I figure Butch is in the power: structure too. You know, I kind of base my life on the truth, Everybody tells little white lies but when it comes down to dealing with people's lives and their futures I just can‘t lie about it. I’m not saying they lied, because I don't think they did lie, but I think when . it comes down to who do you fight for. . . do you fight for thirty people or do you fight for one person you have to make a decision. And who's it left up to? I can't fire Don Purdy, Murial Paul can‘t fire Don Purdy, Reverend Henderson can't fire Don Purdy. Everything lies with the Commissioners. And then you go back to the same old thing, and that's the power structure. And that's why the two reports had to be, because they didn"t want to bring the dirt out, because they were scared. B: I think when Murial read her report, the feeling I got from Binns, Argersinger and Henderson wasn't that what Murial said was not true but that it appeared to them to be vindictive. I find it interest- ing that nobody yet has come out and said "We want to publicly discredit this report."' They've all said : "We think we're in agreement we just think the second report goes into more detail than is good for the public." B: Yeah, I think that on the Commission there seems to be a tendency...well, not just on the Commission but among Lawrence leaders to not want anybody to rock the boat. And I think they feel we're rocking the boat, AndI think sometimes you have to. I don't think the status quo is working in this case. D: I think the Commissioners are all honest people, basically. ButI think when it comes down to making a decision, an individual de- cision, they just can't do it. They've got to always relate back to the power structure, the hidden structure, in Lawrence. The City Commissioners don't run Lawrence. The people don't even run Lawrence. So you get what they want to give you, even if you're right. I: Let me get back to the investigating comm- D: f oe ittee. How could you as a group of six people, : If you remember when the investigating all having heard the same witnesses, all having committee was formed, at the commission meeting the same input, essentially, disagree so vio- Carl Mibeck stood up and said, "Dammit I'm tired lently at the end that there had to be two different ae these smartass remarks. I want facts, I want reports? At the last City Commission meeting raat pete REE: And that's what we set our was it Watson who hinted that the board was Pere e tee - That's what he Wanted: speciiies, and stacked in favor of labor ? at's what we gave them. That's why I didn't sign : the first report because it didn't make specific rec- al MON.-FRI. : 8:30-5:00 SATURDAYS 10:00-1:00 VeOPPPeeEPEerePeleeee| J HOOD "2, BOOKS PAPER BACKS Dé oricinar PRice] also HARDCIVER pRnTs L MAGAZINES RECORDS. IIAP IAI AID LIS DOLD LF SILI AMPSS SF LIP LI LIP IP LP ALAFIA MD ADP SSIS DP LIMP, Fs BOX 114 2 ]ues— Thurs { 6 \Oam- pm es i Friday << Saturday Closed on Monday 1Oam-6e™ HMMS 41-4644 AEDDAUAAADESADEASOUREEEEAUAUTAERCOUEUEUUASCED EEE UAE EEE CUTE LPL ME SOLE” MEI LI AF DPMP MI PLUTO LILES LIAL ILE EFM A eett? > YOU THINK? What do you think ? | That's a question that isn't asked of anyone | much anymore. Our - | society has become so = complex, so jumbled with numbers, letters, wires, plans and dia- grams, that almost everyone has given up their right to make de- cisions about things affecting their lives. a ~a be eg WHAT DO |f} == Lh PUBLIC NOTICE wants to turn things around a bit. We feel that the so-called experts and professionals are run- ning this town into the ground, While they are good people themselves, the institutions they in- habit serve only to iso-= late them from the hearts and minds of the general public. End your silence. We live in a big empty house. 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fe ee ae NG A You can see them if you stand where the door swings When you have finished, walking out the door pick your iti PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 9 problems or resources and thus most of the "progres- ive" solutions to big-city economic growth and planning problems simply do not apply here. Building super highways through neighborhoods does nothing to re- lieve the traffic problems in other parts of the city-- it only aggravates them. Simply allocating KX number of dollars for highway development through East Law- rence or promoting franchised taco joints throughout the the town still leaves houses in need of upgrading, peo- ple in need of more efficient social services, and the city in need of a responsive government. It's coping with these problems in a human way that represents the real challenge. McDonaldland is not a place where economics and plan- ning took place as though people mattered, ~—Lawrence, with just a little effort, can be. West 23rd street need not happen again and the pattern of haphazard growth can be averted if Mayor Clark and his friends can rid themselves of tneir desire to compete with Kansas City and Topeka. You, we, I deserve a break today from McDonalds! Petcare We cant atford all this nolse/ R ide your pinto pony to Texas Tom's Restaurant on West 23rd street. Taco John's is just east of it. You can't miss Taco John's because it is painted vi- olently in red and orange. Running down Texas Tom's is like running down heroin , it's too obvious to either be fun or enlightening. Texas Tom's was flown to Lawrence in an airplane big enough to swallow a whale. It was dropped from the plane and it parachuted to the earth where it landed on an asphalt slab. This is its present location. Outside of Texas Tom's, cattle are unloaded by the hundreds each day. They are slaughtered in the rear parking lot. Texas Tom's chefs can be seen at 9 o'clock every morning, standing in the lot holding clip- boards, waiting for another shipment of the delicious Colby Cattle whose flesh is the most delicate in the world because their feet.are tied together from their birth, and they are never moved until they are taken to the slaughter. And so the burgers in Texas Tom's are the very best anywhere, thick sizzling patties of the tenderest ground chuck, smeared with catsup and mustard, draped with onions and pickles and tomatoes, served ina small damp white cloth on a marble top counter. Heft that hambur- ger, where will you find another one like it in Lawrence? The rumor is that next year they will be expanding, They plan to carry a modest supply of stereo equipment then, and it is possible that there will be a new t-shirt shop specializing in iron-on goods. The superb landscaping outside, and the lack of harsh colors within, the tall pines arching to the heavens and the soft carpets, the Texas Tom Experience is one that Lawrence needed. Let those who say the restaurant has no decor, ne scheme or class, look again. The waitresses wearing pink tights and short white dresses serve you with a crisp orderliness. Some of them are wearing the cow- boy hats, when they can afford them. Plus the ones / who can't afford them can dance naked in the kitchen. open. They want to let you see the inside workings of this masteffully, engineered food service unit. A real bonus was the King Oliver, New Orleans West End Jazz Band playing quiet music when we walked in, The quiet walk over thick carpet put us at ease, and the shutters held in the artificial light overhead. teeth with one of the minted toothpicks, Make your pony gallop back down 23rd. Don't think about the cost, think about the pleasure. any wo te ota a oayq —s!{ ites HK | > _ Aa secs ie - racy in this State and city. We are writing this letter as a plea for help from our federal (State) government, and any others cap- able of providing assistance. We are a group of res- idents of Lawrence, Kansas in opposition to the pro- posed construction of a roadway called the 'Haskell Loop, "' which is planned for East Lawrence (see en- closed maps), through the use of federal "urban hy- ay funds, '' Housing and Community Development ct funds, and Kansas Department of Transportation nds. re e are requesting federal assistance now, feeling at our means to stop construction on a local level e nearly exhausted. We feel that guidelines de- igned to inject the element of human concern into ese spending programs are being ignored. Instead using Community Development funds to rejuvinate low-moderate income neighborhood, these funds re being used to threaten the viability of the East awrence neighborhood, and in the process, to up- oot ethnic minorities. oe & = 2 2p oO Fh ae paneenevecevceconcecnoorseeccsonenenedetiescccsconceanesunnecenseeesceeucanUaDSGOSODOGSEUOSOOESOEESUSODUSOOEOUDEOOE SUUCOSODODONONSSOOSSODeSEOSCESSODDOE DOCS DOGSOOED Business and industry are the principal backers of 2 the $2.5 million project. The road will pass near a medium ~heavy industrial use area boardering the # neighborhood. The roadway is also intended to = boost prospects in the near-by central business dis- f trict, by speeding traffic from the far east side ¢ downtown. = Half of the $1,690,000 CDA money slated for Law- rence over the next three years will be used for ac- quisition of property along the Loop right-of-way. January 29, 1976 Citizens Opposed to the Haskell Loop 1112 New Jersey Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Dear Friends: Thank you again for your interest. Thank you for furnishing me with copies of your letter and attachments to Secretary Hills. I appreciate your efforts to apprise me of local matters which may involve federal agencies and the expenditure of federal funds. Most sincerely, Larry Winn, Jr. Member of Congress Green Gables HASKELL LOOP We're not beating a dead horse on this one. Twenty-seven houses will be removed for construction while twenty-six others will be isolated in an indus- trial zone. The only neighborhood park, recreation facilities and neighborhood center will either be re- moved or isolated in the same industrial zone. Other homes in the area will be removed m the future, along the 900 block of New Jersey Street, for a ‘re- placement’ park for the area. Eventually the neigh- borhood school, New York Elementary School, will be forced to close as attendance drops due to losses in area housing stock. The school closing will in turn make the neighborhood even less attractive to the young families so necessary to the preservation of any neighborhood, Opposition comes primarily from neighborhood res- idents, although few are vocal. In July, 1975, how- ever, 240 persons, all within three blocks of the right-of-way signed petitions opposing construction of the roadway. (The entire population of the survey area is under 1000). Proponents claim the Loop will provide a buffer sep- arating industry to the north and east from residenc- es to the south and west. They claim traffic will be removed from neighborhood streets. Opponents feel that construction of a high-volume traffic, at- tractor type roadway, carrying trucks and trailers, is the worst kind of ‘buffer, ‘ that neighborhood traf- ic is not a problem, and will not be unless the road is built, and that these factors will combine to ul- timately destroy the neighborhood, Government ‘Help’ Congressman Winn has failed completely in his role as a representative of the people. The letter above , sent to his Wash= ington office in Decem-= ber did not prompt a re- ply for almost two mon- ths, It is also fairly ob- vious that the citizens group letter was not even read. So long as certain basic guidelines necessary to qualify for federal funds are met, primary authority for selecting the actual projects on which funds will be expended is in the hands of state and local government offic-= ials. However, I de appreciate your kindness in furnishing me with infor- mation on these matters as well as your views on them. The PUBLIC NOTICE is worried. The people are not being heard. Most are afraid to speak out, or too apathetic to do so. Others are aware of the futility. Is it any wonder ? The Loop will have a total impact upon the neighborhood, a with by the City. Below is a reprint of a letter recently received by the PUBLIC NOTICE from opposition to the road- way in East Lawrence. Frustrated with efforts to stop construction, and bewildered by the apparent unwillingness of City Commissioners to consider the problems raised, the Citizens Opposed to the Haskell Loop sent away packets of materials, with the letter below as a cover letter, to all our representatives in Washington, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, major fund source for the Haskell Loop project. federal level must certainly leave these people at a loss, completely abandoned in their appeals for justice for the East side of town. Thus the letter below is reprinted, along with a reply from Rep. Larry Winn, Republican from this, the Fifth congressional district of Kansas, as a reminder to those who still might have some hope for represetative democ- Their lack of response, even at the —PUBLIC NOTICE | NT subject not dealt Destruction cannot be measured entirely in dollars and cents. Along with the physical destruction, the displacement of those in the path of the road will serve to destroy the sense of community in a corner of East Lawrence. In the 800 and 900 blocks of Pennsylvania, and the 700, 800 and 900 blocks of New Jersey, many Mexican-American families live ina traditional community setting. The road will cut through this area, scattering many and dividing the remaining residents on either side of the Loop, buiit on a 100 foot-wide right-of-way, screened by chain- link fences. We feel that a clear injustice is occurring. Federal and State funds designed to rebuild and rehabilitate are being used to destroy. We have appealed to City officials, and have received no redress of our griev- ances, Environmental Impact Statements are due soon, yet they are being managed by the same out-of-town con- sulting firm that designed the road, presenting some conflict of interest. It is therefore imparative that an investigation begin as soon as possible. Enclosed are articals from three local newspapers that could be helpful in piecing together the situation. Copies of the 240 petition signatures opposing con- struction of the road are available upon request. Sincerely, Citizens Opposed to the Haskell Loop | \6th eb i Se ee 3 Se eel iat axe al ce As = i | | eee ! ge ee ae ees ae ee $ Yeon Ee a et et 8 Sit : N am 7 ; z aN 21 St Slee homt sey as 1 2 eV WOO, te ies cS 2 Soin eStats et ie | “ < at oa sl ee sige jock gave ap aL : ; pt) eee er isaiee 1s hy | 1 jer | | | “fa fio eer | 1% oS 3 eee oes See ee ¥ ae | je a zy g } | } | 3m) st] dl ue eee ee ae | | ; EB | | |conneso oe denabes Easels, ROR ae es Be Al ese | eae see Tse eid ged | La ST api Se 2 = . (eal eS ] feds L The mayor responds to neighborhood opposition to the Haskell Loop. BARKLEY WALKS BACK - IT MAY NOT SEEM WISE TO PUT IN A ROAD THAT GOES NOWHERE... a fe : 3 3 FH 3 H Hy fe is : z : H : H 3 : : 3 : z : : : is : is H f H 3 i i H i fe 3 3 : : : z : 3 s 5 : : H : : 3 i: i: H 3 is is FH is is i H H H BUT IT'LL CREATE JOBS!! .o AND AFTER WE WIPE OUT 27 HOMES AND BLIGHT A WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD... eee neneae sores nsseoeseeesssecen else 100 pose pseu se eoonecoone ne ooeessoEE Se ceecoscoosees: THINK OF ALL THE FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY WE CAN GET TO "RENEW" THE AREA, PAGE 10 POM error iii iio ee L Perspective IL. New Years and we're out here on the corner of llth and Delaware, down here where the Loop turns East. PUBLIC NOTICE is on the watch for possible jam-ups as East Lawrence heads for the City Limits, in a lemon-colored cadillac. i votes, he had the consolation of the mayorality. He f is a fierce watchdog for the town in a trying moment. — Who: would have thought Lawrence would get 200 , 000 i residents this quickly ? i East Lawrence and Old West alike are rolling towards ? Kansas City on wheels of fire, and they are traveling : the multi-million dollar Haskell Loop route, a They finally built the road they call the Loop in 1989. S Within a few years Lawrence was the bean capital of the U.S.A. New beaneries dot the floodplain, and it takes a ton of trucks to radiate out the rich harvest. East Lawrence itself is now a bullish industrial cap- ital. The two new IBM factories guarantee a quiet future for the whole town, industry -wise. That's what brought us here to llth and Delaware to- nite, all of this and more. So we're standing around a newpaper fire in an ash barrel, munching weenies, keeping warm. We've been here since 2 and we in- tend to stay here all night. Traffic peaked at noon. A spectacular wreck involv- ing a candy-apple red plymouth and a truck full of swinging meat hardly stopped the rush of traffic downtown, coming in from boarder out-lying areas, headed for Ray Audio Appliancences and White Goods. Late, all the afternoon, they streamed past us and Ee on West to the suburbs, some north across the double a4 gleaming Kaw spans. Lawrence is finally, after : years of struggle, knocking on Topeka‘s door. But now itis night. The last f La wrence. Fienenenessusecsoos vos scoss sao soonevcoovessvevoa ses escecooo oo esenes HOW DO PEOPLE REACT? alumna ladian *Turquoise Jewelry *Chokers *Silver Supplies *Rings *Turquoise Cabs *Bracelets 19 West 9th 842-3712 10-5:30 Daily Til 8 Thursdays : For The Finest in Authentic Handcrafted Indian a Ww sussnccscocoecscscucneccocscsossescasavaconnessense se veneeeeeeee Dees suDOeeGSUGOESEOEDsOSOOSDEDESOOSODEDU DDS FUDOEOTSDOSOSCDESODUDSDOODTOSUEOODIDNT OU EDOSDESUOUSDOSODOOUDUDESSUOSDEOUSLSSGUNSOGSSgTONSUDEGDOESEDESSGEOTSOSEUDUGDOOSESECOEDUOS Underneath the skyline survivors, Harry Puckett, George Elston, Tom Patchen, Ed Down, Mark "The Clown" Kaplan, and others are standing around, smiling. 59 % 2S 2 SR XO SOO SOS > SOS SY ‘o Harry Puckett, long time lover of life says, "Well, the road took everything. I built these houses with my own hand, and now they‘re all gone. I told Mayor Clark it was wrong. In 19871 put a new roof over that house. He's in Washington now. I put 280 roofs on over here. Sol know whatI mean. In 19321 put plumbing in this place. Last year the last few places went, now mine. It's no good this way. I told Clark. I know what I mean." That's what we'd like to know. A community paper can’t function for long without response from the community. These two pages begin a regular feature section on EAST LAWRENCE. Got neighborhood news? Send any and all to BOX 114. PUBLIC NOTICE Opinion We all smile, remembering. Harry is passed a toast- ed dog cooked ina no. 10 can over the flames. PAGE ll George asked, 'Why in the heck did they let Turkey Tims chain in here ?'' (They line the Loop access roads now). No one had the answer. We turned to Tom, recently arrived, who's now a giant supplier to International Business Machines, still at the corner of 9th and Has~ kell Loop. ‘It's a mystery to me, ''Tom said good- naturedly, ‘This was all zoned residential at one time, you know. "' Mark walked up griping in a clownish way then, Woozie Suzie was combing her hair over in the dark. Kirshenbaum called to say he wasn't coming--that he wanted to watch the all new Fred Pence address the five-county area. We were all really waiting for Buford, humbled now. Then we saw him twist his body out of a coffee-col- ored Lincoln. We passed him a dog. These reunions are getting slimmer now, as the years roll by, as townspeople begin, once again, to lose in- terest in the East Side, We'll he here again next year though, We invite everyone to come out. We need fresh blood, WRITE BOX 1l14. { ae HaqD Bach Book Mook | ott. 5 =) * | PLACE | OUR CAFE | GOOD FOOD O : o | REASONABLE PRICES Hy I Bob and Alice Conlin SSS a 7, / / 4 a ws Bo ees FE - Peapeee, “4 ad We | ee ae 73/7 New Hampshire Witz. 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