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Thursday, July 1, 1976
University Daily Kansan
City requests 'Pedalplan' funds
By DAVID WARD
Lawrence city planners are putting the finishing touches on the proposed "Pedalapia for Lawrence" to be submitted in Department of Transportation by Aug. 1.
Designed by Miles Schachter, a city planner, a "Pededilan" is a five-phase system of bicycle paths connecting the town with local schools, river front and local parks.
If approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately 80 per cent of the estimated $106,000 cost of phase one will come from the Federal government.
SCHACHTER SAID that the government was taking applications from any industry, but it was necessary
funds for ten cities located in the Midwest.
"We don't know what our chancies are, but we hope that the proposal we submit will show the present necessity and the proper planning," Schachter said yesterday.
Schacher said there were currently 19,000 bicycles in Lawrence, well above the national average for a town this size. He also said there would be 30,000 cycles in Lawrence by 1895.
In developing such a comprehensive bicycle plan, Schachter said that it was necessary to analyze where the major obstacles lie in getting the cyclists determine their most frequent destinations.
PHASE ONE of the plan was derived by computing the cost, determining the origin and destination of each segment.
The phase one subsystem will include a path along the east side of Tennessee that will run from 14th St. to downtown Lawrence, as well as a path along the Kansas River levee and across the new bridge that is now under construction.
and taking into account the accessibility to certain areas largely determined by
It will also include a path down 21st St. and around the high school, with another path up to the beach.
Schachter said he also hoped to include rest benches along some of these routes and to provide additional amenities.
SCHACITT SAID that phase one of the system had been selected for more immediate installation in order to make annual costs reasonable.
The other four phases will be implemented as soon as funds become available.
When the system is completed, HOLLOW Complex, Clinton Park, Lyons Park in North Lawrence, Edgeswood Park in East Lawrence and Broken Arrow Park in South Lawrence will all be connected by bike paths.
Schachter said he thought the directness and safety of the new systems would be a priority.
THE PROPOSAL is being reviewed by several interested parties such as the Cream Bicycle Club, who are making suggestions and possible revisions in the present draft before it is submitted to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Reform plans follow sex scandal
By GARY WALLACE
The Kansas congressional delegation's reaction to the recent Washington sex scandals ranges from cries for reform to no comment. Four Republicans were skeptical of the Democrats' proposed reforms, when in telephone interviews recently.
Congressman Larry Winn Jr., R-3rd District, and Keith G. Sebelius, R-1st District, said they had supported reform for the last five years by twice opposing the government's power to revise members' allowances to the House Administration Committee.
Les Rosen, administrative assistant to Rep. Garner E. Shriver, R-4th District, said Shriver also had opposed handing over the authority for adjustment of staff salaries, stationery postage and other expenses to Wayne Hays, Dohio, and his committee.
"I OPPOSED giving this power to the Administration Committee in 1971," Sebelius said. "Along with my other House colleagues from Kansas, with the exception of Mrs. Keyes, I opposed this when it came up again last year."
Rep. Martha Keyes, D-2nd District, was unavailable for comment. However, her office played a tape, recorded last week, in which Keyes called for an immediate investigation into the possible misuse of funds by House members.
Rep. Joe Skubitz, R-5th District, was unavailable for comment. A spokesman for Sen. James Pearson said that the senator had no comment.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., said that the General Accounting Office (GAO) was the best place to periodically check payroll, travel and the expenses he said an employee would have in his position should rest with the GAO and the Integrity Division of the U.S. Justice Department.
plented by Rep. Frank Thompson Jr, Dem.
the new Chair of the Committee,
Administrator of the Committee.
LAST WEEK, House Democrats approved a slate of payroll and expense accounts from 108,000 employees accounting of each House employee's job and limitations on expense accounts, including public disclosure. The reforms also include the addition of 52 new expense accounts to the 14 different expense accounts into four.
The reforms were drafted by a special committee headed by Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wis, who, with two other members, was appointed by speaker Carl Albert, a Democrat.
WNN, SHRIVR and Sebelius support a reform proposal by Rep. John B. Anderson, R-III., that would return the responsibility of House allowances to the full House and authorize a majority of the House to order legislation a misunderstanding of any of its members.
"I think we were faced with a double standard here by letting three men of the Democrats investigate the abuses of the Administration Committee," said Dole. "They were not successful and the Democrats would have raised it. Nixon had done this with Watergate."
The Anderson proposal, along with a recommendation by the Obey committee to create a commission to study comprehensive Fund house-daccounting revisions by December 31, 1977, will require full House action.
house majority leader Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., said last week he would introduce both proposals in the House today. However, Winn said Tuesday that a House colleague had told him that O'Neill would to leave today and thus delay any action.
The Obey committee's recommendations,
having received the approval of the
legislator, will be reviewed.
"The only reform the Democrat proposal is to publish the names of staff members, what positions they hold and where they are located," said S Bellus.
SEBELLIUS SAID figures presented to him at the Conference Tuesday.
changes would actually increase a
$44.96 per month annual allowance from
$44.96 to $79.51 per month.
The changes are designed to save about $4 million by preventing a House member from coming in such as the stationery and travel allowances. The proposed accounting system is so flexible, however, a member might be allowed to spend more money for
"It's time Congress cut back to the bare bones on spending," Sebelius said. "After all, the Congress keeps telling the country to cut back."
Commenting on the proposed reform of the stationery account, Winn said, "The one detail nobody realizes is that we have to pay income tax on the stationery allowance."
WNW ALSO said that the Democratic proposal would actually create a slush fund.
Winn, Sebelius and Dole agreed that the scandal was the result of Democratic control of Congress for more than two decades.
"This would have happened even if the Republicans had held office for that long, because a party in control that long become institutionalized," Sebelius said.
The scandals and the subsequent pleas for reform could have political repercussions
to many.
DOLE SAID there would be no significant political impact from the scandals except that individual members of Congress would have to answer to their continuities and that the respect for Congress would further diminish.
Mail reaction to the scandals was not as great as Winn had hooded.
"It depends whether the Democrats really want reform or are just sending up a smoke screen for the press just before their convention," he said.
"I wish there were more people pushing for reform," Winn said. "I get a lot of 'yougys' mail, which levels all the blame on you guys in Congress." He to explain to two other Republicans not much or I any other. Republican can eat us when the Democrats outnumber us 2 to 1.
Bebelius said the scandal had particularly damaged the reputation of the Capitol Hill office personnel who, he said, were 99 per cent honest and able to type.
Dole and Winn said that 99 per cent of the congressmen were honest and would never allow themselves to become involved in a similar scandal.
Big Nick . . .
From page 3
Nick broke into the big time in '60 with Baltimore and ended in '67 after a try with the Kansas City Ats. He had 61 career starts in the team of the pitching corrs in both leagues.
"Back then who'd ya have?" he asks Joe. "Whitey Ford in the AL, Drysdale and Koutafin in the NL? I faced 'em all. Talent is spread so thin now with all the expansion teams that the overall quality of baseball has zone down."
With the era the expansion clubs ushered in. Nicholson was out.
"I COULDN'T play ball good at all for Houston when I was with them in '66," he says. "The domed field was not unnatural. I couldn't call for comin' 'cause I couldn't see the real sky."
The road and traveling took their toll, and though the money was good for those days, about 12 grand a season. Nicholson retired to spend time with his family.
Joe says, "Ya see any of the guys anymore? Minnoose? Fox? Loper?"
"Nan, they're scattered all over the country. Never hear from anyone except at a church."
NICHOLSON SAYS he doesn't follow baseball much anyway, though he likes the ball.
"When I was with K.C. in 67 they decided
'two want to be an expansion team
sitting in the cellar for 15 years. They had a good organization and were starting to spend some bucks to build up their club. Now it's starting to pay off."
Still, Nicholson said, the Royals, like their teams in bases, have too many big players to have a shovel.
"Those 'Punch and Judy' singers hitters aren't worth much to a team," he says. "If you don't drive in any runs you don't win on the field, but a scoremaing, you gota go for the fences."
JOE'S GOTTA leave, so Nicholson takes up a baseball trophy and begins engraining it, standing under the pictures of him as a player. There's a framed, front-page photo of Nicholson in a glistened and glistened with sweat, neck tenuous, head bent to the ball. Nicholson's in the books for one record: most strikeouts in a single season by a major leader; 175 in the regular season to probably stand for awhile. But then few ballplayers swing as hard as the Big Nick did.
Dykes defends budget
The University of Kansas Medical Center considers the need for more doctors in rural Kansas the major problem it faces today. The university, a special legislative committee yesterday,
The situation could improve, Dykes said, but it's unrealistic to expect the Med Center to supply a physician for every town in Kansas.
Dykes testified before a subcommittee that is studying the KU Med Center's $78 million budget for the new fiscal year, for it. It was the first meeting of the committee.
"We have some continuing, very serious problems in these needs." Dykes said.
Rep. Deny D. Burgess, R-Warmo, chairman of the committee, said the main object of the study would be the budget, but that the study would also look into relationships between KUMC and private medical corporations.
He encouraged the committee to help develop a long-range plan that would help them.
Some physicians on the Med Center staff use Med Center facilities for their private patients.
The committee is also expected to study ways the Med Center can train doctors for the emergency room.
"Pedalplan's" route in heavy black lines
Naismith would miss that old game of his
By DAVESTEFFEN
"Basketball," the game Dr. James Naismith invented in 1891 as a fun indoor game for the winter season between football and baseball, has changed significantly to become the intensely competitive, money-orientated sport of "basketball."
Naimishn invented basket ball at the Y.M.C.A. Training School in Springfield, Mass., as a leisurely game dedicated to his principle of "clean living through sport."
Nismith made 13 original rules to which more than 200 have been added. Some of the rules include bouldering, holding, pushing, tipping or straking on the person of an opponent will be allowed.
"If either face makes three consecutive fouls, it shall count as a goal for the op-operative team, but halves with five minutes between halftimes. Each goal shall count one point. In case of a dispute concerning which player has made the goal, we go out of bounds, the umpire will throw it in."
THE COURT could be any rectangular size, Naismith's first published rulebook stated in 1892, from a "12x20 gymnasium to an ordinary football field."
The number of players fluctuated with the size of the court used. The rulebook stated "as many as 50 on a side have been accommodated," but Naismith said the ideal team size was 18 as used in the first game of basket ball in Springfield.
Original baskets were 10 apple buckets hung approximately 10 feet above ground. The open-bottomed net hung from a metal didn't become the accepted basket until 1912.
Standardization of team size was first done in 1897 and of court size in 1910. In 1893 the soccer ball Naismith used as his first makeshift basketball was replaced by a 31-inch circumference basketball with leather laces.
were scored, and four personal fouls
deteriorated a player from further action.
FREE THROWS were shot from 20 feet rather than 15, and one player could be designated to shoot them for the whole team. A jump ball occurred after goals
Enforcement of these rules was the difficult task of the officials, who had neither whistles nor a standard set of signals as their modern counterparts do. Naiamth is said to have merely grabbed a player by the waist to indicate a rule violation.
Referees who made bad calls were in danger of violent spectator reaction. Nets were sometimes installed to separate court and spectators, and backboards were added to keep fans from reaching down from their palaces seat and interfering with shots.
Early arenas were makeshift buildings that provided fans and players with many inconveniences. KU played its first home game in a makeshift stand against Topoka Y.M.C.A., in front of 50 fans. Although the campus newspaper reported that "it appears basket ball mania would be before it," only a small number were able to support the team due to space limitations.
THE ONLY buildings available for play often had pillars running from floor to ceiling, making play hazardous. The campus newspaper said that no home should have pillars under 900 feet because "No visiting teams will risk their lives among the pillars."
This problem was solved when Robinson Gym, the first KU building designed to accommodate basketball, was opened in 1908.
Early basket ball players' uniforms weren't as flashy as the uniforms worn today. The first players in Springfield were long trousers and short-sleeved jerseys. Women, Naismith's scrapbook said, wore "middles, bloomers, and long black bose."
Male spectators were often barred from women's games because of the clothing.
THE PHILOSOPHY behind the game has also undergone drastic changes since Nusamith's 8 day. Naismith said he was "very happy" to have played in one. One should play for the fun of playing."
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