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he conflict between management and
labor is as old as capitalisim itself. On one
side you have the administration, with pencils

and paper and telephone buttons nearby.

Meanwhile, the workers toil in the fields,

factories. producing the necessary goods

vices, always struggling for a little fairer share of
Each side is isolated from the other; work-
ers rarely seeing the inside of an office--adminis-
trators rarely raising the sweat upon their brows.
The whole arrangement is almost taylor - made to
breed misunderstanding, mistrust and division--per-

the pie.

haps by ancient design. :

By this point in time, almost everyone in town has
heard something about the city employees’ attempts
to gain formal recognition from City Hall, in the
form of appeals to logic and reason, all in vain. Fol-
lowing several lengthy debate sessions at City Com-
mission meetings in October and November, the
Commission finally voted 'no" to the question of
recognition of the United Public Employees Assoc-
iation of Lawrence (UPEA) by a 3-2 margin.

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The PUBLIC NOTICE here-
§ by takes a firm stand in the
ee support of the right of mu-
i\t niciple workers of Lawrence to or-
i ganize themselves for the purpose of
“collective bargaining. ..in defense of
their jobs and their integrity. We also support their
demand for a system of binding arbitration, by law,
as set forth by the Public Employees Relations Board
of the State of Kansas, Until city workers have a leg-
itimate voice in the management of their own affairs,
they will remain in a subordinated position, treated
insipidly as upstart children. Until they are recog-
nized as dignified individuals, with Constitutional
rights, there will be no peace in labor-management
relations at City Hall. And so...in keeping. ..the
workers will now speak for themselves...

   
 

HAPPENED’

This was a shameful thing. All of our city employ-
ees are engaged in providing the most vital functions
which any community could demand. We continually
cry for better police and fire protection. We want
our garbage picked up. We want our streets and side-
walks kept in good repair. We want clean and safe
park facilities as well, The men and women who pro-
vide us with these services are dedicated to doing a
good job, An overwhelming majority of the nearly
220 municipal employees involved live right here in
Lawrence. They need services too--and they have

a first-hand understanding of the problems associat-
ed with their procurement-- perhaps better than any-
one else in the community --including the Mayor and
the City Manager. The failure of the City Commis-
sion to unanimously recognize the UPEA is nothing
less than an insult to the integrity of every policeman
and woman, every firefighter, street worker, san-
itation worker, and parks and recreation worker in
Lawrence.

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and ser-

November 6, 1975

AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF LAWRENCE,
FROM THE UNITED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ASSOC -
CIATION OF LAWRENCE (Firefighters, Sanitation
Employees, Street Department Employees, Police -
Officers, and Parks and Recreation Dept. Employees)

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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Inside

Barkley Clark talks about the
Haskell Loop...page 12.

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Ever been to the Garden of
Eden? ...page 4.

Home interests...page 2.

How it goes in Ledo, Kan-
sas... page 4.

Need help? Would you like
to help someone? ...pages
6 and 7,

People’s Energy Project:
Energy and you...page 8

LAWRENCE, KANSAS

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HE Sixties rediscovered ec-
i3/ology. We and our environ-

f ment are one, We can't es-
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Another 60's rediscovery: the subtle
effect of form on meaning. Body lang-
uage suddenly told us a total commun-
ication included message plus what a
person's body did when he talked. If

a person crossed his legs when he talked
one thing was meant, if he kept his legs
apart, another. On a group level,
teachers found that interesting lectures
wouldn't guarantee a lively class. The
whole feeling of a group could be changed
by arranging chairs in the room in diff-
erent ways. é

Let's carry these discoveries into an
analysis of what happens every Tuesday
night at 7:00 in downtown Lawrence
Kansas on the 4th floor of the tallest
building in town at 9th and Mass.

City Commission meetings are held
there.

The content of meetings varies (the
Commission both designates National
Beauty Parlor Week and decides the
fate of neighborhoods) but the layout of
the room, the manner of audience par-
ticipation, the presentations by staff
and so forth, in short, the forms of the
City Commission, are relatively static.

The 60's discoveries have not been
applied.

Imagine: The commissioners arrive in
t-shirts and jeans and sit on canvas-
bottomed fold-up stools. Or imagine:

a plexiglass shield is installed between
commission and audience while the
commissioners, topped with powdered
wigs and swaddled in robes, sit behind
oak judgement benches. Setting makes
all the difference in audience participa-
tion.

witnessing before individuals and groups. Then there's the agenda. At his first
You are sitting in the audience. You commission meeting, a new attender
slugged, it's that potent anact. The find something someone says objection- wonders about everything. No hostess
advantage of the arrangement is that able. You may also find the distance to hovers at the door to greet him with a
it allows the politician’s eyes to be read the microphone overwhelming. Your jaw mug of coffee and answers to his ques-
by the audience (remember watching locks. If you are a fool this is to every- tions. No guide to city government is
Nixon sweat on our TV screens?) while one’s advantage--as anyone who attends handed him, no pamphlet explains what
the politicians can monitor the audience. commission meetings and watches the appears on the agenda, or why. Itis
ego freaks who love to hear themselves mysterious as church. No one could
The message back of it allis this: aud- yammer and pontificate, will attest. But describe to the novice the process he
ience is one group, commissioners you can't separate those folks froma _ has stumbled upon, since it is not a
another. How to close the gap? Think microphone anyway, so why disadvan~ conclusion but.a process. A most com-
of the situation of the planning director tage the more modest by forcing them plex one. Commissioners and staff,
showing a site plan map to the commiss- across that gulf? involved for years, forget the awful
ion. Rather than turn his back io the initial ignorance. The spectator plays
audience, block the map with his body catch up ball.
and point things out to the commission
without including the audience (every
little movement has a meaning all its
own), why couldn't those maps be cast
onto the wall with a magic lantern so all
could see? The psychic effect of this
would be that the audience and comm-
ission were joining as mutual spectators,

The commission and audience stare at
each other, Stare in a bar and you're

Part of the bafflement is what the Hell
everyone is talking about. A bond is
no longer something you buy from Uncle
Sam for 25 bucks, no it's a general
obligation (or GO) bond, or a revenue
bond, Understand? I didn*t the first
time I heard those words. What's an
: easement? a planned unit development ?
The bristlers step forward anyway. S0 community development funds? general
do the trained talkers, the polished, the revenue sharing? Language turns into
pros. Others just gulp, or feel the fea- 4 gangster who fogs the room then clubs
thers in their stomach, or whisper to the unaware, who don't know, who just
their neighbors, or do anything to keep don't know, who can't know without a law
from crossing the space to the mike. degree or grad work in political science
or sheer gutty persistence. We are put
to sleep and then we sleepwalk our way
out the door, yawning and wondering
what happened when we reach our house.
We won‘ return.

 

As itis, the impression left is that the
commission members are experts, the
audience hardly worth including in the
discussion. Do they vote? No. Do they
matter? No. That is the unspoken
message.

If they got there, they might not be able
to speak anyway. I once saw a man for-
get everything he prepared to say at

the podium and talk nonsense for three
embarassing minutes. He never came
to another meeting. Anxiety that rips

; é The layout of the room, the format of
out your memory is horrible.

: discussion and the talk itself drives peo-
< 2 ; ple from commission meetings, You
see Oe The arrangement of furniture in the must be greatly ironic or ar to
But focus on what is. room pits staff and commission on one muddle through it, week after week
fact that one addressing the commission side of the room (the staff conveniently Only a few do. The pros. And then
must come forward to a microphone to turned so it faces neither audience nor the enraged come, on an ad hoc basis
do so. commission, but can pivot either direc- Thats it. And intts how it will con- :
tion) against audience on the other. I tinue. until some i
Forget the fact that this form is entirely say "pits against” because that is the effect of Guinea eee
appropriate to a Christian culture that effect of the armngement. They couldn't jence participation emerges; I don*t
stresses the power and necessity of divide it more neatly with a black stripe. expect it will be soon. :

  

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Labor unton ee @ From page one
The Lawrence City Commission, by a narrow mar-
gin, has voted not to extend recognition to City
Employeé Associations. By this action, the City has
declined to bring law and order to employee-man-
agement relations, law and order that would protect
employees, management and the public from any un-
fair practices. The consequences of the Commiss-
ion’s vote is to eliminate direct communication between
employees and the Commission; eliminate employees’
right to appeals and eliminate written agreements that
would make both employees and management live up

to their word. Above all it will make possible the
continuation of many deplorable practices that have
demoralized Lawrence City employees over the past
years. How this is supposed to improve the quality

of life in Lawrence is beyond comprehension.

11D ED RR HH

Instead of the rule of law and order, the City has con-
firmed the rule of one man, the City Manager. They
have done this by setting up an Employee Council in
which Buford Watson's word is the final word on em-
ployee grievances. The United Employee Associations
, of Lawrence reject this proposal as

totally un-American. The day has
not come when Americans will sub~
mit to the dictatorship of one person,
no matter under what guise. We also
reject the strange notion that any gov-
ernment has the right to dictate what
form any organization of American
people should take. We have our own
employee organizations which rep-

WATSON resent the overwhelming majority of
our employees. We are not about to disband in def-
erence to an organization set up by management. This
form of "company unionism" was outlawed in private
-employment in the 1930*s. We remind our Commiss-
ioners that they were elected to protect citizens, not
dictate to them.

    

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The three Commissioners who voted against law and
order apparently forgot that talks between us and the
City Manager have been going on since last May.
Despite this there are still:

--employees penalized for time lost because of on-
the-job injuries

--massive safety violations despite employee and
insurance company requests for correc-
tion

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--no adequate accounting that the 1/2% sales tax is
being properly spent to upgrade the police and fire
departments as intended when the tax was initiated

--arbitrary harassment and insulting of employees

--threats of dismissal of employees

--favoritism in work assignments and promotion

--secret files are still kept on employees

--no programs for upgrading of employees

--no consistent merit system

 

--no consistent grievance machinery

--no improvement in equipment maintenance

--no probation policy

--contradictory policies on termination of employees

--inadequate hospitalization .

--employees receiving threatening letters from
collection agencies for medical bills for on-the-job
injuries

--employees required to operate unsafe equipment

--no consistent employee evaluation procedures

--inconsistent policies on overtime payment and dis-
tribution

--no consistent training programs

'~-failure to abide by wage commitments made at time
of hiring

--no consistent work standards
--no consistent chain of command

 

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--no consistent disciplinary policies

  
   
  
   
   

--no policy on employee uniforms

WE ARE PREPARED TO AMPLY DOCUMENT ALLOF
THESE MALPRACTICES.

 

THE AFFLICTION

Quite simply, the City is grossly mismanaged causing Reo:
great loss in service efficiency and loss to the tax-_«
payers. Commissioners have been informed of these .
violations, but instead of investigating them or setting _

rationally correct these violations, three Commission-
ers have chosen to sweep the issues under the rug. __

The public should be aware that under City
a vegulations, any employee who brings.em="~ »
ployment problems to the Commission is subject to-.
dismissal. With such a closed system, how is it -
possible for anything to change. or seryices improve? ...

We, the United Public Employees Association of Law- - +.’
rence, are acutely mindful of our public trust. We
want to provide quality services to the people of Law>  -.
rence. Some Lawrence City Commissioners seem to ~
be obsessed with wage demands. (We have made none
despite some major inequities.)

These Commissioners also seem obsessed with the
thought of employees bringing in powerful outside labor
organizations. (None have been brought in. The only
powerful outside influences planned for Lawrence were
national waste disposal monopolies initiated by the City.)
These Commissioners conveniently forget that most

of the issues raised by the Employee Associations have
been designed to improve the poor quality of manage-
ment, We believe that some Commissioners keep
raising the,wage and outside union issue as a smoke-
screen to cover up managerial chaos and inefficiency,

  
  
 
 
 
  
  

  

 

HUMAN VALUES

By Barbara Willits

Of course Kansas City is very differetn from Lawrence
and perhaps the most important difference is in mere
numbers of people. From rather a small beginning
the clinic now sees about 2,000 patients a month. The-
re is no evidence that Lawrence needs or could support
anything on this scale, but itis a good example of what

The League of Women Voters of Lawrence is making
a study of how well health and medical needs of people
in Lawrence are being met and how these services ©
might be improved. As one part of our investigation
we are looking at various health delivery systems,

Ore of my pleasures this fall has been my daily walks
with two energetic five-year-olds from 12th and Dela-=

what they cost and how successful they have been in
other communities.

can be done with strong community support.

But what does Lawrence need ?

One of the most interesting of these community attem-
pts to bring medical care to residents regardless of

Are there many Lawrence residents who find that they

ability to pay is called Clinicare. It is a clinic inKan- cannot get medical care when they need it because they
sas City, Kansas which charges its patients according have no insurance or do. not qualify for Medicare or

to their ability to pay. No one is turned away, even
if they can pay nothing,

Medicaid ?

The League does not néed and does not want names. It

Of course Medicare and Medicaid pay for many of the

' people who are serveu but the clinic is also dependent
on the support of several local churches and on private
donations, many of which are very small.’ The most

does need fact and numbers. We would be most grate-
ful if the citizens of Lawrence would help us collect
this information by filling out information cards. They
can be obtained at the Public Health Department, the

important donation is made by the staff. Although most Salvation Army, Penn House, the Ballard Center and

of them are paid, they all could earn much more in
other jobs.

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The PUBLIC NOTICE is published on or about the
twenty-eighth of each month, in Lawrence, Kansas
by the Permanent Press, BoxJ14, Lawrence, Kan-
sas 66044.

People who contributed to this issue: Susie Hanna,
Richard Kershenbaum, Jake Flake Barkley Clark,

Steve Trone, Barbara Willits, Mark Kaplan, Norm
Forer, UPEA of Lawrence, Harry Puckett, Elan-
ore Smith, Ruth and Louis Ward, David Hann, Pat
Sullivan, Chuck Magrel, Paul Hughs, Diane Luber,
Dave Moore, Paul Johnson, Carol Loretz, Jim
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HOOSIER FRIEND?

By Harry Puckett

A short time ago one of our citizens was looking for
a location for a private business to dealin furs, He
was directed to contact one of our local real estate
dealers, who knew where this citizen could operate
such a business, They contacted the zoning board
and were told that they could operate a fur business
as long as no tanning or drying was involved. So,
an agreement was made for the property in the 900
block of Delaware. The citizen made a down pay-
ment.and began work to put the place in condition for

othe business,

The planning board had thought of some technical
point, however, as an excuse to reject his request
for a permit to do business,

The citizen contacted an attorney t.o find out why he
couldn't operate his business. Since our city manager
has control of all our city employes in each departr
ment, the attorney tried to get an interview with him
but so far has been put off.

This citizen has spent considerable money and time
on this place, Why is he denied a right to‘do a leg-=
itimate business that hurts no one or intérferes with
no one? This is denying him of his constitutional
rights, ..an injustice.

We need someone to manage our town who will give
justice to all, not just a few special privileges.

ware to the New York School.

The 1000 block of Pennsylvania must be one of the most ©
peaceful spots in Lawrence. Neat houses ofall sizes’ ~~
line both sides of the street. Most of the houses have
flowers around them and on the porches. Every yard
shows loving attention, Mrs. Ida Price was out one ©
day enjoying the bright sun. Her neat garden defied
a weed to show its head on the north side of her lot.

Every person I meet while walking is amiable, ready’ -
to speak and give attention to the children. I find my-
self wondering what arrangements will be made for
kids to get across llth and 9th streets after the Loop"
is channeling traffic into the downtown business area.
I hope our school officials recognize the dangers in- °
herent for our children in the Loop plans.

Isn't the power and authority of city staff appalling ?
The city and USD # 497 Board members meet and all
the Loop propaganda is spread out by Planning Direc-—
tor Dick McClanathan. He spouts words --energy cri-
sis, development, boost school population=-no matter ~’
that he can’t spell out what development! Families
need low and moderate cost housing. A row of gard-
en apartments along the Loop just won't cut it!

We hear high flying plans about a new neighborhood
center, but no mention of it in the six-year capital
improvements plan, of course, It's just more pie-in-
the sky. Where are East Lawrence kids to fly kites--
play football and baseball-- just plain run off their
energy ?

I'll believe a new neighborhood center when I seeit
in the flesh, not a second before! The mood of the
City in East Lawrence is BULLDOZE=-the ball park,
houses, 235 people who signed a petition against the
Loop--tear down not build, Don't anyone hold your
breath until the new center, please! re

—-Believe It or Not/

Savoring the construction boom in town? Well think
again. Unless you are the developer or the contract- .
or, you're out of luck, particularly if you're one of... =
those who needs a place to live. Only eight permits. ©...
for the construction of multi-family dwellings have

been issued this year, all high-rent. Hundreds of...
new homes, $30-50,000 range please, high society.

only. Poor people, working people, look elsewhere.

Hats off to the planners, McClanathan, & all the rest.

 
  

PUBLIC NOTICE

 

 

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UNION.

- It has been a tradition in our democratic system that
_ when local government is unwilling or unable to act
‘responsibly, it's time for the people to act. We
‘therefore call on all Lawrence citizens who want
efficient, fair and open management to join with us in
calling for:

{Continued from page?

1) an investigating committee for efficient management
to investigate all of the above charged malpractices
and report back publicly to the City Commission. The
City Commission should then hold public hearings to

. Teceive citizen input with regard to the investigating
-committee's findings, The investigating committee
should be comprised of two City Commissioners, two
representatives of the United Public Employees’
Associations and two neutral Lawrence citizens selec-
ted by agreement among the two Commissioners and
two Public Employees;

2) an investigation by the appropriate state authorities
into the uses of the 1/2 % sales tax;

3) an investigation by the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration into the widespread safety vio-
lations in Lawrence municipal employment;

4) an investigation by the Highway Patrol to determine
if City vehicles are roadworthy and safe to both em-
ployee = and the public. : 3

x The Lawrence City

oS Commission con-
siders itself open-
minded and impar-
tial, yet as one Com-
missioner pointed
out, all information
placed in the Com-
missioners’ folders
by the City Manager
were arguments
against recognition.
Indeed, the Commission re-
\ ceived legal advice from a source
that has consistently opposed employee
organizations, yet neglected to obtain
alternate legal points of view. We
wonder if the Lawrence taxpayers had
\ . to foot the bill for this one-sided ad-
vice.

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.Lawrence City Commissioners have pledged themselves
to openness in government, yet by the Mayor's own ad-
mission, the Commission's vote was influenced by pri-
vate meetings with unnamed citizens. As one Comm-
issioner noted, only one citizen opposed recognition at
the public hearings. We are dismayed that some
Commissioners feel they can make crucial decisions

in the public interest based on citizen opinions not
stated publicly where such opinions could be challenged
in open and honest debate.

We are also dismayed that although Commissioners have
frequently indicated their interest in the Kansas: Public
Employer -Employee Relations Board they, in effect,
voted against working through the Board without having
invited its Executive Director to come to Lawrence and
testify as to how the Board functioned and its effect in
other Kansas communities. Our Employee Association
invited the Board's Executive Director to Lawrence so
it could learn about the Board. We also relayed this to
the Mayor and the City Manager and indicated that the

‘Executive Director's information would be extremely val-

uable to the Commission in their deliberations. As one
Commissioner pointed out, there were "stories" about
the Board's negative effect on certain communities
which, upon investigation, proved untrue. Yet the Mayor
and the City Manager chose not to expose the Commiss-
ion to the facts directly from the Board's Executive
Director.

Some “ommissioners have noted somewhat critically
that our petition for recognition was not specific as to
whether our request was for regulation by state or
local authority. We were not specific in order that

the Commission have the widest latitude in its decision
making. However, we will readily admit that our fail-
ure to be specific may have produced some problems
in the Commissions’ decision making process. We are
concerned that the rule of law prevail in Lawrence.
The State of Kansas has provided a procedure where-
by the many problems in City employment can be
solved in a peaceful, orderly, legal and democratic
fashion; We are also concerned that decisions be based
on fact, publicly expressed, rather than on private
influences. Commissioner Mibeck has noted this lack

 

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We will therefore call upon concerned citizens to join
with us in submitting a petition to the City Commission,
specifically asking that it consider an ordinance placing
Lawrence under the Kansas Public Employer -Employee
Relations Act. We will ask that a public hearing be
heid for which the widest and most expert opinion, both
pro and con, can be solicited. We will do our best to
cooperate with the City Commission to bring forward
as much data as possible so that a fair and objective
decision can be reached.

One final note: apparently word had leaked out to man-
agerial personnel that recognition was to be denied

and this has produced a renewal of thinly veiled threats
against the job security of Employee Association mem-
bers and officers. Although we have pledged our
cooperation to the City and public we wish to empha -
tically state that under no circumstances will we tol-
erate harassment, intimidation or dismissal of em-
ployees for exercising their Constitutional right to

free speech,

We wish to acknowledge the efforts of Commissioner
Don Binns and Carl Mibeck for attempting to achieve
an atmosphere of moderation, openness, rationality
and elementary fair play in municipal employment,
But above all we commend their compassionate under -
standing of the lives of working people.

This statement is intended for all the people-of Law-
rence. We urge its reproduction and circulaticn.

 

. of fact and expert testimony at the last public hearing.

(PUBLIC NOTICE endorses the labor union call for consistency. It asks the unions to remember
j what they have said about big city groups coming in--for the future, What is your opinion? Box 114,

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mi. and Mrs. Louis Ward should be
happy. Recently they made their final
mortgage payment to the Lawrence Nat-
ional Bank, At last. thev own their own
home at 946 Pennsylvania in East Lawren-
ce where they haye lived for 30 years,

torial

public doesn't want that, then it's dicta-

The Ward's home is only one of many
which will be removed by the roadway.
The City will take their home under the

tacted us.

No one sent us a letter, came
by We ctill haven't been officially in-

any calls, then how did you first learn of
the road, ''I asked,

formed that our house will be taken by

the road."

rule of 'emminent domain, " or that law

She was star ing at the floor, |

"[ think we first learned about it in the
paper, '' she said, a little whimsically.
They printed a map, so we got out our
magnifying glass...we wear bifocals,

   
    
   

 

 

The Wards take pride in their accomplish-
ment. They have worked hard for more
than 30 years and are comfortably settl-
ed in their medium-sized, white, frame
house on the quiet corner of 10th and
Pennsylvania.

Their son is grown and married. Now,
‘money that was needed to iive day to day
could be spent for a few luxuries. Some
repairs could be made on the house and

a few new appliances could be added. Life
could be just a little easier.

But, something is wrong. Clouding the
hroizon is the threatened destruction of
the Ward's home. The proposed Haskell
Loop will pass through the Ward's prop-

erty.

Feeling that the city bas ignored the hu-
man toll extracted by such projects, the
Public Notice decided to sit down and

talk to Louis and Ruth Ward at their house
recently. We wanted to know how they
felt about the road and about themselves.
We knew they were upset and consumed
with a sense of deep despair and confus-
ion, as well as rightious embitter ment.

Before we had even spoken, Louis Ward
was getting angry, just thinking about
the road, His face was flushed.

"They're not going to move mei" he said,
his voice rising. ‘I'm too old, too ner-

vous, where am I going to go, where am

I going to go."

We began to take some notes, and tried
to interject a few questions, but Louis
wasn't finished.

"You not only cease to be a citizen, you
are not a citizen, you cease to have rig-
hts. A few Commissioners can just tell
me where I‘m going to live.

"You call that freedom ?'

Mr. Ward continued, "You've seen those
bumper stickers. . .I‘ve been told that I
could move if I didn't like the country.

"Where is freedom when the city gover-
nment can rell you to move out? if the

which allows for the confiscation of
private property when deemed in the
"public interest. '' The Loop budget ac-
tually allows for $60,000 in legal ex-
penditures, or $2,000 for each home, to
facilitate this process.

Louis Ward came to his feet, with an
anger and frustration which thrives in
the gut of many working Americans.
“His face reddened.

"Do we need the road," ? asked,
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"No! We don't need it!"

"Do you think many of the neighbors know
much about the road, the plans , the route
and the whole thing ?''I asked.

Louis glared at me. He picked up a light
jacket.

"Nobody knows anything about! "'

He turned in disgust and rage, and retired
from the house.

Mrs. Ward had remained in the room. She
was obviously grieved. A little moisture
appeared in her eyes. The situation had
became a bit strained. I even felt a bit
awkward, and was anxious to return to
some conversation.

"Have you gotten any notification, from
the city, or anyone, "I asked quietly.

"No," she replied. "No oné ever con-

"T don't understand how the neighborhood
will be improved, There has to be hous-
ing for low-income people. Everyone
can't be making top wages.”

We expressed our agreement.

"My husband has said something about
moving to the other side of town, but
our taxes would go up so much."

I asked, rhetorically, if the whole idea
of having to pull out was not extremely
unsettling.

   

 

‘It's causing me a lot of inconvenience, "
she replied. "We'd like to put up storm
windows, you know, with heating bills
going up so. We need to move the hot
water tank, but we don't know what to do."

I was thinking then of how Mr. Ward had
reacted moments before, to our coming
over to talk about the roadway. I asked
Ruth how Louis would ever be able to
stand the strain of seeinghis'house run
over by a bull-dozer.

"We've thought about that, '' she siad,
starring at the floor still. "I think we're
probably going to have to move out before
the road goes through, to save my hus-
bands health."

I envisioned the real estate people coming
to the house, having heard of the Ward's
desire to sell out quickly. I may have
winced a bit. I almost blurted out some-
thing about the real estate business, but
decided upon soliciting more convers at-
ion from Mrs. Ward.

"If you didn*t get anything in the mail or .

"you know...andI said, ‘welll believe
that road goes right trhough our house!"

We all laughed.

"A man from City Hall, a friend of sorts, i
told us that he intended to write us a let-
ter to tell us that it wasn't going to take }
our home, I believe that was in August

of "74, and we've never heard anything. "

The story sounded familiar.

I was wondering how many of the people
in East Lawenece the city had failed to
notify, Mrs. Ward's comments shifted
to the impact for the residents of East
Lawrence,

"Do they think they can just buy up our

homes and put us in those homes for old
people. You know people don't last long
in those places," she said. :

The dogs began to bark on the front porch
and Mrs. Ward looked a bit anxious, won-
dering when Louis would return.

"I'm terribly worried about Louis, '' she
said, "His health has gone down hill.
He looks about five years older than he
did a year ago.

The atmosphere became more uneasy. (4
What can one possibly say to make things t

better ? We offered our sympathies, but :
they sounded meaningless.

Mrs. Ward had said repeatedly that she
felt uneasy about having their names
appear in print. We tried to reassure
her that it would be alright, but it was
‘obvious that she didnt trust us.

"You just have to be skeptical now days,"
she said frankly. ‘I just don't trust
people like Iused to, Iusedto trust _
everyone when I was a child, but in the
past few years I've become more leary
of people,"

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By David Hann

Lugas, Kansas is approximately 45 miles due
South of the Geographical Center of the Conti-
nental United States. Paradise lies 15 miles
West, on State Highway 18. Highway 232,
North from Interstate 70 leads into Lucas.
Most travelers zoom down Interstate 70 ob-
livious to road signs pointing to places other
than the next Stuckey’s Pecan Parlor. One
road sign advertises "Rock City, a geological
wonder. ’' There are no relics of cave men or
dinosaur bones at Rock City, as is implied by
the sign which shows a smiling brontosaurus
and puzzled-looking Neanderthal just a clump
of grey, roundish boulders resembling giant
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the storks,
to see,

own experience.
battles.

era of political corruption.

It was a dog-eat-dog world and Dinsmoor's
concrete figures pursue and attack one an-
other, A cat arches its back at a concrete
serpent which has a light bulb in its gaping
jaws. The Goddess of Liberty thrusts a
spear into the head of the trusts. A cement
soldier sights along his rifle at an Indian.
The tentacles of the trusts reach into the
soldier's haversack and around the waist of
a woman depicted as a camp-follower. A
Doctor, Lawyer, Preacher, and Banker
surround Labor Crucified. Dinsmoor felt
these four represented the forces opposing
and enslaving the working class. Later in
the piece a man and woman saw the limb
that the trusts rest upon. The saw is labeled
BALLOTS. Since there is no path leading
from this world into another, as there was in
Eden, Dinsmoor may have felt compelled to
resolve the conflict between Business and
Labor in that fashion.

 

 

This story proves that horror exists in
the disguise of banality, that banality
is often cloaked in blandness. The sub-
ject: an interview for a job ina small
town, at a small town junior college
in Western Kansas. The subject guar-
antees an abundance of stereotypes.
Remember In Cold Blood ? It had all
the cliches going, isolated individuals,
violence, creeps croaking a healthy,
Bible Belt family. Or have you heard
about the cows with their rear ends
chainsawed off? Western Kansas again.
omething creepy out there. My story

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The First Woman and First Man welcome visitors,
but above and beyond them Satan waits. His
pitchfork points at a child that fell from one of

Since there was "darkness over the
land" according to Moses, storks carried babies
under their wings and had lights in their mouths
Dinsmoor saw no conflict in mixing 20th
century technology with Biblical tradition. Violence
was part of Biblical tradition as well as Dinsmoor’s
He was a Civil War veteran of 18
Cain flees the scene of Abel’s murder into
the Land of Nod. The 19th Century was like the
Land of Nod to Dinsmoor, and he has Cain turning
the corner from paradise into the post-civil war

 

The Garden of Eden is worth a few hours
drive West from Lawrence,
thing else quite like it, " as we all have said
about one place or another. Adam and Eve
got into the Garden of Eden free of charge
and visitors can see most of the cement
sculptures from the sidewalk. A dollar en-
titles the visitor to the Grand Tour- the
mausoleum, grounds, and beautifully done
interior of the Cabin Home.
no rules concerning what may be eaten.

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The next highway sign mentions the Garden of
Eden, This Garden of Eden was built by Samuel
P, Dinsmoor from Portland Cement. The 64
year -old Dinsmoor began working on his Eden
about 1905 and continued until his death in 1929,
Dinsmoor liked visitors and entertained them
with his particular brand of religion and politics
laced with humor and a touch of cynicism. The
Garden is surrounded by cement figures taken
from the pages of Genesis and Dinsmoor's in-
terpretation of the Bible. Eve extends her hand
toward the sidewalk, a concrete apple in her open
palm, Her other hand joins Adam's, Their arms
form an arch through which visitors may pass
into the Garden of Eden.

 

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The flag was being used by disho..est busi-
nessmen and corrupt politicians for their
own selfish motives. Dinsmoor felt the flag
protected capital better than it did humanity.
"It drafted the boys but asked the money to
volunteer, ''he wrote. He felt the flag’s
rightful use was as a symbol of liberty and
therefore should be flown in all weather, day.
and night. Dinsmoor's two cement flags,
ripples frozen in place, have flown for over
70 years. One swings on ball bearings
above the entrance to the Cabin Home. The
other hangs over his mausoleum,
Dinsmoor's sense of humor.carried into his
views on Death and the Hereafter. He fash-
ioned a cement angel to wisk him to Heaven.
He also made a cement water jug to take along
just in case he had to go below come resur-
rection morn. Dinsmoor stated he was well
prepared for "the good old orthodox future. "

is warm milk beside these examples. No Gibson’s Discount tucked ina shopping
murder. No violence. At least of the center. Ugh. There itis, the juco, an
physically brutal type. But itis shoddy anthill of buildings enthroned on asphalt.
with stereotypes. Ugh, ugh.

  
   

"There is no-

And there are

From Lawrence to the townI will call Wheat all around, everywhere. Bell tel- —
Ledo is a 3 hour drive. We arrive ephone and Eisenhower's interstate save
(my wife and I) at 6 Sunday night. Next this place from utter isolation. The sun
morning is the interview. Iteach Eng- isa nickle ina hard sky. There are 8 —
lish, they're hiring. I've written scores trees in town and they're all on main es
of letters, to bunches of institutions. street. You know Kansas is flat and

No jobs around, so I should be happy to wheat in the west--but you didn't know

be interviewed at all, but I'm scared off that so much green wheat could look

by all those weird images of backwater so awful under so much unsheltered
Kansas. Driving into town we spot a big light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
 
 

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4...

We check in at the recommended hotel. *
East is a diner where we eat. Oh boy,
small town cafe, it’s got to be good--
or very bad --serving frozen pizza in
the 90-second oven. It is good, But
very heavy, bread potatoes corn to
fatten you. Nerves rattle as I watch a
farmer watch us. I saw Easy Rider.
I know what happens next.

-Cliche is wrong again. After dinner I
call Dale Sumper (another bogus), the
department head. I’m here Dale. He
asks the wife andI over for a coke. A
coke. Nobody has invited me over for
a coke since the demise of the coke
date in 1952.

We're in front of the Sumpers’ house
and rapping the clacker on the door.
Jerri Sumper answers the knock. Little
boy in his birthday suit flashes out of
the hallway behind Jerri while we ex-
change amenities. He is caught, swat-
ted, apologized for. Apologizing for
naked children seems to me like apol-
ogizing for taking a pee. Its an act

of God, that's all. I look at the walls
and notice a Woolworth cardboard na -
ture print. No conversation in that,
unless I lie like a pig.

I intuit the rathskellar, our next stop,
immediately. Nondescript tile floor,

a leather recliner, Dale down there,
smiling at us, pipe gripped in the teeth,
Shaking my hand. Not shaking my wife’s
hand. I'm right, on all counts.

Conversation begins with work, You
clock in and out at the department, 40
hours a week if you please. Exactly
what I was running so hard from by
choosing the academic life in the first
place. I'ma lazy jerk. Ledo hates
lazy bastards like me. John Calvin.
“vould be welcome here. Part of the
teaching load is driving out one night
a week to a nearby town, to teach
farmers, housewives and other strangers
the tricks of composition, or Milton.
I'm staggering under my imagined
work. The question comes: What am
I willing to join? (Haven't they heard
of the Lone Ranger here ?) Our courses
are student centered (at last a relief,
that means easy.) But you will
find papers piling up on your desk like
corn cobs at a shucking bee (chuckle).
Oh yes--and you should expect 75 to
100 dollars to be sucked out of your
wallet every year, for this project, for
that service club.

Talk turns personal. ' (Real danger here;
On policy, we can fake agreement.
Differences in experience are danger-
ous.) Jerri Sumper whines about the

 

It Never Stops, Does It?

department's image problem. A year
ago Bill Rambeau and his wife and kids
moved out from a Montana juco. Looked |
great on paper, strong interview, Ram-
beau was hired. In Ledo, the family,
the whole bunch of them, go sour, It
won't socialize or return uninvited drop-
ins by the Sumpers and others, Jerri
complains that Rambeau finally wound
up sitting in a dark room wearing dark
glasses, the high-fi turned up to 8. At
semester's end, he draws complaints.
In his first class, unhappily, he has

told everyone that his name is God.
They can him.

By now my cliche detecior is rattling
and running out of control. Outwardly
they deplore this story, and still sprinkle
the acid of its truth on themselves, each
other, and whoever else gets in range,
Inwardly they love it, as it gets them

in their Christian guilt glands, they
failed with Bill Rambeau. The follow-
ing day I am told by another faculty
member, Larry Herbert, that Bill's
wife didn't even leave the house after
being in Ledo awhile. Poor Bill shopped
and cooked for the family. The worst

of it--a sorry faculty party scene, Ram-
beau arriving Grunk, chumming it up in
a way no one expected, smooching on the
department members’ wives. Next day
at work he is cold as a pickle.

The Sumpers are less sympathetic. Wolf
Rambeau is rejected at school because of
his unusual name, short for Wolfgang.
Jerri blurts, ''Can you imagine naming
an innocent child Wolfgang? "

We leave the house. Hearing Rambeau’s
story was like seeing myself in a peculiar
mirror. I felt my mind had been read,
that they‘d whiffed my Rambeau madness
and were trying to scare me off. The
story is absurd--a stranger from far off

comes to town claiming he is God, then
is cast out by the citizenry. The cliches
again. My wife andI giggle over it.

As a writer I am a voyeur and love peep-
ing into the bowels of confession. But I
am also horrified and pissed over what
happened to the Rambeaus. My impulse
is to call Dale Sumper, cancel the inter -
view and wail back down the interstate.

I don’t follow the impulse. I am still
desperate for a job. Ann and I arrive at
the hotel. We pass a plaque in the hall-
way with the words "God don't make no
junk" written on it. In our room, under
a picture of majestic mountains and a

brook threading through a stand of timber,

we fall asleep.

I wake at 7:30. We give our key to a man
who sits in the hotel office, listening to

PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 5

I méet other department members.

Larry Herbert, ex-salesman, greets

me at the threshold of his office. Over
his desk is displayed a black light poster.
A girl interrupts our conversation. She
stands in the doorway, which is always
open. Larry smiles over his shoulder

at her and asks if she needs help, She
says she just stopped by to say hello.
After she's gone, Larry tells me the
staff must often function as quasi-coun-
sellors, Positive-thinking signs hang  ~
everywhere, Orange-colored, have-a-
happy -day faces smile at you. The joy
is too much.

I remember nothing of the third depart-
ment member but his brown suit and
his arms folded over his chest,

Last year, to boost interest in the Eng-
lish department, these three men posed
around a pool table in gangster suits for
a departmental brochure with a Bonnie
and Clyde theme. Everyone agreed it
was real cute,

The three department members inter-
view me in a large room in the student
union. Respectability is the theme of

the interview. I ask howI can be respec-

table and teach a course on the Sixties,
Rude Mick Jaggar, faggoty Allen Gins-
berg, caustic Leroi Jones--60's shout-
ers--these people ain't respectable or
nice, Wouldn't these horrify, cause
anger, raise ghosts of Rambeau? I get
no satisfactory answer to that question.
I am told that "discretion" will guide
me.

The Sixties I know did not happen in
Ledo. Neither Woodstock nor Gimme
Shelter ever played there. :

a religious broadcast. We eat at the same I am brought back to the president. He

diner as the night before.

reminds me that the work week is, indeed
along one. My starting salary: $9000.

Dale Sumper greets me in the administra- Leaving his office, I know him as little

tion building of the college. A butterfly

of a bow tie hovers at the throat, his white

shoes shine in the flourescence, a slick
cracker he is. In the president's office
we wait on a leather couch. I feel sick
and small, like a poorboy.

The president addresses us in his office,
his topic, the attractions of Ledo. The
town is growing, a new industrial park
planned south. No one fails at Ledo
Juco, no F's are given. No courses
required, Ledo is for the student, not
the teacher or administrator, so stu-
dents drop courses any time in the se-
mester. This pandering liberalism,
based on the pragmatics of swelling
enrollment (to keep the student or his
money give him an F in your mind only)
disgusts me, The president is happy,
progressive-thinking, and intellectually
terminated,

as when I arrived,

Ann andI stop at a Dairy Queen before
leaving town. It is run by an old man
with skin the color of baby powder, liver
spots on the backs of his hands, He
wears a chocolate smudged apron and
sunglasses, He serves us sundaes in
little cups. Ann andI step outside, We
drown in the scorching sun. We drive

to the interstate. A mile east, I spota
dead snake on the road's shoulder, -

It makes you sorry to find people and
stereotyped situations meshing so
comfortably. It's downright scary when
you find people's attitudes about person-
al differences in style to be rigid as :
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I probably wouldn't have taken it anyway.
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CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER--A
pre-school, day-care and nursery school
for working parents; mostly for low-
income families.

Gale Bullock 1000 Kentucky 841-2185

CLOTHING ROOM, PTA--Clothing and
volunteers needed to keep all school chi-
ldren adequately clothed.

Barbara Willits 1000 Kentucky Mail to:
1205 Delaware 842.2713

DISTRICT # 497--Provides reading, tu
toring and classroom helpers. The Cor-
dley School provides special education
for retarded children,

2017 Louisiana 842-6222 Extension 88

EDNA HILL CHILD DEVELOPMENT

PRE -SCHOOL~-Needs drivers to bring

children to school.

Judith LeBlanc Haworth Hall 864-4840

YELLOW BRICK ROAD FREE PRE -

SCHOOL~-Provides an alternative form

of education for pre-school children.

Eloise Halepaska 2312 Harvard Road
843-9491

Mike Efron 2312 Harvard Road
843-2978

 

 

 

UNITED WHEELS --Will Provide speci-
alized transportation for emergencies
if 40 volunteers are found to be on call,
drive out of town, or volunteer services
monthly.

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SMALL WORLD, INC. --A non-sectarian
volunteer organization designed to help
international women and their pre-school
‘children learn English, foster friendships
and acquaint themselves with Lawrence.

Shirley Reese 842-9950

HEADQUARTERS, INC.~-A 24-hour cr-
isis center; phone or walk-in, Volun-
teers are needed for office work and to _
answer the phone. Training provided to
volunteers.

Marie Willis 812 Shelburn 842-8073
Meets at the First Presbyterian Church

Jim Supica 1602 Massachusetts 841-2345

ECKAN MULTIPURPOSE CENTER--
Volunteers needed for special proiects
working with low-income families to im-
prove their housing, etc. /

 

BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER --
Serves the needs of low-income families
of the: Lawrence community; provides 3
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scouting, nutrition, Black history, : re 4
counselling, meeting places, services
for the elderly, emergency food supplies
and youth services

Greg Stock 710 Massachusetts 841-3357

Cynthia Turner &Betty Dutton 708 Elm
842-0729

HOsf FAMILY PROGRAM --Introduces
foreign students to American family life,

Barbara &George Puckett 842-0015

RING-A -DAY --Provides shut-ins with
visits and phone calls.

OPERATION FRIENDSHIP --Needs volun-
teers to help foreign students in Intensive
English.

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Ben Broome 2500 W. 6th 841-5783 843 -3887

     

 

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BERT. NASH MENTAL HEALTH CEN-
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(marital, family, and individuals). Vol-
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one-to-one supportive friendships.

Frances Macauley 4th & Missouri
842-3531 or 842-9192

COTTONWOOD, INC, -- Traing,phy-
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Volunteers assist staff in workshc

 

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families. Volunteers prepare dressings ...
and transport patients for treatment in
Topeka and Kansas City.

Georgann Stevens 3145 W. 3l1st
842-0550

Evelyn Hastings 1402 W. 3rd 843-3673

AMERICAN RED CROSS -- Provides a
way for people to serve in the tradition-
al role of neighbor helping neighbor.
Volunteers help in bloodmobile drives,
nursing, education, and saftey cam-
paigns.

Jo Byers Community Bldg., 115 W. lth
843 -3550

DOUGLAS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR
RETARDED CITIZENS -- Provides
coaching for recreational gym nights
and special olympics. Provides roller
skating parties and movies for which
volunteers are needed.

Judy Wetherby 639 Alabama 843.4289
Sharon Aikins, President 842-1296

EAST LAWRENCE CENTER -- Provides
supervised free play for youngstefs of
school age Ist thru 8th grade. Afternoon
and all day during the summer

Harold Cook 10th and Delaware
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Indian people who might be in need, es-
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also proviies nursery school,

Theodore White, Jr. 1912 Mass.
842-4439 or 841-3943

PENN HOUSE --» Provides self-help pro-
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~-Provides day care for children of wor»

DOUGLAS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR
RETARDED CHILDREN --Aimed at filli-
ng the needs of parents who have retard-
ed children, Volunteers are needed as
drivers.

Mrs. John Baughman 3309 W. 8th
841-2263

 

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-- Provides
a number of programs to teach leader -
ship and citizenship to boys. Volunteers
are needed for leaders and to teach spe-
cialized skills.

Dwight Burnham 1051 Wellington Road
843 - 4341

 

    

 

PUBLIC NOTICE

 

HEADST ART --Plymouth Community
Children's Center provides day care for
children of low-income, working moth-
ers,

Cathy Swanson 925 Vermont 842-2515

GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL--Provides girls
with leadership and citizenship training,
Volunteers are needed to be scout lead-
> ers and to teach specialized skills,
Betty Dunhaupt 527 Pioneer Read
862-5427

 

HILLTOP CHILD CARE CENTER--Pro-
vides care for children ages 1 to 6 of KU
students, staff and faculty.

Joan Reiber 1314 Oread 864-4940
LAWRENCE COOPERATIVE NURSERY

SCHOOL -- Provides low-cost nursery
school with parent involvement,

Barbara Porto 645 Alabama 842-0064

 

 

REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES SER -
VICE--A group of therapists and volun-
teers who work to improve rehabilitation
in rest homes and private homes,

CHERRY MANOR~-Home for the care of
the aged; seeks to provide a comfort-
able place for the elderly. Volunteers
visit with residents, bringing outside
contact,

Lorita Whitaker 2627 Manor Terr.

Mrs, Ning Jordan 3015 W, 3l1st 842-3991

 

 Sovetmini and institutions seem to get all the attention.
ibovealése. Lots of people are involved in less visible

d to setepeople's individual needs, One thing which they
i mongy,ie need for volunteer help, and an abundance of
mnvunily

use, ali year-old community organization, has taken
rdinlind tie collection of the material on this LF
id, th, phone numbers change, So if you eo
lisiel@iis page, get in touch with the Volun--

Othedety Courthouse, at lth and Mass (\e
yleleiwe at 841-5059. If you would like ear?
‘job. triyou would like to find a way to get En 2
ithers,@inow of those who could provide any kind of help,
03 wells .

,
mers iu aoe rns wae

yeu’, biving a Christmas party for resident children in
ioht nrisa host of toys -new, used andor repairable, If
awrent@stin, 843-2207, or the Clearinghouse, 841 -5059

 
   
   
   
  
 

842-7282

 

e for el-
derly persons; some disabled. Volun.:
teers work in Wednesday morning clinic
for those over 60, and with catered food
service,

Violet Fleming 1700 Massachusetts
842.8358

COUNCIL FOR SERVICES TO THE
AGING: Endeavors to identify needs of
the aged, and secure the means to
meet these needs. Bus 62 (transpor-
tation) and Congregate Meals are two
on-going »programs,
erly.
-Cal Broughton Community Bldg.
Gail Mayo 15 W. lth 842-0543

 

‘SAMARITAN LODGE --Provides care for
the aged. Volunteers visit with the eld-

Mrs. Elliott 205 N. Michigan 843-8934

VALLEY VIEW -- Provides care for the
aged and seeks to make a home away
from home.

Dorothy Nice 2518 Ridgecourt 842-5292
WAKARUSA MANOR-- Provides nursing

care for the elderly; seeks to maintain
as much in health care as possible,

Calore Gable 1800 W. 27th 842-4383

SUNFLOWER PROJECT -- Provides
services for residents of Sunflower Vil-
lage (now Clearview City) in education
and recreation.

Paul Brotsman School of Social Welfare
864-4720 or 864-3712

 

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPART -

for persons throughout the year. Vol-
unteers are needed in many areas, in-
cluding sports, teaching and crafts.

a Fred DeVictor 910 Mass,
: 843-4600 Extension 72 or 73

_ EXTENSION SERVICES, DOUGLAS
COUNTY -.-Provides up-to-date ed-.
ucation information in fields of agricul-
tur, community development, home ec-
\[JOnomics and youth groups.

 
   
  

Oletha Blevins 645 N.H. 843-7058

 

MENT -.. Provides recreational activities

  

KANSAS BOARD OF PROBATION AND
PAROLE -- Helps parolees find jobs and
housing

A. D. Davidson Cty. Court House, llth
an’ Massachusetts 842-3884

GOOD CHEER-- Provides monuiis p 7+
ties for elderly and handicapped , a
Drivers are needed to provide trans; r-
tation to the First Presbyterian Church,

Shirley Wilcox 527 Pioneer R:
843-0217

 

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AWS

WHOMPER RECLAIMATION. CENTER --
Newspapers only, and provides pick-up
service to some points. Contact Cotton-
wood, Inc. , for pick-up or bring papers
to Center at 6th and New Hampshire.

Arly Allen 842-1732
Mary Louise Wright 843-0008

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Food "

CONGREGATE MEAIS --Catered meals
at four sites for those over 60 years old.’

  
    
   

BIG BROTHER/BIG SISTER PROGRAM - Goat Mayo, Bat (2 ec

~ Provides friends for grade school age
children. Ry
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SALVATION ARMY ~-Provides emergency
food, clothing, lodging and transportation
as well as volunteer services such as tu-
toring, senior citizen activities, telepho-
ning, and camp activities.

Mike Bryant 864-5726
Sally Hayden 843-8255

 

Capt. Howard Chase 843-4188
Linda Farve 946 New Hampshire.

CONSUME] PROTECTION ASSOCIATION -
ON--Checks complaints and seeks to
bring them to a conclusion; makes price
comparisons.

Carol Strohbehn
Union 864-3963

Room 299 Kansas

AUDIO-READER -- Provides blind and
physically handicapped persons with in-
formation and pleasures thru reading
by volunteers on the radio.

MEALS ON WHEELS --Serves balanced,
nutritious meals to the elderly and hand-
:icapped in their homes. Drivers and su-
bstitutes needed.

Rosie Hurwitz Sudler House 864-4600

 
     
 

PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 8

>, «ay Energy Decisions

a: Since that time, we have re- People are capable of making decesions about energy=
related issues, particularly those which most closely
affect our lives.

    
 

 
   

CAre you tired of watching your utility bills go up to make some changes. ;
ana up--and up? Have you ever wondered what the searched many energy issues, intervened in Kansas
dy "Feel Adjustment Clause" on your electricity bill Power and Light rate increase hearings, built a li-

ns? Are you tired of hearing about higher oil brary dealing with energy issues, put out a monthly : :
ey ee a ae pay ine. and See for energy newsletter, and worked to stop the construct- pec Pages» WO would like to share with you er /
gasoline? Do you sometimes wonder about the safe- ion of a proposed nuclear power plant at Burlington, of the Aithige we We learned these past months. There
Bey of nuclear power plants ? Kansas. is much more to learn and much work to be done be-
, fore we can have meaningful input into energy policy;
d It hasn't been easy. Most of us are workers and stu- Please joinus, We meet every Sunday evening at

eae ee ee ection dents. All of us are volunteers, Yet one conclusion 6:30 PM at the ECKAN center at 710 Massachusetts
about energy formed the Peoples Energy Project, in We have reached through all our efforts is that people Street. If you can't come by, then please write to us

an effort to find the answers to these questions, and an become knowledgeable about energy , and that at Post Offiee Box 423, Lawrence, Kansas, 66044.

GasGuzzlers | Organizing to Keep Rates Down |

r rice of gasoline is going up. ast November, when the Peoples Energy Pro- costs to the hearing site just to be there. As for lo-
monen ea od Calton get Suse This high ject heard that the Kansas Power and Light company cation, wa should all the hearings souls ee nee in
price hurts the people's standard of living--all for the (KP&L) wanted to raise electricity rates by 13%, we ee en ees ae ie in o eae es
profit of big oil stockholders (such as Vice-president decided to organize customers to fight it. Before a ve a : ates ; He ae e a e nee et 5
Rockefeller), President Ford says he wants the price utility company is allowed to raise your rates, it note me oa oA a eS oe an ae ea + ,
of gas and oil to go up so people will buy less gas, must first get permission from the Kansas Corpor~ ee fo . Re opeka,. is made things a to
thereby easing our dependence on foreign oil imported ation Commission (KCC). The KCC is a board of simpler for the utility.
into the United States. In reality, Ford wants tode- three nae te eee eae _ oot
crease our need for foreign oil without decreasin: level, who claim e a neutral re ry body. ? 3
those high profits. Higher prides seem to have Teas But our attempts to participate in-the rate increase comprise the KCC that slants the content of rate in-
little reduction in gasoline demand, since most work-, hearings showed us that instead of being neutral, the crease hearings in favor of utilities. Rather, it was
ers and students have little alternative to using cars KCC officials had a clear interest in protecting the the nature of the intervention process itself. The

: ~ utilit th ry beginning. KCC did not want People's Energy Project to inter -
for transportation. pitndes fom Ie vent ee ee vene as a group, but asked that they come to protest

as individuals. Knowing that people will have more

  
 

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It is not merely the bias of the three individuals who

WE SHOULD CUT BACK on gasoline use, both toim- First of all, the rate increase hearing was held dur~ é \
prove air quality, and to coneehwe oil resources. The ing the daytime in Topeka. How can the public have Be and influence when they are united, we demand-
United States consumes 33% of the world’s energy, an equal chance with KP&L executives. to attend these ee the right to represent ourselves not as a fragment~
while it has only 6% of the world's population, This hearings, when most of us cannot afford to miss days © 7 ee eS as a single organization. At this point,

can*t continue, The "third world" people (Africa, at work or school to participate? TheKP&Lexec- the i C said that we might not be allowed to intervene
Asia, Latin America, etc.) are beginning to demand _utives get paid, while the public has to pay (both the at all because we were not an incorporated group, In-

their fair share of natural resources. executive s’ salaries, and their own transportation corporation costs are: high, aud demands aeag daa)
of paper work before the process can :be completed.

Why should it cost money just to be heard? Although

: t ‘ ‘ = P.E.P. felt competent enough to present our own case
President Ford's plan of forced gasoline savings by : ; :

ing worker d the r with higher pri d and cross-examine witnesses, the KCC demanded that
Oe een Bee Seep gee ee our group be represented by a lawyer. Luckily, we

its, a hi |
profits, The burdvn thus falls on those least able to | DO YOU KNOW ? were able to find a lawyer who volunteered to work

pay. Instead, we advocate the provision of low-cost i ;

fuel-efficient transportation to replace Detroit's Hi || without a fee.
current over-priced gas-guzzlers, Alternatives in- | !
clude trains, bus lines, subways, smaller cars with | |
more efficient engines, bicycles, and others. While
gasoline savings are being realized by these methods, | |
the government can roll back ‘the price of oil to meet

  
 
 

THE PEOPLE'S ENERGY PROJECT totally rejects

 

 

||. P.E,P recommended at the hearings that a feasibility
i study be done on equalized and/or inverted rate...
-structures for utilities, The KCC responded thatit
‘was beyond their power to do such a study. The KCC ~

KWH --Kilowatt hour; the basic unit of electrical
|energy equal to one kilowatt of power supplied
|to or taken from an electric circut steadily for

the lower level of demand. Large gasoline savings TORS hour. ‘| is the only body in the State of Kansas that has the
could strike a tremendous blow against pollution, since || | é i power to regulate and investigate utilities operating
for most vehicles more gas burned means more ex- _| | KW --Kilowatt; 1,000 watts. within the State. If such a study is not within their —

haust emmisions, Also, the contrived need for dan- ; it of ieor
gerous and expensive nuclear power plants would \Watt--The electrical unit of power, or rate o

|
evaporate if the demand for fossil fuels (such as gas, |||0ing work. It is similar to horsepower or f0ee
coal and oil) were relieved. pounds per minute of mechanical power. Be |

power, then to whom does this responsibility belong ?

The hearings finally ended in a KCC-sanctioned 8. 4%
rate increase, rather than the 13% originally request-
ed, The KCC and its staff could not be expected to —
deny the whole increase request because by law they —
are directed to grant a utility company a fair rate of oes

‘Fuel Adjustment Clause--The federal law that
IN THE BIG CITIES, the focus must be to switch from \allows utility companies to pass along, automat-

   
 
    

single -occupant auto commuting to convenient inex- _. | |ically, the increasing costs of the raw materials ae s Ses
-pensive mass transit. Only by this method can the used in the production of electricity or heat. ae ae ae a oe
‘city air be cleaned and open spaces protected from the Thus, your utility bill may rise steadily from owned (private) utilities as the . est wavis aieceeee
on-slaught of new free-ways. The new Bay Area Rap-: month to month, while never hearing ofarate | energy needs of the public y :

id Transit system (BART) in San Francisco points the increase. : :

way forward. Yet it still has many problems, and \ 114 A Poi ee

was developed by private capital solely for profit. ||| BTU --British Thermal Unit; The standard unit ||; ee oe one ee ee eRe i
New rail systems like the BART and the Washington, ||) used for measuring the quantity of heat energy, 8 g OEE OC oes

Al | terests j i
D.C. subway system will take time and large amounts || such as the heat-producing content of fuel. It ey meets toes ele a Sy etete ee ;
e el : 1} monetary profits more important than people's basic: '
of money to complete. Money for such projects could 4 is the amount of heat energy necessary to raise 2 \, needs Energy is one of these needs: We just 7
be obtained by an extra "waste" tax on manufacturers 4% the tempreture of one pound of water one degree j8\}. get by without it. We dtust edie to ativod a aa nes
and dealers of gas-wasting new cars. Until these new wv Wahrenheit. ‘ issue, rte dade and jexenoite ei aE ae ohh ee beste
rapid transit systems are constructed, emphasis must (/@4== that we ioht find : re gee
be placed upon improved bus service, as.in Kansas Sa ae t we might find a better way of doing things.
City. Even so, many areas on the Kansas side of the
Kansas City metropolitan area cannot be reached

after dark, Currently, the Area Transportation oF e@ @ se
Authority fare is 20¢ higher on the Kansas side, due t it Uu t oO Over= He
to the lack of a sales tax subsidy. Such a tax could ;

 

 

     

 

 
 

benefit everyone in the city. It would reduce traffic

and pollution, making the city that much more livable. Ti tS He mee.

But again, the tax should be shouldered by the real tility rates in Kansas weigh heaviest on those use- use more electricity, who have electric Tanges;: elec- =
culprits, the large-car manufacturers and large-car ing the least amount of electricity. A family at or tric water heaters, and electric space heaters. People
dealerships. q- near the poverty line may be paying over twice as who live in all-electric homes get.the cheapest res-

much as much per.KWH under Kansas Gas and Elec- idential rates of all. Thisiis ridiculous , since all-
tric Co. rates than an industrial or big commercial electric homes and electric heating systems waste

   
   

  

is ae i ae user. (They would pay close to a penny more than much more energy than coal, oil; or gas heating sys-
j j i) Seve (5 these users under Kansas City Power and Light and tenis. >
SNE ASR Kansas Power and Light). 3 j
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J e . Listed below are average costs per KWH for residen-
— ETAL ITS Le tial, commercial, and industrial users under KG&E,
tee Cc ge? KP&L, and KCP&L,.
KG&E KP&L KCP&L
FOR SMALLER TOWNS LIKE LAWRENCE, the focus Residential 2.17¢ /KWH 2,87¢ /KWH 3.02¢ /KWH

will shift to smaller fuel-efficient cars, motorcycles,

minibuses with variable stops, and good old human Commercial 2.24¢ /KWH 1.94¢ /KWH 2.57¢ /KWH

self-propulsion, Since mass transit will have limited

patronage in small towns, citizens will have to be Industrial 1,24¢ /KWH 1.28¢/KWH 1.58¢ /KWH

given incentives to drive Chevetts, VW Rabbits, Toy-

otas, etc., or to simply drive less, It willbe safer The largest industrial users are paying at or below

to drive these cars, motorcycles and bicycles once _the cost of electricity production (1.45¢, according to ; ‘

the oversized junk now coming out of Detroit is forced KG&E), In Kansas, industry uses the most electricity Ziectricity rate structures are grossly discriminatory. —

off the road, Bike paths and special bike lanes will _ and pays the least of any group rate. They are the ~The more electrical appliances you can afford to buy _

have to be built, as suggested by City Commissioner most wasteful, and contribute to the problem of cost- anduse, the less you pay for power. Electric utility

Carl Mibeck. ly peak loads (higher costs caused by the use ofin- Tatesalso promote waste because they encourage the
: efficient fuels during periods of high demand). The inefficient use of energy in exchange for cheaper pow-

ITS YOUR CITY, your future and your mode of trans-= higher rates paid by residential users, in effect, sub-€T- Wasteful and discriminatory energy policies such ~

portation. Don*t be content to let Some planning sidize these large users. as these affect you directly--through your wallet. I'ts

commission decide the future for you. Get involved time that we all get to gether and demand a little

and take a stand. The utilities give cheaper rates to those residents who shake-up among the energy producers for our town.

 

 

 

 
‘there is a rapidly diminishing supply of the fuels needed to satisfy these de-

fifty years or so. There won't be any more large discoveries of petroleum, as

thatit is estimated that the facility would have to run at full capacity for ten years

for only a small number of uses, such as lighting and powering appliances and

were a way, the transportation and reprocessing segments of the nuclear fuel

chave very serious consequences for the environment.

 

PUBLIC NOTICE PAGE 9

 

BLESSINGS OF EMPTINESS

I he People's Energy Project is concerned with energy issues. One of
the most important of these issues surrounds the construction of the proposed
nuclear power plant to be located near Burlington, Kansas, a small town about
sixty miles southwest of Lawrence. The issue is not merely whether Kansas
should get its electricity from burning coal, the traditional method, or from the
fissioning of uranium-235, as in the nuclear power plant. Instead, the most im-
portant issue is a moral one; that being what sort of a world we want to leave
to our children and their descendants. P.E.P. feels that nuclear power will be
an insufferable burden to generations to come, that there is no reason why we
need such plants, that we should abandon the nuclear experiment and turn to the
sun for our energy supply. But to back up a little, we should look to see why
nuclear power is being considered as the nation’s principle source of electricity
for the forseeable future.

OUR CURRENT SITUATION IS THIS: The population of the world, and, to a less-
er degree, the United States, is increasing sharply. Even if we were to attain

a zero-population growth rate tomorrow, our population would continue to grow.
The demand for energy has been increasing also, although a sharp decline in the
rate of that growth occured last year. In the face of this growth in demand,

mands. Natural gas and petroleum reserves are not expected to last more than

everyplace suspected of containing oil has already been surveyed. Even a major
find would last only a few years, at our present rate of consumption. Our coal
could last us a few hundred years, but it is also a non-renewable resource.

Much of that coal is accessible only through the strip-mining of our western
lands, Many feel thatit is a crime for us to waste fossil fuels that have so many
other uses besides the gross production of electricity or the propulsion of auto-
mobiles.

NUCLEAR POWER IS SEEN by its proponents as a means of decreasing our con-
sumption of fossil fuels while producing energy in a non-polluting fashion. The
People’s Energy Project feels that this assessment is incorrect. The constrict-
tion of a nuclear facility and the production of its uranium fuel requires immense
expenditures of energy, mostly from fossil fuels. So much energy is needed,

before it became a net producer of energy(for an average-sized plant), Thusa
rapid development of many nuclear power plants would increase our consumption
of fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants only produce one useable form of energy:
electricity. Electricity is a very high-quality form of energy that is best suited

machinery. The bulk of our energy needs (industry, space heating) require only
low-grade power and heat which is much more efficiently supplied by burning fos-’
sile fuels on the site than by "electric resistance" heating. Nuclear power does
not create the kind of pollution we normally hear about, The fission process pro-
duces highly radioactive wastes that must be completely isolated from the en-

vironment for at least 800 years. No one yet knows how to do this. Even if there

cycle are still quite vulnerable to human error, and acts of malice that would

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(translation) “Presumably a shrine for one of their primitive religious cults.”

IT HAS BEEN STATED that nuclear power plants are an unimaginative solution
to the energy crisis; not because the technology is simple--far from it. Its most
serious shortcoming is its failure to change peoples patterns of energy con-
sumption. If we do not halt the growth in energy demand, which is at the root of
our problem, then we will ultimately fail to solve the energy crisis. We can
either choose to conserve now and make a controlled transition to a steady-state
economy, or be coerced into strict conservation when the shortages reach true
crisis proportions. P.E.P. believes that a serious program of energy conser ~
vation, which need not lower anyone's standard of living, and intensified devel-
opment of the various forms of solar energy are the keystones of a safe and sane
energy base that our posterity would gladly inherit and build upon,

PT Matt

 

 

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_ AN ANNOUNCEMENT

A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT right in our
own back yard? To get the word out on this and
| other utility companies’ plans for our future, the
| People‘s Energy Project has put together a con-

| cise factual presentation on ''Nuclear Power
and its Alternatives. '' Over the last few months,

| we have given our presentation to many local

groups and classes. We would like to come and

| talk with your group. If you don’t have a group,

| just gather together some of your friends and
neighbors. It doesn't cost a cent. Write us at

| P.O. Box 423, or call 841-3364, 842-6344, or
or 843-0502 and let's arrange a time and place.

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ON Saturday, October 18, about 100 people from across the state met on
the Capitol grounds in Topeka to hold a "People's Energy Hearing."' The hear-
ing was held in response to the restrictive nature of the current run of hearings
conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the proposed nuclear react-
or slated for Burlington, Kansas.

The hearing focused upon opposition to that plant‘s construction. Other energy
issues, such as solar and wind power, utility rate structures, and public owner-
ship of utilities were also discussed. Several speakers participated, including
Dr. J, K. Frenkel from Overland Park, Bill Ward from Lawrence, and Ilene
Younghein from Oklahoma City. Others present took advantage of an open mic-
rophone session to voice their opinions, There was also an entertaining and
educational puppet show entitled "Burnt Toast: Trouble in the Nations Bread-
basket. "' It starred Nuke, the monster with the poisonous kreath, and Leon, the

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~*- What You Pay, What You Get ~*~

Cin groups around the country are trying to
change the discriminatory and wasteful rate struc-
tures used by electric utilities, such as Kansas Gas
and Electric, Kansas Power and Light, and Kansas
City Power and Light. Following are some of the
ideas that groups are coming up with to make utility
rates more equitable and more representative of the
cost of energy used...

EQUALIZED, OR FLAT RATE STRUCTURES: Under

100 KWH's, 1.8 cents per KWH for the next 100
KWH's, andonup. This type of rate structure would
especially encourage industry to conserve energy.

LIFELINE RATES: Lifeline service would guarantee
a minimum amount of electricity required for basic
needs at a low, constant monthly cost. For example,

you would receive 400 KWH's per month at a max- :

imum charge of $10.00. This would not be affected
by rises in fuel costs or rate increases. This type of
reform is especially important to low-income users

this system, everyone would pay the same amount per who might soon see electricity priced right out of

KWH no matter how much or how little electricty is
used, While residential, commercial and industrial
users might continue to pay three different rates,
there would be no preferential cheaper rates within
these three divisions. If you used twice as much
electricity as your neighbor, you would pay twice as
much,

INVERTED RATE STRUCTURE: The way rates are

‘set up now, the more electricity you use, the less

you pay per KWH. Under inverted rates, the more
electricity you use, the more you would pay per KWH.
So, you might pay 1.5 cents per KWH for the first

Wf

Cyan we expect utility companies to willingly limit
their own profits out of concern for the health, saftey
and pocketbooks of Kansans? Right now, the three
largest utilities in the state, Kansas Power and Light,
Kansas City Power and Light, and Kansas Gas and
Electric, are investor (or privately) owned. The
companies are owned by their stockholders, who en-
joy a state-granted monopoly to supply energy to cer-
tain sections of the state, Investor-owned utilities’
first priority is to increase their stockholders pro-
fits our energy needs take a back seat.

By eliminating the investor-owned system of energy
production, and thereby the utilities’ growth-at-any -
cost logic, Kansans could take a first step towards
cheaper power. Replacing the profit-first logic with
a rational plan for the use of our limited natural re-
sources is essential. One such plan is called Public
Power.

One of the first steps which could be taken under Pub-
lic Power would be the redesign of rate structures so
that everyone is paying the actual cost of the produc-

tion of energy. Once rate structures are reformed to

their reach.

PEAK LOAD PRICING: During the summer months,
utilities experience peak load, or maximum demand
(due primarily to air-conditioning). When this hap-
pens, utilities must put into service less efficient
(and therefore more costly) electric plants to meet
this peak load. The usual reason utilities give for
building new plants is that their peak load has in-
creased, Peak load pricing involves raising the rates
during those months when utilities are experiencing
their peak loads. This system would discourage the

there Is

an answer
THE CHOICE IS OURS

towards more human labor, rather than dependency
upon machines), then we will see that we dont need
any more large nuclear power facilities. Nuclear

excessive use of electricity during periods of great-
est demand, and hopefully reduce the demand for new
electric plants. However, if this increased rate
were applied only to residential users, it would re-
sult in even more discriminatory rates than present-
ly exist.

ELIMINATION OF THE FUEL ADJUSTMENT
CLAUSE: The Fuel Adjustment Clause allows an
electric utility to pass on rising fuel costs to its cus-
tomers without filing for a rate increase. Some
groups that are working to have the Fuel Adjustment
Clause eliminated think that the Clause gives utilities
the chance to get around the regulatory process, The
Clause also reduces a utility's incentive to minimize
costs.

These are just a few of the plans that energy groups
across the country are working on. Would you like

to see one or more of them working in Lawrence ?
You can contact the Peoplés Energy Project if you
would like more information about it. You can also
start talking to your friends and neighbors about these
ideas. It's probably the best way we can begin to
make some changes...

it be in coal, gas, oil, Or uranium. More rational
technologies could be pursued that would procure safe
power for everyone. Energy production could be de-
centralized by using solar and wind technologies to
heat and cool our homes, Our "energy experts" have
not bothered with these resources up to now, because
they could not bottle up the sun and sell it. Since Pub-
1i€ Power would be more concerned with human needs,
it could favor a balanced system of energy production,
one which would promote conservation instead of
waste, while combing all the potential alternatives

for a better way to produce power in the public inter’-
est.

Best of all, no new laws are needed to legally reform

power is a total waste of our money, since these plants the system of energy production in Kansas, A simple

are proving unworkable, and threaten the health and
safety of people throughout the state. Here again,
the stockholders need for a profit overrides the glar-
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The greatest benefit of Public Power to a community
such as Lawrence would be its inventiveness. Policy
could be formulated by all sectors of society in town,

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W..: is it that makes a neighborhood a good place
in which to live?

Many. “factors could be included. If one were to
make a list, it would probably include quality housing,
good neighbors, safe streets, good recreational areas
for play. ~ For people with children, good schools
wouldbe included in this list.

New York grade school, located on the 900 block of
New York Street in East Lawrence, for example, is

of central importance to the health and well-being of
that neighborhood, If any neighborhood is to survive
over the long run, it must continually attract young
people who are willing to buy and live in the neighbor-
hood. People intending to establish a home and family
want their children to have good elementary schools

in close proximity; a safe walking distance from home.

Unfortunately, the demise of the school, and perhaps
the neighborhood, due to construction of the proposed
Haskell Loop, is on the horizon. Increased traffic
loads on 9th and lith Streets, as well as continuing
traffic on Conneticut Street, will soon serve to isolate
the school in an area to be bounded on the east by the
Loop itself, The Loop will have access points at these
streets, causing the increased traffic flow. Sucha
potential safety hazard can only serve to hurt the
school.

Yet the prime effect of the Loop will be felt in the
area of housing. The road will initially destroy 27
houses lying in its path. Twenty-six other houses will
be isolated in an industrial zone, north of 7th Street
and east of Pennsylvania Street. To replace the de-
molished ball park at llth and Delaware, and the iso-
lated playlot and community center, the City has pro~
posed a expansion eastward of the New York School
yard across New Jersey Street, to abut with the Loop.
This will take out 9 more homes, Add to this total
(over sixty homes) 10-15 others which will be left in the
unenviable position of facing the roadway on the west,
or residential side

On top of all this wanton destruction, the Loop will di-
rectly threaten ’the future residential viability of the |
entire area north of 9th Street and east of New Hamp-
" shire (more commonly known as the "east bottoms").
The area has recently been zoned residential, a move
supposedly designed to help get the neighborhood back
onits feet. Yet, ironically , the Loop will only
serve to make a mockery of this act, by making the
area economically more attractive to business and
industry. The back-zoning (from commercial and in-
dustrial to residential) will only serve to drive down
the value of property, which had been fairly high until
recently, due to the industrial zoning, which emerged
from the 1964 Comprehensive Plan for the City. The
area is in pretty bad shape right now, and is not at-
tractive as a good residential section. The Loop will
be a major arterial roadway which will empty into the
heart of the east bottoms, at 7th and Conneticut. Once
built, it will offer access to tractor-trailer traffic to

  

Re cenuiy City Hall has announced that it will
initiate a housing rehabilitation program for East and
North Lawrence, as well as other areas in need. The
program has been creeping along for some time, in-
volving only a few homes to date. Now the City will
attempt to get funds from the Community Development
Act, a federal law passed last year which distributes
money to localities for their own use. It is something
like the revenue sharing program, only with more
strings attached.

The City is expected to get around $1,700,000 in Com~
munity Development money over the next three years.
Half of this sum is already slated for the building of
the proposed Haskell Loop, a major arterial which
will run from llth and Haskell to 7th and Conneticut.
Most or all of the funding for housing rehabilitation in
Lawrence over the next three years will have to come
from what is left of these funds.

Unfortunately, the City is chasing its own tail in this
case. One gets the feeling that no real gut-level com-
mitment to housing preservation is being made. If

the City was particularly concerned about saving our
older houses, especially in East Lawrence, then such
projects as the Haskell Loop would have received a
closer examination as to its effects upon low-income
older housing. The roadway will eliminate 27 homes
ditectly in its path, as well a isolate another 26 houses
tothe north andeast. The City suggests the destruct-
ion of nine more homes on the 900 block of New Jersey
for an expanded New York School playground area, to
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the area--and not just the type of traffic there now.

It would create even more in the long run, because it
would finally make the east bottoms an attractive and
accessible development. Surely, once the road is in,
the idea of stimulating residential interest in the area
will fall dead. Few would be willing to make the major
investment necessary to really fix up the old homes.
Most living there now could not, if they wanted to. As
old houses continued to deteriorate, and fall, the way
could easily open up for mother rezoning--this time
back to industrial+-by a future City Commission.

The pattern is clear. The Loop can and will, directly
or indirectly, be responsible for the loss of a great
number of homes in East Lawrence. What we are get-
ting into is a sort of a Catch-22. The grade school
can‘t survive without a certain number of children to
support it. Yet, without sufficient housing in the area,
attractive to young families, there will not be enough
places for children to live. Low attendance will force
the school to close, making the whole neighbothood
even less attractive to those seeking to establish a new
home. Already attendance is beginning to drop off,
The school is even now kept open on a "seven year"
plan, which is nearing an end. There is no promise of
its being kept open after this date.

The situation is appalling indeed. The Haskell Loop
is being funded entirely with federal funds, channeled
through a number of complex and confusing programs.
Housing will be bought up and destroyed with the use
of Community Development money. These funds were
intended to go to projects which would develop the
nations communities. In Lawrence, which has re-
ceived a tentative $1,690,000 over a three-year per-

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Where will it all stop? This town is desperately short
of any kind of housing, especially low-income housing.
Talk of rehabilitation is heartening. Obviously, peo-
ple at City Hall recognize these problems. However,
their ability to apply resources effectively is another
problem entirely. Contractors and developers are
much more interested in new housing starts in the sub-

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iod, beginning in fiscal 1974 (starting July lst), it has
been decided by the City to spend fully half of this sum
on various costs for the Loop. What it really amounts
to is a "welfare-for-the- rich" scheme. The funds
slated for the Loop will in effect be used to prime a
“money pump" which will flow for years into the cof-
fers of the rich and the near-rich of the business and
industrial community of Lawrence. Large profits lie
in the wings for those able to exploit the development
potential of land near the roadway.

Itsa travesty of justice. Money which should go to re-
habilitate a low and moderate income neighborhood is
instead being used to threaten and possibly destroy

the area, and in turn, its present and future residents.
It is the duty of our city government to protect the in-
terests of all our citizens, and not simply those priv-
iledged by power, wealth or influence. Of course,

the rhetoric of city officials always alludes to their
good intentions, and there concern for good housing
and good schools. But the people on the east side can-
not always rely on those good intentions. They have
little or no realpower to assert their interests. They
are literally at the mercy of governmental process at
.City Hall. The road, for instance, has been planned
and designed by the Oblinger-Smith consulting firm of
Wichita, all contracted out by the City. Any member
of the general public seeking to question the process
as established by these professional government people
are immediately inundated with a barage of profession-
al jargon, including all sorts of confusing terms,
initials, and program descriptions. If you are not
familiar with their language, then you are lost. Thus
the meaning, purpose and impact of the Haskell Loop
is lost to the public, the residents of East Lawrence,
and even City Commissioners and City officials.

In the end, words don't often carry much weight--but
rather it be who speaks the words and where--that
makes the big difference. To City Planners who would
rather think about building multi-million dollar
bridges and street-widening projects, fixing up East
Lawrence (or any older neighborhood) is not a very
exciting idea. For one thing, there just isn’t alot

of money to be made by anyone in particular by doing
so. There is no catylist, economic or otherwise, to
rebuild the neighborhood. People with means take
care of themselves, and everyone else just gets by as
well as possible.

The preservation of East Lawrence as a good residen-=
tial neighborhood for low and moderate income groups
is a project which must develop and grow in the heart,
more than in the mind. Unfortunately, the last
couple of decades of growth in our town have stripped
much of the heart out of our city government, What

is left of that heart must surely reside in the people

of the greater community. We who advocate a serious
and comprehensive plan for the preservation of East
Lawrence, for many years to come, make an appeal to
these people--to hear our cries, and to try to under-~
stand what kind of problems the people of East Law-
rence are having to face. Please hear us out, and re-
flect upon what you hear. ;

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urbs, where the use of prefabricated parts and poor-
grade materials afford a greater return on investment.
There just isn't any economic motivation to repair old
or small houses, The profits are not there. This
leaves those in need of low-income housing towing the
line for the failure of elected City officials to care-
fully protect existing houses in town.

It's a good thing for the City to begin with this pro-
gram now, before neighborhoods deteriorate further.
Many houses are presently boarder-line cases. They
must be saved now. Every house in this town that
burns, falls down or is torn down needlessly, tends to
drive up tHe pst of Rent for the thousands who live in
rental houses in Lawrence. New housing starts are
of no use to people without the means to pay for con-
struction. And those costs are high. Many people
who are living on middle-class income ($12,000-15,000
per year), with a family of four, have already been
priced out of the new housing market. This leaves
many to battle it out for housing and rent, on a limit-
ed income, ina strictly "sellers" market.

It's not free enterprise. It’s more like the "big
squeeze"' placed upon those least able to pay high rent.
The City must help to protect our houses in Law-
rence, by actively putting their hearts into the process
of rehabilitation. It also must protect the interest of
persons seeking housing, by keeping in tune with
housing problems througtout the city, and providing
long-term solutions to problems which will not create
even greater problems later-on. After all, somebody
is bound to be around here after we are gone.
 

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O N E FOR THE ROA NOTE: This article appeared in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World on the Doth of July, one day before the last
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By Mayor Barkley Clark ing. It is one of only two pieces known to exist, favoring construction of the roadway. The other resides in the

Ae Haskell Loop is not a new idea suddenly man- areas for redevelopment without providing adequate
ufactured by the prior City Commission. It appears substitute housing for those displaced by the project.
as an integral part of the 1964 Comprehensive Plan, Under recently -enacted federal law, every person who
as well as the 1971 Transportation Plan prepared for is forced to move because of a major public improve~
the city by the Planning and Development Department ment funded federally must be given up to 15,000 dol-
of the Kansas Highway Commission. Under a grant lars to buy a safe and comfortable replacement home,
from HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Devel- It is true that some houses along the proposed right-
opment), and with the encouragement of the East of-way, particularly on Pennsylvania, will have to be
Lawrence Improvement Association, the Oblinger - removed for the roadway, But the number is rel-
Smith consulting firm prepared a careful route align- atively small and virtually every house is substandard
ment study; this study was published in January, 1975, 1” terms of the minimum housing code.

and is available for inspection at City Hall. The
Lawrence Community Development Director and his
staff have spent literally hundereds of hours working
on the project to date.

The people I have talked to agreed that removal of
most of these houses is a positive benefit to the area.
Each resident living in one of these houses is provid-
ed with up to $15,000 for replacement housing, not to
mention an automatic $200 "dislocation allowance"
and reasonable movingexpenses. In fact, relocation
costs are a major part of the Haskell Loop budget.
Kyle Andregg,-our talented community development
director, reports that he is receiving excellent re-
sponses in relocating those people living on the right-
of-way.

The Haskell Loop is really misnamed. Only a small
part goes along Haskell, and it is nota “loop” at all,
but a wide, two-lane roadway running from Ith and
Haskell northwesterly to tie into the new bridges at
6th and Massachusetts... Contrary to the ideas held
by some people, the road will not be a big four -lane
Los Angeles freeway. It will be a two-lane road,
something like Conneticut Street, recently improved
by the City. The speed limit will probably be thirty
miles per hour, certainly no greater than thirty-five.
To some extent, it will be a limited-access road; =
proposed access points are 7th, 9th, and llth Streets. |

All of the people relocated thus far have moved to
much better housing than they left and all areappar-
ently satisfied with the program. In fact, brought up

   
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  

There are two promary purposes behind the road:

(1) to provide a thoroughfare which will remove high-
volume traffic from residential streets in East Law-
rence; and (2) to serve as a buffer between residential |
areas to the south and west, and the industrial uses ;
to the north aml east, including the railroad tracks.

As the Oblinger-Smith study points out, reducing the
scope of these two problems will make the residen-
tial neighborhoods of East Lawrence better places in
which to live. The road should attract new develop=
ment and residents into the area. These are major
goals of both the East Lawrence Improvement Assoc -
jation and the Far East Lawrence Improvement
Association. Once K-10 is completed as a four-lane
highway all the way into Kansas City (contracts have
already been let for most of the K-10 project), the
need will be even greater to provide an efficient cor= —
ridor to take traffic across town to the new bridges
at 6th and Mass.

Once the Haskell Loop is completed, it will also pro~
vide substantial benefits for those living in Far East
Lawrence. who desire an efficient way to get down- E
town. In addition, city truck traffic going west from Be 5 ;

the new city garage at llth & Haskell will be attracted : &

away from residential streets. All the planners who i i? re

have looked at the project since 1964 have agreed that ;

Be oie cabeaabatpenedis to LUE MAO: Coe eee
the city of Lawrence. I feel strongly that we should to code, and purchased by individuals who were re-
move ahead with right-of-way acquisition so that the located from Pennsylvania Street. The City Comm-=
roadway can be built within a few years instead of fission has not yet heard one complaint concerning the
later in time, when costs will have soared higher. relocation efforts of the staff.

 

 

A project such as the Haskell Loop could have creat- Some people have suggested that funds used for the
ed serious relocation problems not many years ago. Haskell Loop project would be better spent for hous=

files of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, courtesyof Mr. AlHack. Maybe we'll print his picture next time}

 

bably be paid out of "urban highway" funds which are ©
earmarked for highway construction, and cannot be
used for any other purpose. Second, even though we
could theoretically use all our Community Develop -
ment funds for housing rehabilitation, there is prob-
ably a practical limit to how much rehab the com-=-
munity can "digest" all at once. Lawrence has never
been involved in rehab until very recently.

Our limited experience suggests that many people liv~
ing in substandard homes are reluctant to rehabilitate
their homes if this involves borrowing any maey
(even at very low interest rates) or enforcement of the
housing code. Rehab loans have been available in
East Lawrence for some time, but the takers have
been very few. The City will probably not give out
free rehab grants from Community Development
funds without requiring that part of the rehab cost be
financed by a subsidized loan. It is by feeling that a
simple "give-away" would be an unwise use of tax
funds, and that a combination loan-grant program is”
the best way to proceed. ;

In any case, this Commission is committed to rehab-
ilitation in older parts of Lawrence and we willbe |
spending a great chunk of our Community Development
funds for that purpose. But this is a new program and
should be launched ona scale that is reasonable and

s workable. Better to have a good rehab program on

a smaller scale than a massive program which falls —
flat because it is not properly planned. After the
$600,000 for the Haskell Loop right-of-way acqui-
sition is spent over the next three years, my guess is
that the rehab program will be well enough underway

| that we can begin to channel all subsequent Community

Development funds into rehab.

In conclusion, I should like to emphasize that the Has-
kell Loop is only one element in an over-all effort by
the City to improve East and North Lawrence. The

: down-zoning of residential lots in these areas so that

people can rehabilitate their homes is another tool.
So is the designation of new parks at llth and Haskell,
19th and Haskell, and on Lyons Street in North Law-
rence. So is the completion of Conneticut Street and

- the new stop light at Second and Locust. So is the
* continuing work on the Brook Creek drainage channel.

~ So is the completion of the Mud Creek project. And
_ So are the general revenue sharing funds which have
been distributed to neighborhood associations in East
_ and North Lawrence.

The city staff has already spent a great deal of time

and overhead expense in working on the Haskell Loop
project. Unlike the garage situation, this taxpayer
money would be down the drain if the unanimous de-
cesion of the prior City Commission were suddenly
reversed,

There comes a point at which the city staff gets de -
moralized, and city government gets paralyzed, when
decisions once made are reversed by a constantly
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