University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 14.1976
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City okays park land purchase
By JANET SCHMIDT
An agreement to purchase land from the Kansas university Endowment Association for the creation of a city park was approved by the Lawrence City Commission.
In a 5- vote, the commission agreed to pay $42,000 to the Endowment Association for a blacktoped area directly north of bth, and pay $16,000 to the Endowment Association. The park will be called Constant Park.
The purchase of land for Constant Park is part of a city plan to develop riverfront land, nearly north of 6th and extending along the Sacramento River, tracks to the city water plant on Indiana.
The park is named in honor of Tommy Constant, a local builder who left the city $250,000 for a park when he died several years ago.
Of that $2,000, $6,000 has already been spent by the city to purchase four lots east of the station.
In other action, the commission deferred a decision to the Park and Recreation Department to alleviate an alleged shortage of baseball facilities at the Holcom Sports
Complex behind Gibson Discount Center.
Representatives from several local baseball and softball leagues appeared before the commission to protest the use of the baseball diamonds at the sports complex.
Walt Hokw and Tom Murray of the Louie Holom Baseball League (a youth hardball league), said the league's time on the field was being usured by softball teams.
"The city has allowed to many softball teams to materialize," Houk said. "We think it's grossly unfair to put softball on diamonds used by the league for practice."
"If the commission allows this, the team can win that can be drawn over a commission or over baseball." Hokai said there were 175 teams in Lawrence; about 130 of the teams were in Boston.
Fred DeVictor, director of the park and recreation department, said priority in the use of the diamonds should go to both softball and hardball teams' tournaments.
DeVitor said that the number of softball teams using the diamonds should be limited to a maximum of 20 players.
Commissioner Carl Mibek said the problem was the use of the diamonds by adult teams. He said youth teams should be given preference.
Dean Burkhead, Lawrence resident and lawyer, agreed with Mibec, but said he was concerned that the Holcom league seemed to use the diamonds more.
could use other diamonds in Lawrence for practices.
Burkhead said he has had to represent too many juveniles in the city court.
"I feel that if we can get the youth to participate—get them off the streets and into the baseball park—we won't have so many in juvenile court," he said.
In other commission business, the commission approved an application to request $29,200 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of that $29,200, $100,000 has been committed by the city to construction of low-cost housing in addition $285,000 has been allocated to Loop which will run through East Lawrence and connect the downtown area with the proposed U.S. 98 bypass east of Lawrence.
Of the four diamonds at the sports complex, two diamonds can be used on specific nights for baseball and softball leagues in Lawrence. At other times, all games are played, including Holcom, the American Legion and men's softball teams.
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For example, a graduate student who may teach half-dime at another school would be given the same consideration as a teacher who worked half-dime for the University.
Argersinger said some of the ramifications of lowering the full-time load would be that many students would lower their own load, even if before the change, they had been taking 12 hours. He said this was because of programs, which wasn't usually a wise move.
The teams prefer the diamonds at Holcom because they are regulation size, are lighted at night and are in better condition than on the court. Hank Booth, 1731 W. 230 Tet., said.
"We would have to make individual students longer said. "But the students are worth it."
Bailey said many campus veterans weren't aware that requirements for fulltime graduate students at KU were higher than other schools.
To make them more aware, the Campus Veterans are manning a table in front of Wescoe Terrace on Wednesday and Thursday. They have a petition to be
--signed by all graduate students to lower the requirements.
Mayor Fred Pence moved that the commission leave the decision to the park and recreation department, and work on it to build more baseball and softball facilities.
He said there was an increasing concern about graduate veterans getting less benefits.
MODE JOHNSON, a member of the committee to study the change and also a student-veteran, said he favored the change.
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