Fire, police slowdown threatened
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Lawrence firefighters and policemen may cut back on services unless the city gives them a voice in determining policies that govern them, the attorney for the Lawrence Firefighters Association and the Patrol Officers Association, said last night.
In an emotional speech to the Lawrence city commissioners, Arnold Berman, the attorney, said the groups may not respond "because they involve the loss of life or property."
"Lawrence is the only large city in the state of Kansas that does not give a voice to these groups in determining their policies," Berman said.
BERMAN SAID the police and firefighters are considering not;
—Responding to calls from the University.
- Answering calls from outside Lawrence
unless they are emergencies involving
- Performing housekeeping and administrative duties.
Other acts may be deemed necessary unless the city moves to include the two
groups under the Kansas Public Employers-Employees Relations Act, Bermann
The commission voted 3-2 last fall not to come under the state labor relations act, which it said would be overly restrictive.
The slowdown would not effect police service to the University, which is provided by a large number of law enforcement agencies.
THE DECLARATION stemmed from a news conference of the Lawrence Patrol Officers Association and the Lawrence Firefighters Association this morning, Berman said. He claimed the meeting was disrupted by the appearance of Brent Galfall, city personnel manager; Richard Catlett, city police chief; and John Kasberger, fire chief.
Barkley Clark, city commissioner, said he was surprised by the action. He said Watson, the manager, and required attention to the two women several times with apparent progress.
"Buffal has been meeting with them in good faith and they have ignored this," she said.
EARLIER IN the meeting, the commission decided to amend a proposed $25 fine for unleashed dogs. The amendment makes the minimum fine for first offenders
an executive session afterwards. The city budget must be approved by August 15
The proposed slowdown may have been turned to coincide with the planning of the next stage of the project.
roam free and not the one time offender,
Clark said. Repeat offenders will receive
half the fee.
The or dinance should be aimed at the dog owner who repeatedly allows his dog to
A report from the Community Development department explained that they were unable to handle the increased request for housing assistance but would continue to help as many people as possible on a first come-first serve basis.
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City likes overtime ruling
The city of Lawrence now has the authority to give employees time off for overtime work instead of paying them time-and-d-half, because of a recent Supreme Court ruling, Buford Watson, city manager, said yesterday.
The Court said that the federal government doesn't have the authority to legislate city and stage wages. Watson said the ruling allowed the city to revert to the courts upon its oust off for overtime, but the city didn't plan to return to the previous system.
the ruling also gives local and state governments the authority to legislate
"We've been saying there's too much control going to the federal government and now it's going to the city and state," Watson said.
regular employee wages without federal interference.
City Commissioner Barkley Clark said, "I really want it (territory) important, it's really important."
The commerce clause Clark referred to is Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. The Supreme Court in a widely held that regulation of municipal workers' salaries was part of that power.
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Wednesday, June 30.1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.155
Hijackers demand prisoner trade
KAMPIA, Uganda (AP) - Palestinian extremists yesterday demanded the release of 53 "freedom fighters" imprisoned in Israel and four other countries in exchange for a hijacked French airliner and 256 hostage passengers and crew.
They threatened "severe and heavy penalties" if the demand was not met.
France immediately said it wouldn't give in to the guerrillas, who commanded the Air France airbus Sunday over Greece on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris.
TOP OFFICIALS in Israel, which since 1968 has refused steadfastly to yield to terrorist demands, said they hold France responsible for the passengers. They gave up all their airplanes along with any trade of prisoners for about 70 Israelis seized with the plane.
The Israeli Cabinet was expected to meet today to discuss the hijackers' demand.
Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose six-point ransom demand was broadcast by the official Uganda Radio, said the 53 deltasenne to be hawed to be from the Entebbe hotel to tomorrow, 7 a.m. CDT, 3.0 p.m. tomorrow, 7 a.m. CDT.
PENALTIES were not spelled out, but the blackjacks said previously they would blow up the plane and captives if anyone tried to interfere.
Besides 40 prisoners said to be held in Israel, six were listed in West Germany, five in Kenya and one each in France and Belgium. One was sent to the Arab, with a few Germans and Japanese.
Among those on the Israeli list was the
Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capudjli, jailed two years ago as an Arab gunrunner, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the 14 Japanese Red Army members who carried out the 1972 Lod Airport massacre.
AMONG THOSE on the German list was Jan-CarLans Erp, 31, one of three alleged ringleaders of the Baader-Mehmof gang now on trial in Stuttgart for a wave of other crimes and other violence that killed four U.S. servicemen and a number of Germans.
The French Interior Ministry said the only person on the list supposed to be in France was 28-year-old Silvia Ampra who was charged with killing a Colombian girlfriend of alleged insurgents.
Senate to put strings on property
Because Student Senate property has been lost and misused in the past, a new inventory system will be started for next month. So, student Senate treasurer, said yesterday.
He said that organizations would now have to specifically request oneyear what state their building is in.
"We're going to start treating inventory just like dollars," Cox said. He estimated the repurchase price of all Senate property was $2,000.
Property already in the possession of the organizations will have to be formally authorized.
He said personal use had been made of some organizations' equipment and that typewriters and calculators had disappeared.
Student property is not intended for administrative office use. Cox said.
Cox said he thought most organizations will comply with the new regulation because they wanted their equipment returned.
"It's important to be able to tell whether office supplies asked for by an organization will be used for the organization or to take someone's class notes," Cox said.
He said there had been cases in which an organization that no longer needed office equipment it had purchased with Senate loaned the equipment to a department.
*Inventory becomes very, very fluid when there is a 100 per cent turnover in
Property that wasn't requested could be redistributed to other organizations and be used by others.
He said the new inventory procedure would give the Senate control over groups that could not take money from the Senate couldn't threaten to take money out of their future allocations, it could
organizations' officers from year to year," Cox said.
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ternational terrorist ljich Ramirez-alias
Carlos-Carlos, the most wanted man
Authentities said a medical team was at the old Entrbe Airport terminal transit lounge where the captives were housed and fed.
UGANDAN authorities said the hostages were well, including the nine Americans. At the request of Israel, none of the passengers' names was made public.
Alvamar loses pro; so KU loses coach
Kirkland Gates knew the relationship between his job as a coach of the University of Kansas marmen's team and as athletics pro at Alvamar Racquet Club was coy, but until last week, he didn't just how close the two were.
Staff Writer
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Gates recently resigned as Alvamar pro to take a job as tennis pro at the Carriage Club, a Kansas City, Mp., country club. He said Monday he sub-committed to a new athletic director, that the University was looking for a new tennis coach.
"I was definitely surprised when Walker called last week and told me he was looking for a local person to assume the KU coaching duties," he said.
Bob Billings, KU alumnus and a member of the Kansas University Alumnae Racquet Club. Billings said that he didn't encourage the affiliation between KU and Alvamar, but that it was an important difference because it had worked well in the past.
"However, when I spoke with him about two weeks later, he had evidently reversed his opinion," he said, "and 'he was there and I remember any previous statements.'"
GATES ONCE owned the Racquet Club and continued to work for Billings as pro after he sold it to him nine months ago.
ACCORDING TO Gates, Walker wanted him to resign because Walker thought the time required to commute to work would be too long. He would detract from his time for coaching.
Gates, who lived in Kansas City while he coached the KU men's team, said he'd commited between Lawrence and Kansas City for five years without problems.
The Alvamar Club has employed KU's tennis coaches since it opened about two years ago. One team member called the arrangement convenient, because the tennis队 used the club's indoor courts as its winter headquarters.
When I first considered changing jobs, I asked him (Walker) about his support and he initially said my quitting did affect my KU position. "Gates said,"
Walker said Gates' ability to coach the team wasn't in question. He said that
Gates was still the tennis coach, but that Walker's office was trying to find someone from the immediate area to take over the job this fall.
GATES SAID he thought it was unreasonable to limit applicants to local residents and to require that they also coach at Alvamar.
If and when a successor to Gates is named, he would be KU's third coach in four years.
Gates said he thought the turnovers in coaches were a detriment to the morale and stability of the KU team. Two players left the team when Gates first became coach because of the turnover, he said, and a top recruit was lost this season, according to the uncertainty surrounding the KU tennis program coaching. Gates said.
"They wanted proof that a stable program existed, and since I was new myself, I couldn't demonstrate this to them." he said.
"WITH EACH new coach, the program is set back and must start over again." Gates said. "This isn't an attractive feature to possible recruits."
Bill Clark, a member of the KU tennis team last spring, said Gates had the support of the entire team.
"He's getting a rotten deal," Clark said. "He was promised stability and in turn he promised the team a stable program, but that got shot down."
Tom Kivisto, coach of the KU women's tennis team and a pro at Alamar, said he knew of no forced association between the KU tennis program and Alamar. Still, the association has merit, Kivisto said.
"The CONNECTION between the two enables you to get benefits like court time and equipment discounts, and it has a prestige factor, too." Kivisto said.
Gates said he understood Walker would notify him when a replacement was found.
"The club closes at 9 p.m. but as an employee, I have a key and can take the team to practice at all hours—like 12 or 1 a.m. if need be." he said.
"I'll be disappointed if they find some one less qualified than myself because it's the quality of the coaching that important," Gates said.
"I WANT the KU team to benefit from the program, not just Alvamar," he said.
Staff Writer
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Some frats rent rooms in summer
The houses are occupied by members and students who enjoy low rent and the conveniences of living in temporary dwellings without contract troubles.
The colossal fraternities scattered across the campus of the University of Kansas are the
Of 23 fraternities, 13 are open 'in one way or another', Robert Turvey, assistant dean
The decision to keep a fraternity open is made by members and the house corporation board. The board is composed of three members who handle financial and routine issues.
Some houses have a single occupant, who handles the chapter's rush work throughout the summer. Other fraternities have 20 people living in them.
Sigma Nu, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, is the only fraternity that is coed during the
There are 22 persons living in the Sigma
[staff photos by JAY KOELZER]
The cheerleading and drill team camp, now in session at the University, provided a contrast in molds yesterday, from the reaction of Karla Rusanak, Shawnee Mission South, to her instructor's comments to the strained call Miriam McCoy, Shawnee Mission South, earned by too much marching. The camp lasts five days, and is attended by more than 300 high school students from 28
"This gives us enough money to cover the rent and repairs, which are about $2,075." Charles Fairchild, Leawood senior and Sigma Nu president, said.
Nu house, 15 women and seven men. Each pays $75 a month for rent; which includes a single room with a bed and use of a kitchen. The room is paid, except for individual phone bills.
Sigma Nu advertised before Easter for summer residents and received an excellent score, Fairchild said. The house is in two classrooms, a tennis court and an outdoor grill.
"At the moment I found out that I didn't have any place to live so I decided to come here, and it's great," Diana Elliott, Wichita junior said. "I also didn't want to hassle with subleasing an apartment for just two months."
"It would think that the Sigma Nu fraternity will be making money," Turvey, of the dean of men's office, said, "but the others are probably losing some. It all depends on how many are renting in the houses and how much rent they pay. A lot of them have rent open only for rash purses, with just the rush chairman living there."
Fairchild does complete maintenance for
a house and lawn and said that the upkeep
has been good.
Pam Horn, assistant dean of women,
said a lack of interest was the main reason
most sororites weren't open during the summer. If they were enough girls in one house that wanted to live there, it could be done, she said.
"The houses are watched very closely by police," Turvey said. "Of course, if the residents would keep the doors locked it would be a lot safer, but there's really no worry."
At least one sorority, Sigma Kappa, 1325 W. Campus Road, is open this summer, for the third year, for members who work or attend summer school.
Not all fraternity members liked everything about keeping their houses open.
Protection against vandalism is a major incentive for houses to keep open. Many houses that aren't open have members who are responsible to make sure nothing has been damaged.
Fraternities have greater say in the decision to stay open, than sororites, Horne said. House corporation boards determine the decision more in sororities.
"It was nice to have such a large house to ourselves," Culp said. "It really seemed crowded when school started and everyone moved back in.
"It was hot and dirty," Randy Culp, Kansas City, Kan. senior and member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Culp and his brother were house last summer and paid $25 a month.
Susan Ford to enroll at KU to study photo-j
Susan Ford, daughter of President and Mrs. Ford, plans to attend the University of Kansas next academic year, sources told the Kansan yesterday.
The Topeka State Journal reported yesterday that Ford would enroll at KU preparatory to entering the photojournalism sequence of the William Allen White School of Journalism for the second semester of the 1976-77 academic year.
A source in the White House confirmed that Ford would enroll at KU and that if the President isn't nominated in August at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City she possibly would enroll for this year's fall semester.
"We discussed her coming to KU several times," Clarkson said yesterday. "She wanted a school with a good academic environment, and a strong journalism department."
Clarkson said Ford would work part-time as a photographer for the two Topowa kitsch galleries.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of
RICHARD CLARKSON, photo chief of the Capital-Journal, said Ford told him of her decision to attend KU a month ago. Ford also said he will try to intern on the Capital-Journal last year.
Journalism, said Ford had applied to KU and had been accepted into the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
JOIN MEYER, director of admissions, said he didn't comment on the matter because KU kept all admissions applications confidential. Gill Deck, dean of Admissions and Records, also refused to disclose whether Ford had applied or been
Brinkman said, "I'd known of Miss Ford's plans to attend KU before today."
Brinkman he thought Ford had considered three other schools before deciding to attend KU. He had considered Michigan, Penn State and Michigan and as east coast school, he said.
BRIKMAN said Ford would enroll in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences if she were to come to college as a student. He is the only college requirement necessary to enter the journalism school. She will have to satisfy all admission requirements before being admitted to the college, he said.
Janet Anderson, press secretary to Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said both President and Mrs. Ford had mentioned the importance of Susan attending KU to Dole several times.