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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.108
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Heart surgery at Med Center to resume soon
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Athletic depts. plan to merge; details remain
The men's and women's amuse-
department have been told to merge by
University officials, but details of how the
department would take place remain to be
worked out.
Chancellor Archie R Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
Shankel said yesterday that he expected to meet with Athletic Director Clyde Walker and Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, sometime next week. Walker and Washington are scheduled to meet today to discuss the merger.
There's not enough information in at this time to make a decision. he said.
WASHINGTON SAID that in the women's department there was reluctance, but there were also a lot of good things that could come out of it.
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director,
said it is a little early to decide which way to go.
She said that if a merger occurred, she wanted to keep women's athletics a complement.
"The Chancellor has made it very clear that he wants competitive program," she said.
The merger situation is difficult to assess, she said.
There are several needs in the women's athletic department, Washington said that included the overall budget, coaches' salaries and scholarships.
"We are not interested in a dollar-for dollar buetut." she said.
DURING THE PAST year, women's athletics received $77,000 from the state and the university. Washington said the Senate might appropriate $1,500 to women's athletics for the coming year. If the merger occurs, she would not appropriate that money to women's athletics.
Pat Collinson, administrative assistant for women's athletics, said $317,200 was paid out in full-time coaches' salaries by the men's athletic department. Women's athletics has eight part-time coaches, she said, with total salaries of $23,400.
THE MEN HAVE MORE assistant fault contacts than the women have collinson.
Washington said, "The question of bolarism is the same that we treat when we take a very close look at it."
The men have $80,000 to give out for scholarships, she said, whereas the women had $25,000.
Washington said the women's budget operating was about $142,000.
She said she wanted the administration to allocate a locker room for women's health.
Right now, she said, women's athletics doesn't have anything like that in the field back.
"Things like that we need to get changed," she said.
In all fairness, she said, the problem centers on money. The men's athletic department, she said, was concerned about funding of the program.
ANOTHER PROBLEM Washington cited was who would be in control of women's athletics.
The atmosphere in women's athletics is geared toward the student, she said. "We're not going to make this kind of mistake."
"Women," she said, "should continue to play a very important role in their program."
Washington said there were still problems to be solved.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENEI
Vanuard effort
A workout of the new martial arts oriented Vanguard Club yesterday afternoon next to Robinson gym brought a grimace to the face of Sherry Jones, Denver, Colo., sophomore. The club, which competes with other clubs around the area, specializes in the art of Kenpo. Members meet for workouts six days a week.
City Commission accepts Leo Beuerman memorial
By JANET SCHMIDT Staff Writer
A memorial碑 honoring the late Lee M. Beurman, a bandcapped Lawrence resident, was accepted last night by a 4 to vote by the Lawrence City Commission.
With only commissioner Marine Argersinger dissenting, the commission voted not to rescind a 1975 motion by the former commission to accept the plaque as the city from a group representing the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program.
In other business, the commission denied a petition for financing construction of streets and sidewalks in Heatherwood Height areas, a 78-acre housing development north of 23rd between Kasold and Marrone.
The commission also listened to reports from Police Chief Richard Stanwix and Assistant City Manager Mike Wilden for evidence of the accident. The procedure for handling minor traffic violations.
Mayer Barkley Clark moved to accept the Beuerman plaque and said, "I personally don't think it's a stereotype. We're not but about one individual, Leo Reperman, but about one individual, Leo Reperman."
Several people representing handicapped groups had appeared before the commission to protest the wording of the memorial plague.
The plaque, which will be placed in the sidewalk at 8th and Massachusetts, will read "Remember me? I'm the little man who used to sell pencils on the street corner."
Richard Eldin, president of the National Federation of the Blind in Kansas, said, "I am unalterably opposed to what his plaque says. The other rail in the coffin of the handcuffed."
Ellund said the wording would only strengthen the stereotype of the handicapped as weak, pitiful people who are unable to take care of themselves.
Joe Greve, executive secretary of the Kansas Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped, said the plaque would honor Beauzieman as a poor, suffering soul.
Greve recommended that the Pearson Humanities group put its name at the
bottom of the plaque so people will know that a particular group gave the gift to the city. The plaque would then become an example to other cities in Kansas so that injustice wouldn't be done to other hand-capped people, he said.
Anna Block, who had helped plan the plaque, said that the donors should have the idea of what say what was put on it and that most of the items were already completed for the plaque had already been completed.
"The donors meant for the plaque to be a small, modest memorial," she said. "They didn't intend for it to become an international incident."
Clark agreed and said he thought most of the people objecting to the wording didn't understand.
He said that both Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., and some of the beau­ner's relatives had contacted the commission requesting disclosure be settled at last night's meeting.
Argersinger said she thought it was sad that a decision by good-hearted commissioners had become so blown out of proportion.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)—Ronald Reagan won North Carolina's Republican presidential primary election last night, reviving his challenge for the White House with a startling upset over President Gerald R. Ford.
"I think this whole issue has nothing to do with local government," she said. "It is not a problem."
Fond conceded his first defeat, congratulated Reagan and said he received a strong endorsement for the Republican presidential nomination. Former Georgia George Jimmy Carter
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
and four other Democratic canvassers
perform a political roadshow.
Reagan deals Ford first primary defeat
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Bill cuts treasurer's office
This was Reagan's first triumph after a season of primary defeats. It was magnified when it came to his game, it was unexpected, and could be the combination these suggestions that he quit the campaign.
With the count of ballots virtually complete, Reagan had 52 per cent of the votes.
Because the treasurer is appointed and See SENATE 10
Carter captured 64 per cent of the Democratic ballots to Wallace's 35 per cent. He said that buried Wallace's claim to speak for the South in the presidential campaign.
Because the treasurer is appointed and
qualified for the StudEx position was much less difficult.
Reagan was flying from LaCroze, Wis. to Los Angeles. A campaign aide said the former California governor was delighted with the outcome.
At the White House, Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford had anticipated a close relationship naturally disappointed. "The point is we lost in cuses or albs," Nessen said. He said Ford had planned no change in campaign strategy and remained confident of ultimate victory.
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With 99 per cent of lorth Carolina's 2,343 recounts counted, this was the Republican
president had lost a presidential primary since 1968 when Lyndon B. Johnson was beaten in Wisconsin by former Sen. Eugene McCarthy. Johnson had renounced his candidacy for another term two days before hat primary.
-Reagan 100,984 or 52 per cent
It was the first time an incumbent
In the Democratic primary, the count showed:
-Ford 88,249 or 46 per cent
That gave Reagan 28 GOP convention delegates, Ford 25 and uncommitted one. Delegates are awarded in proportion to the candidate vote.
-Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington 25,692 or 4 per cent.
Carter 320,861 or 54 per cent.
—Wallace 209,659 or 35 per cent
- No preference, which means uncommitted delegates. 40.05
Tasheff, author of the bill, said Monday that the change would imply a commitment to community action.
By HARRIS RAYL
Other business will include consideration of a resolution to establish a committee to decide the old of the center circle of the Allen Field House basketball court. A study of the funding needs of the women's athletic program also will be considered.
Tedde Tasheff, student body president,
and John House who now is the Senate's treasurer, are pitted against each other over the bill.
Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, 14,000 or 2 per cent.
chairmen of the seven standing committees, which determine budget allocations to student groups. Tasheff said the StudEx chairman, who is elected by the Senate, is directly responsible to StudEx, and his committee is appointed by the student body president, isn't.
House opposes abolition of the office and was mailed a letter to student senators asking for their support.
House also said there was a problem finding someone with the expertise to find it, and when we finding one person qualified as treasurer's duties and another who was
HOUSE SAID HE opposed the change because he didn't think that one person could handle both the treasure's duties and the StudEx chairman's duties.
"I think by doing away with the job, some things are not going to get done. I think it a sense of failure."
- Former Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma, 6,142 or 1 per cent
Carter got 36 delegates. Wallace 25.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, who had dropped out of the campaign, 1,792.
Ford, disappointed by his loss to Reagan in the primary, offered no alibis but said he remained confident he would win the GOP presidential nomination.
"The President had expected a close race in North Carolina, but he expected to win." Nessen said. "So naturally he is disappointed."
He then became general counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad and made Lawrence a lieutenant.
The Italian villa-style house he built here was popular in the East at the time, but was unheard of in Kansas. The townpeople are said to have considered it very unattractive. A chance of his home seemed to have contributed to Usser's local unpopularity.
Old Lawrence houses dramatize history of post Civil War period
By KAREN LEONARD
The imposing stone house at 1425 Tennessee was built in 1872 for John Palmer Usher, secretary of the interior under Abraham Lincoln. Usher wasn't asked to serve a second term because he had made so many enemies while in office.
THE HOUSE IS FACED with Vermont limestone. The library walls, lined with walnut paneling and trimmed with gold leaf, are supposed to have been a gift from the company that built it, contracted to do the interior woodwork on the Union Pacific railroad cars. After a fire.
Staff Writer
The streets of Lawrence are lined with red brick beauties, houses that whisper of the grandeur of the Gilded Age and the glory of Lawrence after the Civil War.
The histories of many of these old houses are as rich as their appearance.
the company came back and replaced the paneling.
Uher is also known as one of the most unpopular mayors in the town's history. He so infuriated the populace by forbidding the grazing of cattle in South Park, that the City Council issued a fine for regulation the speed of Union Pacific train passing through Lawrence in retaliation.
The red marble fireplace in the music room was a gift from Usher's former colleagues in the Cabinet. Walt Whitman and Jay Gould were two of the more illustrious guests entertained in Usber's home.
At the end of his two-year term, the town council refused to vote him the usual commendation for having done his civic duty and Ustser never again ran for public office.
In 1912, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity purchased the Usher home and added a rear wing to be used as a dormitory. About 1955, Kenneth Spencer, an alumnus, gave the new front porch. But the ground floor interior was originally locally as Usher left it. His monogram is still on the newel post of the old walnut center staircase.
HE DIED IN Lawrence in 1889 at the age of 73.
The L-shaped farmhouse at Michigan and I-70 was built in 1871 by Judge Nelson Stephens. He had been an attorney in New York state when Lincoln called for volun- tionists. Stephens organized a company, of which he became captain, to fight for the Union.
In 1863, Stephen was told he had tuberculosis. He was traveling through the West on horseback in an attempt to regain his health when he first came to Lawrence
He purchased 160 acres of unimproved
tarm land from James Sands in 1868 and
had a successful farm there.
Stephens built the two-story red brick house well. The walls extend from the base to the top of the wall into the same-sized rooms at all three levels. The brick walls are 18 inches thick.
THEN FIVE MILES from town, the barn was necessarily self-sufficient. There was a spring house, from which water was delivered to the barn, and the floor of the farmhouse. The water in the drums fed into faucets in an old gravity system for running water. There was an ice house, a smokehouse, two large barns and an orchard. The barn had a centennial oak, planted by Steinhouse in
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Vintage home
When some houses get older, they begin to fall apart. The house of Joan and Roger Moffet, at 473 Indiana, is an example of an older
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
tall photo by JAY KOLZLER
house which was cared for and remains a fine home. The house was built in the early 1860's, and is known to have survived Quantrill's raid.