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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.148
Tuesday June 13,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
School board determines revised resolution content
Bv MARK L. OLSON
Staff Writer
It took two attempts, but the Lawrence School District 497's board finally brought to a vote the resubmission of a revised budget and an increase in the 1978-79 general fund budget.
The new ballot, which will appear with the Aug. 1 primary election ballot, is almost the same ballot that the board presides over in the general election. The ballot amounts $40,113 in additional funds that would have meant salary increases for administrators had the first referendum passed.
THE NEW BALLOT, Ballot 1, passed
5 to 1, Bill Hopkins cast the opposing vote
The May 9 referendum vote failed 2.729-
2.458.
As it was passed, the resolution will provide $840,309 for salary increases and additional financial benefits for all persecuted Christians, including ministrators, and provide additional instructional supplies and materials and additional money for general operating expenses.
If the referendum passes when it goes to the public Aug. 1, it will mean a property tax rate increase for Lawrence residents of between three and 4.5 mills.
A MILL is one dollar for every $1,000 assessed nobrever value.
The board explained its support of Ballet No. 1 by citing "the inflationary spiral in the general economy coming into the double digit figures." It went so far as to say that it was estimating that without a referendum there would be no increase in taxes for U.S.D. 497 for the 1978-79 school year. In fact, there might be a slight decrease.
The board met its strongest opposition from Bradley, who was upset not only with the referendum proposals, but with the way the proposals had been brought to the board.
"No way will I support this referendum for anything," he said, "and I will work against it. There is a great need for me, there is also a great need for administrators."
Bradley questioned board president Charles Oldfather at length about whether the board was required to consult with its staff to approve its acquisition Lawrence Education Association negotiating team about the new resolution's compliance with the school district's master plan.
OLDFATHER SAID the negotiated refusal adequately covered the resubmitted refusal.
The first motion, Ballet No. 3, voted on by the board would have omitted the $40,115 bill. The second, Baller No. 2, voted on
costs and $11,000 in increase student supplies.
That first proposal was defeated 4-3
Bob Davis and Bradley and
Hockins opposed.
"I DO NOT know of any other school district that operates on a closer budget
"There is a crying need in the district, as I 1 would best fulfill the task," I think Halot No. 3 would best fulfill the task.
Kenneth Fisher, assistant superintendent,
came out strongly in favor of Ballot No. 1,
citing the school district's tight contingency
fund as its most urgent consideration.
He said the contingency fund was used to provide money for nonsalaried personnel wage increases and other expenditures not included in the budget.
Fisher was responding to a question raised by board member Jule Hack. She questioned the wage increases of the board and thought would be covered under the resolution.
Fisher said Baillard No. 3 would provide all but $2,500 for the cooks' wage increases. The remainder, he said, would be taken from the charity fund, which, he said, was about $6,500.
Petition group reaffirms position
While expressing a variety of opinions on questions concerning the development of a new city hall, representatives of the Citizens for Responsive City Government agreed last night that their major demands are to ensure residents get a chance to voice their concerns on the city hall.
Staff Writer
By DAVID LINK
The group presented petitions to the county clerk's office yesterday with 2,712 signatures calling for a referendum on the issuance of revenue bonds by the Lawrence Public Building Commission to finance the proposed structure.
Although the referendum question will focus only on the financing plan, Susie Hanna, 307 E. Eighth St., a member of the group's steering committee, said that their hope was to make the new city hall the issue.
"WE WANT TO emphasize that a "no" vote is a vote against a new city hall." she said.
Lloyd Davies, 1645 W. 19th St., a member of the group's steering committee, said the planned site was impractical.
The objections put forth to the current city hall plan ranged from dissatisfaction with the Bowersock Mill site at Sixth and Massachusetts streets to a feeling that the City Commission had narrowly neglected public opinion in making its decisions.
If you're going to build a city hall, it should at least be in a spot where you can point to it with pride," he said. "There's no way to do that."
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
Barbara Willis, 1205 Delaware St., also a steering committee member, took exception to the proposed financing plan.
"I'm not opposed to building a new city hall if a majority of the people get a chance to have input on the project, but the city is using the Public Building Commission as a way of going over the people's heads." Willits said.
potential for misuse, the group cited the City Commission's attitude as an issue that they planned to exploit in their referendum campaign.
"The commission has taken potshots at those crackpot people opposed to their activities," Davies said. "Well, it's not a bunch of long-haired radical sidewalk people, it's a cross section of the community."
ALONG WITH a general fear of the building commission's
Marvin Tripp, 2015 Stratford Road, was one of those who helped Gaita gain recognition. He said he thought Lawrence persisted with his efforts.
"In all the time I spent working on this I found only three people who wanted a new city hall," he said. "Less than 1 percent of the population was there."
"Shall the Public Building Commission of the City of Lawrence, Ks., issue its revenue bonds in the amount of $1,970,000 pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1757, et seq., as amended for the purpose of acquiring, erecting and equipping a building to be leased to the City of Lawrence, Ks., for municipal and related purposes and to acquire a site necessary and convenient therefore, including parking facilities, and to pay all costs and expenses incident thereto?"
Hanna said that she thought the Bowersock site was chosen to subsidize the redevelopment of the north end of Massachusetts Bay. "The plan is a combination of a flood control and landfill."
A "yes" vote would be a vote in favor of the bonds and a "no"
vote would be a vote against them.
"But if the people vote yes on the referendum, then I'll go back to gardening in my背 ward. she said."
If the county clerk verifies 1,220 of the petitions' signatures—finds that they are those of registered voters living within the Lawrence city limits—the question probably will appear on the primary election ballot Aug. 1.
Collection moving over to Spooner
Staff Writer
THE QUESTION will read as follows:
"We're up in the air about the move because of the extensive work that has to be done on Spooner," Johnson, professor of anthropology, said.
By MELISSA STINSON
Topher Leonard, 1346 Vermont St., had made several successful runs down the sidewalk next to Potter Lake before fall when his skateboard hit a weed in the cement.
Skateboard Slipup
Although an opening date has not been released, plans to move the anthropology department's collection of artifacts from Blake Annex to Spooner Museum have begun, according to Alfred E. Johnson, the anthropology museum's curator.
Allen L. Wiechert, associate director of architectural facilities planning, is drawing up the plans. He said yesterday that there had been problems with the renovation.
"The federal money for these kinds of projects is small, so what is given to the state of Kansas for the University is small," Wiechbert said.
Wiechert said federal funds for the renovation were given on a yearly basis and the funds had not been allocated.
"Because of the ethnographic collections, the second floor needs temperature and humidity controls like those in Spencer and also else they'll deteriorate," Johnson said.
THE PROJECT will receive $150,000,
which will be available July 1.
The ethnographic collection is composed of masks, pottery dishes, baskets, bows and arrows and other equipment from hunting, gathering and farming cultures in Australia, South America, Africa and New Guinea.
Wiechert said repairs on the exterior of the 84-year-old building would be accomplished first. Repairs will include a new staircase and windows and reconditioning of the stone exterior.
Interior renovations include new paint, air conditioning, special temperature control on the second floor, compliance with new fire and handicap codes and office procedures.
Although the exhibits have not been planned, they will include both the prehistoric archaeological and ethnographic collections.
Deadly earthquake stuns Japan
From the Associated Press
TOKO-YA - A powerful undersea earthquake, Japan's deadliest in 14 years, crumbled buildings, toppled utility poles and triggered landslides along the densely populated northeast coast yesterday. The area was one of three where persons were killed and 340 others injured.
The late afternoon earthquake was the strongest recorded anywhere in the world this year, registering 7.5 or 8 on the Richter scale. That reading means that the earthquake was a major one, capable of widespread, heavy damage. Thousands of
parked office workers and apartment dwellers had to flee down swaying staircases and dodge tumbling walls to reach the safety of city streets.
Hardest hit was the Myagi District, 180 miles north of Tokyo. In Tokyo, where at least three persons were reported slightly disoriented and knocked into a wall, some were knocked from shelves, telephone service and commuter transportation were disrupted, and 27 people that some said were have been broken.
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
Porch poster
Borrowing a favorite line from comedian Steve Martin, this sign of apology appeared at 802 Tennessee St. in an attempt to lighten an argument.
IN MIYAGI, two persons were reported in killing by falling telephone poles and two others were crushed to death in a house construction in Senda, the district's capital.
An elderly man was being treated in a hospital in Iwate, near Miyagi, died of shock resulting from the earthquake. There were 15 people injured and 24 deaths.
One person was reported missing.
It was the worst death toll since a 1964 earthquake killed 27 persons in Nigata on January 3.
A power failure knocked out street signals and snarled traffic in Sendai, a city of 554,000. At least two house fires, later under control, were reported in the city.
in throughout the affected region, the police reported 140 houses destroyed, nine bridges wrecked, roads cut at 52 locations, 17 landmarks destroyed and telephone links cut in 27 places.
A TIDAL WAVE warning was lifted about three hours after the earthquake. The biggest earthquake-generated wave measured only seven inches.
The Central Meteorological Agency said that the first tremor was weak, striking at 5:06 p.m. The main shock came nine minutes later.
Japanese seismographers recorded it at 7.5 on the Richter scale at the epicenter, in the Pacific 80 miles southeast of Sendai. The Uppsala Seismological Institute in Sweden set the intensity at 8 and said it was the result of what it had recorded in the world this year.
Fearful of being trapped in elevators, screaming workers at the Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s building in Sendai ran down the stairs and collapsed by clamped walls, to reach safety.
A cook in a 20th-floor Tokyo restaurant said the earthquake first shook the building on March 7.
Heavy computer equipment topped over in a city office in Fukushima, 150 miles
At the Imperial Palace in the heart of Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito and his wife were reading books when the earthquake rattled the palace.
"We had to hang on to the cutting tables and door pads," he said. "Somebody rushed us into the kitchen."
A spokesman quoted the emperor as telling sides. "It is shaking quite badly, isn't it?"
Berkowitz sentenced to undergo new tests
NEW YORK (UP1)—Convicted "Son of Sam"凯尔 David Berkawitz will undergo new psychiatric tests to determine whether he will serve his 6 consecutive 25-year-to-life sentences in a hospital for the criminally insane or a maximum security prison.
State law makes him eligible for parole in 30 years.
Berkowitz had been charged with killing six young persons and wound:*g seven with a knife.*
A court source who asked not to be identified said the 25-year-old Berkowitz was, heathenly, accused of using the uproar he caused three weeks after his sixstent hearing. At that time he tireced postponement of sentencing by kicking and biting his guards and police.
Upon his arrest Aug. 10, Berkowitz, a postal clerk in suburban邦尼娜, told a
weird story of demonic possession as his reason for embarking on a series of murders. He said the demons took possession of him and forced him to prey upon young, attractive women. He said the demands were related to him through the barking of a dog belonging to a neighbor, Samuel Carr, 64.
Berkowitz described Carr as the rein-
carition of a satanic being who lived 6,000
years ago.
This strange, semilicuid tale was the first one that came to suggesting a motive for the slayer.
On all the various counts, including six of murder, Berkwitz received a total of 315 years to be served consecutively, plus sentences amounting to more than 100 years.