University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 14, 1978
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City engulfed,inconvenienced by snowfall
City traffic slowed after heavy snowfall
Transportation in and around Lawrence was crippled yesterday as a result of the snowstorm Sunday night. Even tow trucks got stuck.
Jerry Taylor, Elyarter of Hillcrest Wrecker and Garage, 1120 E. 23rd St., said yesterday that his trucks had gotten stuck several times trying to pull cars out of the snow.
By mid-afternoon, chains had been installed on the trucks' tires and the problems
He said he had received about 100 calls from stranded motorists, and most callers were from New York.
"More people will be getting out," Taylor said.
Jim Hahn, of Kaw Motor & Salvage Co., RFD 3, also reported increasing towing business yesterday, with two-hour waits for service.
If wrecker service was slow yesterday, bus service was non-existent.
"I've got chains on order, but that doesn't help now," he said.
Hahn said his trucks also had gotten stuck in the snow, but he said he did not have them.
The Lawrence Bus Co. canceled all city and campus bus routes at 5 a.m.yesterday and Diane Ogle, the firm's manager, said yesterday afternoon that he didn't know when service would be resumed.
There was a bright spot in the local transportation situation yesterday. Lawrence's taxis provided service, despite the snow.
Ward Thompson, an officer of Union Cab and Yellow Cab companies, said the firms had delays of several hours yesterday morning but by 1.0 am, service was back to normal.
"We had a big rush between 7 a.m. and
8 a.m., where some of our drivers
couldn't go in to work. Some of our
He said all of his taxis were equipped with snow tirs s.
"If the driver stays on packed snow, they won't get stuck." Thompson said.
F. L. Borr, a driver for Yello Cab, said he had gotten stuck twice yesterday morning but had gotten out of the situations with little trouble.
"I just rocked the cab back and forth in the snow," Borer said. "I used to drive semi-trailer trucks over the mountains so this is simple."
Transportation in and out of the city also was slowed by the storm.
KCI Air Commuter Service, which operates flights between Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., canceled all flights yesterday morning.
The firm normally uses limousines to take passengers to Kansas City when the local airport is closed, but the limousine service was stopped yesterday after one trip to Kansas City because of road conditions, Gary Kuchan, the firm's dispatcher, said.
Kenneth Roper, manager of the Union Bus Depot, said yesterday that most buses in and out of Lawrence were between 15 and one and one-hour hours behind schedule.
Kuchan said the air computer service would resume at 6:00 this morning.
He said blowing snow was causing some problems with the bus schedues because it takes a lot of time.
"If the wind dies down, I look for things to be pretty much back to normal by the time it rains."
Ithy fingers are one result of yesterday's heavy snow. Employees of the local telephone company and the University of Florida have been asking for an increase in incoming and outgoing calls.
Phone calls swamp information center
Judy Browder, assistant to the director of the KU Information Center, said last night that the center had answered more than 3,100 calls since midnight Sunday. At least 1,600 of these calls were weather-related, she said. During one hour, she had a total of 825 calls.
Browder said most of the calls concerned class cancellations and road conditions in New York.
The only emergency call, Browder said, was made by a worker at the center who had been injured in the accident.
Browder said the center also had received calls about missed tests and night exams. Any changes in quizzes or tests scheduled for Wednesday in classes that were canceled yesterday will be up to the individual instructors, she said.
She said that according to University policy, night exams scheduled on days of clinicals were not allowed.
Calls in and around Lawrence also increased because of the snow, but the snow did not affect the temperature.
Paul Knight, manager of Bell's business office, said the only problem had been an overload in local calling. Slow dial tones were the only indication of this overload, the
wires, a southwestern Bell spokesman said yesterday.
She said if the area received more snow, extra operators might be called in.
Although the snow caused an increase in phone use, it caused a slight downside in traffic.
An employee at the Jayhawk Post Office said yesterday that his station had been able to deliver about 80 percent of its usual mail, and he now handles one-third of Lawrence mail.
Non-toxic snow dots Lawrence campus
Looking across freshly fallen show one probably would never imagine something so seemingly pure and white could contain heavy amounts of poisonous lead.
In the Feb. 13 issue of Time magazine, Dave Roberts, a Kansas City chemist, said that there could be high concentrations of lead in freshly fallen snow in the Kansas
"That's a bunch of baloney," Carl
Lester, the bossor of civil engineering,
wrote yesterday.
Soon people won't go outside, Burkhead because they will be scared even to touch the floor.
The same point of view was taken by
Lane, a professor associate of civil
enforcement.
Both Lane and Burkhead are in the both Health department of the
IN LAWRENCE the snow wouldn't be toxic because of strong winds in the area that blow pollutants away," Lane said. Lake andarts of Kansas City the snow could be toxic."
There isn't much heavy industry in Lawrence except the Chemical Co-op, which has excellent pollution standards, Lane said.
Rain and snow do clean the atmosphere, and if any poisoning agents are present they will be removed.
Some of the chemicals that are present, he said, could be zinc, lead and radioactive
However, for a person to get sick, Lane said, he would have to eat five to 10 pounds
Developers seek zoning change
Staff Writer
Bv CAROL HUNTER
A contest for commercial zoning at West 23rd Street and Dragstrip Road could end tomorrow morning when Douglas County commissioners meet.
The man with the most to win or lose is a professional developer, John McGrew, of McGrew Real Estate Inc. Two other developers have filed commercial zoning disputes in the city and intersection. A fourth developer has not filed a request for commercial zoning for his land.
The purse that the developers seek is a large one. By gaining the right to build motels, restaurants and grocery stores at the mall, you can make up for lost streets, they could make enormous profits.
BETWEEN THE developers and dreams of big money stand the county commissioners, who must approve zoning requests, and a zoning guide, the Clinton Reservoir Area Mini-Comprehensive Plan. The plan recommends that commercial zoning be granted to only two towns and four counties for intersection. The request for requests for commercial zoning that commissioners will consider tomorrow total more than 19 acres.
The request by Lake Estates Inc., which McGrew represents, is for nine acres. He says he needs the commercial zoning to provide services to residents in areas that he has developed or plans to develop. McGrew has developed a building on Lawrence on Kasold Street, and the Orchards area, northeast of 15th and Kasold streets.
On the drawing board are plans to expand an Alvara housing development south and west to 23rd and Dragstrip Road. This Alvara West area would be ready for development, said his plans also include the development of the Yankee Tank area west of Dragstrip.
THE RESIDENTS OF those developments need commercial services, he said.
"One of the things that has slowed the development of Alvamar in the early stages is that people thought we were so far out and so far away from shopping." McGrew said. "It's very easy to think that commercial development is bad."
McGrew says that except for size, his micromesh snaps with the mini-combishernula.
The reason McGrew is asking for more acreage, he said, is that this particular tract is cut in two places by major easements, one for power and the other for gas.
"I've seen some very attractive shopping centers," he said. "The only thing that makes a shopping center really ugly is if there are too many buildings and too many cars on too small a space. What we want is a space to really make this attractive."
The chances for success of another developer, Hank North, are tied closely to the success of his development is on the same corner as McGrew's tract. North wants commercial zoning so he can sell garden implements at his nursery and landscaping firm. The development could also shop at his nursery.
Joint legislative committee hears KU budget requests
North said that he thought the planning guide was unrealistic.
the third developer who has filed a request is Dorothy Booth. She requested commercial zoning for 7.5 acres on the commercial property, including a restaurant, retail shops and a motel.
A fourth developer, I.J. Stoneback, has not filed a commercial zoning request for his land on the southwest corner. He said he had wanted to wait to see what other services were offered before he decided what kind of development he wanted.
THE DEVELOPERS agree that the precepts of the mini-comprehensive plan are wide. The plan is devised to avoid strip walls, such as on 23rd Street east of Iowa Street.
"I THINK if you have four corners in the suit, supplement, they all should be equally."
But Stoneback's decision to wait may backfire. He said he was now announcing his plans to develop because he was afraid the commissioners would grant all of the commercial zoning they were willing to grant before his request was filed.
"There's no use doubling the kinds of service," he said. "I could see putting a hardware store and selling livestock equipment, a sales and rental agency."
The University of Kansas budget for fiscal year 1979 passed through the first of several hearings before the Kansas Legislature yesterday.
The Ways and Means committees of both the House and Senate heard the Kansas Board of Regents budget proposal and discussed the issues from the president of the six辰学校的 schools.
The joint committee will hold further hearings today, before the budget is brought before the Senate Ways and Means committee.
KU has requested a budget of $111,645,227 for fiscal year 1979, but Gov. Robert F. Bennett proposed a budget of $109,233,245 for the University.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he endorsed a 7 percent increase in faculty salaries proposed by the regents. But he said he was concerned about Bennett's proposal to alsh almost $300,000 from other KU operating funds.
Gmew said, "I think everybody agrees that it is much nicer to keep commercial in a room than to leave it out together with appropriate traffic controls and not strip our trafficways with commercial. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have commercial every mile or two at the door."
The free market should determine where commercial developments occur, he said. But he added that the contest for commercial development at more than two corners of the 23rd and Dragstrip intersection may be futile.
HE TOLD the committee that increases in operating expense funding at KU had not occurred.
"We're talking about serving the west part of Alvamar, and I would think that two corners there would be all that's necessary."
"I DOUBT more than two corners will ultimately be developed for commercial in that area simply because of the market," he said.
Staff Photo bv ELI REICHMAN
Rough going
Heavy snowfall and high winds made an early morning walk through campers extremely difficult for Vernon Gillett, KU
Reviewer
Rv BOB NUGENT
Music lovers were treated to a musical rarity Sunday afternoon when the Montagnana Trio, a clarinet trio, performed before an almost capacity crowd at the Halle in Halle to celebrate Hall's music of Anton Eberl, Paul Cooper, and Johannes Brahms was featured.
Trio treats music lovers
Members of the trio are John Gates, clarinet; Caroline Worthington, cello; and Delores Wunsch Stevens, piano. Stevens is a 1952 KU graduate.
The "Grand Trio," by Anton Eberl, the first piece on the program, was expertly, but dispassionately, performed. The trio experienced balance problems. At times the cello was indistinguishable and the internet broke intrusively into the musical line.
placement director. A total of 10 inches of snow fell overnight and continued through most of yesterday afternoon.
This situation was not enhanced by the slow, tepid nature of the first two movements. A general lack of precision made the two movements dull.
HOWEVER, the trio's balance improved in the scherzo and allegretto movements.
The pull of the earlier movements lifted, and the players indulged in playful emotions. The second theme spirited exchange of themes and second themes. The clarinet, which had dominated earlier, became subtly integrated into the first theme. It is important to the quality for which clarinet tribes are known.
The "Concert for Three" by Paul Cooper was composed especially for the Montagann, processes many special techniques including plucking the piano strings, hitting the strings with small sticks and playing the piano with the strings damped by the strings.
THE FIRST of the two movements began lightly with sustained plucking of the treble
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in the second movement the storm broke. The climax was moving, contrasted by the subtle denouement of the piece. The volume and motion gradually wound down and the calm of the first movement returned. The climax sustained notes fading away into silence.
TO THIS REVIEWER, who is burdened with an almost total dislike of modern music, the "C concert for Three" was effective and deeply moving. Brilliantly executed, this piece was the highlight of the concert.
strings on the piano and the susta-tor* bowling high on the fingerboard--playing of the cello. This effect was punctuated by the hard thumps of the pizicato cello, and by increasingly loud interpositions from the sustain. The cello was created by the sustained rumblings of the piano's bass strings, which were played like a harp.
The concert closed with an inspired rendition of Johannes Brahms "Trio, Opus 114." The group's passionate performance echoed the richness of the musicality that was lacking in the Eberl.
the first movement, although slightly
marked by a balance problem, was sweety and smoothly played. Balance problems were rectified in the second movement, which featured a lead by the clarinet.
Mastery was apparent throughout the movement as the tri demonstrated not only their technical ability but also their musical ability.
THE THIRD movement flowed like the gracious waltz that it was. Balance was good and the smooth integration of the piece was well executed.
The final movement featured a powerful beginning and excellent solo work by all the players. It was by far the most expressive of them, having stress and stress that proves Brahm's music.
Clarinet trio music is, for the most part,
an acquired taste. It seemed that for the
casual listener, a little bit of this music
would go a long way.
Nonetheless, for the connoisseur and casual listener alike, the Montagnana Trio presented a many-faceted demonstration of its artistic talent that made it an afternoon well spent in listening to one of the rarer areas of the classical repertoire.
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