Wednesday, March 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Budget keeps Von Ende, Dykes working long hours
By BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
Dawn-to-midnight days have been the rule for some administrators at the ruling party.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Rick Von Ende, executive secretary, have been putting in unusually long days as they make their final effort to get legislative approval of the KU budget proposals for fiscal year 1978.
“It’s been extremely busy the last week or two.” Von Ende said recently.
TWO PEOPLE who probably know as well as any the hours Dykes and Del Shankel, executive chancellor, are putting in on the budget are their secretaries.
Jane Johnson, the chancellor's secretary since Aug. 1, said yesterday that although she thought that Dykes' schedule was always full, the bulk of Dykes' and Von Ende's work required extra international meetings with legislators to discuss the budget proposals.
However, she said, the work wouldn't stop after the legislative session ends.
Railroad cars found defective
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The recall of as many as 20,000 railroad cars for wheel inspections after recent fatal train accidents has been supported by the staff of a federal safety agency.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Bob Buckhorn said the board has not seen the recommendation. By next week when the board has examined the report, he said, the members could approve, amend or reject it.
There have been a rash of train deralimals recently, but the safety board staff based its recommended approach to the wreck near Waverley, Tenn., and a Feu. 28 deralment near bowling Green, K.Y. The Waverly propane tank car exploded. When a liquid propane tank car exploded.
Kay Bailey, acting chairman of the board, said last week the Waverley wreck was caused by an overheated wheel. She said the wreck was the result of a handbrake being left on.
Experts also are investigating possible wheel problems in the Bowling Green arena.
nuckhorn said the staff will recommend the recall of 150,000 train wheels for inspection. He did not know how many railroad cars the number reported. He reported the figure as 20,000 and said it could cost the railroad industry $5 million.
"As soon as this year's appropriations are approved, they'll go to next year's," she said.
She said that of the two, Von Ende had been the busiest with legislators recently.
Deb Muncy, Von Ende's secretary, said he spent about three or four days during the winter months.
HOWEVER, if it is any indication of Von Ende's involvement, he has spent the past two Sundays meeting with the Senate Ways and Measures committee and campus and having dinner with legislators.
The meeting with the subcommittee lasted from about 1 p.m. to about 10 p.m., lasting
Von Ende was in Topeka again yesterday morning.
"And I know for sure he was working until nightfall last night," Johnson said.
Muncy said there had been days when Von Ende went to Topeka in the morning, the Med Center in the afternoon and back to Topeka in the evening.
A recent day for Dykes consisted of a 7 a.m. breakfast with legislators, regular University meetings throughout the day and a dinner in Topeka that night with more
DYKES AND Von Ende, of course, are not the only administrators whose schedules are dominated by the budget's position on the legislative calendar.
Rita Kerr, secretary for the office of business affairs, said the onslaught of work for her office would come after the month's sales. But money that would be appropriated to KU.
KU has until May 1 to submit its board report to the Kansas Board of Regents. Because of the complexities of the budget, and the fact that it does not approve it until mid or late April.
"They'll work long hours to get done what has to be done," she said. "I know they'll often stay until midnight and 1 a.m. during this time."
THE BUDGET process begins in the fall when KU submits a proposal to the Regents. After approval by the Regents, it is submitted to the Budget director, who makes his traditional cuts.
After Gov. Robert F. Bennett makes his recommendations in January, the budget goes through helicopter by a joint House and Senate Ways and Means Committee, by the Senate subcommittee assigned to each University system and then to the full Senate. The budget must go through the same process in the House after Senate approval.
The governor's proposed budget, unveiled in January, includes a KU budget of $109,233,245. The biggest push by administrators has been for the allocation of $6.2 million to renovate Watson Library and for a 7 percent faculty pay increase.
WATSON LIBRARY renovation was given tentative approval in the Kansas Senate yesterday. Final Senate action on the renovation bill will be today. The measure would require that the Kansas House and Bennett before the money for renovation is allocated.
Another item on the KU budget is funding for a fee waiver program for graduate teaching assistants. The program is based on tuition waivers that equal $234,156. The state would provide the extra money to offset fees not paid by teaching assistants.
Other recommendations made by Bennett include $381,700 for window glazing and insulation to counteract heat in the building Hall. $335,000 for remodeling and special maintenance of Robinson Gymnasium. $250,000 for installation of new windows for planning the renovation of Marvell Hall.
The hill on 13th Street east of the Kansas Union became the scene Monday night of an impromptu demolition derby when nine vehicles, including a Lawrence police car and a Douglas County ambulance, were strewn along the ice street.
Two unidentified persons were slightly injured but not admitted to a hospital, Ted.
Rv ROBERT REER
Icy accident scatters nine cars
Staff Writer
The chain reaction apparently started then two cars descending the hill lost control.
Robert Worthington, Minneapolis, Kan,
junior, was driving the second car involved.
He said he parked his car on the north side
of the street and went into a house to call
authorities.
While he was inside, Worthington said, he heard other crashes.
Marvin McDougal, 1244 Louisiana St., said he witnessed the second wreck. He said the driver of the first car was standing outside of it when a third car, driven by Pete Gardner, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, came down the hill and hit the first car.
Meanwhile, a fourth car slid into a fifth car, which was parked. But the fourth car avoided the first and third cars that were in the street.
a sixth car, driven by Mark Gilman,
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According to McFarlane, the ambulance service received a second call and dispatched a medic.
Shawne Mission sophomore, began sliding down the hill and successfully avoided hitting the fourth and fitted car but hit gardener's car head-on and pushed it into the first
McFarlane, who was driving the second ambulance, turned east down 13th street and headed to the hospital.
By this time an ambulance had arrived at the bottom of the hill at the corner of 13th and Ohio streets and a Lawrence police car parked on the top of the hill on 13th street.
However, the two parked cars, which are the second and ninth cars involved, hit
The sliding police car hit Worthington's park car, which hit another parked car and struck the front of it.
The driverless police car and the ambulance then slid down the hill, he said.
The damage to the nine vehicles involved was at least $4,000, a police spokesman said.
Mcdougal said there were no barricades to warn the drivers about the slick road.
"We put them up and people take them down," a policeman at the scene said.
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