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WHAT YOU CAN DO

A. birth, a newspaper will

spring forth in suffocating
silence. Huddled in a room with one or two
others, gluing pages down, challenging the
construction of a roadway authorized by every
source of power and know-how in town, you
know that you are outrageous. You feel the
muteness beyond the little imaginary castle

of your mind.

  

Into that silence, everything is projected. You hear
laughter, scorn, revilment--or respectful acceptance.
Success winks at you. Failure stares you down like an
ogre from a horror comic. The greatest fear is that
no one will care at all.

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Imagine it like this. You sit on the floor in a big vac- |
ant house at night. As you lay out the pages, you are
turning on the lights. Some of the fright disappears
because you know what the place looks like--but still,
you are illuminating only emptiness.

And suddenly you can picture mobs pelting the shutters |
with foul eggs and soft tomatoes, trampling the lawn,
tapping on the windows and thumbing their noses at
you--or, ina better moment, applauding very politely.

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Come around and see our house. Visit. Write for us. \
Our motto is 'Every reader a writer." Every reader. \
If its not obscene, or pure propaganda, we'll publish it. |
We're not asking for letters to the editor. Wewant |
essays and writings about local events, whats on your |
mind, planning and zoning, the meal you ate at the Red
Lion last Wednesday, what your neighborhood group is
doing, or not doing, bad movies that hacked you, and so
on. The Chamber of Commerce can promote the air-
port expansion here--and Joe Blow can offer rebuttal.

See it, please, as the re-invention of the small-town
newspaper in Lawrence. We know lots of drawbacks
to that form--the lists of residents and visitors in and
out of town, the corney jokes, the self-congratulating
attitudes--we're stepping around these journalistic pits.

We also want to avoid, though, the syn-
dication bit. This is a community i
effort. To hell with the market, Dear
Abby and Bill Buckley. If you want to
see them, then look to the Journal-
World. We don't need them in the Public &
Notice. We need you. Come onaround. |
It's a big empty house. Wy

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twenty -eighth of each month, in Lawrence, Kansas
by the Permanent Press, Box114, Lawrence, Kan-
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You Can’t Stop Going Forward

Zoom thinking.
» tion made it official when it decided to spend
-50 billion bucks in the 50s to develop a classy
system of federal roads. Zoom. And that was
good, because it always seemed like 1000 miles
across 425 mile long Kansas then. And you
wanted to zoom. And you had gas, cheap gas,
to zoom you along.

You felt like the country was zooming with you,
that driving a car was like flexing your muscle.

Now we're running out of gas resources. The
country wants to zoom anyway, from N.Y. to
L.A., from Des Moines to Salt Lake City.
From K-10 to downtown.

We can't afford to zoom.
to build roads, which will encourage zooming,
and will take gas wasting machinery to build.

Wevall can’t ride bicycles, -Apd we all can zoom, (ys ci Barbera Wie ee elawese

\ Why is an old idea good ? “more valid? important ?

| So that a Binns might say, in his Loop argument,

\ Trafffe jam relief in East Lawrence is one of the -
reasons for the building of the Haskell Loop. Some
folks don't see the problem. Ray Dryz said, "In
reference tothe traffic problems. ..The best alter-
native is to do nothing beyond routine maintenance
and resurfacing work. None of the streets (with

the exception of Connecticut) is heavily traveled.
Even Connecticut is used far below its capacity.

| live never seen a traffic jam in East Lawrence." _
(There are happy times at New York School this

| year. For the first time in several years, we have

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| one session of separate kindergarden. We are
| sharing our teacher, Mrs. Gaffney, with India
| School in the morning. Mrs. Gaffney and her stu-
dent teacher, Miss Wright, are at New York School
afternoons. With an enrollment of 18-20, we are
on the way to single classrooms for each grade
level. One of our City Commissioners, Marnie
rhe Eisennuwer Administra - \ Argersinger has amplified her approval of the Loop
| by saying, 'I hope this highway invigorates New
| York School growth, '' In my opinion, you don't
\ invite the type of growth that helps a school by
} encouraging industry and traffic to enter a resi-
dential neighborhood. Good housing will be de-
| stroyed and isolated by the Loop. Traffic will
\ be channeled onto the north and south sides of New
| York School by the accesses on 9th and llth Streets.
| I think any chance we have for growth at New York
| School depends on providing houses for families in
| the area at moderate prices. The Loop will elim-
inate many such structures, The Loop is ridicu-
lous when studied carefully, for it exactly contra-
\ dicts the reasons given for constructing it. I keep
| hoping that the powers that be will realize that the
| Loop does not have to be built just because it has
| been planned. I only hope they realize it before
\ good houses and our East Lawrence ballpark are
\ destroyed. This is written as a private citizen.

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"CITY MANAGER WATSON AND PLANNING DI-
RECTOR McCLANATHAN EXPLAINED PLANS
FOR ARTERIALS,..WHICH HAVE BEEN PRE-
PARED AND RECOMMENDED SINCE 1930."
(From the minutes of the July 29th hearing).

In 1930 there were certain things about population
growth that planners didn't understand. The pro-
jected population for Lawrence in 1970 was
20 thousand, What is it that planners in 1930.
didn't understand about the tuture? What is it that
aay planners don"t understand about the year

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One argument for the Loop is that the idea is
old. They've been wanting to build the Loop
for 30 years. Is there loss of face in not

now building it? Will they lose credibility ? when you. try to establish "plans’'--and this makes a

lot of planning seem silly when looked at in the fu-
ture. Quaint, this "Proposed Civic Center" below
You can stuff a book with maps and charts, call it
the Comprehensive Plan, and say "there's the future,
roughly, how we'd like to see it go."' Of course that
can‘t guarantee anything. meee

By what magic can an idea take on a life of its own?
"It's going to be built, that's all there is to it."
It makes a person nervous to think of this and leads

him to throw up his arms and say, "Well, what can
I do ifI can't plan? You guys are silly,"

"It should be noted that the Haskell Loop ... has
teen in planning for over a decade, "' said Al Hack,
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce President, at

the July 29 Commissi eetin dL debate.
y eee Be sadae We say O.K., plan then, But don't plan tearing down,

houses when what is put up at the other end of town
isn't so hot-looking. Please listen to what people

say when they come to you--and most of all to those ©
folks whose lives are most immediately affected

by the plan.

Lots of things were planned in 1930. Not all

of them materialized. (See below) The Plan
said, "Lawrence is particularly lacking in
interesting routes for pleasure driving for prac-
tically all the present streets are units ina
nore or less monotonous gridiron system, In
order to give relief from this condition a bou-
levard and parkway treatment, practically cir-
cling the city, is proposed. This loop is shown
on both the major thoroughfare plan and the
park and boulevard plan."

And remember that in planning you are trying to
satisfy diverse needs and conflicting interests, which
may call for constant shifts in position--but how much
flex is allowable before a plan stops being a plan?

The 1975 Plan calls for the preservation of the

bluffs at 6th and Iowa (because of aesthetic qualities).
If you drive East on 6th across Iowa and look to your
right, you see a large green Gill real estate sign.
What ere their plans ?

In both 1930 and 1948 plans a 55 acre park, Wood-
land Park, was visualized. ..at 12th and Haskell,
the site of Ray's Garage,and future city mainten-
ance facility location.

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LAWRENCE KANSAS __ this proposed civic center (library on the left, city build

GFTY PLANNING COMMISSION on right), part of the 1930 Plan, located at llth and Mass.,
HARE & HARE CITY PLANNERS KANSAS CITY¢MO has not materialized as envisioned.

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