THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.56
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 12,1975
City abandons proposal to close 14th Street bars
By BRUCE SPENCE
The beer drinkers who flock into the 14th and Ohio Street taverns after home football games have received a reprieve, for the last two home games.
The tavern owners involved will get another chance to control crowd problems after the Lawrence City Commission last summer. The alternate proposal submitted by the owners.
The city commission had last week asked the three taverns to close at noon on the days of home football games, but the owners jointly presented the commission an alternative, which will be in effect for this season here with the University of Colorado.
The three tawers involved are the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th, owned by John Wooden for the Yankee wagon. It is located in Philadelphia on the Bierstehre, 1344 Tennessee St., owned by Whithea Shea.
WHEN OUTLINING the owners' alternative proposal, Wallace said the owners would try in every possible way to keep crowd problems down.
The proposal said the taverns would continue, on the days of home football games, to not sell beer in bottles, as well as not sell beer to go to post "No Beer Outside" notices in the taverns, station doormasters, and clean the area after the crowds left.
In addition, the owners proposed to modify the Wheel's courtyard fence to prevent the passing of beer between the boards, obtain clothing which would
identify beer employees, open all cans of beer sold in the taverns, place extra employees in the street to assist in crowd control, property protection and litter clean-up.
WALLACE said that a full-page ad would be placed in the Thursday edition of the Kansan to inform students that student information in the crowd problems was needed.
The ad would list the following guidelines:
—Be warned that it is illegal to drink in the street and violators will be subject to arrest.
Don't bring beer into the 14th and Ohio streets. area.
Don't attempt to take beer out of the Wheel or the 'Hawk.
wheel or the 'rawhaw'
-Don't attempt to pass beer over, under
-Don't attempt to pass beer over, unner or through the courtyard fence at the Wheel.
-Use the rest rooms inside the Wheel and the Hawk.
- Place litter in the trash can provided.
- Store items in private lots or in front of delivery trucks.
Don't litter or trespass upon private property.
"Don't throw beer cans or other articles.
Obey all law enforcement officers and treat them with respect. (Disrespect for the home football game.)
Wallace said students would be asked not to come to the area at all if they couldn't follow those guidelines. There also will be a classmate in the Union, which now sells beer, he said.
THE AD will only be run on Thursday, he said, because the readership is the biggest
on that day. The ad won't run Friday because the owners said they thought there wouldn't be as many people who would see the ad on that day.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said that closing the taverna would only result in disappointment for both students and staff. The decision to that area for the home football games.
He said that although he realized there were problems, they could be solved. Rolfs said that an increasing number of people were becoming aware of the crowd problems of the area, which would help alleviate the problem.
"I would just ask that you give us a chance to enforce something ourselves," she said.
There was such low-key publicity for the sale of beer in the Union because it was a new venture and "we have to crawl before we run," he said.
UNION BEER sales had been immensely
See Taverns page five
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Beer sales in the area of 14th and Ohio Streets was a topic of discussion again last night at the meeting of the Lawrence City
Beer solution brews
Commission. Ed Rofla, student body president, spoke to the commission, proposing alternative solutions to closing the bars in the district.
City creates grievance committee
BY IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
After heated discussion and accusations of conflict of interest among Lawrence City Commissioners, the commission decided unanimously last night to create a committee to investigate city employee grievances.
Faculty pay ranks low nationally
Bv RON HARTUNG
Though the University of Kansas ranks second in the Big Eight in average faculty compensation, it is far from the top when compared with colleges and universities
According to figures published recently by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the average faculty compensation at KU for the 1974-75 school year was $18,936, second in the Big Eight to the University of Colorado's $20,145.
THE STUDY, conducted annually by the AAUP, covered 74 per cent of the nation's 2,229 accredited colleges and universities this year. Faculty salaries were broken down by professional rank, and individual institutions received a percentile rating compared with other institutions across the country.
Broken down by rank KU faculty salaries were: full professor, $23,100; associate professor, $17,800; assistant professor, $14,800; and instructor, $11,600.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
A 1920 Milburn Electric car which was completely restored by the Lawrence Antique Auto Club has become a permanent display in the new Watkins Community Museum at 11th and Massachusetts streets. The museum is housed in the old Watkins Bank Building which was built in 1888.
New museum display
These figures represent salary and fringe benefits.
On a national scale, however, KU's professor and instructor salaries rated a 4 (between the 20th and 30th percentiles), and the associate and assistant professor salaries rated a 5 (below the 20th percentile).
MARTIN JONES, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said that the two ratings of 4 were an improvement. Until recently, said KU had received only ratings of 5.
Even Colorado, ranked first in the Big Ten, is one of the few professors and associate professor salaries.
Howard Stettler, member of the local chapter of the AAUP, said the Big Eight schools generally ranked well below the leading schools in the nation in faculty pay.
This high percentage of full professors may have accounted for the fact that KU's average faculty compensation was slightly higher than the national average of $15,800.
Stettler, who seemed surprised that KU ranked as high as second in the Big Eight, said the high percentage of full professors at KU (41 per cent) weighted the average and made it appear higher than it actually was.
The Big Eight figures showed that the ...
categories of rank were no higher than
See Faculty page six
A request for the creation of the committee was made by members of the Lawrence Citizens for Fair and Efficient City Management. The committee will consist of two commissioners, two members of the United Public Employee Associations (UPEA) of Lawrence and two Lawrence citizens at large.
The committee will investigate accusations made by the UPEA last Thursday that the city management has been lax in accounting for the use of the city one-half per cent sales tax and has failed to recognize city employees' complaints.
Accusations of conflict of interest among the commissioners began after a prepared statement was read by Phil Bohlander, a UPEA member, that criticized the city of New York for its role in the UPEA as a collective bargaining unit at the commission's meeting last Tuesday.
IN HIS STATEMENT Bohlander accused the commission of having "chosen the path of cover-up and evasion by hiding problems in the desk of the city manager."
His decision the city commission has made its claim by consulting individuals in private real estate.
After the statement was read, Commissioner Fred Pence questioned whether Commissioners Donald Binns and Carl Mibeck should be allowed to vote because they belonged to the Lawrence Teachers Association.
In the meantime Bohlander said, the city has failed to improve the working conditions, has allowed collection agencies to send threaten letters to employees who are injured on the job and fail to pay hospital bills that employee hospital insurance should cover and has failed to account for the one-half per cent sales tax.
Pence said the city employees had supported the Lawrence Teachers Association
in the past, Mibeck and Binns voted to rezone the UPEA.
BINNS SAID the supposed conflict of interest was totally ridiculous and asked whether Mayor Barkley Clark was guilty of conflict of interest because he had talked with Dolph Simons Sr., editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal. Daily, Simons has received an apology for recognition of the UPEA. Clark voted against recognition of the UPEA.
Clark said he was only acting as a commissioner listening to a constituent when he
MIBECH SAID he wasn't guilty of conflict for interest, for supporting the UPEA.
He said the only time a conflict of interest seemed to arise was when the recognition of an employee's death occurred.
"I'm not going to gain anything per se, but these men get recognized," he said.
"I don't need the millionaire editor of a newspaper who supported Richard Nixon to the day of his resignation to tell me what to do." Mibee said.
"We're five honest people who are trying to make a decision," he said. "If a citizen calls me on the phone to discuss city emergen- ties, I'm going up,I'm not pipe to change my vote."
Clark said no conflict of interest existed on the commission. He said the problem was that people were attempting to get a rehearing on recognition for the UPER for instance, and not for integration of employee grievances as was originally intended for the meeting.
NORM FOREER, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the UPEA, said part of the problem was that CHICAGO is against recognition from information obtained
during private discussions rather than at a public hearing that was held two weeks ago. He said Clark had failed to meet with representatives from the police, firefighters, street employees and parks and recreation employs.
Lark said he had refused to meet with the employees because Forer didn't want the press to be present. In addition, Lark said, "I'm not ready to talk about much time talking to sanitation employees."
Forer then said that Clark had led the city employees to think that he would vote in favor of UPEA recognition. As a result, Forer said, the UPEA didn't have supporters at the meeting last week when the decision against recognition was made.
HOPE voting to end today
Seniors who show their registration will be eligible to vote for the award, an annual recognition of an outgoing teacher at the University of Kansas.
Final voting for this year's HOPE award will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the information booth on Javhawk Boulevard.
This year's finalists are: Allan Cigler, assistant professor of political science; Jeremy Barker, junior professor of business; Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism; Dennis Quinn, professor of English; and Lee Young, professor of jou
The results of today's balloting will be announced at halftime of Saturday's KU-University of Colorado football game.
Watkins museum opens downtown
By BARB HINTON
Staff Writer
Although the open admission was yesterday, area residents got to preview the first exhibit Sunday afternoon in a look at the development of American agriculture titled "American Agriculture: Continuing Revolution 1776-1796."
After two years and thousands of hours of restoration and refurbishing, the Watkins Bank Building at 11th and Massachusetts has again opened its doors to the public.
In its day, the magnificent old red brick building has been a bank, a city hall, and temporary housing for the 2nd District Court. The building began a new life Sunday as the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum.
A RENOVATED interior, from brass chandeliers and stained glass windows to high white ceilings and polished red pine walls, with a view as much attention as the exhibit itself.
The Watkins Bank Building, built in 1888 at a cost of $100,000, was bequeathed to the city in 1929 by Elizabeth M. Watkins to be used as a city hall, excluding jail and fire department. The property deed stipulated that if the city abandoned the building, title would then revert to nine remaining beneficiaries named in her will.
It was not always so.
City officials moved their offices to the First National Bank Office Tower, 204 East 97th Street, 101-750-6700.
"THE FIRST and third floors were completely chopped up by small, temporary partitions of wood, metal and plasterboard." Smith said.
because of high maintenance costs, Ethem
Simm City finance director said yesterday.
Old tile covered the floor, Smith said. Ceilings were dropped and the oak and pine woodwork was scratched and losing its varush.
Bird nests plugged up the downpouts, and rurreines were on the red brick exterior;
and pigeons were on the red brick exterior of Raynond Rice, Lawrence attentively watching the Walkins' estate, and two other members of the Douglas County Historical Society secured the release of the interests from the nine beneficiaries to the Historical Society for the establishment of the Elizabeth M. McCormick Museum, and received the deeds Nov. 11, 1717.
The building was vacant from 1970 until the restoration project got underway in 1973, with $300,000 collected in a fundraising effort to restore the building.
Today, the exterior is completely renovated, and restoration of the interior is completed.
Arthur Townsend, museum director, said,
"At the time it was built, this was reputed to be the finest building west of the Mission."
John Andrews, coordinator of the restoration project, said the building exterior was cleaned and tuckpointed, and the outside stonework was sandblasted and painted. Tuckpointing is scraping away the old, loose mortar from every brick joint and applying new mortar.
Windowpanes and window stills and sashes were repaired, and downspouts were replaced.
Inside, restoration has continued. The entire third floors—walls, ceilings, floors, woodwork and brass fixtures—has been restored.
A NEW CELLING was installed on the first floor, and ceiling and wall repairs have been made on the second floor. About two-thirds of the second floor has been leased since 1973 by the Kansas 2nd District Court for $1 a year, until construction of the judicial building behind the courthouse is completed in the fall of 1978.
TOWNSEND said the interior would be 100 per cent restored in three to five years.
An elevator shaft has been installed in part of the old bank vault, marble stairs and lobbies have been cleaned and repaired, and the burley pine and white oak woodwork has been sanded and varnished. The building has been rewired, and new heating and air-conditioning systems have been installed.
"We're dealing with a situation in which this building was built as a bank,"村
send said, "but it is also a superb building for a museum."
In order for the building to meet its potential as a museum, he said, officials must deal with ultra violet radiation to reduce harmful damage from natural light, climate control to maintain a constant temperature and humidity level, and direct lighting systems for particular objects and display panels.
Townsend, who worked five years at the Smithsonian Institution before beginning his present position in June of this year, said that museums today have a growing role in the education, preservation and interpretation of the past and present. Early museums were merely a collection of collections, he said.
"Our role in this building is to collect, restore and display portable objects and those which lend themselves well to the history which they have." County and Lawrence history," he said.
He said the agricultural exhibition on now displayed was the first of the museum's international exhibitions.
Many objects and displays will be permanently housed and exhibited at the Watkins Community Museum. These include a 1920 Milburn Electric car, which was restored by the Lawrence Antique Auto Company, a 1930 children's museum. The central theme of
See Museum page six
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