THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.164
Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday July 12, 1978
County to take owners' land for Clinton road
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
By TERRY DIEBOLT
Staff Writer
Stating that Douglas County had the right of eminent domain, District Court Judge James W. Paddock approved yesterday a resolution to allow Paddock to walk for Clinton Parkway.
Because many landowners did not want to sell the land, officials found it necessary to get a permit from the state.
tour-lane surfaced road, a $9.7 million project, will begin at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets and go west from that intersection to Dragstrip Road and then to
r a rackdock also appointed three appraisers to reassemble the property. The three appraisers chosen were Robert P. Harrison, G. F. Bodin and Joseph Marzluff, all of Lawrence. The reassessments must be completed by July 31.
A FEW of the landowners who live along the route were at the hearing, but made no statements when Paddock gave them the opportunity to.
Donald Burgraff, Route 4, had to move because of the parkway. He had lived in his old home for 15 years, but he says he is satisfied with his new home.
"We liked the old home better, but the new home is handler to town and I suspect we like it better, since the parkway is going out by the old place," Burragh said.
He was one of the few people who settled for what he thought would be before the realization of improved properties.
Rachel Stewart. 5. 1133 Vermont St., concentrates on putting lipstick on her puckered lips as she imitates her mother.
The Burgregs 'old home is one of two that must be graffed or form down.
Another resident along the parkway, Wendell Else Jr., Route 4, did not sell their house to the county and is going through the condemnation process.
His father-in-law, Dean Stoneback, and his wife, Sarah, were going to make their land, too.
"IN THE BEGINNING when we learned about it in road, we were going to donate the time and money."
But Also被 one-four lane road was not needed. The road will run within 200 yards of the house.
"We moved out here in the beginning to get away from the noise and pollution," he said, "and now it is following us right out here."
Else said he was not going through the condemnation process for more money.
"IF I ACK for more money," he said, "the money that I would be getting is the taxayers' and mine too. It will just hurt myself and others."
John Steele, 3210 W. 23rd St., has lived along the route for 17 years and he has known the plans for the parkway for 10 years.
"Ten years ago is when it should have gone." The train stopped. "It took an hour roadway with narrow bridge."
"When you make progress," he said, "somebody has to get their knees stepped on."
Osteine, a truck driver, need the developments west of Lawrence needed the park-
"If it wasn't for Kasdan, this would be a mess and without a road big enough, the only way to get people out of the housing developments will be to put in a helicopter pad."
Pucker up
Tax reform falters in Lawrence
By MELISSA STINSON
Staff Writer
Proposition 13-type action is at a standstill in Lawrence, despite efforts by a Wichita lawyer.
Hal Keltz, Douglas County Democratic Party chairman, was contacted Sunday by a Wichita organization called the Home Depot Democrats for circulating an antitax petition in Lawrence.
"They are a private pressure group,"
"They don't." "As a party we can't
take a position on it."
"Personally, I don't think taxes are that tough in Kansas."
He said that it was not within his authority to make any commitments to the organization, although it was going to send him petition forms.
"I figured, what the heck, go ahead and send them," he said.
Keltz said that he was retiring from his position and that the new Democratic chairman might take a different stand. State law requires that the central committees of political parties reorganize within two weeks after a primary election.
The antitax organization began a drive Saturday night in Wichita to telephone all the Democratic and Republican Party county leaders in Kansas. They asked for help in circulating a petition that supports a tax on income taxes of 1 percent of fair market value.
John Lungsturm, Douglas County Republican Party chairman, said he had not heard from a group.
"IDON'T KNOW enough about it to make any kind of a formal statement," he said.
The law, which has not been updated since 1963, allows new houses to be taxed at current value. Older houses are taxed at the 1983 value.
Although Kansas property taxes, which average 1.3 percent of fair market value, do not compare with California's assessment of 3 percent, several local district candidates for the rouse of Representatives think a property tax reform is necessary.
"WE HAVE what is called a 'uniform and equal' tax law that isn't uniform or equal." Curtis Scollius, Republican candidate for the 45th District, said.
lid related to market value for houses but that a tax reform measure similar to Proposition 13 would not work in Kansas because it does not apply, which does not provide for popular initiatives.
"They can't do anything except to individual legislators and try to pressure them to get them to sponsor a bill into legislation," he said.
Jim Sipaic, Democratic candidate for the 43rd District, in the Lawrence area, said he did not think that the taxes in Kansas were barsh.
Scoville said that he was in favor of a tax
"The atmosphere isn't the same as in California, but there is definitely more awareness of tax reform since Proposition 13." he said.
HE SAID that he did not favor rolling back tax but that a tax lid on property was issued.
This month's chairman of the Home Owners Trust, Joe Titze, a Wichita mortician who is running for the Kansas Legislature, said that one purpose of the petition was to pressure the Legislature into waiving the Kansas Constitution to allow initiatives.
Truck tank blast kills at least 188 in Spain
TARRAGONA, Spain (AP)—A runaway truck loaded with industrial gas exploded yesterday in a Mediterranean coastal campitee, engulfing hundreds of campers in flames. At least 80 persons were killed and that they thought the death toll would be much higher.
Hundreds of persons were seriously injured, the police said. They said some of the victims were blown into the sea, 150 yards away, by the explosion.
Flaming gas from the truck set off several smaller explosions of campers' cooking gas
ONE POLICEMAN said, "The scene resembles hell or what we think hell is like."
A dozen houses near the campfire were destroyed and some of the occupants were killed, the police said. The explosions demolished about 100 trailers.
A Madrid propelie transportation company, Cisternas Reunidas, took responsibility for the explosion and said an investigation had been ordered to determine what had happened. Officials said it was the worst-ever campite disaster.
The police said the 38-ton propylene truck, carrying a single tank, overturned on a bend in the road, rolled over the cement wall that stalled Targallon highway and exploded.
MEDICAL SOURCES said most of the estimated 300 campers evacuated from the scene suffered extremely serious burns and many probably would die.
Vicente Mirabel, the head of a unit for burned people at La Fe Health Center in Valencia, said that 40 campers had been injured and most of them were in critical condition.
"I don't think many will survive," Mirabel said.
MEDICAL SOURCES said about 209 of the injured camper, some with burns over 75 percent of their bodies, were taken to Medical Center, Tarragona, Castellon and Barcelona.
WITTENSES SAID the truck was traveling at about 40 mph down the highway next to the camp when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.
"It appears beyond any doubt the tank truck overturned while taking a bend and rolled onto the campsite, where it exploded," a police spokesman said. "It appears that the truck first hit the cement wall around the camp and then exploded."
EARLIER, OFFICIALS said the truck was filled with butane gas but later said it was propylene, a colorless gas obtained in the refining of petroleum.
Antonio Betancur, an officer of the paramilitary civil guard unit, said that he had counted 145 bodies burned beyond recognition and that the search was continued.
Banctaur said, "The identification of the victims is going to be really difficult, even if it were possible."
OFFICIALS SAID more than 500 campers were at the site four miles from San Carlos de la Rapa, just south of Tarragona, and most of the victims, including entire families, were French or West German, who have visited the camp often in recent years. Tarragona is about 50 miles south of Barcelona.
"IT HAS ALL been horrible," a municipal policeman, who was at the camp when the explosion occurred, said. "All of a sudden a terrion explosion burst out and flames over."
"Gries came out from everywhere in the camp. People could be seen running in all directions to safety. Some were ablaze. And we were helpless to do anything."
"I'll never be able to get rid of these horrible sights no matter how long I live."
The explosion, which occurred about 7
am. CPT when many of the campers were
killed, was not heard until midnight.
The Spanish Air Ministry dispatched half a dozen helicopters and the army sent in soldiers to help evacuate the injured. Medical authorities issued calls for blood donors. They also asked for French, German, English and Dutch interpreters.
Staff Writer
Inflation clause approved for city employee package
By DAVID LINK Staff Writer
While expressing displeasure over this year's labor negotiations with city police and firefighters, Lawrence city commissioners last night agreed to add an inflation-linked reopening clause to the city's two-year wage and benefit package.
The clause would require that negotiations on wages for 1980 be reopened if the inflation rate between April 1, 1978, and April 1, 1979, exceeds 9 percent.
Commissioner Barkley Clark said he had been disturbed by recent statements made by Gary Sampion, president of the board, and by the union's rejection of the city's proposal.
"First he said the issues cited by his
Student affairs shuffles offices
Bv SANDY HERD
The only holdup in completing the reorganization of the division of student affairs has been obtaining office space, and she is now a senior for student affairs, said yesterday.
"Since we know what the specific offices are, we may even have telephone numbers assigned by the phone company to get that information in the form of a number."
Staff Writer
Ambler said all of the offices of the new division would be in Strong Hall except for the offices of the directors of housing, the Kansas Union, the University center, collecting center, the University center and the student health service.
Ambler said that he would like the remaining 16 offices to be located in Strong Hall in a logical sequence but that space might not allow that.
"Space problems are nagging," he said. "We thought we had the problem worked out last week, but it all came unraveled at the last minute."
"WE HOPE that most of the offices will be on the first and second floors," he said.
The dean of student life and the directors of the student assistance center, the Emily Taylor career and resource center and student organizations and activities are in the old office of the dean of women, 220 Strong.
During the interim before permanent offices are assigned, some temporary locations have been made.
THE DEAN of student services and the director of residential programs are
UNDER THE new system, three deans' offices will supervise major departments of related services and programs. These offices, including the dean of student life and the dean of student services, will report directly to Ambler.
"We think that this will quicken the process of getting information out to the people who need it," Ambler said. "One of the biggest faults with the old system was that it was difficult to organize the functions of those offices. There was no
"The ability of these offices to solve problems that went beyond their particular offices," Amber said, "depended on their ability to get to me.
The reorganization, announced in April, was made after a year-long study of the old organizational structure. Under the old system, 11 separate offices reported directly to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
Two other main auxiliary units, the department of housing and the Union, also will report directly to Amber but have no supervisory responsibilities.
The director of foreign students services temporarily remains in the dean of foreign students' office and the director of the University placement center, to be moved to 232 Carrburgh O'Leary, is temporarily in room 101 of the Kansas Union
"There were a lot of people with some partial responsibility, but no one person was totally responsible except me."
Housing was one example of the functional problems of the old system. Three all-women and two coed residence halls, as well as four women's scholarship halls, were administered through the dean of women's office.
Two all-men residence halls, four men's scholarship halls and the other two coed halls were handled by the dean of men's office.
PHYSICAL PLANT management of the halls and a listing off campus housing was handled by the office of housing.
Fred McEihelin, new director of residential programs, said, "In administering these halls, my counterpart in the dean of women's office and I had to constantly monitor each other to make sure we did the same things in the same
"Now there is consistency in working with all of the halls—and I think there always was—but now it will be easier."
temporarily in the dean of men's offices. 228 Strong.
Not only were students confused about where to go for information, but there also was a duplication of the effort expended by these offices, Amber said.
effective way to move the efforts of the offices forward."
In trying to get information about housing, students were often directed to several offices before their questions were answered.
"I'm sure that students thought that they were getting the run-around," McElhenie said.
He said he saw the reorganization as a very positive move.
David Ambler
membership in rejecting the agreement involved the physical examinations and a police officers' bill of rights." Clark said. "Now he calls the money package is handed out to him and everything they asked for, except for putting off one of the raises for six months.
"It spite that rather strange behavior. I would hope we can still reshape this thing."
ioners recessed into executive See CITY page four
Ad campaign makes tickets available sooner
The athletic department is preparing an advertising campaign aimed at allowing students to buy football tickets before enrollment.
For the first time, students will be sent a brochure that encourages their support of the football program, in addition to an app that allows them to reserve season and single game tickets.
Jim Sheldon, assistant director of sports information, said yesterday that he had taken the brochures and applications to the printer and that they should be mailed about
"Instead of dumping all the information on students during enrollment, which is confusing we, hope to let them know why." said. "We also hope to increase ticket sales."
In past years, separate advertising brochures and applications for reserved football tickets were sent only to former players. UF faculty and staff not to the student body.
Besides the opportunity for reserved tickets, the athletic department is providing a concessions packet for $10 a season or $3.50 a game.
Persons who buy the concessions packet will receive coupons that are redeemable during the first half of a football game for a bottle of water or a Pepsi. A bag of ice and four drinking cups.
The $10 season concession packets can be reserved by mail along with the $23 season tickets or the $9.30 general admission tickets.
The season tickets and the coupons for the concession packets can be used at six home games this year, compared with five home games last year.
Single game general admission tickets were $25.25 last year. Season tickets were
The Kansas Jayhawks are scheduled to play their first football game against Texas A&M in Oklahoma City.