Stadium renovation. artificial turf sale go on
Staff Writer
Bv MARGARET SCHEIRMAN
A sale of artificial turf, a result of the renovation project at Memorial Stadium, is still going on this week. Floyd Temple, director of physical plants and operations, said yesterday that the turf could be bought at the stadium from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
"One gentlemen got some to put behind a bar for his employees to walk around on," Temple said. "Another guy got some to put on his boat dock.
"Other people have gotten it to put on swimming devices and pation. It works great."
The turf is being sold by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation in 5-foot square pools.
"All the money is being channelled right back into the renovation project." Tempas said.
"We've probably sold about 500 or 600 squares already."
In the $1.8 million renovation project, the concrete on the floor of the stadium and in the stands is being restored and waterproofed, the artificial turf is being replaced and the dressing rooms and public areas are being cleaned. The box also is bein' improved and expanded.
"THE TURF HAS been there for eight years," Temple said. "The carpet was in good shape but the base had begun to deteriorate, creating a hardness in the surface. With that hardness, you get into an injury problem.
'The new turf is made by a different company, and it is a different style. It's very cool.'
The preparation for the installation of the new turf is under water. Temple said.
"They're patching the old asphalt and putting in new asphalt near the edges," he said. "The actual laying of the new carpet is about two weeks away."
He said everything was on schedule.
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Rough rolling
*toger Schramm, Lawrence sophomore, left, and Bert Hull, Lawrence junior, have to lean over the edge of Memorial Stadium to apply fresh paint to the exterior. The painting is nearly completed.*
"The patching of faulty concrete in the stands is about 90 percent completed, and the sealing of it is just about ready to start," he said.
A NEW ROOF is being put on the press box, he said, and an elevator will be installed in the fall, which will run from the ground to the sixth level, where the press box.
"The concrete backgrounds at the top are being painted blue, and with those new silver-colored seats, it's going to look really sharp," he said.
"The purpose of the elevator isn't just to ease the load on the present elevator, but also for handicapped people to be able to go up and down." he said.
He said that satisfactory progress was being made on the two dressing rooms and on the restrooms on the first and third floors.
Commencement exercises did not serous delay the renovation work, 48, 50.
Temple said new aluminum seats would be installed as soon as the sealing was completed.
"It it was merely a temporary slowdown," he said. "The commencement was down on the field, and the resurfacing of the field wasn't scheduled until June anyway. Everybody was required to stay down and there was nothing dangerous about it."
"There was no real peril involved except in the stands, and one no went up there."
"If we didn't get it done by then, there'd be a cleanup problem in getting it ready for the football season," Temple said. "The work gets done, the easier our job will be."
Temple said the athletic department would like to have the renovation finished.
THE WEATHER HAS been pretty much super for the past two or three weeks. Only if we had a prolonged rainy spell would there be much of a problem."
Temple called himself the intermediary for the project.
"But Clyde Walker is the No. 1 honcho—it's his baby." he said.
Temple said there had been no problems in the project as a result of Walker's resignation as athletic director, effective Saturday.
"He's turned it over to Doug Messer, the assistant athletic director, who has been fully involved in the project from the beginning," Temple said. "Messer knows everything Walkes does, and he's very capable for the job."
The $1.8 million was provided by a loan from the University of Wisconsin Embankment Association.
THE LOAN WILL be financed by an increase from $20 to $23 in the price of student season football tickets and increases in all other ticket prices.
The first public event scheduled for the newly renovated facilities is a football game
TOPEKA (AP)—Representatives of American Agriculture and organized labor in Kansas have taken some initial steps toward a political coalition that they hope will give their common causes much more power halls of the state Legislature and Congress.
Labor, farmers form political coalition
THE GROUP announced at the end of its meeting the formation of the political coalition, designed to support and elect candidates for public office "who support and understand those programs that will bring about economic justice to all Americans and stability to the economic system in America."
"We've agreed to meet and discuss candidates and the issues," Mr. McGee, executive secretary of the Kansas State Department of Labor, AFL-CIO, said yesterday.
"Those candidates and issues we can agree on, we'll jointly support. Those we don't."
McGee said he was ordering 20,000 bumper stickers to promote unity between organized labor and the American Agriculture, the grassroots farm group that has been outlawed for year and initiated a widely publicized strike by some farmers in December.
MGEE SAID the bumper sticker would depict an arm bearing a hardhat shaking hands with another arm showing a tractor and a shock of wheat.
McGee attended a meeting of representatives on the two groups from 13 states Saturday.
The sticker will say, "Protect Our Heritage. Buy American."
The groups are trying to get across the idea that farmers and labor union members have certain common goals, primary among which now is to keep foreign-made products and agricultural commodities from flooding the U.S. market.
"The COALITION agrees that the destruction of the family farm, escalating foreign imports and multi-national corruption, has stopped," the two groups said in a resolution.
Genie Schroder, a national spokesman for American Agriculture said, "If you don't believe this is going to happen, just sit back and watch, because we're going to make it happen."
McGEE SAID the main thrust would be to get labor and farm people to vote.
"That little 'X' mark at the ballot box is not that a politician understudy." McCoy
"Eventually, we hope to work together on combating all these imports—shoes, television sets and automobiles. We are already as supporting American-made products."
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In October the KUAC voted to ask for permission from the Big Eight Conference to impose the increases to finance what was originally a $20 million removal proposal.
The Big Eight approved the renovation plans, but students did not.
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Opposition to student financing of expansion of the Victory Club, a game facility for Williams Educational Fund contributors, VIP seating and a wall around the south end of the stadium was expressed in a Student Senate resolution and a petition
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