University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 9, 1977
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Internal city development emphasized at convention
By STEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
Three Lawrence city commissioners returned last night from a National League of Cities convention in San Francisco with new ideas of how to deal with Lawrence's downtown redevelopment and future police and firemen negotiations.
Commissioners Don Binns, Jack Rose and Marien Arger士erg, mayor, attended the four-day convention, which drew 4,000 city官员, assistant city manager, also went.
The League of Cities, a national lobbying force for cities, holds the annual convention to establish positions on issues that affect cities. The theme of this year's convention is "A People's Action—an effort to enlist internal city areas through the use of public and private funds."
"THERE'S NOTHING earthshaking that's going to happen here," Argeringer said about the convention effects on Lawrence.
She said, however, that her tour of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, an old wartime area converted into a modern recreation space, has some expectations for Lawrence improvements.
She said that the location of the city hall on the site and marketing tools being designed by Design Build Architects, 704 Massachusetts St., could be very helpful in bringing such investments into the city. The city is paying Design Build to devise a model and slides of the area that would show its potential and promote private investments along the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
Helicopter hits oil rig in Gulf, kills 17 workers
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—A helicopter attempting to land on an offshore oil rig spout out of control and fell into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, killing 17 of the 19 men aboard.
Reports indicated the helicopter, carrying Pennzoil Oil Co. workers, may have clipped a crane boom or a wire leading to a crane, causing it to spin wildly in the air before crashing into the rig and falling into the Gulf.
"There is a possibility that that happened, but we can't substantiate that," said Frank Lee, vice president of Petroleum Helicopters, Inc., which owned the craft.
Pennzoil spokesman Bob Harper said none of the 17 bodies were recovered and names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
Dykes, Shankel to field queries in open forum
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and executive vice chancellor Del Shakel will hold an hour long open forum at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Held twice each semester, the forum invites interested people to question the chancellor and executive vice chancellor about the University.
Binns said that another important issue the convention dealt with was labor-management relations. He said that it was interesting to realize how common a problem it was for cities to quibble with employees.
The city was embroiled earlier this year in a summer-long dispute with city police over a plan to build a sewer. Negotiations between the city and the two groups are scheduled to begin in April for the next month.
The convention also dealt with the Community Development Act of 1977, which was passed in September. This act changes the definition of community development funds. It requires 75 per cent of the funds to go to low-income people and 25 per cent to high-income people, and funds were only required to go to target areas.
Argersinger said that she learned at the conference that the city has the opportunity to formally comment on the act before Dec. 19. She said she thought Lawrence should submit comments to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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